Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-10-14

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith ~
Lyons, Kansas, arrived here FRIDAY
and spent short time visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Smith and fam.
lily, of this city. The two families
were friends in Kansas several Years
ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith are look.
ing for a location and are so well
pleased with Grants Pass they ex.
pect to return to this city to reside
in the near future. They went to
Medford Saturday afternoon.
Rev. F. B. Bartlett has written
The new rector of st. Lukes
church has arrived in Grants Pass
and Sunday will conduct services al
the church. He formerly was rector
at st. Paul's in Chicago. He was
accompanied by the members Of his
family, with the exception of one
daughter, who remains in the east.
One son is manager of an orchard
near Medford.
A horse owned by a man living
on the Christie place, about six miles
west of town, INDUCED in a lively
race all by himself on Wednesday
afternoon. The owner of the animal
had been in the habit of opening the
gate and letting the horse go to the
barn alone, but in this instance he
went to the barn and then kept right
on going at a lively rate of speed
The photo displays which took the
two first prizes offered by Stanton
Rowell, of the Rowel music store,
are now on exhibition in the window
of that place. One is a collection Of
20 photos taken by E. R. Hurlbirt,
and the other a collection of % views
taken by Ed Allen, jr. Mr.. Allen re-
ceived the large charging camera
and Mr.. Hulbirt received the medium
size one
The Knights of Pythias held a re-
ception at their hall on Tuesday
evening at which a large number Of
members and their families were
present A most interesting address
was delivered by Attorney Wurts-
baugh, after which the guests were
hidden to the banquet hall to par
take of the sumptuous repast spread
before them. 1t was a late hour be-
! fore the guests departed for home.
The Ivancovitch, Trobosk and
Bergen company, commission dealers
in fruit at San Francisco, have writ
ten its local representative a letter
acknowledging receipt of a carload
of fruit, from which the following eX-
cerpt is taken "The apple market
here is flooded, At the same timj
there is nothing here that will COM
pare with this elegant fruit and We
are very anxious to make a specially
of it. The box of Northern Spy APP
pies was revelation to us and we
never have seen such highly colored
Spys."
The O'Neill brothers, of Los An
geles, who have been looking over
the valley for the past ten days, have
returned to Los Angeles for the pur-
pose of closing out their business
affairs preparatory to moving here
They are delighted with this end OF
the valley and say that the fair con-
vinced them that this place had the
world beaten as a fruit growing dis
trict, They expect to return here IN
the course Of a couple of weeks
On Thursday afternoon, while A.
NJ. Heston was giving a demonstra'
tion with the electric washer Of the
Rogue River Hardware company AZ
the exhibit grounds, Miss Florence
Buell., yound lady fifteen years
old, had her right hand painfully IN
jured by the rollers. Miss Buell. was
watching the demonstration and ao-
sently running her fingers lightly
over the rollers, when the forefinger
penetrated too far between them
and was rapidly drawn in the Sec
ond finger going between the roll
lers double and crushing a ring worn
on that finger so that is had TO De
removed in pieces. The lever was
quickly turned by Mr.. Heston, saving
the hand from further injury No
bones were broken, but the fingers
were badly bruised.