Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-11-17

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E. V. Jones and wife started yes
terday by motor to California to
spend the winter. They expected to
reach Hornbrook last night, then con-
tinue on to Glendale, where they will
locate for the present.
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Mrs. Kenneth Miner, who has been
spending several days in Ashland vis-
iting her father. P. Provost. and FAM
ily after making an extended stay
in San Francisco and Berkeley, has
gone to her home in Bend.
Charles Harrison was an Ashland
business visitor yesterday from Klam-
ath Falls.
+. J. Whittlesey, surveyor OF the
Oregon insurance rating bureaus, Is
In Ashland today, re-rating insurance
on several business places in the city.
Among the business he has transact
ed while here was the establishing
OF insurance rates on the new Ford
garage being erected by Harrison
brothers on North Main street.
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Mrs. ]. H. Foster of klamath Falls
is in Ashland this week, a guest at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. H. G.
Mccarthy, on North Main street.
Guests registered over night at
the Hotel Austin include Mrs. Will
bert Field OF Bismark, N. D.. A. Z.
Dragon OF San Francisco, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. B. Atterbury of Los An
geles, and Walter E. Whipple of Elk
River, Mont, and the following from
Portland: s. A. McSutcheon, ]. p.
Jordan, F. A. Clark and wife and
Mrs. w. Thayer.
Harry Owens was up from Med
ford yesterday transacting business
in the Granite City.
Mrs. Butcher left last night for
Red Bluff, Calf, where her
daughter, Mrs. Luther Brown, is SER
iously i'll in hospital.
T. X. Anderson OF Gottville is pay
ing Ashland a social and business
visit this week.
Charles Ellerbeck of Grants Pass
had business in Ashland yesterday
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Last night a Chevrolet car. license
No. 26393, caught fire and burned ur
on the highway near the Jackson hot
spring. The car was ablaze when dis
covered by passersby between Z ant
s o'clock last night, and SO lar al
can be learned, no one seems to know
) anything about the burning of thu
= machine. This car formerly belong
ed to E. w. Flackus of the Shasti
G grocery, but he had traded 1t in Il
i an automobile dealer of Medford TO
!, new car, some tome ago and doe
e not know the present owner.
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> Bert r. Greer returned this morn
ing from a two months sojourn 4
n Southern California, where his famil
are located for the winter. He re
n ports tremendous building activity i
4 that section. There the people ar
paying no attention whatever to tn
f, high costs of building materials an
/. labor but are building both residence
q and business blocks by the Thousand
{, The builders there are paying $6
per thousand for dimension and 81
per thousand for finishing lumbe
y and the labor basis is $S per day fo
|. carpenters. From the standpoint G
S crowds and hustle Southern Califoi
= mia looked good to him, but in poir
:. of scenery and comfortable and ecC
It nomical living conditions that set
tion is not in It with the Rogue Rive
valley. He says he saw no spot this
will at all compare with Ashland O
It a good place to live.
" Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Logan droy
!, over from Yreka last night to a
tend the show in the Vining theatr'
/. A large number Of football ei
d thusiasts drove down to Medfor'
m this afternoon to witness the gam
between the Ashland and Medfor
high school teams.
p. Mrs. j. B. Hills was in Ashlan
yesterday from Grants Pass, a que
of Mrs. j. l.. Heer.
At Reports from the Red Cross Ro
Call are exceedingly favorable. A
the captains and workers wei
IN prompt in responding to the task
s. soliciting subscribers and practics
Y, ly all the former members of Il
OF Red Cross have signed again for Il
ts coming year. The city will
e, thoroughly canvassed until Mover
ber 25th, and indications point
Ashland easily making her quota.
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he Chas. r. Chapman is in Ashlar
r. this week for the purpose of esta
,s- fishing a club for the railroad me
rs. Mr.. Chapman has secured the Fai