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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1912)
Zbe IRoseburo Evening Ulcws CITY OWK.'Mlj I'AI'KH CM 1). Shoemaker alitor and l'roprietor "HELLO" When Alexander Graham Bell, after nearly a life time of effort, perfected the telephone and gave it to the world, neither he nor the world really knew what its great value would be. From a crude and indifferent beginning the telephone has become a necessity of our modern day commercial lite. Long ago it became a great convenience to the busy housewile for she could go to her phone and in two :ki three minutes place her order for the day and thus save the trip of an hour to the shop which would otherwise have been made. The telephone today reaches every part of the civilized world. It has pene trated darkest Africa; it has stretched its wires and poles over ice clad ground in wintry Alaska; it has connected the islands of the seas with each other; in turbulous China ic has made great strides and thousands of people are on the wait ing list; in fact every where the phone has gone it has met with favor and so great has been the demand that the man ufacturers have not been able to supply the instruments f;st enough. On January the first of this year there were approximately 12,453,000 in use in all parts of the world. Of this number the United States had 8,362,000 in use. ltns is 67.1 per cent of the total phones da use. Canada had 335,000 phones, all of Europe, including Great Briton, had in use 3,239,000 while all the other countries combined had 517,000. Thus it will be seen that the United States alone has . more than two-thirds of all the telephones ot tue world. To accommodate all these subscriber: everywhere the telephone companies have nad to string up 29,566,000 miles of wire, or enough to go around the earth at the v4uiui iioi nines, ii siretcneu. out in a HJme toward the sun this amount of wire would reach about one-third of the way to that burning orb which gives us heat and light. In this country alone there are 18,179, 000 miles of wire stru'ng along poles in order that the people may be accom Imodated with the service. Nine people out of every hundred in the United States have a telephone. This of course is an average, and the actual number of sub scribers exclusive of duplication would be less. In actual money the telephone com panies of the world have invested the enormous sum of $1,729,000,000. $1,025 000,000 of this amount is invested in' the United States. We go lo the telephone and talk with our friends and don't think very much about it. We may finish our conversa tion in a few words or it may seretch out for a number of minutes. Each one of these conversations represents a call into "central". This call must be answered by the operator and the connection made. And there were 22 billion of these calls last year. Just think of it 22000000000. It is beyond comprehension. In the Uni ted States alone there were nearly fifteen b:llion calls into "central". If it took one minute on an average to make the con necticn, complete the conversation and close the call on the switchboard it would; represent 1,523,111 days, provided the calls came one after the other through a single central operator. In other words it would take 4,1S4 yeais to finish the 22,000,000,000 : calls that were made last year. And yet under the splendid system of the telephone ' companies these calls were handled quick ly and easily without any great tax on the: energy and effort of the operators. ! The latest figures obtainable, those; for the the year 1909, show that the gross I earnings of the telephone companies fori that yearwere $328,717,721. Every phone in this country earned, on an average,, during the year 1909 the sum of $32.67. Tht se are the gross earnings. What the expenses were in relation to the earnings the statistics do not show. The investment of telephone com panies in this country is only exceeded by the investment in iron and steel, lumber and timber and yas, illuminating and heat ing. There