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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Compliments S. P.
Railroad Service

A pretty tribute to western rail-
road service and one showing that
the west knows how to do things as
good as, If not better than, other
sections of the country, was paid in
a telegram to the commanding gen.
eral of the Department of the East,
Governors Island, New York, by
Colonel Crenshaw, commanding a
regiment Of Alabama infantry dis
patched to the border during the
troop mobilization. From the quar-
termasters base at Nogales, Ariz,
Colonel Crenshaw sent the wire re-
porting the arrival of three sections
on October 23. The service of the
Pullman company on the entire trip
from Alabama to Nogales was de-
scribed as satisfactory. The service
on one southern road was likewise
described; that on another was
termed fair" and that on a third
was classed as very poor. "The serv-
ice on the Southern Pacific, reported
Colonel Crenshaw, was very good
the best en- route"
"a testimonial of that kind" said
one Southern Pacific official the 9TH
er day, makes us feel pretty good,
for it shows that railroads efforts
to please the public and serve it well
are not unappreciated."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
]. w. w. Raise Cain
At HOrnbrOOk, Cal.

The I. w. w are getting gay in
northern California. A few days ago
they captured freight train and
caused lot Of trouble, being Jailed
at Hornbrook. The Yreka News tells
as follows among its Hornbrook
items of a raid at Hornbrook:
"The /. w. WIS became active Fri
day night and effected a raid on the
Hornbrook Hotel. Night Watchman
Fred Richardson was compelled to
call in the boys from the railroad
yard, and with Winchesters and 9TH
er artillery the invaders were driven
away with one of their number be-
ing shot in the hand. They prom
ised a return engagement the follow
ing evening, but 1t didn't material
ize"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Overland Invites
W W Dealers to. Party

Every Willys-O Overland dealer in
the United States, over five thousand
in all has been invited to visit the
factory in Toledo during the month
of December. Only small part of
the expense incident to the trip will
be borne by the dealers. The balance
ance will be taken care of by the
WHY'S Overland Company The deal
ers will travel in special trains from
all parts of the United States. While
in Toledo they will be shown through
the Overland factory, which is the
largest automobile factory in the
world. 1t covers 103 acres, or an
area equal to twenty-eight city
blocks. The dealers will also be
shown all of the 1,917 Overland and
WHY'S Knight models, and will see
the new models put through the vari-
GUS tests which they are required to
undergo before leaving the factory.
Banquets will be given in honor Of
the visiting dealers, and the plans
and policies of the company will be
explained in detail by President John
N. Willys.
No expense will be spared by the
Willys-Overland Company to make
this Christmas party both a pleasure
and a profit to all the dealers who
take the trip. All branch managers
and general officers of the WHY'S
Overland of California and Overland
Pacific, Inc, of the northwest have
accepted the invitation and are ar
ranging to secure the acceptance of
every dealer on the Pacific coast. 1t
is believed that the Pacific coast will
send to Toledo larger delegation OIL
Overland dealers than any other sec
tion of the country.
Special entertainment of a very
unique nature will be provided for
the dealers both on the trip going
and coming and at the factory.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Southern Oregon
Championship Game

Medford highs football warriors,
with two of the best men missing,
trampled all over the Grants Pass
team last Tuesday and won by
score of &c to 0, on the Medford
field. Ashland naturally feels far
from exuberant over the score, as
Ashland's score at Grants Pass was
6 to O.; and while the locals believe
they could better that on their own
field, it is quite unlikely that they
could even approach the Medford
score.
The big game of the season comes
Saturday, when Medford will arrive
a thousand strong and occupy one
side of the local athletic field. Med
ford is bl inging an exceptionally
we'll organized roofing section and
their high school band. The locals
will stage an immense rally Friday
evening of this week with several
novel features and the biggest bon
fire Ashland has ever known. Be-
tween halves of Saturdays game a
unique stunt will be staged on the
field. Yell Leader Leith Abbott is
determined to make the roofing of
past years seem like mosquitoes
hum aside of the cheering this year.
The Ashland team is rounding into
fair shape, but with small chances
of Captain Cunningham or DOC"
Brewer getting into the game for
more than a few minutes if at all.
The struggle Saturday will be
real championship game, both Ash
land and Medford having gone
through the season without defeat.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

There is every reason to expect
continuance Of the high prices for
beef for several years to come. One
of the largest packing houses in the
country has contracts that run until
the close of the war, for furnishing
beef to the allied armies. With the
end Of the war far away, and with
the herds on the ranges growing
smaller, there is every encourage
ment for the man who is engaged in
raising beef cattle. The company re-
ferred to has steady market so
large that 1t is installing cold storage
plants on sixty ships for the beef-car-
rying trade, and is extending its op-
erations to Brazil. The war has been
a great boon to the producer Of beef,
though the American consumer has
to bear his shareoft the extra burden
incident to high prices.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Ashland, Ore, Monday, Nov. 13, 191t
THE PURPOSE OF COLLEGE
WORK.

