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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Church Societies
Elect Officers

At a joint meeting of the Sunday
school board and Epworth League
cabinet of the Talent Methodist
church held last Monday evening the
following officers for the coming year
were elected:
Sunday school-Superintendent, j.
II. Fuller; assistant superintendent,
II. c. High; secretary, j. E. Bicker-
dixie; assistant secretary, Lucille
Holdridge; treasurer, C. e. Frohman;
pianist, Helen Adamson; chorister,
Mrs, j. Il. Fuller; librarian, Anna
Anderson.
Epworth League-President, p. l..
Spencer; first vice-president, Mrs.
Edna Holdridge; second vice-presi-
dent, Lucille Holdridge; third vice
president, Helen Adamson; fourth
vice-president, Miss Dinges; secre-
tary, Carl Frohman.
The new officers in the various or
ganizations began their terms Sun
day under auspicious condition
despite the fact that the church has
recently undergone a four weeks
quarantine for measles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Placer Property
Has Changed Hands

W. A. Sharp of Grants Pass and
L. G. Sharp, representative of the
Western Machine Works of Platts-
mouth, Neb., recently purchased
from Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of this
city the placer property known as
the Hydraulic Mining Company on
upper Jump-0ff-Joe creek. 1t is the
intention of the Sharp Bros. and the
Western Machine Works to install
their hydroelectric precipitating
value recovering machine on this
placer with a view to eXpediting the
complete cleaning up of this section
and recovering the lower values.
Considerable improvements and ex-
penditures are contemplated on this
with new and special ma
chinery now being constructed and
on the way
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Ashland Wins Two
Basketball Games

The result of last Friday nights
game with Grants Pass was a score of
3 to in favor of Ashland. At the
end of the first half the score stood
20 to in favor of the local team.
A preliminary between the high
school girls team and the alumni
girls ended in the defeat of the
alumni girls, the score being s to Z.
All the members of the boys team
played so well that no one can be
said to have starred. Even the
Grants Pass Coach. Kenneth McWil-
liams, says we have the best team
since 1911.
The game at Central Point Satur-
day night between Ashlard high and
Central Point high ended in the de-
feat of Central Point to the tune of
25 to 10. "Deke" Bryant was the
star of the game.
The girls of Ashland were defeat
ed by the small margin Of s to 7.
Ashland plays Rosehurg in the
high school gym next Saturday
night. This is the first If a series
of games with the northern teams
and promises to be liyely one.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
e. |. c. to Serve
Meals to Soldiers

Arrangements have been made
whereby the Civic Improvement Club
will furnish meals to the troop trains
which are expected to pass through
Ashland in the near future. This
will be an arduous task, as the move
ment of the troops is expected to be
continuous for an extended time, ne
cessitating the production of meals
at almost any hour of the day. The
Elks dining room has been secured
by this band of energetic women, and
committees are being formed to take
charge of the arrangements for each
days service. The women of the
Civic Club expect to have everything
in working order when the time ar
rives for the furnishing of the meals
SO that all soldiers detailed to them
will have the benefit Of the excellent
service for which this club is noted.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Parents Urged to
Teach Patriotism

At the request of the interstate
committee of the Y. NJ. c. A., Gov
ernor Withcombe last Thursday is
sued message urging the people OF
Oregon to observe Father and Son
week" between February IL and II,
the dates set aside for a national
movement. Governor Withycombe,
who himself has a son in active mill
tary service, points out that NE 2O,-
900 young Oregon soldiers who have
already gone forward are entitled to
Constant thought and prayer and
that their younger brothers at home
deserve the fullest possible measure
of parental encouragement and coun-
sell" The governors message, which,
it is understood, will be followed by
messages by the mayors of the vari-
GUS cities and towns of Oregon, fol-
lows:
Mindful that there is now greater
occasion than ever before to cement
the bond of fellowship between faith
ers and sons, the Y. NJ. C. A. Off
cials have set aside the period of
February II to II, to be Observed
as Father and Son week, and / am
indeed glad to commend the idea to
the hearty support of the patriotic
people of Oregon.
Oregon has thus far furnished
10000 of the flower of its young
manhood to the service Of our coun-
try in the worlds great cataclysm.
Just as these noble boys who have
already shouldered solemn response
bilities for this nation and for the
world are entitled to our constant
thought and prayer, so their younger
brothers at home deserve the fullest
possible measure of parental encour-
agement and counsel. It is through
the hearts of our young people that
the ferveDt spirit of loyalty to our
country and devotion to our flag are
to be communicated to posterity.
Never in all history have the
young men been called upon for such
important work, and never have in
dications been surer that the young
men of today are to be accorded tre-
mendous opportunities as they grow
into manhood. Therefore, | urge the
adult men of Oregon to call their
boys and the boys from other homes
to their firesides and there impress
upon them ain appreciation of their.
responsibilities, and tell them in a
friendly way how deeply we ARE in
terested in them and how much we
are depending upon their mental,
moral and physical fiber. Fathers
of Oregon, ask your boys to study
the life of the immortal Abraham
Lincoln, whose birthday is to be OBJ
served on the second day of Father
and Son week, and try to inspire
them to pattern their lives after his
example"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Normal Committee
Plans Campaign

