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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-02
CITY HAS COMPLETE
SEWER SYSTEM
Never Had a Filth Disease Epi-
.demic. Portland Paper Says,
Town Has no Sewers


OF the ablest medical journals pub
lished on the Pacific Coast, its edi-
tion for October has an article on the
sanitary condition of the towns OF
Oregon. The article makes some good
points on sanitary science bat grossly
misrepresents as to facts when men.
tioning the condition of Grants Pass
for it says that though city of $500
Grants Pass has no sewer system. If
the editor of the Sentinel has that lit
tie knowledge of the sewer system of
the other Oregon towns that he has
of Grants Pass the storm of censure
that will come on him will far out.
balance all the good he intended to
accomplish.
The fact is that Grants Pass has a
sewer system not excellled and equaled
by but few towns of its size on the
Pacific Coast. Proportionately Grants
Pass is better severed than is Port
land, and much better than Salem,
Eugene, Albany, Roseburg, Medford
or Ashland. With the completion of
the sewers now under construction
Grants Pass will have 95s miles of
main and lateral sewers and when
by another year the laterals are ex-
tended to all the outlying residence
section the city will have over 12
miles of sewers. With the completion
of the extension now being made to
the Seventh street sewer there will
be 414miles of main sewers of capac-
ity large enough to carry all the
sewage that will ever be required.
These three main sewers extend en-
tirely across the city. the shortest one
being over mile long aud the longest
over mile and one half, and with
their system of laterals fully cover the
entire business and all the principal
residence sections of the city. These
main sewers all empty into Rogue
river below town and the outlets are
put at an angle so that high water In
the river will not choke them, and the
swift running water quickly carries
away and dissipates the sewage.
Grants Pass has never had an epi.
demic of typhoid or other filth pro-
duced disease for the drainage of the
town is perfect even were it without
sewers.
The townsite is on a second bottom
underlayed with sandy subsoil and
a lower gravel strata and no water
stands on the surface for the land has
perfect slope toward the river. The
only cases of typhoid fever is where
persons contracted the disease at other
places as was the case this Fall of
several persons taking the fever while
working at saw mill in Swede Basin
and coming to town for treatment and
other members of the family taking
it from them. The gross misstate-
ment made by the Medical Sentinel
will do much injury to Grants Pass
and the Commercial Club and the
local Medical Association should each
ask that the Sentinel correct their in
furious statement.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-02

Ernest Fl. Lister to 9. II. Clements,
Lot /, in Block Al. r. r. Addition.
John II Williams ct al to Herbert
W. Atkins, Lot 8. in Block 80. River
side Addition.
August Lorenx to q. p. Atchison,
two acres In Section z, Township 30
S, X W, Josephine County, Oregon.
The above sales were made through
the Real Estate Agency of Joseph
Moss. See him for bargains. Office
5l6 Il street.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-02

Of its adoption ana the manner of SUBJ
mitting the same to the legal voters
of the city of Grants Pass was read
the first time in toto and on motion
was read the second time by title
only.
On motion it was decided that the
ward conventions for the nomination
of councilmen be held Thursday. No
vember 20, and the general convention
for the nommination of mayor and
city treasurer be held Friday. Novem-
ber 2S, at O'Clock p. m.
Judges and clerks for the general
nominating convention were appointed
As follows; Judges-H. @. Kinney
j. G. Campbell and W. Z. Dean.
Cerks-T. Y. Dean aud ], NJ Booth
The salary of the street superin-
tendent was raised to $40 per month
commencing with November /.
The following bills were presented
and allowed
r II Gilfillan, cash paid for sup.
plies -. ..,........ .$il 90
F o Wilcox, hauling gravel. 49,. s 90
Harvey Moore, cement work. Is 10
G p Hardware Co.. cement &
mdse. ,...................... 90 75
ID Lawton, surveying. -. -. 8 90
u Higgins, assisting surveyor. :. 90
JOS Rauch, blacksmithing. o 05
Jessie Mastin, copying charter. 10 90
Rogue River Water Co, flushing
sewers s.,.,................ IA 95
National Drug Store. mdse. $50. SO
j M Booth, books aud stationery 81
Oregon Observer. printing. ... 80
Williams Bros d 4 l. Co. lumber 20 05
pipe and nails, o4 ss
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-02

The Courier has the largest corps Of
correspoudeuts of INV raoer IN South
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
her own clothes or earned them with
ypewriter.-Success Magazine.
Can Give a Very Broad Hint.

