Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-12
ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL
Personal Notes That Tell of Activi-
ties in the Realm of the
Three RS.

fornia on surveying trip.
Blanche Salisbury is absent from
school, suffering from tonsolitis.
Mr.. Dodge, chairman of the school
board, visited the high school Tues
day afternoon.
Marion Hodgson has just returned
to school after an absence of over a
week caused by an attack of the
grip.
The junior class is to give a min
strel show about January 10, to raise
money to entertain the seniors. Pro-
fessor Vining is to have charge of
the preparations.
Principal Moore was quite i'll Sat
urday and Sunday with the grip.
This illness seems to be epidemic, as
many others are out of school and
many who are attending are sick.
The coughing is so violent as to dis
turb the recitations.
Helen and Gerald Hodgson have
left school and are going to Canada.
They are taking their grades and ex-
pect to enter high school in their
new home Several of the teachers
were heard to express regret at los
ing them as students and they will
be missed by their schoolmates.
The agricultural class has built a
roofing bench, an apparatus in which
cuttings are to be prepared for trans
planting The class has been taking
observation lessons in pruning trees
and are soon going to put their
knowledge into practice in the Ash
craft orchard. The agricultural club
will not have any more meetings un-
til after Christmas.
The high school teachers are plan
ming to entertain all the other teach
ers at a Christmas party on the
evening of December 19. The West
| Side teachers entertained all their
! fellow-craftsmen with a Hallowe en-
| party which was so much enjoyed
| that the high school teachers feel
constrained to follow the good eX-
ample and furnish their share of the
Yuletide cheer.
Ashland will have a chance to see
| the champion girls basketball team
! of southern Oregon play Saturday
night when Ashland and Grants Pass
meet in the second game of the sea-
son. The first game was won by
Ashland, but if the dope of last year
| is not upset, the locals are in for a
! hard game Saturday night. All are
in good condition except Josephine
Saunders, at guard, who is suffering
from the grip. If she is not able to
play, Myrtle McGee will take her
place one half and Alene Bomar the
next. If the two forwards, Florence
Olds and Hannah Abbott, are up to
their usual form they ought to put
up a pretty exhibition of basket
shooting. The first lineup will be:
Olds and Abbott, forwards; Sonnech
sen, center, and Saunders and But
terrified, guards, with Myrtle McGee
Alene Bomar and Ruth Scott as sub
stitutes.
The pastors of the churches join
ing in the coming union evangelistic
meetings met last Monday in the
IC. B. & T. Co bank. A layman also
from each church was in attendance
All the details were gone over, and
suggestions made to the different
committees. A hearty response has
gone up from each church, and al
ready scores of church members are
praying for blessing on the move
ment. The wonderful unanimity OF
opinion on the many details of the
work indicates that the campaign is
the result of the Holy Spirit moving
the hearts of the Christian people.
The first weeks meeting will be held
in the congregational church, begin
min January 6, at 1880 p. N.