Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-30
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working ct Provolt for Alex Watts on
the farm.
Chas. Fields, who has been on the
sick list for some time, Is now able to
be about again.
W. NJ. Sonson was at Grants Pass
this week with load of fine cabbage
which he sold vrey readily.
Hurrah Provolt is going to have a
new creamery and rural telephone
as is also Williams and Murphy.
Sbirm Fields and Will Jones were
at Grants Pass Tuesday with load
of veal for Sweetland's meat market.
Mrs. Green, our new merchant and
postmistress, made a business trip to
Grants Pass this week returning the
same day.
The weather has turned off fine
after several weeks rain at Provolt
and the nights are quite cold with
plenty of frost.
L. W. Smith of Grants Pass was at
Provolt this week ON business. Be.
fore returning he made a business trip
to the Applegate section.
Misses Myrtle and Masyol Letteken
Of Williams were at Provolt Saturday
and Sunday visiting with their grand
father, S. Provolt of this place.
E. N. Provolt, one Of our hustling
farmers got through packing apples
Saturday. Mr.. Provolt had near $50
boxes of choice apples which he will
sell at a large figure.
Where can there be any better
place than Provolt to live where
you can have ripe strawberries the
26tb day of November and up to
Christmas which brings back to
memory the beautiful Spring of the
year?
The Provolt school has commenced
after several weeks delay on account
Of no teachers to be had. Mr.. Good
pasture is our teacher at present. He
is from Willow Spring, in the Rogue
River Valley and he will be with us
three months and probably much
longer. 1t seems as though the school
has found what it has needed for a
long time and that ia the new bell,
which sends its thrilling calls over
our beautiful valley and from hill to
hill which makes the farmers feel as
il they have accomplished a work,
which has been resting upon the dis
trict for several years
Provolt is noted for its mountains
of timber which surround the valley
and FOR its fertile soil from which
many different varieties of produce
can be raised. 1t is also situated at
the mouth of the Williams Valley on
Williams creek, which comes from
the beautiful snow capped crags of old
Gray which is noted for its
cones aud in Summer furnishes ex-
cellent range for many hundred head
of cattle which are driven from all
parts of the valleys. There is also
the Applegate river, which flows
through the valley from the Siskiyou
and in Summer the water is
used to irrigate many hundreds of
acres of land which are put to alfalfa
at little expense.
Thos. Lewmn, the Provoit CORES
pondent was at Grants Pass Saturday
He finds the good roads spoken of by
the Laurel Grove correspondent, in
very bad condition and quite difficult
to pull over with heavily loaded
wagon at present. But the roads can
be made good by applying a thick coat
Of gravel to protect the wagons from
the mud which is now the great
He went to town on the
stage and oftentimes we were almost
thrown from our seats by running
into deep ruts and ohuckholes which
should be fixed. | believe that for
the betterment of our roads more
gravel should be used in the Fall of
the year aud plow and build new
roads in the Spring when there is
good wheather to protect the public
'ravel from the mud during the busy
lime OF the season