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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

er girls of Ashland-the beautiful
Oregonian city in which l now live,
and which l hope one day you may
visit-could have a finger in the pie
in these contests and, good-naturedly,
show these Britishers what Yankee
cleverness can do. am sure that if
Ashland men and women can carry
off prizes almost everywhere for fine
fruit and vegetables, her bright girls
would by no means be backward in
winning doll prizes if given only half
chance.
l shall take particular notice how
this doll show turns out in London
and let you know the result. Some
how I seem to think that Australia
and New Zealand will carry off most
of the prizes, because they are such
up-to-date countries.
Here's three cheers for the COM
peting dolls!
Lovingly your grandfather,
H. G. G.
Ashland, Ore, Nov. 4, 1918.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

ter 40 cents; eggs 40 cents. We got
ton of coal layed down here for
$12.15. One day 1 met a Mexican
with some melons. l priced a small
one, 60 cents, so l lost my appetite
for melon at once. The first school
house in this vicinity is just being
built. The walls are of adobe brick
We had the pleasure of seeing them
made. The work was done by three
Mexicans. One mixed the mud, one
wheeled it to the yard in a wheel
barrow, and one moulded them. The
man who mixed the mud pulled off
his shoes, rolled up his pants above
his knees and waded right into the
pit, using big hoe such as is COM
monty used mixing mortar. He had
baled straw to mix with the mud.
The bricks are 16 by "a inches and
four inches thick, so it took a wheel
barrow load to make two bricks. The
moulds were laid on the ground and
filled from the wheelbarrow, instead
of being off born, as is the case in
making burnt brick. These brick
lay two or three days and then they
are set up on edge, and in about ten
days are ready for the wall We
thought of the children of Israel as
they made brick like these under the
Egyptian taskmasters. Old Pharaoh
got mad because Moses meddled and
made them go and gather their own
straw. These buildings are not very
inviting in appearance, but are fine
building for hot climate, and with
Mexican labor can be built cheaper
than wooden buildings, especially
where building material is expensive,
as it is here. Common dimension
lumber $35 a thousand. When one
prices things here he can easily get
the impression that all the merchants
are not here for their health.
1t has been very dry here at Cam
bray and there seems little moisture
in the ground. During the day the
sun is so nice and warm that we can
not realize that we are approaching
winter. And yet the nights are cool.
Two nights ago ice froze three
eighths of an inch thick in a vessel
in the chicken yard. 1 do not be-
lieve Ashland could beat that much.
We always hail the Tidings with
delight, and feel what a loss were
we deprived of our home papers.
d. l.. GLENN.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

can be seen here. The picture is
simply beyond description. 1 had
occasion a few nights ago to be out
star-gazing about 4 O'Clock in the
morning, and it seemed to me never
saw the sky so clear or the stars SO
bright, and l said sure this would be
a fine place for an observatory. The
dipper hung in the east, the handle
downward. 1t called to mind that I
met man not long since who told
me that the dipper swung round the
North Star every "a hours. I
laughed and he says I sleep by my
north window and do | not see it
every night? Astronomers tell us
that we are 50 millions of miles from
the sun and that we are moving at
the rate of one thousand miles a
minute, and yet it takes us 365 days,
six hours and some seconds to get
around it. And yet these stars are
multiplied times farther apart than
the distance from us to the sun.
There is little here to obstruct the
view. We turn our horse out to
Craze each morning and if he is with
in mile of home we can easily see
him.
We entered a piece of land as a
homestead. Are two and a quarter
miles from the station and can see
the trains coming and going most
every hour in the day. So it does
not seem much like frontier life.
AS many of our friends know we
are here in chief part for my health,
having for many years been afflicted
with asthma. / did up my medicine
before l left home and have had no
occasion to unpack it.
We have a friend J. L. Bear, of
Janesville, Wis, who also has been
great sufferer. Mr.. and Mrs. Bear
are on the claim just north of us,
and he has now been able to leave
off medicine for the first time in five
or six years. There is hope for the
consumptive if they are able to reach
this place, as it is conceded by the
medical fraternity that there is no
climate on earth better calculated to
heal
The two months since leaving Ash
land have been very busy ones with
us. We have built three-roomed
cottage, bungalow style. and made
other improvements, so we consider
ourselves costly housed 1t may be
more of question as to something
to eat. We find it quite different
from home, where we could drop in
at Minis or Holmes and find about
everything heart could wish. Irish
potatoes are 2h and 3 cents a
pound; sweet potatoes cents; but
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

