Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-02-02
A Brief Record of
Local Events.

Candidates Petitions for sale at the
Courier Office.
Application and affidavits for Fish.
ing Appliance Licenses can be found
at the Courier Office (down stairs.
A drilling contest is to take place
at Gold Hill February 4th. The purse
will be 800 and the winning team.
takes the gate receipts. Admission
% cents.
A. A. Davis proprietor of the Med.
ford flour mills, and one of the lead
ing capitalists of that town, was in
Grants Pass Monday placing orders
for flour, his mill having a large
trade here.
1t is expected to have school begin
in the Jewell district the first of
March for a four months term. The
district has 26 children of school age
and the school house is on the Jerome
Prairie road three miles south of
Grants Pass, Stephen Jewell is the
clerk and no teacher has yet been
hired.
E. Belts, of the roundhouse force,
was taken Tuesday to the railroad
hospital in Portland for treatment for
what was supposed to be knot of
the intestines. Word was received
Thursday by his family that no opera
tion was necessary and that he will
be able to return home in a few
days.
Q. A. Dickson has purchased the
half interest held by 7. Y. Dean in
the Fashion livery stable and is now
the sole owner of that popular stable.
Mr.. Dickson will continue the
business and be ready at all times
to su pply rigs of all descriptions and
have both horses and vehicles first
class equal to the best in Southern
Oregon.
Glen Fryer, young man residing
on Louise Greek, came near losing
foot Monday in an accident and as it
is he was so severly injured that he
will be unable to work for some time.
Mr.. Fryer was hewing timbers when
the ak glanced and the blade laid
open the top Of his right foot, pene.
trating to the bone. DIR. Beard
dressed the injured foot and it took
five stitches to close the wound.
Mrs. A. Wright, mother of Mrs.
W. A. Newell. and who makes her
home with her daughter and SON. in
law Assistant Postmaster W. A.
Newell. has bought 216 acre tract
of Mrs. VIM. Ledbrook. The land is
improved and lies at the head of
Ninth street and has slightly loca.
tion. Mrs. Wright, who will be as
sisted by Mr.. Newell in bearing the
expense, will have work begun at
once to improve the grounds and to
build dwelling house, to which the
family will move.
Roseburg is to have a new paper,
the third for the town and the same
number that Grants Pass now has.
1t is to appear next week and will be
called the Bulletin. and will be re-
publican in politics. The paper will
be owned by DR.. J. W. Strange and
his son Dale, the Doctor doing the
editorial work and the young man,
who is practical printer, attending
to the business and Mechanical depart.
ments. The plant is from this city
and was used in the office of the late
Grants Pass Herald.
@. H. Sampson received this week
from Old Town. Maine as a present
from his brother, handsome 20-foot
canoe. This canoe is made after the
pattern of the birch canoes but is
constructed Of thin strips of cedar
reinforced with ash ribs, the whole
covered on the outside with two
thicknesses of canvas Along the
gunwales on each side is an air
chamber which will prevent tn boat
from capsizing. Old Town has six
or seven factories for the manufacture
OF canoes alone, which are shipped to
all parts of the country. Mr.. Samp-
son. as he expresses it, was raised in
a canoe, and he will derive a great