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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs. s. I. Boysen. formerly
Of this city but now Of Carroll. are par
ents of son, born Wednesday, accord
ing to word received by friends here.
Mr.. Boysen formerly was one of the
owners of the Strand Theater in this
CITY,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-18

Mrs w. Fl. Gray, III South Ninth
street, received a message this morn
ing that her aunt, Mrs. John Shaw'
and two children, II and IA, were
burned to death in the forest hre at
Moose Lake. Mimi. Thursday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Shirley. OF
Council Bluffs, are in the city as
guests at the home Of Mrs. Shirley's
parents. DR.. and Mrs. w. F. David.
The Council Bluffs schools are closed
owing to the influenza epidemic.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Quantity Of Whisky
Discovered On Train

A quantity of whisky was found
cached in one Of the passenger
coaches on train No 54 arriving in
Ashland at 4:40 Tuesday evening.
The booze had been snugly tucked
up in the top of the coach, presum-
ably while it was stationed in San
Francisco. The contraband liquor
would have undoubtedly reached its
destination had not bottle been
broken, and the liquor percolating
through the ceiling of the coach at
tracted the attention of an s. P. spe-
cial officer who was aboard.
When the train stopped at the To-
cal station the plate over the OPEN
ing in the ceiling was removed and
IL dozen and four pint bottles and
two dozen quart bottles of whisky
were discovered.
The bottles were taken down and
placed in the baggage car to be sent
IN to Portland where they will be-
urned over to the government.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Many Soldiers Pass
Through City South

The tramp of marching feet on the
city streets is sound of everyday
occurrence this week. Troop trains
have been going south every day thus
far through the week when soldiers
have been transferred from Camp
Lewis to make room for the new
draft contingents for June. The
troops have disembarked frequently
and marched about the city for ex-
ercise during their stay in Ashland.
Wednesday train unloaded at
Billings crossing, north of the city,
and marched through to the station.
While the boys have only been in
camp few weeks they are all uni
formed and are every inch Ameri-
can soldiers. The canteen station
has furnished sandwiches and light
lunches for the soldiers during their
etop here, and the boys have been
eager to secure the "handout" pro-
vided.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Arrangements For Fourth And
Hyu Hehe Making Progress

The Honor Guards are planning an
attractive section for the parade and
altogether 1t will be a most interest
ing one.
The street decorating committee
has begun work and ere long things
will look like good Old 4th of July
had not been forgotten.
The parade committee wants men
TO represent Abraham Lincoln and
George Washington. They already
have a President Wilson character.
The street decorating committee
have a lot to do and ask friends who
can do so to bring them evergreen
trees without the roots) 8 to 10
feet high.
Secretary Staples, with headquart-
ers at the Commercial club, asks all
who contemplate helping in the pa
iade to kindly report to him.
Merchants are offering parade
prizes, list of which will be pub
lished next Monday.
Three bands have been employed.
Medford, Grants Pass and our home
band.
The Hit Fireworks company of
Seattle will put on the best ever pyro-
technic display the evening of the
Fourth.
McElroy with his jazz band will
entertain in the armory each after
noon and night.
Hum Pracht will have fresh sui
phur water to swim in and an or
chestra on tap continuously at the
big Nat.
o. Helman will have a big lake of
sulphur water at the right tempera-
ture for tired, dusty folks to frolic
IN.
Thus far the voting for Joan of
Arc has only begun but votes are in
for Bessie Wilson, Isabelle Barron
and Harriet Trask. Progress of the
contest for Joan of Arc will be an
nounced in each succeeding issue
of the Tidings. Contest will be clos
ed at 10 p, m. June 80.
The parade committee says all
who want to represent the kaiser
or anything on the 4th to please
call on Secretary Staples.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
w. S. S. Campaign
Conference Held

