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Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Two American golfers might have
been seen recently playing the 9-hole
course at Mukden-renowned as the
farthest north" links in Asia-with
cholera masks on.
II won't tell what the score was"
Everard Thompson, formerly direc-
tor of athletic events at Yale univer-
sity, who was one of the players,
writes from Shanghai. "The cholera
was killing Chinese at the rate of
800 day and most of those who died
were buried around the golf course.
This sort of thing is one of the best
alibis offered at Mukden for poor
playing"
The Mukden course is built among
Chinese graves. The people in that
section lay their dead on the ground
and in course of time build mound
over them. In this way a Chinese
graveyard becomes a series of irreg-
ular mounds, some small, some large,
scattered over the countryside.
"On the Mukden course" Mr.
Thompson writes, "These mounds
form the bunkers, and very good ones
they are. A player there gets fine
practice with a mashie.
"The second ball hit on the Muk-
den course hooked around one of
these mounds and a great burst Of
weeping came from that direction.
I thought | had killed some one, but
when | got to the scene of the sup
posed accident I found it was nothing
worse than a weeping party.
Ancestor worship prevails in that
section of the country and every so
often the family of the deceased, no
matter whether he has been that way
a year or fifty years, make consid-
cradle noise about the grave for sew
eral hours. 1t is very disConcerting,
Just when you are going to pull off
a perfect pitch to the green, to have
the walls of several parties rend the
air.
81 played there only twice. I was
tempted to those games because over
here good courses are few and far
between. Since I left the States l
have played on only three courses
one a nice little 9-hole course at
Yokohama, very narrow and very
difficult; the second 9-hole course
at Tokyo; and the course at Muk-
den. That at Tokyo is picture
course and very easy"
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
NEW PASSENGER
TRAIN ON S. P.

In order to accommodate the
growing tourist travel that of late
has been too heavy to be carried on
the regular trains, the Southern Pa
cific has put on another passenger
train. The new train started Sun
day, leaving Portland as second 10.
The return from the south will be as
second 16.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Years also had 10 be provided for
but the same unique plan was again
followed, and other independent day
called Correction Day" is placed at
the end of each four year between
tie last DAY of December and New
Years day of the following year.
The new month of Liberty is
placed next after January and Feb
ruary in the new form simply because
of similarity of sound.
The summer season under the new
form is given four months, but each
of the other seasons is given three
months as heretofore. 1t is claimed
that this arrangement will be more
true to nature than our present d.
vision.
The plan also provides that Good
Friday and Easter Sunday shall al
ways be observed on certain fixed
dates. This was contemplated when
our present calendar was adopted.
1t is shown that under this simple
Liberty calendar one will be able
to tell on what day of the week any
future date will fall, even though
that date should be thousand years
hence. Also that under the new
form there would be no more five
Sundays to the month to upset all
our calculations. Every holiday and
every anniversary will always fall
on its particular day of the week. 1t
will be on the same day Of the week
in every year. Strange to say, the
Fourth of July, Victory day NOV.
11th) Thanksgiving day. and Christ
mas, will all come on Thursday every
year, after this change Is made.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
AGED WOMAN DIES
At LONG BEACH

Mrs. Alice A. Turner, aged 80, a
native of Vermont, died Decem-
her II, at her home, 1853 Linden
avenue. Long Beach. Calf. The hus-
band, Charles S. Turner, who is past
90, and to whom she had been mar
ried for &C years, survives her, as
do a daughter, Miss Nora l., Turner,
of Long Beach, and son, William
A. Turner, of Ashland, Ore, now in
that city. She was lifelong Meth
odist. Funeral services were con-
Quoted at the Patterson & McQuil-
kin chapel at 2:30 o'clock the fol-
lowing afternoon by Rev. L. T. Guild.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
Prisoners Break
Jail at R0seburg
lSneclal to The Tidingsl

