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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1913)
. - WEATHER Haiti Ton!sht Thuisiluj- VOL.. IV The affairs of the Roseburg Com mercial Club have reached a critical tHago. The Roseburg Commercial Club has been going backward for more than a year. The affairs of the publicity depart ment are in better shape and at the , present time are self sustaining. But the social end of the commer cial club has not paid expenses for more than four months. It is of the social side of the club that this article treats. The Roseburg Commercial Club's expenses are about S200.00 a month. This amount is divided as follows: nent 582.50: steward $(10.00; tele phones $8.00: light (avc-asot $20; magazines and papers 5. 00; ire $n.O0; postace and printing $2.50; i ei'ftirs. upnlies such an I1 rooms, light bulbs, floor oil, etc, $10.00. One month about, two years neo tha, commercial club luid 210 pav ing members. This wis the high est number any month -for three years. The mrMiihcrshln lias irraduallv fM ten off tni at the beginning of this . month there were TS members in ptifo sranamg, wnicn UT-ans inai their ones were paid in full. In addition to this number there pre 17 members who owe one dollar apiece. Thre are 2 members who owe two dollars aniece. There are ten mem bers who owe $."!.00 each. There are .'. numbers who owe $-1.00 or more apiece. The profit from the sale of cigars Local Telegraphers Meet at Commercial Club. NATIONAL CHAIRMAN PiiESEHT SluKler i king hours and Many Other t oiuHlonH Are Includ ed In the New Schedule .Many Attend. Local members or the Order of Railway Telegraphers assembled at tli'i Comnu-rcial Club last evening, v.heie, for more than un hour they discussed the new schedule of rates and working hours recently secured from the Southern Pacific sysiem. General Chairman .1. C. Cowgill and Uical Chairman T. M. linyd were present and explained the new schedule in detail. Cnder the new v age and hour schedule telegraph ers employed on the Southern Pa cific lines will reeeive an inrreae of fully ID per cent over that pnid under the eivtwhile schedule. The working hours have also been short ened, while other equally as import ant concessions ha been seen red. The Inereas-p in 'pay will total some thing over $ l,1u. no on the Southern l';:rific line". The new schedule h ume effect ivfi on Septeniicr 1. At fee meeting last nicht the nat loiui! and local chalrTuan -ilaine J what would be expected of the tele-tr-a piers with rcuard to the service that should be rendered the employ ers. The meeting as" wIl attended Mid pvervnne present bus well pUosed. There nre quffe a number of telegraphers r in ployed In t his e'ty, and suffice to say that thrv are pleased wt !i tlsp new sehed-.plft and tho benefits that will bo derived therefrom. The schedule wrs secured after several months of diligent effort on tho part of the national committee. MjiFiy conferences were hld with the f 'ilrond officials and finally a sat isfactory settlement, was effected. KIHOM MFN IM'1!CH.SK ,K. riXTTIEKS KIT IUN I1I.ACK ft 11 OfH'n ;rorer Htorn In lttiildin Kurmerly fcrnplM hy Nur-mtj- 'onipany. C. R. Krater and Uert Mott. wn'M T--en;;y rsid-nt of Oklshoma. thl : : r? rs?d the fixtures of Iiiihii imimn - ... ,miM irriiii i !" "in f -MliTfrV '- -r a ,j..A.adia.ol.-v'A,i ,1,v.,V....va.fr,ftW.8. 