Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, November 15, 1907, Image 1

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GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS. 1907
No. 33.
Art In"
for
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The J J
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TES DO NOT
1 FOOTBALL RESULT
k plain How it Happened
lisplay a Bad Case of
G re. pew In Doing so
the encoi
ucree
of the t J
After q
narka.
toitnte v
of tbe
wm tbe
atractivel
od claH
Ing tbe
minion,
tearies.
tbe Univ
ed tbe iol
interesti
Hit pleif
based on
teachers
plained t
versity 0!
tabllihia
Tbii lnd
theo free
ii under
Uoitenii
Uoivereil
folly the
raepondei'
At tbe
don gar
upon the
tng and 1
Kidder Ui
loaned byj
on epplic
low, oonli
The see
di touted!
aple fcJ
Oregon,'"
boot by
of the Col
interest
the teacl
Tho:
Portland
"Art Ed
of the fin
line, ih
work, ati
itrnctoin
Logan, of the Medford
Dol, relieve bis mind, by
i the Tribune, of that city,
ng report of Friday's game
When the Grants Pans
K1 boy wholloped them io
word regarding the football
Veen Medford and Orants
P.
want to say that onr girls
light. They are decidedly
1 true blue. Circumstance
"i that they could not go with
l to tbe Pass, but they made
)ery boy feel happy, and
4ey were really supporting
jieeting the train at the sta-i-a
'nine rahs' for Medford.
were defeated, but they
Mr. Wieland to do aa Mr.
', lays end on the local team.
Jy played tbe game for onr
U Mr. Fay and Mr. Hood put
1 game also. We objected to
Md't playing became he was
yer and because be only en
ol last Monday for the mere
c t playing the game. Before
id entered school they gut
s)d thought they could not
3rd, but with Wieland once
gam was secured.
' jeoting did no good, because
is would not play without
. Medford, of course, being
school hi (j 'play after going for that
waded right into them.
Vedford's dots bad nerer
W, and two-thirds bad nerer
' afore. Nevertheless, they
' tbe better game of the two
dford's ball occupied the
', aeld most of both halves
I tbelr systematio playing.
I one touohback made by onr
rants Pass scored 17 points.
rs were Dice, clean men,
ars knew not tbe first thing
Uonduot. There were from
A persons on tbe grid
Me, and not a one possessing
the old
10 4 tf
4 . . .
-ground was not laid off cor-
Joe goals were not properly
, '' No one had a rale book and
. had for an age.
Jr T seen many games, ' said a
f Grants Pans, but never be-
rpole, III J ever seen a visiting team
cational La rotteu by the bystaudtrsv'
drawing jwere informed before and after
oentlyadM why Mr. Wtelaud eutered
Conuuiasjandl we were told corretly of
the ImtViog end on the local team, even
addre&i vynrner did deny hi playing on
and it tUm.
how thiijtrpect a return game with the
trolled sStake place here on Tbanksgiv
ipreadiiip arerythiug io oar, power snail
vided iiAa' that oar opponent may
Sectiooi.ow a visiting team should be
tnthor ot' '
addressta
"Mstbodf do,ng buslDeM B
l. (..iPiel's Elite Lauudry
thePriU "
addrewef
pSd FRUIT N0TES i
to get ,Ww
drnm mtf ooanties in Wettern New York
those thpoife $3,000,000, this fall for
teroat to apple crop. The Yaokee and
Dr. Sljtgooian can shake band over
ion by expanse,
tlon oo J
gars ttuntlf H. L. Edwards came out
history rfhlo where lie was in partner
and mis 1Ui hi brother and he bought a
Uturut of grape land in theJoois
Li.. w,ere be' will at once
nt ' eeveral thoos-iud Tokay
fines. He, like all other new
It U more than pletsed with tne
UJngly biigbt outlook for the
igrowl uk industry in tbis rich
7nd be think that there
jipxt lor tbl enure r giu.
