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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1910
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Eyesight Specialist! Manufacturing Opti
NEXT DOOR TO POST OFFICE
fC9,
ician
The Only Specialist
-IN
Eastern Oregon
Who Grinds all His
GLASSES
Any Lens
Duplicated Exactly
In a few. minutes
without your
PRESCRIPTION
LOCATED PERMANENTLY IN: LA CRANDE
SEVERAL REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD
'. 1. I djvote my entire time to making and fitting glasses. ,
2. My examination of the eyes is thorough and accurate, by methods not 40
jyears out of date, but the latest, scientific methods known to the science.
1 3. All my glasses are ground to fit the Eye and the Face.
, 4, i All my glasses, are ground and frames repaired, in my own workshop in
.; La Grande. ' , V'';-v'
5. I duplicate exactly, any lens, no matter who made .or prescribed it. :
; , 6, I do not misrepresent to you as some do, and you are invited to call and see ;
my equipment, which is by far the most complete that has ever oeen in La Grande.
1. I have the most modern parlors in Eastern Oregon.
If at any time within one year, I can improve your vision
no charge is made for the changing of lenses. If your
mountings get broken, I will repair them ; without cost
We will resume business at our
old stand,! Mil Aflams nve.,
I w a complete stock of ;f
HA WOOD
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; PHONE ORDERS NOW TO BELL 42 AND 49,MrlN 748
r Tho natural color of mahogany when
It ! too light tnaj be deepened by ap
plying mixture composed of a bait'
gallon of water, four ounces of madder
and two ounces of fustic. ' Boil and ap
ply while hot. While it is wet streak
the grain with black. This will give
new mahogany quite the coloring of
old.
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Ric.
Elce has been the staff of life for
I more' than half the population of the
wurm niuee ueyoua uie ueguuuiig 01
recorded time.
SQMEB0BY
The Town of Mothers.
The town of Leonberg, in Wurtteca
berg, is known as the "town of moth
era." for there the mothers of Schiller
and Kepler lived. On the walk of th
old castle where the Magna Charta of
Wurttemberg liberties was signed by
Ulrtch, the well beloved, tablets buve
becu placed to honor of the mothers
of the poet and the astronomer.
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SHIER GNEC
SENTENCE
MUST SEEVE SEYEX YEARS FOB
WRONG POIJiCS
lias Been Taken to Paget Sound Penal
Institution For Ills Crimes.
The Portland Telegram of Thursday
says: Jefferson W. Scrlber is today in
the McNeil Island penitentiary op Pu
get Sound, with a seven-year sent
ence ahead of him. He has just en-
be imposed, he read a written vate
mtnt he had prepared, expatmu many
ile'ts charged to him as a lost in the
t'v.al of more than fMO.OOO, wbich 1
tiis declared shortage of the defunct
Tenners ft Traders National Bank of
La Grande. In this same statement
Mr. Scrlber also declare 1 tha: in
counterfeiting notes h intendel 110
rccg. but wasrescfting to davice
which he felt was harmless that he
might tide over urgent difficultly with
the faith that he could make a deal
later and clear up everything, pay
the depositors la' full. He even says
i'ai had he been permitted to handle
the bank affairs, Instead of pit'.ii
'hn institution into the hands of a re
ceiver, he bellevesj he could neve
nrcujht it out whole, without Iojs to
.my of the depositors. . -
For the Sumpter had loans an I Iok
aep tustained there he blames J. H.
bobbins, unUl 1903 president of the
First Bank of Sumpter, and for one
tered Upon the last stage of his ca
reer that began with great promise. , term member of the state elglslature
wnicn at one time was regarded as the
model of eastern Oregon business. Al
so, he is payjng the last unit of a tre
mendous price for engaging In the
bitterest banking and pollUcal war
that has been known to the outside
districts. Incidentally, the convicted
man may be said to carry with him to
the penitentary the stanchest follow
ing of friends that has ever stood by
an Oregon business man who was
violations of the National banking law
were not vicious, but with the aim of
recouping for the depostors' money
lost In bad investments.' -
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from : Baker county. Scrlber . - sayf
that $24,500 of bad debts came from
Robblns' administration, which' he.