1 r 1 PAY illli A PANORAMA Citizens of Roseburg' Ar. You Goirg and other privileges amounts to about $-10.00 a month. Membership is what sustains any organization. The Uo-sebiirg Commercial Club needs at least 100 more members. It needs them now not next month or next year but now at unci-. And why doe? it need members? Because it would be a d'sgrace almost ; prime to permit this, organ isation to sink into oblivion. Because it would make Roseburg the laughing stock of nil the other communities of Oregon. Been life the Roseburg Commercial Club rooms ore the only place whe;-e all business men and members may tnko out of town friends, guests visitors or strangers, when thev are here linking around for a perman ent location. Brraus'3 the ccmmerrlal club is p. place cf general gathering for meet ingi of one kind or another which have something to do with the up building of the citv. And last because tbp comnicre!:;! club bus been the irreitest asset that Rost'burg poessos. Kew people rer.lir.e just what a power the Roseburg 'Commercial Club hns been in this city. George P. Sch!nser is a man who doe not toot, his own horn, lie doesn't tell, un loss askd. what the commercial club has done. And of late few people have been sufficiently Inter ested to even ask him what has been accomplished. But there has been good accom plished, f TRAVKLKR TlflVKH THAT WATCH W AS STOIiKX.' O. X. Ryan, who travels for the .Mabrchrino Cigarette Cnrn- pany, of Portland, this after- noon fei up the cigars as the result of a little Incident which occurred to him this morning. Mr. Ryan stopped at the Grand hotel !e:.t nk'Iit, ; r.d upon leav- ing his room this morning ne- gltcted to remove bin watch O i'rom b-meath the pillow where it was placed fcr t-afe keeping. O After spending rome time nbout town Mr. Ryan discovered that iii!- watch was missing. Ho hpstened hack to the hotel, and although he looked under t he pillow he could not locate the misj-ing jewel. He was. about ready to report his loss to the clerk when one of tl,e f.'n'n- bcrmrJds handed htm the wntih. Mr. Ryan was dellght- e( with the hnnrsty dlsplaved by t ho young ladv, and suffice to sav that, lie will long remem- her the incident. Kit chin & Miack, t he nurserymen. Messrs. K rater nno Mot t are ex perienced grocery men and will eu en a fir:t class grocery store in the building at present, eccu pted by Jvitchin Q- Hlack. on or about. Novcni. her 1. They 1 Tt this afternoon for TVr-land to pirrliiis th'ir stock. In addition to handling groceries the irent lenmn wf M al'-o 'ntnil a su-k ' f racket goods. The build ins; to ' oecuT'ifd )ty th W firm is owned bv ,. Ptinrtn. find is located at :ho corner of .(nekton and Cuha streets. K i c 'H n p I : r k will rem a :- n In t li e nursery ) u s-i n ok and wilt r n -headquarters For.i -where in the city. Tin; hi-: days r,.Ti;. A onp-horc traveling show panned through Hopeburg yes- terday afte.rnoon enront to Hillard whore It played last night. The show is traveling on freight f rn ins. and jurord ine to its manager, was three dpys lae in reachtner Rn:-eburg. ( As a result of the delay, the j manmrer faid he did not anti- ( fiti;!t a rapacity bonce last nicht at Hllarrt. With all the modern convenience of travel ( at hand, it appears most pern- ! liar to learn of n traveling ! show being throe days behind 4 schedule. mm liOSKltl ltG, l)()l(.l,.AS COUNl k'. (IHliOO.N WKKXKSDAY, OCTOIIKK 1.1, llMrt. VIEW OF Since January the first. 