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lag; f-oin ih f.r a nr X'W
ad city of 8-. J nnhnry, er-
Willard Chine was greatly
L ... . . . .a ,. k.J
0n J WltO tn S Iir l ey au i't"
, 1 the fine Day r 'ch, aitoated joat
Mil o,, nn Iowa aT-t. He
ing some remarktble improve-
to the place alr-ady and tnta
Shipped with the local Froit
Atlon some superb Fpiti-ubarg
Mtown apple. By pruning
Meeaatically goiog Into tbe busi-
baa made some biar chaogea
in the place, which be has bow named
the "Green Mountain Home." Io
another year he will be enabled to
make some fine showings in the way
of prodocing some handsome apples.
C. F. Cardwell, who lately pur
cbaitd the J. D. Wimer place, near
Mnrphy, (his week finished delivering
his apple crop to the Grants Pass
Fi'ait ;Orowers Aisociation, of which
be had some 2000 boxes of fine pro
duct. Mr. Cardwell is a thorough
orchardist, who was formerly located
in the famous Yakima valley. When
he left that region he carefully looked
over the Hood River region, aa well
as elsewhere and then came here, and
decided that this was the best place of
all, as it has the climate, as well aa
being admirably adapted for the rais
ing of fine fruit, while the price of
land la so mnoh more reasonable.
He proposes putting in a large num
ber of new trees this winter and next
season be will have some exception
ally excellent fruit for tbe markets.
This week the Grants Pais Fruit
Growers Association is preparing to
ship another car of mixed apples to
the New York City market, as well
as a car to one of the coast cities,
whiob will be decided upoa later.
The members are pulling together
nioely and they feel that this is but
another instano of where "Io Union
There is Strength,." and they realize
that if they can but once seen re a
good footing in the big markets and
become recognized as a place where
only good froit is grown and offered
in tbe large markets, that then it
will be comparatively easy sailing.
Until that time tbey will have to
labor to overcome any false impress
ions which mar exist in the minds of
the eastern boy en.
J. H. Robin too and sons. Claade
and Lester, wbo have a maiuifioent
farm on the Applegate, near Wilder -ville,
and who carried off so many
valuable premiums for having fine
cattle, bogs and turkeys, at. the re
cent Rogne River Industrial Fair, are
also successful orchard iita. They
have jus been having the Association
ship a ear male op entirely of their
splendid 'apples and they expect to
have another car ready pretty aoon
for shipment to the Naw York mar
ket. They are doing moch to demon
strate tbe great success which attends
the efforts of th intelligent, energetic
farmers who are fortunate enough to
locate in this valley.
'
Peter Pirzer, the well known owner
of the "Hugo Heights Froit Farm,"
was at the county seat, this week, se
curing a large inrply of paper, boxes
and tbe like, preparatory to shipping
a lot of his fine Spitzenberg apples
to the New York market. Mr. Pirier
ia credited by expert fruit men, who
have visited bis place, with baring
the most excellent orchard in all that
part of the country, in the matter of
its appearance and what is more his
orchard ia locitted ou tbe bill, at ao
elevation of 1700 feet above sea level
snd it it olay land, at that. The soil
is a mixture of blick granite and clay
aod tbe froit lie grows there is "sim
ply Immense. " Ami he grows water
melons, too, which for size aid
flavor are unsurpassed io all this
valley, where the growing of fine
water melons 1a so noted. Some of
bis melons easily tip the scales at
from 60 to 75 poonds, each.
C. W. Tnplett ia another very suc
cessful orchardist who is growing a
mighty flne article of f'oit on his nice
pine, near Hugo, cn the hilly, clay
Und and at a hiah altitude. He
to) wal in thi week, securing ma
terial for eiilpping with the Associa
tion some fine apples to the New
York market. H makes a specialty
of growing flne cherries ana ne nst
beeu pronounced 'he most successful
cherry riser in the ptate of Oregon.
