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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1911)
A0 4 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSEHVEK, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1911. THE OBSERVER BRUCE-DENNIS Editor and Owner. . Entered at (be postofllce at La Grande as second-class matter. SUBSfKirTlOS BATES Pally, single copy ... . . .... 5c Dally, per week, lt Dally, per month CSe ppT MAY lQfl STMl T W T I F S 1 112 1 3141 516 7.H10111213 14 15 1G 17 18 19 20 gl 22 2324 252627 B8BWil".'r THIS COJiFTJSIOX HUKT8. Surprising as It may seem the great metropolitan paper of Oregon did not consult the state's history and remem ber the legislative act which gery mandertd the county lines In Eastern Oregon when It printed an editorial attention to the decrease In rural pop , ulatlon In Union county. . The cold figures of the census and ' ccZXrwi ei.iwtiteB do show a de crease In farming population In this county during the past ten years, but ; neither the government nor the com mercial bodies making computations have: Been fit to give the explanation - -which is due. That explanation tells of a large area of Union - county's thickly populated section being cut off from this county and attached to Ba ker county. At least three thousand people were given to Baker from Un ion county when the "Panhandle" was set off. . , .. ; In Justice to this county at least Ares THEATRE "Mammy's Ghost"... Vltagraph A southern war story worked out with care. "Love in Madrid" Pathe A love story of the Spanish town. Settings are interesting as they reproduce scenes in a Spanish town. v "Faithful Indian". .. . . . Essanay - A western Indian picture full of action and good scenery. "Tricksters Tricked",.... Fafhe A lively comedy, ' ' Song "Sugar Moon" by Mr. Cowan . , Cowan Pianist and tenor solo ist. . Greonaway drum and effects. Mndnee every lay at 2 o'clock. the Oregonlaa should have given prop er mention of the Panhandle and not held up to the large multitude who read . that paper Union county's loss from the farms, when me same Is in correct and not Justified. To give an idea of the editorial in question the Observer reprints what the Oregonian said; "It is not particularly encouraging to learn from the census report that more than three-fourths of the immi grants' whom Oregon has received in the last ten years have flocked to the cities of the state while less than one fourth of them have settled on farms. "The contrast bttween the gains of town and country come out etartllng ly In the analysis of the census re turns which has been prepared under the authority of the Commercial club. This shows that while the farming dis tricts of the state have increased their population only 29 per cent since 1S90, the cities have grown 101 per cent The state as a whole has receiv ed an addition of 260,239 people, but of these no more than 66,000 found homes In the rural districts. More than three times as many have gone to swell the population of the towns. "Outside of the municipalities some of our counties, Ave of them to be specific, have actually less people now than they had ten years ago. Curil ously enough, Marlon is one of these regressing counties. No doubt the at tractions of Salem are too great for the farmers to withstand, so they for sake their ancestral acres and seek its benignant shades. . "Wheeler county has lost 8 per cent of its rural population in the last ten years, Gilliam county 10 per cent and Grant 11 per cent, but the most re grettable figures are shown by Union county which has a smaller rural pop ulation now than ten years ago by ful ly 30 oer cent, if we may depend upon the Commercial club's calculations as no doubt we can. Of course both La Grande and Union in that county must Mhlhit ?2CrcaS.",5, Liit, i'u'm does not compensate for the loss of farm ing population. ' "The growth of towns without a cor responding development of rural life is a sort of hypertrophy. It extorts admiration only from those who do not know that it Is a disease. Some email comfort perhaps may be ob tain from reflecting that most of our sister states suffer from the same complaint Indeed, . Iowa's case Is worse than ours. That commonwealth has actually lost population In Its rur al sections taken as a whole since 1890 while our decrease )s only sectional. "As a rule the country districts of Oregon are more populous than they were ten years ago, but not much more. The lamentable decrease in Wheeler, Grant and Union counties Is said to be acconted for by the merger of small holdings Into huge wheat ' farms. The owners dispose of their j little tracts to the grain kings and seek Jobs which pay them better In , Pendleton, La Grande and so on. For ' this process nature and indifferent cul tivation are partly to blame. Wheat can bs raised more cheaply under the prevalent rasteful method on the ' large scale than on little farms. The .owner of 10,000 acres has every im aginable economic advantage over his small comp:titor. 'Hence he must be eriected to swallow him ud. Still. 1! 23 homes and homebuilders tha't ninke a commonwealth great, not hune feuaal holdings, no matter how pro Uuctlve they may be." Now Gompleie Pii A UJU d) WU ulI U c VUu M --.:V-,-- V V-,.;':-'' . a-. WHO 1 I I The La Grande Evening Observer Who is to blame for the rotten work of laying? the water pipe on Second street between Jefferson avenue an4 the reservoir which was done last summer, and why should the taxpay ers be called upon to dig up $12,000 or 115,000 to tear it up and relay it again, when it has te;n in less than one year? These "are soine of the questions be ing as!;ed ty every taxpayer of the elty, who have noticed the work now tit ?" by the city employes on said OJliVv UiJP I t.: ERCHANOISE YOU CAN it RELY-ON! n if ft ft n i 1 5 Tl. 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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. CAPITAL . . . $ 100,000.00 SURPLUS ... 100,000.00 , ' . RESOURCES . . . 1,100,000.00 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Fred J. Holmes, Pres. W. J. Church, Vice Pres. F. L. Meyers, Cashiei Earl ZundeMss'r. Cashier THIS DATE IN HISTORY. May 5. 1776 The second congress met Philadelphia. 1789 Opening of the states-general of France at Versailles. 1811 Dr. John William Draper, who made the first photograph, born near Liverpool, England. Died ' in New York city, Jan. 4, 1852. 1902 First congress ot th eCuba-i re public met in Havana. 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