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ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, JULY 27, 1906. "J. Pardee groceries Flour and Feed Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Picnic and Lunch Goods All Fresh and New. Creamery Butter. Front St., Near Palace Hotel GRANTS PASS, - OREGON Telephone 863 MARRIED. BLANCH ARD LINKEY At Port land, Wednesday. July 18, 1006, O. 8. Blanchard.and Miss lima Liokey, Her. John E. Simpson officiating. Tbe marriage took place at the manse of St. Mark Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard left for Newport, wber they will ipeod two weeks after wbioh they will come to Grants Paai and take op their resi dence in the oottage on Weat B itreet belonging to Mri. N. P. Dodge. Mr. Blanchard ia a well known attorney of thia city, a member of the law firm of HoDgli So Blanohard, and deputy ity attorney, Mr. Blanchard came from Oonncll Bluffs, Iowa, last year, from which city his bride alio came, ahe making tbe trip to Portland by herself to meet ber betrothed. She ia a bright, accomplished yonog lady and will be "given most cordial re oeption by tbe ladies of Grants Pass and by the many friends of Mr. Blan chard. DIED. De La MATER At the family home in Grants Pans, on Sunday, July 23, lWOrt, Isaao Newell De La Mater, aged 70 years. The funeral services were held Tuesday and were ooodnoted by the Masoua, of which order tbe deceased had been a member for many years, witb tbe interment in the Masonic oemetery... Mr. De La Mater was a native of Napoleon, Michigan, and came to Oregon in 1851), locating in the Illinois Valley where lie mined for many years and tor several years thereafter be was in the mercantile easiness at Korby. In 1878 be mar ried Miss Mary A. Berry of Jackson ville, who yet survives him, as do three children, Mrs. E. T. MoKinstry and James De La Mater of this city and Newell De La Mater of Portland. Mr. De La Mater was stricken with paralysis last Winter and a rerurrenoe of the allliction was the cause of his death. He was an nprlghtt, indus trious man and had many frieuds In Rngne River Valley who will regret to hear of his death. CRAWFORD At the faint 1? home one and a half miles west of Grants l'ass, ou ihursday, Jnly ail, 1IMHI, H. P. Crawford, aged 75 years. The funeral services are to lie held this Saturday with Interment iu the Granite Hill cemetery. Mr. ("raw ford was a native of Ohio and moved with his family to this county 13 years ago. He is survived by his wife anil sou. M. W. Crawford of San Krancieoo and daughter Mrs. J. I. Montgomery of this city and Mrs. C. W. Ronlware of Portland. He was a Civil War veteran and a man of One character an i had the friendship of all his aciuaiutuiiois. LOTS! RESIDENCE LOTS! ForiSale;.nJ Nelson'sHAddltlon LPrices From Terms: Cash, easy payments, installments or work any old terms. : : : : Coruo and soo mo and tho lots, too. If wo cannot raako a deal, you must be hard in deed to suit. : : : Office at residence on East A Street. JOSE X. NELSON. HOUSEHOLDERS EXEMP TION DONE AWAY WITH la Declared Unconstitutional By the Supreme Court Poor end Rich Will Now Pay Texas. Tbe 300 exemption on household effects allowed on taxpayers nnder a law of Oregon is done away with by tbe effect of a recent decision of the supreme court, which holds that the law is in conflict, witb the state con stitution. Until the constitution is amended there will be no more house hold exemptions on tbe tax rolls. The following is the decision of the supreme court on this subject: E. O. and E. Wallace appellants against W. H. Falliu, assessor, and J. O. Booth, judge, from Josephioe county, H. K. Hanna, Judge. Re versed in an opinion by Jogde Moore. This is a suit to enjoin tbe assessor, board of equalization and sheriff from allowing certain exemptions from taxation pursuant to the act which exempts certain personal prop erty to the amount of $300 from taxa tion. A demurrer to the complaint on the ground thut it did not state facts so indent to entitle the plaintiffs to the relief sought having been sus tained, the suit was dismissed and appeal taken. Says