are 228,000 people employed in variouscapacities by the telephone com panies in the United States. Surely this is a gigantic business. It has so entered into our life as a nation that it would practically stampede busi ness suould trie phone be wiped out over night. We could get along without it but it would be like going back to the sythe after using the modern reaper and binder in the fiield, or like transporting, mail by singe or horseback al ter carrying it bv ex press trains. Alexander Graham Bell. has done as much for humanity as did Gutenburg when he invented the handprinting press. Bell ranks with Stevenson, who created the hist steam locomtive; with Fulton who designed the first steamboat; with Samuel Morse who made the first telegraph; with Elias Howe who made the first practical sewing machine; with MeCormick who built the first harvesting machine and with Edison who invented the incandescent lamp. The minds of these men grasped big ideas. They solved these ideas and gave them to the world, the fruits of their gen ius. They have by their labors made com munication between mankinde asier, they have reduced the cost of labor in the field and home. They have made life easier and belter for the average man. They stand outamong the men of their own day like the milestones along the corridors of time. THANKSGIVING-CHRISTMAS ROAST Chicken Turkey Mutton Beef Pork Pig Are all Bene to a Nicety by Using a Savory aster Self Basting Self Browning Cooking to Perfection Bottom One Piece Top One Piece Air Tight Steam Tight No Corners Regular Price the Country Over $1.25. Our Special for WeeK Ending' Novemb Churchill Hardware Co. FOR SALE IN BASEMENT DEPARTMENT. HI'Ufl.Ali SOXCJ SEltVICK. unci Albany. Xo. 10 leaves Albany .oU . ..... A servtce of Bong at the Pre8b. inna :tu a. m. io. leave i-ori- terlan church Sunday evening at land 6:00 p. m., Salem 8:30, Albany! 7:30 . Come and help us dedicate 9:35 . ni. j our new song books. The following A local standard sleeper will be T"" nun,b,'rs wi" be Blven by the choir: operated between Portland and Eu- Send 0ut Thy Lght ...Gounod gene on trains 15 and 16. ti10 choir Salem Oeer Hranch Line Is com- The Divine Lullaby Parks pleted and local service from Salem The Choir to Woodburn via. Oeer will be In- The Homeland (Trio) llanscom nugurated .leaving Woodburn 8:05 Mrs. Kory, Miss AKhaiis, Mrs. Colt, a. m., arriving Salem 9:25 a. m. re- The Ninety-First Psalm... MacDerntld turning leave Salem 5:30 p. m., ar- Mr. Fory rive Woodburn 7:00 p. m. Quartet: nock of Ages ... Dudley Duck Two additional trains will be put Mrs. Fory, Miss Haldeniann, Mr. on between Albany and Corvallls; i Stone. Mr. Fory leaving Albany 6:3r. a. m., arriving I Abide With Me Shellev Mrs. Fory The Lord is Exalted : West Oornllts 7:10 a. m., returning In time to connect with Xo. 28, also leave Albany fl:3;' .p. m. on arrival of No. 9, and returning leave Corvallls 10: 10 p. ni. The Choir I'm a Pllgram Marston Quartet ni6 DAILY WEATHEU REPORT. II. S. Weather Bureau, local office, Roseburg, Ore., 24 hours ending 6 a. m., November 15, 1912. Precipitation In Inches and hun Iredths: Highest temperature yesterday 6C Lowest temperature -last night 38 Precipitation, last 24 hours 02 Total precipitation since first of month u2 Normal prcclp. for this month 4.37 Total preclp. from Sep. 1, 1912, t0 date 8.20 Average preclp. since Septem ber 1, 1877 6 7g Total excess from Sep. 1, 1912 2.b4 Average precipitation Tor 34 wet seasons, (Sep. to May Inclusive) 32 36 WILLIAM, BELL Observer. .MC(illl) IS AIITKKI) !' ICKiUM: MIUIH.II. I-C4H1.T Of SUHIIK,. llllt .U Willlll W.lla May Km,,,, Mildred (.., n WALLA WALLA. Waah.. Nov. M. That antlim-ltlcs ut r-;uM.i' (jr.. think W. M. Ilns,,,,, tl.., ,.; ,' of mystery, who or mystery, who left lust night for Scuttle ntter occupy ing the !