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Roseburg, Oregon.
the Center of the System
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GREAT PROGRESS
OF ROSEBURG
Our Beautiful Little City Has
Taken Great Strides "Reg
ulation" . Doesn't Regulate
In City of Portland.
(This column is edited by a mem
ber of the. Roseburg Good Citisens'
League.)
Because a dive Is allowed to exist
by nerveless officers and becuuse au
occasional "drunk" appears on the
streets of Roseburg, some peoplo say
that a dry town is a failure. The
progress of Roseburg brauds this be-
lief and assertion as raise, but to re
enforce this contradicting evidence
It might be well to compare Roseburg
as it was eight and tea years ago
with what it is now.
A certain visitor to our city ten
years ago, remaining long enough to
become acquainted with the oldest
Inhabitants and all the local cele
brities, rettirued this summer. This
is the chango that he found.
Ten years ago the block between
the McClallen House and Josephsou's
was avoided as much as possible by
decent women, whose sensibilities
were shocked by curses aud foul lan-
guage. In the town were either
fourteen or fifteen suloons. Three or
four bawdy houses openly advertised
their business through a dozen run
ners to the youth of the town. Drug
stores were contlnunlly tilling pre
scriptions for the diseases thut ac
company shameful vices, and the
whole town recognized tne existence
of the element known as the "under
world" as a controlling factor In the
community.
Social life was not of a very nign
standard. Roseburg wbb known in
those days among traveling men
and railroad men aB "the worst
town" in Oregon, ranking lower
than the mining town of Baker City
and the sheen and cattle town of
Pendleton.
Time was when three or four insu
ranee companies absolutely refused
to take policies In the city or nose-
burg. '
While Roseburg Is not now per
fect, there Is not a Btreot on which
decent women cannot walk in seen
rlty. The worst spot at present Is
near the depot, but Is better than the
best block used to be. Now there is
not a saloon, though several "near
beer joints make a poor Imitation
Now only one house of ill-fame is in
operation openly, and perhaps if the
officers did their duty it could he
put out of existence. If you will talk
o drug clerks you will find that pre
scriptions for the disgraceful dis
eases have fullen off. All the Are in
urance companies, who cun, gladly
do business here.
Socially the town is far better off
now. Purity and clean lives Is now
the rule.
To what is Improvement largely
luer Undoubtedly In part prohibi
tion. Not only has there been
change In the people here but the
est class of people are coming to
Roseburg. And It is the clean, so
ber people who will raise the apples
and pears to make Douglas county
famous. The barkeeper, the saloon
runner the parasite of women, do
nothing to bring prosperity or hap
piness to a community.
Tha foregoing observations are
those of a man who saw Roseburg
ten years ago and who has recently
seen it again. As to the progress of
the town along moral, educational
and financial lines there can be no
question. To realize the great im
provement that has been made In re
cent years. It is only necessary to
take note of the fact that there is
much public criticism of the estab
lishment known ns the "cold stor
ago" plant where It is supposed that
beer Is sold In violation of the Inw,
but a few years agd there were
fifteen such places In Roseburg. They
were all licenced and every one was
just as much of a nulsnnce ns this
cold storage plunt, and people did
not have much to say about It. What
a great improvement in public senti
ment! To be perfectly fair it must be
admitted that prohibition has the
effect of making the liquor traffic
odious and of educating people along
the right lines. So long as liquor
can be shipped in from adjoining
territory, prohibition will not be per
fect, but the prohibition which we
have had under local option Is a
great Improvement over the condi
tions which prevailed when we had
the wide open saloon which defied
every law for its regulation. With
state-wide prohibition, the conditions
will be still further Improved and
when the time comes when Congress
shall absolutely prohibit the shipping
of liquor Into a dry Btate then we
shall have prohibition In Its perfec
tion. It Is of no use to talk of the
drunkenness that exists In Maine,
for instance, when we know that the
whiskey sellers of Boston and other
cities are continually shipping their
goods Into that state. Congress has
legislated upon this liquor question
at different times and each act has
been more stringent than before, and
there can be no doubt whatever that
the time Is near at hand when we
shall have an act of congress which
will protect a state like Maine from
the outside liquor dealer. It Is no
time to go backward, but to go for
ward, on this liquor question. No
man can point to a single good that
comes from the traffic. Why then,
should the traffic be permitted to
exist?
