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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1010. ROGUE RIVER COURIER PAGE THREE First National Bank OF Southern Oregon Grant! Pass, Oregon Some of the Service that a Bank Benders the Public . ' DEPOSITS The safest and simplest way of keeping your money is by depositing it in a Reliable Bank. This Bank receives De posit! subject to Check, or on demand Certificates of deposit or on time Certificates of Deposits. On time deposits we pay 4 PER CENT 1NTERES1 DRAFTS The best and cheapest wav to transfer money is by Bank Draft. W'a sell Drafts payable in all parts of the country. LOANS One of tbe most impor tant functions of the Bwk. We endeavor to supply all reasonable needs' of our customers. Capital and Surplus $75,000 Stockholders' Additional . Responsibility $50,000 OFFICERS L. B. Hall, President J. C. Campbell, Vice-Pres. H . L. Gixkby, Cashier R. K. Hackktt, Asst. Cashier RIDE A Southern Oregon Wheel Works No. 312 South Oth, near J. Reliable Bicycles, Supplies and Re pairing, OLD Hampshire Bond letterheads and envelopes at the Courier office. Win a First Prize at the Grants Pass Rose Carnival, May 24th and 25th By cultivating your roses now with Jewel Hardware Garden Tools We carry the most complete line of Trowels, Rakes and Spades. See that your roses are kept moist with our GARDEN HOSE and SPRINKLERS. These are Prize Winners, and that is what we want your Roses to be JEWELL HARDWARE COMPANY BUY Any Old Thing or Any New Thing SECOND HAND That yo i have to sell such as Furniture, Hardware, Tinware Guns, etc. See me and get my prices before disposing of your goods. You will be surprised at the prices I pay. Special Prices on Carpets, Rugs, Linoleums IKE M. DAVIS CLASSIFIED ADS NEW TODAY. AUTO livery to any part ot the city or country. F. A. Pierce, phone 305-R, 5-passenger car, $2.50 per hour; J. B. Thornton, phone 51-J, 7-passenger car, $3 per hour. 5-13-tf WHAT have you. I can find a buyer. Oliver Messenger, real estate, 508 South Sixth street. 5-13-tf NOTICE is hereby given that my wife, Florence Cook, and myself, H. E. Cook, have agreed to dis agree, and I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her. H. E. Cook. 5-13-5t WANTED First Class ranch cook, single woman preferred. Wages $35 per month only those with out family need apply. Address "Cook," care Courier. 5-13-lt COW, No. 1 fresh milk cow for sale. Inquire T. Y. Dean, at 511 South Sixth street. 5-13-4t FOR SALE Restaurant for sale or long lease. Good location, best In Medford. For particulars inquire Will's Employment Agency, No. 31 South Front St. 5-13-5t FOR SALE 8-room house on N. 7th street, wood shed, electric lights and sewer connection,, shade trees, lot 50x100, fenced, Is in a nice neighborhood. Price $1100, part cash, balance on. easy terms. Ad dress C. E. Dlederlcks, 705 C St., phone 375-R. 5-13-2t FOR SALE One heavy gelding, one yearling colt, two cows, cream sep arator, mower and rake. Inquire E. M. Cockerline, Murphy. 5-13-2t WANTED A driving horse to pas ture for occasional use of It. Good, rich pasture, with running water. Address W. H. Byrd, box 14, R. F. D. No. 1. 5-13-lt THE Jackson Loan & Trust Co. will loan you money at 5 per cent In teract fnr hnlldlne ournoses or farm Improvement. E. S. Veatch, local aeent. 5-13-4t BABY CHICKS Plymouth Rocks, Leghorns, or Rhode Island Reds. Second-hand Incubator and brood er cheap. Chick feed, eggs for hatching, chickens to eat. Good man, "The Chicken Man," 408 S. 6th St. 5-13-lt A fplendid Overall ft r every ue. 0 it generous I) fu!L Two h.p pocket. Felled team. Centinuous fly. tat) fetal Kl!tf Iff, CR4NT V (I. Mtnvartiaff LOST Silver belt buckle with pur ple stone setting. Finder please notify Mrs. F. B. Harrington, 609 L street. Reward. 