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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1910)
PAGE FOlTit Li GRAttDE K-EJfDiO OBSERVER THURSDAY MAY 12 1910 UGRANDUIfitlNbUeSEHVFR Published Dally Except .Snnday duse two blades of grass where one grows now. He will add to the wheat j yield, put more fat on the hogs and make the cow give more milk, all duce two blade of grass where one BKITE DEXXIS editor and Owner ! the agricultural college. United Pre ss Teh graph Service ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally, single copy Dally, per week., Daily, per month.., Dc 15c 65c AMEN! BROTHER JOXAS, A3TEX! Entered at the postofflce at La Grando t as second-class matter This paper will not publish an ar ticle appearing over a nom de plume. Signed articles will be revised sub . Ject to the discretion of the editor. PleaBe sign your articles and save disappointment. : " AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE VALUE. All schools of higher education aro valuable, but as things develop there is a decided Importance attached . to a well conducted agrlculural college. The practical things of life are taught in such schools, and certainly the practical things are what count. Elbert Hubbard, who says some very sharp things occasionally, claims one year in college is all right, but more than that is dangerous. We cannot agree with him but we do believe that even one year in some colleges is dangerous. Not so with an agri cultural college where they teach the boys how to farm, or how to make a fense, or how to meet most any of the needful things in life. The Wallowa Sun is getting down to brass tacks and pushing the truth Into the people week after week. The following editorial is certainly along right lines and is worthy of considera tion by everyone living in Wallowa county, the Grande Ronde valley or elsewhere, , " "The time is past for petty Jeal ousies between the towns of this val ley. There is no longer a question as to which is the better town of the valley. Every resident of the valley knows that there are four good towns and resources back of each to make a fair sized citv of each. The valley Is so situated that no one town will greatly exceed the others in size. Wallowa has a large body of timber and a big lot of agricultural land back of It; Enterprise has the county seat, a good farming country, and various other resources; Joseph and Lostine have their mines and farming country; all the tdwns are surround ed with excellent range and an abund ance of scenery. No man has yet enumerated enough of the resources of any one town but the next man who came saw another unnamed. The time is ripe for a United effort for the upbuilding and settlement of the valley; for the development of Its resources; for the improvement of its schools; for the building of better building and better roads and better homes in this county. What benefits Wallowa benefits the other towns In a measure. Every sawmill that mar- hope that this will develop with an other season.' , There was some agitation In favor of making a four team league with La Grande, Pendleton, Walla Wall, and Baker, but those who favored the towns on the branch line won out, and we believe the decision was a good one. ; We are all interested (in home folks - and everyone , who lives on the branch line towns are home folks. , Community Interests bind us together iii a business way, then -why not add the social side and make life worth living. , The baseball played will be clean. It will be played by men, not hood lums, and the Interest it will create all along the line is bound to increase The first game is to be given to La Grande, which is a courtesy appre ciated by this city, and when games are. to1 be played in other towns we are in favor of loading the O. R. & N. branch train so heavily that two sections will need to be run. to ac commodate the rooters. o tl 9 4 Gfiothes o M: I comes with the assurance 5 ' that you are ' correctly at- The very atmosphere around a school of this kind urges upon one ket, lumber here helps to improve the Importance of being a producer, business in Joseph and Enterprise aUUCr umu u consumer wnoiiy. mcr Bnd utiM, Every mine that is op- r. lw ,uu llttU a ened at Joseph or. Lostine means a u.ui, m penvM never prouuee any. better market for Wallowa's lumber. nM V- lit- V W. . I iujiiu iui iu worm a marKeiB or me Every settlor who worm a storehouses? Think it over and note how many- are living off other's labor living by their wits as it were.' . .'"..,'' ,,.: .,.'', . It is this condition that drives ma ny men to seek relief In the anar chist's' ramp. Old John Smith in co lonial days said, "he who does not work Bhall not eat," and it would be first rate if his doctrine held good to day. With agricultural colleges largely attended there will be more produc ers; there. will be more men who Dandle the soil, which after all is the only source of wealth, and one of the most honorable vocations in. the whole world Oregon baa a good Institution. We wish she had another Just like the one at Corvallls located in Eastern Oregon. Yea, right here in the Grande Ronde valley would bo gn excellent place for it. . The tax payer's money that 'goes to keep up an agricultural colege is well spent. It makes big, broad -minded men and women who have' the spirit and disposition to go forth In life and do something. If a boy is trained at such a school he will not be a loafer wearing colored "spata" He will not