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Vote down the so-called "Home
Rule" amendment which gives the
cities and towns the exclusive right
to license and regulAte the. sate of
liquer regardless of tha state conr::l-
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RICK RICE.
The Housefurnlshers.
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tutlon or the criminal laws of the
state.
Vote for the constitutional amend
ment forbidding the sale of intoxicat
ing liquor within the stute of Ore
gon and vote for the statutory ennct
ment which is to carry this proposed
constitutional amendment into effect.
Vote alBo to keep Douglas county
dry.
The proprietor of the notorious
Quelle" resort In Portland wao con
victed of selling liquor contrary to
his license and yet the Portland city
council refuses to revoke his license.
What a strauge lnfuence the liquor
traffic has over city councils! What
nonsense to talk about regulating
such a business! Let us cut it out,
root and branch.
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
To the electors of Douglas county:
Having received the. democratic
nomination for re-electoin to the of
fice of county clerk, at the recent
primary election, I hereby announce
my candidacy; for said otnee. At
all times during this, my first term
in office, I have endeavored to con
duct the same In an economical and
business-like manner, and feel con
fident that by strict personal atten
tion to the duties of the, office I have
gained your approval.
1 hereby solicit your suffrage and
votd for re-eiectlon.
Yours very respectfully, '
B. H. LENOX.
d-Bw-n8 Pd Adv
DEFECTIVE LAND TITLES.
Are In many cases caused by care
lessness on part of conveynncer or
scrivener lu properly describing the
land and showing the names of
parties to conveyance correctly, but
lu most cases the fault is with the
owner, who Is too prone to think his
title Is Infallible as long as he hns a
warranty deed. Mnny persons hnve
thus lost thousands of dollars In
Inw suits, wuen a few dollui'B could
have saved them great loss and ex
pense. "Know thy land as well as
thyself", an cmluent attorney onct
snld, you can do so by -having an
abstrast of your title made by
Our abstract plant is ti.e most com
plete In the state of Oregon. We
own the only abstract records in
Douglas county, without whicu a re
liable abstract cannot be made.
DOUGLAS ABSTRACT & TRUST CO
Cor. Jackson and Washington streets
Mercy Hospital Training School.
Young ladles desiring to onter th
training Bchool for nurseB ut Merc
Hospital will do well to apply at once
as the class IB now forming.
A thorough course of lectures glv
en by the leading physicians embrac
lug every subject.
School District lliind Election Not'oo,
Notice Is heieby given that at a
school meeting of school district No.
4, of Douglas county, Oregon, to be
held at the Lane school building, in
inld district, on the 22nd, day of Oc
tober 1910, there will he submitted
In the legal voters of said district til
question of contraoting a bonded
debt In a sum not exceeding Our
Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00)
Dollars, for the purpose of purchas
ing a site and erecting thereon and
furnishing a High School building
for said district.
The vnto to he by bnllot upon
which shall be the words "Bonds
Yen" and the words "Bonds No".
Polls to be opened nt one o'clock
P. M. and remain open until four
o'clock P. M.
Bv order of the hoard of directors
of school dltrlct No. 4, of Douglas
county, Oregon.
Pnted this 2f.th. day of September.
1(M0. at Roseburg, Douglas county.
Oregon.
.1. C. Fl'U.rcrtTON,
Cbnlrman of Board of Directors.
GEORGE NEl'NEK. ,lr..
Clerk of School District No. 4
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NOTICE FOIt I'l'liMCATIOX.
03(1.10.
Department of the Interior. V. R
l.nnd Office nt Roseburg, Oregon.
September 20. 1910.
Notice Is hereby given that Edgar
Walker, of Dlllard. Oregon, who, on
December 17. 1903. mnde Home
stead entry No. 13290. for S. E. N
E. V,. section 6. township 29 S.
ranee 6 W., W. Meridian, has filed
notice of Intention to make final
commutation proof, to establish
claim to the land above described,
before register and receiver, at Rose
burg, Oregon, on the 5th day of Nov
ember, 1910.
Claimant names as witnesses:
George Mnyborn, of Dlllard, Ore
gon; .1. II. Yonnce, of Dlllnrd. Ore
gon: George E. Keller, of Dlllard.
Oregon; J. D. Walker, of Dlllard,
Oregon.
BENJAMIN P. JONES.
..... ' Register.
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boot black can be promptly uccom-
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A Finn Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries.
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