Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-04-07
THE LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Brief Notes and Items Of Interest
and Importance.

f. G. Patton of placer visited |
Grants Pass Friday
l. H. Miller of Williams has been
spending several days in the city this
week.
Free concert at our store, Saturday
afternoon and evening. Geo. S. Cal
houn Co
DR.. Van Dyke can be found at his
Office in Oprea House Block, General
practice and surgery,
Timber claims. Homosteads. w.
b. sherman, Rooms loand l9 Maso ic
Temple, Grants Pass Ore.
The Order of Washington will give
a social next Monday evening at the
woodmen hall to which the public is
invited Amusements for all will be
provided and games dancing and other
pastimes will make of the evening
delightful tine to all who attend
The d purtmant Of music of the
Giants Pass Wumans Club will meet
at the home Of Mrs. II. @. Kinney
ON Fiday, Apil IA at :45 p, III. The
study of Wagner and his operas will
be taken up and it is expected that
full attendance of the members of the
department will be present
The President has signed an order
adding the south half of Malheur and
Harney counties to the Burns land
district. This territory is now
part of Lakeview district, but is
found to be moro accessible to Burns
than Lakeview. Residents of South
eastern Oregon asked for a change.
Ex. County Commissioner Robert
Cook, who owns farm and one of
the best paying placer mines Ola Foots
creek, came to Grants Pass Sunday
and Moneay he returned to his home
accompanied by Mrs Cook, who had
been in the city for the past three
weeks with their daughter, Mrs. NJ,
Il. Woodbridge. Mr.. Cook stated they
had done this winter but little over
half their usual mining aud that If
the spring should be as dry as the
winter had been, their clean p.would
be but little over half the usual
amount.
The evangelistio meetings led by
DR.. Chapman and his stan of preach
ers and singers are still going on in
Portland where the ovangelists are
e. duplicating their successful work in
Denver Or Toy and Mr.. Dickson
are ut the Fourth Presbyterian church
in South Portland whore they are do.
ing very effective work Some of the
! other preachers are more profound
scholars than DR.. Toy, but none Of
them are stronger in the puIpit or ao.
complish more with the material at
, hand 1t is probable that DR.. Toy
secures the conversion of larger per
centage of his congregations than any
other evangelist in the company.
&. w. Thomas, a miner we'll known
in many Of the camps of Southern
Oregon is to be ready for work again
after four months in repair shop dur
lug which DR.. d. =. Love has prac.
ucally rebuilt him, for he was pretty
q we'll smashed up as the result of a
mine accident in which he had his
I, collar bone broken, wrist dislocated,
4 hip crushed, knee out Of place and
3 ankle bones crushed Mr. Thoma,
b many injuries came to him as Tia,
result of tunnel caving in at tn,
y Company's mine ON Silver creek, il
e which no was working. When dul
out from beneath the pile Of rocks
it his fellow miners thought his work
q ing days were over, but so fully is h
! recovering from his injuries that h
i expects TO again swing the pick in
couple Of months more at the farther
b., lost