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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1924)
tfT,T>Nr IH F 152263 nTT'OFTi ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ADDITIONAL MM Al. Lighting Gmtest 3 4 <> Boy« <1 Iris $’, 0,00 2 H >10 1 2 50 7 r,o 5.00 $r>o oo 2o on 12 It 7.60 G.oo $95.00 $95.00 Funeral Nrkvlcra Thursday— Funeral services for Janin ward Overstreet, who was killed in un accident at North Bend on Mon day, will be held at Hall's chapel on Thursday afternoon, October 2. In terment will, be at the Granite Hill cemetery. He was born In Canyon ville, Oregon. June s, 1901, and give to for u IlnliiH ADVANCE IN SCHOOLS IS SEEN (Continued from Page Onel Read the Ads in the Courier It Will Pay You 41 « p 41 « P 41 *P 41 *P speaks well for their Interest in schools. "• "Quite an Interest was taken the school exhibits at the fair and four districts ure richer by winning prize money. Many schools are taking a lively interest In earning money by entertainments given by the pupils. This money Is being used to buy a Vb-trola. and through its wise use the children are being led to appre ciate and understand music. "Many changes have been made tho teaching staff of the county. The exodus to the west has brought many teachers from the northern states und quite a percentage of these have found a place in the schools of the county. "Club work among the boys nnd girls has been very successful, under the able management of the county and demonstration agents. "Wolf Creek district No. 27 has been maklhg substant ial Improve- men is. The well has been deepened and an automatic electric pump in stalled with a 90-gallon pressure boiler. Waler has Iteen piped all over the building and lavutories con- iw-cted with u septic tank. The high I school laboratory is equipped with biological, botanic and physical ap- | paratus. und all reference books re quired by the high school course of study purchased. The grounds are equipped with three different kinds of play apparatus besides basket and volley ball. It has a library of 400 volumes. The high school room has beeu resented with the best sanitary steel desks. The building is elec trically lighted. Four teachers are employed; two hi the grades and two In the high school. "All of the city schools of Grants Pass show an Increased attendance over that of last yety. District No. 7 voted $61.000 bonds to remodel the high school building A portion of the old building was torn down und an eutire new building with auditorium, gymnasium and IS class rooms were grouped about the re maining part of the old building. The auditorium has a seating capac ity of 1000 and is one of the finest school auditoriums in the state. The value of the high school building Is now estimated at $125.000. "Taking the past two years as a whole, the cause of education in this city has advanced in a very encour aging manner." • Advertising Pays—Advertise with the Couriei Our Country Auction Sale Saturday, Oct. 4th, 1924 uno i* m . ('orner "III unti I Htreets, No. IIIH I Street, Granta l’nss ’ We will hold n community miction mid sell the following: 12 Head of cattle—cows, heifers anti calves; some cows to freshen soon; 37 bend of sheep, 82 yearling huh , 1 buck, -I wethers, 20 head of shouts, <1 dozen chickens, 1 dozen duck s, hill-liras, household goods and many oilier articles, Everything will In- sold without any renerve und poultIvely no by- bidding, rain or shine. ( < IM E IN A Nil BE CONVINCICI» MILLIKAN & FLETCHER We Inhabit a country which has been signalised In the great history of free dom. We live under forms of govern ment more favorable to Its diffusion than any other the world has known. A succession of Incidents of rare curi osity and almost mysterious connec tion has marked out America as a great theater of political reform. Many circumstances stand recorded In our nnnals connected with the assertion of human rights which, were we not familiar with them, would fill even our minds with amazement.—Edward Ev- erett. Inspires Confidence Picture postcards of a Kansas City hotel carry this message: “This hotel fully equipped with auto matic sprinklers. Statistics show loss of life lias never occurred In a sprinkled building. In case of fire you may get wet, but not Jiurncd." To one traveler that brought a won derful thought and he wrote there under the following prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep. Statistics guard my slumber deep. If I should die I'm not concerned, I may get wet but won't get burned."—Tavern Talk. i Days Gone Forever T Grants Pass—Gateway to the Oregon Caves When Fire Swept Monterey ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ decide If you 1 p What has become of ths old-fash loaad children wbo were made to wait fee "second table"?