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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
THE GARDEN SCHOOL.
Now Children Of Newton Wsrs Tauah4
to eeautify Home Grounds.

Now Children Of Newton Wsrs Taual,.
to essutify Homo Grounds.
Writing In MaIwelrs TalIsman Of
the work Of the garden school in New
ton. Mrs. H. A. Elliott says:
An object lesson to the citizens OF
Newton was the garden school con
Quoted by the ladies Of the Social Sci
ence club Of that town during the sum
msr Of 1906. Assured BY Georxe Fl
Maxwell Of the Home Crofters' guild OF
the Talisman Of the free services Of an
experienced garden director, provided
the club could defray the further ex,
pense Of garden, committee Of five
ladies' was appointed from the club to
see what could be done
First they obtained the use Of a
piece of vacant land on Jackson road.
which was then an open grass plot.
Then an appeal was made by the COM
mittee to the department Of agriculture
at Washington for free seeds, which
were promptly sent. The committee
sent circular letter to about fifteen of
the enterprising business men Of New
ton telling them Of the plans for the
garden school and asking them If they
were sufficiently interested In the ex-
pertinent to give 1t some financial SUD-
port.
The response was quick, and at the
end of a week we had the required
500, and the director went to work.
One hundred and six gardens 8 by 35
feet were planted by as many different
children from the Nonantum district,
and the names Of as many more inter
ested children were placed on the wait
ing list
A few Of these children, having learn
ed how under the direction at the gar
den school, went back to the home
dooryards which had for all time previ-
ously been used for dumps, cleared
away the debris, spaded up the earth
and planted seeds which they procured
gratis from the director. The reward
was a scarlet runner at the doorstep, a
row each Of lettuce. radishes and beans
and for garden flowers nasturtiums,
sunfiowers and sweet alyssum. One
Of the boys carried some vegetables
from his home garden into the exhibit
tion at Horticultural hall and was
awarded prize. Could these children,
think you, ever again be contented to
live in dump instead Of flower gar
dsn7 These girls and boys learned the
law Of cause and effect; that the soil
through healthful, pleasant labor will
produce food supplies sufficient to nour-
ish the body; that debris, squalor and
untidinessshay be supplanted by clean
liness. order and beauty and many 9th
er lessons, not the least Of which were
pride in ownership and respect lor 9TH
er peoples rights.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
ODD HAPPENINGS.

The foot and ankle of Albert Sutter
Of Elizabethport. N. j., were burned
OF by hot copper wire which, pass
Ing through roller, became coiled
around Suffers leg.
The ear Of william s. Brobst Of
Pottsville. Pa, bridegroom, was SO
severely injured at the wedding on ac-
count Of two grains of rice having
lodged on the drum that an operation
has been necessary.
While cutting down a pear tree at
Wissahickon, Pa. John Bently struck
with his Ak a diamond studded watch
charm lost by his maternal GRANDPA
ther in 1862. The charm had lodged
In ap crack. and the tree had grown
completely around 1t.
When John Dreeland, aged eighty,
Of st. Louis. awoke the other morning
he was on a narrow ledge outside his
window. forty feet from the pave
ment. his feet dangling in space, and.
being thinly clad, he was half frozen.
He was rescued by firemen.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
GLEANINGS.

The handspring of watch is two
feet long
Backing was originally made Of
SCOT and stale eggs.
Corn ana beans are the staple articles
Of diet OF the working classes of Mex
leo
There Is every possibility that the
walters of the Paris cafes will shortly
go on strike again In support OF their
cherished right to wear mustaches,
The police of Denver are trying to
cure drunken men by having their
photographs taken while the men are
drunk and showing the unfortunates
the next morning how they looked.
The German government has asked
for supplementary credit to the extent
of 100000 for the construction of a
new airship which Count Won Zeppelin
will build at once in order to be ready
for experiments In the first favorable
weather next summer,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
International Road Convention.

