ROQUt UYIR COU1IRJL. MAIfTB PAM, OUMO. DECKMBK1 15, 1904.
Candies - Dates - Nuts - Oranges - Bananas - Cocoatiuts
LOTS OP 'EM, MORE THAN SANTA OLAUS CAN CARRY
PURE MIXED CANDY Fresh and bright, Special Xmas price ujic
Special Mixed Lumps and Drops, nice and sweet uj-jc
Fancy French Mixed . : ; 25c
Conversation Hearts and Bon Bon Mottoes 25c
Chocolate Drops ; 25c
Caramels, Coco Balls, Gum, etc.
Shelled Pop Corn, the kind that pops 7c
NEW PERSIAN DATES, per pound 10c
( Walnuts
Large Texas Pecans 20c
Nigger Toes (African Cream Nuts) .20c
Filberts , 20c
Chestnuts 20c
We also expect to have Hickory nuts and Black Walnuts.
.- Oranges for the Holidays will be better, sweeter and cheaper than
ever before at this season of the year.
Brown Seedling Oranges, per dozen 20c
Medium Sweets, little larger in size 35c
Good Washington Navals 25c
Washington Navals. Fancy 30c
Washington Navals, extra fancy , 40c
Coeoanuts 10 and 15c each
Lemons, best thin skin, per dozen... aoc
Bananas, per dozen 35c
Fancy Apples 75c to $1.00 per box
Special Mixed Nuts-j Almonds .15c
I Peanuts
Fresh Roasted Peanuts ; - 15c
Hard Shell Almcnds (a good sweet nut) I2?c
Small Soft Shell Almonds, new crop 1 6c
Fancy Paper Shell Almonds 20c
Best English Walnuts 20c
Golden Plum Celery, Cranberries, Seeded Raisins, Currants, Seedless Sultana Raisins 10 Cents per poun l, Fresh Shredded Cocoanut in bulk or packages; Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel. Ripe
Olives in bulk, Sweet and Sour Pickles. We are selling lots of that Fresh Woodland Butter at 55c. (Kcmcinbcr is not the Eastern packed kind.) Full Cream Cheese 20c. Country Sorghum and
New Orleans Molasses. SWEET POTATOES. '
Leave Your Orders for FRESH OYSTERS
VHFPE HOUSE GROCERY, (Headquarters for the Finest Teas and Coffees in the City)
Clauss S
hears
People
Arc justly celebrated as the. tyest
shears made.' We have just put
in a tine factory stock if Shears,
Sc'ssorsnnd Razors, and can sup
ply you with a guaranteed article
that is sure to srivu satisfaction. :' :
Cramer Bros.
Odd Fellows Block.
STERLING SILVER ROGERS 1847 SILVERWARE
H. D. Norton went to Jacksonville
ra Wednesday ou legal busiuess.
6 1 Dr. J. E. Shearer, of Gleudale.
OUR PERSONAL COLUMN
&s They Com txrtd Co
From Day to Day.
firm liia ott to n i- I
with goodbrtitl I ?ry I
I Easily f ticM 1 ' t fcV g
Yt Size No. 0 $1.25 I
I IfPf naih for the family 'n 1 1 Eft R
iV- chopped la two Bin- 11 u. ; H
J "chops everything NO. 2 1.5 K
1 J cite with like rapidity rt Eft H
VV Thwsr I
' n fnl '
!;3J Halr-Rlddle
jjjlj Hardware Co. i
j Hair-Riddle Hardware Co.
t DoEi'ftMiss a
1 .
l rain
Because of a IVi
;i Goi-il Watch f
Watch, whin you can buy
teh a reasonable price at
BI.RT BAUHES, Jeweler.
At M. Clemens'.
AN HISTORIC BUILDING
Contained the First Store
Fit at Postoflite.
and
The first brick building ir.ii'iliii
tlrants Pass, the Howard biul;, !r.s
bad the lower story mod. r i 1 and
given an appearance in keeping with
Grant Pass of today. Tho work was
done by Contractor John Nnlaskawski.
who took oot the solid brick v.il!s of
the Front street end and a part cf tin
Sixth street side and lQt iu iron pil
lars for supports and fitted the siares
opened with extra large plate glass
windows. So skillfolly was the woik
done that hot a break was made in
the upper walls or the plastering of
the building. This improTenient
makes the lower room one of the best
appearing and best lighted store
rooms in the city.
