Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-12-06
A Brief Record of
Local Events.

pleased to greet his many friends and
former customers.
Prof. Stanton Rowell: IF any
body wants to know what the Outlook
is in Southern Oregon, you may as.
sure them that i1 is very bright. as
l notice they use red cover. -
This week the City Meat Market
purchased the entire drove of fine beef
cattle from @. o. Bigelow, of Will
Jams.
Joe Wharton has quite a curiosity
in his window, which is cut of
Madrone tree, in the limb of which
deer horn las lodged and which has
grown fast therein. 1t is attracting
much attention.
John McNicholss, who has been
working with the S. p. Crew. near
Leland, came to the county seat
Saturday, to receive treatment for
injuries sustained. while helping un-
load car of ties. He thinks one leg
is broken and some of his ribs are
giving him much concern.
Word was received from Joseph
Gohres, of Lacrosse. Wis. by Grants
Pass friends, this week, to the effect
that his brother, W. J. Gohres, for.
merly residing in Josephine county,
had died in Alaska, where he has been
carrying on some mining operations
of late. Full particulars have not
been received and the cause of the
demise is not known. This will be
sad news to many people of this
county, where the deceased WAS so
favorably known and where he had
host of very warm trends who will
greatly regret his passing away.
Monday afternoon, while adjust
ing some Of the machinery, Miss
Maude Baber, who manipulstes the
Simplex Typesetting Machine in the
Courier composing room. In some
unaccountable manner got her hair
causht in the shafting and ere she
was aware of 1t, she was about TO be
scalped. Had it not been for the
timely arrival Of assistance, the mis-
hap might have resulted quite ser
iously. As it is, she is minus a
few choice locks and has q badly
bruised head as reminders Of the
strange and unwelcome episode.
Trainmaster O. W. Cline was in
the city. Saturday, looking after the
S. p. interests. He informed the
Courier that in his opinion the rail
road people would endeavor to
straighten ont the passenger service
and make 1t so this part of the state
would have its mail come oftener or
at least not two hours apart, from
the north, AZ is now the case and
then nothing for the next 90 hours.
The Courier is in receipt Of some
mammoth Irish potatoes which are
simply immense They were raised
by Joseph Griffith, on his place in the
Applegate valley on Msdam's creek,
west OF wilderville. Mr.. Griffith 10
76 years old and is an enthusiastic
sgriculturist. He is also going to
raise some fine grapes, as that IL one
OF the best places in the county for
'he industry. Although along in
years, yet he is hale and hearty and
a verv good example OF what this
climate can produce. Some ot these
potatoes tipped the scales at six
pounds and they are in remarkable
state of good preservation.
Speaking Of the Thanksgiving foot
ball game, the Ashland Tidings has
this to say: "The Normal football
team, which 30 handily defeated the
Grants Pass team on the home grounds
few days before returned home from
return game at the Pass Thursday,
holding the short end OF the score Of
6 TO In which the Thanksgiving
game resulted. The Normal team
was a little over confident, while the
Grants Pass players had increased
their efficiency since the preyiou
game, which is the explanation OF
the result. ~
Commenting upon the basket ball
game which the Grants Pass High
school played with the Ashland Nor
NAL team, on Thanksgiving day, thC
Tidings says: "The contest between
} the Grants Pass High School girl
I and the Normal girls was the msir
{ feature Of the evening. The visiting
! girls put up very pretty game, es
s pecially at forward where severs
: clever plays we're made. The hom
! girls have been.working hard for tw'
! months past and they held togethe
! well in team work and at the goals
! playing a fast, open game. Smit
s ald Eastman at forward assisted b
I Stewart managed 10 cage the bal
! quite regularly. Sherwood, Loosel
and Benson are all new players. bu
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