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PAGE FOLK HUIT RDAY, J 1X1 LIU 21, l»2O. GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIER Published Dally Except Sunday A K VOORH1E8, Pub. »nd Propr. Entered al poetoffice, Grant* Pass. Ore., a* second class mail matter ADVERT181ÑC. RATES Display apace, per inch...................20c Local-personal column, per line.. 10c Reader*, per line..................... 5c You Win When you buy Our Number 18 Coffee DAILY COURIER By mall or carrier, per year ...16.00 By mail or carrier, per month .50 WEEKLY COURIER ......... By mall, par year jflniK Churches | X Other Grades 40c to 55c Ik.OO MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres* is exclusively entitled to the use for republication Qualtt}! and Service of all news dispatches credited to it or all otherwise credited in thia paper and also the local news pub- » ■—1 1 ... listed herein. AU rights of republlcAtioa of sps- ' per of that crowd of men gathered use. Homes for the newcomer. Bus eial dispatches hsrata MV a*N BP served. to discuss irrigation matters the oth- iness houses for the business estab « er day. What they want, and what lishment. It is a good healthy SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1IMN). growth of buSiffess that will have no any other group of land owners you kick-back. f run across these days wants, is ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ OREGON WBATBBR ♦ water. Who digs the ditch is a sec ♦ ♦ ond consideration. The country is ♦ Rain or snow with freeb ♦ past that point in the discussion. southeasterly gales. ♦ Whatever proposition can put the »•»♦♦♦♦▼♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A (Continued from page 1) water into the ditches first is the KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY winner. Even the question of cost is secondary, for every season lost to the farmer now is just that much money lost. Some one asked the other day what the land owner got for certain money that would go into ditch construction. "What ‘‘What do we "WW get get?” echoed another. money in the bank, that's what we get—money from crops that we ' can’t grow now.” First I Un Hist Church All the regular services al the us I ual hours. Music l«»d by orchestra I and chorus choir. Prof. Applohoff, director, uud Miss Calvert. pianist. Bible school at 10 with classes for | .ill ages. Morning service at 11. I anthem, "The l«»nl Is My Ught.” sermon, ' Safety of the Baints." II. I Y. P. U. at 6:30. Evening »erviee •it 7:30, anthem. "Something for Thee.” sermon, "A lJghl in the Dark.” Mid-week service Thursday evening at 7:30, the lesson will be an exposition of Romans 10. The public is always cordially welcomed to all our services. C. M. Cline, preacher. BOY’ THE MAI Hand Painted China S<*<* Our Wln«l<>u BARNES, The Jeweler •. P. Time Iaa|>«ct<>r Next door First Xsuona) Hank ATTENTION! Xvw num 51. E. Church Sunday school at 10 a. tn. Ep- worth League* at 6:30 p. in. Re- vival meetings begin this Sunday. I The pastor, Rev. Joseph Knotts, preach. The music will be led A. II. Johnston of Akron. Ohio, following ar«» th* themes for week: Sunday morning. ‘‘1.1ft t'p Your Even." Sunday evening, "The Kind of Re- ligiou God Requires." Monday. "The Fall of Adam.” Tuesday, ‘‘Adam'« Sin and Chlrst's Atonement." Wednesday. "Thoughts Atonement.” Thursday. "Impossibility of Self- regen«» rat Ion.” Friday. "Conversion, a Requlre- nient of God.” Returns from inquiries to post masters, merchants, dust-buyers and If the seemingly impossible is ac others reveal the fact that many mines In Oregon were idle during cepted as true, and we are to believe 1919, Higher wages in other indus- in the reputed discovery of a Paris tries attracted miners away from have physician that the aged may their regular operations and costs their youth restored by the grafting were so high that the smaller mining of certain glands from young mon operations were unprofitable. keys, what of it? Who wants to be Most of the Oregon placers are worked by the hydraulic system, but young forever? salvation Army the gold output of the dredges is Many a man and woman will an-1 Revival meetings are in progress greater than that of all other forms Bible school at 2 p. in , classes for all swer instantly that they do. But! Whatever plan will give water to I of placer mining combined. ages, Y. P. L. at 6:30 p. in. Topic. are they not deceiving themselves? ■ the most acres is the plan that must There are only about a hundred "Gods Remembrance.” Open air at The quest for a fountain of youth • be adopted as the one best for the producing metal mines in Oregon and 7:30 p. m. Salvation rally at 8 p. is older than Ponce de Leon, older community. But time is precious, I s*x Uiese produce 80 per cent of m. Cordial invitation to all readers than Hippocrates, the father of med : and the irrigation season will soon the total output of all the metals of this notice. | mined in the state, and one of them Ensign J. E. Strautin, officer icine, older than history. But is it be here again. Water must be the produces 25 per cent of the total not based on hopes that are foolish uppermost thought just now till value of the metals produced. These and ilftonsidered ? 1 liurch of < liri-t plans are formulated and work mov- six mines are those of the Baker Tomorrow afternoon the callers There is no sadder character in ing from every direction. The pres- Mines Co., Cornucopia Mines Co., Homestead-Iron Dyke Co., and the will go out on the annual every- literature than that of the traditional . ent outlook is excellent, There is This year every Commercial Mining Co., all in Baker member canvass. Wandering Jew. as represented in assurance of water in the Southside county, and the Queen of Bronze member Is to be given the opportun Lew Wallace's novel, "The Prince of ditch, and in the Northside highline Mining Co., in Josephine county. The ity of adopting the principle of the India,” condemned to live on genera ditch by a pumping plant Installed old placer mine In this group fs the tithe. A number are already tithers and many are seriously considering tion after generation, while all his at Jones creek, and the lower valley Powder River Cold Dredging Co. I-ast Bunday 160 took advant The larger copper companies of it. friends and loved ones passed away, farmers are now showing a deter the state, which are in Baker and age of the benefits offered by our group by group, leaving him ever mination that is going to bring water Josephine counties, show some in 'Bible school. The communion ser alone to face a new and changing to their lands. This promisee to lie crease in output during the year, not vice take« place at 11. The morn world. a year of real development along ir- withstanding unfavorable conditions. ing sermon subject will be, "Th«' The most productive county In the Mercies of God.” The evening ser It is a familiar fact that the young rigation lines. state in all metals is Baker, which vice at 7:30 will be evangelistic, be and even the middle-aged desire to . produces nearly 80 per cent of the ginning with a aeries of congrega THE MOVE IX PROPERTY postpone old age, but the really aged ' gold and of the total value of all tional thanksgiving hymns. The ser are usually resigned to death. Along It is a matter of comment tnat that i metals mined mined. Though less ore has mon subject is, "The Christ of the L . . with their waning powers, the peo scarce a day passes that one or more been produced in Oregon during the Church.” "Make our home church i your church home.” ple who meant most of life to them real estate transfers of considerable 'a*1 two year* than in 1917, the Chas. R. Drake, minister. i average value of all the metals mined have gone, and they feel like help- magnitude is not recorded in Grants' and treated has increased about 90 less intruders at the threshold of a Pass and its tributary country. Par cents per ton. The relative rank of St. Luke's E|d-i<>pid strange era. They have lived their ticularly is this notable of sales with the counties of Oregon in the pro- Sunday school at 10 a. m. There lite. Death becomes as natural as in the city, For a number of years ' duction of gold is as follows: Baker, will be no evening servîtes owing to | life was. and even as desirable. All city realty stood still, Now, because Grant, Josephine, Jackson, Crook, the fact that the vicar. Rev. Philip K. I things are good in their own time, of the high cost of building mater Douglas. Umatilla. Clackamas. Lane, Hammond