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ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS. OREGON. MAY 3. 1907. Mm HE3 Tm In England and France the Sal of Alum Baking Powder is pro hibited by law because of the in jurious effects that follow its use. The law in the District of Columbia also prohibits Alum, in food. You may live where as yet yon have no protection against Alum The only sure protection against Alum in your Baking Powder is fo Sap ptainty ROYAL is made from product Aids digestion adds to the healthfulness of food CALL ISSUE FOR COUNTY WARRANTS County Treasurer H& Funds on Hand to Pay Many Out standing Warratns. There are funds in the treasury to paj all warrant pro tea ted to January 1, 1904. Interest will cease from this date, April 19th, 1907. J. T. TAYLOR. Treasurer of Josephine Co., Ore. KUBLI (Too late for last week.) Mr. Lnoe of Grants Pass is now visiting friends at this place. Viotor Bailer and Will illie Wool- The North 6th St. In cleaning up stock for Spring trade, we find quite a Jew od' peices of Furniture, Carpets, Linoleums, Etc, which are offered at reduced prices until sold, some Rockers exceptisnally cheap. The Wall Paper sale has been a success andwill continue, it is the largest stock in the city to select from. Stock of Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Linoleums, Art Squares the most complete in the city and new arrivals constantly receiving. Goods Sold on Installment Plan A. U. Bannard Sxtih and D Streets GRANTS PASS, - OREGON grants Pass (Under Now HEADQUARTERS FOR i-1 r- -7 3! :TEAS,:COFFEES!AND SPICES. fli'KES Country Produce Hoiisht CLE MIE N S SELLS- BOOKS OBANGE FRONT GRAkITS mm, Absolutely pure Cream of Tartar a n,,r r.Mn- dridge came very nearly being planted in a bed of quicksands last week, while crossing the river. The boys say they were obliged to dismount from the horse, which they were riding and wade through sand and water up to their eyes. Willie Wooldridge was visiting friends at Provolt last Sunday. Willie Farris and O. W. Metk were in Qranti Pass one day last wtek. David Roberts of this plaoe has been doing some works for Messrs. York and Knntzen, onr new hop men. Say, its a good thing there is a fence between ' ' Monty "and" Shorty. ' ' Be careful, boys, the fence is liable to fall down. "Monty" seems to be most terribly anxious for me to hear from Provolt and even suggests that the telephone be nsed in my behalf. James J. McFadden, seems to be 'he leading Ago re at Laurel Grove of late. Jess York Is now staying with his sister, Mrs. Messenger of New Hope. Jake Brown was in Jacksonville on business one day last week. Furniture House i I 5 I Grocery Go. .luiui;jomoiit ) FRESH GROCERIES, - Cah Paid for Ess ' em and DRUGS, PASS, ORE. BAKING POWDER C. M. Rfxford made Grants Pats last week. trip to Bert York, one of onr most enter I rising yonng men, has been purchas ing son e cattle near Grant! Pass. We notice that Joe York has boen purchasing a new wagon. James Cook returned home last Sunday from the Maid of the Mist mine where he has been employed for some time past. Homer York was in Grants Pass one day last week. " We are pleased to notice the splen did condition of J. W. York's hop yard, which Is now in a better state of cultivation than ever before, a fact that promises an enormooa yield of hops this season. WINDY. t LAUREL GKOYE Our reporter was visiting in joor oily last Saturday. Mr. Haberman was in yonr city last Saturday ou business, also Koby Uoot and mother. Mr. Root loft litHt Sutord-iy for California to visit at his nn's home while Mrs. Root and Ruby go to the mill this Summer. Jas. Gilmore, onr denial merchant and townsman, paid your city a visit last, SatDrday, accompanied by his wife. H. T. Day has been buny hanlins rails the past week aud fencing some new ground. A party was given at the home of Jeff Lindsay on last Saturday night aud a good time was enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Caldwell and children are visiting at the home of Mrs. Kmily Day this week. "Ebeu" is always tell'ng someone clw to go after the grafters; now why don't he go it himself? Charles Swinden has been ou the sick list the past week, having had the chills aud agne. LiOiil T.inilfiuv imiri vnnr nifv a viuit last Sutordny. We have a new neighbor in onr midst as Mr. linxshard has rented the mil