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Groceries Fancy New Comb Honey Extracted Honey Crisp Potato Chips Mild Cheese Salt Without Lumps Fruit Jars The best in the Market Enquire about them now J. Pardee 417 G Street Near palace Hotel Sept. 25 the Gorman Opera Co. will prenent the laughing comedy uo ceaa "Who In Who" Everywhere from the Atlantto to the Pacifio count it has txien a Rreat boccwm and pro nounced by all one of the funuieat of all fuuny comedies. Beside tbia roaring comedy, there aie seven all Utar Vaudeville Acta. These acts have been played in all the leading Vaude rille d'cuita of the; Kant and Weal. In tli 1h great array ef talent are Alexia, the worlds' greatest Spanish dancer, pronounced by President Dion of Mex ico as the Greatest dancer that ever viiiited Mexico. Eddie Lang, the Dotoh comedian, singer and dancer. "Etioogh sld." O'Dny and Gold, attainted by Mim Bates In their Idlest comedy playlet snocesa entitled "The Man. Harold Yatea, in monalogae, singing, dancing aud whistling. He is known as Emperior Yatea of the Fun Trnet. As a wbiatler lie has few eqoals. Olanuhfleld & Fieber, come diaus, In their humorous act. "The Aotor and the Dutchman." McPhail the Great. Peer of all female imper sonators, known aa the male Lillian Kuxsell. Not only as an impersona tor, but as soprano singer with a wondefnl voice that seems hard to be lleve the owner is not a Woman, and as a dancer, Mcl'hnil is a pant master In the art wltb his graceful move nieuts and gestures Wednesday eve niug, September 23, for one night only ana at popular prices zoo, coo, 00. Tickets on sale at Mussel's Con fectionery. 918 It m DELIGHTFUL PUWJ)EK, Impart a pleasing softness and delicacy to the akin and restrains the ravages nf sun, wind and time, i continued application elii Its I nates sunburn, tan and freckles and rendera imperceptible annoying; minor blemishes and sallowncsa. It possesses dainty, clinging odor exclusively it own and is in every way a perfect toilet luxury. Price ry. rnce r ;iat for it I J Imitubi H . anaos I 50 cents. Ask your druggist (or it HOYT CHEMICAL CO, Continuous lVii'orinanct' Every Night This Week Except Sunday at the BIJO "THE FAMILY THCATKC" T.tmt Front Street Doors Open at 7:15 Moving Pictures ILLUSTRATED SONGS Change of Pictures Three times each Week MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY Admission 10c ROGUB CIRCULAR OF SCHOOL INFORMATION Giving tnsi Sources of Examlnev ' lion questions for Stat and County Papers. 1. Arl'hmetio One-fifth from State Course of Study, four-fifths from Smith. 2. Civil Government, Strong & Schafer. 8. English Literature: Febnary, 1909- A. One half from texts: New comer's English Literature, and Naw comer's American Literatne. B. Onehalf from the following classics: 1. Lowell, The Vision of Sir Laun fal (liiv. lit ser.) Honghton, 2'xs, 22o. 2. Webster. The First Bunker Hill Oration (Riv. lit. ser. ) Houghton, 250, 22o. 8. Soott, Mimlon ( Pocket Classics, ) Macmillan, 25o, 22c. August, 1909- A. One-half from texts: New comer's EngliHh Literatute and New comer's Ame:icn Literature. B. One-half from the following clargica : 1. Shakespeare, Joliua Caesar (Riv. lit. ser. ) Houghton, 25c, 22o. 2. Raskin, Sesame and Lilies( if. lit. aer. ) Houghton, 2So, 22o. 8. Carlyle, Ey on Barns and Burns' Poems (Pocket Classics) Mao millan, 25c, 22o. (The first figure Is the publisher's price, the second the prioe to schools contracted for betweeu the Oregon Library Commisiinn aud The J. K. Gill Co.) 4. Geography One-fifth from State Coarse of Study, four-fifths from Red way & Uinman. 5. Grammar One fifth from State Coarse of stady, foar-flfths from Buehler. 