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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1927)
A S H L A N D AM ERICAN' A s h la n d A m erica n may start and a' to a general resun tivity such as has early day a indications point n o f aiming ac- * been seen since memories . nowadays it is necessary to hit the line hard. A D V E R T IS E ! By Ottie Phelps T H A T the trade territory of the average city is limited only to the enterprise o f her business men. As I sit here in the twilight, Bv the fire burning bright M&ry mine as an As I watch the dying embers ------- Take the Goidt T H A T to be a success in buiiness P A U L RO BINSO N. Editor and Publisher _____ example. Fully < 60.000 has been In the open grate tonight. means a business concern mu t he spent in equipmer: and labor getting O ffice at 374 East Main Street As they cast their ghostly shadows constantly on the alert. Their goods BUSINESS A N D N E W S PHONE 95 _____ the mine ready t< produce. Now it is All around the silent room, $2.00 expected that operations will start Sad memories come stealing oer me. must be well bought, well displayed, One Year fair priced and well advertised. ’ in two weeks ano g ld will be taken As I sit amidst the gloom. Advertising Rates Giren on Application T H A T the shoppers shop where _____ from the Uv<uifa:n< by Grants Pass All the evening I ’ve been thinking, they can get what they want; they labor. A practical mining man has O f the dav« so long ago, Entered at the Postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, as Second Class Matter I was merry uie a.ic. *inp,y; ic..u tne acis to ibnc! out wher and under the Act o f Congress o f March 3, 1879 been placed in charge and the stock n’t lose time. holders confidently look forward to Not a sorrow, not a woe. JACKSON COUNTY'S W E E K I Y P A P E R Dear one come a little nea good returns. hr - i r e f u l housewife it il- Let me whisper in you '--a Member STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Then there is the Mt. Reuben mine art - i d gra s p « e v e r y p. For I'm lonely, oh, 1 .iy, Member N A T I O N AL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION _____ where *175,000 has been sepnt driv-i I would feel y j c • 3 near. p o rtu u .ty > i ’e m o n e y ; leng I ing a tunnel over 6,000 feet to 1 F R ID A Y , A P R IL 15. 1927 a g o ehe lou r t l u '. »he co »Id Let me !ea r. tie n< re , — ' strike the Caiifcr- .a vr ;n. Low grade | Press n ? <•' r to your b' ar'., !>y b u y in g ad -tie J gordt. ore has been revealed in the tunnel For I ’m d tonight and v? J, Copyright 1S_. but the real objective remains and I'm so tired, let me ret . ------------ --------------- may be encountered any day. Years are passing on so swiftly, The Greenback will start soon ac- Sprightly ceps are growing slow: A TRI BUTE T O L O V IN G HE RTS Roses or m • chc-'ks have faded You caa buy anything you need From an article in a current cor<^;n£ to present plans. A crew has As sweet r e: lori. cc a 2 -ir a go 3y Mrs. F. 3. L a v dson been placing the road in shape so in Ashland. magazine are taken a few quotations Si .r< to tt • < :,it s 0- my Inner- that supplies may be taken in. There When deaths sha< jws ’oer us he . ei ■ o ! on the subject o f the automobile. most soul, And our happy .’ . ays are o’er has been $3,500.000 taken from this I was brought to my knees in p.-ayer, That man from Illinois has de- "T h e automobile stands unique as . . . . M _ _ , h W ill the Angels round us gather; By the kin-'ness o f those, who a few Guide us to the heavenly sh> rt ? dared that he would accept the nom- mort extravagant piece o f mach- ____ , , ver .s ago, r more— left. ¡nation. inery ever devised fo r the pleasure Let us bi: d o r hcar.s t o fe t ’ .er, V/ere ui k iov . i , til' :n(’ r the Fath The placed properties are getting o f mar..' With a s'.vcr cc.d S3 tiyht er .; err''. their share o f the gold and proper- That our bonds may never sever. : Relieved by t„e pine laden, health Next Sunday is Easter. Go to ”j""e People arc bec"ir..ng car P °°* tle! which haven’t operated for vears When we take our heavenly flight. giving air, church! Then keep on attending ** the,r ancestors became land poor, ! Inspired oy the snowy white h ills. are being mined again. ! The r ° o r tired rm-vrs nave ; t last church, as it soon becomes a good I® *his craze fo r automobiles. With all this white metal publicity DID YOU EVER STOP T H IN K found respite. l ownership the joy o f security in the I . ... , , habit. . . . . . . . . , there will be a further interest in Prepared fo r work