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PAGE EIGHT LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. MONDAY OCTOBER 3, 1910. COMMITTEE IS ELGIN IMPROVES HER STREETS Rainy ajy OXEX IIASDLERS COXVEXE AT LOS ANGELES. REORGANIZATION' TO TAKE PLACE THIS AFTERXOOX. GREAT DEAL OF WORK GOIXG OX AS IMPROVEMENTS. DAfJltERS GftTHER f Combined Wealth of .Men Present M ould Ran Into Enormous Figures. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 3 Financial Institutions whoBe total capitalization runs into figures beyond comprehen Blon of any newspaper reporter fig ures that would make even John D. Rockefeller envious are represented by officials assembled today In this City of Angels. Entranced by the vis Ions of boundless wealth created by the presence of the multitude of men of much money, even the Los Angeles "real estaters" have become dumb and volcelesB. That this convention i promises to be the largest ever held by the American Bankers' Association Is only another way of saying that It will be the most Important gathering of financiers in the world's history. Today a programme will be occu pled with registration of delegates. the organization of secretaries, com mittee meetings, a session of the ex cutlve council and the executive coun cil banquet, which will be tendered tonight at the Hotel Alexandria by the clearing house and the affiliated banks of Los Angeles. The convention 111 get down to business tomorrow ornlng and the sessions will contln ) dally until Friday. Preparing for . Systematic Campaign Before November Elections. Organization of the new Republican central committee is slated for this afternoon. Chairman 3. H. Peare and secretary Matot called the new com mittee together in letters to each of the committeement nominated at the last primary, and the meeting was an nounced for 3 o'clock this afternoon. Election of officers and outlining a plan of action are the principal mat ters to come before the committee at this meeting. Chairman Peare is anx ious to get the committee in working order before the general election that duties that usually fall on the precinct committeemen may be carried out be tween now and the November election. WlKJiCHiiiF mmm ............. i wiiwimwki mm IS IN TOWN DOCTOR RIGGERS ACQUIRES OWJf ERSHIP OF FRAXKLIX. Thlrty.EIght Horsepower Machine De Uvered Here by Pendleton Dealer. CHALMERS MAN II ERE FOR THE WEEK BOOSTING' HIS CAR. Several Local People Own the Chalra ers and the Agent Is Enthusiastic. C. H. King, salesmanager for the II. L. Keates Auto Co., of Portland, ia In town this week, stopping at the Foley, and looking after the interest of Chalmers Hudson and Pope-Hart-ford, owners In this section. Quite a few of these popular cars are in this territory and Mr. King says he Is yet to find a dissatisfied owner. Mr. 0. M. Rlchey, the postmaster, is the proud owner of a big new Chalmers "40." Toy Tonneau, the only car of its kind in the county. Judge Henry, H. Rus sell, A. P. Davis are also owners of the Chalmers. La Grande is a coming auto town says Mr. King, and he ex pects) to see La Grande forge ahead In the sport very rapidly. Doctor Diggers Is the possessor to day of a 1911 model 38-horsepower Franklin of the Torpedo-phaeton style and the machine is probably the high est power automobile in Union county today. It was bought through the W. M. McCormlck agency at Pendleton and Mir. McCormlck Is here today de livering the big machine to the own er. Another of the same make has been purchased and will arrive for delivery this month some time. The machine Is a four passenger'af fair, though it .is roomy enough to give additional seating room with the jump seat provisions. Personals and Locals from Elgin Coming to Fair This Week. Elgin, Oct. 3 Special Elgin pre sented a busy scene on Front and C. streets la3t week. A large force of men and teams commenced work Monday, grading and graveling the principal streets. Several hundred dollars will be expended in carrying on this work and when finished will be a great Improvement to the city. , Mr. and Mrs. Harris Wilson ar rived on Monday's train from Spo kane. Dr. E. 0. Wilson of this city has purchased S. Hallgarth's interest In Niles & Hallgarth's barber shop. Elgin expects to have a splendid fruit and vegetable display on ex hibit at the Annual Union county, fair held in La Grande ' October 5th to 11th. ' ..." '.' . ' George Llngreen of La Grande vis- wu i" our wiy mat weea. A Ezelt of Seattle Is visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Ezell. Dave Proctor arrived on Thursday on the excursion train from La Grande to make a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Proc ter. V; Miss Bessie Smith will leave Mon day for the Marrlson apple farm near Imbler, to take charge (of the apple packing. Mayor Weatherspoon left the first part of the week for the east. F. D. McCully and wife passed through Elgin this week from Joseph making the trip in their auto. . . . . i ' n. if STARTS AT CHICAGO. Lowncy Dainty Candies Pure and Delicious Potato Crop is Short For various reasons some known and some not, Elgin's potato crop Is decidedly short this season, compared with the crop la.it year. With one or two exceptions local growers all fell short