1913, eighty families havo moved to the Unipqua Valloy because they became attracted to it through the publicity work of the Roseburg Commercial Club. More thsn fif'y per cent of this number incited in Roseburg or mi PKOod farm land within a tew mile: ! of ihJa city. It is estimated that a self-support-I ng family is worth on an average $1 ' 009.00 n year to a community. ! On the above basis there will have ..Vircn spent in Douglas county this : year over $75, 000. to by newcomers. People are coming into Roseburg every day looking for farm land, ; mercantile openings, labor and fac tory sites. These people come from all parts of the Cnitcd Stales. Ytp'rri'nv them mine in the Tlne- brrg Commercial Club a man from California, one from Wisconsin, two f rem South Dakota and one from Dflias, Oregon. H;?ch one of t':e men were- here looking the country 'vpr. Thy want to move from thnii rre-.-ont homes for one reason or another. They had hanl or Ros:d;irg lb-niirb th,- efforts of our ommer ci:.l elul). Thev were sufficient ly iM'ire??ed with the character of Mr. .ciiinc j(H'h corres;iondi'nee to stop here nnd make on investigation. K Roncburg get one out of every ."v si ranirfi's who stop hern the v. ork of th commercial club has been nrore thim wiil driife. On "u frvernge there nre " per sons u month who visit Mr. Schlosser. nmo. Hold Regular Meeting Here Last Evening. j ROUT I KE BUSINESS TRANSACTED . iv Credit System to be Adopte i ly MeicIwmtM as SiMtn iih I'laiis i (an Re Illfecti'd Inter J est Is Manifest. j With nearly every member of the organization in attendance, the local merchants association held its first regular meeting at the comiueiclal ;lub room- last evening. Consider ably ii.tt t-Ht was m:.nif:Kt In all matters brought up lor discussion, nearly every member taking un ac tive part in the debates. 1 Following a complaint registered at a previous meeting of the mer chants relative to tho anniillment or; southbound passenger train No. IT.: Secretary (loom informed the mcju-j hers prrsw'tit lat night that he had ' referred tho complaint to the Koore tary of tlif State Retail .Merc'nants : Association. In response a letjt-r: was received and read by Mr. Hoom,' In which the secn-tary of the Slate Retail Mcrcbantr Association stated that he had taknn the proposition up with John M. Scott, of the South rn Raelfic lines, and anticit-ali-d a nar isfnetory pel t lenient at an early dale. The letter' received by Mr. Room a-ked that full information i-iriirrl-ing chant1:' if otierating trainw h-re be pent to Mr. Scott thnt h- nncht hi? in a position to act lnteilhr'M y The secretary nl.o rejiorted that he and the ioard of director; hnd partfallv prepared plans In th" direc non of InaiiRiirating a modern cred it system in this city. Th. ftv.tfm will probably be perfected and fib niitted to the consideration of tie P'-sociatitm at Its n-xt rcguHr met-; imr. ! .lust p-ior tn adjournment Pub-; IiVity Manarrer .Schlosser invud the n.A'iiberpt of the rneteiants niaii''i-t ! t .'in to attrnd a meering of th rom j HM-rcial r'nti then in pror;rf The ; !r: i ration was aeciited Ty local mrchrints n"n :itl'n its '.'vTined to becom on of the m-r fef.i-entlal bodies n thl r-tln of h "'ate.- The meetiu-.M are well .-. r-A unrf the member-, appear to vnce conttfdprabU fn;n-fc In all 'ters brought up fo- jronaidera-t.rn. THFMPD PROSPEROUS ROSEBURG to Allow the Commercial Club to Die These people come from everywhere. Reside'?' the persons who actually como here and look nt the country there are on an average about 400 letters r?ceived direct from persons v.