The normal school executive COM
mittee, composed of r. G. Homes,
Mrs. d. Perozzi, Mrs. Il. d. Briggs,
G. B. Lamkin and r. d. Wagner,
has been busy arranging plans for
the 1918 campaign for passing the
measure submitted by the last legis-
lature. Benz. c. Sheldon has just
recently returned from trip to the
northern part of the state, where he
investigated conditions at the request
of the committee and will make a
report of his findings to the general
committee at the city hall Wednesday
evening, January 23 at 1880 o'clock.
This is matter which concerns the
whole community and general in
vitation is extended to all persons in
terested in this proposition to be
present at that meeting.
We are coming to realize as never
before that a well-developed and en-
lightened rural life is necessary to
the national security and prosperity.
In order to obtain this the rural
schools of Oregon must be treated
more fairly in the matter of trained
teachers. The three-normal school
plan must be put over If these re-
suits are accomplished. The Mon
mouth normal school is pitifully in
adequate to supply the need. We
have already lost too much in Oregon
on this score These arguments must
get into the hearts of our Oregon
people sometime, and it is up to us
to put them there, and wnen we have
done 1t, 1t will have been good
work well done. Our children and
our children's children cannot say
that we we're slackers on this deal.
The third time is charm-over the
top we go in 1918.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Late Welded Cases
Will Be Appealed

District Attorney George Neuner
Jr., of Douglas county, received in
structions from the adjutant general
to appeal, as the government appeal
agent, all of those cases where the
registrant has been classed in Class
2 or Glass on account of marriage
which occurred since May IS, 1917.
All of the boards and authorities
hold that the presumption is against
the registrant who has married since
that date. as all were notified of the
imminence of the draft. The ap-
peals will be taken in all these cases
in order to make the action in all
uniform and to make it impossible
for any such cases to be passed with
out having careful investigation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Grants Pass Will
Unite Churches

Grants Pass, in common with
many another community. has been
compelled by the exigencies of the
times to many a reimbursement of
conditions, says the Observer. Most
of them have been in the direction of
a utility and efficiency basis. In the
majority of cases someone has had
to suffer because of what in military
parlance is known as shortening OF
the lines" but generally the changes
have been for the better.
Like the majority of towns, Grants
Pass has been suffering from a pie
thora of religious denominations.
There are not too many to provide
for the great body of "unchurched, "
but too many for the available ma
terial. Some of them are just suffi-
GENTLY discernible to have a local
habitation and name, but haven't
any real excuse for their existence,
unless it be to stand as warning ex-
amples as to the handicap of being
too closely bound to past-age tradi-
tions and dogmas. Most of them
have been too busy keeping their
machinery in operation to devote
much time and energy to the expect
ed product Of an evangelistic body
Happily the day of denominational
differences and unpleasantness Is
past and there are very few Of the
old school who we're wont to consign
members Of an opposing denomina-
tion to perdition because Of differ
ence as to scripture interpretations.
For many years there has been a
marked degree of fellowship among
the denominations of this city, and
1t is as natural as 1t Is gratifying that
out of the enforced retrenchment Of
the times there should come a propo-
sition for working agreement
among three Of the leading churches
OF the city. While the plan of fed
Grafton is as yet merely tentative,
there is nothing to prevent 1t from
developing into what will amount to
UNCONVENTIONAL amalgamation, with
one capable, energetic pastor serving
the needs of all three.
If nothing else evolves from the
the members are likely
to discover that the partitions of doc
trine and usage and government are
very flimsy affairs after all.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21

The long-awaited convening of the
constituent assembly has apparently
precipitated fresh crisis in Russian
affairs, with renewed disorders as
a possibility.
The Bolsheviki evidently are not
taking kindly to the legislative body,
in which the very first vote of the
opening session on Friday revealed
a decided anti-Bolsheviki majority,
which easily elected its candidate
for chairman, 244 to ISL, and this
without the help of the constitution
al democrats, who were not present.
The Bolsheviki and their supporters,
the extreme social revolutionists,
thereupon withdrew from the assem-
bly,.
This break with the majority social
revolutionists, who showed their con-
troll by electing as chairman one of
their leaders, NJ. Tchernoff, minister
of agriculture in the Kerensky cabi-
net, is interpreted as probable pre-
lude to an attempt on the part of the
Bolsheviki government to assert it.
self in supreme control, regardless
of what course the present assembly
may desire to take. The forcible dis
solution of the assembly or it's reor-
ganization, as Bolsheviki body are
among the possible courses forecast.
The peace conference proceedings
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Social Service
League to Meet

