Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-03-29
A Brief Record of
Local Events.


phone installed at the barracks and
you want to talk with the officer il
charge call up No 1914.
With this issue we present to ou
readers the first installment of tn,
Manager of the B. & A." stor,
depicting railroad life, intensely in
t7rest and abounding in dramatic sit
nationS from beginning to end.
The Rogue River Sunday schoo,
Association of Baptist churches is in
session today at the First Baptist
church, aud on Saturday the B. Y. p.
U. Rally will be held. Prominent
Baptlsts of Southern Oregon are in
attendance and the sessions are of
especial interest.
General Booth, founder of the
Salvation Army. with Commander
Miss Booth and other prominent
officers of the Army. now on their
tour of the world, will speak st
Seattle Sunday, morning and evening.
The, General takes boat. at Seattle
for the Orient.
Miss Lucie George is still in the
lead in the Telegram excursion contest
Tor this district bat her lead is only
ol' votes This shows that the people
OF Dallas are going to make every
enort to send their representative to
she jamestown Exposition at the ex.
pense of the Telegram. If the people
OF Grants Pass could realize the amount
OF Tree advertising they could secure
from little personal work along this
line they would send Miss George to
Jamestown.
The Grants Pass post Office ON Fri.
day morning received an accumula.
tion of Eastern mail matter amount.
ing to two tons or more and con.
tanned in something like 40 sacks.
This mail had reached San Francisco
when the traffic was stopped and was
then sent to Portland by steamer.
reaching this place from the north.
This is the largest amount Of mail
matter arriving here on one train
and it represents a portion of the
Eastern mail for about FIVE days.
Miss Ethel Carolyn Palmer will re.
turn home the first Of next week after
having spent the past six weeks at
Portland attending Durkie's Musical
Miss Palmer at the time
II the San Francisco disaster was
working on a program under Mans
eld This work has been resumed
inder Durkie and she will give q re.
'ital in Portland on Saturday. On
" Wednesday, April 3, she will render
he same program in the Grants Pass
,pera house.
Taxes on personal property assessed |
IN the 1906 roll will become due on
Nay l. and Sheriff Russell states that
lie will then commence the collection
# all personal tax not secured by cal
state. He suggests that it might be
wise for some of the people to read |
he law on this subject. Josephine
county in years past has lost heavily |
10 paov1a raD,ovinu FrO,,, 1bo ,onnAr
vihout paying the tax, but this year
t is proposed to lessen the amount Of
oss.
The regular social meeting of the
4adies Aid Society of the Newman
church was held in the
,arlors on Tuesday afternoon, March
9Th. Over 100 members and friends
we're present After devotional ex.
rcises consisting Of singing by the
udience and prayer by Mrs. Hood
lrs Barnes favored them with vocal
olo and Mrs. Bates a piano SOLO
The social was in the form OF pink
ca. the table in the dining room
'eing decorated with pink and white,
With a bunch of pink carnations in
he center closely resembling the
cal article. The doors between the
lining room and parlors were draped
With pink and white Refreshments
Of pink ice cream, pink
nd white cake and ssssafras tea,
srrying ont the idea were served by
he committee composed of Mesdames
hates, Barnes, Hale. Meade, Harmon,
ike, Wade and Hood