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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
HUGO

Hall Lynch returned to his home
at Williams, California. after visiting
several weeks with his grandmother.
Mrs. Mae Henry.
Miss Anna Russell. the Red Cross
nurse. better known as the khaki
clad girl on the buckskin pony" who
is on her way to the Mexican border.
was supposed to stop two weeks in
Grants Pass and rest herself and
pony. but is stopping at Hugo. She
Is nursing Mrs. Tripplet. VINO was
badly burned a couple OF weeks ago
by the explosion OF gasoline lamp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Sexton and
family and Miss Editha Vincent, OF
Merlin. spent Sunday In Selma.
Miss Helena Peterson. In company
with Ernest Pruitt and the Mills,
Ellison and Bird families. OF Merlin,
departed Saturday morning for Cres-
cent City for ten days outing.
The Crockett and Martin families
returned late Monday evening from
the caves.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

shells. French infantrymen' LETT the
trenches at sundown and, sHranbling
over ruined German trenches In three
waves that rushed steadily forward,
drove the Teutons from the north
eastern corner OF Maurepas In less
than 80 minutes OF actual fighting.
Detachments operating on the right
broke the enemy's positions east OF
Maurepas with such rapidlty that sew
eral bodies OF German troops which
had held positions In the village were
surrounded and captured.
The Germans made weak counter
attacks. but were beaten back, while
the French advanced their lines on
front OF mile and n quarter.
General Haig's troops. n few hours
earlier. drove forward for 200 yards
in fighting south Of Thiepval. taking
a German trench on a 4o0-yard front.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

out Of the deep-cleft chasms while
watching for big buck to come out
into the open for another day of sun
ming his velvet-clad antlers can fail
10 feel the grip OF Mr., Van Dykes
words, From the valley OF the Chetco.
across the Bald Mountain country and
the lower Rogue, to the white water
of the Coquille, we all recall dozens
OF spots OF which the foregoing de-
scription gives only the key to the
masterpieces wrought by Nature, A
primitive instinct to kill ones food
and a civilized appreciation OF an
artistic Nature form a combination
which today temporarily robs many
a southern Oregon homo OF It's father
and brothers,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
WOLF CREEK

The passing OF Dan Matthews nj
tho age OF 50. at D. m. last Sunday,
In the log cabin which he built and
In which he has lived for tho pas,
ilfty years. removes another OF the
few pioneers In this vicinity. While
he had been aiiing for some time. the
end was sudden and rather unexpeet-
cd, There In material here for an IN.
teresting story which may soon be
written. concerning the house that
never was finished and tho sweet
heart whose love. though strong.
could not give up the east for the
then Wild west. There was some
thing fascinating about the attach
ment Of this faithful old man for the
place OF his abode and the valley will
scarcely seem the same without him,
The frst shipment Of Bartlett pears
was made early In the week. r.
Bacchus. r. NJ. Stason and W. q.
Smith Joining In the shipment. which
went via Grants Pass. Next year II
IL hoped carload shipments OF several
varieties can be made from this point,
w. q. Smith has sold his Winter Ban
anas on the trees at fair figure. The
trees. now In their eighth year. have
been bearing every year since their
fourth and the fruit has hitherto been
disposed OF to friends In Oregon and
California and has won high praise.
Tho apples have been kept each year
TIL we'll on In May and are OF finest
favor.
Soudan grass has been disappolnt-
ment here. and while some grew "a
over eight feet tall. the yield was
light. not over one-tenth OF what the
same ground would have yielded In
oat and vetch hay. Some was drilled
with the beet drill and cultivated,
and some was sown broadcast, from
Ave TO eighteen pounds to the acre.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

NIGHT BUSINESSES SCHOOL-Com-
mencing, September llth.. 7 to 8
p. m. twice week. work In the
Commercial Branches and Civil
Service will be given. advanced
and beginning. s2.00 per month.
No pupils attending High School al
lowed. No age limit. Instructor. A,
Dawkins, NJ. A.. 734 N. End st. S39
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
THE LIvE-wIRE IN GRANTS PASS

