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V,1 '1'' PXOE THREP! ' MEDFORD MAIL TRTTiTTNR REPTErr.ETf n, mi7. ' MEDFOTrh, OREflOX, MONDAY AID UNCLE SAM'S ASHLAND, Sept. 3 The follow ing are a number from Ashland, or who formerly lived here, who are now serving the government either In a military or semi-mllltary capacity: Col. John L. May, formerly South ern Pacta train dispatcher here, now at Camp Wlthycombe, Clackamas, as commander of the Third Oregon. Capt. Thomas Hammond, recently ordered from the Philippines, and as signed to the. general stuff of the army at Washington, D. C. He Is the son of A. P. Hammond, deceased, for merly postmaster here, and a brother of Mrs. J. H. Turner of this city. Capt. Clyde A. Malone, of First company, recently promoted as adju tant on the staff of Col. Creede Ham mond, commander of the Oregon unit coast artillery. Andrew J. McCallen, captain in fantry, in camp at American Lake. Formerly of the First National bank, Ashland. Vernl V. Mills, second lieutenant coast artillery. Fort Stevens. Recent graduate of University of California. Son of Mrs. Ella Mills. "Walter B. Phillips, second lieuten ant field artillery, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. Grandson of the late E. K. Anderson. William Brlggs, second lieutenant cavalry, Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Brlggs. C. M. Summers, Jr., Company D, 117th California engineers. At Palo Alto, ultimate destination being Charlotte, N. C. Clyde E. Gray, first lieutenant field artillery. Fort Myer, Virginia. Grad uate Ashland high school, 1S87. A Spanish war veteran. Don Spencer, first lieutenant coast artillery, Ashland company. Fort Stevens. 'Donald Rice, Identified with Red Cross ambulance'corps, headquarters Eugene. Also attending officers' training school, San Francisco. A. T. Eddy, Jr., first lieutenant coast artillery. Crlt Tolman, Jr., Curtiss aciation school, Bufralo, 'N Y. Lewis Irwin, cavalry and infantry, having served In Hawaii. Vancouver barracks, In line for assignment as first lieutenant. Alvi Irwin, United States cruiser Helena, stationed In Chinese waters. Both are sons of A. L. Irwin. i ' Horace Badger, enlisted In south ern California for service In regular army. In New York, subject to duty overseas. Lieut. -Commander James Moore of the navy has been assigned to Bhore duty at the navy yard, Charleston, S. C. His latest service at sea was on the cruiser New Orleans. Ills brother, Frank Moore, Is a first lieu tenant of Infantry, campted at Amer ican Lake. Both boys were brought up In this town, and are sons of Mrs. S. J. Evans residing here. Seml-mllltary assignments Include Dr. J. P. Johnson, medical corps; O. H. Sneed, elcctrlo department; Earl C. Weaver, engineering corps; W. W. Ussher, paymaster's department, all being located for the present at the Bremerton navy yard. The first Ashland recruit reported from overseas Is Oliver Morton, mechanician, who when heard from was at an English port on the way to France. E SENT BY GOMPERS WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Samuel Goinpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has sent this message to Charles W. Bowerraan the'labox member of parliament who recently visited this country as a member of Great Britain's war com mission: "Permit me to add a word of sin cere greeting, those of the American Federation of Labor and through your congress to the great rank and file of the workers of Great Britain and the democracies of the world, "The righteous "cause for which our movements anil our countries are engaged In this world struggle must be triumphant', for it Is writ in the skies that the end of autocracy is at hand and the world will be made safe and better for labor, Justice, freedom and democracy. The Amer ican Federation of Labor delegates, in addition to attending the British trade union congress, will participate In International labor conferences of the trade unions of allied countries, to bo held In London September 10." C. Brownsteln, a Portland dealer In scrap Iron, arrived In Med ford on Monday. AMERICANS FILL II ROME, Auff. 15. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) "The gap left by the withdrawn! of Ger man nnd Austrian merchants from Italy is gradually being; filled by American products," said IT. P. Ben ton, an American who litis for many years been manager of one of Italy's largest department stores," but if Americans wish to hold this trade they must get around to extending credits and entering to the trudc) by making small-lot stiles. "I do not mean that Americans should do business like the German's, because they can't. German busi ness wub often a losing proposition. The loss was made up in many cases by direct subsidies of twenty-five per cent to firms pushing Germnn goods. 