Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, February 14, 1908, Image 3

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Rogue River courier., February 14, 1908, Image 3

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1908)

Prev Page of 8 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (3.2 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 8 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextROGUE RIVER COURIER GRANTS PASS, OREGON, FEBRUAkY 14. 1908 CLOSING OUT SALE Of the following goods for one week only at Dixons old stand Beginning Mondav. Feb. 17 t to make room for the new goods arriving every day from eastern factories. A fine line of ladies silk and rain coats latest styles I $15 now $10 $18 " ..$12 $25 " $18 $35 " $25 Short Coats from $7 to $20 while sale lasts All boys suits at 50c on $1. Childrens felt hats regular price 50c and , 75c, choice 103 I IV. J. Gardner & Company Ro&ue River Fruit Notes Real Estate I hereby express my thanks to those of the public whose good will and assistance brought me the followiug sales for my first months business. Mrs. Ellen Frace, City home $600 Mrs. Anna . Shank, 160 acres $525 - C. B. Newman, 320 acres $4000 J. T. Perry, 10 acres $800 C. M. Coleman, City home :. $1400 J. W. Lucas, 160 acres $460 C. R. Brechtbill, 10 acres.. $950 Nelson MacDuff, City home $1400 I am in business to satisfy my customers. Respectfully, Elmer Shank STOP THAT COUGH! By Using Our cold and grip cure. There's nothing better. It does the work every time. Don't delay, but come and get the rem edy today and save yourself a possible sick spell i The Model Dru? Store Front Street. Opposite Depot This is the only school in the Northwest which prepares young men and young women tor Private Secretary Positions We have ceased trying to fill all positions which are brought to our attention. Only the best are selected and for the best we must have the best young people. Write ua today and aak us aboutjthia Private Secretary Course Holmes Business College j run i ijAit w . Profitable Pointer Regarding the Industry Gathered From Various Source In This Favored Section of Oregon Geo P Mima is totting 70 acre of Ma farm north of town to apples, pears aod peaches, about squally di vided. Mr. Mima and bis son broke the record Monday by dinging the holes and letting 300 tries in nine lioun. His family will arrive from Idaho in the spring to make their home here. Central Point Herald. Now and then a Josephine connty fruit groer tarns np with bad cae of "cold feet, V just became he Suds that some other locality is bet ter organized and t hat the prices which naturally result are much bet ter, be waota to "pull np and go." But, as usual, he finds that he will have to hoot around some bit before he can better his conditions very ma terially, other things being equal. For instance, if he goes into the Yaki ma 'or Hood River sections, he dis covers that land is held at a moon hifthsr price than be has to pay here. Than, in California he encounters the pear bliRht and other untoward con ditions, which make bis searoh there not entirely agreeable. So. he usually oomes back, a sadder and de cidedly wiser man, resolved to make the best of the situation and even tually he fiads that be has done a in resolTing to remain wise tiling right here. The Rogue River Fruit Growers Union, by J A Perry, manager, has packers at woi k on about ?0 carloads of Ben Davis apples, which fruit will be shipped to California points. Th frnit is exceptionally good this sea son, so good in fact, that packers fl d It. tie trouble in wrapping and pack ing 100 boxes in eight hours time. The Ben Dae is from the Watt or chard are some of the best ever grown. Medford Mail. There is nnnual activity in orchard lands in this vioinlty and numerous sales are being reported at aood prices, some of bearing orchards aod others of suitable land for nlantins peaches, p'ars, apples and oherriei. That the cheapest lands in the Rogue Rier Valley, and the very beat for orcharding, lie in .the immediate vioinity of Ashland, ia asserted. The wise ones have a huocb that ths com ing season will witness a bigger boom than ever in horticulture in this Mo tion of the state, and are advlaing their friends to get in before it is too late. Ashland Tidlags. DEE KINO t ! January behaved itielf well withont much rain, but an abnndant amount of warm weather. February, how ever, has started in with Jnpiter PIutIus doing business at the old stand. Let her pour. 8 wan Haglund his returned to Crescent City, where he will resume work in the saw mills. X Y Z of the