1t is announced that the minister OF
public works of France has been au-
thorized to call an international con
vention In his country in 1908 for the
purpose of considering methods to pre-
vent roads from being damaged by ex-
cessive automobile traffic. The use OF
the automobile, 1t is claimed has pro
duced many new problems in connec-
ton with the splendid roads for which
France has become famous, and a plan
for their construction and maintenance
is deemed necessary. The delegates
will therefore In particular discuss
methods OF adapting present roads Il
the new conditions Of traffic.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
The Farmers Wife

Is very careful about her churn. ghs
scalds 1t thoroughly after using. and gives
II q sun bath 70 sweeten IL. She knows
that II her churn is sour II will taint the
butter that is made In it. The stomach Is
churn. In the stomach and digestive
and nutritive tracts are performed pro-
cesses which are almost exactly like the
churning OF butter. Is 1t not apparent
then that II this stomach-churn is foul IL
makes foul all which is put into it?
The evil Of foul stomach Is not alone
the bad taste In the mouth and the foul
breath caused by 1t, but the corruption OF
the pure current Of blood and the dissem-
Ination OF disease throughout the body.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes the sour and foul stomach sweet.
1t does for the stomach what the washing
and sun bath do for the echurn-absolutel
removes every tainting or corrupting ele-
ment. In this way it cures blotches,
pimples, eruptlons, scrofulous swelings,
sores, or open eating ulcers and all
humors or diseases arising from bad blood.
II you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in
your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath,
are weak and easily tired, feel depressed
and Respondent, have frequent headaches,
dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom-
ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour
or bitter risings after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any consider
able number OF them, indicate that you are
suffering from biliousneSs, torpid or lazy
liver with the usual accompanying indi-
gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant
arrangements.
The heSt. AGENTS known u medical SCI.
once l0r t6a cue ol tGe aboye symptoms
4Q cQpd dlt!ons. .2s9tIeStedbYIhe,M 2s ,MTltlpgs
Of loading leacbets practI tIQpeTs- of
81 the seYeral scho4ls Of medical nracflce,
have been skllllnllX audi harmQplQusly
cQnhlped IN Dr. Plerce,s- Golden-M Medical
Discovery. That this Is absolutely true
will be readily proven to your satisfaction
II you will but mail postal card request
TO DR.. X. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. ", for q
free copy Of his booklet OF extracts from
the standard medical authorities, giving
the names OF all the ingredients entering
Into his world-famed medicines and show
Ing what the most eminent medical men
Of the age saw of them.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10


actual test can pass abreast This
wall extends for 400 feet and at one
part describes a beautiful curve. Un-
less II Is desired to make a flll an e1-
cnvation Of several feet is first made,
and Mr.. Glessner's men and oxen then
begin to dump In immense stones TAX
en- out Of the nearest fields. A fairly
level course is made of these. and then
another layer of somewhat smaller
stone is dumped on.
Then comes a still smaller layer, and
then, last, the stonework is levsled up
and all openings are filed In with very
small stone, so carefully and thorough.
ly placed that animals can be driven
over without hurting their feet. Then
the rock Is entirely covered and the
road finally shaped up with good
layer Of "hardpan,' which packs solid
and is practically impervious to water
Drainage at each side is always pro
vided for, the roads are well rounded,
and these features, combined with the
solid foundation of rock underneath
and the impervious layer on top, give
an Ideal road.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
LIKE A ROMAN ROAD.
How . Chicago Millionaire Uses Rocks
on His New Hampshire Farm.

How q Chicago Millionaire Uses Rocks
on His New Hampshire Farm.
]. Glessner, the Chicago millionaire.
who has made his summer home In
Bethlehem, N. H.. for the last twenty
four years, is rapidly attaining fame
as road builder, says Bethlehem
correspondent of the Chicago Record
Herald. He is now able to show three
miles Of probably the finest road In the
White mountains, all within or adjoin-
Ing his own estate and all public road,
although 1t was all built or built over
by Mr. Glessner at his own expense.
During the late autumn he had con-
structed a half mile of road on the
main highway from Bethlehem to Lit
teton and during most Of that time
had crew Of seventy men. thirty
horses and twenty oxen engaged ON
the work. Part of this road looks like
pictures Of the modern French or the
old Roman roads, and II is built fully
as solidly us the Roman roads used to
be-in fact, after the same plan.
The most important work done on
the Littleton- Bethlehem road by Mr..
G'essner this year has been an ex-
tensive fill of quite a stretch of road
over some lowland where bad travel
ing had generally been the rule. At
the lowest place the road was filed In
six feet with stone, and the stone
wall on each side was carried three
feet higher, the wall in places being
ten feet higher on the back side, or
side toward the fields. The wall Is
three feet wide on top and Is strong
ly built
The road is twenty-five feet wide be-
tween the walls, and four teams by
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Timber Land. Act June q 1879

