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' . .tr., ; '.! .': .. ; -. . ! DAILY llOGl'fl XUVEH COUIUEB FAG3 HiNiav. novi;miii:hui, join. , "IKe w ti 1: ( 1: 1: VIASOli TELLS WHAT (By 1'nlted Press Leased Wire.) New York, Nov.. JO. The reported apt ur of Monsstlr, whether true or ot, meant that the Bulgars are resnlns, toward the Greek border order to embroil Oreece with the Hies. For ahould the Serbs take re- uge 'In Greece before the onconilflg jf their pursuers, the fact would not !lp the allies' representatives In thens, Inasmuch as the Greeks ould probably Intern them and thus aliie a row with theallies over this lours, fly entering the Monastlr VRlon the Dulaara exposed their east ern flank to an allied attack. This Ittsck, however, has not been del ivered. ' This fart must strengthen the pro- .4 c WAR MOVES MEAN L im,J ( Wswsbsss: I Price $750, Factory FASHION GARAGE AGENT LIVERY SERVICE ANY PART OF CITY OR COUNTY Supplies, Accessories., Expert Vulcanizers, . Mechanicians, Drivers Phone 163 To Early Christmas Shoppers BARGAINS IN BOOKS-Odd books of different lines, values up to )Egs $1.00, to close out . .. . .. . jLsjK See our window Bemaray Old ao the hills but can tave you money9 j Tbis advertising expres- slon undoubtedly dates back to and as a talking point is hard to beat The only trouble about its use is that some people are impetuous and want to 6ce the saving quick. So far as tires are concerned, and if it la the immediate dollar right In hand that ia wanted, you can beat Diamond Squeegee Tread Tires for quick saving at the start. BUT if it is the big saving that comes from accumulated mileage that's most inviting, we can truly save you money on Diamond Squeegee Tread Tires. . DIAMOND "FAIR-LISTED" PRICES Us f RusYee Use J. 30a 3 t w-48. 94 a 4 $20.38 S0.3 THo MlTsT "2S.70 ii7t T4.6d ifTs" "33.o 93"iT "io.6o liTsJT "4o tMi' iint;i: Germans In Athens, for it Indicated apparently that Bulgaria doea not fear the allies In the Balkans, and It tends to strengthen the pro German view that the allies failed to deliver the attack because they were not sufficiently powerful ao to do. Moreover, all Indications are tbst the allies are exercising very little Influence on the course of military events In the Balkans. ' The embargo which Prance and England have placed on Greek trade Is the sole material Influence which the entente powers have brought to bear on Greece. Yet fhls single act, coupled with Balkan military developments, leaves King Constantino In a dilemma. The plight of the 8erbs emphasises the pro-German belter In Athens that the Teutons are far ahead In the war. Yet If Greeco sides with Germany by Interning Serbians she faces the prospect 'of having her commerce ruined by tho allies. . . J Drug and Stationery Store PliOl'OSED TAX LEVY FUNDS VOtt 1910 The following It the propoied tax levy (or the year 1915, to be collect ed during 1918s Count Judge and commit- sloners . 2,000.00 HMMINM County clerk's office, all expenses 4,000.00 4,(00.00 3,200.00 800.00 1,700.00 BhorlS'i office, all expeniee Assessor's office, 'all ex penses Treasurer's office, all ex penses ... School superintendent's office, all expenses., Surveyor's office, all ex penses ' 1,000.00 Board of health .... 700.00 Fruit Inspector, all ex pnsoi f District scaler of weights and measures Stock Inspector, all ex penses ...................... Coroner Registration and elections Court bouse, fuel, lights, repairs, Janitor ... Circuit court, all expenses Juvenile court ........ Justice courts, all ex 1 pensos 1,000.00 10.00 200.00 209.OO 6,000.00 1,600.00 2,600.00 400.00 2,600.00 800.00 4,100.00 County court, all expenses County borne, all expenses Othor paupers 4,000.00 Widows' pensions....... Indigent soldiers ... 4,000,00 , 200.00 600.00 3,000.00 l.POO.OO Jail, board of prisoners, etc. Advertising Miscellaneous expenses ... Ferries ... 1,000.00 Scalo bounty 400.00 District attorney's office, all expenses 1,000.00 Water master, all expenses 800.00 County fair ' 600.00 . . 