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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05
Hospitality Of Valley
Pleased Magazine Writer

everything that civilized men and
women use to eat, and the only
things it is not capable of producing
are the fruits which belong entirely
to tropical climates, OF course pears
are its chief output, and the average
acre yield from pears runs from $3.50
to $3.50, while one acre in the or
chard OF c. NJ English last year
yielded him net profit, after every
imaginable expense had been deduct
ed, of $4,000.
1t was a thousand figures such as
there, and it was after Ben Sheldon
had driven me over every foot of
road in the valley, and | had talked
with the farmers, one after another,
that | discovered the folly of my
conclusion that these men had been
drawn to their paradise by the same
desire to grow something that i'm
PEELED the small boy to plant the
peach stone. 1t wasn't the lure of
the wide open spaces or the noun
tains, or the trees, or the smiling
fields that had called them from the
east. 1t was a less poetic lure, but
one better understood by us who do
not know how to prune or spray. 1t
was the lure of the dollar. They
NtrAt fsnt n
yield them 100 per cent on their in
vestment than trust the stock eX-
change or law practice or something
else to yield them per cent. And
they are getting their 100 per cent
without losing their health getting
it, or their happiness.
They have surrounded their orch
ards with their eastern culture.
They're having good time. They're
making money hand over fist. And
when they aren't doing anything else,
they are reading How to Prune, F."
Soil Culture" When to Spray and
now, anu SeCTeLly laughing DIT lue
poor devils back home who are wear
ing out their brains and their nerves
straining over desks and reading
ticker tape.
All Believe i'm Good Roads.
And the farmers of Jackson county
believe in good roads-every last one
of them believes in good roads. They
believe in good roads little more
than they believe in anything else
except their wives and their orch
ards. About every house owner out
of five in. Jackson county owns an
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05
no Seeing Jackson County" travellers
should fail to take.
Historic Phoenix Visited.

Phoenix is place of more than
ordinary historic interest-the site
of former army post, where still
stands the old Jog headquarters occu-
pied by Grant and Sheridan during
their campaigns against the Rogue
| River and Modoc Indians. About a
mile north of Ashland we passed the
Jackson hot sulphur springs, similar
in chemical constituency to those that
have made Paso Robles, West Baden
and Hot Springs, Ark, world famous
And as we entered the city limits of
| Ashland we passed onto their longest
paved street-a sample of the type of
roadway which is to be built along
the way of the Pacific Highway the
entire length of the county.
| wondered that first night we
passed in the valley of the Rogue
river-the night we slipped into the
/ hotel and out of it-why strangers
| had told us as we crossed over the
mountains that we were passing into
paradise. And | wondered, too, why
those who enter the valley seldom
leave it, or, if they do leave it, always
hurry back. AS we are spending our
last night in the valley, we no longer
wonder. We have felt the lure. 1t
is trying to hold us back. We have
analyzed it and we understand it.
Spirit of Valley Lures.
Majestic as they are, snow-topped,
pine-clad, purpling the valleys rim,
standing shaggy and silhouetted
against a sky into which the sinking
sun has poured all the colors of the
spectrum, it is not the mountains!
Beautiful as it is in the lowering
evening with lights twinkling here
and there among the tens of thou
sands of trees that are not even whis-
pering in the still, soft, fragrant air,
it is not the valley. Nor is it the
perfectly built Medford nor the pic
turesque Ashland. It's the spirit of
the valley that has made this para
disc! The open-handed hospitality
that does not drop the strangers
hand as soon as it has sold him a lot,
land or bearing orchard, but keeps
hold of his hand, makes him feel at
home, tells him how to prune and
how to spray and how to win in the
new business of being farmer
that's what has done it, the valley
spirit.
Don't let us spend as much of our
energy trying to get people to come
here as we spend trying to make
those who come here like it. Then
we won't have to worry about our
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05