5-13-2t Lawn Mowers that run easy and are self-adjusting and self-sharpening at Rogue River Hdwe. Co.'s. FOR SALE SOUTHERN Oregon Employment and Real Estate Agencies, Pinsch & McManus, props. Mining, Mill ing, Logging and all other help furnished on short notice free to employers. List your property with us for quick returns. . Nice furn ished rooms In connection. Corn er Fifth and Front streets, opp. depot, In business part of city, Grants Pass, Ore. 4-29-tf THRESHING outfit for sale Con sists of 20 h. p. compound Russell traction engine, one 32-lnch Niagara-Pitts separator, forks, ropes, pulleys, etc. Will dispose of whole or 3-5th Interest. Inquire or ad dress W. A. Waggoner, R. F. D. 1, Woodvllle, Ore. 5-6-4 1 FOR SALE Furnishing andlease'of Star rooming house, 12 rooms, half block from depot. Inquire 611 G street, Grants Pass, Ore. 5-6-2t 20,000-FOOT saw mill for sale cheap. Call on or address T. E. Loban, Leland. Ore. 4-29-4t FOR SALE Good business aver aging a profit of $75 per month with Bmall Investment. Address V. I. Megargle, 708 N. 6th street. 4-22-4t STRICTLY No. 1 baled alfalfa for sale. C. E. Selleck, Murphy, oppo site P. O. 4-22-tf FOR SALE One 8 H. P. stationary and one 2 H. P. pumping gaso line engine. Inquire 669 N. 6th Btreet. 2-4-tf ELECTRIC motor, -horsepower, for sale, 60 cycle, A. C. At the Courier office. 3-18-tf HEAVY wagon to trade for light one. Phone 887. 4-15-tf STOP paying rent. A nice home close to new high school, under ditch. Inquire A. R. McLean, 716 North 8th. 4-15-tf LAND for sale In 6-acre tracts with in mile of Grants Pass. Cheap for cash. Phone F. L. 565. 3-4-tf FOR SALE At a bargain. Small house and lot In Grants Pass. For cash or part time. Also good piano, on monthly Installments If preferred. Call at residence, 315 E st., Grants Pass. 4-15-tf FOR SALE Timber claim, SW Sec. 24, Twp 37, 7 WeBt, Jose phine county. For particular address II. Walter, conductor, 3rd and Townsend Btreets, ,S. P. Co.. San Francisco, Cal. 9-3-tf WANTED KITCHEN help wanted at the Grants Pass Hotel. 4-22-tf COOK WANTED Good cook for hotel. Apply Merlin Hotel, Mer lln, Ore. 4-29-tf I'KRSOXAL VISIT the Rogue River Ice Cream Parlors, Sixth street, cor. L, on your way to the river. Shasta Ice cream, Ice cream soda, soda water, milk shake. Phone 290-J T.-6-tf MISCKLLANKOl'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a bay stallion, 4-years-old, Is held at the Penn-Oregon Orchards Co. farm at the junction of the Applegate and Rogue rivers for pasturage charges. The owner (unknown) can have the same by proving property and paying Charges. Thone 504. R. F. D. No. 2. 4-15-51 LOST On road between Crescent City and Grants Pass, yellow pocket book containing about $5 cash and annual passes favor J. P. O'Bilen, general manager. If found leave with agent Southern Pacific Co., Grants Pass. Reward will be paid. 4-15-41 RANNIE, tbe plumber, Is ready at any minute to repair your plumb ing. 609 II street. Telephone 14-R. 4-2-U LOIttK MF.OTIXGS fHEKMOPYLAE Lodge, No. 50 Knights of Pythias, meets first and third Tuesday nights In W. O. W hall. F. W. Huggerth, C. C: Lln coin Savagn, K. of R. 8. 2-1 1 -H I'oiwifl Oak I'ulMonlng. nnllard's Snow Liniment cut'-h It Mr. O. II. P. Cornelius, Turrn-r. Or writes: "My wlfp hns discovered that Snnw Liniment cures 'Poison Oak Poisoning.' a very painful trouble 55 h not only mired n cano of It on herself, but on two of her friends h'I Were polsnlieil pV tllN (tllT'ie Iv.V.' frl-e 2.. Clip nnd Jl.fiO. KoM by Nut lofial Drug Store. f PERSONAL AX1 LOCAL Mrs. L. A. Lucus left Monday for St. Joseph, Mo., to spend several weeks with her sister. C. D. Crane returned to the Big Four mining property Wednesday, after several days spent in this city. Miss Anita Ranzau left Wednes day morning for Portland, where she goes to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Florence Arrasmlth. Mrs. A. F. Goettsche arrived here Thursday afternoon from Dillard to visit with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Goettsche. Prophylactic Tooth Brushes, 35c. This week with each brush a 25c pnekage Dentifrice free. Demaray's Drug Store. 