Daily Tidings of Sept. 2, 1919:
Charles Gillette has recently remodeled and painted his residence at the comer of High and Church streets.
Will Myer of the fire department is taking a 16-day furlough from his duties.
The Island boat in Ashland creek below the free auto-camp has a luxurious growth of ferns over it at present, and is a thing of beauty.
Sid Carter, accompanied by Herman and George Trott, left … Monday morning on a hunting trip … The boys were much elated over …hunting for real deer, and stated that if they did not get a chance to bring home venison they would bring home the (camp) bacon.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilty, daughter Miss Lillian, and Master Elwood Francis, returned last night from … the coast where they saw the Pacific fleet, … and boarded the New Mexico, Admiral Rodman's flagship. … Ashland never looked so good to them as it did on their return, they declared.
Society pages made it hard not to know your neighbors.
Source: "Local and Personal." Ashland Daily Tidings 2 Sept. 1919 [Ashland, Ore.] : 4. Print.
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Newspaper Society Columns Keep Neighbors Informed
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