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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1924)
GRAFTS PAGE TWO E A DI V HIOTnnV flnl I Hl 11 lit I nilLI IIIUIUIII nri/rAi rn 10 li IU HATIUDAY, AKHHT ikh IWI PASS Our Prlml,1TH musical efforts, am- tentions of Host Jas. E. Grieve, who |ateur theatricals, and entertain- with C01. Thompson of the Crater ments, would probably produce hys- L«k« Park made possible a visit to Crater Lake and lunch in the lodge. nv ninrn *■ p»ssn®*. but «v«ry- KtVtALtU BY rArtK l°^h^<^x1*Tve?,7B‘h“. ______ ¡country used to tie our teams^to the OBITUARY The following was read by Mrs. R oak trees, about where the National H. Gilfillan at the Josephine County Bank stands now. and follow a par Thomas Chari«» Carroll association picnic held at Laurel-1 row path through the woods to the Sunday, railroad track and the depot on Sixth • Funeral services ■ for Thomas hurst park, Portland, on street, the business houses at first Charles Carroll, who passed away at August 10. being all on the south side of the Grants Pass on August 38, at the Mrs. Gilfillan was the daughter pf {track, and 1 am sorry to say. about sge of 66 years, 6 months and 3 John Wheeler, one of the three men half saloons. At first, as is usual days will lie held Sunday afternoon who were assembled in the Wheeler with a railroad terminus, the town at 2:30 o'clock at Hall's chapel. In home, the log house which formerly was filled with the worst sort of peo terment will be at the I. O. O. F. stood on the old stage road where ple and wild lawlessness. But the cemetery, with the Odd Fellows in the Pacific highway makes the turn riff-raff soon moved on with the charge. Mr. Carroll was born in about a mile north of Grants Pass, continuance of the track, and the Carlisle, England, February 25. and decided upon a name for the town rapidly settled into its true 1868. living there until he was 21 station. "Grant" was at first se- character. years of age. lected but there being another post- The lusty descendant that bears He was identified with the Chris office in the state by that name it the name of that first tiuy hamlet tian Mission, which afterwards was was not accepted by the postal au had in its citizens and has today the the Salvation Army, in England from thorities. Finally the word "Pass" high standards, loyal friendships, the time he was a young man until was added and the name accepted as kindness and goodness that marked he came to the United States. the official name for the postoffice; its pioneer ancestor. I am sure that At Milwaukee, AVis.. ho was tnar* My remarks will be more about p MuW rled to , Ellen ToIuln Crump „ wi,h on KrtttefuI May 20 the pre-hlstorlc Grants Pass He has made his homo in about the historic. We were than acgnow|edgfments of personal kind- 1893 not ness, sympathy and friendship shown Grants Pass for the past six years, among the earliest settlers. but had also lived here* several to me and mine in the dear old home My father coming to that commun- town, by those that were more than times previously. ity in 1863 bad as neighbors those neighbors, more than friends, The deceased was a member of the who had lived there for ten years Odd Fellows of Grants Pass, being and more before; people who had at the time of death their noble gone grimly through the Indian War grand. He was also a member of in 1856, had known dangers and pri White Rose lodge No. 133. of the vation and suffering, had had their American Order of Sons of St. (Continued from Page One.) homes pillaged and destroyed. George, of Chicago, where he lived The ruins of the house which was those actually left homeless and for a uumber of years. burned by Indians on our place starving by a cruel war. He leaves, besides his widow, to were only a few yards from the Among those at the conference mourn his loss, a son. Earl Carroll, house that sheltered us when we ! aside from those already mentioned with the United States navy in Chi moved there. ¡were Miss Lillian F/Cowdell, Van nese waters, and a daughter. Wlnni- Thomas Croxton. J. N. Vannoy, J. ' couver, B. C„ office secretary; J. J. fred Winston, of Vancouver. Wash. P. Tuffs, and others, were earlier I Handsacker, northwest regional di settlers and the kindest of neigh-1 rector and wife; D. E. Norcross, field OREGON bora. worker, and wife; Hazel I. Tison, of Mountain Breakfast It is a fact often noted that a town fice secretary, Mrs. C. R. Gannaway (BRAND) or a community takes on a more or and little daughter, Zadi; Mrs. Ruth less permanent character from the {Adams and M. B. Parouragian, all of Pure Pork characteristics of the founders. I .Portland; Wm. Worthington. Taco Country Sausag wish that I could picture to you sopie ma; Miss Mabelle Carlson, Seattle; For Sale at All Market!» of the earlier settlers in that sparse Mrs. D. V. Patterson, E. C. Newber- ly settled valley,*as I first remember | ry, E. A. Potter, Spokane; E. Guy them. A neighborhood was a spa Talbott, Pasadena, Cal.; Mr. and cious thing in those days and was Mrs. F. R. Buckalew. Mrs. Paul Ray JOHN' HUMMEL almost boundless, but so was human mond, San Francisco; C. H. Emmons, kindness. “Love one another,’* Adelbert Bartlett, C, V. LaFontaine, •'Every man his brother’s keeper,” G. A. Miller. Miss fS. L. Harris, di Tuffs Bhlg., 517 H Street and "Bear ye one another's burdens" rector of industrial sales. Los Angel were universal laws of these plo- es; Dr. E. T. Allen, Whitman college, neers. . • Walla Walla, for^nany years in Uru- The old military road lying jUSt mia, Persia; Capt. A. J. McDougall, at the edge of the foothills north of Denver, state director »of Colorado Extra Quality Grants Pass can still be traced, but and Wyoming. The above list includ the stage road used when we came ing state directors, state executives Pure Cider Vinegar there ran through Dry Diggings, the and field workers of the entire west The Truax Grocery old Tuffs place, Croxton's, Bairds, ern coast. up the Wheeler lane, anti over the The stay of the party at Prospect steep and difficult Lous« Creek was made more enjoyable by the at- mountain, to McDonough's at the present Savage place, past the his toric Harris place where Mrs. Harris and her daughter battled with the Indians through one awful day in 1855, ou to Sexton's past Grave Creek, etc. About 1S64 the stage station was moved from McDonough's to Crox- ton's about one mile north of the present Grants Pass, and as our near est postoffice was at Rocky Piont, Mr. Croxton applied to the depart ment at Washington for a postoffice. In 18 65 the men of the neighbor hood consulted together and decided to build a new road over a lower pass in the mountains on what is now the Merlin road. While they were chopping out underbrush and building the road, after one strenu ous forenoon s work, when the tired men were eating lunch, Mr. Croxton said: ‘•Friends, they have written from Washington for a name for the new postoffice. What shall we call it?” . Many names,'both serious and lu dicrous, were suggested, but as this new pass over the mountain was the important thing to them, and as it was a time when everyone was talk ing of Grant, the name "Grants Pass" was suggested and accordingly adopted. This is the true story of the name. F amous P ùvut L mky C ou The new office was opened early in 1866 and for mapy years Grants A0OAPM ZVKM-MUIOCMT Pass was two dwellings, a store, a postoffice, and a stage barn As one native humorist said: "It was Grants Pass because any I one could pass through and never know it.” A schoolhouse had been built in! 1861 by Capt. 8. H. Todd, a retired j sea captain. It was a tiny affair of, rough lumber and served for all pub-' lie meetings, Bchool elections, etc., as well as for church when the Circuit Rider chanced to cornu that way. It stood in the woods one-fourth milei from the station near the stage road, and a few yards from where { the residence of Isaac Best is now on Tenth St. Capt. Todd taught the first school j Sunday — Monday — Tuesday in 1864, and ten of those pupils are Aug. 31, Hept. I, 2 still living, four of them in Port land: Mrs. T. L. Jones; her sister, Thomas Meighan Mrs. Swain; F. F. Croxton and my self. in C)f the building of the railroad 20 years later, the new town, moving^ Hie posloffiee, building of business, houses, a school house and a church, these were exciting upheavals in that quiet little community, and fol lowed each other with dizzying rap ity. But we were full of eagerness to keep tip, and threw ourselves in-1 to town affairs with might and main. NEAR EAST MEET IS HELD TAILORING » IG DOINGS! You have a date with Joy—and Paramount! One week in every year Paramount hands the world, and you, an entertainment bonus, something very extra Special like deep dish apple pie with rich crust and double extra cream! This is the Week! Paramount’s the dish and you’re the feaster! Step up, step up, for if it’s a Paramount Picture it's the best show in town. B Grants PaSS joins in the Paramount Week Celebration of the Greater Movie Season! RIVOLI THEATRE “The Confidence Man” If it s Wednesday Thursday—Sept. 3-1 Agnes Ayres in “BLUFF” The story of a girl ufio trie <1 to bluff .New York, » and got »wav with it. Friday — Saturday- -Sept. 5 6 Jaquelino Logan Pcrcy Marmont In “The Light That Failed” « sliow in town
