Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-08-10
A Brief Record of
Local Events.

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Fruit packers wanted at once. Ad
dress Grants Pass Fruit Grower,
Union, or call at Secretary's Office
Courier Building. $40 Il
The Pacific States Telephone Col
patrol wagon, which is making triI
over the compauy's lines left here
Friday morning for trip over the
Williams line and will then make the
trip to Crescent City, afterward
going along up the coast to Coos
bay.
Z. p. Tobin, the we'll known travel.
ing representative of the Pacific Paper
Co., Ct Portland, and a Mr.. Hodson,
have entered into partnership with ].
W. Baker. proprietor of the Medford
and Grants Pass laundries, and pur.
chased the Ashland laundry. The
three gentlement will form corpora.
tion with capital stock of SIC, 200.
In giving the name of the new
county manager for the Pacific States
Telephone Company in the Courier OF
last week mistake in the name was
made. The county managers name
Is A. 7. Marshall and not John B.
Goodrich as stated in the article.
Gr. Goodrich is the travelling solicitor
for the company in securing patrons
for the rural lines that the Company
propose to put in.
R. o. McCroskey has sold his shoe
store to j. d. Drake and will retire
from business for the present, with
plans for the future not as yet made
public. Mr.. Drake will remove the
stock to another building not yet Sc
lected and he will then greatly In
crease the selection of shoes that he
will carry Fred Gumpert, who has a
dry goods and clothing store in the
same building will remain aud he
will enlarge his sotck ready for the
Fall trade.
The Fashion livery stable is now
the property of J. T. Gilmore and
W. e. Boren, Mr.. Boren having
bought the half interest owned in the
stable by Charles Dickson. Mr..
Boren assumed charge of the stable
Monday with Mr.. Gilmore. He is
we'll known to the citizens of Grants
Pass, having been In the livery bust
ness before in this city, and he and
Mr.. Gilmore will make every effort to
give firstclass service to the patrons
of their stable. They intend to have
the best of driving horses and rigs for
every purpose from a rubber tire easy
riding carriage to hack for mountain
service or carry-all for picnic
parties.
Prof. f. H. Applehoff of Rosebure
aud director OF Applehoff's orohestrs
of 10 pieces and one of the leading
musical organizations of ths state
arrived in Grants Pass Tuesday and
remained over three days the guest
of County Clerk Fred Cheshire and
other local musicians At present
there is no organized orchestra ol
band in Grants Pass but in the way
of reunion and social time the loca
musicians assembled both Tuesday ant
Wednesday evenings at the GUILD
hall and had very enjoyable musi
Gale with Prof. Applehoff as director
Grants Pass has number o
thorough musicians who are able t
handle high class music and it is tbei
expectation to organize an orchestri
this Fall if Prof. Applehoff .or som
other first-cass director can be SO
cured. In past years Grants Pass ha
had fine orchestras and at one tim
had one Of the crack bands of the stat
and now that the city is larger an,
has a greater number of musician
there is no reason why it cannot agail
have fine orchestra and band.