ROSEBURG-Four prisoners es-
capped from the Douglas county Jail
Saturday night, after saving their
way out of the main cage, then drop
ping from second story window to
the ground. All of the escaped
prisoners but one were captured the
next day. According to their story
one of the men was in possession Of
a small hack saw which was used to
cut the bars of the cage in which
all were confined. Before leaving
the Jail the prisoners broke into a
room where a lot Of confiscated
liquor was stored and helped them
selves. They also left a note to Dep
uty Sheriff Rafferty, wishing him a
Happy New Year"
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
The above shows cut OF the mucn

The above shows a cut OF the mucn
talked of new Liberty calendar. The
mere suggestion that this plan Of
measuring time should take the
place of our present calendar is
enough to make any real nice, old
fashioned, conservative person gasp
for breath. To such a person it
would seem preposterous that any
one should have the nerve and ef-
frontery to propose such a radical
change in our time-honored and
much revered, though atrociously
constructed, old time calendar
This project is fathered by fifty
Minneapolis business and profession
al men who a few months since or
eanized the American Equal Month
Calendar association. and are now
seeding down" with their pet calen-
dar idea. The directors are business
or professional men of high standing
and strange none of the association
belong to the ancient and accepted
order ofcranks, but are hard-headed
practical business men.
In framing the calendar, only
three slight changes were made in
the present form. First, New Years
day was made an Independent legal
holiday. It is placed between the
last day of December and the first
day Of January. but it is not inelud-
ed in any week or month. Then.
the remaining 364 days are divided
into thirteen months OF exactly
four weeks each, every month COM
mencing with Monday. This is GER
tainly simplicity itself.
or course, the extra day in Leap
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
HIGH PRAISE Of
AN ASHLAND MAN

Professor Frederick Berchtold, for
many years the head of the Eng
lish department of the o. A. c., has
written a friend in Ashland regard
ing "a Daughter of the Rogues":
"The poem is a fine exhibition of
native poetic gift. There are a
number of superb passages scattered
through the nearly 1900 lines. Mr..
Campbell is a born poet"
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
WILL INCREASE
TEACHERS PAY

TNVVVTUT 10 WV TIWITTN0T
KLAMATH, FALLS, Dec, 3O.-At
an election held in this city Saturday
a special tax levy of $4,000 for an in
crease in teachers salaries carried
by vote of 1872 to T. The vote
means an increase Of approximately
$25 month to all teachers in the
schools, probably retroactive to No
bember, 1919.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
KLAMATH FALLs.-Miss Bessie
Tery sincerely yours,
BEN w. OLCOTT,
Governor.

KLAMATH FALLS.-Miss Bessie
l.. Lewis, a teacher at the Klamath
Indian agency, was drowned in a
pool at the agency Christmas. II is
thought the young woman took her
own life. She had attended the
Christmas eve festivities at the In
dian school the night before and
seemed apparently in good spirits,
according to the reports Friends
state that she was to have peen mar
ried within month.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Lamb are back
from an extended trip which covered
San Francisco. Oakland, Calf. and
Reno, New. They stated that they
spent Christmas in San Francisco
where the weather was like a spring
day. They went later to Reno and
found snow in abundance, which
made them mighty glad to get back
to Ashland.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
MEETINGS STILL
KEEP UP INTEREST

The meetings at the Free Metho-
dist church are progressing both in
interest and attendance. Much Of
Gods power is in the services and
a number have been converted. Four
have united with the church. Rev.
]. W. Glazierf and wife are giving
messages of power and benediction
in song and preaching, These SER
vices will continue all this week. A
watch night meeting will be held
Wednesday evening. Visiting pas
tors from abroad are expected.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

The coal shortage closed indus
tries; this caused unemployment and
privation and proved that conditions
of whatever character which inter
fere with industrial activity bring
immediate hardship.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

A quiet but very pretty wedding
took place at Trinity Episcopal
church at 12 o'clock today. Miss
Helen Conner and Mr.. Frank Hanna
were united in the holy estate OF
matrinony by the Vicar, the Rev.
p. X. Hammond. Mrs. Conner, the
brides mother, and Allen Collins
were witnesses.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

ST. CLOUD, Minn.-A painting.
the work of Minneapolis art firm,
has been received at the high school
here and dedicated to the memory
of 81. Cloud boys who lost their lives
in the war.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