THE LIvE-WlRE IN GRANTS PASS,
Tomorrow morning Grants Pass
viii be visited by seventy-odd of the
livest business men in the west. They
are principal factors OF the largest
firms in San Francisco, and are here
to get personally acquainted with the
southern Oregon men with whom they
DO business. In this pursuit they
will become acquainted with others
with whom they have not heretofore
done business. They ask that no
especial reception be given them. and
this viii operate to show them busi-
ness conditions as they exist from
day to day, unaffected by any arti-
fetal stimulus.
Now these men from the Golden
Gate are not only alive, but they ap-
preciate the value Of that quality in
others. In carrying out their request
Of no reception we are handicapped.
for they come here directly from Coos
Bay. where the biggest Industrial
celebration In the history of that
country is being held. But a live.
snappy reception in our individual
places OF business. an appearance Of
something doing" and an optimistic
line Of conversation that is backed up
BY ali kinds Of "pep." viii make more
real impression on these southern
live-wires than all the confetti spread
on Coos Bay. Make them realize the
presence Of a current that Is charging
the atmosphere locally and they will
want to do more business with us.
Business means prosperity,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

Feminine visitors at his home write
rapturously OF the delightful ven,son
that James. the mighty Nimrod.
brought In, But the scientist who
loves his hunting, his "huek-meat"
and his science. tells OF the haunts
and habits of "The Columbia Black
tall"
Theodore S, Van Dyke. Of Los An
geles, who combines those admired
qualities OF hunter-scientist is a re-
cogniEed authority on the deer fam
lily on the Pacific coast, For the
American Sportsman's Library ne
contributed some years ago a work
entitled the Deer and Elk OF the Pa
|cinc Coast" including the following
extracts regarding the territory which
local hunters frequent.
The best hunting Is farther south,
where the timber is more open and
the brush lower. Nothing can sur
pass that part of southwestern Ore
gon which the blank space on the
map shows unsurveyed. especially on
the headwaters OF the Coquille river
and in the Rogue River mountains,
II is so rough that the hunter seldom
goes there, while the scarcity OF feed
in places makes II no trifling mat
ter to keep your horses strong enough
to take you out again. But 1t Is a
grand, picturesque country. the na-
tural home OF the elk as we'll as the
deer, abounding in grouse. mountain
quail. and trout. and well worth
visit by one who wants to see the
wild and the new, far beyond the or
bit Of the tenderfoot or his stylish
guide.
"Unless much prosecuted. the ma
jority Of deer will be found, not
where the chinquapin Is dwarfed by
cold to mere mat along the ground,
on top OF which one can almost walk.
but where the sunny tinge Of the
golden-leaved live-oak warns the
heavy shades. where the sugar-pine
bends its flattened crown over the
tall shaft Of the incense-cedar that
rises red and shaggy from the hill
side below; and even farther down
where the alder weaves arcades over
the Kissing brook in which the trout
begin to fash. where the call OF the
mountain-quail rings along the
tumbling hills, and the wings OF the
dove whistle through the silvery
sheen OF the fir. From there down
to the foothills, and in their shaggy
pockets, and so on to the very shore
OF the shining sea, this deer will be
found wherever there is cover enough
to furnish hiding"
No one who has seen the black fade
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
OLD RIVALS HOOKED UP AGAIN

Chicago. Aug. 25. -- Christey
Mathewson versus Mordecai Brown.
will be the Labor day Offering at the
Cub baseball park. according to an
announcement today at Cub head
quarters. Word already has been re-
ceived from Matty. II was said. that
he was willing to fling against his
old rival OF years.
II the program goes through. II
will be the first time in years that
the two former star slabsmen and
rivals have clashed.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
WANTED

TO PURCHAsE--Platform
scales for Weighing hay. State
lowest cash price delivered on Dim
mick place. one mile west Of Grants
Pass. Phone 1851. S37
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS

CRYSTAL SPRINGS water put up In
5-gallon glass Jars and delivered
at your door. fresh. pure. sanitary.
Telephone 2s3.R and water wagon
will call.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

JUST GODS coUNTRY-AND OURS
When Jim Jones shoulders his
$3.50 and goes out Saturday night.
to return Sunday with a fat buck
deer, he terms It merely "buck-meat."
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
no RENT