This old pioneer block will wit
ness another change fiom the old to
the Dew this Saturday, when George
Calhoun will open a gents furnishing
store, thus completing the transition
from the country store, first occupy
ing the buildiug where everything
from a bar of soap to a bolt of
ribbon was sold, to a metropolitan
stock cf fcial lines. The Howard
block holds a lending place in the
history of Grants Pass, for iu addi
tiou to being the first brick building
erected in this city, it occupies the
sits on which T.as the fir.t store
building put op in Grants Pan.
When the railroad reiched this place
iu the fill of 16!, and the town cf
Grants Pass was laid out, J. W.
Howard bought the lot on the sooth
east corner of Sixth and Front streets
and erected small wooden store
building. It B. Miller & Co., began
the erection of a store building on the
opposite corner west, but their
structure being larger, was not com
pleted until some time after Mr.
Howard bad hit completed and his
stock of goods Id place. Mr.
Howard's business having increased
so that be required larger quarter.
In-, ia the fiill of WW erected th
l"vsi nt brick block. Dan Hardin.
now farming near Libation, Or., din
tie hi iek laying.
Trior to tiie building of the railrna
the ori-tinal ttoti'tVee of Grants Pat
W::S 1 (' I' ll lit I'll' Mll!e station at tl.
on'lit ot t i" enliven hearing the'
ii.M e, a niile noilli of the preset)',
limn cf Grunts Pin. Tho office wu-
ki pt by Ehimzer Uiiniek, and so soo i
as the slat;.' lm- from the north '
discontinue:! and (he mail brought If
the train, Postina.-ter Dimick move !
his ofiicn to Mr. Howard's. Th.
was in the fall of 1 -H!J und Mr. Diinic :
was the por-rmaster, with Mr. How at !
as deputy and doing most cf tne office
work until the following year, when
Mr. Dimick's term expiring, Mr.
Howard was mado postmaster.
spent Saturday afternoon iu Grauts
A Pass.
J Andy Colviu went to Medford
I, Tuesday, returning ou the evening
! train.
1 1
.lj H. L Reynolds was in Ashland last
' Friday to attend to some hydraulio
1 ! engineering work.
! Miss Millie Frver ou Fridav closed
a term of school in the Laurel Grovo
district at Mnrphy.
Miss Marjory Kinney is to arrive
homo next Weduusday from Portland,
j where she is a student In the Portland
Academy.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Crawford have
moved to Jacksonville, where Mr.
Crawford has a position with the Opp
Mining Company.
Robert G. Smith wont to Jackson
ville Wednesday to attend circuit
oourt as attoruoy in a case he hat bo-
fore Judge Hanua.
Hon. W. I. Vawter, was iu Grants
Pass Saturday evening on legal busi
ness, returning on the 10:30 train to
his homo in Meford.
Mrs. John Patrick returned Suuday
from Tuscan Springs,
been for the past three mouths for her
health, which is now much improved.
Miss Frauces McWilliams, one of
the teachers in the eitT schools, left
Tuesday for her home at Ashland,
whore she will spend her holiday
vacation.
A. II. Carson, commissioner for
the First district of the State Board
of Horticulture, was In Ashland
Monday on business in connection
with his office.
Mrs. Daniel Groen has been quite
sick for tlie past week with an attack
of pneumonia and heart trouble. She
ii now much improved and every
hope is entertained for her regaining
her bwlth.
A. D. Custar arrived homo Tuesday
from Jacksonvilo, where he has been
employed for the past throe mouths
as a millwright in the construction
work on the uew Opp mill, completed
last week near that place.
Arthur Howlatid will Icbvo this
Thursday eveuiug for Portland nnd
Oregon City, where ho will sjiend the
time with friends until New Years,
when ho will etur to lesumo the
superiutendeucy of tho Cook & How
and placer mine ou Juinp-off Joo.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Oglesbv, re
siding two miles north of Jackson
ville, came by buggy to Grants Pass
Friday and Saturday went tojerone
Prairio to mako a visit until Monday
with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. C. J. Armstrong, when they re
turned to their homo.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Chase and
daughter, Miss Hi'sper, who cam" last
week from St. Johnshury, Vermont
and have been guests at the Do.1.e
homo while making a visit with Mr.
and Mrs. U. H. Ixe and Mrs. N. P.
