Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

sorts of games were played and a
delicious lunch was served later in
the evening.
Blanch Guches and Inez Redpath
visited the Bailey home Monday.
Miss Anna Bailey is rapidly recover
ing, which delights her many friends.
Great preparations are being made
for the dance to be given st. Pat
rick's evening at I. o. o. f. hall.
Mr., Johnson of Los Angeles has
started operation in his new lumber
camp up on Anderson creek. The
mill will be run by electricity from
the Oregon-California Power Com
pany. The Furry brothers have the
contract for falling the timber. Mr..
johnson expects to buy timber from
all the surrounding ranches A very
busy summer is expected up Ander-
son creek this year.
The Ames building has new avn
ings on it.
-Vandersluis & Burgan are show
ing a new line of millinery. 1t
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Burnett are the
proud parents of a baby boy, born
Tuesday evening.
A few members of the Talent band
serenaded the Ames and Walters
homes Thursday evening.
There was a basketball game be-
tween Wagner creek and Talent Fri
day afternoon. Those who were in
the Wagner creek team were Chester
Knighton, Charles Summers, Ruel
Hall and Ellis Beeson. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wheeler came down to watch the
game.
Henry and Charlie Hale came from
Glendale to visit their father, A. J.
Hale. They are thinking of spend
ing the summer up Wagner creek.
Mrs Emmett Beeson visited in Tai
ent this week for the first time this
winter.
The council and school trustees
held joint special meeting at the
town hall Wednesday evening. They
discussed proposed terms of sale for
the old school property to the town
of Talent, for $500, and the town
council offered the school trustees a
special water rate of II cents per
thousand gallons. The school trus-
tees have issued call for a special
election and will submit these two
questions to the voters. The reason
the school trustees proposed the sale
of the old school house property to
the town was to secure the cash nee
essary to complete the unfinished
rooms in the high school building
without putting the same on the tax
levy. The crowded condition of the
rooms in use at present makes il
imperative that more space of school
building be available before another
school year.
C. NJ. Thomas gave the band boys
a talk Tuesday evening on co-opera-
tion and community of effort and
presented the Ashland normal ques-
tion and praised the work being done
by the band boys. The band decided
they would assist the ladies on Glen
up Day, which is to take place in the
near future, but furnishing music and
also muscle.
| The baseball club presented its
plans and asked for cooperation and
support from the band.
The band boys agreed to organize
at once and to appoint public af-
fairs committee, to consist of all the
active and associate members of the
band, to handle all such public ques-
tions as should come to the band in
this way. The band asks all the citi-
zens of Talent who are willing to
assist them in this way to become
associate members of the organiZd-
tion. II is the only compact organ
ization of the younger men of Talent,
and as such is confronted by many
matters of public and semi-public in
/ terest, so that the new public affairs
committee has become a necessity to
dispose of these matters.
Irving Vance has ordered a new
cornet and John Vance new clari-
net this week.
The band is looking for bass
player.
John Briener, who is spending the
week in Medford, is expected home
Saturday evening.
Mrs. Ward of Ferndale spent the
day in Talent Friday.
John Calvin spent Friday in Tai
ent.
The Ladies' Community Club and
the Talent band and the Talent Com
mercial club took onto themselves
the boosting OF the Ashland normal
at Joint meeting of the above
named clubs at the Talent school
| house March 10 Mra n EuIlar