A Presbyterian clergyman of this
city, with two popular daughters, has
discovered a new way to end the visits
Of their beaux at a seemly hour-a plan
which might appeal to lay families as
we'll.
For a number of years it has been a
custom of this good man to hold even
ing worship after supper, always con-
Guiding the prayers with a short dis
course. Things went very we'll until
the daughters began to receive the at
tentiOns of young men and begged off
or stole away to make their evening toi-
let's. Then the minister changed the de-
vctional hour until 10 in the evening.
This reform created an upheaval, but
the father insisted, and at the stroke of
10 the visiting young men are now left
two alternatives: Either to leave or ioin
with the family in prayer, and it has
proved a severe test Of their devotion
fer the daughters when those not
FL ayerfully inclined stick it out, sermon
and all.-New York World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
..The Ug1iest Family in England, ;,

"The UGliest Family in England"
1t is not unusual in life to see an
awkward fellow making a false step.
He attempts to recover himself and
makes another; the second is followed
by third, and down he comes Here
is an illustration of what we mean:
A gentleman once said to Lord North,
pray, my lord, who is that extremely
ugly woman sitting over there?"
That's my youngest sister," said his
lordship.
Good gracious !" said the gentleman,
Il don't mean her, mean the next
''That is my eldest sister," replied
the nobleman.
II protest" cried the unhappy gentle
man, Il don't mean her, but the third"
THAT is my wife," said Lord North.
1.-THE devil!' calculated tho poor fell
low.
"You may we'll say that" said Lord
North, 'for she is as ugly as one. But
console yourself, my dear sir, we are
the ugliest family in England Col
den Penny.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04

Mr.. Stah1mann was speaking to her
and she checked her tears in amaze
ment, for what he was saying seemed
the most wonderful words she had
ever heard.
81 thank you for the ploc sure you
have given me-" he said, and his SIM
pie courtesy touched her to the heart
Don't worry about the posters. You
are a pupil of Stahlmann. You have
just taken your first lesson" Then
the pressure upon Ter shoulder grew
heavier. Gas for the future, we who
serve so great an art should try to
keep ourselves pure from unworthy
acts"
The girl caught his hand and press
ed it to her lips, quite unable to speak.
Mr. Stahlman led her, still speech
less, to the door.
after your concert is over" he
said, come to me in a few DAYS for
your first lesson" Youths Conlpan-
ion
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
Queer Drugs and Their uses.

''The venom Of the rattleSnake has
been known to cure locomotOr ataxia
and scarlet fever" said a chemist in
the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Homeopathic physicians often pre-
scribe it. You know the curara, the
deadly poison that the South American
Indians smear on their arrow tips?
WE'LL curara is very helpful in hydro
phobia. There is a seaweed called
'bladderwrack.' They make of this an
antifat, a marvellous antifat. By the
use of this antifat l know a man who
reduced his weight forty pounds in
three months.
There is a deadly fungus, the fly
agaric, which unfortunate people some
times eat in mistake for mushrooms.
They make a medicine Of the fly agar
ic, a medicine called muscarine nitrate.
which, injected under the skin causes
copious flow of tears. French ac-
tresses, in weeping scenes, such as La
Dame aux Camellias,' have sometimes
used this drug. Cocaine causes wake
fulness. l once worked forty-eight
hours at stretch, thanks to cocaine.
Cocaine stimulates, exhilarates and re-
moves all desire for food or drink. An
Alpine guide will chew fifty or sixty
grains of it before commencing a diff
cult ascent"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
The InaIienable Right to Crow.

