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
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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
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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 .
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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-
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, ,
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
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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.
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living up to the standards demanded
ish end is a real draw-back. A fte r neighbors are on wheels and ex-
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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.
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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
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Jackson county. We believe that tho
W H Y NOT?
where, once the smile is real, and so
roughest, bumpiest, most rolling
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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
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,ton.
as midnight.
T O -D A Y .
Those who speak with authority
There is just the same difference
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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.”
'
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I there is said to be an abundance.
Someone has truthfully said that
DOLEFUL PREDICTIONS.
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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.
If
sixth
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their pur'
n
increase tn number
s new needs are found fo r them
»nd the population f r o « » ,
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• l' rrr *• more real, honest mining
dcve!opm* nt in V t ' t r r u in the terri-
kCr*
to Oran^a Pata. than
fo r « “ T f t w i Propahtea art bt-
mg conditioned »c that product on
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sense should be added to our present
l«*ty the most valuable o f all to the
rer.cral welfare o f mankind would
®o§t certainly be tmilir.f.
"Laugh and the wor!d la::-h i with
' 3 . w *n tnd you w*op . I o n # . " -
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