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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1927)
ASH LAND AM ERICAN Ladies Go to Tolo Meeting presenetd with a gavel by George W. Dunn, vice-president, consisting of a green onion which the president stated was very stroftg. BiccEsrmT The Valley View community club was invited down to Tolo last Thurs day to spend the afternoon with the Tolo community club. Eighteen mem bers accepted, the invitation and spent a very enjoyable afternoon. And Located Near City of The Tolo ladies had games arranged Gold Hill that created a lot o f fun, then late in the afternoon served a very de licious luncheon. Those from Valley View who enjoyed the afternoon at Tolo were Mesdames Wm. Glenn, H. H. Weagant, Everett Botswick, W. F. DeFord, Grace Lowe, J. R. Mc Cracken, L. H. Gallatin, George Bish Goiden Cross Find Richest; Rogue op, Russell Bishop, Mary Brown, Valley Said Only Tin Field Mabel Reachert, J. F. Arnold, N. E. on Continent. Bond, R. M. Jones, D. H. Jackson, Alice Farmer, G. W. Nichols and J. Lennox That the famous mystery metal is a mystery no longer, is evidenced Mr. and Mrs. George Nichols and by a recent strike in the Golden daughter, Betty Jean, o f Ashland Cross tin mine, 12 miles northeast and Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Westerbery of Medford where a 30-foot vein, and sun Richard o f Talent spent Eas exposed on the surface for three ter Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. quarters o f a mile, is yielding metal Nichols and family. analyzed 89 per cent tin, and selling Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bishop and at $80 a ton. Following several months o blind family o f Medford were guests of labor and the expenditure of from Mr. and Mrs. George Bishop last $500 to $1000 , in unfruitful tests Sunday. the company managed by M. D. J. F. Arnold is doing jury duty at Jackson, were fortunate in securing the services of Glen Spurlin, Austra Jacksonville this week. lian miner, who was the first to rec ognize the metal as tin. Spurlin, Fred DeFord was out o f school having had years o f experience in for a few days this week with an tin mines, is enthusiastic over the attack o f flu. superior quality o f the Golden Cross D. H. Jackson has also been on mine. Claimed to be one o f the biggest the sick list this weeH- tin strikes in the United States, the Golden Cross discovery will mean Mr. and Mrs. Sherman o f Jack a great deal, according to Joe A. sonville spent last Tuesday at the Thomas, of the Thomas Realty com J. F. Arnold home. pany, who with a friend visited the mine yesterday and brought back Cecil Harbordt o f Ashland spent several samples o f the ore, which Easter Sunday with his uncle and upon experiment smelts six pounds aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Farmer. o f tin to 100 pounds o f rock. A small furnace has been erected Mrs. Von Lent, Mrs. Hash and on the mining property, nnd opera Mrs. George Walton o f Ashland were tions, which are still in the prelim guests at the Arnold home on Tues inary stages, are to develop to a day evening. larger scale with the arrival o f new equipment due to arrive soon. Mrs. C. E. Bolds, Gloria and Jack Running competition with the re Bolds o f Central Point called on cent strikes on Evans creek, the Mr. and Mrs. Wm Glenn last Sunday Golden Cross mine is bound to claim afternoon. the attention o f Jackson county curiosity seekers and tourists, it be M. F. Craig, who celebrated his ing situated across the Bysbee bridge 94th birthday, April 7, has been but 30 minutes ride*' from Medford quite ill all week and confined to Until the reported strikes in Jo his bed most o f the time. sephine and Jackson counties, no tin deposits had been known on the Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Hurley enter North American continent, and it tained a party o f relatives and was for this reason that Portland friends at dinner on Easter Sunday. papers scoffed at reports o f the me tal in this section. An Easter egg hunt in the after Assays, though seem to definitely noon was enjoyed by the young establish the fact that large deposits people. Those present besides the o f the metal, in commercial quanti host and hostess were Mrs. Martha ties, abound in this section. South Mattison, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reed, America and China are now the chief Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Holdridge and sections from which the world’s family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hold- supply of tin is taken.— News. ridge and family and Miss Ruth Geno ------------------------------ + ------------------------------ way. CAN ADVERTISING STABILIZE PROSPERITY? — Get your mower repairs early STRIKE MADE Is Next to Kel-Mar and avoid the rush and provocation (Editors note: The prize winning when in the field and your mower three minute speeches delivered by breaks down. All kinds o f repairs for Theodore Baer o f Stanford univer most any mower kept at Peil’s cor ner. l-2 w sity at the San Francisco convention of the Pacific Coast Advertising --------- + --------- Clubs association.) DEBATE CH AM PIO NS. ARE You have heard advertising de SPEAKERS A T MEET HERE fined in many different ways. But, The regular Chamber o f Com reviewing them a'l, can you think of merce luncheon held Tuesday noon a more fitting definition than this in the club dining room o f the Lithia the key note o our convention. “ Ad Springs hotel featured an unural vertising— Stabilizer o f Prosperity!” I f advertising can reduce market nnd exceptionally interesting pro fluctuations, if it can lengthen buy gram. Dick and Adena Joy o f the ing seasons, if it can raise business high school, southern Oregon debate out o f its dread depressions, none champions debated on the negative can question its right to be termed side o f the question. “ Resolved, that “ Stabilizer o f Prosperity.” the Severance tax be made a feature In the role o f an emergency force, of the systni o f taxation o f Oregon." advertising stabilizes prosperity. It Harold W. Allison debate coach, act coordinates production and distribu ed as chairman. A fter the speeches tion. It makes possible a smooth, the debaters requested the people to even flow from the manufacturer ask them questions for rebuttal through the wholesaler and retailer