!The Best Winter Coats! NEAT, NIFTY GARMENTS IN A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT ABB NOV BEADY FOB YOUR INSPECTION. i H ' Our Line of Silks Is the Best EVER SHOWN IN ROSEBURG IT HAS NO EQUAL AND MANY BEATJTIF.tfL PATTERNS ARB AT YOUR DISPOSAL. ' ' ' t : : - ; A Nice Line of Furs V.!'1;" ' ' -. FOB WINTER IS NOW ON DISPLAY. CALL AND INSPECT OtTB WINTER' LINE OF GOODS. WHICH IS COMPLETE Vt EVERY PARTICULAR. ROSEBURQ I. ABRAHAMS Science plays Its part In a steam laundry and modern methods render contagion Impossible. Be fair to yonrselt and your family. Patronise a fteam laun dry. Try our way this week and measure cost fairly. On that basis, outside of the safety basis, you will win by sending the wash to us. . 'Phone we'll call, ' ROSEBURG STEAM LAUNDRY PHOJT.l 70 -.- LAST WASH THURSDAY NOON. i jb -"Tirv nurture j SWT JX A-'A. ASJ VV fcj For ginger ale or Coca-Cola, phono 186..;- . . . .- , tf Delicious home-made pastry, at the Cafeteria. tf. Money to loan on improved prop erty. Douglas Abstract Co. 31 W. E. Atterbury yesterday remov ed his wife from Mercy hospital and placed her In a private home. Chicken dinner every Sunday at the Cafeteria. . ... tt. Townshop Maps, Elue Prints, Le gal Blanks. Douglas Abstract Co. SI " Fred Williams spent the week end In the city visiting with his family from the Glenbrook farms near Blddle. . Critics pronounce "The Marne" the greatest war story ever written. Fic tion Library. tt Webb Pennle, , recently relieved from duty in the navy at Seattle, has accepted a position with the Southern Pacific here. For the best quality miik,' $3.75 p. quart by the month. Phone j.86. Roseburg Dairy and Soda Works, tf. Loren Miller, who recently received his discharge from government serv ice, left this morning for home after a short visit in this city. ft ...... J ... , V. - V , V. n 17Acta burg National Bank. Securo one for the safe keeping of your bonds and other valuables. ' For carbonated water, sodas, gin ger ale, root beer, coca-cola and nec tars at pre war prices. Phone 186, Roseburg Dairy & Soda Works. tt ' Dutch bulbs now on sale at" "The Fern". Hyacinths, crocus, tulips, all colors, freesla and gladioli. Mrs. F. D. Owen, .111. West Cass street. .. tf . Broccoli. Its time to think about it now for next season. We will furn ish the seed andi help you grow it right. See the manager. Umpqua Valley Fruit union. u ' Cooked foods, salads, ect., for the nartles. banauets or dinners dellv- ered on short notice by Roseburg Cafeteria. ' The Imported stock has a higli falutlng name, tut our superior gin ger ale is made lust tne same, Buy it by the case at pre-war prices. Roseburg Dairy and Soda Works, C. A. McReynolds and L. T. Glb- son left this morning for tne men brook Farms, where they are em- MRS. L. B. MOORE Piano Studio Latest Approved Methods. 611 Hamilton St. Phone 1ST 'R. REAL Wf AT E " City and Farm Property, Winches' tor bay and WestUke Town Lots. GEORGE RITBR. Ill West Oak Btreet. M. C. RADABAUGH, , AUCTIONEER Any one having sales can arrange for dates at the Umpqua Valley Bank. .. Store For: OREUON ployed making many 1 improvements at that place In a building way. For milk, phone 186, . Roseburg Dairy, tf We carry ever 700 different legal blanks. Douglas Abstract Co. 31 B - 4 - U buy a farm, C J. A. Walker, Roseburg 'National Bank Bldg., room Z, up-stalrs. . . tf You will sooner or later use Din inond Brand hard wheat Flour. Why not now? Quality the best. Cost Chas.'Stanton has accepted a posi tion in the freight depot with the S. P. Co., entering upon his duties last Sunday. . .-,' If you want to sell your Farm or City Proporty, see Walker,' room 2, up-stalrs ..Roseburg National Bank Building. - , .-, tt W. H. Hartley, a prominent resi dent of Riddle, was taken to Mercy hospital Sunday to receive treatment, having become 111 while' visiting in this city. . , , The Mental Culture Club will meet at the Parish House Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2:30 o clock, for doing Red Cross work."" All members are earnestly urged to attend. - Practice thrift by getting your milk at $3.75 a quart a month from Rose burg Dairy, besides getting the high est quality milk. You can buy a W. S. S. every month andi then get milk for less than others sell it for. tf ut . .- PRUNING. Have your fruit or . ornamental trees, 7lnes or bush s prune-1 by I man with practical experience; write LOUIS H. BERGOLD Roseburg, Oregon .NEW TODAY. LOST Somewhere on the streets, a bunch of keys. Finder please leave at News office. ' FOR SALE 250 feet No. 1 rustic 560 feet No. 2 flooring; Star wind mill, new. .A. A. Emmons, Happ Valley. Phone 17F6. FOR SALE OR TRADE Two -No. 1 grade short horn bulls 1 Is If months old, the other 1 month Tel. 6F13. O. M. Green, Melrose Oregon. FOR SALE Twenty-five Shropshire ewes, nearly all young; 3 Shrop rams coming one year old; one Cotswold ram, grade, coming two. 10 of the Shropshire registered. $15 per head takes the bunch. One red Shorthorn bull, yearling past, $50. H. B. Reed, R. F. D. 1, Rose burg, Oregon. 