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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1915)
, - :t? f-Wrn., (rt'MV D.uiA luwrB luviat conuan j fAGH TWO t - v (Mil J I j! f .tHUAV, NOVKMIIKH ill, 10IS. Daily Rogue River Courier. A Independent Republican New- Paper. United Pre Leased . , Wtr Telegraph. Service A. B. YOORlIIES. Pub. and Prop. WILFORD ALLEN. Editor Entered at the Grant Pus, Ore gon, Poetofflce M econd-clas mall matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One .Year Six Month . Three Month One Jonth t&.eo $.00 1.50 i j. Payable t Advance. SCXDAY, NOVEMBER-SI, 1815. be stven, It la certain the average yield will be the largest of any year since boots have been grown In this district. Coupled with the fact that Wis acreage for 1915 was also the largest in the history ot the district, the big sugar content and heavy yield will give the growers the largest amount yet received tor a beet crop In the Wellington section. "Old Prosperity is sojourning here, and is most welcome.", , ; OREGON WEATHER f Today rain weet, fair east portion; northeast, shifting to 4 4 southeast, wind. ; ! L 4 The county court has decided that prisoners held In the county Jail must hereafter work tor their dally bread or all they will get will be bread and water. The state law provides that prisoners may be required to wort, thus spoiling the soft snap of three square meals a day and nothing to do but roll cigarettes, play seven-up, or read from morning till night, while the taxpayers paid the hills. A sentence to Jail, or the laying out of a fine in the bastlle may lose its popularity, ,u,)k , ..;. ' A HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM. The students at the local high school have- entered upon a cam paign to obtain a gymnasium. They are going to ask the patrons of the district to add soma part of a mill to the tax levy when the budget la approved at the annual school meet lng and build a hpme for the athletic activities- Economy, ha. been, made the watchword in the administration of the finances of the dlstriot, hut there is such a thing as a false econ omy. . To withhold the few cent that each taxpayer would be called, upon to contribute to the building and equipment of an adequate gymna sium for the school would be a false economy, But this Is a matter that 1 entirely, within the control of, the patron of the district themselves. If they believe that the boy and girl need to train their bodies as veil as their, brains, they should The state tax commission has raised the ratio for' Josephine from the 69 per cent at which It was first placed toji per ,ceut.a A eacli per eent of increase represents about thousand dollars saved to the county, the trip ot the assessor and his vigor ous protest was a pretty good invest- Get This Signal- "Varsity Fifty five" j. :u t : rr. rT r ii- HIGH SCHOOL NOTES 4 4 VV4 4 4 44V4 4f4V4 4 V ' ik' .. 'M 'i ? a fi : The first meeting of the student council Was called this, week to dis cus :th giving of a suitable reward for scholarship. This council Is com posed of membera from each organ isation in the high achool. , Friday night a meeting was called ot all those Interested in getting a gymnasium for the high school. Near ly every -one from the student body was present Several were called up on to express their opinion, and nil : mm In favnp of it ThU niiAKtlnn make provision, and the gym i tha Toted upon at , tha, coming first requisite; It should be planned gchool election. The need for a gym- npon reasonably broad line, though nastum is very great, as there is no its equipment can be added to from place In town where basketball, and time to time., . , . ... A rugged body s needed to house a well developed intellect THE SUGAR BEET AND PROS PERITY, , It is easy to .deal in generalities an j to say that the beet sugar indus try will do this or that or the other thing, but it is when one sees what It has done for other communities that he has proof. beyond dispute. The current issue of the Wellington, Colorado, Sun publishes as a matter of news some facts concerning the beet industry there. , A copy ot the paper supplied ty Wm. . Haiberman has the following telling of the out come of the year's beet campaign there: "Next Monday beet growers iffhe .Wellington district will , receive check from the Great Western Sugar company., aggregating $100,000. These will