that some lady should represent Ash
land at all of our ladies' state con-
ventions.
The Oregon Mothers the first
state in the Union to establish a pa
rental educational bureau, and will
soon have ready a correspondence
course by mail.
Two of the Parent-Teacher circles
in Portland are serving scent lunch
es at the school houses and making
it pay.
The scramble for office she said
reminded her of Wall street when
she was in the city of New York.
They organized Parent-Teacher cir
cles the day before and picked up
members on the street cars, so as to
enlarge their number of delegates to
be able to vote the one they wanted
for president.
Mrs. Tate, who was with us, was
elected honorary president.
The meetings and social meetings
throughout the convention were
largely attended. Prominent men
and women in the northern part of
the state addressed them along lines
of child welfare.
At Washington, d. c., the educa-
tional bureau will advise all county
superintendent in the different
states to organize Parent-Teacher
circles in connection with the
schools, thus demonstrating that the
Parent-Teacher Circle movement has
come to stay and will fill the miss
ing link so long needed between the
home and school life.
A social hour followed and new
members added to the roll.
Refreshments were served in the
library by the committee of enter
tainment.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
LETTER TO A GRANDDAUGHTER.
This is How an Ashland Grandfather
Interests the Little Folks.

my Dear Granddaughter: This
little letter is all for your dear self,
and it as about dolls-yes, dear little
dolls, that give so much pleasure to
you and other good little girls.
Grandma and have seen your
dolls and we know how lovely they
are with their sweet. pretty faces and
fine clothes, and we remember, too,
that you have name for each, but
hardly think that Cynthia (your
grandma's name) is one of them.
Well! You know from looking at
your maps that the British empire is
made up of countries to be found in
all parts of the world; and now
comes word that steps are being TAX
en- to have a great doll show the COM
ing Christmas, at London, England,
and many prizes are to be given for
the best dressed and incest looking
dolls that may be sent from India,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
South Africa and other parts, to show
what good little girls can do in max
ing dresses, hats, shawls and knitted
shoes for hundreds-well, | may per-
haps say thousands-of dolls of all
shapes and sizes, and these dear little
Jewels, as natural as life, will have
10 travel many, many miles, without
being seasick / know, over rough
seas, day and night. before they reach
the great city where they are to be
seen. Every doll is to have name
of its own, and number with the
name of the country from whence it
set out on it's trip. No two dolls,
think, will look quie alike either in
shape of their faces or the style of
their dresses, because each separate
country has, no doubt, it's own way
of doing things.
No English, Scotch. Irish or Welsh
children are allowed to compete, but,
just the same, they will take great
interest in all that takes place.
How l wish that the good and clev-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

is still very bad condition existing
there. On October 9 there was a
horse hauled out there and it laid
there for nine days before it was
burned, and then only half burned
up, and on the 18th another horse
was brought out there and killed and
rolled into the pit on top of the half
burned one, and only enough fire
built on it to burn the hair off, and
then left it for us poor, unfortunate
country folk to inhale the rest into
our lungs. Very healthy perfume?
The state board of health shall be
notified shortly il the present condi-
tion exists long. If some of the city
officials would visit the dump ground
they would find that | have not ex-
aggerated the matter any.
The neighbors as a whole are
ready to stand together for better
canditions.
MRS. w. A. COOPER.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
Parent Teacher
Circle Meeting

