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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
CITY COUNCIL MEETING A QUIET ONE.
LITTLE INTEREST MANIFESTED AND DOVE OF PEACE HOVERED OVER
ROUTINE WORK OF CITY LEGISLATORS

For almost the first time since the
present council took office there
were vacant chairs around the coun-
Gil tables Tuesday evening when the
city dads gathered in regular session.
Councilman Ashcraft was en- route
for California and Councilman Bea-
yer was also absent from the meet
ing.
The report Of the electric light
fund showed it to be overdrawn
$1,249.02. This, Councilman Gun
ningham stated, was because the
general fund owed the electric light
fund $2,O99 for unpaid street light
ing. This is in addition to the $3.50
paid monthly for street lighting.
The payroll of the men employed
TO put in the water main on Euclid
avenue was read and ordered paid,
that the men may not be obliged to
wait longer for their pay, the work
having been completed
The ghost of the Anderson ditch
controversy came up again and was
only partially laid The papers had
been sent to California and the mat
ter could not be laid before all the
councilmen, said Councilman Gowdy,
but that there had been no desire to
keep the public from knowing the
terms of the settlement. The re-
corder and mayor were instructed to
sign the articles of agreement and
the bill of Burns & Seager for 500
attorneys fees in the case was al
lowed.
The street committee reported ia
vorably upon the petition asking that
limerick avenue from Iowa street to
Main street be opened, and the re-
port was adopted.
The special committee on a motor
cycle reported that they had an offer
of a new one from Jordan Bros. at
a discount from regular prices.
Mayor Johnson stated that Council
man Ashcraft was going to look into
the matter while in San Francisco
and action was postponed by unani-
nous consent.
Recorder Gillette was given au-
thority to transfer funds to Sewer
District No. 10 to meet interest due,
and also to pay interest and princi-
pal on certain sewer bonds.
Recorder Gillette reported that
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller of Beach street
were unable TO pay water rent and
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
NO TELEPHONE STRIKE
All Danger of Strike of Electrical
Workers of Pacific T. & T.
Co. Averted.

San Francisco, March 1S.-The
controversy between the Pacific Dis
trict Council of Electrical Workers
and the Pacific States Telephone
Company over the questions of a
wage increase has been settled and
all danger of strike is now averted.
The vote of the A. locals represent
ing about $500 men of Oregon, Cal
ifornia, Washington, Idaho, Nevada
and Arizona, was canvassed at the
San Francisco headquarters last
night and the result announced to-
day showed that a considerable ma
jority of the electrical workers fa-
Vored acceptance Of the company's
effer of a daily wage increase of. 25
cents, in lieu of the 50-cent increase
demanded.
This action was largely influenced
by the fact that the company agreed
to include five more crafts in the
agreement which otherwise would
not have received salary increase.
These five are the rackmen, power
men, batterymen, testboard men, re-
peatermen, and cable splicers' help
ers They will receive a raise of rs
cents day
The eight crafts listed in the old
agreement which are in line for the
increase are the linemen, cable splic-
ers, switchboard men, installers, ca
BILE testers, repairmen, troublemen
and inspectors. All of these except
the cable splicers will receive 81 per
day over the old wage of 1915 per
day. The cable splicers, who for
merly received $3.50 per day, will
now get $4.75. 1t is also understood
that every other person working for
the corporation, whether in the ca
pacity of clerk or otherwise, will
receive the 25 cents increase.
The new agreement dates from
January 19, 1913, and will be in
force until January 1, 1914. All
electrical workers who come under
it. except repeatermen, will receive
back pay from January 1 up to the
present time. The agreement be-
comes operative on and after April
/, 1913.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
A. H. S. is CHAMPION
Ashland High School Boys Won and
Girls Lost to Medford at Bas-
ketball Last Night.

