1
HAVE TO OFFER AT A
REASOMABE PRICE
VERY
2 good saddles ...$9.60 and $12.60
Walnut Hall tree 2.60
Child's Rocking Horse worth
four dollars 2.60
2 Oil CookStoves ... .. 2.60 and 6.60
1 roll cocoa matting the yard .25
Remington type writer 56.00
New toilet sets 2.00 and 2.75
3 new Go-carts. 5.00, 6.60, 7. 0
1 folding ironing board 2.00
Lace ourtain stretchers 2.60
Halters, new . ..90c, 1.00 1.10
' My entire line of new furniture at greatly reduce
prices FOR CASH
' F D. HAISTEN,
. PHONE RED 1161
Highest prices paid for New and Second Hand Goods
OAc farmer and Urzdcrs
r 7ationa( 33ank
Ortgott '
: , NO. 4469 ....
Capital " . S 60,000.00
Surplus . I 14,000 00
Liability o( Shareholders . 60,000.00
? Total . . ' $134,000.00
For the protection of its depositors! Depositors of this Bank are ac
corded such liberal treatment as shall be in keeping with the character
nd value of their accounts. We would be pleased to have your account.
JOSEPH PALMER,
President.
J. W.
SCRIBER.
Cashier.
O. E.
McCULLY.
Asst. Cashier.
. SCROGGIN,
Asst. Cashier
BIG REDUCTION SALE
ON ALL CHRISTMAS GOODS
IS NOW ON AT HILL'S DRUG STORE
Very complete line to choose from, in books, Perfumes.
Toilet Sets. 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 Druggist LA GRANDE, OR
Suction tycClass
It does not wrinkle your nose
and make you look older than
you are.
Holiday goods are beginning to
arrive. Bast liue ordered evar
brought to the city.
J. II. PEARE.
Jewelry and Optician
Ready For Business
WITH A FILL LINE OF FEED, HAY AMD GRAIN
We already tojouy all kinds of hay and grain, and pay the highest
' market prices.
H-V.OLIVER
Slater IBuildiric:
JEFFERSON AVE Main 57
La tode1 Evening ODscryer
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29 1905
Published daily , except ' on Sunday
One year in advance ... ,.- $6.50
Six months in advance .-. 3.50
Per month .............. 65
Single copy ....... 6c
Entered at the Post Office at La Grande
Oregon, as Second Class Matter.
SURREY BROS., EDS AND PROP
This paper will not publish any article
appearing over a nom-de-plume. Signed
articles will be received subject to the
discretion of the editors. Please sign
your articles and save disappointment
Voi. 1 No. 1 of the North Powder News
co ne to our desk this week full of local
news, fathered by the News Publishing
Company. North Powder is the center
f a most prosperous community and will
welcome the News to their homes.
ADVERH-IVO BATES
isplay Ad nif rornlahcd a pun tpplloaiiiu
ucal raadlog notion luc per Un oral dm-
:ion, jc per list lor each entwoqueni low.
(ion.
Mulotlon ofeoodolenca, so . er line.
' The registration books will be open at
the clerks office on the 2d. of January.
While the city tax levy is only 9 mills
this year as against 1 S last year, based
upon this years assessment the total re
venue will be greater than last year.
Before another issue of the Observer
the new year will be with us, and with it
comes the greatest anticipation for a
prosperous year, even more so than 1905,
which has been generous to a fault.
ing with October, in 1905 our , exports to
China exceeded those of the correspond
ing ten months In 1904 by $29,547,683.
Should the boycott in China succeed,
and our who'e trade with China cease it
may be followed by us los ng al , or at
least a great part of the whole oriental
trade which in 1904 aggregated $294.-1
682,103. This lo)ks ,Ue a big hazard
and it is, amounting to 1 2 per cent of our
foreign trade, with all countries, which in
1904 aggregated $2,462,947,448, If
the boycott is confined to China, and that
empire and the United States cease to
trade with each other, the loss of the
China trade will be but a .little over 2.9
per cent of our total foreign trade.
' The boycott will effect the Pacific coast
more than any other part of the United
States both in the present and future.
MIIIMMMIM MtttT"
5
New Year'
I! SUGGESTIONS
rlouisier s KocKy Mountain Tea is
simply liquid electricity. It goes to every
part of your, body, bringing new blood,
strength are new vigor. It makes you
well and keeps you well. 35 cents.
Newlin Drug Company.
STCCJ!CLD2?S MATING
Notice is hereby given that there will
be a meeting of the stockholders of the
La Grande National bank at the La
Grande National bank 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 the meeting. .
F. L. Meyers, Cashier.
Dated this 1 1 day of Decembsr, ' 1905
Remember that unless you register you
can not vote at the primaries. This is a
just law, if you do not take sufficient
interest to register you certainly have no
right in the selection of your public ser-
ants.
