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MIS PASS Dilli COURIER
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RIFLE RANGES A FEATURE
WEEKLY COURIER
By mall, per year......................... ...|3.00
Few Know That the United States
Has a Wonderfully Efttcient Plant
There—Where the North Atlantic
Fleet Goes Every Year for Winter
Maneuver»—Ten Baseball Diamonds
Laid Out for ths Use of the Men of
the Fleet.
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All rights of republication of spe is needed here is some means of ed wire lik«> a barrack, and as the
hl*
cial dispatches herein are also re clearing the brush lands that will guest mounts the stairway to
served.
room ho is stopped by a sentry w ho
make
rapid
and
immediate
showing
■ l -.-. bb " g-
examine his luggage. But all this
Water is now available during all the
Tl’ESPAY, APK11* 5. 1921
«»«pionaxe is the usual thing out» en
irrigation season for portions of the counters throughout Ireland
lands under the project, and before
Sinn Fetners in Galway explain
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' fall the project will be completed why the district is quiet The chief
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OREGON' WEATHER
j and every acre under the ditches will reason, they say. Is that th«> people
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have been living In a state of seuit-
Tonight
and
Wednesday
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be assessed for water The tax tor
povert.»
for eo m.ui» years that they
♦ fair in west and fair and warm
I water will be a hardship unless the
are easily cowed by repressive me.is
er east portion. Heavy frost in
lands are producing something more ures. Second, having lacked educa
♦ the morning.
profitable than manzanita and chap tional facilities, ability required to
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parel
It will be a blessing if the1 carry out the work of the Irish re-
It is! publican army Third, the topography
lands are ready to receive it
Bl lblHNG A <’1T\
¡.of the country is unsuitiHl for gu er*
no small job to bring a wild acre into r
A well conducted building and production, and even after the brush ills warfare
Most of the roads radiatiti»; trotti
loan association in a community is is off and the first plowing given, the
Galway traverse a flat desolate coun-
a wonderful force in the building of land owner still has an engineering try whose main features are rocka
horn«»
The organization just com job on his hand in arranging for the and bogs The roads ar«» Ilk«» bridges
pleted here and now ready for activ economical distribution of the water built over a marsh, and »f th«» pedes
ity can go a long way in solving the For these reasons it Is hoped that trian leaves them he finds himself
foundering ankle-deep in a bog Such
home shortage problem. It is home there can be some plan worked out
terrain is useless for ambushes
building through cooperative effort, whereby the clearing can be accom
Outside of Dublin and Belfast,
and cooperation is one of the most plished upon a rather extensive scale newspaper corn's pondent a usually
potent influences in present day life during the present season that every have difficulty In seeing high police
But Richard Cruise, dis
It provides for the saving of the price acre possible may be ready to return 1 officials
trict commissioner of police here, has
of the home builder while he is liv a crop another season
Next year i i'tu~-i »•'home for them
At the
ing in his own residence. It creates every one of the 12,000
irrigable railway station the correspondent
a spirit of thrift and of independence acres should be producing to pay for encountered half a dozen young Lon
and helps a man to save Who would the water that will be ready for it don ex-soldiers, cockneys all. xoinx
pay out in rent otherwise the price This will mean prosperity and SUC- home to "Blighty” after a year’* ser
of his home many times over Every cess Parching acres mean only fail- vice One said he had been stationed
for three months in Connemara,
citizen should take a few shares of ure tor the land owner
resting from strenuous duty in the
the capital stock whether he wishes
Dublin district
All was t»eacefiil.
to borrow for the purpose of build
he said, in Connemara
ing or buying or not. if you already
MOXEY MM>X IH »; OX
own your own home, help the other
federal farm u ». i \*
fellow to own his by providing the
funds for the association
It thus
Salt Isike. Apr a —(A P I Th*'
makes a savings account and an In
Federal Farm Izian board expects to
resume making loan- ahput May 1st
vestment for you and improves the
Galway. .Apr
5.— (A. F.»—In Governor Davis, of Idaho, wire.I here
city in which you live. There should
comparison with Cork and other from Washington today
be fifty new homes built through the , southern counties »here the ojiera-
association before fall if the present ; tions of the Irish republican army W1GF> IKK
' are most vigorously carried on. Gal-
need is to be met.