The regular monthly meeting OF
the Parent-Teacher Circle on the
East Side was held Monday after
noon. The first number on the pro-
gram was a paper, Swat the Fly"
by Mrs Davis, which impressed her
hearers with the necessity of more
effective crusade than we have had
heretofore. This was followed by
Professor Milan, who told of the ed
ucation the university was giving
along these lines and a simple and
effective way by which they could be
exterminated, and. Professor Young
of Eugene had promised in the spring
to come and assist in establishing the
new methods that have been worked
out.
The president, Mrs. G. ]. Brady,
gave a very instructive account of
the state convention held in Portland
She first spoke of Mr.. George King
of Medford, who was in the northern
part of the state, taking the time
and expense to be present on Friday
afternoon to help push the normal
resolutions. She succeeded in obtain
ing the floor and having the resolu-
tions adopted. Mrs. Brady was the
only delegate south of Eugene
through the convention, and for that
reason received special attention from
members. She found the ladies ex-
tremely ignorant in regard to needs
of southern Oregon. Some of them
had never heard that we had a nor
NAL school in Ashland, so it is evident
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
A Letter From New Mexico.

Cambray, N. NJ, Oct. 90, 1913.
Editor Tidings, Ashland, Ore. Dear
Sir: Many of our friends in and
around Ashland seem to want to hear
from us, and since we cannot write
to all in private way will be CRATE
full for a little space in your paper.
We left Ashland the 26th of Septem-
Der and the third day at p. m.
landed in Cambray, $50 miles east of
Los Angeles. Cambray is only sta
ton on the Southern Pacific line
from Los Angeles to New Orleans,
but it is in the midst of a beautiful
plain of considerable magnitude, so
vast that the coming up of the sun
and the going down is much like that
out on the ocean. 1t drops quickly
out of sight and affords very little
twilight. Mrs. Glenn and l have sat
down to our supper while the sun was
shining and before we could finish
would have to light the lamp.
l am sure that in all my travels |
have never seen such rich and glow
ing colors in the clouds and sky as
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

No. 123-Nne-room house. pantry bath and cooler
Lot 1OOx13O, on paved street. Fruit berries.
CLOCKS to high school, blocks to East Side school, All
paving assessments to be paid Price $33OO Half
cash, terms balance
No. 114-One of the finest located homes Ashland,
blocks from business; large lot with fruit;
exclusive of bath, pantry, of this
property has spent the alone OOO and we
offer this property at $2,50O
No. ga sx-room house, barn, chicken house and run
All kinds of fruit and berries One acre of ground
This place commands fine view of the city vicinity
Price $4,000. Terms
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

No. 124-Ranch of 11O 2k miles from Rogue
River (Woodville) Good roads, r. F. D. and telephone.
Sixty acres in cultivaton about 80 with
light clearing, be cultivated All rich black subrrigated
loan SOIL About 100 fruit trees, coming into bearing
Small house, other outbuildngs Price $65
$4,000 cash. balance two and three at
per cent interest.
No 1O8-Sevenroom house, plumbing complete Barn,
chicken house and Lot 165X15O. This place is
paved street, close both East Side and high schools
Price $4,000. Terms.
No. 121-Eight-room house, barn. chicken house and
run, woodshed, with of ground, close to high
school. Price $4,000 Terms.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
Kicks on Dump Ground.

Again the city dump ground is i'll
condition almost unbearable by citi-
zens living near it.
After several efforts on my part
to have the matter looked into there
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
Some Long-Felt Wants.

A temper that never gets lost.
Trouble that isn't continually
brewing.
A kind of patience that never
wears out.
A grudge that cannot be paid.
A cement that will mend a broken
promise.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10

The crow is officially declared to
be a rather good sort of a fellow,
after all. And he is a cunning one,
too.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
THEPEOPLE'S FORUM

dedicated people the discussion of pub
diffusion information. Articles
be init to of writer
pany Partisan Personal Criticism
the of the
only, of the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
PROPERTIES

