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) 1 o c is 3 I v I -1 "I -I "I -1 T I I I I I -I- -T -T-tTiiTuT .t-iTi WU '" Dana and ife are viaiiiog 4. 1 1 l' ! "t:i t'ieai, at Jacksonville foi a f,w ! PERSONAL ITEMS. ,. ;days prior to goinii to Nevada to lo 4 -4!oaie. M"M II II 1 1 I I II hhM-l- I Frank Me I Pity looking of Afhland wai In the after bnisness mattfrs 1 last t nday. Mrs. Anna Martin spendns the week Giants Pass. of Jacksonville 1s with friends in Atrorne; act sou vi py a. o. Hnngh was in Jacksonville looking after legal mat ters last Fridav. M iss Fannie Montgomery returned Sunday from Kerby, where she hd spent the pat week visiting friends. R. W. Clarke, manager of the wter work, returned dome fr m basin u trip to Portland last Saturday morn ing. P. A. DeFries of Merlin was in the j conntr seat Monday looking after matters pertaining to the location i 01 mining propt-rty. ! sranaara cement, any qnality at M.25 a barrel at Grants Pasa Hdw. Co 1 7-81 4t Miss Vera MoKenzie returned home iiom uiendale last Monday atfer hav ing spent a wek with iier friend, Miss Pearle Harding ! W. O. Smith of Wolf Creek, the promoter of tte Wolf Creek colony, was in Grants Pass btween trains yesterday. He went from here to Med ford. 0. O. Matlork and Bert Ayers, who have been in Portalod the past few weeks in the Interest of the Oilman Bed Rock Miuiug Co., retarned to Grants Pass last Sunday morning. Deputy Fish Warden J. D. Wilson of Youcalla arrived in the oity yester day to aid his successor, E. Clant n. He will be in this vicnity the balance of the week Mrs. C. Clinton Page, wife of the editor of the Courier, and daughter Miriam, came down from Ashland Wednesday, night where they had be-n visiting for a conple of weeks with hei sister, Mrs. E. A. Fraser. 10 Per cent discount on refrigerators at Hair-Riddle's. F. Hazen, ex assessor of Colombia coonty, and Mrs. Hazen, are in the city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sweetland, and will spend a conpU of week or more camping out btfore returning to their home at Warren. J. W. Weston of Portland came, down last week and met bis sister, Mi-s Fay who came here a few days before from Sao Francisco and the two left last Saturday for Montague, where they will visit a brother. Will Riega and Al Schmidt came up from the Oilman Bed Hock Min ing Co's uamp last Saturday morn ing, where the company now bare everything in readiness for work as soon as their new machine arrives from Sacramento. ' 10 Per cent discount on refrigerators at Hair-Riddle's. Frank Jordan of Cottage Grove has charge of the Wells Fargo express and Postal Telegraph office here dur ing the absence of; Agent Preslev while the latter and his family are spending their summer vacation at Cresoent City. Miss Helen Henry, accompanied by her nephew, Master Hall Lynch, returned on Thursday from Santa Rosa, Cal., where she has been for the past eight months, visiting re la tivesaud attending commercial col lege. Ben Rosencrsnse left Tuesday morn ing for Gaiite, eight miles below which 1 lace be will cook for a gsnii of seven meu who are now at work on the new government Hail oing built noder tin direction i f Supeivi sor N. B. Anderson of the Fcreet Reserve service. Pi'f. Wardrip. president of the Ashland Normal soliool, who has been spending the summer vaiation im proving his fruit farm at Kroitdale, departed for Ashland hut Friday pie paratoty to rooming his school wotk He tot k with him a up eudid deer head and pair of horns which be will have mounted. M. W. Wheeler of Phoenix was io Grants Pass tee latter I art of last week, renewing old acquaintances and lookicg after probity here. Mr. W bee It r Is among the pioneers of this section and owns one of the original donation claims jost north of the city. An old log boui-e built in the 60's still remains on the premises as a hud mark of the early days, and in spite of the fact that it has been stand ing for mora than 60 years, part of the time unoccupied, is in a fair state of preservation. Whin your pop scratches, put Avenarios Carbolineum on him. Grants Pass Hardware Co. 4(7-81 John Dykes with bis wife, daughter and two sons arrived in Grants Paos last Bunday frcm Rollo. Mo., and will make their home in this city. Mr. Dykes n.ade a trip through Washington, Idaho