Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-08-23
A Brief Record of 8
Local Events. (,

Clean up your yards and have Sh,
city present neat appearance to tn,
visitors to the Fair. {:
Six families Of Medford, people
started Sunday for Crescent City tc
camp for few weeks.
VIM. Frakes this morning brought
in some very attractive specimens
of tellurium ore which come from his
promising mines in the Siskiyous.
Hops will be ready for picking in
the old John Rsnzau yard. now the
Cornell and Flanagan yard, about Au.
gust 26. They will need about 800
pickers. } S.9.3t
Uncle Toms Cabin. which holds
forth in this city tonight, came in on
= special train, the cars being made
especially for this purpose The outfit
seems to have every indication of
being = very successful aggregation.
A string Of nine fine Percheron
horses passed through the city in q
special car yesterday afternoon and
many persons were interested in view
ing the fine stock, which came from
the famous Crouch stock farm, of La
Fayette. Indiana. The animals were
being taken to Sacramento, CAL, for
entry in the coming state fair.
The Southern Pacific Company have
for general distribution a number Of
large wall maps showing that portion
Of the United States west Of Chicago
which is very complete and is exceed.
ingly useful for reference and infor-
nation. These maps will be supplied
free by applying through the Grants
Pass depot agent S-23 If.
Assistant Postmaster Newell in.
forms the Courier that there Is very
lively demand for boxes and that the
supply is not at all equal to the de.
mand. This is but another fine in
dication that Grants Pass is being
made the home place Of many new
comers and is a most desirable state
Of affairs. Mr.. Newell hopes that the
new boxes may be Forthcoming In the
near future.
These are busy times for Gran Is
Pass hotel men and they are having
considerable difficulty in caring for
the travelling public. One popular
hostelry has many private residences
engaged In tho neighborhood. where
they care for their many guests
who are unable to obtain Accommo.
dations In the hotel proper.
a J. Clark has Q contract for
erecting 60xs5 two story brick for
Fsrlow & Rhodes at Ashland. the
building to cost $1,000. Mr.. and Mrs.
CLARK left for Ashland Tuesday and
will remain there several mouths until
the building is completed. NJ. T.
Utley will do the wood work on the
contract and he left Thursday.
Kinney & Truax, the enterprising
merchants find.need for another sales
man. and In the person OF Mr.. Car
bray. q recent arrival from the Colum-
bia river country, they have an able
assistant In looking after their largc
volume Of business. Mr.. Carbray 8
family accompanies him and they
expect to make Grants Pass their
future abiding place.
Station Agent Mahoney has been
notified from the Portland Office that
stopovers will be allowed at Grants
Pass on all tickets sold from the Port.
land territoritory to Sacramento on
account of the National Irrigation
Congress This will insure great
number Of northern Oregon visitors
stopping day or two at Grants Psss
on account of the Irrigation Conven-
tion and Fair.
The 25 public spirited citizens who
joined hands and made 1t possible for
the music loving portion Of CIR ants
Pass 70 have some rare musical treats
during the coming season, have made
most OF theii selections and the at.
fractions promise to be unusually
good. With the opera house prac-
tically rebuilt and having now play
house that is very creditsble, Grants
Pass sets the pace for all Of Southern
Oregon in this most important mat
ter. Much credit is due the citizens
who take 80 much interest and pride
in the welfare of the people of this
community.
Mrs. L. B. Akers has a Plymouth
Rock hen which has record break ing
brood Of 80 chickens, which the old
hen mothers as attentively and az
successfully as though her brood
consisted Of only one. The hen did
not hatch 80 at one setting they were
the result OF the work of nine.he
bat the one hen does the bringing ut