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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-30
Meat Prices In Germany
To Be Reduced In October

Berlin. Germany. sept so-Food dictator
Won Batocid announces that a general reduc-
uon OF the meat prices throughout the EN-
pire may be expected about the middle OF
october The supply OF beef is increasing
steadily and IN the southern states many OF
the hoss which che famers have TO furnish
under an agreement with the central food
commission viii be available within a Few
weeks
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-30

OF the
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- relief o. generous city
society board
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-30
Germans Mount Ice Plants On Trucks
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Supply Armies With Ice While Movins

ERIN Germany sept SoATfiaI ice
field hospitals
transported on A
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installed
80
Each these plants able 10
crews OF the Zee autos including
small but strong benzine mo
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-30
War Prisoners To Wear Wooden Shoes
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Germany Has No Leather For Footwear

ERIN soldiers
IL the German shoes
Leather has hadye
he Of th German arnv.
caring canvas shoes with flexible wooden so prisoners
mfio
Wooden shoes have been ordered army and
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23
LOCAL And PERSONAL
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Henry and John Enders motored
over to klamath Falls in the latters
bug" Sunday.
C. B. Watson went to Grants Pass
Saturday and spent the day attending
TO business matters.
Roy Addison of independence, a
former Ashland boy, was a visitor in
the city for several days last week.
"Argonaut" flannel shirts in all
the best dark colors at $1.75, $3.50
and SO. Mitchell & Whittle. 1t
Mrs. ]. L. Christlieb returned to
her home at Grants Pass Saturday
after three weeks stay in Ashland.
Judge and Mrs Gilmore, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. v. Smack and Sam Sandry Of
Rogue River picnicked in Lithia park
Friday.
Overcoats in beautiful novelty pat
terms, also many good staple styles,
at SIG, $1S and $40. Mitchell &
Whittle. 1t
Cliff Payne makes washstands.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23
Reduced Rates q
To Walnut Meet

There Is an increasing interest In
the growing of walnuts in Oregon,
and no doubt those In Ashland and
vicinity who are interested will be
glad to learn that rates have been
granted on all railroads to the an
nual meeting of the Western Walnut
Association. The following letter Is
self-eXplanatory:
Orenco, Ore, Oct. IT, 1916.
Dear Sir: A rate of one and one
third fare has been granted over all
railroads in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and California to all persons
who wish to attend the meeting OF
the Western Walnut Association to
be held at North Yakima, Wash,
November 1, 2 and 8. Tickets on
sale October 2S to November 8. Pro-
vided fifty attend paying full fare OF
so cents or more going. BE SURE
and get certificate of the agent
when you buy your ticket that you
have paid full fare to North Yakima,
as only by this can you return on
one-third fare. | will endorse your
certificate at the meeting. This
ought to give us big attendance.
H. V. MEADE,
Secretary Western Walnut Associa-
tion.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23

DR.. Lincoln Writ Of Boston, pub
licist and lecturer of note, will give
an address in the Methodist church
October 81.
Kenneth McWilliams of the Over
land agency disposed of Ford car
formerly belonging to DR.. Tilton, to
Earl Roach.
DR.. ]. F. Hart. who was up from
the county poor farm on business
Thursday, reports thirty inmates at
the county farm.
T. j. Hibbs has started a fruit
market in the room recently vacated
by c. B. Lamkin's agency. Mr.. Hibbs
also carries other produce.
Mrs. Simons will have showing of
new shapes and trimmings Saturday,
Oct. 81, at reasonable prices 4S-2t
]. NJ. Hindman of the Western
Union telegraph force has purchased
the Mitchell roadster which went
over the Steinman bridge, and will
fix it up.
John o. Rigg has announced his
independent candidacy for county
treasurer. Mr.. Rigg has taken a
prominent part in prohibition work
in the county.
Contractor for painting and deco
rating. Phone 294-R. 44-9t'
William Dickerson and family Wis
tied Miss Helen Dickerson at Wellen,
where she is teaching school, Sun
day. making the trip of thirty miles
each way by automobile.
Bill Holmes left the last of the
week for Portland, where he took in
the Nebraska-O. A. C. football game.
He will visit in the city and may go
to Bend before returning.
George Calhoun, representing the
Brownsville Woolen Mills, has been
in the city the past week visiting at
the DR.. Parson home and transacting
business at Mitchell & Whittle's.
Why not save on those Last Chance
Subscription Offers good until No
vember 10 at Poley's Drug Store?
43-2t
klamath Falls Herald. A. L. Har-
rison returned yesterday from Ash
land with a wagon load of apples for
his family and that of F. R. Matt.
He bought the apples for Is cents
per box.
Fort Jones Item; We learn with
regret of the loss of about three
thousand dollars worth of cattle be-
longing to William Lighthill. While
feeding on the range in the Marble
Mountain country they were STAN
peded, probably by bear, and thir-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23
Orchestra at
Vining Best Yet

