PAGE THREE
ASHLAND DAILY tlDING S
FLORIST ADVERTISES FOR
WIFE AS A JOKE,AND LEARNS
•ailing equipment provides a snb-
•tttute motive force.
Any two compartments can M
flooded without causing the-ves
sel' to sink; the boat and floats
are supplied with watertight bulk
heads and the doors of the bulk
heads are equipped wi h a quick
closing device.
,
KKD-HBADft HEALTHIEST
WOMEN. 8AYB DOCTOR
LONDON. War. 17.— ( U P ) —
Red-headed women are more
healthy than their sisters, ac
SHERIDAN, Wyo., May. 17 — seek his bride In his hornet nirn. cording to Sir. W- Arbuthnot
(U P)—When L. M. Beat, pros
"Wyoming' to this little girl,” Lane, a irell-known physician
per oh s Sheridan florist, wrote to one Indited, “means the wide-op and prominent writer on Med-
He declared
a large mall order bouse for a en spaces and love under Die . leal subjects.
that dark-haired women are
wife he didn’t imagine all he stars.”
was starting.
, Another yofcug Jady
named not able to resist disease as
“Oi- I wouldn't have written Ooo«Je, wrote frqm Kansas City: easly as their fair-hatred sis
it,” he lamented.
■ ■ "H dw strange that our names ters, but that red haired wom
But thq letter, neverthless,'was should be of such similarity. It en have an extraordinary pow
duly written, signed and- posted.* makes me. think of the rhyme 1 er to resist infection And dls-
And now Florist Best is being learned as a little girl lq school: qaM.. f •
‘‘W om en, who* are so charm
deluged with letters from pros
flood, better, best
ing
and useful In the world,”
pective'Rosea, Lillies and Violets
I'll never let. it reel , '*,
he
said,
‘‘are really the cause
who want to rule over the Best
* Until my good la better j
of
all
our
misery, degradation,
greenhouses.
And my better BEST.
and
disease,
because they teach
‘‘If it were Just the letters, it
“I would rather be au old
us wrong habits and feed us
wouldn’t be so bad,” Best con man’* darling.” wrote still an-
wrongly.**
tinued. "But some of 'em have ptber aspirant to the affections
even ¿ome out here—all ready to of the 49-year-old florist, “than Beasts of the dangerous Interior
marry sight unseen.”
slave fer any man.. I am a little ebuntry crowded around their car.
And the unmarried home town maluden of II summers, have , They turned their spotlight on ze
women, Best confided, are all up black hair and dark bropn syee bras1 and hyenas which several
In arms over his having .sought weigh 116 pounds, and am 6 ft. time« came close enough t o < the
his bride in foreign territory.
8 Inches tall. ■ I have a charm car to have brought terror to less
‘‘So my advice,” Best said, “Is ing personality and am sweet and courageous women.
*>
never writo a mall order hoqse true. Hopefully yours.”
A, rescue party arrived at mid
for, anything unless you want It
With such letters as these, night and. the two were able, to
delivered right away — they’re phone calls and. even personal continue their trip.
entirely too efficient.”
visits disrupting his life, Beat
St all started, the Sheridan was beginning to get worried.'« FOUNTAIN O F YOUTH
florist continued, when be wrote He admitted it. But now he Is
, IN RIO DR JA N EIR O
a Kanas City mail order bouse for hopeful of* solving his dilemma.
a bride— “sort of u a Joke,"
Several of his fellow towns
RIO DE JANEIRO^ (UN)—A
“I am full of romance and men, more seriously inclined to genuine fountain of youth was
want the full benefit,” Best told ward matrimony than he is have discovered in Rio De Janeiro when
the mall order firm . ih bla let offered their services as an police routed twelve youth, most
ter. “I want an affectionate lov swerers of the letters he has re ly street urchins, from a fountalp
ing wife between 18 and— now if ceived. An Best has given them In a public square In which the
you will post this letter in a the Job.*
boys were making their headquar
conspicuous position; I am quite
**I hope they all get the kind ters.
sure that it will explain matters of wives they want,” he said.