And he's miking soros mouey at it.
ton, I de-d. he s able to show very
flne profits from his labors expended
io tbi dirctinn. He has promiesd to
ive the Courier, one of thee day, a
d-eailed statement along thia line,
allowing the results of each year,
taking tbe kind of trees, age, eto.,
into consideration and it will prove
to t very interesting reading.
'
E. A. Humpton ia one of the
t.irhon of Joaeohine county who ia
taking up fruit growing with the ex
pectation of making it hi vocation
o aoon as be gets an orchard ia full
bearing and yielding bim a liveli-
DR. E. 8. CHAPMAN
Wbo speaks in tbe Opera House Sunday afternoon and eveniug.
hood. Mr. Hampton is teaching the
school at Wilderville where he is re
siding for this winter wiih his family.
In the spring he will return to his
farm in tbe Illinois Valley near Dry-
den, where be owns 420 acres of fine
fruit land located ou Thompson
creek. This land Mr. Hampton ac
quired four years ago, part as a home
stead and tbe remainder br purol'ase.
His vacations from teaching he puts
in on bis place and by hiring some
help be has a substantial beginning
to a farm made.
Mr. Humpton made his first planting
of fruit trees two years ago last win
ter and this seasoo many of tbe Spit
zenberg and Roasisn Red apple trees
bore fruit. Some of the trees fruited
as high as 2I to 30 apples but he
pulled them off until there were but
a few to each tree and not leaving
over seven to a tree. Next year he
will allow not over 15 apples to the
tree as lie wants the trees to make all
the growth poasible. Mr. Humpton
made a small planting of trees last
wimer and he will this winter set an
acre to Bartlett and Cornice pears and
six acres to Spitzenberg aod New
town apples. i
The new course of study tba' pro
vides that ajiricultuie shall be added
to the brauche tauuht in thn tchools
of Oregon is bi artily approved by
Mr. Humtitou. He now baa a i'Ikkb
in agricultnre in his s bixl at Wilder
ville and the boys and girls are tak
ing great interest in learning scieti
tine, modrru iaiiu luttbods. Hie
text book supplied is limited in us
scope and to aid his class he l aecur
ijg all the reference worts pnsaible
and to that end when at the teachers
institute Ih tbi city laot week he
called at the office of Mauagt-r Me
eerve of the Fruit Grower Associa
tion, aod got a large numb r rf tbe
bulletins ioued by the Oregon Agri
cultural College and by the Depart
ment of Agriculture of which Mr.
Ueserve has some -10 different kinda
for free dinribuiion. Mr. Huuiptou
U of the opinion that evr sobool
will have a plot of groand iu tddition
1 1 tbe play ground that w II be de
voted to trees, shrubs, vegetablas and
flowtrs to give the scholars piaciiml
lesions in agriculture. And t lie dis
trict high schools, now possible to the
rural districts nnder the new law
by the joining of two or inoredis
tncK. will give more attention to
teaching industrial subjects than to
the daisies and origioal langoagfs as
Is now done in so many of tbe town
high schools. He wiabda that all
high schools had a plot of ground
and a work shop so that lbs students
could be given practical lessons in
agriculture aod mechanical arts. Of
course tbis woald be covering tbe
eame line of work as tbat dooe at tbe
atate agricultural colleges, but it ia
necessary that the high schools teach
these branches as well as th oollegns
for tbe reason tbat not to exceed oat
per cent of tbe obildren wbo enter
school vr g o to college.
NEW CANNERY MAKING
WIND UP OF THE SEASON
This New Enterprise Ha. Proven
lo Be One of Much Promlee ;
and Considerable Profit
This season's" pack" has about been
cleaned up by .the Grants Pass Can
neiy and now the goods are being
labelled and harried to the large
markets, where there is a big demand
for them. Mauager Sampson has
every reason to feel greatly pleased
with the result of the season's work.
Although somewhat baudicapped for
lack of adequate equipment and
cramped for room, yet be has made a
truly remarkably good showing.
