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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1907)
To you that there is no Coffee equal to onr line. It has won it's way ipto popular favor purely on it's mfcribs. Why not try it? Wef'have a fine assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables. J. PARDEE. 418 0 Street, - Grants Pans Near Palace Hotel INDUSTRIAL FAIR Continued from Bret Page take this matter in hand, and, if pos ible bring about the consolidation of the two organization!. The commit tee will meet like committee from the other organization in two weeks, at Portland and bai foil power to act in the premises. An in?itation was lip&ttily extended to, bare the next convetlonn held at some point in the Rogue River Valley. After ap pointing a committee on resolutions, ooniUtiug of L. B. Hall, J. E. Hair and Chas. Meserve, the contention adjourned to meet next year at the time and place to be designated by the proper oflioials of the organization. There was much disapioinuient be cause a nuuibor of the speakers were unavoidably prevented from being present. Dr. El wood Mead, the noted authority on irrigation laws found he would have to return to Wellington, D. 0., from the Sacramento conven tion, in order to prepare to go to Australia, where he accepts a big government position. Governor Cham ' berlaiu's daughter was to be married this week and so His Hnuor found it impossible to come to the convention as a resnult. Hon. K. L. Huiitli, the Hood River fruit grower whs sick and had to bo excused. Hon. Wilbur K. Newell, xiVesideut of the state board of horticultural board was engaged ill gathering his big fruit crop and for lack of bylp he was compelled to got iu and work tiko a good fellow to not lime any and he sent word tbut it would be liupotftihle for him to come, uulisa Half a dozen men were I sent tn take his place in the frui yards. A. I. Matou, the HooU River apple grower who was to have told ahnut how he got 3 for apples with ma imguuou, was mi luting a new packing house and he too begtitd to be excused. Numerous busiue'S en gagouients made it absolutely!1 Unix sible for Kditor Harvey W. Soolt. of the Oregouian" to oome and address the convention. Tbe fair association will promptly wind up the business of the fair and wants all bills prvMcutrd at once to Hoeretary Msrshal. In the next issue of the Courier will be given an exteuded account of the award, ax well as more uiiuute details of both convention and fair SHOWED THE COLORS. It was truly gratifying to see how many busluess houses displayed the yellow and green. Many more would have doue so, If they oould possibly have secured anything with which to decorate, the supply of bunting, ribbons and the like was exhausted early Mouday. However, many who oould uot seoure the colors, were bouud to show their patriotism and so took the Stars and Stripes and thus made a very nice showiug. Among the flrun which made such nice showing! were the following: Cramer Bros., bad two nice window displays, cue of sporllug goods and the other of paints and brushes, with the fair colors artistically iutarwoveu, the work of Mr. Oeo. Cramer. Curtis & Co., the jewelers had an attractive display, ustag evergreens aud having a "welcome" greetiug the vision of the viiitois. This was the work of W. H. Hodkinson. K. 8. (juigley's grocery looked quite neat, the showug being made of the colors, Mis Vae Qnigtey aud Grace Wilson doing the artistic work"! Oue ofthe neatJJand imprenive signs wss'thatt-sf l,mu's Soii, th. dealers iu wagoun, bugtties and the like. The design was reat sod very muoh in evidence. .., J .-. rThe Udiwsconld u'ot "helnburbe attracted 'by " theret7yiisp")ay made at the' millinery sture ..f MrsTUelT pruyjiUowaodgrwu on rJouTbeiug udJ.o good erTeoFtn the wlndowaT ; Oue of thejinatest aud'besf"dipleya io be found was ath Goldeu" Ka la HOGU Department Store, where the entire foroe took a hand in making a beauti ful feature for the occasion. '..JrL 3. A. Rickerstaff was the artist who designed the handsome windows at thTbig store of""P.H. Harth & Son, (Iuo. ) This waa where the gentlemen were greatly interested. At tne large dry goods establishment of the R. L. Coo Co., was to be seen some One showings of the latest styles in fall goods, artistically intertwined with the fair colors. Salesman Lloyd Gehrett was the designer of the pleas ing