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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1913)
WEATHER Yesterday's Highest Temp . . 62 Last Night's Lowest Temp 40 Fair Tonight KriiUiy Itnin VOL. IV KOSKIU lMi. DOUGLAS COUNTY. OUEC'ON TlllltSlU Y, OCTOHlilt 80, 1013. Ho BOO ' Salem Welfare League ' Libels Roseburg A BIG EHD Ot Douglas County Products At Land Show. SKINNER & SONS CONTRIBUTE; IjUihI Show lroinises to Fur Surpass All Former Fveutrf of Ita Kind Claimed That Represen tative Should lie Present. The Douglas County exhibit to be shown at the Chicago Land Show was increased today by six boxes of fruit, two of them being sent in by Skinner & Sons, the Winston growers, and four boxes of extraordinary fine prunes furnished by the Drager Fruit cojnpany. This completes the exhibit to be sent as far as Douglas County is concerned with the exception of a box of walnuts to be furnished by A. A. Guiwits. The space at the United States Land Show allotted to Oregon is not quite as large as the space occupied by the Douglas County exhibit at the Salem State fair. Those who vis ited the Salem fair will remember how thoroughly well filled the ex hibit space, and when one considers that the Oregon Development league selected fully one-third of the Doug las County exhibit at Salem for use at Chicago, it can readily be seen that Douglas county will have a far larger line of products on exhibition than any other county in Oregon. In view of the fact that Douglas County will have such an excellent showing at the Oregon State Exhibit there should be a representative at the Land Show to point out the va rious Douglas County products and to answer questions relative to the county itself. Practically every oth er community in the State of Oregon will be represented, and there is not a territory in the t.ato equal to the I'mpqua Valley that will not have its booster there speaking a good word for his own particular locality, wh;e presenting the attractions and nit rits of Oregon. - The secretary of the Commercial club has already received from a number of other secretaries the no tification that they will attend the Land Show, informing htm as to the rente they will take and inviting him to select the same route. The secre taries, knowing that they are to go, have ample time to prepare suitable literature for distribution, and will ho able to present the resources of their particular communities to de cided advantage. If the Umpnua Valley Is to be rep relented, it should be so decided promptly, in order that proper adver tising matter be prepared and full arrangements made. j With the advantage of a principal; portion of the State exhibit coining! from Douglas County, and the fact; tiiat the Cntpqua Valley representa-; live can wear on his bosom the blue ri! ben won in the State contest, It seems almost criminal negligence no ' to take advantage of the best adver ts tig opportunity that has ever been pi rented to Douglas County in its history. ' if the other communities of the tta:e ran afford a representative with till the advantages held by Douglas Cn :nly it fi'oiiis that this county .h'uld be represented, whether or it. t other localities are, but in view if 'he fact that every section Ore gon, other than the I'mpqua Valley will have representatives at the show, t -(TP should be no delay relative to the decision whether or not Douglaw County is to be represented. TIMKVKS KS mi Wl.VCAH AXI ni'KN cask or f;oons co. SKiXKO TO l)Hl ; (X)MI'AW Nothing of Value In Taken, According to ltrimrt of letectlve Hum. i I Some time late la night thieves, entered a boxcar In the local South ern Pacific rallroafl yards, and after Mrclng open a create consigned to the Marsters Drug Company, ran- irked Its contents. i'r.rV. trc- 'I'.rv- d th'i usks paskknuku. ' Somewhere between Portland and Glendale train No. 13 lost a pajama-clad passenger Monday night or early Tuesday. The conductor reported this morn- ; ing finding the berth empty with the occupant's grip and clothes. The name of the pas- senger Is .unknown. Medford Tribune. morning, and Detective Burns of the Southern Pacific company was noti fied. After a careful examination it was found that the thieves had ap propriated nothing of value. It is presumed that the robbery was engi neered by hoboes. No trace of the men responsible for the would-be theft had been found late today. The car, in which the robbery occurred, wan stationed at the freight house early last evening, but was later moved through a mistake to some remote part of the yards. This gave the thieves an excellent oppor tunity to carry on their search for valuables unmolested. ,DJi:s OF CATHOLIC CHl ltCH KXTKHTA1X AT THK PAHIS1I IIOI'SK LAST KVKXIXU KveniiiK In Spent Playing; C. nines, Indulging in Social Converse and Oilier Pleasantries. A very delightful evening was spent at the Parish House, of the local Catholic church yesterday, when the young