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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-02

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g With the providence of Joseph in Egypt
when he saw the lean years coming, we filled
our bins with tens of thousands of Yards of
the most desirable, most demanded Summer
fabrics, at the old, unrisen prices! Their kind
can't be secured today for less than fifty per
cent more than we paid for them-some of
them can't be duplicated at all, grade for grade
no matter what the pull the price, or the
powers of persuasion!
give are cutting them up constantly, tailor
ing them with an eye single to satisfaction of
wear, fit style, and placing them on our tables
daily with the full measure in them of estab-
lished Perry values of cloth and workmanship
at the old, familiar, long-known Perry
Prices!
Blue serge Suits, plain back or s15
pleated' back, old-time values { ~4O
snd d@e qfoasern dlannel , Delted-Daok coat SIS
g Golf coat and trousers-Oxfords
tans, cambridge grays browns with
broad stripes, homespun and herring
bone mixtures, $18 500, $25. Z
gNorfolk Suits, skeleton lined,
SIS, SIS, $40, $25
OI,s.a IL G. G.
worsteds, cassimeres, cheviots, in black,
blue, gray, brown, stripes, checks, plaids
and fancy mixtures; skeleton lined,
quarter lined, half lined-$15, S1S,
$40, $25.
qPlain and pleated back Palm Beach
Suits, in light cream, dark tan, blue,
gray and novelty mixtures, $3.50 to $40.
q Pongee and Shantung silk Suits, with
pleated back coats, $1S and $40.
gWhte flannel Suits, $40.
gMohar Suits, $12 and SIS.
q White flannel trousers, SIS and $3.50.
gStriped worsted and flannel trousers
in very exclusive patterns of domestic
and imported fabrics, So.
gWhite duck trousers, 81 80.
gPalm Beach trousers, $500.
GTwo big floors full of Summer clothes for
business, for dress, for fun or frolc at the
shore, on the tennis court, on the golf links
at Perry's!
PERRY &CO., N. BIT.
10th & Chestnut sts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-02
Schoolboy Hit by Street Car

William Stover. a 1O-year-old pupil of
the Parochial School of st. Michael 2d
and jefferson streets. was knocked down
by a streetcar in front of the schoolhouse
today while on the way to his home at
Mascher and Wilt streets He was picked
up by S. w Buck, of 5th and Jefferson
streets. who was passing in his autombile,
and taken to ST. Marys Hospital where,
though cut and bruised, he was said not to
be seriously injured No arrests were
made.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-02
KITCHENER in SECRET
COUNCIL WITH LEADERS
Guard Surrounds Commons,
Where Conference Is Held With
Members of Parliament

LONDON. June "A conference of
grave Importance was held this morning
between Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State
for War and members of Parliament 1t
took place in the chamber of the House
of Commons and was secret.
A strong police guard was stationed in
Westminster Square. and those who tried
to enter the spectators gallery of Com
mons were barred.
1t is believed that extensive military
operations by British troops were dis
cussed. .f
The cnnference In sted two hours
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-02
Arrested on Autn Fraud

NoRRISToWN, Pa, June 2.-For oper-
ating an automobile with tags other than
those provided by the State Highway De-
partment and without chauffeur's license,
John c. Groome. Jr. of Philadelphia, son
of the Superintendent of the State Police.
was fined $3.50 by Burgess Saul. and the
automobile was detained until the automo-
bile regulations were complied with.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-02
BRANDEIS TO TAKE OATH
OF OFFICE ON JUNE II
Will Occupy Bench on That Day But
Will Not Take Active Part

WASHINGTON, June Louis D..
Brandeis. newly confirmed Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court. will take the oath
of Office June II. when the court meets for
the last time before summer adjournment.
A large grlst of cases is TO be completed
by the court that day, but the part of
BraEdeis will be simply to sit ON the bench
after being sworn in and look on. all the
work of preparing the cases having already
been done.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
High Officials
Spend Day in Valley

