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Please bring a n n o uncem ents and night. Visiting and a splendid dir.
n e r was pleasant fe a tu re s of the
ads in not la te r than W ednesdays.
e v e n in g ’s program.
Mr. and Mrs. J. II. McGee were
A two cent reduction in gas the
P ortla nd visitors this week.
f ir s t o f the week pleased m any car
Mrs Roy P a r r of 3 stre e t was a owners. Various oil companies were
Medford visitor one day last week.
in a small price war and the users
benefitted.
F ra n k W alker of the University of
Oregon is spending the spring vaca­
V. K. Allison was a visitor in
tion a t his Ashland home.
K lam ath Falls Saturday, r e tu r n in g
Phil W olcott is reported gaining to Ashland for the Sunday m orning
health rapidly. He recently u n d e r­ service. Mr. Allison begins a m eeting
a t Hillsboro this week to continue
went a n appendicitis operation.
p erhaps two or three weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. M ontgomery
Mrs. S. Patterson, who is u n d e r
of D unsm uir visited Ashland friends
tr
e
a tm e n t in the n o rth e rn p a r t of
over Sunday.
the sta te is improving nicely and
Mrs. W. E. S anford of D unsm uir hopes a r e entertained th a t she will
was a brie f business visitor in A sh­ soon recover and be ■•ble to re tu rn
land last S a tu rd a y evening.
home.
ian S u n d a y school fo r a jo in t m e e t­
ing a t th e Baptist church on S unday
m o rn in g and they had a very pleasant
and pro fita b le session together. J. C.
H o p p e r of the B aptist church ta u g h t
the claw .
Dr. Maud Hawley is the
te a c h e r of the y o ung folks class a t
the Christian Sunday school.
Dr. Royal J. Dye, a re tu r n e d mis
sionary from A frica, spoke a t M ed­
ford, G ra nts Pass and K lam ath Falls
re c e ntly a t the Christian church. Dr.
Dye spe nt a large p a rt of his y o u n g e r
manhood in Africa a t Bolenga being
one of the first Christian m issionar­
ies a t this station. W hen home on
furlough some years ago Dr. Dye
spoke a t the Ashland c h a u ta u q u a
session one a fte rnoon and told some
vivid experiences in his missionary
career. Mrs. Dye also sa n g in the
native dialect to the delight o f the
large audience present. A book te ll­
ing of African missions experiences
m ay be had at the Ashland public
library. “ Bolenge” is the title of the
book and Mrs. Royal J. Dye is its
author.
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W. C. T. U. COLUMN
Mrs. N a te O tte rb e in of K lamath
The men of the F irst Pre sb y te ria n
Falls visited S unday with her mother, church gave a dinner in the dining
Mrs. H arvey in Ashland.
room of the church F rid a y evening
BY MAY B E N E D IC T
which was well a tte n d e d and very
Mildred Beeson of the U niversity
much enjoyed.
Mr. F r o a t was the
LOOKING A H E A D
o f O regon, is home for the spring
chef.
holidays.
W hen I am grown and am a dad,
The M. E. church begin revival
I hope my son will never say;
Charles Simons of Oberlin str e e t services a t th e ir church n ext Sunday,
‘‘Have you got a m atch, d a d ; mine
was o u t S a tu rd a y fo r the first time March 27 to continue until April 17.
went out,
And come, have a smoke w ith me
a f t e r some weeks of illness.
M embers and friends of the church
today.
The P ione e r club m et Monday will be gladly welcomed a t all s e r ­
‘Oh, you taught me how, d o n ’t back
night, March 21 a t the P re sb y te ria n vices.
out now,
church with C. V. Howell as leader.
Since you smoked, I th o u g h t it
Wm. M. Henry of N orth Bend
w asn’t had,
away
T hursday
m orning
C. B. H aney was on the sick list passed
A m an full grown it seems should
March
17.
The
Henry
fam
ily
fo
r
m
e
r
­
a t his home eu^t o f town the f irst
have known
T h a t a boy alw ays w ants to copy
ly lived in Ashland and Mr. H enry
of the week.
dad.
was a m em ber of the G. A. R. of
The s ta te normal school closed the this city.
I ’m sorry now I learned to smoke,
second sem ester W ednesday and will
B ut I do n ’t feel I am all to blam e;
Mr. A. Andrews has leased his A lthough you rue the day, and I rue
take a sh o rt vacution until March 29.
home on Fairview s tr e e t fo r one ye a r
the day,
Miss E dith Dodge, U niversity of
’Tis a fact I’m a sm oker ju s t the
J and will leave soon fo r S a n ta Cruz,
Oregon stu d e n t spent the week-end
same.
