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Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-09-08
HISTORY OF CLASS
OF 1873 OF THE
ASHLAND ACADEMY \


At the reunion of the old Ash
land academy classmates whicl
was held at the Hotel Austin las
Monday evening in honor o
Judge Felix Ewing of Ventura
Calf, while the latter was visit
ing in this city, r. p. Neil, on'
OF the members of the class, gave
the following sketch of the livei
of the seven surviving members
of the class who were in sChoo
As years ago:
| have been asked to prepare
a brief sketch of the lives of the
few remaining members of the
class of 1875, as organized in the
old Ashland Academy, As years
ago. AS my memory serves me
at this time, that class consisted
of about 80 students. The raw
ishes Of time in the past 40 years
have reduced by death about five.
sixths of this number, leaving but
six or eight of the class members
at this time. The immediate per-
sonnel of this class. living today
are, as far as my knowledge goes,
c. b. Watson, +. ]. Farlow, G. S.
Butler, c. II. Gillette, +. w. Ew-
ing, II. p. Neil and Mrs. G. F.
Billings, all of whom are practi-
cally of the same age. In pre-
pairing the sketch Of the above
named individuals, any omissions
or mis-statements Of minor char
acter should be charitably over
looked, as so hastily a prepared
sketch, prompted from memory
only, covering period of 40
years, would naturally be faulty in
some particulars.
In sketching the past life of c.
B. Watson, | will say that imme-
diately after finishing his educa-
ton in the old Ashland Academy,
he chose as a profession for a
life work. that of the law, hav-
ing served many years as prose-
cutting attorney in different parts
of this state, with credit to him
self and to his constituency, and
while he has grown older along
with the rest Of us, he is still a
foe in litigation, that the best at
torneys in this district hesitate to
face. It has been said of him that
in a legal way he has been a CON
tributory cause to more divorce
cases than any other man in Jack
son county.
In considering the past life Of
i. J. Farlow, suffice it to say that
il has been a qiuet, upright, un-
assuming business life. In his
early life he taught school. later
in having been elected county
superintendent OF this county,
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800RUSS CH|LDRENON
WAY HOME FROM EXILE

rents, there had risen barrier
of fire; a dead-line formed OF
the long battle fronts of the op-
posed Soviet and CzechO armies.
Months passed. Winter arrived.
Clothing had become rags. Funds
were exhausted. Hunger and
spreading war horrors confront
ed the wanderers. The Omsk
government came into being. In
structOrs and nurses of the young
people appealed to this power for
aid, and the OmsE regime passed
the appeal along to the American
Red Cross Commission in Siberia
Group after group was taken
over by the American Red Cross,
which established colonies in
Western Siberia. But the battle
line swayed eastward and the So
Wet forces captured town after
town. With less than twenty
four hours headway, the first
group was evacuated, then the
next an dthe next. until all were
cut of danger.
Three trains of especially
equipped box cars with a guard
of American doughboys, trans
ported the precious cargo to
Vladiyostok, journey lasting
several weeks, through country
stripped bare OF provisions. In
genuity was taxed to the utmost
during the course of the trip. in
obtaining supplies, avoiding dis
ease and evading other trouble.
1t is estimated 5000 were sent
eastward from Pttrograd during
the revolution. All trace of hun
dreds of them has been lost. The
500 young exiles who will shortly
reach France are among the for
tunate few who live to tell the
tale of the "Children's Calvary
/ in Russia.
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PARIS, Sept. Eight hundred
Russian children, coming from
Vladiyostok, via San Francisco
and the Panama canal, on their
way to their homes in Petrograd,
will shortly arrive in France. The
children were separated from their
families during the early Russian
disorders, over two years ago. For
the past fifteen months they have
been cared for by the American
Red Cross in Siberia.
The American relief organiza-
ton has undertaken their repa
triation. Officers of the Red
Cross in France are now making
arrangements for the establish
ment of camp where the chill
dren will be received and cared
for during their stay in France,
pending their return to their pa
rents in Russia.
The journey of these eight hun
dred children, which takes them
over two seas, across 20, 900 miles
of land and water, writes the last
chapter in a history OF wandering
and adventure that can hardly
be matched in the whole record
Of world upheayal during the last
six years.
When the revolution moved to.
ward its height in the Great White
Empire, many fathers and mothers
of Petrograd looked at their al
ready underfed children, consid-
cred future possibilities, gathered
them into groups of 20, so and
100, with nurses and teachers
and sent them away to the peace.
ful, rich acres OF Siberia for d
few months; until the trouble hat
blown over"
Time came to return home. Blu
between the children and their pa
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American Legion
Will Give Dance