LONDON.-The postman's fedora
tion has decided to refrain from the
degrading and pernicious system of
collecting part of our wages from
the public in the form of Christmas
boxes"
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Silva Green, who with his
wife, was visiting friends in Sans
Valley Sunday, was struck on the
head while attempting TO crank an
automobile. His injuries are not
serious, but he wears a decorative
black and blue lump on the side Of
his head.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-There is a
shortage Of office space here. Re
comfy WE'VE physicians told officials
they were unable to find a location.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Ashland Iron Works has contract to
build zoe farm tractors and cultiya-
tors for Seattle firm Machines to
do all kinds of farm work.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
LOCAL and PERSONAL
TUESDAYS NEWS

TUESDAYS NEWS
The city council held an adjourned
meeting last night and cleared up
all reports and business to finish the
year.
Dennis Espy, the little son OF Mrs,
Oskar and grandson OF Mr.. and Mrs.
]. N. Dennis, fell from an automo-
bile last evening and had the mis-
fortune to break mis- leg. He seems
to be getting along well today.
Mrs. Anna Mccarthy will leave to-
day for Dunsmuir to spend New
Years with her son.
Mrs. Griffith left yesterday for
Los Altos, Calf, to visit with her
sister, Mrs. Bob Prosser
w. H. Hodkinson, wife and daugh-
ter, have gone to Southern Cali
fornia to spend the holidays.
Miss Grace Lilly and Miss Marion
Arndt, two former teachers in the
Ashland high schools, are guests this
week at the home OF Mrs. Elsie
Churchman of 81 Union street. Miss
Lilly is teaching this year in the
Lincoln high school of Portland, and
Miss Arndt is teacher in the schools
at Mendocino, Calf.
Miss Hazel Lowe, who has been
teaching domestic science in the
schools at Glenn, Calf, is home on
a visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. d. NJ. Lowe of Valley View.
Ashland has been treated to
"silver thaw" for the past two or
three days. The entire valley was
shrouded in bank of fog, while
a white frost covered all the foliage
This morning, however, the fog has
rolled away and the sun shone
brightly.
The body Of John Werth, who died
az local hospital here from pneu-
monia where he had been taken from
the train during the week, was sllip'
ned last night to Woodland, Calf
The deceasc had started for tina,
city when he was taken i'll. His
friends were notified OF his condi-
ton and later of his death, and
sent word to Ashland for the body
to be sent on.
Company B and the American Le-
gion cleared $113 on their dance in
the Natatorium Christmas night.
Mrs. Frank Moore, who had been
spending Christmas with her mother,
Mrs. Anna Mccarthy OF North Main
street, left last evening for her home
in Eugene.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Smith are
home from Montague where they had
been spending Christmas, and where
a family reunion was held Mr.
Smith has been quite i'll recently and
this is the first he has been able to
be out for several weeks.
Mrs. II. II. Gillette and daughter
Marjorie left last evening for San
Francisco. Mrs. Gillette will remain
short time to visit with relatives,
while Miss Marjorie will remain in
that city to finish high school.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Roseburg.-155 acres near city
bought for goat milk dairy ranch.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Seaside votes 1888, 900 bonds for
scenic boulevard.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Big sawmill company is being or
ganized at Harrisburg.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

New Year Day is not included In week o month.
ECoeon Day. each four included month";
he remaining 364 divided months
month commencing with Monday Bill already
The months January, February Liberty, March, Etc.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
MEN
NEED EMPLOYMENT

The Associated Industries of Or
egon are inaugurating a statewide
to secure employment for
all ex-service men in Oregon. In or
der to put this movement before the
people Governor Olcott has issued
a proclamation asking for the CO.
operation Of all manufacturers and
employers Of labor to provide EN-
ployment for the hosts of unem-
ployed men who served their country
during the war and are now at home
with no place in the industrial af-
fairs of the state
Following is the governors proc
lamation:
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31
Salem, Oregon,
December %, 1919.

