RIGHT
In Starting
The
New Year
By getting the best
value for your : :
money and buy ycur
Groceries here. The quality of the gools we offer
will please you, and our prices will surprise you.
The proof is in the eating. Give us a trial and wo
will risk the results.
J. Pardee, gfte Grocer
Front Street
Grants Pass
r
WITH THE CHURCHES
M. E. CUUHCH SOUTH.
Servloes next Sunday as follows:
Sunday School at 10 a. m. At the 11
o'clock service, Judge Jewell will
preach a Xmns sermon. League at
A-aO; at 7:30 the rastor, O. H
3eaves, will preach. Yon are cor
dially Invited to be present.
ANOTHER WATCH NIGHT MEET
ING The members of the Free Methodist
ohurch are planning for a Watch
Night service, to be held at their
chnroh. New Year's Eve, beginning
at 8 o'clock and lasting nntil the
new year is ushered in. There will
be preaching by Rev. E. D. Blackmao
and Mrs. Mary K. Reed. All are
welcome.
ARMY
-NOTED SALVATION
WORKER
Neit Sunday will be a noted one for
the Grants Pass barracks and Captain
and Mrs. J. M. Osborne are anticipat
ing quite an interesting day. The oc
casion being the visit of Major Jos.
Kanlkaer, of Portland, who is the
new divisional commander of the dis
trict comprising Oregon and Idaho.
There will be services most of the
day, the morning inoeting at 11
o'olook, Sunday School at 1 :S0 p. m.
onag People's Legion at 9:30. Open
ir Meeting and this will be followed
by the popular meeting at the bar
racks at 8 o'olook. The people of
Grauts Pass are cordially invited to
come ont and hear this able speaker.
NEWMAN M. E. CHURCH.
Preaching Sunday morniup at 11
and iu the evening at 7:30. Morning
aubject "Watchman! What
Night?" Evening "Korot-s for Sal-
music. Services begin promptly at
7 :80. Watch the papers for further
notices. Evangelist McConuell will
have charge of the services, both
morniog and evening, next Sunday.
CHRISTMAS GENERALLY OB
SERVED. The Christmas spirit has been
abroad among the various chnrches
of Grauts Pass, this week and msnv
have been the excellent programs ren
dered and the attractions presented for
the enjoyment to the little and old
folks. Some churches held appro
priate exercises Sonday and others
had the onstomary tree either Toesisy
or Wednesday evening. Owing to
the elaborate programs, it is impos
sible to even attempt to go into de- J
tail. Sufficient to say that the drill-!
lug and excellent training ci bct .
baviog the affairs in nana wer?
everywhere evident and the larff
aodienoes were very scoch jjoaaei
with the entertainment pro-)3eo
SUNDAY DEC. 2. ITSST BAP
TIST CHTRCH
The messages at both ni.-ri.:uf an!
evening ill be usitaW in tb:rM
for the opening of iw war TV
morning atrroon will hi at it r.V
ject "The Virtue f:ir Vjrfi.nry.'" Tie
ervioe becins prnmpliv at ICSS. In
the evening will be pires t&t Cantata,
entitled ' ' King nf Kn." it
The P.ibie Stinted meu at 11 :45.
The Tonng People 'meetiog will be
led hy Mr. Sharp. Sarject "Turn
ing te the l"ut.tre-" To theee meet
inpt a nnrfiial welroms is extended.
itti the approach of the new year
the thcingtu of the people are being
oeiiterefl on the month of January.
For the not part it is set apart for
diHt-n:l:r evangelistic effort. There
i'l I a wek of prayer beginning
of the JfcBukrv . At its close we will have
it aMistanoe each evening of H.
vatloa as agal nut Forces for Damns- i ; June and Eugene Spear. The
tlon in the city of Grants Ps-" , fcner is the preacher and the latter
Sunday school at 10 a w. Jsnior'', singer of the Gospel. Tht
League at 8 p m. E worth Lxuurit at work
0:SJ0. A oordial weloooie.
The ladies of Newman
M. K
Church will give a social in the
church parlor on Tueaiar evening,
December ill. This will I followed If
a religious hoar or an oil fashioned
Methodist Watch Night Meeting at
1, held io the main body of the
-church. Old and youug are invited
to attend this service and waUh the
old year cot and the new year In.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH ECHOES.
Kvangolistio Maetiog began at ths
Christian Church on Thursday, De
cember 2'ith. Thee will be con-
ill be done is aaurel.
Mr. Jones is not a novice. In most
fruitful paitorates in New York state
and now for ov;r thrae years of work
in Oregon hi hs bien approved.