the court: "We believe that the clause in the constitution to pro hibit its legislative assembly from Kraotiog to householders of the state exemption from taxation of property attempted by the statute, which though in force when tbe orgaoio law took effect, was inconsistent there with and hence repealed by the adop tion of the constitution, and its at tempted re-enactment is void as re pugnant therto on the ground that the rate of assessment and taxation is not uniform between a householder of the state and non-residents. " Fine Stock Bind Fine Fruit. Ex-Commissioner 0. V. Lovelace of Wilderville, was in Grants Pass Mon day. Mr. Lovelaoe has one of the best kept and most profitable farms in Applegate Valley, stock and fruit raising being his prinoipal business. He is grading bis cattle np and has a registered bull at the bead of his herd that ia one of the largest and finest animals in Josephine county. Mr. Lovelace's orbcard is one of the largest in Applegate Valley and is cared for in the best of shape. Tbe yield will be very large this year and so well has the frnit been thinned and sprayed that the apples will be of fine quality. Mr. Lovelace ia a member of the Grant Pass Fruit Growers Union and is taking much interest in tbe success of the organiza tion. Mr. Lovelace is also taking an active part in making a success of the fruit growers meeting and farmers in stitute that ia to be held at Wilder ville on September fl, and which is one of the series of six fruit growers meetings that will be held the first week in September in Jose phine county under the joint auspices of the Grants Pass Fruit Growers Union and the State Agricultural College. Mr. Lovelace stated the in stituut at Wilderville would probably be held in the church and that a pic nic dinner would be had in the grove nearby. There are several flue or chards in the vicinity of Wilderville as the laud is exceptionally well suited - to growing apples, pears, peaches, grapes and other fruits aud the farmers are begiunisg to take con siderable inturst iu frnit ruining. Burn Grass e.nd Hotiae, The secoud house to be destroyed by fire iu Grants Pass for, the year li)0 weut up iu muoke Saturdar eveuinir. It was a small cottage on K aud Ninth 1 street aud belonged to the estate of the late Grace Curtis. The house was vacant and the loss wan almnt I KM). Mark Armstrong was employed to born the grass from about this bouse and an adjoining one belonging tO ttlA JMt.Mtl mil. I til A orrnia Hm nn. beyoud his control aud soon had the . uuuiw in names, ao alarm or nre was turned in, but as the house it some distance from the eugiue house the fire had gained such headway that when thn ttrmiian &rrlvu.l flnv nn. 1,1 do nothing to save the building. $10.00 Up. GREENBACK The Martha mine employed about 66 or 60 men. It is reported that a dance will take place at the Martha next Saturday. Several of tbe boys from the Martha were at Greenback Saturday evening. J. R. Irwin of Placer killed a large rattle snake in tbeir yard a few days go. H. A. Stebinger, tbe Greenback bookkeeper, made Wolf Greek a visit Saturday evening. Rev. Long made the Greenback and Martha mines a visit Sunday, holding services in both places. Mi. and Mrs. Win. Irwin of Placer visited Mrs. Dutton at the Greenback boarding house Sunday. C. R. Stewart, the clerk of tbe Greenback store, made Wolf Creek a visit Sunday afternoon. Harold Lawrie has returned to New lork where he will spend about two months with bis relatives and friends. Miss Sarah Hoxie has just returned from Golden wbere she has been visiting her mother for the past few days. Herbert Hoxie of Golden passed through this place Monday at noon riding a wheel and wearing a plug hat. ' Mr. and Mrs. Archie Virtue left for Canada a few days ago. Tbey will join bis mother who is very ill and not expected to live. Mrs. Wm. Webb and sister, Mrs. J. C Clark, with their nephew Homer De Laney, will leave this place for Grants Pass wbere they will spend a few days. Joe and Will Shelley from Califor nia have just arrived at Greenback where they will go to work in the mine or at least they expect to