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ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS, OREGON. JUNE 26, 1908. 6R00ER1E3 Fresh Fruits Cherries Strawberries Peaches Tomatos Cucumbers itfew Potatoes Bok orders now for Berries and Cherrios for canning J. PARDEE Front Sired, Grinti Put, Oregon DEERING. Whoopee I Juit hear the politician! kick Well, ' let them kick, Itfl title tarn. The public lias bud iti share. Of course Chamberlain' ii it. If not, why nott Answer sombeody and do not let us "bust" with iguoranoe. Mrs. Just Freeman has Just closed a uncessfol term of school iu thd O'Brien district. If your land needs Irrigation, let Hair-Riddle Hardware Co. how you how yoa can irrigate it. Dan Damon has gone to Sucker Creek valley where be ii employed or James Lewis. Ik R. Webb ia enjoying a set back to his woandf sustained over a month ago. Proud flesh haa been bothering him and It will be some ; time before ha can skate along naturally again. Miss Elsie Kohler closed her term of school here yesterday. We very much regret to lose her aa it is rery hard to get good tecahera out here, especially one where no kicks are registered. We were callers along with T. D Collet! at the Webb mine Wednesday and we never saw the camp looking more beautiful, thanks to the taste of Mrs. Martha. Roees, rhododendrons, azallaa a perfect sua of them. Flowers grow at ail altitudes in Oregon. Joseph Dixon of Rosubnrg has come here to pass his declining days with hia daughter, Mrs. Ed Wilson. Mr. Dixon is looking fine for a man 60 years old. lie has been a resident of Oregon aiuoe '62 and came here from Iowa. Corn Ontlivators the kind that works both aides of the row at unse at Hair-Riddle's. The ladles of Deerlug gathered en masse at the home of Fred Ahlberg Sunday, where they were entertained by various selections of music, both vocal and Instrumental from nil up-to-date Edison machine. They all re , port the moslo "Just lovely." Fred's records are surely good. We think if Mr. M. J. Anderton would come dowu'hero iu person and look onr aKricoltural laud over, there might possibly be a different report finding its way toward Washington. It might bsa good thing all around if he would come. Oh Blue Creek with your beautiful waters aud falls, ranging from 10 to CO feet plunges, oan thou explain how the trout find their way up aud over, yea, to thy very source. EH EN. A dredger ia being put in at the mouth of Ticket creek this week aud minion activity is ou the gain in that section. QN and after June 26, '08, we will sell Shoes at greatly reduced prices in order to reduce our stock. Good Shoes, Shoes that wear for little money. Shoe the whole family. W. E. DEA'N WALDO. We are having a very fine two days rain and ranchers who bare no bay down ere happy . M. Albright of Detring was on onr streets Thursday. Mrs. A. J. Adams drove ever to Kerby Friday where she visited aud attended Lodga James Huge who has had a pro longed seige of pneumonia is convales cent. Frank Nickerson of Kerby ia giving moRio lefsons and taking orders for clothing in and about our villuge. Charley Vans has located a placer claim near here and Is busily taking oot the yellow metal. He was show ing some fine pecimen of free gold yesterday. Geo. Crsrar, who is in charge of the Tekilina smelter was in our burg (Saturday. L. R. Webb of Deering bad bniinecs in oor town and Takiima for three or four days this week. J. H. Cousino of Creso nt City wan held op hire by the rain for a day while en route to Roseburg, where he la taking Major B., fine stallion be longing to W. T. Griffin of the coast oity. Closing Out our stock of Top and Open Boggles, regardless of cost. Hair-Riddle Hdvr. Co. J. H. Tamer operating a oopper mine at the Low Divide near Smith River Corners, paisnd through here on hia way home to Salt Lake city last Friday. Mr.; Tomer stated that bis company was shipping ore from tide water and had been for sometime. Their ore averages 20 per cent oop per. He Is lookiug for a railroad. Col. Ray of New York and Dr. Ray, Dr. Reddy and Attorney Kennies of Medford came over Friday from the latter plaoe In an automobile aud was viewing ;the right-of-way for the railroad that has so long been promised. Thele ; gentlemen were an optimistio lot as one ever saw and the air begin! to have a fragrance here about, that greatly resembles an electrio railway. Fuuoy if , Med fold steals the n usage from under Grants Pass' very nose. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Peacock ot Gaaquet, Cal., are iu charge of the hotel at thisjjilaceat present'and are enjoying a good bunineaa. Mrs. Pea cock was a resident of Waldo Tears ago when it was the largest city iu Josephine oounty. It was also the home of our esteemed J udge Hanua at that time. NON COMPOS MENTIS. FRUITDALE. Mrs. Hamilton waa culled to Port land last week by the death of her aunt. She returned home on Sunday morning. Mrs. Ida Swacker closed her school here lint Friday. The pu pils all ieel that the past term has been both nleastiit and profitable and expressed their luvo and appreciation of their teahcer by presenting her with a very pretty water set aud vane. Work on tho Fruitdale Telephone line is completed and nine instru ments have been installed. Those having phones at present are O. A. Hamilton, Prof. It It. Turner. F. A. Clements, E. H. Wise, II. C. Biteham, R. Hues. H. Hock, W. II. Kiukaid, and Churchill & Kngles. A number of others will put in phonos iu the near future. Geo. Parker, Miss Augusta Parker. Mr. and Mra. Aflred Ilestou of Grants Pans, and Mrs. Itauiliu aud Lnvd Kdua, Ruth and Stella Hamlin vUted our Snuilay school laat Sunday. Wo are always glad to welcome old friends back into our Sunday school. Ralph and Orrll Huck have both had very fat lookiug cheeks the lust few days, but are now beginning to look more natural and are both re joicing In the prospect of never hav ing to have the mumps again. Corn Cultivator the kind that works both sides of the row at ouce at Hair-Riddle's. Mra. J. W. Hamlin and children of Medford, are visiting relatives aud friends in Frui'dale this we. We are all glad to have them b k even for a few dvs. bat woold be more pleaned to have them retain and make their home in onr little valley once more. Owing to the rain last Frinav and Saturday the Froit Growers crdiard meeting waa postponed. It is ex pected now that Prof. P. J. O Gaia, of Washintgon, D. C. will b hre and that the mention will be heid on Thursday. June 5. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Jones viui'.ed at the home of E. H. Wife last Sun day. G. A. Hamilton is working on his new irrigating plant aud boiei o soon have it in running ord r. Robert Huck was selling cherries last week. There will be preach iug at the Fruitdale school house on - Sunday afternoon, June 28 after Sunday School. Regular meeting of the Grange will be .held Saturday, June 27, at 2 p. m Step ladders for fruit picking at Hair-Riddle's. On Monday, June 22, at 9 :30 a.m. at the borne of Mr. and Mra. W. Hes- ton, in the presence of a number of relatives occurred the marriage of their daughter Adeline, to Bern Gillette, of Grants Pass. After a wedding dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Gil lette left for Crescent Oity, expeotiug to be gone about three weeks. On thuir return they will make their home in Grants Pass. The best wishes of a large circle of friends go with them. A number of the Grange members met at Mr. H. C.Bateham'a Tuesday eveniug to make plana for the Fourth of July. He Always Remembered. A smile lurked nt the comers of Mra. Lombard's mouth as she listened to the plulut of the school friend whom he hud not Been for niore than ten yoirs. "I'm ufrald, dear," she said, "von'll huve to reconstruct some of v'Mir pinna. You see, I married a for ceful mnn too." "Why. you told me not ten minutes ig i that jour huslmnd had never yet torgotteti jour hlrthduy or your wed ding anniversary," cried her frleud, "u mi you tolt mo you'd leeu married nearly eleven years! That's ever sluce the year after father took us all abroad." "Yes," said Mra. Lombard demurely, "I have. That's a long time. Isn't It? But, you sec, one thlug waa In my fa vorI was bom on the Fourth of July. Mr. Lombard couldn't very well forget the natloiiul holiday. And as soon us I'd found out how forgetful he was I decided to lie married on an other hollduy. "I suppose as you were abroud you didn't realize that the date of my wed ding was unusuul ieoplo aren't often married on tho 2Jd of February, I think. But, you see. by a little Ju dicious planning I'vo been saved the necessity of reminding him about our auulversnry." Youth's Companion. 