162,700.00 For the above it will be necessary to levy a 6 110 mill tax. Besides this a levy ot 3 410 mill for county school purposes, raising about $36,- 382.18; 3 810 mill for state tax, raising about f29.138.25; 1 710 mill for a sinking fund tor a new court house, raising about $17,' 691.08; 2 mills in order to take care ot Interest on warrants and -reduce the outstanding warrants, raising about $20,813.04; making a total of 15 mills; and 5 mills for rosds, rais ing about. $38,699.60.' In view ot the fact that the as sessed valuation of Josephine county Is $885,202.00 less for the current year than for the preceding year, it necessitates a greater levy. The levy will be made Saturday, December 4, 1915, at 10 o'clock a. m. If any person wants to dis cuss the same he must be present at that time. . E. L. COBURN, 4 604 County Clerk. NOTICE OF SCHOOL MEETING Notice Is hereby given to the legal voters ot School District No. 7 of Josephine County,' State of Oregon, that a special school meeting of said district win ibo held at Central school building on the 27th day of Novem ber, 1915, at 10 o'clock la the fore noon, to vote on the proposition of levying a special district tax.! , The purposes for which the money to be raised by this levy shall be ex pended are shown ; by the following itemised budget, which Is hereby made a part of this notice: j Teachers' salaries..........:... $23, 025.00 Furniture 200.00 Apparatus 500.00 Library books 100.00 Repairs of school houseai outbuildings, etc... 1,000.00 Playground apparatus ...... . 100.00 Transportation ot pupils.... . 360.00 Janitors' salaries 1,950.00 Janitors' supplies" ............ 1,500.00 Fuel . 500.00 Light : 175.00 Clerk's salary 240.00 Postage and stationery...... 75.00 Interest on bonds 4,815.00 Sinking fund .................. 3,700.00 Total 136,740.00 Dated this 27th day of October, 1915. ' : EDWARD 8. VANDYKE, DlsCrlot Clerk, L. B. HALL, t it Chairman Board of Directors. ' Guncotton Amber, Nltrocotton that produces such pow. erf 11 1 powder nlxo produces a boautlful Imitation of nrabor. Claim is "mnde that If one buys a meerschaum pipe with an amber piece six inchos long at whnt seems' to be an uuusunlly low price, oue may rely upou It being col-lodlon-a solution of guncotton In eth er. The cloudy effect which Home smokers. Illte in produced by 11 dirge 1 amount of cntuphor In the xolutlou Nltrocottou ulso produces s tine sub stitute fur toi'tolxo Khull. Wat SALE SLAB WOOD Williams Wood Yard. Ask for prices. 475tf REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL CALF -Good Individual, well bred, nigh record ancestry, Prfce low. Registered Berkshire pigs by Laurel Champion, world's record ire. V. R. Steel; Winona Ranch, Grants Pass, Ore. ' tf ALFALFA HAY First, second, third and fourth cuttings, $14.80 per ton. Sleepy Hollow ware bouse, opposite S. P. roundhouse. Open Saturdays. 686tf HARLAY, pure bred Percheron stal lion, registered, state licensed, will stand for late fall breeding at Brownie's Livery barn, OJ-anta Pass. Oregon. C. 2. Etnier, owner. FOR SALE CHEAP Four hundred ftftv dollars burs a new house wltn lot 50x100. Easy terms. See Joseph Mom, 204 N. 6th St 593tf FOR BALE Hall's safe, la good condition, delivered at Merlin. $50. "Box 233, Ashland, Ore. 600 TYPEWRITERS Remington No. 7, $15: Underwood No. 4, $36 nniirinr office. 601 NICE black mare, weight 1100 lbs., to trade for a good fresh cow. Ad dress Lester Layton, Murphy, or phone Provolt cental. - -.. 698tf GOOD IRRIGATED FARM for sale or trade for well located Umber, preferably near C. b O. C. railroad. A. L., Ednrton. ! i 5" TO KENT FOR RENT CHEAP Large, commo dious bouse two blocks from post office. O. S. Blanchard. ' ' 668tt FOR RENT Furnished three-room cottage with' sleeping tent and piano. Ed H. Allen. 