PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIANS
DR. A. L RICHARDSON,
Physician and Surgeon.
Ofnee orer Bill' Drag atom.
Oflke Phone 1S64 HasiS m Paoae Ml
N.MOLITOR M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Corner Adams iTau and Depot Hi.
OSftM Phone ZM Heslderie Phone 681
WILLARD SMITH
PHYSICIAN AND, SURGEON
tswla balldlng, oppoalU Hammer Hons
Offioe Hours, 1 to 4, 7 to I
BACON & HALL,
YSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Ofnee la Koley building, Psoas 1191.
C. T. Uaoou, Residence Phone III
M. It. Hli,eSldeiM 2U1
DKS. DIGGERS & BiGGCRS
piiyaiciaae and Burgeons
O W Blggers, M. D. Ueo, U Bigger. M. D
Telephone
Office mi Kealdenoe 1881
Office' Kslalon Building over J. M
More. sUstdenee on Madison AVe. second
door treat of 'orraer residence, Dr. a W. Ulggers
La ORAMDK - OREGON
ProfeMhoaal calls promptly attended to
day or night.
DENTIST8
REAVIS BROS.
DENTISTS.
OAec Hommer Building
Office Phone s-l Mealdenee Phone 117
C. B. Cauthorn
DENTIST
OITloe) Over Hill Drug) Store
La Graode, Oregon
R. l. LINCOLN
DENTI8T
Up stairs, cot Adjuna avenue and Depot 8U
Phone y
VETERINARY SURGEON
Dr. P A CHARLTON
VETERINARY BURGEON,
Office at A T Hill's Drug Store
La Grande, Oregon Phone 136 J
Reaidenee phone red 701
Farmers' line 68
DR. W. T. DJWNE8.
V NT K ill N A It Y SUUOKON AND
DENTIST
Leave order at Red
Cross Drug (tore
Residence Cor
uh and I t
Thirty Svs years experience, beat of reference
furnished
ATTORNEYS
CRAWFORD & CRAWFORD
Attorneys-at-Law
I.A UKANDH, OKKOON
nice In Koley balldlng.
J. W KN0WLE8
Attorney and Counsellor
At Law
omco in KtUstou Building
Phone U6 1st (JrandeOr.
H. t. WUIIama a C. Williams
WILLIAMS BROS.
ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW
QIAos In Balaton Building
Phone iDvi La Orande, or.
L. A. PICKLER
Civil. Mining. Irrigation Engineering ami
aurvc
Estimates, Plans, aud eTeolnVatlons.
Offioe 1110 Adams Avenue, with John EUough
LA UHANt.lt, OUKOON
Lodge Directory.
HAH1.KH-U tfranOe .Vine 154 P O hi meets
every ounasy night in tv oi r hsll sf I t
T WiUSg UIVUINU ' 1
BlcvlUd U. attend.
. A. Melott, W. P.
J . tk Polio. I , W. H
lOO V 1st UrsuUe Lotlire. Mo la nseis .l
ibeir hell every Saturday night. Vlsl Uog uuem
eon cortuaii v laviieo to aiteuu.
Uomtery plat can be seen at of) ice of City
MMiai
G. W. Robertson, N U
II, K, Oaolidge, Ben.
STAR KNl-AMPMKN'r No 31, I. O. O. P.
neat every Aral and third Thursdays in the
mouth in Odd renown hall. Vial ting pairl
srehs always welcome I . R. Suuok, C P.
Eduioad Bobtnaon, Sortbe
KabTKUMMTaH OBB Uok Chapter Mo
is mewe we seunau auu roan n weaBceaay is
jscu nwois ei ;:u p iu in ssuonu- 1 eiupi
Hurtle Aldrich, W U
Mary A Waraioh. ita
M. W.A. L a Grande Isiuip Bo. 7703 meets
every first and third Wednesday of the
month at 1. o. o. r . uau. aii visiting nelch
bors are cordially iuviUxl to attend.
K. ReiUeud, V, 0.
John Ball, Clerk.
PORSBTKB8 OP AMERICA Court Maid
Marion, No tt mu eaoh Thursday night in
iv a r nan. nruuiai are inniaa to aiienu.
X a xtitson. CBief Hanutr.
C 8 Williams, Pin. Hee
Board of Trustees -or.u 1 Burgers, John Vail
nan iierocn mioses.
I La Grande Evening Observer
Currey Bios., Ed's and Prop.
Published daily except Sunday
Saturday, August 5. 1905.
Entered at the
Grande, Oregon,
Mail Matter.
