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Tfationai S3ank
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NO. 44B9
Capital
Surplus .
Liability of Shareholders
Tola! -
$ 60,000.00
14000 00
60,000.00
$134000.00
For the protection of its depositor! Depositor of this Bank are ac
corded such liberal treatment as shall be in keeping with the character.,
and value of their accounts. We would be pleased to have your ac
count -'
JOSEPH PALMER,
. President.
0. E. McCULLY,
, Asst. Cashier.
J. W. SCRIBER.
Cashier.'
T. J. SCROGOIN.
Asst. Cashier
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BIG REDUCTION SALE
ON ALL
IS NOW ON
CHRISTMAS GOODS
AT HILL'S DRUG STORE
Very complete line to choose from, in bonks. Perfumes,
Toilet Sots, Manicures, Hand Bags, Vases, Smokers' Sets,
Ink Wells. Mirrors, Albuns and many other nice things
Call and see what we have. .'. . .',
A. T. HILL
Prescription Orujgist
LA GRANDE. OR
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Suction EycClass I
It doc not wrinkle your nose 1
and make you look older than
you are.
Holiday goods are beginning to
arrive. Best Hue ordered ever
brought to the city.
J. H. PEARL
Jewelry and Optician 1
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Ready For Business
WITH A FILL LINE 0E FEED, HAY AND. GRAIN
W are'ready tcbuy all kinds of hay and grain, and pay the highest
market prices. '
K.V.OLIVER
Slater "Huildincr
JEFFERSON AVE
ROMADKA
READY ACCESS TRUNK ;
IAISINO the cot brings every
k corner within reach without re
moving trays. Save X the time of
mm ordinary trunk to peck or a
pack. Easy to operate. Nothing to
get ont oi order. Will stand all the .
knock and hard ssage of traveling. -Cost
no mora than common tronk,
$5.00 w
Main 57'
BARGAINS THIS
WEEK;
- Fifty dollar Camera and outfit
4(5 and 5x7 for $16.00
Reed Rockers, Fine for Christ
mas. Others Ash $12. We
want $9.00,
1 60-gallon pressure water
tank, used a short time, cost
$28 new. for $6.60 .
50 piece Flowered Dinner Set
$3.68.
SO per eent discount on all
Heater. W mean this as we
want to close them out.
F. D. ; Haistcn,
" PHONE RED 1161
Highest prices paid for Second
Hand Uoods.
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La Crande Evenly OUservcr
TUESDAY,- DECEMBER 26 1905
Published daily 'V except on Sunday
One yar in advance
Six months in advance
Per month ,
Single copy
$6.60
560
.... 65
6c
Entered at the Post Office at La Grande
Oregon, as Second Class Matter.
CURREY BROS., ED'S AND PROP
This paper will not publish an' article
appearing over a nom-de-plume. .' Signed
articles will be -received subject td . tn
discretion of the' editor. Please sign
your articles and save disappointment.
A OVERTIMING KATEH
lp!njr Ad ruLm tarolxb) on ippllrnllof
.eeal mkdle uetlete 10c per line Oral turn
tlon, jo per Use tor each Huhxequfinl loner
ttoo.
emlcUotwof roodoleara, 50 . r line. '
mrdu ot thank. 6e per Hue.
IDEAS UF STUDENTS
HCWSTT AS TAUGHT lit BUSINESS
Fifteen or 20 years ago Bill Smith was
a well-known character in a Missouri
town whose name need not be mentioned
here. Bill as a colored boy who roam
ed the street at will. One day he found
a pocketbook containing $40, and the
owner's name was stamped on the book.
But Bill burned the pocketbook and
spent the $40 in riotous living. Of course
it was found out and Bill was arrested,
tried and found euilty, and sent to the
penitentiary for two year. He served
his time, and when he emerged, he knew
something about making shoes. The day
he returned to his home town ar. "old ac
quaintance met him and asked: i
,"Well. what did they put you at in the
prison. Bill?" ' - V '
"Dey started in to make an honest boy
out'n me sah." r . t '
"That' good. Bill, and 1 hope they tuc
ceeded." jf - ' V.
"They did. sah." I ' J '
"And how did they teach you to be
honest. Bill?"
"Dey done put me in d shoe shop. s ih.
nail pastebo'd ontor shoes to' soles,
sah . , ; t '','.' '"
XMAS
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SUGG EST IONS
A G5J!BDLEV
Reports of cruelty inflicted by college
number appear in the press with disgust
ing frequency. One would think a youth
who was interested in the endurance of
physical hardship might go off and exhibit
himself instead of combining with a
dozen of his fellows to torture some
member of their college, as younger males
are ascustomed to torture dogs or beetles.
Analogous indications of student intelli
gence may be extracted from these
expressions in a private letter from a
theatrical manager in answer to a request
for information about newspaper accounts:
The students did cut up pretty roughly
Saturday night. We cut the show down
considerably, a they threw all kinds of
things, programmes, etc.cn the stage.
the climax being Just before we rang
down, when one of them threw a small
glass onto the stage. It struck one of the
chorus girls in the forehead and cut quite
a little gash, but, being a light glass, the
blow was not such a to stagger her or
anything of that kind. We thought it was
then about time to close up. which we
did. One of the students also took one of
the automatic candy boxes off the back of
the seat and threw it on the stage. You
know, these are quite weighty I should
say weighing a couple of pounds each
but, fortunately, this did not strike any-
ons. Why fortunately? 1 no student s
joke was incomplete. His idea was to
strike some one, and thus carry out his
views of a diverting incident. Collier's
Weekly.
