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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-06-13

HoWARD E. BURTON Assayer anq Chemist
Silver. Lead, 81: Gold, Silver. 75c; Gold, SOC: Zinc
or Copper a. Mailing envelopes a ID full price list
sent on application. Control and Umpire work 60
hcited. Reference; Carbonate National Bank
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-06-13

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regu-
late and invigorate stomach, liver and
bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules.
Easy to take as candy.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-06-13

Red Cross Ball Blue will wash double as many
clothes as any other blue. Don't put your money
into any other.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-06-13
PILES CURED IN 6 TO IA DAYS

Your druggist will refund money if PAZO ONT.
MENT fails to cure any case of Itching Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in to IA days soc
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-06-13

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup the best remedy to use for their children
during the teething period.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-06-13
FARMS WANTED.

FARMS WANTED: List your property with us.
Best plan ever discovered to bring buyer and sell
Ter together quickly and cheaply; better than ad-
vertisng and no commissions. Send for selling
plan at Mutual Really Assn Dept Eight Soledad Cal
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-06-13
Novelist Plays Safe.

Red Cross Ball Blue all blue best buing value
In the whole world, makes the laundress smile.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26

reconclliations took place, New Years
calls were made and New Years gifts
bestowed. There also originated the
New Years resolution for every Ro-
man resolved on New Years day to so
regulate his conduct that every word
and act should be happy augury for
all the days OF the ensuing year.
On account Of the orgies which mark
ed the New Years arrival not only
among the Romans. but among the
Teutonic races. the early Christians
looked with scant favor upon the
whole seasou BY the hfth century.
however. Dec 20 became the fixed fes-
tival Of the Nativity. whereupon Jan. I
assumed special sacred character as
the octave Of Christmas day
The giving Of gifts on New Years
day has been superseded largely IN An
glo-Saxon countries by the giving Of
Christmas gifts. but the custom still Is
retained In France. This custom was
one Of the most ancient and universal
~ observed Of New Years day.
The druids distributed branches OF
the sacred mistetoe The Roman em-
perors exncted gifts. and so did the
English rulers down to the time OF
Cromwell
The word over on New Years II IS
a custom to drink to the health or
ones friends.
The custom Of making New Year
resolutions and turning over a new
leaf is universal and like polltical
platforms. is as much honored IN the
breach ns IN the observance But the
temptation which surrounds frail hui
man ucugs I'm this wicked world arc
many and insidlous
what menace 10 our comfort. '.-.-'--'
Whal reproof 20 him that boasts.
Those h bits that discarded
lllHnt our presence stlll Ike ghoHtsl
Kansas City star
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
WOMEN ARE BAD LOSERS.
That Is Why, II Is Said, Stock Brokers
Fight Shy Of Them.

Nobody loves stock broker. least
Of all his customers. This affords a
touching. If somewhat subtle, reason
why he does not want any women
spectators on his books
There is another reason. hate to
mention it, but you wiring it from me.
Women are not good losers At times,
under stress of great speculative losses.
| am told they become achrymose.
The one stock broker of my acquaint-
ance who catered to women specula-
tors is now in madhouse. They were
all long of Steel at 80 the time it broke
to s. and all the water squeezed out of
it in that decline was wept back into
1t by these women. 1t was an eco
nomic disaster.
Stock brokers carry home with them
all the troubles of their customers. and
this poor fellow was no exception He
used to lie awake all night picking at
the counterpane and grieving over
beauty in distress. Finally he went
crazy. They have given him set of
stock brokers' books up there in the
asylum. and it would break your heart
to see him. Jeanne dare and Harriet
Beecher Stowe are long of Copper;
Catherine de Medici and Mrs. Brown
ing are short Of Rubber; Maria The
resa and George Eliot are pyramiding
in Steel Every now and then some
body is stopped out, and then there are
dreadful times Charlotte Corday's,
Cleopatra's. Nine de Stael's and the
mother Of the Gracchi's margins are
exhausted He calls to them for more
They weep cannot 20 on. Women
have much to answer fOr.-William
Van. Antwerp in New York Post.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
NOTICE OF SHERIFF's SALE