The Ashland high school team is
not only the acknowledged cham
pion team of the Rogue River Val
ley, but by its recent defeat of Dali
las also champion OF the state. The
boys took Medford into camp last
night by score of 33 to 13, and the
down-valley bunch had no chance to
kick on the referee, the score being
so decided and our boys so complete
ly outplaying theia. The Medford
girls defeated the Ashland girls by a
close score.
There was good music between
halves by the high school quartet,
one song, We've Got Medford's s
Goat" being an especial hit AS the
boys sang a youngster drove out of
the wings with a goat attached to a
care, and the crowd went wild
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

that the city had been paying it free
prior to January /, 1913, and rec
commended that the same course be
continued. The matter was referred
to the water and light committee.
Allen Davis. 113 First street, reg
istered a kick because some of his
neighbors had not been compelled to
put in cement sidewalks, while he
had been. His complaint was re-
ferTej to the street committee.
Several small matters on which
complaint had been received were
brought up by Mayor Johnson. In
some instances the action of the
street commissioner had already OBJ
waited the trouble, and in others
they were referred to the appropri-
ate committee.
A. petition from certain residents
on the Boulevard between Iowa street
and Palm avenue was presented ask
ing that skating be prohibited on the
/ sidewalks of that section. Mr.. Beal-
er, who circulated the petition, was
present and voiced the kick. Mayor
Johnson took the matter under ad-
visement.
F. M. Worthington of Palm ave-
nue. reported that there was a row
of trees in the center of the alley
back of his place and asked permis-
sion to cut them down so that the
public would not be compelled to
trespass upon his property in order
to get past. Referred to the street
committee.
Two ordinances we're passed under
suspension of the rules, one fixing
the salary of the city treasurer at
$50 per month and one fixing the
salaries of the chief of police, assist
ant chief of police, water commits
sioner and city plumber, at the
amounts heretofore fixed by motion.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

nei8hbor and friend of Mr.. and Mrs
b. w, Talcott, and when Mr.. Hodg-
son introduced the gentlemen yester-
day, it was a mutual surprise, neith-
er knowing the other was in this
part of the country. Messrs. Brush
and Talcott were neighbors as school
boys in Usage, Iowa, in the seventies
and early eighties of the last CEN
tury, and had not met for over fif-
teen years. 1t is needless to say they
did some tall notwithstanding and re-
calling mutual friends.
Mr.. Brush, by the way, is some
thing of motor tourist. In a nine
weeks trip last summer he covered
many thousand miles in a Ford
roadster, visiting thirteen states and
two foreign countries. He left Los
Angeles and crossed the mountains
by the southern route, gvisitin
Juarez, Mexico, and then up through
the Mississippi valley to North Da-
kota, crossing into Canada at Portal,
and returning via Usage, Iowa, and
other points in the middle west.
Had he been able to secure anoth-
er man to accompany them, Mr..
Brush and DR.. Stoddard would have
made this trip from Los Angeles in
his REQ car.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
DRIVING THE KIDDIES OFF THE EARTH
WHILE The WORLD is STUDYING CHILD PROBLEM CHILDREN ARE
DEPRIVED OF MANY OF The OLD time PLEASURES

Did you every stop to think that
the so-called civilization of the twen-
tieth century is largely a farce; that
much Of the present progress is. crab
like? Take the child question. for
instance. The entire mass of the in
tellect of specialists and busybodies
is devoted to it, We are told that
the principal business of this gem
GRAFTON is the rearing OF the next. f."
Yet what is the result?
The present generation believes it
is socially if not morally wrong for
girl ito go out TO housework or a
young American to have to swing an
ak or WELD a shovel for wages. Nor
is this the worst of the present ten
dency. The modern boy has been
driven from his Fairgrounds.
When the writer was a boy the
school ground in the Village was the
village playground The youngsters
rushed there just as soon as the
morning tasks We're completed and
played there till dark at night. 1t
was their place to play ball, mar
bles, prisoners base, "pom-pom-pull-
away hop scotch, etc But in this
twentieth century day of agitation
for beautiful school grounds and of
set rules that every child must go
directly home from school and can
appear on the school ground only
just in time to avoid being ta. dy,
what is the child to do?
How many parents in Ashland
have a yard in which they would
allow their boys to play ball or build
tents and play Indian? The front
yard must be a lawn and the back
yard, if there is any, a garden.
Is it any wonder that the children
hailed with delight the chance to
skate on the sidewalk? 1t is almost
the only recreation which they can
pursue in Ashland OF course they
can wander up and down the paths
of our beautiful parks, and roam the
woods, but both boys and gipls are
gregarious, they must have place
to get together.
Without doubt it is annoying to
have boisterous set of youngsters
in the street in front of your house.
but do not fail to look back, you
mothers and fathers who are kick
ing, and remember how you played
'old cat tag, etc, in the streets
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
Booker Washington, Noted Negro Educator Who Will Speak
in the Methodist Episcopal Church Saturday Evening
E. A. SHERWIN BETTER SEVERAL ARE INDICTED
Cecil A. Townsend. John w. Walker
and Others Held BY Grand
Jury This Week.