Field Commissioner j. l.. Etlridgt
and Thomas Ryan, a silver-tonguet
orator of Portland, and DR.. Henry
Hart, chairman for Jackson county
held a conference with the thrift
stamp campaign workers of Ashland
and the adjoining school districts al
the city hall Wednesday evening.
Valleyyiew, Soda Springs and Belle
view school districts we're represent.
ed.
DR.. Hart presided. j. w. Mccoy
took part in the discussion of the re-
organization of the districts, and
Messrs. Ryan and Ethridge delivered
spirited talks that received the ap-
rlause of the audience.
The form of the natioal thrift
stamp campaign has been changed,
the first stage of the effort being to
interest children and the appeal was
along the lines of educational and
voluntary effort, and direct appeal
for small savings. The new stage
Of the campaign does not arrest the
work of the past, but supplements it
with the effort to get the larger sums
of money from adults and is accom-
panied by the stern appeal of cold
business with the urge Of determin-
ation and coercion If necessary.
The two speakers put up a strong
talk that meant business and the
new form Of the appeal will not be
mistaken by anybody.
There will be meeting of all in
.erested in the coming campaign at
he city hail Friday evening, June !
Il at s O'Clock for the purpose of
the details of the drive
geek-June "a to June 2S. The
,lans contemplate that this drive will
the pledges for the entire
mount Of two billion dollars to be
aised.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Europe's Condition
Shown BY Speaker

IF any one thinks they are going
to have plenty of nice white bread
after harvest they are much mistak-
en-" was the emphatic statement
made by Mrs. Jennie Kemp, fiel,l
representative of the United States
food administration during her ad-
dress at the Baptist church Tuesday
evening. You will not eat white
Tread until the war is over, II you
have a spark of patriotism in your
makeup"
This statement was made in con-
nection with some of the reasons Civ
en- for Oregon going on a wheatless
basis, and in recounting some of the
horrible conditions existing among
the people of Belgiumand France,
the sacrifice of merely doing without
wheat seems trivial matter
The question is asked many times
why Europe cannot eat substitutes
as we'll as Americans, Mrs. Kemp
stated, and explained how people of
Belgium and France were scraping
lark from trees and grinding buds
from twigs and mixing with cereals
for bread.
At no time is Europe eating wheat
bread alone. The only use the wheat
is put to there is to mix with sub
stitutes to make the bread stick TO-
gether for transportation IN the army.
Even with this economical use of
wheat the supply is so scarce that
the French army have only three
days rations ahead of them. This,
the speaker pointed out, is too close
to starvation to be strictly comfort
able.
A small audience listened atten-
lively to Mrs. Kemp's address which
VAS immensely inspiring and help
ful. Music was furnished by Mrs
Esther Ashcraft who sang, Keep the
Homefires Burning" and Miss Lois
Smith of Pasadena, CAL, who sang,
John Barleycorn, Goodbye" DR..
Keeney Ferris presided at the meet
ing.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Americans Cross Name And
Bring Back German Prisoners

With the American Army in France
June, 1.-TWO American patrols
crossed the Marne east of Chateau
Thierry early this morning. They es-
tablished contact with the hostile
forces, killed a considerable number
of the enemy and brought back pri-
soners.
These were from Landwehr units,
which is taken as an indication that
no hostile attacks are intended at
this point in the immediate future.
The Americans in the Woevre sent
their first gas against the German
lines from projectors today. A Ger
man raid at Remires wood was re-
pulsed. Five bombing planes dropped
3S bombs on the station and tracks
st Conflans least of Verdun).
Several enemy machines were en-.
countered on the way, but all the
American planes returned.
The Teutonic allies apparently
have lost their spirit Of do-or-die,
their attacks every where of late
have lacked the tenaciousness of days
gone by.
Instead Of ploughing through al
lied lines with stubborn indifference
to casualties so long as an objective
was gained, they now waver and halt
ii the face of artillery and rifle fire
with the points they we're trying to
gain still far beyond their reach.
Ambitious attempts by the troops
of the central powers in the paSt few
weeks have proved this. The opening
Of gateway to Paris through the
western front, running from Montdid-
.er to the Marine, failed completely;
the offensive on the Italian battle
front, launched by the Austrians,
seemingly has failed miserably in the
mountain regions, and apparently has
almost been stopped along the river
Piave, while a stroke started by the
Germans against Rheims broke down
in its inception without the enemy
taking a yard of territory.
And in these various attempted en-.
Serprises, the high commands of tn,
German and Austro- Hungarian arm
les have seen their men LITERAL,
mown down in battle fields that have
) heen clogged with dead or wounded
as recompense to the allies troops
for the small bits of tarrain they
} yielded
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Advocates Highways
For Coast Defense