A big party of the high officials OF
the Southern Pacific railroad did y
Ashland and the Rogue River valley
last Friday. The party consisted OF
j. H. r. Parsons, general passenger
agent of the Galveston, Harrisburg &
San Antonio railroad, the Houston &
Texas Central railroad, the Houston
East and West Texas railroad, Hous-
ton & Shreveport railroad, and Texas
& New Orleans railroad; Phil X. Cor
don, general agent of the Sunset
Route Southern Pacific and Atlantic
steamship lines, with headquarters at
San Francisco; r. j, Smith district
freight and passenger agent for the
Southern Pacific at Sacramento; F.
C. Lathrop assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Southern Pacific at
San Francisco, and l.. II. Nutting OF
New York city, general passenger
agent OF the Southern Pacific and At
lantic steamship lines. Mr.. NuttinS
was accompanied by his wife.
The party arrived in Ashland on
train IA Friday morning and were
Joined here by Local Agent G. N.
Kramer, who accompanied them to
Medford, where they were Joined by
Agent Rosenbaum of Medford.
The party was taken on a short
automobile trip through the orchard
district around Medford and met
John M. Scott on train 13. The en-
tire party were then brought to Ash
land in autos and taken over the park
and drives. The officials all drank
and enthused over Ashland lithia wa
ter and kept notebooks busy making,
notes about Ashland park
The party returned to Medford for
a late lunch and motored through the
valley to Grants Pass, where they re-
joined their private cars.
The entire day was greatly enjoyed
by the visitors, who kept Messrs. Kra-
mer and Rosenbaum busy answering
questions and listening to words of
praise of the valley.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Twenty-four-piece
Band for Big Ball

Be there at o'clock sharp. You
don't want to miss any of it. And
we will guarantee that you won't
want to sit out a single dance from
the first enlivening two-step through
an evening of swinging, irresistible
music until the last strains of Home,
Sweet Home" have died away.
Dreamy waltzes, snappy two-steps
and "pepful" one-steps which just
naturally won't let your feet keep
still, played by the Ashland band OF
twenty-four pieces, is big attraction.
The music alone will be worth
hearing, and if you do not care to
dance, come to hear the music. Spec
tators will be charged 20 cents.
The boys hope to realize a suffi-
cient sum to go long way toward
the purchase of uniforms. 1t is a
good cause, it will be a great "hop,"
and if you are not there you are
doing yourself and the band an in
justice. Dance tickets 81.
Friday night is the night and the
Ashland armory the place.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Grants Pass Will
Be Here on 4th

Ashland may surely expect mon
ster crowd at the Springs Dedication
celebration on July 4, . and 6. All
of the southern Oregon cities are can
ceiling plans which they may have
laid for these dates and promise Ash
land their fullest cooperation.
Several weeks ago word came to
the Ashland celebration committee
that agitation had been started at
Grants Pass for a celebration on the
Fourth. The committee wrote to the
Grants Pass Commercial Club, telling
them of the plans laid here, and re-
ceved the following reply:
Grants Pass, March 81, 1916.
Springs Dedication Committee, Ash
land, Ore.
Dear Sirs: The writer presented
your letter of March is at the last
meeting of the board of trustees and
1t was the unanimous verdict of the
board that Grants Pass ought by all
means to clear the track and grease
the rails for the Ashland celebration
on July 4. We assure you Of the
hearty cooperation of the CONNER
cial Club and of the city in your un-
dertaking.
1t is very probable that the club
will arrange to attend in body and
be of every assistance possible in
whatever stunts you may have
planned for the day
We will appreciate your trouble If
you will keep us posted as your plans
develop so that we can keep the mat
ter before the people.
We are planning for a fair and
celebration in the fall and are count
ing on Ashland's support at that time.
Yours very truly,
RALPH Il. RILEY,
Assistant Secretary Grants Pass Com
mercial Club.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Thousands Spend Sunday
I'm AShland'S Lithia Park
Pictures for the
Ashland Schools