as the great future is sacrificed fo r the pleasure , , . ., , , „ r southern Oregon mines, in fact, there Master wills. By Edson R. W aite ! o f the moment. On Memory’s wall, in a corner apart, Omygosh! Where was the demand has been a real influx of engineers Shawnee, Oklahoma Hang the pictures o f these we love The whole scheme o f domestic an(j others here already, brought by fo r the television? Now how can Tho we scarcely have learned in our T H A T business concerns help their hubby phone friend wife, from the hfe center* in the motor car. tales o f tin. short residence, cabaret, saying he is detained at the “ Once the man who borrowed in There is a future to the mining customers, as well as themselves, To attach name and face as we move. Some day, when by Grace, we shall office? I ier to buy a car was looked upon industry here. Only the surface has r;hen they advertise. enter the Gate, T H A T any man who has a business o---------------- as dangerous.” been touched. People o f southern Where there’ll never be heard a Not all are optomistic over min- " '*** ®°me these statements Oregon may look forward confident end refuses to advertise has no busi Good-bye, We know, ’mong the rest, your faces ing propositions. The engineer, the -some agree, but it is invariably that the next few years will bring a ness worth mentioning. w e’ll find. T H A T some concerns do not ad surveyor, the company officials, who careless who predict disaster and prosperity little dreamed o f a few In that land where there’s never a vertise because they are incapable o f knocks a proposition fo r his own self, chaos because so many o f their years ago.— Rogue River Courier. sigh. _______ ju _______ living up to the standards demanded ish end is a real draw-back. A fte r neighbors are on wheels and ex- o---------------- by an advertised business. numerous favorable asseys. honest chan* e old cars fo r new every year. SMILES Marion Van Natta tells us that the T H A T any worth while business impression given out in newspapers I ng veins and good top outcrop- i ^ 19 manifest fr"m the popularity — — pings, you occassionally find a prop- the auto> f rom the universality o f It has been most truthfully said must advertise to keep worth while, that he hit a man with his stick, be- osition condemned by some one lU us* and from the j eaI° “ » tenacity that the longest word in the English and the cheapest and best way to : cause he refused to buy his pencils, looking fo r a job, wanting to sell 8,1 car owner? cling to their cars, language is “ Smiles.” because there advertise is through local newspapers. is not true. Van Natta claiming he T H A T in order to get business was provoked and called names. something or fo r revenge. A mining whether palaces on wheels or de- is a mil® between the first and country always harbors the “ Pull crepit derelicts, that there are satis- last letter. I f this answer to the riddle Back” as well as the promoter. action« derived from the automobile not satisfactory to some, here’s which the critics o f the automobile one that ought to meet the most fastidious taste: Smiles are the Let us acknowledge the decent and a* e have not greatest aid to digestion, the most honorable decision o f the New York important asset to human popularity IT IS SPRING— BUT LATE District Attorney and Governor A1 the strongest weapon with which to ARRIVING Smith o f New York in their signing W E R E N O T SAT/SF/EO U N L E S S Y O U A R E drive away a grouch and the “ show- and declared willingness to enforce Today is beautiful. As we sit at window»” o f a happy soul, -o-called “ Padlock B ill." Women i P h o n e 4 7 4 6 2 4 R IV E R S ID E S T Udeptadtil Weekly Paper Published at Ashland. (Successor to the Central Point Am erican) Orefo» E D IT O R IA L 1 on Bmadwav <tages and night clubs must put on clothes, says the a’ torney. The .aw not alone applier to nudity, but also to any “ obscene. indecent or impure drama, play, ex- hibition or entertainment,” and makes theater owners and individuals performers responsible fo r the char a d e r o f entertainment. Shows and vaudevilles in many cities are sure- ly rotten and we sometimes think it too bad that the “ Censorship bill” presented in Oregon’s legislature, did not pass. -----------------—------------- . A BAD P AVEMENT the desk- th* Oregon sunshine tempts Anybody can frown at calamity u* to ,ock *hop a"d Join the throng hut it takes a philosopher to smile on highway* and mingle with when all around him seems dark and blossoms, freshly turned ' dismal. Most any individual can r e - 1 !,0' , and wander among