NJ B. Gilbert, OF Seattle, field rep
resentative of the Pacific Coast De.
fense League, was in Ashland for a
short time Monday and addressed an
informal meeting at the Commercial
club room, before a number of busi-
TESS men. The chief trend of his
talk was on the immediate establish
ment of complete system of national
military highways for the Pacific
coast reaching from Canada to the
Mexican border.
The attention of the assemblage
was called by Mr.. Gilbert to the un
protected conditions of the Pacific
coast to which he referred as a ma
t'onal menace. A complete system of
I. national highways, following so far
as consistent with military lines OF
present highway development is the
aim of the Pacific Coast Defense
League, and bills specifically provid-
ing for this are already introduced
in both houses. Ashland is one of
the cities named on the route, with
laterals connecting the valley with
Crescent City and Klamath Falls.
A plan Of the league involves the
construction of three highways. One
will be known as the Balboa or coast
highway, form Port Angeles, Wash,
to Tia Juana, Mexico. One known as
the Pacific or Valley highway, from
Blaine, Wash, to Calexico, Mexico,
while the third will be known as the
Sierra, from Oroville, Wash, to Los
Angeles, Cal.
These roads are to be made sub
servient to the commercial and do
mestic requirements of the communi-
ties through which they pass and con-
rected by lateral highways from
every important harbor. These high
ways would be constructed by the
government under the direction of
the war department with a view to
facilitating the movement of military
troops, equipment, munitions, and
supplies in time of peace and in timo
of war, and be open to the use OF
the general public except when used
for national defense.
Commercial organizations of the
three coast states are being asked to
lend their aid in the effort to influ-
once congress to inaugurate measures
for the accomplishment of this move
ment.
The measure appeals to the Ash
land Commercial club and the atten-
tion of the club will be called to it al
an early meeting.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20

Mr.. Stream, the second victim of
the automobile accident, died at Sa-
cred Heart hospital yesterday after
noon at 5 o'clock. Death had been
lnomentarily expected all day, but
the young mans vitality was such
that in spite of frightful internal in
juries and conclusion of the brain he
lived "a hours after the accident.
The deceased was secretary and
treasurer of the East Hoquiam Shin
gle company, was exalted ruler of the
Hoquiam lodge of Elks, a Mystic
Shriner and a member of the knights
Of Pythias.
DR.. E. L. Hurd, dentist of Ho-
qujam, whose wife was the first vic
tim of the accident, arrived in Med
ford late last night and went at
once to Sacred Heart hospital. Mrs.
Harvey Lord, who occupied the rear
seat of the automobile, received but
minor injuries in the smash, but is
an inmate of the hospital recovering
from the shock.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Proclamation

Make this war a personal
matter. Do not depend on 9TH
ers to do fhe fighting or to fl
nance the government. Do
your share. 1t is as much your
war as your neighbor's Prac-
tice economy and self-deniai,
and thereby eliminate waste.
Invest your savings in war
) savings stamps. The president
OF the United States has called
on tLsXecple of the nation tn
indicated their self denial by
pledging themselves on June
2S to purchase war savings
stamps for the remainder OF
the year.
have written to boys in
France that the people of Ash
land are squarely back of them
and that we are going over the
top with every war demand tha-
is asked of us.
In order that the citizens of
Ashland may be fully advised
and ready to respond to the
call, l hereby proclaim Friday,
June 2S, as war savings day
for the city of Ashland, Ore
gon, upon which day all per-
sons shall give their pledges
far war savings stamps at SUCH
time and place and in such
manner as may be appointed
by c. S. Jackson, the war di-
rector for Oregon, acting un-
der authority of the secretary
of the treasury, and pursuant
to the proclamation of the
president, of the United States.
C. B. LAMKIN, Mayor.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
New Draft Calls
l44 Oregon Men

