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GRANTS PASS DAILY fOl'UIEK
I ItlDAY. JANt'AKY ill, IUIII.
Just Received
Elgin O Size
Ladies' Watches
This lot is the first
we have been able to get
for a year
Letcher & Son
Jewelers and Optometrists
PER52NAL LOCAL
HOMES QVAIUVTIXiiD
Quarantined January 24
None.
Released January 24
Mrs. Hussey.
E. Wolfolk.
S. McBride.
Mrs. E. Colwell.
Fred Smith.
A. Shade.
C. H. Ernst.
What looks the most like a choice,
tender. Juicy steak?
L-5?
Why, another choice, tendes, Julry
steak!
OrR STEAKS ARE CXIFORM
IX QCALITV
IX A CLASS BV THEMSELVES
AXD AT THE HEAD OP THEIR
CLASS!
THEY COME FROM CHOICE STOCK
DESIGNED FOR THOSE
WHO APPRECIATE CHOICE
' MEATS!
COME, MAKE VOIR CHOICE
IONS WILL
BE HELD IN FEBRUARY
County School Superintendent
Alice Bacon has received notice from
State Superintendent J. A. Churchill
that the state office has derided to
hold an. examination in all ot the
counties ot thp state in all subjocts
required for one year certificates.
This examination will be held on
February 26, 27 and 28, at the court
house in Grants Pass.
The source of the questions for
this examination will be the same as
the sources ot questions tor the De
cember examinations and the pro
gram will be the same.
The City Market
403 G STREET PHOXE 52
Money Saved
Is Money Made
Get our cash prices on your
flour si ml mill feeds, Wheat,
Outs, Rolled liiirloy and Cream
Oats liest on the market, and
onr G. P. Kg-? Food the Ijju
Maker, $:J.5 per 100 lbs. All
other feeds at like bottom
prices.
You will find the
XEW MILL WARKHorSK
Third and (; streets
J. J. MOltTOX
rHARITYbegins athome
, we say. How about
Prosperity?
Shall we build up pros
perity in the East by buying
Eastern products, or shall
we "buy home products"
because we want to see pros
perity, like charity, "begin
at home"?
Horn iNDumr Lutein) of Ouoon
LOCAL SHOP BUILDING
PATENT DITCH DIGGER
E. B. Hawkins is having built at
the Jennings & Trimble blacksmith
shop on J street a ditcher and loader
which promises to be a great im
provement over anything In the mar
ket. Inasmuch as the completed ma
chine can be sold at small percent
age ot the price of the more ponder
ous affairs. This machine, the pat
ent for which wea granted to Mr.
Hawkins in July, 1917, can be oper
ated by one man and two horses
and is capable of handling 60 to 80
yards in eight hours. Without toss
of time the dirt handled may be
loaded on wagons.
The demonstration machine is in
tended to dig a ditch three feet
wide. The ground is to be first
plowed to loosen the soil and then
the digger 4s put on the soft dirt
and hauled by a team of horses.
When the scoop is filled the team is
released by a lever and the horses
then hoist the scoop to a height suf
ficient to dump into a wagon or
over a bank. By an Ingenious ar
rangement the scoop as It is elevat
ed is turned and tilted so as to dump
the dirt to one side. Tt can be used
as a loader and will load a wagon
In 10 minutes.
The demonstration machine will
be completed in another week or 10
days and Mr. Hawkins proposes to
have a public demonstration.
N V. W TOiAY
TYPEWRITER wanted for few
months. Will buy if satisfactory.
Address Pox 134, Grants Pass
Oregon. 74
WANTED Four wood splitters and
one swamper; $1 per cord and
tools furnished. Wm. Dickens,
713 North Fifth street, or phone
Scott Robinson, Wilderville. 73tf
LOST 3 0 x 3'4 tire chain! between
Rogue River and Grants Pass on
Pacific Highway. R. F. D. Carrier
No. 3. 74
SECOND HAND goods of every des
cription bought and sold. A.
Timmons, 408 South Sixth St. tf
IX5ST Will party who picked up
the endgate on the Merlin road
with the license tag, report to the
Ford Garage. 74
COMING EVENTS
Feb. 3, Monday Annual meeting
stockholders of the Grants Pass
Fruit association at 2 p. m.
Feb. 26, 27, 28, Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday State examinations
at the courthouse. '.
Feb. 3, Monday Second semester
High school opens. --
Sheriff George Lewis returned to
day from a business trip to Salem.
. E. L. Coburn, county clerk, Is
transacting business, at Salem.
"Day Dream" face powder. Sablu
has It. 73
Linn Jewell went to Ashland this
afternoon on business.
B. F. Rode, of Silverton, is regis
tered at the Oxford.
