r VOL. XXII. GRANTS PASS. JOSBPHINB COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1906. No. 23. p r 4 r! TRUANT LAW FOR J.1. SCHOOL CHILDREN t . ' f ,j ; 3 , School Board Will Enfni-r Prn. visions of Law Recently Enacted. The school board for District No. 7 v held its regular monthly meeting at . the office of Clerk C E. Maybee on 1 . ... the trnant law recnntlr nmuHwil hv The state lesrislatore. rnnrdincr t.ha j a: employment or cniiaren ol school aire, and the compulsory attendance In school of children of snob age. We quote from the law as follows : An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the employment of child labor, and for the attendance of children at school, etc. Section 9. No child under 14 years of age shall be employed in any factory, store, workshop, in or abont any mine, or in the telegraph, telephone, or poblic messenger service. Sec 8. No child noder the age of 14 years shall be employed in any work, or labor of any form, for wages or other compensation to whomsoever payable, during the boon when the public school of the town, district or city in which he or she resides are in session. ( Sec. 4. Attendance at sohool shall j I M compulsory apoo all children be i ' tween the ages of eight and 14 years in all cities, towns and villages of the tate of Oregon daring the whole of the school term in the city, town or village in which the child resides, and upon all children in sncb city, towns and villages between the ages of 14 and 16 who are not employed in some lawful work. Seo. 6. No obild under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any employment enumerated in section 2, unless the person or corporation employing bim f prooures and keeps on file and accessi ble to the sohool authorities of the dis trict where such child resides, and to the police and board of inspectors of child labor an age and sobooling oer tificate as hereinafter prescribed, and keep a complete list of all such children employed therein. Sec. 11. Any person or corporation who shall employ a minor contrary to the provisions of this act, or who shall violate any of the provisions thereof, shall be gnilty of misde meanor and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than f 10 nor more than $35 for the first offense, nor less than $26 nor more than $50 for the second offense, and be im prisoned for not lesB tfiau 10 nor more than 30 days for the third and each succeeding offense. Seo. 12. Any parent or guardian who shall violate any of the provis ions of this act or allow any child nnder their custody or control to be employed contrary to the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and npon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 and not ' ' more than $25. It is the purpose of the school board to rigorously enforce the provisions of this and other laws bearing npon non-attendance and traanoy. For this purpose a "truant officer" will be employed who will daily look into f each case of absence not satisfactorily explained to the teacher or superin tendent, as well as the non-attendance of all children of school age. Parents and others contributing to the "de linquenoy" of 'children are also pun- lahnhln tiT heavv One. as tne lollow- 'tng section of the Aotof 1905, page 298,. explains : Sec. 1. In all cases where any child 0 Grants snail be a delinquent child or Juvenile delinquent person as defined by any statute of this state, the parent or parents, legal guardian, or person having the custody of snob child, or any other person, responsible for, or by any act encouragiog, caus ing or contributing to the delinquency of such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and con viction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to excejfl $1000, or imprisoned in the county jail for a period not ex ceeding one year, or by both suoh fine and Imprisonment. The court may impose conditions npon any person found guilty under this act, and so long as this person shall comply there with to the satisfaction of the court, the sentence imposed may be sus pended. It was necessary for the school board to again rent buildings where overflow schools may be held until suoh time as the new sooth school will be ready for occupancy, which will probably be about Thanksgiving time. The buildings rented are the Moss building on E street, the Booth and the Alioe Rogers buildings on Y street between Fourth and Fifth. A petition signed by about 20 bop growers and others asking the post ponement of school opening until September 17, on account of the scarcity of hop pickers, was presented but no action was taken. Improvements to school buildings were reported as follows: New plumbing in the East sohool, and in the Central sohool the removal of the partition between the two rooms on the second floor in the east wing, making one large room for the high school students and for assembly pur poses. The following assignment of grades has been made : City Superintendent, Prof. R. R. Turner. High School. Principal, A. E. Harrison. Assistant Prinoipal, Miss Nona Bridges. . Assistant Principal, Miss Ada E. Walker. Central Building. ' Eighth grade, Miss Olga Olson. , Eighth grade assistant, Miss Ethel E. Jonereau, also special studies. Seventh grade, Miss Minnie Tuffs. Seventh