-ro nre contennrnting locating in this val'ey. In addition to th' there nre from 1,000 to 4,000 indirect in quiries received through what is , Imiowii as the Oregon Development I Ieoeue end the Sunset Magazine, i These inquiries must be answered; these, strangers " withi'i our gates j tuiMt be shown about and talked to Who' v.ill (answer rliese Metiers! . v 'ro will talk to then? possible citi , ?ens If the commercial club is per- mi'ted to die? The answer is that wiint is evet y one's business Is no one's business. Those letters, these visitors nitis rrcntve attenticn. j The enminercinl club is tho hv : rnd on'v means that we have to enr I rv P'i ibis correspondence and to talk j to these strangers. ; Roseburg is growing. We all wan'. It to grow more. There nre not more thnn a d'i.e vne'tnt houses in the 'ty todnv TVo inoni's aco tndnv ttit Dnn.r tns County I.iglii & Veer Co-n i-tnv had 4 meters In tlieir bar'' i of un Since thnt t tm 1 hev iiav fns'iilled those 4.1 meters and i :uo"e besides. This is just on" Ivt: tent Inn 1 :a: peoiile are moving In. But RoMflnirg will i;n0n sink intf tifMiP'on !r ifq cr)iii'i--r'f''.l fluh if .'iiMiV-nod. If :f-, riti7fu beeoni 1 (i!or ,,,;, n i,ec )'ne Bfolen:,. Willi "e;rlv 1- tn t'ij..iid P'"' ) 'n i 'if ci'v pud a irr:c" ci'n.rv pep- ;; i ! h( rnmmpci:' t cP:b shO'i-il Charles Glider FU'fuscs Waive Extradition. QUiKE WIRES FOR AFFIDAVIT! iridei W jih Itecciitly .Arrc-tcd Ht ; V.inncimi, Nov., ln a Charge I of NonSiipHirt Wife. ! and Child Here. Ils! rid AtTornev (Jeorge M. Itrown today today received a tele gram from Sheriff Qiilnc, at present at Winnciiiucca, Xev., to t ho effect ' t hnt Charles t; rider, untler a i rest t.erti charged witti the crime of non-support, has slgtilfb-d hi.i inten tion of fightini; oxt nidit hm. ; Sheriff Quine lias ribKed the dfs-' iril -Mfurney to forwiiid imuiediatc-' ly i.Ifidavits tending 'o iilsiamiati' i r''-i:gM rp.m wui.:h tl;c at -il.-ied V...S t ti;i:i into ciisiodv. Irr!Htni:ch as '1 it ':tiicf Htl -rtMy ,k a' Sab mi to-! ili. y t !;e Hi it Minvi; rt ankvil f ;ir in t Ik- ! :e!"i;ra hi c:i iinot he Itirwerdeii m; fen t -iiiorrow. (";; ',-r was re "U'ly arre:t(d afl "a tip',n -tfi apliic fd- ! l-cceiwd rc?m Sheriff riuin ! accused of h-iving d'-ser'ed l'i Mid child who fi'e at p:escn(i tsg in it(;i burii. :rnwb f,,; t::'r,- !. a i.o.isiMMt v hi f (irider being arreted on a luorej e;vi.j'-: rliar'.;e then the c,:,,. (,i pre.--j '- ''I I'M'MI-, I Ml., n inill 'fll.lM- i'l j rh;i hi v n-t ejr'-fiiiiter an re,-. litfflcujtv tii rMturing the prss v nt 'Ik- ':;!!'!. of the Nevada of it ' o'vi'ver, that ; d"i:i-. ed t it ere . f c' e-m Ik' : nor of Nevada, j I VIVMRSITV AI'CRORKMTIOV. Tn the Kdltor: Should every voter read the vot ers' pamphlet f"nt them by tiir m-c-r'dary of p'.itn. It would hardly he ii' i c-4ary to call .''Milion to ' he two -efired liills r-t-tt ln-f to am-r -print Inns for r"'r stnte university to provide tlie ,'cfet ry buildings to keep paee with the rto-mal L-rtiwi h of the university urid to ileeenfly re pair and pr'?-orv tb vT""fr'y, Rut nin"e wc nro all veil aware n (he fact that a larce pr'-nntaire of the'w namphlets are either destroy ed u-tihoui luj dc.