Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-04-27
A Brief Record Of
Local Events.

The Grants Pass Iron Works has
just received another lathe, 16-inch
American Engine, from Cincinnati.
1t is now being installed.
Clifford SCHNEIDER, Of Woodville.
who accidentally shot himself through
the hand, last week, is getting along
nicely. Dr. Loughridge dressed the
wounded member aud it is now al
most well.
Herman Horning has quite lengthy
addition to his menagerie in the
shape Of litter Of little grey hounds
-four of which are white. While
these little animals may not have all
the qualities necessary to entitle them
to place in the park. vet what they
lack In quality they certainly make
up in quantity. ~ there are IL, all
told, In this little family. Herman is
thinking OF using them az prizes in
bon bon boxes
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. j. Ferr, Of
Woodville. drove to Grants Pass from
woodville, bringing her little 7-year
old daughter. to consult physicisn.
she having swallowed needle three
hours before. On reaching This city
the child was at once taken to DR..
Loughridge, who found that the needle
had passed to the stomsch. The little
girl was given treatment bv DR..
i.oughridge, and returned to Wood.
vile that evening, where she ia doing
nicely and no bad results are antici-
pated. About two months ago DR..
LouRhridge successfully removed pin
from child's throat, which it had
swallowed and which had lodged
in the throat and remained for three
days.
Queer things pass through the mails
and it requires postal rules to prevent
live snakes, explosives, CHI ckens and
ths like from being sent by Uncle
Sans cheap and efficient transporta-
tion service. Two packages passed
through the Grants Pass Office this
week in the registered mail that were
out of the ordinary for registered
matter. The packages contained fur
and were from harbor, little post
Office down in Gerry and they, arrived
here by the Crescent City stage line
and addressed to st. Louis fur deal.
er As shown on the tags each pack
age contained an assortment of hides,
one having two raccoon, three skunk
aud nine civit cat skins, and the other
had one mink, five grey fox. five ring
cat and three martin skins. They
probably were the Winters catch of
two farmer boys living in the wilds of
Curry county.
f N. Provolt. one of the directors
of the Appegate Valley Telephone
Company. was in Grants Pass We'd
nesday. In regard to the offer of the
Pacific States Telephone Company to
lease to the Applegate Company the
formers line from Grants Pass to
Williams for five years ind thereby
bind the latter company to use Bell
telephones for that period with no
guarantee Of free switching through
Grants Pass with other independent
telephone lines he was not in favor of
accepting it. He would be willing to
sign up for one year but not for five
as the poles of the line are badly rot
ted aud then new company might
put in system in Grants Pass and
would give free switching to the in
deDendent lines aud he would want
the Applegate Company free to accept
the service. For the present he will
favor the Applegste Company building
a line to Grants Pass aud getting con-
nection with an Illinois Valley system
and making the best of the situation
until satisfactory arrangement can
be made for an exchange in this city.