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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1908)
r-vnxixo onsrnvrn. ijk gtiaxdk. orecox, Tuesday. DECEttnEn 29, loos. eight pages. li Grande veninl ' Observer Published Daily Except Sunday. Cl'llIlEY BROTHERS, EDITORS AND PUOPIUETOIIS. m mi I TIME AND GASH! J , .1 ;.: t .1 V. Called lniMi Telegraph Service. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: IJly. slnfle copy Cfelly, per month Dally, six months In advance.. Pally, one year In advance...., Weekly, alx months, In advance. 6c 65c $3.50 $6. BO 75c Weekly, one year, In advance. . .1.00 JEntered at the postofflce at La Grande j aa second-clasi matter. ATHELETKS Time was never riper than now for La Grande to fall In line wth Pen- dleton In the formation of an athletic conference In eastern Oregon, that will mean something. True, there is Saved by my Met.iod of Digging Wells I No Wood Used J ! Jeilth .. . : This paper wIl Jiut'pSiJiu&ifi"' ! appearing over a nom de plume. Signed articles will be received sub ject to the discretion of the editors. Please sign your articles and save dis appointment. ' Advertising Rates. Display ad. raes furnished upon application. Local reading notices 10c per line first Insertion; 5c per line for each subsequent Insertion. . Resolutions of condolence, 5c a line. Cards of thanks, 6c a line. I. np . itow iJial "iKwM d that uaijie, but i uu , i ss wfw i-viiia What a delightful weather we have njoyed for the past six months of the passing year. Hardly a time but what a buggy ride through the valley was not a real pleasure, or when a farmer could not bring In a" thirty hundred pound load of hay or grain. The roads have been ideal all fall and winter. Now when a. little rain begins to fall, don't growl, but remember the grounds need a good soaking and the fall grain will grow so much better. Where will you find a better country 12 months In the year, and every year, than old Grande Itonde you may have to travel quite a dimunce. Ponce de Leon wasted his life trying to find the springs of youth. So many In this age waste their means and time trying to find a better home than abounds everywhere In Grande Uonde. We all think without thinking vo v much about It that the present year has brought about much In general Im provements, but a careful review of conditions will show that 1908 with all Us panicky feeling, a presidential j ear and bank failure, has forged to the front. .The beauty of La Grande's growth, it continues year. after year, with no boom, but a continual steady growth. We are beginning to be known j as the city of homes. The moving picture shows have put out of business a great many of the Inferior traveling troupes. They could not make expenses. Theatergoers have all noticed the high grade at tractions, almost without exception that have played in the opera house so far this season, and there are a string of strong attractions yet to follow. Just as soon as the year 1909 ar rives some one should start out with the petition to have the school board arrange for a special election to au thorize It to build a new school bulld- . va In flTTil fnr the opening of the school year in the fall of next year. . Do not think for one moment that the park project will sleep on. Just wait until the holdays are over; yo i will find the enthusiasm abroad In I he - land as of yore. This park project Is one of the few undertakings that wa must not permit to pass by until the desired end has been accomplished. It Is more than probable that we will secure a cannery during the coming year. It requires about so much talking before any enterprise Is start ed and It seems that the usual proba tion as far as the talking period Is concerned, has been served. The days between Christmas and New Tears are the longest of the year practically speaking, not scientific ally. T - - - In the death of Mr. Spreckles the Pacific coast loses one of Its pioneer citizens, who within one lifetime built up an Immense fortune. from agreeing eastern Oregon meets shall be held.' It has little real prestige. Ontario, Cove, Island City, Elgin and Weston, and Wallowa county towns are cities that are rapidly forging to the front with athletic teams of all classes, and Pen dleton, La Grande and Raker City are no longer the "whole show." Conse quently it is only right that a confer ence comprising the entire eastern section of the state be formed to do real work and accomplish much good. Every town has passed the stage where high school can unblushlngly run In "ringers." or send men out un der their colors who for years and years have "attended high school." The four year rule should be adopt ed and vigorously enforced. , Until a boy Is in the high school he should not represent his school athletically. Neither should he require 1 seven or eight years to ' complete the high school course, It Is time that these eastern Oregon towns copied after the best In the land for the sooner It Is done, the sooner will prestige be worth something. As long as Pendle'.on sends out its Jay to pole vault and hurdle and do divers other 'things as a high school stu dent, so long will eastern Oregon be clnsed as a community of ringers. The other cities In this section each have their Jays. It Is not true of Pendleton alone. Movement Started. Mark Moorhouse of Pendleton, has already started the ball rolling for the organization of such a