Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-10-10
ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL
Personal Notes That Tell of Activi-
ties in the Realm of the
Three RS.

Three RS.
The registration of Ruth Porter,
Is, and Rose Vodayla, a senior from
Salem, brings the total enrolment
up to 20S.
Harold Dalzell, U. O., 10. boys
secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A. for Ore
gon and Idaho, stopped at the high
school for short time Tuesday.
The executive committee has chos-
en- Brick" Moody as business man
ager of the Annual, and has appoint
ed Mr.. St. John, debating coach, as
manager of debate also.
The agricultural class has been
collecting samples of the soil about
the high school, with a view of test
ing them to see for what vegetables
the soil is best suited. The members
of the class will have individual plots
of ground for gardens next spring
The Agricultural Club has elected
the following officers: c. E. Coen,
president; Peter Spencer, vice-presi-
dent; Edna Dougherty, secretary
treasurer, and Robert Spencer, Ii
brarian. Meetings are to be held
every two weeks, the next to be Oc-
tober 19. The topic will be poultry
husbandry, and practical poultrymen
will speak. Everyone is invited to
these meetings.
The manual training department
is installing table saw, run by mo-
tor, which can be used as a cutoff
saw or rip-saw. 1t will be very
useful in cabinet work the second
semester. All students of the de-
partment are greatly interested in
this work and seem reluctant to
leave when the hour is over. One
room is overrun with the furniture
made by the grade boys.
Ruth Whitney, editor of the An
nual, has announced her assistants
as follows: Associate editor, Jose
phine Saunders; class reporters: sem
ior, Paul Williams; junior, Charles
Freeman; sophomore, Hortense Win
ters; freshman, Ella Dews, and sub
freshman, Helen Dickerson. Depart
ment editors are: Literary, Nellie
Beaver; organizations, Lynn Mowat;
oratory and debate, Clarence Carpen-
ter; music, Victor Mills; athletics,
editor, Harold Huntley football,
Gerald Wenner; baseball, Walter
Phillips; girls basketball, Frances
Hamlin; boys basketball, John En-
ders; track and tennis, Mr.. Gumaer;
locals, Oneita Barnard; socials, An
gela Bomar; personals, Florence
Olds and Beatrice Miller; high school
department, Fay Carver; staff artist,
Edmund Dews; and alumni, Alvin
Wheeler.
Mr.. Coen, teacher~of agriculture
in the high school, addressed the
East Side Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion on Monday evening. Mr.. Coen
/ touched upon the educational value
of the subject, it's Importance, and
how it can be made appealing to the
boys and girls. He said that a
knowledge of the Fundamental prin-
ciples of agriculture was helpful to
everyone, whether banker, lawyer or
business man. 1t was suggested that
the textbooks might be altered so
as to contain problems of agricul-
tural significance; that in arithmetic
for example, the student might learn
to calculate a balanced ration for q
dairy COW and to determine the profit
or loss when a COW is giving a GER
tain weight of milk daily, or testing
a given per cent of fat. In his talk
Mr.. Coen spoke of the importance oil
school plots, of boys and girls to-
mato clubs, ETC., and of creating in
terest by awarding prizes at the fairs
Ashland high opens the local foot.
ball season in a game with Medford
Saturday. The team is in excellent
shape and well drilled and therefore
confidently expects to win the game
The official lineup has not been Civ.
en- out, but probably the following
is nearly correct: c., Dews; |. G..
Garret; |. t., Hodgson; |. e., Ply.
mate; +. g., Huntley or Frame; r. t..
Doran; +. e., Wenner or Shinn; |. h.
Phillips; |. fullback, Moody; +. f.
Poor, and +. h., Ashcraft. Gamaer
Bob Spencer and others will prob
ably be used during the game. A
large crowd of Ashland rooters viii
accompany the team. Yell-Leadel
Alvin Wheeler is rightly practicine
his chorus in yells and songs to over.
awe the Medfordites A round-triI
rate of 80 cents has been allowed by
the railroad. Those wishing to &c
may leave on the II O'Clock motor
and leave Medford at 11:22. Those
intending to go will please hand theil
names to Manager Lynn Mowat be-
fore Saturday.