be found spending his entire life over a pool table, neither will he be a ,,sl8sy, chap who is wait ing for all the ladles to smile upon him. On the other hand, he'wlli t comes to Enter prise makes a better market for Wal Iowa county products and a more prosperous. farmer to trade with ;the merchants of the several towns. T A. A . . worn togetner tor the up building of the great valley; for more mills at Wallowa; -more mines de veloped at Joseph and Lostine, more industries at Enterprise, more peo pie in .Wallowa county. ' , The time is now Railroads are help ing Central Oregon, but not every man attracted there will like Central Oregon. Some will go elsewhere and they can be induced to come to Wal lowa county, The time is now. Par don" aome thing of your prejudices and work the harder for the growth all together. Wallowa county la your county, my county. Its growth Is our growth; Its prosperity our prosperity THE KIND OF BALL THAT COUNTS Believing that life would be dull maeea witnout some kind or sport a local basebell league has been or ganized with -La Grande, Elgin, En terprise and Joseph as members. No attempt will be made this year to play professional ball. . but there) is With the apple crop assured for this Beason, the Grande Ronde val ley people can already begin to fig ure their profits. And the revenue from anoles in this valley has hardly started. When once" the fruit. Inspec tor gets organized and sees that all orchards are properly sprayed then the day of developing orchard lands will have begun In earnest. No one doubts the productiveness of this val ley, but a drawback has been in the way orchards ; have been cared for. With that revised and on a sound basis the capitalist who is seeking to develop large fruit tracts , will head this way. But' don't sell your land too cheaply to him. If you have a desirable tract he will pay the price for In doing so he sees where he can more than double his money. 4 ' Trt- 3D' tired for any and all occa- Alfred Benjamin's rt siors. ?V" , ?'Vl j . )VC$ correct clothes for men and ' fe 7' , ' j ' t young men, reflect every es- - sential of standard fashion and give that personal sense t 1 - 1 j 1 1 y' ?i of - efficiency that only , per- ' Otj ;i T A, iectly tailored, accurately (& J.n i UV , ; ! fitted clothees can rive. -i C -br; made in :NEW york C - ' - Down at Corvallls the people have not gotten over the old habit of bury ing money in the ground for fear the banks are not safe.. But who would ever hear of Corvallls If it were not for that magnificent agricultural college which Is ; supported by the state T . A community that has people who liury their aioney li the ground is seiuom neard of. 1 styles for tthe world's fash ion leaders,. "Benjamin'' 'Clothes give the highest degree of dress distinction and individuality m auoiuuii iv mure umu sausiaciury service, ai a xiioueraie cost. "They are sold in La Grande" e xclusively in our men's clothing de- t uxu Vitij jrvil lull IWUHL -live LllllLy ilCW ejJiiXlg models in fine all wool worsteds, ca ssimeres, cheviots and mixtures. ; Al so elegant blue serges and blacks at . , $20.00, $22.50, $25.00, and up to $35.00 "Gordon and Stetson Hats, Manhattan Shirts i AIMIJ I I I I1XH1KI1!S - X Lemon and pineapple -sherbet Sat urday and Sunday at Silverthorrie's Family, Drug Store. J , Many buildings are in '. course of construction In Bend. : ' IE i T7. ,ixAo THE 9 Quality Store I W0$444&4 o ! A vlilf EV- O Gasoline wool saw. A 0 phone order to Black 1851. A a part of the bona and sinnw nf ha A '. A nation. He will make the soli pro-1 O A O I ' -- GE0B0E PALMER, Pres W. L. BBENU0LTS, AMt Cash. F. J. HOLMES, Ylce-Pres EARL ZUNDEL H Asst Cagh. ' F. L. MEYERS, Cashier. LA GRANDE NATIONAL BANK OF LA GRANDE, OREGON United States Depository Capital and Surplus $180,000.00 DIRECTORS GEORGE PALMER F. J, HOLMES Yt. J. CHURCH F. L. METERS W.M. FIERCE C, C, PEKINGT05 G. L. CLEAVER ' F. M. BTREIT W. L. BRENH0LTS With onr ample rcsoarcei and facilities we can render yea efficient senlce and handle yonr buslaess to your entire stalsfactloa n TT c I J nn LFU JiOTE From day to day job will read In these, columns articles entitled "Truth." .It Is to yon, dear reader these remarks are addressed. .Weigh well every word contalnedMn these stories. .It may mean much to you iv ivuvn us as we g aiong. .Aii luai is astea is your ume lor jnst a few moments. .We thank yon. Lest you take alarm at this invasion of your inn ocent seclusiion, we will remind you of the an-" ecdote of the man who tried to give away Engli sh gold sovereigns, and nobody would take them. On a wager, this gentleman, relying on his knowledge of human nature, stood at the busiest hour, of the day at the corner of London Bridge, with a big pewter dish full of genuine gold sove reigns in his hand. Rattling the gold alluringly in the pewter, he besought all who passed to take one no strings to it of any sort. But one and all either stared incredulously, frowned sus piciously,, or smiled knowingly, and passed on u nenriched. And at the end of the hour, the gen tleman who knew human nature, had just as m any sovereigns in his dish as "when he started, and the other party to the wager had to pay up. We know that, if you had been onevof the English; crowd VoU would have left with all the English sovereigns laid safely away in the folds of your garments. This is our reason for ad dressing you in person, r - ; Would you be rich ? Then join us in our great undertaldng I -if i