'nose clogged from .ajdold or catarrh - - v Apply Cream In' Nostrils To Open Up Air Passages. Ah I What relief I Your clogged nos trils open right up, the air passages of you'rhead ore clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, mucous discharge, headache, dryness no struggling tor areata at mgnt, your com or catarrh is gone. Don't stay stuffed not Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptio cream in your nos trils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head; soothe and heal the swollen, Inflamed mucous membrane, giving you instant relief. Ely's Cream Balm is lust what every cold and ca tarrh sufferer ha been seeking. It's j Just gpjenaia. THE BATTLE SCENES - VIVIDLY DESCRIBED. (Continued from Saturday.) After our rest at Chardogne we got orders one fine day, or I should Bny, one very dlsugreeable dny, to go to a point near Bnr-le-Duc, and entrain for Belgium. Quite a change In the scene of operations for us, and as it turned otlt, the end of the. war. Again skirting the environs of Paris, getting but a glimpse of (the Eiffel, tower and tho heights of Mont niarte, we .went north, passing many of the famous places of the war, Amiens, Perrone and numerous other places whose names have be come familiar in the papers. Sud denly one dark night we were dump ed out, much to our astonishment, on the outskirts of what once was the famous city of Ypres, today a pile of shattered stone, destroyed beyond repair, . One might say that not one stone or brick remains upon another and be truthful. Resting in some British dugouts, just lately va vated by all except the rats, after two days we took up a march across the most damnabjy desolated coun try It has been, or ever "will be again, 1 may fairly say, my fortune to look upon. This place you know, Ypres, was held by, the British for the whole war and the battle surged back and forth before it without cessation 'during the whole duration of the war. but the British with characteristic bulldoggedness, never let go, with the result that the city Itself, and the country for miles -be yond and- many miles on either side, is like a page from Dante s Inferno. Words cannot describe the utter scene of desolation existing here for some six miles north, across No Man's Land, of torn up land, leveled villages, and ruined farms. We marched all day long, with frequent halts, as the road was narrow and In bad condition, and lammed with troops, and for such an utter picture of the wreck of war you would need look no further. Tank after tank destroyed and half burled In the Flanders mud, - airplane after air plane brought to earth by friend and foe, lying where they fell; trench system after trench system, half filled with water; mile after mile ol barbed wire mazes stretching in every direction, brought suddenly home to everyone, as the-line down in France had not, the supreme har dihood of the gallant British army, which like the French at Verdun, 'de termined the Hun should not pasB and pass he did nqt. But for many generations I will ' wager this No Man's Land of many miles win Deal silent testimony to the thousands ol brave men who He in the churned up land - whose supreme sacrifice a last won, we will all hope, everlast ing liberty and the end of war, al least in our time. . ' I hope Americans are not boast ing too much of what we have donr !n the war. We have done well, and beyond any doubt would have done more and more as the war went on, had it lasted, and as It is, with our fifty-three thousand dead and many more wounded, that is sufficient in Itseslf to' say we fought during the year we have been in it. But no American who has been over here md seen, the desolation of Verdun ir ftf Flanders will ever boast of what Americans have done, and I hope Americans back home will not do so. Having been In battle and knowing what It means, 1 couia not pass by this terribly battle-scared country without saying, to myself: "Thank God for the British army." It is literally true when I say not one foot of ground for miles in every direction1 about the city of Ypres has not at one time or another during the four years of war been turned over by bursting shells. A BritlBk officer at Ypres told me as we were looking out over the battlerield where the Canadians wore subjected to the first gas attack of the war in April, 1916, that not long before not a blade of grass could be seen as far ns the eye could, reach, and