s. ? ASHLAND Scenic W onderland of A m erica City ot School*, Church«*, Home* and Buiine** AMERICAN On. P a c ific HiçjLvwa.'*' 5« S P TCa/tlvoacL LUMBERING~FfcUlT~DAIRYING ~ MlNltS<3~FAraMING->STOCKRAISING-HSHING~HUNTlNG — (S UCCESSOR TO T H E C E N T R A L POINT A M E R I C A N ) ------- VOLUME 2 ASHLAND, JA CK SON COUNTY, OREGON, FR IDAY, MONEY PAID TO COUNTY S P E C IA L D ISRIC TS A R E AIDED BY P A Y M E N T Relieve Indebtedness $1,151,962.74 Check Arrive*; General Share I* Big; Taxpayer* to be Saved Money. Paym ent of $1,151,962.74, due Jackson CQunty from the federal governm ent under the Oregon and California land grant tax relief bill passed by congress last spring has been received by County T reasurer A. C. W alker, it was learned yester day. Because of the size of the check, it is being cashed by the federal reserve bank, through the First N ational bank of Medford, and placed to the credit of the various county funds aided by it. The portion of the money which goes into the county general fund will be used to retire outstanding indebtedness, according to present plans, thus placing Jackson county on an extrem ely sound financial basis. Amounts going into special funds, including road and school districts, will serve to lower taxes in affected districts. C o u n ty ’* Share. According to recently compiled figures, the county general fund will receive approxim ately $874,734.13 from the fund, which, it is expected will be used alm ost entirely to re duce debts and relieve the taxpay ers of huge interest and principal paym ents. Special road districts will receive about $70,937.18, to be divided am ong 12 districts. Special school districts will re ceive approxim ately $206,670. --------------- * --------------- ASHLAND MAN IS MINING Or« Value Run* High in Mine and Pro*pect* Good. I receive the Ashland Amercian every week a t Canyonville. I sub scribe for it as the home-town paper as my home is in Ashland. I say the paper interest me in the local, state and general good reading. I am very much interested in the mining news in the Canyonville district and have three claims, four miles south of Canyonville in the Canyonville dis trict, working continues the last 11 months cross cutting vein system in ore dike working in open cut ten foot wide, thirty-five feet long, all in good mill ore, two veins, one three foot and five foot wide with assays high in gold and per cent tin. How ever, waiting to have mill run to get values. The mill is to receive 100 tons a day from the mine properties of the district and claim owners are busy working to ship ore to the mill. I have 90 tons of ore on loading road ready to ship to the mill now being built at Canyonville. Sincerely yours. Geo. Cooney, Canyonville, Ore. ---------- V ---------- Grou nd Hog I* Right. The Ground Hog has made good. His time has expired and it is prob ably safe now for him to venture out. Easter is late this year, all spring indications were late, probably waiting the expiring of Mr. Ground Hogs decision. Spring will soon be here now, Easter clothes will be in order next month and busmens too, w«R he Wetter; GOLDEN RULE H E R E TO STAY Emphatic Denial That Golden Rule Store Will Move. Rumors sometimes start by mis inform ation, sometimes by strife, sometimes by doubtful “hearsay.” However, they start, they spread and enlarge as they circulate. It is poor policy to depend on rum or and risky business to repeat and enlarge on rum or that nearly always proves false. Business changes are some tim es given out on guess work with no foundation of truth. On this line the local m anager of the Ashland Golden Rule store denies any rum or regarding any business deal with this store. In interview this week he states: “The Golden Rule store is a progressive Ashland institu tion and absolutely here to stay.” No change in business affairs is even anticiapted or thought of in the lo cal store. ---------- 4 ---------- Enter* the Rabbit Bu*ine*i. More people are going into the rabbit business. The latest to ven ture on a large scale is E. E. Phelps, who lives near Ashland on route two. Mr. Phelps is building a large house for his rabbits which will be 12x100 with doors and windows at each end. There will be all modern devices for a rabbit colony and he exects to be in the business quite extensively this summer. • ----------------------* --------------------- C E L E B R A T E BIRTHDAY SUNDAY Young Folk* Enjoy P a rty Given in Honor of Two. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hager of Scenic Drive were the pleasant host- tesses for a birthday surprise party that was given on Sunday afternoon at the Hager residence. An elaborate birhday dinner featured one pleas ant part of the program with a large birthday cake as an attractive center piece and the table beautifully dec orated with spring blossoms. The guests of honor at the dinner hour were Miss Vera W right and Henry Van Prooyen. The other guests pres ent were A rthur Cooper, Jam es Briggs, Victor and Ernest Phelps, Eunice and Mabel Hager, Ida Gosnell Jean Putm an, Artie Stockdale and Bernice Phelps. The afternoon was spent in visiting and a musical pro gram and every one enjoyed the day very much and all joined in wishing Mr. Van Prooyen and Miss W right many happy returns of the day. Much