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ASHLAND WEEKLY TIDINGS ASHLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1919 NO. 77 .VOL XUII L The meetings at the Free Metho dist church ure progressing both In Interest and attendance. Much of God's power Is in the services and a number Have been converted. Four have united with the church. Rev. J. W. Glazier' und wife are giving messages of power and benediction In song and preaching. These ser vices will continue ull this week. A watch night meeting will be held Wednesday evening. Visiting pas tors from abroad are expected. Christmas Kiiteitulnineiit Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schwein en tortained at dinner on Christmas day for a number of guests who were In Ashland spending the holiday with them. The. house was brilliantly decorated for the occasion and a big turkey dinner was served the com pany, who sat down to the feast by the light of a miniature Christinas tree which graced the center of the uble. The guest list consisted of Miss Irma Edgar, a niece, Caflyn Schwein, a son, and Ted Schwein, a nephew, of Mr. and Mrs. Schwein from Chico, Calir.; Mr. and Mrs. 3.eo Burker, Mr. and Mrs. Oorge Cohrke and Mr. and Mrs. Willnrd Veale of Ashland. Gave Dinner Sunday Mrs. C. Iliegel entertained a com pany of her friends at dinner yester day at her home on Morton street. The house and table were beautiful ly decorated with Chr'stmas greens r.pd a most sumptuous repast was spread at which fifteen sat down. These were: Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Stock, Mr. and Mrs. II. O. Eastman und two children, Mrs. Emma Coffee, Mrs. C. niegel, Misses Georgle Cof fee, Gertrude and Helena Iliede, Cal la niegel and Messrs. Milton, Earl and Elmer Iiiegel. Kntertnliieil Class Mrs. John W. Hoyt, the teacher of the Boy Scouts Sunday set ool class in the Presbyterhn church, en tertained her class last evening in a social at her home on Allison street. A company of tighteen boys were present and enjoyed a variety of games and guessing contests. The "Airplane Ride," one of the Inven tions of the bovs. met wilh the hear ty approval of all. During refresh ments conundrums added to the merriment. Mcdroiil Wedding: Virgil Strang, a well known young druggist of Med ford and Miss Gladys E. Peart, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Peart of that city, were united In murriage at St. Mark's Episcopal church at 6 o'clock Sunday evening. After the ceremony (lie bride und groom slipped away from their friends and came up to Ashland by auto where they were guests of Mr. end Mrs. H-nry Kndors. Jr., until train No. 15 arrived, on which they departed for Los Angeles to spend their honeymoon. Both Mr. nnd Mrs. Strang are well known among Ash land's young people. Unleilaincil War Comrades Meredith Beaver, who Is home from the University of Oregon for the Christmas holidays, entertained a group of ex-service men at his home on Iowa street Monday evening. The guests were former school mates of Mr. Beaver as well as comrades In the great war, and the evening was passed In reviewing tho past years, and comparing the present happy time withhe Christmas of the past two years which were spent In army discipline, and one of which was spent by the boys In a foreign land. The guests' list was composed of Merrill Thorne, Verne Blue, Ward Hammond, Oscar Silver and Elwood Hedburg. Prominent Woman in Valley Mrs. D. PerozzI and Mrs. Getchcll of Medford were summoned to meet Mrs. George Reinecke, the secretary of the Woman's National republican committee, at Medford, last evening, as she comes through on her way to San Francisco where the republicans are planning to hold a big meeting in January. The ladies had a pleas ant visit with Mrs. Reinecke whose home is In Chicago. She has prom ised to return to the valley later. Wedded at Noon A quiet but very pretty wedding took place at Trinity Episcopal church at 12" o'clock today. Miss Helen Conner nnd Mr. Frank Hanna were united In the holy estate of matrinony by the Vicar, the Rev. P. K. Hammond. Mrs. Conner, the bride's mother, and Allen Collins were witnesses. LONDON. The postman's federa tion has decided to refrain from the "degrading and pernicious system of collecting part of our wages from the public In the form of 'Christmas boxes.' " MEETINGS STIL KEEP P INTEREST 1 The Social Realm I j i 4! El E SneakttileVes entored Jordan's electrical store last night and suc ceeded