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Hun u bountiful Wobor piano to show you now in
Htock. And romombor I iini general atfont for Jacob,
Doll, Wobor, Wboolook, Stuyvasant, United Makers,
Marshall mid otlior pi anon. Also Burdott and New
man UroH. organs. Come in and Hoemy stock. Perfect
satisfaction guaranteed. All goods sold on easy
terms, Music toacber in connection with the.houso.
COSS PIANO HOUSE...
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MTY HAPPENINGS J
Tho balloon ascension, which was
Hindu In Medford Inst Saturday by l'rof.
C'brls, Nelson, wa. the pruttlust and
moat successful nauunl tho writer ho
ovor wllnusaed and ho has toon sev
eral. Tho iluy was calm aoarculy
enough wind blowing to turn a lunl on
tlm trees. Tho balloon m lullatud
vnry quickly whun tho work of lullallng
had Ihiuii commenced, and at li o'clock
tho twonly odd iinm who woro holding
It down woro given tho word to "lot
lior go" and tho tuniiatrous bag of gna
wna al one moving; upward with llio
balloonist hanging by lila liandH to tho
trapezo. I'rol. Nolaon lot go hla hand,
and caught by bin feet In tho trapeze
and bung thu (or a lew second, then
back to a standing position on the bar
lh balloon In llio meantime anoond
lng al a rapid paoo. Whon about two
hundred (cot from tho oarlh It awung
slightly to tho north than gradually
buok to tho aoulh, but all tbs llroo go
ing ooarly itralgbl up. Whon about
!00 foot high tho paraohuto was out
Ioom and for a few hundred foot tho
A gentleman writes TllK Mail
from 0 ran I to Falls, Wuiih., stating that
ho In looking for a locution and bus
bi'iird that the olltnato hero In all right
for frull and grain. Someone has been
tolling that follow one of tho biggest
truth that wua ovor uttorod. Anyono
can wagor their laat dollar that this
oountry la all right for fruit and grain
and tuaku an oaay winning. Hpuklng
of fruit If tho gentleman could ace our
large applo and prune orchards right
about now til oven anil mouth would
open with woudor. And aa for grain
why, Goo Whilliklna Joromlah, thla
Rogtio river valley oan knock tho
poralmmona from tho hlgheat buah that
evor grow grain. Thoro la not a oomnl
grown In tho United Htatoa that cannot
bo railed hero In quantity and quality
that will beat out any of tho boat local!
tlea. We grow wheat, oata, barley and
rye, and thon thoro la oornl low looall
tloi on tho PaolBo coast oan grow corn
with profit and tbia la It. Wo are
pretty noarly the wholo thing on corn
It growi rank, It grows quickly and It
grows corn corn like they grow In
"Injlany."
Don t fall to drop Into the piano
store, when In town, and see tbo latest
atylos In pianos and organs, me latest
descent was rapid. Tho paraohuto then . .-.nr i. ,h. Nn.mm nm. nine
opened and tno uesooni was riower anu
very eaay landing was made In J . U.
Wilton's yard about a block south of
tbo starting point. As soon as tbo par
auhuto was ont looso tho balloon turned
upaldo down and a great cloud of gat
esoapod from It and It camo down with
tremendous speed, landing In J. A.
I'orry'a yard, about a block east of
whore Ibe parachulo came down. Tbo
wholo aflalr was vory pretty and tho
fact that no accident reaullod made It
all the raoro pleasing. It was Indeed
too bad that tho ascension oould not
have been made on tho fourth, aa billed,
but whon tho amount of flro required
to Maui tho balloon was known to the
people It was roadlly understood why It
could not have boon Inflated with the
wind blowing as it did on tho Fourth.
Why, with no moro wind than there
was Saturday and thoro waa really
none al all the flamos wonl tun (out
high insldo of the balloon whon It was
being Inflated. Thoro were probably
1800 or 2000 people on tho grounds to
Itnnu tho ascension Saturday. The
attachment. Don't fall to hear it
The Coss Piano House will keep every'
thing the latest.
