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6 VOL. XXI. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1905. No. 34 1 1 Sell w L. IRELAND, "The Real Estate Man." Ground Floor Courier Bldg. CLEMENS SELLS - BOOKS and DRUGS. ?BAoNrf? GRANTS PASS, ORE. Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co. PAID UP CAPITAL STOCK Transacts a general banking bu.-iticis. Receives deposits subject to check or on demand certificates. Our customers are assured of courteous treatment and every consideration con sistent with sound banking principles. Safety deposit boxes tor rent. J. FRANK WATSON, Pres. R. A. 1100TH, Vice-Pres. L. L. JEWELL, Cashier. -WATCH JIT HAND FAINTED CHINA Daintiest creations of the potter's art, Exquisitely decorated. Price from $1 up. Bert Barnes, Cobb & Isaacs, Real Estate The real estate men, Cobb & Isaacs, last week sold a tract of land in the north end of town contain ing 30 lots, and this week sold another tract of 30 lots, besides some improved lots with cottages on. If you want your property sold, list with us. If you want to buy anything see us first. The reason wo sell so much property is, we sell right. Sixth Street, opposite Postoffice, Upstairs. BLACK HORSE ml mm urn AND SALE STABLES DEAN A. DICMSON, PROPRIETORS. POWER and Electric Light We are now ready for business. Do not make any contract until you have seen our solicitors. Pat ronize and encourage the com pany which has already forced LOW PRICKS, AND WHICH WILL AID AND HELP BOLD I P VOI R TOWS AND country. Judge us by what wo have done and are doing. Condor Water Real Estate t ?eif Houses Negotiate Loans Make Collections and Writ Fire Insurance. t t t Call upon or write t Grants Pass, Orb. i 92S.OOO.OO. "3 WINbOW TOR- wTCHk J & Power Co, FARMERS INSTITUTE WANTED AT WILLIAMS That Institute Idea Is Growing In Southern Oregon Indicates Progressive Farmers. Editor Courier Iu the last issue of the Courier I note with pleasure the fart that we are to have another farmers institute iu our valley. Now it seems to me we might arrange to hold this one at Williams instead of Provolt This Valley is 13 miles long with Williams Post office, church and hall near the center. There are more farmers ahore the Post oBlce than below and by holding the in stitute here it ould give all the peo pie a greater advantage than to have the meeting at Provolt. Besides this the best farming part of the country is nearer Williams than Provolt. This is not a selfish motive on uiy part for I am ouly six miles from the place where the former institute was held but many interested people ate farther away. At the request of Mr. J. M. John and others I wrote to Dr. Withycombe along this line. The people here would attend well, I cun assure you, and many would be pleased with the honor of euterciuing one or more of the gentlemen from the college. Trusting this will meet with your favor and that you will assist iu get ting the institute for this place, I am, Very truly ynuis, Williams Creek Farmer. Iu regard to the above request for a farmers institute at Williams, the matter has beeu referred- to l'r. Withcyombe. So well pleased were those farrutrs who attended the insti tutes held last fall iu Kogne Kiver Valley that uiauy requests have been sent to the Courir asking Hint a series of iustitutes be aruiugid for dur ing this wiuter. Though having more applications for institutes iu other parts of the state than be could fill, Dr. Withycombe has ennseuted to spend a week iu Southern Oregon in February and hold as nrnny insti tutes as possible iu that time. The arranging of the schedule was left to the editor of the Courier ns the Doctor did tint know what p'aces de sired institutes and was unfamiliar ith the rontes of travel. The one injunction was given to arrange for as many institutes as possible within the given time and to have as little loss of time as possible iu reaching the various places. With this end in view two schedules have befn sub mitted to Dr. Withycombe. The muddy, almost impassable condition of the roads, the long dis tances to travel, and the short Win ter days made it necessary to give Institutes at places that could be most easily reached and which would not cause delays iu making the appoint ments. Another thing considered in arranging the schedule was that the speakers attending evening sessiou ould be up late nights and that with the cold, disagreeable weather of Winter In which the drive from oue place to ntiothtr would make It every trying ou them, and further more at several places it is asked that three si asions a day be had. Kerby was the ouly distant place (elected in either Josephine or Jackson county for holding au institute, and that was made at the earnest n quest ol a number of prominent funnels of that section. Williams is the ci liter of a large, fine valley and the funnels of that section are progressive and an In. stitutn there would be quite certain to