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ASHLAND
City of Schools, Churches,
Homes a n d Business
AMERICAN
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VOLUME 2
A S H L A N D , J A C K S O N C O U N TY , O R E G O N , F RI DA Y,
CAMPAIGN ON
FOR PRESIDENT
L I T T L E P R O G R E S S IS Y E T MADE;
BU T P L E N T Y O F T A LK
Several
i n
Field
Var ious I s s u e s
Entering
1928 C am p a ig n , Being
W o r k e d up by Opposi ng
Forces.
Into
Is the 1928 presidential campaign
open for discussion? Evidently it is
and suggestions are read in every
big or little paper of the land.
President
Coolidge
has
never
announced anything to indicate his
intentions, and speculation is a t a
loss as ju st how to proceed. There is
always a possibility th a t Mr. Cool
idge will not be a candidate either
by refusal to run or by fa ilure to
gain the nomination. In such a case
the country a t large and especially
the Middle West would rally to
F rank Lowden.
The demochats are more a t a loss
than the republicans. They are seek
ing an issue, and are keeping as mum
as possible over the “ w et” and “ d r y ’
ciues* on. Th ir prom inent possibili
ties a t this writing are Al. Smith and
Bill McAdoo— one wet, one dry.
Not only is the booze question to
the front, but other issues include
the Mexican policy, the ta riff, as
usual and the all im portant argicul-
tu ra l question. Of all the uncom fort
able propaganda to en ter the aproa-
ching campaign is the religious ques
tion. It shouldn’t exist; church and
s ta te should be separate questions—
bu t like a bad penny always bobs up.
W ithout comment pro or con, or any
wish to chide the editors, we print
below, two articles appearing in last
w eek’s Southern Coos County Am
erican. One article hended “ If Smith
W ins” starts an argum ent rig h t off
the bat and was probably unwise of
the editor or uncalled fo r an general
principals. But the second article on
“ Is Al Smith the Man” shows th at
editor Hamilton takes up the chal
lenge and helps with his bit in
eith er prolonging the “ religion and
politics” subject or quieting Mr.
O ’Brien.
I F S MI T H WI NS.
CITY
Will
TO
Call
B U I LD
RESERVOIR
for Proposal s to
10 a t City Hall.
March
The Ashland city council will soon
let contracts for the construction of
the Crowson hill reservoir fo r the
w ater d epa rtm ent of the city.
The plans call fo r the construction
of a 2,200,000 gallon distributing
reservoir, involving excavation, plac
ing concrete and reinforced concrete
pipe and Teinforcingsteel in the fol
lowing approxim ate quantities:
Excavation, 9,175 cubic yards.
Concrete, 740 cubic yards.
Reinforced concrete pipe, 126 lin
e a r feet.
Reinforced steel, 42,000 pounds.
The city council will receive seal
ed proposals and the proposals will
be opened in the council chambers in
the city hall, Ashland, Oregon, on
March 10,, 1927 a t 8 o’clock p. m.
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MARCH 4, 1927
MOTOR TRIP
IS ENJOYED
A L I T T L E R I DE S H O W S S PR I N G
ACTIVITIES EVERYWHERE
Some Roads Dusty
Town« Ar e Busy Wi th New Buildings
a nd Fa r me r » Have P le nt y of
Sp ri ng Wor k
Last S aturday and Sunday, the
American scribe took up the time
in driving over southern Oregon and
northern California, to view condi
tions since last week’s high waters
A S H L A N D W I N S IN BO TH G AM E S and feast on the beauties of Spring.
WITH CAVEMEN HOOPERS
North as fa r as Gold Hill and
south as fa r as Yreka, California.
Both boy and girl members of
At Gold Hill the Rogue river is
Ashland’s basketball teams exper down to normal and the residents
ienced a thrilling victory Monday of th a t cement city are planting
night when two visiting teams from gardens. Lots of mining talk in Gold
the G rants Pass high were forced to Hill and several good properties are
d efeat upon the floor of the Ash being opened fo r development work.
land gym. The boy’s lineup was fast Several producers will soon be heard
and snappy, and resulted in the from in this mining district.
overwhelming score of 31 to 17, in
Around C entral Point the fru it
favor of the Ashland five. The Ash- growers and farm ers seemed to all
landgirl’s quintet scored a rapid vic be busy fixing fences, repairing flood
tory over their opponents nnd chalked damage, preparing garden spots, and
up a tally of 25 to 17. Both games remodeling lawns. The brick yards
were attended by record crowds, and a t Central Point are being put into
were exceptionally well played, ac shape for early operations; new
cording to hoop experts who wit buildings being erected and an air of
nessed the battles.
The Ashland industrial activities prevails.
team s held the upper hand through
At M“dford the stores were
out both tussels, it was declared, and crowded, parking space almost im
were in unusual form.
possible to find. Several big sales
were on in various stores, on S a tu r
Boy’s lineup:
Ashl and 31
Grant » Pa»» 17
day, over there and the real estate
. Gochell men reported unusual activity for
Al P urr
F
.......... Kellow this time of year.