December %, 1919.
To the People Of Oregon:
Because Of a serious unemploy-
ment situation which has resulted
in hundreds of ex-service men OF
this state being out OF employment,
the manufacturers of Oregon,
through the Associated Industries,
have volunteered to meet the situa-
tion by the employment of these ex-
service men.
This move on the part of the man
ufacturers will mean material
over-production of their products,
As a result of these conditions, II
will he necessary to find a way to
market this additional production.
The logical way is for the people of
Oregon themselves to absorb the
over-production by confining their
purchases as far as possible to Ore
gon production.
From the inception of the war Or
egon was a leader in every patriotic
move, While peace is here, it is as
much our duty to see that the men
who gave us peace are properly pro-
vided with employment rs it was our
duty to finance them during the war
am confident the people of the
state will give ready response to
this appeal and I urge that for the
next ninety days every man, woman
and child in the state do his or her
part by purchasing Oregon made pro-
duets, Insist that you secure these
products, realizing as you do so that
you are assisting in giving employ
ment to the men who rghteously
deserve it.
would also respectfully request
that the mayors of the various
cities and towns in the state call
this situation to the attention OF
their home people, so that this plan
may work out with the greatest sue
cess,
Very sincerely yours,
BEN w. OLCOTT,
Governor.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Mrs. II. II. Gillette and daughter
Marjorie left last evening for San
Francisco. Mrs. Gillette will remain
short time to visit with relatives,
while Miss Marjorie will remain in
that city to finish high school.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Company and the American Le-
gion cleared $113 on their dance in
the Natatorium Christmas night.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Mrs. Frank Moore, who had been
spending Christmas with her mother,
Mrs. Anna Mccarthy OF North Main
street, left last evening for her home
in Eugene.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Smith are
home from Montague where they had
been spending Christmas, and where
a family reunion was held. Mr.
Smith has been quite i'll recently and
this is the first he has been able to
be out for several weeks.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-12-31

The city council held an adjourned
meeting last night and cleared up
all reports and business to finish the
year.
Republican farmer., 1919-02-21
WILSON LAUDS
 FRENCH PEOPLE
Has Profound Sense of Their Great Hos
 pitality.

Brest,\ Feb. 15-In a farewell nes- sage to the French people before leaving Brest today, President Will son said he had been received and treated friend. as he had most desired to be treated. He added that he would be happy to return to France to assist in completing the just settlements of the Peace Confer ence
 The Presidents statement reads:
 T cannot leave France without ex- pressing my profound sense of the great hospitality of the French peo- pie and the French government. They have received and treated me as most desired to be treated, as a friend, a friend alike in spirit and In pur- pose. I am happy to say that I am to return to assist with all my heart in completing the just settlements ing and I shall carry with mo during my absence very happy memories of the two months I have spent here.
 T have been privileged to see here at first and what my sympathies had already conceived-the sufferings and prc5Iems of France-auG erary day has deepened my interest in the solu- ton of the grave questions upon whose proper solution the future pros perity of France and her associates and the whole world depend. May I not leave my warm and affectionate farewell greetings
Republican farmer., 1919-02-21
FOUR HOLDUPS
 ADDED TO LIST
Growing Number of Crimes Keep New York Police
 Busy.

New York. Feb. 15-Four hold ups and two safe burglaries were added today to the growing list of crimes which have kept the police of this city busy recently. Follow ing upon the daylight robbery of United Shipping Board paymasters yesterday of SIP 900 and the raid of two robbers on a Madison avenue jeweIry- store, a Brooklyn drug store and a saloon were held up by robbers during the early morning hours today and several hundred dollars in cash taken.
 Burglars who apparently secreted themselves in the paper box factory of R. Tyson Whites Sons before it was closed yesterday. forced open the safe in the establishment and made off with S10O0 in Liberty Bonds, $250 In cash and some jewelry. A Brooklyn resident reported that s75O in Liberty Bonds and cash was taken from a small safe in his home.
 Two pedestrians were beaten and robbed. Burglars also operated dur ing the night below the famous Full ton street ''deadline for crooks" and jimmied the front door of a Broad way tobacconist, robbing his cash reg ister.
Republican farmer., 1919-02-21
179 BILLION
 COST OF WAR
Total Expenditure of U. s, and Allies Fixed at 119
 Billion.