Dodge, left Wednesday for fair Oak
California where they will swud t..i
winter.
S. H. Norton arrived iu Grants Pass
Wednesday to siieud the winter with
his brother, F. S. Norton. Mr. Nor
toil exiwets to return to his home in
liluiarth, Minn., in the spring, but
so well pleased is he with Rogue
River Valley, that it is likely he will
return and make his permanent home
iu Grauts Pass.
Miss Astclla Goodin will leave this
Friday to sjiend her vacation from
school work with relatives and
friends in Saltm, Portland, Hlllsboro
and Astoria. Miss Goodin will re
tarn in two weeks to be la readiness
to take op her duties as one of the
teachers in the High School when
school resumes, January 8d
Mrs. R. B. Baber returned Saturday
from a trip of three weeks spent in
Eugene, Harrirburg and other Wills
mette Valley towns, with relatives
and friends. While at Harrisborg
Mrs. Baber was with her mother,
Mrs. Annie Curtis, and took part in
family gathering in honor of the UOth
birthday of Mrs. Curtis, who Is yet
hale and strong and cau get about her
home with eaao.
Mrs. L. B. Hall arrived home Satur
day from Hot Springs, iu Union
Mr. Seyferth resides near Allheuse,
where he conducts a fine farm, for
merly the property of bis father, the
late J. E. Seyferth, one of tho well
known pioneers of this section and a
fprmer commissioner of Josephiue
cotiuty.
Mrs. Ira Wishart aud baby left
Wednesday for Roseburg where she
will spend a few days with Mends,
aftor which she will go to Oakland
to spend Christinas witli her parents.
Mr. Wishart will nod be al io to join
his wife as his duties as i; innger of
tne Model drug store are surh that he
cannot leave during the rili of tho
holiday trade.
J, D. Thatcher of McdiYni, a well
known former mining man if South
ern Oregon, has forsaken th" u iner's
pick and taken up tho diummcr's
grip, aud lie was in Grants Pass
Monday aud Tuesday, agmstatthe
Laytoo, while placing ord. rs tor the
Portlnud Cracker Co. H. 3. Reed,
another prominent Srutheni Oregon
mining man, is one of the principal
owners of this cracker company and
now resides in Portland.
Leslie Bailey was in Grauts Pass
Wednesday for a load of household
THE BUSINESS POINTERS
Ntws Notes From the Business
Men to Render.
Pipes I at Schmidt's Cigar
ppliea and for photograph io goods
for his gallery. Mr. Bailey reoeutly
bought (the Shirley farm of 80 acres
en, the Appleagte, near the month of
Williams creek, and will now reverse
the ordor of work and will make
farming his chief vocation aud'photog-
where she has UaPllT sideline Mr. Bailey is a
rustler and will doubtless make Ills
farming venture a success as he is no
now hand at the plow, having been
raised on a farm at Missouri Flat,
whero his parents yet reside.
The School Tax Levy.
As provided In section 240 of the
new Oregon school law, districts do
siring to make a tax levy must do so
in time to permit the district clerk to
filo his certificate of the amount of
the levy with tho county clerk ou or
before January 1st of the succeeding
year. As 10 days notice must be
given of these Bpeoial school meet
ings, those districts expecting to
make a levy for this year will have
to bo prompt about It as the time Is
limited. To remind the districts of
this fact, Superintendent Savage has
sent notioes to all tho district clerks,
so that no district will loose their
levy by reason of tho limitation of
the law. At these meetings for levying
taxes, only persons who are taxpayers
Htid havo property in the district are
lnalifled to vote. As January 1 for
l'.H 15 falls ou Suuday, school clerks
ill bo able to file tho tax levy cer
tifleate at the county clerk's oflice on
the following Monday mid be in the
time limit.
Editor Conklin Return Home.
Aithur Conklin, editor of the Ore
gon Mining Journal, arrived home
Wednesday evening, accompanied by
his bride, formerly Miss Louie
Ob arch, and his two little daughters,
Gladys and Evelyn. Mr. and Mrs.
Conklin bad a delightful trip through
the East, while visiting relatives and
viewing sights, and among other
places were at Niagara Falls, New
York, Washington, and at the World's
Fair at St. Louis. They returned
home by way of New Orleans and
San Francisco.
