Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-11-17
A Brief Record of
Local Events.
rants Pass Posi- Cards at the Cour.

Grants Pass Post Cards at the Cour.
ier Lffice.
Corporation books, stock certificates
and seals at the Courier office.
NJ. o. Warner will be in Grants
Pass within the next few days.
Psrties wishing tuning done can leave
orders at the Music Store.
The Courier's Classified Ad column
contains many important items and
you should make it point to look
over the items each week.
No. /, Vol. OF the Marshfield Ad-
vertiser and also of the Whitelake
Times has reached our desk. The
Advertise steps into field that is
already too we'll covered but the
Times has brand new field.
The international Sunday School
Field Worker for the Northwest. the
Rev. W. @. Merritt. is expected to
visit Grants Pass and conduct Sun.
day School conference on Monday and
Tuesday, Nov. s7th and 2Sth.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Bill came from
Crescent City this week. Mrs. Bill
to take the overland for Portland and
Mr.. Bill to meet the officials of the
telephone company. for which he is
lineman from Waldo to Crescent City.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church have arranged to hold their an
nual Bazaar about the middle of De-
oember and then they will place on
sale fancy work and other articles
that will make desirable Christmas
presents.
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarhoea Remedy. This is the most
successful medicine in the world
for bowel complaints, and is the only
remedy that will cure chronic diarr.
hoea. Every bottle is warranted. For
sale by all druggists.
John Hackett has hauled in the
last load of lumber from the Powell
Greek Lumber Company's mill, in
which he is interested. The mill was
in operation all Summer, employing
II men and cutting an average of
5000 feet of lumber per day.
The Cantata 1.-THE Pillar of Fire"
will be rendered at the Presbyterian
church Sunday night comm encing at
80 The chorus consists of about s5
voices, and aside from the chorus work
there are solos, duets and quartets,
all the numbers being very pleasing
and all who attend may be sure Of n
treat in the musical line. The CAN
tata is given under the auspices of the
Society of Christian EndeaNor and
under the direction of II. O. Kinney
J. f. Cook was in Grants Pars Mon
day from his home on Missouri Flat
He states that John Barrow, who
resided in Grants Pass and
conducted a meat market, and who
moved to Missouri Flat last Winter is
very low from paralysis. The di-
sease has afflicted him for some
months and has rendered him so help
less that he is unable to- move a hand
Or foot, and TO put barely move his
head and his speech is almost inauda-
BILE. He has wife and five children
The neighbors have been verygeneT-
Gus in assisting the family in their
distress Last week wood cutting
bee was held and big supply Of
wood was provided for their use.
And most of the work in planting and
caring for the crops on the land leased
by Mr.. Barrow has been done by the
farmers of the vicinity.
The long delayed rains are anxiously
awaited by miner and farmer alike
In very few creeks can the hydraulic
miner now obtain sufficient head of
water to work his giants and he is
forced to wait for water,
although in all other respects pre-
pared for good seasons work. The
farmer needs rain on his pasture lands
and to start bis fall grain. Many
farmers on the Applegate put in
their wheat with a spring tooth h. ar
row for the reason that the ground h as
been too dry to plow II is said ~
many pioneers that this is one Of Il ,e
iriest falls ever seen in Josepbin {
county, but that, judging by past dry
falls, tie rain will make up for lost
time when it does come and the
average rate Of precipitation will be
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