Oregon must furnish 144 men for
technical training in mechanical
trades for the national army, on July
l according to a call issued by Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder this
week. The men are to be trained
at the California School of Mechani-
cal Arts. Until June 21 volunteers
will be accepted from such counties
as are asked for men to complete
the states quota After that date If
the quotas OF the local boards are
not filled the men will be called in
their order number to fill the quota.
Only men of grammar school edu-
cation and with experience and apti-
tude in mechanics will he accepted.
The men will undergo a course of
training similar to those at Benson
Polytechnic.
The men are wanted for work as
auto mechanics, blacksmiths, chauf-
feurs, gas engine men, carpenters and
plumbers, In army positions at the
front and back of the lines. They
will be assigned after their arrival
to the kind of training for which
there is the greatest need, and at
the end Of training will enter the
branch Of the army that needs them
most.
Jackson county will be called upon
to furnish five men in this draft. The
quotas for adjoining counties will be:
Josephine, 2; Douglas, 5; klamath 2
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
New Form OF Draft
Stacker Run Down

Federal authorities are getting
ready to institute a merciless cam
paign to run down and punish new
form of draft Stacker.
This new Stacker is the draft regis
trant who was granted deferred class
ification at the time of his registra-
tion, but whose status since has so
changed that he no longer is entitl-
cd to exemption, yet who remains
silent about this change in the hope
it will be overlooked.
The draft regulations are very
Llain and blunt in prescribing the
penalty for failure on the part of
man granted deferred classification
to notify his local board at once If
his status is changed
Every registrant shall, within five
days after the happening thereof, re-
port to his local board any fact which
might change or affect his classifica-
tion," says section 1e OF the regula-
tions.
Failure to report change of status
as herein required or making a false
report thereof, is misdemeanor pun
ishable by one years imprisonment"
The campaign to run down these
draft slackers will be started very
loon and 1t will be a rigorous cam
Daign. Nen guilty of evading mill
iary service by failure to report when
hey should be reclassified, need look
or no mercy.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20

The various July 4th committees,
with Mr.. Staples as secretary and
manager, are getting things lined up
in a manner that is very promising
for successful three-day celebration
and Mr.. Thornton, secretary of the
Roundup association is feeling good
over the outlook for that part of the
annual Hiyu Hehe.
The patriotic parade this year is
TO be great feature. 1t will be led by
the Goddess of Liberty and an inter-
esting new departure in this is the
tact that the ladies of the Medford
Red Cross society will take charge
OF the electing and outfitting of the
Goddess from one of Medford's beau
ties. This is pleasing as it shows
a lovely spirit on the part of the
Medford folk and will add much to
stimulating large attendance from
that city.
Then there is the band from Med
ford, and the principal orator will be
c. l.. Reames, of national promin.
ence now, and probably as close in
on the secret work of our war labors
as any one of the presidents family,
A Joan Of Arc will be characteriz-
ed in the parade, the lady to take this
part TO be elected. Ballot boxes are
now at all of the drug stores and
confectionery parlors.
One section of the parade will rep
resent all of the allied nations in
costume and colors, another section
will he the bicycles decorated under
the direction of j. NJ Densmore.
There will be pony carts, saddle
horses, dog carts, fat men, lean men,
men on skates and men on stills.
White people and black people. Flow
er floats and other floats and there
will be lot of prizes given to those
who take part in the parade. There
is also TO be given handsome prize
TO the couple that get married In
public on the float used by the God
dess. This is to be real, honest-to-
goodness marriage and the preacher
we have to tie the knot will knot
make it beau knot.
Any couple desiring to be married
and capture the housekeeping prize
should apply to Secretary Staples.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20

Little activity has prevailed on the,
remainder of the western front.
The success of the recent naval at
tack by the British on the German
submarine base at Zeebrugge SEEM
ingly was more successful that an,
ticipated. Twenty-one destroyers, a
large number of submarines and nu-
merous auxiliary craft are blocked in
the canal by the ships sunk across
the waterway.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
Fatal Auto Smash
On S. P. Crossing