and the cropjylll not be more than one half what it was last sea son. Prices are good however, and there Is every Indication that they will increase to such an extent that better prices will be realized from the same acreage than was received last year. Despite the fact that the crop is short there is such a vast acreage around lgln that many car; loads will be shipped. Elgin Recor der, v M: - r R in : -:i " v Will Arrange for World's Series Be tween Cobs and Athletics. , Cincinnati, Oct. 3 The national baseball commission met here today to arrange the series for world's championship between the Chicago Nationals and Philadelphia Ameri cans. The league decided to start the series at Chicago. X LOCAL PEOPLE MARRIED. Committee Ticks Name Which Two r Girls Had Selected Previously. -After working for two hours on the decision of a name for the addition to La Grande which Doctor George O'Connor has thrown on the market today' and for which he is donating a $500 lot, the committee consisting of Judge Ramsey, W. B. Sargeant and Al. Roberts suggested by Miss Ethel Wright and Miss Ethel Relth. Through a coincidence the names suggested by these two girls was sim ilar. It is "Connordale" and that pop ular addition will bear that title from now and forever more.. The judges didn't know who had sent in the names. 1 La ain Coats, Um brellas Rubbers, Rubber Coats. We have foreseen this rain for a long time and our stock of rainy day necessities is com- nlpfo and rpdv for YOU DHE IFA0! TG1E If AGS IF PLEASED TELL OTHERS, IF NOT TELL US , .1 1 11 ...iii-i ..... mmmmmmmmmmmmismm ";,','"'!, .'"I"!1.1".,""" I . I iMiiirc mn chltect" of kansaaCItyT Has ' earned fame by providing his home city with a fine system of boulevards and by adding to the natural beauties of Fort Worth. Pensacola, Memphis and other southern cities. . The Earl of Euston Is six feet four Inches tall. He Is the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Grafton, who is ninety years of age and a veteran of the Crimean war, In which he was badly wounded. Lord Euston is sixty- seven and a widower. .Richard Burdon Haldane. British secretary of state for war. Is well be yond his fiftieth year, but he thinks a day's walk of sixty miles on country roads Just the thing for his health and often indulges In such a nit 01 stren uous exercise in spite of bis years and 200 pounds weight , The Writers. '"" Short Stories. Rich Indians in Oklahoma talk of building towns which shall be for In dians only. In strong contrast to the many hot wcter geysers of Yellowstone park a new one ejects ice cold water. The time set for the completion of the Panama canal In 1915, and present Indications are that the work will be finished by that year. In the thirty years 1878 to 1903 the yearly expenditure for public schools In the United States grew from $79, 000.000 to $371,000,000, a nearly five fold Increase. ,v ' Train and Track. Owing to the cheap electric power electric car lines are springing up in all parts of northern Italy, An audible fog signal tor railroads, the invention of a retired Dutch naval officer, explodes a cartridge behind a megaphone automatically whenever a train enters a block in which there Is another train. The new railway line planned In Nova Scotia has been called the Hall fax and Eastern. Its length will be 21ft miles. It must be completed In Loral Foundrjmnn and South Grande Resident Married. Last Saturday evening Fred Kleese and Martha Preston were married by Rev. Ford Ellis. Mr. Kleese is head moulder of the foundry and Miss Pres ton Is a well known resident In South La Grande. They will make their fu- ture home In this city. They are both 1 well known here. To Spend $200,000,000. New York, Oct 3 A budget exhibit, designed to. familiarize the taxpayers of Greater K'ew York with the man ner In which city money is spent, was opened today under the auspices of the municipality. The exhibit shows how $200,000,000 will be spent during 1911 In conducting the activities of the me tropolis. M. Francois Eduard Joachim Cop- nee, noet or tne poor 01 fans, was seldom seen without a cigarette be tween bis fingers. Most of her leisure and much of her money have been devoted by Mrs. Humphry Ward to philanthropic work. The famous novelist baa inaugurated many schemes foi the relief of the poor. . . , Adrienne Ueineker. a Dutch girl, has . subsidy of $0,400 per mue. startled Parisians by her love poems. More recently she has written a play. She was delighted with her success as a playwright, but she Is ambitious to accomplish greater things. "1 yearn to give the world greater things," she says. wwmt three years or forfeit the government . . Up to Date Don'ts. Don't pattern after the busy little ibee. It's the other fellow who eats "IV Aerial Flights. For years the name LOWNEY has stood for all that was purest and most wholesome In confection ary, The products of this house are as good today as ever. We receive them in small quan tities and often enough to insure business. We have the Chocolates, Bon packages. popular Variety Bona and small Wright Drug Co. The Reliable Druggists NEW DRUM ARRIVES. )ro miner Cross "Swells up" With New Instrument in Ills Possession. Charles Cross, bass drummer of the local band, Is as