Last nights orchestra concert at
the Vining Theatre was the best yet.
in the opinion of the large-sized
crowd which heard it. Eight pieces.
including Harry Howells and Miss
Clark of Medford, formed the orches-
ira, and the rendition of Poet and
Peasant" overture would have done
credit to any professional organiza-
tion. Ashland is indeed fortunate in
having an opportunity to enjoy such
fine music.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23
Ashland Sends Most
To S. S. Convention

The Ashland delegation to the dis
trict Sunday school convention at
Medford Friday and Saturday was
the largest of the out-of-town delega-
tions. Talent and Phoenix ranked
next in order. big street parade
with 200 participating was the fea-
ture Friday. Enjoyable programs in
which Ashlanders took a prominent
part were features of both days.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23

ty-one head dashed over a cliff and
were killed. The owner came upon
them only couple of hours after the
tragedy. With the exception of the
hides, which he removed by the help
of Ben Davidson, the herd is a COM
plete loss. They comprised some of
the best of Mr. Lighthill's beef steers
and thoroughbred cows.
Read shorthand classified adver-
tisement. 39-8t'
Gus Hedberg's residence on Second
street has been undergoing trans
formation at the hands of painters
the past week. Mrs. Frank Nee, on
the same street, is also having her
home painted.
Raymond Rueger, son of John
Rueger Of Hargadine street, shot a
big brant goose down on Bear creek
Saturday. This is the first wild
goose which has been reported killed
in the vicinity this fall.
Henry Galley and Harry Sinclair,
in the latter's car, motored up to the
Siskiyou summit Saturday night, and
after spending the night under the
stars, put in Sunday rambling over
the hills with an eye open for deer
Mems all-wool suits of clothes in
sizes "a, 36, SO, 40 and AZ, winter
weights, $15, SIS and $40, at Mitch
ell & Whittle's. 1t
Frank l.. Lacey, piano player at
the Vining Theatre, left Saturday
night for Vallejo, where he will en-
ter the shoe business with his broth
err. Mrs. Loveland is playing at the
theatre until another man is secured.
"Help wanted" signs are becoming
thicker instead of thinning out as
the winter season approaches. Lum-
bermen, quarrymen and fruit work
ers are among those called for at
various headquarters around Ash
land.
The orchestra will be in costume
at the Harvest dance at the Nat Fri
day. So will everybody. Bungalow
aprons or anything else except best
clothes will do. One dollar for gen
tlemen. Spectators and extra ladies
25 cents.
Used cars for sale at the Overland
agency, S74 East Main street. 4O-7t
Charley Hooper and son left Sun
day by wagon for Washington state,
where they may locate. They expect
to take about twenty days to make
the trip. They will go first to Sunny
side, Wash.
Frank Heberlie, a former Ashland
man now located at Weed, where he
operates laundry, brought his wife
up to the Granite City Sanitarium
last week and she was operated upon
for appendicitis Friday. At last re-
ports she was doing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Saunders, and
Mrs. C. w. Minis and her sister, Mrs.
H. W. Binnie of Chicago, who has
been visiting her, left Saturday for
Crater Lake in the formers car. A
trip to the lake at this time of the
year is considered just a little bit
risky. owing to the chances of run
ming into a blizzard in the high alti-
tude
The police department is warning
drivers of cars bearing licenses of
states other than Oregon, that they
must procure Oregon licenses in
event they remain in the state more
than thirty days. The approximate
date of arrival of such cars is put on
record so that the police can keep
check on the cars. Drivers who have
purchased new cars and are using
licenses not procured for those cars
are also noted The law governing
such use of licenses will be strictly
enforced. The maximum fine for
such an offense is 800
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23
Fifteen cases of infantile paralysis

