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The Adair County news., 1913-04-02

Mr.. H. E. Warner, represen.
tative of the National Biscuit
Company, arrived in Danville
this morning from Somerset. He
was in the omnibus starting to
the train when the cyclone struck
that town. There were five others
in the vehicle and the driver was
riding on top. The wind lasted
five minutes. Just as the bus
reached the top of the hill, the
heaviest part of the cyclone came.
The driver was blown from bis
seat into an adjoining yard and
the bus lodged against a tele-
phone pole. The wind was so
terrific that the occupants were
helpless and almost unable to
breathe. T h e rain came in
sheets. When the storm partial
ly subsidized the driver was found
and proved to be uninjured, as he
had fallen on a soft spot. AS the
bus proceeded, parts of houses
were found in the streets, cleo
trio wires and telephone poles
and trees were heaped up in a
conglomerate mass and the peo-
pie had to get out and walk to
the depot. Mr.. Warner says that
the experience was the most ex-
citing one in his life, as all the
occupants of the bus were ex-
pecting to be killed at any mo-
ment. Mr.. Warner is assisting
in the demonstration at Mcdowell
& Banzhaf's store to-day. but is
very nervous from his shocking
experience. -Danville Advocate.
The Adair County news., 1913-04-02
Couah Medicine for Children

Two much care cannot be used in
selecting couge medicine for chill
dreu. 1t should be pleasant to take,
contain no harmful substance and be
most effectual. Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy meets theserequirements and
is favorite with the mothers of
young children everywhere. For sale
by PAUL Drug Co. AID.
The Adair County news., 1913-04-02
TO RALLY IN LOUISVILLE.
If never there, you ought to 90.
If ever there, you'll want to 90.

During the Kentucky Educational as
ISOLATION meeting, April 80, May 1, 2
and 3, Louisville will be overlooking
with teachers, trustees and friends of
the schools. The people Of the big cities
are watching the rural school problem
with great interest Louisville was
among the first to strive to help in its
solution.
GET TOGETHER FOR A BIGGER
AND BETTER STATE.
The Adair County news., 1913-04-02
Drive Sick Headaches AWAY

Sick headaches, sour gassy stomach,
indigestion, biliouSnesS disappear
quickly after you take DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. They purify the
blood and put new life and vigor in
the system. Try them and you will
be we'll satisfied. Every pill helps; ev-
cry box guaranteed. Price 25c. Rec
commended by PAUL Drug Co. AID.
The Adair County news., 1913-04-02
Lack Of Cooperation Declared
to Be the Cause.
EXPERT GIVES FIGURES.
Professor Coulter of Census Bureau
Has Compiled Some Startling Stats
tics on Annual Loss Sustained by
Southern Farmers-co-operati al
Versailles For Past Year a Success.

Professor John Lee Coulter, expert
special agent in the census bureau at
Washington, has compiled some star
Ting statistics in regard to the annual
loss sustained by the southern farmers
because of lack of cooperation.
The crops of the southern farmers
are worth each year in round numbers
S2,5O0,OOO,OOO. Most of this sum is
spent for farm supplies, food, clothing,
The Adair County news., 1913-04-02

Postmaster General Burlesop
has been restrained by the Su-
preme Court for enforcing at this
time the newspaper publicity act.
The Adair County news., 1913-04-02
What The Weekly Enquirer Is

1t is issued every Thursday. Subscription price
81 per year. and it is one of the best home met
ropoitan weeklies of to-day. 1t has all the faeilk
ties of the great DAILY ENQUIRER for obtain
ing the Worlds events. and for that reason can
give you all the leading news. 1t carries a great
amount of valuable farm matter. crispt editorials
and reliable up-to-date market reports. It's nu-
merous departments make it a necessity to every
home, farm or business man.
This grand offer is limited and we advise you to
take advantage by subscribing for the above COM
bination right now. Call Or mail orders to.
THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWS.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
Should Seek Radium.

Our local prospectors should have
in mind, when looking for the pre-
cious metals, the possibility of run
ming across ores of the most precious
of ll-radium-and equip them
selves with a knowledge of the char
acteristics of the minerals containing
it. The two minerals in which it is
most likely to be found are carno'
tite and pitchblende. The former is
a yellow mineral and occurs most
commonly in sandstone deposits, be-
ing usually found in pockets, or as
an incrustation in the cracks of sand
stone. Pitchblende is a hard min
eral, blue-black in color, resembling
magnetic, but is heavier than the
latter. 1t is found in pockets and
veins in igenous rocks.
1t is not generally known that this
country is by far the greater pro
ducer of radium, Colorado alone sup
plying more than three times the
amount supplied by the rest of the
world. If Colorado and Utah, why
not southern Oregon?
WILLIAM TAVERNER.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
School Committee
Recommendations

At the meeting of the Jackson
County School Officers Association
held in Medford October eighteenth a
committee of three was appointed on
taxation by County Superintendent
Wells. This committee was expected
to consider taxation with reference to
the schools of the county. 1t con-
sisted of Welborn Beeson chairman,
Hattie Warner secretary and James
Rose. They have rendered the fol-
lowing report to the county court:
We beg to submit to you, and
through you to the county court, for
such action thereon as you may deem
fit and proper, report of our in
vestigation of the finance of the
public school system of Jackson
county for the fiscal year OF 1912,
ending June 16, 1913, acting on ap-
pointment as committee on taxa
tion by County superintendent
Wells, ex-officio president of the
Jackson County School Officers As
sociation, at the meeting of the asso-
citation held in Medford, October IS,
1913.
The wealth of Jackson county
consists of six general divisions, as
/ follows: First five according to
1913 assessment; number six, 1912
assessment:
Farm lands, 91,937 acres, val
ued at $9,111,405.
2-Timber lands. 1,16S,452 acres,
valued at $11,717,4S6.
3-Town lots, valued at $4,91O,-
319.
Improvements valued at $4,-
574,432.
5-Personal property valued at
$2,552,36O.
6-Public service corporations,
valued at $4,620,439.
The school children are on the
farms and in the towns and villages
and by our present system of taxa
tion the schools are supported by
the farms, towns and villages. In
other words, the people of the county
and not the property of the county
are supporting the schools.
The object of this interview and
presentation of this report is to dem
onstrate this fact to you and try to
show how this method of supporting
the schools can be changed and
equalized; and the whole property of
the county be made to more equally
share in the support of the schools.
The total valuation of taxable
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27

Angeles, who has achieved academic
distinction, not only at two universi-
| ties-Chicago and Michigan-but
possesses in a remarkable degree the
faculty of defining and calculating
matter, in terms so simple and con-
else as never to admit of doubtful
Interpretation in the mind of the
earnest and aggressive listener.
Be its said, with a special empha-
sis, that a full mind and ready ad-
dress in teaching is a thousand times
more efficacious than the employ
ment of a copious notes of, some
times, perhaps, doubtful import, DR..
Chandler. in his handling of techni-
cally abstruse matter pertaining to
his special ubjects-physics and an
alytical chemistry-is simply referred
to here as an expert teacher who,
from first to last, stands for the at
tainment of tangible results, based
upon sane and luminous treatment
of the subject under consideration.
Occidental College at Los Angeles
and the Rice Institute, Houston,
Texas-away from all that Boston
has to offer in technical teaching
upon many subjects-are doing
splendid work in a multitude of de-
partments, and should serve as so
many active agencies, within their
general spheres, in the educational
uplift of the nation.
We, in Oregon, have been subject
ed to endless rebuffs at the hands OF
legislators who, for political and sec
tional reasons, have trampled under
foot the cherished hopes of electors
intent upon securing for our state
educational advantages that have
long since been the common Inherit
ance of other. parts of the common
wealth. The vigorous efforts now
being made to resuscitate (if such an
expression can fairly be used) the
once flourishing Ashland Normal
School are most praiseworthy, and
there should be no cessation whatso-
ever on the part of any one until
such time as our watchword, sue
CESS is unfurled from our banner
and thrown majestically to the breeze
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
The Specialist in Our Schools and
Colleges.
(By Henry G. GilmoreD

