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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1908)
J 1 V EIGHT PAGES. TABM szohz. EVENTN'Q OWKHVEH. LA GRA1TDE. OREGOX, WEDXEfj DAT, APRIL 1, 108. i m, U 5 ; si ' 1 : t ' 1 2 t' i ) M t 11 V; ! f ! Tf?e LA GRANDE'S LEADING DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING EMPORIUM I THE TEMPLE OP The Spring season is on in earnest and everybody now knows who has the goods, - t who makes the low prices. OUR GRAND OPENING of last week attracted hundreds of peoplein fact we think every lady in La Grande and many from the country attended the ... , opening. All praised the splendid showings of merchandise and many made', large pur chases but there are still lots of good things left. Everything In Piece Goods, everything in Ready-to-Wear Garments at Tfie OPERA HOUSE BLOCK ;onni.i;itH to eat. Committee Working to Tiling In Slnie for Hungry Members. ' The I. O. O. G. has a special and cupuble committee arranging for a spread next Friday night at the lodge hall and at this stage of preparation It la announced It will be out of the ordinary. All members are wanted out as there are Initiations before the banquet I Wood AD Coal i ; Why Pay More? J Best Yellow Pine, now, but green rut. Dry 18 inch per cord Rock Spring Ccal per ton $7.50 TRUCK and TRANSFER Phone your orders to Main 1 0. Quick service guaranteed. Storage in fire proof and damp proof building. C. E. FOWLER ; l !.............,..,......,... .............. BRICK IS Brick building, at the present price of lumber, ia t cheaper as well as better. It has been demonstrated tnat my brick is superior to any made in Oregon. I zan furnish cemmon brick in any quantity. No order too large or too small to receive prompt attention. I Correspondence with contractors and. builders solicited. I Estimates cheerfully furnished. Prices made known on application. jGRO- KRIEGER! PhotiM Rwiawca, Black T01. Yard. Rad 621. U Qranda, Orsgon People s s LA Hon. H. M. Cake, candldute foi United States senator at the Oregon republican primaries, will Invadi Union county tomorrow morning and will make at least two public ad dresses, and perhaps three, patch us- his fences hero and there and leave for Baker county on Saturday morn Ins. Tomorrow morning Mr. Cake will reach La (Irande and upend the day here securing nn alignment of his foi lowers and admirers. At 8 o'clock to morrow night he speuks at the Com merclal club, and his oratorical repu tutlon will no doubt Insure him a full house. Friday morning he goes t' El;ln. Whether or not he will ad dress nn audience there Is not known If he docs, it will be an Impromptv one. At any rule he will puss nmonp the voters of thnt district, accompany Ing lilm being several staunch friend.- from La Grande. Ho is due In h Grande on Friday evening, and will go CAKt INVADES ( 11 y Jjto Union either by auto or train, and uiiurcss voters ol that city on the same evening. LOST A ladies' cameo pin, encircled with pearls; between ftnptist church and J. C. Henry residence, Return to this office. 3-30-31 Let Hencock repair your wntch. CHEAPER i Sfore i i ECONOMY I GRANDE, OREGON til JOKE une ot me meanest deeds perpe trated with a motive of April fool was committed In The Observe!; office to day, when a woll known buslnoss man of this city, usually grave and sedate, walked briskly up to the business man- flger, called for his account and pro niced a check book. The business ninnager's heart beat Joyfully; here was a man who was going to pay his bill without the trouble of sending out i collector and as the . collector for The Observer Is not working today, there was all the more Joy In the visit from the business man.' The revolving chair turned with moro vim than usual this time. A re ceipt was made up, but alas! when the chair turned again to face the debtor, the debtor was gone. Soind waves rebounding from among the old fun, pictures and forsaken pipes, on the wall spelled out the words, "April fool!" The business manager has assumed the title of flghtlhg editor and is still looking for the gentleman. La Grande Is to have a market day and horse show combined on April IS, according to advance notices from Max Zimmerman, the man who Is inaugur ating the system In eastern Oregon. Ho is going to pull off a similar event In Baker City In a few days. Market day is firmly planted In Union county, and with the added test which market day will give, there should be a rousing attendance In La Grande on April H. Mr. Zimmerman announces In a letter from Baker, X ilty, where lie Is now working, that rain or shine will have no power to change the date. Remember It, April OH MANAGER HORSE MOW Oil APRIL i : TO REPAIR WASHOUTS An extra gang of men will be sent to the wet aide of the Blue mountains tomorrow to permanently repair the washouts and damage to tracks which was Incurred during the recent block