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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-11-12
See that fruit cake at Richholt's.
Cross-gtitch Pattern.

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The cross.stitch Is still used and /
have seen lately some charming sets
of collars and. cuffs made on acru
scrim and hemstitched, with band
or pattern I'D cross-stitch above the
hem. Shades Of delft blue Or olive
green are effective for this work. a.
very pretty oblong pincushion can be-;
made by taking two pieces OF scrim,
working conventional design III the
center Of the top piece incross-stitch
and turning up wide hem around
the sides and ends. "a number Of
threads should be drawn before this
hem is turned up on both pieces of
scrim, and when the cushion is placed
between them they are laced together
by RIBBON run through the space
where the threads are drawn. Filo.fioss
should be used for the cross-stitch and
q heavy ecru lace sewed ca the edge
,of. the broad hem makes q pretty I'm
ish. 3.g 81 81
Late Skirts. ss
Skirts that fit tightly about the hina
are the only ones which promise to ba
very good all through the season. ana
the exceptions are fewer than ever
only an occasional yelling being made
with q bit of @fullness laid into ,looaa
plaits upon the hips ose, 81 but "a
cleverly cut and laid that they stay
IN place as though nodded. s
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-11-12

Father, thou art sWeetIy 1eeping u
Free from pain, and tot, and care.;
! Dearest father, how we miss thee Il
Buts yet We hope to3meet thee s 8 s
SO when this mortal life has fled
ID paradise TO greet thee; &
And where 40 fare tears are shed
In that bright and happy land.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-11-12

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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29
BIG PRICES HAD FOR
ORCHARD LAND
Ten Acres of Pears Sell for
More than the Averse Farm
of 100 Acres.

That orchard land is a profitable in
vestment is proven by the big prices
that Rogue River Valley fruit farms
sell for. The Ashland Record, telling
of recent sale in Jackson county.
says: IS. G. Simon, who recently
sold his dairy ranch at Gazelle, Siski-
you county, Tuesday purchased j.
Hartley's place of 280 acres, two miles
west of Phoenix for S22, 900. The
farm is composed of 40 acres in fancy
pears, 20 acres in apples, 20 acres in
prnnes, so acres in grain, 60 acres
in alfalfa and the balance in pasture
land. The new owner takes imme-
diate possession and the stock, imple-
ments, tools, crop, household goods,
etc, go with the deal, "
Another sale of an orchard is men
toned by the Medford Tribune which
says that G. A. Hoover, who has a
large orchard near Phoenix, has pur-
chased 10 acres of the George Morse
pear orchard, two miles west of
Phoenix, for consideration of S5250
or S525 per acre. This is the highest
price ever paid for fruit land in Jack
son county.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29
GRANTS PASS AND
TAKILMA RAILROAD
Certain of Constr uction and
Work to Be Begun In Near
Future

The prospect for the construction
of the railroad from Grants Pass to
Takilma are encouraging and there is
every certainty that by year from
this Fall that trains will be running
from this city to the copper smelter.
AS to when grading will be begun is
problematical but while no official
information is given out yet the indi-
cations are that construction work
will be begun at least by September.
The right-of- way has all been So
cured except through the Southern
Pacific lands, which embrace every
other section for most of the way.
Negotiations are now being carried
on and Colonel Draper is now in the
East to arrange terms with the
officials Of the Southern Pacific. No
ties or other material have been pur-
chased nor has men or teams been
hired as currently reported Of late.
The Company has an Office in the
Grants Pass Banking & Trust Com
pany block that is in charge Of John
L. Richardson, the Company s resident
engineer. Mr.. Richardson has been
busy since early in the Spring reset
ting the grade stakes, that have been
destroyed since the survey was made
two years ago, and in preparing the
estimates for grade and bridge work
for the use Of contractors. There is
little likelihood that work will be
commenced until Fall. Owing to
rush of work at the sawmills, farms
and other places men and teams can
not be readily hired nor so cheaply as
in the Winter when other work is
shut down. In hot weather the men
and teams will not do the work that
they will do in cool weather. In the
mild climate of Southern Oregon rail
road construction work can be carried
on as well in the Winter as in the Sum-
mer and wages are much lower, a
matter that railroad companies fully
consider. ---..S~
The citizens of Medford see posi-
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29