These helier will be with ns two
full wees s and conclule th meetings
with an Evangelintio Conference two
days. We are hoping that simultsn
tou meetings with other chuiches io
our city will secure larger reunite than
ever before in our city.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The passing of the old and the
coming of the uew year will he em
phasized in Bethany chorch next Sao
ducted by Evangelist J. N. McCon- I day morning by a s-rmon by the niin
nellandhis siuger. Mr. McConnell inter on "A Backward Glanc at
is man ;of magnetic voice and'!iuo7: a Forward Ulance at l08."
pleasing personality. One press 1 1 ths evening. 7:30 o'clock, the
notice in speaking or him says:
"Evangelist J. N. MrConnell is a
great power in the pulpit and among
the people. He is especially success
ful in winning men to Christ. Mr.
MvOonueU's sermons are logical,
scriptural and powerful They sr.
delivered iu a manly, not in an
-effeminate way." His meetings are
universally successful. He has a
jnoiated with him a young man whom
everyone will like as his director of
WHAT PEOPLE SAY f
Dr. C. A. Campbell of Dallas. Polk
ooanty, Oregon, an osteopath, has de
cided to come to Grsots Pas to re-1
aide and practice bis profeesion. He j
spent muob time at Medford, Ahlnd j
and elsewhere, bot none of them made j
so good an impression as lias Grauts
Pas. He remarked to the Courier
man that it was truly amusing the
way the Medfordites boomed their j
own section in one breath and theu ,
in the next they would run down j
Grants Pass and all other nearby ,
places. "Why," said he "I think if j
they would ouly give the majority of !
the newcomers a half chance to look j
around, a great many of them would j
do just as I have done, namely, go
to some other place. Yes, I like ,
Grauts Pass better thsn Medford or
sny otnnr place i nave yei tishbu
and I am oo ruing here to make my
home among you for that very rea
son, tie savs mat a great iuuj
people are leaving eastern Oregon on
account of the unbearable winters
and the most of them are cuniiug to
Southern Oregon.
Senator Milton A. Miller, who, as
one of his traveling associates re
marked, is about the only Democrat
in Oregon wno seems to have enough
of a poll, aside from Governor Cham
berlsin, to get himse f into office
while in Grants Pass the other day,
told the Coorier reporter that in his
estimation the next legislature would
likely hsve to frame a law regulat-
ng even the freight and passenger
rates for the Southern PaciSc rail
road. Indeed, he is almost inclined
to think that Oreg-oo will get very
little relief from the excessive
charge of this great monopoly until
Uae Sm tale over all ths rail-; Mil
roadv vkka rreo he thinks is most
onrta'-aJy ccssing. ti is a mem tier or
U seal f j'asare aod it is pre
mmev! iLal fc-e speaks advisedly when
to talt after this fashion.
A f M f-ienl of tie Courier hands
! cis item, which recently appeared in
!Cc:Jir"s Weekly and whioh will
laJsrd Oregon some excellent advertis
ing: fervor seems, to our percep
tion, to mark this letter from a
reader: To the Editor of Colliers:
Sir I aik for space for this in yoor
columns because everybody ought to
know something aboni Oregon. The
Only One, for a knowledge of such a
country gives a man a hook to hang
hope on a hope that he may some
time get there. The climate 6( Ore
gon is the kind you would make
yourself if able and bottle op if you
could to tak with you when you
travel Eduoo says he is goiug to
build houses with thick, hollow wslls
aud squirt cool starl in them in sum
mer and something warm in winter,
lhat is to sav, he is trying artificially
t) obtain Oregon climate. He ex
pects o secure at enormoos cost what
everybody in Oregon gets fur nothing.
'Sylveier Stewart.' Loog mtv t'le
Writ (el this abouudlog pride of
youth The id?a of Oregon cnerrs ns
also; my she act more geueroQfly
regarding ner resources than her
pnent Governor wilies her to act."
"Seems to me that we onitht to have
at 1-ait two days for Thanksgiving, "
id cms citizen who had evidently
seen an overly-bordened" festal hoard, "
the day before. Tueo be prolonged
his remarks by commenting thusly:
"To my way of thinking, we
should have one day wheo we would
be expected to staff ourselves aud theu
the next day we ought to be allowed
to recover from the trying ordeal of
the day before. I know its lots of
fun to have a very late dinner and
then to devour everthying in sight,
even If the table is helping down
with good things,
trnly tough to gi't
the gormandizing
pose you agitate
KINNEY & TR'
Grant- Fan., Oregon', o ember 24, leor.
To Oar Friends:
V find after it ia too late to da
manfi i a t An nriiflr placed with 0. SolomCll
AMWM V V w ws. -w -w v . j
corner, not on the other, and it was a tig Jrun on The Little
Store on the Corner. Again thanking youl
patronage and with beit wishes for you aji
coming year, which we trust will be fulHj
you deserve, we remain
Very slncereli
Don't forget the Band Ooneert ii
Tuesday, Dee. 31st, which is furnished tip
help buy their much needed uniforms, andkt
result of the Teacher's Voting Contest w
Admission withvreserved seat in
25 cents. Seats on sale at Harman's, Sa
other arrange- I
, Importers, ',
for a unique Holiday Greeting is not going fc reach us,
although the order was placed last April! Be wish, howevsr, ;
to thank you for your many favors extendid fiuring the past
year and trust we will merit your confidj
The RUN that was looked for, we are happj
neb in the future, i
to say, was on thii
far your liberal
ours for the
oi the good things
yours,
KINNEY & TSUAX.