Glenn Simpson, who IS treas
urer of the American Legion, and
like most treasurers, holds tht
sack" both practically and prac'
tical-jokingly, raised quite a how
at the last meeting of the Legion
about the financial status of the
organization. He said that they
were about eight dollars in debt,
and (again like most treasurers)
he liked to have money instead
of bills to take care of.
Ways and means OF securing
this money were d'scussed-ban-
Quets, smokers, minstrel shows,
and so On--until one hapless
young man mentioned the fact
that a big dance had not been
staged in Ashland for some time.
That seemed to be about all that
was necessary to be said at that
time. The instigatOr was given
the thankless job of putting the
affair across.
At the present time he and his
assistants are working feyerishly
to make the ball as they call 1t,
a success. If what they say il
true. and it usually is, the dance
will be regular" party. The
Armory vii be decorated so as to
relieve the bare, warlike aspect OF
the interior. Herb Afford and
his crucifiers OF the Doldrums
will furnish the music.
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CENTER COLLEGE TRAINS
ONLY TQBEAT HARVARD

cruits. Head Coach "Uncle Char
lie' Moran will not arrive until
September Is, date of the closins
of his engagement as National
League umpire.
Among last years stars, the
following put in appearance
Red" Roberts, Red" Weaver.
Lefty" Whitney, Terry Snoddy.
Irish Murphy, Bill James, Sui
ly Montgomery. pap" Ford, Ben
Creagor, Norris Armstrong, Bill
Blevins and Hamp Taner. Others
are expected to arrive daily until
the camps enrolment has reach
ed probably 65 or 20.
Three hundred and ten stu
dents have already applied for ac.
commodations at Centre for this
fall. Last year the school which
tnrned out the "prayin' team"
boasted no more than POP men in
its student body-!t is non-coed-
ucatioal.
Danville, site of the college, will
accompany the team enmasse. Ar:
rangements have already been
made for a special train to leave
Danyille October 81, following Il
day in Boston for practice on tho
National league baseball grounds
there. The return trip will be
made by way of Niagara Falls. H.
is estimated 500 persons from
Danville, Lexington and Louisville
will make the trip with the team.
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MELONS GO TO WASTE

There are $50 carloads of Sc
lect canteloupes eat cannot be
bought in the market today, wait
ing to be picked on the Sutter Ba'
sin land. These canteloupes will
be a total loss because the in
creased freight rates have made
shipment east Improbable, and
the plans now are to feed them
to hogs in the county and pillow
the remaining ones under for fer
tilizer. Only one-third of the crop
has been marketed. 1t brought
an average of $500 a car,
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2OOO Students
at u. This Year

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,
Eugene, Sept. approximately
325 new students have been ac-
cepted for enrolment in the Uni
versity of Oregon up to Septem-
Der |, according to Carleton Spen-
GER, registrar. while the creden-
tials of approximately 25 have
been refused. A large number
Of those accepted for the COM
ing year are coming to the Uni
versity from other coast institu-
tiOns.
Judging from requests already
received for admission to the Uni
versity, Mr.. Spencer estimates the
total registration for the coming
year at 1000 students. Many
more requests for admission are
expected during the coming
month, as new students are anx.
ious to avoid the annual rush dur
ing registration days. All ere
dentials must be examined be-
fore new students are admitted
to the University.
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American Gets
Free of Bandit
(By United Press)

MEXICO CITY, Sept. w.
A. Gardner, the American, who
was kidnapped by Zabora, escaped
from the bandit yesterday, fol-
lowing fight between the forces
of the latter and government
troops, the foreign office today
announced. Zamora is said to
have escaped with only twenty
men.
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RESERVE BANK CLAIMS
EXTRAVAGANCE on WANE

