VOL. XXII.
GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1906.
No. 29.
HOOD RIVER FRUIT
FAIR BIG SUCCESS
Display of Apples Fine Orchard
ists Get Big Prices.V alley Pros
perous, All Through Union.
Charles Meterve, secretary and
manager of the Grants Pass Fruit
Growers Union, returned Sunday from
a weeks trip north, three days of
t which he spent at Pood River seeing
the fro it fair at that place and in
taking notes of the methods of grow
ing and marketing fruit in that Val
ley that holds the honor of getting the
highest price paid for apples this year
lay any growers 1 n the United States.
Mr. Meserve reports a most pro St
able and enjoyable trip and he ex
presses appreciation for the many
courtesies extended to .him by Presi
dent E. L. Smith and Secretary C.
P. Thompson of the Hood River
Fruit f air Association, and to Mana
ger; E. H. Shepard and Assistant
Manager E. A. Franz , of the Hood
River Api'e Growers Union and who
are also publishers of Better Fruit,
and to A. L Mason, one of Hood
Rivers most successful apple growers
and to all the citizens of Hood Rher
town and valley, who each was a
ommlttee of one and all . working
together to entertain to the fullest ex
tent the visitors to their progressive,
handsome valley.
Though in a busy season, for apple
picking was on, the farmers were out
in force at the fair and they and their
well dressed families came iu baggies
and carriages and not lumber wagons,
and when they paid a bill it was with
cash or a check and not in brass
money or a long-winded promise.
-And what was most noticeable there
-was not a poor skeleton of a scrub
boree driven by these farmers such
as can be seen all too frequently on
the streets of Grants Pass, for the
Hood River horses look as sleek and
'well fed as do their owners. Tte
Hood River roads are fine turnpikes
and the rural mail and telephone
'covers the valley and each farm lias
these essentials to modern rural life.
The dwelling have the tasty appear
ance of town homes and the barns
and apple houses are well painted.
A traveler will not see cows in the
front yard and pigs at the back door
of a Hood River orchardist's home,
nor are gates to be seen that are off
their hinges and the barn yard lit
tered with farm implements ia
carious stages of repair.
The orchards are the center of Ik-j
terest to the visitors to this very
handsome and productive valley for
they are in their perfection the em
bodiment of the application of brains
and muscle in farm work, bnt more
of the former than of the latt r, for it
takes the reading, intelligent person to
grow fruit, and the mno who reads
little and sits in a saddle or .on a
spring scat to raise tock or grain
-would make a failure at fruit raising.
All the trees in the Hood, River or
'Chardsare as uniform and symmetrical
.as though grown in a mould and they
are as vigorous and healthy as the
trees in the forests for l hey are given
the best of care and the highest of
cultivation. As to being given the
sickly, scrobby appearance by pests,
as is the case with every orchard iu
Josephine county, the Hood River
orchards are as free from pests as it
is possible to secure aud it is the
rule that in an entire orchard not a
Nbox of wormy or scaly apples can be
lonud. Their cuuuty fruit inspector
is on duty all th time and is paid f3
a day and all f xpensrs, snd if he finds
the least indication of disease or pest
in an orchard the owner is forced at
T5h3
j 1 Sell
r.m,,nH Floor. Courier Building, GrantsJPass, Ore.
once to eradicate it. By this close
vigilance the pests have been almost
exterminated from the Valley and not
having the favorable conditions for
breeding in the orchards they have
almost disappeared from the forests
and no longer swarm as they do
here in this Valley from the trees of
the woods to thoce iu ihe orohard.
The Hood River orchardists do not
get trees from outside nuneries as
they fear diteases and pests may be
inipcrtrd and they have found that
the home grown trees being acclimated
bring the best results. That Rogue
River Valley fairly i warms with
pests is due to the importation of
thousands of trees each year that are
grown in sections where little or no
attempt is made to suppress the dis
eases that threaten to destroy the
fruit industry of the United States.
That there is big profit in Hood
River fruit land is proven by the fact
that $100,000 cash was refused this
Summer for the Beulal) Land orchard
owned by O. L. Vanderbilt. Kales
though have been made for other or
chards at corresponding prices.