In the circuit court of the state of
Oregon for Josephine county.
Mary l.. Piatt, plaintiff, Vs.
Ferdinand Tomek ct all
defendants,
By virtue of an execution and or
der of sale issued out of the above
entitled court in the above entitled
cause, to me directed, and dated
the 4th day of December, 1918, up
on judgment rendered and entered
in said court on the 18th day of
November, 1918, in favor Of Mary l..
Piatt, plaintiff, and against Ferdin-
and Tomek ct al, defendants, for
the sum of $1,000, with interest
thereon from the 5th day of April,
1913, at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum and 500 attorneys fee, and
the further sum of SIS costs and
disbursements and the costs of and
upon this writ, commanding me to
make sale of the following described
real property situated in Josephine
county Oregon, to-wit:
All that part of Donation land
claim No. 9S, originally patented to
the heirs of John x. Jones and Ruth
Ann Jones, his wife, in township
thirty-six (36), south of range five
(5), west of w. NJ, bounded and de-
scribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning
at the southeast corner of that part
Of said donation land claim No. 3S
which lies within section twenty
(2O) in said township and range;
running thence north six hundred
and seventy-five and 1S-10O feet
(675.1S ft.); thence west eleven
hundred ninety-nine and twenty-five
one hundredths feet (1,119.22 ftO;
thence south three hundred seventy
three and 56-100 feet (379.56 ftO;
thence east two hundred and thitry-
one feet (231 ft.); thence south two
hundred and ninety-seven feet (297
~, more or less, to the south line
Of said Donation land claim No. 80;
thence east seven hundred and sew
enty and 22-100 feet (770.22 ft) to
the place of beginning; containing
seventeen acres, more or less; to-
gether with the tenements and ap-
purtenances thereunto belonging.
Now, therefore, by virtue oil said
execution and order of sale. and in
compliance with the commands OF
said writ, on the 5th day of January,
1914, at 10 o'clock a. M, at the east
front door of the court house in
Grants Pass, Oregon, I will sell at
public auction (subject to redemp-
tom to the highest bidder for cash
in hand, all the right, title and in
terest which the said Ferdinand
Tomek had on the 9Th day of Octo-
Der, 1912, or since that date, in and
to the above described property or
any part thereof, to satisfy said exc
cution, Judgment order and decree,
interest, costs and accruing costs.
WILL c. SMITH,
Sheriff of Josephine county,
Oregon.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department Of the Interior, U. 8,
Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon,
November Goth, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that John
Thomas Breeding, of Hugo, Oregon,
who. on May 25th, 1908, made
Eomestead Entry Serial No. 04534,
for Eh of SW u, NW14 SWA Sec
tion 26, Township "a s., Range 6
West Willamette Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make Five
Year Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before Herbert
smith, United States Commissioner
Grants Pass, Oregon, on the 9th day
Of January, 1914.
Claimant names as witnesses:
George Mccormick, of Hugo, Oregon;
G D. Sexton, of Hugo, Oregon;
George Baer, Of Hugo, Oregon;
oliver Ward, of Hugo, Oregon.
B. F. JONES, Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
ORDINANCE No. 7O3
An Ordinance to Provide for an
Employment Aid Service

The City of Grants Pass ordains as
follows
Section /. The city auditor shall
provide and keep in his Office book
in which he shall register the names
of all persons seeking employment
or seeking to employ others with the
names and addresses of such per-
sons and the character of employ
ment and wages desired or offered,
and shall post in the entrance to the
city hall, in a conspicuous place, such
applications and names and addresses
of the persons, with any information
as will enable employer and employe
to be brought together, without
any charge or compensation.
1t shall be the duty of the auditor
to furnish to any one requesting such
information concerning such appli-
cations as may be OF assistance to
those concerned In securing employ
ment or help.
Section 2. This ordinance shall
take effect from and after its ap-
proyal by the Mayor.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
A New Year Proposal.

