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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1911)
PAGE 4 luA GKA3NDE EVENING OBSERVER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1911. n 9 ) y ! tifl.ll. h si l i : U (' i! H n n Half Price Sale of Waists, ChildrensV Dresses, Jackets, Union Suits and Wash Dresses Hundreds of economical purchasers have visited this store since our Great 13th Annual Sale began -, ' " and all our previous January sale records have been broken. They know the reputation of West's sales for the past 13 years, also the High Quality Merchandise sold by this store onafide Muctions in Every .Department n n IVi Entire Line of ens Clothing Reduced 25 to 50 Per Cent ii Annual Sale Annual Sale Annual Sale Annual Sale AnnualSale AnnualSale Annual Sale i:;v:.-f-.::::::.. V -y f Qf '" '- I 0f of ' ' of .' a : ' : ' ,- ' ' ' ' . ' ' ' "" : ' ' ' Fine Muslin Ladies' and Blankets and Men's Shoes Staley Brand Men's Embroideries Underweari Misses' Shoes Comforters all grades Underwear Dress Shirts STORE IS ALWAYS CROWDED M o Co W E : ' . . ' A TSie Qiality Sloire THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS Editor and Owner. Entered at the postoflke at La Grande as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Dally, single copy'.....,..'....; 6c Bally, per week, 15c Bally, per month. 65c This paper will not publish an ar ticle appearing over a nom da plume. ; Signed articles will be revised sub ject to the discretion of the editor. Flease sign your articles and save disappointment : means the present generation of children will grow In La Grande ac customed to hear the Palmer mill whistle and it will become a part of jheir dally lives. It means work and dally bread for an army of men, all of which centers In La Grands and a great portion of the money paid to that help will be spent -here. This one Industry , alone Is suffi cient to build a good sized commun ity upon. Think It over,' every read er, for you will be surprised at what a fifty year supply of timber actually means. FIFTY YEARS SUPPLY. THE LEGISLATURE It Is common report and we have never heard It questioned that the ' Palmer Lumber company has suftl-' clent standing timber in this terri tory to Jast them fifty years. Stop for one moment and .think what that means to La Grande. It means a pay roll from that lumber manufacturing plant indefinitely. It Every citizen who can should visit the legislature at least once during the session. You will enjoy It. for you will .find that legislators as a rule are Just folks. That they make "mistakes and go at things awkwardly very much the same as coraraerc'al clubs, church organizations and occasion ally a school board. . Salem will soon be allca wilh statesmen who have been called to serve their respective districts and each of them will probably have some GEORGE PALMER, TRes. F. J. HOLMES, YIcc Pres. Yf . L. BREXIIOLTS, Ass't fash. EARL ZUKBEL, 2d Ass't Cash. F. L. MEYERS .Cashier. La Gande National Bank of La Grande, Oregon United States Depository Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $200,000.00 DI!li;(TolCS. GEORGE PALMER, L..RVFXH0LT9 1Y. J. CniTRCn F. L. METERS F. 1. HOLMES W. 3LPIEHIE C. T. PEMVGTON vr. i. cle yi;r F. M. BTRIT With our ample 'resources and fHciiitic we enn rentier vu mn. clent senlce and handle your business to your entire satisfaction:' bill to Introduce and push tl-rough. . Baker county wants a bridge across 1 Snake river So that cattlemen will not have to drive their herds around Ontario to get Into Eagle and l'lue valleys when coming over from Ida ho. Umatilla county will waut heavy appropriations for the new asylum, and so on down the line. It ,.vill be a case of nine tenths of tho repre sentatives and senators "wanting something", and on top of tho. whole menagerie of events comes JuJo Webster with a pet bill wantlu the state to take ,on a debt for our child ren to pay in order that the state mf.y have a highway twenty years ia ad vance of her development. There Is only one state treasury". Just one place where money can be gotten to,pay for all these thing? the legislators want, and the peoplo cf 'Oregon, through taxation, repientah that store house each year. It Is no wonder that the stato Grange Invokes referendums on the acts of a legislature, for In many case they not only should use some kino, of a brake on the legislature