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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-23


gone to North Yakima, Wash, where
he has secured employment with his
father.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Burkhalter of
Berkeley, CAL, have been visiting
Mrs. Josephine Barrett on Factory
street.
Miss Mabel Galley and mother have
returned to Ashland after a lengthy
absence. The Galeys formerly lived
in our city.
Clara Davies, who resided here
with her family several years ago,
but now of San Luis Obispo, CAL, is
visiting friends in Ashland this week.
Merrill Throne, night clerk at the
Hotel Austin, and Charles Lamkin,
bus driver of the same hotel are two
of the latest recruits of the 1st COM
pany.
Mrs. Simons has moved her milli-
merry shop to 26 Pioneer avenue. oppo-
site the First National Bank. VIII
be ready to serve old and new Gus
toners Saturday, July 21. Summer
hats at q bargain. 17-3t"
On Saturday the park was a busy
scene, the Chautauqua campers pack
ing and moving to their homes after
delightful stay lasting from week
to two weeks.
o. H. Mcpherson and Olcott Ell
wood of Portland stopped over to
visit Lithia park and the Tidings Of
flee last Thursday. They were trav-
cling by auto south and are out for
an outing.
Stevenson Studio for portraits.
L. L. Love and wife. ]. O'Hara and
wife and little daughter and Bernice
Bell, all of Central Point, are camp
ing at Tolman springs. Mrs. Love is
there especially for her health. She
finds the vapor baths are benefiting
her.
Miss Eleanor Greer, who has been
assisting in the Tidings office in the
absence of Harvey Ling, left for her
homestead near Hit, Cal, Saturday
evening. She is the sister of Bert R.
Greer, with whom she stopped while
here.
Mrs. Clara Foster of Weed, Cal.
has been visiting Mrs. Mary Cole of
A street for the last two weeks. In
the meantime Mrs. Foster has been
enjoying the Chautauqua sessions
and returned to her home at Weed
on Sunday.
Mrs. Paul Guiley returned to her
home at Sisson, Cal, on Friday after
several days visit with her father,
Chas. D. Rifner, near Ashland. Mrs.
Guiley was accompanied home by her
husbands brother, Ross Guiley, of
Sunnyside, Wash.
Cliff Payne makes mission furni-
ture.
S. s. Pruitt, proprietor of the Min
ers' Hotel at Hornbrook, drove over
to Ashland last Friday in his new
Chevrolet He brought his two little
boys with him. Mr.. Pruitt was in
the hotel business in Medford for a
good many years. before going to
Hornbrook.
Passenger Brakeman Ed Barrett
reports having seen five big fires on
the run north last Friday. A very
large fire was raging near Red Bluff,
which is was feared that the l. w.
W. had started. Mr.. Barrett was not
certain as to whether 1t was a forest
fire or grain fields burning.
The Rogue River Fruit and Prod
uce Association has the distinction
of being the first fruit organization
in the country to start community
fruit packing, 1t has now been
adopted by nearly all of the large
fruit centers and recently came in for
official recognition and commenda-
tion by the government.
Charles L. Witt, clerk in the post
office department, has arrived in
Medford from Evanston, ILL.,, sub
urb of Chicago, to work in the Med
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-23

One lot Of Mems Straw Hats. -. $50
One lot Of Mems Shoes. ...... .$1.25
One lot of Mems Ide Collars ...... 90
One lot Of 35c Plain Voiles In all Or
shades, yard wide, sale price. -. LCC
One lot Of extra fine quality Colored
c1tt0n tSt narG Corduroy worth up to 19c
foc Vdru ....'....... II ~
One lot Of plain colored new Cloth Cot
ton Crepes, 25c and 35c values, IN.
One lot of fast color Printed Cotton
Voiles and Splash Voiles, 35c %
Values ............... .EJN
One lot OF soc yardwide Cretons, %
yaru '''..... .............. wv
All 27-inch White Goods will be re-
duced during this sale 25 per cent.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-23

12hc Crepes in fast colords, yd. g 1-3c
One lot of 1910 and 15c Lawns in a
pleasing lot Of designs, yard. g 1-3c
One lot of zoe Wales and printed 1c.
Dimities. special, yard. d..........l JC
One lot of SOC yard-wide White Skirt
ings in the newest patterns, sale On
price, yard ...... .JJC
3Oc Printed Dimities, sale price. E. .23c
5Oc yard-wide Ratanees In extra On.
select weave, yard ............C :. CJC
soc yard-wide Sport Striped and 40.
Checkered Skirtlng, yard. fCC
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-23
Mems Furnishings
Reduced

$500 and $500 ALeaher Shoes very o. "a
Mems Black and Tan oxfords at one-half
ladies' weight
all Sizes O0 values Z.Ct
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-23

Ladies' sorosa Low Shoes Pumps Slippers and oAods $3.50 g 5
One of Shoes Pumps and Slip c1 90
all sizes, $3.50 values
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-12
The Taxpayers Business.