245 West J street Phone 235-R. 600 VETERINARY SURGEON DR. R. J. BE3TUL, Veterinarian. Office In Wlnetrout Implement Building. Phone 113-J. Rest dence phone 305-R. ... MONEY TO LOAN MONEY TO LOAN ON FARM LANDS I have secured the; agency at Grants Pass for a company to make farm loans on a conservative valuation. Loan payable in twenty annual payments, with privilege of paying sooner. Owner must live on his farm. Sam H. Baker, at the Josephine County bank. 601 PLUMBING W. R. RANNIE Plumbing, tin and sheet metal work. Removed to 612 H, opposite Fashion garsge. Phone 36. ' 601 ASSAYERS E. R. CROUCH, assayer, cheulst. metallurgist. Rooms 201-203 Pad flork Building. Grants Pass. ; OF RED CROSS FLAG .. Berlin, via Wireless to Sayvllle, Nov. 20. Charges ot fradulent use of the Red Cross flag ! by English transports bound' to the Orient were made today toy an admiralty official. "Our submarines wirelessed that when English ships reached the sub marine danger tone," he said, "they drop Red Cross flags over the white soace painted on the side ot the ves sel. Seventy English transports pass ed Gibraltar tor Salonlkl, heavily laden and painted like hospital ships. "One can tell whether a vessel is heavily laden iby the water she draws. These ships carried to the limit ot their capacities. Surely England Is not sending 70 hospital ships to Greece within a few days. They were undoubtedly carrying troops and munitions. "This ia the blaaest fraud, and It Is Illustrative of the lengths to which our enemies will go." Althouith carefully watched, not a single undisguised English transport' l. - mImmh mA M.AM ..t.mnW lned, the official declared. A New View. "What a nice, kind man Nero was!" "What? .Why, the wretch Addled while Rome burned!" . "1 know, He'd probably waited all his life for a chauee when he wouldn't disturb any one." FRAUDULENT SE CHARGE D TO ENGLISH Classified : ; AcS w&! jig P TIME CARD California and Oregon Coast Railroad company (The Orego Caves Route) Effective Moaday, October 18,1911 Train No. 1 lv. Oranta Pass 7:00 a.m. Arrives Wlldervllle 8:09 a.m. TraJa No. 3 It. WUderrUle 1:00 P.m. Arrives Grants Psss 1:00 p.m. Every dar la the week, lacludlag sanaay All trains leave Grants Pass from the corner of O and Eighth streets. opposite the Southern Pacific depot. For ail lnrormauon regarding freight and passenger service call at the office of tha company. Public Ser vice building, or pbon 188-R tor same. . Train will stop on flag at any point between Grants Pass and Wlldervllle. Passeng6 service every day In the weok. CITY REGISTRATION The annual general city election for the City of Grants Pass will be held on Monday, December 6, 1915. All electors of the city desiring to vote at this election should register. . The registration books are open in the auditor's office In the city hall. - Special attention will be given to registering from 2 o'clock p. m. to S o'clock p. m. each day of this week Yours truly. 590tf H. H. B ABLER, Auditor. NOTICE TO VOTERS ''. Notice la hereby given that an Ini tiative petition was on the 17th day of November,, 1916, filed with the undersigned, i Auditor and Police Judge, asking that a certain proposed charter amendment toe submitted to the legal voters of the City of Grants Pass for their approval or rejection at the regular general election to be held In said City on the 6th day ot December, 1915, a brief statement ot the tenor and effect of said petition being as follows: AN ACT To propose en amendment to . the charter of the City ot Grants Pass by adding thereto Section . 166, which said amendment pro vides for the purchase and ac-v qulsitlon by the City of the Rogue River Water Works sys tem, under and pursuant to an offer made to the City therefor, which said offer by said amend ment is expressly accepted,-and to authorize 4or the purpose ot the purchase and acquisition of said water works system an is sue of .bonds of the City In the sum' of one. hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000.00),' as provided in said amendment, which said bonds shall be known . as City of Grants Pass Five Per Cent Water Bonds, providing for the form of said bonds and the codpons attached thereto, and authorizing the council to levy such an additional tax each year in an amount sufficient to pay the annual interest of said bonds and the principal thereof as same mature, and authorizing and instructing the mayor and recorder to Bign same and affix the seal of the city thereto and to do any and all acts necessary to carry into effect the provl- slons of said amendment; said proposed amendment will be printed In pamphlet form by the City and copies mailed to every legal voter within the city whose address is known, not later than ten (10) days before said general election, and can be had at the office "of the Auditor and Police Judge thereof upon appli cation. ( Dated at Grants Pass, Oregon, this 19th day ot November. 