The R«|iitrr Majority al reach»* Farm the Haum la Soalhera Orepoa FORMERLY ASHLAND, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, VOLUME S S t u d e n t » ta M a k e a G r e a t S h o w in g at M ed ford Game The United States Labor Bur eau says American women spend $5,%00,000 a day, 81,825,000,000 a year, on baauty shops and aids to beauty. Women spending the five million a day would be more beautiful if they kept the money. But spending it makes them happy, and happiness is worth its price. Government Men Are to be Here Saturday to Look for Site Another step in trave by .^y- German and British <! ;gibles, each o f 5,000,000 cubic feet cap acity will race around the world next year. They expect to make tl:*» trip in twelve days, with two «‘ ops for fuel. That makes the wcr’d small er than it was, and would inter est Jules Verne. The Germans, with new light Diesel engines in their dirigibles, will surprise the world. What is America, as regards its people, what is it destined to be7 Indians were here first, Colum bus came, then the Pilgrim fath ers determined to worship God as they pleased and to make ev erybody else worship him as they t pleased. They would not recognize today’s populations. The City of Chicago contains 450,000 Ger- 300,000 mans, 400,000 Poles, Jews, 300,000 Irish. 200,000 Ital ians, 200,000 Bohemians and Gze- <ho-Slovaks, 125,000 Swedes, 60,- 000 Norwegians, and 60,000 Greeks. Not exactly what you would call “ pure Nordic.” What type, what civilization will come out o f that mixture? United States now. Nobody knows how the disease starts and spreads. The disease breaks out, nobody knows how or why, in dark city streets and in distant sunlit beau tiful valleys, more than a thou- • ’ nd miles from either ocean, and five thousand feet above them. The Lillie* o f . the F i e l d ” NOVEMBER II. 1927 Hand W oven Coverlets Are Many Y ears Old BEAUTY— AND SERVICE. WHAT WILL AMERICA BE? INFANTILE PARALYSIS. THE SOIL OF FLORIDA. Conrad Zeller, sixty-five years old, father o f twenty children, je - tirea from post office work on a pension of $60 a month. His av erage pay from Uncle Sam during twenty-eight years was $85 a month. Not very generous from a coun try rich enough to let its women »pend eighteen hundred millions a year on wrinkle eradication, face lifting, artificial curls a d com plexion. CENTRAL FOINT AND ASHLAND AMERICAN to be First P r e s a a t a t io n Thi* Yaar. ON AIR MAPS If Location is Secured Ashland Would Be on Government Maps There is s^Sssibility of Ashland having a landing field, under the direction o f the U. S. Glvernment for emergency landing. Just how remote a possibility this is, remains to be seen but E. L. Curtiss, and W. T. Miller re presenting the government will be in Ashland Saturdny for the pur pose of looking over the territory, and the possible selection o f a field, according to E. G. Harlan, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. These men will confer wtih Attorney W. M. Briggs of the Roads and Highways commit tee o f the Chamber of Commerce and others interested in the pro posed project. It is understoid that should a site be selected at Ashland, this site will appear up on all of the maps o f the govern ment issued for the use of aviators and the field would become avail able, _for all aviators. These men would also like to meet contractirs interested in bid ding upon the landing fields that the government is contsructing at Delta and Hornbrook, California. AGED MAN DROPS DEAD SUDDENLY John Utez aged 70, janitor of a number of Ashland business es tablishments for several years,' dropped dead early Wednesday morning near his own home. He was talking to a friend and appar ently in the best of condition when he collapsed without any warning. His death is believed due to apo plexy. Mr. Utez is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Mina Trotter of Astoria. The body is at the Dodge Chapel, the services wi!’ be in charge o f the local order oi Odd Fellows, of which Mb. Utez was an active member. Interment will be made in the Ashland cemetery. PROVOST H ARDW ARE H AVE NEW DEPT. A Spaulding sporting goods will The Moroni Olsen Players are be handled exclusively in Ashland ' tinging “ The Lillies of the Field” ! from now on, according to and by John Hastings Turner to the announcement’ made by Domino Southern Oregon Normal School | Provost o f the Provost Brothers 4uditorlum Nov. 14, 1927 as their Hardware, who are planning up first play of the season. on opening up a complete sport Thirf comedy which has the en ing goods department, in the dorsement o f the British Drama room formerly occupied by the league, makes very good reading Hargrove Millinery. and offers delightful opportunities; This department in addition to for stage production. Mr. Turner, having a complete line o f Golf as in other works, displays a keen equipment, will feature all typ*>* ^nse o f character and an amus of atheletic goods. ing comedy gift. The scenes are laid in an En Mr. Shoemac\er. manager o f glish vicarage and in London and the J. C. Penny Company store at 'he plot deals in a lively satiric 'ein with the events o f the court- Yreka, was a visitor in this eity hip and marriage of the twin Tuesday. 