Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-02-09
Items Of Personal
Interest.

to Ashland Tuesday.
W. I. Carroll of Eugene arrived
last week to assist Mike Clemens in
the drug store.
Samuel Bowden returned Wednes
day from Seattle where he had beer
on ssort trip on mining business.
Cred Eeam and family arrived by
private conveyance from Grants Pass
OIL Thursday of last week. .-Crescen,
City News.
E. L. Staples of Ashland, who il
financing the Briggs mine. left Mon
day for Cincinnati on business con.
pected with that property.
Mrs. E. Rehkopf and Mrs. s. @.
Nease left Thursday for San Francis
CO to look over the Spring millinery
styles and to lay in new Spring
stock.
George Altpeter of New Hope and
one of the directors in the Murphy
Ditch Company, farmers co-opera-
tive irrigation company, was in
Grants Pass Tuesday.
Mrs. Q. M. Lewis of Duluth, MINI.
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs p A. De-
Genault, for few days. Mrs. Lewis
will visit for few weeks several
California cities before her return
home.
Frank Colvig. who returned lately
from Arizona where he had been
working In the mines for year or
more, has gone to Galice where he
has resumed his old position at the
Rocky Gulch mine.
Mrs. Samuel McVey came in Mon
day from Holland to assist her
mother. Mrs. Chas. Trefathen, few
days in caring for her brother, Chas.
Trefathen, Jr., who has been sick in
this city for the past month.
Miss Rhoda YORK, who has been
visiting here for several weeks, re-
turned on Monday evening to Port.
land. A pleasant social party was
given in her honor Oh Friday evening
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fred
Mensch.
Joseph Shaska returned Friday from
the British Columbia mining districts
where he had been on an Investigating
trip. He found wages high there and
will return in a month. Mr.. Shaska
is miner and mechanic and will be
able to command good wages wher-
ever he may work.
Sheriff George Lewis went tc
Holland Tuesday to be with his
father, James Lewis, who has been
seriously sick at his home on Sucker
creek. Sheriff Lewis will return to
Grants Pass Sunday, as tax collecting
will begin Monday, and Deputy
Sheriff Ernest Lister cannot attend G
all the duties of the office.
Elder D. D. Adams, formerly pastor
of the Church of God in this city has
returned to Grants Pass and will
again take up his work here. Elder
Adams has been absent for six months,
doing evangelical work in Coos
county, Portland and several other
places in Northern Oregon. He had
most gratifying success and largely
increased the membership of his
church.
Miss Maggie Nipper left Thursday
evening for Scottsburg, Oregon,
where she will be united in marriage,
this Saturday, to Herman Hiteman,
formerly fireman of the steam shovel
at Leland, but lately OF Scottsburg.
Miss Nipper is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. W. r. Nipper of this city,
and has resided in Grants Pass for a
number of years and both she and
Mr.. Hiteman have many friends here
who wish them happiness and pros
perity during their welded life.
Chas. Haggerty left this Thursday
for Fort Jones, where he goes to in
spect quartz property, which he
may buy. Mr.. Haggerty came from
Baker City last Fall and has spent
the Winter in Grants Pass while in
vestigatiDg the mineral resources of
this district. He gives it as his opin-
ion that Southern Oregon and North
ern California is a richer mining dis.
trict than Baker City district and has
a better future than that much adver-
tised section.
W. K. Parker, wife and two child
rem left last week for Santa Cruz,
Cal, where they will make their
home. Mr.. Parker is carpenter and
contractor and having capital to work
with will build and sell or rent houses
at Santa Cruz. Mrs. Parker's father
and mother, Mr.. ana Mrs II. b.
Alverson expect to change their resi-
dence from Grants Pass to Santa
Cruz, aud are now Offering their fine
farm for sale il being adveTtizcd i'm