Last Monday was Merchant J. H
Norrls' birthday as to bow many provl
ous oiios he has had deponent Is noncom
mittal, but tho number la loss than an
oven hundred loss than half that num
ber, but that Is neither bero nor thoro,
Mrs, Norrls gavo him a surprise party
on Iho evening of his Inst birthday by
Inviting to Iholr pleasant South C
street residence a number of young peo
ple and they oamo when Jack didn't
know a thing about it, but ho was sent
for and was surprised when bo roaohod
home us it wna expected ho would bo.
Alter hammering him for about bulf
nit hour, or until the guests wero ham
mered out and Jack bad eallcd "quits,"
tho party turned themselves loose on
curds, orokinolo, dancing and one of tho
boat luncheons that was ovor spread.
A neat little musical program was ren
dered, and the very pleasant evening's
enjoyment was olosed by tho presenta
tion to Mr. Norrls, by the guests, of
niialn objeot which the committee had j several boxes of hla favorlto olgars.
In eondlng the balloon up on Saturday, j i none present were mishos muneuari,
when It was known thai tho ascension
oould not be made on the Fourth, was
to prove to the peoplo that It was no
fake th.it tbo balloor.lst was bore to
make tho ascension and would hnvo
done so bad thoro not boon a heavy
wind blowing.
Woodford, Cox, Nloholson, Ross, Davis,
George, Messrs. Narregan, Ramsey,
Poitongor and Hubbs.
Dr. Goblo. tho optician, will bo at
his resldonco In Medford on Saturday of
eauh week. Eyes tested free or charge
Corner Fourth and D strcots.
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Our
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Discount Sale
Still Continues.
Jf $f Every artiolo in tbo Store is Reduced
from io to 40 per cent.
ff Money Saved is Money Made, You
can make money by buying from us.
J. G. VAN DYKE & CO.
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The olty counoll's trouble with the
elootrlo light plant still continues, It's
boon a long tlmo since we had a glim
mer of darkness dispollor from the
cleotrlo wires, and while It Is true that
them's a good bit of com plaining it Is
also true that thu accident to the dy
namo oamo along at a vory opportune
tlmo If It had to opmo. Tho ovonings
are short and old Luna's palo faco seems
not so palo as usual those nightn. All
in all, tho break-down Is a saving di
rectly to the users of lights, but Indl
reolly through olty expense It's no
funny matter. The oounollmon, bow-
ever, are putting forth their best efforts
to fix things, but they've quit making
promltos, It appears that some fool
battering waa carelessly done to one of
thu journals of tho dynamo whon It
was in Portland recently being re
paired, and it's this battered place
that's doing the mlaohtof and heating
boxos. Later: Wo had lights for two
and a half hours Wednesday night and
tbo probabilities aro that we'll get
'em rogular hereafter.
Llston to thlsl Tho Dowoy washing
macblno will remove every particle of
dirt from wrist bands of hlrU. W. H.
Hnmnruu. of Medford. lsauent for them.
Lot him prove to you the excellent
qualities of tho machine.
' Manager Coss, of tho Coss Piano
House, baa commenced to do buslnoss.
li other words, ho Is now beginning to
reap tho hurvcat of his sevoral weeks
of hard work, and of waiting for the
ebb tide to turn and flood a Httlo bus!
ness his way. During these weeks of
waiting he hasn't boon putting up any
white flogs aa has been the custom with
bore-toduy-aud-awuy-toinorrow piano
mon who bave previously boert beo
He's just naturally been getting ao
nualnted and showing his goods, but
now he's doing protty well, thank you
and ho will do a good lot better when
the peoplo know moro of hla goods.
Last week he sold a fine "United
Makers" piano to A. M. Woodford; a
Sluyveaant piano to Mrs. Anna Ed'
wards, of I'boonlx: and this week he
closed a deal with Jap ' O'Harra, of
Tolo, for an elogant Jacob Doll piano.
Mr. Coss haa throe sales on at Gold
Hill and two 'airly well under way at
Jacksonville.
Lost In Medford, on Saturday last,
Iwtweon my place, on J street, and the
Itackel store or postomce, a goio uuu
bar. Initials, "J. E. M.," on under
side bar. Mrs. L. T. Pierce. Leave
at MailoHIco.
Mod ford has boon most fortunato
In the matter of securing good post
masters. Now tbero waa Judge Purdin
good postmaster at every spot In the
road and following right after him in
tbo ofllce was O. F. Merriman just aa
good a man, and one who la filling tho
requirements squaroly to tho letter.