tDayid Swing Kicker in the Portland
Oregonian.)
In making an estimate of the
Rogue River Valley it seems more
ike taking the measure of friend
than of the promises of community
or of iruit-yielding fields, yet in no
other valley would these city folks
nave been able to build their para
disc nor in this valley would many
folks have been able to build as well
or as thoroughly as they Money was
a prime requisite to achievement.
They had it. Enterprise and inde-
Satigability were essential. They had
roth. Room in which to build was
necessary.
Their paradise shelters 275, 900 till
able acres and the rest OF the valley
outside of it and along the tribu-
-aries of the Rogue river shelters
10000 more acres. In the southern
district alone there are 5000 acres
of full bearing orchards, 1000 acres
Of orchards in part bearing, $1,000
acres of orchards between three years
old and bearing, 10000 acres of or
ehard under three years of age and
10000 acres of implanted orchard
lands
Paradise is Extensive.
The government report on the soil
survey of this area describes it as
covering 544 square miles or 34S, ,16O
acres Included in these figures is a
large section of the Applegate Valley
lying south and west of the Rogue
River Valley and separated from the
main area by non-agricultural noun
famous tracts.
1t was over the Rogue river area
that looked that beautiful morning
from the top of Ben Shedon's hill
my first view Of Oregon's vast pear
producing region-and it was then
that ! understood, being inexpert in
matters of fruit culture, why tillers
af the soil had come from everywhere
20 the place they call paradise" to
plant trees from which they expect to
pluck their sustenance from now un-
iii their grandchildren take up their
pruning knives. The government soil
report catalogued 76 different kinds
of soil in that valley that stretched
1ut beneath me. And that's why
they call the valley paradise" And
it's why | called it little empire.
Products Are Varied.
The valley produces now nearly
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05
little paradise. People will come into
-
Magazines.

We take subscriptions at the It'd
ings office for new subscribers or re-
newals to the following magazines:
The Ladies Home Journal, The Sat-
urday Evening Post, The Country
Gentleman, also Good Housekeeping,
Hearst's Magazine, Motor Boating,
Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar.
You save money by subscribing for
these magazines and have the advan-
tage of having them delivered al
your home.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05
ASHLAND DRUGGIST
DESERVES PRAISE

T. K. Bolton, druggist, deserves
praise from Ashland people for intro
ducing here the simple buckthorn
bark and glycerine mixture, known
as Adler-i-ka. This simple German
remedy first became famous by cur
ing appendicitis, and it has now been
discovered that A SINGLE DOSE re-
moves sour stomach, gas on the stom-
ach and constipation INSTANTLY l
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05
Ashland Also is Alive.

Not all of Jackson county progress
iveness nor all of Jackson county
good-road enthusiasm is crowded in
any particular part of the valley.
Lying in the valley where the foot
hills crowd together and reaching
over some of them back into the
shadows of the Siskiyous, is Ashland
"a city that might have been picked
up back in New England and set
down out here, quaint, picturesque
and surrounded by hot springs where
in lies it's hope of larger and fuller
tomorrow; and lithia springs that
soon will be made to serve its people
with free lithia water at street-corner
fountains.
There's a new spirit in southern
Oregon-a spirit that ought to spread
over the state-the spirit of co-opera-
tion among the neighboring commun-
lies. Ben Sheldon, our host, and a
booster to the tips of his fingers and
the hair of his head and the soles of
his shoes, did not want us to leave
Jackson county until we had seen
Ashland So he took us over the best
section of the Pacific Highway now in
Oregon, the main thoroughfare be-
tween Medford and Ashland, rock
ballasted, 60 feet wide, and which has
been kept in relatively good condi.
tion for many years. 1t joins the
asphalted main street of Medford
with the asphalted main street Of
Ashland and passes through the
towns of Phoenix and Talent-a triI
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why they believe in good roads. An
other good reason is that they appre-
ciate the economic value of good
roads. And the result of their strong
belief in good roads is that the pri-
vate roads that run through the orch
ards of Rogue River Valley are bet
ter than so per cent of the Pacific
Highway from Portland to the Jose
phine county line north of Grants
Pass.
From Grants Pass to Medford there
was not bad spot on the Pacific
Highway. From Medford to Ashland
the highway is rock ballasted and
well surfaced. Yet, with their por.
ton of the Pacific Highway consid-
erably above the average maintained
by the northern counties of Oregon
the county recently voted a bond is
sue of 100000 to build it's link OF
the Pacific Highway from California
to Josephine county, and the first
spadeful of dirt, commemorating the
beginning of this admirable project,
was turned a few weeks ago by Sam
uel Hill of Seattle, the leading good
roads apostle of the west.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05

BY some unexpected hitch in the
proceedings, none OF the loop-the-
loop aviators has yet been turned
into a human pancake.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05
Best Treatment for Constipation.

BEST Treatment IOr CONSTIPATION.
MY daughter used Chamberlain S
Tablets for constipation with good re-
suits and | can recommend them
highly" writes Paul B. Babin,
Brushly, La. For sale by all dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-05
Stolen.