ance at the meeting Saturday and a
strong union will be effected and which
will embrace every orchardist in Jose
phine county and in the Woodville
and Applegate sections of Jackson
county. The Union will make it
possible for the farmer who has even
25 boxes of tirst-class fruit to realize
the same price per box as the farmer
who has 1000 boxes. And the Union
will be able to handle the fruit at
less cost and get higher prices than
can individual growers. The differ
ence in the local and the car lot
freight rates will of itself be saving
sufficient to make fair profit on the
crop of an orchard. Then the Union
selling in large quantities in the big
Eastern and European markets will be
able to secure price fully double
that had in the local markets of this
Coast.
The prospect for a good yield in
Josephine county is reported certain
and by reason of the better care given
to orchards and the coming into bear
ing Of new orchards the crop will be
the largest ever harvested in the
county. In an informal talk on mar
ket conditions President Eisman
stated that he and his brother had
received many inquiries, some from
big New York and London buyers. AL
ready they have been offered 81 box
for their apples. In reply to Lon
don firm Mr.. Eisrnan quoted the price
for their crop for this year, which
they expect to reach $4,000 boxes, at
$3, 81. rs and 81 per box according to
grade. At this rate the Eisman Bros.
will realize about s25, 900 for the fruit
crop of this year. AS more than half
will be clear profit it means that their
orchard is more profitable than the
average gold mine. The time is not
distant when the orchards of jose
phine county will bring more gold to
the county than all of its mines will
produce.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29
BIG CROP YIELD FOR
ILLINOIS VALLEY
Is Stated by Mr.. Meissner. a Scien
tific Farmer of That Fertile
Section.

J. F. Meissner. who has a fine farm
in the Illinois Valley on the opposite
side of the river from Kerby, arrived
in Grants Pass Monday evening and
remained over Tuesday to sell load
of produce and make purchases. Mr..
Meissner was credited by the Agri-
cultural College professors when here
last Winter holding farmers institutes,
with being one of the most practical
and thorough farmers they had met in
Rogue River Valley, as proven by the
fine condition of his farm. Mr..
Meissner is an educated man and
realizing the value of knowledge sent
his boys to the Agricultural College
and now they are home putting into
practice the modern, progressive
methods of farming they learned at
college. AS an instance of the value
their college training has proven in
enabling them to increase the produo-
tive capacity of their farm is in re.
claiming section of land thar had
been cultivated by the previous own
ers for years and yet was counted al
most worthless by reason of yielding
such small crops. Mr.. Meissner and
his boys discovered by a series of ex-
periments that the soil held an excess
of acid. which poisoned to degree the
vegetation. Knowing how they pro-
ceeded to eliminate this acid condition
and now the land is producing abund-
ant crops. And in other branches of
farming Mr.. Meissher has found that it
is highly profitable for a farmer to have
the scientific aud practical knowledge
that IL taught at agricultural colleges
and he is strong in the belief that
every young man who expects TO be
farmer should take a course at an az.
ricultural college.
Mr.. Meissner stated that crops were
never better in Illinois Valley and
that there would be a record crop of
hay, grain and fruit He is growing
as one Of his forage crops sandvetch
and he finds it profitable crop, as it
will yield two to three tons TO the
acre Of hay on land so poo and dry
as to not produce a crop Of ilfalfa or
grain. He also has the Fall vetch,
which gives a big yield as he sows 1t
very early in the Fall.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29