conference, and It behooves La Grande to breast Pen dleton in this great work and perfect something along this line that will lif: high school athletics from its present stage, where most athletes are wcl vipd for the particular season In ..hi he excells, to a point where each "school can unblushlngly affirm: "These young men attend school for school sake and not for football, bas ketball, track work or baseball." Pendleton business men are concen trating their efforts In an attempt to si-cure a woolen mill and doubtless will secure It. - SIGNS OF OREGON'S GROWTH. Albany will aoon witness the change from the old horse car to a modern electric line. Grants Pass Is the latest town to begin to make efforts for a new rail road depot. The ladles of that city are preparing to make a park around the railroad grounds. The convention of the Oregon Woolgrowers' association In Heppner recently, was very successful, and was a rront hrnpftt to tho woolerowlnw In dustry throughout the state. The citizens of Woodburn are deter mined to be connected by rallwlth the Oregon Electric company's line, which runs on the opposite side of the river from them. The tax levy of Wallowa for the coming year has been fixed at l'O mills. One-fifth of a million Is the amount of the Increase of the assessed valua tion of Enterprise, Wallowa, and Jo seph over last year. The city council of Eugene will act as the city water commission till the regulnr commission can be legally ap pointed. The new Clutskanle co-operative creamery Is reported as progressing very favorably, and those Interested in the concern are confident that the venture will be more successful than they at first thought possible. Pendleton's railroad business has shown no decrease this year. The postofflce business lius shown a heavy increase over p.ist years; the school attendance this year Is '20 per cent greater than In the past, and at this time :i suitable dwelling house can hardly be found by a prospective renter. Gasoline Engine Saves you much time and mon ey. Instruction Jn -asc---UneEngineering .'. .. Call or Write : R. A. WEST, The Well Driller flUO ff. Great Annual Clearance gned For Eczema, Tetter and Salt Rheum, The Intense Itching characteristic of; these ailments la almost Instantly al layed by Chamberlain's salve. Many severe cases have been .-urcd by It. for rale bv ill roa ""''re. ' WHY NOT TRY Popliam's ASTHMA REMEDY? Gives prompt and positive relief evry case. Sold by druggists, Piio $1.00. Trial package by rr.&ll 10 cents. Williams Mfg. Co., Props. CIcvclnnl . For salr by A. T. HILL. DruKrtt. fo Effectually a Minimum Ml Consideration of Profit are Ignored to Accomplish the Desired end of Converting Merchandise into Available Cash Once hach year'jat the end oftqe season, we hold our Great Annual Sale, where nothing counts with us but quick sails and empty shelves. This event has come to have special meaning to hundreds of pecple who w-aiei for this opportunity to actually save a large sumlin merehandise buying. Eoch year we endeavor to make this sale greater than the last, and this will be the greatest in the history of the BIG STORE. . i Every article in house Reduced 1 Sale Holds from Monday, January tth to Saturday, January 30th . ; ! Edison Plionogrnphs and Roc- ords at XEWLIN BOOK & STA- TIOXERY CO. t Ht Together. ' Robert Herrick's new book, "To gether," at Ferguson's. AIbo Charles Rann Kennedy's "The Servant in the House." The citizens of the progressive little town of Banks have decided that the time has arrived when they should in corporate, and a bill for the issuance of a charter has been drafted. FOR RENT One or two rooms for light housekeeping. 'Phone Red 561. !"TAiBLE'ElisHES Frvh Poultry for New Year's. We now have a liberal supply of turkevs and other poultry for New Year's dinner. 2 9-It GRANDE RONDE MEAT CO. District Attorney Rryson of Cornl- 11s, has 1ied nn o-1r prohtbttlrtat the! drug stores of Eugene from selling WANTED Several roomers with Peruna, Hostetter's Electric Bitters, I , without board Lash's Bitters and other medicines of -phone Black 171, or call at the same order. First street. We recieve fresh consignments of' Hot House Lettuce, Gelery, Sweet Potatoes, and Cranberries, CauHflowers and Pine Apples and Cocoanuts for the Holidays. . fop out 11 mat, win yvp VMM! m are fresh City Grocery and E. PCLACK, Prop Grande sRonde Lumber Co. PERRY, OREGON , CAN FURNISH LUMBER OF M L KINDS IN CARLOAD LOTS. For 16 inch Chain Wood Delivered at yovr Home, Call up V. L BEAN, La Grande. Thone, Red 1741 Bakery, PHONE MAIN 75 : ' DAI I WflT(fHFC We Have Reckvedthe Ageney for BALL WATCHES The Railroad Standard Excellent rooms. 2103 Made by The WEBB C. BALL WA fCH CO. Cleveland, Ohio. Adopted by 78 Rai road Systems of (he V. S. as their Official Stan dard. We uiil be pleased to show and ex plain this watch to anyone. Every railroad Man knows what it is. SIEGRIST & CO - JEWELERS AND 0PTIC1CUNS Gomplete equipment for resetting and repairing rubber buggy tires. LA GRANDE IRON WORKS D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor Complete Machine Shops and Foundry BLUE MOUNTAIN HOUSE T. J. CRAY Prop. ( New Management) Rates $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 Best 25c meal in the city Beds 25c and SOc All outside rooms. Board and lodge $6. per week One block from depot . Only house in the city employing white help only TRY OUR SERVICE T4 t r hum 4 : 1