ASHLAND AM ERICAN
T aient T opics
That Tell Tale
Elvis C ochrane, W ill Jacobs and
E v e re tt Boone w ent to H ornbrook
last S atu rd ay evening w here they
furnished music fo r a dance.
Mrs. E v erette Boone and children
w ent to H ilt on No. 13 last S atu rd ay
w here she visited frie n d s re tu rn in g
home Sunday afternoon.
John D. C aster, who has been
spending several m onths in Los
Angeles, re tu rn e d home last S a tu r­
day.
Mrs. Ross of D unsm uir, C alif., a r ­
rived last F riday evening fo r a visit
with h er brother, L. C. D rake, re ­
tu rn in g to D unsm uir on S aturday.
Mrs. Louis Brown and Russell and
B etty w ere visitors a t the home of
Mrs. Ben Bayliss in A shland last
S aturday.
Mrs. E rn e st Purvis and children
re tu rn e d last S atu rd ay from San
Francisco, where she has been visit­
ing her m other fo r several m onths.
Miss H arper, who has been visit­
ing her sister, Mrs. K. K runkler, le ft
Monday fo r her home in Redding,
C alifornia. The K runklers recently
bought a 20-acre tru ct of Dr. C. W.
M cFadden.
Mrs. Will Gleims w ent to the
Ashland hospital T uesday fo r tr e a t­
m ent and observation.
Misses Lis Joy H anson, Louise
Scroggins, Gladys Rice, M argaret
H am m erbacker, P atricia Gale, B etty
Brown and R uth Brown, all Ashland
norm al students, w ere hostesses last
S atu rd ay evening a t an inform al
p arty given a t the com m unity club
room s in T alent, h o noring B ently
P ritch ard of the navy service, San
Diego, who is visiting in Ashland.
A bout tw enty were presen t, and all
enjoyed a m erry evening. D ainty re ­
fresh m ents w ere served by the host­
esses, assisted by M csdamcs Bowman
and Brown.
Monday night the cam p fire girls
celebrated the birthdays of fo u r of
th e ir n um ber w ith a p a rty in Miss
G enaw ay’s ap artm en ts. The evening
sp en t pleasantly in playing gam es,
was all too short to the m any girls
, who attended. A t a late hour cof­
fee with Welsh ra re b it on crackers
was served.
Mrs. Leonard O orthuys o f “ IIol-
lan d ale” en tertain ed C larence llold-
ridge, F rank Denham, Mr. and Mrs.
J . F. D itsw orth and Mr. and Mrs.
I). O. H urley fo r d in n er Sunday,
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Among those in M edford S a tu r­
day w ere Mr. and Mrs. J. H. C raw ­
ford, Miss Emma C raw ford, Mr. Win.
P etrie and M argaret.
Mr. and Mrs. Acel Beckwith
moved up to Jam es McDowell’s place
on A nderson creek T uesday where
Mr. Beckwith has work.
A. H. Davenhill and Carl Glasgow
o f T alen t w ere business visitors in
M edford last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Bullen of Ash­
land have bought the Shell service
station of C. C. Bond and took
possession T uesday m orning.
Mr.
Bullen has been in the navy service,
stationed a t F o rt Stevens.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Brown, who
have been spending the w in ter in
San Diego, spent Tuesday in T alent
and w ere din n er guests of Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Bond. They le ft fo r P o rt­
land on W ednesday. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown w ere form erly in the general
m ercantile business here.
C harles P etrie, who works on Ash­
land Tidings force is home, sick with
measles.
Mrs. Sun M orris of Ashland visited
W ednesday o-f last week a t the home
o f Mrs. Ella P atterso n and Mrs. Will
Ferns.
Mrs. George P erkins and Mildred
Jo n es o f W’ag n er creek visited in
Ashland last week.
Ed O stendorf of P ortland called
on his old friends, en ro u te to Klam­
a th Falls, w here he will take over the
Dodge agency. His fam ily expect to
move to Klam ath Falls in F ebruary.