proud as a peacock today because a new and high-priced drum has reached here for his espec ial beating. He will initiate the instru ment during fair week. The drum Is a high class make and fills a much needed demand in the band. INSTALLS TEMPORARY THOSE. Home Independent Installs Phone at Stock Department of Fair. The Home Independent Telephone company has Installed a temporary phone for the use of stockmen ' who nave exhibits at the fair. The phone Is located where it will be convenient to the exhibitors and It is certain tne instrument will be freely used and with due appreciation. Sew Jersey Fair. Newark, N. J., Oct. 3 -Under the management of a new association, in corporated only last month, the New Jersey State Fair was opened in this city today. It is nronosed to hold a state fair here every year, as a rival fof flve ,r en J1 of the Trenton exhibition. Today was military day. Trotting and running races will be held dally. - Among the other advantages of Zep pelin's dirigible route to the north pole, it Is not necessary to eat the dogs. Exchange. War balloons are. all very well, but until one has been invented that can defy the ordinary risks of peace the art of warfare, military and naval. stands in no pressing need of revision. Youth's Companion. Zeppelin's contemplated aerial dash for the north pole is not to be made Indeed, It ia suspected It will take place about the same time that Walter Wellman files across the Atlantic , ocean.-Kansaa City Star. DAUGHTERS. SIRES AND SONS. Th )Dii A. Edison Is the patentee of iver k.H iuventlous. Money Matters. The international credit of the world today rests upon $4,000,000,000 worth Midshipman U. O. Roe seta, who has I of gold In the banks and treasuries or be 11 nssijrut'il 10 tut uew Dreadnought Europe and America. Ueluntiiv. Is the irutk rlfie shot f the Auicri.au iirmy nid uavy. Card: mil ;ibbtis has. just '1 entered lis. sevotity-neveuta year.ue vas :oni In ItolMninro r.nl li: tMn car Olu.'il nearly twenty-tlve years. Ilerr II. IVrnliiird Stern ha Uvn re elected mayor of Buwtac. the third largest to a n tu ii:llcl;t. Austria. He 1 bus eaters ou bis tiiaty-nftb year of )tfice. George E. Kessler. the landscape ar the honey. 1 Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Sell him for what you can get and let the other fellow look. Don't be a clam. If you must be any thlnir of that kind, be a turtle. Then you will have some snap about you Don't take the bull by the horns. Take him by the tall, and then you can let go without getting some one to help you. Lippincott's Magatlne. Hew Parohment Camto Bs Used. When the literary Jealousy of the Egyptians caused them to stop the sup ply of papyrus, the king of Pergamos, city In Asia Minor, Introduced the use 01 sneepBicin in a lorm caiiea, from the place of its Invention, perga. mona, whence our word parchment is believed to be derived. Vellum, a finer article, made from calfskin, was also used. Many of the books done on vel lum In the middle agea were tran scribed by monks, and. often It took years to complete a single copy. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, oue of the most prominent women lawyers of the coun try, la devoting most of her time to In vestigating child labor conditions lot the government - '. Miss LHla Larshbottgh, a society girl of Fargo, N. D., won a $10,000 prize for a decoration to be nsed on the li ver service of the new . Dreadnought battleship North Dakota. Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams bu recently completed a Journey which encircled the entire South American continent within three years and is the first white woman to set foot upon many points reached by her in her travels. Mrs. Johanna Seerup, Janltress of an apartment house, has received $70,000, her share of her mother's estate. She undoubtedly la the richest janltress in New York, for besides this legacy she has in bank the larger part of $20,000 she inherited from her father six years ago. " ' Mme. Georgette Leblanc Maeterlinck, wife of the Belgian dramatist and philosopher, has achieved distinction apart from that pertaining to her po sition as the wife of a famous writer. Mme. Maeterlinck Is known as an opera singer, essayist, lecturer and as t suggestive commentator on her bus- band's works. uooa nsaaon. "Brown doesn't come round any nore. "I notice that." - , . "I wonder why." "He doesn't know now to square dmself." ' . : f 1 3 The Bank of England does not divide its profits directly with the govern ment, but the amounts paid for taxes, franchises,. etcH reach annually about $1,200,000. ' The eight banks of Scotland are prac tically oue bank. The managers of the .principal banks, living In Edin burgh or Glasgow, meet frequently to fix the rate of discount ou loans and the amount of Interest to be allowed on deposits. . - WE WANT YOUR Proof. "I'm after the gas bUL" "Geet My husband forgot to leave the check he's Just gone." " "Are yon sure he forgot to leave ltT "Yes; be told me so just as be went" -Cleveland Leader. , On of Many. "Then yon think you won no perma nent place In her heart 7' "I'm Just a notch on her parasol han die; that la alL"-LoulsvlUe Courler Jotxrnii : ' Laundry rV Olfkb te BOTH PHONES TWO WAGONS Cherry s New Laundry