Chief Oien returned Tuesday noon
from Jacksonville, where he went as
a witness in criminal case before
the grand jury. He reports the in
dictment of Cecil 4. Townsend on a
charge of forgery, of John w. Wal
ker on charge of raising a check
and of Kelly, The bookkeeping bur-
glar' Of Medford. Kelly's case was
uniqueEin that 9te kept books on his
hurgft = setthss'down the time and
place and itemizing the goods stolen
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

The members OF the w. c. T. U.
will give program of unusual i'm
portance at the home of Mrs. A. S.
Kellar, $50 Allison street, Tuesday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, March %.
Many problems confronting the
mother in the rearing of her child
will be discussed. while music will
vary the program. Visitors will be
welcomed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
To the Ladies of Ashland.

We wish to call your attention to
the fact that the Royal Bakery has
been reopened with Mr.. Fisher, the
well-known baker, in charge of the
baking, H. H. Cummings having pur-
chased this bakery from Mr.. Mold
If your groceryman does not han.
die the Royal Bakery bread, call at
the Royal Bakery, where a supply is
always kept. We also serve short
orders.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
Well-KnOwn Ashlander Recovering
From Severe Attack of Nose
Bleed.

E. A. Sherwin, who had a close
call from death from nose bleed last
Friday evening, IS now able to be
dressed and to sit up most of the
time. A large circle of friends in
Ashland and elsewhere, throughout
Oregon and northern California are
glad to hear of his improvement and
hope to soon see him out on the
street,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
POOLROOM MOVED.
Depot Billiard Parlors Moving to
Hotel Oregon.

The depot billiard parlors are be-
ing removed to the room in the
Hotel Oregon formerly occupied by
the Staples Realty Company, They
expect to be ready to reopen for bust
ness in the new quarters about Sat
urday, and will have a pleasant re-
sort.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
Chautanaua Park Club Sale.

The ladies of the Chautauqua
Park Club will hold a cooked goods
sale at Simpsons hardware store Sat
urday. Easter eggs and other Easter
dainties on sale. Also aprons and
fancy work.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
To My Customers ana Others,

/ have moved my jewelry store
into the handsome storeroom in the
Elks building and am again ready
for business. I will give 20 per cent
discount on all goods during March.
Come in and see my new store and
take advantage of the saving.
R. J. SMITH, Jeweler.
Elks Building, Ashland. Stiff
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
Yes, there will be skating sa

Yes, there will be skating Sat
urday evening at the Natatorium.
There will be music by the Porter
Orchestra. Admission is free.
Everybody welcome. Skating: La
dies 25c, men and boys 35c. Satur-
day afternoon from / to o'clock
skating will be BE only, for all.
1t~
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

A method of hardening gold and
silver by introducing a small amount
of titanium as an alloy has been pat
ented by a New York corporation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

Don't forget that there will be
skating with music at the Natator-
ium Saturday night. Ladies Csc,
men Csc. Afternoon only 15c for
all. it,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

British emigration is in the direc-.
tion o. Canada and Australia.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

The salary of the president of the
United States is $1,000 a year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
FIRST WAGER OF
THE SEASON MADE
Brattleboro and Bellows Falls Support
ers Put Up Money On The
First Game
Especial to The Reformer.)

BELLOWS FALLS, May D. Base
ball interest here is as great if not
greater than any previous year so
early in the season. The subscription
committee to raise funds for the Twin
State league association have raised
about $500 and the field hardly has
been begun to be solicited. Fans who
never have subscribed are putting their
names on the lists and among them are
several young fellows who are
subscribing to the amount of ST, and
to some of them that amount is fairly
large. But Bellows Falls wants base
ball and is going to have it.
Last evening a Brattleboro travel,
ing man and a local business man met
i'll the Hotel Windham lobby and the
talk naturally. turned to baseball and
the respective superiority of one town
over another in regard to supporting
team and in other ways. In less
than five minutes rolls of bills were
pulled from the takers pockets and
in two minutes more the first wager of
the season of 1913 was made. The Bel
lows Falls fan was so firmly convinced
that the local team would be winner
that he wagered the visiting sport
that Bellows Falls would win the first
home game of the season. He did not
know who the visitors would be but
was willing to take a chance. When
informed that Brattleboro would open
here June 20 both men raised their
bets, bought smokes for the crowd and
several travelling men from the Iara-
er cities, who were sitting in the lob
by, acknowledged that the Twin Sac
league fans had some sporting blood
and began to plan to sec some of the
games i'll the circuit this summer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13