C alifornia, on account o f Mrs. A n ­
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
drews health, who has been sick for “ I ’ve tried to quit, b u t its m ighty
Dodge.
hard,
some tim e and will try a lower a lti­
I ’ve learned to like the filthy weed
E. L. Sanderlin of M ountain tude.
And oh, if I had n o t begun,
uvenue, accompanied by his family,
To try to quit, th e r e would be no
Mrs. Alice Baldwin passed aw ay
n e e d .”
was n Medford visitor Supnday a f t e r ­
March 17 a t the home of h e r d a u g h ­
noon.
te r a t K lam ath Falls, a f t e r a lin g e r­
DADDY AND M OT HE R
Z. P. W ebster, who was a t the ing illness, Mrs. Baldwin was the
convelescent home here for a time, sister of Sarah K e ntnor, M artha
Once, some y e a rs ago, as the story
is reported to be at the Medford hos­ Dorgan nnd William and Charles goes, th e re was u f a th e r who f r e ­
quently w e nt to the saloon fo r u
Million of this city.
pital a t present.
drillk of beer.
One m orning th e re was some snow
Prof. J. W. Kern of Mountain
Mrs. H annah Simons le ft for
avenue was ill one day last week and Brownsville last week, accom panied on the gro u n d and he sta r te d o u t us
usual for the saloon. A f te r he had
unable to assume his school duties at by her nurse, Mrs. Ella Oxford. Mrs. gone a b o u t a third of the way, he
W agner creek for one day.
O xford expected to r e tu r n to her looked back und seen his small son
following along behind and he said,
Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Carson of Iowa home in Ashland a f t e r having e sta b ­ “ Son w hat a r e you d oing.” The little
lished
Mrs.
Simon
in
the
home
of
fellow replied. “ Daddy, I have fo l­
street were visiting and looking a f t e r
lowed y o u r foot steps ull the w ay.”
business interests in the vicinity of relatives in Brownsville.
So we find it in real life. Sonny is
Portland last week.
Rev. and Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. following in D addy’s fo o t steps
E. E. Gall and wife, who reside Myers r e tu r n e d last S a tu rd a y from w h e th e r it be to a d ra in shop, b o o t­
leg jo in t or only the supposedly in­
east of town, were in Ashland one a week’s stay in E ugene, w here they nocent habit of c ig a r e tte smoking.
day last week visting friends and a tte n d e d th e ir church m eeting and What kind of a place would the world
arra n g e d fo r the church sta te publi­ be if every daddy w ere ju s t like me?
shopping.
cation. They are establishing a p r in t­ Hut the f a th e r in the home is not
alw ays the one most to blame when
Mr. a n d Mrs. H erm nn Stooks r e ­ ing plant at Eugene.
the children go wrong.
T h e re a re
turned from Alhuny T uesday and
some women who w e a r the title <
On
Mnrch
29
the
C
ongregational
stopped in Ashland a short tim e b e ­
" M o th e r ” who are not w orthy of thn
fore r e tu rn in g to th e ir home in people have with them n missionary title of respect.
They never show
lady,
Mrs.
F.
W.
Wilcox
of
the
A
m
­
love for th e ir children, never teach
Klamath Falls.
erican Missionary association.
Mrs. d u u g h te r the things she should know
Ranches p a rt cnsh, h n la m v 34 Wilcox has been speaking in P o r t ­ as she faces w omanhood, n e v e r says
years at 6 S per cent. House» and land and S e a ttle and stops o f f in a p ra y e r or re a ds her Bible, bu
spends her tim e with dressing up so
ranches for rent. F. L. N u tte r , 240 Ashland fo r a day en-route to Cali­ she
will u p p e a r to be w hat she is not.
East Main.
4 7 tf fornia.
hen d a u g h te r comes home from
school with a girlish confidence she
Genevieve Sw edonburg, of the
Word wns received a short time laughs and m akes sp o rt of the school
University of Oregon is home to ago tha t a baby girl had arrived at day love a f f a ir . A f te r th a t d a u g h te r
spend the spring vacation with her the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman keeps her own council and the op­
parents, l>r. and Mrs. F. G. Sweden- McKee of Michigan City, Indiana. portunity for m aking a c o n fid a te of
the d a u g h te r is fo re v e r gone for
burg.