A shocking accident occurred at
the one-mile crossing south of Med
ford Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 when
TWO engines running into Medford
from Ashland struck an automobile
containing three people. AS a result
Of the collision Mrs. E. L. Hurd of
IHcquiam, Wash, was killed and Peter
l.. Stream, also of Hoquiam, is prob
ably fatally injured. The car was
smashed to atoms and the debris
was carried by the engine 600 feet
before they finally stopped.
Mrs. Harvey Lord, third member
Cf the party, was sitting in the back
seat Of the car, and received minor
injuries.
According to Mrs. Lord who tn
spite of being dragged several hun
dred feet, hanging head downward
from the pilot of the engine, was suf-
ficiently self-possessed to scramble to
her feet and vigorously upbraid the
engineer of the locomotive for not
blowing his whistle.
The members of the party were
en- route to San Francisco where Mrs.
Eurd was to meet her son who is
in training in an aviation camp near
tnat city, While in Medford they
lost the road and were returning
through the orchard district to the
Pacific highway when the accident
occurred.
MIR. Stream, according to Mrs.
Lord, was driving slowly and keep
ing a sharp lookout but an orchard
at the right of the road prevented q
clear view of the track. Their first
view of the engine and the crash
were practically simultaneous, the
last moving locomotives seeming to
swoop silently upon them.
The car, which was new Olds-
mobile recently purchased by Mr..
Stream, was struck directly in the
center, scooped up on the pilot and
carried from the crossing to the NJ
T. Murphy place about 200 yards
distant.
Stream and Mrs. Hurd who occu-
pied the front seat were caught in
the wreckage of the car and it was
with difficulty the rescuers extri-
Gated them and pulled the car from
the pilot, The fatally injured couple
did not lose consciousness at first,
and suffered excruciating agony un-
Ill they Reached Sacred Heart hos
pital, where anesthetics were admin
istered-
There was no hope of saving Mrs.
llurd's life from the first. She suf-
fered four fractures of one leg, her
head was badly lacerated and there
we're internal injuries sufficient in
themselves to cause DEATH
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20
, A NOTE OF THANKS

The executive board Of the patri-
otio fund recently raised in Ashland
and vicinity wish to extend their
hearty thanks for the generous re-
sponse from the public. This will
enable the board to meet the various
appeals from time to time during the
year without making additional
drives. Too much praise cannot be-
given to the splendid service render
ed by the various teams, and the
executive board wishes to publicly
thank all who made possible this
splendid drive.
e. v. CARTER,
G. A. BRISCOE,
MRS. F, S. ENGLE,
MRS. c. B. LAMKIN,
F. j. SHINN,
L. F. FERGUSON.
CHARLES A. EDWARDS.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20

The Austrian offensive in the 1tal-
ian theatre is still in progress along
the Piave river, but in the mountain
region after the sharp reaction by
the Italian, French and British
troops, who counter attacked, pushed
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20

c. E. Lane was called to klamath
hot springs late last night by the It'd
ings that his sister. Mrs. Wilmer Hit,
who was taking treatment there, was
very i'll, and that the services of a
nurse we're required. Mrs. Hit had
gone to the springs last week to take
treatment for rheumatism. Miss
Throne accompanied Mr.. Lane.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20

The attacks of the Germans near
Rheims resulted disastrously to them.
Hardly had they left their trenches
after one of the most terrific bonn
lardment with shells Of all calibre,
including gas projectiles, ever ex-
rerienced on the western front, when
nearly 10000 men were faced by the
reinforced French armies and liter
ely cut to pieces and forced to fall
back precipitately, Only at one pol&I
to the east Of Rheims, did the enemy
succeed in penetrating the French
line. Here he was almost immediate-
" elected
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-20

You can buy votes at 10 cents per
hundred for Joan Of Arc at the vot-
Ing places and several Of the merch-
ants are giving 10 votes with each
dollar purchase.