I could hardly believe it. Nothing remained In some places, of former villagers. One place I remember particularly, Poelcapelle, not a vestige remained, and to mark the way for troops a sign reading "Ice Poelcapelle" was all there was to say that there hod once been a village. The effect was GLASS OF SALTS If your Sac i is aching or Bladdei comers, htuul lots 01 warn and eat leu meat When your kidneys hurt and your back ieeiB BOTGf done get scare a ana prooeea to load your stomach with a lot of drags that excite the kidneys and irritate the entire urinary tract. K.eep your kidneyt clean like you keen Tour bowels clean. by flushing them with a mild, harmless salts which removes the body's urinous waste and stimulates them to their nor mill activity. The function of the kid neys is to filter the blocd. In 24 hours they strain from it 600 (trains of acid and waBte, so we can readily understand tne vital importance 01 Keeping the kid neys active. Drink lots of .water you can't drink too much: also act from anv oharmneiiit about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoon nil in a glass of water before breakfast each morning for a few days and your kidneys wilt act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for genera tions to cican ana stimulate clogged icia neys; also7 to neutralize the acids in urine so it no longer is a source of irri tation, thus ending bladder weakness. tiaa oaits isj expensive;- cannot in- IS ret makes V dellffhtful effervescent iithia-water drink which everyone should take now and 'then to keep their kid neys clean aal active. Try this, also keep up the water drinking, and no doubt yon will wonder what became of our Kianty trouble and Mckaeoe. BVkMPiQ NEWS MONDAY, JANUARY exceedingly, depressing.: One became adverse to looking about and kopt hiB eye straight downthe road, and on some of the weaker natures among the -men, who had Just been through the Argonne battles, it com-. pletely demoralized them. . j Blvounclng that night oh the edco I of No Man's Land, we resumed the march In the morning. The bodies of dead Boches lying about, and here and there a dead Belgian or French man, told us the battle had jUBt lately passed that way, in fact as we entered the city of Roulers we heard the enemy had only been gone week; however, not without wreck ing the city as much as he could in his retreat. Staying about hero for several, days, we cleaned up equip ment, rested men and horseB, and spectjng the Boche positions, and getting what lessons we could from hiB dispositions, as we well knew we would soon be after him ourselves. : soon resuming the march, we passed through the cities of Ingle munster, Wacken, Oostroosbecke, and Muolbecke, and before we knew it were up again with the sound of the guns, uur iriena tne Boche wus about, as we soon found out, as at night, not daring to come out In the daytime, due ta the air supremacy of the French and British, but he sal lied forth at night and amused him Belt dropping bombs on the towns and bivouacs. A most unpleasant sensation, I can assure you. lvinsr In your blankets at night and hearing tne wuirri wnirri or the Boche plane overhead, and It is so easily distinguishable from the - allie planes, the motor having a low moaning sound, ana wondering whether he would miss your particu lar billet very far.. L-One night our roiung aucnen tire caretuuy bidden, we thought, behind barn doors, gave us -away, and he let loose. His first bomb burst with a terrific crash in a Held several hundred yards away. killing a belated Belgian neasant. his second closer in, but luckily failed to explode. At the same time iie dropped some leaflets, nronntrnn- Ja, appealing to the allies to end the ivar, saying the Germans were only too willing, and threatening if we continued to fight, to fight to the leath. Rather a strange accompani ment to peace tracts, It struck me. Ot all the damnable contrivances of testructlon, the airplane bbmber Is the most unpleasant. One can dig n with ordinary Bhelling and only a lirect bit gets you., and with rifle and machine gun fire you - can lie down, but with a bomb from ever head, the BenBatlon la wretched. You hope he will miss' your particular nuet, ana mat is ail you can do. 1 lad the remarkable experience of weing a cocne plane come down in tlaines in the Argonne,' dropped by in American plane, by the wav. and the observer blown out of his seat by the explosion, of the gasoline tank, fell for a couple of thousand feet end, over end. The pilot, noor' devil, came to the ground with his machine, burned to a crisp. Such is .var, and yet men will stand up and sheer like the devil at such a sight. i know ! did. ... Not to weary you any more and to make my letter. short, let it