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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1927)
ASHLAND AMERICAN A s h la n d A m e r ic a n Aa Independent W eek ly Paper Published at Ashland, O reg on (Successor to the Central Point American) PAUL ROBINSON, Editor and Publisher O ffice at 374 East Main Street BUSINESS AND NEWS PHONE 95 $ 2.00 One Year A dv ertisin g Rata* Given on A pp lica tio n Entered at the Postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, as Second Class Matter, under the Act o f Congress o f March 3, 1879 JACKSON CO U N T Y ’ S WEEKLY P A P E R M e m b er S T A T E E D I T O R I A L A S S O C I A T I O N M em b er N A T I O N A L E D I T O R I A L A S S O C I A T I O N FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1927 E D IT O R IA L Perhaps we had better not make order for tan months. any remarks nbout summer weather. The suggestion which is some ------------------ o------------------ times made that the school year Many a checkered career ends in .should be continuous and that the summer vacation, if grunted at all, a stripped suit. ------------------ o should be short, gets mighty little Most advice seldom gets any fur indorsement from those whom it would a ffect chiefly. Even the ther in than the eardrum. teachers we imagine would not wish Among the books with unhappy to surrender the weeks relaxation though it might mean a little more endings are check books. pay ------------------ o---------- The averagy boy in the grades re Now if I.inbergh would stop flying he could enjoy his money for a gards school as a species o f puniish- ment inflicted on him because he longer time. cannot help himself. It is the ex ■------------------o---------------- ception for the boy to hold it need An editor refers to a candidate as W ful to do more thnn will “ get him a “ flaming wet.” Probably set on by.” This may not be the ideal boy, fire by the stuff. but it is somewhere near the descrip ------------------ o------- ----------- Whoever numed it the “ funny tion o f the normal boy. When the bone” had a mighty poor sense o f boy lands in the high school ambi tion may burgeon, but the small boy humor. who is too studious is likely to be So live thnt you can get sick and regarded as catering to the prize of be delirious without Inter worrying being the teacher’s pet and that in the average estimate is nothing but over what you suid. a disgrace. ------------------ o- not abound. It is for the general welfare that we should spread the gospel o f good roads until it taps and develops the hindermost regions, adding wealth and greater prosper ity to our unified nation. ■ o------------------ P U T T I N G B U S IN E S S F A R M IN G IN T O Î BINGO’S BUBBLES BINGO Jr. Copyright 1927-All Right* Reservad Ï Speaking o f antiques, what has happened to the cowbell? Almost any locality can make its own place on notional or interna — ( B B )— tional life. Petaluma, California, did In «mail town*, flea hound* it with White Leghorn hens. Tilla ■ re tkorobrad*. mook, Oregon, did it with cheese Jericho, Utah, does it with the great — ( B B )— , Jericho wool pool, that sells only top You receive your diploma at the wool in one priz, sale. Idaho Fulls. postoffice when graduating from a Idaho, does it with potatoes. Wenat chee, Washington, apples are inter correspondence school. nationally famous, and so on through — ( B B )— a long specialized list. Healthy men never make friends In every case the profits result with the undertaker until it is too from high grade uniformity. The late. producers do not trust to luck, or to — ( B B )— individual idiosyncracies; they agree on a standard, and enforce it. The A hick town is where the old fog- ‘»‘independence” of the farmer be gies predict rain when their corns come a myth in every one o f these get to hurtin’. high priced specialty products; in — C B B ) — dependence, that is, to think freak stuff by freak methods. But they A stranger coming into town become independently rich; which is judges the inhabitants by the first better than mere license to do fool- man he meets. ^ " t h i n ^ ‘ in” a'foolish"w ay — ( B B )— A grain company that was urged Brakes were not put on cars jes’ for ornamentin’ purposes as some drivers do believe. — (B B )— E V E R Y M A N ’S DREAM A razor with a perpetual edge — ( B B )— MARTHY BROADCASTS: “ An engagement is je s’ like a transfer. It letz you go a little bit farther!” — (B B )— Some people likes to leave their curtains up at night------- it gives all the curious neighbors a chance to see how they spend their evening. — ( B B ) Many a man swears it will be the last "hang over” he will ever have, but Saturday night changes his mind for him. — (B B )— Punchin’ in on a time clock clearly proves to the man that the You know and I know that the proclamation o f Lincoln’s didn’t censors decided that Jack the Giart free all the slaves. Killer wasn’t the Husband o f The — (B B )— Old Woman Who Lived in a Shot. When a man