Poet Office at La
aa Beoond Claaa
One year in advance $6 60
Six months in advance. . . .3 60
Per month 66c
Single copy ...6c
ADVEUTI.-UNO KATKrJ
Display Ad rate tarnished apoa application
Local reading notices 10c per line first
Uoa, o per llae An each subsequent l
Has,
Resolutions of condolence, 50 per line.
Cards of thanks, to par llae.
PEDANTRY TO BLAME
The teachers Association
closed a most interesting and in
strnotive session of four days
duration, yesterday, wherein
many thing were said about
interesting children in their
studies and some of the difficul
ties which teachers find in get
ting the young to take an interest
therein. The Observer paid as
close attention to all I bat was
hsiu as it could and now
ventures the assertion that the
principal reason why children
do not take an interest at once
in the several studies presented
to them, is the unintelligible, to
them, names which pedantry
has given to the several studies.
The makers of school hooks,
and most books on scientific
subjects, give the books intend
ed for young English speaking
children, not English names,
but long ones, concocted from
dead languages that have not
been spoken for centuries and of
which the children know noth
ing. The child sees one of these
big meaningless words on the
title page of his now book with
out even exciting hi? curiosity,
for to its mind it makes no sug
gestion and is as unpronouuc-
able and meaningless as his or
her own name would be spoiled
backwards. From this intro
duction the child intuitavly con
cludes that a package thus label
ed must be full of dead stuff and
unpleasant conundrums. The
book is taken up with fear and
trembling as a traveler in a
strange land would enter upon a
road with a finger board on
which were words from the vo
cabulary of a people dead for a
thousaud years and of the mean
ing of which neither he nor the
natives of the laud know any.
thing. Does the road lead to the
graves of the people whose words
have been mangled, for the
finger board inscription, or is
the itucriplion a warning of his
fate should he take that road?
Take the name given to the
book iute tided to leach our
American children how to talk
and write proporly their mother
language Is there anything in
the long word, grammar, that
suggests to the child what he is
going to learn in that book? It
is not an English word, but a
Greek word, changed so that
Plalo, the most learned of the
Greeks, would not kuow it, aud
have 110 idea what it meant.
Not one bait of the teachers of
trammer can defiue the term so
'hat an American child, how
ever bright, can catch but a
vagae glimmer of its meaning.
Children do not like to grope in
the dark, or play hide and seek
i . 1 1 1 .
uuuvr mju pern 01 1008IU2 a
standing mark, or it may be the
ferule on their tender hands,
hence they take no interest iu
grammar.
Arithmetic is another word
inflicted upon the American
children by the vain pedantry
of the men who prepare books
for the young, The word does
not belong to our vernaotular.
and to make it, two old Greek
worda are patched together.
Look into yoar dictionary and
yon will see that there are, and
were, at the time ofita making
worda enough of common Eng
lish words to define the meaning
of the exhumed Greek, which
shows that an English word
could have been selected, the
meaning of which every child
ould know at aight or sound,
or if not his mother would and
could define it in common every
day language. It is safe to say
that oue half of our children
work more than half way
through the Arithmetic in a
blundering manner before they
know the meaning of the term.
The aame difficulty is en
countered in Geography, Agri
culture, Anatomy, Hygine, Bi
ology and in nearly every subject
taught our children in our
schools. Thia dead weight that
Pedantry has fastened upon our
children crushes out enthusiasm,
renderea it difficult to interest
them in- subjects so hidden with
worda from the dead languages,
to the nep-leet of our mnthur
tongue, that it takes years of
ohild life to find out just what
their instructors are trying to
teach them.
TREASURER S CALL
FOR CITY WARRANTS
Notloo la hereby given that there
are now (nnda on baid to pay all out
atanding warrants leaned on Water
Fund of La Orande City, up to and
including, No, 5561 endorsed June 15th
1005.
Interest on all warrants on water
Fund from No 5168 to No 5651 inolu
aive, ceases from tola date.
La Orande, Oregon, Aug 3rd, 1905.
J WALSH
City Treasurer.
Omes dizzy pellt, tired feeling,
atrmacb, Kidney and liver troubles.
Makes jrou well and keeps yon welt.
That's wbat Holiister'. Uocky Moan
tain Tea will do. 85 cents, Tea or
Tablets. Newlin Drag Co.
There are many k.,da of meat,
but we sell only ..ne best kind. A
trial order will convince you of
the truth of this statement. We
kill only the best specimens and
kill it correctly.
Our prices are as low as con
sistent with the best quality.
