Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-01-17

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Roseburg will establish an auto
camp ground for tourists before the
season opens this year.
F. L. Johns of this city was bus
mess visitors to Medford Saturday af-
ternoon and evening.
Charles Howard has put Dodge
touring car Oh Lis jitney service be-
tween Ashland :, Medford.
Sheep in Douglas county are suf-
fering from the storms. An estimate
places the loss at 1900 during the
past week.
President P. ]. Campbell of the
University of Oregon was visitor in
Ashland last Wednesday while en-
route home from visit in Califor-
MIA.
o. H. Barnhill and wife, Gratz
Barnhill and Miss Minta Cherry were
among those from Ashland who at
tended the high school debate at Tai
ent Friday evening.
A number of local high school stu
dents and basketball fans went down
from Ashland Saturday evening to
see the basketball game between
Medford and klamath Falls at Med
ford.
Science is making rapid strides in
the improvement of aids toward bet
ter eyesight. We're keeping abreast
of the times by employing the lates,
and most improved methods of test
ing and fitting eyes at Whited's.
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"sleuth" Settles left the last of the
week for Hit, in northern California,
where he will pursue his chosen vo-
cation, running down any Italian
bomb atrocities which may occur, as
a side line.
An epidemic of mustaches has hit
the Medford high school, according
to reports from that city. AS yet
Ashland has only been scorched in
spc IS by the mustache disease among
the young men.
Mrs. ]. F. Meikle returned to Berk-
eley, Cal, the last of the week after
very enjoyable stay in Ashland, dur
ing which she renewed old friends
and acquaintance and looked after
property interests in the city.
S. L. McGills and wife, who visited
and transacted business in Ashland
the latter part of last week, left Sat
urday for Dunsmuir. During their
stay in Ashland they became greatly
enamored of the city and may return
this summer for a vacation stay.
H. G. Gilmore writes from Los An
geles that they will leave Monday
today for Ashland. Mr.. Gilmore
has undergone an attack of la grippe,
an epidemic of which has attacked
60 per cent of the citizens of the
southern California metropolis, ac-
cording to the professor.
Correctly fitted glasses at Whited's.
All work guaranteed. 6S-2t
Hobb Deuel. and Leon Speck, usual
evening visitors from Med
ford, did not make their weekly visit
on last Saturday. Close friends of
the young men atribuate their alb
sence to a campaign of intimidation
in a column OF pipe dreams
issued in the Medford Sun.
H. S. Palmerlee returned Friday
morning from Long Beach, Cal,
where he was called last week by the
serious illness of his mother, who
passed away Thursday. His mother,
Mrs. Helen NJ. Palmerlee, was 81
years of age. A daughter accom-
panied the remains to the old home,
Dodge Center Mimi, where the bur-
al was held.
Do you have to hold the paper at
arms length and then feel ashamed
hat you can not read better? It's
lot your eyes fault but yours, be-
,ause you have put off too long hav-
ng Whited the optometrist fit your
yes correctly. 6S-2t
The three-story summer hotel be-
ng constructed at Elk Creek, on the
Crater Lake road, forty-six miles
rom Ashland, will be dedicated
lbout the first of June. L. e. Mac
Donald will be the manager of the
'esort, and already reports many res
,rvations for the coming season. The
'esort is within few hours auto
mobile drive of Ashland, and visit
o the beautiful Elk Creek country
will make an interesting side trip
rom Ashland.
Two mules which were used in
the mail over the Salmon
from Etna Mills to Saw
yers Bar, in Siskiyou county, were
buried in snowslide. The mail car