Hood River soil is quite similar to
much of Rogue River Valley land,
but only apples and strawberries oan
be grown successfully by reason of the
colder climate. The fruit crop is
estimated to bring in this year fully
$300,000 and when the preseut young
orchards are in full bearing by five
years hence, there will be $1,000,000
to pass through the Hood River banks
to the credit of the farmers of that
little valley that is bnt nine miles by
20 miles in extent. But by intelli
gent, intensified methods it is made
to yield a wealth not equaled by any
other equal sized district in Oregon
and its loyal residents expect that the
time is not distant when their fruit
will annually bring them 5,000,000.
Hood River town, which has ' a
population of about 2000, has a pros
perous, up-to-date appearance, quite
in contrast to the average town that is
dependent almost wholly on an ag
ricultural district for its support,
showing that the fruit industry is
a solid basis to a town's prosperity.
The store., are large and carry fine
stocks and the residences are as a
rnle such as can be found in a city.
The high school will compare with
the bast in the state and the country
districts have graded schools, there
being several two and fonr room
buildings in the Valley.
It was 12 years ago that the Hood
River fruit raisers held their first
fruit fair and they have made sn ex
hibit every two years since. .So suc
cessful have been these fairs and so
popular with the general public that
it is proposed to hold a fair each Fall
hereafter. The business men of the
town heartily co-operate with the
farmers iu the work of preparing and
carrying on these fairs and put up the
greater part of the guarantee fund
each year to meet the expenses. A
small admission fee is charged that
usually pays all the expense. The
first fair was held in a hall but it
outgrew that aud in recent years a
tent has been used, owned by the As
sociation. As the fair grew the
tent was enlarged and this year it was
75x200 feet and every font of space
available was occupied by exhibits
that eiubaced every kind of fruit,
farm and garden products. There
was aUo a highly creditable display
of fancywork and band painted China
ware two of the pi"cen having taken
premiums at the St. Louis World's
rair. Some fine poultry were on ex
hibition and several coops containing
different varieties of pheasants at
tracted much atteutiou. Several
swarms of bees under glass were
another attraction. Tie display of
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Real Estate t
SURETY BONDS.
FIRE INSURANCE
AND
RENT HOUSES.
W. Lr. IRELAND,
Real Estate Man.
GRANTS PASS SCH00S
DOING GOOD WORK
Enrollment Shows Satisfactory
Gains Ten Rooms on Roll
for Perfect Attendance.
Below are given some items from
the report of attendance in the public
schools for the school month of
September, 1900, as compared with
the same month for the two sessions
previous :
Sept Sept Sept
1904 1905 1906
Total enrollment 84 729 734
No. cays absence ....892 308 2ti)
No. cases of tardiness 85 24 9
Average daily attend 580 631 645
Percentage of attend 97 97 98
A glauce at these figures shows a
hteady increase in enrollmeat each
year and a great improvement from
year to year as regards regular attend
ance. Of the 201s days absence last
month, 16 days are recorded as ab
sence unexoused. While the report
of attendance for the month is doubt
less the best in many respects for any
month in the tiiree sessions couoerned,
yet there is room for improvement.
The superintendent and teachers
earnestly request patrons of the school
to aid in the matter of regular attend
ance, that the report of attendance
may improve from month to month.
There is scarcely anr good oxense
for tardiness, and there should be no
absence except when sickness of
pupil or sickness in the family makes
absence on part of ti e pupil neces
sary Pupils detained from school
from any other causes are recorded
as "absent unexoused." Iwo cases
of abeeoce or tardiness thus recorded
nnexcused, within the school month
render the pupil liable to suspen
sion. As an inoeutive for regular attend
ancs on the part of pupils a reward
of one half day' holiday is offered
to each "room" that has no oases of
tardiness and no cases of absence un
exoused during any school month.
The following grades have thus
earned the half day's holiday for the
month of September :
Seoond grade, East building, Miss
Peck, teacher.
Third grade, East building, Miss
Eaton, teacher.
Fojrth Grade, East building, MijS
Horton, teacher.
Fourth grade, Overflow school, Miss
George, teacher.
