Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-06-21
A Brief Record of
Local Events. {,

Ihe Grants Fass public can now ge
/. better Piano value than ever before a
the Store in the Conklin Building.
/. 6.21 /
Miss Winifred Robley of Monterey
CAL. was this week engaged by tn
. Board of Education to teach the fourtl
grade in the Grants Pass public schools
Miss Robley is personal friend O
Miss Ada Walker, another of ou
teachers and comes to the Grants Pas
schools very highly recommended.
Less than 20 people represented owe,
600 voters at the school election held
Monday at which time II. l.. Gilkey
was reelected member of the schoo
board. If more modern means of ad.
vertising were employed, it is proba,
BILE that the vote would be larger.
People have past the point where no.
tioe tackled to telephone post Is
effective.
W. l. Sweetland's team made lively
run down Sixth street Monday. having
been frightened by the Medford auto.
which came upon them Unexpectedly
while standing in front of the Sweet.
land market. The brake was sat and
the rein tied around the brake rod so
the horses had to pull with the reins,
but they made good time until they
struck big heap Of gravel and granite,
which had a tendency to slacksn their
gait, but they finally collidsd with a
telephone pole in front of the Blue
Front blacksmith shop. The pole of
the wagon WAS broken, but the horses
were uniujured.
Jacksonville, whose FIVE room brick
school house was burned last Winter
from a defective furnace, has let the
contract Tor an eight room brick
building to Charles Vegbte, Of Ash
land. for $14.5O0. This price does
not include the heating plant and the
plumbing. The new structure is to
be one of the finest and best equipped
school houses in Southern Oregon. It
will be located on the handsome knoll
where the former school building
stood and from which q grand view
Of Rogue River Valley is had.
A fine Piano can now be bought
RIGHT at the Auditors Sale in the
Conklin Building. 621 1t
r. W. Vestch, who 10 noted for
curios Of all kinds has q novelty
which perhaps cannot be duplicated
in the country. It is display of rat.
tlesoake rattles which in the aggre-
gate represents snake growth of 400
years or more and were taken from 45
snakes from to % years of age. The
display is arranged on a cardboard to
SPELL the word Oregon. Mr.. veatch
does not hold that these are one of the
natural products Of Oregon, but he is
loyal to his state and believes the
biggest and best of everS thing can be
produced here.
Royal Brown, lad Of s years. met
with an accident Monday which might
be called fortunate one. He was
going out to one of the mills with his
father, Everett Brown. for load Of
lumber Royal was riding alone ON
the hounds Of the empty wagon, and
his father riding wheel horse turned
to caution the lad about q rough place
in the road just in time t. see the boy
fall between the wheels. The four
horses were stopped quickly, but not
until one Of the heavy wheels was
against the boys head. Had the
wagon gone foot farther the boy
would have been killed. At ii WAS he
has lacerated ear, which inconven.
fences him but slightly.
Pianos that have sold right here in
Grants Pass by popular agent for s40O
can now be bought for s206. Store in
the Conklin Building. 6-21 1t
A deposit of gold bars aud nuggets
was made Monday at the First
National Bank that was positive
proof that Southern Oregon has gold
mines that produce gold in paying
quantities and that IL located in the
much doomed state Of Nevada would
be heralded far and wide and start
a rush Of prospectors. This deposit
was brought in by L. g. Higgins
aud Norman Seaman from the mine
that they and II. N. Roundtree, of
Portland, are operating 10 miles west
Of Kerby on the head of Chetco river.
Their mile is a curious combination
for IL lisa rock formation, yet they mine
it with giant. The gold is found
in a rotten porphry dixie and the
rock is so soft that it can be readily
washed by water from the giant.
Much OF the gold comes out in large
pieces and this was brought 10 the
bank az found, but all the fine gold
=