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ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS. OREGON, AUGUST 17. 1906. Iroceries . Flour and Feed The Canning Season is here Blackberries are now at their best aud we expect to have plenty. The first Watermelons. Tomatoes are better aed cheaper Fruit Jars, Rubbers and Tops J. Pardee Front St., Near Palace Hotel GRANTS PASS. - OREGON Telephone 863 ! GREENBACK Mr. Hereford and family le't Greet) back Saturady. Mrs. R. 8. filalock letf od the Wolf creek stage today. We are told that Mini Era blover baa left for Portland. Mr. Oscar Johni of Glendale made this place rlslt Sunday. There has been qnite a change in the weather the last few days. R. 8. Blalook baa qolt the Martha mine and expects to move to Placer con. Percy Williams and Henry Conger came to Oreenbaok one erening last week. Enoch Irwin of the Martha, made a flying trip to Greenback last Saturday, evening. Charlie Cart Hie of Placer made this place and the Martha mine a t isit Saturday. Mr. Soharingson and bis son Paul of the Martha made tbU place a visit one day last week. Messrs. Bradley and Smith, who were employed-at the Martha mine, left for Portland one day last week. Misses Flora Gillnm and Pearl Brown and Mr. William Brown of Glendale, made Greenback a visit last Friday. M. Braevort, one of the manager of the Greenback and Martha MiniTig Company, arrived in Greenback this morning. W. O. Benjamin, an employe of the stamp mill, got his hand rnashed very badly bnt not so bad but what he will not be kept from work. . Oscar Johns of Glendale passed the Martha Suuday on his way to the Duncan ranch where he said, "he was going to purchase bona. " Mr. and Mrs. Henry Conger of Pla cer have a bouncing baby boy of which they are very proud as the two older ones are both sweet little girls. Little Horn r aud Amy Ionian walked form Greenback to Jump off Joe Suuday, where they went to visit their Grandmother Mis. liiinan. Stewart Espy, a faiuer employed at the Greenback aud Martha mines, left Greenback Saturday, August 8th. Mr. Espy tells us that he intends to go to Klamath Falls. George 8! .r, a farmer employed at the Martha mine, had the Misfortune of gettiug bis bead badly hurt While he was working lu the uiiue, a large rock foil and hit him in the faeo. 1 Calvin Clark aud family left this plaoe last week. Mr. Clark tells ns that he is going to Estarada. Mr. Clark has been an employe of the Greenback for the past two y ars. "YUM YUM." CLOSIfJG-OUT SALE We oilbr our entiro lino of Dry Goods, con sisting of Muslins, Prints, Chnllics, Lawns, Dimities, Tablo Linon, White Goods, Ladies' WVists, Skirts, Ladies' and Children's Furnishing Goods. Millinery, Notions, Etc., At Cost. Trices in some lines below cost to close ther. out No article is reserved this is a gonuirc sale to close out business. Your purchasing at our store means a great saving to you. We invito you to v'wit us and be convincod our prices were novor made in Grants Pass before. Mrs. E. REHKOPF & CO. ROGUE RIVER FAMOUS FOR ITS FINE MELONS Perfect Condition for Growing But Peat Is Killing the the Wevtermelona. T.P. Lee, who for several years past has handled the greater part of the melon cron of Roeoe river vallev will begin shippng melons next week to Portland aud other northern markets. He will also ship tomatoes making up mixed cars of watermelons, canta loupes, caesabas aud tomatoes. Mr. Lee is very much discouraged over the melon shipments as the water melon vines are dying in such num bers that the crop will be almost a failure. Some fields will not produce a melon all the vines having died, while in others tbe disease is doing but litte damage. In a few patches on new land at a distance from the old land the vims have not been affected with this disease, which is kuown as watermelon wilt. This disease is a vegetable spore so small uv.. - " render them visible to the eye. Tbe disease was brought here some (ire years ago on watermelon seed im port d from tbe Southern states, where it has been prevalent from years and caused great loss to melon growers. The spore live in the soil and attack the roots of the vine and on getting ...... .. . . . B . i within the skin and into the sap vines r I of the vine, they multiply in countless millions in a few hours snd choke the circulation of sap causing the vine to wilt as though tbe root bad been out off benoe the name of the disease. The vine will die within 24 hours after the spore have entered its cir culation. This disease made serious havoo with the Rogue River Valley water melon crop last, but does not attack cantalnpes, cassabas or other kinds of vines. On the request of the Courier Prof. A. B. Cordley, entomologist at the State Agriculture College, came to Grants Pass during the melon sea son last year and examined the in fected fields. Prof. Cordley