and Ongtn about a year ago with a view to locating in the west and finally aecided or n this place for a leimanent locatiou. Mrs. Dkyes and City Attorney Clements ar coo sins. The two sons are grown and are band musicians aad will prove a valuable acquisition to the Rogue River baud. Perkins 4 Phillip. Mining and leal ettate, office in Layton hotel e v 7-S1 lOt E. E. Blancbaid, wife aiid son of Mootezonia, Ic wa arrived in the city the first of the week and will lecate Here permanently if after a ;tbre months trial of the Soobfc rn Oregon climate it is foond to agree with thun. Mr. Blancl ard and J. G. Rigtft. of the GilletU-Ripss Realtt Co. are brothers-in-law. Though .Mr. Elan chard iv a lawyer by profession,;!, e ex r.ects ' tli erts to ecgspe in the r-ait eonus. e sun ti taiMiy are mum : ! tnt wit:: 1 ants Pan fcfc'i KOGUh klVEB OHiKlF.R. OV ' " . Ralph Looney went np to the Ham mere ley mine Wi duesday morning whire he will spend a ooople of weeks. Mrs. H. C. Perkins who has been spending the pat two or three weeks a"d are now preparing the program, iu Eogeoe and Portland, returned i pjte 0f the report in ti e spring home Tuesday morning. t" at the peach crop had been ruined Mrs. Wm. Jackson returned to her bv the late frosts, conservative esti home at Portland last Saturday after mutes place the peaoh 01 op of the having spent a month here with h.r M' rim district alone at not less thn daughter, Mrs. Joseph Moss. ; 15,0(10 boxes. Froit Trees paint) with Avenarios Why do yoo lose yonr chickens? Carbolineum will not be troubled Because yon do not use aveuarius with borers and will become healthier. Carbolineum. Grants Pa'-s Hdw. Co. Grants Pass Hdw. Co. ( 7-81 t ' 7-31 4t Mrs. H. O. Kinney and her Constable Cheshire was io Wood children, Marjorie and Paul and the ville, Gold Hill and Medford Monday Misses Helen and Marion Clarke leave ' i search of a niau wanted as a Monday night for a t o weeks' outing ' witness in a civil case pending before on the beaob at Newport Miss Christina daoghter of Rev. and Mrs. Robert McLean of the Presbyterian church of this city, came down from Portland Tuesday morning to visit her father. C. M. Weodover it St. Louis, as- rived in the oity for an extended Tuesday morning 1 brother R. F. Weodover, secretary of the Oilman Bed Rock Mining Co. Messrs. R. F. Wendover and F. A. Sloss returned home yesterday from their business trip to Crescent City and ether points in the interest of the Oilman Bed Rock Mining Co. Don't waste yonr energy and pa tience on that old lawn mower. Get one of those fine Ball Bearing Mowers at Hair-Riddle's while ther are giving a 20 per oent discount. A. W. Calhoun of Chioo, Cal., is hereto visit his brother George S., aud as Bert pot it, to cool off a hit He says the thermometer has been registering all the way from 100 to 117 in the shade during the past month at Chioo. Mr. and Mrs. H, F. MoClellan came up from Hugo Tuesday morning to do some trading. They are im proving a splendid little Jfrult farm near that place this summer, and Mr. McClellan aays that they have one of the beet 40-aore tracts In the valley. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bland of Bellingam, Wash., retarned- borne Tuesday after a pleasant visit of two weeks here with Mr. Bland's mother and broter, Richard. Mr. Bland con ducts a garage and ia enaged in the sale of automobiles at Bellingam. One-fifth off on any lawn mower in stock at Hair-Riddle's. Miss Jessie Scoville who baa.been teaching school at Canyonville the past year came np to Graata Pass Tuesday to visit her parents until the fall term opens in September, when she will resume her work at Canyon ville, she having ' been retained for the con. ing year. S. L. Jewell and 'family came down from Camas Valley yesterday and will make this their permanent home, Mr. Jewell is a son of County J edge Stephen Jewell. He was elected superintendent of the Coonty Home at the last session of the board of county commissioners, and has already assumed bis new duties. Fred Roper, Paul Soballhoro and Dan Frazelle went up to Medford Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of securing, if possible, a couple or three ball players with which to recruit the home team. The boys are plan ning a trip north daring which they will play a series of