arguments. Irving Vining. J. C. Hop to the public— making possible what per and E. S. Carter, volunteered all business seeks— a greater net Questions and the meeting turned into a general discussion. Vining ex profit. The success of the California Fruit pressed his views on the question. Growers association is due in no small Hopper quoted Kansas and refores- part to their use o f advertising in tration, E. V. Carter discussed the this role o f emergency force. When bond situation flotation bonds in faced by possible bankruptcy, a re territory where timber backed bonds sult o f over-production, the Orange Milla, tM ■ - to a certain degree, Mr. MiH* growers called upon advertising to new president presidd. in r r o ile d, .tribuno». and lengthen wa* iaaaguratad iato office by boinf the buying season. Judiciously plan Second, t h e investments are ned advertising increased the gener backed by tremendous physical al sales fifty per cent, and the sales plants and distribution systems during the off-season months in the staked toand imbedded in the soil. summer, one hundred per cent. T.iird, modern gas, electric trans To the lemon growers, as you portation and telephone systems pro know, the winter market seemed an duce and distribute service at the insurmountable difficulty. Utilizing lowest reasonable rates. Utility advertising by campaign concentrat companies have held down rates dur ed in the winter, featuring winter ing the past ten years, while costs and year around use o f lemons, the o f everything entering into expenses growers sales increased three times have advanced greatly. faster than during the peak summer Fourth, utility investments are months. protected by a well-established sys “ Selling California walnuts after tem o f regulation o f these industries Christmas was like trying to sell In exchange for the limitation of fire crackers after the Fourth of July. So the Walnut Growers association carried on an educational Coming to campaign that made walnuts an all year commodity. Now fifty per cent are purchased between January and October— the former “ dead months.” SPECIALIST Through advertising the deepest in Internal Medicine for the business depressions have been past fifteen years bridged. The illustrative experience of the Dennison Manufacturing com pany is interested. That company DOES NOT OPERATE makes it a practice to build up a re serve during the boom years, which Will be at it draws upon when the slump comes. In 1921 this farsighted plan carried HOLLAND Hotel the company safely over that depres WEDNESDAY, A P R IL 27 sion. Production never slackened. And this year but four per cent less Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. workers were employed than during the boom year o f 1920. ONE DAY ONLY When we realize how advertising lengthens the buying season, how it prevents market fluctuation, and how No charge for consultation it lifts business out o f depressions— when, furthermore, we see how ad vertising now gives workers greater Dr. Mellenthin is a regular gradu security in employment, we cannot ate in medicine and surgery and is but recognize the right of advertis licensed by the state o f Oregon. He ing to be termed “ The Stabilizer of does not operate for chronic appen Prosperity” and a wonderful service dicitis, gall stones, ulcers o f stomach, tonsils or adenoids. force as well. e ll has to his credit wonderful re -------------------- * -------------------- sults in diseases of the stomach, FLOODS BARE $122 GOLD liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, NUGGETS IN MINE, BUT heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting, BUYER IS S K E PTIC A L catarrh, weak lungs, rheoumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectul ail ments. The other day W. F. Hays, who Below are the names of a few o f has mining property on Oscar creek, four miles above Murphy, took a his many satisfied patients in Oregon who have been treated for one of the buyer out to look over the property. above named causes: He had not visited the mine since B. G. Clark, Troutlake, Wash. the heavy rains o f February. J. A. Wibert, Albany. Mrs. Yaquina McClay, Reedsport. When they went down to the mine Elmer Booker, Condon. Mr. Hayes saw something glitter and Mrs. O. Garrison, Warren. he stooped over and scratched some Mrs. L. D. Beam, St. Johns. sand from a two-ounce nugget of Mrs. Eliz Yoller, Astoria. Mrs. R. Gustavison, Westport. solid gold. The prospective buyer M^s. W. B. Henslee, Marshfield. took the usual attitude that nature Remember above date, that con hadn’ t planted the gold nugget where it was found, so Mr. Hayes didn’t sultation on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different. press the matter as he didn’t want Married women must be accom him nosing around when he wasn’t there. A little later Mr. Hayes pick panied by their husbands. ed up a four ounce nugget. The Address: 211 Bradbury Bldg., Los 513 smaller one weighed in at $49 and Angeles, California. the larger one at $73. The nuggets are said to be the largest brought to I .... .............. r w r w , ( t > > > the city this year. earnings, well-managed companies are protected against rate and con ditions which would take away their earnings entirely, or be unfair to the investor. Fifth, utility investments are pro tected by the character and quality of engineering and management re ceived by the largr and well-estab lished utility organizations. Medford DR. MELLENTHIN --------------------------* ------------------------- By Ottie Phelps April the month of showers, Is gliding swiftly away, And May is soft and balmy, With us a while will stay. Again we’ll gather flowers, That bloom along the way; And weave them into garlands, To crown the Queen o f May. And then the month o f June, Will once again hold sway When rose buds burst in petals In many hues so gay. Spring has come with us to stay, Till July’s sun, sends her away Fields and meadows now are green Willows bud above the stream. --------------------* -------------------- A p r il 17 • A w land tjjd Portland serving lafctm tifU tie »tations. In addition the fast and pop- , tdur SKaibt to Porriasaf and to 8an Pr mcksco, rhe Oaa- gtmiantD Sanfcnmdaro and to LW tbndaad north. Non srtii dull a i m w w convenience fo r traveler« either north onm im hnm d. 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