In securing a few pennies for their pains. Entrance was made through a back window. They tore the screen oft tho back porch and! gained admittance there, after which they broke the upper pane of a win- dow and unlocked the catch, and then climbed 'into tho store. The cash register on the counter in the store room was carried Into the back room where It was opened and a lew pennies, the only money left In it, were extracted. Nothing else was disturbed about the store, and noth ing is missing so far as can be de tected. L. J. Orres worked late last night In his tailor shop next door and once dining the evening heard n noise aboutt he building, but paid no attention to It at the time, but it. Is thought It was the sound or breaking glass h heard. The cavh reglser is a heavy affair and would require two or three per sons to move It. Mr. Jordan usually Innrni, I. u I II .1 i II a IllWin lit tlltfM fl he never leaves money In It, but lor ! some reason he had closed It last night anil left his store early. Prisoners Break Jail at Roseburg (Special to The Tidings) I ROSEHI'RO. Four prisoners es caped from the Douglas county jail Saturday night, after sawing their way out of the main cage, then drop ping from a second story window to the ground. All of the escaped prisoners hut one were captured the next day. According to their story one of the men was in possession of a small hack saw which was used to cut the bars of the cage ill which all were confined. Before leaving the Jail the prisoners broke into a room where a lot of confiscated liquor was stored and helped them selves. They also left a note to Dep uty Sheriff Rafferty wishing him a "Happy New Year." Two American golfers might have been seen recently playing the 9-hole course at Mukden renowned as the farthest north" links in Asia with cholera masks on.- "I won't tell what the score was," Everard Thompson, formerly direc : tor of athletic events at Yale univer : sitv, who was one of the players, writes from Shanghai. "The cholera 1 was killing Chinese at the rate of 300 a day and most of those who died ! were buried around the golf course. J ; This sort of thing is one of the best alibis offered at Mukden for poor playing." The Mukden course is built among1 Chinese graves. The people in that section lay their dead on the ground and In course of time build a mound over them. In. this way a Chinese graveyard becomes a series of lrreg-i nlar mounds, some small, some large, scattered over tho countryside. "On tho Mukden course," Mr. Thompson writes, "These mounds, form the bunkers, anil very good ones they are. A player there gets fine practice with a niashie. "The second ball I hit on the Muk-i den course hooked around one of , tin so mounds nnd a great burst of 'weeping came from that direction. I thought I had killed some one, but when I got to the scene of the Blip-, posed accident I found it was nothing' worse than a weeping party. ! "Ancestor worship prevails In that' section of the country nnd every so often the family of Ihe deceased, no matter whether he has been that wayj ja year or fifty years, mnke consld-S orahlo noise about the grave for sev-! eral hours. It Is very disconcerting, J just when you ure going to pull off n perfect pitch to the green, to have' tho wails of several parties rend the air. "I played there only twice. I was tempted to those games because over here good courses are few and far between. Since I left the States I have played on only three courses one a nice little fl-hole course at Yokohama, very narrow and very difficult: the second a 9-hole course at Tokyo; and the course at Muk-1 den. That at Tokyo is a picture course and very easy." Social Party A company of young people gath ered at the home of Theodore Rus sell on North Pioneer avenue as. a welcome party to this young mnni who is spending the Christmas holi days from North Bend with his pa-! rents. A very pleasant time was spent at this reunion of friends. Mr. Russell leaves about the first of the year to return to North Bend. i Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lamb are backi from an extended trip which covered I San Francisco. Oakland, Calif., snd( Reno, Nev. They stated that they spent Christmas In San Francisco, where the weather was like a spring! day. They went later to Reno and found snow in abundance, which made them mighty glad to get back to Ashland. I TH EVES 1 LECTRICAL STORE NEW PASSENGER T! .P.! ,In order to accommodate