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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1920)
BATI'lU>A Y. AUGI NT 7, II»«». GRANTS TANK GAILY (Xlt lUKH PACK TURKS EX-SERVICE MEN ARE PROBLEM TO GERMANS Overland Four Willys-Knight Scripps- Booth Huffman Trucks HE little Overland is the easiest riding car on the market. Look them over before buying. Car load of Scripps-Booth Sixes will ar rive in a few days. T Berlin, Aug 7. >A practical aug- gestlon to aolve th« vexed problem of what to do with 100,0U0 army men who. In compliance with a Spa I undertaking, are facing discharge. I. offered by the "economic union of German professional soldiers” which has worked out a S' herne to dis tribute the men In different state- oyned plants which are at the pres ent moment lying id!«. The German government is to subsidize working expenses of these plants and fix a Hcale of wages. The operation of the I plants would constitute a novelty be- «■ause they would be worked on the principle of "mutual comradeship,” and the relationship of employer and workmen would be eliminated. The government would take over the main output of the plants and there would be planned extensive land set tlements on state-owned lands which | workers would cultivate and on which they would build their own dwellings after performing eight , hours dally factory work. The pro moters claim that the scheme has al ready secured official support on principle. AJ1 Prussian district presidents have been summoned to meet Minis-, ter Severing to confer on matters af- , fecting the security police. Tuning Church Bella. An English clergirruin, says the Lon- doo Telegraph, was the first to call the attention of the musical public to the fact that bells are rtirely In tune, and that th«- fault can he remedied If a church hell was originally In tune I with itself. According to his theory I a bell must have at least five tones at ! correct Intervals to form a perfect tnuakr-al chord. At first the work of tuning was done with a hammer, a chisel and a file, and a magnificent tenor r»«*II In Norfolk. England, was thus reduced three-quarters of an Inch In diameter; but modern bell foun dries employ a machine with a revolv- i Ing cutter that shaves the metal near | the crown of the bell until the tuner. | aide«! by a tuning fork, has hit the I r.ght pitch. C. L. Hobart Co Jest of a Jehu. ixvndon bus driver had cut in ahem! of a cabman rather awkwardly, bringing upon himself a tirade of aouse liberally sprinkled with profan ity. The bus driver listened to It all with a good-natured smile, and then ns he clicked up his horses he re- nnrked: 'That's wot I calls 'avlng a hornamental Imddress presented to > ou."—lb »st on Tran-et Ivi. Slavery was suptxsosi to be aboi (sited in America in the Sixties, but it is no* done away with y et- Millions <rf women right now are slaving their Uvea oat; it is not NECESSARY. Buy these things already prepared and have more time for the children. Try OUR Groceries J. Pardee Why Not Electric Cooking? a “AIR LOCK” VALVE WILL PROLONG LIFE OF TIRES, SAYS AN EASTERN INVENTOR REFUSED TO ABANDON GAME Plucky Terrier Died With Fox It Had Run to Earth and Killed In Combat. What Is believed to be an unprece dented end to a combnt between a fox an«! a terrier Is reported from the Lake country. A stout hill fox hunted by the Blen- eathra hounds for thr«»e and a half hours on th«1 mountain heights above St. Jolwis ln-the Vale sought sanctuary In a fissure of rock In n crack near the skyline of Wanthwalte. Here he fac'd one of the gamest terriers belonging to the pack and, scrambling to a shelf In th«' rocks, «a« able for some time to give as Here«' punishment as he got'. Th«' terrier kill«'«! th«' fox. but re- fused to leave It and followers ami hounds had nt Inst to quit the crags so that they might make the descent of one of the most dangerous ravines of the mountain range before dark- ness. When huntsman and whip re turned next morning to the crag they found terrier ns well as fox lying «lend outside tin* horran. An examination of the terser show ed that th«' fox had infllct'e«l no mortal wound upon him. The tender had dragged the fox out and then, loth to leave It. hit«! laid down beside It. It I', .1. Griffen of l»urchr«U'l. Mu -., line unciucii il lie» .... io .. * ai ve was clear that tie had died from «ex which he claims will Increase the life of pneunmtl«' tin's ."si |H*r cent. This posure «luring a bitterly cold night. valve larks th«' air In th«« till»' for all time or until a blowout or puncture re- No similar case has, so far as is occurred before.—London li-ise. It It does away with rubber collars ami plungers, TI i I k I s now a known, prolific sour..... . slow leaks In all piling«'« valves caused by rebound nn<( drug Tinies. —————— on road find lliv fault of at least 7fi per cent of rim cut tires. Hammermill Bond Letter Heads The photograph show s tl.e new vnlv« uti lu-l tn an automobile tire. and Envelopes at the Courier office Sales books at the Courier. Bill of Sale blanks at the Courier. (tOAL-LESB SMOKE-LESS ASH-LESS DIOT-LESS THOU BLE-LHHH ¿THE WORK WE DO T ween you and me is P lumbing Electric cooking provides the ‘me thoroughly practical, convenient, clean mid sanitary method of cX’k- Ing. Eliminates dirt. duet. n-h’X, gas and worry. Cook without waste. TWr/cfó .ßttte fit umber There are no supplies in this shop -but those of high quality. There are no tricks in our plumber's kit of tools or in our business conduct that doesn't square with courteous treat- ment and fair prices, Get ac- qualnted with our telephone number. B. S. DEDRICK Slfl F Streek Phone .AOH-J California-Oregon Power Co Same Old World Many of us are apt. to consider our doll-sized quarters for full grown peo ple as among purely nipib rn Incon veniences; yet nearly a century ago Lord Harvey described Burlington house at Cheswick as "Too small to live In and too large to hang on one’s i watch chain."—Boston Transcript. a Eee or a Spider? "The honeybee makes her honey from the same nectar from which the hermit spider distills one of the dead liest poisons known. The question is, how do you treat your opportunities? Do you distill them into success or failure?—F. H. Cheley in “Stories for Talks to Boys" $5.15 PER TON OF —IS THE AMOUNT FARMER FREIGHT THE GETS WHEN HE HELIS HI8 GRAIN TO THE MILL IN« STEAD OF SHIPPING I IT TO WE PAY THE PORTLAND. PORTLAND PRICES. —IN THE AMOUNT OF FREIGHT THE CONSUMER HAVEN WHEN HE BUYS HIS FEED AND GRAIN FIIOM THE MILL INSTEAD OF I’BOM SOME DEALER WHO HAS SHIPPED IT FROM PORT« LAND. JOSEPHINE COUNTY FLOUR MILL Corner Third and G Street Phone 123 I’ATL K «'r (■’fill mid moo hik I »re ■I« til South Sixth .*<• Agents for the < leveland National ff with a , T—' Thor Electric ti« Timmons & Higgins < nil It is no trouble to wash PAUL’S Electric Store PHONE <7 303 8. flTII RIALAHT WICTURBS