Fifteen cases of infantile paralysis
have been reported in Portland.
Don Jones of Grants Pass came up
Thursday for a stay of several weeks
in Ashland.
The Crescent Hotel at Crescent,
klamath county, was burned to the
ground last week.
F. d. Swingle is able to be about
on crutches after a long siege with
a dislocated hip.
Mrs. Hicks, from Klamath Falls,
recently visited her sister, Mrs. Mary
Drew, in this city.
Auxiliary Harvest dance at Nat
Friday Any old clothes will do. 81.
Spectators and extra ladies % cents.
Mark Weatherford, democratic and
prohibition candidate for congress
man, will speak here Tuesday.
Rev. Mathis, who recently held a
union revival in Ashland, is holding
meetings in Grants Pass this month.
w. a. Cooper, with relatives from
Douglas county made trip up the
Siskiyous by the auto route last
week.
California votes on a general bond
issue of SIS, 100000 for completing
the state highway system, at the No
vember 7 election.
All kinds of jolly fun at the Nat
Friday night this week at the Har-
vest dance. Big orchestra. Old
dances and new. Stiff collars and
party dresses taboo. One dollar
Spectators and extra ladies 20 cents
c. l.. Smith and daughter, Mrs,
Walter Hains, of Douglas county
were visiting at the Benedict home
few days last week.
Miss Querita Brown, who recently
underwent an operation for appendi'
citis, is able to be out and expects to
return to school this week.
Yreka News: Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Haight returned Tuesday from Ash
land, where they visited Mrs.
Haights brother, Henry Voss, and
family several days.
Good, heavyweight, Oregon made
Mackinaws in a beautiful assortment
of patterns at $3.50, $3.50 and 80.
Mitchell G. Whittle. 1t
E. v Carter, president, and j. W..
Mccoy, cashier of the First National;
H. Fi.Pohland president, and V. o.
N. Smith, cashier of the Citizens;
G. G. Eubanks, cashier of the state,
were among local representatives
who attended the gathering of group
four of state bankers at Medford on
Thursday. Mr. Mccoy is chairman
of the Bankers Association.
Ausbon Leach, fifty years old, was
drawn into the cog wheels at a Klam-
ath Falls box factory and killed last
Wednesday night Deceased leaves
a wife and four children.
Frank Jordan returned Friday
from Yreka, where he is building a
cement furnace house for a heating
plant which Provost Bros, are in
stalling in the Yreka auditorium.
The fish hatchery at Klamathon,
on the klamath river, near Horn
brook, has been running lately and
a number or local autOmoDlle OWNERS
who have motorcd over in that direc-
tion have brought back salmon.
Don't miss the Harvest dance Fri
day at Nat. 1t
Mrs. Beaumont DeLosh, who has
been visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. S. Smith, at Medford, for the
past several weeks and a frequent
visitor with friends in this city, left
Wednesday evening for her home at
Aberdeen, Wash.
Central Point Herald. Last Satur-
day the eighth grade went on pic
mic to Ashland Lithia park. After a
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23

very enjoyable day they started
home. They reached Central Point
about o'clock, feeling that they had
had the time of their lives.
Mrs. Il. B. Hanley of Medford,
vice-president of the State Hughes
Alliance, and who presided at the Or
ganization of the Ashland alliance, is
much in demand as a campaign |
speaker throughout Oregon and |
Washington and is busy making talks
in the northern and eastern part of
the state.
Grants Pass Observer: A new irrl-
cation district is now being prompt
ed by the farmers up the river. The
plan is for a high ditch filled with
gravity water from Rogue river, the
source to be in the neighborhood Of
Gold Hill. 1t will reach Grants Pass
at an elevation of 40 feet. The
project is feasible and desirable.
Chimney sweep. Phone 294-R.
44-9t"
Yreka News; The highway cross
ing under the railroad track at Bailey
hill has been completed. Work on
the approaches is now under way
and will be completed in a few days.
This piece of work has been the only
drawback to the trip over the Siski-
yous, and when 1t is finished many
an auto driver will forget profanity.
A large crowd attended a republi-
can rally at Eagle Point Thursday
night with c. Nj. Thomas of Medford
and C. B. Watson of Ashland as the
principal speakers. The issues of the
campaign-locally and nationally
were discussed. 1t was one of the
best meetings of the campaign. Mr..
Thomas was received enthusiastical-
ly by the audience.
o. F. Carson visited Grants Pass
on business Friday.
Professor and Mrs. Henry George
Gilmore are today leaving the home
of their daughter and husband, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank ID. Black, Swiss Cot
tage, Beacon Hill, Seattle, Wash, af-
ter months visit, and will stop
over in Portland for visit with Mr..
and Mrs. o. j. Stone, the well-known
former residents of Ashland, before
returning to their home here.
If the present rate Of registration
of automobiles in the automobile reg
istration department of the secre-
tary of state keeps up for the remain
ing months of the year, the number
will unquestionably go over 10000
machines above the number regis
tered last year Last year the total
number registered was 23,5S5 and
this year the number already is 3d.
2SO, with two months yet to go.
These figures do not include motor
cycles.
Chan Watson was visitor in the
city over Monday while en- route from
Klamath Falls to Montague.
Mrs. A. j. Rose of Medford visited
her brother Harvey and Mrs. Ling in
the city Monday.
Jack Kimball and Mrs, Kimball,
formerly Lyle Watson, passed
through Sunday evening en- route
from Klamath Falls to Portland.
They will attend a Kimball meeting
there and afterward visit Grays Har-
Dor cities before returning to the
Falls. Mr.. Kimball has charge of the
Weyerhauser interests in southern
Oregon and watches over many thou
sand acres of timber lands.
Mrs. Sherman Hays, of lndepen-
dece. is in the city on her way to
Ashland to visit her sister. Mrs.
HAYS will Join her this morning and
they will proceed south together
They are former Eugene residents
Mrs. Hays being engaged in the hop
business. Eugene Register.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23