games at Rose burg, Eugene, Albany and other towns along the line, that is provided they can get up the proper aggrega tion. ' Never bad a good wagon for Ore gon roads until I got a Peter Sob u tier of Grants Pass Hdw. Co. 7-81 4k Ut. and Mrs. John L. Moore ho have been spending a week in Orants Pass and vicinity returned to their home at . Portland yesterday morning. During their stay tbev went down below Galioe Creek by boat'snd for the novelty of the thing purchased a couple of gold fans and did a little prospecting on the way down. They washed out some f 10 or f 15 worth of gold on the trip and took thenogggets home with tnem as a memento of the outing. Mrs. Clara C Roe, who has been spending the past six months here with her daoghter, Mrs. Raymond Lawtcn, ltft Tuesday for brr former home at Gohirle, Oklahcma. Mrs. Roehaa been on the Pacific ocast for the past year for ber health. Her daughter is a magazine writer, being one of the regolar contributors to the Muniey publications. The National and other popular monthly periodicals. husband 'recently! finished a a 6-year 'enliaiment in the United Stales oaTy during which he was on the battle ship Colombia, esoper-1 ator of the wireless telegrajh i(ir. atn. He wss cn the Cclouil ia v. I en 11 t-Kk S-crttary Taftto Cnra n ';'. - 1 ' ' 1 PASS OREGON -vlMsT 14, m-i-m 11 mm i. -t--i--i"i"i- LOCAL EVENTS. i. 1--I--X 'III 11 1-H The NaiivH Daughters will bold t' eir annual reonlon at J'cksonille Am-ost Stth. The ron mittees have all ben selected lo conduct the event County Judge Jewell. The case has been postponed nntil next month. ; J. B. Boroughs, residing about four miles west cf town was the first of ; onr farmers to market watermelons this season. He bi ought in a load of eight dozen last Saturday, which were much finer looking than the Califor- product shipped in during the p isi com le of weeks. Mr. Boroughs is the farmer who took the 15 prize for the largest bona fide family on Market Day some weeks ago. If you want a washing machine that will do good work for only a small in vestment get one of those Hair-Rid die Hdw. Co are selling at 3 60.. Harold Kobli, the youngest son of H. D. Kubll, of Applegate, met with a very painful aooident Tuesday. Ha'old found some black powder in an old cabin, not knowing what it was put it in an old stove. As toon as the powder came in contact with the flames it exploded and severely burned the boy about the faoe. Although nothing serious, Harold will remember his experience for some time. Jacksonville Post. We do not want to carry over any of our lawn mowers so we are selling them at 'one fifth) off of the regular prioe. Hair-Riddle Hdw. Co During the coming month the opera "Trial by Jury" will be given by the Rogue River band assisted by the best musical home talent, under the direction of Prof. M. E. Robinson, who gave the cantata Queen Esther In this oity a year or so ago. The cast for this entertainment will be made np entirely of home talent and prcm sles to be the most enjoyable musical event of the season. Prof. Robinson had charge of the musio at the Ash and Chautauqua this , year and his ability is well know to the people of this section. The "Trial by Jury" date fjr has ' not is yet but the been will definitely arranged be annoonced later. 10 Per oent discount on refrigerators at Hair-Riddle's. J. J. Lawler, the fellow who was arrested here some weeks ago and bound over to the Circuit Court on the oharge of larceny from the person of a Swedihb laborer and has since been confined on the county jail, was adjudged insane last week and taken to the aaylom at Salem. Lawler seemed to labor under the hallucina tion that he was some other person than himself. At first he suffered from this dementia at intervals but these became more and more fre quent nntil Sheriff Russell concluded that he should be taken care of and he was examined by the insane com mission with the above result. Elsewhere in this Issue will be found the first of a aeries of IA bunt ing stories by President Roosevelt. One complete story consisting of three oolumns will be published each week. They are the most intensely interest ing articles of this class ever pub lished and since they were written by the president himself, In bis own inimitable style will be greatly en joyed by all