Formerly there was good deal OF
distinction in sending boy to col
lege. Taking these higher courses
of study was an exceptional thing.
The whole town watched the student.
He was looked at as scholastic Won
der. It was assumed he had literary
and bookish tastes, and he was con-
sidered as designed for learned
profession.
The crowd that enters college por-
tails today is different. The number
of those seeking college degrees is
multiplied many times. There is a
herd of rich mems sons. To many
of these, and some others as well,
study is a mere side issue. 1t is an
unpleasant feature of the course, to
be evaded as far as possible,
With great numbers of students
the dominating motive is to engage
in athletics and enjoy social life.
With even more the motive is to
make money. The idea has become
widespread that the college man
earns better pay The old scholastic
ideals are gone with the traditional
burning of midnight oil.
Yet the change is not wholly bad.
Athletics and social life have their
high values. This mingling and con-
flict of personality serves valuable
ends. The boy may learn more
human nature, more of executive
management, in his campus and fra
ternity life than any professor can
teach him.
The great trouble is that prevail
ing tendencies encourage young men
to underyalue the experience of the
ages. They may make successes in
business even If they neglect their
studies. But they can not be turned
out broadly educated citizens unless
they apply themselves diligently to
the search after wisdom. After all,
that is what the college is chiefly for.
When it turns out mere money get
tiers it misses the purpose for which
its endowments were created.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

/ wish to announce to the voters
of Ashland that / am a candidate
for the office of City Recorder.
At the time I came west l was
serving a term in a capacity similar
to our office of recorder.
If elected l expect to look after
the city's interest in every particular.
| solicit your support.
Very truly yours,
39-tf G. L. CUNNINGHAM.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Not the First
Close Election

This is not the first instance, since
telegraph service was established,
that the result of presidential cleo
tion was not known throughout the
land the following morning. In 1875
the country was kept in suspense for
period of three months until COM
mission, created to meet an emer-
gency, declared rutherford B. Hayes
the choice of the people. Many of
the citizens of the United States be-
lieved that his opponent, Samuel j.
Tilden, was elected and entitled to
the presidency,
On the face of the returns Hayes
had 1856 electoral votes and Tilden
1874. Election frauds were common
in the south. There were returning
boards, some of them corrupt, which
had the power to throw out fraudu-
lent votes. 1t was difficult to deter
mine at that time which party in
dulged in the more corrupt practices.
There was probably more lying and
perjury after the election in order to
secure one electoral vote than in all
the other presidential elections COM
bined, and that, too, in an era when
all political managers defended cor
ruption on the ground that the end
justified the means 1t is a shame
full story which may be of interest to
the student of history, but too long
to be repeated here.
Unfortunately the machinery OF
the electoral college (the formal
casting of the electoral vote, ordi-
narily a perfunctory act) could not
be utilized in this great dispute.
Civil war was threatened. AS the
only way out of very grave danger,
congress created an electoral commits
sion consisting of five senators, five
congressman and five justices Of the
supreme court. On this commission
there were eight republicans and
seven democrats, On every point In
dispute the vote stood eight to seven
in favor of Hayes, the republican
candidate, and he was declared elect
ed. His popular vote was 4,0S3,S5O,
while Tilden had 4,2S4,S35, major
ity of 250,9S5. Oregon figured large
ly in this contest, Tilden having tried
to get one of her electoral votes be-
cause one of the republican electors
was considered ineligible. That is
an interesting story by itself, and not
local by any means.
Another close contest was the 1884
election when Cleveland won the
state of New York over Blaine by
the narrow plurality of 1,134. The
result was not definitely known until
late in the afternoon Of Thursday
following the election. A foolish
address made by a preacher named
Burchard few days before the cleo
tion drove thousands of New York
voters away from Blaine and made
Cleveland president. That, also, Is
an interesting story.
It is altogether likely that the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Candidate for Recorder.

l am candidate for City Recorder
at the election to be held December
10. Have lived in Ashland over
twenty years, was City Treasurer
four years, and have had an active
business experience of twenty-five
years, including banking and many
methods of bookkeeping. I believe
I am qualified to serve the city faith
fully and well, and l will appreciate
the votes and influence of all the
people of Ashland.
HENRY C. GALLEY.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
The Losers Wall.