The cost of building the railroad donwn
the Columbia river, which is now in pro
gress, will approximate $12,000,000. A
portion of this expenditure will be for
lumber, horses, hay, flour, bacon, sugar
potatoes, fruit, butter, hogs, eggs, poultry
and beef cattle, all of which are produced
in Union county. It is safe to say that
Union county will receive more of this
money during 1906 than we spent at
the Lewis and Clark fair. "
President Roosevelt forestalled the rail
road knockers by employing a capable
press agent to give out offic;al news of
progress on the Panama canal. The
corporations tried to get even by attack
ing "so usoless an expenditure of monay."
They seamed to be making some head way,
when the president promptly made the
press agent a member of the canal com
mission. This places him beyond the
reach of the railway representatives, and
leaves the president master of the situa
tion, and proves further that he is a bad
man to cope with in any sort of a fight.
Notice "
Notice is hereby given that the partner
ship existing between J. A. Garity & Ben
Brown known under the firm name as
J. A. Garity & Company has been dis
solved. All parties knowing themselves
indebted to the above named firm will
please call at their office and settle before
January 1st, 1906. as all accounts must
be settled by that time.
J. A. Garity,
Ben Brown
USE YOUR TELEPHONE
We deliver goods promptly too. ,
Newlin Drug Company
Speak;ng of what anewspaperdoes for
a community, united states senator
Davis of Illinois, made an address that
remains ever green in the memories of
newspaper men. He said:
"Every year every local piper gives
from 50 to 5. COO free linos for the benefit
of the community in which it is located.
No other agency can or will do this. The
editor in proportion to his means does
more for his own town than any other
man. He ought to be suppoitid not be
cause you happen to like him or admire
his writing the best, but because a local
paper is the best investment a community
can make.
HOLIDAYS ARE HEAR
And it should not be forgotten
that we have the finest line of
fresh confectionery in the city for
tne holiday trade. All of tne del
icious and lucious flavors put up in
tne most attractive forms.
1 TOYS
OF ALL KINDS
AND PRICES
Doils from 10 cants to $1.60
Mistletoe, for decorating, 6c biinch
SELDER, The Candy
Man
The Chinese boycott, which threatens
to suspend our trade with China, is from
a business stand point an important move,
onj that will be felt in both China and
the United States. Curing the Un
months ending with October 1905 the
imports into the United States from
China aggr..ited $23,643,547. During
the same tin months w exported to
China stuffs to the value of $50,104,767.
In the ten months of 1905 ending with
October we imported from China $349.
777 less than for the corresponding ten
months in 1904. In tne ten months end-
J. R.
UNION
OLIVER.
COUNT Y
ABSTRACTS
fcst as J.umKimA
Farm Loans a Specialty
Best equipped abstracter in Union
county. Many years experience
with the Union county records
gives me a great advantage. It
is felly , to purchase real estate
without first securing a proper
abstract. An abstract fro n my
office will show the title just as
it appears on the official record.
J. R. OLIVER,
LA GRANDE, ORFG N
Room 31 Sommer Building
N0w vear Rn will soon be ringing and the old
J problem of "what shall I give him for a present" will
once more confront you.
We have made a few suggestions and should you
fa-,i fn finH suitable item on the list we would be
I pleased to have you call and we'll do all in our power 1
to assist you. ,
SUSPENDERS CRAVENETTES HOUSE COAT
OVERCOAT
HAT
HOSIERY
UMBRELLA
SLIT
NECKWEAR
SitlRTS
MUFFLER
UNDERWEAR
GLOVES
NICHTROBE
'KERCHIEF
i
A good rule to follow in selecting gifts for man is
to buy what he would be apt to buy himself. All pur
prices ?re moderate, and we are alway at your service.
ASH BROS.
CLOTHIERS
AND HABERDASHERS.
Call up Main 29 for
NEW WALNUTS ALMONDS
BLEACHED SULTANAS
Cluster Raisins Muscatel Raisins
Citron and Lemon Peel
Dates
Figs
I Heinz Mincemeat
BAKER BROS.
PHONE MAIN 2? Adams Ave
IVow is the accepted time
To do Your Holiday Shopping
Wf I-Lve the Goods
BCOKS, DOLS, GLOVES, ETC
PrtiHiVi f jt old and young
0
E. M. Wellman & Comp
ADAMS AVENUE
any
I BLQKbAND BROS. I
s ISLAND Cm, ORfCON.
t Breeders cf Berkshire ard Polar d China Swine 1
We have a number of hogs on hand, and we are prepared to Wish
few well bred Poland China Gilts, at reasonable prices, bred tc
of our three herd boars.
We also have both ball and beardless harley Call u ,m i a
tant phone 2066. also on the Farmers Line P
Union Woolen Mills Indian Robes $
Ve have received a consignment of Union Fleece Wool
Indian Robes which we have nn sale Thpc ,u.
snitable for couch covers, steamer robers and orna-
niuian comers. Ine
$5.50 up
price range is from
HENRY &, CAf.'R :
HOUSE FURNISHERS AND UNDERTAKERS
Phone No. 621.
J. J. Carr. residence 586
J. C. Henry, residence 664
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