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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Council Meets
To Comet Music

The meeting of the city council on
Tuesday evening was enlivened by
cornet solos and scraps of exhorta-
tion which waited up from the street
below, where group of wandering
preachers OF the gospel held forth on
the Plaza in front of the city jail.
The minutes were read to the tune
of "A Hot Time in the Old Town To-
night"
A bill for the cells for the city jail
was read and ordered paid. (The
cornetists below played Annie
Lawrie" while the cells were being
paid for.)
The application of Paul Guiley,
driver of The fire truck, for fifteen
days layoif, to take effect upon the
return Of Chief Robson, who is now
enjoying his vacation, was read.
Since Mr.. Guiley has only been on the
job nine months and leave of absence
is ordinarily granted after an en-
ploye has been in the employ of the
city for full year, his leave of alb
seaSe was granted but not on pay, as
will be his future annual vacations,
should he remain in the city's serv-
ice over year.
A requisition for supplies from the
electric light department was grant
ed.
A resolution putting the small tri-
angle of lawn in the Plaza and the
parkway on the Boulevard under the
care of the park commission was
read and passed.
The council then adjourned, break
ing all records for briefness. A
meeting will be held next Tuesday
evening, at which time the Chautau
qua park sewer and other matters
will come up for final action.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Love SWayS All
In 'Masterpicture

A womans descent of the crimson
path is feelinely pictured in "Strath-
MORE" the four-part Masterpicture
founded upon the famous novel OF
that name by Ouida. The story is a
good old-fashioned romance with
thrilling heart interest The story is
built around the boast of Lord
Strathmore that he is woman proof.
How he falls victim to the wiles of a
beautiful woman, kills for and lives
for her is woven in the way in which
only Ouida could weave story into
one of the greatest romances of all
time. The picture was photographed
under the direction of Griffith, the
greatest of all directors. This Mas
terpicture will be shown at the Lyric
Theatre tonight and Friday.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Punch Jones Black
And Tan Rag Time

Manager Vining of the Vining
Theatre announces the engagement
for two nights, commencing Monday
night of Punch Jones Ragtime
Opera and Minstrels at his playhouse
beautiful. This attraction is a big
Pantages feature and opens in Port.
land again on that time for its fifth
season week from Sunday.
The company is composed of Is
people and numbers some of the fore
most colored artists of the black race.
Punch Jones and George CASHMERE
are the prime fun makers; Bertha
Grant and Mabel Deheard late OF
Williams and Walkers "In Daho-
mey," are the leading women. Miss
Babe Hackley is the feature dancer
and an exceptionally clever girl.
Morris Crawford is the solo baritone
and a sensation in his line.
The old plantation songs so dear
to the southern darky will be rem
dered. Jesse Huston, the sweet
voiced lyric tenor, will be heard in a
series of songs.
There will be an absolute change
of bill each night. The attraction
carries a ragtime band and orchestra
that put over some cracking good
They will give a parade
and concert daily.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Another Shipment
OF Valley Cattle

Another trainload of valley cattle
was shipped Monday afternoon to
San Francisco, consigned to Miller &
Lux. The cattle, of which there
were approximately 900 head, were
loaded at Medford. The average
price was $50 per head, meaning
$4,000 total. Practically every
stock raiser in the valley was repre-
sented in the shipment. 4 few weeks
ago another shipment from the Ash
land yards netted $45,00O.
The stock-raising industry is be-
coming big factor in the valley and
turns loose large amounts of good
hard United States coin every year.
Stockmen are interested in the new
beet factory in that dried beet pulp
is said to be excellent stock feed and
naturally the sugar factory will have
large quantities of this commodity to
dispose Of.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Irrigation Plans
Are Progressing