'laughters o f a country clergyman, Mrs. George Scribner and Mrs. ’"ho is uniquely unworldly and W. H. Sams o f this city were busi- 'harming character. The aituations are highly laugh nes visitors in Medford today. able. the double love story full of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Klum. appeal, and the whole forms a keen study of contemporary so former Ashland resident, but now ciety and social fashion. The cast residing ia Klamath Falls, are includes five men and five women. enlightened the class, there wae visting at the home of Mrs. Elsie Jack Ruger and Fred Cushing Churchman on Union street » »»at duck hunting Thuraday • 'ruing ia the Klamath Marsh "UBtry. They will Re gena enty a The last coverlet woven for her Mrs. Ida N. Smith of 075 East Main street, mother of V. O. N. grandmother is in indigo blue and Today. Smith of this city, is the owner of madder red on a white back two wonderful old handwovan ground, this spread is doubly wov "-The pep, which the students coverlets which belonged to Mrs. en and reversible. It is beautifully seemed to have been losing dur- j Smith’s grwadmother <Ida Hanley fringed and as bright and fresh as ing the past two weeks is back Paramora). These bdnntiful <>i<j though it were but recently wov coverlets woven by the profession en. It is a handsome heirloom in again now, 100 per cent. The girls of the Ashland Hi al weavers of a century ago. One deed, and one that anyone might started the week o ff right by hold coverlet woven for the grandmoth well be proud to own. This cover ing a pep meeting Monday after er o f Mrs. Smith was the work of let came into Mr^ Smith's posses Samuel Meiley of Mansfield, Ihio, sion upon the death of an aunt. school. Mrs. Smith also has several Calla Eaton, who had charge of in 1844. Mr. Meiley was consider the meeting called on Lucilla Bes- ed a wonder at this kind o f work. sterling silver spoons that were wick, Janet Dalis, Floy Johnson The gradnmother spun the yarn, owned by her grandmother, and and Miss Ellen Waters to make dyed it for each of these coverlets. some unique samplers, on hand- pep talks. These talks were all She certainly was an expert at woven linen, embroidered in the short but very effective, as the dyeing, the co lore are wonder gross stitch, the letters of the al girls were quite frank in telling fully fresh and vivid after almost phabet carried out in the two sizes the students what they thought of a century of use. The colors used and in different colors, red, blue, the pep the school had been show in this ol dcoverlet were dark blue, green, yellow, brown etc. These green and red on a background of samplers were made by Mrs. ing. I Smith’s aunt. Lucille Beswick led the girls in white. singing, with Mary Galey at the piano, Wilma Nutter then led a num ber of the school yells. Calla Raton the'fT promised all those girls who wanted to go to Medford, that a way would be found for them, and urged that P a rc e l* f o r F o r e i g n L a n d s S h o u ld everyone buy the re<J and white B e M a ile d By N o v e m b e r Veterans pom poms that the Senior girls F if t e e n t h . would soon have on sale. The Auxiliary to the American (Continued cn page 5) I^egion has received word that the United States Veterans Hospital OFFICERS ELECTED No. 77, in Portland is greatly in A T LEGION MEET need of bed-side rugs. The Auxili ary has planned to furnish fifty At the meeting of the Ameri such rugs, and will glady welcome can Legion Post No. 14 Tuesday contributions of clean cotton rags, night the following officers were which will be woven and forward elected: • « ed! to the Hospital at the qxpense Commander, Ralph E. Bowen; o f the Auxiliary. T^ey ask for co Vice-Commander, G. E. Dann; operation of the public. The rags Adjutant, T. E. Patterson, Finanac may be left at the following ad Officer, G. H. Wenner; Sargennt dresses: Mrs. Leslie Wertb of Lib of Arms, Leslie Wertz; Executive erty street; Mrs. Warren Cook of Committee, J. A. McGee, H. G. B street; Mrs. W. A. Cook o f 447 Wolcott, Millard Grubb; Chaplain, Rock street, Mrs. O. S. Silver of William Grenberamer. Appointive 369 Hargadine and Mrs. C. D. Da- officers will not be named until hoff, 134 Nob Hill. the first of the year. Bundles will be called for H persons have no other way of de LITHIANS TO DANCE livery, if same will notify Mrs.