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OAKLAND ACADEMY.Occupying a com mailing position on t crown of a gentle eminence, dombtmng allthat one could desire in a location whether viewed in a sanitary way or an » M helical lightor yet fur its retirement as favorable to rapid advancement stands Oakland Academy a solidly built t wo story structure. The grounds cover an entire block ami are onzamentcd with shade trees. The cujola contains a fine tuned lurll, the rooms are large w ell lighted and airy, furnished with single patent seats, blackboards, maps, charts, gloln.% chandelier, pictures etc, which render the surrounding attractive as well as useful.Three literary societies arc maintained. The Phi luma thian made up of forth sexesmeeting fort-nightly and u|xrn to the public; the Newtonian composed of y*mjg men, and the Yitonian of young lathes, holding private meetings weekly fur mutual improvmcnl in elocution, composition and delialc.The present Principal look charge uf the school in Sept. IS70 occupying then the old school-building. This school outgrowing its former nee*mimodntions, a meeting of the citizens was held March 1SS0, at which an organization was formed termed the Oakland Academy Association. The purpose uf the Association was tin building of an Academy which was completed the following August.Under Prof, Russell the school has steadily increased from a mcuibshlp uf twenty seven to the present attendance of mure than une turn-drcd. Twelve per cent of the present mim-I er of students are training in a Normal classprcpctrlory to teaching the coming season.The pupils in the Art department have been distinguished for rapid progress and iieauty and neatness of work. In the musical department the aim is to combine theory with practice, so as tu enable the pupil to perform withtaste and understanding, A Decker Piano and Patterson Organ are provided fur theiruse.ifLatin, French, and Herman hmgtntges are taught.- besides the daily Natations, uneC. A. SEHLBRRDE.Attorney and counselor at law, is a young man of energy and good legal attainments,w ho by close and careful attention tu business, has nude many friends and is working into a| *aying practice. lie is a Kentuckian try birth but was raised in Indiana, where he studied law, and \va admitted to the bar in 1874, in1878 he came in Oregon and located in Salemwhere he practiced his profesiorf until a yearand a half ago when he removed tu Oakland, lie is a reliable and trustworthy lawyer, and has many friends and acquaintances, throughout the Slate. Those entrusting business tohim may rely upon having it promptly and carefully attended to.J* C, HUTCHINSON,A former caltlo dealer here has une of thefinest farms in the County near Oakland, and probably the finest slock range in South West crn Oregon, situated on the Umpqua rive; about fifteen mites West of Oakland, w ith one of the most extensive out-ranges to Ik: found. He is located here fur the purpose uf schooling bL children, and find- it difficult on account uf the distance front here, to control his farm and range. On this account lie offers to sell bis entire interest at a reasonable price.Persons wishing a range of this kind should byall means communicate with him.evening in each week is devoted to a Frenchreading, for the fur!her hem fit or the Frenchclass. - |Spring session fogm;. March S 1SK6.George T. Russell, L. L. B.PriUU. II. u I TI.F. DENTIST. tPiicc over K. G. Young li.k store.Dr. Little bleated here in Oct oiler iSSr andir - U • * n * 4 * r, ' — * . - *• M 4 jt' TeW * -v* I »» ^ T*• 4 v ~EL~^ 1 c . ■has proved himself tu be a first class workman, has given general satisfaction and k do* inga good business.DK, S. K. RAYMOND DENTIST,Olfica over W. II. Yuung's grocery tore. Dr. Raymond has lately located here and K tuu well know n throughout the county tu need any special mention here. He i.» a good workman, of which his patrons cm attest.PRINTING OFFICE,Over W. II. Young’s grocery si ore. This office is owned ami conducted by Milton IL Tower who is prepared to do first-class job work in that line. Tower is a young manhas just Marled in business, is energetic and will yet make his mark as a successful business man.FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOT.Cnmch Bros* proprietors. The CrouchBros, commenced business here in 1S84 andhave done some good work