Applegate and all along the shore is seeing things these days. One would naturally suppose that Harrlman owned all of these mountains with about 4,000,000 of square miles of the blue sky thrown, in to bear him talk. Bnt friend, that is not what brothers "Shorty" and "Uncle Ebe" think. Its the blamed thieves and robbers in onr own state we are going after when the ballot box opens a p. Lets clean onr own door yards before trying to dost off Uncle Sam. O R Reynolds and Tom mi Gilli an are in yoar oity on official busi ness also Papple Reynolda started for ths Pais about the same time. Alfred Petersen is making white cedar fence poet for C T Webb, who is making a .new picket fenoe around bia home. Now yon set along, Tom Lewan, what for you make your Uncle Ebe's mouf water wid your stories of straw berries and cream T Dar am only one ting he Iub better, and dat's baked possum, lammed all ober wid coon gravy. Maurice Lancaster of Kendall, Wis., writes friends here that he will movo his family to Josephine county, Ore gon just as soon as spring opens up. Mr. Lancaster in a reader of the Courier, hence his motive for coming iejiliiin. Bully for the Courier. Household Goods and my stock is quite complete... If you have anything to sell or exchange come and see me, or if you need anything in my line see my goods and get prices. fasTSACKS, COPPER, RUBBER and METAL WANTED M. E. MOCRE, NEW and SECOND HAND GOODS t NEW HOPE Miss Nettie Crooks of Dry den, closed a five menths school at this plao last Friday, an excellent pro gram being rendered. The following visitors were present: Mr. and Mrs. Dutober, Mr. and Mrs. Walter and son, Mrs. Stringer and daaghter, Mrs. H 8 Wynant and son, Mr. Daniels and son and Mrs. Aostln. The New Hope grubber Co. is doing considerable grubbing tbls winter. Tbs following officers were elected last Monday by the Mnrpby Ditoh Co. directors: Wynant, IMessinger and McColm : seo., Geo. Walter; treae., Ed Perry; prea ; J F Weston. Te Tcuk Clrie Beaatr. A class which should be beneficial In Its Influence has been formed by the Young Men's Christian association In New Tork. writes the Pittsburg Dis patch's correspondent Underlying It Is the Idea that good cltlsenahlp la en hanced by the Intelligent comprehen sion of the principles which underlie the building of a great city or town In so far as these pertain to art While the matter of professional art training Is left to other classes, this class un dertakes to teach the duty which a community owes to itself to beautify Its surroundings. This Instruction cov ers the art of various periods. Illus trated by a chalk talk, followed by present day questions relating to park schemes and buildings and the work of the municipal art commission. One evening In the week the class meets at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to take an object lesson In the subjects covered by the chalk talk. Frank Al vab Parsons directs the course and Nicholas Vachcl Lindsay ta the lec turer. The class la free. Placer blanks at the Courier office. MISSUORI FLAT I Quite a number attended the auo Hon sale at G Bwett'a plaoe two miles east of Murphy. There will be a dsnoe at Mr. Hab- ermana, February 14. J W Tork made a bnainess trip to Grants Paes one day last week. Joe Tork has sold his hops to an eauteru firm. Henry Pernoll waa a visitor to Grants Pass one day of last week. There, were quite a number attended the servloea held at the school home one evening last eek. C M Re xford made a trip to the Pass one day last week with a load of beef There was another ditob meeting held February 10. Homer Tork went to Granta Fais Saturday to spend a few days. We understand that Joe Tork bas qnit trapping for this winter. We had quite a nice snow storm Saturday evening and Sunday. LILAC. INVITE A TEST Demaray Ask Ce.te.rrh Sufferer to try Hyomel on Hi Guarantee Demaray invites all who Buffer from any form of catarrhal troubles to get a Hyomel outfit from them with the absolute guarantee that if it does not give perfeot satisfaction, the money will be refunded upon request. There is no other treatment for catarrh' that in any way resembles Hyomel, none that vlves such quick curative results and lsBtiug satisfac tion, no medicine that can take its plaoe, none that can be sold on a guarantee like this, to reload the money unless it cures. ' Catarrh ia a gerra disease and can be onred only by breathing Hyomel, so that the most remote - air cells In th nose, throat and lunge a re' re ached by its autiseptio beating powers. In this way all catarrhal germs are killed, the irritated mucous mem brane ia healed and catarrh ia driven from th system. This wonderful aaioatsd air treatment does not drug and derange the stomach, bat is breathed through a little pocket in haler that gees with every dollar outfit The usual way in which Demaray sells Hyomel attests his confidence la the remedy. 