He Is accommodating and courteous to
ovorybody. There aro no favorites
all are treated alike, but treated with
every consideration possible, and obey
the postal laws. Tho morning mails
are distributed and the office Is open
by Beven o'clock which is a big ac
commodation to many, particularly
working people. Tho girl clerks In the
office, Misses Mao Merriman and Letha
Hardin, aro obliging always, and at
tentive to patrons. Up one side and
down tho other there can bo found little
ground for registering a complaint
against the Medford postomco.
A. Slovor, the drnvrcan, get him
to do your hauling.- Household goods
and heavy articles carefully and safely
handled. Teams always handy and
teamsters courteous.
Morohant H. Q. Nloholson,! who
was so badly bruised la a runaway on
tho Fourth, la ablo to sit up and notloe
things. He was down, town Tuesday
and was ablo to move about just a little,
with the aid of crutches. It was a
mighty close call for the gentleman
Thoso who saw his mix-up are saying
that ho looked like thirty cents would
have boon a fluctuated price on his
earthly interests. But that ho oame
out of It all right is a source of much
gratification to his friends. No man in
Medford would be mora missed than
Horace IIo's beon a prominent feature
and a star attraotlon on every advance
sheot since the town was yearling
Tho Bmi has a soda fountain with
soft drinks of various descriptions In
connection, also nuts of all kinds, trop
leal fruits and olgars. When In Jaok
sonvlllo, oall.
D. E. Jones, of Central Point, was
in the olty Monday. Mr. Jones Is (all
lng all ovor himself with elation because
of tho several improvements ho has
boon enablod to make about his farm
homo, among tho latest being tho con
vcying of water from a spring to his
rosidenoo through pipes and for a dis
tance of over 1000 feet. The improve'
ment glve9 him an abundanoe of pure
water for all purposes and because of
this there are just grounds for oojifcrat
ulationB. It. B. Dow, the tinsmith, in
the omploy of D. Brooks, pnt in tho
pipe, and did a splendid job and Mr
Jones Is showering him with bouquets
as pay In part for his painstaking.
Messrs. Stewart & Chossmore, real
ostuto doalors, have dissolved partner'
ship, A. II. Chessmore retiring. The
business, that of buying and soiling
real estate and oonduotlng an employ
mont ngonoy, will bo oarrlod on by F,
M. Stowart, Mr. Stewart reports
good buslnoss with promises of a big
inorease.
Now Ceylon tea in air-tight pound
oana. Unquestionably the best ten In
the margct at warnor vr ortman's,
I'eroy Detiroot Is learning print
ing in Tug MAir, shop. Nearly every
boy who commences to loarn a trade of
any kind imagines himself ready for
graduation bouquets about tho third
woek of his apprenticeship, but after
bo has been at the business a couplo or
three years he finds there was a great
many things that he didn't got a hun
dred soore on when ho was an anpren-
tlco. The fact that Percy wants to
learn a trado Is commendable and If
ho stays by It it will bo a safeguard
against . mlsqhief, and kindrod vices
wblob germinate In idloness. Porcy
Is a bright lad and will make a good
newspaperman.
With tho new facilities that B. N.
Butler put in his shop, ho turns out as
good work In repairing watches and
ewelry as any one in Houthoro Oregon.
T. II. Moore, tho gentloman who
owns the old Clarendon hotel block, la
having lumber h aided on tho ground
with which to erect a 10x40 foot frame
building, with corrugated covering, the
same to bo used for mercantile purposes.
The title to this property is still un
settled and litigation is now on in tho
Jackson County courts. Whioh ever
way the case is decided it is quite prob
able an appeal will be taken, and prob
ably a year's tlmo, perhaps moro, will
be required In getting the title straight
ened out. While this unsettled condi
tion holds out no permanent structures
will bo erected thereon.
Here is an opportunity. The .Coss
piano house, Medford, wants a good
driving team. You can trade one In on
a high grade piano. Team to weigh
about 1200.
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GOOD CLOTHES
Help
one along in life.
It !h not
what you pay for you clothes
ho much an what
you get for your monoy.
To Bhow our goods
io a pleaBuro, and it ia a
real pleasure to show
our New Suits.