the growing tourist travel that of late has been too heavy to be carried on the regular trains, the Southern Pa cific has put on another passenger train. The new train started Sun day, leaving Portland as second 13. The return from the south will be as second 18. Holiday Business Heaviest Ever The Ashland postoffiee reports the heaviest holiday business in the history of the city both outgoing and Incoming. While the packages were of a better order, the public were more belated in their shipments than usual, most likely on account of the storm retarding the Christmas shopping, The Incoming mail also disclosed that the outside friend were tardy In their mailing. Sun day night and Monday an enormous mass of mall arrived In the Ashland postoffiee from outside unexpected ly and it required the combined ef forts of the regular carriers work ing overtime as well as the substi tute and postmaster for most of the day to clear the office before the duy's business closed. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis. County agricul tural agents in Oregon are sought for big commercial jobs and higher positions in agriculture. Of 29 county agents who have re signed since 1913, four quit after three years, seven after two, and 12 less than one year. The average length of service was 18 months. Ten accepted higher salaries in commercial positions, four becoming bank agriculturists. Five were ex periment station men giving part time to county ugent work and resigned to give way to full time men. Three engaged In farming, three were pro moted to higher positions In the ser vice, and one was transferred to an other state. Agent work was dis continued in two counties. Agents are now employed in 23 counties. That the work has been a success has been indicated by in terest shown by other counties. Lake and Malheur will start county agri cultural agent work January 1. Polk and Harney have Included the nec essary items in their budgets. RAIN ON S THE LIBERTY CALENDAR EXACTLY FOUR WEEKS IN EVERY MONTH 5 v 13 MONTHS IN A YEAR ' gTuggF?rSaSu !HlliiilI228j (THI 3 13 THE WHOLE CALENDAR. t FOR A MILLION YEARS. f jWew Year Day is not included In any weak or month. jf'Corraction Day" once each four years not included in any week or month.' fThe remaining 364 days divided into 13 months of exactly 4 weeka rtthi fernery month commencing with Monday. A Bill already in Congratsa The month! are January, February, Liberty, March, Etc. V The above shows a cut of tne mucii talked of new Liberty calendar. The mere suggestion that this plan of measuring time should take the place of our present calendar is enough to make any real nice, old fashioned, conservative person gaBp for breath. To such a person it would seem preposterous that any one should have the nerve and ef frontery to propose such a radical change in our time-honored und much revered, though atrociously constructed, old time calendar. j This project is fathered by fifty Minneapolis business and profession al men who a few months since or ganized the. American Equal Month Calendar association, and are now: "seeding down" with their pet calen dar Idea. The directors are business or professional men of high standing and strange none of the association belong to the ancient and accepted, order ofcranks, but are hard-headed practical business men. In framing the calendar, only three slight changes were made In the present form. First, New Yeurs day was made an independent legal holiday. It Is placed between the last day of December and the first day of January, but it Is not Includ ed In any week or month. Then, the remaining 304 days are divided Into thirteen months of exactly four weeks each, every month com mencing with Monday. This Is cer-J talnly simplicity Itself. Of course, the extra day In Leap AGED WOMAN DIES m Mrs. Alice A. Turner, aged 90, a native of Vermont, died Decem ber 17, at her home, 15.1 Linden uvenue, Long Beach, Calif. Tho hus band, Charles S.'; Turner, who is past 00, and to whom she had been mar ried for CO years, survives her, as do a daughter, Miss Nora L. Turner, of Long Beach, and a son, William A. Turner, of Ashland, Ore.., now In that city. She was a life-long Meth odist. Funeral services were con ducted at the Patterson & McQull kln chapel at 2:30 o'clock the fol lowing afternoon by Rev. L. T. Guild. CHICAGO. r resent day crooks are all pikers. AT LONG BEACH That is the opinion of "Lucky Tlle BrrTni 0f a number of tour Baldwin, one