The President has repeatedly said
that it is none of our business who the
Mexicans choose for a ruler nor how
they choose him. He has almost as re-
peatedly made it his bushes by tell
ing the Mexicans who they shall not
have and by recognizing favorite
from among the rival bandits who
have aspired to rule in that country.
1t is a corollary of the President s
declarations, if not of his policy, that
it is none of our business how any
recognized ruler in Mexico conducts
himself. Yet situation is arising
wherein every American who pays
taxes is entitled to feel that it is very
much his business-this condition of
affairs in Mexico. The cost of main
tanning the troops on the Mexican
border is mounting at an alarming
rate; and bond issue is proposed to
pay for it. This would bind posterity
to an annual expense for what is ad-
mittedly a mere temporary eXpedient.
1t would be far better to spend lit
tie more money, clean up Mexico and
free the future of any menace from
that quarter, than to drag on with a
policy so unproductive Of results and
so fertile in expense.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-12

come almost unanimous that tile
drainage was a necessity. AS result
more tile was laid in Saginaw this
summer than ever before. 1t is re-
ported that $50 carloads of tile were
unloaded at one station. So heavy
is the demand that orders are many
weeks behind. A dozen machines have
more work than they can do digging
drains in Saginaw county for the next
year. Another feature of the tile
drainage campaign was the placing of
two demonstrations in the southern
part of the county where previously
little or no thing had been done. AS
a result of these demonstrations there
are already half dozen or more
farmers in the immediate vicinity who
are ready to tile-drain their farms.
The greatest hinderance to the work
going on is the lack of ditching ma
chimes. 1t is quite possible that a
ditcher may be purchased by some of
the interested parties.
Boys and Girls Clubs.
Boys and girls club work was tax
en- up with more than usual vigor and
the results were gratifying. With
the exception of gardening club in
the city and club in the county that
did not have supervision through the
summer clubs in Saginaw county came |
through with 81 per cent completing
their projects. Prizes exceeding two
hundred dollars were awarded men, :
bers One of the most satisfactory
arrangements for the encouragement
of the boys and girls as a means of
keeping them at their job was the
award Of a dollar savings account to
every one who completed his or her
project. The result of the season s
work has been to put the boys and
girls clubs on very satisfactory bas-
is in the county.
Leaders have been discovered or de-
veloped in nearly every part of the
county, people in general are interest
ed in it and the boys and girls are en-
thusiastic. Several groups are now
ready to be organized into handicraft
clubs as winter activity. This will
be attended to next week.
The city is interested in garden
clubs and a movement is now being
Continued on page eighty
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-12
COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT
So IL & as a. T
Interesting Report of Work Done in
Saginaw County During the
Past Year.

Something of the work done under
the direction of the Saginaw County
Agricultural Agent, E. P. Robinson,
is shown by his annual report to the
County Farm Bureau.
Immediately after the holidays a
year ago, the county agricultural
agent entered into series of extern
sion schools, institutes, and other
meetings that took nearlylevery work !
ing day, not excepting Saturday, I'M
til March. He lectured on farm man.
agement subjects, such as "size of
business" machinery costs, '"plan-
ming the farm, reorganizing the
farm for profit etc, and also on soil
and crop topics. He was assisted in
all of this work by help from the M.
A. c. The meetings were made the
occasion for introducing farm projects
and were also valuable as means Of
getting into closer touch with the
farmer and his problems.
Following this the county agricul-
tural agent devoted nearly month to
farm management demonstration work
and taking records, copying records,
and going over the preliminary re-
ports. There is also included under
this head the placing of 125 farm ac-
count books which were taken by So
people besides the 70 who gave rec
crds of the previous years business.
The records have been calculated and
returned. This survey shows an in
crease in the average labor income
over the previous year of $40 per
farm.
Better Drainage Essential.
Being convinced that better drain !
age is absolutely essential to success
full farming in Saginaw county, the
county agricultural agent set about |
a campaign for increasing the use Of |
tile drainage. In the first place cir
cular was sent out accompanied by a
questionairre seeking information on
the date of sowing crops on tiled land,
as compared with the date of sowing
on untitled land. This went to nearly
400 farmers and about 100 replies
were received. The tabulation of
these replies showed that there is five
days advantage in time of sowing
crops on tiledIland as compared with
untitled. These facts we're presented
to the public through the city dailics
and rural papers. Much interest de-
veloped and as a result the principal
topic for discussion at the two sue
ceeding farm bureau meetings was tile
drainage. These meetings were re-
ported through circular letter and the
local press.
BY this time the opinion had be-
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-12
HEOWOSSO TIME.
OwOsSO, MICH. JAN. 10, 1917.