effect. L. W. Richardson had a fine chance to show off his ice cream parlors and he took advantage of the oppoitanity, using the oolors in a nice manner. Demaray's drug store was not be hind in the procesiion but made a very nrat and impressive showing of the colors, along with some timely artioies on sale. Coron's Hardware Co., did the baud some thing by using its windows in a pleasing manner with the colors mnch in evidence. It waa a very creditable showing. Oue of the unique windows wag to be seen at the postofilce and of course "Old Glory" was much in evidence, as was alao some other very suggestive articles. With pillars of yellow, around which were intertwined the beautiful English ivy, the Whitehouse Grocery Co., did itself proud iu the window displays made. Bert Barnes the jeweler and Clemens the drnggist, those success ful advertisers could not miss sacb an excellent chanoe to show their publie spriteduess aud they were very successful in their efforts. . Fred Gumpert's big dry goods store presented a most pleasing sight to the people who were thronging Sixth street aud the artistic exhibition was certainly vary creditable. The ladles of the W. G T. U. were very muoh in evidence and they thoughtfully provided a rest room for the strangers, having comfortable seats, reading matter and everything to add to the pleasure of the visitors. It was conveniently located and greatly appreciated. The show widows of the large de partmennt store of Kinney & Truax attracted no little attention, those in the drygoods section being neat and tasty and that iu the grocery being unique and attractive. 0. K. Palmer, one of the popular salesmen of the Southern Oregon Supply Co., waB responsible lor the due window display made at that large PHtablishuieut and it was very oreditable. Schmidt's Grocery deserves mure than a patting mention for the novel manner in which it displayed the colors of the fair, nsing vegetables and fruits to do so. Al Teal, the "tauiale man," was iu line and he made bis stand one of the neatest and moat attra.tive in the olty, using the yellow and green with pleasing effect. O'Neill, the lionsefumisher was not behnd the procession, having many attractions, including One wiudow displays and unique attract ions in the way of a supponed'y broken window, through which an arrow waa shot. This firm received many compliments on its showing. Several firms showed their public spriteduess by providing comfortable Beats and a place where the weary crowds could enjoy life and also par take of some delicioua fresh, sweet cider, and all "without money aud without price." Theae firms were : Geo. Calhoun & Co., P. H. Harth & Son (Inc.,) The Golden Mule Depart ment Store, O'Meill, The House furnisher and the Grants Paas Can nery, li. li. I'arsell handed out glasses of the fine beverage to the waiting multitades. Undoubtedly oue of the finest dis plays made iu the matter of show windows, aa well an exhibits on the fair grounds was made by the Grauti Pass Hardware Co., L. L. Cottou, one or the lahHUieu desigued the wiudow show, which consists of a big log cabin aud depicts very plainly the pioueer life aud coutaius some udiau relics of much interest. The showing of uialeahle ranges on the fair grounds attracted much attention. Ths enterpprlsiug firm of Geo. S. Clahoun Co., mads one of the hits of the occasion by presenting a moat at tractive wiudow display of which salesman O. U. Thotua was the de signer. Sunflowers were used along with evergreen, with ; telling effect and the whole made a very plesning aspect to behold. . . - . The Bartlett Shoe Store came to the front.wlth a flue window exhibition of the falrl colore, Ia"lont with aome very swell dmp'aya of up-to-date foot wear. y West Front street J merchants and dealers t'. all Miuts "were strict I v ' 'in 11 wneu it came . to window displays aud the Conrier tvivrter waa imprvseod with the Smvthe's" OnaliTTkSlioii following: tTuie; Moor j,Stxvud Hand Store; XIVBlt COUKIB. QKAWTS Gas Earner's Meat Market; The Bon Too Bakery; K. A. Wale's Dry Goods Store ; J. Pardee, the popular grocery establishment; The Wave Ice Cream Parlors; Model Drug Store; T. Y. Dean's grocery store; Letcher, the jeweler; Smith's Racket store; E. C. Dixon, ths dry goods store; W. E. Dean & Go's dry good store; Lloyd's Seoood Hand store. ABOUT THE FAIR J. D. Young, one of the oldest prospectors in this neck of the