8wtly Thoughtful. The De Jones back lawn was a lawn In uame only. It was really an arid desert bald, so to speak and In dry weather It was always as dusty as a motor track. To the astoulsbmeut of Mrs. De Bmythe, who lived next door, she one day saw her devoted husband turning the garden hose upon the De Jones' "lawn." "Well, I never!" she exclaimed. "I'm sure I wouldn't trouble to lay the dust In the De Jones' back yard. John, es pecially as they are such a hateful lot of gossips. Small thanks you'll get for your trouble anyway." Hubby turned to bis letter half with a smile which told of mixed pleasure and vindictive-lies. "That's all right my dear. Their darling little I'ido was washed snow white this morning. Now he's out ! there rolling about like a barrel and rubbing the mud well Into his fleecy coat. Trust your husband, my sweet, for real, unadulterated thoughtful ness!" London Scraps. Womsn and "Sport" When a big shoot takes place In the coverts near one of our country houses the occasion la made a sort of society gathering, Tbe ladles of the house party grace it with their presence, and other ladles of the neighborhood are glad to be allowed the honor of such company. Thus a large and fashion able party assembles, and while each beat la In progress the girls and wom en try to look on unmoved while a wounded hare kicks and squeals upon ! the ground for minutes which seem ln ! terminable to the sensitive onlooker I until the beat la over and the dog are , loosed to finish off the cripples. And, I though the hare's piteous shrieking I makes Its case aeem the worst, the mere tumbling over and over of a I wounded bird is a shocking sight to I see at the time passes and no one gcee I forward to release It of Its Ufe.-Let 1 doe ataO. MADE A LITTLE FORTUNE in unr.vv pivfr vat t ey M. L. Pellelt Heiirea After Reaping at Splendid Harvest from Oregon Soil. The following from the Medford Mail it characteristic of many who have realized on thtir efforts in the Kogue River Valley and retired with a competence, and there are more op portunities today than efer before to make uoney besides enjoying the best c imate iu America : M. L. Peliett . left Tuesday after noon for Imperial Valley, CaL, where he will teside with his family. Be fore leaving Mr. Peliett gave a Morn ing Mail representative an interview and the following in part is what he said: "I want you to say to my many good friends in Jackson county that my leaviug ia not a notion of my own manufacture. Fact of the matter is the doctors have said that my wife's health would be materially benefitted it she was to move to a lower altitude and I moved, moved to a place low er than the sea. "If there is any one man in Jackson county who has fared better than an other, I guess I am it. Do you know, this is a grand good country and I truthfully believe a man can make more mouev here on au investment of 125,000 than ha can with foO.OOO any place between Seattle, Wash., and Redlands. Cal. I have lived here SO years, and in that length of time have learned a few things, and this knowl edge came to me by hard knocks aud presistent effort. ' I am not telling you this to eoloigze inystlf, but I am say ing it to do a little something to fur ther boost the best country on the Pa cific coats "When I started in this country worked for $1 a day. That was several years ago, but I am making a pretty good finish. In clearing op my .holdings here find myself 80, 000 00 tbe credit side of the books the most of which I have realized from the sale of my orchards "The men who engage in the or chard business iu the Rogue River valley today have a decided advantage over "us fellows who engaged in a like business a number of years ago. Then, when we planted an orchard we did it by guess so far as varity was con cerned. We had no idea aa to what a really and troly commrrcial fruit was,or where wewere to fiud a mar ket for it. Today when an orchard is planted the man who owns it knows the'varlety the foreign oonsnmers de mand. He knows how to care for his or 0 hards and how to handle hia froit to bring the best results iu fact, h can esitmate within a very few dol lars what a oertaiu piece of laud planted to a certain varitey of fruit will produce annually iu revenue, aud he knows beyond the quebtion of a doubt just what he can realize from the sale of his orchard when it has reaahed a certain age. All this aud mary more smallsr details have been brought about by experiments. "I do not know of auy country where a man can mske sure of Letter returns from an investment than in the Rogue River valley the country th at I am leaving after clearing up $ so, 000. "II my wife's .health is entirely re gained I will iu all probability return to Jackson county and establish a home for the rest of my days." A I .;jn In Honesty. There Is a ,-staurunt Iu Broad street In which n irly n thousand persons eat during v noon hour. Each per son eats wh ' lie pleases and when he goes to th" cashier's desk announce the amount