G. L. Flint, of Roscbnrg, was in
the city yesterday,
Mrs. Edith Waggoner went to
Millwood this morning on account of
the Illness ot her grandmother.
H. W. Wehber will attend thej
commercial club meeting at Med-
ford tonight.
C. E. Nlles and F. S. Brnmwell
will attend the commercial club ban
quet tt the Holland hotel in Med-'
ford tonight.
Homstltchlng and plcoting at 10
cents a yard All work guaranteed
The Vanity Shop, Medford, Ore. 27tf
V. E. Streuble and bride, of Bel
llngham. Wash., stopped over lu
Grants Pass last night, leaving
south this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. James Fletcher, of
Fort Dodge, Iowa, who visited their
old neighbor, C. E. Young, left south
this morning. i
William Jewell, who spent the
past two months here with his moth
er, left this morning, returning to
Pilot Rock.
Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Itoynton left
this morning for San Francisco,
where . they will spend several;
months.
Mrs. Nelson Hanson, who visited
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Whipple, returned to Weed, Cal., to
day.
Relief Corps Mooting
The Women's Relief. Corps will
hold their regular meeting Saturday
afternoon.
Angel Cuke
And Parker House rolls Suturdrfy
at Moore's Bakery. 73
Itoglstmtion of Students
The, registration of old students
will be on Friday, 'January 31, at
the high school, at 9 o'clock. New
students will be registered the same
day at 1 o'clock.
PoMtiiiiiMtcr Wanted
A civil service cxumlnntlou will
be held In Grants Pass February 15
for the purpose or securing a poet
master for Hugo, Ore. The compen
sation for the Hugo postmaster Inst
year was $224.
Kulsomlnlng IHiMit
A 'crew of workmen commenced
this morning the work ot re-kal-snmlnlng
the Interior of the South
ern Pacific" possenger station.
Small Wreck
Tho derailing ot a freight cur last
night near Morlln delayed traffic
for a time, but the track has been
cleared and trains were running
again this morning.
LANDOWNERS TO 10
TO
Sergeant Harmon Operated On
Mrs. C. L, Swlnden today roeolved
word from Mm. D. A. Harmon stat
ing that her son. Sergeant John
Harmon, had been operatod on for
appondlcltls at Camp Kearney. Cal.
He Is reported as doing well.
Would Kills (.'its Hates
The Oregon Gus & Electrlo com
pany will have a hearing before the
public service commission in Grunts
Pass on Friday, February 7, at 10 a.
in., at which tlnie the gas company
will ask for authority to Increase
thoir rates.
To the members, of the Gravity I
District Improvement company:
Since your last meeting on Janu
ary 4, 1919, certain members have
advocated the formation ot an irri
gation district and have brought I
considerable pressure to bear uponi
your board of directors along that
line. In order to be fair and lmpar-
tlal your board has patiently heard)
these claims and has permitted rep-1
resentatlves of the Grants Pass Irri-!
gation District to meet with them:
and go over the matter.
In order that the landowners
themselves may be fully, advised as
to the different propositions the
board has deemed It best to call an
adjourned meeting of the annual
meeting of the members to be held
In' the Chamber of Commerce rooms.
Grants Pass, Oregon, on Saturday,
January 25th, 1919, at 2 o'clock In
the afternoon, at which time a thor
ough discussion of the proposition
will be had and the matter will be
submitted to the landowners for
their decision.
Every landowner, whether a mem
ber of the Gravity District Improve
ment company or not, coming under
the proposed gravity district. Is ur
gently Invited to attend the meeting
and to be prepared to decide wheth
er they desire the formation of an
Irrigation district, or whether the
company shall go ahead with the
plans already under way. Every
member should Invite other land
owners to attend as' the, matter Is
vital to you, and every member
shffuld be present himself:
By order of the president.
K. HAM. VERB ACHETt,
' Secretary.
Electric Work
Phone 90 Medford. Pauls Electric
Store. 63tf
Allen In Texas
El. W. Allen, of this city, and who
represented the local Chamber of
Commerce at the recent reconstruc
tion convention at Portland, Is now
In Texas, having been attracted to
that state by the opening tip of new
oil fields.
(i, P. Hardware Selling Spray
The Grants Pass Hardware, al
though they have had their stock of
spray material on hand only 48
hours, has sold an equivalent of
47,500 gallons or liquid spray, an
Indication that the fruitgrowers are
alive to the spray situation and are
Intending to keep the orchards clean.
Asking for Rids
The state highway commission
has a notice In this Issue of the
Courier, asking for bids for rrfad
construction. The first bid is for
paving the highway from this city
to the Jackson county line, a dis
tance of six miles. One of tho other
bids Is for grading the Pacific high
way from the Josephine-Douglas
county line through Stage Coach
Pass, approximately 2 miles north
to a point known as tho Jacques'
place.