1 know personally of a big fir mill Mi lan that handled German hosiery. By having this line of goods manufac tured in Germany in its own shops in stead of in Italy, it received this sub sidy nnd therefore underbid not only Italian but English competitors. "So you see, the vaunted German business methods were not really bus iness at all. I think this subsidy ar rangement must explain why the Ger mun turned out such a lot of poor grade goods. His big object was to make sales under all circumstances. The more sales the more subsidy. "Now, at present America is the only country which can supply many of the articles needed here. There fore, if the wholesalers demand cash at New York, the Italians must pay or go without the goods. But this system does not tend to build up steady trade. So soon as these mer chants get the opportunity, they will buy in France or England, or else make up the goods themselves, as they are already beginning to do. Also it must be remembered that there are no large combinations of merchants here, that it is a country of samll stores, and therefore, wholesalers must be willing to sell in small lots. In reply to inquiries, an American firm will send over a handsome set of literature nnd nsk for an order of thousands of the article in question when the buyer has only a dozen in mind. '1 think the Americans who have looked over the field realize that Italy is really virgin soil commercial ly, and offer big opportunities for the establishment of manufacturing plants backed by foreign capital and worked by Italian labor. From this point of view, a thorough under standing of the Italian mentality is necessary and possibly n long cam pnign of education to prove to the workman that the employer's inter ests arc his interests. At bottom, the Italians are good hearted, kindly people and if you get their good will your way is much easier. One must be cautious in making contracts, nnd not take their little tricks too seri ously. SAN JOSTSEEKS E SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 3. Churches were canvassed Sunday by temperance advocates to secure sig natures to a petition which Is to be presented to the city council tomor row night asking that the council members either call an Initiative elec tion or vote the saloon out of busi ness. Approximately 2700 names were necessary to call an election. The canvass was made by a commit tee headed by business and profes sional men. The proposed ordinance would per mit restaurants to sell malt and vin ous liquors between 11 a. m. and 9 p. m., with meals costing a minimum of 20 cents. It would not permit the sale of any liquors, including whis ky. In wholesale houses, which are limited to six In number and provides penalties, including a jail sentence for second offenses, for violations. Any one may have any kind of liquor In bis home and may give It away, by provisions of the ordinance. GENEVA, Sept. 3. The 8wlss san itary authorities at Basel and all along the German frontier are tak ing measures to prevent dysentery, typhus and scarlatina, which prevail In Rhino towns,' from entering Switz erland. All travelers coming from Germany are required to undergo a medlral examination. The epidemics are said to be due to Insufficient nourishment. HERE'S THE BIGGEST FAMILY ON EARTH "Wouldn't Trade Places With Rocke feller, Says Father of 23 Cham pion Parents of the World Are Re ceiving Their Big Family Today for Their Thirty-sixth Wedding Anni versary. .,B YJ, HERBERT. DUCKWORTH. . (Staff Special.) , CANAAN, Me., Sept.: 3, The big gest family on earth Is today gather ing at the farnihouso-of Charles Dickey and hla wife, (Mary, tho champion parents of the world. Twenty-two children aiid 1G grand children will sit down to celebrate the 36th wedding anniversary of the Dickeys. There will be only one va cant chair; Mary, the eldest daughter, died recently." I have just spent a day with this remarkable family. Their story Is an eplo of a man and woman's heroic struggle with poverty In order to live their life according to the Bible. Starting with nothing but good health, for 36 years they have literally lived off the land In one of the most un promising parts of Maine, and bavo in creased and multiplied and been hap py. Eeach one of the 23 children waB born singly. There have been neither twins nor triplets. Farmer Dickey is now 68. His wife Is 60. Both look many years younger. Dickey has had a tremendous fight for existence. He knows It, but has no regrets. He loves not only his own children but all children, more than any other person I have evch met. He Is as tender to the present youngsters of his flock as a young mother to her firstborn. "My parfents died young," he told me, "and I had to face the 'four winds' alone. I went to farming down at Clinton. At 22 I married. My wife was 14. We started housekeeping with $160 In the bank, $-10 in my pocket, one horse and one cow. I now have 22 children, 15 grandchildren, 3 cows, 3 horses, 3 good shouts, 2 heifers, a calf, 42 chickenss, 40 hens and a good little farm of 160 acres. Can aan's been my Promised Land! "After eight years In Clinton I swapped with my brother my farm there for this one. He threw in a load of hay and I paid him $120. 