the Opera Eeuse,
Band Boys free to
that time the
11 be announced. '
oij part of the house
frday, Dee. 28.
thousands of workers
wsar
Levi Strauss St Co's
Camper R.vS
Overalls
III J Mtcluait
theme will he "The Simplest, Most
Comprehensive Definition of Clod in
the Simpleit of Words." Bible
School, under the supiriutendeocy of
H C. Kinney, will commence at
the hour of 10, a. m. Jr. O. K 8 p.
iu. in the church parlors. The De
vojional Hour of the Y.P. 8. C. K. at
fl :30 p. tii. Kvrr a cordial reception
is accorded ever Tons at this church.
Now is the time to set h'dge
pliuits. Cypress and Eugllah Privet,
IJ.,0 to $4 per 100. See J. T.Taylor
at of floe, near court house. 11-23 4t
Mrs. Hehkopf is offering special
bargains for 30 days. 12 -'.'0 2t
A Warm Bath.
A young man went Into a restaurant
and ordered roast beef, coffse and
rolls. In a fw minutes a trim little
waitress tripped up with the order.
As she turned to leave the young man
discovered that the meat was about as
told as a refrigerator.
"1 don't care for cold beef," he said.
"1 should like to have it hot"
The young woman took the plate and.
going to the dumbwaiter shaft, shouted
down: "Honense, 1 want this meat
bot Tour some warm gravy oo It"
Harper's Weekly.
Dixon, the dentist, who resumed:
"load intended going to spend the
winter season on my farm, located
near Portland, but have gWen np the
Idea and will be found at my office
all the time, as of yore."
"Is there money in poultry raising?
Well, I should say there Is. At
least I am finding that there is.
Doring the month of November I had
no less thna 830 eggs from 30 White
Leghorn hens, which sold very readi
for $11. I figure that it costs me
oents per day to feed theee bird aci
I get in return 60 rents for aach day
feeding. What better investment
one time and money could yo
possibly a ak than that?" Mr. Cram
is one of the mott entbasiastio an
successful members of the Grants Pa
Poultry Keepers Association. E
informed the Courier man, "on th
side, " that the secret to the matte
was in hatching the chicks by metis
of a Petalutna Incubator early, hj
February or March and then in taking
proper care of them after they wen
hatched.
List Your Timber Lands Witk
Herzinger & Mitohell. 13-20 tf
We have the best line of Boigj
whips in Josephine county. Bacon I
Ed banks, the uew harness shop.
13-30 tf
But, say, it is
over the effects of
experience. Sop-
this matter and
while Governor Chamberlain finds it
so easy to make holidays, he might !
take pity on suffering bumauity and
set apart two days, instead of only '
one, for this great feast day." 1
1
"I tell yon I think if these good
church people, who seem so very an
xious to work np reforms in Grants
Pass would ouly join their for es and
give our boys aud youug men a Y. M.
U. A., or something equally as good,
they would accomplish a great deal
more good, for really I am not oppos
ing the saloons, simply became there
is no other place for the men folks to
go to speud an evening, if they hap
pen not to be marrted men, " said one
lady who has the best inerests of the
oity at heart and who remarked that
she meant just what she said.
Having lived iu a larger oity, she
knows somewhat of the great good
whioh the Y. M. O. A. is accom
plishing for young men aud she thinks
that if it is possible for such an or
gauiwtiou to exist here that a great
big effort should be made by all in
terested persons to briug it about.
"luetics that the Courier thiuka I
did not uaderstiiul how the report got
out that I had thought of loaviug for
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That during wLAsr
YEA WE HAVE BULT VJP
AN HOtJSTTKADfl VJITH
HONEST PEOPLe'BmLWG
HONEST GOODS ATTEST
PRICES-NEXT YAl SAME
METHOD5 8U5TEP kow
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wl f LLL THAT WE CAN LOOK OUR. PATR.ON-5 .tUARE IN THE
r all ANL wlon THEM A HAPPY NEW YEAR,, BEXAUJE WITHIN
OUR. JELVEJ WE ARE CONJCIoUJ OF, HAVING CREATED OUR
PATON RIdHT IN THE PAJT. OUR PATRON A6EPROVE-5 THIS.
IN THE YEAR To COME WE CAN PRoMI.SE To Do Io MORE THAN
IN THE YEAR J THAT HAVE PAJJED. WE NEED nJt, WE KNOW,
EXTEND ANYTHING BUT THANK-S To OUR OLD IaTRoHS. WE
KNOW THEY NEED NO INVITATION TO COME To OLR .STORE. TO
HE -STRANG-
THOE WHO HAVE NOT YET CoME OUR way m1
erin our town, we extend, however, an hvitation to
COME AND .Ff li c " I
GEO. S. CALHOUN C9
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