ONE MORE AMERICAN
IX GERMAN PRISON
Berlin, Jan. 24. Of the American
soldiers taken prisoner by the Ger
mans on the western front only one
now remains In Germany, the As
sociated Press correspondent has
learned. He is at Stuttgart, too' 111
to be removed.
Avoid Unprofitable Moods.
Angry moods and "grouches" and
their twin sisters, "grudges," serve ab
solutely no purpose. If some one
hurts or wounds ns generously forget
It Time heals the deepest cuts and
nikkes us brnver end wiser for the
experience. Let ns love life and Its
worth-while things and avoid all un
profitable moods. Otherwise happi
ness will never come our way, and If
we search f or It, It will flee from ns
like a phantom, for after all It is the
state of our mind.
Ail kinds of legal blanks at the
Courier.
Vnder $3,000 Bond
Goorge Harlow, aged 2C, of Itoguc
River, was arrested nt Grants Pass
Tuesday on a charge of criminal as
sault upon a 13-ycur old girl of
Evans creek section and brought to
Medford, where after a preliminary
hearing before Judge Taylor Thurs
day, he was bound over to the gnuid
Jury under $3,000 bonds, which he
failed to furnish.- Medford Trlbtino.
Rig Ron of Stcellicjids
Game Warden P. H. Dally reports
that there Is the largest run of stool-
heads and sllversldos In the ' river
this week that he has soon for years,
says the Medford' Tribune. He says
that tfie run' has continued for sov
eral days, and that they are crowd
ing the fish ladder to the limit.
There has been more water In the
river than usual and he thinks that
Is the cause of the big run.
Loses Fingers on Saw ,
W. R. Barrett loBt two fingers on
his right hand this forenoon at his
shop.'corner F and Fourth streets,
on a combination saw. Mr. Barrett
says he has worked with machinery
all his life and knows how to be
careful but this was a case of pure
carelessness. Dr. Loughrtdge dressed
the wound, hut Mr. Barrett refused
to take any anaesthetic. He Is out
on the street this afternoon.
STARCHES
Argo Corn Starch, per pkg. . 10o
Kingsfords Corn Starch, 2 pkgs 25c
Popes Corn Starch, 2 pkgs ,25c
Ivory Starch, 2 pkgs 15c
Argo Gloss Starch, pkg 10c
Kingsfords Gloss Starch, 2 pkgs 25c
BASKET GROCERY CO.
1918 Ford, motor perfect, new tires
1918 Ford in fine shape -Nearly
new Ford with new Ameabilt
body
Ford Bug
Ford worm gear truck, nearly new
$450
$425
$650
$300
$550
C. L. HOBART CO.
Rsmoves Scorched 8 pots.
Badly scorched linen may be in
proved by boiling well hiilf a pint of
vlnegnr, half an ounce of soap, two
emcfm of fnlHv earth, aud the Jute
of several onions; spread this over the
linen wherever It Is scorched aud leave
It to dry. When dry wash the gar
ment, and the scorch will have disappeared.
8llvr 8pruc Popular.
The silver spruce of Ilrltlsh Co
lumbia la In such demand for airplane
construction been use the tree grow
extremely tall, sometimes ISO feet, and
they taper but little toward tho top.
From them enn be obtained long wing
beams for flvlnir machines, which run
from IS to SS feet In length.
Printing that pleases We do' It!
Courier Job Department. .
Telephoning In Japan,
The editor of the Jo pun Times imya
the telephone service In Japan Is ut
terly had. lie wonders "wlist Job
WouM hnve done hint he lived In Tokyo
snd wanted to telephone to the special
ist on holls." He conclude with ths
following Incident : "A lady In Ksrnl
sawn culled up her house In Tokyo, left
by the next triilu. got the cull and
tiilked to herself In Knnilfnws sis
hours after she arrived In Tokyo.
That's not n Joke. It's the solemn
truth." Kroui the Kiist nod West
New .
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Butter Btllsvtd Long Burlsd.
While cutting turf In bog near
Pnrtnilnwn. England, workers found
keg of butter many fevt under ths sur
fuce In perfect state of preservation.
It Is believed to have been burled for
great number of years.
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THEATER
TONIGHT and HATtKDAY
Wallace Reid
In
"The Source"
IJn was the genus Hum. He realized It and It hurt when ho saw
the girl eye him with contempt. Hut Unit look inude hint find him
self and he nindo the same girl fall In love with hlni.
MUTT & JEFF
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This picture was first shown a few years ago and lias been reds
sued so that thoso who missed it then will have a clinnce to see
this masterpiece. '