what resolutions have | vowed to keer
the coming year2
Come, sit beside me, maiden fair. and
straightway you shall hear.
I've pledged myself to choose one girl
from out the throng so gay
And love her with an honest love forever
and for aye.
"Ill work for her with brain and Drawn,
with all my might and main,
Until I'VE won her everything that hon.
esty can gain.
I'll fill her life with all that's good till life
itself is DONE
And while we train our minds and hearts
we'll not neglect the fun.
Now, tell me won't you. maiden fair.
what you have vowed to doY
For I've laid bare my inmost soul 10 no
one but 10 you"
1--WE made no pledges she replied in 30
demure a tone.
"But II you don't object I'll try to help
you keep your own"
Wallace Dunbar Vincent
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

department of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office at Roseburg. Oregon.
December 4th, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Conrad
Robert Hawkins, of Kerby, Oregon,
who, on October 21, 1907. made
Homestead Entry Serial No. O429S,
Ior E1s NWA, NWA NEA and
NEA NWA, Section 26, Township
81 s., Range 5 West, Willamette
Meridian, has filed notice of inten-
tion to make Five-Year Proof to es-
tablish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before Herbert Smith, United
States Commissioner, at Grants Pass,
Oregon, on the 2Srd day of January,
1914.
Claimant names as witnesses:
V. r. Hawkins, of Selma, Oregon;
N. Saver, of Kerby, Oregon, G. Dun
can, of Kerby, Oregon; E. Daily, of
Kerby, Oregon.
B. F. JONES, Register
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

T..
'ne county Court of the State of
n oregon for Josephine County
~ v Tue Matter OF the Estate of + w
Nan an Dyke, Deceased, in Probate
9 notice is hereby given that FSward
o an Dyke, administrator with ~ .ho =
Vor WI annexed of the estate of F w
eS a. Dyhe, mas rendered and present
so,s 80 ior settlement, and filed in This
saiu court the final account of his said
administration, together with q nati- %
ion ior final and allowance of The
sane oane and that the residue of said
esIdls e' De assigned and distributed IN
Io uvn persons as are by law and the
.asl @ VIII and testament of the de-
ceased entitled to the same.
All persons interested In said &c
oa.e are therefore hereby ordered to
appear at the Court House in Grants
ass, Josephine county, Oregon. on
ene z 'th day of December, A. d. 1914
at ~ clock as m, to show cause If
any there be, why the PRAYER of the
pe1.tIoner y. should not be granted.
II is further ordered that notice of
tue t tendency of said petition and
.og nearlng be given to all persons in
oerested in said matter by PUBLISHING
copy OF this order in the Rogue
river Weekly Courier, newspaper of
general circulation and weekly pub-
Icatlon published at Grants Pass.
Josephine county Oregon, for four
successive Weeks prior to the said day
of hearing. '~ u"'
EDWARD S. VAN DYKE,
Administrator with the will annex
ed OF the Estate of F. w. Van
Dyke, deceased.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Lightning and Thunder.

by counting the number Of seconds
IN the interval between lightning and
munder it is possible to figure approx
mately how far from the observer is
'ne scene of the storm. Sound travels
tlVO feet second. Multiply the num-
Oer of seconds by 1,10O and it will
give the distance in feet from the point
Nnere the lightning flashed. For ex-
ample If ten seconds have elapsed the
uStance away will be 11,000 feet, or
u.ue over two miles. 1t might be add
" lnat as light and lightning travel
" much faster than sound, if a man
survives after hearing the crashing
yea he can be sure he is safe. Remem-
O'auce Of this will disSipate terror.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26