John H. Whistler, engineer in
charge of government irrigation pre-
liminary work in Oregon, who was
in the valley last week overseeing the
preliminary survey OF the available
water supply for irrigation, left Sun
day for Portland. He will return to
the valley in about a week. His as
sistants are working in the Butte
Falls district and other parties are
taking preliminary surveys of other
water sources.
The Buck Lake supply was made
the subject of extensive study recent
ly and promises much.
H. G. Butterfield Of Ashland and
Welborn Beeson of Talent spent two
weeks on the headwaters of Wagner
creek and believe that they have
worked out fesaible plan for turn
ing waters from other streams into
Wagner creek near its head.
The Keene creek proposition is
also receiving attention.
The Rogue River Canal Company
has a big force of men at work at
Fish Lake and on the Phoenix prof.
est and stands ready to bring addi-
tional water from Lake of the Woods
and Four Mile Lake in sufficient
quantities to irrigate all of the dis
trict between Central Point and Tolo,
should the landowners sign up suf-
ficient amount of acreage for irriga-
tion to justify the expenditure neces-
sary.
This same company is building a
big diverting dam below Talent to
utilize the flow from Bear creek, and
state that they can supply enough
water from this source to irrigate
900 acres in the summer and 1900
in the winter and spring.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Big Day at
Medf0rd ArmOry

Medford Tribune: Governor James
Withycombe and staff, consisting Of
Adjutant General George A. White
of Portland, Colonel c. c. Hammond
of Eugene, Lieutenant Colonel B. K.
Lawson of Cottage Grove, Major Will
liam G. White of Eugene and others,
also Captain r. w. Collins, a regular
army officer Of Eugene, and Captain
Malone of Ashland, will arrive in
Medford Wednesday, October q, at
1:45 to dedicate the new armory of
the seventh company, Coast Artillery,
which takes place at 1880 p. m. that
afternoon. The governor will also
make a short address at this time
and everybody is invited to attend
and hear him and inspect the new
armory.
Mrs. Withycombe, Miss Mabel
Withycombe, Mrs. George A. White,
Mrs. B. X. Lawson, Mrs. r w. Col
Inns and Mrs. c. A. Malone will be
the lady visitors in the party.
After the dedication in the after
noon the visitors will be taken for
an auto trip over the city, Pacific
highway and the Siskiyous.
In the evening at p. m. recep-
tion will be held at the armory for
Governor Withycombe and party, af-
ter which there will be a grand mill
tary ball.
This will be one of the most dis
tinguished parties that ever visited
Medford and they will be given a
hearty welcome.
They will leave Thursday, October
2S, for San Francisco to attend Ore
gon day at the fair.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Fatality Mars
Hunting Season

The deer hunting season in south
ern Oregon was marred by the first
death of the season when j. l.. Myers
for 16 years a respected citizen oil
Grants Pass, and head of the munich
pal government during the year 1911
as mayor of the city was shot and
instantly killed while hunting in the
district above Anchor, in the Cow
creek country, late Sunday evening.
The unfortunate shot was fired by
Jim Manuel of Grants Pass, who had
accompanied Mr.. Myers on their trip.
The dead man has been a popular
and public-spirited citizen of Grants
Pass for the past 16 years, and was
now in the 47th year of his age. He
was a native son of the state, having
been born in Yamhill county of
pioneer settlers in that district. He
is survived by his wife and three
children, and by two brothers and
two sisters. The brothers are A. l..
Myers of Ilwaco, Wash, and Levi
Myers of Lents, Ore, and the sisters
are Mrs. A. B. Cornell of Grants Pass
and Mrs. G. w. Grayson of Buhl,
Idaho.
The two men had separated and
Manuel had jumped deer. Seeing
a movement in the brush, he fired,
hitting his friend in the forehead.
The coroner's verdict was that Myers
had come to his death by the shot OF
who mistook him for deer.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Vining Vaudeville
Best Seen Here

The vaudeville acts which were
presented at the Vining Theatre last
evening were exceptionally well re-
ceived. In fact, the acts were pro-
nounced by many to be the best that
have ever been shown in Ashland
Tonight the company will present a
tabloid version of Cousin Kate
with Miss Russell playing the part
taken in the New York production by
Ethel Barrymore and in which she
understudied the great actress. Two
other acts and the regular pictures
will round out a program of excep-
tional merit.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
SidelightS On
Official DOingS

