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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1914)
I THE CITY ; THE PARKING STRiP FOR FLOWER BEDS. beautiful!! 73 Acre Farm in Looking Glass 'For Sale at $4,500 Easy Terms. Part in bearing; Italian Prunes. 2 acres in best variety apples. Plenty of wood and water. Deep Soil. W. H. RICHARDSON Always have an am ple supply of cur sup erior carbonated be verages on hand. HOW CIVIC WORK WAS STARTED BY A MOTHER. 217 PERKINS BLDG. ROSEBURG, OREGO g"NO PROPERTY LISTED UNLESS FIRST.CLASS BEAR SEZ: Delicious! 'Try It! THE BEST EVER! Kippered Herring Norway Herring Milkner's Herring Kippered Salmon If you taste it once you'll order more Everything good at MARSHALL'S "the pure food store" PHONE 1S4 You Dont' Have to Go to Sea to See PAT For Cement Culverts, Cement Sewer Pipe, sizes 8 to 36 inches. Cement building foundation and chimney blocKs. Cement sidewalKs and Cement worK of any Kind. I have five or six bouBes 1 will sell cheap, as I want to use the money in other business. See my burglar proof window lock, Its O. IC. See Pat's Elastic roof pulnt for leaky roofs. We build, move or repair your houses. BusIdhss buildings a specialty. Ovoi (orty years experience In building. F. F. PATTERSON CONTRACTOR and BUILDER WEST ROSEBURG GROCERY We can saveyou money on your grocery bill. Ourstock is FRESH and COMPLETE. Phone your need. Prompt delivery and satisfac tory assured. Alll our goods guarant.eed. "We Give Hosclmrg Trading Checks" DOWELL & BENEDICK PHONE 29.; WE DON'T CLAIM To be better than anyone else, but we do S2claim to do the same class of wdrk for less Jjsi money. See me and get my prices. -itfM B. F. CHILSON 24 4 S. Kane Street. Ask For Douglas County Creamery Butter And Patronize a! Home Industry" DOUGLAS COUNTY CREAMERY A Dusty Streut May Bo Made a Bower of Bloom. Often do we hear the complaint, "If we only luid room fop growing dow ers!" iraMe by those 11 nt'ort unatus whose luiiies are crowded on the ull too small city lot. Vet it seldom oc curs to the ni to utilize the parking strip for dower beds, thereby uratify- iux their own desires and at the same time making the dusty city streets h veritable bowel of bloom. Most of us consider that we have reached the limit of possibilities when we have sown the space bordering the pave ment with wrnss seed and set out a tree. With the sprouting of the first green blades our troubles begin. Thought- toss pedestrinns have no inclination te. l:eep off tin grass." especially where cutting crosswise will save a few steps. i I - si' t VC 1 1 . , ji ' ,) -ft. AJ, 1 J J's:V7 W - stl-c AN EXAMPLE OP WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH ( A. l'AUKINO HTIUP. permit their horses to browse ou pas tures green until the curb side of the strip is gnawed bare. But when the space is filled with liowers things are different. Even the thoughtless ii iid careless have scruples concerning (lower beds. Besides, most cities have ordinances prohibiting the mutilation of shrubs and trees In the parking. Where I he dwelling opens directly on the street a parking tilled with shrubbery lends an air of seclusion and privacy and at the same time cuts o(T much of the dust of a busy thor oughfare, while (lie shade of green boughs is very grateful to the passer by. All extra space may be planted in dowers. Varieties vuU s petunias, pansics. dwarf nasturtium., jmrhiiacu ami ot hers, that will bloom through the season are best, ("lowers must not be allowed tit go to seed, for the plants would stop blooming. In the illustration a color scheme in yellow was carried out with old fash ioned marigolds, double buttercups and California popples. American City. ; t The Welfare of Her Own Children Wi the Incentive. The welfare of her own children started an Indiana mother In civic ef fort and eventually drew her out of her own home to lead a victorious struggle for a better housing law for the whole state. Mrs. Albion Bacon tells in the Survey how it all began: "Going home with my little girls skipping at each side of me, I surveyed the school grounds. I hey were cov ereil with cinders and broken rock. " 'This is what roughs up our shoes so and skins our knees when we fall down,' said one of the children; "'And see here,' exclaimed the oth er, 'what the boys throw at each other.' "It was a pile of