woods gave a practical demonstration in front of Calhoun store. He took some sand from the street and actually washed out gold to the value of 13.60, mnch to the astonishment and interest of a big crowd of spectators. As Calhoun's store is having a big sale on of the .famous "Nugget" hat, the find was very timely . The daily stock parades were de cidedy interesting and proved to be quite a revelation to both the visitors and to the people of this region for the showing was truly remarkable. One of the drawing cards for the baseball game, Thursday, when the Rosebnrg nine met the home team, was the excellent niusio furnished by Riohard aud Pringle'i Famous Min strel troupe. These people are artists in their line and they gave a pretty good article of musio for the large crowd which gathered to wituess the exciting game. The home team were the victors in this game, with a score of 9 to 4. A big crowd witnessed the auto mobile races which occurred Wednes day, the course being from Kinney & Trnax's corner to A. U. Bannard's furniture store and return, a distance of 200 yards. The following persons contested : E. S. Shank, who made the run in 1 minute and 27 seconds; Thos. Gillmore, 1:27 4-5; E. L. Churchill 1:30; W. B. Sherman 1:24; W. M. Hodson, 1 :1. At the city park the swimming and bostiug races Wednesday afternoon was a drawing card and much in terest was manifested in the out come. In the men's swimming race Fred Contain carried off first honors, getting the 25 prize, while Lawrence Wellaud and Andy Higgins were a close second. In the canoe maneuvers, Henry Norton and Alfred Letcher wsre winners, getting the pair of shoes, one of which each man' man will endeavor to wear (?) In the I boat races Andy Higgins came iu I ahead, with Harvey4 Faubion right I behind him. I After Tuesday afternoon's session of the convention, the opera douce was filed to overflowing to witness the baby show. There were some i 40 mothers who entered their little ' ones in the contest and the judges j had a no small task to perform After much deliberation they finally t awarded the prize for being the hand somest girl baby to Stella Wolfolk, i while Frank Wilcox carried otf the i honors for beiug the prettiest boy 1 baby nuder two years of age aud ' Frank Marshall, son of Secretary A. j T. Marshal, of the fair aseocistiou I was awarded the prize for being the largest baby nnder two years of age. Daring the fair excitement two ho Dos were very cleverey captured by Sheriff Runsell. Their names were James Reed aud Frauk Benson and they picked up Lwis Green's un checked trunk oa the depot platform, while he was baying bis ticket and they carted it off aud were trying to break the lock, after taking cfT the ropes aud at laps, when Sheriff RuksxII pouced down upou them. At first they were inclined to show fight, but the big Sheriff soon took them in tow. Now tbey are io jail aud are bound over to appear io the circuit court for trial. Another item of excitement which was uot on the fair program was the alarm of fire which took an immense crowd to see the home of S. E. Over street, at Burgess aud Pine streets burn up, contents and all. The wife was taking io the fair aud had a but two little children with her, while the father was at work at Williams Bros. Sash A Door factory. There was no water in that immediate vicinity and so the fire department was helpless to stay the flames. HOW'S THIS We offer 100 reward for auy Vase of Catarrh that caunot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHKNKY A CO., Toledo O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 16 years aud I believe him perfectly houorable in all business transactions and finan cially able to carry ont anv obliga tions made by hia firm. Walding, Kinnan A Marvin. Wholesale Drug gist. Toledo, O. Hall s Catarrh Cure Is taken inter nally, acting directly npou the blood aud mucous surfaces of the svstem. Testimonials sent free. Price T5c per bottle. Sold bv all Druggists. Take Hall s Family Pills for consti pat ion. , The Mounaineer Restaaraut. Front, street, between Sixth aud Seventh, will be open every night nutil 1 o'clock. 8.30 tf f ASS, OMGOW, SEPTEMBER Catching a Thief. Br JUDSON WELLES. Copyrighted. 