suffice to say that again we went into ac tion between the Lvs and the Es- cault, or as the Belgians call it, the Scheldt Itlver. Lying on the ground all night, praying thn shells would miss you, over we went, or to be ex act, forward we went, for the war was now out of the trenches and over the open country. For . sever. more long kilometers that day we chased the Boche, mopping up ma chine gun sniper after sniper, and that evening found the old 91st nn the heights of the Escault, overlook ing the historic city of Oudenarde, or' as it is sometimes spelled, Auden arde. , Here the Spaniards fought a great battle In 1460, and later Marl borough won one of his famous vic tories in 1-752 againBt the French. We had, .the remarkable experience of digging in our machine guns on the very field where some of the worst of the fighting ot Marl borough's battle took place. Here from the 31st of October until No vember 11th, of blessed memory, we stayed, Dack ror two days in t he interim for a little rest up in a vil lage within sound of the guns, and then back up again in time to cross the Escault River at Audenarde, fer rying our machine gun carts, and swimming our horses, the Infantry UBing several foot bridges. Friend Fritz, luckily for us, here decided to move back. . He was retreating any way back to Germany, only we In the line didn't know it. However, be fore crossing, on the other side of the river, he had given us some warm times, and we lost a few men and I, fortunate again, came through without a scratch, although one morning . while dug in along the railroad embankment overlooking Audenarde, waiting to support an earlier r contemplated crossing, thought my time had come. Such a close range and intense shelling had not been In before, and only thanks to our deep little pits we snuggled down in did we escape, and as it was, one of. our officers, Larry O'Neill, of Idaho, who having con tempt for the Boche did not dig his deop enough and let his wheel pocket stick above ground, only to have a Boche 77 graze over his dug out, and explode Immediately on the other side, a fragment blowing his field glasses off his hip, and ruining them of course, reducing the glass to a fine powder.. He says that In the future be will have more respect for the seat of his breeches. - Later on crossing the river we continued the advance, and one fine morning, the 11th of November, we were Just getting ready to go over the crest In front of us, where we expected the ball to open, when a mounted courier came galloping along with the order, "Marshal Foch orders that all hostilities cease until further notice, and men will go Into billots!" - Finis L'guerre , '. " Believe me, Herman, the 91st will long remember the 11th of Novem ber. It was a wonderful Spectacle and a strange sensation to Bee men suddenly rise up all over the land scape as If there were no war on, as the English say, and yell and dance 18, 1010 Now Going On. j The Bargain Opportunity of the Year. ' Exerything Reduced.r.:;i:";:. 14 Off All Ready-to-wear Garments! 1-5 Off AU Staple Dry Goods! 1-3 Off All; Ladies' Muslin Underwear ' iO Per Cent Off All Shoes : Outing Flannel Specials at 27c Ginghams, such as other get 35c,1 our tfl(ro Iici r.Hi'tl ooO .T .--."u! The , most impressive thing of all was to hear the ever present roar ' of artillery, which never' ceased, day or , night, gradually die down, on our right and left, and .finally cease . altogether, ind by. noon what had been a battle front Btretcbing for miles In either direction from the North Sea to the Alps, became as quiet as a summer's day back . home. . The relief to all was immense. ..The talk of armistice had been in the air, of course, and It teemed futile to kill men' when peace was so near, and 1 think even Fritz felt the-same way, as he seemed glad anough to quit. ( i Since writing the foregoing' I have been Interrupted, and we have in the meantime moved over the border in to France and are staying at an old British camn at Houtauerk.' France. Very comfortable, considering, but we are all anxious to get back to a more Bettled area for1' serious work. Too much like Flanders to suit us. Exnect to null out any day for Le Mans, south arid' west of l'arls, and no doubt under the new' conditions Will get a chance to see something of that city. Am hoping to be going home before.loug. iThe A. E. F. is being reduced apparently, the papers- say, to ' about half Its original strength, and many of course will go home. A classification will be niaae no uouui, . yeriuiii-iug vei miu officers to retire from the service. As I am very anxious to get started In the game again, I Intend taking advantage ot the first opportunity to do so,i now the war is over. No difficulty will ' be experienced, I think, In finding a great many young fellows anxious to serve in yie army of occupation, - both ' in the officer, corps and the ranks.