decayed vegetables, chicken heads and other garbage at the back of a grocery opposite the school yard. "That afternoon 1 had a long talk with some of the leaders of the Civic Improvement association, whose chil dren went to the same school. A few days later a small procession composed of civic improvement leaders and other young mothers beside myself walked into the city huiluinu and up to the otlice of the city attorney. "If the city attorney should confirm our hope that the title of the city was clear to the old canal bed which form ed the site of the school building In question there would be a large- tract available for playground purposes. "There was some discussion, tu which tlie ladies took an animated part. I had expected to remain In the background, hut with some surprise and confusion I found myself taking a hand tu the argument. ' "It was like a pinnae through ice into freezing water. But the lee was broken, and I was Initiated Into civic work! We were given slight encour agement and left the city building, disappointed, to plan the next step. After lunch further effort and agita tion, in which I was not nble to take part, the matter came to n definite set tlement, a goodly tract was added to the sell oo I grounds and the whole fenced in and Improved. And so our effort bore late fruit" They are beverages that please even the most critical, for they are delicious and pure, being made from the purest materials and under the most sanitary conditions. You are invited to call andinspectourplantany timeyoufinditconvenient. ROSEBURG SODA WORKS Phone 1S6. Authorized bottler for genuine "Hires" Root Beer. We deliver to any part of town. FOR COMMUNITY MUSIC. .CHANGE OF LOCATION. MR. GEORGE R1TEH hns moved his office furniture from 311 Per kins building to 123 Oak street, tills room will be occupied until the new office and store building now being erected by the Provid ent Trust Company, of Portland, at the corner of Oak and Rose streets is completed, where special plans have been prepared for 'In? interior of Ills new REAL. ESTATE OFFICE linnclics, FarniH, Orchimls, City Pi-oporty, Timber Lands. THE VALUE OF SURROUNDINGS Dr. Drinker Applies Conservation to Surroundings of Workers. Dr. Iirluker, president of Lehigh uI versity. in a recent address on "The Conservation of the Natural Resources of the Nation," outlined the value of conservation as applied to ordinary life and activity and to the surround lugs of workers of brain or brawn. He said In part: "Let us apply the study of conservt tion to the young men of our schools and colleges. Today you are heinj: trained in school buildings that are! well ventilated and lighted. Vou arc provided with ample athletic ground" i for recreation and exercise. The change from what whs afforded In the past comes home to me when I look n round j my nlma mater (Lehigh) and notel what the students today have to make' life healthful and pleasant as contrast ed with what we had four or five dec ades ago. j "Today the great corporations of our land, employing large bodies of labor-1 era, realize that to get the best work out of their men It is to their interest j to see that the men are provided with j good houses a ml healthful surround ings and that provision Is made for amusement and open air exercise. When visiting the Panama canal In the autumn of 1 1 1 I had a marked In stance of this, showing how our gov-f eminent Iti the wise, broad conduct of t ; that great work under Colonel Goeth als lias kept tin principle prominently I to the front. ( "The day has happily iniiie when a j great national engineering work lik ' this Is run with an eye not only t. ' cost it nd expedition, but with rare, in 1 finite care, of the comfort, health and j plea-Mires of the employees, insuring ; j spirit of contentment and zeal htghM I conducive to good work, good moSK I and good order. This Is conservation of vital force.' ' Thl conservation of energy thrncg'i : sanitary building and healthl si;r ! nun dine is a preachment that might i well be echoed in many of our smaller 'town nnd eommiinitle. That tow v I will thrive est which let Conner to the vital energl of Its Inhabitant C J and tli In means military buildings and I siirnnindiiigs that are healthful mid ; thai give, treasure to the eye. Wisconsin State University Plans to Assist Communities. Community