Misses Blanche W iard and Mary
Adamson of Ashland high visited
T ale n t schools last Friday.
Mrs. T hatcher of the N azarene
church
in Ashland, preached a t
T alen t M. E. church last Sunday
m orning.
Rev. and Mrs. Wm. V im ont are
both ill this week.
Miss A nna Evans will be hostess
to th e Queen E sther circle this F ri­
day evening.
The S tacker fam ily, who have been
living in the Boone house, have
. moved into Earl W itherow ’s house
n ev t to the b arb er shop.
A. T. Edm unson of Salem, who
has been spending several davs visit­
ing his fam ily here, re tu rn ed to his
week in So'em last Sunday afternoon.
T alent high played basketball with
Sam s Valiev high at the Phoenix
gym last F rid ay 'ev en in g . w inning by
a score of 1 6 to 12. '1 alent town
team also nlayed a pick-up team from
Sams Valley the same evening, win­
ning by a score of 14 to X. The line
n r of town team was Civile Purvis,
Billv Ontmnn K enneth Pellets. Bu­
ford C hiller« and F lv ’s Coehraoe.
E arle N ew brv a m em ber o f the
•«•bool board, v is ite d hig h «ebnol
m orning and the grades in
this Friday evening. A nyone in te re st­
ed in the industry is invited to a t ­
tend. A table show and fu r dem on­
stratio n will be held, also an e n te r­
tainm ent and light refreshm ents.
C allers a t the Sun Gold ra b b itry
the past week w ere Mr. and Mrs. An­
derson. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, Mrs.
M ary C levenger of M edford, Dr.
M iller of Phoenix. Ray Spencer of
P rospect and Mr. Morse of Ashland.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Larson spent
the week-end a t B utte Fulls with
Mrs. L arson’s p aren ts, Mr. and Mrs.
C. Mahoney.
Mrs. R. Larson was in M edford
Monday to see her nephew, Glen
A lberts of B utte Falls, who is seri­
ously ill a t the Sacred H eart hospital
with pneum onia.
P rin. W hitm an of Phoenix was a
d in n er guest Tuesday evening a t the
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Larsen.
Mrs. B. N. Sandlin is able to be
about again a f te r a two w eek’s ill­
ness.
Send in your subscription to the
Ashland A m erican fo r a year.
Max Bowman, C arl Melon, Acel
Beckwith, Ed Jacobs, Geo. Clinton
and John C astor atten d e d the Modern
Woodmen m eeting in Ashland last
S aturday night.
The T alent team
helped pu t on the degrees.
Mrs. C lair G raham is on the sick
list this week.
Mrs. I. C. W illiam s and Mrs. Acel
Beckwith visited in A shland T hurs­
day of last week with Mrs. R uth Reed
Mr. and Mrs. C. G raham o f F ern
valley visited Mrs. G raham ’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John H u b a rtt, Monday
aftern o o n .
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F reda H eryford of B u tte Falls
was the guest e f O rpha A rnold last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. John A rnold were
d in n er guests of A lbert A rnold and
fam ily last T hursday evening.
Mrs. M orris Jo n es has sufficiently
recovered to re tu rn to h er home in
T alen t last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. N. C haney w ere
d in n er guests o f Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
M cCracken Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jam es Lennox and
son, Keith,, enjoyed S unday din n er
w ith H enry C a rte r and fam ily of
Ashland.
Mr. and Mrs. H arry W eagant, Ray
and Paul H endrickson and Mabel
R eaehert and m other w ere “ listen-
ers-in” on the radio a t the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jam es Lennox S atu rd ay
evening.
Bob W agner re tu rn ed last F riday
from a w eek’s trip to C alifornia.
E rn est Howell and Dan T aylor of
K lam ath Falls w ere visitors a t the
Fred G arle home recently.
The approach of spring seems to
bring the spirit of im provem ent
ab o u t the com m unity. Bog W agner
has b uilt a new porch ami a pump
are each building new brooder
houses. J. II. Morse and R. N. C haney
the school yard fence has been re ­
paired and L. II. G allatin has been
doing some extensive fence building.
