Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-24

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return Saturday or Sunday.
Elwood Hedburg and Ward Ham
mond, two Ashland boys who are at
tending the Oregon Agricultural col
lege in Corvallis, are home for the
holiday vacation,
The quarterly conference of the
Free Methodist church which be-
gan today will last until December
22. Rev. C. E. Glazier, district ell
der, and Rev. ]. w. Glazier and wife
OF Denver, Colo, will be present at
these meetings and will preach dur
ing this time. Everybody is invited
to attend.
S. NJ. and II. NJ. Hayes, who dis
covered the agate ledge near Trail
some time ago, have started work on
their discovery which they were
pushing ahead rapidly until the re-
cent heavy snow put a stop to ac-
tivities for the present Tuesday
Messrs. Hayes hadan offer of $500
a ton for their agate, which they do
not think they will accept, as they
are confident their discovery will
lead to greater results.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ Carson arrived in
Ashland from Grants Pass yesterday.
Earl Beigel, who is a student at
o. A. c. this year, is home for the
holiday vacation.
Mrs. Frank W. Waite has gone
to willows. Calf, to visit with
friends for some time.
A party from Valley View district
composed of Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Da-
yenhill, Mr.. and Mrs. James LennoX
and Mr. and Mrs. J. r. McCracken,
left today for points in California
where they will spend an extended
time this winter.
NJ, ond M, " ctauort loft
last night for Tennessee to spend
the coming six weeks with Mr. Stew
arts relatives living there.
Miss Frances McWilliams, teach
er in the city schools OF Oakland.
arrived home last evening for ten
day vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. G. McWilliams at their
home on Church street.
During the recent cold weather the
city water of Gold Hill has been so
badly frozen that it has necessitated
the closing down of the public
schools for the winter. Miss Mel
lie Beaver, principal of the schools
in that town, has come home on ac-
count of the shutdown.
Mrs. D. R. Conner, who has been
an inmate of a local hospital for the
past week where she underwent an
operation necessitated by blood pois.
oning, has returned home, much I'M
proved.
DR.. Ford, well known in Ashland
as presiding elder or district super
intendent of the Methodist church,
dropped dead last Sunday. He was
an able and good man.
Forty years ago last night IA
inches of snow fell in Ashland.
The Billings agency has sold a
three acre fruit tract, situated on
North Main, to Fred E. Porter.
The funeral OF the late Mrs. Mary
e. Pope, who died in Santa Rosa,
Calf. and whose remains were
brought to Ashland for burial, will
be held from Stocks undertaking
parlors Friday afternoon at l O'Clock.
Interment will be made in Mountain
View cemetery.
The Bennett Million farm on Oak
street, containing about 1876 acres.
has recently been sold by the other
heirs TO William B. and c. c. Mil
lion. The consideration is not made
public, but was more than $40. This
is a good place with first class wa
ter right and finely situated. 1t was
sold through the Billings agency.
Eric and John Parson of Boston,
Mass, are in Ashland spending n
few days as guests of their uncle and
aunt, DR.. and Mrs. J. S. Parson, at
their home on North Main street.
Ernest Abbott, student OF the
%. A. c., arrived home last night
and will spend Christmas at his home
on East Main street.
Mrs. Clara Dalsman has been suf-
fering for some time as the result
of fall which she sustained by slip
ping on a rug in her kitchen and
striking against a rocking chair. An
examination very recently showed
that a rib had been broken.
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