Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-02-03
E LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Brief Notes o nd Items Of Interest
and lmporto nee.

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| will take carpenter work for full |
or part payment for valuable lot.
Have new 4-room house TO sell; terms
TO suit. j. d. Drake, A and Seventh,
Pthone 4S4.
The number of physicians in Grants
Pass is to be increased by the removal
Of DR.. Jewett from Chicago to this
place. The doctor has located in the
Thornton building, room 8, and while
taking up the general practice will
make q speciality of abdominal surgery
and diseases Of women. Mrs. Jewett
is now head nurse 10 the American
hospital at Chicago but will join her
husband here as soon as she Is able to |
leave a number OF important cases
now in the hospital
The household goods belonging to
j. Grothiem were shipped Thursday
10 Tacoma, where Mr.. Grotheim Is
now located with bis family. going
there from this city a month since.
A. Christensen, Mrs. Grothiem's father
aud who has made his home with his
daughter, will leave Grants Pass this
week to join the family. The dwell
ing lately occupied by Mr.. Grothiem
and which is located on o street, near
the High School and owned by Fred
Croxton, will be occupied by II. o.
Berry who will move from the Stro-
hecker house on O street.
The Grants Pass Fuel Company re-
Gently organized by 0. o. LuDd and
W. j. Gordan is now ready for bust
ness Their yard is on II street be-
tween Second aud Third in the west
part of town. where they have
block of land that is we'll located for
their purpose and it is free from sur
face water. A large shed has been
erected aud they are now filling it
with a fine quality of oak and fir
wood. In the near future another
large shed will be erected that al
ample supply of dry wood may be
had in stock. An Office building has
been built and telephone installed
aud they are now ready to fill orders
for woo cd in any quantity and of any
kind and quality to suit their ousto.
mers.
NJ. V. Pernoll and James Flowers.
who are putting % acre hop yard on
the Pernoll farm two miles below APP
plegate postoiiice were in Grants
Pass Saturday, each to secure a wagon
load Of hop roots, which they had
purchased from growers Of this
vicinity. They will rush their
planting at once in order to give the
roots an early grQwth in the spring.
Thoir yard is ON the Applegate bot
tom and the land is under ditch and
it Is their purpose to irrigate the yard
in dry seasons. Hop roots grow near
tho surface and thus would be greatly
injured by dry weather as well as
benefited by irrigation. BY giving
the yard thorough irrigatiDg at the
time the hops are forming, it is ex-
pected that the yield can be greatly
increased.
Last Thursday, assisted by three of
his neighbors, O. @. Sumner of Will
Jams brought bis wife to Grants Pass
to have her committed to the
asylum. The examination took place
that afternoon before Judge J. o.
Booth, the examining physician being
| Dr. ID. p. Love. TIE unfortunate
woman was taken TO Salem on the
Thursday evening train in charge OF
hur husband aud Walter Harmon.
Mrs Sumner is IL years old and the
mother of several children. She had
a previous attack of insanity some
wears age, bat soon recovered from il.
The birth and death Of baby a
month ago is thought to have brought
on this attack, though worrying over
the aflliotion of cancer ON her face
Is thought to also have had an effect
on her mind.
Street Commissioner Gilfllan plans
to keep the street crosswalks clean
aud passable to pedestrians hereafter
] 60, a.. ...,1 lao ht,a nrlara1
Der Of oak street brooms and will
have them used by hobos who desire
to avail themselves OF the city =.
hospitality rs TO free lodging and
board. Marshal Finch and Patrol
man McGrew will corporate with
Commissioner Gilfllan in this com.
mondablo work and hereafter every
hobo caught in the city will be given
"a days exercise on tho street cleaning
force. The orosswalks have been
nearly as muddy this winter as the
streets and their being kept clean will
be greatly appreciated by the resi-
dents of this city and as hobos are de.
cidodly ayorso to work of any kind,
this city may hereafter be less at.
tractive to these pilferiug, begging
nomads of thu railroad track.
Farmers DO Volunteer Road
Work
Farmers To the number of more