find employment. Mrs. W. H. Bassett and sister, Miss Jnanita Grininger, will leave for Ashland, where they will spend a few days with their parents, M'. and Mrs. Greninger of that place. We are having very warm weather in this neck of the woods at present Mrs. C. H. Datton has taken charge of the Greenback boarding house, where there are about twelve boarders. Mrs. Joe Clark, Miss Cora Walker and Misses Ella and Ethel Dutton walked about a mile last Wednesday to see a young panther, whiob Mr, ' Lobby caught up on Rock Creek. The creature is about two weeks old. One of tbe Martha employes, Mr. I Ellis by name, met with a serious accident one day Jast wek. He was ' earring, tbe car managed to gut off of ! the track, ran against a shoot, uiash ; ing Mr. Ellis' hand very badly. He ; was taken to the Grants Pass hospital for treatmeut. i We are in sympathy witb Mr. In- 1 man and family of this place who met with the sad misfortune of having their house burned to the ground last i Weduesday afternoon about 4 :30 o'clock. Everything was destroyed t but a few things which the children saved, they beiug the only persons on the premises. One of the children, a : 3-year old boy went npxtairs aud set fire to a curtain. Tbe whole roof was ablaze in a few moments, i Mr. and Mrs. Chester Clark of Golden visited Greenback lant Thurs day. THE TRIPLETTS. LOVES STATION ? Sam Ramsey took diuoer with us Weduesday. George Kuox was a visitor at the station Monday evening. Will Reed and Clarence Frost have been seen ou the porch at the hotel several times of late. Miss Pearl Kninm of Hilt. Cul l now visiting her siter, Mrs. Lanqe at the sawmill. Joe Son mitt seems quite interested. Clarence Frost had the misfortune to get his foot mashed quite badlv bv the falling of a horse, while logging at tbe mill, yesterday. Miss Irene Louigan and Reka Krauss were visiting the girls a Loves Station last Sunday. Miss Vina Chas tain was a visitor also. We had a swell celebration in onr litllejlmrg the Fourth. Ice cream aud cake galore, aud flags fluttering on the breese in every direction, and $2000 worth of fireworks, more or less. 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Taylor left last Saturday for Breckenridge Springs, near Salem, where they are takingjtheir niece, Miss Luella Fay, who is an invalid. The 'hotel is now In charge of Mimes Amory Louigan aud Laura Lindsay of Wilderville, 'Karl Fay of GranU Pans has been spending the last week at tbe home of his node, Mr. Taylor. He expects to return to bis home witb his father tomorrow. lie will be great I v missed by alL ETAN. NEWMAN CHURCH TO BE ENLARGED Ample Space to Be Had for Sun day School Room. Parlors avnd at Kitchen. Newman M. E. church building is to be enlarged at an expense of over 12000, and nearly an other f 1000 will be spent in providing additional seats and in furnishing tbe enlarged Sunday School room and tbe church reception room and kitchen that is to be installed as a part of tbe conven iences that will make this one of the most up-to-date churches in Southern Oregon. Tbe work will not be let by contract but men will be "hired by the day. Mark Day will be foreman and the general supervision of the job will be attended to by J. C. Campbell. This addition will be placed on the north side of tbe churcb and wiU be so designed as to conform to the present appearance of tbe cburoh. The increase o the seating capa city for both tbe Sunday School and the congregation has become a neces sity as Newman M. E. church now has the largest attendance at both these services of any cburcb in Grants Pass and is not exceeded by any other ohurcb in Southern Oregon. The Sunday School, of which H. L. Uilkey is the popular superintendent, has made such gains that it is now one of the largest in Oregon outside of Portland. The attendance runs from 225 to 890 each Sunday and on one of the Sabbaths in June tbe record was made of 309. Such is the deep in terest taken by tbe young folks that the attendance shows little decrease even now that brt weather is on. Tbe attendance at tbe services of the church are equally as well attended and