sez their ain’t no — ( B B )— news in the paper, then you kir bet Correct this sentence: “ When he has a “ small town” mind. Willie read the titles, everyone en — (B B )— joys the show.” The head is"a good place for an — (B B l idea to originate, but too many men are too lazy to ever try putting it it taka* an e x p erien ced as into practical use— they are just so tron o m er to fin d chicken in afraid some one will crit^ise them! chicken soup. to buy in one of the most fertile sec tions o f the mountain West, refused to buy grain there. “ We want standard grains,” it said, “ and no two of you raise the same kind o f stuff. Your wheat is mongrel; your oats are all the way from white or red, to black; your barley is piebald and will not grade in any market. We’ll go out of business before we’ll buy in such a district.” The adoption of a high standard product, and the cumulative aid o f every affiliated grower to keep up the stundurd and make the supply ad — (B B )— — ( B B )— equate to fill the market every year It is well that parents and school What the average woman wants BEING POPULAR DON’T MEAN When you order hash, remember is one sure way out o f the agri is a strong, inflexible man who can authorities have views somewhut nt culture doldrums. they are waiting to clean up the HAVIN’ A BOTTLE ON YOUR variance with the pupils, else school be wrapped around her finger. HIP ALL THE TIME. kitchen. rooms would not be filled as they -------------- -— o------------------ M E M O R IAL DAY — ( B B )— — ( B B )— Editor Bede o f the Cottage Grove are. Were it not so there would be When two men put their arms Sentinel is always getting o ff some longer vacations and shorter school Brigham Young is still the undis Care for the widows and orphans terms. It happens that so long as around each other and get confiden thing funny, and most o f his jokes o f our soldier dead adds especial ap puted champion in the game o f love tial, you can gamble your last cent are original. The latest rumor says children nre in the grades, the par peal this year to the annual national and seek. that the confidence relates to a bot “ Bede is talked o f f as a candidate ents know what is best for them. sale o f buddy poppies conducted by — ( B B )— tle. for governor in 1980.” Bede is the When the children get into college the Veterans o f Foreign Wars dur (he situation nu.y be reversed and life o f the party. Doctors prescribe more for men ing the week o f Memorial Day to — (B B )— the children know what is best for — — o------------------ the end that through the symbol of tal sickness than for disease. Reports from various corners of parents. At least there is some prac the poppy we as a nation may pay — ( B B )— If m ore p eop le went to bed at the state don't look quite so sure for tice on that theory. tribute to those war-heroes who nine o ’clo c k there w o u ldn 't No woman is ever outspoken— the income tux. Should the measure made the Supreme Sacrifice. be half 10 m uch go**ip to talk it’s impossible. L U M B E R M A R K E T W IL L fail to pass, we will nil live on just This year in further extension o f o v e r the n ex t day. IM P R O V E the same, and don’t expect to leave — ( B B )— the relief program, to which the en Oregon in order to live. A man that wears a 17 collar The recent and still "ontinuous tire proceeds o f the sale are de — (B B )— the Mississippi voted a portion o f the proceeds will can always get his size at the harn Sympathy for the Mississippi flood disaster o f Sensible a d v ice fr o m a wom an flood sufferers reminds us to thank river region is to be deplored most be allotted to the Veterans o f For ess shop. eign Wars, National Home for Wid ha* ita rted m any a man on the sinerely, but the floods have God for our trees. May this great — ( B B )— ows and Orphans o f ex-service men right road again. forced the desertion o f homes and disaster that has befallen the nation Hotel reservations are not al bring ubout a never changing policy most o f the small shacks and light established two years ago at Eaton — ( B B )— Rapids, Mich. The home, the site of ways full o f Indians. o f reforestation that will forever structures that were in use. All potatoes are not planted in It will be necessary that many which covers 472 acres, operates on prevent a recurrence o f the damag — (B B )— hills. There are a few put in holes. a unique family group plan, keep ing effect o f the powerful devasta- o f t,u‘se ^e replaced as soon as the Observation- proves that many are tion o f loosed waters. waters recede. Hardwood mills have ing mother and children together in — ( B B )— born tired. ------------------ o____________ washed away, thus creating a individual households. The addition Yaast and su ga r ca u se ex* — ( B B )— S U N S H IN E shortage in the hardwood market. of a new building recently increased plosion as well a* d yn am ite. its facilities, and another is now un .1 | This will mean a strong demand for S om e student* im