Bl
This
1 way is a fafrly peaceful spot
is true also of Mayo and the west
5
Portland, Apr
A
lerland wage reduction equalling the in
| generally, but nowhere in
At the recent chamber of com- are the forces of the British crown crease granted last summer, was an-
. mere« luncheon the question of land more in evidence and more active noumed today by the Spokane. Port
land A Seattle railway, effe
clearing was brought up by a visitor ■ than in this city.
One looks from Galway
harbor April 12th.
who was in the community to look I
is the
into the prospects tor getting con straight out to the Atlantic. _ It _______
< Alti» « *1 nt OKs
nearest European port to the I'nlted
tracts upon a large scale for tile
'States and some day. hopeful clti-1
work. It is most encouraging to see : zens will tell you. liners from New
We wish to extend our thanks and
the clearing that is now going for York will dock.here. In anticipation appreciation to all our friends who
ward in a rather small way under of that eagerly-awaited event, Gal were so kind during the bereavement
the irrigation project, though in the way some years ago built one of the of our dear husband ar.d father
MRS T Y DEAN and FAMILY
aggregate the acreage is fast mount-1 biggest hotels in Ireland. It is now
being used as quarters for military
lng to an important figure. But what officers, only one floor being
401 G STREET
Writer Describes Famous Naval
Station in Southern Cuba.
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DAILY COURIER
Hy moll or oarrier. per year
IS.00
By mail or carrier, par month
.50
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U. S. HAR30R AT
GUANTANAMO BAÏ
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ADVERTISING RATES
Dteplay space, per Inch.....................25c
luoca’.-personal column, per line.... 10c
Headers, per line—..........
5c
New Mattresses
and Furniture
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served for civilian
trade,
stranger arriving at Galway enter?
this hotel at the railway station, run
ning the gamut of se ret service
vgti.ts who iuc.' t- t arra .ng a
parting trains and crutinize
great care every person on the lat
form
The hotel is barricaded with tari)-
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UMTOaS AJO FAMOUS ATTOT^
Correspondence Instruction and Local C Lasse a
5S
shown as well a* films dealing with
subject« of apocial Interest lo turni
era
The achodnle for those evening
com in unity ineetiuga are aa follows
Rogue Hirer Valley, Saturday.
Vprll '.'th. 7 31» p in . tlran-'.o hall
Winona, Monday, kpril I Illi. 7 30
V Ill , school house
Hugo. Tuesday. April 13th. ; io
p m . Orang» hull
I .Ith.
MerllU. Wednesday.
April
30 p. ill . school house
Murphy. Thursday.
April
7 so P m , community hall
Williams. Friday, April I .'Hi. 7 io
l» ill . community hull
I fìlli.
Friiltdale, Saturday, April
I
30 p in .. Grunge hull
Sucker creek, .Monday, April I Mil
30 p m , Bpeiice hall
IMer creek, Tuesday. April I »Ui.
7 30 p to . Grange hall
Wilder» ille,
W'ednoada» .
20til, 7 30 p in , school lions«»
Wolf Creek. Thursday, April 2 I Hl.
30 p. m . school house
ml
Grave Crook, Friday, April
3o p in , school llouse
L ucky
S trike
ciflareHe
toasted
How ninny people In the I'ultiM
States know what th« Guantanamo
base th»' southern whiter cruising
harbor look* like and 1*1 II«»» ninny
know that the I'nlted States lias a
plant of extraordinary efficiency there?
How many know what It menu* to the
north Atlantic tie. t ench year? write*
Herbert Corey in the Chlcugo New*
The English quart contains inoro
I didn't I'll confess It. There wan
seme vague Idea In my mind that th« than two cubic Inches more than the
fleet cnmr down here each winter to United Stat»« quart.
a aand bordered bench, on which the
men played anioug cactus and land
flea* and that from time to tluie th«»
went outside for battle practice. Xo
thought that pleasure might be found
here cania to me 1 knew there were
a couple of tiny towns nearby—Cai
manera and Rucoron In which ruin
roulette and damnation nilglit he
found at a price But the back, round
to the picture was al way a hare while
«and nnd cruelly hard sunlight and
scrubby bushes, with a rostíaos surf
beating at an inhospitable strand.