without run being scored on him,
but that his record is really 46 and
that has been beaten already by Wal
ter Johnson.
Vermont academy defeated Keenc
high school in Keenc Saturday 22-5.
Each team made 10 hits, but Kecnc
rolled up 10 errors to four for the
visitors. The features were the all
around playing of Magnuson, the hit
ting of Coulter and steal home by
Staples of kecne.
Vail of Middlebury famed Is of
the Norwich men, and not a hit was
scored off him except one drive by
Munsell to the outfield that might
have been handled by sharp playing,
but despite this showing Norwich won
- in 10 innings, errors by the Mid
dlebury inielders turning the victory
to Norwich. For seven innings not a
Norwich man saw first base. Murray
held Middlebury to two hits. Onslow
Thompson PLAYED center field for Nor
wieh, having three put out and no er-
rOrs.
\ new four-team league with HoOsick
Falls, n. ", North Adams and Adams,
Mass, and Bennington, VT, has been
completed and a schedule arranged for
six weeks The season is to open May
~. David Shea of Florence, Mass,
who was with Bennington year ago
will have charge of the Vermont team;
Allen McRobbie of New York viii be
at the head of the North Adams club
Martin Phelan of Albany, former
| Tri State league player, will manage
Hoosick Falls and "Cy' Ferry OF
Pittsfeld will conduct affairs at Adj
ans.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
Sporting Notes.

Brooklyn looks fair to lead the Ma
tional league before the week ends.
The Boston Nationals now lead
Pittsburg, the team that was to be n
pennant contender, in the league stand
ing.
Rudolph, Boston 5 new pitcher. show
ed yesterday. Incidentally he is some
hitter with two hits out of two
chances. ...-.
Manager Stallings of the Braves Sc
cured BriscOe Lord, an outfielder once
with the Athletics, in trade for Pitcher
MeTigue.
\ Cincinnati sporting writer claims
that all of the hoodoos that have no
desire to stick around Frank Chance
have wished themselves on Joe Tinker.
Olson of the Cleveland club and Nun
amaker Of the Red Sox have each
been fined $25 for being the leaders in
the fist battle between members of the
two teams last week.
The Highlanders are better winners
away from home that at home. Chance
appears to be in the way OF getting his
team to working for it is no Joke to
down Cleveland just at this time.
Meanwhile featured strongly yester-
| day, as he has all the season, with the
Braves. His triple drove in the nee
essary runs and his fielding prevented
| opponents runs. What more can one
| man do? a
Cleveland is up against it. Manager
Birmingham, sliding in to second
| broke bone in his instep and frac-
| tured the lower end of his tibia La
| joie is out of the game with a broken
| bone in each hand.
Cobb got into the game yesterday
and his slide home and sacrifice fly
were instrumental in defeating the Re-
Sox, who ought to have won the game
Joe Wood had four runs scored off hin
in the last two innings.
The Bellows Falls Twin State man
| agement is said to be dickering witt
Tommy Devine, the old Fall Rive
player, to manage the sulphites thi
summer, while Keene is negotiatin
with Bill Luby, who ran the North
ampton team last year. .
1t is now claimed that the record
show that Doc White of Chieag
never pitched SO consecutive inning
4
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
ARRESTED AT LAST.
James A. Curry, Who Crippled Tuck
er" Genest, Arrested for Assault.