Iimoer Land, ACT June 3, 1878.
Roseburs. Ore, December 18th, 1907.
Notice 10 hereby given that in COM
pl,anoe with the provisions of the act
OF Congress OF June 8. 1873 entitled
An act for the sale of timber lands
10 the STATES of California Oregon
Nevada and Washington Territory"
as extended to all she Public Land
States by act OF August 4 1899
NELLIE N. IRWIN
OF vancouver county OF Clarke State
or Territory Of Washington has this
day filed In this offics her sworn state
ment No. S777 for the purchase OF the
Fract'l VIZ SW14 and Swk NWk
of Section No. lS 10 Township No 81
3, Range No W WIN aud will offer
proof to show that the land sought is
more valuable tor its timber or stone
than for agricultural purposes, and
to establish her claim to said land
before Joseph Moss, U. S. Commits.
sioner at Grants Pass, Oregon. on
Saturday. the 7th day of March. 1908.
He names as witnesses: Wesley
b Sherman, Of Grants Pass, Ore.
George II Slower, Of Grants Pass.
Ore. Roy Garoutte of Merlin. Ore.
William Bailey of Davidson, Oregon.
Any and all persons claiming ad.
versely ths above. described lands are
requested to filestheir claims in this
ofhce on or before said 7th day of
BENJAMIN L. EDDY,
Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
WHO USES HYOMEl?
Tho Best People I'm Grn nts Pass
Says Demaray Guaranteed
in Catarrhal Troubles.

No other remedy or treatment for
catarrh has ever been as popular or
made 80 many remarkable cures in
Grants Pass as Hyomei
The best people attest its curative
virtues, SAWS G. II. Demarsy, who is
the local agent. The fair way in
which Hyomei was sold, to refund
the money unless it gave satisfaction,
was the best proof when it was in
reduced that it possessed unusual
curative powers.
Demaray took all the risk Of the
treatment giving satisfaction. and left
it to the purchasers to be the judge.
Later. when Hyomei was used and
recommended by our well-known
physicians and business men and their
wives as a treatment that absolutely
cured csiarrh, no matter how serious
or long standing, the sales rapidly
grew and today there is no other
remedy in DeInsray's stock that has
such large aud staple sale.
The first bottle of Hyopei's healing
air kills all catarrhal poison.
Try Hyomei today on Demaray's
offer to refund the money il the treat.
ment does.not give you satisfaction.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

Germany's annual product OF milk Is
almost the same In value as the annual
coal outp". the first being about $405,.
100000. lac second $404 100000.
The Manufacture OF rubber from the
native guayule shrub has begun In
Marathon, Tex. II is estimated that
the factory owners control 70 per cent
Of the guayule land In Texas.
Consul J. l. Britain sends the In.
formation that there will be COM
plete Industrial exposition held at the
city OF Prague, Bohemia, In 1908, ex-
tending from May until October.
The retail clerks OF Chicago have
started a movement for the organiza.
tion OF the salsswomen OF that city In
order that they may occupy the same
positions In tho labor world as the male
statesmen.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Excuses are like weeds-lots of them,
but no good.
Some fellows have a great deal OF
ability In ungrammatlcal packages.
Having common sense and having
command OF II are two different
things.
II takes lot Of time to properly air
grievances. Not one IN hundred Is
worth IT,
SO many people are like poorly
governed community-they fail to
maintain n sinking fund.
When II man has an opinion or a
theory that happens to turn out right,
how he loves TO hear about I'll
Men are possessed Of two great
fears-that they will become old and
that they will never live to be DID,
Atchison Globe.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Timber Land, Act June 3, 1878.