in that line. In1connection with that business they have a plaining mill turning lathe and a blacksmithshap. Taking all together they are pieparcdto do almost any kind of job work.FEN DEL SU THEREIN.The largest land owner and moneylender inthe County is located here, i le has the great-cr part uf his land leased to different partiesbut has several farms near here to which he is giving his individual attention and upon whichhe has spent several thousand dollars in improvements during the past year. Among the money lenders who have retired from ether bu .incss pursuits, are P. C. Parker—Sen,, A. C* Young and W. T. Kerly.MEMENTO LODGE NO* 486 I. O. U, T.'Phis fixlgc wa . organized in May 1SS4 and is tine of the must prosperous and active lodges to lie found. The membership is about one hundred, and the nuiniier is steadily increasing. A. F. brown k Worthy Chief Templar* Meets in Chid Fellows hall.On Saturday Jan. 16th, iS£6 \YVF, Owens of Ruse burg organized a branch reform club at this place. The objects of lhis% particularbranch lielonging to the temperance ©rganixa.-ti* ‘ii is already well. know n and it is unneccsv ary to rqxral it here. A great deal of interestwas manifested and it will no doubt continue with increasing zeal. The officers ate James ( henoweih, President; f K W, Stearns, Vice President; lb T, Lockard, Secretary; and P.G. Eubanks, Treasurer.There arc*ako two chat liable societies. The \V. C. T. U. and the Womans Home Miss* i« -nary Society, The nature and object of these societies are loo well known to require explanation, suffice it to say that they arc both active societies and number most uf the ladies in the town.nr not nr aukatiamkjchurches.There ate also three church buildings, the Method Lt, Episcopal and Baptist, and are all well furnished buildings and conveniently andanil nicely arranged inside. Of church or-ganvn Irons there is the Northern and Southern Methodist, the Episcopalian, the Baptist, the Presbyterian an i the Uhmtian. There is a union Sunday School in which all the different denominations join and which throughtheir con:l«mclt;l efforts is thoroughly and sysu-matkally conducted. The present superintend ant, Piof. Tobins is an earnest active and energetic man and is doing a great deal to keep up the interest in the school.Tilt brick corner formerly occupied by Uhenowctli, Stearns A. Co. is nc-.s owned byA, C* Young, It is now under lease tu Ru dolph Abraham who intends engaging in the general merchandise badness there about March the 1st, iS86.VVELU. FARGO COV, OF FC I'.Is fixated in fib G, Youngs Co. dure, I. II. Slropc the present agent has been acting in that capacity since 1S75.-t)R. H. J. PAGE.Physician and surge? -n, A graduate of the Louisville Medical College in 1874 and theJefferson Medical College uf Hliladelphia in iSSj, and afon holds a life memforship in theJefferson Medical College Alumpi Asmrialion.Dr. Page first commenced practice iri this place m 1S77 since which time, with the exception of a course of lectures taken r.t the J effer v n M elt; 1 icai Cullege, he has 1 cen i n con -tinual practice with unusual success. He makes a specialty of surgery and has ^formed numerous surgical o\ orations with the most satisfactory results.C. 1% HOUSTON.I lie lightning 111a ni pula I or and freight agent at the O. «X (\ R. R. office at this place is a young man possessing all the qualifications to lu make just what he is—a first-claes agent. He is one the best operators on the line, amiis always found attending to the business entrusted to his care.All the different trades and businesses hereare in a healthy ant! prosperous condition and, as has been staled, this is the center of one of the most prosperous and extensive agricultural and stock raising surroundings in the stale. There is not a vacant dwelling in the town* and everything denotes thrift and prosperity.The city councils have liccn steadily .improving the streets, building sidewalks, and street coverings, and the footman can now visit almost any part of the town without any mcon-viencc. The addition tu the town located by D, \V, .Stearns, and known as 1‘Steams a Idi-tion” is made up of very desirable locations for dwelling houses and is rapidly improving.The following Is a list of the actual improvements made during the year 1SS5.STOCK MEN.l\ Ik Bid; Icy is a prominent stock dealer ami a large