Fifth grade, Overflow school, Miss
Parramore, teacher.
Fifth grade, Central school, Mrs.
Merritt, teacher. "
Sixth grade, Central school, "Mim
Rodney, teacher.
Seventh grade, Central school,
Miss Rathbuo, teacher.
Seventh grade, Central school, MUs
Turfs, teacher.
Eighth grade, Central school, Miss,
Olseu, teacher.
Recent school legislation makes 1
compulsory the attendance in school
for the full term of children under 10 ,
years of age. Persons or corporations
employing children under this age,
during school hours, are liable to
heavy fine, as is also any one con
tributing in any way to the truancy
of a pupil. A truant officer has been
employed by the local school board to
see that these laws are properly com
plied with and to look after atmuttes.
We quote at length from the law :
CHILD LABOR AND COMPUL
SORY ATTENDANCE.
Sec 2. No child undei 14 years of
age shall be employed in any factory,
store, workshop, In or about any
mine, or in the telegraph or tele
phone service.
Sec. 8. No child under the age of
14 years shall be employed in any
work, or labor of any form, for wages
or other compensation during the
hours when the public spools of the
town, district or city are in session.
Sec. 4. Attendance at school shall
be compulsory upon all children be
tween the ages of 8 and 14 years dur
ing the whole of the school term and
upon all children between the ages of
14 and 16 who are not emloyed iu
some lawful work.
Sec. 6. No child under 16 years of
age shall be employed, permitted or
suffered to work in auy employment
enumerated in Section 2, etc.
Sea 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 guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be fined in a
sum not less than f 10 nor'more than
25Jfor the first offense, nor leas than
$25 nor more than 50 for the seoond
offense, and be imprisoned for not less
than 10 nor more than ' 80 days for the
third aud each succeeding offense.
See 13. Any parent or guardian
who shall violate any of the provis
ions of this act, or allow any child
under their custody or control to do so,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than 5 and not more than $25.
DELINQUENCY AND TRUANCY.
Sea 1. In all cases where any child
shall be a delinquent child the parent
or parents, legal guardian, or any
other person, by any act encouraging,
causing or contributing to the de
linquency of such child, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
trial and conviction thereof shall be
fiued in a sum - not to exceed $1000, or
imprisoned in the county jail for a
period not exceeding one year.
Sec. 2. The words "Delinquent
child" shall include any child under
the age of sixteen (16) years who
violates any law of this state or any
oity or village ordinance or who is a
truant from school, eta
Sea 8. Justices of Peace shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with the cir
cuit court in all prosecutions under
this act.
Charter Meeting Called.
We, the undersigned members of the
common council of the city of
Grants Pass, Oregon, call for a publio
meeting at the City Hall, at 8 o'clock
p. m. October 22d, 1906, at which all
legal aud qualified voters of the City
of Grants Pass will have au oppor
tunity to liotin to a publio reading
of the Charter as proposed and
adopted by the common council,
which said charter wilt be submitted
at the next city election. This meet
ing will le called to order by the
Aui'itor and Police Judge of the
City of Grants Pas, Oregon. Aftei
the readiDg of the proposed charter
aiiyoiie desiring to criticize or object
to said charter or any portion thereof
will be allowed to file his objections
in writing with the Aud tor and
Police .iuugn nn or before noon, Oc
tober 231, 1906 and the same will be
considered at a rpecial meeting of the
oommou council to h held at 8 o'clock
p. m. in the City Hall, October 23d,
190(1
L. B HALL,
T. W. WILLIAMS,
F. FETSCH.
W. M. HAIR,
T Y. DEAN,
K. W. CHAUSSE,
J. C. RANCLE.
Mil
ttonntiful now Combina
tion DfsfcK tind BookOascs
$15.00 to $30.00
Ournew
Linol e
ums are
on the
way
will ar
rive th's
week.
Hand
some
pattosns, both inlaid and reg
ular prices riht.
Our New Line of ROCKERS
and Dining Chairs
cannot be beat.
This fine Rattan
Rocker, no arras,
$3.75.
See the new goods.
