Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
LOCAL ITEMS.

President Cleveland.
colds arc in fashion,
Times are improving.
Correspondence solicited
Vice President Hendricks.
Private Citizen Arthur.
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Oar Gown is bound to boom.
Everything quiet once more.
The assessor is abroad IN the land.
Oar chief is still in the Willamette.
The outlook for b tier prices for wheat is
improving
Roseburg needs good school building
Shall we baye il
Hen fruit IS below pav-l2s cents per doz
Cheaper than meat.
Preparatory work is being done on the
Court House fence.
The 6. o. P has gone-but Col. Fullerton
asserts it will return ii four years.
Roseburg is getting more public spirited.
Just think of four mil school tax!
The hill in West Rosaburs is the favorise
resort ON sunday for our young folks.
The Portland Standard" should make
change its present style of editorials.
lion. jesse Applegate is spending few
days with his many friends in Roseburg.
The fourth of March 2osaes only once in
folr years wherein it differs from Christmas.
.'fax or no tax?' mas been settled Tax
alton and death are the two Ger ain things
1885 will be prosperou, year for hose
burg, Cur peopls are working together.
icy B. T. Sharp will hold divine services
at Jsses scaool house at IL o'clock Sunda,
nexU.
w, n. No o,re IS dong tiae business in
the lnsdrance lac. Ill represents the lead
ing COMPANIES.
Waiter Swartzlander started for his old
home in Iowa en- Thursday morning. Good
luck go with him.
Owing 10 the eeleer ration on the 4th, and
Severe colds among our force the REVIEW IS
not up to Lgh-aater mark this week.
DR.. r. H Mcdonald u SanFraneisco is
doing some lively advertising by circulars.
Doubtless preparatory to PRESIDENTIAL race
IA 1883.
Wiley Miller and Calvin Wright will give
a Grand Bel st Looking ulass on the 18th
Of NJ lch-5t Patrlcl,'s day Tickets 100
Supper per couple sl,oo.
Eugene Simple, OF Vancouver, is being
strongly urged for Gov. Of Washington Ter
Sitory. We second the motion, a better Sc
lection could not be made.
J. B. Nesmith, son of Col. ]. w. Nesmith
informs the West Side that the mental con-
dltou OF hrs father Is improving, and that
lie may return home in a short time.
PHYSICIANS say there is but little hope fol
the recovery of Gen. Grant. He may lin
ger for months and may 90 at any moment.
He has cancer OF the mouth in very aggra
waited form.
killed the temperance cause, but from the
amount of legislation enacted BY the Oregon
Legislature, the point does not seem to have
leen well taken.
Roseburg's delegation at Washington al
the inaugural ceremonies Hon. Bin2er Her
man, A, A. Fink, f. z. Hogan and Johr
Sheridan. We do not know which one vii
so into the cabinet.
A newspaper can never hope to please
everybody or To meet the diversified vie~'
entertained by its readers. Therefore th'
only true policy to pursue, is to ascertain
what ls right and then 20 straight ahead re
gardless OF favor or disfavor
At the school meeting of the citizens o
this district last Monday, 0. l.. Wills ant
J. r. n Bell were elected directors in th
place af W. 1. Friedlander, expired term
and john Rast, resigned levy OF lou
mil tax was voted ny good majorlty, an'
money will be secured to have good first
class school Tim Ford was reelected clerk
Ed Herald: notice an article in a Port
aand paper that Roseeurg has flagstaff Il
feet above the ground. Please inform m
through your columns how they got It u
there; and what they want it there for
has been suggested by some that it is fo
the Republican members Of the last Legls
lature to roost on until an adjournment
Coqaille City Herald.
The Legislature managed to dispose of tn
$500, 600 surplus in the State Treasury, b
appropriations for various purposes, some
which are very questionable these hard time
1t would have been more in keeping with th
demand of the times to reduce taxation, an
have left the surplus to apply OH the crdinar
expenses of the State government for IL
next two years. The present tax will az
cumulAte another large surplus for the ne'
legislature to dispose Of