shipper, is a good business man, and is well and favorably known. The nature of his business is such a1? to make it a matter of great importance to the financial interests ol the country. James Young b also dealing in stuck principally buying and selling. He con trolls entensive ranges which he uses for collecting his stuck bought from different sections and from which he turns off each year large bands of cat lie and sheep.J. R. Dodge k one of the largest land owners which he controls mainly by leasing the agricultural land and keeping stock on !he grazing or pasture land. He ow ns about six thousand acres in cultivation. lie is now about seventy years old, and w bhcs to retirefora active life, and will sell a large track uf land and bands of sheep, cattle and horses, farming implements etc* Persons wishing tu engage in this business would find it to theiradvantage to either write* or visit him and examine his property.DR. C. P. DEVORE.Ofitcc over A. F. Brownb store. Physician and Surgeon. Dr. Devore local©* 1 here in October, has been doing a fair practice and gives general satisfaction, lie is a graduate of the Eclectic Medical CuHege of CincinatUreceiving his diploma. I le has made a special and thorough study an I practice of the diseases uf woman, and is also well prepared for the practice of surgery, Hisappearance indicates a thorough going business man, and a safe and reliable practitioner.MRS. DR. J, C. RUTAN.Mrs. Dr. Kutan located in Oakland in 1SS4and confines her work strictly to the practiceuf medicine, and docs nol include surgery m her practice.OAKLAND. OLD TOWN.-In 1S54 Tr. D. S. Baker now of Will a*fRichard Thomas,J. C. Young,C. M. Hall,Wiley Pilkington, Robert Stephens,E. G. Young A L’u*James Dearling,A. C. Young,J. II. Wilson,H, Pinkston,C. A. Sehlbiede,A, F. Brown,Ja^r. rhcnowcih.Baptist Church, j. Hutchinson, Episcopal Church, K. J. 1 ’age,John Beck ley,E. C. Sacry,J. T. Bloomfield,J. II. Howard,Mrs. Mary Smith, Mr-i. O. V. Mol ley, W. II. Moore,J. IL Shupc,G. B. Barr,E. Hart sock,John Churchill,Crouch Bros.T. J. Crouch$3000.00 2000.00 t 2QO, 00800.00600.00300.00 400.0*3200.00300.00200.00200.00-300.00100.00100.00100.0080.0075-0050.0050.0030.0025.0025.0025.0050.0025.0025.0010.00150.00200.001000.00caI£fi*1A111lt;13((]lt;clt;Itlt;I1;Total Improvement$ 11,620.00Walla I mill a grist-mill at the old Tow n site, one uf the first built in Southern Oregon, and known ab the Oakland Mill. In connection with the mill he opened a small store. In 1857 he sold out his interest in lib land and ■ mill lu E. G. Young, who at once laid Out a town site. In the same year Lord anti Peters, a firm welt known and rcmcndicrcd by all early selUcts, established a General Merchan* | dise business there. The different trades and businesses were soon all represented and as it commanded the trade of the greater part of the territory in the county north of the Umpqua River it was what is termed a “live town/' In 1S67 the large school building, now used as a District school, was built under the management of Prof. j. fi,. Gilbert; it s-oc-n becameknown os one of the first school- in the county. Like many other small towns its nearness to the proposed line of the rail road proved upon completion of the road, detrimental to its lies!interests, and the principal business housesof the town were moved down tu the rail roadaddition Mxn after the depot was established.Other branches of lwsiness followed, and there is now nothing but the mili to representthe former business of the place. There U rtil! a population of afi**ut sixty inhabitants in the town. Fbc school there under the management of Prof. Tobias is well attended, a good many students from the surroundicountry Wing enrolled there. The Professor comes to us well rcccommcnded as an educa* tor, and the success he has met with, and general satisfaction he has given to the patrons of . hu school, is a better rcccomniendation than any pen could describe or mind invent.THE OAKLAND MILL.%This mill is owned and conducted byEulmnkr and \\Twel«, who are still keepingup its reputation for the first class article of flour made there, the quality of which has foryears been so generally know n.1I1]1111i(1!*
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Roseburg Review
Roseburg, Oregon, US
Fri, Jan 22, 1886
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