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About La Grande morning observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1901-1904 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1904)
You'll Rest More Securely lr Lima. Iuua ot having duos what you oould to provide lor your iriends. There are differtut ways to do this, but none bailor than to provide them with a home. If you haven't done tbis, we'd like to sell you one. A small payment will secure it, and afterward the out luy won't Le much more thai: house lent Eithor way we're bound to please you. , La Grande Evening Observer CI RREV BK08., Editor 1 Propa Entered at the Post. Office at La (Jrande, Oregou, as Second Claaa Mail Matter. jCa Sran de investment Company, ' 1110 Adama Aveuue, La Grando, Oregon '4 a a OFFICERS: (Id, Palmeb. President J. M. Bkrrt Vice President ' - J. M.Ciiimcu .....Cashier DIRECTORS: J. M. Berry, J. M. Chnrwh A. B. Conley, Geo. L. Clea ver, Geo. Palmer F. L. Mktkbs and Geo L Cleaver Asst. Cashiers 3655 rRANDE IN ATIONAL D ' NK La Grande, Oregon CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $72,000.00 . Transacts a general banking business. Buys and sella exchange on all parts of the world. Collections a specialty. La O' a a BOSS Meat Market Stollwell & Yandermuelon, Proprietors. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL - BUTCHEPS. " . Highest market price paid for all kinds of butchers' stock Hides, pelts and furs. Also chickens & poultry. Coal For Hot Weather Our Rock Spring coal will give satisfaction We always haye it on hand. Castle Gate and Clear Creek coal, too, if you would rather have it. We al ways have coal, all kinds aud at lowest puces. If you want wood we can furnish you the kind that burns longest aud best. G. E- FOWL ER, TRANSFER AND DELIVERY Phone No 1611 aBBaaooaaaarjaaa ' JOHN JAMISON W E STULL ELVA JAMISON I We will call for it and bring it I home when promised, m We guarantee satisfaction and onlv ask for a O trial order to demonstrate to you that we un- D deratand the laundry business, ou can stop D B our wagon at any time or phone the Laundry S and your work will be called for at once. We g make a specialty of family wniiing, and cub D do your washing better aud cheaper than E ou. A trial order solicited. C Union Steam Laundry PHONE 1981. 742 FIR STREET. I TURKESTAN ALFALFA The Dry Laud Alfalfa grows without irri galion. BROME GRASS Red Clover, Alfa.fa and all kinds of Garden Seed in bulk Seed Wheat, Baled Barley, Oats, Etc. The only Seed House inUnion County. A.. V. Oliver . . , K7I Published daily except Sunday 0ne year iu advance..., . .$6 50 Six mouths in advance. . . .3 50 Per mouth 65c Single copy; ,5c THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT I, 1904 THE OLD TOWN PUMP The announcement that the icdicnlion of the public drink ing fountain which the ladies of La Grande have caused to be erected in a central part of our city, will bi' made with appro priate ceremony on tomorrow, tartles icemorie aud sends the iiiir.d hack, far buck, into ve olden limes. In this Bight backward along the pathway of nations and civilizations to re call bow perished nations drank eacli mind peers iuto the "bliv ious clouds tha ages have thrown over man's . pathway through time and dwells upon the dead people that appeal most forceable to him or her. Bible readers will revert to "Laud of Jurlea, thrice hallowed in song, where holiest of mem ories prilgrim like throng," snl revisit pools, brooks and drink ing places rendered sacred be cause they quenched the thirst of prophets or cooled the hot tips of the Son of Man. And when they recall the leather bottle3 or goat skin sacks born upon the backs of toiling men or cruely burdened women that onstituted the water works that carried driuk to the inha bitants ol cities and villiaees in the land of the prophets and think of the long lines of iron pipes that conveys the rushing wa er from the mountain -In am to our homes and city and bubbles in the beautiful fountain emgiug iis glad song of invitation to the stranger within our gates" to come and drink they will rejoice that theii Lves have been cast in ple.isanl places. Others whose mind delight in pagan history will recall the stupendous waler works of an- oient Romo whoso solid ma sonry and lofty arches cost mil lions of money that the people might have water to drink. But Rome bad neither pipes nor fuueet to distribute water as we have. It could provide u way for water to run down hill but kuew not how to make it leap up and bubble iu fountains or iu skimmeriug