credit is also due Mr. and Mrs. Ha ger for their splendid hospitality in behalf of the young peopde and it was very much appreciated by their young friends. ------------------------------ * ------------------------------ Elected President. Donald M. Spencer v as elected president and Victor Phelps was elected secretary of the Y. M. C. A. leaders council which was organized at a dinner m eeting held in the Plaza confectionery Monday evening. This council is composed of the leaders of all Y. M. C. A. clubs in the city. Those attending were Cleo Howell, Raymond Stennett, J. W. Mills, Jr., H. G. Moore, ReV. C. D. G affney, D. M. Spencer, L. H. Han sen, Victor Phelps and W. P. W al ter. It was decided to hold meetings of this council at least once a month, the m eetings to he in the form of a training for leadership in boy’s club work. ------------------ 4 .----------------- Guard I* impacted. The annual inspection of Battery B, local coast guard artillery com pany, was held at the arm ory Mon day night, and although no official statem ent was given out indications were that it was entirely satisfactory. The inspection was made by Cap tain Bowler, U. S. A., of Camp Lewis. He was accompanied here by Mayor Waller nf dalem. MARCH 18, 1927 DEATH CLAIMS C. W. WHILLOCK W E L L K N O W N B USINE SS MAN PA SSE S IN SAN FRANCISCO Burial In Tennessee Owenr of Golden Rule Stores; F u n eral Services in Medford Before Final Rites in Tennessee. On Saturday night of last week, Mr. C. W. Whillock, owner of Ash land’s Golden Rule store, died at a San Francisco hospital. The following notice of his death is from the Mail- Tribune: Charles William Whillock, well known M edford business man for many years and proprietor of the Golden Rule store of this city and its branch stores a t Ashland, Butte Falls Yreka, California, and Dunsmuir, California, died last night in his 65th year at the University of California hospital in San Francisco, where he had been a patient for months past, following an illness for the past two years. He leaves a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. His wife and daughter, Jeane, had been with him at the hospital for some time past, and his oldest son, C. A. Whillock arrived there last Sunday from Medford on notifica tion th at his condition was growing worse. They, with two other daugh ters, Miss Eva Whillock of Medford, and Mrs. Ida Evans of Ashland, who left for San Francisco last Tuesday, were present at the time of death. Mr. Whillock was prom inently identified with the business affairs of this city and was somewhat active in church circles. Mr. Whillock was born at Lowden, Tenn., August 16, 1862. He followed the m ercantile business foj* many years. In 1915 he moved to this city from Humansville, Mo., and es tablished the Golden Rule store, which in recent years was expanded to include the branch stores above named. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, II. W. Whillock and C. A. Whillock and five daughters, Mrs. Clarence B. Evans of Ashland, Mrs. George Ilallaway of Klamath Falls, Miss Bertha Whillock, a teacher at O. A. C., and the Misses Jean and Sarah Whillock of this city. Two sis ters residing at Lowden, Tenn., also survive. The body will be brought to this city, where funeral services will be held, and then will be shipped to the old home in Tennessee for urial. The date of the funeral will be announced later in this newspaper. NUM BER 48 PROGRAM AT NORMAL E N JO Y E D Large Audience Listen* to Univeriity String Quartette. Filling their engagem ent at the southern Oregon norm al school audi torium last Tuesday night, the University of Oregon string quartette afforded lovers of music a real treat. The musicians from the Uni versity were well versed in their com positions and played to the enjoy ment of those present. It has been some tim e since Ashland residents have had the pleasure of hearing such an able body of musicians as those who took part in the program, and those who were not present to enjoy the music missed a real treat. Compositions of foreign artists, among them mainly Beethovan, Rub instein and Mozart composed the quartettes program while W agner and Litz num bers on the piano were enjoyed. The string quartette played alto gether twelve selections while the piano solos consisted of five parts. Those taking part in the string quartette were Rex Underwood, violin; Delbert Moore, second violin; Buford Roach, viola, and Miss Miriam Little, violoncello. Dr. John J. Lands- bury of the University of Oregon school of music assisted at the piano. It was the hope of those present th at the normal school may again present such numbers th at were pre sented that night, and especial mention and thanks to thos* who had charge of the affirs are due. -------------- 4 .