1 moved up to Uk'bo hills with eight young children In January In a snow' storm. When we arrived, neighbors took in the. children to keep them warm, or they might have died. "I bad to work hard all my life. I've never had what you city people call any amusement. My amusement Is bringing up the children right. Ms big boys don't smoke or drink, and my girls ate all sweet and good. Ask anybody in Somerset-co. "God meant man to work by the sweat of his brow, and women to bear children to her sorrow. "I have never owed a cent In ay life. Some get all the money; others all the happiness. I wouldn't chin;'" places with Rockefeller for anything Nor would my wife, "We never grumble, and we figure that God will never ask us to do more than we can bear." Mrs. Dickey has been the "business manager" of the family. When tey bad 14 children living at home they consumed 16 barrels of flour a year. Every morning for many years she has risen at 5 o'clock to bake nine big loaves of bread and two big cakes for the day's use. The children have always worked. Sometimes they collect $250 worth of wild berries In a season, Most of the farm produce Is consumed at home. Just enough Is sold to buy sugar, tea, coffee, shoes and clothing. The Dickeys "lay down" 600 pounds of pork every full to supply meat for the winter. The township had to put up a spe cial 8choolhouso for the Dickey chil dren. Mrs. Dickey "rests" as she calls It, between 7 and 11 In the evening, after the. children have gone to bed In thos hours sh dos all th swing and plans the next day's work. moxmovtii ronmiorsK, x. J., Sept. ;i. Unqualified suport of the government in the war was urged of every United States citizen, native nod nuturulizcd, today by Speaker Champ Clark in n Labor day address here on the famous revolutionary wnr.lnttlicficld. "No nation will long endure, or de serves to endure, that docs not pro tect nil il citizens, wherever they may lie, on land or sea," declared lie. Praising President Wilson's recenl j reply to llw Jnpe s proposal, the sxnkcr said it "will be read fortver and forever," lliliife Tho Dickey family of C BREAD FOR PARIS PARIS, Aug. 5. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) Firmly resolved as they are to sub mit to any sneril'ice to ensure vic tory, the Parisians have shown far more pnssivc resistance to limitations of bread and amusements than to any of the many restrictions that they have to endure. At one time, in order to economize lighting and coal, the theaters .were closed two nights a week and movies were cut down by several shows. This regulation very soon quietly dropped out of observa tion nnd theaters, music halls nnd cinemas resumed full time operation. It is true that it was vaguely under stood that no place of entertainment should nso more lighting and heating during the seven days a weok than it had during five, but thus was merely a way of .saving the. face of the au thorities who had made the regula tion. '. ' . As for bread, the war began by nibbing tlie I'arUiim uH" his little rolls nnd crescents which he was con vinced 'was tiie only civilized firm of taking tho day's first meal, 'l'.en it took, away his fancy bread mid now tho last straw, il has taken away white; bread altogether, leaving him a brown .substance with a very hard crust which covers a doughy and in digestible inside, which so recalls his own description of the German K. K. bread that he blushes when he re calls his brilliant witticisms on the subject during the first year in I he war. The "Official Journal" has ,jul published the decree regulating the making mid consumption cf breai', nnd explaining how Hie bread cards will operale when Ihey come into use next October. The decree is very long and very complicated, and docs not rend ns if il will he workable in practice. Children from one year to six are allowed two-thirds of a pound of bread n day. Kvcryone above six years can have 1 1-10 pounds. 'In all holds and rcstniiranls," the decree reads, "bread must be count ed separately nnd only be served in slices at one cent each." Bread cards will be in duplicate, one to be relained by the bread ealer nnd the other to be deposited with the baker. Any baker selling fresh bread, or bread not made with regu lation Hour, will have his allowance suppressed for n month. GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 15.-, A member of the Devon regiment In chnrge of a Maxim gun section, who was severely wounded before Hag dad, writes from tho Cllve Hospital, Bombay, to his udeje here: "What was our surpriso on enter ing Bagdad. I went In on a stretcher to find a number of American la dles awaiting us. ' A few wore' the Hod Cross badge, but I have not been able to find out how the others got to llngdad before us, because I was moved down soulh quickly. How kind they were to the wounded! I believe they bought up the whole bazaar of fruits, flowers, sweets, tobacco, etc., and worked hard In the heat. Hut as long as I live I shall never forget an Iced drink ot clear, wholesome water an American girl gave me when I was suffering from fever. I have never tasted nectar, but I think that was It. Think of Ice, after a march through a hot, sandy region! Many a British officer and man will remem ber those kindly American ladles who have saved many lives." L ffW- aTX Svi '-M - iiniuin, Maine Ttio nrrow ixilnts to TO FOR SEPTEMBER 13 ASHLAND, Sept. 3. At n meeting held hero on Saturday afternoon to arrange preliminaries for tho annual reunion of