is in Portland. Malheur, Wallowa, Curry and Whee and easy of acceptance. Thus they ials. people are buying rather than ler. St. Anne's Catholic Church are content to go. building, though this condition is Sunday masses at .8:00 and 10:00 Perpetual youth would be toler- one that can not continue for long, o’clock. tible only if it (Deluded one’s rela- Building will soon have to be res uni- Rev. J. Q. Vien, C. 8. V., pastor. tives and friends. If everybody were ed. In the business district, im-, First Church of Christ Scientist kept young, it would not be so bad. provement is the order of the day. i Christian Science services are held But even then, would there not be Buildings are being made modern, or ' (Continued from page 1) every Sunday in the W. O. W. hall, a dreadful monotony in everlasting fitted over for the industry which : "sniped” by outlaws, the pony ex- at 11 a. m. Wednesday evening youth, just as in everlasting summer they are to house, and thus they will I press riders were exposed to death meeting at 8 o'clock. The subject make more adequate return to their i at all times, and they braved rain Sunday Is, "Truth.” or everlasting winter? Reading room Is open from 2 to and snow storm, as part of an every The Buddhiet idea Is more appeal owner. 4 p. m. daily except Sundays and day duty. The most favorable aspect of the ing—not the preservation of any holidays, The public Is cordially In life beyond its natural term, but the situation is the fact that there is no , One of the memorable achieve- vlted to attend the services and to ments of the pony express was the visit the reading room. restoration of youth by rebirth, over tendency toward a Jioom. Prices are , delivery of Uncoin’s Inaugural ad and over again, with all the change reasonable, not a sacrifice to the dress in 1861, when all the western and opportunity that sue.ending lives seller, yet where the buyer can feel country was waiting for the moment bring for experience and develop that there is a margin of value that ous news from the capital. The ad ment. will represent profit In the future. dress was hurried to St. Joseph. Mo., And the most of these purchases are the "taking off place" of the pony (Continued from Page One) express. Wrapped in oil skin and WATER not speculative. They are of proper- put in saddle bags the address was some years ago classifying the steel There was no m staking the tem-jty that is to be put into immediate started on Its way amid wild cheers, head in the Rogue as a trout is still Fresh horses waited at every ten effective, notwithstanding that the miles, and the final ten miles before steelhead in other streams is claMi-i reaching San Francisco was made in lied as a salmon, and that because of 31 minutes. The message was car this it is among the trout now pro ried by the riders a total of 1,950 tected by law till April 1st. mil's In 185 hours, an average of a little more than ten miles an hour. That was wonderful in those days. < HEAP!.I YOU < A.X BI Y ETERNAL YOUTH I XEW I.IXE Ol' We Are Exclusive Agents for MACK TRUCK in Josephine County AGENTS FOR COLLINS AUTO COMPANY ACCISiORIlS AMD REPAIRING PHONE 317 5H H STREET, GRANTS PASS, ORE Timmons & Higgins < all ami mm » ii < Phone 324-J ill Month sixth St- X FEW «'ARM TO HELL olt TRADE Ohe I'D r K r L r L SEWING machine A SliiptiH-ni Just Irriicil BIXHJSE l»V THE YARD TRAINING Ml H<M)L TO IlftSIMft Fit dozen Ixiy's urcy and khaki Hindi of good weight flanni'lct te-. siz.i1. s'x to ioiirleen. Formerly sold at H5«’, to clean up _ ——~ The faculty of Sacred Heart hos- pital, Medford, Oregon, announce that they will resume their Training School for nurses on May 1st, 1920. Young ladles wishing to qualify themselves in the art of nursing will please apply In person or writing to Sister Superior for necessary infor mation. g] I» Montesano, Wash., .Jan. 24. The town is crowded with people who have come here for the opening of the trial Monday, when the alleged (. W. W. arrested following the \r- mistlce day murders at Centralia will be given their hearings. The “Agents‘.Authority to Sell”—book attorneys estimate that the trials will of 50 blanks, 50c, Courier office. last for eight weeks. I Advertising Pays—Advertise with the Courier