Rosebura, Ore, Nov. 6, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that in COM
plisnce with the provisions of the act
of Congress Of June 3, 1878, entitled
An ACT for the sale of Timber Lands
IN the States Nof California. Oregon,
Nevada, and Washington Territory,
as extended to all the Public Land
States bv act Of August 4, 1899
PATRICK O'DONNELL,
OF Camas Valley, county Of Doug
State of Oregon, has this day filed in
this office his sworn statement No.
S572, for the purchase of the Ell OF
the NWh and the NE1 OF the SWH
of section No. 30. Township "a South,
OF Range 4 W. w. M, and will offer
proof to show that the land sought ia
more valuable for its timber and stone
than ior agricultural purposes and to
establish his claim to said land be-
fore the Register and Receiver of
this office ut Roseburg, Oregon, ON
Tuesday. the 2sth day Of January,
de names as witnesses: B. Krakep-
berger. OF RoseburR, Oregon; Warren
Beatty. RoseburR. Ore.. Grant TAYLOR.
OF Winchester, Ore, John @. Gilbert
Of Roseburg, Oregon.
ANY aud all persons claiming ad-
versely the above described lands are
requested to file their claims In this
Office on or before said sSth day Of
January. 1908.
BENJAMIN L. EDDY,
Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
ROAD DRAGGING COST
Why King System Is Cheapest
as Well as Best.
IT BECOMES MERELY A CH0RE
BY Quitting a Little Earlier . Farmer
Can Easily Renew His Boulevard.
Proof Of Winter prassins's Value.
Camparison Of Cost.

copyright. 1907. by d. Ward King.l
The cost Of putting the King system
In operation is matter which must
have consideration. Cost always is
important.
When one first hears about road
dragging he feels certain a mistake or
an exaggeration is somewhere snugly
concealed, and an active brain spends
a certain period searching for its hid
ing place. Convinced at last of the
drag's achievements as wonder
worker, the same brain asks, What
Is the expense?" and again is skeptical
when the answer comes, The cost of
the new system is many times less
than the cost of the old system"
For the farmer who drags the half
mile or mile, as may be, from Ibis
own front gate to bis neighbor's front
gate toward town." there is no ex-
pense account. With the drag In the
road at the front gate, he quits little
early at noon or In the evening, as
the condition Of the road soil decides,
bitches to the drag and renews his
boulevard. 1t becomes merely chore.
A neighbor Of mine says, "After fell
low once gets into the fashion of drag
ging II sticks to him like a bad habit"
For myself, l have been riding a drag
since the spring Of 1895.
In the fall / can take team from
corn wagon at the crib and drag my
half mile stretch before the corn is un-
loaded, and in the winter months most
farmers can find an abundance Of lei
sure in which to drag, and the operation
possibly is of as much benefit In the
winter as 1t is In the summer. In this
latitude near the Missouri-Iowa line)
we find two conditions Of the road in
winter when dragging is remarkably
effective. One Of these special condi-
tions is when a rough and frozen road
is thawed an inch or more in depth
at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Another favorable opportunity is at
the close Of a warm spell when the
wind changes to the north and the
mud begins to stiffen with the chill.
If the mud is dragged just before
freeze the road Of course remains
smooth until another thaw, and the
difference between such road and
one which was permitted to freeze up
rough" Is as marked as the difference
between deep mud and dry road.
On the one you can skim along at any
speed; on the other you must move at
a snails pace, with the horses gingerly
picking their steps and the vehicle
bouncing around as II you were riding
over fresh blast In rock quarry.
Let me offer two paragraphs from
the Record, Hampton, Ia, the first
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
School Gardens In Washington.

The school garden movement In
Washington. which started humbly n
few years ago, has so strongly appeal
ed to the children and their parents
that with comparatively liSle assist
ance from the public funds II has
thrived amazingly. Already n marked
change is observable not only In the
immediate surroundings of the school
buildings themselves. but in all parts
of the town at the homes OF the little
ones. They have been taught plant
love in terms which have In many
cases never been presented to them be-
fore. By their personal participation In
the work OF making gardens. In prepar-
Ing the ground. selecting and planting
the seeds, caring for the sprouts and
the plants and finally plucklng the
blooms OF their own cultivation they
have gained sense of responsibility
which makes for the Improvement Of
the whole town.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10