Under the auspices of the public
schools of Ashland and for the pur-
pose Of obtaining pictures for the
walls of the public and high schools,
the Elson art exhibit of famous pic
lures will be shown at the armory on
the afternoons and evenings of We'd
nesday and Thursday of this week,
April and 6.
The physical training department
will put on exhibitions, drills, folk
dances and other entertainment, and
music will be another attraction in
addition to the picture exhibition,
which is we'll worth seeing. The chill
dren of the schools are selling tick
cts for the exhibition, the admission
price being 10 cents.
All of the proceeds will be devoted
to the purchase of pictures for the
schools No doubt a number of in
dividuals and organizations will pur-
chase pictures for presentation to the
schools All pictures purchased and
presented will have brass plate at
tached, suitably inscribed with the
name of the donor.
This exhibition of pictures is one Of
more than ordinary interest. It con-
sists of carbon photographs and en-
cravings loaned by the Elson Art
Publishing Company, Inc, Belmont,
Mass. The collection is large one
and contains only the very best repro
ductions of the masterpieces of art of
different countries and periods. Near
ly every gallery and country in the
world would have to be visited to see
the original pictures which are here
brought together in one collection.
The collection comprises two hun
dred subjects representing all the
principal schools of art and including
many reproductions Of sculpture,
architecture and important views
from nature. Few collections have
ever been brought together which so
completely cover the history of art
of all times as this. A catalogue will
be on sale at the exhibition hall.
No city or town should be indiffer-
ent to the culture and refinement of
its people. 1t is part of the school
work to inculcate these qualities in
the children through whatever means
it has at its disposal. The wholesome
and refining influence of pictures of
the right sort on the school walls is
now generally recognized as one of
the most valuable means of securing
this end. The funds for purchasing
such pictures, as well as an oppor-
tunity to make a selection from a
very large number, is secured by
means of the exhibition. The larger
the attendance, the greater the num-
ber of pictures that can be secured
for the schools.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Police Will Muffle
The Sirens Scream

This is an age of electricity, and
along with the advantages come the
necessary disadvantages. Prominent
among the latter is the electric horn.
Now an electric horn on an ordinary
pleasure car, used moderately and
sensibly as a means of warning the
pedestrian, is all right. But a
screeching, screaming, nerve -scraping
siren electric horn on a "two-bits to
Medford" jitney, the driver of which
must vie with eleven other jitneyists
in cleaning enough travel to pay gas
oline bills, by sheer strength of his
siren horn if necessary, is an abomi-
nation in the ears of the long-suffer-
ing public. 1t wouldn't surprise us
any day to see the old scout on top
the Carter fountain take a shot at
some OF the drivers who let their
screeching signals blare clear from
the White House grocery to the Pres
byterian church.
To save such tragedy, which nat
uraly would reflect on the Ashland
police departments ability to keep
the peace, the police department is
going to issue a few ultimatums to
the jitney drivers which will insure
a little more peace in the family and
relieve the strained look on the old
scouts countenance. A few simple
rules regulating the amount oil
squealing and shrieking which may
be INDUCED in and designating regu-
lar stopping places will be outlined.
Almost every week sees another
line of cars added to the swarm.
There are the gray pennants, white
pennants, red pennants and yellow
pennants. Pretty soon there will be
a shortage of colors and we will have
pink and orange striped pennants,
blue and yellow checkered pennants
and other hideous combinations
which will jar on the sensibilities of
the public even more than the vari-
toned siren horns.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Early April Crowd Gives Indication
Of Throngs Summer Will Bring
MANY Picnic Parties.

poured into the park through every
entrance. Not only were Ashland S
adopted citizens, her health-seekers,
much in evidence, but there was a
large quota from outside points, who
had motored in during the day. A
conservative statistician estimated
the number of people in the park dur
ing the day at four thousand, while
fully three hundred motors visited
the scene.
The activities in the park were by
no means confined to the afternoon.
Throughout the morning the foun.
tains were literally patronized, and
at noon a number of picnic parties
enjoyed a good old-fashioned dinner
in the open air. Some used the ta-
bles under the trees, while others
reveling in the balmy spirit of spring
time, spread snow-white linen and all
their goodies upon the young grass
All the fountains were in opera
tion, the lthia, sulphur, and the arte-
sian spring of carbonated city water
The lithia still holds its pre-eminence
in public favor, however, and Super
intendent Graves was the busiest
man on the grounds, filling the pa
per-cup holder at this fountain.
After all, there is nothing so con-
vincing as an accomplished result.
In a measure, the crowd of yesterday
was that, for everyone had chance
to see the beauties of Ashland's park
system to the best advantage, filled
with life and color and movement.
Everyone present seemed to realize
for the first time the carnival and
holiday spirit that is the last neces-
sary detail to one of the finest play
grounds in the west.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Hobo Says Laziness
Is Gift Not Disease

