Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-02


near the Medford park one-hali
hour before Bryan spoke last Thurs
day.
Recent visitors at Lawyer W. j.
Moore's home have been Mrs. Mart
Hamaker, a daughter, of klamath
county, accompanied by her daugh-
ter Gladys, also Mrs. c. A. Moore OF
Baker, a sister-in-law.
Mrs. Mary A. Boice of Watoma,
Wis, arrived in Ashland Thursday
evening for visit with her brother,
B. E. Whitmore. She will be here
for two or three weeks and a trip
to Crater Lake is being planned.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Yeo left on
Thursday for Los Angeles, sum-
moned there to attend the funeral
of Robert Ward, a brother of Mrs
Yeo. Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Yeo
of Talent accompanied them.
F. S. Bramwell, promoter of the
beet sugar industry in the Rogue
River valley, is expected to arrive in
the valley next week for a confer
ence with the committee which will
have the acreage campaign in charge.
Rev. F. G. Strange, former Pres
byterian minister here, arrived Sat
urday to take Rev. Carnahan's pull
pit during the latter's trip to Cres-
cnt City. Mr.. Strange's home is now
in Mukilteo, suburb of Everett
Wash.
John Duggar, formerly employed
at the local Southern Pacific station,
is up from Oregon City, where he
has been employed in the paper
mills. He is suffering from an in
fected hand which resulted from a
wound from a piece of brass.
Twenty-six members of the Co
lumbia University Geographical So
ciety of New York were taken on an
auto ride through the valley Thurs
day and left Friday morning for Cra-
ter Lake. The party are the guests
of the Medford Commercial Club.
A carload of steelhead trout fry
arrived in Grants Pass Sunday and
were liberated in the Rogue at the
White Rocks. Later a shipment OF
cutthroats and rainbows is expected
for stocking some of the smaller
creeks Of the district.
Help the Civic improvement ladies
by attending the Australian boys
concert at the Chautauqua tabernacle
next Wednesday evening. Is and 25
cents. 19-2t
w. B. Furer, the officer in charge
of the raising of the submarine
which sank in Honolulu harbor vis-
tied in the valley the first of last
week. He is a personal friend OF
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Bagley, formerly
of Ashland, now of Rogue River.
Mrs. E. H. Wagner and her grand
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Wagner of
this city, who have been visiting in
Iowa for couple of months, leave
Chicago today for San Diego and San
Francisco, where they will visit for
a time before returning to Ashland.
Mrs. H. L. Walter, who has been
visiting in Mt. Hermon, Cal, spent
the weekend with friends and rela-
tives in the city while en- route home
to Portland. Mrs. Walter and daugh-
ter Ruth leave next week for Alaska
on an extended trip.
Saturday night, properly loaded
with provisions, fishing tackle and
bait, a party consisting of Hum
Pracht, Sylvan Provost, Nate Bates
and Cliff Jenkins left for the wilds
of Keane creek, where they intended
to reduce the fishy population of that
creek.
E. V. Carter took Irving Vining
and a party of boys, Reid Harrell,
Fay Phillips, Arthur Maxedon and
Charlie Brady out to Beaver Dams,
in Dead Indian, last Tuesday, where
the day was spent in fishing. A
good-sized catch resulted in addition
to most enjoyable day.
G.. N. Kramer returned Saturday
from Newport with his wife and son
Foss, who have been spending a two
weeks vacation at the seashore. Mr..
Kramer hoped to sustain his reputa-
tion as a carp fisherman during his
sojourn alongside the ocean, but says
that he couldn't find single carp in
the whole blame ocean.
Charles C. Adams, vice-president
Of the Postal Telegraph and Cable
Company, in charge Of the traffic
states that on Monday,
August 2, that company viii make
50 per cent reduction in its leased
wire rate to the press at night
the country.