Cedar Falls (Iowa) Record.-The
question now is, Who is to be the
Lincoln of the Republican party four
years henceq
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-12

Minneapolis Tribune.-The U. S.
Army is going, instead Of growing,
under the legislation adopted by the
last session Of Congress.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
PREDICT HEAVY.
 SHOWS TONIGHT IN NEW ENGLAND

Washington, Dec. S-Snow through out the northeastern part of the country today caused discomfort and traffic delay today. A continuance of the snow tonight and tomorrow throughout most of that section was predicted by the weather bureau, with warmer temperature in New England.
 The center of the storm was over Kentucky this morning. having de- veloped greatly in the last 12 hours. Widespread snow in the north and thunder storms in the south accom- pany the disturbance. About 15 inches of snow fell in the Ohio valley in 12 hours since 8 o'clock last night.
 A cold wave which has been ad- vancing from the west has overspread the south, reaching the Gulf coast with freezing temperatures, although it has made little progress east Of the Mississippi
 Heavy snow tonight in New Eng land and the middle Atlantic states was forecast, probably continuing Sunday, with much colder weather in Atlantic coast districts south Of New England. Storm warnings are dis- played on the Atlantic coast from sJaciuoavills to Eastner& Ma.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
Consider Best Aiid
 To Roads
President Undecided As to Whether to Take Over Operation of Railroads, Or to Assist Them Financially Decision Soon.

Washington, Dec. 8-Presi dent Wilson was devoting all his attention today to the rail road problem with the inten ton of making a quick decision on whether the government shall operate the railroads for the war emergency or whether 1t shall extend financial aid.
 It was said that one of the chief difficulties in the way of choosing government operation was that of finding a railroad administrator One of. the principal questions that the president is considering, it is said, was whether it would be better to choose a railroad man or some highly deyel- opened administrator from some other line of bushes
 Railroad executives are eager to. avoid government operation by having congress permit the practical unifca- tion of all the roads by suspending of the antitrust and anti-pooling laws and further having the government by loans or guaranty of securities provide the roads with about a billion dollars for road nd terminal equip- ment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
MOST OF CREW IS LOST; REPORT 37 LIVES ARE SAVED

Washington, Dec. 8-Torpedoed in night attack, the American destroyer Jacob Jones' of the newest and largest submarine hunters of her class sunk Thursday night in the and thirds of her lost The disaster brings to the American people the first naval loss of great consequence since the country entered the war.
 Thirty of her officers and crew were taken off in life rafs The rest not accounted for in todays dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims who forwarded the names of 10 of the survivors
 The names of the 10 survivors reported follow:
 Lieut.. John K. Richards Ensign Nelson N. Gates Assistant Surgeon L. L. Adamkiequicz Charles E. Pierce fireman; Timothy Edward Twomey, seaman; John c. Johnson, seaman; Henry A. Stutzke chief machinist mate; Edward F. Grady, fireman second class; John J. Mulvaney seaman; and Myron Flood, seaman.
 Lieut.. Commander David Worth Bagley, brother of Mrs Josepus Daniels wife of the secretary of the navy and whose brother the first American officer to give his life in the Spanish does not appear in the list of survivors As Ad mra Sims junior officers among the survivors and does not mention Bagley is feared that he went down with his ship.
 The complement of the Jones in peace times five of cers five petty officers and 87 Undoubtedly this had been increased From first reports indicated that the loss would be upward of 60 men.
 The ship OrpedOed at in the rOlng icy of north Atlantic The submarine probably had plenty of time to take aim
 The submarine upon the destroyer patrong her course in the dark and had all the best of it.
 No details contained in todas report but has been the heretofore that when submarine gets hit des it is due to chance meeting and good OppOrun iy than fighting skill the part of the submarine
 large of life would indicate that the torpedo with its deadly charge of high explosive made fair hit plump desroyes thin hu and that the submarine hunter prob fairly in tWo That she went down quickly is evidenced by fact that nothing said of survivors getting feboas Those saved got off rafts which probably foaed off the sinking ship she plunged downward in the Iicy darkness
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08