Cold Storage location would be de-
sirable, if satisfactory arrangement
could be made for ground upon which
to erect the building and for power,
steam and for placing perishsble
fruits and vegetables in cold storage so
as to extend the canning season. The
-four mill, now run by electricity,
has a large power and steam plant
that would be available for cannery
purposes. Each of these three loca-
tions are on sidings so that cars could
be loaded or unloaded direct from
the cannery and they are also easily
acces ssible fol- teams.
Correspondence is now being had to
secure an expert professor to take
charge of the canning work and it is
proposed to select only a man who can
give first-c class references as to his
skill. industry, integrity and sobriety.
1t was expected by the promoters of
the venture to secure the services of
Glenn Applegate, of Portland, who
has been here for the past month as
sisting in getting the project under
way. but he has accepted another
position. He had several very fistter-
ing offers with big canneries that
would have long seasons work and
as they insisted on closing a contract
at once, he signed up Tuesday with
tbs Woodland Canning Company of
Woodland, Wash. That company is
to pay him $3.50 a month and he left
Wednesday to take his new position.
Mr.. Applegste is troubled with asthma
when living in a low altitude and
damp climate and as he has the best
of health when in Grants Pass he is
desirous of residing here and to that
end he would take position with
canneIy here at less salary than he
could command at other places Mr..
Applegate was for several years pro-
cessor in the big cannery Of the Ore
gon Packing Company in Portland
and he holds the credit of being one
of the most thorough cannerymen in
Oregon. He may yet return to Grants
Pass and in the meantime he will
assist the local company in securing
competent man to run their cannery.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29

blity now that work is to be resumed
on the railroad that is to run from
that place up Rogue river to Crater
Lake and thence on into Eastern Ore
gon. Work was begun on this road
last Summer and grading was COM
pleted and track laid to Eagle Point,
a distance of IA miles. The company
having expended the $25, 900 that the
Medford citizens took stock for and
also what money they could raise the
enterprise came to standstill and
has been awaiting capitalists to take
hold and extend the road and put it in
operation. The financial assistance
required seems at hand as the follow
ing from the Medford Tribune would
indicates
Terrace and Charles Fee of Cowls-
port, Pa, the owners of 81 per cent
of the stock in this railroad have
given 30 day option ON the same to
O. II. and II. b. Webber, wealthy
bankers of Michigan. The latter are
men controlling ample means and il
they choose can advance the money
necessary for the completion of the
road, which they undoubtedly will do.
The Messrs. Webber have spent several
days in examining the country
through which the road will run and
were enough impressed with the
county and its resources to enter upon
the deal to the extent stated.
The opinion is freely expressed that
the matter will now be brought to
successful conclusion. The price to
be paid the Fee Brothers for the con-
trolling interest is In the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000.
Announcement comes that the
Southern Pacific will soon have con-
srruction work begun on its branch
line from Drain to Coos Bay. The
survey is complete and the right-of-
way has been secured and several
thousand tons Of rails have been ship
ped this Spring to Drain ready for
use. The superintendent of con-
struction recently arrived at Drain
and has opened an Office and has q
force Of six men at work making
plats and estimates for the contractors.
1t Is expected to have trains run
ming into Marshfield by next Spring.
The Southern Pacific ahas extended
the run of the local train, heretofore
run between Portland and Eugene.
on to Cottage Grove. The train will
make the round trip each day leaving
Cottage Grove early in the morning
and arriving back in the evening.
Report is current that small change
will be made In the arrival and de-
parture at Portland of the through
trains for San Francisco. As to
whether this new schedule will
change the train time for Grants Pass
Is not known.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29
A FRUIT CANNERY
FOR GRANTS PASS
Preliminary Orga nization Effect.
ed and Committee Appointed
to Form Company.

