Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-25
Policy & Elhart, Druggists.

! IengWald were up from Medford
Monday evening and attended the
drill at the local armory.
The Douglas County Game Associa-
ton has indorsed R. L. Ewing of
Medford for state game warden un-
der the new administration.
Last night the council unanimously
passed a resolution officially naming
the new scenic drive which is at
once to be worked out along the old
Anderson ditch as the "Grandview"
drive.
Mrs. Jennie Goodyear has con-
structed a rustic bench on her prop
erty at the corner of Almond and
Church streets for the use of passers-
by who have become fatigued in
climbing the hill
1t is estimated that in the neigh
borhood of 100 special trainloads of
Shriners will pass through Ashland
early in July, bound from the exposi-
tion to the Shriners' convention at
Seattle.
A. L. Lamb has built an addition
onto his First avenue blacksmith
shop and has installed a complete
outfit OF woodworking tools. He now
has completely equipped shop for
handling woodwork for wagons and
automobiles.
A. E. Smith Of the Oak street mil
linery parlors came in yesterday from
Roseburg, where he had gone to
bring down his automobile which he
left there last fall. He says the Cow
Creek canyon is now fairly passable
for machines, he being able to make
the entire trip in one day.
Burnham L. Coe, seventeen-year-
old boy who confessed to starting the
March 4th fire at Weed and to threat
ening further fires if the Weed man
agement failed to deliver $4,000 to
him, was sentenced to four years in
the Idaho Industrial School by the
United States district court.
Messrs. Lawson and Twohy of the
Portland Automobile Club were in
town Saturday in the interest of the
clubs automobile tour book. The
local commercial club has subscribed
$75 towards the publication, which
will contain a number OF local views
and reading matter of local interest
Chi Pierson, Harry Hosler, w. H.
Mowat and William Permission autoed
over to Little Butte creek last Sun
day and indulged in days fishing.
That is, Harry and Chi fished while
the other two gentlemen offered ex-
pert advice. Pierson snaked out six
teen fine steelhead and Hosler six.
Possibly If the coaches had advised
Chi instead of Harry the result might
have been different.
Wanting to visit an aunt who lives
at Ashland, Dick Painter, four-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Painter of Central Point, boarded No.
3 Sunday morning and quietly seat
ed himself beside fellow passenger.
At Medford the conductor inquired of
the youngster where he was going.
He was taken off the train and in
care of the Medford agent taken back
to his parents.
Appearing before the city recorder
yesterday afternoon in answer to a
charge Of assault and battery,
brought by j. w. Brown, William
Cottrell, barber on Sheridan street,
entered a plea Of guilty and was
fined $5. Cottrell was accompanied
by d. J.. Jarvis, in front of whose
establishment the assault is alleged
to have occurred. Mr.. Jarvis told
the court that in a friendly scuffle
he had shot a squirt-gun containing
gasoline into the face. of Cottrell,
thinking the instrument contained
only water. They both believed that
Brown, to whom the gun belonged,
was. to blame. Cottrell is said to
have hit Brown, after he had wiped
the gasoline from his eyes, which
momentarily blinded him.-Roseburg
Review. Cottrell is a former Ash
lander and was mixed in several pu-
giilstic encounters while in this citv