-lrc io read lU.ai r"anfrB ' 1 to : burg and you wouldn't be content nave a membership ot too. fuit let U8 got 200 first. Then aim at .100. Then 500. The farmer, the rancher, should belong to the commercial club. It is a nice, wholesome place to visit when In town. It has tho lat- est magazines and pa tiers on file. The mcU'.hms have tho use of lit-' etaitae an well as t'.io other privi leges of the club. Mr. rarmer, you will bo benefit-! tod by membership in tho connner-! cial club. i The Roseburg Commercial Club Is a vital, throbbing necessity in the1 life, tho upbuilding and development j of this city. To let. it die now would1 ho .like 'killing , the goose that laid, the golden egg. The club must go on. Mr. Reader a;e you one' of the 78 j members who are in good standing,: or ore you one of those who huve permitted, through neglect, to kop ! !n good standing, or are you one of j those who does not belong at all ind why ins hem content to re Main on t he nut side and reap 1 he 'cncfHs without aiding or assisting 'he ciiuso by yc:u.r membership. If you belong to either one of j fhe::o ear-e:i don't you think it In i ibour time to wa!;n up and do some-! thing. j Don't y"U br'Icvc it i worth nno inlliii' ,n iiu: nth to yon tn know t lint I lv' a i'f a meuibc- of'the connner-j Mnl club which is working '.-very 1 irv fcr a hi:-: : .'. " lir '-- !" n i:rf,f-r ro.: : : ; atul V ! '-.l"n C-l"'ltV. .i"u think It ovi'r. If ynu rre I"' e"c vd 'n V. 'v-e- 1VKS I'lVM IIDM.AirS. A man en t e ic d t 'i e X " ". s office nt noon today, and without giving his n-uue d-(-nated ?5 toward the fund lin ing r:i!e.(l Tif a drstitute ni'ither and five children of t hi!, cit y. The News wou Id have gladly published t he name of this liberal donor in the evnl. It had been given. M rs, 1 1 cinli lie, who war t ho first person to d 'scover the, sad plight of this enforl i!';ate family, rept rte-' r.t neon to day that contributiot.a wo.'o comii:g In fast, and that n:i p!n i.-rovlslons would , p'ob b!v be secured to k:'en tho family Tor seme time. The fa ther recently deserted his wire, who has fivn small chil dren dependent lliion her for a living. The oldest of thn children is nine years, while the veiitigest Is less than a year old. o- nre r: r !p-t'v 1 :i i T a'd.. and osl tiefcre a favoraidy opportunity arises In which if) re -id them, other ree.'tn'i t-hoiibl be depended upon for infor mation to t''e vr'ter III lie'phig nlt decide rlL'hlly iiiMHl que iOf;H iitl mfiled utid'T eiiber the inhiaiivn or refereiiiltllll. And. t hcr-'r-'-e, rerr i:''nr ! 'u- ft" that the cotr c'etit ioe i;pnionx and advice of our neiM'-ii-Tn ami ti,"oi who are ht'.'-r pofteil ih-n u. m iv ? e i-( oil', - r t'w l f t r Hah'" -'Mirces "f ':i for tn? I Inn when given 'Aitinuit sny t-ie'ive -r Inter'!. v.-i(houf d!s cii'sing !n tVuil the merit f! or I he two bill ; ref rr (1 to, I ad -friend- and a' (jualnfanef ii to jlve the:- i::r.eit rn'rij'Tt to (h. t o nieauje:! f,.ff i red to. And. hope mid trut-t that tiiete H o oil j., ihl ( f-oiuinuriit v Vluv-e !;-tr-ni ! re flifi'h'fl to nier.- ei'ht I !)! n I' tine V. ho v. I! r I.' 'Jtitte to co'tii- forth and advi e hb I a id dojng AI.UKKT A It It A f I A M , .I:ittes Str!icvtrn, r t)r;troi. "!"'i.. "ho h-.i-t ),r n FMK'ndltig the nr.t Tew d:-ys in ItoHfburtr lift for he vuth iIhh teeiniuir. He j niueh ftleawod with Kof-eberg and Dougln1 ftninty. l-a rmT' com Iff to tov.-n wit h hr:fivy loadft eo'nii'ain that they urv erottitn to cM'el, cPh'T be .laelfj-ni 'r Main n'-eei rrndfu. lemling south '"e-ii iho mr Creek bridge. Only this morning several teaum fell lo t'-e pnvement in attempting to reach the lofflfncstt d.ftrict. A little nand 'rlnlled on the pavement at th n't"-.' ffi.oclfled would savfl conldr nble difficulty end put the farmer in K('Od niimcr. ! Yesterday's Hifhcsl Temp 55 Last Night's Lowest Temp . . 