Bock & Thomas
GOOD PASTURE
not) aores fine pasture, adjoining
city, Abundantly watered, Cowe
iu beard $1.50, dry stock and
horoes 1.36, per month, Stock
delivered on abort notion at reas
prioea El. E.Jones,
Phou 1276 La Grande
1
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ill
Ifyoiir tickets nad
and Klo ttiamie Kalh
Line oi the world" ;
the Denver
tne "Heenio
BKOAUfcE
i'here are so niany acenlc ail -at t 11 end
imiiN oi i merest tiling tho i'te . f
tan fie . f
lUat thi tup
itns wunsDQ Denver l ist
never beeomea tiresome
If you nre going east, write lior ttny
tell you nUalltftrelbU1 w"1
W C McBRIDE, Agent,
124 Third St.
Portlard Oregon
J. R. OLIVER.
UNION OOUNTY
ABSTRACTS
Farm Loans a Specialty
Best equipped abstracter
in Union county. Many
years experiences with
the Union county records
gives me a great advant
age. It is folly to pur
chase realeatate without
first securing a proper
abstraoL An abstract
from my office will show
the title just as it appears
on the official record.
J. R. OLIVER,
LA GRANDE, OREG JN
Room 31, Bommer Bdlg.
EC OAVI9
President
J H CHII. DM
Sec. and Trees.
BLUE MOUNTAIN MARBLE
AND GRANITE CO.
LA GRANDE OREGON
Complete assortment of fin-
At w i.I.Ia ivMnii
, o
hi ways on band. Estimates
cheerfully furnished upon
application.
Headstones and Monuments
A Specialty
MEW SECOND
HAND STORE
All kind of second hand
goods bought and sold
GEO. GROUT, Prop,
209 Kir St. bet. Adams and Jefferson
G. L FOWLER
Truck and,
Transfer
Wood and Coal
Phone 1611
All order given prompt
attention.
RED FRONT LIVERY BARN
Wm. Smith, Prop,
Srfe and reliable rigs furn
at all times. Special ac
comodations furnished to
commercial travelers,
Phone. 3-6
WM, SMITH FEED STORE
Hay, Grain and feed. Free
deliverv to all parts ef the
city. Mountain trade a
specialty. Phone 1961
Horses, harnea and wagon
bought and sold
A Grim Tragedy
la daily enacted, In thousands of ironies
as Death oialms, in each one, another
victim ol Consumption or Pneumonia.
Bat when Coagha and Colds are prop
erly treated, the trsgedy is averted.
V U Huntley, of Oakladon, Ind, writes
"My wife bad the consumption and
three doctors gave her up. Finally
she took Oi. King's New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds
which cured her, aud today sue m well
and strong. " It kills the germs of all
diseases. Oue doae relieves. Uoar
anteed at 60o and 81 by Newlin Drug
Co., druggist. Trial bottle free.
URIC ACID
In the blood causes Rheu
matism.Sciatia.Luinbago, Neuralgia and Gout. You
can remove the cause by
wearing one of our
REX
RHEUMATIC
RINGS
Manufactured by the Rer Rheumatls.
King vx., n amor J. UH.'cttcut.
Price $2.00 oo a,
J. R. SMI Til,
ANNOUNCEMENT
Having purchased the painting and papering
business formerly owned by 8tackland & McLachlen,
we wish to inform the public that we are prepared to
take contracts for all kinds of painting, paperhanging
and decorating. We are experienced workmen aud
guarantee satisfaction. We are here to stay and we
are willing to let our work speak for workmanship,
and the quality for our stock. A trial order solicited.
STANIELS & JARMAN.
l SUMMER
a
!
Until further notice we will be able to furnish our
v customers with the very best W
Black Caps Black Berries Red Raspberries
Peaches
a And all other seasonable
and tree
mpddacia r.ortrFDV CTTlDF W
iiL.uiAunM ut.VUi jivim- m
Uoi.l'ir and Jefferson 8ta. 0. RALSTON, Prop, ti
ST. LOUIS LIVERY
LARSEN &
w
Rigs furnished for parties,
best carryall
Keep
If ou have no other way call on the
LA GRANDE LIGHT AND POWER CO.
and secure an
Rates nnd all prices
will be explained at
the office
tee seeaae.
"The man who loves his wife the most.
Is not the one to let her roast."
Theie hot days, in a kitchen overheated by a swelterini;
stove-Cut out the family wash day. Send your laundry
tcus Saves wood, time and energy. Don't burn up
a lovely disposition. Send your linen, all of it to
Ae B. C.
STEAM LAUNDRY
PHONE js i85i
U4Granie, Oregon.
FRUITS
Peach Plums
f
fruits, tresh from the vine &,
AND FEED STABLE f
N0RRIE, Props. )
First class turnouts fur
nished lay or night.
Special accomodation for
commercial men.
Bett service guaranteed (f
f Horses boarded by day,
weaa or inonin.
funerals and picnics. The
in the city.
Cool
Electric Pan
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