—Duluth Herald. New York, Oct. 1. (U. Pl Jack Dempsey probably will be seen In ui'tlon In Madison Square Garden be fore the wluter ends. Tex Rickard wants to put the big fellow on lu an Indoor show and the champion Is Is considering the offer, . Tom Gib- Dividend« Arc Distribute«*— bohs will be offered us the opponent The Josephine County Building and it is probable that Dempsey will and Loan aaiux-lation continues accept. show a healthy condition. I> dends for the past six •months are Dempsey hasn't worked In an in door fight since he stopped the lute now being distributed and amount to $3726.36. Since tho concern wa« Bill Brennan In 12 rounds almost organized three anti a hulf years ago. four years ago. That was before the time of mlllion-dollar gates and a total of $11,391.37 has been di vided. All organization expenses half-mllllon-dollar purses and since were paid off and the surplus built that time Dempsey’s price couldn't up. be touched by the entire receipts of an indoor fight. Quail Si-ii-on opviit.— It Dempsey does accept an offer Although the season on quail in to appear in the Garden this winter Josephine county was opened this it will be practically an admission on morning and will continue all month, his part that the day of huge money no limit kills were reported. Ten boxing Is over. Tex Rickard believes of these birds In seven consecutive that day is passed and Dempsey owes days is the bag limit. Quite a num his fortune to the good judgment of ber of hunters went out but brought Rickard on what the public will back few birds. Many quail are re stand for. ported this season due to the excep The season Dempsey, being a good business tionally light winter. man, probably knows that money is on gray squirrels will be open until tighter now and that the public, October 15. The deer season will which hungered so long for boxing close on October 20. before the Walker bill was passed, has been fed up fairly well wi^h box Foot ball a Possiliility— ing that has been none too good. Can the raw meat eating Cavemen Dempsey knows also that he defeat the fizz water drinking Lith- needs a workout match or two be Ians In football? The Lithians fore he defends his title against Har think it cannot be done. Yesterday ry Wills - if that match ever Is J. H. Fuller, secretary of the Ash made. He should know that it was land Chamber of Commerce, visited his match against Tom Gibbons last Cirants Pass and suggested that the summer that got him on such a fine Lithians might fall in with the idea edge for the Flrpo fighti- and no promulgated by the Cavemen of such doubt he wants to prepare himself a contest. Coach J. P. Brown, of the for his next big fight in the same Grants Pass high school, has been placed in charge.of the formation of way. a Caveman team and it is highly Gibbons, it might be argued—be cause it is true would be no setup probable that a game can be ar- for Dempsey, because he is too fine ranged. a defensive tighter, but Gibbons Diamond latke Close would be the best possible opponent Diamond I-ake closed for the seá Dempsey could find to try himself son last Sunday, and it is estimated against. The champion, perhaps, that 20.000 people visited the resort knows that he can beat Gibbons, be this year. Manager Howard of Dia cause Tom can’t be much better than mond Lake Improvement company he was in Shelby. It was shown .returned Monday, leaving the lodge rather conclusively in the Shelby and cabins in charge of a caretaker fight that Dempsey has an advant for the winter, Two inches of snow age over Gibbons in weight, size and fell at the lake last week. Many im- strength that the St. Paul boxer provements at the lake are planned hardly can overcome. next year by the concessionaires, Gibbons has s'gned articles with , among the projects being the build Rickard to meet Dempsey. Wills, ing of a dance pavilion. The gov Firpo, Renault, Tunney or any other ernment road crew is still working fighter that Rickard picks. Certain on the forest service road from Rose ly no more could be asked of him. burg to the lake, and expect to com- Furthermore. Gibbons agreed to ac ; plete it as far as Big Camas lake cept 25 per cenj of the gate receipts. before they are forced to suspend Gibbons Is one of the beet attractions operations by the advance of winter. in the contry. When he agrees to •- Medford Mail Tribune. work inside for a percentage, and if Dempsey does the same, the actions “The Netherlands of two such boxers should be of The people of Ilollnn.l call their great value in encouraging other fighters to be reasonable, and it country Nederlanden, or the Nether lands—that Is, low lands. Holland, should remove a lot of commercial in the Dutch langu^e. means hollow stain that is now hurting the game. country, nnd Is applied only to those parts that are below the sen level. Kerbau’s Sensitive Nose The entire town of Monterey, Cal., nearly went up in smoke in this fire. Starting in a gas tank, the flames spread quickly to other gigantic containers, then to adjacent resi dence and business properties. Hun- At Holy Name Convention Nearly every Catholic diocese and Catholic University of America in parish in