the pioneers of Jackson county, it was decided to hold the reunion on Thursday, Sept. 1.1,, in l.ithiu park this city. A departure thij year will bo an old-al'shioiied bnsket dinner, served either on the park grounds, or in the Bungalow if the weather should he unpropilious. Consequently a reminder is in order for all to bring ulong the well-filled "dinner-pail." F. D. Wagner is chairman of the committee on program, details con cerning which will he annunoced lat er.. Mrs. Sylvester Patterson is chairman of tho dinner committee and Miss Rose Patterson chairman of committee on decorations. George W. Dunn is president of the association; Mrs. 0. M. Grainger, vice-president; Mrs. U. M. Garretl, secrelnrv-treusurcr of Ashland dis trict. These officers nrc of Ashland. Miss Minnie Dox of Jacksonville j: scrctary-treusiirer of districts out side of this city. Ti.'i reunion will be held on one of (ho same days us the old soldiers' gathering hero next week, but it is' not thought Unit this will interfere wilh urrangements inasmuch as quite a number will have all opportunity of attending both events. 10 PAY0.SC. I WASHINGTON, Sept. .1. Repre sentative Sinnot has been udvised by Land Commissioner Tallman that the government has decided alter fur ther consideration to pay lo tl(c land grant counties of Oregon all nccrucd taxes, penalties and interest up to the date of passage of (he land grant act, June (I, .11)1(1. No puyinenls will be allowed beyond that dale, however, Hie theory being Hint by Ihe act the lands reverted to the government on Juno !) last year, and government lands are not laxable. In light of today's announcement. Ihe Chamberlain bill, which recently passed the senate, would give to Ihe counties only accrued penalties since June I), and as these would be pen alties against the government the house public lands cominillee will mil favor the passage of I he bill. STATE'S AGENTS AVER KELLY HAS CONFESSED LOG AW, Iowa, Sept. 8. Oa the eve of his trial for complicity in the famous Vllllsca nxo murders of 1912, Rev. Lynn O. J., Kelly, Itinerant preacher, It waB announced today by J. K. Hlsdcn, state agent, signed an unqualified confession that ho had slain eight persons with an nxo and then through) his counsel, mndo a comploto repudiation. Tho repudiat ed confession was made early Friday morning, In the presenco of Attorney Genernl II. M. Havncr, Sheriff M. I). Myors of Harrison county. Deputy Charles Atkins, J, K. Rlsden, stale agent, and J. J. Hess, Council Bluffs attorney. In his statement. Kelly admitted that a sermon, "Slay Utterly," caus ed blm lo kill. A voice which ho be lieved to bo the voice of God led nnd guided him In his crime, the preacher declared In his confession. Later In the day, Friday, J. A. Mc Kenzlc, of tho legal firm repreientlng Kelly, went to Logan nnd visited the preacher In his cell. McKenzIo then said Kully completely repudiated the the father and mother. confession. Judge A'. L. Sutton, of Omaha, of Kelly's counsel, says the confession Is not worth the paper It Is written on. Drastic "third degree" methods wore used by state author ities to get tho signed statement from Kelly, Judge Sutton doclares. Time! The mellower of friendship and tobacco You meet a man. You like him. You see much of him. Years pass and you find that Father Time has mellowed : a e 9 your acquaintance into true friendship. Mellow tobacco is much the same. The mellow OWL Cigar is much the same. We buy selected tobacco. We cure it for long months under trie watchful eyes of curing experts. Finally it reaches the "peak" point in mellow fragrance. Only then is OWL leaf carefully made; into fra grant OWL Cigars. , To so time-cure OWL leaf re quires that we keep constantly on hand a supply of reserve leaf worth always $1,000,000. And often more. That's why your fragrant OWL Cigar is called the "Million Dollar Cigar." 1 , Try an OWL, friend, and see what a fragrant, mellow smoke Father Time has cured for you. 5c. At the nearest cigar store. a a a a a THE MILLION Showing oxact size. of the fragrant . mellow OWL ii M. A. GUNST BRANCH OF GENERAL CIGAR CO., INC. El r LONDON, Sept. 3. The Petrograd: correspondent of the Times predicts trouble In consequence bt the treat ment of the Cossacks by the provis ional government and cites the state ment that the rights and privileges' of the Don Cossacks, consecrated, by' many centuries, have been cancelled,' their pocullar elective offices abolr' lshed and government commissaries substituted. Under this order. Gen-' eral Kalebln, the Cossack command er, becomes a simple soldier, and at-1 ter the Moscow conference, at which the anti-Cossack campaign began' openly, a personal altercation oc curred between Premier Korensky and General Kalebln. The Kuban, Terek and Orenburg Cossacks have not yet been affected' by the new order, but according -to the correspondent, the blow .that strikes on Cossack must be felt byi all the twelve armies adhering to' the Cossack league, and It is to be expected that they will not tamely sumblt. i With Medford trade is Medford made. DOLLARlCIGAR Brcndetl for .your protection WfflllTOftSStW ji ' ,tivmvti- Jtl lUHM'MUIlf .n i i n. .mil