A meeting was held Monday evening
at the Office of the Oregon Timber. Min
ing & Investment Co. to organize com
pany to establish fruit and vegetable
cannery in Grants Pass. A temporary
= Aorganizations was effected with W..
IN. Hair as chairman and R. l.. Coe
secretary. 1t was decided to organize
a stock company, TO be known as the
Grants Pass Canning Company. The
amount of the capital stock and the
value of the shares was left for the
committee on incorporation to decide
On this committee H. D. Norton,
Judge j. o. Booth and R. l.. Coe
were appointed. To solicit stock
a committee made up of H. q. Kin
ney, L. B. Hall, Charles Meserve,
George s. Calhoun, Frank Fetsch and
W. R. Nipper was appointed. The
stockbook will be prepared this week
and the committee will at once begin
W ooilCl1 stoChs LO dsCtrtdlu IL d
cannery venture could be handled in
Grants Pass Messrs. Nipper, Crane
& Smith, Of the Oregon Timber,
Mining & Investment Company, have
made preliminary canvass of the
city and they have secured pledges
from the business men to take stock
to the amount of $1,000. These sub
scriptions range in amount from $50
to 5000 each and number of the sub
scribers stated they would increase
their holdings If it was necessary so
as to finance the undertaking. The
committe will make complete can
vass of the city and every person who
is interested in the upbuilding of
Grants Pass will be asked to take
stock, if only for a S. share. A can
vass of the farmers of the county will
be made and they will be asked to
take stock in the cannery, as it will
make cash market for their fruit,
vegetables and corn.
The meeting adjourned subject to
the call of Chairman Hair and so soon
as the committees have their work
accomplished, which is expected to be
not later than the last of next week,
meeting will be held of the stock
holders to elect officers 1t is the in
teniton to put in the cannery this
Summer and to have it in operation
in time for tomatoes, corn, peaches,
apples, pears and vegetables. Only
a small plant ill be installed for this
season, as it is best to start in small
way and demonstrate the success of
the business. With the csnnery ready
for operation next Spring contracts
can be made with farmers for large
acreages Of vegetables and corn and
they will be encouraged TO take up
the planting of small fruits. Nothing
definite has been done in regard to
location for the cannery. Only a
small amount of power will be re-
quired but large amount of steam
and hot water will be needed, thus
making it necessary to have large
boiler in the plant Among the places
being considered is the building of
the Pine Needle Factory, and also the
erection of building adjoining the
Cold Storage plant or adjoining the
Grants Pass -four mill. The Pine
Needle Factory, now idle, has ample
space and has large boiler and en-
CINE, and it could likely be bought
or leased at reasonable price. The
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-29
A. A. C.'s Defeated.

Sunday afternoon the American
Athletic Club went down to defeat
before the Jacksonville battery iu a
score OF 8 to 2. The boys played fast
ball and ii was evident after the first
inning that the game was Jackson
ville's. The A. A. O. boys have been
most successful heretofore in winning
and holding the championship Of
Southern Oregon, bet they were not
quite up to their standard of good
playing in this game and we're forced
to give up their laurels.
Another game will be played be-
tween these teams at Jacksonville this
Sunday and on Wednesday, July 4th,
the A A. O. will play the Medford
locals at Medford.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-15
DAUGHTERS" SEE
VETERANS. MARCH
Guests of Commander-in- Chief
Tanner-Their Business
Sessions.

The daughters Of Veterans to the
number of about 100 were guests of
the eommander-in-ehief in the grand
Gus among them were Miss Bertha
Martin of Massilon, Ohio, national
presidents; Miss Clara Hoover Of Chi
cago, senior vicepresident, and Miss
Carrie Kilgore Of Swarthmore. Pa,
treasurer.
The organization held it's first coun-
Gil meeting at the headquarters in the
West hotel this morning but adjourned
for the parade without transacting any
business of Importance. They meet
again at this afternoon. One Of the
first matters to be considered is a
change in the order of business which
will admit representatives Of the press
to their convention. Heretofore these
have been executive sessions. but there
is a strong feleing among the members
favoring open doors for the press.
The election Of officers will take
place this afternoon Immediately after
the council meeting. Politics is allowed
to play a very small part in the des-
TIMES of these Daughters, but there is
Myrtle Kramer Of Chicago is the only
candidate who has been announced for
national president, and as there is no
opposition her election is, practically
assured If Massachusetts, should bring
out favorite daughter Illinois may
choose to give her precedence and with,
draw from the race. but at present Mas.
sachusetts is quiet and Mrs. Kramer IS
chances seem very bright.
Last evening Miss Bertha Martin
national president made fifteen-min.
ute speech at the campfire, giving a
history Of the order since it's organiza.
tion in 1883 and outlining the aims of
| the order.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-15

