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, J a n u a ry 23. 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 . ---------------- * ---------------- ® ----------------------------------------------- O VALLEY VIEW $ ----------------------------------------------- © 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. 421 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. ---------------- * ---------------- ® -----------------------------------.----------- £ 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 ---------------- * ---------------- zens all over the state. ■J----------------------------------------------- 0 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 ---------- * ---------- More than 60 per cen t of those sick ----------* ---------- 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. 5^- p to ; • * >• j i' A fS ” r % f --------------+ -------------: VINING "PI i eci tre 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 . At-ren'ed for R e c k l n * Driving. >•* i Joseph H ernandez o f Yroka, Cali- *■. f ’ ^9 i* | 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.' M |* C pTXfJ M " * 4 . v r* TT -«.so nttnn'lnr? ♦lx#» $10.00 and costs in the city co u rt by taken on quite a change, ns twelve r- -»/>''**>firn 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«» TV „ V m -lV c m 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. 421 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. 414* 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. . 4‘2 tf --------------------* -------------------- 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. ----* ---------------- Send in a news item , o r a com 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 A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A ^ ▲A A i /SF5ERCT LF.Cm iA 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. --------------- * ----------------- - ■ & CLASSIFIED 1 1 «•« iSf — FOP. SALE ► 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” •» ♦ > v « ✓ ▼ Y f V Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 'T V Y Y X r r Y Y Y Y Y Y