A Pennsylvania correspondent re-
fers us to the decision in Hillegas agt.
Reinhart, Lackawanna Jurist, page
81, where the headnotes of the Penn
sylvania court were as follows:
in the exercise of mis- prescriptive
right, a gamecock cannot be enjoined
by a preliminary injunction in Ian
caster County.
Equity is without jurisdiction when
it is invoked to restrain a rooster
from growing.
''The prerogatives of a chanticleer
are beyond the reach of any common
law doctrine or legislative enactment.
They are founded upon principles that
antedate hotels, and were honored
for centuries ere the commercial
traveller or ubiquitous drummer ever
monopolized tavern or usurped a
passenger car.
"The right to crow is an inalienable
right, and must not be abridged nor
suppressed, because it is eventual. and
not perpetual.
"Dictum: A chancellor might be
moved did the rooster crow continu-
Ously.
An injunction will not be allowed
at the instance of a hotel keeper. to
stop the growing Of gamecocks in the
early morning on adjoining premises,
no direct damages being proven. =
Case and Comment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they can
not reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is blood constitutional disease, and in
order to cure it you must take internal rem
edies. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not
a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one
of the best physicians in this country for
years and is a regular prescription. 1t is
composed of the best tonics known, com
bined with the best blood purifiers acting
directly on the mucous surfaces. The per-
feet combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results in
curing Catarrh Send for testimonials free
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN.
ne What Is Their Competition with
Men I'm Business Leading Us TOT

ne What Is Their Competition with
Men I'm Business Leading Us Tor
Nearly five million women go to work
every day, in the United States-go to
paid work, whether the returns be So
a week or $4,000 a year. Sixty years
ago Harriet Martineau, while visiting
America, declared that she found here
but seven occupations for women
teaching, needlework, taking boarders.
typesetting, employment in cotton mills,
bookbinding, and domestic service. Now
there are scarcely seven occupations
closed to them; they are pouring out
into the world Of activities, and the
five millions will be six, at the next
counting.
Whether or not you or they like the
change is wholly unimportant. AS
someone has suggested, the early eohip
pus may have resented changing into
horse and his neighbors may have
greeted his development in the matter
of hOofs and legs with acidly critical
comment; but, when once started
horseward, nothing could stop him; he
had to adjust himself to the outer con-
ditions that demanded one concentrate
ed toe in the place Of five. In the
same way woman is being swept along
in a great, vague, irresistible wave of
economic change, when she turns her
face down town in the early morning
She will pass an alarmist uttering
his dismal note on every corner; his
warning is prophetic Of lost charm, lost
power, and lost position. One declares
that presently man will cease alto
gether to support woman, if this thing
goes on increasing, and then how about
home and mother? The answer to that
not new, but worth repeating-is that
man never has supported woman. To
support means to provide with the nee
essaries Of life. Who was doing the
larger share of this, the man who rails
ed and sheared the sheep, or the woman
who carded and spun and Woye the
WOOL and cut and seWed the clothes =?
the man who shot the bird, or the
woman who pluclzed and cooked it?-
the man who provided the yarn, or the
woman who knit the stockings? 1t is
a fairly even matter, this support" in
the days when most Of the human needs
were worked out under each individual
roof.
In humber homes, where the nee
essaries are bought instead of made
and yet there is but one source. of
money, we often get a picture of a
shriveling, carewOrn father staggering
under a weight of stunning, embroid-
ering, spending daughters that makes
us rejoice in that swelling five million
at their gainful occupations. How can
they do it, these kindly, careless girls
and what will become of them when
they have worked their victim to
death? Surely some change in sys-
tenn that allows such uneven burdens
need not make us fear a Iessening of |
woman's intrinsic value; she will have |
gained in every sense when she be- |
comes ashamed to rest her healthy /
young weight on overworked shoulders |
That by going to work, she completes |
with man and reduces his earnings is
a problem for professional economists |
to struggle with; though it has been
suggested that, as a producer, she al |
ways has competed with man and re-
duced his earnings, whether she wove
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
GET RID OF THE GAS
o.. Williams Pink Pills Strenotha.
the Stomach and Enable Il to
Do lta Work

