Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-05-29


3. E. Gall and wife came in from
Belleview to trade with our merchants
last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jud V. Miller left this
morning for short visit with friends
and relatives at Klamath Falls.
Mrs. Hartley is having her Mob Hill
residence repainted and other i'm
provements added about the place.
Mrs. Bob Fitzslmmons, converted
opera singer, will tell her life story,
subject "The Winning Fight" at the
Methodist church this evening at s
o'clock. She is the wife of ex-Cham-
pion Bob Fitzsimmons.
LADIES OF ASHLAND! Collect
your old shoes ready for shipment
Friday, June ?. Keep separate from
rags. Civic Club will collect them in
the morning. Tie up in gunnysack
and leave on fEont porch. 2-2t
The public library will be closed all
day Tuesday, Decoration Day. Here
tofore the library has always re-
mained open on Memorial Day, but it
being legal holiday the libraries of
the state will all close this year.
DR.. Lanse Briscoe, son of Superin-
tendent of Schools G. w. Briscoe, ar
rived last week from Seaside, Ore,
where he has been located for the
past several months. He will make
a visit of indefinite length in the
city.
Dutch" Emery, veteran sign
painter, is putting a many-lettered
sign on the window of the Hotel Ore
gon office room which is to be occu-
pied by the Wells-Fargo Express
Company. The sign is most artis-
JIC pleCe Ol WOTE.
Hornbrook Leader: Mrs. G. E.
Pratt entertained at dinner May 20
Rev. H. o. Edison and wife, their
daughters, Mesdames Tenant and
Stout, and children, and Mrs. A.
Marske and son Albert of Ashland,
who are her guests.
Fred Buchtel, state public service
commissioner, has directed district
sealers of weights and measures to
confiscate all berry boxes which do
not measure up to requirements un-
der the Oregon law. California ship
pers are said to be the chief offend
ers in this respect.
Mrs. Allie Rhodes, who lives near
the normal buildings near here, lately
heard from her sister, Mrs. Bishop,
of Texas, that she had not heard from
before for thirty years. The long
lost sister was so unfortunate as to
lose her husband by Mexicans shoot
ing about a week before writing Mrs.
Prof. A. c. Crews, who has been
teaching in Hood River during the
past year, arrived Wednesday with
his mother, Mrs. G. w. Crews, to
spend the summer in Ashland. Mrs. |
Crews and children arrived several
days ago, Mr.. Crews remaining at
Grants Pass for a visit with Prof. H.
H. Wardrip and other friends.
Mrs. Eula Edwards and daughter
Of Spokane, WASH, surprised Mrs. F.
NJ. Lynch Sunday by appearing at her
1oor. The ladies we're formerly dear
friends and hadn't seen each other
'or fourteen or fifteen years, and
Mrs. Lynch didn't know they were
anywhere in this country. They are
low located at Medford, where they
nope to make a permanent home.
The Hornbrook Leader in a recent
issue says: "The S. P. Company
nay cancel passenger trains, but,
gee whiz! it is doing an immense
business in freight traffic. Long
goods trains pass through Horn
brook at intervals day and night.
rhe northbound freights as rule
ire pulled up the Siskiyou grade by
i've 190,000-ton engines-two in
'ront and three in tandem two-thirds
pack. 1t is a sight to see one of these
ong freight trains pull out of this
station on it's way to Ashland"