8 14 St Ancient Breed. In the earlier perloda of history the people bad no other method of making bread than by roasting corn and beat ing it In mortars, then wetting It and forming the mass into a coarse cake. Picture Framee. One pint of cold water, to which bas been added the beaten white of one egg, will be found useful In cleaning gold picture frames. Apply the mix ture with a sponge, then ivfe with a soft flannel. Take a second cloth per fectly dry and rub the frames lightly. The Eare. Cold water should never be used in cleaning the ears; firstly. It Is not much of a cleanser, und, secondly, It tends to harden the wax and tempo rary deufuess is apt to ensue. That the American people love to be humbugged is false. That they are easily humbugged, goes without say ing. But when they pass their bowl for another dieh of the same soup.is it not time to turn tne fool killer loose? The Observer is for C W Fulton to succeed himself in the senate and at the same time, it pretends to uphold the Roosevelt policiei. Mr Fulton haB feught the forest reserve end also the appropriations for the prosecn tioa of laud frauds, both of which were recommended by the president. Now, Mr. Observer, whse policies are you going to uphold, Roosevelt or Fultons? EBEN. Why He Remembered. The Luwyer (cross examining) Now, what did you say your first name was? The Witness (cautiously) Waul, I was baptized John Henry. The Lawyer You were, were you? How do you know you were? The Witness Waal, I waa there, you know. The Lawyer Huh! How do you know you were? The Witness Why, I couldn't bsve been baptized otherwise. And, besides, I think I ran remember it quite well. The Lawyer Ho, you do, do you? The Witness Waal er yes. The Lawyer (deeply sarcostlc) Kind ly explain to the court and Jury, my friend with tbe phenomenal memory, how an Infant In arms came to re memler that ceremony so well, wOl you? Tbe Witness Waal er-you see. 1 wasn't baptized until I waa eighteen years old. The Courier a cen. family p;- Confidence when eating:, that your food is of highest wholesomeness that it has nothing in it that can injure or distress you makes the repast doubly comfortable and satisfactory. This supreme confidence you have when the food is raised with TTD La I The only baking powder made with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar There can be no comforting confi dence when eating alum baking pow der food. Chemists say that more or less of the alum powder in unchanged alum or alum salts remains in the food. Prat Rational Bank Of Southern Oregon GRXXTS PXSS OREGON Some of the Services that a Bank Renders the Public DEPOSITS The simolest anrl safVct oruv nf keeping: your money is by deposit ing it in a Reliable Bank. This Bank receives Deposits Subject to Check, or on Demand CVrt i Ana tA. Of DeDOSlt Or On Time- (Vi-fifiMitM. of Deposits. On Time Deposits we pay 4 per cent interest. DRAFTS The Rest and PViatnf 4 " mj tv Transfer Money is by Bank Draft. We sell Drafts payable in alljparts of the country. LOANS One Of the most imnnrtnnt- (amo tions of the Bank. We iIm' to supply all reoaonaWe needy of our ustOBHers. Capital nd Surp u $75,000 Stockholder' - Additional Responsibility $50,000 OFFICERS L. B. Hall. President J. C. Campbell, Vlc-Prsidet 11. L. GlLXET, Caahiet R. K. Hacaarr?. AsstCaehier Racycles and Typewriters GENERAL RIPAIBINO M. MclNTIKE'S iPhons 838 BICYCLE AND MACHINE SHOP Booth 6th at Grants Pas. Or S. V. MOODY WOOD YARD Cor. H & 3d sts. Phone 434 1 Load Blocks... 1.00 Htove Wood 1 TierManzanita ..$2.75 ITier Oak $3 00 1 Tier Fir $2.50 ITier Pine .$2.25 Chunk Wood 1 Tier Oak $2.75 1 Tier Fir $2.25 ITier Pine -...$2.00 1 Load Sawdust $t.00 1 Load Kindling $1.00 tVHKnyiiijg' 50 ct PIONEER ASSAYING AND" REFINING COMPANY Capital $00,000, establiHlitid 27 years. (old, Rasa Bullion, Cyanides, Htoht Or, eto, bought, Hpot oast) ua assay value. All work by ezpetts. 131 Fifth Street Near 17. S. Mlrtl SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, E. A. VEDE Dry Goods, Underwear Notions, Etc. Front Street west of Palace hotel GRANTS PASS. OREGON". r GR.RANTS PASS Commercial Club Will furnish information of Josephine county free of charge. Correspondence solicited. L. B. Hall President 4 H. L. Andukws. . . , Secretary iVvvvvvvvvvwA Tbe old reliable Tbe Weekly OrieiHaa.