NN ALAh > was long time
IL IN settling upon Jan. l as tho
a Y proper time for its celebration.
Even now, In Greece and Rus
STA, where the Julian calendar Is in
force, New Years does not arrive until
twelve days after the year is we'll on
It's way in the rest OF the civilized
world.
Ihe ancient Egyptians and Persians
began the new year at the autumnal
equinox, Sept. 20, and the Greeks Of
Solon's time at the winter solstice.
Dec. n, but in the time OF Pericles the
date was changed to the summer sol
stice' June 81. The Romans began the
year from the winter solstice until
Caesar changed il to Jan. /. With the
Jews the new year began in September
In civil affairs, but In their ecclesiasti-
cal reckoning the beginning OF the
year dates from the vernal equinox.
March 22. Aud, as this is astronomi.
eally the beginning OF spring, the date
Is logical one, aud that Of the 25th Of
March t25 being more fully rounded
number was accepted generally by
Christian nations In medieval times as
New Years.
In England Dee % was New Years
until the time OF William the Conquer.
or His coronation happened to fall
on Jan. l, and accordingly the year
was ordered to commence on that day.
But the English gradually fell into
union with the rest of Christendom
and began the year on March %. When
in 1852 the Gregorian calendar was
promulgated and definitely located
New Years on Jan. most Catholic
countries adopted 1t at once, but Eng.
land did not acquesce until 1862.
In ancient Rome New Years day
was given up TO feasting and frollck-
ing Sacrincia fires burned continual
ly on the affairs of the twelve gods. All
litigation aud strife were suspended,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

Notice Is Hereby Given, that the
,rdersigned Executor of the Estate
~ Mary ]. Parker, deceased, has filed
Sis Final Account of the Adminis-
ration of said estate in the County
court of Josephine County, State of
oregon, and that the hearing of said
serount has been set by said Court
sor Saturday, the 9th day of De-
ssmher, 1913, at ten o'clock a. m.
., the County Court Room in the
Court House at Grants Pass Oregon
and all persons interested are hereby
notified to file their objection there
- If any there be, on or before said
Sate. Said notice is published in the
Rogue River Courier, a weekly news
nSper of general circulation, publish
al AT Grants Pass, Oregon, by order
N Stephen Jewell, County Judge.
made the 25th day of November,
1918.
II. N. PARKER.
Executor of Estate of Mary ]
Parker, deceased.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Gihhnn,s History.

1t is said that when GibbOn sat
down to write his great work. DE
cline and Fall of the Roman Empire, -
he proposed writing it in. French. But
David Hume, close friend, on hear
ing this wrote him a letter Of remon-
STRANGE in such strong and stirring
language that be was only too glad to
rellnouish his fancy. There is an eY-
celent foundation for the story Of
Hume's letter to Glbbon. and beyond
doubt we owe it to this old Scotchman
that the immortal history was written
in our own language. New YORK
American.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
The Old Year
And the New

III WATCHED the old year fade.
81 and with its dying light
The gloom. at first a shade,
~ Turned into darkest night.
And then l said; 'Tis gone
The old year is no more.
And memories now alone
Linger along the shore"
1 watched the old year die.
And with its fading day
There came the though. that by
Its death a brighter way
Opes up. and, all things bright,
Wen have surcease at last
From specters dark as night.
They'll live, but in the past
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26

watched the old years flight
And then said. with a smile,
"Ah, now the new year bright
VIII bide with us awhilev
But ere my hopeful dreams
Have realized one day
Is dead and passed; 1t seems
1t starts but to decay.
Thus all along the way
Gravestones must mark the miles,
An epitaph each day,
A tomb of tears and smiles.
So we begin the new
CTS old ere we've begun)
To find it's aging, too.
With the first setting sun.
But twill not always be.
There'll come a living day,
And all things new, and we
Shall live in endless May.
No gravestones then win mark
The tombs where dead hopes lie.
No nights of sorrow dark
Creep DER our changeless sky.
james Daniel Cleaton.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
NEW YEARS DAY.

! T HE dawn is gray and chilly
3 4 with the frost,
!. n The old years pulse now
/ flutters, now is still,
+ And all our twelvemonth's deeds,
+ for good or i'll.
: Pass into shadow, silent, one by
/ one,
I While from the night wherein we
7 wander lost.
3 The new year rises with the rising
Z sun.
I A new year? Nay; It's but the
+ same old year.
+ The same remorseless round of
Z sun and rain,
!. or seasons in their order, Joy and
/. pain
+ The old emotions playing upon
+ strings
! That wax little older. drawing
I near
!. The final end Of all remembered
I things.
/ Earth ages. and the very noun
I tains nod
!. with years. and we who crawl
+ upon their breast
/ Pass at the sliding sands benign
4 behest
|. Hate fades. greed falls lust crum-
I bles into clay
|. And there are left but love and faith
and God,
I To whom a thousand years are az
! a day.
!. Reginald Wright Kaufman.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
uio4oria,s HARMLESS Cosmetic.

