!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.
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