The Ashland Social Service League
will meet at the Presbyterian church
next Tuesday night, January 20, at
7:30. Among the features of the
evening will be the following: Rev.
H. j. Van Fossen will read "The Son
Thou Gavest Me-" r. P. Campbell
will read THE Trail Boy Travels"
Both OF these stories are written by
II. s. MCGOWAN and are Of intense
interest. In connection with these
numbers the real purpose OF the
meeting will be presented by the
chairmen of committees which have
been appointed to investigate new
activities which the members could
well take up for the betterment OF
the community. Every man in Ash
land is most urgently requested to
attend this meeting.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Hardships Of War
Are Not Felt Yet

"Just because you can't get all the
sugar you want you think you are a
real war sufferer" remarked an Ash
land resident in a conversation with
his fellowmen recently. But mere
inconvenience is neither hardship nor
suffering, and you may be all the bet
ter for it. 1t is true that war usually
brings suffering, the beginning of
which is inconvenience after which
1t grows worse and worse until it
spells suffering. We are only in the
Inconvenience stage as yet, but with
fair prospects of suffering later on.
This is not pessimism, but merely a
suggestion concerning probable con-
dition not far distant.
One year ago you would have
laughed at any one who would have
limited at present conditions the res
ident continued, "and yet we are not
in the war in an active sense We
are only preparatory. If the prepara-
tions are so trying, what will the ac-
tivities be?. Here is something for
everyone to think about, and to think
about seriously, so we may as well
begin now
Thus far this war has been a
play game, not only here at home, but
in the training camps. None have
complained of real hardships or suf-
ferings, but instead have been enjoy
ing themselves at receptions to de-
parting soldiers, or engaging in agree
able Red Cross work. You can't fully
imagine how different it will be when
the boys have gone across and are
engaged in the effort to go over the
top, and 4 shipload or two week
will be coming back disabled, and
some will not be coming back at all.
This is not only the possibility, but
the almost assured probability. Sad
and serious as it seems, we have to
think about it, and sometimes talk
about 1t. But above all, we must
prepare for it. Now is the time to
knit prepare hospital supplies and
get ready for the time ahead of us
when we may need these things. If
we don't, some one somewhere else
will, so each should do his share
and willingly, for II we
don't we may have to do it unwilling
ly."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Bankers Ready For
Next Liberty Loan

Organization for Oregon's part in
the next Liberty loan drive will be
undertaken without delay. This was
announced Saturday morning by Ed
ward Cookingham, president of the
Portland Clearing House Association
and chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the state campaign organ
ization, on his return from confer
ence at San Francisco, called by the
governors of the federal reserve bank
for this district. There was full rep
resentation from all of the coast and
intermountain states composing the
district. Besides Mr.. Cookingham,
the Oregon delegation was President
A. l. Mills of the First National
Bank, who served as chairman of the
state committee for the first Liberty
loan campaign; R. G. Smith, editor
of the Tax Liberator, who probably
will be campaign manager for the
next drive, and Edgar B. Piper.
In the absence of any official an
nouncement from Washington, the
opinion prevailed at the conference
that the third issue of war bonds may
be for an amount equaling the first
and second issues and that the inter-
est rate would not be higher than 4
per cent, although the new bonds
might run for longer period and sell
on a different basis than either of
the former issues were offered at.
The understanding is that the cam
paign for the third ward loan will
open in March and run about a
month before subscriptions close.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Grants Pass Men
Knit for Soldiers

Grants Pass men are not allowing
the women to do all the Red Cross
knitting, several men already having
turned in very creditable work.
Alan Wise, farmer, has complet-
ed two sweaters, the last one being
started and entirely finished without
help; Philip Heimer, merchant, has
turned in one sweater; VI NJ. Rem
shaw has completed two pairs of
socks; II. C. Lawton, rural mail car
rier, Is now working on socks.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Ben Sheldon Plans
An Eastern Trip

The records and office Of the
Chamber of Commerce have been
turned over by Ben c. Sheldon, re-
tiring manager, to Edward G. Harris,
recently elected to that position, says
the Grants Pass Courier. Mr.. Shell
don has recently turned over his rec
ords as secretary of the Red Cross to
Mrs. Jennie Moss, the Boy Scouts to
D. B. Reynolds and the secretaryship
Of the Patriotic Service League to
Fred Williams. He severed his con-
nection with the Courier the first Of
the year. Mr.. Sheldon will return to
Medford for a few weeks prior to a
contemplated trip east. .
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Charles Hosley
Died This Morning