"That is quibble, mere quibble," said
Walter Camp. Yale's athletic adviser, in
a discussion of football rules.'
' He laughed ironically.
. 'That reminds me," he said, "of the
children of a friend of mine whom 1 visit
ed in the summer. :
i hese onuoren, two ooys, got on none
too well. 4 '
" 'Here.' said their mother to the elder
of them one day, 'here Is a banana. Di
vide it with your little brother, and see
that he gets the lion's share.' "
"The younger child a few minutes later
set up a great bawling.
'Mamma,' he shrieked. John hasn't
given me any banana.
What's this?" said his mother, hurry
ing in. .
'It's all right,' explained the older boy.
Lions don't eat bananas.' "
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
Notice is hereby given that there will
b a meeting of the stockholders of the
La Grande National bank at the La
Grande National batik building in the city
of La Grande, Union county, Oregon, on
Tuesday, January ' 9, 1906, at two
o'clock p. m., for the purpose of electing
a board of nine directors, and any other
business the transaction of which shall
legally come before ths meeting.
F. L. Mbyers, Cashier.
Dated this 1 1 day of December, 1905
CHRISTMAS HAS GONE
Christmas has gone, but the memories
of the pleasant acts and kind and cheering
words that lightened million of hearts on
that day will never perish. Hearts and
souls that were made happy yesterday
will carry the impressions received
through the countless ages of eternity
and in their glad songs around the shining
throne will remember with thrills of the
foretaste of celestial bliss that Christmas
songs and kindness opened to their visions
on earth; ' "' ' . . ",
No ceremonies that men indulge in
gives so vivid a glimpse of what life on
eartn win oe, wnen a full realization is
reached of whan human life will be when
'Peace on earth and good will toward
man" i the universal condition, as the
kindly greeting and friendly acts of
Christmas.
Christmas is the one day in the year
wherein children are remembered by
priests and ruler and thus ha become
dear to childhood and a forceah'e illustra
tion of how the human family" will be
bleated when the world ceases its mad
strifes, ur.ed on by thi ambition and
greed of adults, and in the offices of kind
ness "become as littie children."
(liRISTAMS IS NEAR
And it should not be forgotten
that we have the finest line of
fresh confectionery in the city for
the holiday trade. All of the del
icious and lucious fla vors put up in
the most attractive forms.
OriD f IMC of goods for trim
yUIt t-UNC ming and decor.
ating Christmas, trees is complete,
elegant and attractive.
OF ALL KINDS
AND PRICES
Dolls from 10 cents to SI. 60
Mistletoe, for decorating, 6c bunch
SELDER, The Candy
1 Man
TOYS
Christmas Bells will soon be ringing and the old i
problem of "what shall I give' him for Christmas'', will'.
'once more confront you. . j u fji
We have made a few .suggestions and should you
fail to find a suitable item on the - list j we "would. be
pleased to have you call and we II do alj in our power x
to assist vou. -'''ii ' i'
SUSPENDERS
OVERCOAT
HAT
CRAVENETTES 1 HOUSE COAT
HOSIERY
UMBRELLA
SUIT
NECKWEAR
SMS
MUFfLER
UNDERWEAR
GLOVES .
NICHTROBE
'KERCHIEF
Not an arrest Saturday, Sunday, Mon
day or up to the time of going to press
today. This is a record thit few cities of
6300 can equal. La Grande passed the
'wild and wooly" age. several years ago.
The citizens of Oregon have reason to
rejoice that United States Senator Fulton
and President Roosevelt ' thoroughly
understand each other and will work in
harmony in the future.1? This means
much for Oregon.
The ice crop will soon be ready to
harvest at Perry.
J. R. OLIVER.
UNION OU NT Y
ABSTRACTS
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Farm Lo?rs a Specially
Best equipped abstracter in Union
county. Many years experence
with the Union county records
gives me a great advantage. It
is folly to purchase real estate
without first securing a proper
abstract. An abstract from my
office wilshow the title just as
It appeare on the official record.
). R. OLIVER,
LA iHA NPK. I ) R K N
Room 5 Sommer Building
A good rule to follow in selecting gifts for man is
to buy what ne wouid be apl lu buy InmSoIf. ' AI! cur
prices are moderate, and we are alway at your service, t
CLOTHIERS
BROS.
AND HABERDASHERS.
4 Call up Main 29 for ; - ;
NEW WALNUTS ALMONDS
BLEACHED SULTANAS
Cluster Raisins Muscatel Raisins
Citron and Lemon Peel .i
Dates Figs
Heinz Mincemeat
BROS.
Adams Ave.
BAKER
PHONE MAIN 29 '
low is the accepted time
To do - Your Christmas Shopping
We Hive the Goods
BOOKS, DOLS, GLOVES, ETC
Presents for old and young
E. M.J37ellman & Company
. ADAMS AVENUE . . ' "
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BLQKLiAND BROS.
ISLAND Cm, OREGON.
Breeders c( Berk hire ard Polar d China Swine-
We have a number of hogs on hand, and we are prepared to furnish a
few well bred Poland China Gilts, at reasonable prices, bred to one
of our three herd boars.-. ; '
We also have both ball and beardless barley,
tant phone 2065, also on the Farmers Line.
Call us up on long dis-
Union Woolen Mills Indian Robes
We have received a consignment of Union Fleece Wool
Indian Robes which we have nn sale. These robes are
snitable for couch covers, steamer robers and orna
mental for Indian corners. The price range is from
S5.50 up
HENRY 3e. OA! ,'R
HOUSE FURNISHERS AND UNDERTAKERS
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Phone No. 621.
J. C. Henry, residence 664 J. J. Carr. residence 386
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