Ye scribe ran attest to the fine
quality of the superb jutles that have
been put up, for he aud his family
had occasion to sample tbe same,
which ws pronounced most excellent,
as wss also the choice tomatoes
which were likewise tried on the
table, and whith proved to be very
t cthsi tne. Now the tpray-niaklng
departuunt ia rnnuiiig full blast aud
it ia toining out a gret quantity of
this article snd "Sampson's Spray" ia
now In big demand all over Southern
Oiegon. Twenty tou of suphu and
2.) ton of lime are now n hand aud
luprrt material is arriving right along.
N"nuiier Shiiiiwou is enthusiastic
over what baa been doue and he ia
rerv auguiu about the future auo
oi- if tbi undertaking. He says that
even the moat akeptical growers of
fruit are now convinced that it is a
splendid investment and they are
tluding tb it it is making money for
eveiy oi.e of them. One grower,
alone realized about HO0 off hie pro
ducts this reason, with many others
doing lully aa well. He has some big
plan for next season and wilt improve
and rnltige the plant very auaterially.
palled by gasoline launches or steam
boats and the ocean beach. Iwice on
this trip the outfit was tide bound and
once fell into qoickaands. In epite of
the hard work all the nienibera of the
party are looking particularly health
ful the natural result of six months
of life in the open air.
COMING EVENTS.
Nov. 13. Friday Dnce at Savage
Creek Uall. Tiokete, iastosling sop.
Per, f 1. 10-25 Kt
Nov. 10, Saturday Wilderville
Grange meets.
Nov. 17, Sunday Biir Anti-Saloon
Rally at New Opera House, Urauts
Pass.
Nov. 18 Monday The Famous Kilties
Band, at New Opera House.
Nov. 19, Tuesday City Primaries In
Wards to select candidates for Al
dermen. Nov. ao, Wednesday Mass Meeting at
Courthouse, to nominate candidate
for Mayor.
Nov. 30, Wednesday Second Number,
Entertainment Course Uostonia
Sextette Club.
Nov. 21, Thursday City Counoil's Reg
ular Meeting.
Nov. 29, Friday Chicken Pie Supper,
by Ladies of Christian Churoh, in
G. A. R. Hall.
Nov. 26, Tuesday Meeting In Grants
Pass, to organize Rogue River An
gora Breeders Association.
Nov. 28 Thursday Thanksgiving day
with Football game, Ashland vs.
Grants Pass at A.A.O. grounds.
Deo. 9, Monday City Election,
Mayor and one councilman from
each of tbe four wards to be
elected.
Dec. 9, Monday Chicken Pie Supper
Odd Fellows' Hall
December 8, Tuesday Regular meet
ing or U rants Pass Poultry Keepers
Association, in Guild HallL
Deo. 4. Wednesday County Court
Convenes.
Dec. II, Wedneaday Apron Sale and
Chicken pie supper by Baptist ladies
at Hall's Hall.
Deo. 25, Wed. Ohslstmae day.
Jan. 1, Wed. New Year's day.
Jan. 13, Monday Circuit Court
meets.
Jan. 17 and 18, Friday and Saturday
f irst Annual snow, u rants rass
Poultry Keeper Association.
Jan. 18, Saturday Fruit Growers'
Meeting in Grants Pans, Uuder Aus
pices of Grant Pais Fruit Grower
AeeooUtion
The local A. A- O. Football team
will play their first game of the season
next Friday when tbey go to Ashland
to play the Normal Quite a number
of Grants Pass people are planning to
go along to encourage the boys and
see them give Ashland a geod wollop-
ing. There will be a return game
here Thankaglving.
While running along the street,
Thursday morning., on hi way to
school, Matthew, the 12-year-old oo
of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Riddle had
the tniefortane to have bl overcoat
catch on the iron picket fence of A.
Bartlett' place and the little fellow'
throat was pierced by one of the
irons, making ao ugly wound which
the physicians had to stitch nn. It
was near one of the arteries arid was
a pretty close call.
