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PAGE BIX WEEKLY IiOCUB RIVER COURIER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. foll w a HOTEL JOSEPHINE BANQUET (Continued from Pag 1.) ground will bar to hare a rope ac cording to your law.' We replied, we did, that there waa no need to make the guests use It. 'Then how about a seven-story building,' ask ed Metschan, 'that coll of rope In A room would be thirteen and one half feet in diameter and there would be no space In the room for the guest to go to bed.' We suggest ed to Mr. Metschan that the guext could sleep inside the coll of rope. But be didn't see It that way. Fin ally, the old LIU was killed. "Then that bed-sheet bill. Every gentleman of more length than breadth wanted hotel sheets to be latlon Is renewed." and expressed the appreciation of Grants Pass toward the owners of Hotel Josephine for creating here a modern hostelry. Dr. 1. C. Smith. Dr. J. C. Smith, representative from Josephine county to the legis lature, responded to the toast, "Good Roads and Good Hotels," Dr. Smith spoke briefly, saying: "One of the greatest questions confronting us In this state is how to get good roads. The last legisla ture passed some road bills which I considered pretty good, one bill being particularly so, but our dis tinguished governor thought ha knew more about Oregon's needs in road matters than the entire legis lature. Now the cry for road legls- nlne feet long. The bill passed all right. Then men built like my friend Dr. Smith and my friend Phil Metschan asked about these bed beets two and one-half feet wide and nine feet long how they were going to cover up. We told them they could turn the sheet cross wise. "Now we have a modern and ele gant hotel in our midst and we truly hope our friends who are respon sible for it will prosper." Toastmaster Hawley arose to say: "That was a good speech. I will tell you how he got it. He has stol en Gllkey's funny paper each Sun day for four Sundays." H. L. Gllkoy. "I have been delegated to respond to the toast 'Commercial Club and Financial Advancement,' as the question applies to Grants Pass. I hope I can say something on the subject without running away too far from the subject, like the cow boy who lit the grass to get a fire to cook his breakfast of slapjacks, and, who had to follow the blaze, holding the pan over it. Asked by a friend if he succeeded in getting them cooked the knight of the sad dle replied that he did, but he had to walk back seven miles to the place of beginning to got his bron cho. I hope I won't have to walk back seven miles in this case. "Grants Pass has shown healthy growth. I do not believe Grants Pass is to make a city of 100,000 Inhabitants, but I do believe it will make one of the best cities In Ore gon. While our enterprises have shown healthy growth yet we are apt to neglect those things, those re sources right at our very doors. Sometimes we work up enthusiasm In meetings and whirl around like a flying Jenny, and make about as much progress. But comparing Grants Pass now with Grants Pass ten years ago we find that ten years ago we had a population of less than 2500, now we have 5000, and I think more. Ten years ago we had one bank with deposits of $125, 000 to $130,000; now we have three banks with total deposits of from 1850,000 to 11,000,000. Ten years ago we had no paving ami wagons loaded with a tier and a half of wood mired In our Btrects; now we have paving covering a goodly por tion of our streets.. Ton years ago we had two school buildings; today we have four brick school building which would be a credit to a city many times the population of Grants Tass, and a high school edifice equal to any In Oregon outside of Tort land. There were 500 pupils In our schools ten years bko; totlny there are 1400. i" "I could go on and multiply In stances of our growth, but I do not think It necessary. "For the past five years wo have felt the pressing neod of hotel ac commodations. In this regard wo have 'enjoyed,' or have had u repu tation most unsavory, nil the way from Nrltlsh Columbia to Mexico. When traveling men met on the road and Grants Pass was mention ed, there was always somoono to say 'don't.' At times while I have been absent from Grants Pass I have heard rumors about our hotel facilities that didn't sound like n a paean of praise. At times. 1 did not want to tell where I was from, but now 1 am proud to bo a cltlron of Grants Pass. Also I am proud or the financial condition of the city and county. We have no burden some debt due In the near future that we cannot take care of; and we have many resources "1 beltfvo we wm have a city wo will be proud of. and one In which it will be a pleasure t0 live If we use our own efforts wisely. If wo will quit rhnntt!R phantoms and un reliable propositions, nnd take up only those thing which are reliable we will become ono of the loading municipalities of Oregon." II. 1 Andrews, secretary of 'the local Commercial Club. ieko h.lef ly on the question of nood hold ax a factor In the devninn nf of a lt Dr. Smith then discussed the val ue of good roads to a community as a result of attracting tourists, also the value of good highways to the farmer. "If a tourist passes ov er bad roads, he will remember them," said the speaker, " and ha will spread the facts among others as he travels. Then again If the hotels in a town are bad, the tourist remembers this also and warns other travelers through the country dur ing the auto touring season; and none of them will stop in that town, and the town loses much that It would gain If things were differ ent." Dr. Smith then complimented Metschan Brni. for the splendid new Josephine and closed by expressing a wish for a highway to the caves, "and then thousands would come this way," said the Josephine repre sentative. City Attorney C. H. Clements. The succeeding number on the program was "Civic Progress, Past, Present," to be responded by .Mayor J. L. Myers. The mayor was, however, unavoidably detained else where and could not be present. He delegated City Attorney C. H. Clem ents to act In his