Councilmen Ashcraft and Biegel
being out of town this week, Tuesday
evenings meeting was necessarily
short, since the council wished the
presence of full membership before
the Perozzi-C -Chautauqua sewer matter
and others were finally acted upon.
Councilman Ashcraft gave notice last
week that he might take a notion
to 90 hunting, and the call of the
wild must have proven too strong.
Very few petitions have been pre-
sented at recent council meetings,
and the workings of the city govern
ment seem to be running along in
oiled channels.
The council will meet in adjourned
session Tuesday of next week.
Because of the continual confine-
ment of the firemen, who are on the
job "a hours of the day, they are
granted a fifteen days annual vaca-
tion. Glen Guiley, truck driver, hav-
ing been in the service of the city
only nine months, was granted the
usual leave OF absence but is obliged
to pay man to take his place if he
wishes to take advantage Of the leave.
The electric light department is
praying for rain. The creek is lower
than it has been for years, and con-
tinual watchfulness is necessary to
keep enough head to furnish the pa
irons of the system. Street lighting
must necessarily be curtailed until
the first heavy rain. Patrons of the
city plant can help out by not leaving
lights burning when unnecessary.
Patrolman Winner, who acted as
chief of police during R. C. Porter's
absence, effected the capture of two
men, one of whom was wanted in
Medford and one in Roseburg. Sev-
eral other crooks have been captured
at Ashland recently while making for
the California border.
With the arrival of the hobo mi
grafton season the police force is
buster than ever. Although Ashland
is a stopping place for practically the
entire freight car tourist travel, be-
ing a division point, and at the foot
of a great mountain barrier, the po-
lice are successful in keeping the
streets fairly clear Of vagrants. For
a town in Ashland's situation there
are mighty few cases of minor depre
dations or, for that matter, depreda-
tions of any kind, reported.
In this dry year the plentifulness
of the water supplied by the munich
pal system stands as big tribute to
the water committees of the present
and those who had in charge the in
auguration Of various parts of the
system in the past.
The Tidings will deliver two free
copies to the lucky parsonage who
has the honor of being the first pris-
oner interned in the newly completed
city Jail. Ashland now has modern !
fireproof bastile, which, like Con-
way bungalow, is cool in the summer
and hot in the winter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
Sunday School
Parade Today

Ashland is host to the Sunday
schools of Jackson county at the an
nual convention today. A Sunday
school parade at A; 80 this afternoon
promises to be a unique feature of
the convention Two large pennants
have been offered as awards to the
schools in Ashland and outside of the
city that have the largest number OF
in the parade.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21
NUMBER 43
High School Starts
Season With Win

The first game of the 1915 football
season with an outside school result
ed in big victory for the local high
school, who overwhelmed the Grants
Pass high school team by a 10 to 0
score last Saturday afternoon. Coach
Hutchinson has welded a bunch Of
green material into football ma
chine which followers of the game
proclaim to be the best in years. Bet
ter balanced attack and steadier de-
Tense have never been seen on an
Ashland football field than that pre-
sented by the red and white last Sat-
urday. From the first whistle the
locals clearly demonstrated their su-
periority over the visitors, who
fought to the last, however. All of
1 Ashland's scores, three touchdowns
and one goal, were made in the first
half Grants Pass came back strong
in the second half, but was not dan
gerous at any time.
Forward passes, line bucks and
end runs seemed to work equally well
for the locals. The only criticism
which could be made was a lack of
speed in running off plays. This
| fault will, of course. be eradicated as
the season progresses.
No particular star could be named,
although, of course, Captain Delsman
made the greatest gains on line
punches. In Fraley and Harrell
Coach Hutchinson has a pair of
quarterbacks both of whom have
good heads and handle the team well.
The most spectacular play of the
game came when Cunningham hook
ed forward pass out of the air in
the sec> nd period for the locals Sec
ond touchdown.
Medford high school defeated
klamath Falls last Saturday and, ac-
cording to reports, is developing a
heavy, shifty team. While at the
first of the year the outlook for a
winning team in Ashland was poor, a
spirit of optimism is developing with
the wonderful development of the
team and more enthusiasm in the
great fall game is evident this year
than ever before. Several hundred
fans were at the game last Saturday.
and it would appear that the school
team is to receive the support which
they deserve this year. ,.
The Ashland lineup was: Furry.
center; Winney and Jones, guards:
Buck and Young, tackles; Cunning
ham and Lowe, ends; Delsman, full
back; Leavitt, left half; Brewer,
right half; Fraley, quarterback. Sub
stitutions, Harrel for Fraley, Bentley
for Brewer. Long for Cunningham,
Norton for Furry.
Grants Pass lined up with Bear
ass, center; Finkerton and Under
wood, guards; Bocock and Moore.
tackles; Hansen and Prescott, ends;
Cornell and Bestel, halfs; Smith,
quarter; Spaulding, fullback.
Referee, Blanchard. Umpire.
Sayles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