FISHING SEASON IS
NOW IN FULL BLAST
Local Fishermen's Union Sle.r1e
Out tor What Look Like a Very
Successful Seeaon'e Run
Today the "open" season for "gill
fihing" In the Rogue River com
mences and the indications point to a
good run of business for the members
of the Grant Pass Fisherman' Aa
sooiatlon. H. H. Groisaut ia presi
dent and A. Aubery is secretary and
manager of thia organuatioo. Secre
tary Aubery informs the Courier thai
although last year was the first season
or the Association, the results were
very gratifying. Some 73 member
joined and they found 'that whereas
they had before been able to get only
about three cent per pound for their
catoh, yet laat aeaeon by shipping
together they realized a naverag of
6l4 cents per pound all through the
lesson. Aud what was bet tar, they
were enabled to get very prompt re
turns from their ahlpmenta to Lo
Angelea, San F'anolaoo, Portland,
Seattle and other large cities to which
they ahlpped their output Some of
the fiihermen who did not join the
aeaoolatlon have net yet received pay
for ome of their laat season' ship
ments. Secretary Aubery said that the mem
took pointers from the way the fruit
growers had banded tneuueive to--
gether and had found tbat tbey could
do mnoh better by etandlng together.
Another important thing which it bai
aocouipliehed ha been to stop people
from violating the fish law, aa each
member of the Association is bound
to see to It that the law 1 enforced.
The Aeaoolatlon find that it can
secure Its equipment so much cbeapor,
by ordering in (large quantities. In
stead of every tuan "going it alone,"
heretofore. It ha ordered $400
worth of material for shipping boxea
and other material accordingly.
On the whole, the Association mem
bers are highly pleased with th good
work It has tho far aocenap'ls'ied aod
they are now expecting still better
and larger -return this season than
they had last year. "1
Jest about tbi time of year a little
extra spending money for ths holiday
oomes in handy. What easier, nloer
way to get it than by taking sub
sccrlptlons for the Paciflo Monthly -It
should be on the reading table in
every bouse In the West, for Isn't it
the home magazine of your own
county f You can convince anyone of
that, and enaily, and o divert some
loose change to your own use.
Write ns about the commisalon
you can earn, giving names of two or
three business men as referenoes.
PACIFIC MONTHLY PUB. CO..
118 Bt Portland, Or.
Fred Meuh, U. 8. Deputy sur
vevor, returned to Grants Pasa Toes
d ly after having been out for over
six mouths working oo government
survey. R. A. Dean, who went out
. head chaiuuian. returned also,
having been with htm during the
whole time. Tbey were accompanied
by Henry Beckett, who joined tb
party in Curry coontv and will spend
the winter here. Clarence Smith
who worked with blm th greater
part of the summer returned about
a week ago. Mr. Mensch baa been
working mainly in Lane aod Curry
ooonties and has done some work in
Douglas county. Tbe party moved
from place to place by wagon aud
team and the summer of work and
travel wss brim full of experiences
some pleaaant and eonie otherwise.
The journey from Maple ton on the
Si unlaw river to Marthfield was one
long to be remembered. This Is a
roadlens portion of Oregon and tbe
travel was divided between scows pro-
CHECKS
on cither of the Grants
Pass Banks will buy House
furniture at
O'Neills
And what's more, O'Neill is giv
ing 10 per cent off on all purchases
made before November 15.
Watch our Windows lor
Holiday Gooda
Furniture and Car
pels, Linoleums,
t.as Curtains, Por
tieres, MattresMs,
Pillows, CoU, Wall
Paper, Clocks,
Mirrors, Window
Hhailea, Pictures,
Picture Moulding.
R. H. 0 tleill
THE HOUSEFUItNISHER
front St., bet. 6 and 7
Ntoves and Ran gee,
Oranitewars,
Agteware, Teiware,
Wooden war,
Willoware, Cutlery,
Crockery, Lamps,
UlSJiaware, Fancy
China, Uo-CarU,
Haby Carriages.