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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1905)
ii ii' II . r s . - . I' J -f, a- GOING TO Paper or Paint this Fall? IF 30. CALL ON STANIELS & JARMAN .GET THFIR PR1CE$ We are closing out our entire stock of wall paper it T great reduction in pi ice , to make room for tbe largest T Block ever put in La Grande. We hand'e everything 41 in tbe line 01 rami, una. uiasa, eic. wo uo an q 0 kinda of painting, paper banging and decorating Call and aee na. 6 1 STANIELS & JARMAN 5 Dealers In Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc r , o6 2323 N ew and Elegant Line OF LADIES' NECKWEAR New switches Eighty-five dozen new dolls MilUtvy and caps always in stock E M WELLMAN & CO A-df.mrf Ave FOR WINTER WASHING Our new machinery and additional help will enable ut to do fami lly washing CHEAPER, QUICKER and BETTER than you can doit yourtelf. We call for and deliver your laundry quickly and make special ty of rush order work. Qiva us a trial and o 1 will not be bothered through the winter with family washing. - A. B. C. STEAM LAUNDRY HHONE Main 7 LaGrnJe, Oregon. Ready For Business WITH A FULL LINE OF FEED, HAY AND GRAIN We are read to buy all kinda of bay and grain, and pay highest market prices. V. OLIVER Slater 13uildinsr IEFFERSON AVE Mate 57. One Hundred Years of Rapid Progress In 1 80S the world had not a single steamship on the ocean, a single mile of railway on land, a single span of tele graph upon the continents or a single foot of cable beneath the ocean. In this blessed year of 1905 it has 18.000 steam vessels, 600.000 miles of railway and more than 1.000.000 miles of land telegraph, while the very continents are bound together in instantaneous commu nication, by more t.ian 200,000 miles of ocean cables and the number of telephone messages sent aggregates 6,000,000,000 annually, one-half of them being in the United States. That great reigon called the "Corn belt." was as yet unsettled and practically unknown in 1805. A little of Ohio, less of Indiana and nothing of Illnois was then known to the popu lation which as yat was clinging to the Atlantic coast afraid of the terrors sup posed to lurk in the western wilderness. But a few wiiita men had crossed the Mississippi and all that vast region stretching to tha western ocean was a terra incognita. At present it filled with great and populous states, enjoying wealth, luxuries and conveniences of all kinds wnich wara beyj.id the reach of kings one hundred years ago. Every prosperous farmer of the west sleeps in tij which Y."z could not have afforded in 1805 and when he comes east to visit his relatives he rides in a palace car compared to which the best conveyances of royalty seem crude and barbarous. The richest men of England France in those days were poor in all the conveniences of life compared to hundreds of thousands scattered over the thous ands of miles of territory which a hund red years ago was a howling wilderness. Pessimists, while admitting the marvelous ' development along material lines, insist that thererfeas been no moral improvement, that people are more wicked, less honest, far more corrupt and grasping then in the olden days. This is a great mistake. There has been as wondrous an advance, in genuine intellectual civilization as in moterial things. Man has shed many of his "worst superstitions. He no longer kills hund reds of thousands of innocent women and girls for committing the impossible crime of witchcraft. Torture, as a means or wringing confessions, is prohibited by the laws of every civilized government. "No cruel or- unusual punishment shall be inflicted." says the constitution of the United States. Freedom of the press, freedom of speech religious liberty, things wholly unknown one hundred years ago across the water, are now the common possession of nearly all European peoples. There is not a king on the American continent, from the St Lawrence to the uttermost reach of Terra Del Fuego, while in 1805 every foot of land south of the gulf of Mexico was governed by European despots. In dividual men, of course, remain much the same in all ages. They have . the same passions and appetites and these lead to greed, to dishonesty in all its forms, to licentiousness and to the Braver crimes. Civilization itself breeds its own peculiar vices and diseases ana our very progress and prosperity en gender vicious elements, just as the richest soils are most prolific in weeds and noxious insects. On the whole, how ever, there has been