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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1908)
i ROOUB RPER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON JUtY 24, i98. SOLUTE, FINAL aed FORV AB JOIN THE THRONG That will respond to this announcement and make merry during the furore of excite ment, for the best selections of our miracul ous values will soon be gone. Tell Everybody THE ELEGANT CLOTHING an FUR SB'S STOCK OP WE ARE MASTERS In the value giving line. We stand the Usses and you the savings, for we have struck the lower end of the toboggan slide of prices in this Great Battle the Masses Grants Pass, Oregon WO ILL SOON BE NO IMIOIRLE This stock is completely in the hands of The Northwestern Brokerage vSales Co., and under our instructions the knife has held sway and been used with no regard for loss in the merciless cutting and slashing of prices throughout this entire stock. The time to buy is now. Don't wait; but come. D CONCEDED BY ALL to be the greatest event ever promulgat ed in this mans country. The walls of the city will fairly tremble pith excite ment, so be on hand early to see the fun. AT COST and below cost. Every artical in the whole store at manufac turers' prices, including Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Shirts, Mens and Boys Furnishings of all kinds. We positevely offer the greatest values in General Merchandise that we ever presented for your consideration. Call and Be Convinced, or Send Some Member of Your Family END S When The Stock is Gone, The Fixtures Sold and The Store for Rent. The low prices that prevail are the attractions here. The foundation of success is confidence. The people through out this entire section of Oregon turn more to this store because they have the confidence in the dependability of our goods, the lowncss of our prices, and they further know that any statement made by us is past contradiction. The first few days at our store will resem ble a circus day in a big city. A carnival would not bring more people to town, and the people will be marching to P. II. IIAKTII & SON'S place on the corner saving dollars and cent, for they know that it will be but a short time before every piece in the house is gone and the doors are locked. THE SUCCESS OF THIS GREAT CLOSING OUT SALE IS BASED ON INTRINSIC VALUE GIVING, so come at once and be prepared to buy goods en ough to last you for a year. W. C. T. U. NOTES : i A very inter sting aud profitable mating of the W. ( T. U. was held Itt-t Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Weidmau. After the business waa finisiiel, Mrs. Gculd presented a hurt but interesting program after which our hostess served ice cream and cuke. During AoguBt the Union Will take a vacntion ana in the mean- tiuiH htand rtady for any work that conies to hand. ij We know a young man who said "I ' will drink 1 qaor wbeuever I pleise end it is nobody's basine8." Yet this fame boy became a drunkard. AVaa it nima of his mother's bnsiueae ' that her boy was lout? And what of ; the gweiihenrt whtee heart broke be fcin"! her idol fell! Young man, it is 1 .... , i;n. In eomeoofij i uuiueB ........ 1 him elf. voo have no rigni io uio hearts to ache, to rain your life's project, to defile yonr own body with this corse which is evil and only evil; for kuow ye not your body isthe temple of the Holy Ghost whicti is in yon which ye have of God, and je are not your own? Oar couuty has voted out the saloons. Will somebody tell ns why their signs are not r moved? There my be some who like to read these tokens of what has been, but there are others who do not care to be reminded continually (jf that which has cansed so much of gin and sorrow. In Taget Sound there i an old boat that has beeo cast aide as useless on i. iv. .mtio pnternritinir advertiser nted "Drink ' Mark's Ryu and Yellowstone VS'his : key." Seme man, adrift on the sea . .1,- i.mi nf hi. manhood marred by lio. law this wrecked boat ' and beholding in it a likeness of his own wasted life, wrote directly under the adeitiser's words: "I did and I am a wreck. " Oh, that buys could look into the future and see thtmselves wrecks in the prime of life because they have drink the poison, it matters not by what name it is called, 'advised by lienor dealers and their followers Oh, that we had t'e Jpower to write in letters of fire, this troth on the hearts of onr boys: "The only safety lies in the total abstinence of intoxi cating liquors." May God watob over aud lave onr bays for the great need of the world demands this! PRESS COR. JOSEPHINE COUNTY REAL ESTATE DOINGS Willis Kramer ft ux, warranty, to F II D.ll, NW'.i of 8W.4 and KW4 of NWM', Sec 16, T 35, range 6, flO. Samuel Uerke et nx, warranty, to H C Stoddard, a tract of land, south ide lot 7, seo 24 T 36, range 6, 975. Diadania and E T McKinstry, war ranty, to J H II nt bard, S'n' of BE '4, Seo 24 T, 35, Range 7, II. J D Hayes et ui, quit claim, to Win L aud Ira E Hayes. W' SEI4 nd SE'4 of SWI4 and SWt, of NE4, Sec 18, T 37, range 6, f 400. Alice J Sparlin quit claim, to Wm and Ira L Hayes, W' of SE of SE4" ofSWijof SWfi of N'Ei4 Seo 18, T 87, range 5. t 66.67. Daivd Sbnltx warranty to Holdah Brown, the Denise Ranch, eaut of the Applegate river in SE4 of SW4' of SEl4, sec 30 T 36, range 6, $1000. Thos B Meade et nx to Lemuel Trask et ox, lot I block 75 original lownsite Grant Pass, f '00. Cha. Short, the real estate magoate from oar thriving little