capacity. Toast master Hawley In Introducing Attor ney Clements said: "I have known him longer than you, and have look ed on his marked advancement with pleasure." Mr. Clements himself was late, nearly the last item on the menu having been reached when he arriv ed, but he was hurriedly served with some of the viands, not In ord er of rotation on the card, and, when he stood to speak he called attention to the fact that he was probably the only person present who "began at the bottom and ate upward." Responding to the toast for the mayor, the city attorney made ono of the most original ad dresses of the evening. Phil Metudmn, Jr. "Services Which Hotels Render the Public," was the lust toast on the program and assigned to Phil Metschan, Jr., one of the leading spirits which made possible the New Josephine. Mr. Metschan was at ease and Interestingly humorous. He confessed he had no prepared speech but he entertained nevertheless. He first spoke of and did that which ev ery true gentleman nt heart appre ciated, he paid tribute to his wife, who sat next him, and ho re minding the banqueters that one of his reasons why he hnd a warm spot In his heart for southern Oregon was that Mrs. Metschan was a southern Oregon girl. Tho speaker then humorously re ferred to the many occupations he had engaged In before he took up the hotel 'business. "I was In the hanking business In eastern Ore gon, and It I a good bank yet; I sold goods, sold insurance and did other things until one day a man of fered to sell me a hotel In Portland. He wanted $30,000 for It. I did not have $30. He said ho would take notes. We bought and It took me nil day to write the notes. Of courso In giving a man all those notes It did not make any differ ence what he rharged for his hotel." When tho laugh over this witticism rippled away, Mr. Metschan contin ued:. "But we made ends moot. I have been spoken of as knowing the hotel business. I had to know tho hotel business after 1 bought that hotel and gave nil those notes. "Tho value of n good hotel to a town Is much. Portland suffered until some of Its leading men built tho I'ortlaud hotel. That hotel spirud the fume of the city, but the first owners lost money. Now, how ever, tho Portland Is doing a lucra tive business Hut I believe ou will admit that we, vlMi the Im perial, are plvlnu the Portlan.I a run for Its money." MRS. JOSEPHINE KIRCH0FF The Idaho Statesman, of Boise, has the following In regard to Mrs. Josephine KIrchoff, who. died in this city October 4 and was taken to Em mett, Idaho, for burial, that place being her former home: EMMETT Oct. 8. On Saturday afternoon at the home of J. F. T. Busye, in this city, the funeral of Mrs. Josephine KIrchoff, who was formerly Mrs. S. H. Walker, was held. Deceased was one of the pio neers of Idaho. In the eighties, S. H. Walker, her huBband, was coun ty assessor of Ada county for eight years, during which time they lived in Boise. Mrs. KIrchoff was born in Osoble, Willis county, Illinois, on July 12, 1849, and when three years' old started with her relatives ov erland to California. Settling In Del Norte county in 1865, they moved to the Payette val ley, taking up a homestead where the present town of Emmett Is lo cated. After living In Idaho for about 25 years, she moved back to Illinois In 1892, where she lived un til 1900, when she moved to Grants Pass, Oegon, where her deeath oc curred on Wednesday morning, Oc tober 4, after a sickness of only one hour. The body was brought here by her son, Dr. Walker of that city, BORX. DYSERT In this city, Sunday, Oc tober 15, 1911, to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dysert, a daughter. MRS. EMMA C. MOREIS DIES IN PORTLAND Mrs. Emma C. Morris, formerly of Grants Pass, died Saturday night, October 7, at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. J. B. Eberlie, of Portland, In her 88th year.' Mrs. Morris was born in Lanca shire, England, June 13, 1824. With her parents she came to Philadel phia In second year of her age. In that city she grew to womanhood and in 1848 was married to David B. Morris, who died May 20, 1907. To this union were born three chil dren, Robert C. Morris of Philadel phia, Mrs. J. B. Eberlie of Portland, and Mrs. Emma B. Welsh, deceased, Mrs. Morris very keenly enjoyed the pleasure and honor of having five grand children and seven groat grand children, and they all loved her with remarkable tenderness. She was a devoted Christian from childhood and enjoyed lifo very much, but she hnd been heard to say many times thaf'I am nwalting my Father's pleasure and am ready to go when He calls." Her son Robert will Journey from Philadelphia nnd return with the remnlns which will be laid to rest beside her husband In a beautiful old churchyard overlooking historic Vnlley Forge. BRONCHITIS CTREP. Seventy Years Old and Praises Won derful llyomcl. "I had a severe attack of La Grippe. It left me with bronchitis and catarrh of my throat. I be came quite deaf In one year bo I could not hear a watch tick. I com menced using HYOMEI and Inhaler and soon got relief and believe that It saved my life. I have recommend ed It to many. I am over seventy years old. I have told several prom inent doctors what it did for me." Wm, F. Mowdor, Washington, N. J R. F. P., March 16, 1911. For catarrh, asthma, bronchitis, coughs, colds and catarrhal deafness HYOMEI Is guaranteed by C. H. Demaray. Complete outfit Including Inhaler and bottle HYOMEI $1.00, separate bottles HYOMEI If after wards needed 50 cents. To Dig Seven-Mile Ditch O. M. Knox came In from Thomp son creek Monday to secure supplies. Mr. Knox will Immediately begin digging the seven tulle ditch which win no used to Irrigate the fartuj owned by himself and C. C. Preslev, I Lame back Is one of the most com mon forms of muscular rheumatism A few appll.'iMons of Chamberlain' i.inimoni will j;ve relief. Kor by nil good dealers snl Mix. KiielnmKh Critically III Word was received Sunday even ing from Mrs. George Williams, who Is with her duughter. Mrs. Georgia Firobnugn nt Modford, that Mrx. 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