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Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
Medford May Lose
Popular Minister

MEDFORD-Medford and the
First Presbyterian church may
soon lose Rev. l.. Myron Boozer
who has just been rendered the
position of student pastor fol-
Presbyterians attending the Ore.
gon Agricultural college at Cor
wallis.
The offer came tc him as a sur
prise. The position there affords
so large a field Of opportunity
and the salary is so much greater
than the church pays here, that
the popular Medford pastor will
probably accept it, though he says
he has not yet decided.
Mr.. Boozer was chosen for the
position by the Presbyterian synod
and the appointment has been ap-
proved by the general board OF
the Presbyterian church in charge
of educational centers.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
CITY is CROWDED
TO THE LIMIT

The Ashland hotels are crowded
nightly; tourists are sleeping on
cots and improvised billets; every
house in town that can be lived
in is occupied and renting a house
Is as difficult as sailing a battle
ship up Niagara Falls; scores of
Ashlanders have fitted up rooms
and apartments in their homes in
order to care for the summer Wis
itors and these are filled,
Whenever "A house is sold
ana residence sales are daily Oc-
currence-a series Of "mOvings"
is started which remembles moth
ing so much as a row OF dOminos
set on end and falling one against
the other. Bill Jones buys the
Browns to move out of it; the
Browns offer So more rent than
the TaylOrs are paying and move
into the house occupied by the
Tuylors; Mr.. TaylOrs brother
owns a place rented by the Fields
and the Fields are forced to move,
the Fields trace back the series
Of movies" and find that Bill
Jones moved out of a house owned
by a man in Portland, they wire
to the owner only to find that the
Harker family, newcomers from
Los Angeles, have beat them to il
by a week. The Fields have this
time figured out that buying
is cheaper than moving and pur-
chase the house rented by the
Blacks, starting another merry
round of movings.
Everyone would finally get set
tied were it not for the constant
stream of new arrivals from Los
Angeles earthquake infested ave
nues; Montana's chilly noun
tains and Dakota's sunburned
plains.
While the summer tourists ac-
count for a. part of the crowded
conditions, it is a sure thing that
the influx of families seeking the
benefits of the Ashland schools
next fall will make the housing
problem even more impossible of
solution.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
INDEMNITY FUND USED UP

SALEM, Ore.-Uniess the state
emergency board is called into
session to supply funds for the
operation of the state livestock
sanitary board, payment of in
demnity for the slaughter of dis
eased cattle will cease, according
to information sent out in a cir
cular letter by DR.. w. II. Lytle,
state veterinarian.
Dr. Lytle advises that tubercu-
lar tests continue, but requests
veterinarians to inform the own
crs of diseased cattle that they
will have to wait for indemnity
payments until more money is
provided. Should the governor
refuse to summon the emergency
beard there will be no money for
this purpose until the legislature
meets next January.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
Says New Warden
Is Makinq Good

Deputy Fish Warden Mcdaniel
who has been stationed on the
river the past two weeks, has prac'
tically put a so ttop to all illegal
fishing and now has the situation
well in hand. Last week the
warden arrested Norval Walls
worth and Fred Shelton for fish
ing below the dead line" and
they were fined $50 and costs in
Justice Dyes court.
Mr.. Mcdaniel is making a hit
with the local boys as fair and
open-handed official and has dis
played a willingness to cooperate
in all matters pertaining to the
industry here.
Mr.. Mcdaniel says in his opin-
ion the outside fishing is greatly
detrimental to the industry on the
streams along the coast since the
deep-sea trollers catch young and
immature salmon, and he is max
ing a special effort to stop the
practice off this river. In this
work the warden IS being aided
by the Macleay Estate company
who have offered him the use oi
their surf boat in running down
the culprits, and il necessary VIII
place the Tramp at his disposal
Gold Beach Reporter.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
BE RGNER LOOKS
OVER PORTLAND
t(OregOn Journal)