be a success. It Dr. Withcyombe cau arrange to give another day to his Southern Orevou trip he will be quite certiin to hold an institute at Williams this February. If he is unable though to meet the wish of the Williams farmers this time he will be quite sure to gire them an in stitute on his neit trip to Rogue River Valley. Mill at Monumental Mine. The following from the Cn st ent City Recorder Indicates that develop meut work on a larger iicale thau ever is to be carried on at the Monumental mine : "Five teams left ear'y this week lor the Monuuii ntal Mines, with por tions of a roller quartz mill to be put up at the mini s for working ore. The plaut is for the purpose of testing ores from various Kirtions of the mine, and if results are satisfactory many more stamps will be added. Two motors aud considerable pie was tiken out, there being good water power at the mines for operating the mill. A modern concentrator was also sent out. The bed of the mill weigh 7.V10 pounds but no difficulty Isexpe. ted id hauling it out. The ttauislers inform os that the road ii Id eicelleot condition." Rock Drilling Challenge. 8. L. Saodry and Joe Hiligo will meet any team in a rock drilling con test for a purse of f l.Kl or 2IK) that may accept. The contest to be held in Grants Pass any tun" id Doeniht-r. Three weeks notice to be given of ac ceptaoce prior to contest. Address 8. L. Saodry, Grants Pass. UNION SERVICES FOR THANKSGIVING Will. Be Held In Baptist Church Next Thursday Morning. All Are Invited. " The Union Thanksgiving service will be held this year at the Baptist church at 10:30 a. m. as decided at the meeting of the Ministerial Asso ciation. The following is the order of ser vice : Organ Voluntary. Ooxology. The Lord's Prayer. Proclamation of the President and Governor... Rev. K. O. Williams Prayor Rev. H. H. Brown Anthem Choir Announcements aud Uffeiiug. Scripture Lesson ... Rev. J. H. Austin tivmn How r lrni a foundation." Serniou Rev. O. D. Beckman Hymn "America. " Benediction. It is Hoped that there may be a larger response aud atteudauoe on this service than ever before. Grants Pass has reason to thank God aud remember Him in this service. Let all the merchants make it possible for themselves and .their employees to attend the service. Let all the people do their trading the day befote that none need be conipullod to stay away. PRACTICAL SUPERVISOR IN MURPHY DISTRICT Supervisor Gentner Builds Only Small Section but Makes That Permanent. C. F. Gentner was in town Monday for a 1 ad of large tiling to be nsed for road culverts iu his district Mr. Gentner is supervisor lu the Murphy district and he has the well earned reputation of being one of the best road supervisors in Josephine county. Mr. Gentner docs not waste the road fund of hi- district in mak ing temporary repairs to the roads, but he concentrates his efforts on oue section of road at a time aud gets it permanently improved. Getting the roads on easy grades and thoroughly drained is a leading feature of Mr. Geutuer's road work. He nses no wood iu constructing the smaller cul verts, tnakiug them of tiling or stone. He has found that tiling is the least expeuseive for small culverts, the co-t of quarrving, hauling and layiug the ruck making it eieusire, except when the lock can be had at the place it is to be used and is easy to quarry Mr. Gentner has this past summer graded and permanently Improved a mile of the main Applegale road in his district, aud now he will begin the work of graveling It. As the dis trict has but a limited road fund the fanners have voluuteernl to haul the gravel, Supervisor Gentner furnishing the men to load the wagons. The gravel will be taken from the bars in the Applegate river, whore there are thousands of tons of rrck that is per fect for road covering. When Super visor Outlier completes this section of road it will be one ( f the best con- si ructed and most permanent roads iu Josephine couuty. Such roads bring good returns to the taxpayers, but the average mad work that is dune, by way of filling niudhulca and other temporary improvements is mouey very largely wasted. THE HEAVY BURDEN OF THE BAD ROAD TAX Farmers Lose More on Market ing Produce Than Cost of Good Roads. Think of waiting for the mud to dry np M,COO,000 horses aud mulct Idle in the stable; H.bOO.OOO a day for hnrsu feed; .'S, (XXI, ( n 0 a week I Think of the loss of time and labor, the dwarfed and rhruukeu values of our farms, of the slack supply and good prices wheu the roads aro im passable! Think of the prnciasionof farmers that rush to town and glut the market in the flist days cf dry weather and think of the paltry prices they get when everybody is trying to sell au overstocked merchant I From the staupdoint of profit, In dry weather and wet, the badly kept dirt road Is much the same. There Is lit tle difference between selling a full load at half price aud half a load at full price. Another notable thing: Every im provement is a herald of prosperity ; every good country road iuciea.es the value of every farm that fronts it. Raise the value t,f real estate ou American farms 6 per cent and yoo add fva.OnC.OHO to our rural wealth. Put a like iiiciease on the value of farm produc U, live stock aud ma chinery aud you gain 3V), 000, (HiO more Decrease the coat of hauling one year's crop of hay, cereals, pota toes, tobacco and cotton by only 10 cents per ten aud yoo save 1 1. 