Rev. Brownrigg, who has accepted people in the world and are from the
the pastorate of the 1st Christian church famous Thum family who for gener
at Sheridan, Ore., returned home last ations have been the most conspicuous
week to move his family there. We figures in dwarf-land. Mrs. Page will
look after their welfare while in Med
regret their departure
Golden Grain Granules.
E. Gibbs of Stringtown is enjoying a ford.
i visit from his brother. Wm. Gibbs,
Crew of Surveyors are Looking
Why did that man turn you down
from near Los Angeles, Cal., whom he
Phoenix Briefs.
for an Outlet to Crescent City
yesterday? Because he could tell by
has
not
seen
for
several
years.
Mr.
We are sorry to report a few cases
Via Applegate.
Gibbs will look over the country and the look in your eye that you half ex
of sickness this week.
pected him to do so—and the other
may locate here.
Mr. Kirkland, of ths surveying crew
James Harvey, our blacksmith, has
fellow sized you up in the same way.
Master Rex Dakin took suddenly ill You did not get anywhere near him.
who have been running lines up Jack- been on the sick list the past few days.
Sunday and it is thought that another He listened to what you said, but it
son creek toward Forest creek and
“Shorty" Fry, our stone mason, is
Applegate, was in Jacksonville last working at Medford in the stone quar attack of typhoid fever is coming on. was with a cold and fishy eye. True,
He was very sick last year about this
Wednesday and gave out the informa
he nodded his head in assent as you
I time with typoid and Dr. Hargrave says
tion that they were seeking an outlet ry-
talked—but his mind was wandering.
John
Smith
and
daugter,
Vernie
of
' it will be a few days before he can tell
to the coast.
And when you come to put your finger
Agate,
but
formerly
of
this
place,
vis
whether
or
not
it
is
typhoid.
It was rumored for a time that the
on him at the end of your talk, he was
ited
with
relatives
here
last
week.
Southern Pacific company were con
“Uncle” Matt Calhoun, ill company like the Dutchman's famous flea—he
Will Rissue, the carpenter, and his with Louis Lech, and Frederick Stein- wasn’t there. You had lost him. You
templating building from Medford to
Crescent City, but while Mr. Kirkland family left Wednesday morning for baugh, hit the trail from Anderson creek hadn't impressed him—why? Because
would not divulge the name of the Philomath, Ore., where he expects to over the hills to the head of the Apple you hadn’t been impressed yourself.
company who he is employed by, he did apply his trade.
gate where they will spend several Therefore, be earnest and nothing will
state most enphatically that it was not
J. E. Wright has sold his place to weeks hunting, tishing and on a general be impossible.
the S. P. He was one of the surveyors Geo. Alfers of Douglas, Washington, recreation. If they could only get the
who helped to find the route through
Among the many features to be given
and has bought the John Robbins Post out to their camp it would surely
the valley for the Southern Pacific
add to the:r pleasure.
on
the “Trail” is the “Leaping the
company whan Jacksonville was turned place in block 12.
Gap” performed by Geo. L. Duke from
Jack Wright made a trip to Jackson
down and wiped ofT the map.
Portland. Advices have been received
Mayor’s Proclamation.
Indications point to the P. & E. peo ville Thursday with a load of berries.
by Carnival Director Hart from Dare-
August
5th
to
August
10th
inclusive
ple as the crowd who are doing the He says there is a good demand for
! devil Duke saying he would arrive next
is hereby set aside for the Medford
surveying, as it is known that the road berries there this year.
i week and prepare his act.
Fruit Carnival and Street Fair. A spec
to Crater Lake has been bonded for
C. C. Pierce, the Medford real estate ial rate of one and one-third fare is ad
$1,OJJ,OJO and as they have promise 1 to man, was through here Tuesday with
Then the business men of Grants Pass
extend tneir line to this point, at least. s .me prospective buyers, showing them vertised by the Southern Pacific Com should go on this axcursion to Medford,
pany
from
all
stations
in
Oregon.