MODERN FlvE-RooM HOUSE for
rent at 7s7 North Fifth street.
Sleeping porch. bath. hot and cold
water and gas. electric lighted.
5000 feet fenced for poultry. and
woodshed large enough for cow.
Rent $40 per month, Key at AL
Evelyn. 79bf
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
TIME CARD
The California and Oregon
Coast Railroad Company
(The Oregon Caves Route)

(Thc Oregon Caves toutc)
Effective Monday. May /. 1919.
Train lv, Grants Paas..,"..7;00 an,
Arrives Waters Creek.....S $500 am.
Train 4 lv, Waters Creek. % 90 y. m.
Arrives Grants Pass. .....6 90 y, In.
Daily except Sunday.
All trains leave Grants Pass from
the corner OF q and Eighth streets.
opposite tho Southern Pacific depot.
For all information regarding
freight and passenger service call at
tho Office OF the company. Public Ser
vice building. or phone 13i for
same.
Train will stop on dag At any
point between Grants Pass and
wate-r Creek. passc:.e. .srvic"
every da, In the week,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
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4 Fair tonight; Saturday prob
= badly fair except showers and
\ thunderstorms southwest por-
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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

FOR SALE--Three-ton velie auto
truck. The price 10 right. Leonard
Orchards Company. Grants Pass.
Ore. 75&tt
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

BERT Il. ELLIOTT. ID. NJ. D.--Mod-
orn dental work, Maud u. Brad
ford. dental assistant. Rooms 4
and 8. Golden Rule Bldg. Grants
Pass. Ore. Phone 266-J.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

Job printing OF every description
at the Courier Office.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
Classified Advertising
no. sALs

FOR SALE--Registered Guernsey
bulls from high producing cows
River Banks Farm. r. ., Grants
Pass. Ore. Tbttl
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

.coLviG 4 WILLIAMS Attorneys-
at Law. Grants Pass Banking Co.
Bldg. Grants Pass. Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

EDWARD H. RICHARD. Attorney
at-Law. once Masonic Temple,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
ATTORNEYS

II. d. NORTON. Attorney.at-Law
Practice in all State and Federal
Courts. First National Bank Bldx.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
FRENCH TAKE VILLAGE

Continued from Page y
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

Letterheads at the Courier.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

u. s. VAN DYKE. Attorney. Practice
In all courts. First National Bank
bldg.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
DENTISTS

u. G. MACY. d. N. D.--First-class
dentistry. iosh South Sixth
street. Grants Pass Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

o. 8. BLANCHARD. Attorney-at-Law.
Grants Pass Banking Co. Bldg.
Phone 270. Grants Pass, Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

". A. ClEhENTs-Attorney-at-L
Practice In state and federal
courts. Rooms 2 and 3. over
Golden Rule store.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
VETERINARY SURGEON
DECORATORS AND PAINTERS

PAPBRHANGING. sraining. paint
Ing For the best work at lowest
prices phone 295-1 G. q, Plant,
South Park street,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

V. T. MILLER. Attorney -at-I.aw.
County attorney for Josephine
County. Once: Schallhorn Bldg.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

DIR. II. WARREN NICE. ostoopathis
Physician. Chronic and nervous
diseases speciality. Rooms and .,
Lundburg Bldg, opposite post
once; phone i<s-R. Residence:
Colonial hotel; phone 1871.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25
PHYSICIANS

:, o. CLEMENT. NJ. D,--Praotics
limited TO direases OF tho eye. oar.
nose and throat. Glasses ftted.
once hours e-i2. 2-6. or on Ap-
poin,ment, Once phone. 90: resi-
donoe phone 369-J,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

ANGEL CAKES Phone orders to No,
1901. 7SIu
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

s. Lou0hRiDGE. NJ. D.. Physician
and surgeon. City or country calls
attended day or night. Residence
phone SEQ; ONCE phone iss.
Sixth and II. Tuffs Bldg.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-25