Mr. Conklin reports the business
outlook in the East very good. He
found much Interest expressed in the j
Lewis & Clark fair and he distributed
Urire amflout of fair literatore and ,
-Innrhprn f)reBon advertising matter couniy, wnere sue nas oeep .urn
and he thinks that many Eastern peo-lpa't month taking treatment for rhe
pie will visit the fair and also tale
a view of Rogue River Valley. Mr.
iud Mrs. Conklin will occupy a cot
tage oq West B street belonging to
Mrs. N. f. Dodge aud they are busy
this week getting tbeir house ia
order and they expect to be at home
to their friends early next week.
Mr. Conklin ha many friends ia
this city by whom she will be given a
most cordial welcome.
re
omatism. she baa almost fully
covered from her Illness and lmpes to
soon have her former good health,
She reports that George Riddle, who
ia at the Hot Springs, is slowly ru
covering from the wvere attack of
rheumstiam from which be ha been
suffering
Joseph Seyferth was ia Grant Pat
Tuesday and purchased a wagoo load
of supplies at Chile' grocery store.
Porfuruo atomizer at Clemens.
Garland Stoves at Cramer Bros.
Stevens Favorito Rifles at Cramer
Broj.
f'ipes
Store.
Sen Joseph Moss for bargains in
timber.
Calender Day at Cramer Bros, will
be Saturday, Deoember 17th.
M. K. Mooro wants to buy your
secnud-haiici furniture.
A truly western novel Suzanne
of Kell y ville, " Toledo Blade.
If you have auy cecoud-haud furni-
mro to sell, notify M. b. Mooro,
Sim Ii sin et.
If vou are looking for pines of any
stvle, you wiU find them at Schmidts'
Cif;a.r Store.
Watehe from f:i.75 to I"i0 (at
Letcher's; a largo assortment ou hand
to select from.
Ledgers, Journals, Day books, and
all kinds of aecont books at the
National Drug Store.
Trimble & Cook now cany a stock
of buggy nnd hack wheels ill all
grades. Tho prices are right.
Those solid . gold thimbles at
Letcher's are nice for a Christmas
resent for your mother or any old
fire sen
ady.
Cie.nl Pasx Weather.
Following Is a Nummary w.-ather ob
servation
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Ki'MMABt: Mean leuiertiire, 4H,
maximum temperature, OH, date, II;
minimum temperature, 31; date, IV;
Total precipitation, 2.30; Total snow
fall 0; No. of days clear, 3;
partly cloudy, 10; cloudy, 17; Dales ol
lic.bt frost, 0; wind 8.W.
Given away to our friends on
Saturday, December 17th, a haudaowe
Calendar. Cramer Bros.
Grants Pass la to have tne third
photographic gallery, the new one to
be put in by J. N. Botd, who comes
from Cottage Grove, where he has
been in the business for the past three
years. But during that time he has
had bis eye on Grant Pas and decid
lug that it has the best futorn of any
town In Southern Oregon and is
town-that will have a steady growth
and permanent prwiieriy, he be has
decided to "pitch his tent iu the city
of promise" and that he will do in
reality for he Is unable to secore a
room for his purpose. He expects to
be ready for business by the first of
next week.
I have over SIX) different styles and
shapes of Meerchauui and Briar pisis
to choose from at Huhuiidt's Cigar
Store.
We have applications for several
good fruit furms SHERMAN &
lKI'iljANl), Rooms 10 and VI, Ma
sonic Temple.
"Sorjinno of Kerby ville ia dono
with a sure, firm hand, and is a
powerful story." New York Bohe
minu. For sale at the bookstores.
John Ilaekett has oliened a boot
and shoo repair shop In tho Axtell
building whero he will be pleased to
meet all his old customers aud many
new ones.
Snzanno of Kerbyvillii Is a lively
tale, witli the boom days of Oregon's
pioneer mining camp vividly repro
duced, and the book la meeting with
deserved success, " says Tho Oregon-
iau. Buy a copy. Cau bo fouud at
tho bookstores.
Choice Box Stationery at Oleuieus.
John Minor Booth writes iusurauoe.
- Umbrellas repaired at Jod Taylor',
Blauk Books, at Nationl Drug
Storo.
Honses for rent by SHERMAN &
IRELAND.