St. John, B. Dec. SHalifax is isolated in her desoa- ton today sormbound the devastated city has been off from virtually all communication with the outside world
 With every building in Halifax and Dartmouth more or less damaged by the explosion and fires men, dren hudded together best they could and passed night of sufering The chilling wind whsed through smashed windows there scarcely blankets enough to wounded and many unable to obtain food Fires almost of the question and the only lights oainabe were from oil lamps candles
 Out of the chaotic conditions rich and poor have rallied galanty to their duty of caring for the injured and home less and accounting for the dead The citizens finance mee estimates that there destitute persons in the devastated the majority of them from the poorer classes Nearly 4OO0 dwellings destroyed, the committee de- clas leaving at least homeless and the actual losses and the estimated cost of temporary maintenance will ap proxmate $3OOOO,OOO.
 Intermittent communication by telegraph, uncertain and hestatng in the early hours of the day. followed pe suspension far could be learned here the sufferers from the explosion of Thursday is causing the greatest temporary quarters for the homeless limited and supplies of window glass and roofing paper might make damaged buildings again habable are still
 Continued on Page 2)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
FORLORN HOPES
 FOR VICTIM OF
 SHOOTING FRAY

Benjamin Parsons. of 5S4 Connecti- dangerously wounded in the Bridge port Hospital, today, and is expected to die; and Charles Brown, of 18S Smith street, is in the same institution with bullet in his neck, both men being victims of a craze which sud- denly came over John Williams, aged 25, also of 1SS Smith street, when he went on a rampage after having drunk too much liquor, last night.
 Williams, detectives learned upon Investigation, today, had been drink ing heavily, and when he entered into an argument with Brown, in their Boarding house, early in the evening, mind He tore a revolver from his pocket and after shooting Brown in the neck, ran out into the street, where he threatened two boys; ran into 8 drug store and threatened peo- pie there, then darted out into the street again and shot Parsons, who was standing at Newfeld and Strat- 8ord avenues, waiting for a car.
 Both Williams and Brown are ne- GfOes. Their argument, 1t is said started over bit of tomfoolery. Af- ter he had done with his shooting williams went into a drug store to buy strychnine, and had only drunk small bit of it. in the presence of the clerk who sold it to him, when the enploye dashed the bottle from his mouth.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
GUILTY CONSCIENCE ENDS REIGN OF STEEL THIEVES
 OPERATING IN REMARKS

Arousing suspicion by his peculiar actions of the past ten days, Robert Lindsay, of 92 Whitney avenue, a. tool inspector in the employ of the Rem ington Arms O., unwittingly gave de- tectives a clue which enabled them to arrest him and two companions to- day, for the theft of $3,000 worth of high-speed steel and approximately $35O worth of leather -beldng from the factory
 Together with Lindsay in custody are Irving Block, of 303 Poplar street, driver of one of the Remington trucks, and William Gibbs, of 65S Warren street, an assistant foreman in the plant. All three are under $3,000 bail, charged with conspiracy and theft. and Lindsay and Gibbs admit their guilt The police claim to have conclusve evidence against Block, however.
 Gibbs, it appears, was the master mind who originated the plan under which the operations were conducted He found his opportunity late in sum- mer, but intended first to go into a legitimate business, and organized the Metal Products & Refining Co.,, es- tablishing offices at 40S Old South building, Boston. Lindsay went into business with him.
 The method he employed since August was to take shipment of steel tools, parts, etc., and upon inspection reject one or more as unfit These re- jected cases he made no entry of but ts1rred over to Flock who carted inc in his machine to garage the conn pany had rented. at 533 West avenue, for the express purpose of using as {
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
LAYTON HELD CRIMINALLY
 RESPONSIBLE E

