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ROGUE RIVER COURIER GRANTS PASS, OREGON, MARCH 13. 19ti8 I i ent una V, Cf louses 'Put a coat of paint on an old house, and you'll come nn.tt near to having a new house," is an old saving that's craven tru every day by the old houses made new with The Sherwin-Williams Paint. S. W. P. protects and beautifies. It's great durability, beauty of finish, and economy, gives satisfaction to the house-owner. fc It s easy working qualities, great covering N capacity, honest measure, and strict purity, satisfy the demands of both painter and house-owner. S.OLB SIT 3 Hair-Riddle Hardware Co. STOP THAT COUGH! By Using Our cold and grip cure. There's no'hing better. It does the work Vvery time. Don't delay, but come and get the rem edy today and save yourself a possible sick spell The Model Drug Store Front Street. Opposite Depot This is the only school in the Northwest which prepares young men and young women for Private Secretary Positions We have ceased trying to fill all positions which are brought to our attention. Only the best are selected and for tbe best we must have the best young people. Write us today and ask us sboutjthis Private Secretary Course Holmes Business College PORTLAND. OR.E. ARE YOU LOOKING For bargains in furniture? If so, come and see my new stock and get my prices. My car of new Couches, Beds, in fact anything and everything for the parlor, dining room, bed room and kitchen has come, and you'll be astonished at the splendid goods and the right prices. M. E, MOCRE, NEW and SECOND HANO r GOODS Racycles and Typewriters GENERAL REPAIRING M. McLNTYKE'S Phone 528 BICYCLE AND MACHINE SHOP 8oQth 6th st. Grants Pass. Ore. JpS. V. MOODY WOOD YARD Cor. H & 3d sts. Phone 434 Load Blocks $3.00 Stove Wood Tier Manzanita $2.50 Tier Oak $2 75 Tier Fir $2.50 Tier Pine $2.25 Chunk Wood Tier Oak $2 50 Tier Fir $2.25 Tier Pine.... $2.00 Load Sawdust.... '...$1.00 Load Kindling $1.0 First National Bank OF Southern Oregon Grants Pass, Oregon Some of the Service that a Bank Renders the Public DEPOSITS The safest and simplest way of keeping your money is by depositing it in a Reliable Bank. This Bank receives posii suhjert to Check, or on demand Certific ates of deronit or on time Certificates of Deposits. On time deposits we pay 4 PER CENT INTEREST DRAFTS The best and cheapest way to transfer money . is bv Bank Draft. We sell Draft payable In all parts of the country. LOANS One of tbe most impor tant fani'tions of the Bank. We endeavor to supply all reasonable needs of our customers. Ospitaland Burplus $75,000 Stockholders' Additional Responsibility $50,000 OFFICERS L. B. Ham., President J. C. CAraM., Vice-Pres. H L. Gitsir, Cashier " K. K. Hackbtt, Asst.Cahier bOINQS ffT THE COURT HOUSE Items of Interest to the Taxpayers of Josephine County T rem the Various County Officials v v Fine commercial printing at the Coerier oficc These are strenuous days in the office of County Clerk Cheshire, who together with his assistant, Deputy E. 3. Veatoh, find the business coming in at a brisk rate. The recording has been better than for some months past, deeds and like documents piling BP at a lively rite. The following transfers have been placed on record : Addie L Reed to H H Conger, lot block S, town of Placer, (300. . Margaret Chapman et al to George Henry Chapman et al., 280 acres in see 3, tp 89 s, r 5, (I. State Land Board to Ellen J Shar key, 620 acres in sec 836, tp 40 s, r 9, 1650. Emma Wheeler et al, to E K Nor. cott et al, 20 acres in see 0, tp 8 s, r 5, II. ' H S Wynant et aitoWE Parkey, escrow agreement lor the Wynant farm, located in sea 13, tp 87 s, r 6, etc, 6000. E J Rogers et mar to George O Sabin, 12 acres in sec 8, tp 86, s, r 5, 11900. Henry A Ple et nx to Cheney Creek Lumber Co., "all merchantable timber on part of seo 13, tp 38, , r 8, $100. B D Wilson et nx to Hinman, Know lis & Co, 160 acres in seo 1 tp 87 s, r 6, $205. United States .to Edward O Hagen, patent for 160 acres in seo 14, tp 38 s, r 8. Arthur Conklin et nx to Loo A Heberlie, lot 4. block 61, O T S of Grants Pass, $150. Albeita G Lincoln to G H Carmer, 125.97 acres In seo 15, tp 86 s. r 6, $6000. Sylvester Smith et nx to C G Jeoks, part seo 6, tp 86 s, r 5, $250. Peter M Miller to Charles S Gloor, 152.02 acres in see 9, tp 89, a, r 8 and all