1916. H. H. BASLE R, Auditor and Police Judge Wheat Club, 92 95; bluestem, 95wh. A. . - " , '" Oats No. 1 white teed, 24 24.75. Barley Brewing, 28 29.60; feed, 26.6028. , ...... , , : Hogs Best live, 6.05 6.10. . Prima steers, 6.75 7; fancy cows, 5.25; fceBt calves, 7 7.50. ' Spring lamba, 7.60. . Butter City creamery 31. ' Eggs Selected local extras, 41 42. Hens, 13 13; broilers, 12 12; geese, 11. v TO MOVE MONTENEGRIN CAPITAL TO SCUTARI Berlin, via Wireless to Sayvllle, L. I., Nor. 20. The Montenegrins are preparing to move their capital from Cettlnje to Scutari, according to a Vienna dispatch today. WOUL1V11E SUICIDE RUNS OUT OP AMMUNITION Tipton, Ind., Nov. 20. After Amos Keag, 45 years old, had fired three bullets Into his abdomen and two Into his head, he asked a friend to re-load the gun that he might kill himself. He'll recover. PORTLAND MARKETS PHYSICIANS U O. CLEMENT, M. D. Practice limited to diseases at tae eye, ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted. Office hours 9-13, 2-5, and on ap pointment. Office phone 12; resi dence phone 869-J. ; ; 8. LOUGHRIDGE. M. D.. Physician and surgeon. City or country calls attended day or night. Res. phone 369; office phone - 182. Sixth and H. Tuffs Building. J. P. TBUAX, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Phones: Office, 326; residence, 824. Call, answered at all hoars, Country calls at tended to. Lundeburg Bldg. F. H. INGRAM, D. C, D. O. Mental Spinal, Nervcas and Chronic Dis eases. Office: 216 North Sixth street Honrs: 10 to 12, 3 to 6. Other hours by appointment. Phone 7. Res. phone 24 8-J. DR. ED BYWATER Specialist on diseases vf eye, ear, noes and throat; glasses fitted. Office Hours 9 to 12 a. m., 3 to 6 p. m. Phones: : Res.. 284-J; office, 257-J. 8chaldt Building, Grants Pass, Oregon. DENTISTS B." C. MACY, D. M. D., first-lass dentistry. 109 South 8lxth street. Grants Pass. Oregon. BERT R. ELLIOTT, D. M. D. Mod ern dental .work. Vargnerlte B. Heyer, dental assistant Rooms 4 and ' 6, Golden Rule buildiag. Grants Pass, Ore.- Phone 215-J. M. R. BHITTBN, Dentist Rooms 3 and 3, Lcndburg building, opposite post office. Hoars 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1:80 to 5 p. m. Saturdays a. m. to 18 n. V ATTOCNEYS H. D. NORTON, Attorney-nt-Lnw. Practice in all State and Federal Courts. . First National Baak Big. COLVIG WILLIAMS Attorneys- at-Law, Grants Pass Banking Co. j Building, Grants Pass. Ore. E. 8. VANDYKE, Attorney. Practice in all courts. First National Bank Bldg. ;; EDWARD . H. RICHARD, Attorney-at-Law. ' Office - Masonic Temple, Grants Pass, Oregon. W. T. MILLER, Attorney-at-Law. County 'auorney tor Josephine . County. Office Schalhorn Big. O. S. BLANCHARD, Attorney-at-Law, ; Grants Pass Banking Co. building. Phone 270. ' Gtants Pass, Ore. DECORATORS AND PAINTERS"" PAPERHANGING, graining, paint ing. For best work at lowest prices phone 295-J. C. G. Plant South Park street. ' DRAYAGE AND TRANSFER COM MEhCIAL TRANSFER CO. AU Kinds of rayage and transfer work caretally and promptly done. Phone 13 2-R. Stand at freight depot A. Shade, Propr. F . G. ISHAM, drayage and transfer! Safes, pianos and furniture moved. peeked, shipped and stored. Phone Clark ft Holman. No. 50. Residence phone 124-R. , MISCELLANEOUS CRYSTAL SPRINGS water, put up la 6-galloa glass Jars and delivered at your door, fresh', pure sanitary. Telephone 293-R and water, wagon t . win call , c:-i"; .v. '-. ' .M4tt 1 PURE MOUNTAIN WATER Clear and refreshing. . Bacterial tests as sure that this water la pure. . De livered ia five-gallon bottles.' 25c. W. E. Beckwlth. Order by phone, 02-P-8. ujtt. THE WORLD MOVES; so do we. 1 Bunch Bros. Transfer Co. Phone 16-r: . LODGES GRANTS PASS Lodge No. 84, A. F. A. M 8tated communica tions ,1st and 3d Tuesdays Visiting orethren cordially ,lnvlted. P. W. Russell JsVW. M. ' Idw. O. Harris. secretary. , , GOLDEN RULE LODGE. No. 78, 1.O. uL. . '"eats every Wed 7y eve. in I.O.O.F. . hall. cor. 6th and H Sta. Visiting Odd Fellows cordially Invit ed to be present. W. H. Ryan, N. G-5 Clyde Martin. Secretary. Mining blanks, Courier effioe. A , i -