mist catch from the evening nun the gorgeous hues of the rainbow to shed ef- fulnencies of elory ovor luwus and gardens. But there arethose'hat foun lain in our city will turn their minds back not to Palistiue nor Italy but to some country vil lixge eituuied iu a small clearing in the primeval American forest with a wooden town pump pro tudiug from a well iu the center thereof. About that old town pump what memories linger. Who can forgot its long wooden bundle and how it creaked aud thugge'd, when some impatient house wife urged it to 611 her i wooden bucket with water thut i c iiue with an interiupted t ;.l ish in the early dawn ere the last invigorating morning mup was completed? 'ho thut I knows the unwritten volumes of go? nip that old pump could recito if po;ses8e I of the power or in- el i nation to tell its mind hut ! fre's thankful that like Judicious ' candidates it holds its longue. fn early morning and slil y evenings groups of matrons and maids gathered about it and while one would energetically pump water from the well to fill her pails, the others would be adroitly pumping eaoh other In the latest villiage newt and when one would get an impor tant morsel of news and : her bucket full Of water with a gig gle and a wiggle she would has ten home, wondering what on cartn as Sue a looking fellow : as J ohu M son could see in red headed Kate Smothers. Later in the day men and bare footed boys fioin the country, would gather about th pump with tnoir inirsty dorses and oxen for a diiuk. The animals would diink out of a wooden trough howu from a laye log and people from a crooked . handled goured that Aunt Nancy raisd and donated tj tbe public The men talked politic and the trial of strength at the last log roll ing whereat the champion of Hicory Creek has been out lift ed in a hand spike test of strength by the champion lifter of Walnut Creek. 1 The boys cooled their bare feet in the mud puddle about the trough being oareful not to step on any of the mud dauber wasps that garner ed in a fringe ou the margin of the puddle making pellets of mud with which to complete their mud nests. Though the memories that go back to the old town pump do not look dig nified iu priut yet to those who cooled their thirst there from shouk hands with the men about it and exchanged glances with the girls, cmnot forget them and a revival of these old scenes bring more pleasure to such than the history of kings and storied of evanished nations and ex ploits of wirriors long since dead. "'. ',' IMPORTANT TO FARMERS GRAIN BAGS GRAIN BAGS $4.75 per 100 By order of the State Board of Prison Directors, I am authorized to sell grain bags in any quantity' ahovo 600 manufactured at San tuentin Prison, at a prioe fixed at 14.75 per 100. Bags delivered free in San Fran oisco. Orders ruunt be. accompanied with cash -or 4 ex change on Sun Francisco in full, and also with the fol lowing affidavit verified before a Notary Publie or Justice of the Peace: ; ;.. ,.... -V i.i -, Vjvtb vs'Mi ! "I hereby certify that I am a conuumer residing in. . ..... .... .and that the ba(,B ordered by me'ftr for . ray own personal and Individual use.'.' . .: if Subscribed and sworn to before me this. . .'.'day of.... V Seal The bags are of the same capaoity as standard Oalout ' tee, and superior in quality Don't dolay end in your order today lo J. W. TOMPKINS, Wardgn San Quen tin Prison, California ' ? t f v'.4 i i . : - Sample ol Iheie bugs to be seen at this oHlo ; ' . B BBBBBBBBBflBBBBO 0 O Farmers' and Traders a National BarilSr S LAGRANDE, OREGON . . Capital . Stock fully paid 60,000 o a O Surplus fund . 18.000 m Liability of Shareholders ' tW.OOO - - mm : ' Responsibility . 188,000 , B We do a general bauking and exohansje business. 11 Drafts bought und sold on eartern aud foreign banks. . U a z . . ff B - JOSEPH PALMER; f resident i a : J. W. SCttlBERCleiT BBBBBSSBSBBIIBfl fl 01111 OOB n 11 Weatlior Tonight and Friday fair, warmer t jiiiglit- m TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, (878. -NOTIl'K K(R I'lUlI.ICATION. :U. f5. Utud Ofllcc, at La Urnndo, Or., Alay U, Nntlrn Is licrphr trivrn I hut iu uninnllanoA Willi tho provisions of thetietof Cangrum at Jinto-i, im.h, 1'iitttitH) "An uci ror inowtiooi ilmiRT lttmi.Hln Uii' stiiieM of OiUfornlft, Ore NcvikIh, and W'HHhlngton Territory," un o.iit;inl-tl toali tlie l'ubllo Umd Htate by uot ul AitKiiHt 4, MHry B Murphy, ot Perry, cnuntv of Union, tato ff Orton, tini thin (I iy liloil in tliiit olllco her sworn atalo iniiit No 3)01, for the pllrt-liftKO ulttio WNWJi iintl NVis Wi of -Action No. 26 in TownsbiD So, 4 f, It So. 3-r K. W. 51.. and will ofTer proof rosiiow uitii uie i:iiia Rouiii in mum vaiuuuie forlti- Ilinljcr or hlone tlmii Tor iiKrlcultural purMMs, flinl to '.sL;ibllnti lior clulm to wild Itiml bt'ftiro the H-nistcr und Itccelver ol ItiiH oltlcn hi Lii Uriiti'io, Ort-KOii, on MoinUiy, Die 11 dtt.v or August, WW. sin; nullum (ix wIIiic-jhch: a. I. Mean, Phoebe Itnllb, .lohu .1. Mtnpliy, nd lUilph if. HuIIU, nil of Pen- --, i)rcori. A ny ii ml nil pt.