Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1921-08-31

lawful 10 take your money WITHOUT
your consent, so why worry?
No Need for Discouragement
Bearing in mind that our dues are
soc yearly, please consider the ways
and means whereby the following
matters were accomplished, Visual
ize the fairs, sales, entertainments
picnics, dinners, bazaars, managed by
women with houses and families, and
the same old allotment of "a hours
and the same scarcity OF money that
was, is, and ever shall be for most
of us, yet the Ashland OF today Is
due in great measure to the work OF
the women in the Civic club, and the
stamp of our character will mark the
Ashland of tomorrow.
Woman, the practical as well as
the visionary has tried to keep san
itary conditions in public buildings
and every year measures have been
taken to guard the public health.
Campers have added to the serious
ness of this problem. You need the
Civic club to help remedy bad CON
dition. Are we knockers or kickers i?
Never! We ara boosters-but "The
wheel that does the squeakin' is the
wheel that gets the grease"
Sanitary Conditions Improved
Do you admire the public alley
ways? Drop into the Civic club and
tell us about the careless people who
use their alley for a dump. Tact and
common sense will clean up these
unsightly spots. How many worth
less old barns have been removed
through efforts of the Civic club, and
Ashland improved thereby.
In 1913, the Civic club asked the
mayor to appoint a cleanup day and
suggested that property owners
whitewash their old barns and
fences. Only a fe wdays ago, Mr..
Billings said he wished the Civic
club would have a whitewash cam
paign. History does repeat itself.
Take another instance, our band.
In 1915, the Civic club paid $40 each
month for the support of the band;
1916 it was $5 each month and two
concerts a week in the park; 1917,
gave $40 toward support of band"
And don't forget that the club dues
are soc year, and the membership
has. never reached 2257-even when
the famous drive was on and Mrs.
got 1914 names. This means
less than fifty real workers to leav-
en- the whole lump-and yet the
bread has risen.
Working for u Beautiful Town
In 1915. the Civic club purchased
the Wagner Greek nursery stock and
disposed of the same. How many
vines, trees, shrubs that make Ash
land beautiful today had their origin
through the civic movement for
beautiful town? The same year the
Civic club beautified the small park
OH Granite street and gave $25 to-
ward beautifying Scenic Drive. They
paid $40 each month to have the ex-
hibit building cared for and flowers
distributed to tourists all summer.
They started campaign for rose
planting. They distributed flowers
At the station. Flowers were sent
20 the San Francisco fair and used
1t the reception on the battleship |
Oregon.
The Civic club records are full of
words like donated" gave" "pur- /
.hased," furnished" "beautified." .
Every Item Meant Work
Think of the work indicated in
hese few lines
The pageant in 1916 netted $29.62.
carload of rags for paper netted
1886. The country store netted
1886.
Every cent of this money was
pent to benefit Ashland. Were you
me of the tennis boys who got
transportation" with the $40 given
y the Civic club? Did your bird
ouse win part of the s25 prize the
'ivic club paid for the best bird
ouses to be put in the park? Did
on benefit because of the two schol-
rships of $f25 each, given to the
'olytechnic school in 1915? Have
OH rested on the seats in the park
oward which the Civic club contrib
ted 500, and again in 1914 they
urchased for Ashland parks eight
eats costing S6 each. In 1912 they
ut four extra lights in the park cost
lg $46 plus IS a month for main
snance.
1t was the Civic club that took
harge of the railroad parks and
Iade an attractive setting for our
seful railroad station, paying SIS
early lease to insure this privilege.
his was done before the days when ]