mill aad wat'r rights, $10. Jacob Gaddel to J Rogers, 12 acres in seo 8, tp 86 s, r 6, $1300. C J Smith et nx to E E Oonrsen st al lot 1, extension of block A, of Boundary Line add to Grants Pass, $1. Edgar E Coarsen et al to Wm A Paddock, part block A, Bourne's First add to Grants Pass, $1100. Same to same lot 1, extension of block A, Boundary Line add to Grants Pass, $100. W E Sanders et nx te W W Wilson, part seo 83, tp 84 s, r 6, $600. G P Banking & Trnst Co, to M A Laoey, part sec 5 tp 86, s, r 6, $1. Wm C Deneff et nx to W C Sparks, part seo 36 tp 89 s, r 5. $600 E E Wiseman to Lillie V Reed. One- half interest in part see 8, tp 84 s, r 6, $1. L L Jewell et nx to Eclas Pollock, 120 acres in seo 38, tp 87 s, r 6, $U Taxes are rolling in at the office of Sheriff Russell at a very lively rate. and the average lately has been about $3000 per day. The taxpayers are coming in from all over this county to make their annual deposit. County Clerk Cheshire's fees are climbing up, right along. For the month of January he received $373.85 and in February tbe amount came up to $393.85. R O Churchill of Selma has been appointed a notary public by Gover nor Chamberlain. Voters ar crowding into the office of Clerk Cheshire, where they are having their names entered for the coming battle of ballots. It is evi dent that the Intercast in the ap proaching primaries is constantly on the increase, Judging by tbe registra tion. This week Superintendent Savage is visiting the various Williams Creek publio schools, as the law requires him to do once each year. Tbe next uniform examination in the eighth grades will be he'd on May 14 and 15, all over the state of Oregon. Samuel Reed of Leland has placed his stock brand on fl lie in the county clerk's office. Hunters' licenses have been taken oat as follows: Andrew Caspesba of Merlin ; Nijah Roberts and H M Chapin, of Josephine county; George Campbell, Geo L Jsntzer, Frank Jantzer, Jr. of Grants Pa's; and P T Everton, of North Santiam. Chas F Parker was again before the court, Monday, on the old charge of having made away with soma tools, out at the Box Factory, last spring. Attorney Geo W Col rig appeared in his behalf and con vinced the court that 'tbe man had already been acquitted in the circuit court of tbe same charge aod could not therefore again be legally held. So Parker was again given his free dom. Nellie Wade seeks to obtain a di vorce from Warren JA. Wade to whom she was wedded, bare in Grants Pass, September 4, 1902. All seems to htve pone well with the oonpls until March 2, 1907, when, aha sets frtb in her complaint, her husband "against plaintiff's will and consent and with out any just cause or provocation, wllfullv deserted and abandoned the plaintiff and ever sines that time and for more than one year pat, has con tinued to do so, against her will aud consent. She asks for a decree of divorce and such other relief as the court may deem Just and equitable and she wants the privilege of again assuming her maiden name which was Nellie Floyd. Susan E. Anderson is seeking the aid of the circuit court in untangling a matrimonial mix-up In which she has played a prominent part Accord ing to her own acooont of it, as con tained in tbe complaint she has filed, she was married to Fred Kleinhatn mer, in Linn county. May 2, 1886, but they were mismated and the courts of that county dissolved the knot which made them husband and wife, July 5, 1893 and ou that very same day she accepted the band and heart of Noah W. Leabo and they were at onoe mar ried at Albany. She lived with this man until the year 1897, when, to her great astonishment she ascertained that her marriage to this man was illegal, inasmuch as the Oregon state laws provided that no divorced patties oould remarry within a period of six months after the court has separated them. And. this was news to her husband, too, and taking advantage of the situation, he forthwith "skip ped out" and she says she has never seea him sinoe that time, but after wards she says one of bis brothers In formed her tnat the man was dead. Acting upon this bit of information, she again entered the ma rimoolal state, this time becoming the wife of Aired Anderson, te whom she was married March 18, 1901, at Jaokson ville. Two children were born to them But afterwards this husband died and