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DAILY EAST ORKGONIATT. PEJDLETON. OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1912. PAGE THREE EIGIIT AGES. Our Return Generally when a firm takes back merchandise and returns to the cus tomer the purchase price they con gratulate themselves upon their fair dealing, be lieving they have fulfilled every business obli gation and strickly speaking they have. Bond Bros, service, however, goes farther than this. A return of goods here is sufficient reason for an investigation, for we are keen to know why a customer should be dissapointed, to say nothing of being put to the trouble and incon venience of bringing the purchase back. Then we set about to find the weak spot in our organization and to make sure that the same thing does not occur again. In other words, we strive to profit from our mistakes, and it is our constant alertness at all times to improve our merchandise and our ser vice that has made Bond Bros, Styles so dependable and your dealings with us so satisfactory, It is the reason why so few of our customers have occasion to make use of the return privi legethey get styles and val. they prefer to keep There is a "Benjamin" Suit and Over coat adapted to YOUR personality and guaranteed to fit YOU, at tftivu; u uu PENDLETON'S LEADING CLOTHIERS MOM LV Let Us Solve the Question for You no 1 ,.f Omr beautiful Hues selected with earo for tho holiday trade, rcjwo-r-ni gifts of soiwe, desirability ami usefulness. Every Present has Practical Worth There In no possibility of you making a mistake and giving a pros wit that will not bo cherlHhed even for years to coine when Uio selec tion Li made from Uie beautiful suggestions wo now have on display WATCHES 6ILVERWARE CLOCKS CUT GLASS DIAMONDS TOILET SETS .7 EWE I S EMBLEMS RINGS AND DINS and thousands of other suitable articles all prietxl right SHoc Uous may bo made now and will lo delivered as you srxvHy. This etves us ample time for engraving thorn. Ik, I ieh&sfar TUB JFWEIilOU AND SILVERSMITH. HOW SPOKANE IS PRONOUNCED .Spokane. Wash., Dec. 6. After two score years of teaching newcomers to pronounce Spokane with a short "a." residents of this city have re ceived a decided shock in the an nouncement by Edward S. Curtis, noted Indian uuthority, that the "a" should be long. Battle lines are drawn closely and the argument wax es warmer as the days pass. Back east nearly all people call it "Spo kane." with the "a" long, as in "cane." When they come west with this pronunciation they are frowned tenderfeet. and are educated to say "Spokane." Now comes tho edict of the, Indian expert, and ortho graphers and etymologists have had their two score years of peace shat tered. Meanwhile, old timers are clinging tenaciously to the short "a," lest they bo designated as ten derfeot by extremists. A board of ar bitration has been suggested to set tle the dispute. ST1MSON SCORES GRANTING VALUABLE WATER RIGHTS. Washington, Dec. 6. Ad. dressing the National Rivers and Harbors congress, Secretary Stimson scored the promiscuous granting of valuable water rights to private industries and Insisted that taxpayers should get the benefit of them. Poin dexter is scheduled for an ad dress this afternoon. Between 30 and 50 carloads of potatoes per day are being dug in the Island district. Tubers are quoted at from 40 to 80 cents per sack, accord ing to quality. Growers declare that thousands of acres of spuds will not be dug. DECLARES ni'RHY TRIED TO TRADE HER OFF under 21 years of age was a member of any of the three churches. This case was selected as typical of church conditions in many small towns. Re ports of state federations said it was conditions such as these that they were seeking to remedy. CHURCH PROBLEM OF VILLAGE A BIG ONE Chicago. Deo. 6. The story of an Indian village of 262 inhabltanas with . . . a M ! u Inna nnil nillV ton prui tMru loiiiiHij ... twenty church members attempting to support three churvhea, was related . .. . ii .. m ..l...n..t..tc at the leuerai council ui nununr here. Of the 68 Christians In tho village, the forty-eight that were not mem bers of the three local churches were distributed among nine denomina tions. It was said that no young man 50,000 SACKS OF ONIONS INTO RIVER Stockton, Cal., Dec. 6. Fully 50, 0UO sacks of onions grown in San Joaquin county will be thrown Into the river this year, largely on account of the present low prices. Local growers and commission men defend thi." action by declaring that the yield has been exceptionally heavy and that there Is an unusual amount of culls. Growers are offered from 30 to 60 cents per sack, according to quality. They state that It costs 10 cents a suck to dig them and that when rent and cost of production is charged against tho crop they lose tnonev at 30 cents. Onlv culls .or un marketable portion, they declare, Is being thrown overboard. Mrs. Asher at Vale Makes Complaint ami seeks a Divorce. Vale, Ore. Mrs. Peary Asher, nee moore, has filed suit for divorce in the Malheur county circuit court. In which she charges Huston Asher with cruel and inhuman treatment. A sensational allegation is injected Into the proceedings, wherein she cites her husband's latest act. the one which finally decided to leave him, was an attempt on Asher's part to trade her to one Manuel Smith, Smith to take Ashers' position as her master. Tho couple were married in Ontario, Ore., August 9, 1911, and Mrs. Ash er still resides there. MANY BOYS AND GIRLS WILL GO TO COLLEGE Spokane, Wash., Dec. 6. Of 50 boys and girls In the mid-winter graduating class of the Lewis & Clark high school in Spokane, 43 have announced they will attend col lege. Washington pate college and the University of Washington will draw many, one will go to Oxford, England, and other" to various col leges in the east and west. The con dition that obtained a. few years ago, when a majority of the boys took up law and medicine, haa been re versed. Seven will study agriculture, five engineering, one medicine and one law. There are more crazy men than crazy women probably because the latter change their minds so often. To investigate Shooting. Seattle, Dec. 6. Federal Marsh Majoby has begun an investigation of the shooting of Henry Booker, a non union laborer, at the Renton coal mines. Booker was hit by a half spent bu'.let penetrating the walls of his room in a hotel. .. t IP D. R. CHEI1 Chinese Herb Go. Pendleton, Oregon 114 E. Webb St. Under State Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 10-12 and i-8 Our wonderful Herb cures Rheumatism, As thma. Nervous Weakness, Kidneys, Rupture. Chronic Coughs; also Lung, Heart, Stomach and Female Trouble Our Herb remedies have been used with wonderful results in China for over 4,000 years. CON 1TDENTLYL CONSULTATION FREE. Phone Main 173. f- i i Coming to the Oregon Theatre Monday, Dec. 9th Frederick ThOllipSOn Presents ELSIE ST. LEON and the famous St. Leon Family, in America's. Greatest Success POLL.Y ofthe CIRCU a REAL CIR.CUS ON THE STAGE BIGGER, BRIGHTER AND BETTER THAN EVER Seat Sale Pendleton Drug Co. Sat., Dec. 7th. PRICES: $ 1 .50--$ 1 .00 and 50C r