great progress all along; the line and the millions of happy farmers, now resting after the most perfect and fruitful of all agricultural seasons, may look back with complacency upon what has been done in this country in the space covered by a single lifetime. President Issues Annual Proclamation The President issued his proclamation naming Thursday, November 30, as a day for Thanksgiving. The proclamation follows: When, nearly three centuries ago the first settlers came to the country which has now become this great Republic, they faced not only hardship and privation but terrible risks to their lives. In those grim years the. custom grew "of setting apart one day in each year for a special service of thanksgiving to the Almighty for pre serving the people through the changing seasons. The custom has now becomi national and hallowed by immemorial usage. We live in easier and more plentifu times than our forefathers, the men whe with rugged strength faced the fugged days, and yet the dangers to national life are quite as great now as at any previous time in our history. It is eminently fit ting that once a year our people should set apart a day for praise and thanks giving to the giver of good, and, at the same time that they express their thank fulness for the abundant mercies received, should manfully acknowledge their short comings and pledge themselves solemnly and in good faith to strive to overcome them. ' During the past year we have been blessed with bountiful crops. Our business prosperity has been great No other people has ever stood on as high a level of material wellbeing as ours now stands. We are not threatened by foes from without. The foes from whom we should pray to be delivered are our pas sions, appetites and follies; and against these there is always need that we should warn. Therefore, I now set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of this November, as a day of thanks for the past and of prayer for the future, and on that day 1 ask that throughout the people gather in their iomes and places of worship and, in rend 3ring thanks unto the most high for the manifold blessings of the past year, con secrate themselves to a life of cleanliness lonor and wisdom, so that this nation may do its allotted work on earth in a manner worthy of those who founded it and of those who preserved it. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this second day of November in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Five and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Thirtieth. Theodore Roosevelt. -By the President. Eujhu Root. Secretary of State. LIFE FOR TH6 LUNGS TO ALL DISEASES OF BOTH FOR THE I QIE3 1 L ;& 11 1 THROAT FOR CONSUMPTION -m SBSsaa I 11 Cured of Consumption In Its Final Stages : J. O. R. Hooper, a merchant, of Woodford, Term., writes i " Fifty witnesses here, will swear that Dr. King's New Discovery cured Mrs. Mollio Holt of Consump tion after her family had watched at her bedside for the end, which doctors said was near." - SUREST CURE IN THE WORLD FOR COUCHS AND COLDS! Price 60o and $1.00 GUARANTEED Trial Dottles Free SOLD AND RECOMMENDED DY Dry Skin Cold Cream Our Cold Cream is just what your skin needs if it is dry, rough and chapping, Cold Cream supplies the lack of the natural, oil of the skin. Our Cold Cream is pure enough to eat. Very nutritious and beneficial to a dry, rough, wrinkled, faded, chapped or muddy skin. 50cts. per jar. Same price by mail. At Hills, pre scription Druggist. t nun voir vVfU. BE" SATISFIES If yiir llckt rnf . anl ttm 4ia.i r Nail,. Lib. ol tlir TlU"i ! 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PHONE, MAIN 75. t a lEjIrjlM(SrS a, ai 1 51 I II M H i a i a a a WE BUY Doors Sash, Shingles and Lumber In large quantities din ct from factories and mills at a yearly contract price, and while we pay the lowest price, we get the beet gooas, and cd afford to Hell nt figures thai others buy lor, thereby civ. iug our customers tho benefit of wholesale pi ices STODDARD LUMBER CO. tea CITY BREWERY JULIUS ROESCH, Proprietor. Largest Brewing Plant in Eastern Oregon $ Ask for La Grande Beer and get the Best J LA GRANDE BEER IS MADE IN LA GRANDE AND SHOULD HAVE THh r-KEFERENCE J ST. LOUIS LIVERY AND FEED STABLE 1 LARSEN:& N0RRIE, Props.; S ( ) ) ) t V ltM Fir" H"88 fur- J m4 commercial meu. SSM BM 8ervice guaranteed ( SKjff ..... J Kiga furnished for parties, fnerols ,nd . , carryall i the citv. P The loraes boarded by day, vr iDomtl, A; I I a K : 11 4 ' A. T. HILL, Druggist rr