now she seeks to have the court deolare bsr marriage to Leabo null and void, giving her tbe complete charge of the two children aod allow Ing ber and said children to asinine the surname of Anderson. An important piece of litigation has just been filed in the eircnit court, in which 'the participants are prominent Douglas county residents and it has already oausd some " bad blood" and ii likely to cause still more, for an attachment has been soed out in this county. The plaintiff is C. 8. Jaokson, of Roieborg, a m ember of the state legislature, while the de fendant is Hon. A W. Stearns, of Oakland, and one cf the prominent men of Douglas ononty. The oom plaint sets forth at some length that the plaintiff was employed to prose oute a certain case in the olronit court of that county, for which he was to receive a deed to certain acreage said to be worth $4500. bat that defendant Stearns has not paid tbe debt, al though repeated demands for the same have been made, but be has "fraudu lently, collusively, wrongfully and purposely violated said agreement, disregarding plaintiff's rights there under and secretly and ' without plaintiff's consent and against his wishes, old all of said land and for a nominal consideration conveyed same to H. J. Wilson, one of the defendants in said suit and thus unjustly en riched himself to plaintiff's great and irreparable' damage and loss, in the sum of $4600." Judgment is there fore asked for in this amount and an attachment has been issued against property held by defendant in this county. A case that has already had two trials in the court of Justice J as. Holman is entitled: W. H. Flanagan vs. Grant Urinn, for $27 professional fees. Tbe first trial occurred Janu ary 30, last and resulted in a disagree ment of the jury. Then another at tempt was made to settle the matter in dispute, resulting in a verdict for tbe defense. The cost amounted to $24.60. Now Ibe plaintiff has carried the matter into the circuit oourt where it will be threshed over Before a judge and juiy. TEA There's plenty of hum bug in tea; not one ounce in a ton Schilling's Best Yosr iroctr returns your noasr U im aoal Uka it; w par him. W. C. T. U. NOTES i The T. P. C. T. U. met at the M. E. church, Friday evening, March 6. at 7 p. m. Each girl brought a well filled basket. The collation was spread in the . dining room. Over fifty young people partook of the fine repast which all seemed to enjoy. At 8 o'clook the society was called to order in tbe parlor, by the Presldeut, A short business meeting was followed by a debate, the sabject i being "Re salved, That Prohibition would be Detrimental to Grants Pass." It was affirmed by George Birdssy and Louise Birdsall and denied by Harold O'Neill and Wilne Gilkey. The affirmative gave every point that oould possibly be brought oat on their side of the subject. The negative ably met tbe arguments of their op- peoents. As judges bad not been ap pointed, the question wai decided by vote of those present. Tbe decision wss almost unanimous for tbe nega tlve. A great number came, in time to hear the debate. All spoke in the highest terms of tbe work of each contestant The society .then adjourned for a social hour of interesting games. All went home feeilng that thsy had spent a very enjoyable aud profitable eveniug. Press Correspondent. "Do the regular lines of church work sufficiently inoluds work for temperance? Why should a busy church member belong to the Woman's Christian Temperanoe Union?" Ws answer, we belong 1st Becanse we believe that the saloon and its allies are the greatest obstacles which lie in the way of the triumph oi Christ and His church in the nrld. The open saloon is block ading the highways along which must IP3 Absolutely Pure The only baking powder made with Royal Crape Cream oi Tartar No Alum, Ho Lime Phosphato oome tbe King la His beauty, and His -triumphal reign cannot be ushered in . until the dramshops are cleared away and Institutions for man's elevation are substituted. The altars of our churches are pitiably devoid of young men, and the pitfalls of vice in our large citits are crowded with them. Thus tbey are drawn farther and farther away from purity, the in fluence of a mother's pravers and the restraining and helpful ordinanoes.of Ihs church. 