1907, by Homer Sprsgus. Mornington scowled at the tiny dish of berries before his plate. Sam, his dusky man, smiled apologetically. "Ahm doln' my bes'," he declared. "Ah shuah would liak to kotch 'em." "Same here," declased Mornington. "You don't suppose that the people next door take them do you, Sam?" Sam shook a knowing head. The young Indies, he declared, could not be guilty of such depredations. Ever since they had moved In they had fa vored Snra with sunny smiles as they passed his yard on the way to the post otlice. Snm was their secret slave. With Mornington It was different. He hud resented the appearance of this little colony on the next farm. There were six of them, five girls and an elderly woman, who apparently chap eroned them. Gossip said that they I MC8T HAVS BEEN ROBBING TOtJ AIiXi THIS TIMK, ' BilK BAID. were artists who were spending the summer in the country to sketch, and their daily faring forth with easels and canvases bore out the statement Mornlneton hated nrtlsts In general and women artists In purtlculnr. Ho had bought the Torreuce farm that he might have quiet, nnd how could a man have quiet when six chattering women occupied the adjoining farm house not 3im foot nway? The strawberry bods had been the lnat Irrltntlon. The previous year he had Vrrles In profusion. This season there were few to be found. The doz en or so In the saucer were all Sam had been able to Rather In a day. ne was certuln that his neighbors raided his garden, nnd, without announcing his Intention to Sam, he rose early the next morning. The sun hnd barely risen when he took his place !ciiiiid the tool house, whence he could command a view of the garden. Presently a slender, girl ish figure came hurrying from the oth er house nnd entered the plot. Morn ington waited until she had tilled the pan she carried nnd was about to go. Then he stepped out with n hail. The girl looked up pleasantly. "t!ood morning,1' she cried. "Won't you have some of our berries?" "1 should like some of mine," hesuld pointedly. "Io you grow them, too?" she nsked. Mornington marveled at her self pos session. "1 grow them," ho usseuted. "or, rather, olio of Torreuce's men grows them for me. That is as far as I have been able to get this season. I have not eaten many of them." "We have them every morning." she Bald briskly. "It's one of the things we moved to the country for. fresh fruit. After being cooped up In studios all season and picking your fruits aud vegetables off the dumb waiter It is just heavenly to come out In the gar den before breakfast and pick your own berries." "But don't you think It would be bet ter to find out whose berries you are picking?" he suggested. "Even In the country, property rights obtain." 'These are ours," she declared. "Ws were very particular In our Inquiries." "Yet the garden belongi to me." he Insisted, a little shamefacedly. Some how his triumph was losing 'its savor. Then we must have been robbing ron all this time," she said, with a face suddenly grown as reU as the berries In the pan. "i am very sorry." "It's all right," be said awkwardly wondering why he had not noticed be fore what glorious eyes the girl had. -It Is not all rigM." she said decided I.v. 'We are not thieves. Dense take them. u o.n senj the pan back when you are th-iingti." "Pray aw;, then, with my couipli- that he was ma ,.!,,.- r,M), f ,llulsclf and he chaTed tit the kvoM,.(ige For answer the girl laid the pan on the ground and turned awav. Morn ington watched her go through the paths to the fence and slip throogo a broken place. She had the regal j "Wl . b queeu and a face to 1$ 17. eance to get acquainted wtfh bet, and he suddenly realised that that was the one thing above an others that h most desired. Shamefacedly he picked np the pan and wentback to the house to sand Sam over with the fruit Sam regard ed him reproachfully when he had told his tale, but the darky went down tho road to the next house and, after a long delay, returned without the pan, but he laid a shining half dollar In Momlngton's palm. "Dey wouldn't take 'em," he explain ed. "I shuah had f tnk de money." Mornington flung the money from him w Ith a gesture of disgust and went In to breakfast feeling ont of Joint with the whole world. But there was worse yet to come, for in the forenoon Torrence, former owner of the farm, made his appear ance with the chaperon from the house next door. With many a "hem" and a "haw" Torrence confessed that finding a chance to clinch the lease of the adjoining farm through the straw berry bed he had told the women that It