DR.. Julian P. Johnson, Homeopath-
ic physician and surgeon, will be in
his office in the Mills-McCall build
ing, Masonic hall stairway, on and
after October 81. General practice,
but special attention to eye, ear, nose
and throat. Glasses fitted and guar
anteed correct. Hours 10 to IL and
2 to 5. 8- -to. 1t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

Word was received from Fleet
wood, Ore, this morning of the ar
rival Of baby girl at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Briggs. The
newcomer has been named Lois Maui
rine and weighed Sl1 pounds.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jordan were
among those who attended the Med
ford band dance in that city last
night. Several autoloads went down
from here. The affair was reported
to have been a most enjoyable one.
A, big crowd attended. IS ~
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

The high school football team, one
substitute and Coach Hutchinson left
this morning in automobiles for
klamath Falls, where they will play
tomorrow afternoon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

Mr.. and Mrs. James McNair leave
this evening for Portland, where they
will visit the land products show.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

Twenty men are fighting forest
fire in the vicinity of Prospect to-
day.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

The Oregon cranberry crop is good,
price around $40 barrel .iMl &
.t,-.. , .-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-21

The Ashland Trading Company is
the home OF nice apples. Phone 122.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
PRESIDENT AND BRIDE
WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS
TREE AT HOT SPRINGS
Names of Persons to Help En-
;oy 1t Not Made Known.
Couple Stay in
Seclusion
FALSE ALARM OF GOLF

nor SPRINGS, Va. Dec. 2i.-The
merry game of "hide-and-seek, or have
.or seen President Wilson and his
sr,de?" goes merrily on here. The couple
s.,s remained secluded in their closely
.,.rded apartments or hidden away in
h,ab-power limousine. which goes over
,,a roads at a 50-mlle-an-hour clip, ever
,,,co they reached here on Sunday. And
,ho crowd of 100 winter guests at the
.o,el and the residents of the vicinity
,eho come from as far as 25 miles away
honing to catch a glimpse of the newly
,redded pair have had to content them
..ives with a hasty look at long range
ss they enter the auto.
n has been reported that the President
and Mrs. Wilson would play golf before
hrsakfast today. In consequence. more
,.cail me early requests were left at
,ha hotel desk than ever before In its
hIs,ory. And golf clubs were at a
nrsmium, every one at the hotel SEEM
;nely being anxious to get a set. But
.hsre was nothing doing. Neither the
PRESIDENT nor his bride put In an appear
snee although there are reasons to be-
jleye that they had a quiet smile over
The occurrence inasmuch as the golf links
are directly in front Of the sitting room
sIndows of their suite. II is not ex-
,ected that the President will resume his
rolf until arrangements can be made for
him to obtain absolute privacy on the
links.
"A working schedule was arranged by
,be Executive today. Each day imme-
dately after breakfast he will take UP
with Charles Sven. stenographer, the
important mail that arrives in the special
nouch sent by moe rger from the White
House. Then, If 1t f5 necessary,' he "
talk with Secretary of State Lansing at
Washington. The afternoons are to be
devoted to automobiling and walks
through the mountains. Later In the
week some of the relatives of the couple
will come down from Washington and
the evenings will be devoted to social
chat and music The President will have
a Christmas tree, but just who are to be
present to enjoy 1t besides himself and
Mrs. Wilson is not yet known.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
BLIND AL" BRAVELY
SETS THE PACE THAT
MOCKS MISFORTUNE
City's Most Famous Street Ven
der Rises Superior to Infrm-
ity and Gives Example to
Those of Weaker Fibre
UNIQUE AND UNDAUNTED