t(OregOn JournaD
Up from Ashland, where what
ever ashes there may have been
at one time. have been laid sue
ccssfully and prOfitably with lithia
water, comes o. 7. Bergner, man
ager of the Vining motion pic
ture theatre. Bergner has been
comforting with Manager c. T. Holl
OF Famous-Players-Lasky, during
NEST of his visit so far, and rs
lining up the best there is in the
way of "follum" for the enter.
tainment and edification Of the
Ashlanders.
Bergner. six or seven years ago,
before Jensen & Won Herberg
came along, was manager of the
Columbia theatre for Foster &
Kleiser, owner of the building,
and gave Portland the best shows
there were to be had at that time.
Then Bergner acquired the Vim
ing, and down in Southern Ore
gon he is touted now as being one
OF the livest showmen in that part
of the country.
Bergner reports business fine"
the weather having been good
lirom the showman's standpoinN
during the spring and the sum
mer to date.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
TO TRY TO RAISE
FALLEN AIRPLANE

Captain Lowell B. Smith, in
charge of the aerial forest patrol.
leaves Medford today with a me-
Chanic to make an inspection OF
the patrol plane which recently
cracked" at Big Camas, in the
Umpqua forest. They will ascer-
tain whether or not the plane can
be repaired and if so will return
and obtain the needed parts and
take in a crew sufficient to put
the plane in shape to fly. A field
will then be built large enough
to allow the machine to take Off
Steps are being taken to build a
iield at Big camas and it is quite
probable that within short time
a good landing field will be in ex-
istence at that place. Forest Su-
pervisor Ramsdel of Rosebure
has reported very fayorably in re-
gard to such a field and states
that it can be built.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
Child Welfare
Meeting Thurs.

A meeting preliminary to the
Child elfare conference, which is
to be held August 49, will be held
at the Bellyiew schoolhouse at 2
p. m, Thursday of this week (Au-
gust 5th). While the meeting is
specifically for mothers of the
Bellview and Neil Creek neigh
borhoods, all interested women OF
Ashland and vicinity are invited
and urged to attend.
Miss Pool, county demonstration
agent, Miss Falldine, county
nurse, and Miss Lane of the Ore
gon Agricultural College extern
sion service, will be present
Thursday Miss Lane is sent out
by the state college as a field
agent for this child welfare work.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
APPLEGATE ROAD
WORK PROGRESSES

Work is progressing rapidly on
the new market road from Muir
ply to Williams in the Applegate
valley. Two crews are at work
and have now about six miles OF
grading completed and ready for
the rock. One crew is working
from the Murphy bridge and has
worked to the Sweeney ranch
about two and a half miles up the
Applegate. The other crew is
working from the Williams creek
bridge at the Provolt ranch and
this crew has got to the bridge
across Williams creek which goes
UP Powell creek. This stretch
takes in some of the worst road
and it is now in excellent condi-
ton. The work is permanent and
will be completed this fall with
macadam.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
PARK TO PARK CARAVAN
PATHFINDER ARRIVES
Pathfinder Here.

A. l.. Westgard, field represen
tative of the American Automo
bile association and pathfinder TO
the National Park-to-Park cara
van, which will leave Denver Au
gust rs, was in Ashland this morn
ing. He is on a 2,000-mile tour
laying out a route for the cara
van. The big party will reacl
Ashland in September.
The National Park to-Parl
Highway association, as well az
other highway and automobile as
sociations and the U. S. Depart
ment Of the interior are interested
in this new route, which will con.
meet all the national parks, SC
that it will be possible for tourists
to make a complete tour of the
parks over comfortable roads and
in much less time than is now re-
CURED.
"A million people visited the
national parks last year. Mr..
Westgard said, "but lack of good
oonencting roads robbed many of
them of the opportunity of seeing
all the wonders of the national
Fairgrounds. The road which |
will map out should enable tour
lists to make a comfortable trip in
minimum length of time, and
will permit them to visit all the
beauty spots in the government
parks in the course of one summer
tour"
Mr.. Westgard has laid out prac-
tically all the leading trans-cOn-
tihental routes, and many other
highways. He has crossed the
country Is times east and west,
and 80 times north and south, in
his pathfinding tours.
On his nineteenth trans-c0nti-
nenetal trip Mr.. Westgard is using
his nineteenth car. He carries
with him a complete camping out
fit, and the car has been especially
fitted up to carry large amount
Of travelling supplies.
He is accompanied by his wife
and son james the later a map
maker who is preparing a map to
be used on the return trip. The
caravan which will leave Denver
will be composed of great num-
her Of cars occupied by represen-
tative business men. The expense
Is being borne by the association,
which is promoting this plan and
the entire route will be covered.
Mr.. Westgard is now making his
plans and will pilot the caravan
Mr.. Westgard is confident that
this plan will assist greatly in ad-
vancing the national highway
scheme.
"All the government is waiting
for" he says, "is to learn which
roads bear the greatest amount
of travel and which should be Ia
ken over II we can link up a
large number of roads, tapping !
and at the same time serving to
accommodate the farmers and
growers of all communities, tllen
there is no doubt but that when
the federal highway bill is adopt
ed, these roads will be taken over
and made permanent by the gov
eminent"
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
JACKSON STACKER
EIIES HIMSEIE i