ladies of the con gregation entertained In a most be fitting manner. The evening was spent in playing games, indulging in social converse and other pleasantries. No formal program, either literary or musical was rendered. A delicious luncheon, served by the young ladles proved a feature of the evening. The Parish House was beautifully decorated for the occasion, miniature pumpkins and other Hallowe'en ef fects predominating. A typical for tune teller was kept busy during the evening relating the past and pre dicting the fiKure of those present. The committee In charge of the event was composed of Margaret McCIallen, Clara Relsenauur, Marie Walsh, Viola Wlllett, Mabel Bryan, Gertrude and Elizabeth Dolan. Mrs. Morris Wilkey, Misses Rhisens and Miss Lillian Krogel. i:osi:i:ri:.' tkawimi chi:cks. 30 .Merchants Organize Stajnp Com pany to ComM(4' Willi (iroen Stumps. The Itoseburg Stamp Company Is 1 the name that has been adopied hyj an incorporation to do business In j this city. Fifty merchants will give) away the checks issued by this com-1 pany. One of Itoseburg's prominent' husine: men in an Interview with; The News tliis morning said: J "In view of the fact that several! of the local merchants have been us-' ing foreign trading stamps, the re-, mainlng merchants, fifty in number,' have formed a company known as ' the Ito-iehurg Stamp Company, Incor-i pointed, uud on and after Saturday.; November 1 st, each of t hose fift y j stores will issue t rading checks ' which will be in ten!; aim' able the same ns cash at any of the stores! holding a membership, and in addi tion may be ufH-d for t he purchase of premiums at the company's prem ium parlors. Th Ro-bura Stamp, Company w n-t organized by lo-. cat merchants in the belief that It would be for the best interest of the; community to keep the money ex- j peiuH'd for stamps at home nnd in circulation, rather than to send it' away to any big outside corporation,"; The stores Issuing these stamps, ! and other details in connection with, their use will, it it announced, ap-j pear later in the advertisements ofj tho members. j Lee Kennedy, who has been spending the past few days in Rose burg left for Coos county this morn ing. His wife went to Wilbur to day where she will visit with her parents pending the return of hen husband. ' WET FORGES IN SALEM MIS REPRESENT ROSEBURG FINANCES Ridicule Roseburg Because it Lacks a Park System and Public Library SAYS ROSEBURG IS HOPELESSLY IN DEBT Welfare League Says that Prohibition has Caused Citizens of Roseburg to Seek Redress in Another Bond Issue to Pay Obligations The News Exposes Hand of Brewery League On Novemuer 4 th the city of Sa lem is going to vote on the question ' of whether or not the saloons shall 10 banished and a dry city establish-' ed in their place. Tho liquor and brewery forces have beet; driven to the ropes by an j ai used people who are anxious to : throw off the fetters of saloon rule with its attendant misery, poverty! and waste. The liquor people, the brewery and, ss'bion element have organized what: they call the Salem Welfare League' and this league which has ostensibly! the best business interests of Salem at heart is conducting the campaign j for the wet forces. Tho l'ague is spending large sums of money in ad vertising to influence people to vote for a wet Salem and the same old business arguments are used. The argument is advanced' that a dryj town is a bankrupt town. They say; that a municipality can not run suc-j cessfully without the revenue of the: saloon and liquor licenses ami the! money that is upent over the bar. j Hut this Salem Welfare League; goes a fit op farther. It holds up another city to shame. It flaunts before the people tho statement that! Ih- city referred to has been gradu-j ally going backward since it went; drv and that today the city cannot' meet it.; obligation and that at this time the officers are consideririi: the: advisability of asking the citizens to: vole a further bonded indebtedness to make up and pay off the dffeit. j This has all been sail! by the Sa lem Welfare League -and many oili er things besides. And tho city that the Salem eltue liine thus holds up to tb'i fsioii Ihthum' It is dry is lioseburg. In glaring hendliiics in 11 Salem paper appear the moi k 'Itebirrg'j I ittaneial i 'oiidlt fun f- j ter five en I'M of Prohibition". The; News prints the entire artic le whb'h : takes up about a third of a page! and is printed in heavy black tpe. 1 The article follows: ' j "Itoseburg, after five years of pro-. hlbiti'Mi, finds herself in a very much (list re.-i-ed financial condit Ion, She has real bed the legal limit of ten j iiiiiis for city purposes, and ,wih de-, faulted on current expense aecountHj for some time, mid at this time her: officials are di-cussing the advisable j it y 'if avklnir them to vote a further j bonded indebtedness to make up the. existing deficiency, which, at the last trial balance showed at $20. 