6. History, U. S. One-fifth from State course of Study, four fifths from Doub. 7. Orthography Reed's Word Les sons. 8. Physical Geography Tarr's New Physical Geography. 9. Physiology Krohn, Hutchinson. 10. Reading State Coorae of Study. White's Art of Teaching, Oral Read ing. 1 1. School La w School Laws of Ore gon. 13. Theory and Practice White's Art of Teaching. 13. Writing Outlook Writing Sys tem, Tests in Writing. 14. Algebra Wells: Algebra for Seoondnry Schools. 15. Bookkeeping Office Methods and Practical Bookkeeping, PartJI. ID. Composition Herrick & Damon. 17. Physics Millikau & Gale; A First Course in Physics. 18. Psroholgy Buell. 111. Botany Bergen : Elemeuts of Botany. 20. Geometry Went worth : Plane and Solid Geometry, quext onson Plane Geometry. 31. History, Geuiirnl Myers : Gen eral History. An examination is required ujion the nrht 13 subjects fur a firt grade cttonty certificate valid for three years; upon tne first 18 subjects for a state certificate valid for five yeara aud upon the 21 subjects for a State diploma valid for life. PROMINENT MEN TO ADDRESS CONGRESS The Trans Mississippi Commercial Congress which will this year be held in Sin Francisco, October rt-10 will be one of the most import nit yet held. An ouasaally large attendance Is promised, and the speakers alrnaity aooeptiug invitations to make ad il rennet are : David Starr Jord iu, of Stanford University : John Barrett, of Washingon, D. C. ; Theodore B. Wil cox, of Portland, Or. ; E. E. U. iaiui nioiis, of St. Loo is, presideut of the National Prosperity Association; John W. Wolfe, of St. Louis, aud Colonel John W. Wolfe, of Council Bluffs, Delegates repreeuting the movement for a deep waterway from the Lakes to the Golf, are expected to tike an important part iu the, proceedings aud attention will be paid to the attitude of the National administra tion upon the couswrvatiou of National resources. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. Notice is hereby tgiven that the partnership heretofore existing be tween K. E. Brewster aud J. D. Gra ham, under the firm name of Graliam A (Brewster has beeu dissolved and thatjlhe nuderaiguej will uot b re sponsible for debts incurred by said Brewster. The business will ;in the future be conducted under the firm name of Graham A Son. J. D. GRAHAM A SON."" The late summer crop of straws berrlesrom our local gardeners are now qlhe market - - RIVER COURIER. GRANTS September Jurors. The regular panel drawo for Sep tember term of circuit court, is as fol lows: H 8 Prescott, Grants Pass. " Y Dean, Grants Pass. O 8 Goodnow, Grants Pass. Herbert Sampson, Grantaass. J L Calvert, Grants.Paas. D S Cook, Gruuts Pass. A Barnes, Grants Pass. George S Calhoun, Grants Pass. W A Kluo, Leland. D O Hayea, Marphy. W II Hoggins, Grants Pas. Ed Burke, Kerby. N W Cole, Grants Pafs. Joseph Fetzuer, Grants Pass. Thomas Larson, Grants Pass. Clark Nickerson, Grants Pass. A M Hammond, Merlin. Albert Bigelow, Williams. Herbert Smith, Grant Pass. C G Sawyer, Kerby. H C Bobzien, Grants Pass. RAN Reymers, Grants Pass. J 0 Jones, Grants Pafs. A F Knox, Murphy. W G Anderson, Wilder ille. Hirry Smith, Grants Pass. Milton ReVBolriB, Merlin. Ira Sparlin, Williams. Thomas Leith, Murphy. F E Barrett, Kerb-. J B Borough, Grants Pass. Best Land Going Fast. The general Land Office has com piled its annual statement showing the area of the publio domain remaining ondipoHsed of July 1, 1908. "The general Land Office has com piled its annual statement showing the area of the public domain re maining undisposed of July 1, 1908. From this statement it appears that the Government still has an area of 64,859,29 aores of surveyed and un suroveyed land, Including the follow -ing: Alaska, 386,039,509 aores; Arizona, 42,789,302; California, 29,872,49; Col orado, 23,69(5,079; Nevada, 611,770.60; Idaho, 20,85,002; Montana, 4,5B2,440; New Mexico. 