May we
Wait on You?
MANLY IDEAS..
A "BILED SHIRT"
Is Nuisance these days
sad a Stock Collar (leans
Misery to the Wearer.
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Now, gentlemen, you must W
come to it a Negligee Shirt'
brings comfort, ease and peace
of mind and quickly dissipates, iff
that irritable feeling. Spend a.r iil
few dollars here tomorrow and
make life pleasant for the next
three months. Doesn't take
ilr
much, monoy to rig you out1
the way we are selling.
Negligee Golf Shirts-all
grades, styles and prices. The
finest assortment in Medford-
W. H. MEEKER & CO
The Sugar Pino Company shipped
a couple of loads of their superior sugar
plno lumber laat week. Their road
engine is again doing business between
Butte crock and Medford hauling lum
ber. They hope to have a couple or
three months of uninterrupted hauling,
and tf suoh is to be their good fortune
they will get In a great amount of lum
berand the country as well as tho
company, will DC greatly ooneuiieo.
thereby. Tboy will soon have two
crews on and will run their engine and
wagons night and day, making a trip
every thlrty-Bix hours, and hauling at
oaob trip 25000 feel of lumber.
Capital furnished to develop mines.
Send average samples by express, pre
paid, ana lull particulars, ur. nay,
Gold Hill.
Southern Oregon is the homo of big,
red apples; rich, yellow grain Holds;
waving corn and blooming alfalfa and
yellow gold and freaks. Yes, there
are freaks the saost freakish (reaks
that ever froaked In any man's country
Why, say, llston to thlsl J. A. Lyon has
a fool cow that don't know any better
than to lot a full grown hog milk hei
and that's not all of It. This same hog
la tho mother of sevoral pigs, and when
It's feeding time the hog nurses .tho
cow and the pigs nurse the hog all at
ono tlmo.
Almost all kinds of vehicles at
Schermorhorn's second hand store also
now and second hand furniture. House
hold goods of all kinds.
K. S. Wolfor, of Hubbard, Oregon
has rented the D. Brooks tin shop and
is now doing business at the benoh
Mr. Wolfi-r s a gentleman of exper
ience and promises to put up good work
In every instance. Ho will also handle
acetylene gas burners. Mr. Brooks
is in noor health and will retire from
business, for a time at least, and will
go to the mountains in hopes ot reeu
noratlng. Mr. Wolfor s locating hero
was brought about by the Stewart
real estate agency.
Don't fortret about those elegan
dishes we aro giving away. Every
purchaser gets a coupon. W. H. Meeker
ic Co.
Tho Ladles' Aid Society ot the
Presbyterian Churoh will give a dime
social at the resldenoe of L. B. Warner
on this, Friday, evening. There will
be a literary and musical program and
refreshments and a gipsy camp, where
your fortunes oan get told for a nickel.
Everybody, together with their near
and distant relatives, are Invited to be
in attendance and all are given a writ
ten guarantee that they'll havo more
than their uionoy's worth of a good
tlmo.
O. W. Prlddy and Chas. Boulwaro
havo boon putting down cement walks
this week in front ot A. M. Helms'
Baloon and Capt. Nash's new store, and
It's a Httlo the best job of cement work
that's beon put down In tho olty. Mr.
Boulwaro Is a gentleman of years' ex
perlenco in tho business and there isn
anything about It he does not thor
oughly understand; and Mr. Priddy Is
nothing slow iu that line himself and
the two make a team hard to out pace,
A mnrlp.iin beauties wear F, C. cor-
onta mnnnv refunded after four weeks'
trial If not satisfactory. W. H. Meeker
& Co.
There was qutto an oxodus from
Medford Tuesday morning for the
Chautauoua grounds. Among tnose
whom we noticed departing wero Mrs.
G. L. Webb and ohlldren, Mrs. Wallace
Woods and children, Mrs. A. E. Woods,
Miss Jonnlo Woodford, Mies Graoo
Fttticett, Mrs. J. O. Johnson and ohll
dron. John lliohardsou and family,
Rev. W. B. Moore and family, and
Denton and family,
Agricultural Implements and gar
don tools G. L. Sohermorhorn's sec
ond band store, Medford. .
