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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1920)
MOXIHÏ, MAY Ul. IU2«. SKA NTH I’ABH DAILY (XH’RIKR f AGE TWO I pecuiiar GRANTS PASS Mill COURIER Futurist Underwear Published Dally Except Sunday A. B. VOORHIES. Pub. and Propr. vov Entered at poatofflee. Grants Paa*. Ora., as second class mall matter ADVERTISING RAT “4 riaplay space, per inch---------- 10c txxüü-pensonal column, per line 10c Beaders, per Una... have : skkn it idvkrtiskd We Have It Now DAILY OOURIKR By mail or carrier, per year ...$« 00 By mall or carrier per month 101-B-A NORTH »TH $1.0$ i ... . MBMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or all otherwise credited in this paper and also the ’ocal news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are also re nerved MONDAY'. MAY 24. 1»2O. acres, and the engineers estimate the west today, its economy coming a because of the tact that the Grants district has its water supply at further bond issue will construct the Pass hand and does not need to reservoir enlarged project, including the dam It or go long distances for It. The at Savage Rapids. The 1920 pro engineers who have examined it pro gram of construction was carried nounce It the most advantageously that the amount of $4 00,000 as forward so that the ditches built now situated project now under develop will be part of the larger project, the ment. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A OREGON WEATHER ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 Weather for the Week ♦ * Pacific Coast States: Gener ♦ ally fair, except probably oc *, ♦ casional showers on the north * ■ Pacific coast; nearly normal * temperatures. 4 pumping plants to be used only for; ♦ ! the present season, Avoid Roadway in Front of Mov ing Picture Theater. Little Sharp Pointed Tacks Pulled From Sign Boards Swept Into Street and Eventually Picked Up by Unwary Motorist & WEEKLY COURIER •v mail, per year cause of PUNCIURES IN TIRE then salvaged. The estimates show that the gravity project will involve the cost of from $65 to $72 per acre. (Continued from page 1.) The financing of such a project as j the one here Is often much of a turns from every other county. in- “When driving your car swerve ns you come to the part of the roadway In front of a moving picture house." said an aiitomoblh* owner In giving ad vice on how to a*old punctures. "In small towns It Is especially advisable to follow such a course. "Many times I have been howling along a country road far from a set tlement when, wlthoqt any warning, one of my tires goes flat. Investi gation would show a tack which had worked Its way through and caused a puncture. • "At first I was Inclined to blame the farmers for trying to get even with nutomoblllsts In general for the depre dations committed hv a few drivers who believe they are not having an enjoyable trip unless they take wme thing In the nature of fruit or regs- tables from the furms they pass, Tlien one day when passing through n vll- lage I saw a man sweeping the side walk before a picture theater, and the problem sf the tacks was solved. "Being a neat person, the sweeper not only cleaned the sidew alk, hut con tinued his work with the broom until his gleanings reached almost to the middle of the roadway. In the mass □f refuse were many tacks. "The show man. It appeared, fre quently changed the sign boards In front of his place and he pulled down the old bills, tacks and all. The tittle sharp pointed lacks eventually found their way to the roadway among the sweepings, and Inter were discov ered by unwary motorists probably sev eral miles from the moving picture the ater." problem, but the original bond to- eluding Multnomah complete. John- . ... a --a- son seems to have a safe lead over Tonight and Tuesday fair * sue of $290.000 has already been | Wood for the republican preslden- with a light to heavy frost in * | sold or contracted for, $150,000 of^la) prefprence chamberlain easily ♦ the early morning. *-it having been delivered and paid outdistanced ------- -- — Starkweather for the 4444444444*4444 ! for. the balance to be delivered as democratic nomination for senator I needed tn the construction of the Stanfield leads Abraham by close to , , . . THE GRAVITY IRRIGATION 20 votes for the republican nomina- gravity project, and the purchaser tlon. The directors of the Grants Pass hag assurance of his readiness Congressional incumbents were all an I to finance the entire project through Irrigation district have called renominated. All measures on the election to be held on June 19th for to completion, and is urging that the state ballot carried, although some Hafnmermlll Bond printers at the the purpose of voting a bond issue work progress so that the system counties so far have sent In only Courier office. meager returns, but indications are of $400,000 for the construction of may p© ready for the delivery of that the general result will not be the gravity irrigation project. As water next season without having to |changed materially. Nothing defl- first organized, the district included ' " j ’ depend upon electrically driven i nite is available on local contests, A MIHTAKE MADE ID UAW only lands on the South side of pumps with their uncertainty and state legislature or convention dele I Don't wait for rheumatism to In Rogue river, and a bond issue of high power charges another season, gatee. dicate diseased kiddeys. When you The gravity project will spell pros- $290.000 was voted for the con-1 suffer pains and aches by day and sleep disturbing bladder weakness structlon of the project covering j perity and advancement for the dls- Reasons for Feeding Birds. ♦ J50 Shades! Every tube of Purola Shaving Cream contains the "makin’s” for about 150 cool, satisfying shaves. Each particle of cream multiplies itself hundreds of times with water. We waited years before we put out a ’’Purola” Shaving L ream. We were not satisfied to put the ’’Purola” name and guarantee on record until we had a cieam that represented a real improvement. Now, make this test! Take a ¡several days growth of heard — those boasting of tough, wiry I »cards, csixvially invited. Use hot w ater and a pinch or so of Purola Shaving Cream. Sixty seconds of lather ing and you’ll have the face covered with the cream- iest. softest lather a num could want. It’ll retain its creaminess without Replacing until you’ve Iwen oyer the face, and Reaves a comfort.ihle, exhilarating impression that lasts long after you shave. G« I a tube at your druggist's. Try it tomorrow, un<l if Purola Cream doesn't do wluit we say, the trial is on ms . That's our guarantee. bee u < IMT ** *« raT POROlA AIDS TQ HEALTH AND DEAUTT —-I Ry feeding the birds In • old weather one provides ammunition against the the district were later extended to, develops his lands and makes use moiqnitoes of Juno, explains a mem take in the lands on the north side, of the water, It will naturally force ber of the Animal Protective league. and the best engineering talent of development of the lands for their I It seems that birds feed their young on mosquitoes, thus destroying groat will the country was enlisted to draft the ownership without production numbers of the pests. Little natural plane for the project that would be unprofitable. The cost per acre food Is available for birds in the win ■water *11 the lands adjacent tojof the project Is modest in compaY- ter except In the extreme South, and even there less can be found by them Grants Pass, some 12,000 irrigable. ison with the cost of most projects in at this season than In the summer, 8o when the table or pantry shelf Is cleared of crumbs if the contents of the crumb tray are scattered outdoors instead of being put In the garbage can, the birds will he thankful, and will show their gratitude by saving the ftxsl-giver many a mosquito bite YOU MAY HAVE LOST IN THE ELECTION, BUY next summer. Mosquitoes are only one of the many YOU CAN’T LOSE WHEN YOU Bl Y excellent reatfcnn why birds should be fed during the winter, The others are all the other Insects which bumper the production of the garden ami nil pleasures of song and plumage.—St. AND Joseph Gazette. that side only. The boundaries of I triet and for every land owner who Don’t Be Discouraged bv night, feel tired, nervous ¡uid run down, the kidneys and bladder should be restored to healthy, strong and regular action. It Is a mistake to postpone treatment. Folev Kid ney Pills put the kidneys In sound healthy condition and keep them ac tive and strong. Begin taking today. Good results follow the first dose. Sold everywhere. GUARANTEE All Purola Prrfurrohoni are guaranttni to jpw thormtgn fahrt« turn or I ir grirt you paid uill be ouafully rr/undnl hnn^d sod Guaranteed by the HI.UMAUER PRANK LABORATORIES FOR SALE Styleplus M unsing W ear " Golden Rule Store GRANT SIX 1 North Dakota’s Lignite. A government report says “the problem has been forever solved In North Dakota." The western half of the state Is underlaid with lignite, the beds estimated to contain OOU.OHD.OOO.- 000 tons. Over thousands of square miles this soft coal Iles ho close to the surface that farmers merely dig a hole in their own fields and take out the coal as they require It. During 1918 l.OOO.OOO.Otol ton« were mined. If the farmer Is too busy with his farm work to help himself, be can buy It for fl.50 or $2 per ton. Many of the large grain elevators are ojierated by power furnished by coal that Is mined on the spot, and Ibis general economy In fuel has aided materially In In creasing the tier mpitn wealth. ✓ Portland Motor Car Company I’ORTLAND. O regon PHILIPP1NO ORCHESTRA COMING Six Native Musician* From the Philippine*, a Feature Musical Attraction at Chautauqua e TACKLE A JOB OF ■ —THAT’5 THE REASON WE ADVERTISE GOOD AS NEW. HAS DEEN RUN LESS THAN 1200 MILES. BUMP ER AND EXTRA TIRE equipped to handle any kind of a plumbing Job big or small the public has to off. r. Wo do our work well and do it In Jig time too. No wafting around for Inspira tion We deliver the goods In a burry and you’ll be perfectly willing to meet the sort of a bill we’ll band you.' B. S. DEDRICK .->1« !•' Street Phone 30H-J During the past winter the Ilojtil Filipino Sextet Ims been n feature mmd...i . ............ . I- of the East. They have established firmly the claim ho often made for th.-m-that they excel' ai'y other Fll lid no orchestra ever presented In this country. The-., six natives from the Islands far across thL i> in \ gether constantly for six year* ami they play t ,day as one man. Their repertoire seems to be ill nitJd 'pl,.vin*T« lu^ .leal music or popular In endless variety and always In a manner to delight even the mosl mush-aDy ^ritleah a
