La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 06, 1910, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextLA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER WEDNESDAY, JULY G, 1910. 11 ced, and by bo doing you have builded a foundation that Is better than all legislation, better than all later day teaching when the child has become a man. "Mease coihui -rv unyimns seems wrong," Is the constant invita tion to the public. "We want to treat you right, but we can't watch every thing at oncer-Butchers' .Advocate. ess Fub!W:d Daily Except Sunday PAGE FOUR w E DEXXIS Editor and Owner. United PrcfS Tel graph Service Entered at the posiouice i i-i tfntno as second-class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. . Dally, single copy . 6c Daily, per week 15c Dally, per month...... ......... 65c This paper will not publish an ar ticle appearing over a nom de plume. fUned articles will be revised sub-5-ct to the discretion of the editor. lse sign your articles and save HsappoliitniPin. CHACTArQlM. There will be four Chautauqua as semblies in Oregon during the present month at Gladstone Park, near Ore gon City, as for many years past; at Asland, also for many years, and one each at La Grande and Albany, for M Iirttl lime luia j cu, tl.C Oregonlan. These meetings will be In progress continually at one place or another until. July 24 at which date the Willamette Valley association will close the year's full programme of lectures, music, study games and ideal cutlng privileges under the Chautau quan banner. As an educational device or oppor-. tunity for study the Chautauqua plan appeals favorably to students; as an outing It appeals to parents of young children, while its social features safe and sane meet the approbation of thoughtful, observant people who realize the difficulty of providing safe and pleasant social Intercourse be-' t ween young people, outside of the re-! straining Influences of the home. For j these and other reasons that present themselves it may b assumed that the four Oregon Chautauquas sched uled for the present month will be( well attended. The spirit of the or-, ganlzatlon Is right. Its entertainments ', are wholesome and enjoyable," 'management is above reproach and the expense of attending It with the f anything they must trade at home, tt entire family Is relatively small tola little short of criminal on the nart those hi its Immediate vlclnty, "JIEAD-OF.TIIE.LAKE. ,. : ' 1 One place of more than ordinary j importance In Oregon is Joseph and . , . the lake. This year there was a Fourth of July celebration held there j and according to those who attended ' from La Grande; it was one or the j greatest events of the kind ever wit nessed ln Eastern Oregon. . For a number of years celebrations have been held there and each year the crowd Is larger. This occasion called forth seating capacity three; times as great us any former event and the town of Joseph turned itself . into one large hotel, as it were, to care for visitors. Kven at that, there was scarcely enough places to go rouud and the town was taxed to its capacity. ' j Heuceforth the "Head-of-the-Lake" is a point that must be considered as a resort in Oregon. It is one of the most beautiful places in all the world and people at Joseph purpose making it so attractive that the 0. R. & N. branch line will carry in many per- sons during the summer who want to spend a few days close to nature. , - 1 .MIL IIKDFEKX'S POSITION. One of the most interesting speak-1 crs on the reform platform today Is Rev. Kedfern of Idaho, who Is devot ing his life to aiding the child. Unlike mauy advocates of reform Rev. Red fern does not hold to the theory that legislation is a cure for all evils lie does not believe that you can, by law force a condition which parents have been criminally negligent about pre paring for. He does not think that with one stroke of the pen or an act of congress it is possible to change the human race. But the Ideas of this man who is working for the children are approved tr a great mass of thinking people who say little. He believes ln Individ ual reform, nt believes the home to be the proper place for teaching mor ality; that the child should day by day, be admonished of the evils that follow excesses. Teach the Uttle one what evil is in the different forms it mar be eaceuwrea ao expenea IRRIGATION MEAXS EVERY TJIIXG On Saturday, July 16, there is to be a meeting of the Grande Ronde reser voir stockholders to determine on some plan of action regarding Irriga tion In this valley. This is decidedly one of the mo3t important meetings of any nature that Ms ever been called in this valley. It may solve the perplexing prob lem of putting water on the Grande Ronde, and If It does It will be the great day of all days for the people, We are blindly groping in the dark when we do not conserve the waters of the Grande Ronde river and water the land of this valley We are making the biggest blunder ever charged to mankind when we go for years with out water when it Is so available and so practical. True, good crops are raised without water, but three .times as much can be raised with water It means land that will produce fif ty dollars an acre, and now be made to produce one hundred and fifty dol lars with water. , What better proposition could any one ask for. ' It Is a plain mathematical problem, pnally fltmrert and snrn of results. APPLIES JUST ASVVELLTO US. Texas Editor's Good Advice to His Subscribers. AID HOME BY TRADING HERE. If You Expect Your Own Community to Grow You Must Help It by Keep ing Your Money Circulating Where It Belongs Little Short of Criminal to Do Business Elsewhere. The Weekly Avalanche of Lubbock, Tex.', in the Panhandle country, re cently published ' an article, beaded "Trade at Home," that every country newspaper should publish. The Lub bock paper says: "Tf Iha rtu.i.l.. ... .1.1' . t I tuuuumg cuuuu j ever expect lue uum . ness of this territory to amount to M II - I. ' - . . X . L . 