Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-07

Greive, Ben Bowers, Walt Frulan
and Nate Bates. They went most OF
the way in Greive's car-sending
wagonload of grub and blankets on
ahead.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Weaver, who
have been at Eugene for the past
several months, are now back in the
valley and are temporarily located
at Talent. They were up this morn
ing renewing the acquaintance of
many Ashland friends. Mr.. Weaver
was formerly interested in the Plaza
grocery
See the lyceum advertisement on
this page. 39-2t
Sunday will see the biggest exodus
of Ashland people to the exposition
of the fall months. Among those
who will leave are Mr.. and Mrs. j. R.
Casey, Miss Gertrude Biede, Miss
Stock, B. r. Greer, Miss Vivian Greer
and last but not least our even-tem-
pered bookkeeper, Miss Cherie Star
key
w. c. Baldwin and wife of Hum
bolt, Cal, arrived in the city the first
of the week by auto end are camped
at the auto camp. The beauties and
attractions of Ashland have made a
big impression on the new arrivals
and Mr.. Baldwin states that he in
tends to locate here if he can find
suitable opening.
Hornbrook Leader One day last
week a truck hauled from the premi-
ses of the mail order liquor house
forty sacks of circulars that the firm
was sending to the benighted regions
of Oregon and Washington. And that
this ,hail might be promptly dis
patched N. NJ. Mayer paid into the
Hornbrook postoffice the sum of
$222.26.
John Enders, who is now lying in
the Sanitarium with a dislocated hip
sustained in a recent football game,
had week full of exciting expert
ences. On a trip over into northern
California, Just previous to his acci-
dent, he was mistaken for a horse
thief and also helped to pull the body
of drowned man out of klamath
river.
The open season for hunting China
pheasants will close at midnight Sun
day. Hunters are warned not to get
their dates mixed. Every day sees
crowds of hunters flocking to the
fields and the birds are getting fewer
and wilder as the season progresses.
Sunday will see every ablebodied
hunter out, and the pheasant which
escapes will be lucky.
| W. c. Pickens writes from Green's
boro, Ala, and renews his subscrip-
ton to the Tidings, saying: II sort
my reading matter and begin on the
Tidings. no ad of which is left un-
read" Mr.. Pickens writes that he
and Mr.. Hamaker are contemplating
a trim by auto back to Ashland in
the not far distant future, for the
purpose of seeing for themselves the
improvements of which they have
read.
Hornbrook Leader: The San Fran
cisco company which acquired $4,000
acres of land in Butte valley, about
forty miles east of Hornbrook, is 60
ing to construct an irrigation system,
and after subdividing the land into
160-acre tracts will induce practical
dairymen to settle upon it. The COM
pany will erect a creamery as soon as
sufficient milk is secured to operate
it.
The Chicago girl "hikers" who
passed through here week or so ago
arrived in San Francisco last Satur-
day. The girls made fast time down
through California considering the
fact that they walked every step OF
the way" Now we come to consider
their statement we can easily see how
they could have walked every step
of the way and still made time which
rivaled a Southern Pacific freight
train If not the Shasta Limited.
A summary of the assessment roll
of Josephine county, just completed
by Assessor Pollock, shows the as
sessed valuation of all property IN
the county, personal and real, with
the exception of the operating rail-
roads and other public utilities
which are assessed by the state tax
commission, to be $S,615,O9O. This
total will be materially increased
when the values placed on the rail-
roads, including the Southern Pacific
and the coast line, and the telephone
and telegraph lines are included. In
cluded in the assessors figures Is the
value placed upon the Oregon q Cali
fornia railroad grant lands, 1878