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its people and the traveling public
in the way of improving the Link­
TO KLAMATH
ville stage road, future generations
will bless them, “ Bob the stage driver
FALLS IN J6 HOURS will
bless them and if the yever have
occasion to cross the mountain with
him, his jolly good natured and mirth
STAGE OVER MOUNTAIN WAS loving disposition will be pleasant
to recall in after life. Your years
ONLY ROUTE THEN
will be lengthened, by it your pros­
pect for the future will be brighter
and remem brance of the past mqre
pleasant, and I can assure you that
you’ll be carried through on time. |
But two things are necessary to keep
in order to enjoy it, viz. your seat
Firit Volume of Ashland Paper in and tem per. ---- +---- C. B W
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1877 A ppeared Following Story
BELLV1EW NOTES
From a Traveler
BY MRS. W. G. TUCKER
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Mrs. S. J. Evans, who has been
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spending the w inter months with her |
into requisition not so much to help son, Jam es D. Moore of the United !
us start as prevent our starting too States navy, and his family in Cali- I
soon; for some time driver and as­ fornia, returned to her home in Bell- j
sistants were kept at a respectful dis­ view a number of days ago. Since
tance by the lavish use which our the return of Mrs. Evans to Ashland |
young bay m ade of his rear defend­ Jam es has been ordered to the east­
ers, but by a judicious m anipulations ern coast.
of expletives, superlatives and some
of the m ost soul stirring and em­ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore have
phatic expressions known to the Ore­ been visiting in Ashland for a few
gon vocabulary, all things were days and were dinner guests of Miss
righted and I found m yself again Ella Evans at the home of her m other
seated beside “ Bob the stage driver.” in Bellview, in whose honor the din­
A flourishing of the drivers arm , the ner was given.
discharge of a bombshell from the
end of his whip cracker, a lunge, a The cast for the play “Cyclone
jar and a desperate effo rt to pre­ Sally” met for rehearsol the first of
vent being hurled off into space the week at the club house. They do
brought back to mind, the im portant not seem to have forgotten any of
fact that “ we were traveling.” Im­ their lines and with a few rehearsals
pressions were made on all sides and this week will be well prepared to
one in particular struck me very give this comedy most entertaining­
forcibly, viz, th a t 'twas our province ly to an enthusiastic crowd Monday
to crumble all the rocks found on or night, April 4. Remember the date
in the vicinity of the road “to Link­ and come adn tell your friends about
ville.” A strange jum bling of sounds it.
and sights, seemed to surround us,
and only one of the five sense“ ap­ Mrs. C. A. Brown, who has been
peared to rem ain intact and th at the confined to her home for several
sense of feeling, and I could only weeks with a severe attack of inflam
guin consolation in the thought that atory rheumatism, is a little better.
probably philanthropists in after ages She can touch her foot to the floor
might hear of this sacrafice to ap­ now. H er many friends are so glad
pease the w rath of the travelers good to know of any little improvement.
and enlogise our unselfish offering,
but whether we were being crushed A. R. Brown, who, for a long time
beneath the wheels of Jugernaut or has been a resident of this community
pounded to death in a quartz mill I and who has had a very trying time
was unable to determ ine.
with asthma for quite awhile, left
« Wi had advanced to a considerable for Arizona Thursday in the hopes
distance with naught to relieve our that the high dry air there will bene­
situation, which was growing monot­ fit him.
onous in spite of the great variety of
our movements, when we m et the The community club is sponsoring
pleasant and affable gentlem an from another dance Friday night, April 1
Fort Klam ath who we were inform ed j and hope having changed the date of
was on his way to the house of the the dances from Tuesday to Friday
girl of his choice and only a couple nights will be successful. This will
more sunswereto rise ere he should be a jazz dance.
fold his blushing bride to his heart
and be overwhelmed with happiness. The girls of the Bellview sewing
A halo of joy seemed to encircle him club are planning a program to be
and we saluted him with a smile, in­ followed by a box supper. This will
tended for encouragem ent, but I was be given sometime in the next few
sorry for the effo rt for I fear ’twas vtfeeks, the proceeds to be used to­
too sickly to be appreciated. We ward sending delegates from the club
were now nearing the sum m it of the to the summer session at Corvallis
mountain and moving among the This is a rize for which all the girls
clouds, but I failed to observe that are learning to work with a zest.
the rocks were softening. Noon came
and with it dinner, a change of The Community club and the P.-
horses and again we were moving T. A. have always helped the girls to­
on. Some relief came in the shape ward this objective, but with a bal­
of a snow storm , but we were now ance on the club house yet to be
on the down grade and had no time paid, we have had to put the girls
to speculate upon the m utability of squarley on their own responsibility
human affairs or the changefulness and not help them this year. Date of
of climate, “ business is business,”
supper will be given in the next
and when my pilot, the com m ander of their
issqe
of these notes.
our craft— “ Bob the stage driver”
—cried down breaks I complied with The farm ers who were unable to
uneering certainty and missed my get their seeding done last fall are
aim.
taking advantage of these fine days,
We descended to better roads, the and getting their crops in. The won­
excitement wore away, my load of derful am ount of moisture in the
break tending responsibility dropped ground will insure a natural crop, no
off, I lapsed into silence, finally to m atter when it is put in this spring.
slumber and at 8 P. M., I was grasp­
ed by the hand of Linkville’s accom­ The board of directors of the Bell­
odating hotel keeper, smiled at by view school were disappointed last
the boys, warm ed a t the stove, fed week in failure to get a perm it from
by the cooks and a t the earliest con­ the city to take water from the pipe
venience rolled myself into the arms line at the old normal school which
of morpheus and dream ed th at I was the board m eant to have piped on to
transform ed into the h£ad of a bat- the Bellview school. For years the
teringram and used to demolish the w ater for the school has been a
walls of ancient Troy.
source of trouble and this would have
Now stranger, reader, travelor, I been so satisfactory and taken at a
have one request to make of you, if time from the city, when they would
•n the course of human events “ it not miss it. The council, however,
becomes necessary” for you to travel feel it was best and on the recom­
over the Linkville stage route and mendation of the city attorney the
you see an opportunity to roll a rock refusal was made.
out of the pathway of "Bob the stage
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driver” I beg of you in the name Pre-Easter issue of the Ashland
of justice and m ercy don’t I beg American next week. April 8. Plenty
of you don’t neglect to do it, and if of time after that issue to do your
fhe Hon. County C ourt of Jackson Easter shopping from the E aster ads
county, would for a short tim e turn the Ashland merchants are now a r­
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