Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Oeen Attending school.
Include a package of Crowson's
candles with your New Years greet
ing. Sold only at Poley's. Drug Store.
Mrs. Mary L. Newcomer of Long
Beach, CAL, is holiday visitor at
the home of her brother, c. w. Fra
ley, on Mountain avenue. She is on
her way home from an extended visit
in the middle west.
The University of Oregon football
team passed through here on the
Shasta Limited Monday night bound
for Pasadena, where they will meet
the University of Pennsylvania on
New Years day. Twenty-one players
were on the squad.
Medford Tribune: Mr.. and Mrs.
A. E. Reames left Sunday to spend
the holidays with relatives in Port
land. Mr.. Reames will make final
arguments in the case of Sweeney VS..
Jackson county this week in the Multi
nomah circuit court.
Cliff Payne makes snow shovels.
L. Luis Matte and F. Herman Lois,
civil engineers commissioned by the
Chilean government to investigate all
irrigation projects in western Amer
lea, are spending a few days in the
city investigating the Rogue River
Valley Canal Company project.
Miss Maye Glover, who is spending
the holidays with friends in Oakland,
Cal, writes that she may remain in
that vicinity till the early spring. She
and her mother, who accompanied
her, report very pleasant visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Schwimley, formerly of
Ashland, but now in Lodi, Cal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Fisher, we'll
known in Ashland, where Mrs. Fish
er lived when Miss Cora Carter, will
be sorry to learn of the death of
their three and a half year old son,
who died from membranous Group
last week. Mr.. Fisher is an engineer
on the Dunsmuir-Ashland run.
According to figures prepared by
the Oregon Voter, Jackson county
ranks fifth in the state in socialistic
tendencies, as evidenced by the So
cialist vote at the recent election.
Fifteen and five-tenths per cent of
the voters voted the socialist ticket.
One-tenth of the Oregon voters voted
state or local socialist party candi-
dates.
H. o. Purucker local agent of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, was recently offered an ad-
vancement to a position in the San
Francisco offices of the company, but
has turned it down owing to the fact
that the position entailed clerical
work almost altogether and Mr..
Purucker preferred to wait an open
ing in the field since he is anxious
to stick to that branch CT the insur-
ance game.
Grants Pass Courier: Two S. P.
freight cars went off the track Mon
day afternoon, about half a mile east
Of the depot. One of the cars was
thrown over, while the other was de-
rallied. AS the cars were loaded with
paper, no material damage was done
10 the contents, although the cars
we're somewhat battered. A wrecker
was employed all night in clearing
he track to allow use of the siding.
The wreck was due to defective
-ail, which broke into three pieces.
The appointment of Lester Hum
,hreys as minister to Siam has been
and will probably be con-
irmed. He will succeed Hon. w. H.
owner of the Democrat,
low on his way to Cherokee, Iowa,
or a visit with his father and other
'elatives before returning to Albany.
Mr.. Humphreys is a brother of ]. A.
of the postoffice, a for
ner student of the o. A. c., and a
partner of Senator Chamberlain in
he law business. His parents reside