PAGI: TWO
CINE
COUNTRY ROAD FABRIC
THE EARLY PIONEERS
la>uiae W Hood
Grants Pass. Oregon
May IT. I»!«.
Grants Paas Dally Courier
Some time ago m many of the ;
newspapers of the country a notice
was printed of the death of Ed
SetueSelin »ho discovered the mines
of Tombstone, kriaoss. and cave the
name to that city
Knowing the item to be erroneous
I took steps to find oat the truth •
HE enthuaiaaUc army of over five hundred
from those who know the tacts
thousand Buick ownen ora tn a great
Ed S-hie Sei m first saw the light
measure responsible for the unprecedented
of day at the old tort bsilt tor the j
demand for Buick Vabve*in-H«ad motor cars
protection of
the Indians
today. Their daily experiences in Buick service
Ro»ce river from
WoodvtU«.
—B uk U economy—Buick endurance, and Buick
Rog'iedtiver as it is no* called,
a muJ abort» that place
reliability, prove conclusively to the present and
It
called Fort Birdseye ini was on the i
futura purchaser that “there is no substitute"
There during the !
Sehin-Selin pl**»-
for a Busck Vahre-in-Head motor car.
Indian uprisings the set tiers found
shelter, among them the James Sav
These reasons are causing hundreds of persons
age. the Birdseye, and the Schyetfel-
in fam 11 tew
Some ot the Jesvwnd-
to contentedly await the d-H r-v o the various
ant» of theee pioneecs are suU among
Models selected.
, us. but few tf anv are left of those
who laid the fouxdatioas tor the
things »« enjoy toda» The tort was
• » K,
simply a log house with a stockade
built around it. It was about nine
or tea miles from Grants Pase
One Indian, t'mpqaa Joe. and his
wife were true friends to the settlers
When an ’iprising »M planned one
would go along Rogue Riser on one
side the ocher on the other side
darning them of the impending
peril,
Both died a lung time ago
but tbe:r daughter. Lndian Mary, as
she is called. lives in Grants Paas
She with her children are the last
She never would tiv»
>t her tribe
1 on the reservation as she prefers life
among the white people Her father
was anxious that Mary should learn
co read and write, but wheo «ent to
'school the ' forest primeval was a
greater attraction •o her eduotioa
I was limited
But to return to the '
story of Ed SchieffeUa. He went I
when a young man to Anona to seek
When Better Automobile« are Built. Buirk Will Build Them
his fortune in the mine»- and he'
m»*eeeded
He was very ecultar and wore
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bang block hair which he steadfastly
refused to have eat. His wife a re-
fined and •ducatcd WOOMB. 1 have
t»e«i told, did not tike his hair dress
oat th« many blessings that today
ed that style and sometime« Mt like!
are so common we just take them as
doing as Delilah did with Samson
a matter of course
But ¡.hey » m «
but her heart failed her and th" long
happy as they forged ahead
their
hair was still uncut when death over
lai a Cess vpinan unsubdued, and laid
took him
Seeking tor the yellow
he foundation tor this com mon -
metal" never lost its fascination for
wealth, dear old Oregon
Dear old
him and for some time he had been
btooeers
We reverence your spirt.
hunting a mother lode" or prospect-
We honor those who paved the way
ing for cold on the South Vmpqua
for the progmos and development of
rtver about 23 miles east of Canyoa-
theae later yean, and pledge oar as
vfUe.
When found he had a gold
sistance tn making a greater aad bot-
pan containing very rb-h dirt and his
, ter Oregon.
mining tools were with him
It was
supposed that the excitement of
finding that for which he had been I
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searching so overcame him that his
•
Peggy Brietmayer
Little Miss
hear« stooped beating So he did not
die in Washington as stated tn the «pent the week end with her grand
i papers.
poaMKs.
Uoazo Jones is a retir»,! farmer
The Sthieffelia family was «intte
nimerous. One of the girls. Elisa row. havtng sold his ranch sad stock
beth or "Tdb" as she was tamiliarlv to Timmons a Higgins
He will >«
called, taught school tn Joseohlne a town resident after Friday
county and boarded around It was
Henry Dronlette tame ip from
in the days when they did not "spare California last week tor an Indefi
the rod and spoil the child." bat nite stay with bin parents
wielded the bricb freely
One day
George A. Hamilton. Mr and Mrs.
she sent a boy tor a switch
In a James Wright and Mrs. Ella Wright
spirit of mischief with perhar«» a lit have all been on the si it list this
tle malice added he brought her a
bmn- h of poisoa oak
She bit the
The Jones family took sapper with
end of the switch with the result the Brietmayers Wednesday evening
that for some days her beauty was and with the Ropers Thursday even
considerably marred.
ing.