Get your llttlo girl a toy Sad Iron
at Cramer Bros.
Cigars In 25 and 50 boxes at
Schmidt's Cigar Storo.
We want your properly to sell.
SHERMAN iv Iltfcl.ANU.
Try Mrs. (iillllhui's Mince pies,
1'honu 741. Orders delivered
Property for sal" on the installment
ulau. rtvu SHERMAN' & IRELAND.
Haw filing, aud grinding, bicycle
and gi uuial repairing at Jud Taylor's.
1'i'tter than l'.Kl is the calendar for
I'.tuo to bi! given away by Cramer
llr'H., on Saturday, December 17th.
Now is tlin time to list vour prop
crlv, if vou w i-h to sell. Sll KliM AN
it IKKLANI), Rooms It) and 1., Ma
sn hie Temple,
1 , , m lniirh of that peculiar
,iu ility that Hindu the work of liret
H.i! in famous Suzanne of Kerby
v i i !". " I'acilio Miner. New edition
in, A' on sale at thu bookstores.
.iubii Minor Booth Insurance.
I; ti a I'.lue Ribbon, (i-ccnt cigar. J
S'irliiiic silver Hat warti at
Leti-hi r's.
Mll.itMAN & IRELAND, REAL
Ll'.Vl ii.
1 oeket knives to delight any boy's
heart at I lamer liros.
Community Silverware iu latest
pattern al Cramer liros.
Will buy anything you have to sell.
M. E. Moore, iiixih street.
We want 45 good farms for Easl 'rn
p. o,l".-Slli;UMAN & IRELAND.
A good store building for rent in
exi'i'lleiit location by Sherman A.
Ireland.
If you want your Fire Insurance
looked after in a business way, place
it willi W. L. Ireland, Room 10,
Masonic Temple.
Ask your dealer for Rogue River
Creamery Butter made at Medford is
now 70 C 'tits per two-pound, square
lull weight.
Holds the reader's attention more
and mon firmly till the closing jmge
"Suzanne of Korhyville, "I'acilio
Norbtwest. New edition now out.
For sale at the bookstores.
Oct it at the bookstores. Get
Suzanne of Kerby ville for a Christmas
present, a story full of dash ami
vigor. with excellent cnaraciet
ski ll lung, says fai itlo Monthly.
At the bookstores.
We hu-.e a sph ndld stock of
watches, clocks and Jnwely, gold
rings for ladies and gents; locksts
and charms, bran-lets, stickpins,
ladies and gent toilet sets the finest
line of silver aud silver Plate ware
ever brought to this city, hiiectacle
and eye glasses, hollil golil clialns
for ladies and gentlemen. Gold filled
chains, Karl bead necklaces, hat
marks, shaving mugs, silver match
boxes, a fine line of good just re
oeivi'd. Pleaan call in aud Insect
our line of wedding and birthday
pre.. !!' for old or yoong, for the
nest SO dura w will sell all goods at
very low prloa. All are invited to
call iu and exmalnn them for your
Ives. CCKlld &, CO., J. O. O.
Y.- Buildiug.
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THE LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Brief Nolo e.ndllem of Interest
end Importetnce.
P. H. IIARTII & SON,
Outfitters to Paiticular Teople
GRANTS PASS, OREGON.
The Business Frock
IS
An Ideal Suit
Fur young; business men who know the value of
"looking prosperous,"
The young lawyer or other progressive pro
fessional vieu who require a suit for semi dress
wear this popular cut. It presents on appear
ance of unobtrusive elegfnce aud is essentially
smart when made iu rough materials, or of
other popular stuffs especially suited to such a
garment. This suit is baud tailored by
SCIILOSS DROS. & CO.
The Correct Clothes Makers.
This fit is guaranteed because measured on
a model of your figure, following methods dis
tinctive of Schloss artisaushlp. Think of getting
a suit like this for so small a price as
$15-00
when your amicable friend, the "merchant
tailor" would charge you more than twice as
much for no better, aud make you wait perhaps
a week or two.
Exclusive Walk-Over Agents.
GRANTS PASS, ORE.