3T No. ao to stay here if you wore not why don't you support, financially aa well as moraby, the ono organtia tiun wnich has for Its sole purpose the advancement and ptfugruBB of your city. Make up your mind that now la the Lime to uct. Don't wait for sumo one to come around to ask you to sign a subscription card. Ask. tiie nut member of the club you Be a to give you a card. If you don't see any one who Is a member take a walk up to the club loom and sign a card. Wo ure all interested vitally so In tho prosperity of Roseburg. Wo who live here arc responsible for the impression that others re ceive. We are given the credit tor pi ogress as well as blame for stand ing sllii. We the citizens in and around Ito.-eburg must keep the commercial club alivo. It is up to us to you and to tho rest of us to make good. Will wo make good? Will you help? TIio best way, the safest way 1b to heroine a member of the commercial c!uh, that organization which hut done t'tings and which will continue lo do things for Roseburg, U given li ' i'Mi nri, the encouragement, the membership of the citizens of this city. 'J Nj VewH i faith in the citizens of Ht sebuig. It. believes that they will dime to the rescue of tho Com niercl tl Club. It feels that once the conditicn is known thn crisis will be pa it. Let us all pull together for the success of the commercial club "d a membership of 200 before November first, Gathered Here by a Govern ment Agent. VISITS THE CITV ENGINEER l!Mt l:ui'( l itnl Say I'oiiglHM Coun ty Ios(vMca Itiilldiug Mtouo Second (u Nono In Tho Kntlro i'tlnvost. Minet K. Unrchard, of the Unit ed States geological mirvey, ban been spending toe past few days In Kose hurg and vicinity on a mission that uny prove u greut benefit to the community. Tl hi gentleman was sent here hy the Cnlted SlateB tovi?rnment to In- " "Mill- .1111 i :piiM i INI I III" i 1 U 1 1 I V -i'td iunntttlrM of building stom that Me to lie found In thU county, fir. Muchavd biited the offfreB of City hln gl net r I J Icks t his mot it ing, and i er Milling ivimvelf knovn whh .'fiven the opportunity to view sam- ;:im or building atoiif. In Mr. Hiclts' io V len. lie pl on;,iTieed, t)vy . am !. t eual. If not mipnior In ri'ialitv to the average stone in other y.-r'. of ! hr- '-; t . Having to leave Uoj-etmrg totiirht f"r oiher points, Mr. Hicks lu'tuni'--:d to ii-ciire Kiiiiipl.-s of building vt':ne fio'-i t)-n V!!l'ln"n vectlotis nt r! county and end the same to Air. fjereh-ird. l-'rom what M p. Hiirchurd said here todav I'e 1 mu'b pleased with f-'indHionn and brl)even that HrtuglaM eifv p(:!J4.'H?"S a nuality of bulld- re which could be utilized to ft-.-. ' t advantage An soon a! h 'ii-U'f hfs In vent I rut ion ho will file a 'or.ial rep.rt n-iiii tiie Cnhed ;te" g r v i rnnvnt, t;er.--.'e Kimball kl filed ft villi itl the circuit conn, n which he seeks o recover the sunt of $:!r.d from Lil lian and Or in l;ivK The h mount of the claim is naid to be due fin a prom!tN-orv not, executed on October 10, i!Hl. in addition to tho princi pal plaintiff aki intercut as wll an attorney feen in the sum of $140. A number of work men employed with a traveling show complained to the local officer yesterday that thy were unable to collect their pay. Dar in tho delay of the nhow In the local railroad yards ( 'on stable Singleton took ( matter un with tho manage ment, but without materia! results. In all tho men claimed thnt some thing over 119 wan duo them. 101 SAMPLES o.