Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-11-22
WHAT PEOPLE SAY

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"Seems to me that there should be
something done with the semischievous
boys who take bicycles and hide them
away" said 81. g. Bobzien. the ener-
getio and popular proprietor of the
Whitehouse Grocery. after the boys
had made way with his bike, which
he had left in front of the Presbyter-
ian church. Thursday evening. He
has fine wheel and missed it very
much. The next day he was put to
considerable pains and expense in en-
deavoring to locate it and finally it
was discovered over near the River
side school building. If the boys
think this is fun" they are much
mistaken, and they may one of these
ights get hold of the wrong wheel
and be punished for their pranks.
what is the meaning of the action
of the State Railroad Commission in
directing the Southern Pacific to ron
'stub" trains from Roseburg, to
Portland. when the overland trains
are two hours lste?" queried one
observing resident of Grants Pass
and then he mused as follows: !:
Seems to me that it savors of poll
tics. Are jackson and Josephine
counties to be thusly punished for
having gone republican at the last
state election? Looks that way to me.
Why shouldn't we have extra train
service, too. in such csse?, There is
some discrimination in this matter,
sure, and why can't our hustling
Commercial Club, which has been &C
complishing great things in other di-
rections, get after that Railroad Com
mission? We don't see that any harm
could be the result, aud on the con-
trary, we may get just what we are
wanting"
Judge Stephen Jewell 81 was down
in my old home, at Maysfield, Ken.
tucky, a few years ago and there l
found net sign of saloon and every.
thing was very prosperous. did
not see single idle person. at least
not one that was willing to work.
Then, too, 1 did not hear a single per-
son swearing or using vulgar Ian
Ruage. That was one of the best OBJ
ject lessons 1 ever saw as to the de-
STABILITY of having no saloons. And
down in my old Texas home they had
voted out the saloons and no one
wanted them back. The first year
the vote was pretty close, but the
next time the majority was very large
and decisive. Do you know, l firmly
believe that this county will go dry,
next June and what is more, am
going to put in my best efforts to
bring this about. "
Those Medford people have
bungled again, in trying to throw
discredit upon our football players, "
was the way one good citizen talked
and then he went on to say: "They
don't seem to be ables TO play ball
my better than they do some
other things. But they will not give
US credit for beating them. Our post
office receipts are bigger than they
could show; our fair was far and
away ahead Of theirs, but that too
was no good, in their estimation and
so it goes, all along the line they cast
ispersions upon anything and every
thing we do. But see how glad they
are to circulate any evil report about
u.s. For instance, do you recall how
they trie1 to make the outside world
think that we had an epidemic of
spinal meningitis simply because we
lad one or two cases? But, let's not
be turned aside by their misleading
,ries, but let us win purely on our
merits, And that's where the rob
comes in. They want to initiate
everything by resorting to hot air
md it provokes them because we do |
lot find it necessary to resort to any
,uch thing"
L tell you We are fortunate in hav.
ng such men as Mr.. Kinney in our