soburb 00 the west. Merlin, wai doing business io the county feat last Sat onlay. He re potts a thriving business In real es tate lines. ;!!,;!,;! .h-h,,;..;..;. .I..I..I..I. 4 4 MINING MATTERS. T-x i"X-X"i"i"i"i- -m-m The Alameda Consolidated Copper Company is now putting op a smelter in the Galice dintrlct on what is kuown as the Big Yank Ledge which is rich in both gold and copper. They also.have a large sawmill in operation and now have 100,000 feet of timber cat for bunk houses, hotels ore bins, etc., for haudling 1000-ton capacity. The present smelter capacity how ever, is but 100 tons prr day. Masons are now at work on the foundatin for the smelter aud other necessary build iugs. Work has been going on at the mines of the company fur the pact three years and considerable ore is already blocked out. The smelter will blow in aloat October 1st of the present year. The matte from this smelter will be hauled to Merlin for tbipmeot. The com any also purpose building a railroad from Leland down to Galice which will undoubtedly boom the Galice district, which has been unusually active daring the pres ent year and particularly this spring. More activity in the Galice district this spring than ever known io the history of the country ; more prospec tors have beeo in this region than ever before. The Golden Ledge Mining Co., a Pliiladelpbiaii concern of which E. D. Uriggs is manager, have just finmbed a crushing mill and a cyanide plant which started up last week. This company has a splen did body of rotten porpbry which carries good values. The Takllma smelter closed down last Monday after a months ran owing to a lack of ore. Mr. Mclntyre, who has charge of the baaliug of soppliei and copper mat e states that the ore this season has been of an unusually high grade, averaging over 8 per cent, but that it has bee a impossible to work enough men in the mine to keep the smelter going. Eleven 'car loads of matte or nearly 500 tool were ship ped to Tacoma daring the month. Mr. Mclntyre will leave tomorrow night for Taoouia to look after some business matters for the Takilcoa Smelting Co. where be will be oc cupied for perhaps a month, after which he expects to go te the Klamath county to engage in freight ing. Srjpt. Geo. Corral of the Takllma smelter, accompanied by Cbat. Tall, Jr., son of the president of the Takll ma, left last Friday for Mexico where the company has extensive copper I ropertie and smelting interests. CALIFORNIA PEOPLE WILL PROSPECT FOR COAL Will Leas Large Tro-ct In Rogue RJver Valley Toole Now In Transit. Art Letter of Lelsnd who owns the Le Roy and American Girl mines in tha,t district has been in the city the pait week to confer with parties from Seattle relative to more extensive de velopment of his properties. The Greenback mine expects to start op soon with five stamps and may increase to 10. The Opp mine over in Jackson cnotity has recently Installed one of the best and most complete cyanide plants in Southern Oregon. To make a " Merry widow" bat at home: Take oae bicycle wheel. Superimpose on the bob one deep granite sauoepm. first snipping off the handle with an axe. St Itch on cover of wine oolored velvet from your season-before-last's coat suit Pat on a three Inch binding aroond brim, canary colored taffeta silk from your great grandmother's party dress. Rip nineteen yards of box ruchlng off yoor shirt wslst box, and wind boot the crown. A soap ladle aud joint fork will give jaontr effeot if osed as bat pint. The Medford Maltsays'the property of N. D. McDowell, three miles north west of Eagle Point, bas beeo leased by a California syndicate, whose head quarters are in Pasadena, Cat, which will immediately begin prospect work to determine the amount of coal un derlying the plaoe. The tools have been shipped from California and are expected within a short time. The price paid for the lease on the property is $100 an acre. The plaoe consists of 200 acres of land, and on the land are some very fine prospects for coal. There seems bat little doubt bot that wealth of ooal underlies the land and the new company, will verify few of the prospects before purchasing the pro petty. The work Is to be undertaken with in short time, aooordlng to tbe in terested parties, and will be carried on throughout the summer. If the prospects are as good as is thought tbe syndicate will purchase the property and will develop it. CHANTS PASS Commercial Club sj Will furnish information of i Josephine county free of sj charge. Correspondence so J lidted. i L. B. Hall. President tH. L Andhws.. ..Secretary ft How many boys of tbe present day are taught this lesson t My son, follow not the footsteps of the loafer, and make no example of blm who waa born tired, for verily I say nnto you, their business is overstocked and the seats in those corners are all taken, and tbe whittling places are all ooon. pied; it is better to saw wood at two bits a cord than to whittle In a loaf, log mateb'and cuss tbe 'government. My son whilst thou bas left in thy skull the sense of a jaybird break away from the cigarette habit for lo thy breath stioketh like a glue fao tory and the whole appearanoe is leas than a atone dummy. Yea tbon art a cipher with the rim knocked off. The Ashland Tidings is responsible for the statement that there is talk of potting on a new fast train over tbe Southern Pacific from Portland to San Francisco. 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