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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1911)
1 It' i s Board and flraf rlaaa rnnma nrftTi I f r I niM fk.i.r.u ' j, . T i Board and first class rooms with heat for $25 and $30 or board without rooW. At the Oregon Boarding House Depot , street. ... . Mrs.RobertPattison ". : ' agent for , " GOSSARD CORSETS " prices $3.50 and Up PHONE Black 81 brBlack 1481 TO OUR niTCTAiifrnp There Are Many of You That we appreciate your pat ronage, your loyalty and stead fastness, folly as much as yon appreciate the help we hare at times been able to furnish you, goes without saying. HOWEVER, we want to tale this public method of thanking yon for past patronage and, with full confidence that this patronage will continue, we pledge yon our best endeavors In the future as you haie had them In the past Wishing yon an increased measure of Happiness and Pros, perity for the year 1911, we are . Sincerely yours, i The United States j National Bank, t LA GRANDE, OREGON t 7 :::.NNUAL C " . - . , 'V, ', 1 ,J' "-n- i t iim , H Mi!'-1Tt!f"-'f 'i J !". .' -" -I ', r Ta?--?r . -' .." almmm'"mmmmm i i hi . i ........ . Hi . M egois CLOTHIERS 0. A. Cr WILL HAVE AID FROM GOVERNMENT JOURCES. Kerr Advised of Coming Support and Assistance from Washington. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis, Jan. 4 Word has been receiv ed by President W, J. Kerr, of the Oregon Agricultural college, from the j authorities at Washington that the I support of the federal government Is ' assured for the extension o the agri cultural experimental work In the state of Oregon. . Letters and telegrams from Samuel Fortier, chief of. the Bureau of Irri gation Investigation at Washington, and from Dr. Carlton, state that ap propriation for the work in Oregon will In all probability, be passed Uy congress. The plans for the extension of this work have, been presented ; to the Board of Regents of the college and have bta. approved by them.' The assurances-from the federal government that they will be in, a position to co operate with the state In this work leaves the matter ready for presen tation to the state legislaure. The state will be asked to provide only one half of . the, cost of maintenance. The various localities In which the work will be carried on have offered to furnish the land,, fences and other equipment. ' - The work will be carried on la co operation with the agricultural col lege. Experiment stations are to be es tablished in central Oregon, southern Oregon .and extensive Irrigation ex periments will be carried out In the Willamette valley. , The. central Ore gon station- will be concerned prin cipally with experimental work In dry farming. The southern Oregon station will take np investigations in ej sat u h ur u k w - m i a si a m r n rm wi m n i mm FEDERAL 1 10 EXPERIMENTS (CLEAR. . - o and Examine Quality and Prices before buying L..4 horticulture, dairying, vegetable rals lng and other branches of agricultural work. The Irrigation experiments will be tarried pu throughout the Will amette Valley for the purpose of de termining what can be, done to In crease the productivity of ' this sec tion of the state. , Elkins Seems Recovering. Washington, Jan. 2 Though re ported weak today Senator Elkins has recovered 'from his hiccoughing at tack which seized him three days ago. Despite favorable bulletins his friends are alarmed and fear his condition' is Berious. . ""' HIDDEN DANGERS Nature Gives Timely Warning That No La Grande Citizen Can Af ford to Ignore. Danger Signal No. .1 comes from the kidney secretions. They will warn you when the kidneys are sick. Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber fluid. Si6k kidneys send out a thin, pale and foamy, or a thick red, 111 smelllng urine, full of sediment and Irregular of passage. - .' Danger Signal No. 2 comes from the back. Back pains, dull and heavy, or sharp and acute; tell you of sick kidneys and -warn you of the ap proach of dropsy, diabetes and Brlght's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills cure flick kidneys and cure them per manently. Here is proof in the statement of a nearby resident. John, Torongo, Cracker street. Sumpter, Oregon, says: "Lastprlng my kidneys were disordered and I be gan to suffer from backache. I no ticed that the kidney secretions were highly colored and painful in passage and I thus kpew that my kidneys were at fault The us of one box of Doan's Kidney Pills toned up my kid neys and caused the backache to cease. I am grateful to Doan's Kid ney Pills for what they did for me." For sale by all dealers. . Price EO cents. " Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New Tbrk, sole agents for the United States.. '.-( Remember the name Doan's and take no other. Jan. 2-4-6. n La. La 21 ANCE -wj OLDEST MASON IS DEAD DAVENPORT, WASIL, BESIDES! . HELD UNIQUE DISTINCTION. Deemed to be One of the Very Oldest Masons in the Country. Spokne, Wash., Jan. 4. (Special). Oliver Hazzard Perry Gibson, 96 years of age, who died at Davenport. Wash., a few days ago, was the oldest mem ber of the Masonic order in the North west country, if not on the continent. He was initiated at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., early in 1846, just before enter ing the Bervice of the United States, In the war with Mexico. He was born In Shippensburg, JPa., May 10, 1815, and when a boy moved with his par ents to Kentucky, afterward going to Missouri, whence he made a trip as teamster to Santa Fe, N. M. He drove an ox-team to California in 1850, re turning to St. Joseph, Mo., two years later. . He engaged In , business! at Stewartsville, Mo., until 1851 and came to Washington in 1882, settling op a homeatead near Davenport. His wife, who died in 1891, was Mary Jan DeAtley, a native of, Missouri. Five grown up children Burvlve. In recognition of his long services Mr. Gibson was elected an honorary mem ber of Acacia Lodge No. 58, F. and A. M., Daenport, in 1892. MUCH APPENDICITIS IN LA GRANDE Many people in La Grande have chropic Appendictic and mistake It for stomach or bowel trouble. If you have wind or gas on the stomach' or bowels, sour Btomach or constipation, try simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as compounded In Adler-I-ka, the, new German Appendicitis remedy. A SINGLE DOSE of this simple remedy will relieve you you will be surpris ed at the QUIC Kactlon. A, T. HILL, Druggist. When you have a cold get a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It will soon fix you up all right and will ward ofi any tendency toward pneumonia. Tint remedy contains no opium or other narcotir nnd may be given as confidently to a bab n to an adult. Sold br all dealers. Z-S. .rV SALES FURNISHERS )-.: Notice. Notice Is hereby given that the an nual stock-holders meeting of : the Cove State Bank will be held at their office In Cove, Oregon, on Tuesday, January 10th, 1911 at the hour of 2 p. m. for the purpose of tlectln offi cers for: the ensuin? year aaa bud; other business that may properly come berore said meeting. , , G. A. STOCK, Cashier. Dec. 3 Jan. 10. Notice of Street Improvement. To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the .Common Council of the City of La Grande, Or egon, on the 21st day. of Dec., 1910, creating Improvement District No. 29, and designating "X'' avenue as such district, and in pursuance of a resolu tion adopted, by said Common Council on the 2l8t day of Dec, 1910, whereby said Council determined and declared Its Intention to improve all that por tion of "X" avenue In said Improve ment district as hereinafter described by laying thereon Board Sidewalk, the Council will, ten days after the ser vice of this notice upon the owners of the property affected and benefitted by such Improvement order that said above described improvement be made; that boundaries of said district to be so improved are as fellows: All that portion of "X" avenue from the west curb line of Second Street, to the east curb line of First street Notice Is hereby further given that the Council will levy a special assess ment on all the property affected and benefitted by such improvement for the ipurpose. of paying for such im- i provement. That the estimated cost' of such Improvement is the sum of $66.00. That the Council will on the 18th day of January, 1911, meet at the Council chamber at the hour or 8 o'clock P. M.fc to consider said esti mated cost and the levy of said assess ment, when a hearing will be granted to any person feeling aggrieved . by such assessment. La Grande, Oregon, Dec. 28, 1910 CITY COUNCIL OF LA GRANDE, OREGON, . , B7 D. E. COX. . Recorder of the City of La Grande, Oregon, . Dec. 30-Jan. 10. Have you seen those brass beds on sale at W. H. Bohnenkamps. European Plan Only Rooms 60c to $1.50; f ' First, class Throughout D. G. BRIGHOUX; Proprietor. ;; La drsnde, Oiegon v -' - i John Melville U28 Adams An LA GRAHDE, - ORE A0 HOTEL; Plumbing and Heating IE.