Dr Col-.-tg, father of Hon Wm
Margaret Rathbone spent the week
Colvig. attorney for ’he Southern end wfth Helen Flftebl ta town.
Pacific Co., and of Attorney '^o W
Mr and Mrs. G. A. Hamilton. Mrs.
Colvig of Grants Pass, waj for many Carpenter and La Vida »>ent Sunday
year«, and for a distan«'« of many afternoon with Mr and Mrs.
milea. the only physician ind vu '’ixitant at. Theview
kept pretty busy His wife assisted
Mr. Hill and family «re living
in the work and was an angel ef the W G. White ranch.
mercy in many homes.
Mr. and Mrs. James Wright and
Suppoee those sturdy pioneers Bauer were dinner guests
could »»« as in a vision the railroad Neilson home last Sunday
«ET YIM R Oil J* FtCOM I S—WE
through South»rn Oregon wfth the
The young people of the neighbor
HAVE AM OVER STOCK
long trains of cars oassing dally In hood attended the farewell party
stead of the trackless f >rests. wfth given for Mr anl Mrs Mthillu a* the
the only mean.« of travel the nutient Rogue River grange hall. th"v ,av
b irro or th« horse
they had a fine time.
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■Suppose thev «muid be taken over
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the Pacific highway fn a Dodz» or
Mather Otter and Fami'y
<'h"vroiet
Suppose instead <>f a ral-'
BI.EADE1» OIL. I.AL
The young utter»—blind and downy
«I.IM»
row dip or pitch snot in the flrepia e —are horn in a soft lined nest under
with a newspaper of ancient date, or the «belter of an tna«,'-"«slble hank;
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a hook for a comoanion they coiM the mother will not at tret leave them,
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siddeniv be place«! in a "omfortabln, ■wive o» feverish rushes after rhe food
chair near an elertrf» light with the necessary to keep up rhe supply of
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dotty paper to read
Suppose while milk. To guiird rbem die sleeps, like
sitting there, instead of the old fld- many a human mother, with at* lens»
d'e or guitar a fine VitroH should one eur awake When they open rhefr
eye» «tie r-nutiousiy carries them to
st-rt • America."
husk for a while in the winter mu-
■’ll upo«« thev should be taken for
•»htne, tor their Mrthdny« are often in
a trip in an ainfane or that while January. When (hey ran clamber «he
sitting in tn automobile, a hit Dw- fetiche« them the wteeh-rrift« .if th"
Ha-.Uand «hon'd fly over them, circle itnmedlnte »fem.rj of tlx -hover,'’ anti
j above the landing field, drop an«i then romniuntcare* ;nuny of rhe vaJu-
then ri.«e Thev would surely expect tntat lerwmna she has learned, suanr-
■ to hear the words Th-re «ban be r.nvM taking weenaioo to puni.vh th«
unruly members of th« fam.ly by hit
time no ioninr."
i ng them.
Mrs
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for severe country road service. That’s why
“Country Roads” for Country Miles
mein greater mileage and real tire economy.
Kacne Tires—Concow Read Fabnc and Muic-Muc Core—
arc Extra Tested so due all Racine Tres are perfevt urea.
Racine Absorbit J Shocfc Strip is an added
of cxtra
mi es because s weids perfectly the tread and cmjass of
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CO.VLPAN \ is on every tire you buy.
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GRANT SIX
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FASHION GARAGE
& MACHINE SHOPS
CHALMERS AND ESSEX CARS
COLUNS AUTO COMPANY
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HEAP BIG MILEAGE'
i, yoar mileage mount« higher aad
higher—T.OW0. s.OMO. 10.000 aad
even £0.000 miles tn -om" cases—
you will appreciate more fully the
meaning of the Savage «login. "Heap
big mileage."
SAVAGE SERVICE
There is a fresh stock of Savag»
Tire« ami Grafinite Tubes an,l aa
i rgan.ziwion at yoar «entire at every
«avage breach «core ami at the stores
of savage distributors everywhere,
in w’ll I k» «lavage service as well
aa «Savage -Heap big mileage" Tin«»
«nd Gra finite Tube«. '
Guarantee! 3..00O miles on lir.a "
MHO mile- on "D" type
Adjustments made at home
For »ale it fhe
Grants Pass Service Station
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FRUITDAIÆ
C F. BURKE and E. KNOX, Props
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Williams Carage and Cyclery
Old Newspapers, 5c and 10c Bundles auX^LX^hay"«vér7¡.7w^:
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