No. 1870 acres, miles from Rogue river; good
roads, r. F. D. and teephone mile from school; all
good red so all fenced with wire; 40 under
cultivation 35 in gran about SO fruit trees family
orchard all kinds of berries; small house. good barn and
ether outbudings; horses, and calf, wagons
rlows cuvators, mower and rake, sprng-tooth and
drag harrows, and all kinds of small tools The entire
place be cultivated if cleared light clearing This
all deep rich red SOIL ideal for Price $4,000; price
includes all articles mentioned above. Terms half cash.
balance in three years per interest.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10

body's business, and it could not
afford to differ with people. We
did not agree with the gentle
man, but we were about to make
up our mind to follow his course.
But, after all, if a newspaper
had no opinions, expressed none,
and just drifted along. patting
every man on the back, be he
right or wrong, ignoring public
questions or failing to take a
stand on them, what would it be
worth to the community?
A leading professional man
said to us few days ago: IF |
was running a newspaper |
would always find how the
majority of the people stood, and
| would invariably get on their
side Well, that would not be
honest. If ii man has opinions
they should be honest, from the
heart, and paper of that kind
would nol be sincere. 1t would
be policy sheet, devoid of that
quality of fixed purpose all men
sooner or later admire.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10

self around just any old way to
get by. BY all means let him
come on. Pemiscot county must
not let the stock run out.
Now read the above over care
fully, and see if you understand
it. Catch the first part of the
paragraph and follow it down to
where the paper, the PortageviIle
Critic, claiming to be democratic,
fought Congressman Joe j. Rus.
sell, the most widely known
democrat in Southeast Missouri.
through two campaigns. The
Critic supported Charlie Grow. Il
republican. Realizing this, then
when we say, "and of course
Jack Averill and all of his friends
will extend him royal welcome
for what he did for Harvey F..
Averill in the election of 1905"
it should be clear that we knew
Mr.. Averill and his friends owed
this newspaper man no good will,
for the Portagcville Critic, a
newspaper published in New
Madrid county, certainly had no
right to fight Harvey f. Averill,
candidate for representative in
PemiScot county, and Averill was
life long democrat, too.
But many people seemed to
think that we were saying the
above as an enemy of Jack Aver
ill-that we werc cOndemning
him and his friends and ciaSsing
them among our enemies. when
the fact is, we have no better
friend than Mr.. Averill, and Mr..
Averill'S : friends are our friends.
We were simply showing the in,
consistency of people who do not
know endeavoring to get another
newspaper man to come to this
town who has always been an
enemy to our town and people
and to our best interests.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10
MEN OF OPINIONS.

We were just about to give up
throw up the sponge and quit,
when, Saturday night, we met
one of the most prominent and
well known men of New Madrid
and PemiScOt counties, and we
asked him if there was not room
in his town for another newSpa-
per. He very promptly inform
ed US that the people keenly felt
the need of another newspaper
one that had opinions and was
not afraid to express them. He
said they had a good paper, in
the hands of good people. but it
was run too much on the plan Of
a mercantile establishment, ca
tering to everybody, and afraid a
few opinions vigorously express
ed might lose it IA little business.
Then we asked why the other pa
per left his town. He said be-
cause it was paper without an
opinion, and there was not room
in his town for two opinionless
papers.
Evidently, this man told the
truth.
We were talking to one of the
above newspaper men a few days
ago, and he said newspaper
could not afford to rake a stand
upon public questions, because,
if it did, it would lose business,
and the newspaper was publish.
ed for everybody, needed every
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10

