Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-12
(By Col. f. Hofer)

The annual convention OF newspaper
men and women was held at -Medford.
1t was a kind of weekend affair and
lasted from Friday until Tuesday morn
ing for many of the members. The
programs were properly .divisible into
three great events-the entertainment
at Medford proper, the side-trip to
Ashland and the California line, and
the headliner to Crater Lake.
At Medford there was royal hospital
ity. All the seven-score attending
newspaper people were housed free and
mealed free to large extent. There
were special gatherings for the ladies'
with skirt lunches at eaffeterias. and
skirt motoring where unruly and un'
couth males were barred, and the ladies'
could chitehat and sip soft iced drinks
to their hearts content. The ladies
of Medford are even more lavish en-
tertainers than the men, and take a
lust pride in the metropolitan airs OF
their little city,
The men folks and the women had
rooms at the finest hotels and were
even auartered at the University ciun
and the Country club. The sessions OF
the newspapr profession were held at
the Commercial club rooms in the pase-
ment. Of the Carnegie library. The
Medfordites carried things so far that
fins were even refused from the visi'
tors bv the help all around. / did force
a two-bit piece on a waitress at the
Medford but it was when no one was
looking and 1 covered it with my nap
kin and made the getaway. The
nroprietor tried to find the man VINO
did it but none would acknowledge
the coin. so the girl had to keep II
At the University club the Jap boys
returned all efforts to tip them Iha'
was making guests of visitors 10
nicely.
Taken to Ashland
At four clock Friday all were taken
motoring TO Ashland, and were bowleo
nm the Siskiyou grade over into Can
fornia Ii was a surprise to those wno
hear nothing but the Columbia scenic
highway exploited up this way to see
Grandeur itself in the form of pouie
yard that went TO the real skyline ant
over the tops of the greatest range VI
tbe Pacific coast-the perfect grau'
and the hard surface road that wlnd'
info tbe empyrean-if that is not th'
term. excuse haste, for the drive mao
nc dizzy-most of us went higher o'
gos than we had ever been before o.
will be again unless we soar IN I'M
final account on the Billy Suhua.
variety. The Siskiyou boulevard ma
nothing like it in the world and Is th'
real scenic highway wonder OF lh
West The thoughtfulness of the dry
ast CITY in the state fortitylng ltsel
With hard.surface road, good sum
NOR and winter, to a base OF hqui
snnnlies aroused the humor and curi
os;tv Of the visitors and both wer
gratified. a. ,r,
Ashland park was the scene OF
feast of good things. The good pee
nle of the Lithia city had big lunen
hoy for each visitor containing SUI
stantiak, ham sandwiches, stufte
pops nickles, cake, fruits, such as gro'
nowhere else, from toothsome app
TO n luscious peach, and hot CORE
served by the prettiest girls IN low
There was music in the air, Ashian
snielers led bv the chief ringmaste
Editor Greer dilated on the wonderfr
winding drives, the great streams O
running ice water, forty kinds OF mn
eral waters springing from hiilsio'
and orottos, electric lights in the tree'
a christmas tree fifty feet high, tende
vonnp chickens done to nice crls
that made your mouth water comm
right up and asking You to bite theH
Ashland was trying to put one over y
Medford and pretty near did 1t VIM
II lasted. But we all had to go bac
70 Medford and they had more oppo
tnnities to show their talents as oi
tertainers. Lithia Park is as nei
fairyland at night as we ever nope
see this side of the New 'Ierusamu
and as the location of the biblical FAN
CITY is little in doubt we would prel'
staving in Ashland to the he'
world,
The Grand Climax
The grand climax came at Meuio' y,
where banquet was served lke an u
rest. free to the guests, at the ho'
which is the pride of the city and bea
its name. Medford is the home OF
retired, metropolitan opera compaI
ana SOlnt VI tut siHS'iS
crowd with Italian warDles' ma
and female voices, and then a your
Medfordite tenor put it. all over u
foreign stuff with some solos tn
were a surprise. Young Mr.. Nawt
was the singer and the ladies MAJ
him a matinee idol on the spot al
wanted to hold the matinee adj nigh
The speeches were what the French &c
au fait. very fitting. and midnig
warned all of the need of cutting Il
strings. The morning eail was fix
for six O'Clock and some got out
four and five and started for Il
famous Crater Lake motor. trip
ninety miles.
80 Miles of joy
This was the third great division
the three-day feast of hospitalit
More editors had arrived. There W
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