CHICAGO. -- Extravaganza in
the working class is on the wane
and a feeling of caution rules all
business transactions because il
is felt that drops in prices are in
evitable according 20 the monthly
statement Of the federal reserve
bank here.
The buying public, the state
ment said, is checking the extraV-
agance which have made "bonan-
zas." hitherto for industries and
trades catering TO popular desires
and needs, regardless of prices.
Caution rules In business in
the seventh district" the state
ment said.
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Harding Quits
Front Porch

ABOARD HARDING'S TRAIN
Sept. 7.-Deserting his from
porch at Marion. Senator Hard
ing today took the stump for the
first time since his nomination
and is speeding across Ohio and
Indiana to open the republican OF
fensiye in the northwest, with a
speech at the Minnesota state fair
tomorrow.
Although the big agricultural
speech at the Twin Cities is his
only set address. il is expected
that Harding will he called on to
make several rear platform
speeches.
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Jury of Women
Rule forBHde

AKRON, Ohio.-State history
was made in the little drab Mu
nicipal court room of Judge A. +
O'Neil recently, when jury OF
twelve women returned verdict
for the defendant in an eviction
case.
1t is the first time a woman
jury has ever passed on a legaI
case in Ohio, and one of the few
women juries that has ever been
impaneled in the country.
The decision of the jury saved
a newly welded couple from be
ing eyicted from their home. At.
torneys for the plaintiff said they
were satisfied with the verdict
and would not appeal.
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ties and citizenship OF our govern
ment, and voting the democratic
ticket. This is all the credit | am
asking.
And last, but by no means least,
comes our old friend and school
mate, cur guest of honor on this
occasion, +. w. Ewing, whom we
are so pleased to meet once again.
Doubtless with his professional
brethren and his home neighbors
he is known as Judge Ewing, but
to those of us who knew him iD
the olden time, he is just plain
Felix. We hesitate when attempt
ing the sketching of his life. Dur
ing these As years there seems in
business and professional way,
to have come to him nothing but
success. Positions of honor and
trust have come to him in rapid
succession, one after another.
That he has met and measured up
to the requirements of these nu-
merous responsible positions, goes
without saying. In fact, when
we recall the fact that he ever
stood at the head of his class in
school, we are not surprised at his
success, because it was no child's
play to outclass some of his fell
low students.
After leaving school. he taught
school for a number of years, read
ing law at the same time. After
successfully practicing law for
some time, he was elected prose-
cutting attorney for Modoc county,
California. After serving in this
capacity for a number of years in
said county, he removed further
south.
Still practicing his chosen pro-
fession with such success the
electorate of his district elevated
him to the honorable position of
Superior Judge for a term of six
years. During this time he tried
many important cases in Los An
geles and other large cities of Cal
ifornia.
firing of the stlynuous life on
the bench, at the expiration of his
official term as Judge, he chose
to enter the banking business,
since which time he has been ac- .
lively engaged in said business.
and is now large stakeholder
and president of two of Califor-
MAS most important banks.
Felix, so many good things have
not come to the rest of us. but we
are not jealous OF your success,
and are hoping that business re
verses may never knock at your
door. We are glad to have you
with us, Felix, and when you go
hence, may we all feel that our
friendship ties are just a little
closer and a little stronger than
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. Z, {. Z. o o o (? 9 o o o o Q
. KLAMATH FIRE VICTIMS
(. o @ q. % 9. o g. Z. q: 9
KNOWN DEAD

(. &. % o o o 9, Z. q. @ g. g q: Z: (,
KNOWN DEAD
BILDERBACK, MRS. c., Ash
land, Ore.
BILDERBACK, MISS LEONA,
aged IS, daughter of Mrs. c. B!l.
derback.
HANLEY, MISS MARGARET
aged about 40, chambermaid.
NORMAN, CHARLES, aged
peanut vendor, Klamath Falls.
SHADWICK-Initials and ad-
dress undetermined.
Unidentified l7-year-old gir
from MedfOrd.
Three unidentified men.
MAY DIE
HIGGINS, THOMAS, leg broken
back injured and seriously bruised
OTHERS INJURED
BRUNG, MARY, seriously
burned.
CAMPORA, MRS. MARY.
McCHARLES, r., burns an(
cuts.
MORSE, WILLIAM, burns and
cuts.
POFDER, JAMES, MADEIRA
Calf, face and hands burned.
Sixteen other bodies are be-
lieved to be in the ruins.
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Fall Into Building