When the girls g o e s
Mr and Mrs. McKee a re the pround th a t m other.
Otis Johnson of the U niversity of p a re n ts of th re e boys and three wrong people ask “ w hat ails tha t
girl, the m o th e r dresses nice.” Fine
Oregon, is home for the spring v a c a ­ girls. Mr. McKee was form erly a s­ fe a th e rs do not alw ays m ake fine
tion which he will spend with his sistant p o stm a ste r of this city, and birds. The crow has very fine f e a t h ­
parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Johnson Mrs. McKee is the d a u g h te r of Mrs. ers but would surely be a m isfit in
a c a n a r y ’s cage.
Ella G a r r e tt of
122 Manzanita
of G ranite street.
But this is too d a rk a pic tu re for
stre e t, this city.
closing. T here a re o th e r m o th e rs so
The family of W. K. Sm ith of
tru e , so good, so fine, th a t the
The convelescent home has six poets lines “ God could not be e v e r y ­
Dairy. Oregon, who have been some
what under the w eather, a re all well elderly p a tie n ts at the present time, where, so he m ade m o th e rs,” applies
These a re the kind of
with the excetpion of little J e a n , who Mrs. Minerva B. Smith. 92 being the to them.
oldest and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, 85, m others whose words, deeds and lives
is sick with the flu.
are an inspiration to both th e ir
also Mr. Sulivan. the old soldier, who children and friends.
W hen trials,
\N. rd was received from Mr. and
is also 85 ye a rs old. The old people vexing euree and heart aches c<
Mrs. Gow, who left here March 12
are happy and well cared for in this these m o th e rs ne v e r lose fa ith in
for Petaluma, California, th a t he
God, b u t go on with smiling, happy
home and alw ays glad to see visitors. faces until no child with such a
stood the trip very well and is much
Each evening th e re is music and the m o th e r could d o ubt th a t th e re is
b e tte r in the lower a ltitude.
news is read to them as they sit in som ething beyond this e a rth th a t sus­
tains. helps and c o m fo rts in times
The Ashland Study club e n t e r ­ the ir c o m fortable rocking chairs.
of trial. These a re the m others that
tained the Medford S tudy club last
The W omans Missionary society of never die tho we may no see the ir
Thursday a fte rn o o n a t the I.ithln
faces fo r a while in o u r h e a rts they
the M E. Church presented n f o u n ­ are living still.
Springs hotel. A splendid St. Patricks
And o ft tim es the good, ouiot,
•lay program was supervised hy Mrs. ders day program on W ednesday
plodding f a th e r goes on faithfully at
a
fte
rn
o
o
n
March
23
at
the
home
of
F. D. Wagner.
Mrs. C. E. P r a tt on N orth Main his task day a f t e r day. loving hi«
On March 30 the
Pre sb y te ria n street. The missionary funds raised children m ore than they can half
r - a ’iie and may never be appreciated
people have th e ir annual d in n e r with a t this m eeting goes to help support by his fam ily until he g> es tn G ,or\
a social and business m e e ting com ­ Miss Mary Young, a missionary in land i nd then they a«vak • to t.'.e f r e t
bined This is a pleasant e v e n t to Korea. Miss Young for m any year« tin*, f a th e r wes a b e tte r man then
l b * * hough*. 7 in child of tom orrow
which the membership look forw ard lived in Ashland and has m any can i nly be * ha* the creato* m e a n t
with pleasure.
>» to be when both fa th *r and mo*h
friends here.
tt i*e good and tr u e and w orth while
The men of the Presbyterian
The young peoples class of the
•i *> •'»rent« a.* w»M a* *n th r t
church enjoyed a social time together Baptist Sunday school invited the of us this verse applies; “ Give to the
«Id th e he«* von have and th e h tst
hi the »hursh parlor« «a last Friday
PU BL IC I TY
The Latest in Wet P r o p a g an d a
(This comes form o u r N ational
Publicity D e p a rtm e n t)
In all history th e re has been no
g r e a te r hoax th a n the r e c e n t poison
alcohol scare. The impression m ade
by New York papers a t C hristm as
time was th a t drinkers died by the
score, de libe ra te ly poisoned by prohi­
bition e n f o rc e m e n t officers, b u t an
official re p o rt of the holiday deaths
shows but one deuth in all New York
a ttr ib u ta b le to wood alcohol or any
o th e r d e n a tu r a n t. The o th e r alcohol
deaths w ere from
q u a n tity — not
quality.
