Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-15


according to word received from that
city, and is progressing nicely.
The Hodgson Realty Company re-
ports the sale of the j. B. Ware resi-
dence property on Liberty street ia
Paul Hall, Prineville rancher.
Wilmer Policy and wife have gone
to Los Angeles for his health and will
be gone month. o. Didra and Jess
Clary are helping Homer Elhart run
the drug store.
4 Chief of Police Atterbury has
moved into the Morris house, at the
intersection of Mechanic and Skid
more streets, a property now owned
by G. S. Butler.
Several people from Ashland visit
ed the chicken show at Medford last
week, G. w. Benedict of Mountain
avenue and Mrs. Booth of Oak street
being among them.
A. w. Bartlett, manager of the
Ashland mine, returned Monday from
New York and is preparing to re-
open work at the mine with the com
ing of favorable weather.
Mr.. Ray Taylor of Klamath Falls
moved to Ashland to try the benefit
of lithia water for rheumatism, and
is located in a furnished house of
G. S. Buffers on Third street.
/ The Inland Empire excursion ar
rived here at l o'clock Sunday and
was greeted by Mayor Lamkin and
other citizens. Lithia water for all
was the big feature of the stop here.
f. II. Pinkston and wife of Oak
land, Ore, are at the Hotel Austin
for the winter. Mr.. Pinkston, who
is a sufferer from asthma, hopes to
find the Ashland climate conducive
to better health.
At a meeting of parties interested
in irrigation, held at Talent on Tues
day, w. L. Moore, C. A. Brown, j. w.
Millner, A. c. Joy, w. F. Shaw and
V. o. n. Smith were among those
present representing Ashland and
Belleview territory.
Thornton Wiley has bought the G.
S. Butler four acres of orchard,
mostly cherries, in West Ashland, on
which is a substantial residence. AS
an exchange, Butler takes Wiley's
property on Iowa street as part pay
ment, balance on cash basis. The
deal involves about $4,000.
Miss Angie Walrad is in San Fran
cisco visiting with relatives, she hav-
ing received holiday gift of trip
to the metropolis. Her cousin, Miss
Martha Smith, a trained nurse, is
also health inspector of the schools
in the Bay City Miss Angie will
also visit friends in the family of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Frulan.
See the spring woolens and styles
for ladies' suits and coats at Orres'
,, Tailor Shop. We make them in our
shop.
Word has just been received in
Ashland that ]. l.. Downing and wife,
former residents of this city, started
from Los Angeles Thursday morning
for Baltimore, Nd, where Mr.. Down
ing goes into Johns Hopkins hospital
for treatment and a possible critical
operation. Ashland friends will hope
for his early recovery.
Rev. Howell Isaac, former resident
and we'll known in church musical
circles, has returned to Oregon and
located in Lakeview, where he is pas
tor of the Presbyterian church. Evil
IDENTIFY he is the same jolly person as
of old, inasmuch as the Lakeview
Examiner makes mention of that
fact. adding that the new clergyman
sis a Welshman and has not lost the
pleasing brogue which characterizes
that race"
In line with many previous records,
not a single passengers life was lost
on the Southern Pacific last year as
the result of train accidents, and in
the past eight years only one such
life has been forfeited. During the
eight-ycar period the system carried
32S,592,S63 passengers an average
distance of AZ miles each, said to
be the equivalent in passengers and
mileage of transporting fourteen bill
lions of people one mile each, statis-
tics which assume fierce dimensions.