1 , . of, the people to do otherwise as long ; is those who are engaged in business bet" will do the right thing by their ! cusdimeM. "There has been a lot of complaint 'a6' bot the number of People who ,re ??er,D,& tbel,r 00Js " would uot be so bad were It not a fact hut 0De )Urtbube lhe mnrket ln tljIa tItv and nt prlce9 a9 cheap as one can obtain anywhere else. Value of Trading at Homo. "When ymi send your iiiunty uwny from home it is gone where you can never Dope to see It aguiu. If you spend It at home you stand a chance at leust to get another shot nt It. Trade at home. ,if yon don't you mny be surprised to see sonio of our fine structures go to the bad, for they can not live without 'our patronage, and they timl euonh conlldence In yon to put thousands of dollars Into the va rlous venture of itie city, and it Is no more thnn your duty to Mww your ap preciation by giving them your pa tronage. 'The business men of Lubbock stnnd without a peer in the business and so I cial world. They are the cream of their calling, and you discredit them I before the eyes of the world by send- j your good bard cash out of the j town for tbe verJ things you can buy "0e for kss BK'ney' a11 lh,us con" : -, 1 . . . , ' 1 "Trade at borne. Take a pride ln j'your borne town mid home merchants. Tell It to the world ut large that you are one of the home builders. Put on : Vfllir thinking i-nn lha iiuti il inclined to send mouey cut ef the county and see tf you hud not better keep It where it rightly belongs. THE VALUE OF A KICK. ft Is Geod For Your Business to Knew , People's Opinion of It, The best time to remedy a mistake is before it happens. And the next best time is as soon after it happens as possible. xno business bouse can know too much of what the outside world thinks of it The average man Is slow to complain. That is why thousands of concerns art habitually back on their orders. The average man will let the grievance pass, but next time be takes his business somewhere else. The big department stores In Urge cities realize the Importance of know ing what possible grievances people may have against them. They put tbe complaint department ln the most ac- icessible ptacrs. and thev make -ure that the person with the kick may be rcaa-tr-" r u e To Beat Mail Order House. , A merchant in a small town who saw a farmer receive eoods at a rail. ; road station from a mail order house told him be could have sold the same goods for less money and saved, the freight besides. The farmer asked him why he didn't let people know. Though be had taken the home paper regularly for years, be never saw a line in It that such goods were to be bad. The mail order house came after the trade and got It Merchants and manufacturers who fall to advertise what they have should not expect to compete with those who do. The very best articles at the lowest prices will be passed by when people are unaware of their existence. , Probably if the merchant had advertised and the farm er hnd bought from him be wouldn't have known that his advertisement bad brought the business anyway. ana so wouldn't have given It credit. Publicity often reaches much farther than Is outwardly perceptible. A Strengout Improvement Move, A Lenox man who Is bitterly op posed to plastering the roadside with guldeboard advertisements made- a trip from Lee to Otjs the other day and on the way knocked down all signs in front of some of the cottages. The owner of one has replaced the ooaru wiiu a new aiigu. wuiuit reads s follows: "Rocky Lodge, Stockbrldge 10 miles. Parsons garage. This slra la on private land. Lenox man, do hot I use your ax here." At another place I Soma Of thtk antnmnhfl n.mli n.t I - Kufc v a sign at a dangerous curve: "Automo biles go slow; blow your horn. Ches ter nine miles. Lee five miles." This also was destroyed. This Is rather a strenuous Improvement move, but a good one. Well Answered. "Ob, no; I don't claim to be any dif ferent or any brighter thnn the bal ance of .mankind. I expect 1 shall mar ry some fool woman some ot these days." . "if you ever marry that's the kind of a woman you will marry, all right." Rochester Union. A Telltale Touch. ' "Is it true that sightless people can tell the color of things by touch?" tome one asked a bllud man. "OccnRlontilly. yon." enme the an swer. "If. for Instance, 1 touched a red hot poker I eould tell It was red.' Swift's Sarcasm. 