piace. Amos Williams went to yonr city last Saturday after a load for Mr. Bosshard. CJ. Swett and wife paid yonr city a vinlr last Saturday, kIsj Roy Reed. Walter Fitrra left on Wodensday for Klamath Falls where he goes to look after his property in that oountry. Most of the people of Laurel Grove took in the circus in your city ou April 2'M and report a good time. Klmnr Williams is expected home from Klamath Falls in a few days. J. L. Williams returned home a few days ago hut h unlucky about getting that cork. Try again, uidman. Beautiful weather is the order of the dav now and crops of all kindB are coming :rein and thrifty. The late frosts the past few nights have killed most all the peaches in I o;ir hurg. I Our report! r faw a car load tf fine ' eastern hones last Saturday, but did 1 not learn whre they wi re toUt. i ; Which is the wnit tclei him-, tele- gra h or tell a woman'; ! ! If was very i leasaot riding a wheel! to your city last Saturday, a- ttie I n ails were a l and "Wii;dy" of Knbli was on the ruad so tliat mafic it . 'cool. i Archie Bunch has heeti very hu-y i farming the pist week, hnt will n-.w clean out the ditch iu.1 I e ready to j irrigate. j 'A'e are informed that Vi-i-r-. Km i1 are! Aniii-1 w ill n rt t!.. ir i- ,1: a :t ilay 4th. hhL CI.O'l). i j Legal blank it the Courier office. , HOW TO CROW CROPS WITH LITTLE RAIN Department of Agriculture Gives Free Instructions on Dry La.nd Farming. Rogue River Valley ueedg irrigation hut until that can be had much of the land in this Valley can be made to produce very good crops by a system of conserving the catotal molsotre of the soil, that comes from the Winter rains inrougn wnat is Known as the dry laud method of farming The Department of Agricalture has for several years past been giviug much attention to devising mehods for so storing the rainfall in the soil that crops may be grown in semi-arid sec tions. Those iutereetfd in this new method of farming should address the secretary of Agriculture at Washing ton for a copy of Farmers' Bulletin No. 206, on the management of soils. It is particularly designed for semi arid regions. Being a document of SO pages, we cannot reproduce it, bnt it is an exceedingly useful document, which gives the philosophy of many practices employed by the best farmers who may never have read anything ou the subject and should save those who hsve got some part of tlie art to learn a great deal of very costly experience. The object of titlh is to conserve moisture in dry soils, and gut rid of the excess in thope which are too wet aud also to assure the free admission of air to any depth peuetrated by roots, without leaving large air spaces to promote evapora tion. This bulletin, however, devotes most space to the managnmeut of soils in countries of dry Summers and to that form of agriculture known as "dry farming." The better the I farmer the more he will learn from this bulletin. The problem of dry farming is the storage of water in the soil, and certain methods not usually practiced in humid districts or on irrigated laud have been fonnd by experieuce 'most expensive. It is well to know them and the reasons for them. The Summary at the end of the bulletin is as follows: "A deep soil of good, tilth will absorb and hold for the use of plants a large part of the rainfall. Snch soil is in good oondition for . the growth of common crops. Soils can be pnt in the best of tilth, when in proper state of moist ure, by deep plowing, disking and harrowing. "Evaporation from soils oan be lessened by covering them with mulch. The best mulch and the only practicable one on a large scale is a soil mulch. This ran be produced aud maintained by surface cultivation. To be most effective, the cultivation must he repeated after rains that puddle the surface (oil. To reduce the labor of frequent cultivation, implements that cover a large sorface may be em ployed. In semi -ai id regions special effort should be made to utilize the rainfall. The ground should be plowed soon alter the removal of a pmvlons crop; it should then be settled aud smoothed. By frequent cultivation of fallow land moisture may lie stored for a crop the next year. In this way crops have been grown iu semi-arid regions once in two years when crops every year ou the same land have failed. "Iu dry climates the corn crop suc ceeds better when put in with the lis