recog nized the disease at once and said so far as known there was no sure way of eradicating the disease by spraying The Department ! or similar means, of Agriculture had tried many iueth-1 io' " w" uo B'u""u od. but anything that would kill the ! , ning. uin'en",ed ,0 spores also killed the vines. Prof, i . Cordley says that the only certain ,maU in lze- Heretofore the smaller way of exterminating the disease U 1 the orchard the more profit there was not to plant watermelons for at least in " the owner for the expend of three years on Infected laud and by carin for was small and the less that time the spores will all ,,av9 fl there was to be sold the lea. was starved to death for they do not at-1 the worrT over being swindled out of tack other plants. But if there is ! the W by d.shonest dealer. Mrs. Infected land within five miles. or!JeuDln'"1 lke other orchard sts, no even further, of a melon field it is ! that the Froit Gnmres' Union ha. liable to get the disease for the spores ' been organUed. feel, encouragei te ar carried on the feet of birds or aui-1 tBke better c8re of hor orchard and malsor even insects. A person walk ; to l,lant more tree8- She ha Terv ingfroin one field to another or the , choice land ,or "PP1"8' Pear8- l,eache8 Wi.M.l. nf a Mcl wnnb! rarrv th nd P aud POtS to take up spores and Innoculate a healthy melon patcli. As to whether the disease will ever be exterminated In Kogue , Kiver Valley Is not likely unless it were possible to prohibit melon grow- dig for the next three years. There will le farmer who will think their land free of the disease and others who will grow a few ineloiis in their gardens to keep the disease from be ing entirely starved out. Rougue River Valley watermelons have a famous reputation iu the markets of tbe north and bring prices that make their growing one of the most profit able industries of this county. The warm, saudy bottoms along Rogue river and Applegate river ara especial ly adapted to watermelons aud iu no section of the United States cau more melous aud larger and finer flavor be arown thau on this lsnd. As Rogue river cantaloupes aud cassabas have as fine a reputation as the watermel ons, farmers will have to grow them only. Experts concede that Rogue river cantaloupes quite equal in One flavor and size those of the famous Rocky Ford distiict in Colorado, and when they are as well known in tbe markets will sell for the fancv Drices tl),t Me p, for Colorado melons. Caasabas, though a new melon brought here a few years ago it i" said from India, is rapidly gaining popularity and when people become accustomed to its flavor esteem it tbe equal of any other melon tbat is grown, and maoy prefer it to water' melt" or cantaloupes FRUIT RAISING AND , DAIRYING TO LEAD Will Be the Big Industries With Josephine County Fat mere. Mrs. M. S. Jennings and her son P, H. Jennings, were in Grants Pass Tuesday. They r?side in Applegate Valley above Murphy where eaeh have a flue farm. Mr. Jennings brought a fine lot of pears from his mother's or chard for tllA Fruit. Hrnwfini' Tntnn Bnd a hrge can of cream from his dairy which he shipped to the Aghlaud creamery. Aud by tbe way this cream will be back to Grants Pass in a few days in tbe form of butter. Mr. Jen nings paying the freight on tbe cream to Ashland on bis cream and tbe ftlranta Poo, nn.nkua, n.,lnff 1a ..kt . lt rl freight on the butter. When there . . , ,2 D . sY fTAnmnrv In 4 -4 ran t m Waam w rtaaa cbBrgel will u dune BWay with and the farmer will get more for cream and the consumer will pay less for butter. Mr Jennings bought a separator last spring and has 16 cows, milking 13 now, the others to be fresh in the fall He formerly sold hay and beef hut be has proven that there is more money in selling cream and feeding tbe. hay on the farm. Mr. Jennings is very anxious that a creamery be built on the Applegate or in Grants Pass, so as to make a home market for butter, he thinks that the pres ent low price for hay will cause many farmers to go into dairying, especial ly as the outlook is that this low prioe is likely to be permanent if the farmers all continue to sell bay for the acreage to alfalfa is being in- creafed . ,U,n ""l8",' 'fruit raising on a larger scale, ni neiaomesn.. When Grants Pa gets a cannery vegi table growing will be done here on a large scale aud then big yields can be reported by the Courier similar to the followug from the Ashland lld- ings for no ssction of Kogue river valley has richer soil than Is about this city : Chas. H. Pierce, manager of the Ashland Preserving Coiupauy, re ports tills morning from bis patch of Kentucky Wonder string beans of 3215 pouuds. being only five-eighth of an acre. Two years ago this same sized patch of strlug beans yielded six tons, the largest picking being 800 pounds. This would be at the rate of nearly