T. J. Ullinore, of Holland, was In
Grants Puss. Saturday. Air. Gilinore
I. a stockiniill and has a large band of
idle that he runges in lliu Siskiyou
mount tins during the summer seusnn, j
from where they come out each fall ,
fat for the market. Mr. (.1 1 1 more
stiitid that there are uiany prospectors
in the district about Holland ami that
n.niiy of llieiu appeared to lie success
ful in locating good claims. Con
siil rablo placer mining is done iu
that dislrii t nnd these miners are now
all at work,
George P. Fiirinan has his new
residence ou .1 and Fifth street com
pleted ami will move into it with
his family this week. The house it
'22:iH feet, two stories and is inoilerii
In all its ((.iiv oil in i s. It has nine
rooms and t Ion Is, bath and toilet
room. Mr. I'uriunti has reiiteil the
Ionise ho has but: occupying on M
street, between Eighth ami Ninth to
II. .oiler. Tho Cars bo line vacated
by Mr. Zoller will tie occupied by a
family who are to move to this city
from Deer Creek.
Six well known railroad nun of this
city have bid In runs on tho Truckoo
divlsiou of the Southern Pud flu and
will leave for their uew runs almost
Immediately. They are Conductor
M. G. Collins, Val. Snyder and J A.
Norman; Brakomau R. R. Redwiuo,
A. J. Lindsay and J. A. Guindon.
Conductor L. E. Cooper, who has
acepteda temorary run cu tho Car
son & Colorado Kailroad, will also
soon take a run on the division on
which the men mentioned are going,
Their runs will be bet weep Truikee
and Huarka Ashland Tidings.
Street Commissioner Gllflllau has
been doing some good work Iu clean
lug the mud off the business streets
and filling with gravel the low
place. He would be doing an ap
predated work If he could cause some
needed repairs to be made on tho side
walks. On many of the sidewalks
thu granite ha settled in places, leav
log low sjwta that are pools of water,
following each rain. Walking on these
sidewalks is disagreeable on dark
nights, owing to the limited light by
reason of the great distance apart
of the electr lo lights on most of tlie
streets Iu th residence district.
Tho Order of Washington will meet
Friday, December HI, at tho Woodmen
Hull. A full attendance Is desired.
The Epworth League will hold
their monthly business meeting this
Friday evening at the home of Miss
Irnia Silsby. '
Roseburg ii no longer to bo an open
town, the council, at a meeting last
win k having passed a resolution re
quiring the marshal to oloso all
saloons ou Suuday.
W. S. Null of Kerby, was in Grant
Puss several days this week looking
after a business mutter. Mr. Null,
during the dry months runs a park
t lain from Kerby to Canyon creok,
taking In supplies to the miuers in
that district. It is 14 miles from
Ki liy to the mines, a part of the way
being over a rough, mountain trail
and even in good weather It is no
picnic excursiou to make the trip.
Mr. Null reports no special work go
ing ou iu the Canyon Creek district
most of the miners having come out
for tho winter. Some promising
claims have hoeu opened Dp this sea
son and Mr. Neil think that there
will be a large amount of work doue
iu that district next year.
A. V. Bannsvrd Undertaker.
A change ot day clork at the Jose-
pbino lias taken place, Thomas Mo-
Gohan retiring aud hlf place Is taken
by Wiu. Rustor. Mr. Roster ha
been head wulter la the dining room
and is well known and popular with
all the patrons of tin Jospohlus.
Th directors of the Grant Pas
distriot have called a spocial meeting
of tlm taxpayers of the distriot to
meet at tho High School building.
Wednesday, December 38, at 1 p. ni.,
for the purpose of making the neces
sary tax levy for the support of the
olty schools for the year 11W3.
The late taius have shown that
many of the street culverts wore
choked np and Street Commissioner
Gllflllau lias had to pat In consider
able time opening them op. Most of
tho thu culverts about town are ot
tiling and hoodlum boys have been
making it a practice to crush the ex
posed ends thus allowing the earth to
fall iu aud choke tho colvoils. There
ia a heavy puuishuieut for the de
structlou of puhlio property aud the
street commissioner and the police
are ou the lookout for the culprit and
it will fare haid with all boy Caught
damaging the culvorta or any other
publlo property.
Wei Dressed
t
Men and Womeu have the satisfaction of
knowing that their Footwear is Comforta
ble, Durable and Stylish when purchased
at BARTLETT'S.
Only exclusive Shoe Store in Town,
Repairing attended to by Mr. W.
Keene.
R. L. Bartlett
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