Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-05-19
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
SATURDAYS NEWS

SATURDAYS NEWS
Miss Madge Putnam has come
TO Ashland from San Francisco
to pay a visit to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. L. Putram. She will
remain here several days.
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The postmaster has purchased
an automobile. The new machine
will be used largely as an auxil-
iary to the postoffice work in re-
laying mail to the city letter car
riers collecting from street letter
mail boxes and taking care of nu-
merous emergencies that arise in
the course of a week in a post
office in a town so full of people
as is Ashland these days.
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Reports from down the valley
state that the origin of the heavy
smoke that has hung over this
section for the past two days is
still unknown. So far as can be
learned no forest or brush fires
are burning. II is thought the
smoke probably comes from the
heavy brush fires near Prospect
where the road crews are burning
slashings.
The Jackson county Ga:ry school
and county Jersey breeders associ- |
alton which closed its two days
session in Medford Thursday, en-
dorsed the millage tax bill for
higher education. f. l.. WestoveT
and f. B. Fits, o. A. c. experts !
o were speakers at the school.
The cause of the delay of train
No. l3, which was over three
hours late in arriving in Ashland !
yesterday, was the derailment of
a freight car near Reuben north .
OF here, behind which the passen
ger train was caught.
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The klamath Falls high school .
baseball team, which was so badly /
clicked" by the local boys on the
home grounds yesterday, left this
morning for Grants Pass where .
they will meet the high school
team in game there today. The
latter team was beaten in Klam-
alh Falls last week, and the game
today promises to be a hotly CON
tested one.
Miss Bertha Stth of Gerber
came up last evening to pay WIS.,
it to her friend Miss Alberta Reid,
for few days.
The Sunshine Society would
like all who, while cleaning house
this spring, find any cast-off gar
ments or articles of household .
furnishings, for which they have
no further use, to notify them,
bnG they will call and collect the
articles. This society looks after
those in need in the city, and fire.
Quently helps out by supplying
clothing or furniture that other
wise would be destroyed.
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Mrs. w. A. Herbert, who has
been a guest of her sister, Mrs.
William Mathes of North Main
street, for several weeks, left last
night for her home in Tacoma.
Troop 2 of the Boy Scouts gath
cred this morning at an early
hour at the Presbyterian church
and started on a hike for the
mountains. Kings cabin, six or
seven miles up the canyon, was
their destination.
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Mrs. j. c. Bell OF Los Angeles,
who is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
]. r. Edwards, Of Nutley street,
is neuritis patient at DR.. Haw-
ley's mineral bath institution.
Mrs. Clarence Atterbury was
called to Tillamook this week by
news of the serious illness of her
mother, who ,has suffered par
alytic stroke. Mrs. Atterbury !.
was accompanied by her small
daughters, Clara and Iris.
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Mrs. F. c. billiard and little
daughter Kathleen were Ashland
shoppers yesterday from Talent.
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Miss Georgia NJ. Carter of Port
land is among the new residents
OF Ashland. She is occnupying
apartments over the Citizens bank
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The Oskar Huber company were
engaged in making many much
needed repairs on the paved streets
yesterday. A number of bad holes
in the pavement were filled up
and rolled by the machinery used
in making pavement for the high
way, which did the work expedi-
tiously.