The realisation of Ponce de Le
and I will credit your firm with
Beat also hopes that the let on's*, dream came about when a
the results obtained.”
ters will stop coming to him. woman from a suburb, seeking
But the mall order firm evi that women visitors will cease work in the city, seated herself be
dently didn’t have any brides in frequenting his. greenhouse, and fore a large statue, surmounted
stock. It was, nevertheless anx above all that his female neigh by a fountain, In Plaza Fifteenth
ious to please an old customer. bors will quit looking at him so of November, and scanned the
So Best’s letter was gtveh to the réproachfuly when he Walks by. help wanted column of a morning
Kansas City newspapers where
Furthermore, he has made a newspaper. She placed her pock
It was accorded preeminent dis resolution regarding brides, mall etbook on a bench beside her.
play. In a few days other mid- order firms and letters.
Soon two urchins appeared, and
western papers published Best's
“The next ,time I order any while one engaged her In conver-
letter.
thing from a mail order house',*' ¡atlon, the other grabbed her
And then the flerlst's troubles he said, “It's going to he some jocketbook and ran.
started.
Both boys made directly for
thing that I really want—like a
Scented notes and ellnrlng wcel-barrow or a pair of pan ta.” the statue, climbed up It side, and
photographs are pouring iu to pants.”
vaulted over the edge of the
him from Kansas, Missouri, Col
fountain. The woman called po
lice, who followed the route taken
orado and Wyoming towns. Den
by the boys, but found only gently
ver women have entered the hot
spraying Water Instead of the two
competition and Sheridan women
culprits.
Further investigation
have written to reproach their
revealed a hole down which the
fellow citizen upon his failure to
boys had disappeared.* anA after
threats , of being drowned or
smoked ont, several boys reluc
Unarmed and Without Es tantly climbed from their refnge
corts African Wilds
or stone and bronxe.
Are Explored
The boys told police that the'
the
members o f their band, 12 in
C apetow n , s o u th A frica,
number,
slept 'every night In the
Mar. 16.—A return to civilization
fnauteift’Oi jWUJth.Vf
after three, mqnths In the African
Great Variety Found
wllds**durtifc; vylch they travelled
His Six Hundred
unarmed add wlthoqt escorts,'was
• GUESTS A T HOTEL
Keepers
made today by two American
Mr. and-Mrs. Alfred N. Pierce
women, one of them 80 years old.
SYDNEY, (UP)—The hobby of They are Mrs. W. D. Cornish of of the Hotel Benson, in Corvallis
collecting clocks was taken up by New York, widow of the late vice and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert O. Mad
ison of the Nortonla hotel, Port
Joseph Quigg, caretaker of a
president of the Union Pacific
cemetery near this city, 20 years railway, who will celebrate her land, have been guests of R. W.
ago, and since then he has gath 80th birthday Friday, and .her Price of the Llthia Springs hotel,
during th« past two days. A din
ered together nearly 600 time cousin, Miss Hooper.
ner was given a^ the hotel last
keepers of all shapes, sizes and
Refusing to have their ? plana
designs until they fill two rooms disarranged when arrangements night In honor .'of the visitors, and
In his cottage. Practically no two for a white escort failed Novem various trips were taken through
out Northern California a n d
are alike.
ber 12, 1826, they left Naples
Quigg used to have this battal alone on a motor trip, which was Southern Oregon. Mr. Pierce Is
ion of clocks all working, and the to take them through 4,000 miles president of the Oregon Hotel-
mens' Association.
labor, of winding them up used to of Interior Africa.
occupy him for six hours one day
Wild beasts, jungle lands and
a week. Now he has most of them strange native tribesmen of Afri
GIVES SU R E R E L IE F
resting and*not more than 100 ca all served to inject interest in
Foley’s Honey and Tar Com
now tick'to keep him company.
to the trip for the aged Mrs Cor pound relieves at once distressing,
Qiilgg’s mechanical turn . of nish and her companion.
