Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1921-06-08

by the Epworth league In 1883 ant
two years later was taken over by the
Library association. II has 5000 vol
umes and has jumped bit ahead oI
Portland in per capita circulation
which gives 1t first rank In the Unit
ed States.
Many nationally known artists
come to Ashland for rest and recrea-
tion. The drop curtain in the Chau'
taqua auditorium was painted by a
well known artist when vacati0nine
In auto camp. He placed on canvass
a stretch OF the park including Lithia
fountain and the beloved Mount Ash
land, IL miles In the distance.
Madame Alma Tracy-Young, a ma
tlonally known musician, has studio
here. MN
Rendezvous for Writer'S.
An educational feature Of much
value to Southern Oregon has lately
been established at Longs cabin, an
old land mark six miles up Mount
Ashland in the Ashland creek can
yon. This corporation was recently
formed under the laws OF Oregon
and is jointly owned by the nation
ally known advertising man, Jess
Winburn, OF New York, and Bert
Moses, the epigrammatist whose say
ings have been a byword for the past
rs years. This company under the
name of Sap and Salt by Bert Mos
es" will illustrate his epigrammatic
work in a new and novel way. The
incOrporators will operate from this
glorious spot on Mount Ashland,
which has been remodeled into 4
commodious, artistic six room log
house with a large living room,
sporting a fireplace. Modern con-
yenlences are being installed. This
retreat, atmOsphered with the verbal
javelins hurled as only Bert Moses
can hurl them, weighted with phi
losophy wholesome and stimulating,
bids fair to be the rendezvous OF
writers from over the world.
A wideawake ministerial associa-
tion wields a force for civic uplift.
The W. c. T.sU. has large mem-
bership. There are many churches
with modern and beautiful church
homes.
The armory, a handsome building
erected several years ago at cost
of s36, 900, is the home of First
company C, coast artillery N. G. Of
O. In addition to giving an added
stimulus to patriotism the First
company takes the initiative in the
social life of Ashland and Southern
Oregon.
Boulder HOnors Heroes.
Post No. IA. American Legion, has
a flourishing membership and an
auxiliary club. A granite boulder
stands in Lithia Park. as memorial
to Ashland boys who gave their lives
for their country.
The fraternal societies are well
represented and state conventions
are held here. There is a Masonic
block and the Elks have hand
some building with membership
which extends into Northern Cali
fornia. Pioneer hall is building
in Chautauqua Park in which many
public meetings are held.
When the pioneers planted their
first fruit trees they did not vision
the great industry that would de-
velOp. The Ashland Fruit and Pro-
duce Association Is cooperative
wholesale association with a large
concrete building on strip of land
fronting the Southern Pacific.
Fruit. eggs and all products grown
in and around Ashland are handled.
Apples are exported each season.
This season the association did a
$165,000 business. Ashland cher
ries are known in the east and Ash
land peaches and Strawberries eaten
with cream from the pure bred Jer-
sey dairy ranches that are numerous
in this section simply make the Wis
itor whom the mineral waters have
rejuvenated send for his family and
friends and cancel his return ticket.
Besides the municipal owned foun-
tains free to the public in Lithia
Park. the Pompadour NJ n e raj
Springs company has a Lithia drink
parlor on the Plaza and also ships
hottled water all over the United
Stated and into Canada. This COM
pany is completing the erection of a
carbonic gas plant which will be one
of the biggest industries on the Pa
cific coast. Hotel Austin has Lithia
piped in for guests. Two of the
largest natatoriums with sulphur
plunges on the coast are located
here.
Mineral Baths Famous.
The Ashland Mineral Baths has