We hope th a t the m eeting held
a t the school house last W ednesday
evening atten d e d by a com m ittee of
the Ashland cham ber of com m erce
and several fa rm e rs of V alley View
will be productive of g io d fru it.
Loyal co-operation betw een business
people and those of the surrounding
com m unity would re su lt in good to
both.
Mrs. K enneth L ansing arrived
T uesday evening from P o rtlan d fo r
a visit with her p aren ts, Mr. and
Mrs. Jam es Lennox.
Home Notes
S pring is arriv in g and sp ring goods
a re beginning to be displayed.
You will w ant to h ear Rev. E u­
banks, a m issionary recen tly from
China, a t the B aptist church this
Sunday m orning.
J. M. W atkins o f 72 L aurel St.,
le ft Jan . 26 fo r a th ree w eeks’ stay
in Miami, Florida, w here he will look
a f te r business in terests.
Mrs. E. Yockey, who has been
quite sick a t her home in this city, is
about the sam e. A host of friends
hope fo r an im provem ent in her
health.
— W anted, acreag e in or n ear
Ashland o r M edford to exchange for
C alifornia or W illam ette valley prop­
erty. Brown and Rice, 63 N. Main
St. Ashland.
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Mrs. C ora A. Gleim of T alent
died a t the M edford hospital Feb.
2. Mrs. Gleim was a d au g h ter of
Mrs. Annie Hensley of this city. The
fu n eral will be a t T alen t tom orrow
at 2 :30.
This (F rid ay ) night the Ashland
norm al will m eet th e O. A. C. rook
team in a re tu rn gam e of b ask et­
ball, a t which tim e they will try to
even up the gam es. It prem ises to
be a hard fou g h t and speedy gam e.
Mrs. C. F. I.ilton, Mrs. Wm.
Myer, Mrs. Vina D ecker and Mrs.
H arris Dean atten d e d a m eeting of
the C ounty H ealth association held
at the home of Mrs. E. H. Jan n e y in
M edford
W’ednesday
aftern o o n ,
F eb ru ary 2.
The ru ral ro u te road known as the
Ashland mine road is rep o rted not
in the best of trav e l condition and
P ostm aster F. D. W’ag n e r has called
atten tio n o f th e fa ct to the city
council, who have re fe rre d the m at­
te r to the s tre e t com m ittee fo r in­
vestigation.
The Golden R ule store, as our
m any ro u te and com m unity read ers
will notice, is celeb ratin g th eir fifth
anniverary. The Golden Rule is al­
ways an a ttra c tiv e shopping cen ter
and progressive. M any will find th at
it will pay to visit them now d uring
th eir anniversary.
Ashland has m any citizens form ­
erly from K ansas and this week we
have visitors from Ness City, in the
Sun flow er state, a t the J. C. Hop­
per home. Mr. H opper, vice-presi­
d ent of the S ta te bank, is also from
Kansas and his visitors, W. A. Owens
and sons, declare th eir in tentions of
re tu rn in g here to m ake a home.
Many in Ashlnnd listened over the
radio to G overnor P a tte rso n ’s tax ad ­
dress to the L egislature W ednesday
evening. “ Tax on m oney is th e only
way out of th e s ta te ’s financial
tro u b le,” was the solution suggested
by the governor. A g rad u ated income
tax seems to be th e answ er.
The
legislature is w restling w ith the
problem and a happy solution is
hoped for.
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F riends and m em bers of the Jack -
son C ounty Public H ealth association
m ay co n g ratu late each o th e r ,and
fellow w orkers th ro u g h o u t Oregon
th a t the appropriation fo r the bureau
or n ursing has been re-in stated in
the budget of the state board of
health. C ongratulations should also
be extended to the m em bers of the
ways and m eans com m ittee who gave
this subject due consideration when
they w ere appealed to with hundreds
o
f le tte rs and telegram s from citi­
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zens all over the state.