A news Item a month or six weeks
old is almost too aged and deoroplt to
TAYLER the FOOTF1TTER.
Those long delayed Ladies French Heel Dress Lace Boot,
Ideal and French Kid have arrived. They are perfect beau
ties and are going off very fast. Also those famous Phit
eest elastic-side Juliets, 3 widths slim. medium and full.
Call soon so as to insure a perfect fit.
TAYLER, the SHOE DOCTOR - - - Seventh Strest. Medford, Oregon
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be called news, but this sheet has been
crippled for help for about a month,
hence an apology is offered or not
having said a word or two. about the
organization of a lodge of the Fraternal
Union of America, which, organization
was effected on June 9th, upon which
date the following officers were elected:
Fraternal master, W. H. Hembree;
secretary, Mrs. L. A.Jordan; treasurer,
Mrs. Jano Gilbert; Justice, Mrs. Martha
D. Johnson; Mercy, Mrs. Mao Hombreo;
Truth, Bessie Johnson. The lodge
meets every Saturday evening, at eight
,'clock, in Foresters hall. This is
both a beneficiary and fraternal order
and both women and men are eligible
to become members. It has twenty
members In Medford, and it was organ
ized by Mrs. Hayes, of Ashland, state
organizer. Home people nave mis uruur
confounded with another order which
is being Instituted in Medford the
Fraternal Brotherhood. The orders
are both beneficiary but are not ono
and the same.
All kinds of sash and doors and,
screen doors, at lowest market price.
W. Woods.
The firm of White, Harbaugh, &
Co. h is been having a little trouble
this week. There was a matter of
financial difference between the part
ners and for two or three daja the
store was closed, but it is now open
again with Lee Jacobs in charge. It
Is quite probable the matte- will be
adjusted soon, after whiob, it is pre
sumed C. W. Wolters will buy the
stock of goods.
Hawaiian coffee, in one and two
pound, air-tight tin cans at Warner &
Wortman's.
The mountain air is evidently a
rojuvenator, a builder up and a retainer
of vigor, if one is to take Grandpa
Skeel as an example. The old gentle
man, who has been living on a home-
Etead up at Prospect for four or five
years, was In Medfoid this week ana
he looks several years younger than he
did when he left Medford.
Gdt Wells & Shearer to do your
moving satisfaction always.
R.K.Sutton, the Ashland "Snap
Shot" man, has an ad elsewhero In this
Don't Hold Off
Any longer, waiting, for.
Spring Styles or for new
goods in
Ours are now here a full,
pretty goods as you ever
Come in and examine them,
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FREOSLAQLE,
paper. The gentlemaa.is everlastingly
doing. business with his. liniment. He
guarantees It a sure cure for all spratns,
cuts or bruises and. he has a bushel or
moro testimonials oficures from people,
we all know. Read his ad.
Kingsbury springs soda water at
the Riatto. This is unquestionably the
-bet soda water that ever bubbled from
Mother Earth. It s. a whole medieina
shop a gushing-spring of healthful in
gredients and TDr. Nature says take it
and it's pleasant to take w hen, you
get it ice cool like the Rial to, serve
it.
Bert Brown, writes from St. Jo,
Missouri, to the effect that he baa got
ten into harness, on his sew positloa
and that be likes it hugely. He ia
salesman In. the dry goods department
of one of the largest establishments ia
the United Statea. ' An opportunity
suoh as the one given Bert is aot
thrown in the pathway of every young
man, and it he takes advantage ot. ft
and we are all satisfied he will, It will
make a business man of him ot whom
his friends will have good reasons to be
proud.
For sale obeap Two horse power
engine and boiler. This is a second
band engine but its just about as good
as new, having been overhauled and
repaired throughout:' M. ' M. Gsult,
maohlniet, South A streets -
. Wm. Clark and family have moved
to the race track - near Central Point,
where Mr, Clark will break and- drive '
a number of oolta. . . i,
Window-glass full 'llne at. J. A.
Webb's.
THIS
is a SOX-HOSE ad 1 m
Black Cat " Hose and other Hose &
best on Earth and bigest assortment
for Ladies, Misses and (Jhildten. .
SOX FOR MEN
All sizes and qualities
G. L. WEBB, Rqeter.