If law is law and right is right,
and if a man has the right to
live right, do right and ne right,
when he knows is right, and if it
is right to abide by and uphold
the law, then we have been Sc
verely prosecuted for daring to
do the right. Sometimes we
have been almost constrained to
ask: What is right?' Why,
some of the very best people
in town, "preachcr' and lead
ing church" people, a deacon in
the church, church stewards and
Sunday school superintendents,
have condemned us because
we dared to publish the
law, show that it had been volat-
ed, and ask that it be respect
ed, upheld and enforced. They
say: "Oh, well, the people
elected these men; they were the
choice of the people, now let
them have the Offices law
disqualities them, but don't pay
any attention to the law" Well,
we'll, well. Are we to live in a
lawless country? 1t is a danger
Gus thing to tampcr with the law,
and leads to diSreSpect and DISC
bedience to the law, such as talk :
ing false acknowledgements to
chattle mortgages. false attidavitS
to hunting licenses, etc. We
have some shining examples of
ignoring the law in PemiScOt
county, and the people are now
beginning to realize to what it
will lead. The time has arrived
in this county when the law must
be invoked and followed to the
} letter, and when the people once
learn that this will be done, there
will be less trouble and less oc.
, casion for factional fights as we
have had in Hayti and Caruthers.
vile and in the county. We be
lieve we have put up good fight
and one that will result in much
good: that it will be the means
of turning people from the old
treacherous way to the new,
safe and better way. 1t takes
long, hard and bitter fights t,
get any reform, and IA man tt
: win must have the courage t,
stand up against any odds
First, he must be ., right, an(
4 then stick to it through thicl
| and thin.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10

YOU! Why don't you use our
telephone, 81, to tell us the news,
about your visitors, when you go
visiting, what you know of others
doing? We pay for this phone
solely for your benefit, and if you
don't use it, then that much
money is thrown away.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10
Malaria or ChiIIS & Fever

Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or ChiLlS D. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
If taken then as tonic the Fever will moi
return. II acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10
YORK is RIGHT.

The Hayti Herald and its editor, Bill York, have
made themselves very unpopular wtha certain element
of people who be afraid Cf any who has the
habit of telling the truth
The good people of Hayt should support this
and his worthy paper in what he is doing for that husng
city and if we had Bill Yor6s it would clean
observation-disclosures (Ark) Progress.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10

Perhaps that new paper is to
be IA local option paper, as we un-
derstand he has got religion and
joined the church. In this case
he might reverse himself and
take S5OO.W from the local Op-
tionists to put up a campaign
and then for $50 from the saloon
men undo everything he had
done. Or, perhaps, they want "a
renegade mugwamp politician,
who, while greedily eating demo
cratic bread and butter, opposed
Congressman Joe j. Russell
through two campaigns. And of
course Jack Averill and all of
his friends will extend him a
royal welcome for what he did
for Harvey K. Averill in the cleo
ton of 1908. OF course a crook
ed set would like to have a linn
er-jack, rainbow shaped, sleek,
evasive kind of a fellow, devoid
of party creed or principle, who
is out for the long green only,
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10

Will cure your Rheumatism
Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps
colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts ane
Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects
Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne. used in
ernally and externally. Price Csc
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10

and who can warp and twist him
self around just any old way to
get by. By all means let him
come on. Pemiscot county must
not let the stock run out.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-07-10
misunderstood.

We are always sorry TO be mis-
understood, and, we are quite
positive that the greatest trouble
we have is caused by people mis-
understanding US. Our country
is full of new people. They are
good people, to be sure, but there
are so many things in connec-
ton with our country they do
not know that they frequently
misconstrue language meant for
one thing to mean quite another.
Last week we said:
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-08-01
Questions and Answers.

UDDER TROUBLES.

Question: I have fullblood Jersey,
COW which | have been milking since
December, and which did fine until a
week or two ago, when l got long
strings like curded milk from one
of her teats. This happened two or
three times and then the teat began
closing up and now l can only get a
stream of milk like a needle, when
before it was fine flow Sometimes
there is a scab on the end of the teat
which I have to remove before the
milk will come at all. Then the milk
vein along side the udder seems
swollen, this dosn't seem to give her
any trouble at all, but the teat does.
Will you please tell me what the
trouble is, and what can do for it.
j. N. N. Meri dan, Wash.
Answer: Udder troubles may come
from the COW having laid on damp
ground or cold cement floors. More
often however, it results from the COW
having been out of condition, giving
the COW physic or feeding laxative
feeds for a while will often effect a
cure. Hot applications will bring
blood to that part and carry off the
congestion. Rubbing well using lard
or some oil will often help. If the
garget continues it may become
incurable.