admirers of Mr. Roose velt as 'well 'as others interested in hunting. The Courier has secured the exclusive right in Josephine county for the publication of these Roosevelt Hunting Stories. Remem ber, the first story appears in this is sue. Subscribe now so that yon will enjoy the whole 18. The Southern Oregon Supply Co. has just installed new cash register which is absolutely np to the minute, Besides all the detail work which the average cash register does this one will record the actual time of every purchaaemade if desired. There la a separate cash drawer and r giater reel for each clerk so that there can be no "mixing" of coin. Then there Is a TTTt le appliance which irsues a ticket tor each porbase on which is recorded tie clerk's carb drawer Initial, the number of the sale which he has. made during the day and the amount of the jMihase., This ia'the best and rr.ot m dtrn ceh. rt-gititr in the city and i indicative c;f the irc,pr Hlvijts of t e otjtl.frn rK- n hnj.i :y Co.' at.d T; f. c:-.l 1: ;,r" " 108. C 31 I I A 13 'p Split Bamboo Rods $1.00 to; 8.00 .Ily linliliitf in Iloffuo Ttivor in Royal Sport We have a fine stock of such goods as are needed by PROSPECTORS and CAMPERS, and are always glad to show the goods. Cramer Bros. Odd Fellows Hardware SOME BARGAIN POINTERS News Notee From the Bualneas Men to Katskdere. Dr. Flanagan, Physician and Dentist Go to Coron for Plumbing. 1900 Washers at Hair-Riddle's. J. K. Peterson, Pioneer Insuraooe Man. M . Olemem, Prescription Drnggist. A splendid line of Royal Charter Oak Ranges at Ooron'i DeWltt'a Carbollaed Witch Hazel 8alve. It is especially good for piles Sold by Model Drug Store. 4-8 18. Alfred Letcher, . Registered Optom etrist and Jeweler in Dixon sold stand, Front street Eyes tested free. Get prices on the. Alamo Gasoline Engines and Wood saws before buying. J. D. Franklin, agent Office in Raa nie's Plumbing Shop. H street, be ' 4-24 tf tween 8th and 7th. J. D. Franklin baa1 the agency for the Alamo Gasoline Ensines. Office in Rannie's Plumbing" shop. H. street,betweeo 8b and 7th. 4-34 tf Mamies' Qalice stage now takes passengers from Grants Pass direct to Galioe, leaving Hotel Latyoo at 5 a. m. and arriving at Galioe at 11:80. Returning leaves Galice at 1 p. m. ar- t if lngiere at 7 :80. A stop of 45 min utes will be made at Merlin both ways. 7-17 8t Got no horn to toot, but got best boggy on earth, the Jchn Deero G. P. Hardware Co. 7-81-4t Oostain'e launch will now run every afternoon and evening to the White Rooks and rapids. Fare 10c for roond trip. Parties of 8 to 10 can charter at 1 per hour. The launch now has oanopy and new cushions and is in charge of a praotioed engineer from the ooast. Dock at city park. 8-7 tf. A. and O. D. Merliu Friday. Crow were in from Quality should be the first Consideration on what you eat or drink When You Visit Russ'ePs Confectionery You Take no Chances OUR MOTTO IS, "Sell Nothing to the Public We Would not Eat Ourselves." MY SHERBETS CONTAIN NO ACIDS or artificial flavors, they are made ofj the fruitsfalonc. Herman Horning', Mg'r. VI 1 I IV is FISHING TACKLE Block Rifles and Shotguns COMING EVENTS. Aug. 23, Saturday, danoe at Savage Creek hall. Tickets including sap per and horse feed 1.50. Sept. 8, Tuesday W. O. T. U. oounty convention, to be held in the Baptist church at Grants Pass. Sept 14 Monday Publio aohool opens. Sept. 84, Thursday Annual eouolave of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, at Grants Pasa. Sept. 0, 10, 11 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Annual encampment of the Southern Oregon Veteran's a aociation. Grand Army of the Re public, at Central Point. Oct 1, S.- 8, 4, Rogue River Im duatrlai Fair at Medford. One of the beet couoerU given by the band this season was rendered last Friday night. The boys are get ting along nicely and it waa common comment among the people that the boys have made remarkable progress during the last month. J, E. Collins ot Wolf Creek waa in town last Friday. Think of Us! When for any reason there occurs to your mind the Idea of Pianos or Organs Victor Talking Machines Edison Phonographs Kopaks and Supplies Violins, Guitars, etc. Typewriter Supplies Stationery Sheet Music Post Cards Let your next thought, be Rowell's Uqsic Store 603 G st. Grants Pass, Ore. I