403.2'., or within a few hind red dollars of the tax revenues for one year. "The present bonded indebtedness tola'! for general purposs $100,000, 'n three series, which were Ifiue1 in 1009 ($35,000), In 1910 ($40, 000), in 1912 ($12,000) and the bonded Indebtedness for paving im provements an additional $ 178. 955.08. This indebtedness of bonds and uncanceled current account war ratttji is against an assessed valua tion of $2,454,125. "Note that It hua all been created under u prohibition regime. "And with all of this created since the advent of prohibition In the con duct of civic, affairs. It has caused the property owners to go to debat ing as to what the future holds for them. The condition as these feu turqt present it, however, is not the only financial exaction that tis made nf the people who own property and do business there. Last year they ptiid an occupation tax of $i;,OX7.0fi. "This character of taxing busi ness and professional men is can Hd red to be the most objectionable species, and few municipalities em ploy it, which are seeking the pres ence of new enterprises and busi nesses in their limits. Then, too, Itoseburg's financial budget of to day discloses that it has "No paid fire department "No public library "No city park system. "The absence of these factors in their civic being takes from com parative expenditures a heavy per cetitafi1 that Is met by other cities. "The insurance rate Is very high. "Made t-o by the fact that it is not 1 possible to maintain the eqn i patent 1 that other cities have whose revenues J have not been Impaired by poll! ball action-" Tile News denies that prohihlhi tion has caused any or all of I bene j ttiinir. And following these so-1 called facts related by the Salem j Welfare Leautif The News wutiH l! prcrnt the true facts, tie urn onteo. J veiled facts, frit-u that every one w ho i has ct r:ii see em) ta', furls that ! ''iiih up ti e Sa'eiu Welfare League1 In jt n ee asp.--) that of pervert Inn ! tlM trill ll In (he cause nf the salnnn. the grog hop( the hnmcrv and the Ihttior dealer. The Salem Welfare o League hdn no high-minded purposes in view-- it does not look with al truistic vim on oil the be 1 Interests nf K:i!" fft Me reason for exist ence is to defeat probation in tliat f'fty and to perpetuate 11m Mihxm nod tUn hiewery in flic capital city of Oregon. Heal Pact. The real situation Is tl(fl Itose burg is better off, more prosperous, more sanitary, cleaner and more pro gressive, tlji at any otherme In Its history and thathe era of prosper ity datua to tho time that Douglas! county shook loose the fetters of the sntoon aim went over into the ury rankn. On June 1st, 190S, the citizens of Douglas county voted by a substau-i tial majority to eliminate tho saloon from within Its borders. Remember! the dale. It lias an impoitun bear ing on what follows. Far several years the eltv council and the people had been debating! the question of paving the business1 streets of Uoseburg. Cn Juno 18th tho city council of Roseburg hold a special meeting and started matters so that paving ou Jackson, Cass. Douglas, Washington, Oak, Main and Sheridan streets would be assured. The Umpqua Valley News of June 22nd, 1908, had the following to say about that council meeting. "The members of the city council conven ed in an adjourned session at their rooms in the city hall last Thursday evening, and during the few hours allotted to ho consideration of ac tual business, placed the pavoment project In fair position to reach a speedy realization. I'nllke at many pi-evioiiH meetings held by this body, all was harmony, the several liietn-Iki-m forgetting the minor differences of tho past, and all uniting in one grand effort to make Htehin-g a bright and more attractive municipal ity." That was the first time In tho history of Roseburg thn. tho paving proposal received a fair hearing. And so unusual was it that a newspaper article written at that time had to comment on the fact that harmony prevailed In the meeting and that the members of tho council had decided "to make Roseburg n bright and more attractive municipality." That toi'iuil had tho right Idea. It wanted to brighten things up a little bit. It decided to do it at the time that the walooiiN were swept out of the city. Since that time about ,13 miles of pavement have been laid In Rose burg. The bonded Indebtedness against the paving Is charged up to each Individual property owner and not to the city, as our Salem Wel fare League would have the good people of that city believe. The prop erty Is worth twenty Units what the paving amounts to. Itonehurg has a bonded Indebted ness of $100,000, Junl as the Salem Welfare League says, but. It wouldn't hurt Rnsebtug if It had a bonded debt of ffWio.ooo. The property 1-J here to tdaud such a valuation. A city doesn't get very far with pro-gre-- tinle-M U doe. have a bonded indebtedness. It is easier to make