000, 000. These are Dot all the items. They will snftloe. Isaac C. Potter. TRADE AT HOME AND BUILD UP YOUR TOWN Practical Pointers on How to Co operate for the Best Inter ests of All. Never before has the country press been aroused to such an extent as it is at present as to the evils of patro uising other than home enterprises, says the Home Trade Advocate. Editorial aud local columns of the papers, especially in the western states, are HI led with common seuse articles setting before the people such facts as appeal to reasou aud patriot ism. . Some editors in their seal to accomplish good perhaps go to far in abuse of systems that take money from their neighborhoods and by severe oritisms of patrons of out of town concerns "overshoot the mark" and fail to accomplish what is much desired. None will gainsay that the wage earner has the i. hereut right to spend his earnings wherever he desires. If he wishes to buy his clothes in some distant city, he has that privilege. Sometimes he may have cause to do so. His home merchants may not carry in stock what he wishei to se cuio. Others may charge him what he considers au exhorbitant price. Quite often he may learu that lie makes a mistake by buying goods without a careful examination of them. When this is the case aud it frequently is the purchaser becomes a better patron of homo institutions thau ever before. But there are a few tilings that the average man aud woman overlook. It is that the dollars that they send away mean money taiien out of local circulation and the consequent im poverishing of the community to that extent Say that there 'are 2000 people in the coniinnultv. Five dol lars a year from each one sent away amounts to (10,000 a year aud lu 10 yesrs 1 1(H), 0(H). Supposing that a fifth or sixth of this represented the profits that should be left in the community. It would be quite enough to establish a busluess enterprise that would sup port several families. But from some communities the average amounts sent away for goods are from a third to a half aud often more than the total paid or needed supplies. Think of what a great loss that is I Think that this trade given to the home towu would Immediately increase its business from a third to a half. How many years would It take if the home trado principle was adhered to strictly before your town would be more than double lu size? It would ouly require a very few years. Aud with the growth of the town every one living within its limits and its trade radius would receive a benefit. All the residents of a community have common interests iu it. The laborer, the farmer, the merchant, the doctor and the lawyer proaHr in common. Their interests are parallel. The community is co-operative. If the merchant who employed men from some distant oily to do his work would patronize an out of town doc tor aud the town doctor send away for the help he needed, the laborer would suffer. And topixiso that the laborers should scud away for their eggs, their vegetables, fruit, butter, etc., would not the farmer be aftllcted? Suppose that the merchant is compelled to do business without profit. Can lie iay as jood wages to his help as they should he entitled to? So it goes down the Hue. The better the home towu can I made the better It is for all. lie a patron ol home In dustry, and by being such you assist yoorsellf and all lu your 'neighbor hood. Telearam Commends Exhibits. The Hog ue River Valley Fruit As sociation sliipiH-d a carload of Yellow Newtown apple las wiek from Med ford. This fruit was consigned di rect to London, England There were SO00 full si.u boxes lu the car. The Portland Telegram referring to the recent Portland excursion to Southern Oregon says: ' The pilgrims from the Rush City realize unw more than ever the value of permanent exhibits at the various large towns In the southern art of the state. The displays miidn by Ash land, Medford, Gran.s Pass and Gold Hill were found to be complete in every detail, so far as the different pro ducts 'pertained to the agricultural, horticultural and mineral Interests of the Immediate territory." Herb W. tdwardi lnurtd. Herb W. Edward of lies Moines, Iowa, got a fall on su icy walk last wiuter, spraining his wrist and bruis ing his knees. " The next day, " he says, "they were so sore and stiff I was afraid I would have to slay in bid, hut I rubbed them well with Chamberlain's Pain Halm and lifter a few applications all soreness