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H ealth boosters are now asked to
w rite o r wire the ways and m eans
BELLVIEW
com m ittee a t once to ap p ro p riate
$220,250 to supplem ent th e $100,-
The m eeting of the
Bellview 000 carried in the original m easure
Telephone com pany last week re su lt­ creatin g the E astern O regon tu b e r­
ed in the election o f the follow ing culosis hospital. This to tal am o u n t of
$320,250 will build the hospital and
o ffic ers: P resident, F. C. H om es; cover
all costs to Dec. 31, 1028 and
secretary - tre a su re r, A. C. Jo y ; provides fo r 80 beds. T here are 3,-
700 active cases of tu berculosis in
trouble m an, B ert Peachy.
R ehearsals fo r the play a t Bell­ Oregon, but only 225 hospital beds
fo r those who can not pay fo r p rivate
view are being held nightly now at _ care. T here are no beds in E astern
the club house. E everything points i O regon so the one tu b erculosis hos-
to its u ltim ate success and th e pub­ | pital in Salem has a w aitin g list of
56 today which does not include 100
lic m ay be assured of som ething m
ore who would apply if th ere were
w orthw hile on the nights o f its pres­ any chance to get in. This m eans th a t
patients w ait from th ree to five
en tatio n , F eb ru ary 17 and 18.
Mrs.
Susanne
Hom es
C arter, m onths in th eir homes o r cheap lodg­
ing houses a fte r they a re serious
county school su p erin ten d en t, who enough to have asked perm ission to
bus been ill nt h er home in Jackson­ e n te r a state institution.
O f course
ville is rep o rted as very much b et­ they are receiving care from the
county nurses who trav el any dis­
te r today.
tance to look a fte r these p atien ts and
The P.-T. A., o f Beilvlew are even answ er em ergency cal is a t
giving a cooked food sale S atu rd ay night to assist during a hem orrhage
or to place them , in a local hospital
at H ardy Bros, store.
with funds from the C hristm as seals
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More than 60 per cen t of those sick
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with tuberculosis are young people
ju st en terin g upon th e ir period of
An d They W a n t More Pay.
L egislatures pro b a bly deserve g re a te st usefulness to th e ir fam ilies
end to the state, so to give them
m ore pay, but of all the bills they adequate hospital care is not only a
im agine they m ust introduce, we ex­ hum anitarian m easure b u t a paying
pect the m easure to be a t least sen­ investm ent. W rite or wire y o u r sup­
port to m em bers of th e leg islature
sible.
One L egislator Pierce, of and the ways and m eans com m ittee.
Coos and C urry counties, has in tro ­
duced a bill pvtending from m idnight
to 3 a. m. the tim e lim it fo r dancing.
Ye Gods ami little fishes; ca n ’t our
legs get tired enough by m idnight.
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VINING
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Saturday, February 5
“THE BUCKAROO KID”
with Hoot Gibson as a breezy cowboy who knows
his stuff. *
Sunday and Monday, February 6 and 7
“BLONDE OR BRUNETTE”
Adolph Menjou is forced to choose between the two
opposites. How he does it makes an amusing story.
Tuesday and Wednesday, February 8 and 9
“WHILE LONDON SLEEPS”
—a different story for Rin-Tin-Tin, affording him
an opportunity to demonstrate his marvelous
powers as a detective.
Thursday and Friday, February 10 and 11
“PARADISE FOR TWO”
with Richard Dix as a rich young Bachelor, not
wanting a wife, but a wife must be found for
business reasons.
w here now they have a com plete lay­
o u t w here com plete b an q u ets can be
served. Six ladies of th e auxiliary
came down a t 11 a. m. to p re p are a
lunch in th e club room s fo r ¡the
toilers, and as they were handicapped
fo r a place and way of serving
the to ilers expected no m ore than
a little lunch, but w hat a surprise
when they called chow. Roast chicken
’neverytliing.