Charles Hosley,. well-known resi-
dent of Ashland, died this morning
after a lingering illness. The de-
ceased had lived in Ashland many
years and has been identified with
the growth and development Of the
city. Funeral arrangements have not
been. made at the present writing.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
U. S. Department Of
Weather Bureau

Forecast for the week beginning
January 90. Pacific coast states;
Some probability of rain Sunday in
southern California. and occasionally
after Monday on north coast; other
wise fair. No decided temperature
changes.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21

On account of discussing the fur
nishing meals to the troop trains
soon, full attendance Of the mem
bers of the Civic Club is requested
at its meeting tomorrow afternoon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21

Ferguson's Bargain Store is being
moved today from the Camps block
to the new location on the corner Of
Main street and North Pioneer av-
enue. The store will not be opened
for business until Wednesday
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21
Constituent Assembly Precipitates
Fresh Crisis In Russian Affairs

at Brest-Litovsk again have been
suspended and Foreign Minister
Trotzky is reported to have returned
to Petrograd. Foreign observers in
Petrograd believe that the negotia-
tions are working to a final break
aud the fat of the price of the Ger
man mark in neutral markets Is
pointed to as an indication of loss of
confidence among the neutrals in the
success of the peace parley.
The Russians apparently are stick
ing firmly to their demands along
the lines that Teutonic troops be
withdrawn from Russian territory.
Only one spot on the military map
is showing any activity outside the
ordinary for the winter-the right
flank of the Italian river front on
the lower reaches Of the Piave. Here
the Austrians have made further eff
fort to drive into the Italian lines
near Capo Sile and wedge their way
further towards Venice.
The latest assault appears to have
been no more successful than the
other recent efforts, the Italians
meeting the enemy with a devastat-
ing artillery fire and wiping out with
machine guns and rifles the few de-
tachments that succeeded in getting
across No Mans Land to the defen-
sive barricades.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21

La Grande has yearly disburse-
ments to labor of over 1000, 900.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-21

Phone news items to the TIdings.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-06-07

tributed $40. Saum Is consolidated
rural school, in the Red Lake coun-.
trv. ia miles from the railroad. Prof.
G G. Hankey has been principal dur
ing the past two years.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-06-07
SMALL SPOONS AS REMINDER
Hotel Mans Idea Brought Good Re-
j.. suits In the Decreased Con-
T. s.. It sumption Of Sugar.

x At breakfast in small hotel tray
cling man noticed that the guests in
the dining room were averaging about
two spoonfuls of sugar to the cup OF
coffee, though the sugar was low In
the bowl. -. y. .t.1Al-..
Az In the dining room of the railroad
station where he got his lunch, the
sugar bowl was empty. Nobody was
grumbling about the scarcity Of sugar
or anything else, because the country
was at war. But man wearing spec
tacles did lift a big spoon out of the
bowl where; the sugar would have
been. nxar@E1 ..~fa, -.,.-=.. 49, 3d..
"Wonder why it is customary for
3us Americans to shovel sugar instead
Of dipping it?" he asked a friend. I.
5% That night, at a hotel In the city,
the drummer had dipped about four
times with the after-dinner coffee
spoon he found in the sugar before he
got half as much sugar as he usually
took. He looked at the negro waiter
opposite and smiled. <=>~..s~ .f-.@
j." eyes, sub, mister" that black dig
nitary grinned, that's whut we calls
the little war spoon The boss, he
says it helps people to remember; and
they don't use much more'n half as
much sugar since he put it in the
sugar Eugene Blake In The
Vfgilantes. '~'
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-06-07
water bears witness Of whittier, clean.

water bears witness Of a whittier. clean.
er child. 4. III !.
And as you might well imagiI ,, the
Riddles like 1t, except the last cold
dash that the doctor slyly engineers
by quickly transferring the supply
pipe into bucket Of cold waterfor
Shygienic effect. .9G: !. a,.5 -g. Is &,
And what blessing It is to these
meek, tortured people, who for months
have been without all Of LIES COM
forts and most of LIES necessities, to
be ministered to In this fashion ~
It is perhaps understandable to
them that "les Americans out Of
sheer pity might offer them that mea.
ger thing that civilization calls "char.
ity." But to be clothed, fed, sheltered
and cheered as they have been by our
Red Cross is more than they can I'm.
derstand. "t. @:E + Fy@..e .+&
For they have seen great miracle
grow out Of the darkest pit Of human
experience. They have seen a bright
light out of which has stepped the
:ministering angel who has taught them
to smile again. They are no longer
sick. They are no longer. cold nor hun.
CRY, and now, wonder Of wonders, this
same good friend has contrived in
some magic way-within the sound Of
the guns-to give them-haths. =