Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-05-26
OUR PERSONAL COLUMN
People as They Come and Go
From Day to Day

4hi. anu MIs- u. ~. Try lelt lnurs
day for California to:srend month in
the Yosemite Valley.
Mrs. A. S. Hammond returned Fri
dag from a months visit with rela
tives and friends in Portland.
7. p. Cramer made bicycle trip tC
the Waldo country last week and thil
week he has visited the Applegats
district.
Miss Lulu Conger went to Medford
Tuesday, where she will stay two
weeks to attend to some business mat.
ters and to visit with friends.
E. W. and Fred Britton of Newbure
and G. O. La Rsut of Grand Rapids,
Mich, arrived in Grants Pass Sun.
day and will look over this country
with view to locating.
Arthur Sampson returned Sunday
from attendance at the Stanford pre-.
paratory school He will spend the
sum mel vacation with his parents
and return to the school in the fall.
j. Nj. Payne, an extensive farmer OF
Deer Island, Columbia county, ar
rived in Grants Pass Sunday and
Tuesday he left for Holland, in which
district he is interested in mining
proposition.
Mrs. f. E. Willett returned Sunday
from Dunsmuir where she had been
for week on visit to her sister
Her daughter, Loie, came home with
her, she having spent a month with
her aunt and cousins
Mrs. A. U. Barnard returned Satur-
day from Portland where she spent
two weeks visiting friends. While
there she had the pleasure of listen
ing several times to Rev. b. II.
Meyer, the noted London divine.
Willie and Ida Booth left last week
for Portland where they will be
Joined this week by their mother,
Mrs Charles Booth and her daughter
Kathleen. Mrs. Booth, who will
hereafter reside in Portland, has sold
her home ON Eighth street to John NJ.
Booth, who will occupy it as a resi-
dence.
G. A. Cobb has bought the house
and six lots on l. street, between
Fourth and Pine, that belonged to
@. G. Seaman and has moved with his
family to the house. Mr.. Cobb will
build this summer two more houses
on the property, which he will rent.
Mr.. Seaman became sometime since
a resident of Woodville, where he in
company with A. @. johnson put in
last month a large general merchan-
disc store.
The press reports announce that L.
S. Cass has been made assistant mana.
ger of the Chicago & Great Western
Railway, company that operates
1900 miles Of railroad in Illinois,
Minnesota and Iowa. Mr.. Cass' head
quarters will be in st. Paul. Mr.
Cass is a brother of +. L. Cass, mana
ger of the Grants Pass Cold Storage
Company. He has been prominent
in railroad and electric traction bust
ness in the East for numbe of years
past.
j. O. Kitto came to Grants Pass
Friday, from the Oregon Belle mine
where he has been employed since
last fall, and remained in the city
until Monday on a visit with his sis
ter, Miss Jennie Kitto. Mr. Kitto
left Monday in company with william
Berry and Arthur Donahue for Nome.
Alaska, where they expect to spend
the summer in mining. Walter Kit
to, also well known in this city, will
leave the Oregon Belle next week fol
his former home at Idaho Springs,
Colorado.
f. S. Jones, who with Frank Mash
burn are the local managers and
principal owners Of the Golden Rule
store, returned Saturday from a
months business trip to st. Louis
and to visit relatives near that city.
Mr.. Jones reports the business con.
dition in that city and other towns
he was in as very. satisfactory and a
good trade year was expected. Mrs
Jones, who had as yet not Joined her
husband in Oregon, returned with
Mr.. Jones to take up her residence in
Grants Pass.
John Hall returned Friday from
Greenback where he had spent a
couple of days looking after mining
interests he has in that district. Mr..
Hall has two claims, both near the
Greenback and one of them, Rough
Nugget, he is having developed, Jack
Hayden being in charge of the work.
The vein is showing up we'll both in
width and values and Mr.. Hall feels
so encouraged that he will continue
development for some time yet, or
until he is able to decide on the per-
manent value of his property.
Mrs. Sarah V. Griffith was in
Grants Pass Monday from her home
near Wilderville. Mrs. Griffith stated
that her husband is in very critical
condition aud may not survive the
injury he recently received by being
thrown from a colt. He laid by the
roadside seven hours before being
found when he was taken TO the home
Of Monroe Ferrin, where he remained
until Sunday, when he was taken TO
his own home. His lungs appear to
be hurt and be has other internal
injuries that have developed serious