oSA@hSo al ihNor Oh tne ora8........ ....NI6W
The last item will perhaps need ex.
PLANTATION. The figure is based on an
estimate that our family will average
one trip per day to town and that
there is an average Of ten other teams
per day passing. For good measure I
cut In half the benefit to neighbors.
Hon. Matt Hall, now warden Of the
Missouri penitentiary, was a wood
dragger before he left the farm. In
published statement he tells of begin
ming his work in deep mud. In two
months he had half mile of road Of
which he said: 81 can hardly believe
my own eyes when | look at 1t. A
loaded wagon won't make any more
impression on 1t than it would on a
floor. | don't believe | have spent a
half a day on 1t altogether, and, hon.
estiy, | wouldn't near take $50 for the
comfort ii has been to me and my
friends and neighbors." You will note
that Mr.. Halls estimate of benefit is
about double mine.
A comparison was recently made
which showed by figures taken from
many counties and from Maine to
Minnesota that dollar spent under
the new system would produce as
much benefit as several hundred dol
lars spent the old way. 1t is hard to
accept such conclusions, yet the fig
ures bear investigation and analysis.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10
PROUD OF HIS TOWN.
What One Man 10 peins to Improve
Jackson, Tenn.

What One Man 10 poinS to Improve
Jackson, Tenn.
One Of the most progressive town
officials In the south Is Samuel Ian
caster, city engineer Of jackson, Tenn.
Mr. Lancaster thinks there Is no place
like jackson, and he wants others to
think SO, too, and he Is doing every
thing in his power to make 1t one Of
the prettiest towns in the country. II
Is due In a great measure to his ef
forts that good roads are being built In
Madison county. But road building is
Of Sam Lancaster, says a writer In
Breeders Gazette. AS manager of
the waterworks he saw a chance to do
things. Jackson had no park, and near
the waterworks there was needed a
raised roadway. Sam Lancaster made
the fill, and before any one knew what
he was up to he had built fine lake
on the site whence came the earth for
the fill. Smaller lakes near by came,
then drives, bridges, boats, lilies omar
velous lilies) banks of flowers, trees.
An unsightly railway yard adjoined
the waterworks. The railway was ask
ed for few cars of earth. Presto! Sam
made the yard and the park join.
Grass, flowers, shrubs, beauty, order,
seats, comfort, inspiration, hope, all
came out Of that old sink hole. And
the manager only grinned when he
saw that Sam Lancaster had actually
parked and fenced part Of hls
right of way. Now travellers on that
railway viii pass by and say. Jack
son. Tenn. is beautiful place and
must have people of culture within it."
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10

D. Ward King of Maitland, Mo, who
is the head of the rural improvement
department Of the American Civic as
sociatlon, has drag log method for
obtaining good roads at the least ex
pense which is being adopted in the
Canadian provinces. The Farmers Ad
vocate Of London, Ont. is Offering sl0C
In prizes for the best roads made with
a King drag. In personal letter the
editor wrote: "A widespread interest
has been aroused aud many drags con
structed in addition 10 those used by
our contestants. SO far we are more
than delighted with what we have se<u
and heard Of the results"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-01-10

showing the skepticism often met, the
other confessing radical change of
opinion and furnishing proof OF the
value OF dragging in the winter
months. The writer addressed a good
roads meeting at Hampton Nov. 2S,
1905. Under date Nov. % in the course
Of an extended report of the meeting
the Record said:
1T is to be regretted that there was
no split log drag at hand that he could
make satisfactory demonstration
with, the one available not being in
accordance with the requirements, and
the attempt to show Its workings We're
OF little or no benefit"
But in the issue for Dec. 8 the Rec
ord admits the inaccuracy Of its first
impression In the following paragraph.
the kernel Of which is found In the
last sentence Of the quotation:
The King drag that we have here
In town is being used today on our
streets, and If we had teams enough
and drags enough Hampton would
have good roads within the city limits
tomorrow, whereas for a week they
have been practically impossible for
the reason that the ground froze up a
week ago last night. leaving the roads
all cut up. And suppose that every
man in the county had had a King
drag costing about 50, and had drag.
ged the road in front of his premises
once over ard back a week ago Tues
day, the afternoon that Mr.. King spoke
at the courthouse, we would have had
good roads ever since. This Is demon
strated by the fact that wherever on
our streets the drag was used that aft
ernoon has been smooth track ever
since"
80 much for the value In the winter
Of the winter dragging.
But winter dragging prepares the
way for lessening the cost Of spring
and summer ,1ragging because II the
roadway has this winter preparation
1t will generally dry of and be- ready
to drag before the adjoining fields dry
out and are fif to be plowed or cult
vated. And so another series of leisure
hours Is provided for making good
roads without money.
l would rather drag half mile OF
road for year than water three horses
for a year.
II should try to strike balance for
the twelve months, It would be some.
thing like this: