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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1911)
PAGE 4 LA GKAisDE EVENING OBSERVER, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911. Salle Wesfs Half Price Sale of Waists, . Childrens, Dresses, Jackets, Union Suits and Wash Dresses N w. m Full Sway ! High Quality Merchandise at Price Reductions that will surprise you Great Reductions in Ladies' and ... In Misses' Ready-to-Wear Garments Entire Line of Men's Clothing Reduced 25 to 50 Per Cenlf -iaaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaBWBM MMMMHMIMHHIIMHMHHaHaMHH Annual Sale Annual Sale Annual Sale Annual Sale Annual Sale Annual Sale Annual Sale of of of of of of of Fine Muslin Ladies' and Blankets and Men's Shoes Staley Brand Men's' Embroideries Underwear Misses'Shoes Comforters all grades Underwear Dress Shirts . Prices Lowered in Every Department - See our large Posters for Prices J LO ,1 m THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS Editor and Owner. Entered at the postofrice at La Grande at second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dallj, single copy 5c Daily, per week, 15c Dally, per month , 65c i. ..... ! This paper will not publish an ar ticle appearing over a nom do plume. Signed articles will be revised sub ject to the discretion of the editor. Please sign your articles and save disappointment. THE MAYOR'S MESSAGE. Elsewhere In this issue th Evening Observer prints Mayor Richardson's message In full. It Is a document worthy the careful attention and con sldration of each and every citizen. Without endeavor to bewilder the reader with rhetoric or flowery lan guage the new mayor calls attention to some of the good things accomplish ed by the Meyers administration and then makes a few recommendations that are proper and essential. For instance, his statement relative to the fire department is without doubt one of strict Imporance, and later we predict that the mayor will go a step farther and recommend a paid fire de partment for La Grande. There Is no question as to the need of such an in stitution and we believe Mayor Rich ardson will at the proper time be a strong advocate of It. His reference to the health of the community Is Important, and the rec ommendation that all citizens be com pelled to use city water Bhould be thoroughly understood. Some might think this Is an Interference with per sonal rights, but it is not so. The pub lic health Is not an individual matter. One many may choose to neg lect himself or his family and cause Illness which might spread through a whole community, in which case that man has no right to get up his own wishes and desires above a community. Mayor Richard son, in his campaign to protect the en tire community will have the heartiest support possible to accord an official GEORGE PALMER, FRes. F. J. HOLMES, Tlce Pres. IT. L. BREX1I0LTS, AssX fash. EARL ZODEL, 2d Ast Ch. F. L, MEYERS .Cashier. , La Grande National Bank of La Grande, Oregon United States Depository Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $200,000.00 by the great majority of the people of La Grande. It was with considerable pleasure that we read what the new official had to say regarding the Indebtedness of La Grande. Everyone is aware that La Grande is about sixteen months behind In current money for current expenses, and Mayor Richardson touched upon this subject in no un mistakable manner. He hopes another year will witness La Grande paying her paper at par, which would with out doubt be one of the best things this administration can do. Few things tend to hold a city hack more than the fact that Its paper is below par. A discount of five per cent, does not seem large but It places an odium on the whole community that Is hard to overcome. In his efforts to bring the balance sheet even the new mayor will hear little complalne, even if the city taxes are raised a peg to do it. As a whole the message Is a most commendable Introduction of the new administration. BARRETT AM) G00I ROADS. ' DIRECTORS. GEORGE PALMER, IT. I-.BRE.M10LTS Tf. J. CnrRCII F. I, MET 18 F. J. DOLMES Yf. M. TIERCE C C. PEXIXC.TON W. D. CLEAYER - F. M. BYRIT With onr ample resources and facilities we caa rentier jom efii. dent aerrlce aid handle yoor baiilaeis to jour entire satisfaction. State Senator Charlie Barrett ' is over from Athena today interviewing his Union constituency regarding the proposed good roads bill which Judge Webster of Portland will have Intro duced !n the legislature this winter. That bill proMes for state aid to counties that will agree to add twice I me Hiunuiu pivvn d.t me suue lor roaa building. In other words if I'nion coun j ty would agree to nut up $ 10.000 the .state would put up $20,000 for road ! building In this county. On the face j of it there might be some attraction, j but when one comes to analyze the . matters It certainly is not the right i way to solve, or attempt to solve the I road question. In the first place, who S pays the tax that will raise this mon- ey contributed by the state? The en I tire state, of course. Now according ! to the bill as It ' framed. If a county I does not t.ike advantage of the state's ! offer then that county is out Its por j tion of the general tax. which goes to ! some county that dos take the state's offer. , j Put this Is rot the worst feature of j the whole matter. Two years ago a j man by the name of Judge Scott of J Salem, came through eastern Oresron talking good roads apparently for the good of the cause. This year one Judge Webster from Portland did the same thing, apparently for the good of the cause. No one could understand how these men were giving of their time and paying their own expenses juBt to agitate a good roads move ment. Here is the Joker. It now devel ops that the Webster road bill pro vides for state highway commission er at a salary of $4,000 a year, an as sistant at $1800 a yea and an army of clerks and underlings, and it fur ther develops that Judge Scott of Sa lem and Judge Webster of Portland are each a candidate for the position of commissioner which position will be created under the new bill. Shades of darkness. Did you ever see the like? It is almost a safe guess out here In Oregon to attach a per sonal motive to the act of every pub lic man. Usually when the whole mat ter focuses down it is found that a salary is the pre and the man doing the screaming is after that salary. This paper is against the good roads bill as framed by Webster. Thorough ly against it with both feet We want good roads as badly as anybody in Oregon, but we are not willing to raise o Judge Webster or a Judge Scott on the public whefl these two self-appointed road men have been busy for two, years making for them selves a soft place to lay. And from the way Senator Barrett talked to us today we think he will oppose this measure on. .the , floor of the senate, which will be but. the right and proper thing to do. Advocates of this measure say. "We want an automobile road. from one end of Oregon to the other so that tourists will come here." . They are wrong. Oregon Is too new and not sufficiently developed to he paying to tourists. What we . need here is good roads for the farmer, for the lumberman, for the wood hauler, for the miner, so that pro ducts of this great state can be haul ed to market with as little cost as possible. Automobile roads will be all right later, but right now we need practical highways that will benefit the producer. j Under the bonding act each county j is empowered to vote bonds to build roads in thet county. This is all right and It Is good enough. Lets let the1- ?" J"?.d. " UMBRELLA REPAIRS ui lU'O YUUlTOO caj;cuoc vi otaiv aid which in the end provides jobs for a lot of office seekers and sells large quantities of road machinery. SUIT AGAIXST GOYERXOR WEST Covers from 50 cts to Three Dollars L C. Smith-La Grande Today in Judge Knowles court the case against Governor West, George H. Currey and Senator Turner Oliver was argued. It is a suit wherein a railroad rate expert claims damages from the above named defendants for publication of a letter said to have been written by Governor West when he was at the head of the state railway commission. No, there is nothing serious about the matter Just a case of a man being hauled into court after he has achiev ed prominence in being elected gover nor. Mr. Currey and Senator Oliver are Incidental in the case, for the be lief Is that the real man the expert rate man Is after is West. But twenty-five thousand dollars damages Is a good deal. A man must show that he has been wronged to quite an extent before he is entitled to collect that much money, even from a governor. Perhaps that letter of the governor's not only curtailed the earn ing power of this rate expert but put him out of business, so to speak. But at that $25,000 is a chunk of coin. HoxevN Body to be Cremated. Pasadena, Jan. 3 The late Aviator Hoxey, was buried thin aft 2.30 from the undertaking parlor The body will be privately cremated. Groceries and BAKERY GOODS S Royal Grocery Bakery m We Clean, Press, Repair and Make Clothes to Please You huts blocked, give us a trih. THE WARDROBE 1118Adm Ave,Tel Main 735 BERT THOMAS
