LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER WEDNESDAY, JULY G, 1910.
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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.
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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.
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One place of more than ordinary j
importance In Oregon is Joseph and
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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.
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.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"
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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
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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
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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
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Brace .Arms 'cobbler and
Soid Seats, cheap ai
SI. 35
j Special this week
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at $1.10
Solid Seat Oak
Diners at $1.45,
$1.60, $1.75, am!
$2.00.
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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
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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.