PORTLAND.-Telegraphic news
was received by United States Mar
shal Alexander that Afford Fattig
an alleged draft evader, had sur.
rendered himself to Sheriff c. E
Terrill of Jackson county. No
cause for his belated action was
stated.
Affords record in the L. S. At
torney's office show that he regis
tered and received his question
naire, but that he failed to appear
for his physical examination. A
warrant for his arrest has been
issued since July, 1918.
He will be prosecuted and pun
ished to the full extent of the law
according to Assistant U. S. At
torney Charles Reames, in charge
OF all draft evasion prosecutions
for the government.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
'ORTLAND PLANS
BUYERS WEEK

PORTLAND, Ore.-The Pacific
Northwest Merchants convention,
which is to convene in this city
August 8 to IA, promises to be the
best attended in the history of the
organization. Invitations sent
out some time ago have brought
ever 1000 acceptances, and what
is more pleasing to the Officers
OF the organization, delegates are
coming from greater distances
than ever before. Alaska will be
we'll represented, and merchants
are coming from as far east as
Wyoming, Minnesota. Colorado
and other states east of the Rocky
Mountains.
In connection with the conven-
tion, the Eighth Annual Buyers
Week, inaugurated by the man.
ufacturers and jobbers of Port
land will be held. This annual
gathering is becoming stupen-
dous affair. This year the COM
mittee has arranged very elabo-
rate series of entertainments, in
Guiding a "high jinks" for the
men, theater parties for the la
dies ,luncheons excursions to
various sections of the city, sight
seeing trips of interest about
Portland the entertainment pro-
gram concluding with an elab0r-
ate banquet in honor of the yisi-
tors.
The committee in charge of the
weeks activities have advised pros
Iective merchant visitors that if
they should buy goods from any
member of the organization while
in Portland amounting to $5O0.O0.
that their railroad fare and Pull
man charges to and from their
home city would be refunded. This
offer is expected greatly to in
crease the attendance Of mer-
chants from the middle western
and Pacific Coast states and
Alaska.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
Sacramento River
Below Sea Level

SACRAMENTO-The prediction
made recently by n X. Taylor,
meterologist of the U. S. weather
bureau at Sacramento, that the
Sacramento river soon would reach
the zero mark, has come true.
Last Friday shortly after s
O'Clock p. M, at the low ebb of
the tide, the weather bureau guage
registered two-tenths of foot be-
low zero, which also indicated that
the surface of the stream had fall
len to the remarkably low depth
of seven-tenths of foot below
the mean sea level of the Pacific
ocean.
That the river will go even sew
eral inches below its present rec
ord now is believed possible, al
though Taylor says the instru-
nents in his office almost reached
their maximum registration ca
pacity with that nights stage.
The significance Of the river at
Sacramento being seven-tenths of
q foot below the mean sea level,
explained Taylor, is of more in
terest than most people realize.
He said it meant the average level
of the Pacific ocean near the
mouth of the Sacramento river is
higher than the surface of the
river.
There is water in the river chan
mel at varying depths, and the
boats still are running between
Sacramento and San Francisco.
However, the water lies in basins
or depression in the bed that are
Just that many feet below the
oceans level.
In looking up some old records.
TAYLOR has found there were four
dry years, dating from 1S49 to
1853. when the river went to zero
at the dryest period of each re-
spective year.
Taylor says these, perhaps, are
traditional, and not true records
of the stream and not the datum
of the guage as it now is officially
established with absolute correct
eltitudinal readings.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
Some Day Crater Lake Park
Will See Crowds Like These