( 1 ti t for two days, may know something of the murder of Mildred Crcen in Kukimio August "K was evidence,! by u telegram recelv ed today. The mettsiige from tiie sheriff at Eugene asked that hi coiiiiectUn with (lie case be Investigated. Ilrison left last night and the message was forwarded to the officers at Seattle. Ilrysou came here In August from Koatlle. accor.llng to the family of E. II. Allen, white, at whose home Hie black loan slaved for three months without neighbors knowing It. Allen will not give the exact date, except that It was about three month-, ago. The Aliens are much ,. erried that Itrvson has been made to leave town. They say that the peo ple of Walla Walla will have to nm- wer to Ilrvsnn H ml the Lord tor what they have done. Allen said that theirs was the house of tied, the only olio in the world. Mrs. Allen says that llryson had no liifliicnru over them, but that she Is a medium. She avers that through I her connection with tho spiritual I world she got a straight tip on the results of ii prizefight before It came off and that her husband won a good sized sum on betting on the pre ordained winner. iioisi;i;u .t -Clin.: xt is MVSTKKV TO COMPANIONS. Marslifleld Itcconl Says Cruise 'of Ait Idem, Will Never He Know ii. Itosroe llolslnger. the young man who was Injured at the Mi'Donald Vanghan logging en tup on Daniels creek yesterday, died an hour after .'aching Mercy hospital. yesterday afternoon. The victim or tho accl . dent was rear lirakemun on the log ging train and fell from the string of cars while euroute fiom the woods to the landing. The train rrew saw ; Hrakeiiian llolslnger on the cars , when a mile from the landing, but "tissed him soon afteru arils, shortly jlff.-e Vouching the lniiiMtuf. On ' sc.irchitm for him they found the victim with a crushed skull, but there were no obstacles near that Indicat ed he had struck anything other than, perhaps, the logs or a truck of the car when he fell. There w lis no wav to find what had caused the accident and It will remain a imstery. ! Mr. llolslnger was about 24 years of! age, and was a part owner In tho Allcgany-Draln auto line. During1 I he winter months ho was engaged with tho McDonald-Vaugban eople to fill In the time when tbe'ailtos are not running. Mrs. WcDonald is nil aunt of the deceased and Mrs. W. W. (age Is also nn mint. Mr. Uolslnger's father lives at Hosebilrg and the re mains will be taken there for burial, accompanied by .lurk McDonald. The dead man's father was for many years a blacksmith at llrockway, u small country settlement, eight tulles this side of Hoseburg, on the Myrtle Point stage road, and of late years bad lived In Itoseburg. The death caused a general feeling of sorrow among the loggers In the camp where tho deceased was one who was very well liked Marsllfield Record. CMAN'UE IN Til A I X SF.IiVICK. Green Valley Orchard Tracts In .5 and 10 Acre Subdivisions The Son thorn Pai-Hlc Company an-' nounoosi, of footive WVdnesday, No voinltor -0th, thoy will have tho fol lowing; rhango In train sorvioo. n IT loaves Portland !:!, p. m., SniYin 4:27. Albany 5:3i, Kn-no 7:U. Uosohurs 10:0.-, p. m. IMniiiK oar, Cortland to Cott;tt:p imvo. ; No. 27 loaves Portland p. nv, Salmi 5:. 'IS. Albany i; :t', KuK-no 7 :.ri. No. 2S loaves Knt;er.o 7:2 a. in.. Albany 8:40. Salem :3t). Portland 11:30. Nop. 27 and 28 will cany cafe par-' lor car. Additional sorvloe will nlso be in augurated locally between Portland . GREEN VALLEY ORCHARD TRACTS are all within a ten minutes walk of the S. P. depot at Green, Oregon, and only a thirty five minute drive from Roseburg. The tract is nearly all level land and beautifully situated. The soil is fertile and rich and full of productive elements. Roberts Creek runs through the subdivision tJThese tracts are on the rural mail route. There is a general store anu puunc warehouse, a ireignt ana express oihee- at Green. A number of 'dwellings are now under course of construction. Green is a live and up-to-date community in every respect. ' These tracts have been on the market for only a short time. Persons desiring small tracts for fruit, vegetables or poultry should see these at once. Low prices, easy terms. You buy direct from owner M. B. GREEN R. F. D. ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 2F13 r. r -A