be In payment for beets delivered at the four dumps during the month of October. The weather has been ideal for the harvest and delivery , of beets has been continu ous, making this the largest payment ever made here for. a single, month's delivery. The ; beet grower ; and workers will be In funds and business generally will hum for a while. ".Yesterday Superintendent Osborn estimated that .80 , per .cent of the beets in this district had been har vested and delivered, and that, if weather conditions remained normal the work would toe practically over by Thanksgiving. , , , , "The sugar company,, frqm the' other indoor sports can be played. Every taxpayer is nrged to be pre? sent and give hi support to this measure. - . i The Seniors met Wednesday night and elected a part of the Toka staff. Wllford Allen, Jr., was elected editor, and Lynn Sabin, business manager. The remaining members will be chosen during the coming, week. ; ... The football season ends Thanks giving day, t when the high school meets-, Central Point at that place. The game was transferred from the locals to the high, school, as the all star bunch was .tod fast ajteam for the lighter players from the other city. . Next Wednesday a football game between the different classes will be played on the high school grounds, As all the regular team will play and each class has an equal number of, players from the first team, a bard game is expected., The game is be ing played as a benefit for the ath letic association, so . a small admis sion will be charged. " , The Gaiety management has con sented to let the association have the use of the Gaiety for Wednesday night and a show will be given on that night. Beside the pictures and vaudeville . the letters, will be pre sented to the players on the' football team. . , , . . A number of tto student an! teachers attended the football game at Eugene Saturday. Among those who took the train Friday night were Bert Presley, Loren Basler, Wlllard Bartlett, Mr. Brauer, Miss Hardle and Mr. Mllltkln. VICTORIA AMERICANS WANT TEDDY TO HELP (By United Press Leased Wire.), Victoria, B. C, Nov. . 20. The I American society here has sent, the verr beinnln of the camoalm.' did following telegram to Colonel Roose- '.. "'. -a , i . ' ' , velt, signed by A. A. Freeman, presln all possible to aid the grower in' . ' " . t-mm Vrli r. " ,dent ot the society, former United, rushing t bis harvest through, and Bute uti.Unt mttorney general .and when cars could not be, p'rpvlded al- J former United States circuit Judge (owed the piling Tot beets, whereas .in of New. Mexlpoj: j. ; r , n I ?! former year delivery ws of ten '.'top- :."Xhp -American, of .Victor!,! re. pVd t6 wait'for car. and piling lw J umbering with . .-. .u - . . i your splendid irpeech here Jearn with not ,lWd.-?.Dt11 near,Dg tn6 en1 of Interest of tb possibility of ;your the campaign. .. , , ; , ' assuming command of a Canadian di- ,. "About 6,000 tons are now piled at , vision. If such rumors are authentic, the Wellington dump, 4,500 at Bar-'the American society ot this. city, un- neV and 8dC ton. at Dixon. No ! 'urn,A .from tn, lrM r ... ' full company American-born, beet, are piled at the Waverly dump. volunteer for lervlce un(ler you ,n "The tonnage also is very gratify- tne greet nght for civilization and 4ng. While exact' figures cn not yet democracy." Say just that to anyone in our $tore; it will open up the cleverest "bag of tricks" you ever saw in stylish suit designs; nothing too flashy -jiisi 'fcfcdB;- scorers" c $ldto$25 s t . P. B i s hob Go mm Clothiers the Ilbiiie of llart Schaflfner & Marx CloUics ,l" '" ' ' ' -' " " ' L : ft S (! rn el'. C1PLE MURDERED Blf KMIIO. . VAHTED DAUGHTER (By United Press Leased Wire) San Diego, Nov. 20. Newa of the brutal murder of Mr. and Mr. G. Burllnghame, an aged - American couple, by a Mexican teamster, who fled to the bills near Ensenada, with their 16-year-old daughter after the murder, was brought to San Diego today by Captain Robert Isreal ot the power schooner Nonsuch. The bodies of the couple, their beads smashed to pulp with boulders, have been recovered about 100 yards apart on the road leading from their raach at San Ysldoro,' Mex., about 25 miles from the coast. ' Two brothers, O. H. and Wm. Burllnghame, have organized posses In Ensenada and are on their way to the hill. The atrocity was committed yes-. terday. Permission to'marry the girl had previously been refused the mur derer. Details were telegraphed, to Washington. , Old newspapers, five and ten cent bundles, at the Courier Office. Ine lorona Typewriter for personal correspondence is quick er and better than a pen. and gives you a carbon, copy of what you have written.