- Under the new and decidedly more pleaBant condi tions, the opportunity for a young fellow to see something of Europe under comparatively pleaBant conditions,- I. - e., garrison life, 1b un equalled. If I had not my great In terest th the West, and my liking for that Bort of life, I would seriously think of applying for a commission in the regular service. The oppor tunity is now being .offered to oni- cers In the A. E. F. and many are taking It up. '. However, ten years in Southern , Oregon, I must admit, spoiled me for anything else. You can appreciate this, I think. The call of the West la too strong. Hope to see you In the course of the next two or three months. If I am fortunate enough to leave here within that time, I will stay In the East for a visit, and then go West to RoBeburg. The charm of Mont Alto Is irreslstable. . Once back In the good old U, S. I am through traveling. My travels this year have contained so many narrow escapes I will be very happy and thankful to reach the' hanks of the North Ump- qua.agaln. where I will stay for the balance of my Ufa, the Lord willing. That I am alive, or am not minus a leg or arm, or crippled up hopelessly some other way, is a mystery to me. and as for adventures, I nave had enough. Feel happy that I havo done my bit and trust it will not be neces sary again to sacrifice thousands of our young men and the young men of Europo to curb the mad ambition of some crazy monnrch. I think the pending peace conference will take care of that, and then for a golden age of peace. Let us hope. War is all very glorious In the abstract, but Its realty, believe me, 1b certainly not! There will be no firmer advo cates of peace than the two millions of Americans who have been over here, and no firmer advocates of a sensible and reasonable nationally trained army to insure peace. Ro mance and the- glamour of war have all gone. The high explosive and long range gun have taken it all out. To fight an enemy you rarely see, and to sit and take his Bhelling and machine gun fire, and half tho time cannot hit back, has robbod It of even, its old elements of sportsman ship. - With best wishes to yourself and to all the boys, and hoping to see ydif andi cood old Douglas County soon again. .- W. L. OSBORNE. price zoo NOTICE EXAM7HU.TIONS. . J i " . January 8, 1919. 1 Notice Is hereby given that the county school superintendent will cause to be held an eighth grade ex amination in all school districts in the county having, applicants .for same, on January 16-17; alBo on February 6-7, 1919, but no district will be permitted! to have examina tions on both dates. Each district must choose the da'-, desired and notify this ofne.o stating the. number of llBts of questions desired. The February date is affected because of time lost in many districts, on ac count of Influenza. - ' -; The following program will be ob served: , Thursday Arithmetic, Writing, History, Agriculture and Spelling. i Friday Physiology, Language, Geography, Civil Government, and iteaamg. . very truly yours, !.; O. O. BROWN, ! County School Superf. 'ondent !:'- IjECTUHB ON l-SYCHOLOfiX. I ) Eagle Hall every Sunday evening at 7:30 by Mrs. Tucker, late of Los Angeles,- Demonstration - at - olos uoiiectlon. tf : rTfl LOOK ' for the : ' :; 11 I. .-safifc! ceated ' package, but. f I ; IHpJi .have an ; evs ouj hji " also for. the name I jj ' BmWffitMMwfll . Tht .pf.mtt Is vour oro. . ' 11851 ' fjfif 111 ;, tectlon against Inferior gl ' llpftlp imitations.'' Just as the 11 j llf-itiMI1 - sealed, package Is , pro- , -. Mh ! RjjJ- tectlon aaatnst 'Impurity. -V'.',. H ' fMllWil ' ThP. Grnatast' Name - ': '':'V IH THREB LITTLE JACK HORNED. Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, - Eating his Christmas pie, You can just gueBS his clothes were But we cleaned them all up bye andi - .. bye. . - . ;.- IMPERIAL CLEANERS. (Try Our Way . '- . We sell Ed. V. Price & Co's suits and overcoats. The name is your guarantee. - Absolute satisfaction. DAILY WEATHER REPORT. , U. S. Weather Bureau, local office, : Roseburg, Oregon, 24 hours ending 5 a. m. Precipitation in incheB and , hundreths: p. Highest temperature yesterday...... 52 Lowest temperature last night 33 j Precipitation, last 24 hours 06 i Total precip. since first ot month. ..89 -Normal precip. for this month.. ..6. 70 Total precipitation from Sept, 1, 1918, to date .....10.66 . : Average precipitation from Sept. 1, 1877.. - 16.29 :. Total excess deficiency from Sep- i tember 1, 118 6.64 , Average precipitation for 41 wet . 1 . . seasons, (Sept. to May lncl.)..31.96 WILLIAM BELL, Observer. 1