'My brethren," saU Denn Swift in sermon, "there ure three sorts of pride of riches. f birth and of tal ents. I shall not now-sneak of the latter, none of you being liable to that abominable vice." . ' She Got It. He (time 1 1 :.: . m.i-And'yo'u will think of me witcu I am gone? She (suppressing it .ynvvni-l'll try to If ron'll ever give me an opportunity. IRRIGATION WITH ELECTRIC TUMPS. The Eastern Oregon Light and Power . Company .Prepares to Irrigate Large Acreage In Baker and Union Counties. All persons owning land In Baker find Union counties not supplied with Kitfflclent water for Irrigation pur poses, are earnestly requested to fur- liish their names and addresses to either our Baker City or otir La Grande office. It Is our aim to have n representative of our engineering department make calls for the pur pose of getting the necessary sur veys and to furnish estimates as to tr.e cost of irrigating such ground by elcoti .tally operated pumps. It has been our observation, th.'t l.imdteds of laud owners within ti e limit ol our high tension transmission lines are In possesson ot valuable tracts of ground, without fully real izing how easy and inexpensively the same may be irrigated by pumping electrically from rivers, ditches, walls etc.; and it is our intention where ever possible to form such into groups ln order their land may be reached with the extensions to our electric lines at the minimum of ex pense to each. Hydro-electro irrigation has been the main factor of development dur ing the past several years m many western communities. During this season, we have demonstrated its practicability within our own terri tory, by the Installation and success ful operation of several pnmplng equipments at Baker City, North Powder, and LaGrande; and the re sults, as slewed by the pratlcal Irriga tors In these ' communities has been nest gratifying, Indeed. Since the advent of this compara tively new method of Irrigation many iiad owners tTe awakened to find c STA Were you v with the crowd that ook advantage of the unusual price reductions? Prices Reduced from 10 to 50 per cent throughout the entire store. fl ale Lasts f Not a Dollar's worth will be sold at these prices after July 17th. Enough Said-You what had heretofore been considered r an almost valueless tract of land is ? their most valuable possession, as a!R tiomlnal sum paid per acre for elec-'fi tile power, will now place their land K entter water. It Is also found that in many places, ' where ditches or natural streams are j not available as a source of water! supply, that a well of comparatively I small dimensions is found adequate' tor me purpose, as Doin aaaer ana Union counties are amply supplied with sub-surface water.- - If all persons owning high or dry ground, will kindly notify one of our main offices, we will cheerfully fur nish the services of one of our engin mates on the cost of electrical oper ations for the purpose "of getting the data essential to vnaking the esti mates on the cost of electrically op erated pumping equipment. EASTERN OREGON LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY. Aid Society Wants Assistance The Ladles Aid Society of the M. E. church is going to maintain a restaurant at the Chautauqua grounds and will be glad to have friends of the church supply necessaries for the meals, when convenient Vegetables, fuit, butter,- eggs and other food supplies may he left al the Blue Mountain creamery where they will be given proper attention. Xotlce of Street Improvement To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that in pur suance of a resolution adopted by the Common Council of the City of La Grande, Oregon, on the 9th day of Feb., 1910, creating Improvement Dis trict No. 16 and designating Sixth Street, as such district, and ln pur suance of a resolution adopted by said Common Council on the 17th day of June, 1910, whereby said Council de termined and declared its Intention to improve all that portion of Sixth Street In said improvement district as hereinafter described by laying thereon' Bltullthlc pavement, the Council will, ten days after the ser vice of this notice upon the owners of the property affected and benefited by such improvement, order that said above described Improvement be made, that the boundaries of said district to be to improved are as follows: All that portion of Sixth Street, from the North line of Washington Avenue, to the North line of "K" Avenue. Notice Is hereby further given that the Council will levy a special assess ment on all the property affected and benefited by such improvement for the MID SEASON RTED TO Know what a Sale imi K 2 s s GcM en Brace .Arms 'cobbler and Soid Seats, cheap ai SI. 35 j Special this week i at $1.10 Solid Seat Oak Diners at $1.45, $1.60, $1.75, am! $2.00. s Leather Seat Quarter Oak Di- 5 ? ners,$3.25,$3.50 Worth $4 and $5 or ID Days Only P SPECIALS fjjj Fo fit Haisfm Furniture on Easy Payments purpose of paying for such improve - menu That the estimated cost of such Improvement Is the sum $31,934.00. That the Council will on the 13th day ot July, 1910, meet at the Council cliamber at the hour of S o'clock, ! M., to consider said estimated cost. , -d the levy of said assessment, when 81... ! - DAY at West's Means rim i'iiii 7tlI Bigg-" i Golden Elm Braced, worth $2,25 Special at $1.65 MH-M-Mu;'inMM-aa-i Better Rockers in all grades Si 90, $2.25, $2.75 and $3.25 s Golden Quarter ' Oak Gloss Finish Rocker at $4.50, Worth $6.00. Heavy Leather Upnolster ed, Spring Seat, guaran teed construction at . $8.50 and $10.50, worth $12.00 and $1500 ! a hearing will bo granted to any per inn Aa1f, amvtM J V , , v- ivciuig aFgucicu uj Baca asses of ; menL La Grande, Oregon, June 22, 1910 CITY COUNCIL OF LA GRANDE, OREGON. By D. E. COX, Recorder of the C: of La Grande, Oregon. June-28-July-9.