Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-10-20

i"ii anu W Vlslt friends in Portland
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wood arrived
home last week from their Easter
trip, they having been absent two
weeks.
Mrs: George Magerle, who reside,
near Woodville was in Grants Pas
MONDAY shopping and calling OIL
j. II. Austin the Kerby attorne,
came to Grants Pass Tuesday aut
Wednesday he spent in Jacksonyi llt
on legal busin ess.
City Auditor John Minor Booth re.
turned Sunday from Portland where
he and Mrs. Booth witnessed tht
closing of the fair.
Miss Bertha Mowers left Tbursda,
morning for San Francisco, where sht
Will spend tile winter with hel
brother, Charles, and family.
Mrs. Mary Stewart returned Mon.
day from Portland, where she has re-
sided for the past year and half,
to again make her home in Grant.
Pass.
Miss Ethel Newell of Bly,, Oregon,
is visiting her uncle, W. A. Newell
at Grants Pass this week. She com
mences term of school at Hugo OIL
Monday.
Russell Drake and his sister, Mis-.
Millie arrived home Monday from q
two weeks stay in Portland. where
they visited relatives and attended
the fair.
A. G. Hough returned Thursday
evening from San Francisco, where had
been for the past week attending to.
important legal business for some Of
bis big corporation clients.
Councilman T. W. Williams and
wife and daughter and J. II. Williams
and daughter arrived home Tuesday
from Portland where they had been t.
see the Lewis and Clark fair.
MIR. and Mrs. G. H. Rowland have
leased the Croxton cottage, l04 +
street and are fitting il up to be one
of the most cozy homes in Grants
Pass, and where they will hereafter be
az w tltll
VIM. F. Paine, of Chicago, has been
spending the past two weeks in
Josephine county. Mr.. Roaf Of the
Galice Consolidated has been showing
him the country and they have
visited mines iu all sections.
Mrs. Isabell Woolford Of Seattle,
who has been visiting ler parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Eggers at Kerby
for the past two months, left Thurs.
day for California to visit friends be.
fore returning to her home at Seattle.
James Chiles, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. NJ. Chiles o. this city, arrived here
Saturday morning from Alaska,
where he has spent number of years.
He expects to visit his parents fol
about two months and then return
to the cold country.
Mrs. L. Hall who has resi- led al
the Greenback mine this past summer
where she did laundry work bai
moved to Grants Pass that she may be
able to secure more work and alsC
that her three children may have the
benefit of the schools of this city.
Gebbsrd Karg, who has farm and
a placer mine on Grave creek seven
miles below Leland, was in Grant,
Pass Monday. Mr.. Karg farms in the
summer months and makes money of
his place and then in the winter he
makes more money by working {
placer mine that is on his land.
Mrs. John Hall, who has been visit
ing with her daughter H. Salt Lake
City, has gone to Los Angeles il
response to message from hel
daughter at that Place, saying tha
her little granddaughter is i'll. Sh'
II be in Los Angeles about month
when she will return to her home il
this city.
]. E. Enyart, cashier and managel
of the Medford Bank, of Medford, anC
also a member of the board Of direct
ors of the Medford & Crater Lake
railroad, now building road uI
Rogue river. was in Grants PAS
Thursday forenoon N brief business
trip to the commercial metropolis o.
Southern Oregon.
Hon. John d. dwell was IL
Grants Pass this Thursday forenoon
ON a business trip. Mr.. Olwrll is on,
Of the big orchardists Of jackson
county and is also in the real estat,
business at Medford, where he is on'
of the leading workers in boominI
Medford and giving it the era o
splendid prosperity that the town II
enjoying the present year.
o. S. Brown, who has been In bust
ness at Hugo and also practiciDg Law
at that place, has removed to Grant
Pass and taken a position in the Law
office of Hon. Robert G. Smith Mrs
Brown is yet at Hugo where she 4
attending to the closing up Of thei
business and making the last ship
ment on a large wood contract. Sh
joins her husband the last OF mex
week.
]. A. ]. Crow who had been il
Rogue River Valley for 10 days visit
ing relatives returned TO Eugen
TUESDAY, near where he has a I'm
farm and has resided most Of tn
time since 1852, when he landed II
I oregon. N0llt utIt MI Nlu" view
with his brother, William Crow, wh
has a large lay and fruit farm O.
Rogue river below Merlin, and h.
brother Thos. V. Crow, who is
mining man Of Gold Hill, and wit
his sisters Mrs. c. st. Louis OF Grant
Pass, and Mrs. H. L. Keyte. q
Merlin.
J. L. Lindley and family Of 81
John, Wash, have arrived in Grant
Pass and will make Southern Orego
their home. At present they ar
visiting W. L. Ireland and Mrs, {
E. Cofman, former neighbors. Nj
Lindley has been very extensiv
wheat raiser and has for 90 years pa
been farming more than 1000 acre.
He has Just sold of the greater pal
OF his farm and personal property an
has come to cast his lot with 81
people Of Josephine county IN
Lindley family was accompanied }
Mr. and Mrs. Swegel Mrs swegel
a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lindley
Miss Karen Bergen returned Thur
day from an extended stay at h'
homestead near Trail on Upper Rogt