A Slower gasoline spray engine.
Any information leading to recovery
will be rewarded.
lasts H. w. ANDREWS.
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Phone news items to the Tidings.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28

Ireland employs 1859 males il
agriculture.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
MOOSE BALL IS
PLEASING EVENT

Members Of Fairbanks lodge, Loyal
Order of Moose, gave their first an
nual ball on Christmas night at the
Auditorium. 1t was well attended.
we'll managed and in every way as
great a success as could be desired.
Those who attended the ball are
agreed that it was one of the most
delightful dances ever enjoyed by
the people of Fairbanks.
The success of the dance is cred
tied to those who had charge of it
and of its previous arrangements.
For days men had been at work
decorating the Auditorium for the
big event, and the guests danced
under pleasing network of gay fes-
ICONS, while miniature Christmas
trees were in evidence here and
there, especially in the dining room.
|, Dancing began a little after 9
O'Clock, and the cotillion was form
ed a little after 10 O'Clock. 1t was
led by DR.. and Mrs. Hall. The
dancing continued without Interrupt
ton until about o'clock the next
morning.
Refreshments were served free to
the dancers throughout the evening,
and good supper was enjoyed by
all.
The entertainment committee,
which had charge of the arrange
ments for the dance. consisted OF
the following: D. L. McGinnis, chair
man, D. F. Coombs, T. w. Buck
holtz. William Gobracht. George
Walker, Andy Mckenzie and Reed
Harris.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
Old F fashioned I rec
Enjoyed In Chena

Practically everybody in Cinema at
tended a Christmas tree affair at
St paul's chapel in that town on
Christmas eve 1t was an Old-fash-
oned Christmas tree to which every
body brought presents and took part
in the fun OF seeing them distribut-
ed.
Previous to the distribution Of the
presents there was a short religious
service Then a real Santa Claus
arrived. The tree bad been beauti-
fully decorated and was loaded with
presents from top to bottom. 1t
was the only tree in town, and it is
not known that any person in Cinema
failed to be present.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
CHATAN|KA HAS
Good PROGRAM

Under the auspices of the Moose
lodge, an exceptionally good Christ
mas entertainment was held here
on Christmas eve. There was a liter
airy program prepared under the d.
rection of Mrs. D. J. Fairburn, and
a Christmas tree with a Santa Claus.
The Social hall, where the enter
tainment was held, was crowded with
people. and everyone complimented
the affair.
The complete program was as
follows:
Opening Address ................
............ Magnus Meisingseth
Response ........ Samuel Ivey, Jr,
Chorus-"Hark the Herald Angels
Sing" Mrs. F. E. Johnson. Mrs.
Mclean, Mrs. Casey. Mrs. Miller.
Mr.. Meisingseth, Mr. Edwards and
Mr.. Palmer.
"All Children Know this Story"
Eva Johnson.
The WoodboX," -. Walter Jewell
Santa Claus" e. Berthal Mcdonald
"a Sad Story. Eva Johnson.
May Kelley. Alma Watson. Sam
Ivey, Kenneth Mclean, Wilbur
Jewell, Walter Jewell and Maurice
O'Leary.
Chorus-"Oh Little Town Of Beth
lehem,"
THE New Year" Wilbur Jewell
Wand Drill ........ School Children
"A Little Girls Xmas. ........
................ Margaret Fuller
Merry Xmas" ...... Alma Watson
Five Little Chickens" ..........
Kenneth Mclean, Margaret Dal-
ton, Dorothea Dalton. Catherine
Welch, Freddy Welch and with Eva
Johnson as mother
christmas Bells" ..............
Eva Johnson and Alma Watson
Chorus-"Silent Night"
Keeping Christmas" ..........
......... School Children
Christmas Green's. May Kelly
1.-THE Christmas Saint" ........
" Samuel Ivey, Jr.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
GAS OVERCOMES
AUTOMOBILE MAN

