Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-10-08
y y \ \ y \ \ \ y \ \ y \ \ y y \
\ PERSONAL AND LOCAL \

land Thursday night TO spend sever
al days. She will visit Mr.. and Mrs
J. N. Voorhies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Morris and baby
left Thursday evening for Hillsboro
to visit Mrs. Morris parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. T. Morrison.
This has been a busy week for
County Clerk Fred Cheshire, with
I the circuit court and county court
in session at the same time The
work, however, is being kept up in
good shape.
Prussian Poultry Tonic will make
your hens lay in winter. Get trial
package at Cramer Bros.
Mrs. Lloyd Harvey went to Will
liams this Friday morning to visit
over Sunday with her sister, Miss
Bess McColm, who is teaching the
Williams school,
Another carload of AMERICAN"
Rabbit and Stock Fence has Just
been received by the Hair-Riddle
Hardware Co.
Grants Pass can doubtless boast of
more players of the classical game of
chess, in proportion to population,
than any other place on earth. The
organization of club, and subse-
quent tournament, would add zest to
this great game.
The Eastern Star at its last meet
ing, Wednesday evening, received
into membership two applicants and
voted to receive five others. Four
of these are to be received at the
next meeting, October IS, and the
fifth is by affiliation. After the
business session the members en-
joyed an hour in the banquet room.
Al Dean came up from Gold Beach
thursday to visit with home folks
and old friends, and also to attend
to business connected with the forest
service. Al says the country sur
rounding Gold Beach has great pos
sibilities and will some day attract
widespread attention from mining
men. The fruit prospects there are
also exceptionally good.
Maynard c. Dague, of Fowler,
Neb, purchased the 20O-acre tract
on the county road mile northwest
of Grants Pass. This is known as
the Ed Mclaughlin farm and is
composed of some of the finest land
in the county. Mr.. Dague will plant
the entire 200 acres in commercial
fruit The sale was made by H. l..
and w. f. Herzinger.
Dean Grooms and wife arrived a
few days ago from Sheridan, Wyo.,
and have purchased the NJ. NJ. Brier-
| Iy place three-quarters of a mile
south Of the steel bridge. Mr..
Grooms shipped his household goods
before leaving Sheridan with the in
tention of becoming a permanent re-
sident Of Grants Pass Mrs. Grooms
is cousin of Mrs. VIM. V. Johnson.
The Courier was in error in regard
to the Briggs Gold Bar Mining Com
pany last week That organization.
we learn, is out of existence and the
property has been sold and the p,lr-
chasers have organized a new cor
poration known as the Oregon Con-
solidated Mines Co., and are doing
business on solid business basis.
George II. Sanders, of Chicago. was
sent out as special agent to represent
the company. He is business man
OF large experience and understands
the financial end of industrial and
other corporations.
Grants Pass is represented at the
fair at Ashland by between 40 and
90 citizens, many of them going Fri
day morning to spend the day
Among that number are Mr.. and
Mrs, II, d. Norton, Mr.. and Mrs II.
II, Basler, Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Clev-
enger, Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Gibson. Mr..
and Mrs. II. r. Gale, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. l.. Andrews, Mr., and Mrs. Wilson
Peek Mr. and Mrs, Jos Harper, Mr.
and Mrs. j. +, Burke, Mrs. w. r.
McCracken. Mrs. NJ. Clemens. Mrs
Clark Hathaway, L. h. Hall, w. H.
Clements, win Scoville, Lee Calvert
Patton's Sun Proof Paint. the
paint that lasts, is sold by Cramer
Bros.
j. J, McCabe, Of San Francisco,
president of the Sugar Pine Mining
and Milling Co., and ]. =. Dobbyns
of Galice, superintendent of the
mine, were In the city Wednesday
and left in the evening for the prop-
erty at Gallce creek. The companv
recently installed n lO-stamp mill
operated by water power hut n,