James A. Curry, the second basemap
OF the Holyoke team, who Jumped on
Wilfred H. Genest, then with the
Springfield, Mass, team in a game
at Holyoke July 80 last year and broke
one leg In two places, was arrested yes
terday IN Holyoke after the game be-
tween Holy6ke and Hartford and
placed under $500 bonds for his ap
pearance in district court there this
morning. Bail was furnished by Own
er Clarkin of the Hartford club with
which Curry is playing this year after
the club owner had paid fine of 800
imposed before Curry could get back
into ball playing in that league.
The assault took place in the seventh
inning of the game, Curry letting
low throw go by him and rushing UP
to the second base as Gnest slid in
and jumped with his spiked shoes ON
Genesis right leg, breaking the bone
below the knee in two places. Curry
left Holyoke before a warrant could be
sworn out against him and did, not APP
pear IN that section again until the
season opened. Genest is still on
clutches.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
BRATTLEBoRo AT HOME.
Here Are Days You Will Want to be

According to the baseball schedule
that has been adopted by the Twin
State league, Brattleboro is due to
play "A games at home One Of these
will be on Monday, nine on TUESDAYS,
two on Wednesdays, one on Thurs
day, five on Fridays and six on Satur-
days. Here is the table of home
games:
Wednesday, June -, Bellows Falls.
Saturday, June IS, Northampton.
Tuesday, July l, Keene.
Thursday, July ,, Northampton.
Friday, July 4, p. M, Northampton.
Tuesday, July s, Keene.
Friday, July Il, Bellows Falls
Tuesday, July Is, Northampton.
Tuesday, July %, Keene
Saturday, July %, Bellows Falls.
Tuesday, July %, Northampton.
Friday, August l, Keene.
Tuesday, August 5, Bellows Falls.
Friday, August s, Keene.
Tuesday, August -, Bellows Falls
Saturday, August Is, Northampton.
Tuesday, August 10, Keene
Saturday, August %, Bellows Falls.
Tuesday, August %, Northampton.
Saturday, August 80, Bellows Falls.
Monday, September l, p. M, North
ampton.
Wednesday, September ;, Bellows
Falls.
Friday, September ;, Keene.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
PRINCETON CREW WINNER.
Defeated Harvard and Pennsylvania i'll
Postponed Race on Charles River.

Princeton, after long stern chase,
pulled ahead of Harvard in the last
three-quarters of mile of the mile
and seven-eights race on the Charles
river at Boston yesterday and won a
well earned race by nearly a length
over the Crimson while Pennsylvania
was three lengths behind Harvard.
Princeton got a poor start but over
hauled Pennsylvania at the halfway
mark and when the crews came out
from under Harvard bridge Princeton
had wrested the lead from Harvard and
gradually drew away until a length
in advance at the finish line. This was
the first victory won by Princeton in
a triangular aquatic contest since row
ing was resumed there four years ago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
THIEVES Disseminated.
Took Best Panama Hats from Case
Consigned to Charles A. McRae.


A few days ago when Charles \.
McRac opened a case of hats from the
Knox company of Brooklyn, he found
empty boxes that had conained Panama
hats to the value of about $40. Hats
of a cheaper grade were not desired by
those who had opened the case and
extracted therefrom the highest priced
form of head covering cultivated by
those who can afford it. He says that
this is by no means the first time eases
have come to him which have been
opened in transit and goods taken from
them. Last year case which had con
tanned several especially fine Panama
hats had not only been opened and
most of the contents extracted, but
the thieves had not even taken the
trouble to replace some of the boards
they had ripped off.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
S. S. WATSON, Clerk
MOnOtype Keyboard
Operator

We offer an exceptional opportunity
to the right girl who is willing to
work. The Monotype keyboard is ar
ranged like a typewriter keyboard
and familiarity with the typewriter
keyboard is essential. Shorthand is
not required. We will give instruc-
ton free of charge by a competent
operator and will pay for the girl S
time while she is learning.
If interested, see the superintendent
at once.
THE VERMONT PRINTING co.
American Binding Annex.
Y BRATTLEBoRo. 3sc
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
N RATIONAL League.
YESTERDAYS GAMES.
National League

Batteries-Rucker and Miller; John
son, Brown and Clarke, King.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13

"For the lands sake-use Bowker's
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and
those who till it. Z" 'aS'e
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
NOTICE
PUBLIC SERVICE
COMMISSION
HEARING
IN RE
BRIDGE STREET 0VERPASS
BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT q

There will be a public hearing before
the Public Service Commission mt the
Brooks House. Brattleboro, Vt. May
-, 1913 at > o'clock in the afternoon,
on the petition of the selectmen of
the Town of Brattleboro asking that
the clearance of the overpass at
Bridge St. be not more than eighteen
feet from the top of the rail All per-
sons interested are hereby notified
that they may appear and be heard.
BY order of the Public Service
Commission.