What might have proven TO be
case of death by asphyxiation was
narrowly aveIted last Wednesday
morning when John Kane, proprietor
of the Kane auto truck which plies
between Fairbanks and the creeks.
was discovered in a precarious con
dition in his automobile garage. back
Of the Samson Hardware Cos works.
on Garden island. AS it was Mr..
Kane was unconscious for two hours
following the accident. being revived
only after the physician in attendance
had exhausted his every effort.
Mr. Kane's garage is very tight
all around, very little air being al
lowed to get into the building. On
the morning in question. he went to
the garage and started to make
some repairs on his engine. In do
ing so, it was necessary that he
start the engine. and. before he real
lied that gas in large quantity
was escaping from the engine, he
was overcome.
1t was only by accident that Mr..
Kane was found there, one OF
the employees of the Samson Hard
ware company having gone over to
see why the engine of the auto had
been kept going for the better part
of an hour. When he arrived at the
garage. he discovered Mr.. Kane
stretched out on couch in the
building. in strained and tense
condition. The man was quickly
removed to the open air but the
york of resuscitating i'm went 50
slow that for time it was thought
that he would expire as result
of the gas fumes he had inhaled.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.
: = . . . 80 . 900 . . Q .

Among those who came from Cha,
tanika last week to spend the holt
days was Joe GertZ
On the stage that arrived from
Chitina Thursday night were Mr..
VIM. Spalding of Dome creek, who
has been Outside on business trip,
Michael Selch of Ruby and B. J..
Bowers, both Of whom are returning
from the Outside.
Jimmy Malhovich slipped and fell
on the sidewalk Thursday evening,
and in doing so painfully cut his
arm on a glass jar of candy he was
carrying. He was sent to the hos
pital but the wound is declared not
to be serious
John Holmgren and Tom McKinnon
arrived from Ruby a few days ago,
and celebrated Christmas here. Mr.
Holmgren is on his way Outside
to get an outfit for one of his eX-
tensive claims at Ruby.
George Nielsen, formerly of this
city, was married to a lady from
Denmark recently at Manhattan Kan
sas.
b. w Johnson has filed suit in
TIE commissioner COull against
Harry Nudge. Ed Farrell and w A.
Goodrich for s405.50 for alleged
breach of contract
Miss Greta Boardman of Dimes
spent Christmas in Fairbanks.
l.. NJ. Drury and Jack Irvine came
in from the Baldwin mine to enjoy
the Christmas celebration here.
Fairbanks school closed last We'd
nesday for the holidays and will
open again on January l.
Corporal Ernest p Kinlock arriv-
ed from FIT. Gibbon early in the
week on his way to Salcha.
George Palmer, who is now in
Los Angeles. has written some
friends here that he was recently
married.
To former Assistant District At
torney and Mrs. L. R. Gillette a
baby girl was born early last Tues
day morning.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28


Pups into the First National
bank and has occasion
to talk to Joe Morrow. the genial
teller Whatever you do. don't say
anything about pups to Mr.. Morrow
for just now the word calls to his
mind a painful experience. and there
! is no use talking about disagreeable
things. anyway. Here is the story
that explains why Mr.. Morrow wants
to hear nothing about pups at the
present time:
Somebody recently offered Mr.
Morrow present of a pair of fine
malamute pups. provided he would
go over to the Tanana river, about
four miles away. to get them. The
present was accepted with much ap
probation, and, accordingly. Mr.. Nor
row prepared to go for the pups
early in the morning and return in
time for the opening Of the bank, a,
ten O'Clock.
After he started out Mr.. Morrow
discovered that he Is better banA
teller than dog musher, for his dogs
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
JUDGE DILLON is HOST

At his residence on upper First
avenue on Christmas eve, Judge
John F. Dillon acted the part Of the
congenial host at stag dinner party
Covers were laid for six. those
gathered around the festal board
with the host being, Edward II
Mack, Ralph L. Hebert, Joseph G
Morrow. Victor Durand and Frank
p Wood. The menu included all
of the delicacies of the season, the
cookie having been the judge him.
self
Ireland employs 721 500 males in
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
WORK IS DONE.

A party of Is men headed by
William Goodrich, George Comstock
and Billy Hopkins arrived in town
during the past week from the Totat'
lanika river country, where they
have been doing the assessment work
on a number of placer mining claims
owned by an Outside syndicate.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28
NOTICE..