the United States was re Washington. The Very Rev. Michael presented in the convention hall J. Ripple of New York (wearing the white Jiabit of the Domiqlcan order) when the national meeting of the national director, is seen welcoming Holy Name Society opened at the the delegates. MORTON'S MIIL5 tssnu tea Po-'ceNnta » SOME WOMEN DON'T. BUT MOST WOMEN DO DIET Malay bull fights are not like those we are accustomed to read about, a writer in the Youth's Companion tells us. The contestants are generally Because of the confining indoor water buffaloes—animals that, says duties, together with long and ir Mr. Carveth Wells in Asia, the Malays regular hours of drudgery many wom en suffer from some form or other call kerbau. of stomach trouble and feel obliged A kerbau, or carabao, ns it Is often to diet in order to live in a reason written In English, makes, continues able degree of health and comfort. Mr. Wells, a white mun's life miser No dieting will be necessary and able because he does not like the what the appetite craves may be white man's smell, though he doesn't eaten without fear of distress if the I mind tlie smell of a Chinese or a stomach and bowels are kept toned Malay. If you think you have no up. To invigorate the stomach glands : smell, jnst go near a kerbau I He not only sees you a long way off, but he and cause the proper secretion of gastric fluid so necessary tor proper Instantly begins to sniff tlie air. Then digestion there is nothing equal to he lays his ears back and rushes at Smith Bros»’ M. A. C. Stomach Tonic, i you. I remember once being chased During the past fifteen years it has , out of a rice field by a kerbau. The helped thousands of sufferers from ' rice was growing In deep mud. and I ; stomach trouble. So sure are the 1 was rushing along up to my knees, makers that it will give relief that •with the great animal floundering be they guarantee to refund the $1.25 price in any case where the first bot- j hind me. While I was shrieking for tie does not overcome stomach dis- I help a little Malay boy about four tiTss or constipation. Get a bottle years old and quite naked ran up, today. Couch's Pharmacy will sup caught the bull by the nose and led ply you (mail orders accepted). him away I Never In tny life had I felt such a fool I MARVELOAF The Perfect Flour For Bread or pastry Marvcloa'f will give the best results. It is a blended product of choicest wheat grown, so mixed as to produce the utmost in flavor and utility. Josephine County Flour Mills West G Street The Iberian pentnsula was so named from the ancient Inhabitants, who were known as the Iberes. According to acme authorities the word merely menns "Inhabitants." The mime seems to have been applied by the eorller Greek navigators to the peoples on the eastern const of Spain, probably originally those who dwelt by tlie River Iberus, the modern Ebro. Iberian thus means sometimes the pop ulation of the penlnsnlH in general nnd sometimes the peoples of some definite race who formed one element In the populntlon. Avoid Gueuuiork Guesswork is always along lines of least resistance. It never fully exer cises tho mind hence fails to employ all the powers possessed. It begets laziness which in turn begets careless ness. He who habitually guesses Is headed down hill.—Grit. Tlicn the Advice of This Grants Pass Resident Will Interest You* Does your hack ache night and day: Hinder work: destroy your rest? Are you tortured with stabbing pains When you stoop, lift or bend? Then likely your kidneys are weak. More troubles may soon appear. Headaches, dizziness, nervousness: Or uric acid and its ills. Help your weakened kidneys with a stimulant diuretic. Use Doan’s Pills. Rend this Grants Pass testimony: Mrs. Geo. Buell, 122 D. St., says: “My kidneys were weak and it I overworked or took cold I suffered I had no with severe backaches, energy and my kidneys didn't act right. Doan's Pills have always re- lieved these attacks and strengthen ed my back and kldaeys." Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan's Pills, the same that Mrs. Buell had. Foster-Milburn Co.. Mfrs., Buffalo. N. Y. Phone 123 Grants Pass—Gateway to the Oregon Caves Travel by Motor Stage HAVE YOU A BAD BACK? “Iberian" dreds of firemen, policemen, aoldlera and civilians fought it steadily for 4 4 hours before it finally was brought tinder control. Several troopers were killed. The loss is es timated at *3,000,000 Safely, Su'iflly and Comfortably * NORTHBOUND FROM GRANTS PASS Daily to Portland............. ........... 9:15 a. m. Daily to Eugene............. 2:30 p. m. Daily to Roseburg.................... 6:30 p. m. 2:30 and 6:30 p. m. Stages connect to Port land following morning. SOUTHBOUND FROM GRANTS PASS Daily to Klamath Falls Daily to Ashland.... „.. Daily to Ashland......... We take passengers for all way points. For further- information and tickets call Bonbonniere, phone 160. FARE GRANTS PASS PORTLAND $7.05 Direct Connections at Roseburg for Coos Bay Points.