F
N u tter
........ C .................. Harmon
Through the Talent irrigation dis
Roy P a rr
Tuttle trict everything looks like prosperi
G........
Hill ................
ty. Talent homes are preparing for
Spring. Here too, we noticed several
Lcedon ........
trees in full blossom, la tte r trees and
Hulen ...........
bushes in bud, meadow larks singing
McGee ........
and lots of people traveling on the
Moore ..........
highway. Auto camps are being fixed
V
up for the early rush of tourists th at
Babies Sa fe st in Oregon.
Oregon boasts the lowest infant will begin to “ stop over” very short
m ortality of any state in the Union; ly-
Going south Sunday, the traveling
only one out of every 20 born alive,
die under one year of age. Portland, was evigorating, the air balmy, the
Oregon, outranks most other cities of sun bright and warm and p arts of
similar size in the percentage in the California highway quite dusty.
crease in the cost of living since Leaving Klamath Junction, the climb
1914; only 55 per cent in Portland, over the Siskiyou m ountains was
85 per cent in Detroit. Safe m other made with ease. At the summit we
hood and safe babies are about the stopped long enough to breathe the
most im portant things there are in m ountain air and roll a few snow
life; and food and necessities that balls. Several inches of snow still re
can be bought by one’s earnings, mained along the highway.
Hornbrook, California, was hit
without stint or without going in
hard by the recent high water, roads
debt, are gifts of the Gods.
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cut up and one large building half
washed away. Hornbrook Sunday, ap
Scout« P la n t Tree*.
As announced in last week’s Ameri peared to be about the dirtiest,
can, two Sequoia trees (redwood) roughest looking town we ever en
were planted in Ashland’s Lithia tered. The citizens are cleaning up,
park last Saturday, with appropriate however, and later in the season the
ceremonies tending the planting. It town will be in better shape as far
was Boy Scout day.
Mr. John E. as beauty is concerned.
Gribbel, member of the state forest
We drove on south to Yreka, over
service, superintended the planting. a good highway with the exception
Those who took p art in the plant- of some chuck holes. Yreka has n a r
were: Mayor Pierce of Ashland; Mr. row streets, but sure showed signs
Gribbel, Mr. Homer Bilings, Scouts of pep. The city is a busy one. Many
Newcombe, Johnson and Gribbel of beautiful homes are located there
troop 5, Medford and Scouts Borah, and the Masons have ju s t finished
Torrance, P ratt, Edgar, Blake, David one of the most beautiful Masonic
Blake, Smith, Yeo and Carzow of | temples in this part of two states.
troop 2, Ashland. Mr. Harris Dean of All stores showed large stocks of
the r a r k force chose the place for the goods. Many cars were parked on the
streets and many people were to be
planting and prepared the ground.
seen.
We arrived at home in Ashland
Bargain O f f e r .
“ U nder the heading, “ If Smith
Wins,” A rth u r O’Brein, fo rm e r pub
lisher of the Marshfield Daily News,
now publisher of the Republican-
Press a t Ukiah, California, last week
published this as an editorial:
“ The shadow of Governor Alfred
E. Smith of New York these days is
falling ominiously across the path
the Republican party must traverse
to success in the 1928 election
“ According to the way this news
paper sees it, the election of Gov
ern o r Smith as president, would do
more to Americanize the United
States, would more quickly dispel in
tolerance and would provoke better
religious feeling than any other hap
pening could bring about. It would
do the nation untold good in correct
ing the evils prohibition has produced
Governor Smith is a Roman C atho
lic and, if he were to be elected his
conduct in office would, fo r all time,
prove to those opposed to Catholic-
irm, th a t the Pope, under no m an
n er of circumstances, would be al
lowed to interfere, were he inclined
to do so. in American affairs. W hat
Two weekly papers tor the price of Sunday evening in time for dinner
Governor Smith would do while in
and after a mental survey of the two
one.
Call at Ashland American.
office would forever remove the fe ar
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VOTERS
WILL
GET
10
BILLS
Special Election Will Be Held J u n e
28 to Decide.
Ten proposed constitutional am
endm ents and measures approved a t
the session of the legislature will be
referred to the voters of the state a t
the special election to be held J une
28.
Among the most im portant of
these is house bill 491, by the com
m ittee on assessment and taxation
providing for a state income tax.
This bill was introduced and passed
a t the request of Governor Patterson
Other proposed constitutional am
endm ents anti measures th at will be
referred to the voters a t the special
election follow:
H. J. R., Giesy— Suffrage of ne
groes and Chinese. Repeals obsolete
provision of constitution.
H. J. R., Collier-------Making regis
tration a necessary requisite for
voting.