5-13-lt Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pardee and baby, Echo, arrived Thursday night from Canyonvllle to visit Mrs. Tar dee's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Scovlll. Carl W. Stutenroth, of Aberdeen, S. D., arrived this week from Havre, Mont., to take a position as sales man in the C. P. Bishop Clothing store. Wm. II. Spencer arrived from Wat- sonvllle, Cal., Tuesday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Spencer. His father has been sick for many months and Is now very low. Picture Frames and Framed Pic tures at Hall's Art Store. 5-13-2t Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Crandell ar rived from Medford last Friday, Mr, Crandell coming to Grants Pass to take a position In the Courier Job office during the illness of Fred Smith. S. II. Rlggs left first of the week for Chicago to attend to business matters and will also visit his old home In Redfields, S. D., while ab sent. He expects to be away about a month. Gust Poyer brought to the Courier office Thursday morning a box of strawberries which were beau ties for size and flavor, some of them measuring over two inches across. He has a garden at the old pine needle factory. W. C. Fry, proprietor of the Mer lin hotel, was in our city Wednesday attending to business matters. Be sides his hotel business Mr. Fry is now conducting a livery stable In connection and has a good equipment of new rigs and safe teams. The most up-to-date line of Millin ery on sale Monday and Tuesday, May 16 and 17, at Mrs. M. P. Ander son's, 70S E. street. 5-13-lt Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Carner and son left Tuesday evening for an ex tended trip to New York, Michigan, Washington, D. C, and other points of Interest. They expect to be ab sent about six week and will return to this city by way of their old home In South Dakota. Miss Myrtle Alter, who has Bpent the past several months In this city, leaves this Snturday for her home at Laeona, Iowa. Miss Alter hns been residing at the Johnson house, and while hero has been engnged In the teaching of mtiBlc and embroidery, she being an artist In each of these branches. Alabnstlne at Rogue River Hdwe. Mrs. Dorrance Dotson and Mrs. Dotson's mother, Mrs. E. J. Woold rldge, left Wednesday morning for Tacomn, where they will bo Joined In about a week by Mr. Dotson, and expect to make their future home at that place. Mrs. Dotson and her mother will visit relatives and friends at RoKelturg and Portland while en route. Herrlck Refrigerators are unex celled. Tluy are sold by Rogue River Hdwe. Co. FHN1TRE Is always needed in every home and to prepare for this need I have just unloaded my sixth car. It was filled with furniture for every part of the home. The parlor, the bed room, the dining room, the kitchen, the maximum in quality, but moderate in price. The New Royal Sewing Machine, automatic drop head, for $25.00, never before was so good a sewing ma chine sold for so little money. IM!. E. MIOORE, 409 G St. SC making Ml (g ' V 7 yMJs op plain food, X Igf sJequally valuable j$T' TnrHsr.ensable Will For Home Baking N All the children under eighty years are looking forward to going to the circus. Messrs. Williamson & Mason, who have been In this city attending to business matters, returned to Berke ley, Cal., Tuesday. A tree on the old Campbell place In this city contained ripe cherries on the first of May. This Is unusual ly eariy for fruit to ripen, even