Ahead there lies a dismal waste
Of gloomy, dreary years.
Of lack of work and lack of food,
Bloodshot with many fears.
OF panic, drouth and crying need,
OF hard times, grief and sin;
The countrys goin' to the dogs
The democrats are in.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Heard and Overheard
(By Lynn ID. Mowat)

The "past unpleasantness" is all
over and everybody has sighed sign
of relief. 1t was something awful
while it lasted. It's lucky elections
like that don't come every year.
slim" Beeler lost eighteen pounds
and it is unlikely that he will get it
back until the republicans come into
power in 1920, since he expects to
starve during the democratic hard
times which he sees ahead for the
next four years.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
For City Recorder.

l hereby announce that I am a
candidate for the office of City Re-
corder at the coming city election. l
have had sufficient clerical and edu-
cational training to prepare me for
the work. If elected l shall serve
the people to the best of my ability.
r. P. CAMPBELL.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
For Councilman.

| hereby announce myself as can
didate for councilman from the third
ward at the coming election. /
stand for progressive yet conserva-
tive administration of city affairs,
and respectfully solicit your support.
A. L. LAMB.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
Announcements
;-a%%@%s-I-eee%*e%*+++s.sst%
(Paid advertisements }

John 3, Winner, candidate for city
recorder. "A commercial graduate
from the Ashland Normal School and
the Capital Business College at
Salem, with fifteen years practical
business experience, including the
past twenty months in the Ashland
police department, and being closely
connected with the recorders office.
assures you, il elected, an efficient,
economical, impartial administration
both as recorder and police judge.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

close vote in several states this year
may reveal how slight occurrences
and inconsidered trifles thrown into
the balance affected the result ma
tionally.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Teachers: Your attention is es-
pecially called to Mrs. Louis Dodge's
display of hand-work Friday and
Saturday at ]. P. Dodge & Sons fur
niture store. If you haven't time to
make your own gifts, you can order
Just what you want. SOFT
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Daddy, is today tomorrow"
asked little Willie.
"No, my son, of course today isn't
tomorrow" answered his father.
"But you said it was" murmured
Willie.
"When did I ever say today was
tomorrow"
Yesterday" answered Willie.
"Well, it was-today was tomor-
row yesterday, but today is today,
Just as yesterday was today yester-
day, but is yesterday today, and to-
morrow will be today tomorrow.
Now run along and play"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
1t Seems to Us.

IL seems 10 U.s.
Somehow we can not help but think,
Despite the / ser's wall,
Well find way to eat each day
And keep outside of Jail.
1t may be that things don't quite
suit,
But let's buck up and grin
And make things hum despite the
fact
The democrats are in.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

l hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office Of City Re-
corder at the coming election in De-
cember. w. H. GOWDY.
39-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

"P. NJ" Kaiser's lower jaw, which
dragged on the sidewalk all the way
out the Boulevard to the Kaiser
home last Tuesday night, is back in
its former habitat.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Some light-fingered artist stole a
whole bed out of the Hornbrook ho
tel one day last week. We have
heard of people stealing a railroad
and of one man who even went so
far as to steal a whole political con-
vention, but a man who can get away
with a whole bed without being no.
ticed, is entitled to be placed in a
class entirely by himself.-Montague
Messenger.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Dock Gamblers grey packhorse
might just as we'll have died out on
the Dead Indian road. Doc sold him
and showed poor judgment with the
emoluments thereof.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

A high school girl approached the
general delivery window in the local
postoffice and shyly inquired If there
was a letter for her. Business or
love letter." jokingly inquired the
clerk.
The girl blushed, hesitated and
stammered business" No letter
awaited her and she left only to re-
turn shortly, and in faltering tones
ask, please, would you mind look
ing among the love letters?"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Following some of the prediction
political arguments was about as con-
vincing as the argument, Nothing
is better than heaven. A piece of pie
is better than nothing. Therefore, a
piece of pie is better than heaven"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Fred Homes says none of them has
anything on him. DR.. Boslough can
put NJ. D. after his name, Rev. Car
nahan can put D. D. after his name,
but he can go one better than any
of them and gets all kinds of salts
faction out of the R. F. D. after his
name on his mail
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Miss Hicks, affable librarian at the
city library, never failed to improve
upon an opportunity to preach
Hughes" prior to the election. She
now has a large sack of sticky taffy
in large chunks, and whenever any
one approaches with rub it in
look, she graciously proffers the
candy. She says it works fine, for
nobody can talk when their mouth
is full of taffy"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