Mrs. Martha J. Van Duzor Of Chi
cago, H. is one of the visiting women
of the G. A. R. whose name has a
familiar sound to every veteran. The
Van .Duzor home has often been the
sheltering harbor Of old soldiers on
whom fortune has forgotten to smile,
and cheer and love has been the por-
tion which Mr.. and Mrs. VanDuzor
have offered their army friends. Mrs.
Van Duzor is representative woman
of Chicago, she is the department pres:
ident, and while she is not in search of
a national office she stands afne chance
to win national honor should she ever
enter the ranks of candidates. She is
member of Henry W. Lawton circle,
and of the Ladies Of the Maccabees
and Easter Star. ....
For seven years past, every Memo
rial day, the Van Duzor house on
Michigan avenue has been opened for
a reception of all the Grand Army peo.
pie. From 600 to 700 comrades and
their friends accept the hospitality of
the family at Memorial day lunch.
In 1895, when food was scarce and
when the hardship of bad times left
many a veteran without shelter, the
Van Duzors came to the rescue. opened
soup house and furnished plain but
comfortable quarters in their store
house for the homeless men
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-15
HERE WITH A PURPOSE
Washington Delegates Want to Inter
est Congress in Worthy Project.

The W. r. C. delegates from the de-
partment Of the Potomac are here with
a purpose. They want to influence con-
gress and they can find no better way
than. to interest the hundreds OF WO-
men who are at the convention and ask
ing them to arouse their congressman.
The measure SO dear to these Washing
ton women is one that ought, to appeal
to all patriotic women for it is to ask
a new soldiefs' and sailors temporary
home in the national capital.
There is home there now, an unsani-
tary, inconvenient place in a private
residence where forty or fifty sufferers
are to be found crowded into fifteen
small rooms. The inmates are not from
Washington, but from the north and
west to look after pensions or bounty
claims or are On their way to the home
have little money and when they can 90
no farther they find refuge in this tenn
porary home. Last year $4,000 meals
nished. As many Spanish wal soldiers
are cared for as veterans OF the civil
war.
The homo is supported by subscrip-
tion and donation, but the G. A. r. of
Potomac feel that it should be placed
on a more substantial footing. The
chairman of the committee, B. F. Chase,
has asked the cooperation of the wo-
men and a committee from the Poto-
mac W. R. G. has been appointed to
consist Of Mrs. Vina M. Calhoun, de-
partment president; Mrs. Julia Roberts,
senior vice president, Mines. Ida L.
Chase, Anna S. Hamilton, Matilda r.
Sprague and Margaret A. Walker, to
aid them.
The matter was brought before con-
gress last year and was reported IA
vorably by the committee, but for some
reason was never brought before the
house for final passage. It is for this
reason the women will bring it up in
the w. R. G. convention and ask every
delegate to urge her representative in
congress to insist on an immediate pass
age of the bill at the next session.
Mines. Calhoun and Roberts are here
to give the subject their personal at
| tention and others in the Potomac dele
cation are Mrs. Isabel W. Ball and Mrs
Jennie R. Cusack.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-15
TWO SOUTHERN WOMEN
The Misses Russell of Tennessee,
Friends of the North, Are Here.

Miss Jemima and Miss Matte Rus
sell of Pennington, Tenn, are in town.
They are about the most charming lit
tie southern guests in Minneapolis.
Characters like theirs would fit de-
wartime novel.
staying at the Travellers Ala home.
While both of them are southern born,
with parents Of southern descent, their
sympathies during the war were with
the federal army. They dearly loved
the south, with its old plantation
childhood home, but they loved the
federal soldiers, as their parents loved
them, and 80 they stood by them. The
federal army never had more loyal
daughters-poor little daughters, they
were almost ostracized by the south.
when encampment week is on there
comes a longing for a sight of the boys
in blue, and that is why the little
southern ladies are guests Of the north
west.
There was q brother at the home in
the wartime. He was lad not very
strong; the confederates had their
men out recruiting. One day rumors of
| it reached the village; that evening
when the sun had set and when dark.
| ness threw its shadows over the land
brother Russell with many other
wards the lines Of Phil Sheridan i
army. Brother Russell needed clothing
lSister Matte mounted her little mule
and with pack travelled three miles
thru the night to take him what he
| needed.
/ After that her sister love once over
powered her good Judgment. She must
see her brother on the other side. of
the lines. She was captured and taken
TO SheTbetville before the commanding