], p, Truax. N. D.. Physician and
surgeon. Phones; once sss; resi-
denee ss4. Calls answered at all
hoars' Country calls attended TO.
Lundburg Bldg.
Evening star., 1916-10-22

lished over 1854 aids to navigation.
These include over 1852 major lights
and over 2.S37 minor lights. with 5S
light-vessel stations. 479 gas buoys
and 124 float lights. The unlighted
aids, which include fog signals, sub
marine and other signals, reach nearly
$500 in number.
The number of light stations. light
vessels and for signals of the world. as
listed by the British Admiralty List of
Lights for the last year. sets the
United States as second in the num-
ber of light stations of the world. and
these statistics do not include the
great lakes of North America nor
rivers above the limit of seagoing
navigation. Europe has approximately
1885 light stations and North America
has approximately 2,913. The lists
show that the United States lighthouse
service has under its charge materially
moro lights and fog signals than any
other organization.
The heights Of the lighthouse towers
vary according to the character of the
shore and the Importance Of the light
On the Atlantic coast, where the beach
as q rule Is low and presents little
relief, comparatively tall towers are
while on the Pacific coast. where 1t is
generally bold and high. a low tower
erected on a prominent headland is
generally sufficient.
stands at Cape Hatteras. n. c., and is
about two hundred feet high. Twenty
towers. with heights of $50 feet and
over. include.those at Hog Island. Va,
191 feet; Capt Charles. Va. 191 feet
Pensacola, Fla. III feet; Absecon, N.
Evening star., 1916-10-22
T. s. Lighthouse Service and Its Work for Mariner

J.. 40 feet: Cape May n. J. ITO fssk
and Shinnecock bay. N. T.. whioh "
161 fe ct high.
The highest light in the service 10 et
Capt Mendocino, Cal. the focal plane,
or the center of light. of which 10 l22
feet above mean high water. thus CIV
ing it a geographic range OF about
twenty-five miles, under normal at.
mospheric conditions. Tho light at
alakapou Point, Hawaii. IL a close SEQ
ond. having a height of 420 feet. AZ
Navesink, n. J.. the light Is 246 fest
above mean high water, and at Staten
Island, n. Y. ii is 231 feet. and 1t
Block Island Southeast. r. l.. It reaches
2O1 feet.
The brightest light In the service.
and by some considered as one Of tho
brightest lights in the world. Is
at Navesink. n. J.. on the high
lands at the entrance to New York
bay. The candlepower of this great
light is estimated to be $4,000. 900. and
its geographic range is twenty-five
miles. although it's glare has been seen
at a distance of seventy miles at see
under unusual conditions of the axS
mosphere. This great intensity 10 pros
duced by a powerful electric arc In.
closed in a modern lens of high mag
nifcation. The cost OF maintaining &
this great light is relatively large.
but 1t Is justified by the amount Of
commerce entering New York.
Evening star., 1916-10-22

E1WO hundred years ago the first
lighthouse on the North Ameri-
can continent was built in Bos-
q ton harbor. Today the United
States government maintains 1854
lights and other aids to navigation
along 46,S2S miles Of coastline and river
channels, q distance equal to nearly
twice tho circumference of the earth.
nations as to the number of light sta
tiens equipped and operated.
~
Within the past month Uncle Sam has
added ono more lighthouse to this list.
and he set this upon a rocky island off
the coast Of northwestern Alaska. The
spot on which this latest light station.
Cape st. Elias, has been placed is the
southern extremity of Kayak Island.
and Its establishment marks signifi-
cant step in commercial progress.
BY reason Of it's very remoteness. no
imposing ceremony could celebrate the
founding of the new lighthouse on
one Of the most important on the coast
OF A119k6, as II Is Inc idHVidii iiS III loi
vessels bound for Prince William
sound or Cook Islet. from either the
the Pacific coast of the United States or
southeastern Alaska
This Is an extremely important
point" said Mr.. John S. Conway, deputy
commissioner of lighthouses, as he ran
his finger over the map to the long
rocky island jutting out from the land.
on whose remotest point the light has
Just been set in operation. Copper
River railroad has its terminus at Cor
dova, Prince William sound, and Its
prominence is still further heightened
by reason of the new Alaskan railroad
now under construction.
-
The work went on rapidly. The
working season is short in that region
only from May to October. and condi-
tions are hard. Actual construction be-
gan in June of last year; was suspend
ed early in October on account OF
weather; resumed again in May. and
October Of this year will see the last
Evening star., 1916-10-22