Improvements with money obtained through the sale of bonds than It is to tax the citizens for the entire amount of the Improvement In one year. As a matter of fad Itoseburg would not today havo the beautiful stretch of paved streets If each prop erty owner would have to pay the entire- coat when the paving was com pleted and accepted by the city. That ts the benevolent aspect of a bond. It gives the people a chance to pro gress at a little expenditure every it often. It aetH on the public like llo installment houses. Their patroiu are able to buy good substantia! goods by paying a tinaU amount down and the balance in easy pay ments, Some years before the city nl Itoseburg went dry the city was in debt, ou cuirenl expemerf about $ 10, "O'i.iiu. Thin amount has giadualh decreased till on .laniniry t of ihi. year the outstanding warrant amounted to f l'ii .n;j ' r;r,. -r.. un-r Honser this morning said that the "uiHtandlnir uai ranis now j amount to 1 1 ."1. !:. P2. Th roen'?. treiismer has on band now certain money which has been received f-o,ri tile collection Of the October taxes TliiH amounts to about $::,quo.li( am; ! has not yet been itumed over to j the city treasurer. Theio are mil 'i two months of thb year, At the end of the fiscal year - bereinber ! st -it will ho shown that the outhtand Ing warrants will amoent to pbou H.r.no.fiO Ichh than on the firct of the year, and this in spite of the faci that Roneburg has not received a dollar this year from called neai beer resortH, On July 1,1th, 1908, there wen three banks in the city of Ronei,urg. i (Continued on nage 4.) II GREAT FEAST Served by Canyonville Re bckahs Yesterday. 01 STRICT CONVENTION IS HELD Min. Omrkxio WcmhIch, State I'lxyii (l'lit, IH-Uvciw Ai Kvcellnnt AtlUlVNK lllUHttll't IVovoh Keiitiuu of Occu-sioti. With over 100 persona In attend ance the annual district convention of the Hcbekah Assembly waa held at Cnnyonvillo yesterday, and from roportH. the guests were entertained oven nioro royally than had been an ticipated. The Uoseburg delegation, which consisted of twenty-four members ot tile Itoseburg Iteheknh lodge left hero on yesterday morning's southbound train and wore met at Riddle by a delogntlon Canyonville Itouekaha. Tho trip from Middle to Canyonville was made by private conveyance, and proved one of the features of the oc casion. The vehicles were comfort able and many of the guests wore given their first opportunity to view the splendid country lying between the two towns. Arriving at Canyonville shortly af ter tho noon hour the guests par took of luncheon, after which the business session was called in the auditorium of the lodge hall. Tho buitiness sosBlon Was in charge of Mrs. Charlotte Wooden, of Portland. Btnto president of the Mohekah as sembly. Mrs. Wooden, who is an able talker dellvorod a most inter esting address In wlilch she told of the rapid growth of the Hob;kah lodge throughout the United States, and Oregon In particular. Mrs. Wood on also touched upon the good that ' whs being accomplished by the ordor, and of how Its charity hus oxtended to the must remote points of the land: M . Wooden -5-ns fmnuently'," Inlonupti'd by upplauso at tho hands "f bur li.rteners. One of tho fea tures of the business session wna the exemplification or degree work by tho Kolicknli - degree team of tills elly. Tho KnsohurH ilebckahs have long been fiunouu throughout South ern Oregon for their efficiency In handling tho "zork of tho lodge, ami last night's exemplification or tho nevenil degrees was no exception. Officers for the ensuing year wore eh cted as fullows: Chalnnan .Mrs. Mlnola Strong, Myrtle Creek. Vlce-Chiilrinun Mrs. Sarah Ilald, itlddle. Serretary Mm. Hello Stephenson,' llnKeburg. Muiwlinl Clnru Cawlfiold, Itose burg. Chaplain Mrs. Klmmell, Canyon ville. Conductor Mrs. .1. A. Iliichnnan, Itonelmrg. Inside (iiiard- Mrs. Anlauf, Myr tle Creek. OmMiIp (Juaril -Mrs. Ktelzler, Myr tle Creek. Upon vole , r i lie convention It wan decided to hold i lie next, convention lit Myrtle Creel,. The dale of tile meeting will he announced by Mra. Woodm, the Ktntn president, lator. following the business session the guests repaired to the bannnet hall where they partook nf ouij of tho rrro'l. e l.i borate feasts ever prepared en a iiiiullar occasion ,H (js. tiici. The menu Included roint chicken, mashed potatoes, f-nladd, bread anil Inilrri-, coffee, choco, pickles, pumpkin pics, ami other del icacies too mum inn. t mention. It Is estimated that more than I no per sons were present to partake' of till) rcjmt. The Itoseburg delegation return ed here lato law night and are high In praise of tho entertainment af forded by tho Canyonville Ilebekahs. Tho program waa complete and tho work of the day was carried out with out an unplousant Incident. When It comes to entertaining, local Ito- nekahs nre of tho opinion that tho CanyonviQe Bisters are equal to any ? 0 ( i ccasion that may nrlce.