Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-16
Local and Personal

Mr.. and Mrs. George Owen and
daughter Minnie accompanied by
Sumner Parker, motored to Mr..
Owens ranch at Dead Indian Thurs
day.
The quick way to Klamath Falls:
Howard's Auto Line.
Three times . week.
Headquarters, Hotel Oregon.
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Arthur Alder, William Beveridge,
E. E. Foss and Tommy Scantlin of
Medford were among the out of town
attendants at the Saturday night Nat
atorium dance.
Swimming has been made part of
the curriculum of the Portland
schools. A teacher has been engaged
and tanks are being built at several
of the grade schools.
One hundred and seventy cans of
trout from the Bonneville hatchery
were distributed to Little and Big
Butte creeks and Rogue river from
Medford Wednesday.
C. Z. Kennard left Tuesday for
Timber Lake, S. D., where he will
make a short visit. From there he
will go to Virginia, where he expects
to locate permanently.
Mrs. Herman Purucker, Mrs. B.
R. Greer and little daughter Ebert
leave tonight for southern California
to take in the expositions and visit
relatives for several weeks.
4 party of young men who re-
turned from Lake of the Woods re-
Gently report huckleberries to- be rip
ening and numbers of camping par
ties heading FOR the patches.
Miss Vena Bailey, an Ashland high
school graduate of the class of 1915,
left Saturday for Klamath Falls,
where she will teach the third grade
in the public school of that city.
Mrs. James A. Sayles, who has
been on a two months visit with rel
atives in Portland, returned by auto
with j. Asher, a brother of Mr..
Sayles, and arrived in Ashland yes
terday. ~
Mrs. Percy Daggert left Friday
evening for Dunsmuir, where she
and Mr.. Daggert are now making
their home Mr.. Daggert is brake
man in the employ of the Southern
Pacific.
Otto Klum, former athletic coach
here, who has accepted a position
with the Medford high school, spent
Monday in that city. He has leased
a house in Medford for the coming
school term. -
j. S. Swagerty and wife of Farm
ington, Ark, have been visiting at
the home of their nephew, Charles
Van Buskirk. From here they went
to Portland, where they will visit
other relatives.
Mrs. Mary Woods reports narrow
escape from serious injury recently
when boys riding on the sidewalk on
bicycles nearly ran over her, There
is an ordinance which prohibits rid
ing on the sidewalk.
Jack Peebler spent few days in
the city last week and reports af-
fairs at his Green Spring ranch to be
in good shape. Jack reports killing |
a rattlesnake with twelve rattlers on
Keene creek recently.
c. H. Natwick, the Central Point |
contractor who will build the Pacific |
highway from Tolo to the county line,
has established camp near Rogue
River and expects to put on crew |
of about fifty men today.
Scott Valley Advance: Beatrice
Crandall, the popular daughter Of
our postmistress, is on a visit to Mrs
Hadley and daughters of Ashland.
She was accompanied by the Misses
Gretchen and Geneva Tyler, who will |
visit relatives in that section.
The report of the survey Of the
local schools made by committee of
experienced educationalists is being
published under the auspices of the
University of Oregon and is now in
the hands of the state printer.