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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1927)
ASHLAND Scenic W o n d e r l a n d of A m e r ic a Home O wn e d Ne ws p ap er 100 P e r C e nt Fo r Ashl and AMERICAN Orx P a cific HigtvwdtY & ^ P ___________________ LUMBERING—FRU1T~DA1R.VING - M IN IN G —F A R M IN G -S T O C K RAISING-FISHING-HUNTING ^ ( SUCCESSOR TO T H E C E N T R A L P O I N T A M E R I C A N ) V OL U ME 2 ASHLAND, J A CK S O N C OUNTY, O R E G ON , FR I DAY, TO KLAMATH FALLS IN 16 HOURS STAGE OVER MOUNTAIN W AS ON LY R O U T E T H E N . Known As Linkville , First Vo l ume of As h la nd P a p e r 1877 A p p e a r e d Following St or y I ft F r o m a Tr av e lo r . — in SECRETARIES HO LD ME ETI NG J. H. Fuller, Ashland, on Executive Board for Comi ng Year. U niversity of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., M arch 28— (S p ecial.)— Earl C. Reynolds of La G rande was elected president of the S tate Association of Commercial O rganization Secretaries a t the forum m eeting of the organi zation held last F riday, the conclud ing da> of the seventh annual short course fo r commercial secretaries held last week at the U n iv ersity / C. T. B aker, Medford, was chosen as vice president of the organization and H. E. Culley, Roseburg, secretary trea su rer. L. P. Sabin, Klamath Falls, re tirin g president, John Eck- m an, McMinnvlile, W. A. Reid, C or vallis and J. H. F uller, Ashland, \*ill act as the executive board for the com ing year. R esolutions w ere passed at the m eeting to prom ote the idea of con v erting the Three Sisters m ountain region into a national park. The dis couraging of solicitations of m aga zines, because of a financial drain upon m em bers, unless the publication carried a w ritten endorsem ent of the state cham ber of commerce was also passed as a resolution. ___________ J 4 . ___________ It was Sunday m orning. May 20th, ^ 1877, in the town of A shland. The crowd w ere w atching the m otions of a man who was in ten tly engaged in packing aw ay to the best advantage the detached portions of th a t in te r esting m achine known as the “ Link ville Stage C oach.’’ The portions be ing secured inside and on top of another in te re stin g m achine and one with which I was so soon to form an scquaintance the rem em brance of which will be co-existant with my memory, and undoubtedly be incor BALL L E A G U E S ARE FORMED porated with my m idnight dream s. AT M E E T H E L D H E R E SUNDAY This last nam ed “ m achine” is most fa m ii^ ily known as a tw elve hun Two four-team leagues were o r dred p^und fo u r horse lum ber w agon; ganized and gam e schedules set a t none of your light springy vehicles, a jo in t session of the southern O re but one th a t when u n d er way, gon and Siskiyou leagues, held in the forcibly im presses him who take pass Lithia Springs hotel here Sunday. age th ere on th a t h e’s traveling, and The schedule fo r prelim inaries in one th a t is no t doomed to the fa te both the southern Oregon and no rth of the w onderful “ one hoss shay.” ern C alifornia leagues is set for May The man engaged, before m entioned F irst. is also fam iliarly known as “ Bob” The head team of each league will the stage driver, a fine jolly intelli play th eir mid-season games July 3 gent, and genial gentlem an grown fa t and 4, while the final gam es will take with fun and good living, round and place some tim e in Septem ber to de rubicund with jollity, though on this cide the champions. occassion a sad expressions uffusod Pope N inninger o f Ashland was his usually sm iling face and a sense elected president of the Oregon lea of uneasiness and dread hung upon gue and H. C. W illiamson of Med every m ovem ent. In explanation of ford, secretary -treasu rer, and are these stran g e things I was inform ed now draw ing up rules and reg u la thut an incident had occured on the tions to be presented at the next dey before known to stage men as m eeting to be held April 9. a “ break dow n,” and if I intended -------------------* ------------------ to take a trip to Linkville n ext day Yei, We Have no Baieball. I there beheld the mode of convey ance and it was incum bent upon me Ashland, it is revealed by reports, to make my p rep aratio n s accordingly will not e n te r the southern Oregon Four o’clock A. M., was the tim e for baseball league this summer. The cost starting. D istance 62 miles, route of financing the proposition is too over the Cascade m ountains; eleva great. The decision meets w ith gen tion 6,000 fe et or m ore; rocks not eral approval, as it is deemed poor sufficiently softened to m ake our policy to e n te r the league unless a contact w ith them uncom fortably ] so iij backing and winning team is pleasant. 