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About Roseburg news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1920-1948 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1925)
t.r SUHTQEIQ HELD TODAY BY PLdYEES S.P.E!.'. The quarterly safety meeting -of Southern Paciflo official and em ployee u held here today at the City Hall, the session, starting at t:SO this morning. The- meeting was attended by E. L. King, super intendent ot the Portland Division; Charles W. Martyn. assistant su perintendent; N. Rose, -bridge su pervisor; P. Schults, signal super intendent; C. It. Gibson, master mechanic and F. E. Cavendar, mas ter car repairer. t These meetings are held once each month in some -point on the division, and once each quarter the meeting comes to Roseburg,, ,A1I employees are urged to attend and recommendations are received, (or greater safety in handling trains and eliminating hazards to work men and patrons. -.- - ... As a result of the work under taken by the Southern Pacific com pany in this regard, it has held a national record for many years for having the fewest accidents ot any of the large railroads. GLENGARY GLEANINGS , . Genuine Oregon winter weather the past week. Sunshine and show ers, more, showers than sunshine. . Still some sickness around the valley. Mr. Wilbur Massey has been quite sick with a severe cold the past week. - -i, , .Several from the valley attended the Armistice Day celebration on Wednesday. ... , ; i . Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Cooper, and family spent Sunday In Roseburg. Mn and Mrs, J. J. Betts and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Groves called at the J. L. Morrison home Sunday P. M. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. 6ebastiaa of Wilbur, and Mrs. J. I Morrison spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spain. Mrs. J. L. Morrison spent Thurs day nigbt and Friday at the home ot H. E. Blood of South Deer Creek, also attending the entertainment and box social sponsored by the H. D. C. grange and P.' T. A.. . . Work of moving the store at Kel ley's Korner tuts been completed, making quite an improvement in the looks of things in general. , The Evergreen grangers are look ing forward to the big 'feed" on Thanksgiving. Also to the picnic to be held In Roseburg on the 20tb. Mr. Andes, Mr. Crocker and Mr. Royce Busenbark of the Chamber of Commerce were visitors of the Evergreen Grange Saturday night, each giving a very interesting talk. Mr. Clinton McGehey returned home Monday from Klamath Falls, having spent the past month ' or two with his sister of Olene. . Lee Morrison arrived home from Klamath Falls Monday evening. Considerable snow fell the past week In the Klamath country. Paul Spain's mother has returned to Roseburg after the past summer spent In Arkansas. - . i : .. . A SUBSCRIBER. HAYHURST NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Farley, who have spent some months at Santa Rosa, Calif., returned home last week, Mrs. Farley, was Miss Sallle McKlrdy before her marriage. - Hermann Miller spent the week end visiting his wife at Monmouth, where Mrs. Miller Is attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, attend ed the dedication of the new Chris tian Church at Jefferson last Sun day. . Arthur Williams, who has been visiting relatives and friends In Portland, has returned home. Be visited his son Floyd, and bis brother Dayton Williams. He re ports all in better health than for merly. He also visited with W. O. Bridges, who Is taking treatment In Portland, and says Mr. Bridges Is looking fide, and thinks he will be out mauling rails by Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kruse return ed from a pleasant visit with rela tives at Nelson, Calif., recently. Dr. WcKalg has been kept busy here lately, the stork brought a nn to Mrs. Ray Moran and a daughter to Mrs. Mabel Jones. . A large crowd, greeted tue Drain Christian church team, which came out to Hayhurst Bchool house last Sunday, and held a splendid sing-1ns- and religious service. Miss Emily Olford. teacher In the Hayhurst school, was visiting home- folks In Drain over tne weea eno. Mrs. G. A. Williams, In company with-her two sisters, Mrs. George Potter and Mrs. Jess Trunnell ot Cottage Grove, visited their stater, Mm. Mne Cox of Klamath Falls, They reported the weather quite cold there. .. - In a recent letter to his mother, Mrs. J. T. Miller. Lieut Comman der Justin Miller, writes that he is now in the navy ordinance dept. at Bethlehem Steel Works, Bethle hem, Pa. He reports all, well, in cluding little Jack, who has recov ered from an attack ot typhoid fever. Joinf-Easo FOR SWOLLEN JOINTS Most remedies fall but Joint-Ease surely and speedily succeeds. It's for Joint troubles only, whe ther in ankle,- knee,; hip, elbow, shoulder, finger or spine whether rheumstlc or not It limbers up sUff. Inflamed, swollen, pslnfui. creaky Joint so quickly you'll be sstonisbed. - Two seconds' rubbing sad awsy It goes tbrougb skin and flesh right down to the bone and liga ments thst's why It succeeds. Ask Nsthsn Fullerton. druggist -.