In Southern Oregon, and Is another prooi of our superior climate for fruit raising. The Courier this week received a box containing sev eral ripe cherries picked from a tree growing on the farm of M. Burkhart, of Woodvllle. me first ripe cherries were picked from this tree May 8, being a close second to our own town. Every available room In Grants Pass seems to be occupied and it Is very difficult for a stranger to se cure any place to live. Last week we heard of one party who spent nearly two days In an endeavor to secure a room and they were finally taken Into a private residence for a week until another room they had In sight should be vacated. The prices for rooms have a wide range, from $1 to $10 per week. Parties who have rooms to rent would do well to advertise the fact. A somewhat unusual and Interest ing sight met the attention of the passersby on West D street Saturday afternoon. A Bwarm of bees from somewhere had settled on an apple tree, and whllo several admirers were planning at a Bnfe distance their capture and possession, Hugh Elliott happened along. Taking In the situation at a glance, he procured a smnll grocery box and with a pock et knife quickly severed the limb, lowered It to the ground and plac ing the box securely over the bees left them until aided by the kindly shades of evening and a Btrong blanket they were safely conveyed to the young man's home. Alabastlne at Rogue River Hdwe. West D street has been keeping pneo with the more pretentious parts of the city In Its general Improve. ments. The modernized and newly pnlnted dwelling of M. T. Callowny, with tbe fine lawn nnd gnrden, Is one of the prettiest nnd most attrac tive homes on the street. Ttev. J. L. Green has nenrly completed a fine two-story dwelling nnd when flnlsh- If you want a refrigerator that Is perfectly sanitary and at the same tlrno uses less Ice than any other make, get a HKRRICK of the Rogue River Hdwe. Co. "Esmeralda" May 20. Admission ST. cents. 5-13-lt m ItlHfcl allllt' I ed, with its well planned grounds, wllf be'an ornament to that part ot the city. Farther up the street George Parker has Just finished put ting on new siding and adding other Improvements; whllo last, but not least, on Monday holes were dug and poles laid for one of the newer tele phone lines. It might be added that nearly all the residents on West D street own their homes. Special line of books for com mencement gifts at Sabln's Drugr Store. Just received at Sabln's, the latest copyright books. Photos for the Commercial Club. A beautiful set of photographs have been presented to the Commer cial Club by Wm. McMurray, gener al passenger agent ot the Oregon Railroud and Navigation Co. and Southern Pacific Co (lines In Ore gon). The Bet comprises 103 pic tures, 6i by 8'4. the work of Geo. M. Welster, official photographer of the Southern Pacific, and are photo graphs of scenes in Grants Pass and Josephine county, combining all branchea of Industry and natural scenery. The photos are mounted on two books on the front of which. the name "Grants Pass" appears In gold. The gift Is much appreciated by the members of the Grants Pass Commercial Club. ITCHING ECZEMA WASHED AWAT Is It worth 25 cents to you to stop that awful, agonizing Itch? Surely you will spend 25 cents on your druggist's recommendation, to cool and heal and soothe that terrible Itching eruption! By arrangement with the D. D. D. Laboratories of Chicago, we are able to make a special offer of a 25-cent bottle of their oil of wlntergreen compound, known as D. D. D. Pre scription. Call, or write, or telephone to M. Clemens, Ph. 0., Sixth street. We absolutely know that the Itch Is stopped AT ONCE by D. D. D. Pre scription, and the cures all seem to bo permanent. 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