but thny should provide some means of pre venting the staring of wild eyed Bchemes whose ultimate aim is to ob tain money, money, money. THE SPIRIT OF PETTY GRAFT. Oregon is cursed worse with petty grafters than any state In the Union. By that we do not mean men who will 'get out In the open and graft enough to be caught, but there Is a worse form of graft than that. It Is the little things. Men who knock U? country when they cannot get in on a deal thin is pending; men who will get some scheme and go back east aud bump their old time friends and acquaintances. Those men reprer the qulntescnco of graft! and Oregon has a bountiful supply. The get-rich-quick lad who is try ing to use his brain instead of his hands cair.e to the state looking for easy monc) If H was necessary to shade a trnnaactlon and sing In the church choir or shout amen at th? same "time, he did not hesitate to do It. - ' Xow what Oregon needs and needs bodly Is the man who will actually follow the plow. Who will' work &a men work la the east and middle states. Then this state will begin to develop. But frankly, there arj not enough producers In this common wealth. ! Every community can spare some of her "smart boys" who are here working a game of some kind and will gladly, spare them for the hardy men who conquer sage brush, who build homes and produce something. We believe the grafter has seen his best days In this state, although oc casionally one of them pulls off a big deal and gets some easy coin. Things are settling down to a better condi tion year by year. There was a time when i) ebon's delegation In congress was either m Jail or on the threshold, but that seems to have passed also, aud we can all hope for better and bigger men In office." This state nsods men above the trader and trafflcer; it needs men who think higher than somo po litical appointment. Why not "send a, few men. direct from the farms to office? Portland may see an authotnobile road In the dim future, but here's betting It will never be with the ap proval of the ranchers who first want a road they can use In hauling their products to market. It would-be a piece of the greatest folly for Union county to build a direct line from one corner of the county to the other In order to connect with the proposed Portland highway when roads from LS Grande to Elgin, Union and Cove would directly benefit eighty per cent of her citizens. ways thought Will R. needed more elbow room for. he always seemed hemmed In while In the WilliamtUe valley. . No doubt Governor West ' is very much worried over the damage suit that has been brought against him. But quite likely he will take his of fice even though he does tremble a little. UMBRELLA REPAIRS Govers from 50 cts to Three Dollars Everyone In La Grande was good to Senator Barret yesterday. Don't be lieve anyone mentioned the branch insane asylum to him. Whitman Reopens Today. Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash, Jan. 4 (Special) Collegj re opened on Wednesday morning, Jan uary 4th at 10 a. m. with the usual Wednesday morning musical services. Practically all the students were back, on time owing to the rule of the fac ulty which requires that any student who is late in returning after a holl- j day shall be required to take an extra examination of one hour In each study he has missed. L. C. Smith-La Grande uroce nes and BAKERY GOODS Fire on Yan riess Avenue. San Francisco, Jan. 4 One woman ! was probably fatally injured and one I escaped from a fire early today which destroyed the Commercial rooming ' house on Stark street, at the corner of Van Ness avenue. Mrs. Schwarthy, aged 61 was rescued but almost suffo- j cated In a room on the third floor. She was taken to the hospital. Royal Grocery j Bakery Philip S. Bates' paper, the Pacific Northwest, Issued !,a holiday number lv.nt Is a gem for neatness and first class matter. The cover is a wheat design and every page has something of interest. He devoted considerable space to the state meeting of the threshermen at La Grande early last month and said some very pretty things about the Grande Ronde valley. I wmmmmtmam wm wm wm mm , 1 'm' " : ' ' ' Will It, King is to return to east ern Oregon to practice law, actord-! Ing to the Salem dispatches. We ai- We Clean: PesSm RhH Make Clothes to Please You ms blocked, give us a trial. THE WARDROBE 1118 Adarks AvcTel. Main 735 BERT THOMAS i 4 i 4