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About The Plaindealer. (Roseburg, Or.) 1870-190? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1903)
Drain Nonpareil News. Mr. Geo. Peterson and family have moved to Drain from the Umpqua Life Saving Station and will reside here per manently. Mr. and Mrs. Stiller, friends of the Mack and Chadbourne families, are here from Minneapolis, Minn.,and will mrke this their future home. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sawyers are enjoy ing an outing at South Beach this week. Miss Hattie Moon accompanied her father home from Salem, Saturday. She is much improved in health. Mrs. Henry and family are enjoyinc the invigorating ocean breeze at South Beach this week. Mrs. J. M. Stark was in town Monday after a load of shingles for the new house he is building on his Elkton farm. It has been thought best to have the training schools open two days after the Normal and Prof. Dempster has so in structed the teachers. W. J. Kelleher is pusning the work on his large sawmill on Billy Creek. When this mill with its flume for conducting lumber to Drain together with the plain er that will be placed in operation here, is all completed it will add greatly to the prosperity of our thriving little city. Prof, and Mrs. Lough eutertained our people Thursday evening last in their usual instructive manner in behalf of the temperance cause. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. McUmber left for home Sunday after spending several weeks with Mrs. McUmber'a sister, Mrs. ffm. M. Moore. Dr. Payton, of Redlands Calif., has been visiting Drain friends, for several days during the past week. The Doctor was formerly a resident of Drain having lived here 14 years. Mrs A. M. Jahrens and father were Drain visitors yesterday. Mrs. Jahrens is etting up her affairs preparatory to returning with her father to Hayfields, Minn., whee gbg will probably make her future hams, Oakland Owl Hoots. Sept. 7th. . There should be a lullat tendance from the first. O. (. Gilberson has returned to Bo hemia, where he is interested in some valuable mining property. He expects to remain there for several months. M. T. Cha6e, the merchant, made a business trip this week to Grants Pass, Greenback and Mediord. While at work, this week at the Gold Bug mine, W. F. Warren had the mis fortune to fall and break his right arm at the wrist. It will incapacitate him for work for several weeks. Miss Eva and Edith Jones, the bright young daughters of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jones, expect to leave soon for San Francisco, where they will spend the winter in an art school. Our new brass band, under the able instruction of Ed. Throne, is learning very rapidly. The members of the band feel very grateful to the city coun cil and enterprising citizens who sub scribed funds sufficient to secure good instruments. Advantages of Dairying. Dr. E. J. Page made a professional trip to Elkton during the week. Mrs. S. M. Kelley received a very fine parrott from friends at Salem, this week. Mrs. A. B. Mott, formerly of this city, died at her home in Brockwayi the first of the week and was buried in the I. 0. O. F. cemetery at this place Monday afternoon. Funeral services were con ducted by Rev. Conner, of Wilbur. J. M. Leeper and J. B. Goff, two Ore gon pioneers and two of Oaklanda most prosperous farmers, left for an extended trip in the East, Tuesday morning. Mr. Leeper goes to attend the reunion of the 34th infantry of Iowa after an ab sence of SS years. He will be absent about six weeks. Mr. Goff goes to Illi nois to visit relatives, and expects to remain three months A pleasant trip and safe return is the wish of their many friends. Terrv Dunham and wife, of French Settlement, were in the city during the week. ZopherAgee came over from Wilbur Monday, and was calling on Oakland friends. " Roy Lamb, Misses Bertha, Myrtle and Una Lamb, of Wilbur, were in the city Tuesday. Master Lyle Marsters, of Roseburg, is visiting at the home of Mrs. S. M. Kel ley in this city. George Stearns, Roy Miller, Misses Mav Stearns and Vinnie Young went over to the North Umpqua this week to look after their timber claims. Mrs. Katie T. Hughes a delegate from Chambersberg, Pa., to theG. A. R. Con vention at San Francisco, is visiting her father and mother, Mr. and. Mrs. K. S Tavlor. Miss Lizzie Bailey arrived in Grass Vallev on Thursday evening to make a visit with her sisters, Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Heath. Miss Bailey will teach the t flail .term of school in the Fred JoneB s district. V j Qlcndale News Notes. H. W. P otts, principal of the Hawkes burg Agricultural College, in Australia, has tabulated the advantages of dairy ine which apply here equally well as follows : I. That it takes less fertility out of the soil than any other form of agricul ture and hence it is useful in following a well regulated system of rotation. 2. That it can be combined readily with other forms'of agriculture or horti culture. 3. The dairy provides in winter a quantity of stable manure in which the straw from the farm is profitably utili zed. 4. The byproducts from the cow, ekim milk, whey and buttermilk are a source of income in raising pigs and calves. 5. Dairying gives constant and regu lar employment of a light character to every member of the farmer's family. 6. Dairying inculcates habits of punctuality, industry, cleanliness and thrift on the farm. 7. Cheese and butter are condensed products, and the cost of carriage, in comparison with their value, is less than that of any other farm product. S. That the demand for good butter and cheese on the world's markets is tin limited an all-round, even and profitable price can always be secured. 9. The monthly check from the fac tory provides the mainstay in the house hold as against the precarious returns from yearly crops. 10. In mixed farming the income from the dairy is the most reliable. 