Time was when the specialist in
our public schools and colleges was
an unknown quantity. but the spirit
OF progress has so asserted itself OF
late years that the teacher of music,
drawing writing, physical culture
and manual labor has come to be re-
garded as forming part and parcel
of the necessary educational machin-
cry in the land
The presence of the specialist Sc
cures method and uniformity in
teaching in the schools with which
he may be connected and the most
casual observer cannot but be i'm
pressed, on a visit to the school
room, with the beneficial effects
everywhere apparent of the labors of
the expert, whose best thoughts are
being continually given to the teach
ing and elucidation of a special sub
ject. To write we'll. combining rapid
ity with legibility. to sing correctly,
with a pure tone and proper pronun-
citation, to draw, so as to be able to
illustrate and make interesting the
everyday work Of the school room,
and to carry the body at all times
gracefully and to treat it as the most
wonderful of all machinery, is to pos
sess knowledge of great practical
value to every boy and girl attending
our public schools.
Confirmatory of the benefits to be
derived from the possession of a
special service, SO to speak, we have
only to refer to the Gyms" to be
found in the east and the middle
west, which, with the legions of stu
dents in attendance. are making
themselves felt as powerful lubricat-
ors in Strengthening crooked backs
and otherwise rendering happy and
helthful the physiological relations of
life.
Within the past three months 1t
fell to the lot of the writer of this
article to witness some splendid spec
ial work at the hands of DR.. E. E.
Chandler of Occidental College, Los
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27

property in Jackson county as re-
turned by the assessor in 1912 was
$36, ,666,5S4. The number of school
children in 1912 was 6,S4S. The
average tax value per child of school
age was $5,S54.S6.
Value of timber land in A district,
1,O37 children, $7.729,OSS.
Value of timber land in B district,
S,511 children, $3,9SS,OSS..
The foregoing figures show the
large or speculative holdings of till
able lands; the bulk of timber lands
and about one-half Of the corpora
tion values in class A; the small,
highly improved farm lands and the
towns and villages and most of the
personal property in class b.
The forty-seven districts in class
B have the following special tax
One, 20 mills; three, 10 mills;
thirteen, over to 10 mills; ten. 5
mills; six, 31s to AZ mills; four
teen have under mills.
Glass A-Two, mills; four,
mills; one, 4 1a mills; seven. 21s to
31a mills; eleven, y to 2 mills
nine, 2 mills; thirteen, and under.
So much in support of our prem
ises and contention that the people,
not the property, are supporting the
I schools of the county.
The relief we ask, and the action
we believe will more near equally
place the whole taxable property of
! the county behind the school system,
| is for your honorable court to in
crease the county school tax levy to
make the pro ratio per child of
school are not less than SIS. Such
raise would be about 1 u mills. BY
this action, special taxes would be
i eliminated in nearly every district,
both class, where present levy is un-
der mills, and lowered in all dis
: tricts.
The decrease in special tax re-
quired to raise the present amount
of funds in all class B districts will
be more than u mills.
The most progressive counties in
the state have already adopted this
system of levying county school tax,
Tillamook county having levied suf-
ficient tax to raise $40 per child OF
school age, klamath county about
SIG per child of school age, and 9TH
ers above the minimum required by
law, which is IS.
The present county school levy is
one and six-tenths mills. The high
| school levy, three-tenths of one mill
Most respectfully submitted,
WELBORN BEESON, Chairman
JAMES ORSE,
HATTIE WARNER, Secretary.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27

"E. W. Rose Medicine Co.,
Gentlemen: In l9ll, eczema appeared
on my back and limbs. Doctors treated
me in hospital and gave me alkan baths
every day but did me no good. In 1912. Il
appeared on head. face and hands-burn-
ing and itching. tried everything but
got no relief ana was getting worse.
Two months ago got o bottle OF Zemo:
eczema has disappeared and my hands
oegin to look as new hands. believe Zemo
20 be the greatest discovery of the age.
More power to Zemo. John w. Persons.
VIM. Mckinley Post $40. G.. A. r.. Chicago"
You can free yourself OF this burning,
itching. sleep destroying horror-eczema-
lust as this grizzled veteran did. Un-
,qualed for any skin eruptions. boils.
olotches and other skin troubles. Your
1ruggist will sell you 25c sealed bottle
II Zemo and will guarantee It. or it VIII
! 30 sent direct on receipt OF price by z. w.
! Rose Medicine CO.. st. Louis. Mo.
Sold and guaranteed in Ashland by
e. Side Pharmacy, ]. ]. McNair, Prop.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
Best Cough Medicine for Children

Best Cough Medicine for Children
Three years ago when was liv-
ing in Pittsburgh one of my children
had hard cold and coughed dread
fully. Upon the advice of druggist
1 purchased bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and it benefited him
at once. l find it is the best cough
medicine for children because it is
pleasant to take. They do not object
to taking it, writes Mrs. Lafayette
Tuck, Homer City. Pa. This remedy
contains no opium or other narcotic,
and may be given to a child as con-
fidently as to an adult. Sold by all
dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
Should Have 81 gns at Depot.