-C. NEXT W ED. EVENING D. Dahoff, telephone 308-R. The Lithians are plan nig a de lightful affair which will be given at the Civic Club House Wednes day November 16th, 1927. There will be a covered dish dinner at seven o’clock, possibly a short program, then dancing will be en joyed until a late hour. Contes tants o f the Indoor Circus will be the guests of honor. SCHOOL BOY HAS A N ARROW ESCAPE GRANTS PASS MINE IS H EAV Y IN TIN According to Mr. Kruse, he is forty feet underground and has a ledge 110 feet long, that assays $104, a ton in tin and $15 a ton in gold. • Government experts are now making an examination o f all the property witliip that vicinity and just as soon as their report has been announced Mr. Kruse expects to return to hiz mine. Mrs. Henry Ross and daughter I*orene are going to Eugene for the week end to attend the Home eoming game and will visit with Donald Ross from O. A. C. while there. They will be guests at the home of Mrs. T. C. R o m From Variou s Part* S o u t h e r n O r e g o n W il l G iv e n V is ito r* . of he Those members of the Nobles of ; the Mystic Shrine, whose thirst for drama and comedy at the ex pense of the novice, will have a | chance to have that thirst quench ed next Monday afternoon and evening, when annual fall cere- I monial of Hillah Temple will take i place. «, ' I It will be an occasiin that will 1 go down in records as one of* the | Jackson County if Well greatest importance, for on that Represented at Livestock date Clarence Martin Dunbar, j Exhibition Imeprial Potentate of North A m -! erica and the associates of the Ilf-1 ARE SUCCESSFUL perial Divan, will be the honored j r — n — guests of Hillah Temple. One of Local Boys Club Take the interesting features of the oc Many Firsts on Show* casion will be the presentation of fruits from the Rogue River Val- ing at Annual Affair Grapei from Grants Pass; Jackson county boys did unus> Pears from Medford and Delicious ually well with their exhibits at Apples from Ashland. These fruits will be presented ' the Pacific International Livestock in a moat unique set o f baskets Show and I-and Products Show, and will be on* the tables at the hel din Portland last week, ac- Lithia Springs Hotel prior to the cording to Robert Q. Fowler, coun dinner at 6:30 P. M. The Imperial ty agent, wbo returned to thia Divan will be met at Grants Pass county this week, by the committee of welcome from "Probably over 100,000 people Hillah Temple, consisting o f attended the eight days o f the Thomas Simpson, Fred D. Wagner, show. The weather was excellent George Dunn, Jerry Jerome and and there was but one rainy day,” P. D. Hermah. Leaving Grants Mr. Fowler stated. Pass, the party will proceed to .. .. , v, ,, . . .. , , This was the seventh annual Medford where the Shrine Club of „¡ii » » • I.. livestock show held in Portland that fit» will entertain with a . .... . . . _ , . , .. , . , since buildings had been erected to luncheon in honor of the Imperial , * accommodate entries. Previous to .. .. ... 1920, livestock shows had been a . , _, * . . held with the exhibits and entries to Ashland for the main events. , . At 6 30 . dinner will be served for Fow,*r “ ld all members and candidates in the . ° r< W*,t . . • ¡,v;„ u •___„ . . _ „ , A nine-year old boy, Robert Lithia Spring* Hotel. Following „ .. . . ___.. . . Martin of Rogue River, won the this, they go to the Armory where . . . . .. ’ .. vi , . chnmpionship of the Northwest Newtons law of gravity will be . . . , , , • __ ____. which includes 11 Western states, tested in a most unique way. Also ... .. . . __ ,, . , with the 36 ears of corn he exhi- more stars than can be seen in an . . . . „ ... __ ___ ¡ii u u - .. bited. He won first prize on 26 observatory will be shown together . . «.¡♦v __ i . .. *»r* °* corn „ entered in . the Union with expansions snd j contractions . , . k . :_ . i j . . . Stockyard Special, and second on being conclusively demonstrated. ..... l , ¡. , .... . 10 ears in the open exhibit. Not It is certain by some and fill be . . ... . . . ,, . f„lt „ . l . ... content with this, Robert*also won felt by others, that everyone will ... . . .. . . . V, the $10 offered for the best story have a most enjoyable evening. , ... , . . , / ______ * submitted o f his year’s work, d • J rz* making a total o f $58 for the story ¡N ew R e s i d e n t D i e s and the 35 ears o f choice corn. A f t e r Short Illn e s s G. W. Kruse o f Ashland return ed from Grants Pass Sunday ev ening where he has been spending considerable tftne with his tin mine located just five miles from this city. John Grantham, local contrac tor on his way home from work Wednesday night, rzn into Wilton Carlton, a school!