In the excitement of the day be-
fore election Postmaster Kaiser for
got to wear his necktie, thereby cre-
ating false impression of lack of
democratic prosperity, which, no
doubt, cost his party many, many
votes. But who cares now?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

If you want something good to eat,
get it at the Lithia Bakery and Res
taurant. Soft
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

D. Perozzi told Chi Pierson the
story about the mules tail and the
negro Tuesday night when Hughes
was several miles, in the lead. The
story goes as follows: A niger was
swinging on mules tail and laugh
ing his head off because it worried
the mule so. Finally the mule got
the range and landed the niger over
in the next township. They asked
the niger how he liked 1t, and he
replied, "Well, l got the first laugh
anyway" Chi told the story to D.
Perozzi Thursday, and somehow it
did not seem near as funny.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Along toward II O'Clock Tuesday
night the democrats in the Vining
Theatre, where the returns were
coming in, began to look for the en-
trance to the outside.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Lots of folks don't realize that
they can't afford an automobile until
they have had one for a month or so.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
The Winners JOY.

Ahead there lies a joyful time
OF happy, merry years;
All kinds of work, all kinds of food
New hope to Danish fears.
OF wages high to dispel need,
OF good times, lack of sin,
Prosperity is here for all
The democrats are in.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Bend-A new sawmill to be built
six miles west of here will employ
fifty men.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

We heard democrat accuse the
republicans of coloring the early
election returns to suit themselves.
Come to think about it, they were all
Hughes (all hues).
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Some folks are SO close that they
leave the punctuation marks out of
their correspondence in order to save
ink.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Farmer Corning was asked wheth-
er he had had a good year.
Gosh, yes!' he exclaimed. 81
had four cows and three hogs killed
by railway trains and two hogs and
eleven chickens killed by automo-
biles. l cleared near a thousand dol
lars"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Chimney sweep. Phone 294-R.
44-9t"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
Postoffice as second-class mail mat
ter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

There were few too proud to vote.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Glue will not mend those who are
broke from betting on Hughes.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.


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the last four months. 1t necessitates
an advance in advertising rates, or
we will have to quit business. Fol-
lowing are the advertising rates In
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allowed without charge. All addi-
tional at regular rates.
The Tidings has greater circula-
tiOn in Ashland and its trade terri
tory than all other local papers COM
bined.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Chances are we will worry along.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

We bet on Wilson and voted for
Hughes, thus precluding any down
hearted feelings after the results be-
came known.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-13

Myrtle Point is to have a new lum-
Der yard and planning mill.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-19

Coz operation for the benefit OF the
few versus cooperation for the bene-
fit of the many"
The Hughes orations are more after
the American than the British model.
Compared with the classic, Oxford
nurtured, and precise, diction Of an AS
quith, his style is as a Welsh chapel
exhorter's to the church Of England
ritual 1t was because much of the
>Duntry was in mood for some pro-
phet who would cut loose from the
ritualistic atmosphere, and let himself
go, that Hughes has been welcomed
and acclaimed. He may be portent
of the leadership the nation will de-
mand after the war.
Il like Bill Hughes because he takes
the big view says Labor Leader Ben
Tillett Certainly he has given the
United Kingdom a fresh and stirring
view. Books of his life and books Of
his speeches are in all the shop win
dows; postcard portraits are displayed
with those of royalty, of generals and
admirals and popular actresses. His
name has been sprinkled thru the
pages Of the newspapers the past
month more profusely than any other
except Kitchener's. His position may
prove permanent, or the sober second
thought of the people may write down
the big view where the most sober
and non political Of commercial jour-,
nails has written it, as tumble Of fall
lacies." But while the bushranger UNI
brella mender prime minister en-
barts for his colony, with his univer-
SifV narchmanfS and his golden cas-.
kets in his modest trunk. the remark
able part he has played in making the
old country sit up seems worth record