in the archives of the state. In 1920 q
fire occurred which did considerable
damage. the keepers excuse for this
being that he supposed ye fire was
occasioned by ye lamps dropping on ye
wooden benches and snuff falling off
and setting fire." Another fire occurred
in 1851, which nearly destroyed the sta
tion, and in 1916 the British completed
it's destruction by blowing it up.
A fine old mezzotint of this first
lighthouse in America Is preserved by
the government. The view is given
from the water. and in the foreground
appears a British customs pinnace rid
ing at anchor.
The lighthouse was rebuilt on the
same. site in 1888 by the state of Mas
sachusetts. and this stands today
guarding the entrance to Boston har-
Dor and representing the first aid to
navigation established on this con-
tinent.
Since the building Of the first light
house in Boston harbor two hundred
years ago tho United States has estab-
Evening star., 1916-10-22

cludes light stations. light vessels. fog
signals, buoys of all kinds. minor
lights and day beacons.
The Jurisdiction of the lighthouse
service extends over the Atlantic. gulf.
great lakes and Pacific coasts. the
principal interior rivers, Alaska. Porto
Rico and Hawaii. and all other terri
tory under the jurisdiction of the Unit
ed States with the exception of the
Philippine Islands and Panama.
In the Philippine Islands the light
house service is maintained by the in
sular government and supported en-
tirely out of the revenues of the is
lands At Panama the canal govern
ment has charge of the lighting of the
canal and approaches under the general
appropriations for the canal.
The first American lighthouse, the
colonial structure on Little Brewster
Island, completed on September %. 1716,
whose 200th anniversary was celebrated
with fitting ceremonies last month,
was made necessary by stress of cir
cumstances, according to report made
Evening star., 1916-10-22

great Importance. Everybody goes and
invites friends from the interior. and 1t
is the usual thing for us to clear from
three to five hundred dollars in three or
four appearances I am stage manager
and director, and my little actors be-
come quite enthusiastic. because they
realize that the more successful they
prove in their parts, the greater the
pleasure they bestow on those who are
denied the enjoyments Of music and
theater.
when Balboa has seen our efforts
to its satisfaction we begin a tour Of
the school cities and play to large and
admiring audiences. During these itin-
eraries I act as chaperon. and there is
no pleasanter feature of the work. Be-
sides these entertainments. we have
bazaars where the girls make cakes and
candy and fancy articles, and the boys
do their share in the technical schools.
With the proceeds of all this activity
we are soon to furnish a reference Ii
gym and decorate our classrooms with
good pictures.
LAS for problem involved through
the head Of each family fastening home
taking every chick and child with him.
we have met that by providing teachers
whose sole duty is to look. after the
pupils who through no fault OF their
more, Of the brief school year. These
teachers have well ordered itineraries,
and they visit the entire district under
me. appointing certain hours for GER
tain studies. This schedule Is placed
conspicuously in all the school cities"
Miss Daniels finds Uncle Sam de-
lightful person to serve, at least as he
presents himself In the Canal Zone. The
Evening star., 1916-10-22

has given us a fattering and most en-
couraging rating
There are one or two minor prob
lens to be solved, as, for instance, the
habit which parents have of taking
their six-week vacation during the
school year. and the feeling of restless
ness which pervades all classes in
Panama and which attacks the younger
people at regular intervals. In every
school the teacher has mere sojourners
as pupils; but it is seldom an entire
community is in what Is considered
exile and trying to pass the interval as
pleasantly as possible We recently
started an alumni association. and the
cordial responses received from pupils
in every part of the world show that
they hold their old home in Panama IN
deep affection.
Then. the teacher in the Canal Zone
has distinct social duty toward her
pupils and the community. So we give
several entertainments during the
school year musical and dramatic, ana
really these performances are events OF
Evening star., 1916-10-22

ISIS JESSIE DANIELS. princi-
pal of the Balboa High
School. is a powerful link
connecting those serving un-
Evening star., 1916-10-22
LIGHTHOUSE, TALLEST UNITED ST
WELL A A MARINERS

detail of the work accomplished. 1t
was thought that the work might take
three seasons. but conditions have ia
vored u.s."