The foods w ere all
cooked hot at noon and brought
down a t th e last m inute and hot
co ffe and tea was served from elec­
tric percolators. Leave it to the ladies
to fig u re out an ea tin g proposition.
God bless ’em!
P ost 14 is indebted to Mr. F ran k
Jo rd a n of the Jo rd an cab in et works
on Oak s tre e t for the donation of a
large stro n g window fram e. N ext
Sunday will see the kitchen in all its
beauty fo r then it will be com pleted,
plum bing und all.
Ashland post has a busy program
m apped o u t fo r 1927.
Its an nual
show within the n ex t fo rty-five days
th e com m unity w elfare program for
A shland, the state convention a t La
G rande, the n ational convention in
P aris, a n o th e r show la te r in the year
and m any social night through out
the year.
The books of the A m erican Legion
are alw ays open fo r new m em bers.
The only req u irem en ts are, an ex-
service m an,
All ex-service men
should line up, they need the Legion
and th e Legion needs them .
M illard W. Grubb, com m ander, or
T. E. P atterso n , a d ju ta n t of Post 14
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At-ren'ed for R e c k l n * Driving.
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fornai, was arrested S atu rd ay night
The club house o f A^Wand post.
on a charge o f reckless driving by No. 14. of the Am erican I^eeuon on
C hief of Police Mf>Nabb and fined W inburn W ay h.as since lrs t Sum in.'
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$10.00 and costs in the city co u rt by taken on quite a change, ns twelve
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nt tbr* hoTPP ftt j Police Judge Clint B aughm an. H er­
of the m em bers tu rn ed o n t Sundav
V - ,Ton-.eV in Medford W ednesday
nandez was arrested when he ran m orning a t 9 o’clock and workin«»
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P «T *s*»n
M - « t o » l (into an
approaching ca r belonging C ivil 6 p. m. had erected a kitchen
n -m !» n-,»«.,i,T- e«-sociat!en will hold , to E. D. Jennings.
,tu the re a r o f the p resen t club house
th e ir re g u la r m eeting at llie city hall
FOR SALE— An income p roperty
8-room house, su itable fo r 2 fam ­
ilies, with stoves and some fu rn itu re .
Lots 108x178, plenty of fru it and
flow ers. $.3,000— Brown and Rice,
63 N. Main.
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A SN A P— Lot 100x200 on enst side
of VanNcss Ave., ad jo in in g Dr.
S m ith ’s pro p erty . S tre e t paved and
cem ent sideynlk in. This pro p erty
has cost me nearly $2000, will take
$1100 and give term s if w anted. Mrs.
C. L. H awley, 1017 14th St., S acra­
m ento, C alifornia.
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FOR R E N T
FOR RENT— Well furnished a p a rt­
m e n t Call a t 96 Laurel St., or
phone 289J.
4 2tf
GARAGE fo r re n t, betw een F ourth
and F ifth. In q u ire a t 57 F ifth St.
J. B. Icenhow er.
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Basketball Bills.
We can p rin t them , and would e n ­
joy a share o f them a t the o ffice of
the A m erican in. th e Shook block.
Phone 95.
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m unication or re g u la r correspond­
ence from your com m unity.
“Ashland Maid”
Creamery Butter
is real butter, made from rich, pasteurized cream,
wrapped in sanitary packages. It possesses “Vita-
mines” in generous quantities, which physicians de­
clare is vitally necessary for growing children.
“ Its the Quality“
Ask for it by name at your grocer
L IT H IA C R E A M E R Y
143 N. Pioneer
Phone 84
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will gladly talk over a t any tim e to
any ex-service man ju s t w hat it
m eans to be a L egionnaire.
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NOTICE
The Eagles’ Hall, 3rd Floor, Me lford Building,
Medford is under new management on Friday nights
and is putting on a series of Friday Nite Jazz Dances.
Music by the Metropole Orchestra
Admission 10c; Dance Tickets 75c
“Everybody Welcome”
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