Christmas business is so brisk at Blind
AIS apple and newspaper stand at Inde-
pendence Hall that he Is late going home
every night now and so has to make UP
time going west on Chestnut street.
The most famous street vendor in Phila-
delphia spreads amusement and terror
about his patch on chestnut street, and
the girls have to skip out of the way
quick or get his rat-tat-tatting stick right
on their little toes.
To follow Blind AL out Chestnut street
at $40 in the evening is as exciting as
riding In the cab OF the Twentieth Cen
tury Limited. He chooses the exact centre
of the sidewalk. Because why7 Because
then he does no step on the heels of the
westbound shoppers and does not bang
head-on into the eastbound shoppers. It
is as II he had a pathway feet wide
reserved for him right up the middle of
the expensive side OF an expensive street.
Last night one OF these foreigners.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21

and wonder why ali this importance
should be attached 20 one persons get
ting home safely; until one remembers
the darkness he is IN, and realizes that u
is not so much AL that is being considered
as the great mystery Of darkness itself
mans inheritance from the black and ter
ribie ancient forests. that one is respect
ing, propitiating, worshipping. through
AL
IN TOUCH WITH MYSTERIES.
He is in touch with greater and more
awful powers and deeper and intenser
mysteries than the garlsh streets have for
eyes. He gives a new value to the ability
TO walk vigorously because he has to con-
centrate on II So He gives a new value TO
the fun of a walking stick: to cautious
travelling along the crowded streets: 20
the pleasure OF verifying the nature OF
things by their feel" in the ingers TO
the fun OF providing nestegg against
future mishap Seeing nothing he has to
SEQ more than anyone else.
His stern taking for granted the help
fulness of policemen and pedestrians at
corners is really the beat compliment
he could pay his kind; II is not so much
AL that walks there in the dark as II is
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21

man. Man is the poor creature In the
dark. but not determined AL. The colored
lights in the aggressive shops are cheap
ened, the faces OF the girls not so In
teresting as we expected at the sight OF
this life enriched by an lmpovertshment.
Blind AL is a dislnfectant for the loose
Tipped, crazy sentimentallsm that is a
Christmas season sin. II any weep for AL,
let him make sure that he It doing It for
the selfish pleasure Of weak, sweet tears.
II pity is a part of what Christmas
means, courage is a more important part
OF what Christmas means. And this veri-
table locomotive Of n blind man, with
his racy and manly street humor. his
defiant dependence. his aggressive inde-
pendence, is the very personification Of
courage The courage of refusing to take
life too softly the courage Of not wanting
to be treated too we'll.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
The AeOLian Family

of the pLayer-p piano rVorld
is on sale at Hspbe's. and includes
The Steinway PianoLa, $3.50
The Weber PianoIa $1,000
The Wheelock Pianoia, $3.50
The Stroud PianoLa $3.50
Francesca-Heppe Player Pianos, $3.50
Aeolian Player Pianos, S395
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
Loses Life in Saving Her Children

REYNOLDSVILLE, Pa, Dec. 21.-Lost
In the dense smoke which filled her home,
Mrs Anna Addison, 45 years old, was suf-
located early this morning, after she had
rescued her four children from a fire
which destroyed the Addison residence and
store here. Hugh Haggerty. Erie. Cen
trail League baseball pitcher. assisted the
woman in rescuing the children.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
EDISON BATTERY "AD" MAN
ENDS HIS LIFE WITH POISON
W. C. Andrews Was One of Best
Known Workers in His Line

NEW YORK, Dec. H.-W. C. Andrews.
general advertising manager of the Edi-
son Storage Battery Company and one of
the best-known men in his line, commit
ted suicide today in the Hotel Chelsea,
West 23d street, by swallowing poison.
He lived with his wife and two daugh-
ters at 1856 Burnett street, East Orange,
N. j.. but had his office with the Edison
company in New York.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
Mnst Not LIbel Mrs. Asauith

LONDON. Dec. 21.-The court granted
an Injunction today restraining the Globe
from further publication Of libels on Mrs.
Asquith, wife OF the Premier.