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.
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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