'Laziness isn't a disease, its's a
gift" So spake the sooty counte-
nanced knight of the rods who with
some six Of his fellow travellers had
climbed down from the rods of a
southbound passenger in the Ashland
station late one night last week.
You see whole lot of them guys
hitting the freights for the north and
call them hoboes. They're no more
hoboes than that baggageman over
there. There is all kinds of work
openin mp in the north, and, take 1t
from me- 1t amt healthy for a man
to stay around where there is too
much work. Some guy is liable to
make you take on some of it, Me
for California where you don't have
to pay postage on your booze. Say,
you couldn't let me have quarter to
get something to eat? Honest,
amt ct nothing since we rolled out
of Portland Yesterday mornin'."
He was one of the scant dozen
southbound transients who pass
through Ashland nightly. The heavy
box-car tourist travel is, northbound,
as he says. According to the local
police, there we're 1877 tramps, hoboes
and unemployed who stopped off in
Ashland in one day recently, and an
average OF over a hundred daily.
There are cared for at the Fourth
street fire hall hobo hotel" Besides
these who come under police surveil-
lance there are dozens who escape
the watchful patrolmen and make
their beds in the barns along the right
of way.
Nearly all of the northbound trav-
elers appear to be in search of work,
and, according to reports from the
north, will have little trouble in find
ing it. 1t is the southbound tramp
who is the real genus "hobo."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Ashland Fruitmen
Adopt Agency Plan

At meeting of the members of the
Ashland Fruit and Produce Associa-
tion and other fruitgrowers of the
Ashland district held Saturday after
noon at the Commercial Club, the
fruitmen voted unanimously to accept
the contracts of the government SELL
ing agency and to take membership
with the Fruitgrowers' Agency of the
Northwest, Inc.
The contract which will be entered
into by the selling agencies with the
central organization and the growers
with the selling agencies was read
and discussed. The fruitgrowers were
made to understand taht this years
results would be but beginning and
that full cooperation would mean
much greater results next year.
The matter of a standard pack was
emphasized by several speakers. No
definite decision was made, but it was
the consensus of opinion that the
packing should be done in a central
station.
Mr. Reimer, manager of the fruit
experiment station at Talent, spoke,
inviting the farmers and fruitgrowers
to make a more general use of the
experiment station, which is main
tanned by the government for their
benefit He congratulated the grow
ers on taking the action which they
did and predicted good results lie
stated that the experiment sation was
in the valley to work out the farm
ers' problems for them, and urged
visits to the farm. Among the prob
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Klamath Jury Sets
Lawrence Free

One of the most sensational mur-
der trials in the history of Klamath
county came to an end at Klamath
Falls when the jury in the case of
h. Earnest Lawrence, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Alma Kuehne OF
Dodd Hollow, returned a verdict OF
not guilty at 1880 Saturday night,
March 25.
The crowd in the court room
cheered when the verdict was an
nounced. The jurors deliberated one
hour and forty minutes.
Mrs. Kuehne was killed December
20, 1915, during a pitched battle,
participated in by several persons.
Owing to the intensity of feeling
against Lawrence on the part Of Dodd
Hollow people, who remained to bear
the verdict, he stayed in Jail during
the night. Lawrence plans to leave
for Illinois soon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Railroad Workers
Ask Eight-hour Day