No one who is often at the trains
can avoid noticing how often travel
ers ask if the depot section is the
main business part of Ashland. Many
go away with the impression that it
is. Would it not be possible to erect
signs calling attention to the fact
that the business section is quar-
ter of a mile distant? While not
criticising that section it is by no
means all of Ashland and care should
be taken to impress this fact upon
travellers. CITIZEN.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
Remarkable Cure of Croup.

Last winter when my little boy
had Group l got him bottle OF
Chamberlain Cough Remedy.
honestly believe it saved his life, y
writes Mrs. ]. B. Cook, Indiana, Pa
at cut the phlegm and relieved his
coughing spells. l am most grateful
for what this remedy has done for
him" For sale by all dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27

declarative of the fact that by perse-
verance in well-doing we are, edu-
-cationally speaking, strictly in it"
in the possession of an up-to-date
Normal, for all time to come.
November "a, 1913.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27

William Bayard Hale is another of
them literary cusses," yet he might
be good diplomatist in dealing with
semi-barbarians.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
Old Soldier
Conquers Eczema
After Hospital and Doctors Treatments
Fail, Zemo Does the Good Work.
It Will Do It For You.
Get a acc Bottle Today and Prove 1t.

Tortured by burning. itching eczema.
with doctors unable to cure him. this OLD
war veteran won another victory and con.
duered his trouble with this remarkable
remedy-zemo. Read his letter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-27
THEPEOPLE'S FORUM

dedicated people for the discussion of pub
general information Articles
Unite of writer must
Personal Criticism
the expressions OF the
only, m of the Tdings
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-11
CHILD MANGLED BY TROLLEY
OPERATED BY HER FATHER
Girl Steps I'm Path of Car After
Handing Lunch to Her

Philadelphia, Pa. August 10.-A few
minutes after she had handed her father
his lunch, nine-ycar old Rcba Fletcher,
OF 2o4l South Third street. was struck
and probably fatally injured last night
by the car on which her father was
tho motorman. She was taken to st.
Agnes Hospital. suffering from a frac-
turcd skull. and is believed to be dying.
The father is patient OF the Same
hospital. and is in a serious condition
from the effects OF the shock.
According to the story told the police
by the father. who is n motorman on a
work car. the little girl carried his
lunch to him last night as usual. Ho
stopped for her at Twenty third street
and snyder Avenue. After she had
given him the basket containing tho
food the girl started across the street
In front Of the car. Fletcher did not
see her and threw on the power. AS
the car started forward he felt tho
shock of the collision as IL struck tho
girl, and he hurriedly threw on tho
brakes.
Fletcher did not know what had hap
pened until he started to get off the
car. When lie saw the form of his
child lying close To the tracks he col
lapsed. An ambulance was summoned
and both the father and daughter were
hurried 10 st. Agnes's Hospital.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-11
Typical Southern Democrat, He
Is Enthusiastic Over His
Appointment.

