Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-04-28

III Tor the past week and this was
The first she was able to make
the trip home.
AT the meeting of the executive
board OF the Oregon Parent
Techers' association held in Port
land recently, resolutions were
unanimously passed endorsing the
four education measures which, ii
iayorably voted, will admirably
provide for the youth of the state.
These measures are the college
millage tax, the soldiers educa-
tiOnal aid, the 2-mill elementary
school tax, and the blind school
millage tax, and will be before
the people for their vote at the
primaries, May 21
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Mrs. Frank Dougherty of Duns-
muir is in Ashland, visiting her
sister, Mrs. Jack Fahs.
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Mrs, Bert Armpriest of Jackson
vile has been spending the past
week in Ashland assisting in the
care of her father, c. E. Abbott,
who is seriously i'll at his home
on East Main street. Mrs. Arm
priest went home a day or two
ago, but expects to return to Ash
land today.
The local Parent-Teachers' as
sociatiOn has been informed that
Mrs. c. W. Hayhurst, president of
the Oregon Parent-Teachers' as
sociatiOn, is planning on visiting
all the local circles in the state
so far as possible before election
in order to do her "bit" in re-
gard to the various educational
measures to be voted upon in
May. No definite date has been
given for Mrs. Hayhurst's visit to
Ashland.
. Mrs. NJ. p. Slyter of Portland
is expected in Ashland in few
days. Mrs. Slyter was formerly
Miss Hannah Abbott, a well known
Girl of this city. She is coming
here to see her father, c. f. Abb
bott, who is sick at his home on
East Main street.
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Albert Harmon died in Talent
at the age of 60 years.
was made this forenoon
in the Talent cemetery.
John Stevens, a civil engineer
Of Portland, was in Ashland yes
terday in connection with the Pa
cific highway construction. Mr..
Stevens was a schoolmate in the
University of Oregon with Homer
OF this city.
w. +. Winters, an old-time resi-
dent of the Rogue River valley,
has come with his wife from Ok
lahoma to make his home here.
He is the father of John Winters
of this city and the latter had no
titled his father that he would
Join him in Oklahoma, or would
ask the father to come to Ashland.
"Stay where you are" Mr.. Win
ter Sr., wrote back, "as | am COM
ing to Ashland" On arriving
here Mr.. Winter stated that the
weather had been terrible in the
south when he left, was bad all
he way here and bad enough when
he got here, but is the best he
has seen. "I'm never going to-
.eave again." Mr.. Winter re-
on recounting his ex-
Derience.
Walter Barham underwent a fl
cal operation in a local hospital
Yesterday when the splintered
bones in his jaw were removed.
He stood the operation well and
$ reported progressing nicely.
This operation followed the seri-
,us injury Mr.. Barham sustained
several weeks ago, when his jaw
vas broken by being struck with
/ pulley at the mill which he and
lis brothers are erecting on the
south of Ashland.
Fred w. Mears, an attorney OF
Nedford, was one of the leading
,reakers at the republican rally
leld in the city hall last evening.
Candidates for the various county
offices spoke and the meeting was
veil attended.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Dickey left
yesterday to join Mr.. and Mrs.
=. S. Miller of Medford and will
spend two or three days on a fish
ng jaunt to the Rogue river.
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Mr.. and Mrs. F. F.. Hanes of
san Diego, while on their way
lome from Portland yesterday