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Spokane, Washington
This aijp'c show is a world wide event oi th great
est importance to the Pacific Northwest and in order
to !jKjo".:ifitre ou one to atend the Oregon Ifcui
road and Navigstion Company will make a spcvi;l
rouLd trip rate of
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ONE AND ONE THIRD FARE
THE SECOND ONNUAL.
. From nil points on its lines in . . .,.;..
OREGON, WASHINGTON AND IDAHO
Tickets will be on sale at all stations west of The
Dalies, NoArember 14 and 15, and from all stations
east of The Dalles, November 14 to 19, inclusive.
Final return limit November 22, 1909.
$25,000 IN PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN AWAY.
. . GRAND DISPLAY, INSTRUCTIVE LECT
URES AND AN INTERESTING PRO-
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-;'. v-v show. .. r': :
For further information call on any 0. R. & N. agent
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TOLLIAM McMURRAY,
; ' ; General Passenger Agent, Portland, Ore.
DRUM
SPEAKS PLAIN
OUTLINES HIS THEORIES OX SIS
AND DRUNKENNESS.
Former "Boose Fighter" Pictures the
Causes and Care.
I too bashful to ask a girl to dance un
til some cf bis friends put "sand la
bis craw." This operation, he Bald, con
clsted In taking a swig or two out of a
bottle. "After that I would have asked
Queen Victoria to dance the first Bt
with me if she had been present," be
continued. -
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"More People"
Pass the word to your relatives and friends to come now.
LOW COLONIST RATES
To Oregon will prevail from the EaBt September 15 to October 15,
via the ,
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co
and Southern Pacific
; (LINES IN OREGON); ;
From Chicago . .'..'. .SSSJM
From St Louis l.0'
From Omaha ,
From St Paul ................ ISM
From Kansas Cltf ,. 25.00
: Deposit the amount of the fare with the nearest O. R. & N.' or ,
Agent and ticket will be delivered In the East without Extr
cost Send us the name and address of any one Interested in the
State for Oregon literature. WM. MeMURRAY, General Passenger
Agent, 1 ,. PORTLAND, ORE. ,
Daily Observer, 65c per Month
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flour."
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if Alwnv ioidt
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pure, whiileaume.
elv:ku and nutri
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elected North-
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Trensorer's Call For Cltyq IVarranls.
Notice Is hereby given that there are
fund son hand to pay all outstanding
city warrants Issued on General Fund
of La Grande City, up to and Including
No. 7340, endorsed April 24, 'OS
Interest on all warrants on General
Fund from No. 7180 to No. 7310 in
clusive, ceases from this dat.
La Grande, Oregon, Nov. 10. 1909
It W.LOGAN.
City Treasujcr.
AT YOUR GROCER'S
The Little Shop
Main St.
Stamping of all kinds, lnclud
I inn shirt waists tt Center pieces,
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done, embroidery lessens given.
Orders taken and lesson given
In stenciling, roll line of em-
brotdery materials.
ASTHMA REMEDY.
Gives prmpt and positive relief In
every cane. Sold by druggists, price
$1.00. Trial package by mail 10 cents
William's Mff rVv Pmn n.Hl.nit
Portlananouringiinuco. Dayton, WMh.;0b)a T Hm
"Drummer Billy Williams at the Meth
odiBt church last evening held a fair
sized audience spellbound with a line
of logic which is seldom heard from
a pulpit. "Drummer" has been in East
ern Oregon preaching for some time,
and his addreBa here last evening is
but one of the many which he haB.
In the beginlnng of his lecture Mr.
Williams told how he had inherited
his taste for liquor from hia mother
who was not a drunkard, but being an
English woman had retained the Eng
lish custom of an occasional use of
liquor known as half and half on the
table. However, he Bald, that his father
tcii, mm was never drunk. "He
never came into a saloon except when
he came after me."
, Mr. Williams then told of his first
step downward. When a boy about 12
he got drunk on some current wine
which was kept in the family pantry.
After this his mother -would not keep
any thing in the house of that kind.
Shortly after the incident that he men
tions, his mother was converted.
Drankenaess a Disease.
In speaking of the liquor habit, Mr.
Williams Bald that drunkenness was
a disease. "This is not a wild assertion
on this subject," be continued. "The
appetite is not in the palate. It is a
craving in the nerve cells which are
in the lining of the stomach. There is
a time in the stages of a drunkari t
career when a drink is a necessity."
As an illustration of this statement
Mr. Williams cited an instance which
occurred Just after the San Francisco
earthquake. He said that the San
Francisco Chronicle of the time told
that forty refugees who were quarter
ed In the parks went Insane and were
taken from the parka to the asylums.
"The saloons and places where they
could get drink and drugs had been
burned down and they went crazy for
the want of it. You have no more right
to put a drunkard on the rock pile,'
he continued, "than you have a con
sumptive or a typhoid fever patient on
the rock pile. Better put the "Presby
terians and the Baptists and the Meth
odists there who foster bllng pigs and
boot leggers in La Grande.'' Consider
able applause followed this suggestion.
, Sin an Inheritance , '
"Sin runs In the blood, but grace
oesnt I know why I am bald headed,"
he Bald, referring to his past life and
also to his beardless scalp. "It is a lie
born of the devil that the man jwho
sows his wild oats will make a better
man than one who doesn't. It is the
theology of hell that the man who
founds, and sees the elephant will
make the best man. A man who has
never stepped across the threshold of
a house of ill fame will make a better
citizen than he who has.