time horse thief, train ts from the south with automobiles robber. pic!p ck t and at present bespeaks a good condition of the . i .1 -.' roads this winter. Yesterday some "among th. se ,o have come back. from ag fM 801ltlB8 ,09 "Fearless crooks? Why. you don't Angeles, stopped at the White Star read of one in a year," Luckv told the garage, having made thet rip right United Press. "The only one ; I have throng These tourhds not even readMbout In months is Bill Carl- tween Redding und Dunsinulr which Isle. is tho bugaboo to automobile tour- "And then .Ley had , stop him," , Z he added with a tone of regret in mi8 nnt b,,en interrupted much this his voifre. "I would like to get hold winter, save the week of the deep of Cnrllsle. Ho wouldn't be afraid, snow, and cars come through from to preach the gospel." Baldwin, whose right name Is C. J. Balfe, but who Is known to In mates of the Chicago workhouse, where hb Imb been chaplain for seven years, as "Lucky," knows crooks I from A to Z. He was one himself for twenty-five years but was ron- verted at the McAuley Mission in' New York City Ui 1908 For the last eleven years he has1 been one of the most successful m Ih- Bion workers in Chicago, due to his knowledge of the underworld and lis people "Fifty per cent of the Inmates of the prisons of the I'nited States should never be put behind the bars," he declared. "The other fifty per cent should never get out." "Take the 'dips.' They wait until some poor little girl starta to get'on a car and then they grab her purse with a few nickels, and run. "The day I was converted, I start ed to lift the roll of h guv In the Bowery In New York. Only silver fell from his pockets. Do you think i would pick ii up: ,m i.uckv naiu win." Nine men who Bal.lwin nicked tin from the streets are now preaching) the gospel. He speaks of them with pride, and a smile which shows , row of gold teeth, replacing thoso knocked out hy tho butt end of an Arizona sheriff's gun, lights his face. EVERY MONTH JUST LIKE THIS Years also had to be provided for but the same unique plan was again followed, and other independent day called "Correction Duy" is placed at the end of each four year between the last nay of December and New Years day of the following year. The new mouth of Liberty Is placed next after January and Feb ruary in the new form simply because of similarity of sound. The summer season under the new form is given four months, but each of the other seasons is given three months as heretofore. It Is claimed that this arrangement will be more truo to nature than our present di vision. The plan also provides that Good Friday and Easter Sunday shall al ways bo observed on certain fixed dates. This was contemplated when our present calendar was adopted. It Is show'n that under this simple Liberty calendar one will be ablo to tell on what day of the week any future date will full, even though that dute should be a thousand yeurs hence. Also that under the new form there would be no more fire Sundays to the month to upBet all our calculations. Every holiday and every anniversary will always fall on Its particular day of the week. It will be on the same day of the week in every year. Strange to say, th? Fourth of July, Victory day (Nov. 11th) Thanksgiving day, and Christ mas, will all come on Thursday every year, after this change Is made. HIGH PRAISE OF AN ASHlMWiN ' Professor Frederick Berchtold, for many years the head of the Eng lish department of tho 0. A. C, has written a friend In Ashland regard ing "A Daughter of the Rogues": "The poem Is a fine exhibition of native poetic gift. There are a number of superb passages scattered ' through the nearly 1500 lines. Mr. Campbell Is a born poet." ' . OVERLAND TRAVEL Hornbrook and other points in North ern California nearly every day. wmmttmammwajummumtmtnjg i LOCAL AND PERSONAL ( tittautmttutnnmntrajatatmtmnma Tl'KSDAY'H XKWS The city council held an adjourned meeting last night and cleared up - '' reports and business to finish the j "e" - t t t .... ... Dennis Espy, the little son o Mrs. 81""' and tfiaudson of Mr. and Mrs. N- Den,"' Ie" tr0" ton- one lasi evening au nuu mo imo fortune to break tils leg. He seems to be getting along well toduy. Mrs. Anna McCarthy will leave to day for Dunsmulr to spend New I Years with her son. I I Mrs. Griffith left yesterday for 'i.os Altos, Calif., to visit with her , Mrs- Bob Prosser. ! w R HH(lkln'90'n,'wlfe and daugh ter, have gone to