the seating capaoity is folly taken almost every Sunday. Tbe gain in membership since Rev. C. O. Beckman assumed the pastorate last October baa been large. At that time it numbered 256 and dnring tbe 10 months since 105 new members have been received. During the year 39 letters have been granted which leaves the net gain at 76 and tbe total mem bership at 332. No sensational or questionable mat ter allowed in the Courier. YOU MIGHT A3 WELL' LIVE IN THE GARRET WHEN YOU ARE AT HOME A3 To TRAVEL AND CARRY YOUR DVV3 IN A BUM BAG. WHAT 3 THE DIF FERENCE? IF YOUR TRIP 3 TO BE A PLEASURE TRIP MUCH OF THE PLEA-SURE WILL BE -SPOILED IF YOU DON'T HAVE A NICE DRE-S-S -SUIT CA.SE (YOU CAN GET ONE FOR $5.00 OR $1.5) OR A GOOD GRIP OF -SOME KIND. WE HAVE LoTJ OF THEM FOR $1.35, $2.00 AND UP To $8.00 AND VnS; ND' T BE 6)KE' YoU WILL AL-SO WI-SH LoTJ OF COLLAR-S, CUFF-S, NECK TIE J 5"i"f HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR. WE G AN FURNIJH YOUR BODY AND MAKE IT FIT To LIVE IN FOR VERY LITTLE MONEY RIGHT NOW A tSANSE'UIT 0F GLoE.S ALJO 3 A GOOD THING TO HAVE. IF WE HAD .SAID IT IN MAY WE'D NOT HAVE ToLD THE TRUTH; BUT NOW WE CAN GIVE YOU A .SUMMER .SUIT VoR WHAT IT C03T UJ AT WHOLESALE. WE'D RATHER HAVE ?SJ??LMoNEY THAN OUR- SUITS- WE THROW in iTnHg7rS QE0. 5, QflLHOUN Q2. OUTriTTCRJ TO BOY Aftb MAN 1 I J Mr. and Mrs. Neathamer spent Tuesday in Grants Pass. Mas Smith of Central Point is visit ing friends near Wimer. John Oden made a business trip to tbe county seat last week. Oden Bros, are delivering consider le hay to the Wimer Mercantile Co. Chester and Elsie Smith of Wimer visited relatives in Ashland last week. George Magerle spent Monday and Tuesday of last week in Grants Pass. Tbe Holiness churcb is holding camp meeting at Woodville. The at tendance has been good. Everybody is busy cutting and stacking grain ; people are aboot through witb the second crop of hay. The sawmill on Oscar Simpkins' place near Woodville began sawing last week; we again have two saw mills on the creek. SCRIBBLER. Fire Fiom Ashbox. An ashbox in the woosdhed at the Western came near being the cause of that popular hotel burning down last Saturday. One of the cooks had clean ed out the stove in tbe morning plac ing the ashes in a box and setting it in the woodshed. It set fire to the box and after smouldering all forenoon broke out at noon in a flame. When discovered the blaze was climbing to tbe roof of the woodshed. The prompt arrival of the fire company and some effective work soon had the fire out with but little damage to tbe buildings. PR dinai; Principles 11 Grants Pass Banking and Trust Co. GRANTS PASS. ORE. BiTrns "RESOLVETf THAT VHEN You TRAVEL ibV ARE JUDGED hYYoUR BAGGAGE, BECAUSE FolKS DONT CARRY FINE INBUMEAG5. DONTBE A cheap jkate. . 3U5TER BRoWN WILL NOT RELY ON ONEXROP Fruit. Hops e-nd Hay Made the Chief Products of en Applegate Farm. O. H. Johnston, wbo has a 200 sure tract of land in Applegate Valley two miles below the Wilderville bridge, ia a farmer wbo believes it is not wise to depend cn cne product on a farm. He is engaged in botb fruit and hop raising witb some cows and hay as side lines. He has 12 acres to bops on his farm and has a 10 acre bop yard rented that adjoins his place, and he stated that he never had a better prospect for a big yield than for this season. Mr. Johnston is preparing to go into fruit raising on a large scale. He has 120 acres of red hill land with deep soil, besides 90 acres of bottom land which he has for hops and alfalfa, and he planted mncb of this to apples, peaches and grapes. He set out 10 acres to Winter apples last Winter and the trees are making a fine growth. This Winter be will increase bis ap ple orchard and also plant quite a tract to peaches aud grapes. He has half an acre to berries and he will in crease the patclr next Spring. Mr. Johnston realizes the value to orchardists of the fruit growers meet ings that will be held in this county the first week in September and he will attend the one to be held at Wild erville on Thursday, September 6, and do all be can to make it a Bucecss. TTFi UJtC mm CLoTHES ft. V 4 t