Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-03-20
Items Of Personal
Interest.


Greek this morning to look after of
ficial matters for couple Of days.
March 25, Wednesday, H. NJ. Cake viii
address the people at the opera
house.
Miss Lottie Veatch is in from Waldo
this week for few days visit with
Grants Pass friends, before leaving fol
Eugene with her parents, to reside.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Conklin left
Thursday evening for Portland. where
they will spend week in business
and pleasure.
Miss Edna Disbrow returned Mon.
day from five weeks visit with her
brother, steward, at Dothan. She re.
ports 10 inches of ow there last
week.
G. W. Swinney, wife and baby,
left Sunday for Toll House, CAL,
where MIR. Swinney will work in the
Tom Shattuck.. mill.
c. X. Root returned Saturday from
the Sacrmento valley where he has
been employed for several months.
Mr.. Root will spend several weeks
with his family.
Miss Lizzie Vestch, who is at pres
ent visiting with her parents at
Waldo. will be employed at the Skill
man confectionery parlors in this city
this summer.
Lewis Lucke, wife and two children
arrived laet week from Eugene and
have taken up their residence on the
Mooreshot place. seven miles down
the river. which Mr.. Lucke recently
purchased.
E. W. Fonden and family of Seattle
have been in Grants Pass for the past
week or more, visiting Mrs. Fouden g
father, @. L. Edgerton, and looking
up desirable property. They will
probably locate here.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Howell will re.
turn to Portland Saturday after hav-
ing attended the funeral OF Mrs How
ellis father, B. o. McCulloch. Mr..
Howell is engaged in the jewelry busi-
ness at Vancouver. Wash. but they re-
side in East Portland.
Frank Jantzer, formerly resident
Of Missouri Flat, but for the past
eight years, Of Calaneas county. Cal, q,
has returned to Josephine county and
purchased place mp Rogue River,
near town. Mr.. Jantzer says the
Josephine county hills have been call
ing to him for long time and he will
soon be prospecting in his old 'hsunts.
DR.. @. q. Warren. of Grove Lake,
Mimi, has been visiting with his old
time frinds, Messrs. W. T. Perry and
Geo. O'Brien. SO favorably i'm
pressed is he with this country that
he has already decided to make some
extensive investments in real estate
and he figures on eventually coming
back here to reside.
B. L. Barry of Dayton was in the
city yesterday in the interest OF the
Oregon Merchants Mutual Insurance
Co. Mr.. Barry is one Of the old
newspaper boys of the Yamhill
country and Of course he got the glad
hand among the frat" and also did
a nice line of business while here.
G. NJ. Maury Of Crescent City, one
of the "old timers" in Grants Pass,
came down yesterday to look over the
town and attend to business matters.
Mr.. Msury said that he noted con
siderable improvement in the town
since he made Grants Pass his head
quarters and he was also enthusiastic
in his prophecy for its future develop
ment. He left for Medford this
morning.
At special meeting of the County
Court last Monday the Burre1 Bridge
and Construction Co., of Oakland,
CAL, were awarded the contract fol
the construction of the new steel bridge
to be built just west of the present
wagon bridge across Rogue Rogue
river, which has now quite outlivec
its usefulness. The bid of the sue
cessful firm is for a s2S, 73O and th'
contract calls for completion of th'
bridge by the middle of August of thu
present year. This bridge has beer
needed for some time and the letting
of the contract last Monday night j
another earnest the fact that Grant
Pass is awakening to its possibilite
and the necessity growing in proper
tion to the investment of the count.
and the felicity of its inimitable eli
mate.