had dis appeared. I feel that this bottle of Pain Balm saved me several days' time, to say nothing of the suffer ing." This liniment Is for sale by all druggists. Cold Weather .Specials ....HEATING STOVES.... Regular $7.50 Air Tight Heator for $5 50 liegular 0.50 Air Tight Heater for 4 50 Absolutely the Biggest Bargain in Heating Stove we ever offered This is a Special We will not hold this offer open long, so buy now. New Dressers in great variety. New Couches in best makes. New Center Tables choice designs. New China and Cut Glass at surprisingly low prices. PAPER the heavy kind; a lot more just received. Thanksgiving Necessities Turkey Platters, Carving Sets. Thomas (Sl O'Neill llousefurnisliers to Southern Oresron 111(311 SCHOOL NOTES Douuld Calvert leaves iu a few d ys for Cotvallis where he will outer the O. A. C. ' Miss Nina Paddock aud Miss Ella Savage have been absent from school this week ou aotiouut cf sickness. The secoud year History class, mak ing use of the now reference books, finished a thorough study of the Fiench Revolution last week. Mr. J. Leuscher, of Portland, a representative of the Boys' a- d Girls' Aid Society of Oregon, gave a short, Interesting talk to the High School last woek, iu behalf of his Institu tion. The High School Is about to lose ouo of Its second year pupils. Miss Hazel Hnwland, who is very popular among the young people of this town, leaves for Portland lu two or three weeks and Intends to make that city her home In the future. This year the High School has ad ded throe sets of hooks to its library in addition to those purchased last spring. The hooka Just received are Scott's complete works, The poems of the standard poets In 82 volumes and Irvlng's complete works. The High School is divided iulo three literary societies which render very interesting prngams each Friday afternoon. The names of the first two societies are A & Z and the Cicero societies respectively. The third society has not yet been nani'd. The Grants Pass High school can soon boast of i'sjinskct ball team as It now docs of the foot bull team. The girls under the leadership of Miss Bridge and Miss Walker have already organized aud at their first meeting Miss Helen Clarke was elected to act as chairman until the captain shall be chosen for the team. Ihosu who have joined this cigauizittion are Klla Savage, Daisy Coin, Blanche Ferdine, Wllna (lllkey, F.llinl Riggs, Helen Clarke, Georgia fori in, Lydia White, Alice McFarlimd. "I Think th Lord" cried Hannah Plant, of Little Rock, Ark., "for the relief I got from Buck- len's Arnica Salve. It cured my foaiful running sores, which nothing else would heal, and from which 1 had suffered fo flveyiars" It is a marvelous healer for cots, burns and wounds. Guaranteed at all drug stores; 2.io; '.'i t t HW'sHlt' '-''t' UMBR REPAIRED THE CITY COUNCIL HOLDS ITS SESSION Old Controversy With Railroad Company Over 6th Street Crossing Up Again. The council met last week with all present but Councilman Williams aud Recorder Booth. Deputy City Attor ney O. 8. Blauchatd scted as recorder pro tern. The new concrete sidewalk ordinance was passed aud the Are lim its were extended up Sixth street to take in block 22 aud the west half of block 21, both lying between D and R streets. The old controversy of 20 years duration with the railroad company about the Sixth street crossing came np again with the result that an ordi nance was passed compelling the railroad eonipauy to open Jthe vesti bule doors on both sides of their cars when standing at the depot. City Attorney Hough was" anuthorized to notify the railroad oompauy that un lets they maintained aro lights on their Sixth Street crossing the city would euforce tho state law requiring gates aud signal bolls on the crossing. A section of alloy ou North C street was vacated, and petition for au alley through block 207 was referred to the street committee. The following bills were allowed : Dan Wiltrout, street work $ 2 00 M 1) Brlggs, street work 1H 00 J A Rimer, street work 11 00 Geo. Cougle, street work H 00 OOLnnil, street work 18 00 J Wiltrout, street work 6 00 I) A Ha Kind, street work. ... 6 00 Harry Moore, street work 18 Ml R II Gilllllan, street work 2 Oft L McGrew, poliue 22 00 Geo Finuh, police 4 00 John Lance, police 22 00 Williams Bros, 1J & L Co Ill) 70 Hair-Riddle llilw Co.slieet sup lot 80 Firemen, piy 18 7(1 (rants Pass Truck ilo, hauling I BO J L Shaska, sewer contract 187 25 Curtd Coniusption. Mrs. B. W. Evaus, Clearwater, Kan., writes: " My husband lay sick for three months. The doctors said that he had quick consumption. Wo procured a bottle of Ballard's Here bound Syrup, aud it cured him. That wits six years ago. Since thin we have always kept a bottle lu the house. We cannot do without it. For coughs aud colds It has no tqual. " 35c, Mto, tl.00 at Model Drug Stote and Rotermuud's. Order seals and rublter stamps of A. K. Voorliies. at odfsSf si C'J
