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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1911.
THE OBSERVER
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WSPJBD BY THE GRANDE ROXDE
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' . The following, very beautiful de-
physician who was traveling through
"the west, years' agj, He waa 111
'jbut'lt is palmed when he, beheld this
valleye! acted, air 'an . Inspired man
and Immediately pinned the article. It
waa printed in.'a'pfivat'sgk of which
but a' limited mimber'!of. volumes were
Issued to neajr; frlendsV, each volume
being numbered' It' will do every
citizen of this valley good to read
what this physician ' thought' when
he flrsVbeheld -the sight that greets
our eyes each and every day:
Away off there to the wtst like
a centipede the long passenger
train is crawling, crawling
around the shoulders and across
the gulches of the mountain sides,
leaving gre.-n fields of the wide -valley
to explore the gray of the
lava-Btreaked : sage-brush fringed
hills. It is Just as well, for I am
content to stay. ,
Yonder among the blue green
' hills nestles the Cove, above It
. gleam in the sunlight the snowy
peaks of the Powder river moun
tains. Away to the left the chim
neys of La Grande send up a veil.',
of blue among the . nooks be
tween the toes of the Blue moun
tains, while Hot Lake steams be-
' fore It and Island City and Allcel
support Its right, and far to the ,
north, where the haze rests on the
ridges nestles Elgin where the riv
, er plunges down Into the depths
of the yawning earth beyond. At
our feet Union City smiles up at
. us, while yonder at the right and
left stand Mts. Frances and Em
- Uy, with their green robes drawn
, around them pure but austere, the
chaperons of the entrancing scene.
It Is Grande Ronde, and when I
ste it with 'Its green fields, its
walls of green and blue and white
and gray, I forget, earth," paradise,
heaven, everything In the universe
save God and rapture, and the wa
ters sing and ths mills rumble and
the happy cattle nuzzle in the em
erald fields, and I am content to
stay, spring, summer, autumn,
among the winning scenes.
I see it in my dreams, the val
ley of th Grande Ronde, which
' lies a bounteous plain just where
the river comes out of the bosom
of the Blue mountains, Oregon's
waterbottles, where the blue birds
and larks and robins sing among
the apple orchards and the wheat
fields and pastures carpet the
earth with green, and the sheep ,
Jook down from the mountain :,
aides and smile at the cattle in
the fields below, while Nature
sighs with content at the picture .
she has painted.
LA GRANDE'S NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
(Portland Oregonlan.)
The founding of a: new high school
at La Gande Is , not one of those
vent which the great world will her
ald with the sound of trumpets. Still
it has its importance. Nothing Pleas
ures the advance of civilization better
than the steady growth of the means
of education among the people. To n
democracy, such as Oregon is becom
ing, education is the breath of life if
sot life itself.
v It la easy to remember a time when
Oregon was almost without real high
schools. Portland, of course, set the
example of establishing them, but for
a long time the old Lincoln school
went far beyond the eighth grade
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ASSIGNEE OF BANKRUPT MORGAN
DEFT STORE of PORTLAND
was the only, one in the state which
studies. Naturally there were- col
leges whlch taught the higher branch
es, but a high school is Bomethlne very
different from a coilege. We dare say
the first genuine high school work in
Oregon outside of Portland waa done
at . Baker.' Years ' before the other
considerable towns in the state had
extended their mura; a muMi iknr. u
. . . H VV T V IUV
inth grade Baker, under the cour-!
ageous and energeljc. leadership of Mr.
Churchill had estrbtlshed a full four
years' course. Me -Churchill never
has received ; the public recognition
which his pioneer work deserves, but
when our educational history Is writ
ten his place in the story will be hon
orable indeed.
Ashland also Btood far ahead of
many other towns in establishing a
full high Bchool course' Salem fol
lowed at a long Interval. It used to
be noticed by educational men that
in places where there were- colleges
the public school work was Inclined
to languish. It was supposed that
higher studies In the schools would di
vert business from the college. The
state-aided collegeB acted just as the
denominational institutions did on this
subject.
Of course the blunder was discovered
long ago. What a good public school
really does is to increase the possible
constituency of the college. This no
educational man in the state would
now think of disputing. The uplift of
the public schools has carried every
one of our colleges with It Now al
most every little town thinks it a
shame not to have a full high school
course and the whole system Is Inti
matily connected with the university
and agricultural college as it ought
to be.
THIS DATE IX HISTORY.
April 19.
1775 Battle of Lexington, first en
gagement in the American rev
olutionary war. !
1813 Benjamin Bush, physician-geii-eral
In the American army, died
In Philadelphia. Born in By
berry, Pa., Dec. 24, 1745.
1824 Lord Byron, the poet, died In
Greece. Born in London, Jan.
22, 1788.
1850 The Clayton-Bulwer treaty ws
signed. ;
1S55 The planet Atalanta discovered
by II. GolBchmldt. . '
1861 The ports of the seceding statts
were declared to be under blockade.
Old Friends arid New
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-: of time, and this bank numbers among its clients
hundreds of banks and business houses with whom
it has had close relations for a great part of the
' twenty-four years of its existence.
Our friends have helped to make this one of the
largest and strongest banks in the West. We have
helped in their making, too.
We welcome new friends and will attend to their
wants with the same fidelity which has cemented
our relations with our older ones. '
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE, OREGON.
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SURPLUS . . . 100,000.00
RESOURCES . . .1,100,000.00
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