-------------- W IL L NOT LOOSE CRACK TRAIN Shasta to Continue to Run Althou *h Some Change* in Schedule. Ashland will not lose the present crack Southern Pacific train, A. S. Rosenbaum, district freight and pas senger agent, was advised. Trains 11 and 12, known as the Shasta, will continue to serve thus district with some minor changes in schedule, leaving San Francisco at 6:30 p. m. instead of 7 :40 p. m., reaching Port land earlier and Ashland at about the same time as at present. The south bound will undergo practically no schedule changes. The train now known as 13 will run on the present 53 schedule and be num bered 13. Northbound, this train will be called 14, and run on what is now 16’s schedule, arriving in Portland earlier and carry a southern Oregon sleeper. ------------- 4 -------------- SCHOOL PROGRAM E N T ER T AIN OREGON COLD IS EASIEST TO CET SO U T H E R N OREGON O R E EASILY T AKEN IS Mines Paying Well Nevada Gold Strikes Draw Crowds From All Quarters of Country; No Oregon Development Money. There is a small commercial stam p mill loented at Rogue River, nine miles north of Gold Hill and in the rich m ineral belt of southern Oregon. We had the pleasure of visiting that mill last Saturday while it was run ning full capacity. The plates were covered with free gold and the mill which is only a five stam p mill was proving what might be done here, if sufficient capi tal would develop the many rich pros pects in store for the man with means and nerve to work the many rich ore bodies that exist. A test run was being put through this piill of only thirty tons of ore from the works being done in a small way by four men at their mine located close to Gold Hill. This run went better than a hundred dollars a ton of free gold and the concen trates have not been treated for any other values at this writing. The run has proven to the men interested that the gold is there, only waiting to he taken out and treated. They intend to install a small mill at the mine, we are told, and save the cost of hauling and milling by a commercial mill of small capacity. This is only one instance. South ern Oregon ha i many idle mines and splendid prospects thnt will stand development. But let rum or get out that a new strike is located in Neva da or in the interior of Alaska and men will spend fortunes getting to it and shorten their lives by hard ships and long journeys to the un known. There is always some place bet ter than the home surroundings— it is ever thus, and Oregon mining is still waiting for some one to start the big industry nt home. Some dny Oregon will draw attention, but that G rad r Children of W’a.hington School I tim‘‘ has har<llV arTÌVed V**- W c r('al ly look for it this year. Know Par:* Perfectly ’!*• Under the auspices of the P.-T. A. Circu* I* Saturday. of the W ashington school the classes put on a program for the public last Friday night that will linger ling with the parent, teacher and scholar as the best and most successful of its kind ever produced in the building. Each drill, every participant, every num ber of song, dance or read- ing was delivered without a hitch and without a mistake. The first grade tots carried off the honors. In each exercise the costumes were appropriate and gor- geous. The training must have been super, and words of praise cannot do justice to the entire recital. The scholars, several hundred of them, appeared perfectly at ease—-and a more intelligent appearing group cannot be found in any public school, The financial receipts of the even- ing were much better than expected, ------------------4*------------------ One big treat in the line of enter tainm ent that no Ashland resident wants to miss is the big circus nt the Lincoln school this Saturday afternoon and evening. It will be well worth your time and the hundreds of actors are looking for you. Some- thing novel nnd a big surprise is as- ---------------+ -------------- sured. The circus is being given Speak* at Cham ber Forum. Saturday, March 19 under the aus- J. B. Coleman, Jackson county as pices of the P.-T. A., of the Lin- sessor, was the chief speaker at the coin school and the entertainers have Commercial club forum luncheon been under the direction of Miss V'ir- Tuesday noon at the Lithia Springs ginia Holer, the physical instructor hotel. He discussed the new legisla at the norm al, ami Miss Bark of the Lincoln School. tion and assessment and answered quite a num ber of questions pro — ------4*---------- pounded by his hearers. Four new Moisture makes large fruit and members were taken into the organi vegetable yields, green pasture and zation at that m eeting. They were full grain and hay yields. Sunny, W. P. W alter, secretary of the Y. M. southern Oregon will undoubtedly C. A.; Paul Robinson of the Ashland have a record crop of everything this American, K. N. Damon, owner of year. The surrounding hills have the Lithia Cream ery and Charles L. Willamette Win* Debate. from a foot to ten foot of snow on Mays, owner of the Eagle m arket. The W illam ette University dei>at- them. It snowed in A ihland three --------------4--------------- ing team won a two to one decision days this week— snowed in the en- Reports come in contradicting the over the southern Oregon normal tire Rogue river valley. Like northern had road condition of the Klamath school team in a debate held Mon- Oregon, we have certainly had a wet Falls highway. The Ashland-Klam- day night at the normal school audi- winter and spring and it is still wet. ath Falls stages operated all day torium. The question was; "Resolved Spring will ope* in a few days with Sunday and every other day with no that foreign control in China should the best wc-nther and soil moisture (be relinquished imiwndlntely, | ’ *'• M hnoUn In many a a »Son, trouble.