the wild Joice as he sees prosperity coming I flowers on every side. his way in large portions, but The present year should be one ta^es a real man or woman to smile abundant harvest i f moisture will 'n the face o f adversity. From the he a'^ ’ " father prophits often fail in irinninir o f time, we have always ] their Prpdictions and this year has j found plenty o f “ mourners at been a guess so far when it comes to every funeral, but it required a true weather conditions. I Christian to smile and say, “ They The Spring has been a backward he done.” Strange as it may- one— hence the double welcome to- seem to the average observer, with day. Yes. the Spring o f 1927 will I *he man who smiles, darkness creeps long be remembered as the “ wet I *nto dawn, and dawn blossoms into year,” and in southern Oregon, a Jhc full day, and the full day fades There is work for someone to do I snow *torm on eighth o f April. into a glorious starlit night. There on the Pacific highway pavement in -- ------------- -----------------seems to be no more darkness any- Jackson county. We believe that tho W H Y NOT? where, once the smile is real, and so roughest, bumpiest, most rolling --------- time f,ie * by. mile a fter mile o f it, and uneven stretch between Portland mining syndicates can afford in happy content with the man who and the California line, is that en- to mine o r* runn'nK *2.65 a ton in can and does smile. Meanwhile, the countered between Ashland and far awa>' Alaska, why is it not prac- man wi{ h the grouch gropes hope- Medford, near the Jackson county *'Ca* to ^evei°P the mineral resour- lessb’ in the darkness and seems to fair grounds. Back seat riders over ce* ° * ®°uthcrn Oregon which abound think that because he has shut out this stretch are getting sore heads. ore aVi*r»iT>«ir at least *5.00 per “ daylight" the whole world is black ------ --------- ----------------- ,ton. as midnight. T O -D A Y . Those who speak with authority There is just the same difference --------- say that the ores o f this district will between a smile and a grouch as you Think not o f Yesterday, nor trouble not run *ower 'n v*lue than *5.00 to w'*l find between an optimist and a bo ITO the ton, which together with the re- Pessimist- The fact is that the op- On what may be in store fo r you duced cost o f operating, in compari- t°mist cultivates the smile while the To-morrow, son with Alaska, should be an incen- Pessimists feeds upon a grouch, j But let To-day be your incessant j tive fo r the development o f local Whether in business, society, or re- ■ care,— mineral resources. , ligion, the optimists are the out- TH o psst is past. T As was suggested by the authority standing successes while the pessi- >rrow in the air. for the story appearing in the Daily mists become real liabilities to the | Who gives To-day the best that in News o f yesterday relative to min- cau*e in which they are engaged, him lies ing. we are giving too much atten- furtherm ore, the man who smiles is W ill find the road that leads to tion to finding pockets and uncover- always welcome where the grouch is clearer skies. ing high grade ore. rather than de- not wanted. The public appreciates — John Kendrick Bangs voting our energies to the develop. a “ Sunny Jim " but it has little use I ment o f low grade ore o f which ^or "Sour Jake.” ' ------ ----- I there is said to be an abundance. Someone has truthfully said that DOLEFUL PREDICTIONS. ------- Recovering values from low grade Fou can cultivate smiles until they ' r automobile came it was ‘>re ** n°t a poor man’s game, but if become a part o f your nature. All pre uted it would make the horse j mining companies backed by ample have to do is to look about us extinct. Horseflesh cost, more than > apital can operate profitably on ln<* We will soon discover that we over an equestrainisrr i continues to *2.65 ore on an island o f f the coast an> the recipients o f so many bless- grow m f«vor. Now t he oracles say o f Alaska, is not possible to inter- ’•n*fs which we did not deserve that the aeroplane will e liminate both t the same, or other companies, in ^ arc compelle*. to smile for joy automobile and horse hut like the re o f almost twice that value here that »•«* have fared so well. W e com horse, the aut 'bile _ . r« m num- in ,outhcm Orrgt»n* — Medford News mcnd th-s exercise to everyone wh-' *n . r The saturation ^— point has m>tten iHen rhar nothing tit ~ ” ~ — ° o- ----------------has gotten the idea the that Die «utomaOe industry in always * EA L MINING DEVE L OPMENT - way. 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