1 back of the proposition. T here will At 4 on Monday m orning I was |,e hall gam es played here this sum- aroused from slum ber an dinform ed m pr, hut Ashland will probably not that the stage was ready and soon | play. found m yself seated beside "B o b ” i ---------- ------------- the stage d riv er co n to rtin g my coun . Rev. M. L. Petelle, Klamath Falls tenance to conform as nearly as pos- , preacher, charged with transportation sible the condition of the road and and possesion of liquor, was found the speed of our fo u r grays as they guilty in Jacksonville court Monday whirled us aw ay tow ard b reak fast at and was fined $400. the ra te of ten miles an hour The air was sharp and bracing and the stars Normal teachers were visting in seemed to wink, .-.mile and sparkle various pints of Oregon and C alifor W'ith an expression of sarcastic de nia during the spring vacation. Miss light at the prospects before us, this Elizabeth Richardson and Miss Eva °f course we did not relish but as W hite went to Berkeley to visit at protest was useless and also most in the home of Miss Richardsons bro convenient, we used our utm ost en ther. W. W. Wells visited his parents deavor to keep the pearch and our at Roseburg. Miss Pearl D urst, Miss seats also. Helen A nderson. Miss Hall and Miss ¡'oda Springs was reached in good Leona M arsters went to P ortland to ll.me and we felt much cheered and visit friends. Miss K atherine V incent reassured to behold “ little faces at \(iss Marion Ady and Miss Virginia the window” and larger ones sm iling Hales visited in Eugene. ®t the door. H ot coffee, ham and i ----------- * f ltgs gave us new stren g th to e n c o u n -, Mrs. A. B. Ferguson of , Los An- ter the peril« ahead W’e are now at ^eles, Cal., is in Ashland visiting the foot of the m ountain and a fresh ’ with her nieces. Mrs. A. G. Adams team was paw ing at the rack to on F ast Main stree t and Mrs. Grace hear us on. This team consisted of Andrews of Church street. Mrs. £ix strong specim ens of the equine Ferguson is well known in this city face, two of which had never been having been a resident a num ber of lotched b u t once or twice before, years ago. She has spent the past (»’Rsequently five men were brought two years abroad, visting the princl- (C ontinued «n page h) jpnl eHiv* o f Kum$fc ---- *---- A P R I L 1, 1927 WORK BEGINS ON RESERVOIR WO RK TO BE JULY COMPLETED BY FI RST. Repairing on Roads Ditching a nd L ay in g of Pipes New W a t e r Di stribution to Be U n d er W a y Soon. for MINISTERS N U M B E R 50 ATTEND MEETING Next Me et i n g to Be Held in Ce nt r al P oi n t on April 25. The Rev. H. F. Pem erton, Rev. C harles D. G affney. Rev. M. S. W oodw orth, Rev. H. T. Mitchelmore, G. M. F ro st and W. P. W alters made up a g ro u p of local pastor and lay men who drove to M edford Monday to a tten d th e m eeting of the Rogue River M inisterial association in the M ethodist church of th a t city. Sec re ta ry W alter presented a paper on “ The Y oung M en’s C hristian Asso ciation and its work with boys” which was well received and dis cussed a t some length. The April m eeting o f th e association will be held in C entral P oint, it was decided. The last m eetin g of the season will be in the form o f a picnic m eeting and will be held in Lithia park on Ju n e 6. Rev. G affney of this city was asked to presen t the paper a t the April m eeting. KNIGHTS HOLD TOWN TONIGHT TODAY RE D L E T T E R DAY FOR KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Ashland Entertains Wilier G. Gleason, G ra nd Ke ep e r of Record a nd Seal* for Or eg o n to Admi ni st er Oath. A steam shovel has been placed in operation by S w artley