or quire ton tous to the acre. This il lustrates what good land ana abuniaut water supply for irrigation will do at Aiulauit. A Miner ia Killed. W. R. McKissick, a miuer well kuowu in thla section, was killed at Medford last Sunday by belug run over by a freight traiu on which he attempted to ri e n the brake' warn He had been at work at thj Blue Ledge coppei mine and came to Med f ird Saturday where his fauilly re sides. He aocusod William Law, a brick mason of that plaoe. with be ing intimate witb bis wire aud a street fight betweeo tbe two men was the result. Law took the morning train to Grants Pass aud Sunday Mo Kissick swore out a warrant for the arrest of Law. He was told by the Medford official to mail it to au officer in Qrauts Pass who would serve it, but be decided to come to this oity and see that it was served, andhe lost jhls lifd"ln"attemptiu'g to beat his ' way on a freight train. He leaves J wife aud two" llttlechildwn. He j was about 33 years of age. 1 ; The fire departnieotwaacalled out last Saturday afternoon, jw U g to a i small blase in the" roof of the Trimble blacksmith shop. The fire was put out without much damage. Underwood Typewriter agent A. E. Yoorbiea. OKAVE The B la. lock sawmill has stopped work. , Miss Adah Sexton of Hugo has been qnite 1IL The weather has changed and is cool and pleasant Miss Clorrah Light baa returned from Grants Pass. R. Culp of Leland, made Mr. Pen wells a visit last Monday. Mrs. Amanda 'Shively isj rnnning the Leland hotel at present. Born August 0, to Mr. snd Mrs. Elmer M. Duncan a 10 pound boy. Joseph Russell of Grants Pass was a truest at Ed Light's last Saturday. Mr. aud Mrs. Al Irwin of Placer passed through Grave last Saturday. Mrs. Tarris Sexton of Hugo was a guest ,of MrsT"Mary JS. Light last Sunday. Minxes Nettie Rutherford and Ora CInm made Leland a business trip last Saturday. Lewis Asher of Leland sawmill made Grave a business trip last Sun day to buy apples. Mr. Clark, who baa been working on Mr. Porters' bouse has moved to his borne at Golden. Mrs. William of Tolo, is visltina her son, Ernest Smith, of Grave. Er nest seemed so happy. Mrs. Shively and daughter Alice Malooey returned home from Rose burg Monady morning. Horita Cushing baa gone back to Grants Pass. We guess this warm weather doesn't agree witb him. Jay Reed has returned borne after a short visit to Eugene and he says, "Plenty of work and good wages." Clarence Farley of Grave is working at Leland. FARMER. It pays to advertise a useful article. Nine times out of 10 there'll be a buyer before the ink is dry. Try it. Blue Ledge Cle-ima Sold As a result of tho certainty that tbe Blue Ledge Copper Company will in stall a smelter on their property, other property in that famous copper district i taking on a tanigble valuation and some good sales are being made. jnrr and son, every up-to-date .style that BEING WORN TODAY AND COINC TO BE WORN this FALL, ARE To BE FOUND IN OUR .STOCK. THE NUG GET HAT S THE BEJT $3.00 HAT VALUE ON EARTH THE NUGGET HAT S MADE ESPECIALLY FOR UJ, UN DER OUR REGISTERED TRADE MARK, BY THE LARG EST HAT FACTORY IN NEW YORK. LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD, THE MINERS ARE GOING TO GIVE A ROCK DRILLING CONTEST IN GRANTS PASS. WE ARE GOING To GIVE To SOME PERSON WHO BUYS A NUCGET HAT BETWEEN NOW AND THE EVENING OF SEPTEMBER 3RD, THE NUGGET DISPLAYED IN OUR SIXTH STREET WINDOW. REMEMBER EVERY NUGGET HAT IS GUARANTEED BY US To HOLD ITS SHAPE, AND GIVE THE VERY BEST HAT SATISFAC TION. QE0. 5. CdLtttNNBCS. Tbe Medford Daily Tribune reports that the Copper King group of eight claims, belonging to E. N. Anderson, of Medford; R. T. Blackwood, of Phoenix, and Frank Edwards, ol Joes Bar, has been bougl't bv William Per due, of Spokane, and P. J. Tropv, of Pasadena, Cat The price paid was fr o - in xcbiMijPciNCiPitS m mfijasiAtc wirifc dM Grants Pass Banking and Trust Co. GRANTS PASS. ORE. I Buv and Sell Real Estate HOW IS THIS? A S1VAP No. 52S 40 acres 3 miles from this city; good house, pantry and wood shed ; 30 acres fenced. Price $550. Yours for bargains, JOSEPH MOSS, The Real Estate Man Hello 393 Office, 611 Residence. 516 Street Grants Pass. Ore. J3 EVOLVED THAT ifOME! PEOPLE DONTKNoW WHEN TV Dp Look PONT KNOW WHEN THEY D0NT IF want To Look fne go to a FINE PLACE WE AHOULD a.L T.ftflC AS WELL AS WE CAN DT OVK APPEARANCOOht YoJ LOVE To SEE p0 Tony TOGS? J BRoWN. NUGGET v' '--V' "'', X fe 'j3 COfYKICXT WOST TMf BUT1 IW1I CMKQO iff iiaill 'No 3 OUTriTTCRJ TO B0T AND flAN V. T. JntlM. who U1 fnn. sruwvi w r w uiiuijt; owner in the Bine I edge and foreman . . . . ; M At- - L .. at war, mine iur uig past year until this Spring, has acquired an interest io the Conper King property aud will have charge of the extensive develop ment work that will at once be begun on t'ie claims. NCE MDSonE RfAU?f PFoPi.f PLE WEAR Do