The
It is stated that the S. P. will not
it is to their interests to heartily co-op
property listed with him.
State Horticultural Society will meet
give the P. & E. company anything like
erate. Look over the three banks, the
in
Medford
August
8,
9
and
10.
Oregon
Darby
O
’
Too
’
e,
who
has
been
our
reasonable freight rates for hauling the
stores crowded with customers and take
lumber from the great Butte creek section foreman for some years past, is filled with home seekers an.! a large their turn with the crowd at getting a
country to the coast, so that the Pacific has sent in his resigination to the S. P. number of fruit delegates as well as meal at a restaurant or a bed at a hotel
home seekers are expected in Medford
& Eastern people are becoming imbued Co. He intends going north.
and note the general prosperity of the
during this -ve>k All business men
with the idea that a road of their own
town. A trip to Medford would do more
A number of our young folks, even
and
citizens
are
requested
to
decorate
to the outside world is the best and only our Post reporter, at'ended a lawn par
to
arouse the conservative element and
their buildings and residences, assist
way out of it.
ty at Misses Grace and Myrtle Cal
mossbacks of Grants Pass than all the
The P. & E. have plenty of financial houns at Medford Thursday evening. the Cm nival committees and welcome boosting that the Commercial Club and
backing and should they determine to All returned saying that they had en the coming crowds.
newspapers can do. Then it will do the
J. F. R eddy ,
go ahead with the road, nothing can joyed themselves. We wish to thank
hustlers of Grants Pass good to take the
City
Mayor.
stop them.
them, for their kind invitation and as
trip to Medford and ste how the hus
The probable route will be ovel the sure them that it was well appreciated.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tnum will be on tlers of that town get a move on and
hill south of this city to Applegate, as The ladies were former residents of this
exhibit at the Carnival from Portland. what they have accomplished.—Rogue
that country' demands railroad facilities place.
Tom Thum and his wife are the smallest River Courier.
and an excellent grade can be easily
found.
Charles Dunford, the ever progressive
and hustling drayman, will offer the
railway company adepotsite andswitch
gro mils in the southern part of town,
where his property lies.
Nothing official has as yet been given
out. but those who are “on the inside"
have sufficient information to justify
them in believing that before another
half year is passed active construction
work will have been commenced.
to originate another expression,
P. & E. MAY RUN have
for “Everybody is Talking About it" is
soon to be taken away from them, to go
out into the world of breakfast foods
TO THE COAST and
condensed cooking as a harbinger of
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everybody Is Talking About it.
John Blaauw, the man who advertised
that expression that has resounded from
(he mountain crags of Washington to
the sun-kissed vales of Tennessee and
from th. desert land of Mexico to the
snow-clad hills of Canada. "Watch Ta
coma Grow," was at Jacksonville this
week. Mr. Blaauw is out with Gol len
Grain Granules and is doing some effec
tive advertising stunts. He will be
strictly in evidence at the Carnival at
Medford. "Everybody is Talking About
it” is his next expression which will be
used in advertising his wares, and
which will soon be seen on the summit
of Mt. Hood and at the foot of your
bed; it will appear on the roof of your
barn and on the piano; it will be found
at Jump-off-Joe and in jail; at the Capi
tal and in cornfields; at Koseberg and
at Rock creek; and “Everybody is
Talking About it."
The gossips who stand in the yard,
under the ch thesline, and converse over
the back fence probably never realized
that their expression, which belongs
solely to them, would ever be copy
righted and scattered all over the coun
try. It’s a sid thirg, tco.
Somebidy m tr.etime ecmcvt heie will
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The Pest has made arrangements to
secure a handsome map of Jackson
County, regularly sold at $2.50, which
will be given with a year’s subscription
at $2.00.
The regular price of The
Post is $1.50 per year, while the maps
are $2.50 each.
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