Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-07-28

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Verni Mills is having his newly
purchased residence property on
Granite street, just opposite the
Park cottage, repapered and refur-
bished generally. He is building
ar addition on the rear and in
stalling modern conveniences.
MONDAYS NEWS
Frank Troeh of Vancouver.
Wash, well known to several To-
cal trapshooters. led the American
teams which won the worlds
championship in the finals OF the
Olympic trapshooting event at
Antwerp.
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Heinerich Heidenreich, former
ly athletic coach and manual train
ing instructor in the Ashland
high school and who has been
employed in a like capacity at
Mcdford this past year, leaves to-
day for Palo Alto where he will
attend summer School at Stan
ford University.
Although large number OF
Ashland folks took to the wilds
yesterday, Lithia park was filled
as usual. hundreds of people
from down the valley coming up
to escape the heat.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Tillery and
daughter, Miss Genevieve Tillery,
and Miss Lois Pratt, returned last
night from two weeks outing
in Southern Oregon. The Cor
J yalllsites motored to Medford,
Grants Pass and Ashland, Crater
Lake and other interesting sec
tions. camped along the way,
fished in the mountain streams
and enjoyed life in general. They
found the outing one continuous
round of pleasure, and are enthu-
isastic over the Oregon scenery
Corvallis Gazette Times.
1t is rumOred that the Medford
school board paid former Super
intendent of Schools Davenport
the sum of $500 in order to OBJ
tain his resignation, he having
been under contract for another
year. Davenport IS said to have
asked $4,000.
When Chairman T. Fl. Tongue
appointed Mrs. d. Perozzi OF
Ashland on the executive commit
tee of the republican state cen
tral committee he paid high
compliment to the women OF
Southern Oregon, as Mrs. Perozzi
is not only loyal, active republi-
can, but is active in all other
branches OF women's work. This
is the first time women have been
recognized in the active councils
by any party and shows again that
the republicans not only have Civ
en- the women the equal rights,
but recognize them in party coun-
cils.-Medford Sun.
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According to F. L. Kent, field
agent for the bureau of crop esti-
mates, the Oregon peach crop has
probably never before been so
near failure as this year. He has
, lust made a thorough canvass Of
the state and except in the Ash
land and Grants Pass districts the
prospect is mo crop this season" ="
In Benton, Lane, and Linn coun-
ties probably 25 per cent of the
trees were killed by the winter
storms and a much heavier per
cent of losses prevailed in Marion
county, the northern sections Of
the Willamette valley and through
eastern Oregon.-Corvallis Times
Gazette.
Members of the First Company
of Ashland will be interested in
learning that the fourth division
of the United States army, now
at Camp Dodge, is to move to
Camp Lewis about August !. The
Washington camp housed only
three or four thousand men at the
time the Oregon guard encamped
thera. The division movement
will take 5000 men to Camp Lewis.
Herbert Mccarthy who recent
ly transferred from Dunsmuir to-
Ashland in the Southern Pacific
empty, is occupying the Irwin
house on North Main street
Coal is to replace oil as fuel
for the high school heating
plant this winter owing to the
shortage of the latter. Engineer
Reed, an expert OH heating sys-
tens, was in town last week ad-
vising regarding the change.
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Three carloads of Ashland folks
made up a party which motored
up Lake Of the Woods yesterday. |
Those included were: Mr. and
Mrg n w rb,tt;n aud family.