p ro ve with — (B B )— Don’t growl at the heat. It is western lumber in the neur future der construction. Other* study consistently, Other proceeds o f the sale are earning so much money every min and we should feel the result in the Bell hops always whistle when’ — ( B B )— ute it is difficult to estimate the West in the increased payroll, which uetd for relief o f war-disabled and paging dogs. amount. A hot, moist June will make ,lnv‘* 8 favorable effect on busi to meet conditions o f distress among If you sleep in class don’t bother — (B B )— ex-service men and their familie oc the listeners by snoring, Mother Eurth catch up completely ness. Those who have pessimistic views casioned by sickness or unemploy with nil her crops on millions o f The reminder in a hotel room: — ( B B )— as to business conditions for this ment. farms. 'Have you left anything,” — may In speaking o f grades remember be there for sarcasm. One may prefer cold breeze like summer very likely be pleasantly President Coolidge annually en those on a mountain top, but they surprised to note the changes here dorses the buddy poppy sale, as did that a Ford is a strait two. — (B B )— would mean a short corn harvest and in the near future. the two preceding presidents. Profes c — ( B B )— An empty stomach causes a hol a slim yield o f potatoes. Let June sional organizations and trades as Never pick anyone up when low ring in a voice. be as comfortable as a winter re T H E G O S P E L O F G O O D R O A D S sociations. religious leaders, the motoring. Let the ambulance do it. sort, and down comes the quantity General Federation o f Women’s — ( B B )— It is not so long ago thnt the of nearly everything which comes clubs and the National American — ( B B )— The office and the lodge are still Caterpillar Tractor company pub War Mothers also officially com from the soil. In the class room, altitude counts the favorite evening excuses. These hot nights are translating lished a most interesting volume, mend it. more than knowledge. Thi* themselves into millions o f extra entitled “ Out o f the Rut.” — ( B B )— All nf the more than 3,000,000 — ( B B )— bushels o f wheat, corn and oats. A book's story began almost at the be buddy poppies are made by disabled No matter how terrible the bis sunny June yields a bigger berry ginning o f time and showed the his und needy ex-service men, many o f The morning’s mail brot the fo l cuits may be, a hungry tramp never tory o f road building up to the pres crop and hence a more plentiful sup them patients in government hospit lowing: "I like your columns, but complains. ply o f jellies, jams and other things en t als. Each buddy poppy is guaranteed what'.i the sense o f being a Jew and It brought out forcibly the fact by a copyright label. one would be unable to get if nights — (B B )— posing under an Irish name?” Well, that in many sections o f the coun were cold and mornings frosty. why not be a martyr to tbe Mud When the wife is away, empty try the gospel o f good roads is still Slinging Army? n o t ic e t o c r e d it o r s bottles always accumulate. in that stagi' characteristic o f the T H E C L O S E OF SCHOOL n o t ic e is hereby g iv e n — ( B B )— middle 19th century, covering only that the undersigned has been duly — ( B B )— When you were a sch >ol-hny. or the veriest beginnings o f modern appointed Administratrix o f the Many sailors see the world thru If a man calls his wife “ darling” Estate o f George W. Harkins, de school girl, a red letter day o f the roadway systems. a port hole. he intends to go out the same even cease,i and all persons having year was when senool was dismissed It is almost inconceivable that any claims against said Estate are re ing. — (B » ) — for the summer vacation. It mat American community could counten quired to present them, duly veri- tered not if you were one o f the ance indefinitely the handicap o f Ded. and with proper vouchers, — ( 3 B )— Dark horse senators need a Con one who like to go to school. There poor roads. The whole history of within six months from this date to gressional white wash. The Congres Politicians are rarely classed as I. A. Robert*. Attorney for said are such girls and an occasional boy the world’s advance is inseparable Estate, at his office over the sional car has many flat tires. honest men. o f the same kind. The attitude o f the from its transportation facilities. ( itizens Bank o f Asnland, Ashland — ( B B )— — ( B B )— pupils at the closing o f the school The world naa prospered with the Oregon. Dated May 6. 1297. year will not be misunderstood by development o f transportation rather FJ ‘ ! up **2. '«n’t as popu- \ Bad *««* are not the only things MARY A. HARKINS. those who have not forgotten their than transportation with the devel *r *»* wa* cheaper! | that run when opened. 3-5t Administratrix own feelings under similar circum opment o f the world. *r-------------- - 1 * — ( B B )— stances. 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