- ' The factory cost of the Corona is higher -than any other typewriter be cause of the finer materials necessary to make it durable. Almost every magazine writer, engineer,' corres pondence school student, minister; traveling man, government Inspector and newspaper man use the Corona, Roosevelt, wrote all his African and South American articles for "Scrlb ner on a Corona. Men-like Samuel Blythe,' who' write for the Saturday Post, use the Corona year in ana year IHSMARAY will -demonstrate the Corona M DEMOCRATIC COHOICIIIED BY SAN FRAI ICISC Washington, Nov. 20. Two hun dred ' thousand ' dollars, the biggest offer thus far, is the bait San Fran cisco ha hung up to obtain the 1916 democratic national convention, it bar cam known today. The bid ia double the largest offer previously received, and leader admit that it 1 very tempting' v .- . . When the democratic national com mittee meet here December 7 offers of $100,000 from Delia, St. Louis, and possibly Chicago, are expeoted. The lattereity may match the Sao Francisco offer. At the same time, Omaha Is reported In the race, while Buffalo has dropped out. In addition to their cash offers; the various cities offer to detrsy expenses and furnish an auditorium. San Francisco and Chicago are In the field to obtain the republican as well as the democratic convention. HORTHEBfi SERB ARMY FACES FLIGHT Berlin, Nov. .Zd.-TThe northern Serbian army face flight or capture. The Serbs can reach Montenegro it they move hurriedly. But If they de lay for a last stand against toe Jn vadera closing in on them, their re treat will be cut off. The Teutons have driven the Serbs to. Kossovo Holye, the "Plain of the Black Bird," where In 1389 Serbia lost her independence in an over whelming defeat by Sultan Amu rath I, and where the Hungarians were de feated under Hunyady by the Jurka in 1448. , Prom this historic point Montenegro soil is only 20 miles west. This field' may , be again the scene of blbody and historically Im portant battling. ... , i , j The Germans are making a forced l march from the Radan district, 20 mles northeast of the plain.,. At the same time the Austrian are, driving southward, along the Montenegrin frontier, -while the Bulgars are mov ing northward along the same bor der. It these troops can get between the ; Serb . and (the frontier escape wiu' ibe 'impptslbl, ,. j ,,..., , : V,Th Austrian , already have, taken Slenltza, while the Bulgars are 40 mile south of Prlstlh, . Faver. ''f',''J "Bc 'earafnl about asking favor of people, my boy." ; "Whyr ' " .. ! ;; 1 rn-. ,. i v "Bocause once a man doe ' favor for you you sre in bis debt for llfe." Detrolt Frt'M Press. I sueeEssEs W are Interested in you and your auecea; because our ue cese depends upon you and your succeas, and the success of the community depend upon all of us.ur. t , . . ;. , v ., ' . We are Interested in the success of the 8ugar Beet Industry, believing it will be a factor in the success ot the community. pur Interest ra mutual. , j;- ., ..Open an account with this bank and let u assist you to ucces,. ' " . t, i i 3..4 A.a'r-.?'i 'mrr ,... a .-,m t ... . iT ie v irst rs at ion a i iianic ; Of Southern Oregon ME.MOER OF FEDERAL RESERVE BANK Til ' " 11 im .i1;1" , 4 . , . .'. 1 I. HIM Sugar Grower WIU be a great big spoke. In the wheel of progress for the Rogue River valley. ft . - . ' '.. : i Growing tbera mean prosperity for ns alL f Tome jnto our bank and SIUN VP ACREAGE. Grants Pass Banking Co. Is a fclood Bank Interested tn You? Your financial progress, need not depend whollyv on your unsupported efforts. If, , you have a good bank interested , in. your success your business plans will materialize more speedily. ", v Become a 4ePositor with the Josephine County, Bank; jmake use of its conveniences and safeguards; give the bank an opportunity to bq . come acquainted with you, so, that it ,may dqter- ' mine, at the opportune moment, jut how for it ma$ extend co-operation in'your business affairs. , ' ' i JOSEPHINE COUNTY BANK I'.V '' 1, I H, t .-). .M . , I Newspapers 5 & 10c Bundles- Courier