44.777,05; Oregon, 16, 85,791; Utah 8, 578, 998; Washington 414,850,001; Wyoming 81,457,802. In Oregon there are 4,709,458 acres of unsurveyed land, Washlntgon, 2,871,178 acres and Idaho 19,476, 044 ares. In Alaska all the land iff unsarveyed. Mr. Maude Berry Umphlette left Wednesday evening for her home in Portland, after a two weeks visit here with relatives and frieuda. Mr. Umphlette will remain here a week longer, before returning to Port laud. Heavily Lf. den Frull. A con pie of branches cut from the trees in the orchard of the Meals Bros, was brought iulo the Courier office this week which would convince any one even from the "show me" state that the section around Grauta Pass is admirably adoptel to fruit raising. One was a piece cut from the end of a iea' h branch and while uot over a foot aud a halt loug held 35 luscious jwaehes. The other was a shorter branch from a plum tree and held 31 larne plums. The Meals Bros. ' ranch is about 10 miles below Grants Pass at the river lend. They have devoted very little of th'dr time to fruit raising, having beeu engiged prluci pally in uvning, but some years ago set out about 30 peach 15 apple, aud half a dozen plants. These have borne such an ahanduuee of frtrt that they have de termined to pat in a 15 acre orchard. Farewell Reception, A reception was giveu list Saturday evening at the residence of Arthur Ediierton in honor of Miss Nina Pad dock who leaves Sunday for McMiun ville to attend the Paoifio College. The evening was very enjoyably spent aud attended by a large num ber of Miss Paddock's friends and members of the Baptist Sunday School and church of which she has beeu a very faithful member. Aa a token of the esteem iu which they hold her, her friends presented her with a large number of valuable and seful preseuts. For the past year Miss Paddock has beeu engaged in the R. L. Ooe store in thi city. E. E. Dieksou, who has been en gaged in miuiug ou Williams creek for some time past, came iu Monday and left on Tuesday's train for Oak land, C.U., when he will make his home. NOTICE Notice is hereby giveu that ' the District Boundary Board will meet in the court bouss in Grants Pass at 1 :30 o'olock p. in. October 9, 1908, to aot on a petition to form a new school diitrict out of territory now embraced within the boundaries of gjtiool dis trict No. 24. Merlin, Ore., described aa follows: All tht part of achnnl' district No. 24, west of th west boundary of school district Na. 4.Mnrt north of Jump-off. Joe creek. LINCOLN SAVAGE, Seo'y of Board. Oregon Pplw '.being highest the prloejof; any pntbe world.. PAbb. UKfcWH A Mago.rine Evening. At the home of Rev. and Mrs. Hollingworth on last Friday evening the Young People of the Christian church reproduced a fall number of one of our magzinea. The frontis piece was very nioely represented by Miss Viotorine Pollock, dreased in whit" with a sarland of maple leaves. Followng this was a story from real life, by Miss Vora Storrey. Mrs. Earl V. Ennels gave a reading, which wa hiably appreciated, Roscoe Brat ten gave a very good paper entitled "Favorite Recipes." Miss Mozelle Hail also appeared on the prorgam. In the Childrens corner little Miss Jackson gave a reading whioh was very much appeciated and little Miss Calvert tang a beautiful solo. In the advertising department Mr. aud Mrs. E. W. Cowdrey gave an ex cellent representation of the Pearline advertisement which is running in the magazines. Another cleverly arranged repro duction was the advertisement of the records for the Victor Talking Ma chine, "His Master's Voice. A large picture of dog was set In front of the graphaphone on which a batered record was being played. The