Southern Cali fornia to spend the holidays. MM Rrace Ljy an(, Mli Mllr()n Arm, twQ former tenche,.9 , the AhIllIld high 8Chools. are guests this week at the home of Mrs. Elsie Churchman of 31 Union street. Miss Lillv is teaching this year In the Lincoln high school of Portland, und ! Miss Arndt is a teacher In tlle schools I at Mendocino, Calif. I Miss Hazel Lowe, who has been teaching domestic science in Ihe schools at Glenn, Calir., Is home on a visit wilh her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Lowe of Valley View. . . e j Ashland has been treated to a I "silver thaw" for the past two or I three days. The entire valley was shrouded in a bank of fog, while , a white frost covered all the foliage. This morning, however, tho fog has I rolled away and the sun shone ' brightly. e e e The body or John Worth, who died at n local hospital here from pneu- monla where he hnd been taken from the train (luring the week, was ship ped last night to Woodland, Calif. The decease I had started for that city when he was taken ill. His friends were notitled of his condi-, lion and later of his death, and sent word to Ashland for tho body j to be sent on. Company B and tho Aeieilcaii Le gion cleared $113 on their danco In the Natatorlum Christmas night, e e Mrs. Frank Moore, who had been spending Christmas with her mother, Mrs. Anna McCarthy of North Main Btreet, left last evning (or her home In Eueene. I e e e Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Smith are home from Montague where they h id been spending ( hrlstmai, and where a family reunion was held. Mr. Smith has been quite ill recently and this Is the flrBt ha has been able lo bo out for sever.l weeks. e e e Mrs. H. H. Gillette and daughter Marjorle left last evening for San Francisco. Mrs. Gillette will remain a short time to visit with relatives, while Miss Marjorle will remain In that city to finish high school. Hens Valuable Piopertf CORVALLIS. The Income from a good hen Is no smiill matter. In the $10,000 a year flock at the Or egon state hospital were a large number of O. A. C. bred "Oregons" that laid 300 or more eggs each per year. Thut's more than 25 doiens each. At 60 cents the Talue of the eggs for table use would be more than a dollar a month per hen. The hatching value of these eggs is quad ruple that. Time was and not long ago when' the family cow returned leu profit. NOT INTERRUPTED F INE SERVICE AT E Upwards of B00 or GOO people, guthered around the community Christmas tree on the Plaza last evening at 5:30 to hold the post poned exercises of which the rain of Christmas eve had necessitated the postponement. Mr. Mitchell presided at the piano, which was brought to the scene on a truck, und V. O. N. Smith also accompanied the singing with a .trombone. Rev. C. F. Koehlor, pastor of the Presbyterian church, was chairman of the- exercises and Introduced the speakers who were the clergymen from the various churches of the city. Rev. Herman D. Edwards of the Nazarene church led the singing which consisted of several beautiful old Christmas hymns familiar to all. The lighted tree was attractive with Its Yuletido trimmings. A unanimous vote was taken expressing tho opinion of the people present that this form of Christmas observance was a partic ularly pleasing one, ami one that will in all probability be carried out in future years. Off Day for Green Family Sunday was an unfortunate day for the Green family of loo Union street. Mr. and Mrs. Green were In Grants Pass to spend the day with friends. While returning home that evening the fog settled down so bad ly on the road that about a mile be yond Central Point they collided with another automobile coming to wards them. They claimed that the lights were not dimmed on the ap proaching car and blinded Mr. Green who was driving. Mrs. Green was quite badly hurt about tho face when she was thrown against the car. Their automobile was damaged so badly it had to be left in Medford while Mr. and Mrs. Green came homo in a jitney. The other car was over turned and Imdly damaged, but mi one was hurt. Silva Green, who with his wife, was visiting friends in Sams Valley Sundav, was struck on the head while attempting to crank un automobile. Ills injuries are not serious, but he wears a decoratiMt black nnd blue lump on the side of his head. mi T (Special to The Tidings) KLAMATH, FALLS, Dec. 30. At an election held ill this city Saliirilav a special tax levy of f 11(11) for an In