Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-18

SETS PACE
FOR OREGON
OPENS IT'S DOORS AND HEART
AND GIVES IT'S VISITORS A
WELCOME THAT MADE THEM
GLAD THEY WE'RE ALIVE.

Roseburg was the scene during the
past week OF a strawberry fair and
rose show, and about 10000 people
took It in, all told. To the visitor
from other parts OF the state, two
things make a striking impression.
First Is the beautiful setting, of the
city, with It's gently rising hills tow
ering into rock-ribbed1 mountains.
Next and even surprising its natural
beauty. is the splendid spirit of hos
pitality OF its people. Nowhere in
the world Is the visitor received in so
cordial a manner and made to feel so
completely at home as at Roseburg
They are certainly entitled to the
wreath for being whole-hearted and
cordial. The Salem families who
went up to attend the carnival were
taken in, fed and entertained, given
auto rides, tallyho rides, Shetland
pony rides, flowers and social atten-
tions that will long be remembered.
The city was decorated lavishly in
green and red, the Roseburg colOrs,
and lighted at night with thousands
of cluster lights.
The streets of Roseburg have uni
form paving, and 1t extends well in
to the residence parts. Three miles
more are contracted and being laid
this year. To show the Roseburg
method, besides the o. A. c. band,
which played during the carnival,
and in all the parades, in the natty
cadet uniforms, the band came down
from Riddles and played for expenses
Some of the business men, hearing
that the Riddles boys wanted uni
forms, voluntarily made up their
minds to give them purse of 500
toward their outfit. This was entire
ly unexpected, but it makes great
friends of a neighboring town. Rose
burg Is still numbering. along with
the old McClallen house, but 1t is in
the hands of a, new man-Landlord
| G. II. NJ. GrOnvold, and his charm
ing wife, who are. making a great
success of it. They serve a splendid
table, and have renovated part of
the house. We had bridal chamber
on the third floor that had the same
holes in the plaster that we noted
there 20 years ago. But there were
no flies on the dining room or menu
cards and the Cronvolds are making
good as up-to-date hotel people and
deserve to have new building erect
ed to match their ability, and it will
take good one.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Barker, cashier
in the Douglas National bank, enter
tanned the R. B. Houstons, and Train
Dispatcher ]. E. Enger looked after
some of the other Salemites' at the
big dinner given at the fine new Pres
byterian church. Bert" Houston, as
every one at Roseburg calls him,
simply knows nearly everybody in
Douglas county, and there are open
houses by the score for him and his
family and no locks on the doors or
pantries! A ball was given in honor
of the queen of the carnival, popu-
lar stenographer in the Office of the
train dispatcher, Miss Ethel Vaughn,
very pretty girl, who was also pre-
sented with diamond ring by the
fair managers Saturday night, at the
Commercial Club. BY the way Rose
burg has a beautiful Commercial
Club building-two stories and the
words Commercial Clu" in raised
letters in the brick work, that gives
an air of permanence and stability to
the publicity campaign. The grand
march at the ball was led by Miss
Vaughn and Mayor Fred Haynes, a
popular official with all elements.
To show the way business goes
ahead in Roseburg I was surprised
at going through the New York store,
owned by Mr., Bargar & Son, who
opened 1t with a $500 stock a year
and a half ago, and today have IA
clerks and a $4,000 stock. Miss
Jones, of Cottage Grove; is in charge
of the millinery department, and one
day last week sold $2f5 worth Of
millinery alone.
One of the finest features of the
stock parades was the fine blooded
horses from the Bonaday stock farm,
owned by Frank F., Alley, the most
public-spirited citizen of Roseburg,
and that Is saying great deal. He
has 90 Of these splendid animals
the choicest horse flesh in the United
States-16 of them in training for
the races on the Pacific coast circuits
and he Is lavish in his use of them
ON such occasions. They were ridden
1 and driven in the parade, and four
horse tallyho parties of ten were TAX
en- by Mr. Alley every day of the car
Hival. A ride up Deer creek to his
ranch of about 1000 acres, is a pleas
4 ure long to be remembered Four
perfectly matched trotters, stepping
with the precision of clockwork, and
I bowling along before a splendid tai
lyho coach, through fields Of the
finest blue grass and yellow, with
daisies and masses of snow white
camas, under baby blue sky flecked
with white sailing masses of vapor
from the Pacific, makes sight worth
1seeing and royal pleasure only ap-
| preciable by those who have been so
fortunate as to have been the guest
Of man like Mr.. Alley His tallyho
team Is TO be taken to Portland and
driven In the Rose Show parade, rail-
road officials there Offering to defray
all expenses.
Salem people are also in position
to appreciate the public spirit of ].
H. Booth, president OF the Douglas
County National bank, and president
! of the State Fair Board. He took
his first lessons iH' business training
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