H. J. R., 14, Lonergan— To pro
vide authority fo r district attorneys
to prepare inform ation on criminal
cases where defendant waives indict
ment before judge of a circuit court.
H. J.R., 19, Multnomah delegation
— Authorizing counties having more
than 100,000 population to levy a tax
for the construction of a veterans’
memorial building or armory.
. IL J.R., 22, Carkin— New tax base
am endem ent of the 6 per cent limi
tation am endm ent of the constitution
S. J. R., 1, Joseph— Providing in
crease in compensation for members
of Oregon legislature.
H. B. 508, Multnomah delegation
— Authorizing levy oftax fo r erec
tion and m aintenance of v eteran ’s
memorial or arm ory in counties hav
ing population of more than 100,-
000. (To be subm itted a t local elec
tion of Portland in event constitu
tional am endm ent is approved by the
voters a t special election.)
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ASHLAND FLORA L SOCIETY
PLANS PLANT EXCHANGE
The Ashland Floral society plans
to hold a plant and seed exchange in
the early spring. Those who have a
surplus of plants will take them to
the exchange nnd others who are in
need of more plants are urged to
get them, whether they have a n y
thing to exchange or not. The p u r
pose is to save all waste and to f u r
nish planting for many yards that
might not otherwise be planted. It is
suggested th a t those who are thinning
seedlings, heel in the young plants
and save them for the exchange.
In May the society will hold a dis
play showing the lovely spring flow
ers: A gladiolus show is planned for
July, a dahlia exhibit will be an event
for September, anil in November
there will be a chrysanthem um show.
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Let Th em Look.
The man who passes your shop
window is going somewhere. He is
on some other errand. If you want
to catch him when he is not in a h u r
ry, put your shop window in a news
paper, a few articles a t a time. You
can make six or eight hundred people
look at this kind of a window every
week and with much b e tte r selling re
sults than if 800 walked by your
store one by one.
— K -
Debat e T e am Travels.
COPCO CO.
MAKES STRIDES
A D D I T I O N A L L I N E B E I N G B U I LT
FOR P U B L I C USE
Several Miles Long
L ar g es t P a r t
of
C o n s t r u c t i on
for
1927 Is Being Done at P la n t
N e a r Prospect .
The most interesting feature of the
annual rep o rt of the California-Ore-
gon Power company, ju st issued, is
the announcem ent of plans fo r -the
b e tterm e n t and enlargem ent of serv
ice facilities to be carried out during
the y ear 1927. In order to keep ahead
of the growth and development a n
ticipated in southern Oregon and
northern California, the California
Oregon Power company has planned
an expenditure of $4,800,000 for
construction purposes.
The largest and most im portant
item of construction during 1927 is
the new hydro-electric development
ont he north fork of the Rogue river
near Prospect, where work has al
ready been started on the installa
tion of a plant of 22,000 horsepower
capacity, designed for an ultimate
capacity of 66,000 horsepower. In
connection with the hydro-electric
project a 130,000 volt transmission
line, to be known as line 19, will ex
tend 36 miles from Prospect to n
point six miles east a f Medford. From
this point a 66,000 volt tap line will
be built into Medford tying in the
new devolpment with the present
transmission system.
The report shows th a t the company
continued its consistent record of
development and progress throughout
the year 1926. E xenditures for con
struction urposes to provide new and
g re ater facilities fo r service to the
public involved the expenditure of
$1,264,791. The most im oprtant item
of construction d uring the year was
the erection of line 18— a 66,000
volt transmission line, extending
from Fall Creek, California, to
Klamath Falls, Oregon, a distance of
38 miles. Reconstruction of the dis
tribution system of G rants Pass,
which was startedin 1926, is now be
ing completed.
Work in the w a te r d epartm ent in
cluded the drilling of new wells and
the installation of pumps, transm is
sion main, storage reservoir, and fire
hydrants in Klamath Falls.
During the y ear the field of o p er
ations of the company was broadened
by extending electric service to the
town of Canyonville, Oregon, and by
purchasing the distribution system of
the Sutherlin Light & Power com
pany, serving Sutherlin, Oregon.
Retail business served, or con
nected load, increased from 61,530
kilowatts to 74,711 kilowatts, a gain
of 13,181 kilowatts, or 21.4 per cent
These figures are for retail business
served, and do not include the ex
tensive conrtacts through which the
California Oregon Power company
wholesales energy to o th e r companies
The total num ber of customers,
both electric and w ater, served by
the company increased from 22,252
to 25,033 d uring the year, a gain
of 12.5 per cent.
This includes a
gain of 2,348 users of electric ser
vice and 433 w ater customers.
John Galey and W aren Doremus,
southern Oregon normal debate team
will leave Friday for the North on a
weeks trip and will debate an the
following places; Albany college,
Monmouth normal,
Eugene
Bible
Significant to the extent to which
University and the U. of 0. frosh.
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the use of labor-saving devices is
growing in the territory served is an
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