Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-03

the coming season. Beet growers VIII
be given preference in buying the
wood.
We are still here. Come early
Stock going fast. Baughman's Great
Cash Raising Sale, 227 Fourth street
The bridges between Siskiyou ant
Hornbrook on the Pacific Highway
are now finished and the bridge crew
is working on the bridges on the
Hornbrook-Yreka section.
n. c. Carnie of Chicago won out
over w. A. Bailey of Ashland in the
election for editor of the Oregon
Countryman, an agricultural maga
zine put out by the Oregon Agricul.
tural College.
The vining Theatre did a record
breaking business Saturday night
having a packed house. The pictures
were excellent and the vaudeville pre-
sented by the Medford high school
students entertaining.
Yreka News: C. A. Bell, construc-
tion engineer of the physical plant OF
the municipal mineral water system
of Ashland, spent the early part OF
the week visiting Montague, Yreka
and the surrounding country.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Sanford of low.
er Helman street are enjoying a visit
at their home with A. NJ. Orchard o.
Spokane, Wash, who is Mrs. San.
ford's brother, whom she has not
seen for twenty-eight years. Mr., Or
chard is much pleased with Ashland's
lithia water and visits the park and
fountain often.
A very important mining discovery
was made near Gold Hill recently
when Messrs. Haft and Ray discov-
cred valuable deposits of tungsten
ore at Sylvanjte. The ore has been
examined by experts and pronounced
one of the most valuable discoveries
in precious ores in the history of
southern Oregon.
F. W. Robinson, traffic director of
the o. w. R. & N. Railway Company
of the Union Pacific system, and H.
A. Hinshaw, general freight agent of
the Southern Pacific Company, we're
the guests of A. S. Rosenbaum, South
ern Pacific agent at Medford, over the
Pacific Highway from Ashland to
Medford Wednesday night, leaving
train "a at Ashland. After a ride
over the highway to Medford they
rejoined the train there.
April Fools day passed quietly in
Ashland with not even the customary
number of purses with strings at
tached and hats with bricks beneath,
in evidence. Maybe the opening of
the fishing season and the resultant
hegira of the small boys of the town
to the sequestered shade of nearby
streams had something to do with
the dearth of excitement.
Cooperating with the city in the
cleanup compaign this year, H. o.
Purucker, local agent for the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company, had
his company send him big supply of
handbills giving hints and directions
for cleaning up the premises and
combating the fly pest. These were
distributed to every house in town.
The anti-fly illustrations should be
especially effective in instigating a
against the pest. The city
appreciate the cooperation
Of Mr.. 'Purucker
H. L. Sinclair and wife and their
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. F. G.. Bergeron
and Miss Edith Bergeron, of Venice,
CAL, motored up to the McCloud
,ace on Rogue river Saturday. They
'eport the road to be pretty soft in
places. Mr.. McCloud told them that
ne and a Mr.. Hurd were going to put
Up a sawmill near their place. The
Ashland party spent Saturday and
Sunday fishing, but met with small
success. Mr.. Bergeron will return
his week to Venice, his wife and
laughter remaining for an extended
,isit with the Sinclairs.