D e n a tu re d alcohol is n o t cennected
with prohibition except th a t crooks
steal it and fools d rink it. Old soaks
generally fo r y e a rs have died because
of th e ir addiction to wood alcohol,
hair tonic, horse linim ent, vanilla
e x tra c t, varnish and o th e r em ergency
liquors when they could n o t obtain
whiskey.
B efore A m erica had prohibition
the g o v e rn m e n t had a problem on its
hands concerning alcohol. T he m a t­
te r was settled by a tax on all alcohol
excet th a t used in industry.
In
orde r to dinstinguish th e ta x - f r e e
alcohol and pre v e n t crookedness, the
A m erican g o v e rn m e n t adopted the
E uropean method of m uking indus­
trial alcohol u n fit to drink.
Every civilized g o v e rn m e n t uses
poison in alcohol to p re v e n t industry
and the g o v e rn m e n t income from the
ravages of crooks. The U nited States
uses from 4 to 9 per cent of poison.
O th e r countries use from 10 to 30
per cent.
A tte m p ts of the c h eaper style wet
propagandists to blame poison alco­
hol upon some individual connected
with the dry cause sho wa lack of in­
fo rm a tio n which is pitiful or a
viciousness akin to Bolshevism.
The se n tim e n t in fa v o r of poison
in industrial alcohol comes from the
m a n u f a c tu r e r s of A m erica who de ­
cline to accept th e w e t politicians’
outcry th a t the poison m ust be taken
from industrial alcohol.
American
m a n u f a c tu r e r s use d e n a tu r e d alcohol
furnished a t a low price because it
is untaxed. From the very n a tu r e of
things if industria l alcohol is f u r ­
nished free from a d e n a t u r a n t or poi­
son the price would be enorm ously in­
creased because of the unnecessary
ta x , and th e re would be an e n o r­
mous upset all th ro u g h business.
Those who a r e behind th e present
m ovem ent to
sla n d e r
the
18th
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W h a t Do You Dri V « ?
T h e re is a th ir ty mile speed la»
i n O regon, b u t if a n y d riv e r sticks
to th e th ir ty , he is passed by every
c a r on the highw ay. T ry driving run
over th irty - f iv e and h e a r the cuss,
ings you g e t fro m every other car
tr y in g to pass you a n d wonderm*
w hat is w ro n g w ith y o u r slow driv­
ing or slow car. A nd a g a in why will
one m an be a r r e s te d occassionally for
going fo rty , w hen every oth e r car one
meets is e x c e e d in g th a t gate.
THE
FRAGRANCE
W
BEAUTY
OF
i llUti
j/k
Si*
You will find a com plete line of the
w o n d e rfu l D u B a rry to ile t goods, a
H u d n u t product, here.
Face Po w d e r
combines r a r e f r a g r a n c e a n d delicate
te x tu re . Its fine g ra in insure s lasting
e f f e c t and e n h a n c e s th e smoothness
o f the skin. In its h arm onious cerise
and silver box, it is reom m ended by
Richard H u d n u t as th e ultim ate de­
velopm ent in pow der pe rfe c tion; in
white, b ru n e tte , rose o r natural.
EAST SIDE PHARMACY
.This
button
This
one says
m od
f
Remember how they used to
hitch Old Dobbin to a windlass and
drive him ’round and ’round —
lilting hay and doing heavy chores?
Even then, you couldn’t hire
Dobbin for less than £2.50 a day —
say 25 cents an hour.
Vet an hour’s work for an electric
motor using one horsepower of
electricity usually costs only
7 or 8 cents.
Most household appliances
use tiny motors of only 1/10 or 1/8
o f a horsepower. You can run them
ten hours lor seven or eight cents.
And they are faster than
Old Dobbin ever dreamed of beinir
when he was a colt.
b’
.
^ hits* Elephant rla*« of the ('Krist­ will come back to you."
a m e n d m e n t know th e y do not tel’
the t r u t h w hen th e y say tha t the
g o v e rn m e n t (w hich does not do the
d e n a tu r in g ) p u ts poison in alcohol to
kill those who d rin k it.
Electricity
is the cheapest service
you can buy.
T H E CALIFORNIA OREGON
POWER COMPANY
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lCALIFORNIA OREGON
‘ POWLR COMPANY
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Ojjicett
Medford, Oregon
Roseburg, Oregon
Grants P O r r g o n
Klamath Falls, Oregon
^ fvka, California
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Dunsmuir, California