New York. August lO.-Anxious to
take up his work. and confident that
he Will enjoy every phase of Central
American life, Major L. J. Halo left
New York yesterday morning on board
the Pastores. OF the United Fruit Line.
for Costa Rica, TO which country he
has been appointed United states min
lister.
TO see Major Hale and TO judge his
ase. even after half an hours CONVEX
sition, would be an almost Impossible
task. for he appears to be not more
than hfty, yet he tells OF having
stopped at the old Astor House in 1874
The major Is seventy four years old.
and Is of tho second generation to own
the Fayetteville Observer, of Fayctte-
Vile. y. c., sub.
Though his extensive travel has done
much to obliterate the twang from his
speech, ii seems only to have heigh-
tened the courtly Southern touch of his
manners. He was in New York one
day. and during that time n reporter
talked with him
IL was difficult TO persuade the majo
that he was TO be the subject of con
versation, but after many attempts he
finally confessed 10 having been United
states consul at Manchester. Eng. for
four years from 1855 to 1889 So ac-
tive had he been in the service of his
government that he soon after returned
as the United states commissioner for
the Manchester ship Canal, in which
Office he bent his energies toward In
crcasinE the use OF the English water
way. Before his return. however,
Major Hale served az one OF the vice
presidents of the Congress on Inter-
national Navigation. which then met at
ii time when the Nicaraguan Canal
scheme was being pushed.
But North Carolina and the Demo-
cratic party then claimed the major
for their own. and during the interval
or almost twenty years Major Hale 4
part In Southern politics has been
neither small nor to little effect
Il believe | hold n sort OF n record
as far ms Democratic conventions go"
he confessed, II have been n delegate
at-!arGe at tive national conventions
Major Hale was one OF the seven
men who framed the original draft Of
the platform OF the 1896 Chicago CON
Vcntion.
I'VE were criticized right and left
then and since he said, but ! notice
that most Of the policies we laid down
have since been adopted or are on
their way TO recOgnition."
In 1898 tho late Grover Cleveland
offered Major Hale the post Of minister
then having been created. but the pub
Usher OF the Fayetteville Observer re-
fused the place.
There was too much to be done ut
home" he said, but when President
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-11
God bless YOU and the rest OF tn,
family. Pray for me"
HUNS AUTO OVER BANDIT.
Finnter Held Up, Starts Cur md
Crushcs Armed Robber.

Chester, :. C.. August lo.-An un-
identified highwayman is in the hospi-
tai here with probably fatal INJURIES
which he received when he vas run
over by an automobile driven by w. r.
Ferguson, wealthy planter. whom he
tried TO rob.
AS Mr. Ferguson was motoring near
Great Falls he was stopped IT lonely
place By two men. They demanded
that he give UP his money and val
uabies AS Mr.. Ferguson showed a
disposition 10 refuse their demand, one
Of tho men walked in front OF the car,
pointed revolver at the planter, and
told him that If lac dared to run his
car another foot lie would he killed.
Mr.. Ferguson parleycd with the rob
bers for a few minutes and when the
man in front OF the car was off guard,
he threw on all the speed his autono-
bile could command. and in second
the highwayman mad been thrown TO
the ground and run over. The other
robber ran away, leaving his compan-
ion on the ground Realizing that the
man had been badly injured. MIR Fer
guson returned and summoned ply
stefan. The robber was brought here
and placed In 4 hospital
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-11
WILL IN FAREWELL NOTE.
Letter Left by Suicide In Philadelphia
Admitted To prOhntc.

Philadelphia, August l0.--A letter
written by William H. Henderson, Of
55l5 Girard Avenue. announcing his in
tention TO take his life. was admitted
to probate as the Will of the writer.
Henderson. early on tho morning of
August was found unconscious in a
lot with gunshot wounds in the head
and body, and died soon aftcrwnrd. He
left an estate valued at ABOUT $500.
The letter probatcd as his Will was
addressed TO his father, and read
II can't stand my misery any longer.
have been suffering mentally and
physically for twenty years. Only my
self knows how much Don't worry
about ne Surely the one above can't
or Will not add TO my misery and mis-
fortune. am going TO end my life.
When you get this letter / expect to
be dead. want YOU to take care Of
my belongings and divide them equally
between yourself, my mother and Miss
Hood. ] am sorry TO do this for the
sake OF the family and my friends.
but have felt like doing il probably
hundreds OF times, due To extreme de-
preston, and ! feel | must. | feel it
better done now than 10 get married
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-11
FIGHT is EXPECTED
Printers Likely to Split on Report of
Claws Committed"

Nashville. Tenn, August lO--More
than 400 delegates and visitors 10 the
international Typographical Union
which convenes here morrow at the
state Capitol for a six days session
made the trip by automobile this af-
tornoon 10 the Hermitage, tho former
home OF Andrew Jackson. Last night
the visitors held n get together"
meeting 1t a local hall Tomorrow
the welcoming program will be given.
consisting OF addresses by representa-
tives Of tho state. city and local labor
organizations With responses. The
laws committee has been In session
for the past week. and it Is expected
that Its report may precpitate IA fight
between the Observation-Disclosures ana
iadministrationists Delegations
from Calgary. Alberta and Providence,
u. l.. are already here working for
tho convention in 1914.