Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-02-04

ana gentleman. 72-4t
]. Tozier and John Wick went to
Medford Sunday and were enter
tanned by Judge Calkins, who is a
former neighbor of the two.
Mrs. Frank Harding left for Sac
ramento Saturday, where her hus-
band is located temporarily. Later
on they will return to Ashland.
Miss Ethel Davenport, who has
been at the hospital for several days,
was moved Wednesday to the J. j.
Murphy home on Mob Hill street.
C. D. Stodard of Longmont, Colo,
arrived in Ashland Sunday and will
make his home here, having pur-
chased an interest in ranch property.
Trouble on the telegraph and light
lines in the Siskiyous has kept the
local linemen up on the mountain
almost continuously during the past
few days.
The wet weather of the past few
days has retarded outside work con-
siderably and a number of ranchers
have taken advantage of the layoff
to visit town.
s. Permission brought in some
beautiful little crocus blossoms yes
terday. These little harbingers of
spring are the first out-of-doors
grown flowers that bloom.
Roseburg Review: Miss Nora Best
and little brother are spending few
days in Roseburg this week with
their father, who is an employe of
the s. P. company in that city.
Seth D. Jones, Frank Herly and e.
Cooper, cattlemen of Grangerville,
Idaho, were at the Oregon the first
of the week. The visitors were look
ing for land for stock-raising pur-
poses.
President Wilson has selected Will
liam H. Hornibrook Of Albany, Ore,
as minister to Siam. Mr.. Hornibrook
is owner and editor of the Albany
democrat. He was a former state
state senator in Idaho.
Listen! To the first five persons
bringing in cleaning or pressing
every Monday morning will be given
100 additional votes on the Panama
Pacific exposition trip contest. Al
Ores tailor shop. Get busy.
]. n. Abbott of Kimball, MINI.
writes, renewing his subscription to
the Tdings. He says he cannot gel
along without it. Mr.. Abbott haI
parents here and owns local prop
erty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Klum anC
daughter visited with relatives her'
Sunday, Mr.. Klum is a brother O
Professor Klum of the high schoo
and is the proprietor of the Klum Ad
vertising Company of Medford.
Frank Schneider and wife, Georg,
Millner and wife, Mrs. Anna GowlanC
and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Beat
rice Gowland, all of the Boulevard
and Normal districts, constituted /;
motoring party which visited Med
ford, Saturday.
According to a local man whC
keeps track of barometrical fluctua
tions, the barometer was clear dowI
to the bottom during the days pre-
ceding the storms now visiting us
The lowest figures were 28.6.
At a convention of the Episcopa
churches of the Willamette Valley i
was contended that a motor car Il
almost a necessity for ministers il
the valley. The preachers claim tha
1t is the best way of bringing tn,
churches to the rural districts.
Rattlesnake Jim. the half Indian
half Swiss worlds tourist who passed
through here recently, has arrived IL
Eugene, and as an especial conces
sion to the ladies of that city i
wearing socks instead of going total
; ly barefooted as he did here.
The Rogue River Public Servic
Corporation, which has put in bi,
for furnishing current to the city
started work Monday on their dan
at Grants Pass and will put in larg
cofferdam of concrete as soon as th
high water goes down.
Ruth Turner and Miss VanDuyl
of Gold Hill returned to Gold Hill
Tuesday evening. Miss VanDuyn ha
been visiting at the Turner hom
during the past week, the schools a
Gold Hill being closed on account o
q smallpox scare. The two youn
ladies are teachers in the schools o
that city and resumed their worl
Wednesday.
One Of the most steadfast believer
in the good qualities of lithia waite
is e. r. Greive. He keeps. 1t on ia
at his store and may be observe
with a glass in his hand at almos