Drunk, but Nj Pill Fiend.
v "I was drunk for six weeks in Kan
sas City, but I never got low enough
to smoke a cigarette," he said. He also
went on' to say that no cigarette fiend
would take the Keely cure as the pois
on in the cigarette would counteract
the Keely cure. He defined a cigarette
fiend as a person who had smoked
enough cigarettes to color his finger
ends yellow. In speaking of this he
said that he had never known a cigar
ette fiend to be converted, or to pray
or to shed a tear. He then told of
crying drunkards who would both cry
and pray while drunk.
After discussing the liquor habit at
some length he then attacked the Sun
day base ball games.
Discusses Baseball.
"I like a good, clean game of base
ball," he said. "When a man gets to
be a baseball enthusiast the. years
don't take it out of him. There is no
harm in baseball, but there is harm in
Sunday games. The associations of the
Sunday games are bad, awfully bad.
damnably bad. It's making us lose the
sanclty of the Sabbath, we are knock
ing out the prop from under us that
makes this nation what it is."
Then he took a shot at dancing. He
referred to it as simply hugging to mu
sic He described the first country
dance that he ever attended. He did
not know much about dancing and was
FEW CLAIMS
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ARE OUGHT
GREAT DEPRECIATION IX X UMBER
OF APPLICATIONS.
Report Compiled by Land Office Shown
Large Decrease.
Register F. C. Bramwell and Re
ceiver C. R. Eberhard and the cler
ical force of the United States Land
office have just finished compiling
their monthly reports and as com
pared with the corresponding period
of last year the amount of fees and
commissions for the current month,
last year were $191R.R4 n tn
year $2209.28, for the present month.
. During the month there were 165
final proofs, 40 relinquishments, 76
homestead applications, 11 desert ap
plications, 12 timber and stone appli
cations, 12 final proof homestead en
tries and 12 final desert proofs." ' "
, An Indication as to 'how closely
good tracts of land are being watched,
there are now pending 168 conteBt
cases, of which 101 have been initiated
by the government and 67 by individ
uals, of this number, however 13 are
awaiting a decision by the local offi
cers. The testimony has not been taken
yet in the others.
Last March there were 336 cases
pending but by working overtime the
officers have cleaned up the docket
and this department like all others is
up to date. , '
One of the radical changes in the
land office ls the number of timber
and Btone applications. Last month
only 12 applications were made in
the entire district which is a falling
off of over 75 per cent. This has been
brought about by a change in the sys
tem, no definite price being fixed, it
all depending upon the amount of
timber by an agent of the government,
and the taking out of the market thous
ands of acres by forest reserve with
Notice to Patrons.
Subscribers not receiving their pa
pers regularly or It It is not delivered
as it should he, will confer a great fa
vor by notifying the office. Unless you
dp so we have no knowledge hut what
the delivery service is satisfactory.
The time of the year is new here when
proper delivery is essential. No sub
scriber wants to dry out their paper,
neither do we want them to. If the
paper is delivered properly it is not
necessary.
SWaSESSJEffiBW I
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
Soo-Spokane Route
National
Apple Show
Spokane
NOVEMBER 15-20
THROUGH TICKETS TO ALL
EASTERN POINTS APPLY. YIA
THIS ROUTE WITHOUT AD
DITI0NAL COST, PERMITT
ING DAY'S STOP OYER.
; ELECTRIC LIGHTED TRAINS
J DE LUXE
From 0. R. N. Depot Spokane
Dally !0 a. m. To St Paul, Chi
Chicago and the East
Details, Berths, Literature, ad
dress Local Agents O. R. ft N.
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G. M. JACKSONi
T.P.A.
J. S. CARTER
Gent Arent
14, WaH St Spokane,
A GOOD RcGORL)
Wehave conducted a laundry business in
La Grande for many years There must
a reason. A trial order will explain
the mystery. ;
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. d. C. Laundry
PHONE MAIN 7
The Sum Total of Human
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is attained by the man who selects a place which la approved by his
rflfe an 1 adaptable for his entire f amfl. , it live amidst auch condi
tions, approximates about the keen est Joy imaginable, -"Where are
satb conditions to be found in the rapidly growing " North west T 111
yon. Go to a J.. BLACK. He has large amount' ot property listed to
choae from. Fruit rnns, Stock .Irtu,1 81; Beet " Fama. City
Property, Grain Farms", Hay Far ms. Timber Lands, With or With
teprrbtementa.; Prices right. Let me show yon. 1 , . , , -
CI I. BLACK, Tfiel Real isae: iri
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The Best "Buy"
In America
FOR ME MAN WHO SEEKS
CLOTHES YALUE IS' UN QUESTION
AR1Y STEIN-BLOCH STUB! J.OT1I
ING. WE ARE AGENTS IN THIS
TOWN FOR THESE CLOTHES AND
WE SEEK YOUR BEST INTERESTS
AS WELL AS OUR OWN SO WE TELL
YOU WHAT YOU HAYE BEAD
ABOVE.
THESE CLOTHES FIT THEY
HAYE A STYLE AND CHARACTER
THAT GIVE THEM THE ENTRANCE
ALONE OF AMERICAN CLOTHES
INTO LONDON AND ENGLAND .
..ALL YOU NEED TO DO ABUT IT
IS T TRY ON THE CLOTHES. THEY
FIT YOU BEFORE YOUR EYES.
Special sale Saturday
WS &
Andre
Berry.
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