Three men appeared in third
story windows at the same time
and gesticulated for assistance
and then were seen to fall into
the interior of the blazing build
ins.
James Pofder, sleeping on the
third floor, was awakened by the
heat and cOmmotiGn. Wrapping
himself in blankets, he rushed to
a back stairway, stopping for a
few moments on his way to see
whether Miss Margaret Hanley,
in the room across the hall from
him, had escaped. Her room was
in flames. Her body is in the
ruin5.
The blaze sprung from pile
OF rubbish beneath a back stair
way in the Houston hotel, accord
ing to reports, and straightway
went mad.
1t ate into the frame fabric OF
the hotel as if it had been tinder,
selling the whole building in its
red grip almost or the instant.
Leaping the street, the flames
ignited the Houston opera house
and a frame business block. Be
fore it was checked it had burned
the following:
Houston hotel, owned by z. G
Harris, Paisley, Ore, operated by
Mrs. w. L. Barnes
Houston opera house, owned by
j V. Houston.
Pioneer Printeryt in Opera
house building, run by Jonks and
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which position he filled faithfully
and well. Later he was interested
in the mercantile business for
many years, and his many patrons
always received a square deal
from him, with 4 smile and a
cherry word thrown in. He is
now retired on competency from
active business life. but boosting
for Cox and Roosevelt.
G. S. Buffers life has been a
varied and most successful busi-
ness life. He swas extensively in
terested in real estate and live
stock, to the extent of many thou
sands of dollars. Still later he
was in the mercantile business.
As a matter of fact, if there is
any line of legitimate business
that he has not successfully tack
led, the writer does not know what
it is. He has served Jackson
county as county commissioner
one or two terms, and was called
the Watch Dog of Jackson county's
funds. He has also served as
mayor and other official capaci-
ties, in the administrative affairs
of the city of Ashland, with cred
it to himself and Ashland's citi-
zens. Although possessed of a
large share of this worlds goods,
lie does more hard work yet than
any other man in town.
c. II. Gillette is probably the
youngest living member of this
class and is recognized as a clean,
clear cut man of affairs. He re-
Gently finished his fourth year as
recorder of this citv, and his work
in that capacity was conceded
by experts to be first class in
every respect. In business af-
fairs as well as in private life, his
word is considered to be good as
the best bond obtainable. He is
treasurer and an elder in the First
Presbyterian church of this city,
serving in these capacities faith
fully and well.
Mrs. G.. +. Billings, nee Frances
Myer, the only lady member of
this class living, that we can re-
call, has spent her life up to the
present, in Ashland. Her chief
occupation has been in the rear
ing of model family, and the
upkeep of an ideal home. This.
in the writer's opinion. is the
greatest God-given privilege and
honor that comes to a woman.
God bless our mothers.
r. p. Neil, the next subject of
this sketch. has failed in many,
many things, yet he claims credit
for doing something that no other
male member of this
class has done; namely the rails
ing Of two husky boys to manhood,
who are sharing the responsible
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SAN BRUNO, Calf, Sept. L.
Mildred Lee, aged II, was shot
and killed here today while en-
route to school.
Paul Nelson, a carpenter, ac.
Cussed of the murder, when sur
rounded in shack by an angry
mob. shot himself in the head and
died enrOute to a hospital.
Trouble between Nelson and the
girls mother is believed to be the
motive for the crime. lie is said
to have threatened revenge since
Mrs. Lee testified against him in
a lawsuit recently.
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that of Monday would occur. The
fire risk was considered so great
by the insurance companies that
rates were practically prohibitive,
and little insurance was carried
on any of the buildings.
Suspicion is widespread in
Klamath Falls that the holocaust
with its tragic loss of human life
was due to an incendiary.
Hotel Filled
All the deaths occurred in the
hotel building, which was filled
throughout its thirty-three rooms
and five apartments with guests
who had crowded into the city for
Labor Day today.
Trapped in a room on the third
floor of the blazing structure, Mrs.
Mary Campora threw her three
days old baby from the window
into a blanket held by firemen
and volunteers hunched against
the building in a whitening blast
of heat.
The baby wrapped in blankets
dropped through the heat and
smoke, struck the stretched blan-
ket, bounced up a little way,
dropped again into the safety OF
the impromptu life net and was
carried away unnurt.
Mother Jumps
/ Then the mother jumped.
She was bruised and cut, but
her baby was safe She will hys,
physicians say.
/ Other guests leaped from the
windows. Many escaped without
harm to the street. Nearly 100
persons are believed to have been
in the hotel,
Alarm Delayed
As near as can be learned the
fire was first seen by an employe
OF the city street department who
rushed to the Hall hotel to tele-
phone in the fire al?rm. He could
rot get a telephone connection 50
he raced toward the fire station.
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Mine Earth TO
Make Cement