Fashion Plate was very amus ingly represented by the young folkes dressed io an appropriate way. Baker's Cocoa was realistically represented by Miss Mable Trimble. At the close of the magazine she served the guests with cups of the real article. The entertainment was enjoyable from start to finish and was one of the pleasantest evenings of the season for those In attendance. The second advertising car -of Buffalo Bills -Wild West show passed through Tuesday attached to No. 15. The open season for both the Chinese and native pheasants and for grouse began last Tuesday and since that time the slaughter has been going ou. Grouse plentiful and some hunters have succeeded in bagging quite a few pheasants. The dares for the next biennial apple fair at Hood River are October 14, 15, 16, and the exhibit will be as extensive and at tractive as usual. Courier sample copy sent free to any address. COMING EVENTS. Sept. 24, Thursday Annual conclave of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, at Grants Pass. Oct. 3 4, Saturday and Sunday Jose phine connty Sunday school union at Christiau Church. Oct 1, 2, 8, Ronue River Industrial Fair at Medford. Sept. 21 Monday Registration Books open. Sept. 24 5, Thursday and Friday An noal conclave of Knight Templars Grand Commandery. Sept. 28 Monday Circuit court con venes. Oct. 9 Fridav Boundary Board meets at Court House. October 20, Tuesday Registry Books close. Three men sat down at a restaurant table. "Bring me a very rare steak," said one. "I want a rare steak, too," said the second man, "but I want it very rare. Just have the sides seared a little, and let the blood run out of It" Then the third man said, "Bring me a rare steak from an animal which has Dot been killed, but just crippled." t ill Use ill Page Woven Wire Fence More miles ot others combined The fit Page Fence sold is still a good fence. The Page is a better fence now than ever before-bftte expeHeuM and skill A FenCe f lday 'S tbe aesult f a quarter of a century of study- eXPerimeilt' Standard Range Fence with Loop Top ...!:2g' 8u.arant.eed 10 be w Tof thesanie stvle !J u dalticity y The fourth or more of th a K uuOTt?H SUPP" themselves over a longer span, and a saving "I1?. tb.e PsL:' ad "Pense of setting will fieure a considerable ltT in first cost. An & Ku luau ana ioois are turmshed Caddis Rt Tiimn "TVi n - -i Distributors Southern Oregon and Our clothes values are easy to see. Field glasses are not needed to see the fine points of perfection in the kind of clothes we sell. Style, fit and every detail of fine tailoring are there, inside and out. If better clothes could be made this store would have them. We es pecially invite particular dressers, men who never wore ready made clothes, to see ours. Quality up, price down. New fall suits, are now here. They're the kind you are looking for. GEO. S. CALHOUN CO. Outfitter to Boy and Man Opera House, Friday, Sept. 25 FRANK G. KINC Presents 'Chic' Perkins In the Newest Western Play "THE LITTLE PROSPECTOR" Special Scenery and Effects Seats on sal at Homing's. Prices 75c, 50c. and 35c TREESS! TREES ! TREES BUY YOUR TREES FROM "Old Reliable Albany Nurseries" and you are sure of getting just what you order. We grow our trees for quality not cheap prices. GEO. H. PARKER, - Agent Office with J. E. PETERSON mithtrn llrpnnn 'iml Vnrt horn I lifAfnin than all exactly as represented-HIGH CARBON. Pare Wire contains car P itm'at t0 ive il double Dly feDce wire that wU1 hold the GREAT POST SAVERS to assist in the erection of all Page u .... rcace oien Northern California, Hog Sheep Coyote Rabbit Poultry La wo the tensile sWh of common shape, or any other previa Fence, without rtra cost. J. D. FRANKLIN, Age Cor. 6th and I StreeU Grants Pas.