Paisley has adopted plans for
$4,000 public school.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23

A floral firm is to build an $4,000
near Wilsonville.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-10-23

Sellwood will fight the location Of
a tuberculosis hospital in that city.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25

The story cor es from Tacoma that John Finlay son, explorer and frontier man, nearly forty years ago put by a small fortune he expected to keep him for the re- mainder of his days. But his calculations have all gone awry. He lived too long. He is now Io3 years old, his money has all been spent and he has applied to the board of trustees of the Pioneers home at Sitka for a pension.
 Tie patriarch of the north is of Scotch descent. His life of more than century has. been spent always on the frontier. When the gold fields of California and Ore gon were considered worked out he migrated to northward and
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25
CURIOUS NEWS ITEMS

be broken in twelve places and ii he shall hereafter offend he shall be persecuted wi far war parse cution for he shall be burned and hanged. By all the laws of all the Europe, of Scotland and her grace the Duke of Argyll
 Three Cords of Gold.
 A workman in the subtreasury at New York, recently, piled bars of gold the assay office had melt ed from English sovereigns re- ceived there since October 27, When he finished he remarked T reckon the stack is about three cords" The pile was II by 6 by 6, or 3oo cubic feet. There were I6,345 bars, calculated to be worth SIo2, ,5oo,ooo. They weigh ed about 2o5 tons. The bars were put in separate vault, because the assay showed higher qual- ity than is required in American coin. They average oIo.6 fine compared with the goo fine oi United States eagles.
 A Rapid Grower
 Three months ago Harry Con- nelly, aged IA, of Moultrie, Ga, was a slender boy of average height. He began to expand at that time until today he meas
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25
PIONEER MINER
 LIVED TOO LONG

landed at Fort Wrangell. He as- cended the Stikine river and pros pected its side streams.
 In 1878, gold was found on one of the tributaries of Dease lake, and Cassiar. Finlayson joined the stampede and acquired poke of dust with which he returned to Wrangell.
 Finlayson made several trips into the north country ever in the hope that he would make a bo- nanza strike. There came a time when he didn't need any more gold, for he figured that he had enough to keep him as long as he would live but he continued to hunt it. Simply for the joy of finding it
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25

once
 Any employe found expressing sentiments in favor of the enc mics of Great Britain and her allies in the present war will be discharged immediately.
 Any employee who ovefhears another employee express senti- ments in favor of the enemies of Great Britain and her allies in the present war is requested to report immediately such eInploye to the general manager, and any employe. regardless of his senti- ments, who fails to conform with this rule will, upon evidence of that faiure, be discharged imme- diately.
 C. K. NJ. CO.,, LIMITED, .@ J. W. BOYLE,
 General Manager. Dawson News.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25