-r.MuK clulmltiK ndvorsely the r.hovc-dirrlbctl limits nru retiiiRHtod to file their cliiluiKlu ihiM olllco on or before sudd lht d'xV of AllllHl, ItKJi. : . W. DuvIb, Register. Special Excursion to the World's Fair,. The Denver and Eiio Graude, Id con nociion with tho Missouri Pacific, will run a Horiea of poroonally cod ri ucted excursions to the World's fair during June. Theee excursioua will run through to St. Louis without olmu'o of curs, mrtking abort stops at princiipnl points onroute. Tbe first of thoflo o.xcursious will leave Portland June 7, and the second June 17. The rule from I -a (iraude rill be W0 to St. Louis und roturn. Excursionists go intf Aia the Oonvor &. Rio (Jrande have the privilego of returulns by a differ ent route. This is tbe most pleasant way, as well as the most delightful route to cross the continent. 1 he stopn nrrniiKed give an opportunity of vUltiiK in and about Kausas tty. If you wiwh to accompany one of these excursions write at oiwo to W O Mo Bride, 124 Third stroott Portland, for Sleeping car roHorvatlotis vFULL MEASURE i- Chain wood by trie Cord ' ..MMI,,VWI.. .Illij ..i.t 128 cubic feet lo the cord. 16-inch dry chain toood $3 per cord. This is cheaper than by the load. You pay for what you got etd get what you pay for. Phone 57i H. W. NIBLEY 1 A Few Clioicta Bargains in Wal- Iowa County Real Estate 1 " 1 (1) 200 ncn S ot land, 12).voso ipibla of cuUWllo, 1130 I in fall sown whost. liau, tarn Rai atbir bulldlnj.. A gr 3 snnpnn $2,5J . - D (2) 'i-Klairc. mu!l orclmiil, h.u.e, barn mid goad outbnlldlDS.. 80 mentis f.tl in sowti ginin; NMVUI Btr..4Viu uf walur flow tlirotlKh place ARreal banrttln a(a,M0 g H 2,0 aires of 'au! .Artl whicfi ia Die flneti of inAadow; cood hosae and . ontl.tiilriini; gnodh'i ti.. h) tolls of hay can be out on tbe plac will Uke a .Vi0 in cattle in r.tale on iliU protiuity. IVIcu III) per arrA. g 4 lM)aiTvB. M uro!iiii Iniid lrf:e $)0 prr aero. Tills if a great baraata.' i . ' ' ' 5 Macti4 l line Iniid At $iil pr acr. Tlmaearea fnw of tho many anapg Wa j have U offer ill th way ofroai CMlnle liarKalna. For further partieulan addle.. M'Daniel &, M'Donald I WALLOWA, - - OREGON.-. Notice to Contractors Soali'd liiila n-ill lio recnlved until 2 o'i;liu:k H M Sdtiinlay August 6 IIKM fur th i-onnnmtion ol a two story fiiinin rAKidoiicH buililiiig nccordiiiir ti pltinfiiiil appciHi-Htiona which my lie ..'en ut tho rpfidonce of Mr S5 Patty, or ul lh'! ri'fidi'iice of G K Thorrtou, A i'h 1 1 Hrt , I.a i t'tt-de, Oregon, at whleh liitti-r place bids will he openwl. liiddfra invito i to ho pri-rwiit. The owner r rvits the right lo reject any und all l. In, Mra Z ratty. How dtiir to my buni't Is tho old-faaliloned waabboard . J J That mothor unad to wash ou when I was a boy, S Will) its ziiiu-covorod ridges ths suds used to play ia ; v And soip baii'ileH gitmhol'd to n.y obildlsli joy. " ! Ofttimes h ivii I wntnliod bor when wmtrlug her knuckles. ' . . i s 9 As uver tbe ridifos our duds she would rub. I ne'or will fornet bow she si'lttshod aud lu slatherep " . J The old fashioned wash board that stoad in the tab. Z CHORUS The old fashioned washboard; J Tne zliic-covered washboard ; ;. The bnck-broaking wushboard that stood ia tbe tub. Somo folks ill .vnjM kick about ap-to-date laoddries, . . And sny they woar out their clotbea every d.ty ; Bat xive tbem to me, so I will have a hot tllnoer , At home, with I ho simll of tho soup suds away. 1 know that the wash ng niitchluo is niuoh easier CM all of our olothi'S tmin to tnko Uinm and rub Till the buttons au I bosoms arn lust and worn out Ity tbn old fasbioDol wasbbourd that stood in the tub. ' We are not the old fashioned kind. ABC LAUNDRY PHONE i85l t44-ti-i'i'i-MA-,-t-i'iM-'i't t4-M-eeeeee) City Property For Sale Finclj licated, Well .Improved 5-Room House For Sale. Also Oilier City Property,"At nGRANT & HERR0NS WE ark HEADQUARTERS For Kodak and Kodak Supplies A completo stock of professional paper. Plates at wl.olesalo prices. Mail orders answered promptly. La Grande Drug Co. and Red Cross Drug Co