ter. It roots deeper, stands up better aud the work in growing a crop is less than when planted in level plowed soil. "Strains of plants that have originated or been grown for many years iu dry climates should he se lected for the semi-srid regions, and the rate of seeding should not be more than cue half that common In humid regiuim. Siiouer, liii'. rooted and more hardy plants will thus result. Organic matter should ! be maintained iu soils to iiurove their physical condition. Tliis i:-.iv he accomi li-he 1 I y green manuring, and by the plowing in of manure, straw, stalks and other vegetable n fuse. " Lrguiuiir.ms crop, such as clover, alfalfa and crwpeas, used asgre.n manure, not only increase the humus of soils, hut supply uitrcgen from tin air. This is the. cheapest way ot adding this important fertilizer in gredient, 'v" :'Ziz'z"TJ".l Any oue who propones to b"Mn farming without irrigation in a n girn of ligh rainfall tliotiM" ', In properly cautious. He should not I ii) is left hy glowing accounts of large crops; lie should itive-tiate carefully tl.e ponsihilitits ( f the part, ( mar region in which he hx cts to settle ; lie should have clearly in mi ri 'I he ir rtlmni the kind rf crop which he will induce, and he shculd not un dertake dry 1i mil. g if a fai!tjr;.,f ( ro s" at tlie "l iM.it.g w l '1 ..mean to hltn n.Miloie and pi i inarn nt di-a-ter. It sfc-'iM l' ' I'or'.y nr. detail, id that f Trimng )! '). sen.i ar: reigon without irrigattlon cannot in the nature of things be as certaiu or as profitable as farming under favorable conditions in the humid reigous. TELEPHONE SYSTEM FOR APPLEGATE VALLEY Continued from paga 1. not cover the expense they will have to make up the deficiency and be paid back by the Corupauy from the money received from additional telephones that may go on their sec tion of the line, but they get no money from those who put an exten sion to their section of line. Last Saturday a meeting was held at Wilderville of those interested iu exteudlug the rural telephone system to that seotiou of Applegate Valley. The Applegate Valley Telpehone Company was represented by Charles Meserve, one of the directors, sod he was accompanied from Grants Pass by J. E. Hair, who is half owner in a sawmill near Wilderville aud is in terested iu getting telephone connec tion with this city. The decision was made to join the Applegate Valley Telephone Company aud to put In central office at Wttdtrvillo with branch lines od the Applegate and Chaney Creek, np Slate Creek, down Applegate and Rogne river to as far as possibly Llmpy Creek, and to Jerome Prairie". The main Hue to Grants Pass will be run on the Jerome Prairie road for about five miles and across to the Murphy road where the main Appplegate pole line will be used into town. When the Murphy central is installed the line np Apple gate will be connected with the New Hope line so as to give connect iou be tween Wilderville aud Murphy with out loading extra work on the Grants Pass office, as well as to giteafree and direct telephone service from one end of the Appleagte Valley to the other. As a committee to solicit members and to take charge of installing the telephone system for the Wilderville district O. F. Lovelace was made chairman, J. O. K. McCann secretary and treasurer, R. M. Robinson for Chaney Creek, J. T. Roberson for Slate Creek, Henry Roch for Lower Applegate and J. H. Robinson for Jerome Prairie. It is expected to se cure at least 20 members at once and fully as many more within a month or two. COSTS NOTHING UNLESS CURED Liberal Way In Which Ml-o-na Stomach Tablet are Sold by Demaray. If a friend should tell you that he would pay the doctor s bill or yon nolesi yon were oared would It not unpess you with his physlola's skill It is in this way that Demaray sells Ml-o-na stomach tablets, for he guar tees to refund the money if Mi-o-na does not enre. Use Mi-o-nn stomach tablets if you have any of the following symptoms : backache, headache, sleeplexsnesa, nausea, distress: after eating, specks before the eyes, despondency nervous ness, loss of appetite, dizziness, pains lu the side and limbs gulping up of undigested fond, aud you will soon be cured and able to vat a hearty meal wihout fear of pain or distress Mi-o-na cost hut Sue a box, nothing if it does not cure. 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