Bros., sub F riday, April 1, will be a red let contractors, excavating fo r the new te r day in P ythian circles in south city w ater reserv o ir on Crowson hill. ern O regon, as on th a t day the The city w ater dep artm en t has also southern Oregon d istrict convention begun the work of laying pipe for will be held a t Ashland a t which connections and rebuilding the road tim e the large W alter Gleason Page ----------- * ----------- a t upper T errace street. class will be initiated. M I N E RS T O DI SCUSS TIN DE- Rhodes & Ju d d of Medford have P O S I T S F O U N D N E A R G. PASS D istrict D eputy Rowell of G rants the co n tract fo r the construction of Pass announces the follow ing p ro the reservoir and say th a t the work g ram : B anquet a t 7 p. m .; conven M ounting in tere st in white m etal will be com pleted by Ju ly 1. discoveries, firm ly believed by many tion called to o rd e r a t 8; roll call; Twelve carloads of pipe have to be tin, has resu lted in calling of ro u tin e business; selecting o f the been shipped by rail from Birm ing a m eeting by the Southw estern O re place to hold th e n ex t convention, ham, Ala., and are on hand for the gon M ining B ureau S aturday of all co n ferrin g the ran k of page on the new d istrib u tin g system . Ditching W alter Gleason candidates by the men in terested in the m atter. and laying of the pipe will be under Investigations were brought to a Talism on team ; papers of not over way im m ediately. head last week through the e ffo rts fifteen m inutes each from each lodge W ork on rep airin g the canyon of E. W. Miller, Josephine county in the d istrict, to which the pages road has been under way since the senator, and the C ourier, in brining may listen, as follow s: “ W hat Ac re cen t heavy rain s and m ore than Dean Newton of the Oregon school tiv ity outside the lodge room should $2,000 have been spent in repairs, of mines, and John W. Kelly o f the a lodge take on?, Talism an No. 31 of which are all b u t finished, with the P ortland O regonian, here fo r a study M edford; "ifo w can lodge a tte n d exception of one or tw o bridges. of the various ores in which the metal ance be in creased ?” Alpha No. 47, The Crowson hill reservoir will be is found. of R oseburg; " P y th ia n Sisters as an elliptical in shape, 125x150 feet, At the m eeting of the m ining bu asset to the o rd e r,” Therm opylae with a heighth of 20 feet. It will have reau the session will be given over No. 50 of G rants P ass; “ How to build a capacity of 2,300,000 gallons and en tirely to discussion of tin. Presi the m em bership of the lodge,” Klam will be used fo r equalizing pressure d en t P. S. Woodin asserted today ath Falls; “ Value of ritu alistic study th ro u g h o u t the city and as an em er th a t he is convinced th a t tin is found as a hold on m em bership,” Ashland gency source during fires. The cost and th a t steps now will be taken to No. 117 of Ashland. of the reservoir, to g eth er with pipe bring a tte n tio n to the ore found here W aler G. Gleason will be present to m ake connection with the presen t in unlim ited q u an tities and in v ar to ad m in ister the oath to the above ious form s. The m eeting will be open class. O ther sta te o fficers will also system will approxim ate $40,000. Several modern h y d ran ts have to all in terested in th e white metal. be present. While Dean Newton and Mr. Kelly also been purchased and will be in Plans have been m ade to take stalled by the w ater d ep artm en t to were here last week they visited n u care of a record atten d an ce, ns it provide additional protection against m erous pro p erties and saw the reduc is expected th a t this will be the tion of some of the ore. Dean New fire. best d istrict convention of the ton m ade no statem en ts while here Knights ever held in southern O re The new pipe line to Lithia Springs b u t secured m any specim ens of the gon. which has ju st been installed, has rock and took tehm back to Corvallis ----------- * ----------- vastly im proved the quality of the with him to test. He is expected to w ater. The old pipe line was of wood Chur ch to Make I mp r ov e me n t! . m ake a re p o rt within a short time. with