Washington. Feb. 15-ExcIusIve of expenditures by Belgium, Portugal Rumania, Austria-Hungary and Bull garia, the total cost of the European war was fixed at $179.OOO,oo0.Ooo in an official statement made public here today, compiled on estimated expen- ditures up to January 31.
 Total expenditures of the Allies and the United States were fixed at s119.- 581, 100000 exclusive of loans among themselves, which totaIed S1S,375,- 100000.
 The individual expenditures of the nations were given as follows:
 Great Britain. $37.1OO,000.OOO; France, 27,0OO,000.000; United States $18.481 ,0O00OO; Russia, $1S,000, ,0OO,- 900; Italy, S10,000. 100000. Serbia $S.00O, 100000; Japan and Greece, S1.- O0,OOOO,0OO. The loans made by these powers were included in the in dividual expenditures, although not added to the total a-s a separate item were:
 Great Britain. S8.5OO,0OO.OoO; France, $2,0O0,000,O 900; United States S7.8T5.OO0. .OO0.
 The total expenditures of Germany were given as $36. 6.50O, 900, GOO and ot Turkey S23.000.O0O.0Oo, making an aggregate of S59, ,5OO,O0O, 900 for these two members of the Germanic aI- Hance.
Republican farmer., 1919-02-21
Financial Problems Also In cluded in Conference
 Program.
THREE COUNCILS
 TO HANDLE THEM
Work of Supreme Economic Council of Greatest I'm
 mediate Importance.

Paris, Feb. i5-yVith the sub ject of the League of Nations now out Of tie way for some time to come, fine biggest pro- blem before the Peace Confer
 ence at present is believed to be the re-adjustment of the worlds financial and economic
 relations. which have been torn to pieces by more than four years of war.
 Three different organizations have been created to deal with these subjects. The work of the Supreme Economic Council is Of the greatest immediate importance.
 It has been charged temporarily, during the armtstice period. to handle only such pressing questions as the disposition to he made of shipping; the abatement of the blockade which
 has been holding back not only the
 enemy's industry but that of neu- trals; the distribution of raw ma ] teriaIs and finally. those financial 1 questions that require instant atten- ton.
 This council includes in it's mem i bership some of the ablest financial and business minds of America and i Europe.
 Of more permanent value is ex- | pected to be the work of the Econo-
 mic Drafting Commission and the i Financial Drafting Commission. The i Economic Drafting Commission has undertaken to make practical ap- pIication of the third of President 1 Wilson's Fourteen Points. namely that declaring for the removal as far as 1 possible of all economic barriers and l the establishment of an equality of l trade conditions among all of the na- i tions consenting to the peace and as | sociaHng themselves for it's mainten- | ance.
 The problem involves the right of
 nations to discriminate between friends and foes in their trade rela-
 tions and the propriety of continuing 1 the many special trade treaties with i their diferentiaI tariffs. which in the i past so often have jeopardized the l peaceful relations of states. The Financial Drafting Commission will have to meet the insistent de- mand of the European nations for the | pooling of all the credits, debts and resources of the nations. a proposi- ton which seems certain 70 be strong 1 ly resisted by the American repre- i sentatives.
 | This commission also is to obtain
 information as to the financial re- i sources, present and prospective, of the enemy countries in order that the commission on reparation may com i plete it's work.
Republican farmer., 1919-02-21
DUTCH WILL AID
 TROOP RETURN
Assurances Given of Re turn of Hun War
 Material.

Washington, Feb. 15-Minister Gar rett at The Hague notified the State Department today that the Neither lands government had consented to aid in the return home of American troops by permitting trans-shipment to transports at Rotterdam of soldiers brought down the Rhine. Assurances also were given that war material se- questered in Holland would be re- stored soon.
 The Dutch Foreign Minister speci- fled that the transports should fly the commercial flag at Rotterdam, that only officers be permitted to bear arms and that notification be given to the Netherlands government of each transport. The arms of the sol diers during the trip on the Rhine will be placed in separate boats. Each convoy will also be accompanied by a Netherlands officer to act as fnterme- diary in case of any communications with the authorities of the country.