Formal notice was served Thurs
day by authorized committees of the
locomotive engineers, conductors and
trainmep on the Southern Pacific
Company for revision of schedules OF
pay so that hereafter the employees
will be paid on basis of eight hours
with time and a half for overtime.
The demand also contemplates that,
except in passenger train service, the
correlated basis of pay on mileage
shall be 100 miles to constitute eight
hours run whether actually run in
eight hours or not. Firemen are not
concerned in the proposed new sched-
ule for employees of electric lines.
The notice served on all railway
managers in the United States is
similar in every case and follows the
form prescribed by the chiefs of the
employees organization in Chicago
April 20 is the date set for surrender
of the railway companies to the de-
mands for increased pay or for re-
fusal to yield.
The demands involve 1S0 railway
systems with 24S,OOO miles of right
of way; exclusive of terminals and
yards In the western territory
there are 100 railroads with $4,000
miles, in the eastern territory sixty
roads with $4,000 miles, and in the
southeastern territory twenty roads
with $1,000 miles.
The employees, according to local
railroaders, are opposed to arbitra-
tion, claiming that the companies
failed to live up to former agree
ments made through arbitration.
However, provisions have been made
for concerted action on the part of
JHt WI hOio tnlOuShOuI Ihc VouhIiI
for a meeting with a representation
of all the railroads by the committee
representing the workers.
Granting of the demands of the en-
ginemen and trainmen would mean
lower wages for some and higher
wages FOR others on the Shasta di-
vision, according to local railroaders,
The switch engine crews at Ashland
would have eight-hour instead of
twelve-hour shifts as at present. The
overtime clause is inserted in an eff
fort to force the railroads to cut down
on the practice of working the men
overtime and would assure Ashland
railroaders of more time to work in
their garden patches.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Starts Crater Lake
Road Survey on 10th

Engineer ]. w. Ball, from the Of
flee of the public roads and rural en-
gineering of the federal Department
of Agriculture, is preparing to begin
the work of survey of the Medford-
Crater Lake highway. Field work
will begin on April 10, with crew
of about twelve men. The work will
cover a period of probably five
months. The route will, in all prob
ability, follow the course of the
Rogue as nearly as possible; but that,
of course, is among the official de-
tails to be worked out in preliminary
surveys. The scenic value of the
highway will be taken into account.
Engineer Ball began the organization
of his forces last Monday.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03

The two or three hundred strang-
ers who are in Ashland, drinking our
mineral waters for their health, see
ing the crowds that assembled on
the lawns and walks yesterday, and
the concourse Of motors that filled
the boulevard, might easily have con-
cluded that the Fourth of July had
paid an early visit to the city. AS a
matter of fact, Lithia Park was mere
ly demonstrating the drawing power
of a beautiful day and of her own
natural beauties. Few indeed are the
parks this far north that can claim
so large a gathering on the End OF
April. What the size of the crowds
in July and August will be, when
special attractions are staged and
coast-wide advertising adopted, can
only be vaguely surmised.
During the afternoon three piano.
ramic photographs of the park and
the crowds we're taken by the Studio
Ashland, as well as nine smaller pho
tos. The weather was ideal both for
the photographer and his subjects.
Southern Oregon, anxious to justify
all claims made for her climate, pro-
vided a clear, beautiful day, and tenn
pered the warmth of the sun with
delightful breeze. The entire swing
of Lithia Park, from the Butler-Pe-
rozzi fountain to the snow-capped
peak of Mt. Ashland, was embraced
in the panoramic pictures, which will
be used for advertising purposes.
BY 3 o'clock the walks and paths
were swarming with people, the ten
mis- courts we're in use, automobiles
threatened seriously to choke the
boulevard, and still the crowds
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03
Major Speaks at
School and Club

Major McAleXander, instructor of
the student battalions at Oregon Ag-
ricultural College, is in the city to-
day. The major is a graduate of the
United States Military Academy of
1887, and of the War College Of 1907.
He is serving his thirty-third year in
the service and is now member Of
the general staff.
He spoke at the high school this
afternoon and will speak at the arm
ory early this evening to the militia
and any citizens who may wish to at
tend, and afterward will speak at the
Commercial Club. -.s