Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-07-27
Future Celebrations Plans
EnthuSe Big Banquet Crowd

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! One hundred and thlrty-two citi-
zens of Ashland gathered at the
Hotel Austin Tuesday evening and
participated in a get-together meet
ing which for enthusiasm is unparal-
leled in the history of the series of
meetings which were inaugurated
about a year ago. Designated as a
future celebrations" banquet, the
affair devolved into an executive
meeting of Ashland's leading citizens
at which a number of big projects
which are ahead of Ashland were dis
cussed, plans laid and definite action
taken toward the consummtaion Of
these plans.
One tact became pre-eminent:
Everybody in Ashland has year of
hard work ahead of them to secure
the results which the city should Sc
cure in the next few months. But
by the proper spirit of cooperation,
spirit which became very evident
Tuesday night, Ashland can accom-
plish the things which are ahead and
make the effort gloriously worth
while.
Preceding the speechmaking and
/ planning was a banquet served by
A. Austin Chisholm, the new man
ager of the hotel which takes one
care off the minds of the citizens and
leaves them secure in the knowledge
that Ashland has a hotel manager
who is an artist in his line. Such
dinner has never been set before
gathering in Ashland before, and
the beautiful part of it is that those
who eat at the Austin regularly state
that the dinner was just a fair sam
pie of the meals served every day at
the Austin.
After the several courses had been
disposed of. Toastmaster Carnahan
opened up the serious business of the
evening with witty preamble and
introduced H. o. Frohbach, who gave
a summary of the report of the gen
eral committee for the
Dedication Celebration.
Mr.. Frohbach's report, which was
very satisfactory, was received with
loud applause. Rather than attempt
to give a synopsis of the report, it
will he printed in the next issue of
the Tidings as it was read. Every
one in Ashland is interested in know
ing the inside workings of our sue
cessful celebration, and Mr.. Froh-
bach's report showed the workings
to have been smooth indeed.
Roundup.
A. c. Nininger was then intro
duced, and after paying a glowing
tribute to the general committee for
the manner in which they had so sue
cessfully handled such an immense
celebration on such small funds,
turned to the roundup, briefly outlin-
ing its history from its inception to
the present day. Mr.. Nininger gave
major credit to c. R. Adams, with
Monte Briggs a close second, stating
that had it not been for their ire
pressible enthusiasm the roundup
would never have been. He told
how the roundup was first considered
by the general committee, but only
$500 was available. Finally recog-
nizing that this amount was just
drop in the bucket, Monte Briggs Of
fered the proposition that if the gen
eral committee would give the $500
he would find group of men to take
it off their hands. The five men, A.
c. Nininger, Monte Briggs, C.. R.
Adams, o. T. Bergner and Doc
Helms, took over the affair. At first
they planned about $4,000 show,
but it kept growing larger and larger
until upon closing their books they
found that $4,000 had been paid out
and the organization had $4,000 in
track and stands. Mr.. Nininger made
it plain that the $500 given to the
roundup people was given exactly as
it would have been given to secure
any other attraction. It is hardly
probable that anything else the $500
could have gone for would have. been
one-tenth the attraction which the
roundup proved to be.
Mr.. Nininger gave the receipt for
the success scored as follows: 1--WE
had to make good. We had propo-
sition we had to get behind with all
our power or lose, and we made it
go. We found that you must spend |
money to make money, and in max
ing it we have made money for prac-
tically everybody in Ashland. We
came out with fair profit" He
then told of the plans which are made
to make the roundup an annual
event. How stock was being sold in
small lots, and the organization
hoped to include forty or fifty men,