Tourist travel in Yellowstone
national park since the official
opening OF Americas great won
dclland on June Is, is promising
to establish the present season as
the best the park has ever known,
Despite the unusually severe
winter which caused much suf-
lering among the wild animals
and for months defied the hercu-
lean efforts of the rangers to
break through the great walls OF
SHOWN thrown over the automo-
bile highways, the main roads OF
the park were opened up this
year several days in advance OF
the date they have been made ac-
cessible in former years, and cars
we're admitted June Is.
The transportation OF the thou
sands of nature lovers who come
from all parts of the world, is
handled by the Yellowstone Park
Transportation company which is
operating $50 buses over the va
rious park tours. Without doubt
this is the most extensive automo-
bile passenger transportation pro-
joct in the country outside of the
large taxicab companies OF our
big cities.
Since the opening OF the 1920
season the $50 buses operating
in the park have covered l73,6O0
touring miles carrying approx
1900 visitors.
All the buses are White cars,
1876 OF the IL passenger type and
IS regular touring ears. All the
1-passenger cars are built on
ton chases. In adj
lition to these $50 buses the trans
portation company operates IL
two-ton. two five
on and six three-quarter ton. The
iive-ton trucks are gasoline tank
ars which supply the four filling
stations OF the park with their
gasoline requirements, while the
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
Propaganda Keeps
Tourists AWav

Two southbound tourist auto
mobiles which passed through
here yesterday had signs pasted
en- the windshields hearing the
words, "The Cruelest Words in
Oregon; Out of Gas" Local gar
agemen are asked 20 he on he
lookout for other cars CARVING
the signs and 20 endeavcr to asCer-
tain the source Of the prCpa-
ganda, which it is feared will have
a disastrous effect in keeping
tourists out of Oregon,
The local garages and service
stations make no restrictions in
the amount Of 80 inc supplied
tourists and as yet no Gas sign
have not been in evidence here.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
DIED.

sgd +. Carter and Major A.
Carter received word a few days
ago of the death of their sister.
Mrs. Mary Geitner, at Sacra,
mento, Calf, where she had made
her home for many years, Mrs.
Geitner was well known to the
older families of Ashland as Miss
Mary Carter, Practically all OF
her married life was spent in Cal
ifornia. She was &C years old
and leaves a husbond and six
children, three brothers and
sister, One brother, L. w. Car
ter, lives at Santa Rosa, Calf. The
sister is Mrs. II. w. Lowrey OF
Yoncalla, Oregon.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
New York Giants
After Ken Lilly

]. Kenneth Lilly, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. h. Lilly Of Ashland, and
former Ashland High school and
Stanford athlete, is one OF the
most sought-after young ball
players in the west just at pres
ent. Lilly, who has gone the limit
in every branch Of athletics at
Stanford and has about dozen
letters from baseball, football,
rugby, basketball and track at
Stanford, is playing ball this sum
mer for Watsonyilie in the Mis-
sion league. Several coast league
teams have been anxious to sign
him up for a couple of years past
and the San Francisco Seals are
at present trying to get him to
bolster up their outfield.
On top of the Seal offer he has
received communication from
the New York Giants asking him
to state his terms and whether or
not he would consider coming to
the National league team. Lilly
expects to take postgraduate work
at the Stanford law school this
winter and is undecided as to
whether he wants to play profes-
sional ball and is just as unde-
cided as to which offer he should
accept if he does decide to take
up ball playing as a profession.
Dick Kinsella, New York Giant
scout was out looking Lilly over
recently and decided he was tim
Der for the big time. Hal Chase,
who owns an interest in the san
Jose team in thu Mission league,
is quoted in the San francisco
Chronicle as stating that Lilly
was the best bet in t0e Mission
league and was big league ma
terial.
Lilly is a finished outfielder,
fast as a flash, and does the hun
dred in ten seconds. lie has been
hitting around the iS0 mark in
the Mission league.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
EIKS ARE FOR
"SAFETy FIRST"