was a part of the land they had rent ed. "I honestly meant to speak to you about It, because I knew that you had more berries than you wanted. I was going to pay for what they ate out of the rent," he concluded. Mornington rose to his feet, and Torrence backed through the door. More than once he had witnessed the city man's hasty temper, and he had no desire for an exhibition. Mornington watched him go and then turned to Mrs. Surrey. "I dont know what I can say to you to excuse my conduct" he began. "I missed the breakfast berries and want ed to put a stop to It, but I did not know that Torrence had claimed my berry patch for his own. May I beg that my apology be the freedom of the berry patch? There are plenty for us both. I am not always a bear, so yon need not be afraid to gather thorn." When he so wished, Mornington could be very charming, and now he was exerting himself to the full. Mrs. Surrey became graclons, and the up shot was that Mornington accepted an Invitation to tea, when he might make his apology In person to Nancy Rich mond. So successful was he that the next momlns' when he went to pick 1:1s own berries he lingered to help her fill her pan. The berry season passed all too quickly, but there were other fruits, and soon there was a well trodden path from Momlngton's porch to the doorway of Studio farm, ne went with the glifc on field trips, and In the pleasant summer evenlDgs he took his guitar and spent the even ing on their porch. Nancy remained his favorite, and the PAT NEW HAT 0ivL WfJi6J'Tm oN YoUR- MIND. WE rNLlNcT?E HAT fWJlNEJJ. THE NUfi tII LAJJ nY,E, CARR-Y MAKE MS -SHINE IN lul cHAri jyjINEJJ. JUSr AJ Soon AS Z$i$TXlJJ ORIGINATE ON BROADWAY WE E?wEJaHJF1,N 0UR- 5TolE- YV A nJi7 P YoU Nor? YOU KNOW AN SLNrHtuSAN OUT-OF-DATE HAT WILL il??KTTJlEH,NE oFr or THE FINEST 3JT 2Lf L2IIIES- C0ME IN AND LET UJ JHOW iY?yrJJAF HAT YoW NEED. ALL THE LATENT BLOCKS IN JoFT AND DERBY J. ,73 THE ! GRANT'S PASS, ORE. OOH RHOI3TBRBD TRADE MARK BEST $3.00 HAT ON EARTH SE05-CALHOUN C2. day before they were to break return to town he voluntlZJ !' pack. redt,v "Come down to the orchard." w. v gested to Nancy, "and get snL 0 to take back. They will hd think of the old place whii tL'H Knc caught np her The basket they carried wu with rosy cheeked frnlt, bntulO ton showed no disposition to the house. He leaned agahut tW nd looked over the strswberrrw "I'm going to put np said, with a smile, "so that Tmi cannot rent my property or I 2 some one else of theft" "Ton were awfully cros, ttlt J Ing," she said, with a reminiscent' "I remember I rushed back (m bouse and declared that I woum! stay In the horrid place another J "Were you sorry you chanwn j mlndr he asked Boftly. "l "Not after you found that I .. I a thief." WH "But you are," he persisted, nj stole my heart." i., , "I might say the same of jotfy declared as he took her hand. T "'Set a thief to catch a thief"! quoted. -Have I caught you, "I guess you have," she confer "though you don't deserve to." "And next season we will lb.. J strawberries," he declared, "ft It be joint ownership then." . She smiled Into his eager eyet, J then the sunbonnet eclipsed his fig About EyeglasiM. Unfortunately there comet tyf each one's life when the eyes outside assistance to accomplish' usual results. Many are obliged j slight defects of vision to adopt glur quite young, even as children, andS fortunate that science has made progress In this branch, for the-? nothing sadder to see than a bllmjj son. Accidental loss of sight cauq overcome, but slight defects mar J thanks to the oculist, be genet remedied. The wearing of glaual trial from the first to last althoof the fitting of the nose glass it raW flna art Kiwcfjirlpa nra tha - - , comfortable and satisfactory tort wear. It is better to wear nose g!i without a chain, even at the ritt breaking them, for the chain drip glasses to one side and freqt weakens the springs. The chili twists Itself Into Intricate kinking convenient times and causes a it or two of mild profanity on the g' of the wearer. If something mmu worn, a cord Is better. rhlladel Ledger. i Quick delivery The Weekly Onmt. RESOLVE mil i Dont hav f too much om'Vour mind at one time -the bp' THING Ya) CAN HAVF0N6u HINDIS A NEW WAT When' YOU MEE i PEOPLE THE fiRST ' THINC THEY SEE IS YOUR nt.AU. BUSim&RoWN Ik r V 1 IT. OUTFITTERS TO BOY AVb MM luaico. .ow be would never have aj