of tils Indebtedness. The proprietors llgure that to trust to the honesty of t'.ielr patrons Is a saving of precious Wall street minutes and. lie sides. Is good business. Once In awhile keen eyed employees capture a cheat Cine of these, a youth, was "caught with the gixnls ou" a few days ago and taken to the office of the proprie tors. Given the choice of being ar retted or going Into the kitchen aud washing dishes, the young man nearly collapsed of shame nnd fright He begged not to be arrested nnd ri luotantly agreed to wash dishes. For an hour or so the culprit struggled with a pile of dishes In a tub of steam ing water. Then he was told ho might depart Xow he brings his lunch from home. New York Press. DISPOSAL OF RUBBISH. Bew CleTcIaad Dnli With Old Dot. tlM Bad Tin Caas. Cleveland, O.. has converted its gar bage and rubbish troubles Into a source of profit, says the Kansas City Star W. J. Sprtngbom. president of thf board of public service of Cleveland wat a visitor at the mayor's olfico re cently and told how that city bat solv ed the problems that are now harass ing Kansas City. "We have a rubbish collection de partment Independent of the garbage department.'' said Mr. Sprlngbom. up ITI St J . . missed it! Mr. Swell Dresser: So you will miss out if you want Clothes and do not come to us now to buy them. We are selling our left-overs and making our prices pop. a ft w r We will sell you a two piece suit for $12.50. This is a price popping. Here's how we make prices pop. Men's Outing Suits $4.50, $6.00 and $7.50. Men's Summer Suits, very finest all- wool, hand tailored, terns, several lines where we have one or two sizes left, closing, out price $17.65. Other good Summer Suits $10, $12.50 and $15.00. ' I Vt 1r a - 1--1r of ftllf KlfY 1 1 n P rvf QtTCl7 Hats, Light Weight Underwear, Cool Soft Shirts, etc. We will help you to get ready for the Fourth, now's the time. Geo. S. Calhoun Co. "Outfirtere "What do we do with the rubbish? That's easy. The city buys small tracts of ground that are in deep holes formed by the grading of streets. The property owners are required to de posit their rubbish in barrels, boxes or other receptacles that can be easily handled. "The rubbish Is collected by city em ployees and sorted out. The bottles aud papers ure sold. The ashes and tin cans are dumped lu the holes bought by the city. When the holes are nearly tilled we put ou a covering of clcuu earth aud convert the proper ty Into public playgrounds for the chil dren. Theu we get from 15 to 33 cents a hundred pounds for the paper aud half a cent each for the bottles. Last year we sold 31)0,000 bottles. Tbe result? "We convert unsightly holes In val uable city property luto playgrounds. We get rid of our rubbish at small cost and trouble, and the city Is clean." "Do the householders co-operate?" "They are glad to have a place to get rid of their rubbish. They call us up wheu the barrels are full." "How about garbage?" "The householders are required to have garbage cans, as you do here. It cost us $100,000 last year to collect and dispose of our garbage. But the tallow, fertilizer and horse hides brought us a revenue of $100,000. That wiped out the cost We have a reduc tion plant eight miles from the city. The garbage Is hauled In tight wagons to steel dump cars on the Baltimore and Ohio railway. These cars are owned by the city. Each ton of gar bage brings us from $S to $9.50 when It Is desiccated. The grease alone from each ton of garbage brings us $3. If the householders don't collect and de posit the rubbish and garbage In prop er receptacles so the city can handle It, a sanitary inspector takes them Into court. We have a sanitary Inspector for each ward." Kodol 1? kffoa. '" Relieves lour stomach palpitation of the heart Digests what you eat, latest cut and pat to Boy txnd Man' Deering Mowers at Cramer Bros. The Southern Oregon State Normal School Will conduct a six weeks sum mer course beginning June 18, aud ending July 31, 1908. The courses offered are as follows. Course 1 PRIMARY METHODS In cluding first three grades. One Besiiou of 2 weeks (12 days) Mrs. Katherin E. Sloan, Course 2 ADVANv I-D METHOD- 1 cludin tades four to I. ' ; Mis A tn da Kaiser. ourse 3 HIGH i-CHOOL METHOD and SCHOOL MANAGE MENT and SUPERVISION. Prof. A. L. Briggs, Pres. of Drain Normal School. Course 4 REGULAR NORMAL SUB JECTS, and REVIEW FOR COUNTY and LIFE PAPER Pres. of School, Prof W. T. VanScoy, Prof. A. C. Joy, Miss Arroeda Kaiser, Prof. A. L- Briggs. For further particular addrs Prea, of Normal School, Ashland. Oregon,