The moral influence as well as
the practical example Of the sew
enteen thousand Elks in Oregon
will be thrown solidly behind the
safety first" movement in an ef-
fort to reduce to minimum auto
mobile and railroad accidents in
this state If a resolution present
ed to the state association at the
Elks convention in Salem meets
with approval, as it is expected
that it will.
The resolution, which was pre-
sented by the Portland delegation
and which is said to have the
unanimous endorsement of that
body, calls attention to the nu-
merous accidents, many of them
fatal, which have been occurring
in Oregon, many of them due to
caf elessness and recklessness. The
move proposes the appointment BY
the president of the state associ-
alton of a committee to cooper
ate with the safety committee OF
the Portland division of railroads
in carrying on an educational
campaign for the prevention Of
accidents at railroad crossings and
elsewhere. The committee would
also be instructed to see that
committees of local lodges be APP
pointed to cooperate with the
state committee and the railway
safety committee in furthering the
campaign to the utmost.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04

Ashland remembers with pleas
ure 80 Long, Lefty" the big
musical comedy success which
played at the ChautauQua audi
togium. o. 7. Bergner announces
that he has secured "Linger Long
e: Lefty" with the same Charlotte
Greenwood who played the lead
in the previous success, for Ash
land. The big musical comedy.
probably the largest and best com
pany which will visit the coast
this year, will present "Linger
Longer Lefty" at the Chautauqua
Auditorium on Friday, August 81,
Mr., Bergner says, Don't get
the idea that the coming show is
the same as the one which was
here before. Although the name
is similar, it is an entirely new
show and is said to have eclipsed
the New Work success of 80
Long, Lefty"
The production was secured for
Ashland at great trouble and ex
pense. 1t makes only one or two
one night stops on the coast. The
company carries so people and two
carloads of scenery.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04

others are used to transport sup
plies to the various park hotels.
The services of 80 drivers are
required to take care OF the tour
lists who come by train to the Gar
diner, Yellowstone and Cody en-
frances. These 80 men have been
selected from more than 900 APP
plicants from all parts OF the cOun-
try. Many of them are college
men using this means of securing
funds for defraying next seasons
college expenses.
In the operation Of his car each
driver is compelled to adhere 20
y II ost exacting schedule, and any
violation of this schedule is fol-
loved by immediate dismissal.
This intricate schedule stipulates
the speed which must be maintain
ed from one point to another and
even designates the gear in which
the car must be driven. Strict ad-
herence to all rules is required in
the interest of economy of opera
tion and safety to tourists. A few
days ago driver checked in at =
park station with a load OF tour
lists 10 minutes in advance OF
scheduel and was Immediately dis
missed for his infraction of the
rules.
A total OF $4,000 persons visited
the park during the 1919 season.
using the Yellowstone buses. and
based on the attendance up to the
present date, fully $1,000 will see
the park in 1920. In addition to
the tourists that tour through the
park in their own cars, about 500
come in daily on the park buses
to take the four-day sightseeing
trip. so that about 1900 persons
mist be taken care OF daily. OF
ten this number runs up to LOO
when special parties are shown
through.
The park contains $50 miles OF
improved highway.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
JACKSON STACKER
GETS NINE MONTHS

PORTLAND. - Alfred Fattig,
who lived as a hermit in the wilds
Of Jackson county for three years
to escape the draft, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced here to
nine months in jail. Fattig gave
himself up to Sheriff Terrlll re-
Gently.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-08-04
FIRST FOREST FIRE
NEAR JACKSONVILLE

The first forest fire of the sea.
son started Monday about two and
Il half miles north of Jackson
Vile and the atmosphere is hazy
with smoke from the blaze.
State District Fire Warden Eb.
erley had a large force of men at
work on the fire, including the
force of workmen of the FlOrey
and Stansell logging camp, not far
away, whose timber and that OF
others, was threatened if the fire
continued to spread, as well as a
number OF homes in the vicinity.
The fire is reported under con-
troll.