}.iy who was rid ing on a bicycle without a light. A car was passu g at the time th# accident and the light» BECKY” GIVES THE blinded Mr. Grantham so that the was unable to see the boy on the WOMEN A THRILL bicycle. The lad was rushed to the Women who get a real thrill Community hospital and was luck ily found to be only badly fright out of the bargain rushes at de ened and a little shaken up over partment stores will have a chance the collision, but he was able to to see themselves as the shop girls go on home. Mr. Grantham was see them when “ Becky,” Cosmol held blameless. , • politan’s InviMt production o f the Raynor Selig story. Comes to the Vinin^ theatre Sunday. Several T u rkey G row ers Meet Local Turkey Growers held a hundred men and women, con meeting last night. They are go firmed bargain fiends, appear in ing to work through the Fruit and the department store sequences at Produce Association to get prices the opening o f thep icture. Sally on turkeys, and bring them Ip O’eNil has the title role o f this Ashland to be placed on the mar production and Owen Moore ap ket. pears in the role o f Dan Scarlett, a New York crook. Miss Leona Lynch one o f the Mr. and Mrs. Trotter of Astoria assistants at the Lithia Springs hotel, is taking a two weeks vaca- arrived in Ashland this morning tiah and will visit her mother at and are stopping at the Lithia Ho Vancouver. Washington. She will tel. Mr. and Mrs. Trotter were also visit friends in Portland, called here by the death of Mrs, Trotter's father. Mr. Utez. Salem and Seattle. The following «tudents from the Southern Oregon Normal will spend the week end with their people in Klamath Falls: The Misses Nadine Bearcrian, Ann Coffman, Alvira Call and Velma Cox. i Fr u it ---------- Mrs. Charles W. Churchman, aged 34, recently o f Sacramento died November 9th at about mid- night at. 36 South Second street, o f diabetes. She is survived by her husband, Charles W. Churchman, and her mother, Mrs. F. Foutse, >■ Big Show This corn has been sent to Chi- cago where it will be entered in the Grain and Hay show at the International Livestock Rxposi- tion held there the week beginning November 26, according to Coun ty Agent Fowler, (Continued on page 5) TEACHERS TO HAVE A D A Y OF THEIiv O W N W h o C o m e in D ir e c t C o n i a c i W it h T o u ris t* to ge l T o g e th e r . J. A. McGee, chairman Of the tourist publicity group sponsor««^, by the Ashland Chamber o f Com merce has called a meeting for next Thursday night at 8:16. This class will be comprised of men working in Service stations, hotels, barber shops, taxi drivers, auto mechanics, shoe shiners, telegraph officers, etc., in fact ’such men working in public places who first come in contact wjth the tourist and visitor to this eity. These men will discuss ways and means in which to sell Ashland to strangers. V. V. Mills, president o f the Chamber o f Commerce will pre side at the meeting. Demonstrations will be put on by members of the group, show ing how they handle visitors, tour ists etc. This class will make a study o f Ashlsad’s scenic attrac tions, resorts natural advantages. National Teachers day will be on November 13th, according to Mrs. V. D. Miller president of the Lincoln Parent-Teachers As sociation. This date was decided upon at the National Convention o f Parent-Teachers, when the con clusion was reached that the FIRST SALES MEET teachers were deserving o f a day IS A BIG SUCCES o f their own. A Dower, was also selected at this meeting to be The first meeting o f the Sales known as the official floWer o f the Class, sponsored by the Ashland teachers. The Chrysanthemum was Chamber of Commerce, occured the selection made. Tuesday evening at the Ashland Hotel. Exhibitions o f retail selling were instructively and capably giv en; fine impromptu talks further several excellent musical numbers and a very comprehensive talk by Secretary E. G. Harlan on the de velopment of modern business, and the need o f ‘ up-to-the-minute’ sys- temtic work, in accordance to the progress o f the times. Mrs. A. C. Nininger and daught Mrs. Waive Enders, assisted by er Dorothy visited friends in Med Secretary Harlan and the officers ford Wednesday. o f the class will have charge o f the next meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Kester Gandse of Class officers were declared Dunsmuir, Cali brnia were visit- elected at this time. John Daugher Tuesday and Wed ty of the J. C. Penny store was nesday, with relatives and friends. elected president. Miss Velta Ack ley of the Claycomh Motor Com Mr. Francis Moore of Medford, pany, was named Secretary, and Mrs. C. O. GiUings o f the First motored over to this city Wednes National Bank. treasurer. Tha day to transact business. anxt meeting will be in two weeks. Chaaneey Florey, business ma* o f Medford sad ex ceuaty clerk was in Ashland THursday an bast-