Scrlber, had to assume in large meas
ure himself. Other bad loans made
there were by It. H. Miller,' nephew
of the hapless banker. '
United States District Attorney John
McCourt, a boyhood friend of Scriber's
would not recommend the minimum
sentence for the accused banker, stat-
nv4 tn h rntUy nf mirh reat los- J Ing that he had put the government to
ses as have been placed indisputably
at the door of Scrlber.
At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
L'cr'ber appeared In court, accompan
ied by his attorney, ex-Senator C. W.
Fulton. When asked If he had any
vh'ng to say why sentence should not
the expense of a long and costly trial
and should bear something more than
the minimum of five years. -
Friends of Scrlber, who are yet le
goln In the state; will concentrate
their efforts for, a presidential pardon
The plan will be to show that Scriber's
SPORTSMAN and TELEPHONE
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EVERY TIME a man wants to get away from all.:
w connection with the busy world, the telephone is an
important helper. - -
The local service is useful in arranging his affairs
: at home, and the Long Distance service of the Bell
System helps him to decide where to go and what to
rtake.,' ; , . ' '':
By means of his Bell telephone he can find out
whether the fish are biting or the birds are flying,
and whether guides or horses can be secured.
After he has been out 'a while if he wants to get
word from the city, the nearest Bell telephone is a
friend in need. , ,
Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Co.
Every Bell Telephone is the Centre
of the System.
! Your complexion as wel oa yoar temper
1 is rendered miserable by a disordered liver.
I5r l:ikintt Chamlx-Haiii's Stomach and Liver
Tablets von run imnmve iwth.
is going to be disappointed when 'the five
acre tracts we have been offering you aro
; all gone, and they are, all but two.
We have some fine buys in residence
lots at $125.00 each; $23.00 down and $5.00 a
mcxiL Setter Investigate these. ;
'Bell Phone, Red 801 .
LA GRANDE
Foley Hotel Bid., ,
Independent 262
Inv. CO.,
La Grande
C. T. DARLEY,
1205 N Avenue, or McKennon, Phy & Roberts
Irrigation and Structural Engineer.
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4 Surveying, Phin and Reinforced Concrete, General Con-
Z trading. Estimates Furnished. Reference, United States
d Reclamation Service.
YOU'LL HE STRrCK
WITil
! CALL FOR
S00 SPOKANE ROUTE
On YOU' . ; ".. ':
EasternExcursionTrip
$60.2-
ST. PAUL,
. MINNEAPOLIS,
DULUTH,
WINNIPEG
5
CHICAGO .
BUFFALO .
ST. LOUIS ,
NEW I0KK
.$ 72.50
. 91.50
. 67.50
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AMAZEME.M
if you could . see how some factory
made clothing is put together The
skiitplrg- of materials, the inferior
lnter 'ulnga. B t none of these things
occur in a suit of our tailoring. That's
why one suit of ours will outlast two
of the "factory made. Order one and
the wear will prove it.
C. W. BAKER.'
Proportionate rates to other
destinations
Selling dat?s-JoIt 22, Ang. 3,
i rpt 8. I'iuul return limit, Oct. 31.
Optional rontlrrirs. Sfnp-OTrrs.
Write for Particulars.
O. M. Jackson Ceo. A. Walton
Trav. Pass. Agt. Gen. Agt.
. H Wall St, Spokane.
FARMERS' BUSINESS
WE GIVE PARTICU
LAR ATI ENT10N TO
THE BUSINESS OF
FARMERS. WE COR
DIALLY INVITE THEM
TO MAKE WIS 1HEIR
BANKING HOME.
TheUmtedS
National Bank,
LA GRANDE, OREGON.
HOME- MADE
Blackberry and
I Raspberry lelleyl
I on 2crc x
Jars
Royal Grocery
AND
Bakery
i If You Use !
LEAF
Brand of Butter
You use the Best
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