Douglas Jerrold, the English humor-
ist was prolific Of puns in conyersa-
tion and in correspondence Professor
Rrander Matthews in the Century
quotes one Of his best
In a letter written just after Queen
Victoria had been fired at Jerrold de-
clored that he had seen her out driv-
ing and added that "she looked very
we'll and-as is not always the case
with women-none the worse for pow
der
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
He Knew How He Got Il.

lnat large lump running across the
O'VA OF your head" said the phrenol-
SsSt' 'means that you are inclined 70
y curious, even to the point Of reck
'essleSS.
Know it," said the man who was
svINulung him. Il got that bump by
:, ~. ain. my head into the dumb waiter
aD'i' 10 see If the waiter was goin@
=" and it was coming down"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Good system.

.Old man. you always look bright and
cheerful"
Think so|'
.you certainly always look cheerful
Have you no troubesF
yes. have troubles. but ! never
srmnotbize with myself"-Washing
ton Herald
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Why Read Aloud7

A modern moralist regrets that no.
body nowadays reads aloud.
But is that the main regret?
Isn't the lack Of listeners much more
serious Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Wait Awhile.

rs she very much in love with
him?"
very. She still believes 1t is the
other fellows fault when he stays out
late nj night. detroit Free Press
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26

Gambling debts are recoverable by
law I'm France. Spain Venezuela and
In sone cases. In Germany.
Natural Result.
"She turned on him an icy stare"
"And what happened then"
"His words froze on his lips"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
somsthlnn on the Aneients.

"An oyster Of the paleozoic period
would have made meal for twelve
people" They didn't swallow them
whole in those days. Toledo Blade.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
YelIowed Handkerchief.

Handkerchiefs which have become
yellow can be made snow white BY
soaking them in pipeclay and water for
twenty.four hours
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26

Have you anything you want 70
sell or buy2 Use a classified adlet.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Novel View

"What is your ambition?
ITO see moving picture Of still
life. ."-Exchange.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Money and Talk.

If money was the only thing that
talked some men would have quieter
boEles MsmphiS CetRmsrcial Appeh.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26

Vifice stationery at the coarIer.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
On the Track of the
New Year

AYEW YEARS was a long time
~ IN settling upon Jan l as the
l Y proper time for its celebration.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-12-26
Dicky's New Year
How he Came TO Attend the
GrOwn Folks Party.

NMICAN Sprawled ungracefully on
the door, and at times he be-
E1 slowed sly and naughty kick
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1913-12-25
The Confessions
%sees<s of a Wife
A PLACE TO LIVE

Mr.. waverly over to see them in
tho evening
insisted. however. that they
should be re-dacorated in a dull.
creamy tan paper, for ! was determ-
ined that | should have u good
background for my Japanese and
old English prints.
On the way back | went to the
safety deposit vault and made ar
rangements for a larger one than |
had rented before to keep my mod.
est bits OF iewclry and old heir
looms In the way OF silver. All our
beautiful bridal silver is still at
Dicks fathers house and | do not
think II IL safe there,
shall send what furniture we
do not use to the storage house.
am going TO try. however. and
exchange some OF the queer chairs
and pieces of useless bric-a brac
that we're given to us for something
which viii have some semblance of
taste and fitness in our home
suppose that this critical attl-
tude IN regard to ones wedding
presents Is not very kindly, but
some OF the things that we're given
Dick and me look as though the
people went Into store and bought
the first thing offered them.
Surely no one can want us To
keep five Morris" chairs. particu
larry as all of them are 'he kind
that would make William Morris
turn In HIS grave If he could realize
they were attributed To him
OH | hope Dick Will IKE this
room and that we will be happy In
this place.
| would much rather have a little
flat, but Dick seems to think II
would be very lonely for me
! once more | looked about che
little room and whispered; BE