Word: ashlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bugles hushed 5.000 persons assembled in the hills near Ashland, Ky. last Sunday afternoon. Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon bade them all a deep, drawling welcome. His wife uncovered a bronze tablet. And a rude little log cabin was officially christened "Traipsin" Woman...
...himself was his golf-professional father, who learned the game at St. Andrews as a caddy, taught his son to play with a set of miniature clubs at the age of 3. Hermon Shute got the news about the play-off when he was giving a lesson at the Ashland, Ohio, Country Club, stopped long enough to say: "I sort of hoped the weather would be bad. . . . The boy is a great bad-weather player." U. S. golf followers knew that young Densmore Shute was an able player in good weather also. He tied Gene Sarazen for third place...
...Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Dorothy Beauregard, an Indian of the Bad River Reservation, deserted her eleven children as a result of a love charm exercised over her by Indian Bobidosh Cederroot. John J. Teepee and 23 other Indians filed a petition with Judge G. N. Risjord asking clemency for Mrs. Beauregard, stating that she loved her husband & eleven children, that she was not responsible for deserting them, that the love charm was infallible, that it had been procured from a medicine man, that real Indian medicine men had "almost supernatural powers." Judge Risjord gave Mrs. Beauregard & Mr. Cederroot a year each...
...Governor La Follette denied renomination by a 95,000-vote majority (he defeated Governor Kohler by 127,000 votes in 1930) but big, blatant Senator John James Elaine, a La Follette "Progressive," went down into the dust before a young conservative upstart named John Bowman Chappie, editor of the Ashland Press. The La Follette dynasty had been rocked to its foundations. All that kept it from toppling out of sight was the presence of "Young Bob" in the Senate for at least another two years...
...Oregon's educational basket are five eggs, capable of being endlessly scrambled. They are the University of Oregon at Eugene (3,610 students) ; Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis (5,570 students) ; and three small normal schools at Monmouth, Ashland and La Grande. Since 1929 the State has planned to unify these in some way. The U. S. Office of Education turned in a survey report in March 1931. A program of unification was drawn up and announced by the State board of higher education last March. Oregon taxpayers, like taxpayers anywhere, would like to see great retrenchments, eliminations...