grade, Miss Ernine Bath- born. Sixth grade, Miss Emily A. Bodeny. Fifth grade, Mrs. Bessie Merritt. East School. Sixth grade, J. A. Bish. Fifth grade, Miss Blanche Crane. Fonrtb grade, Miss Alioe M. Horton. Third grade, MiBs Nellie Eaton. Second grade. Miss Lillian Peck. . First grade, Miss Anna Thompson. South School. Third grade, Miss Azella Mulkey. Second grade, Mrs. Mollie Belding. First grade, Miss Maude Kelly. Overflow. Fourth grade, Miss Lucie George and Miss Nellie Bemant. Fifth grade. Juliete V. F. Par- ramore. For Fire Insurance The O. F. R. A. of McMinnvilie are the cheapest and have 12 years standing without a peer in Oregon for settling fire losses. That tells the tale. Don't be deceived by other agents who have selfish motives. In no event will it cost you more than the standard stock companies charge per annum. H. B. HENDRICKS, Agt Grants Pass, Ore. 7-27 tf Claude Williams and Claude Trim ble returned last Friday from ajvery successful hunting trip at West fork. Ciande Williams left this Wednesday for Eugene, where he will -spend the Winter. Real Estate AND Rent Houses t W. . IRELAND. 650 Real Estate Man t Ground Floor, Courier Bldg Pass,' Oregon. FOUND NO CHANGES IN HIS OLD HOME Oranta Pase Citizen Visits Hie Birthple.ce After Absence of 50 Years, ' J. K. Pigney has returned to Grants Pass after an absence of three months, during which time he visited in Mon treal and made a trip to Europe spendiug five weeks in England and a week each in Sootlsnd and Ireland. It has been 60 years sinoe Mi. Pigney left his boyhood home in the North of England and since that time there have been no changes in the little town of 500, except in the inhabi tants, there being a new generation, the children occupying the homes of their parents who were obildren in Mr. Pigneys' boyhood. Of all his old childhood friends there are left but eight whom he could locate. He' has two sisters living there, girls of 8 and 16 years when he left England. Now the younger one is a grandmother with 30 living grandchildren. ' In the home town, he says, two buildings have been torn down and other buildings erected, and two other boiidings were torn down and the lot left vacant. These are the only ohanges in the town for the past 50 years. At Penrets, County of Cumberland, a city of 100,000, he could see no change exoept a new depot In Liverpool and London and the manufacturing and mining towns there are of course great changes and the progressive spirit - is very ap parent. Mr. Pigney 's sisters thought be bad oome to England to tpend bis remain ing years, but be says he would cot go there to live for any amount OIL IS STRUCK EAST OF MEDF0RD An Irrigating Welt on the Miller Ple.ce Develops Into Good . Oil Prospect. Oil has been Btrock on the place of G. Miller in East Medford. Mr. Miller owns three acres of land in this section which he has planted to or chard and strawberries. On this plaoe is a well of water and Mr. Miller was having an electric pomp installed recently for irrigating purposes. The pump could not be made to woik uad on investigation it was foond that there were several feet of oil in the water, which, when tested was found to born readily. When Mr. and Mrs. Miller first came to this place the taste of oil in the water was very strong but after oontinued use the taite be came less noticeable, bnt there was always a light oily, scum on the sur face of water taken from the well and to anyone drinking the water for the first time the presence of oil was strongly apparent. Besides owning the three acres on which the well is situated, Mr. Mil ler, with eight other men, has a lease on the surrounding land adjacent to this section and they also own a valuable coal mine. Should this oil strike prove permanent as there is every indication of it doing, it will realize a neat sum for the possessor and be a splendid advertisement for South ern Oregon. Calhoun's Nugget Weighed $S.75 I The gold nugget guessing contest carried on by the Geo. S. Calhoun Co., olosed Monday, when the nugget was awarded to G. W. Wentoer, bis guess being $8.75, which was the exact weight of the nugget Tbe second nearest guess was S8. 80 made by L. W. Richardson, of the Richard son confectionery store and tho third nearest guess was $8.30 made by J. W. Light of Lelaod. Mr. Calboon is one of our most up-to-date' business men and re conceived this novel wav of advertising the nugget hat, carried by bis establishment by giving each pur chaser of a Nugget hat, a guess on the weight of a gold nugget placed in a jar of water, the one guessing nearest, to receive nngget By placing the nugget in the water made it appear somewhat misleading, as the fr magnified it causing it to appear much larger than it really was. Beet Equipped Blacksmith Shop in Southern Oregon. One of tbe most up-to-date shops in Southern Oregon is tbe blacksmith shop of James Trimble on I street, and Mr Trimble has recently added new machinery and equipment that places bis stiop on a par with any blacksmith shop betweu Portland and Sacramento. One of the latest additions is a trip hammer, which is run by electric power and is very simple in its operation, it being neo essary only to press a lever with the foot and the massive hammer pounds away with a force that does the work. at one heating