Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-13
HOME PRODUCTS WEEK.

The women OF Ashland are won
derful bunch. We say wonderful ad-
visedly. They have more get up and
ginger in a. minute than the men
have in a year. We say that advised
ly, too. When they cook they cook
the best on earth, and no man in
Ashland cares to deny that, for he
will go farther and pay more for Ash
land home cooked eats than he would
for the best hotel feeds to be found.
The women of Ashland are simply
there with the goods in a hundred
different ways.
When it comes to enterprise they
are world beaters. They have the
courage to tackle big undertakings
and put them over magnificently
every time. Out of number of great |
undertakings the Ashland women
have attempted during the past five
years not one has been a failure-or
a half failure-but splendid success.
They have the judgment, the ability, |
the courage and the pep, and the
stick-to-it to put things through.
The women are responsible for the |
success of Western Products Week. |
1t was inaugurated by the Civic Club.
Likely the Business Mems Association
would never have thought of it had it |
not been for the women taking it up.
But, among few real virtues, the
men of Ashland have one-Aor shall
we call it fear instead of virtue?
When the women inaugurate an en-
terprise in the interest of the city the
men either have the good judgment
to get behind it, or are afraid not to
get behind it, for the Ashland women
have a steam roller with which to
pulverize drones, and men may well
be afraid of that Anyhow, the men
get behind enterprises inaugurated by
them and stay there (if the women
keep hard enough after them to keep
them going) until they are brought
to a successful termination.
After inaugurating the Western
Products Week in Ashland, where
western products were to be features
in the show windows of the stores,
they thought, also, that these prod
ucts should be sampled as well, so
the Civic Club prepared banquet
1--WE say banquet advisedly, for 1t
amounted to that composed entirely
OF home products and western manu-
facture, and spread it before the peo-
pie for the small sum of thirty-five
cents. 1t was worth twice the sum,
but that is all the average Ashland
man will pay for the best meal on
earth, so the ladies made it thirty
five and the men came, over three
hundred of them, and were satisfied.
Not only did the ladies accomplish a
great good for western manufactures,
for Ashland producers and a better
trade-at-home spirit, but they put
something like hundred dollars in
the Civic Club treasury as sinews of
war for the next grand contest. We
do not know what the next move will
be, but we are ready to wager our
best hat that it will be worthy one,
in the interest of Ashland, and that it |
will be a great success. Alone the |
fact that the Civic Club inaugurates
a thing guarantees that.
The officers of the Civic Club this
year are: Mrs. Il. D. Briggs, presi-
dent; Mrs. c. B. Lamkin vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. May Gamblers, secretary; |
Mrs. w. D. Hodgson, treasurer; and
the chairmen of committees which do
things are Mrs. o. D. Winter, Mrs. d. |
Perozzi, Mrs. w. NJ Barber, Mrs. w. |
II. Smith, Mrs. e. c. Gard and Mrs.
J. F. Rocho.
The Ashland Commercial Club |
should be made auxiliary to the Civic |
Club and a woman put at the head
OF each Commercial Club committee.
Maybe that way the critter could be
brought to life. At least a good wet
nursing by the Civic Club might give
II some pep.
Tho "andslide" nronhet will ha in