crease In teachers' salaries carried hy u vote of 102 to 7. The vme means all increase of approximately $21 a month to all teaelier.i III the schools, probably retroactive to No heinber, 1910. The county court this week re fused to grant an appropriation for tho home demonstration agent, and on account of abolishing of that po sition, Miss Florence I'oole, the agent for Ihe past fall and winter, has left for Portland and Corvallis. The reasons fur abolishing this county officer were given by the court that it considered more people desired a county library ami the ser vices of a county nurse, and that theHiree could not be maintained. The real shortage closed Indiis Irles; this caused unemployment and privation and proved that conditions of whatever character which Inter-, fere with Industrial activity bring Immediate hardship. YOU SHOULD HAVE WEEKLY AS WELL AS COMMUNITY TRE IL INIASE EA HERS PAY ii ii MR. Hy IWn;,' Both tho aily and UYekly Your Menfae Goes Into Practically Every llmiie i:: Ashland's fj Trade Territory Hotli in tho Ciiv and ('ountry. R IT COSTS VKRY LIT1I.10 MOKK TO $ COVKIi TIIK rOKNTilV DISTUICTS Ej IX TIIIO WKKKI.Y 'U TELEPHONE 39 i And Advertising Man Will Tell You About H m El NEED E I The Associated Industries of Or egon are inaugurating a state-wide movement to secure employment for all ex-service men in Oregon. In or der to put this movement before the people Governor Olcott has issued a proclamation asking for the co operation of all manufacturers and employers of labor to provide em ployment for the hosts of unem ployed men who served their country during the war and are now at homo wilh no place In the industrial af fairs of the state. Following is Hie governor's proc lamation : Salem, Oregon, December 22, 1019. To the People of Oregon: Because of a serious unemploy ment situation which has resulted in hundreds of ex-service men of this state being out of employment the manufacturers of Oregon, through tho Associated Industries, have volunteered to meet the situa tion by the employment of these ex service men. This move on the part of the mnn : llfactiirers will mean n material I over-production of their products. As a result of these conditions, It will ho necessary to find a way to market this additional production. The logical way is for the people of Oregon themselves to absorb the over-production by confining their purchases as far as possible to Ore gon product ion. From the inception of the war Or egon was a leader In every patriotic move. While peace is here, it is as much our duly to see that the pien who gave us peace are properly pro vided with employment ag it was our duty to finance them during the war. am confident the people of the state will give ready response to this appeal and I urge that for the novt ninety days every man, woman and child In the state do his or her part by purchasing Oregon made pro duels. Insist that you secure these products, realizing as you do so Hint you are assisting in giving employ ment to tho men who righteously deserve it. I would also respectfully request that the mayors of the various cities and towns in tho state call this situation to the attention ei their home peopl", so that this plan may-work out with the greatest sue-' cess. Very sincerely yours. BKN' W. OLCOTT. Governor. KLAMATH FALLS. Miss Bessie L. Lewis, a- teacher at the Klamath Indian agency, was drowned In a pool at the agency Christmas. It is thought the young woman took her una life. She had attended tie' Chi islmas eve festivities at the In dian school the night before and seemed apparently in good spirits, ae'i'oriling to l.lie reports. Friends stale that she was to have been mar ried within a mouth. ST. CLOUD, Minn. A painting, the work of a Mlnneapolis'art firm, has lieeu received at the high school here and dedicated to the memory of St. cloud hoys who lost Iheir lives in the war. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. There Is a shortage of officii spare here. Re cently twelve physicians told officials they were unable to find a location. At hlmil Iron Works has contract to build loo farm tractois and cultiva tors for Seattle firm. M n'hinea to do all kinds or farm work. Big sawmill company is being or ganized at llarrlsburg. Itnsehiirg. 155 acres near city bought for goat milk dairy ranch. Seaside voles $253,000 bunds for scenic boulevard. YOUR AD IN THE THE DAILY TIDINGS rllf!trtlf EX-SERVICE IN ff EN MERCHANT ' i,jois,H ou...