music throughout Wis consin is to lo stimulated through sys tematic effort recently organized bv the stale university. A bulletin of the I extension department of the university calls attention to activities showing how music Is becoming popularized throughout the United States. The bulletin instances a "Pennsyl vania Oberainmergati" at Bethlehem, where n local choir gives "what nro conceded to he the finest presentations of Bach's work in this country," and a "Swedish Ualrcuth in Kansas, at the town of Llndsborg. A particularly interesting account Is given of the "outdoor sing" at Anoka. Minn., tlie Idea of the supervisor of music In the Minneapolis schools, which he carried out at practically no expense. lie mounted a box and led n band and D.ono people, who came from neighboring villages. In the familiar old Bongs which every one knows and loves. KITorls winch have been made to control street music nro also men tioned. In some cities hand organs are supplied with music for the folk dances whl h children learn in the schools. In Vtostoii street Instruments must have their tunes censored before they are given licenses. The bulletin announces how the uni versity, through Its extension division, will assist any community In the state. It plans to rent at low cost music for choruses, bunds and orchestras, and it Is now arranging for "a course in music apprei i.itiou. consisting of rolls for mechanical piano players and disks for phouogta jtlis. together with a series of lectures or studies. This material will be sent out in a way similar to that In which traveling sets of books or clippings are now put at the dis posal of lo alitles. The depiiittueiit wilt further assist In the foriuitiK of entertainment courses Teachers of music will be provided for communities, and the plan will involve circuits of several neighboring email cnriimuulties, each of which mny thus obtain part of the service of a well fulplHd miirtlclan. Better Street Signs. correspondent sends the following excellent suggestions: If (he names of ad l reefs wen- stenciled In the ce ment when sidewalk are laid It would be a great ble.-shig. The names should ; be pi. iced on all four corners. At , Ic.ist the work should b.-gin at once I wuh nil new sjdew.ilkv This does I away with ail temporary signs on .o1s o on buildings, ft Is permanent fun! does nwav with the periodic r ; nev.nl and teadfjistinent of fdgn Since the name would be on all cor-; tiers they uon'd be In plain sight and j do nv.(j- with The expert dMnation ntw fro.pu.utly ine sary to find the' fiU4 ! Auofht-r snggevlon Is that the nutn i. In each olof k can be In Men ted In tNe Mime way. Six hundred on one 'ortii-r shows nt mice w Idch side Is . vm ami nhl' h war tlie nnmt ers nre Jogher than i"f and whhh way the? nre lower. A row the street '(t tell. trw whole nto;y. This in a great cod venience nnd very easy to secure. Take Your Choice! Cooking and Heating Schedule For Eloctilo Ranges, Irons, Chafing Dishes, and other Mis cellaneous Heating Devices or small Domestlo Power Devices. METER RATE Three cents (3) per Kilowatt Hour Minimum Charge. ...$1.00per mouth FLAT RATES Electric Range for Domestic Purposes $5.00 per month Electric Water Heater for Domestic Purposes.. $2.50 per month The above rates are for permanent service only, and provides for the Installation, by the Compnny, of a separate meter for meas urement of current UBcd tor cooking and heating purposes. . DOUGLAS COUNTY LIGHT & WATER COMPANY OPEN FOR BUSINESS ROOM I, BELL SISTERS' BUILDING W. A. ACHLEY, TAILOR Alexander's Park Lots Fronting on Umpqua Kiver, covered with grand fiiint oaks hundreds of years old, are places of contentment away from the buny city lift) with Its BtruKI?l for making money. Hcstiiig in a hammock between a couple of thcHa monarchs of the furcHt, looking upon the slow flowing Umpqua Kiver, where in summer hundreds of children are taking a healthful hath, is a picture of childhood's duys, and it gives peace of mind nnd reHt do the body. 6o FOOT FRONTAGE, 250 LONG They are the bent investments of any kind in Oregon ut 1500.00 only a few are left. Theterms are suitable to all purses. Address Umpqua Land Q Water Company BOX 475 You Are Entitled to the Best AND THE Roseburg Steam Laundry Is where you geUhe best. Try us and be convinced. 438 N. JacKson Street Phone 79