When the stomach is feeble the food
lies IN it undigested, decays and throws
OH poisonous gases that distend tho
walls OF the stomach and cause inter
ference with other organs, especially
with the action Of the heart and lungs.
These gases have other i'll effects. The
nerves and the brain are disturbed
and dlscomforts such as dizziness hot
flashes, sleeplessness, irritableness and
dependency originate from this source
Experience shows that these troubles
vanish just as soon as the stomach is
made strong enough to digest the food.
III other words, 1t needs a tonic that will
rouse it to do the work of changing the
food into nouriShment.
Miss Minerva @. Laid, of Ipswich,
Mass, says 81 had a weak stomach
from the time I was q little child.
Whenever took hearty food it would
cause terrible faintnesS, and I would
finally vomit what l had eaten. At
times there would be the most intense
pains through the upper part of my
body. For days in succession, would
have to lie down most of the time.
The distress was often so great that I
could hardly bear it, and the FREQUENT
and violent belching spells were very
disagreeable, too.
/" My doctors medicines gave me little
relief and 1t was not until I tried DR..
Williams Pink Pills that found a cure.
Within three weeks decided improve
ment was noticeable. The belching
spells were less frequent, the pains
through my body were not so intense.
my food was retained and after taking
the pills for a few weeks longer I found
that I was altogether free from the
miseries had SO long suffered"
Every dyspeptic should read "What
to Eat and How to Eat" Write the DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
n. Y, for free copy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04

erly educated physician, chemist and
food expert.
Please remember we never say ordi-
nary coffee hurts every one.
Some people use it regularly and
seem strong enough to withstand its
attacks, but there is misery and dis
ease in store for the man or woman
who persists in it's use when nature
protests, by heart weakness, stomach
and bowel troubles, kidney disease,
weak eyes, or general nervous prostra-
ton. The remedy is obvious. The drug
caffeine, contained in all ordinary cof-
fee, must be discontinued absolutely or
the disease will continue in spite of
any medicine and will grow worse.
1t is easy to leave off the old-fashion-
ed coffee by adopting Postum Food
Coffee, for in it one finds q pleasing hot
breakfast or dinner beverage that has
the deep seal brown color, changing to
a rich golden brown when good cream
is added. When boiled long enough Us
minutes) the flavor is not that of rank
Rio coffee, but very like the milder,
smooth and high grade Java, but en-
tirely lacking the drug effect of ordi-
nary coffee.
Any one suffering from disorders set
up by coffee drinking (and there is an
extensive Variety can absolutely de-
pend upon some measure of relief by
quitting coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee.
If the disease has not become too
strongly rooted, one can with good rea-
son expect it to disappear entirely in a
reasonable time after the active cause
Of the trouble is removed and the cellu-
lar tissue has time to naturally rebuild
with the elements furnished by Postum
and good food.
It's only just plain old common sense.
Now, with the exact facts before the
reader, he or she can decide the wise
course, looking to health and the power
to do things.
If you have any doubt as to the
cause Of any ache or all you may have.
remember the far reaching kilograms O.
a hurt nervous system travel from heel
to head, and it may be we'll worth your
while to make the experiment of leay-
ing off coffee entirely for ten days and
using Postum in its place
You will probably gather some good
solid facts, worth more than gold
mine, for health can make gold and
sickness lose it. Besides there's all the
fun. for it's like a continuous internal
frolic to be perfectly we'll
There's a reason for
POSTUM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
The HIDDEN STREAM.

Deep, deep within my breast
Flows on my love for you,
Beneath the days unrest
And all the long night through.
Whether 1 laugh or weep,
Let life be grave or gay,
feel that current keep
It's full resistless way.
And yet so deep it hides
That none has ever known
My beings inmost tides
Are swayed by you alone.
Phoebe Lyde in Lippincott's.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
COuIdn,t See IT.

Poe-There is that exquisite creature,
Miss Pearline, over there. Unlock for
me the door of hope by introducing me
to that mixture of woman and angel
Practical Friend-Can't do it, my
boy; don't know the combination.-BaI
timore American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04

Aren't you afraid that horse will
run away with somebody"
Friend" said Bronco Bob. at amt
nothin' in Crimson Gulch for a boss
to run away with man. It's when a
man tries to run away with a boss that
there's danger" Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
The Coffee Debate.