- Always remember, when Joint Ease gels In Joint agony gets out quick. , Joint-Ease Is the biggest selling Joint remedy; in the world. Jog USltetnti to 0o7f H Wken Mrs. Gray cam Jkome MO-1 Ucent net her at the door; she seemed bursting with news, "Motherl".... . ; "Well, dearr 1 ' "What do Too think Robert and that Jonef boy did this afternoon r 'Why, Dotting bad, I bopsrr "Motherl" -MlUlcent paused im pressively. "They went and. built a Dial fl With kerosene I Out behind, the. chicken, coop where yoo told 'em they never, sever moat !" dulleenfl Tour little Mother I Why. be might have but wby dldnt you stop him I" iu?i!t:: "Mother, I told him and I told bun, and be said he would too, and t took, him . by the ahoalder and shook-rt, But Mrs. Gray was seised with a sudden suspicion. "MUUcent, yog knew I keep the kerosene locked In toe store poom, and Robert doesn't know what 1 keep Iha key. Aoo me In the eye, MlUlcent. Bow (11(1 he flat that keroeener MUUcent's eyelids Bickered. "Well, you see,, mother er when t saw that Robert and that . Jones boy were determined to build a Are, why er -1 .had to- get the things -for 'em, didn't I, and superintend 'em, dldnt It" Youth's Companion. franklin ttcihkt High .,, a ApottU of Thrift Who does not remember Benja min Franklin's advice: "Don't give too much for the whistle;'! And by that, he .meant don't give more of thought or time or money for any thing than H 1 worth. His unhappy experience with the whistle marked the beginning of Franklin's great work in the cause of thrift, the Thrift Magaslne recalls.-- ' Be had few books but was deter mined to have an education, 'Many a, time he would, alt up nearly all night reading by candlelight To buy more books,- Franklin nude a bar gain, wlui his brother, ta whom he was apprenticed, by which he would board himself on half the money it had . been costing.. Then be did without nsh and meat, lived on a cheep vegetable diet and Invested hla savtnev la worth while nooks, r .. Be never .attended a college or even a high school. - Be went to a primitive grammar school bat two years and yet be was one of the best educated men of bis dsy. He found time to write books, to study sci ence, to Invent. No one ever ex emplified the value of thrift In time more than did Franklin. His "wise caws' on time-saving, such as "Since thou are not aure of a min ute, throw not away an hour," are known to au. . - Whin Pedagogu$ Kicked Scotland's army of schoolmasters In the year .1782 sent a memorial to parliament pointing out that while tbelr average Income was 18 a year that of a plowman was 14 to 18. No ret let was graniea until joih, when the-Schoolmasters' act was passed, and their Income was legally fixed at "not nnuer aw meres iuo 13s. 4d) nor over 400 merks (22 4a Cd).". The heritors bad also to pro vide a house, "wnicn need not con tain more than two rooms. Including the kitchen, snd with ground lor s garden or not more than a quarter of a scots acre, or two doiis oi meat as Its equivalent." They were nigh ly Indignant, at being oniigea to "erect Dalacee for -dominies," but legal compulsion could no longer be Ignored.- Thereafter, conditions were at least good enough to prevent schoolmasters : from resigning tbelr ,.... ...Kaaama kuHlM . . kail , M 11 C IV. un.uun uu actually happened during the dark est dsysl ConteUneo Raltd Him One ot .the witnesses at a royal commission sppolnted to Inquire in to a case of alleged bribery In an election stated that he had received 12S to. vote Conservative, and in cross-examination It was elicited that he had also received $20 to vote Liberal. ,. . Mr. Justice Matthew, In amaxe- ment. repeated: "Veo say you received $28 to vote Conservative r "Yes, my lord." r i i "And yon also received 128 to vote Liberal?" . "Yea, my lord." ' "And for whom did yon rote at the finish?" asked the astonished Judge, throwing himself back In the chair. - - r - And the witness, with Injured dignity in every line of his face, an swered with great earnestness: "I voted, my lord, according to my conscience!" Vancouver Prov ince. - - Not to B Caught Twieo : There was a queer old custom la England that compelled a person when making a certain kind statement to add : "Except - the mayor." Foots, the comedian, hav ing remarked at an Inn: "I have dined as well ss anyone In Eng land." the landlord prompted him "Except the mayor." "I except no body," said Foote boldly. For this the lamUord had Mm haled. before a magistrate, who fined blm a shill ing for not conforming to the an cient euKrnro. Fnnte pnld the thill- Ingt at the same time -observing that he thought his accuser "the greatest fool In Christendom ex cept the mayor." . i Witdom From BabJt tup As a chlkl of three Wolfgsng Mn sart's wonderful playing on ' the hsmlschord was the talk of ftnlz- bnrg. He was only four resrs old when he nmipoeed a concerto difficult, tlist i his father, one of .fWiiu-e killed TlMlfi.l'rts In Oer .many.. ' could not plsy it, "Of course." said the Infant prodigy. Vno one ran he expected to play without diligent practice." A year later, when Wnirgsng ws only ne yesrs old, he was invitea to grre t m4tal tn the null the university. when the msrte ef his tiny Angers worked his auditors to a pitch of tbe wildest sothwiasm. Read the) Classified adft in The News-Review. The j Hjear, cjqlldJi to vou. (IliiS ' . " ..; ' - '- ' ( ft i if-iif :'.' t- 11. f -T U'l l,it " ff ' ' W fv A? , ' ATv' i , . fc.fe'P.X N: y .-.', J,.. ': . mm r r i- ttn' i m x s m m - x mm mm i DAB t fe I' SjtjWv 'V. 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