alarming bronchial symptoms. It
mind and clever fingers enabled
At Rijaf, December 14, they loosens the harsh cough, raise»
him to gather so large a collection camped all night near a native phlegm easily, soothe» the irritat
at a small cost. He never bought road gang. One of the prelimin ed mucous membrane, eases the
n watch or clock in good running ary thrills of the trip came that disagreeable tightness that grows
order, but found bargains In sale night when a man-eating lion ap worsp toward nightfall. From
rooms. He has never paid more proached the natives. A shbt.Bang Mr. L. M.—Charleston, W. Va.,
than 815 for one. This he passed out In the night and the two wom “I am glad to say that Foley’s
over for an old English grand en who has been apprised of.the Honey and Tar helped me over a
father clock. Quigg cannot esti danger near by,, knew that the bad attack of bronchitis.” It is a
mate the value of the collection. boast had beqn killed.
reliable medicine, safe and effec-
He has had some very tempting
Plungtng Into central Afrloa the tlve for coughs and colds in child
offers for some of the clocks but daring women lost their way after ren and growp persons. Your
they are like children to him and passing through Nairobi and as druggist bells and recommends It.
he can’t pprt with them.
they were anxious to get back Oh Aak or phone for it.— Sold every
He has musical clocks. Onp th» main road they drove their au where.
—No. 4.
has a huntsman who steps out and tomobile all night. The reserve
sound» hi» horn at the hours and car broke down and this forced
Astoria — New post office may
half-hours, and the blast Is fol them to camp ont In the wilds. be erofited in Astoria.
lowed by a merry hunting tune.
Another has a monk who beats a
bell severely to tell the hour. A
third has two bell-ringers who
pull laboriously at ropes every
half hour.
'
The only modern note In the
collection Is a working model of
Charlie Chapljn and Mary Pick-
THE BUTTER -THAT BETTERS THE BREAD,
ford. Every hour the former
goes through the actions of emp
▲ Lithia Creamery Product
tying a teapot over Mary Pick-
ford’s picture hat.
Love of the bizarre Is shown In
Always Fresh at Your Grocer.
Qnlgg’s choice of pendulums. One
Is made from the key of the first
Contestants report at Creamery on Butter Wrapper
prison In Sydney, and another
Contest This Week
from the shoe of a ch am plop race j
borne.
The io»-- -st dock was the first
postoffic* elock of this city. An
143 liorth Pioneer
other was with Napoleon during
his imprisonment at St. Helen*.
ADVERTISING IS NEVER A JOKE
LITHIA CREAMERY
Phone 84
FR EN C H PR IM E M IN ISTE R .
HAS REM AR K A BLE MEMORY
PARIS (UR) — Premier Ray
mond Poincare has' a "photo
graphic mind.”
This remarkable gift, wblch la
extremely rare, enables the
French premier after he haa
written a document, lettar, etc.,
to repeat the text word for word
from memory, without misplac
ing even a single word. The
length of the text makes no dif
ference.
Polnoare gave a vivid example
of this recently In connection
with bis appearance before the
Chamber of Finance Commission
with regard to France’s financial
situation. Poincare gave out In
advance to the pres» a long writ
ten statement of what he ’would
tell the commission. The steno
graphic Record o'f what Poincare
told the commission, speaking
-extemporaneously, with no note«
or paper before him, accorded
exactly with every word In the
statement given out previously
at the Ministry of Finance.
NO CABLE CAB
PORTLAND, Mar. 17.— (UN)
— Hopes for the establishment of
a cable car service to the summit
of Mount Hood were shattered to
day when word was received from
Qhlef U. 8. Forester, W. B. Gree
ley of Washington, saying he dis
approved of shch a venture.
The message
was received
here by District Forester p. z M.
Granger, who refused to disclose
the contents of the telegram, or to
comment other than saying that
Greeley bis not made final dispo
sition of the matter, but ‘‘prefers
net to approve it at this time.”
[resident who emphasised the
portanee of the pioneer w
about to be undertaken. A t
first meeting of the eousml«
Tuesday procedure will be dedl
upon and public hearing» will
ordered soon thereafter.
ALL MAY BE HEARD
WASHINGTON, Mar. 17. —
Full opportunity to be heard will
he given the radio authorities and
the public regarding the restrict
ing of broadcasting stations, mem
bers of the new federal radio com
mission declare.