2d. We belong because there is a stultifying lethargy ou the part of the average church member regarding the evils of the saloon, and a disposition to evade responsibility. Consequently the aroused and consecrated worker -for souls must organize, agitate and cry aloud in behalf or "the slain of ' ths daughters of my people." It is not eoongh that we offer a prayer - occasionally for tbe downfall of the drink trafflo; not enooeh that we - have quarterly temperance Sunday- school lessons, and oaoe or twice a. year a good temperance sermon ; not enough that the church periodically - pass strong resolutions against the- sale of intoxicating liquor. Alls these are good, but radioal evils mnst have radical remedies, and the rank.. and file of our ohurohes are conserva tive and slow to adopt any such measures. 8d. We belonir because, while the evil of the saloon is almost univer sally acknowedged by the ohurohes, yet there are weapons which must be wielded against tbe saloon before ir is abolished which now cannot freely advocate under tbe 'auspices of the church without' dissension, wbioh- would be deplorable to many, even of our own whitu-ribbooers. The church has not washed its hands from complicity with the saloon, and while deolaring "that tbe liquor trafflo can not be legalised without sin, " a ma jority of the yoting memberships -sanction its perpetuation by thelf ballots, thereby Insuring to the trafflo the protection of government. In John's 'second epistle we read: "He that biddeth him godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds." Does not govern- - ment license bid godspeed to the - saloon? It Is olear to ns that the liquor trafflo mnst be outlawed by- tbe rots of the obnroh, but these sub jects cannot be freely dlsonise'd nndsrr her auspices without pitiful outsry. of political preaching, restriction of man's personal liberty, "etc 4th. We belong because the W. C. T. U. wipes out denominational lines- in Christian work agaiust this cons ul on foe to all aad realises- the Savior's prayer that "they all. may r be one." This blending of women at the mercy seat has brought to them such a revelation of the Holy Spirit's power, such depths of love and peaoe and joy, that they are oonsolnus that His favor orowns their work and that. Ha will finally subdue all enemies, under His feet." 6th. We belong because ths mis- -sionary work of all ' our churches is handicapped In foreign countries by the rum sent out from this and other so-called Christian lauds, to the' natives whom onr missionaries are making every sacrifice to reaoh and save. Contracts ars made with oltl xeus of this country to send thousands of gallons of rum per day to the Free States of the . Congo, thst gain may oome into the unsanotlfied coffers of the rum trade. Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, our first round-the-world missionary, found whole villages drunk with rum sent from Christian -England and the United States, when she arrived with her message of gos pel purity and love. God have pity, for the blood of these natives is yet upon our garments. 6th. We belong because the W. O. T. U. stands for the ecclesiastical emancipation of woman. "Go qulcky and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.," said the angel to the women. Tbey are preaohiug the risen Christ as acceptably and as effectively as any on whom holy bands have been laid ln ordination by ths chorch. Who that ever heard our sainted Mary T. Lathrays cau doubt that she wss "oslled of God to preach the gospel? And yet ths Church she loved and . honored refused to recog nize officially that call because 'she was a woman I I fully believe that thousands of tools who are now un touched, would be reached and saved annually if our churches wonld but acknowledge and officially recognize God's call to women to (preach the gospel. Such convictions of duty have never come to me personally so I may speak more freely in behalf of others. Our women, by their loyalty and devotion to the chorch (and women form two-thirds of its mem bership), their faithfulness nnder thia system of injustice, are sorely bring ing nearer the; glad jiay when there shall be no sex distinction in terries for the King of Klugs." TRESS CORRESPONDENT. LA DDIS Hare yog used the Rest Room at Gibson's? If not why .notfIts roars. J - s;SMisjit!i4WVswgtf.vrt. !-'.a-t7' ty.'l- !- I'"