Commencing Saturday. January g..
and continuing until May LIST. the
banks of Fairbanks will close on
Saturdays at l p. m.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
AMERICAN BANK OF ALASKA.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28

Farmer, on one side Of the hedge,
to boy on the other: Nov. then,
my lad, didn't I tell you not to let
me catch you here again."
Boy preparing to rum: All
right, don't make a fuss; you amt
caught me yet"
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28

A woman has one big advantage
over man; she can improve her
looks.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28

A man usually gets the short end
of it after cutting his wife's allow
ance.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-28

OLD PAPERS FOR SALE.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-01-19
WILLIAM ALEXANDER KILLED
MASTERSON AND NORLINC

farm about two months last winter,
having been sent there instead of the
county jail after he was arrested for
breaking into a forest ranger cabin
and stealing some blankets.
]. N. Pace, the manager of the
farm, states that Mr. Alexander was
disagreeable and quarrelsome while
there. He was abusive to the other
inmates and mean when it became
necessary for Mr.. Pace to call him
down for imposing on other old peo-
pie who were inmates. He was 76
years of age, according to the rec
ords at the poor farm, and Mr.. Pace
considers him mentally unbalanced.
The funeral of John Norling was
held at Grants Pass Sunday after
noon under the auspices of the Mod
ern Woodmen, of which order he was
member.
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Two Nights of
Basket Ball

There will be two nights of good
basketball this week, on Friday and
Saturday evenings, when the Cottage
Grove high school team will play the
Ashland high school team. The
games will take place at the high
school gymnasium. The game Fri
day evening will be called at S:15
and there will be no preliminary
game. On Saturday evening there
will be preliminary game between
girls teams and the game will be
called at s, followed by the main
game. The Cottage Grove team has
four veterans and is considered a
strong one. The Ashland team won
its game with Yreka Friday night,
the only game played so far, and all
indications point to a couple of first
class games. Tickets on sale at Rose
Bros Adults % cents; reserved
seats 35 cents.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-01-19
Wind Storm Friday Night
Did Considerable Damage

The wind storm Friday evening
was the worst in the history of Ash
land. There is no wind gauge here
and unless it had Jared better than
the structure containing the govern
ment thermometers used by the local
volunteer observer it would have
probably shared the same fate. That
structure, which is under the care of
Louis Dodge, was torn to pieces and
the boards supporting the thermome-
ter thrown to one side, fortunately
without seriously injnring the instru-
ments.
The heaviest loser in the city, from
the effects of the wind, was H. G.
Enders, who had two big panes of
glass in the front of the east store
in his business block blown in. A
window was blown in at the rear of
the office, several in the West school
building, and the glass in the ticket
office of the Dreamland theatre.
There were several small barns
and outbuildings blown over and a
huge almond tree, probably nearly
half a century old, at the home of
c. NJ. Granger, on Granite street,
was uprooted, Had the wind been
from another direction the tree would
have crashed into the house and
| done much damage.
The top of the chimney to the fire
place in E. b. Hunts residence on
Harrison street was also demolished
by the wind.
Reports from klamath Falls are
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-01-19
Were Called Out
To Three Fires

The local fire boys had a strenuous
time for while Friday night. The
high wind had strong tendency to
create chimney fires and no less than
three were turned in by telephone to
the fire house. The boys made rec
ord runs to all three places The first
and that which gave most fear Of
danger was to o. i. Carson's place
on Palm avenue. BY the use of
garden hose. however, the sparks
were kept from setting fire to the
roof and the fire hose was not used.
The other calls we're to the CuIey
home at the corner OF Iowa street
and Mountain avenue and to the +.
w. Moore residence on Vista street,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-01-19
BOYS VOCATIONAL CLUB
LAUNCHED FRIDAY NIGHT
MRS. BOOKER COMING.
State President w. G. It. L. to Lee.
tuFe Here.

Mrs. Edith Hill Booker, state pres
ident of the w. c. T. U., has been
given the initiative of opening the
campaign for Oregon dry in 1914 in
the southern part of the state. She
is brilliant speaker, rivalling Mary
Harris Armour on the lecture plat
form. She is no mere reciter of an
cient anecdotes, but a logical reason
er who has facts and figures to pre-
sent that cannot be gainsaid. She
will tell you how we can and may
rival the Sunflower state in prosper
ity, morals and education. AS she
spent number of years there. where
as a result of no saloons SO counties
are without Jail and 65 counties
have sent no one to any penal insti-
: tuition for the term of ten years, she
can tell you how we can lessen our
taxes and increase the morals and
the fullness of the pocketbooks of
our citizens. The children of Kan
sas have few is any rivals mentally
| and there is no reason why Oregon
children should not reach the same
plane that Oregon apples do in the
world If its citizens do their part.
Mrs. Booker will speak in the arm
ory Tuesday evening at 1880. The
general public are invited to be pres
ent.