a wood fiber lining, while the The M ethodist church will immed T here is one deposit of ore north new one is of cast iron throughout. o f th e city. C oncentrates of this are iately make $15,000 im provem ents Lithia w ater has resum ed it o r being secured today by a local man on th eir splendid church edifice, en iginal taste and is said to taste ju s t in terested in th e m etal. H alf of the larging the Sunday school and Ep- like it does out at the spring. Much co n cen trates will be run into m etal. worth League room s to m eet dem ands of the gas and m ineral flavor had The m etal and th e o th er half o f the of the rapidly increasin g attendance. h ereto fo re been lost while passing co n cen trates will be sent to an east ---------------------------- 4 «---------------------------- through the fiber-lined pipes— News, j ern tin com pany fo r exam ination. The u p p er valley com m unity club ----------+ ---------- This will go out today. presents "C yclone S ally” an up Mr. and Mrs. C. W. F raley of this j A t the Golden Cross mine n ear roarious com edy in th ree acts nt the city enjoyed a family reunion re cen t Gold Hill th ere is an ore called stan- Vining Monday night, A pril 4. a t 8 ly a t Long Beach, where they were ite, which is believed to hold a large o’clock. S hort picture, dancing acts, visiting fo r a time. Mrs. Mary New tin co n tent. Sam ples o f this will be play. Those who will tak e part in the com er of Long Beach and John sent east when the o th er is d eterm in play a re : Jack W ebster, owner of F raley of M arshaltown, Iowa, were ed. Dean Newton has samples of the W ebster estate , W ilbur Tucker. Reg present a t the reunion, also C, W. Golden Cro.'s ore. gie M anners, a young Englishm an, an F raley of Ashland, who had not seen Assays from the various places ad ep t a t plucking peaches, H enry his brother, John F raley, since he give the ores a large tin content. This Homes. Jim P erkins, co u rter for was 13 years old, when he tram ped will run as high as 15 per cent, it is tw enty years, but not yet discour aw ay as a drum er boy in the Civil claim ed in some assays. aged, V ictor York. W illie Clump, w ar 65 years ago. The Long Beach M ining men of the county are Sue Bnscom’« beau and the w orld’s Press-Telegram contained a splend- agreed th at the ore exists in large eight wonder, Edwin Dunn. Sally w rite-up about the reunion, also a q u an tities th ro u g h o u t the southern G raham , “ Cyclone Sally,” Mrs. W al picture of C. W. Fraley, John F raely Oregon section. It has been known lace R eeder. Jen n ie T h atch er, fo rty , and the sister to the Fraley brothers, fo r years and its discovery is no re- j and the object of J im ’s persistence, Mrs. Newcomer. Mrs. C. W. Fraley cent m atter.— O regon O bserver. Mrs. Dave McKinney. R uth T hatcher, ---------- + ---------- w rites Ashland friends th at she niece of J e n n y ’s and a peach Reggie hopes soon to be back in our city, A good atten d a n ce a t the Bible would like to pick, Mrs. Edwin Dunn. having enjoyed a very happy tim e school last Sunday a t the C hristian E ffie V arden, a cute little neighbor, d u rin g the w inter visiting relatives church where a splendid surprise Mrs. W. C. Elam. Vivian Vernon, and friends in C alifornia. T heir g reeted them . The surprise was the belle of C edar P oint, Ruth New- m any friends in Ashland will be “ Rock of Agee —-pres»nted in t&hleau bry. Scene, living room o nthe W eb glad to see them home again. by Mrs. Hazel W eber and the song ster estate n ear the tow n of C edar being rendered very beautifully by Point. Tim e, early fall. Mr. and Mrs. "fred V anN atta of Miss A rtis Stockdale. N ext Sunday San Jose, Cal., who have been in an o th er surprise will g re et the peo V em er C arson, son o f Mr. and Ashland fo r the past few weeks visit ple a t 9:30 ju s t on the stroke so be Mrs. O. F. C arson left th is work for ing a t the home of Mr. VanNatta’s there. This is being done to get Corvallis, w here he will re e n te r col fath er, G. 0 . V unN ataa, returned to some of the a tte n d a n ts th ere on lege a f te r some m onths v u m t’on f -r hi« hi tilth. their home KtHnrdnyt tim e and i# also very en tertain in g