Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-09-19
PRODUCER AND CONSUMER TO
DEAL AT FIRST HAND.
AT I'll NOR. SIXTH STREET
viii be Maintained ON Each Wed.
nesday and Saturday, With Il.
T.. Wilmot Master.

The Grants Pass Public Market
will be opened promptly on time next
Wednesday morning, the committee
of twenty which has the enterprise in
charge having completed all prelim-
mary arrangements. The building
at 211 North Sixth street, next to the
Grants Pass Bakery, was rented by
the committee for present quarters
for the market, and the remodeling
of the interior to make it available
for the purpose is now in progress.
r. E. Wilmot has been engaged as
market master, and viii nave charge
on Wednesdays and Saturdays the
two days during which the market
will be open. To meet the immediate
demand for funds to open and start
the market, each member of the COM
mittee of twenty put up S., and
pledged a dollar a month to see the
enterprise through till some other
method of raising the fund can be
devised. However, donations from
other sources will not be refused.
The first day of the Josephine
County Fair is a. most propitious time
for the opening of the Public Market,
and it should be given such vel
come by the consuming public that
there can be no room for doubling its
success. The price for stalls" with
in the market will be placed at 20 or
% cents for each market day, and b.
is expected that there will be a good
representation of producers on every
day that the market Is open To as
sure it's success, however, it is nee
essary that the housewives be there
with their market baskets ready to
purchase, and that after the opening
of the market the peddler be discour-
aged, and that all producers bring
their goods to the market place.
Portland has her Rosarians; Sa-
lem her Cherrians, Eugene her Radi-
ators, and Grants Pass has her
"Rogues." Boosters ALL and what
the Rosarians have done for Port
land; the Cherrians for Salem, and
the Radiators for Eugene, the
Rogues will do for this metropolis
of the Rogue.
The "Rogues" are the committee
appointed by the president of the
Commercial club, the committee of
twenty, to find ways and means for
doing things for the betterment Of
Grants Pass and for the improve
ment of local conditions. The first
meeting of this committee was held
Monday night when ten Of the score
met the obligation imposed upon
them and after a lively meeting left
the wheels of progress well creased.
The committee decided that it would
start out after one thing at time,
and that it would stay after that one
thing tiIl Il had II landed
The public market is the first
thing the committee will go after
and so determined was the commit
tee upon the necessity for the market
that It set Wednesday September
oath. the opening day of the Jose
phine County Fair as the opening
day for the Grants Pass Public Mar
ket. the market to be maintained Tor
time upon each Wednesday and
Saturday. whicn will be official mar
ket days. A committee, composed oil
Messrs c. L. Hobart F. NJ South
w. p. Quinlan and A. E. VOORHEES,
was selected from the main commit
tee to 20 to Medford, attend the mar
ket day there, and report back at
special meeting to be held at the Ho-
tel oxford at $50 o'clock this even
ing. This committee left at seven
o'clock this morning in MT no
bart's automobile, and will study the
problem Of producer and consumer
and outline a plan for the openins
day here.
The place for the holding Of 'h'