That la wrong Utterly wrong
What Guantanamo Bay la
Guantanamo bay Iles at the aouth
cm tip of Cuba— a tip that la for the
most part utterly nrld aud therefore
úsele» for farming purpose«-— mid
Consist* of a body of water, ahnest
completely land-locked. covering about
10,« IO acre«. All »round It la a circle
• ‘t low brown hills covered by a me*
quite scrub, anti Into which long, nar
row valley* thrust like the out
stretched flng.-r* of a hand The wa
ter'* edge is bordered by the vivid
green of the mangruve- the only bush
that can grow in -nit water- except
that here and there warm, sandy
beach«« Invite the ■* Immer*
Here the I'nlted States Ims rented
from the Republic of Cuba 'for so
na as I ■•■:•«. aa area of
Nt ají ton Kovvrll. Proprietor
Grunt*
■to.taxi acres. In which the bay Is In
cluded. and whl. h cnlbplet, ly Incloses
It. except for the narrow entrance
way
A rental of .«'.’.<•*> annually la
paid to Cuba, althougn till« territory
I* it no possible »slue G.r other pur
poses The two little tnwnv previous-
ly mentioned have grown up here
»Ince the fleet began tn par It* winter
visit* and now have reached «orne lit
tle commercial Importance a* sugar
and salt exporting points
At flrst
they were wet-nursed hy the fleet a
business but now they can look after
themselves
Rifle Range* a Feature.
At the station there are about 1.1«?
men. under I'ornniandant J. J. Hannl-
gnn There are a sufficient number of
marines tn preserve order and to act
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UM H reserve force In flu-event of any
nearby trouble which might demand
bnety action, nnd the remainder are
laborer* of the various tropic sort To
th? visitor tli? MtrlkinK feature* are
the rifle ningen. which have a rapacity
<>f 2C4 rifl«* tnr'jrt«« and ♦’•*> pistol tar
1 2O.3J-.
ret*, up to !.“«■» vard range, and which
ran b<* expanded Indefinitely. It 1«
*aid that thi* I* the hirgewt and fine«!
I 1 1.330
ran^i' In the I’nlted Stat»** or It* de
I»
to •
I
r.- ’
I - up - •
<•11 to V oil.
of the fin;erlike valley«* which etretrh
out from the paindike ha*!n near the
f,
Wo
bet-ch T»i
i.nil’'- tlun* lOtMM) iftpi.
hll V
could be drtPed in rito- «hooting earn
morning .»nd afternoon.
< >M
re are ten ba-eball diamond* for
*e of the men of the fleet,
ground ha* been cleared on which o li
er* will he laid out a* fuat u* the> are
n»*»‘«le»l. Th< re are tennl* ground* nnd
handball courts nnd re»T» atlon build
lriL*> nnd all the architectural featur»*.«
needed in an establishment which L
<le-i^T»?<l not only for th»* trnlnlnz nf
1'noii to
seamen annually, but
also for th?lr recreation.
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KISS A MISS
b* .*
The Music & Photo House
P aa *. Ort*.
Chevrolet Offer
Appeals to
Everyone
The galliwasp. a small West In
dian lizard terrorizes tlie Inhabitant-,
but is really harmless.
EXPOSURE ACHES
RHEUMATIC -PAINS
Sloan*« Liniment, kept handy,
takes the fight out of them
LOSHING aroun<l in the wrc
and then—the dreaded rheumatic
1
! But n<»t for I
Shan’s Liniment is put on the job!
Pains, strains, sprains—how soon
th: 1 old family friend ('nrlratet wilhoul
ruibitH and helps drive ’em away! And
how cleanly, too—no muss, no Dothcr
no stained skin or clogged pores
Musrlcs limber up, lumbago, sciatica
neuralgia, backache are promptly re
Jieved. Kerp a botlle lundy. Get one
today if you've run out oi ¿loan’s Lini«
Went, it’, jo warming.
All «Irug. ists— !'• , 70c, $1.10, The
lar. c-t bottle holds jix Itinct aa much
as the smallest.
S
Sloa_
Liniment
H >11
All Josephine County Road Viar
rants Issued up io (not including>
July 1st. 1920, and protested prior
to that date, are hereby called In and
are payable at the County Treasur
er’s office on or after April 5th, 1921,
on which date interest will cease.
GF». 8 CALHOUN,
County Treasurer for .los<--
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phlne County. Ore
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