ade on the O. R. N. The repairs heretofore have been of a temporary nature, but the gravel train, steam shovel and a large crew will leave for the district tfimnrrnur n malr IhlnM permanent The washouts and land slides destroyed several miles of track at Intervals and It will require some time to get the roadbed In shape again where It can be called first class. PAYETTE CHOSEX. As the MoeAng Place of District Ep worth League Convention. At the meeting of the delegates of the board of control of the Epworth League of the La Grande district of the Idaho conference held here last r.lght, Payette was chosen as the p'ace of holding the next convention, which will be June 18, 19, 20 and 21. In all It Is expected that there 'will bo 100 delegates present. ,The committee on progrem was Herman Clark, who Is president of the league and Miss Ora Q. Gates, the sec retary, of Baker City. , The leagues of the district are In splendid condition and active. AIIl MOTOIl SATISFACTOltV. Turns Engines W illi DisiMitch ami n Kavlnj of Much Time. The air motor on the turntablo is proving itself to be a wonderful saver of time. It-has been Installed long enough now to have been fully test ed. One man Is all that Is required to turn the mortster locomotives, where formerly It require! six or sev.m I I ' J and even that many were forced to get clown to hard. work. Time is saved In "spotting" engines. The hostler need not be as careful In g t'.lnS ' engine on the exact spot with the air motor arrangement as he Cld when hand power was used. The round house crew is highly pleased with the machine. ODD FELLOWS MEET AT SALEM. Grand Lodge Will Be IleW In the Cap ital on Slay 19 and 20. Salem, March 81. There will be something dping in old Salem on Mai ls to 21, for. on those dates the an nual meeting of four bodies of Odd Fellows will be held here. The four bodies are the Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Odd i Fellows, the Encampment, - 1. , . ' . ,. . the Ke- bekahs. and the Kremlin Bakin Mus covites. Already a committee of entertain ment of the local bodies is preparing for the reception of the visiting hosts of Three-linkers. It is planned to show them the time of their lives, and there Is no doubt but that they will be royally entertained. This Is not the first time that the local Odd Fellows have entertained the grand lodge. The annual meet ing of the order was held in the Capi tal City In 1898, and the visitors at that meetlnr went swny with praise for the way they were treated. The Muscovites are a social adjunct, to which only Odd Fellows are eligible as members.. The order bears about the same relation to Odd Fellowdom as the Shrlners bear to Masonry. There Is only one organization of Its kind in the state of Oregon, and that I Is at Portland. Willamette 'Encampment No. z ul act as hosts of the grand lodge of the Encampment. W. H. Slegmund is grand patron of No. 2. and H. M. Beckwith Is grand patriarch grand lodge. of "!e j FnniH'i's' Union Bank. Ripley, Tenn., April 1. -The Far- mers' Union bank, the stock of which' Is held exclusively by members of the Farmers' Educational and Co-opera-, tlve union, here today. was opened for business! Sty -"Jf fit ' yiyi ' v ft H0N. H.M. CAKE, Supporter of Safe men No. 1 CAXDIPATE BEIT) RE THE REPVBUCAX PIUMARITl m OFI1CK OF UNITED STATES SEX A TOR, WILL ZESS or LA GRANDE THt C1TI. IX THE COMMKIICIAL CLrB PARLORS. COMB OVT AXD HEAR HIM. Thursday Evening April mum When the new poundmastor goes out on his crusade against untaxed dogs tomorrow morning, there will be at least 43 canines In this city will be immune from the campallirr As this is the last day when the life of a dog which does not carry the tag Is safe, owners have, been getting In . line and procuring the necessary In signia. Recorder Cox has sold l togs since he went Into office and seven were disposed, of by the old adminis tration. A large per cent of the tt tags were sold today. The life of an untaxed dog aftek to night will not be worth a cent. J officers are In earnest about thlsnat tcr, and will either whip owners Into o line or make a "big kllllnV OXE HUNDRED SICK SAILORS. Hospital Fleet Sails for San Francisco With Sick Seamen. pltal ship Relief will sail for San FranciBJO this afternoon with 100 sick gallon aboard. Most of the men are suffering with tropical diseases. cruiser Buffalo has salted for VA Diego, carrying the mall of the fleet. HarrlMism Roads Dividend. Sew York, April 1, A quarterly dividend of 1 'i per cent on Southern Pacific common, a 2'4 per cent quar terly dividend on Union Pacific com mon rind a 2 ner cent somi-ar.nual (jivlili nd on Union Pacific preferred. were paid today. f Vrlw Waltx Dunce. The Harris hall will conduct a prize wsltz dance tonight. All "undesira bles" will be excluded. Heacock glasses fit 5 2nd.: I '.1 1 . 1 t ,,m,,,m,1,,,,,,,,,,,7K,M UU"mHHHi ii,':."...;ir.,it':
