Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-03-08
Items Of Personal
Interest

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Miss Lucie George spent SUNDAY
with friends in Ashland.
Fed Newell came in from sistirOr
10 spend Sunday with his motbar and
sisters. "1N
ID. A. Rotermund returned bome
tuesday from business trim 10 port
land VI =
III. Flanagan, who has been serious.
~ III Tor some week past is ran;dlr
improving and is now able to sit nm
John Hubbard was on the straet
Thurday for the first time since his
attack OF pneumonia He is now get.
ting along nicely.
D ID. Pope and family arrived Wed.
nesday from Canyon City, Colo. and
will make Oregon their future home.
D. j. Lawton left Tuesday for the
ot' helens district in Washington,
where he has about a months survey.
ing ON copper properties.
Ed S vanDkye went to Eugene
Monday to serve as witness in case
at law. Before returning TO Grants
Pass he will visit friends in Portland.
K. A. Booth has retired from the
manaement of the Booth. Kelly
Lumber Co.. and has resigned as vice.
president and director. He is sue
ceeded as manager by George H.
Kelly as manager, and as vice.Iresi
dent by Elmer S. Cox.
supt. W. F. Cameron has been re.
elected principal of the Ashland pub
lie schools for the ensuing year.
Ashland has let its wood contract
for the public schools at 81 per
cord.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Dyer and son
arrived from Riddle Thursday to make
Grants Pass their home and have for
the present taken up their residence in
the Chausse house on Sixth street.
The daughter, Miss Pesrle Dyer has
been a resident of this place since
school opened in the Fall. Mr.. Dyer
is brother of Mrs. Geo. Colvig.
Miss Effie Yost left north Tuesday
to join her parents at Portland and
will make that city her permanent
home. Miss Yost has been in the
employ Of the K. L. Coe Co. the
greater part of the time for several
years past and she has a host of
friends in this city. She will spend
few days at Galice visiting Mrs. ].
Robinson and also stop at Salem to
visit her sister.
Hermann Offenbacher was in
Grants Pass Tuesday looking up the
cattle market. Mr.. Offenbacher 10
partnership with his brothers Fred
erick and John have hay and stock
ranch of 500 acres three miles above
postoffice that is one of the
best farms in Applegate Vale.
]. B. Griffin was in Grants Pass
Tuesday from his farm near Holland
to get supply of spray solution at
Sampson Bros, factory. Mr.. Griffin
has 300 fine young fruit trees and he
proposes to keep them in healthy,
growing condition by keeping the
pests off them. He expects to in
crease the acreage of his orchard as
fruit does we'll in the Illinois Valley
and he anticipates that the Valley
will have a railroad by the time he
has much fruit to sell.
NJ. d. L. Crooks. one of the large
farmers of Deer Greek Valley, was in
Grants Pass last Saturday for Samp
son spray solution with which to
spray his fruit trees Mr. Crooks
stated that with but few exceptions
the farmers of the Illinois Valley are
pruning and cleaning up their fruit
trees and carefully spraying them.
While dairying and stock are the
principal industries of that Valley
vet Mr. Crooks stated that many Of
the farmers were planting orchard
and that fruit of all kinds did remark
ably well,