The published statements of a num-
Der of coffee importers and roasters in
dictate ''waspy" feeling toward us, for
daring to say that coffee is harmful to
a percentage of the people,
A frank public discussion Of the sub
ject is quite agreeable to us and can
certainly do no harm; on the contrary,
when all the facts on both sides of any
question are spread before the people
they can thereupon decide and act in
diligently.
Give the people plain facts and they
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
will take care of themselves.

We demand facts in this coffee dis
cussion and propose to see that the
facts are brought clearly before the
people.
A number Of coffee importers and
roasters have Joined a movement to
boom coffee and stop the use of Postum
Food Coffee and in their newspaper
statements undertake to deceive by
false assertions
Their first is that coffee is not harm
full.
We assert that one in every three cof-
fee users has some form of incipient or
chronic disease; realize for one moment
what a terrible menace to a nation of
civilized people when one kind of bever-
age cripples the energies and health of
one-third the people who use it.
We make the assertion advisedly and
suggest that the reader secure his own
proof by personal inquiry among coffee
users.
Ask your coffee drinking friends if
they keep free from any sort of aches
and ails. You will be startled at the
percentage and will very naturally
seek to place the cause of disorder on
something aside from coffee, whether
food, inherited tendencies or something
else.
Go deeper in your search for facts.
If your friend admits occasional neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, heart weakness,
stomach or bowel trouble, kidney COM
plant, weak eyes, or approaching ner-
vous prostratiOn induce him or her to
make the experiment of leaving off cof-
fee for ten days and using Postum
Food Coffee, and observe the result. 1t
will startle you and give your friend
something to think of. OF course, If
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04

Prizes for the best patriotic songs
for the use of school children were Of
fered in Brussels, and the first prize
was won by a Frenchmar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04

the person is one Of the weak ones and
says 81 can't quit" you will have dis
covered one of the slaves of the coffee
importer. Treat such kindly, for they
seem absolutely pOwerleSs to stop the
gradual but sure destruction Of body
and health.
Nature has a way Of destroying a
part of the people to make room for the
stronger. 1t is the ole law of ''the sur
vival Of the fttest'' at work, and the
victims are many.
We repeat the assertion that coffee
does harm many people, not all, but an
army large enough to appal the inves-
tigatOr and searcher for facts.
The next prevarication of the coffee
importers and roasters is their state
ment that Postum Food Coffee is made
of roasted peas, beans or corn, and
mixed with a low grade of coffee and
that it contains no nouriShment.
We have previously offered to wager
$100,00000 with them that their state
ments are absolutely false.
They have not accepted our wager
and they will not.
We will gladly make a present of
$25,OOOOO to any rooster OF importer of
old fashioned coffee who will accept
that wager.
Free inspection Of our factories and
methods is made by thousands of people
each month and the coffee importers
themselves are cordially invited. Both
Postum and Grape-Nuts are absolutely
pure and made exactly as stated
The formula of Postum and the an
alysis made by one Of the foremost
chemists of Boston has been printed on
every package for many years and is
absolutely accurSSe.
Now as to the food value of Postum.
1t contains the parts Of the wheat berry
which carry the elemental salts such as
lime, iron, potash, silica, etc, etc, used
by the life forces to rebuild the cellular
tissue, and this is particularly true of
the phosphate Of potash, also found in
Grape-Nuts, which combines in the hui
man body with aIbuInen and this COM
binatiOn, together with water, rebuilds
the worn out gray matter in the deli
cate nerve centers all over the body,
and throughout the brain and solar
pleXus.
Ordinary coffee stimulates in an IN
natural way, but with many people it
slowly and surely destroys and does not
rebuild this gray substance SO vitality
important to the well being Of every
human being.
These are eternal facts, proven, well
authenticated and known to every prop
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04

1t sometimes happens that a modest
man employs a press agent to do his
Boosting for him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-04
POSTUM

POstum cereal 60. Ltd.. Battle creek. Miob