The commission has talket) over
Us general
problems with the
Fujler Paints
and
ensures
commodious walking
along the entire cabin-length.
Strap-hangers are fastened td the
L paint and varnish for
ceiling as a convenience for pas
every need
sengers leaving their seats, and
safety straps are provided, for
each chair. A lavatory la ad
BERLIN — (UN) — A fly in g joined to the stern of the cabin.
Salem — Factory here install
B est P a i n t — B est W orkm en
yacht Is the latest Innovation to
ing machinery In its plant to
Dadger
frbm
ftre
on
the
fly
Phone 172
be marketed by the Rohrbach
manufacture prune Juice.
ing
yacht
Is
reduced
to
a
mini
Metal Aeroplane Co.
•
During recent test-journeys, mum through the all-metal con
spectators were amazed to see a struction. The machine can eas
schooner-llke conveyance, rigged ily be flown even on fifty per
with foresails, a mainsail and re^ cent of the engine output. Fail
movable dnralumlnnm masts, sud ure of both engines conjures up
denly dismantled and transform no serious peril 'on water, as the
ed into a flying machine, rising
from the water and soaring be
yond the horizon.
YOUR CAR N E fib s WASHING AND GREAS
The new winged sailing craft
ING BEFORE WARM* W EATHER COMES AND
Is equipped with all necessary
aviation Instruments, altimeter,
YOU WANT TO HIT TH E ROAD.
tachometer, elinometers and com
pass and, In contrast to other
Let us do the work and you will be entirely sat
types which are generally pro
isfied
with the results.
vided with main and reserve
control, the Rohrbach flying boat
supplies a fixed individual con
trol for each of the two pilot».
Besides masts and sails, the
sea equipment of the flying ves
sel consists of ground anchor,
drift anchor, ropes and swim
ming Jackets.
In order to avoid the big ex
pense for large ship-ways, com
monly needed for aeroplanes, a
special type of beach trolley has
been. designed and constructed
for the Rohrbaeh -flying yacht.
This contrivance comprises a pair
of floating wheels, fitted to. (he
wings of the machine. The bhat’
is thus capable of “taxj/ng,” un
der Its own power on'aand .and
water-
. t
5 ’
. .
Qppifortably- upholstered arm
chairs and -receptacles for bag-
gage are fitted ^beve the seats.
All passengers face forward la
the direction of flight. A wide
OAKLAND
aisle between the - rows of seats
Varnishes
J. 0 . RIGG
SPRING IS COMING!
and back
Start Friday, Saturday
o r S u n d a y ; retu rn b y
m i d n ig h t f o l l o w i n g
Tuesday. Sim ilar reduc
ed fares to oth er points.
N e w lo w fares fo r trav
el betw een local O regon
points now effective.
Save tim e, m on ey and
nervous energy. G o safe
ly and c o m fo r ta b ly o n
the train.
Southern
LITHIA SPRINGS GARAGE
G. N. Kram er, Local A gent
VAMCOUVIft
BORN
C lo th e s lo o k
twice
their price!
SANTE RANCI SCO
Custom ers w h o are
looking for good clothes
at a lo w price get what
they want here.
W h e n w e say that
BORN C lothes look
twice their price, we say
it because w e know it.
Y o u ’ll know it too the
m inute you step into
a BORN Tailored-to-
Measuye suit. Satis**
faction guaranteed.
How’s Your Oil?
We Have—
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Cycol
P orzoll
G olden Shell
Havollne
M obile B
Mobile A
M on* Motor
M otorese
P en n so ll
Quaker State
M onogram
V alvollite
V eedol
Zerolene
H yvla
Automotive Shop
Chevrolet Dealers
Paulserud’s
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te
te»» Í?* t ¿¡•’■»»«i ten»
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Motorist gets 20% more miles
to the gallon with the
new and greater
B IR N A A O IN O
GENERAL GASOLINE
36.00 PBB LOAD 100 OU. FT.
37.00 PBB LOAD 183 OU. FT.
38.00 PBB LOAD 130 CU FT.
And Put Into Tour Bin Where Poerihle
ASHLAND LUMBER COMPANY
384 Oak St. — At Railroad Crossing — Phone 20
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