11. The farmer's household, as a re sult of dairy work, is always supplied with fresh milk and cream, butter, cheese, pork, bacon and veal. 12. Storekeepers, traders, banker?, financial men and politicians all fully realize, after years of experience, that wherever dairy farming is conducted farmers are most prosperous, mortgages are rarely found, and the value of land ed property becomes consideraby en hanced. i LADIES TAKE A LOOK and if our SPRING rand SUMMER t Line is not better than any other, don't buy W frrvm nc W arp cVinwintr this season the Via M fcj W V . w Latest Styles in Silk Gause Novelties, Sole Jouree, Silk Zephyr, Corded Chambray, Lawn Caladlne Novelties, fancy JMadrass Organdies, Lawn Sinaloa Novelties, Minerva Dimities, Leno Applique Lawn, Alton Dimity, Blouse Linens, Organdies, Linen Batiste, Chal lies, Sursucker Ginghams, Percale AND ALL THE LATEST IN DRESS GOODS a We carry the Finest Line of Made-up Skirts in town. OiLIi equaled for quality and price and our line of Underskirts cannot Our Spring and Summer Line of Clothing Embodies manv special features that will jn terest you. The clothing that we sell from the Highest to the Lowest grade is in every ease finely tailored and thoroughly dependable. We recommend it with confidence even though our prices are lower than any other store sell for the same quality. Also a new and up-to-date line of Ladies' and Gent's Neckwear. OUR SHOES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. Sole Agents for the W. L. Douglas Sh oe The People's Store I. ABRAHATl Proprietor. One Door South of P. O. About the Pioneers. Mrs. B. S. Radcliff is visiting relatives at her former home in Ashland this week.t Mrs. Chas. Tynall visited several days thi6 week at the Johns home on Cow Creek. Born In Glendale on August 24th to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wilcox, a fine little 8-pound daughter. Work has begun on Charley Nail's new cottage, which he is having built near the school house for his parents. Mrs. S. P. Shutt and little son Percy returned home yesterday from several days visit in Portland and Forest Grove, Miss Mary Parker, an employe of the Grants Pass Journal, was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Montgom ery this week. The fall term of our public school will begin a week from next Monday on Sugar Beets in Idaho. Farmers should wake np and take bold of the sugar beet question, as though they meant to make it go. If there was ever a straight-forward busi ness proposition, this is one of them. It means more to the farmer than get ting $4.50 per ton for beets, or any other price. It means better farming, more stock food, "more good money and a general advance in farm values; it means more empioyea people in me country and consequently a better mar ket for the farmer produces ; it means other industries and stimulating of in vestments in many ways. For these reasons and others that might be named farmers should not hang back and have to be repeatedly importuned. It's all right to investigate, but it must be done promptly and in a business like way. There is plenty of room for the alfalfa, clover, grains, and other crops and now let us make room for the sugar beet, and do it soon, too. Gen. State Rural, Idaho. Armory Hall Inspected. For his own satisfaction, and that there might be no doubt in the minds of the public as to the safety of the Armory Hall. Capt. Hamlin has had the build ing inspected by twocompetent builders- Their report is as follows : Capt. F. B. Hamlin, Co. "D" 1st Separate Battalion We hereby certify that at your request we have examined the Slocum Hall Building known as the Armory Hall, and find the same to be sound and per fectly safe for the drilling of a Company and for useof dancing. Signed, A. Fields, J. F. Cleme-sts. Mr. Editor: I see in your issue of the 24th of the present month, an article taken from the Drain Nonpareil, written by James A. Sterling. The article is headed "An interesting history of early road build ing." I do not see that he describes any road building in the article. Now it is not my wish or desire to detract any thing from the merits of the old pion eers', as they deserve all they will ever get, but I desire that they shall be con- j a eiaerea as reasons Die men. .ur. alert ing speaks of Levi Kent, Asa and Fred Wells. Now the fact i," Levi Kent and Asa "Wells did not go down on to the Umpqua River in Uie early settlement of that portion of the country. Ira and Daniel Wells, two brothers, moved their families down there in the late summer or early fall of 1S50. They held claims on the coast fork of the Willamette pre vious to that time, and the cause of their moving down on to the Lmpqua was that the schooner, Mary Roberts, came into the river in August, 1S50, es tablishing the fact, that the Umpqua River was navigable for ocean vestels, and they desired to get as near naviga tion as possible. Now as to Mrs. Wells wading Elk Creek and carrvine her children, as there was no other place to go, there be- ini nn mnA nr trail. Tn voins? from the Yoncalla Valley to Fort Umpqua, you had to cross Elk Creek four times, and if vou went lower down you had to cross it again near the mouth of the creek ; As there being no road or trail, there waa a well established trail from Yon calla to Fort Umpqua, as Fort Umpqua was the trading point for the Indians of the upper valley. As to Mrs. Wells carrying a child in her arms that is quite probable. As to the men and other children carry ing pigs nd chickens that is not at all nrobable. as Daniel Wells family consisted of himself and wife, no children. I am not certain whether Ira Wells had more than one child or not, but I am positive of this, that if they had more than one child, the eldest was only between two and three years old, a pretty forward child to be carrying pigs and chickens down Elk Creek. I can not say at what time Levi Kent and Asa Wells located down there, but not for some years afterwards. Again Mr. Sterling states that the Rev. Hines, in writing of a trip tn 1SG4 said from the mouth of Pass Creek to Elk Creek was a harder trip than across the Rocky mountains. As Pass Creek is a branch of Elk Creek, it must have been a hard trip if he had said: from the mouth of Pass Creek to the mouth of Elk Creek it was a pretty rough trip but hundreds had passed over it years before that. When Ira Wells crossed the plains in 1847 his familv consisted of himself, wife and one Email child which was unfortu nate enough to bo run over by their own wagon on the north bank of the North Umpqua River about three and a half miles below Winchester on the 21st of October 1847. All honor to the pioneer who built better than they know. Tnos. Sjirrn. Roseburg, Ore., Aug., 28, 1003. Bring Us Your CHICKENS, EGGS, BUTTER, FOR CHSH OR TRHDE. J.F. Barker & Co. 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