He never estimated that he would reach more than eighty five or ninety years, but as those anniversaries of his natal day came and passed he gradually cut down and down on his ex- penses, year by year always '.iraining a little less from the store. Now he has reached the age of Io3. The last nickle of the small fortune he made has been spent and he asks for pen sion. Alaskans say there is no doubt it will be granted.
 Finlayson river and Finlayson lake in Alaska are said to have been discovered by this aged ex- plorer-Valdez Prospector.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25

ures 6 feet 5 inches in height and weighs 200 pounds. During the past three months his parents have been forced to buy him new suit of clothes every week. A special bed was built for him. Harry can hardly get into his last Mondays suit now, so he will be provided with another ana larger outfit this week. The doctors are trying to find way to check Harry's phenomenal growth without impairing his health.
 Lad a Master Burglar.
 Dommick Bertelli, an innocent looking boy, has confessed to for ty burglaries in Harlem, N. Y. He said he had stolen jewels val ued at S3o,ooo. His disclosures were made in the library of the district attorneys office. On a table were all sorts of jewellery, which had been stolen by the lad and recovered from pawnshops. Fifteen apartment house dwellers picked out articles that had been taken from their homes. Bertelli stood by and laughed as he told how he had obtained the goods. He is now serving term in the Elmira reformatory.
 Germany Seeking Gold.
 The Reichsbank of Berlin, is taking measures to secure all gold deposited in safety deposit vaults since the war began Circulars have been sent to all banks throughout the empire urging them to serve notice on the rent
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25
BIG COMPANY PUTS
 BAN ON TEUTONS

]. ". Boyle, general manager of the Canadian Klondike Mining Company, has posted the follow. ing self-explanatory notice at va- rious places on the company's property;
 NOTICE TO EMPLOYES.
 Any employee who is in favor of Germany and the nations as sociated with her, as against Great Britain and her allies in the present war, is hereby re- questcd to quit our employ at
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-25
A Walking Bank.


 ed hearers ln the superior court at boston, recently, by testitying that sne usualiy earned q4,ooo or S5,Ooo Tn cash on her person--in her snoes, toes of her stockings, ana Tn the bosom of her dress.
 Luck m Inn teen.
 The thu teenth bauy ot MT. and Mrs. Ilyue hyie ot Mishawaka, Ina, aIiived at the kyle nome recently. Inc chAd IS a daugil- ter ana IS the tnlrd one O1 tne children to be born on the thlr- teentn day ot the month. MT. and Mrs. Kyle were married on the I3tn aay of the month
 w ant Omcers Barred.
 Noting that the automobile bills ot the city of Boston have increased Ill the last eleven years fIom 93,ooo to 9lOo,ooO the city finance commISslon Is urging tue city council to take some action thar Will curb Joy rlding on the part ot city ofhclals ana also limit the iaie hours ot municipal chat- feurs.
 An All Electric Village.
 Wllawood, suourb ot toledo, O., may be trutnIuliy called an "aii-electric viuage. "A large real estate development company has erected tnis nttle village ot thirty houses and has equipped them throughout with the latest elec- tr,cal devices. Each house is fitted out with large electric range and all other conveniences. he real estate company pur- chases the current for the entire viilage in bulk from the central station and retails 1t to the house. holuers, who are thus able to ob- tain their power at reasonable rate.
 Sues for Car Fare.
 The verdict of I2 cents render ed against the Middlesex & Bos- ton Street Railway Company by Judge Copeland of the Newton, Mass, court in the suit of Chas. K. Darling, has been appealed. MT. Darling brought suit for IA cents. lie stated that during the the latter part of July he took a trip to Norumbega park to wit ness a performance which was scheduled to take place that eve ming. When he arrived at the park he was informed there was to- be no show. He sued for his car fare and two cents postage.
 Patriotic Bank Clerks.
 The war in Europe has made great inroads on the staff of the Bank of Nova Scotia, many of the clerks throughout Canada having enlisted and gone to the front. In order to fill the depleted bank staff ranks the corporation has decided to try the experiment of employing women. In the Prince William street office, the princi- pal one in St. Johns, N. B. Miss Helen McJunkin, formerly the bank telephone operator, and Miss Margaret Kennedy are now at work on the books.
 Dire Punishment.
 An old Highland fishing proc iamation was read by the Rev. Percy Coats at a meeting of the Lune Fishery Board at Lancas- der. According to the reverend gentleman's version the procla- nation read as follows; "This shall be . proclamation of her grace the Duke of Argyll: If any mon be found fishing in the loch, on the loch, around the loch, through the loch, afoor the loch, or hinder the loch, his neck shall