HEPPNER, Sept. White al
kali earth found in a deposit at
Morgan is being mined and ship
ped in carload lots to a big con
struction company operating in
western Oregon for use in road
paving. This newly discovered
material is mixed with cement and
applied as a top dressing on hard
surface work. When properly set
it becomes hard as marble and
entirely imperVious to moisture.
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Ashland has been stirred to the
utmost today by the reports OF
the fearful fire in klamath Falls
early Monday morning in which
between 30 and 40 people are be-
lieyed to have perlshed, nine bod
les having already been recovered
and it being estimated that at
least 25 more are still in the ru-
ins.
Anxiety is expressed for the fate
OF several Ashland people who are
known to have been in Klamath
Falls at the time OF the fire, and
from whom no word has yet been
received. One OF these is Fletcher
Spencer, residing near Talent, who
was to have been in Klamath
Falls on Monday, and who is
feared by his wife TO have been in
the burned hotel.
Two Ashland women, Mrs Bill
derback, and daughter, Leone,
have already been identified
among the fire victims. The Bill
derbacks lived on 4 ranch in the
Soda Springs section and went to
klamath Falls for the Labor Day
celebration. They were unable
to obtain a room anywhere except
in the Houston hotel, where the
fire started, and were among the
first victims to be recovered, Grant
Bilderback, the husband and
father, has not been located and
may also be among the dead,
Telephone calls to Klamath
Falls today failed to elicit addi-
tiOnal information. the town be-
ing so much stirred up over the
terrible holocaust that it is prac-
tically impossible TO sift the true
story from the hundreds OF con
flicting rumors which are floating
about.
The entire set of buildings
buried were yeritable fire traps,
with the exception of the resi-
dences, and it has been feared for
years that just such a tragedy as
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Big Prohibition Rally.

Next Thursday evening in
ChautauQua building. d. Leigh
Calvin, prohibition candidate for
vice-president of the United
States, will deliver an address. He
served as captain in the army, hav-
ing been one of four officers in
the entire army who was assigned
TO speak TO men in the promotion
Of patriotism. As the organizer
and national president OF the
largest student civic movement in
the United States. he Travelled for
many years from coast to coast
speaking in $50 colleges and uni
yersities.
Hear him Thursday evening in
Chautauqua building.
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they have ever been before.
In closing, may | hope that
while we will probably not meet
in this life again, yet may we meet
in life to come. where we will
know each other as we are known.
h. p. NEIL.
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ashland WOMEN DIE IN FIRE At
KLAMATHFA[LS; OTHERS FEARED
FOR; N|NEBOD|ES ARE RECOVERED

Wallace l.. Kibbee,
A two-story frame business
block with apartments on second
floor and store on the first
flooi.
A rooming house owned by Mrs
Z. Heidrich.
The Heidrich residence.
The residence of L. L. Cope
land.
The Argrave rooming house,
The fire is one of a series Of de
structiye conflagrations that have
struck Klamath Falls in recen
years. Loss of life marked near
ly all Of them.
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WILKEsBARRE, Pa. Sept.

WILKESBARRE, Pa. Sept. Z
The anthracite coal miners rep.
resented in the insurgent wing OF
the United Mine Workers today
voted to continue their vacation
strike.
For the second time in a week
they served notice on President
Wilson. the coal operators and the
recognized officers of their union
that they will not return to work
until given higher wages and inn
proved working conditions.