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R0GUG RIVER PEARS
BRING HIGHEST PRICE
Medford Man Gets Record Price
In Nrw York City for Cat
of Cornice Pe&rs.
Last season J. W. Perkins of Med
ford beat the world's record in the
returns received from a car of Corn
ice pears shipped from Medford to the
New York market. He realized a
gross return of $3429, and a net return
of $2700.73. This year be shipped
a car of fancy stock to the same place
and he has received word that he had
broken the record again, the carload
bringing $3450, and netting him $2710,
an increase of $9.27 over that of last
year, and the highest price ever paid
for a carload of pears in the worM.
All of the pears In the oar were large,
averaging 85 and 40 to the half box,
there being 65 35 's 588 40's and about
50 half boxes of smaller ones. They
were packed extra fancy with lace
paper, etc.. and marked with Mr.
Perkins' brand, which in itself stands
for high quality.
Mr. Perkins won out this years in
the face of greater competition than
he dad last year. In 1905 there were
only five cars of Cornice pears mar
keted in New York. This season his
ai the 14tb car to reach the market,
most of the others being from Cali
fornia. They brought on an average
from $3.35 to $2.75 per half box, gross.
One of the factors to be considered in
this connection and one that has a di
rect bearing on he price paid is the
fact that these pears will be put In
cold storage and will be In good con
dition In January, while eight weeks
is about the limit of the time that the
California product can be relied upon
to keep. Medford Tribune.
Mistakes Brother for a. Deer.
Edgar Robinson was killed by bis
brother on Elk Creek 45 miles north
east of Medford, near the old Apple
gate mine, by accident, last Wednes
day, having been mistaken for a deer
In the brush. The coroner's jury
impaneled by Coroner Kellopg found
that deceased came to his death by
neaus of a gun-shot wound inflicted
by Albert Robinson, that his age was
19.
The bovs were accompanied to the
mountains by their ancle, Mr. Scott,
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and a young man named Pea roe, to
gether with their younger brother,
Leonard Robinson. The remains
were packed out from the upper
mountains by the survivors and
taken to Medford. The young man
who did the shooting waa with other
members of the party, Including de
ceased, to up within a moment before
the shot, and ran up to the dying
brother with the exclamation: "Obi
I thought it was a deer t Forgive me,
forgive me 1"
NO OVERSTOCK
OF GOOD APPLES
The Big Crop of This Year Has
Created a Greater Demand
at Profitable Prices.
One savlug feature about the apple
is the fact that there are so many by
products f this fruit. It is not ouly
possible to find a sale nearly always
for good fruit as it oiuies from the
orchard ready for being ' consumed,
but it has now reached the point
where an enormous quantity of good
apples Is required every year for
other purposes.
Iu some sections large quantities of
apples are cot op and dried,' some
from the warmth of the sun and
others dried out by especially equip
ped maohluery. The evaporators now
do the larger business In this branch,
snd in many cases the dried or evapo
rated apple has increased very much
iu value by slicing and taking most
of the water out of the fruit when
it is stored for future use.
This year the world's markets ap
pear to be practically bare of evapora
tioed and dried applet from the past
season, owing to the short supply of
apples In 1905. It goes without say
ing that there will be ample fruit to
take oare of the demand for evapor
ated and dried apples this season.
- Repot ts from every direction shows
that the jelly makers, the cider and
vinegar people aud many distillers are
taking time by the forelock to replen
ish their stock. Most of thene plants
are being run. -overtime to their full
capacity. -1
From the seier.il by-products we"
can make from the apple it has been
urged that as many as possible of the
cores, skins, pumice, baa applnn, etc,
be nsed for silage and dry skins be
fed to cattle or other stock. It Is be'
lieved that if as much as posxihle of
the inferior fruit be used in this way
the markets will be greatly better for
good, sound fruit.
A splendid array of tasty
patterns in Wall Papers
10 to 75c
silverware at u-ss than
wholesale.
Knives and Forks, per set,
$2 50.
Cake Moulds,
Pudding Moulds,
Patent Pie and
Cake Tins, all kinds
Cake Spoons,
Egg Whips, all
kinds dover, 10c
Kraut Cutters,
35c to $1.50
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