of the iron, that it would reqo ire five men to do. It can also be regulated by a very slight pressure on the lever so that the blows of 'the hammer oan be made very light wheu lighter wore is de sired. Mr. Trimble has also installed a new blower, whioh is a big improve ment over the old ones usually found in blacksmi th shops. This blowor 1 run by eleo trio power, as also the drills and other machinery. By the addition of this new and nn-tn-cUt machinery and the nse of electric power instead of the old, tiresome band power, the work of the ahnn bas been simplified to such a degree that Mr. Trimble is able to perform the duties of the shop with much less help and in a shorter time than for merly and his work is first-class and up-to-date in every respect. Furniture, Carpets, Lace Curtains and Portiere, Mat tresses, Pillows. Cots Mirrors Linoleums, Win dow Shades, Pictures and Picture Mould ing, Clocks, Wall Paper, and Trunks. THOMAS & O'NEiILL HOMES FURNISHED COMPLETE SODETHING NEW Every .Week Housefurnishing is our bus iness, it's a specialty with us, w know how and buy accord ingly, everything for the house. A visit to our store, the larg est in Southern Oregon, will convince you. WOOD BEDS, 6ft high, full size, with neat carvings, Regular $5.75, this week $3. 75. Iron and Brass beds from $39 down to cheapest WASH BOIL ERS best char coal tin, heavy copper bottom 98 cents Other offerings in tinware just as interesting OC Asbestos Mats saves iood and dishes can't burn Stove brustes bristles for 15c, a fine brush for a little price Lunch Baskets 10c to 60c hard wood metal bound bush el picking baskets, 45 cents Tumblers, Blown Flint glass nicely engraved, a uece assortment to choose from 45c a set Syrup pitchers, more fMnew patterns both plain )J i j - 45 cents Window shades if you want something special in shades, let us bgure on your house bill. One only of those LEONARD REFRIGATORS left it goes at cost who gets it? More new'Vases in. Baby Go-carts cheap this week. Thomas & O'Neill GRANTS PASS PEARS SELL FOR $2.26 BOX Fruit Growers Union Receive Rt turns From Initial Shipment. The car ' of Bartlatt pears that the Grants Pass Frnit Growers Union sent to Rae & Hatfield of New York, was sold promptly at $3.26 a box. Uwlng to the high refrigerator oar and freight charges, the former being higher than i was astloipated, the car will net the Union $1.15 a box. In a letter Rae & Hatfield complimented the quality of the pears bnt said the packing was not op to the standard, one of the faults being that some of the boxes were too flat and the Dears became lose in the box and the boxes were underweight This though is the highest Dries ever received in Josephine county for pears and is a fine Indorsement for the Union, in view of the fact that thm orchafdists wonld not ship with the Union and sold their pears to Port land house for 60 oents a bos. whioh netted them about 50 cent on each J feCf5$ This wardrobe $9.95 for $7.50. Our lines ol Bed IBi I fig, and best construction all prices. This fine patent dairy pail extra heavy usualy 85 cents, for 45c. Plenty of others iaKfliniir. Vegetable Brushes, a great la bor saveronly 5c, worth double A big reduction on Framed Pic tures this week. Let us frame your pictures, you will be pleas ed at our prices. Headquarters For Economic box. Had the bearing pear trees la. this county been properly cultivated. pruned and sprayed there would have been fully eight oars' of floe Bartletta for Eastern shipment instead of one oar. Now that the farmers are cer tain of securing through the Union protfiable prices for their pears here after, tbey will take good care of -their trees and not allow thousands of boxes of fine, large Bartletts and other pears to be ruined by the soale and otber peats. Drilling Contest. On Labor Day, Monday. September 3, a rock drilling contest took plaoe at the A. A. C. grounds at 2:30 p. m. The contestants were Brlnokerboff and Harrington and was won by the former, he drilling 8fi)tf inches in IS minutes, while. Harrington drilled 29g inches in the same time. Con siderable interest was manifest in this contest, although the attendance was not so large as was expected. The drilling was a single banded, straight away contest for a stake of $500, $250 a side. The Classified Ad columns of the Courier contain many items which will be of interest to you and yoa should make it a Doint to read them each Week. ' Stoves and Ranges, Granlteware, Agateware, Tinware Wooden ware, Wllloware, Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Cutlery Fancy China, Baby Carriages and Go-Carts, Our Moto MONEY BACK IF YOU WANT IT-Could you pos sibly ask more. An inspection of our stock is an object lesson to any Housekeeper. We are pleased to see you closet in gol Lounges and Couches are un surpassed for genuine worth, choice coverings Heavy ixxx tin pails usually 45c, for 35c, pails like picture 10c Granite Preserve Kettles 25c to 60c I? .... i , 1'reserv f """ lTJ ingket- large assortment, 25c to 60c big line Toilet Sets-nicely flecorated $2.98, anecessity in a good bedroom Goblets Choice fig ured patterns, 45c set bait Boxes A verv convenient kitchen nec essity 50c House cle aning time means washing lace cur tains, a good stretcher is nec essary $2.00 $2.75 $3.50 Buyers PIS