Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-09-10

PAGE SIX
+%%<+%+<++~<+~++++%->-@-<@
! Here and There An
>+%%++%+%%-<+%<<<<<<>->-><<
Quick action on the part of stock
men has effectually checked the cpl
demic of blackleg among cattle near
Bend, the vaccination of more than
900 head of young stock being com
Melted. No further danger from the
disease is expected this season.
Marshfield cranberry raisers on
North Inlet and in other sections re-
port a probable average crop this
wear. although the berries will be
small. All bushes are loaded and,
owing to the dry weather, the quail
fly will be Of the highest grade.
Despite the greatest difficulties ex-
perienced in obtaining cars for eith-
or contractors or material men, State
Highway Engineer Num- has an
nounced that there is now under way
Including bridge construction, prac-
tically $1,6OO,OOO worth of state
highway work.
Klamath Falls Herald: Twelve
women are now at work at the Ewau+
ma box factory of this city. This is
the second firm to employ this class
of labor, and representatives of the
company declare that the women are
doing excellent work in the lines at
which they are engaged.
Oregon Observer: Waglon loads
of hop pickers and their equipment
have been going out of Grants Pass
during the past week, bound for the
yards on the river bottom. Although
the hop acreage has been greatly re-
duced in the past few years, there is
still enough hops bearing to employ
several hundred pickers.
Continued search has failed to re-
veal any traces of Horace w. Mar
shall, engineer of klamath Agency,
who had been lost for more than
week in the Red Blanket country OF
western klamath county. A number
of the best Indian scouts on the
klamath Indian reservation have
been combing the forests for several
days.
Every wooden mill in Oregon is
now working on government orders,
says State Treasurer Kay, who con-
ducts a wooden mill in Salem. Prac-
tically every one of them is working
night and day. Mr.. Kay has Just
announced that on September the
employees in his mill will receive an
other substantial increase in pay.
Similar increases were made January
] and June / of this year.
Rogue River Courier: One of the
most important mining deals in the
history of southern Oregon has been
consummated within the last day or
two in the sale of the famous Logan
placer mine situated on the Grants
Pass Crescent City road, about two
miles northwest of Waldo, to George
M. Easterly and associates of Seat
tie. The purchase price is $4,000.
The Oregon Normal School at
Monmouth will be opened on Septem-
ber "a, instead of September 10, as
previously announced Please pass
this word on to all prospective stu
dents. This decision was made for
the purpose Of allowing students to
assist in the seasons work and to
give longer period for the completion
of buildings, reports ]. H. Ackerman,
president OF the school.
The Rainbow Lumber Company's
new sawmill a mile south of Sisson
burned to the ground recently about
noon while Waterman Scotty McLard
was away for dinner The fire, which
started under the tramway, was ap-
parently of incendiary origin. The
mill was built this summer and had
SS2'.s's 2 ;s,ysSVysyyWWS
I.s.eN< N
%lsG,E'Ey
saa~ 0SSIgsI
- - NHEg&.as1
- MNa