David Layton is held responsible by Coroner J. J. Phelan for the death of Hazel Waterman of 905 Noble ave- nue in a finding handed down today Layton is confined in the county jail serving g. sentence of six months for taking without leave the automobile which was wrecked and from which Miss Waterman was thrown and kill ed early in the morning of Dec. 2 while returning from New York. The accident occurred at Nash's corner in Westport.
 At the time of the accident the au- tomobile was occupied by Layton, Mrs. May Allen, and Edward Cowen of 260 Horace street. and Miss Wa terman. They went from Bridgeport to New York. and left New York at 11:10 to return to Bridgeport, and reached Westport at about 1880. Lay ton in his testimony before the coroner said at the time the machine left the road and struck a telephone pole, 1t was going not less than 40 miles an hour.
 Coroner Phelan finds that Layton culpabiy allowed the automobile to get beyond his control so he was un- able to taka the curve safely.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
Big Goa! Cargo Is
 Received
k ederal Fuel Adrninis- trator Takes Steps to Relieve Situation in Bridgeport, Siemon Is Informed Needy To Be Served First.

As the result of appeals to Fuel Administrator Garfield at Washington, 1000 tons of an- thracite coal arrived in the har- Dor today to relieve Bridge ports domestic shortage. No- tice that this amount was be- ing sent to this city was re- ceived directly from Washing ton today.
 Chairman Carl F. siemon, of the Bridgeport fuel committee, states it arrived a few hours after the notice was received with this shipment and others that have been received during the last two days" said Sic mon, "the local situation is greatly relieved.''
 The committee will confine it's ef- forts to distributing hard coal to fam flies, who are practically without fuel. Persons found hoarding coal, 1t was reported today, will be severely dealt with by the committee and it is ex- pecte they will be blacklisted by the retail dealers when the normal sup ply is resumed. Many cases of fam fly hoarding have come to the atten- tion of the board and precautionary measures are being taken to see that they do not procure further supplies. A committee to investigate and rec ommend g standardized measure for street pedlars was appointed at a meeting of the committee yesterday. It includes, Richard s. Terry of the Berkshire Mills Co.,; A. J. Sprague of the Sprague Ice and Coal Co.,, and Jo- seph W. ziegler of the City Ice and Coal Co. City sealer Dennis Kelly met with the committee and dealers yesterday and discussed the situation. The committee will adopt a standard bag immediately and it is expected will make a report to the dealers who will meet at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08

Store-houSe.
 Some of the stolen goods were also shipped to Lindsay's home, where they were concealed in his cellar.
 The firm, which early in its career Lindsay took complete charge of, en- tered into negotiations with big cor porations in various parts of the country. Some goods were sold to the Ridgeway Steel Refining Co.,, of New York; to Loewe SE Sons Co.,, of this city, and the Locomobile Co.,, here, was one of the firms with which Lindsay got into communication. He transacted all business through his Boston office, mail directed to him be- ing sent there, and then returned from Boston to his home in this city. The leather beltine was sold to a firm in St. Louis, Mo.x
 For all that the firm had sold up to today, it had received $1,091, and of this SAP was paid to Gibbs, and $150 to Block, his share being fixed at from $50 to s75, per trip for what ever .he carted away. The balance of the money was held by Lindsay to be used as working capital for the firm. Blocks denial of guilt Is re- futed, the police say, by the fact that cancelled checks with which he was paid by Lindsay are held in evil dence.
 Lindsay's conscience drove him into unconsciously exposing his guilt Fearing detection at any time. he took, recently, to lettering about the office Of Captain R. M Davies, of the i, Remington police, to watch what was going onp
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
REPORT ANOTHER
 DYPHTHERIA CASE

Another well-advanced case Of. diphtheria came to the attention Of local health authorities, today, when William P. Griswold, aged 55, a 1odg. CT in the Commercial House, Water street, walked into the Emergency hospital and asking treatment for a bad case of sore throat was found by Dr. J. F. Keegan to be suffering from an acute attack Of the dread malady.
 His is the second case to have been found here within the past two days. Joseph Alves, aged S5, of BOT Fair field avenue, being the first victim. Alves, motorman, who came here from Boston only three weeks ago, also walked into the emergency hos pital with a sore throat, as he sup posed, and after receiving anti-toxin, was sent to the isolation hospital