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THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS
Editor ant Owner. . .
Catered at the postoffice at La Grande
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no surer way to disrupt organization"
in labor circles than to show friend
ship for the man who will destroy
property at the dead hour of night or
taka human life in his desire to get
even with some one.
Honest men . regardless of their
leanings will rebel at such crime' and
laboring people are honest A few un
principled men .may enter the ranks of
a labor organization, just ag the hypo
crite, and scoundrel enters the church.
but the great army of men who work
are honest and resent crime in al)fof
its forms.
eounty that they are very much alive j
Elgin is turning some land deals at'
almoBt double the price of the land
two years ago.
Huckleberries are on tap In the
mountains these days &sd the more
energetic are getting in their winter
supply. T : '
THE OTHEB SIDE OF E. H. HARM-
MAX.
A GREAT HAETEST.
It Is doubtful if there ever was a
better. crop raised in the Grande
Ronde valley than the one now being
harvested On every hand is heard
the same story of remarkable yield
Wh?at is the best in Eastern Oregon.
D'd you notice that statement?. Best,
we say, because best Is true. Pendle
ton has a larger acreage, so has Walla
Walla, but neither of those districts
will show a production anything like
as large to the acre a will the Grande
Horde valley.
Not only is wheat very good, but
THE PIOXEEB.
a year of plenty a year of prosperity
and locally La Grande and the other
towns of the valley should enjoy the
best business ever recorded when the
crops begin to move in the fall.
In your busy scramble for business,
in your desire to extract more pleasure
from life's pathway, do not forget one
character that is fast passing from
us, but which Is entitled to the pro
found respect and admiration of every
person. That character is the pioneer
-the men and women who blazed the
trail that we might enjoy the present
Grande Ronde valley the , men ' and
women who made it possible for these
broad acres to be cultivated; who
started the first orchards and proved
the true value of the land; who built
the first roads and bridges, the first
school houses and the first churches.
As you" should honor your . father
and your mother so should you honor
the pioneer of Eastern Oregon. And
text Saturday the pioneers will have
a meeting at Elgin. There is not a
large number left, but those who are
still of flesh and blood will meet in
Elgin and live over again the hard
ships and pleasures of early days. The
storleg told will equal the soldier.
camp fire stories and everything will
bear directly on Eastern Oregon and
its development. , . :
There Is nothing so Interesting as
to hear a pioneer talk. One of the
most pleasant evenlngg we have en
Joyed lately, was when Fred J.
Holmes narrated a story of Chief Jo
seph and his followers In the early ' 1 -- 1 - - j
uoj-b. At bigin mere win da many Astoria deserves a great deal of
things of this nature and all who can credit for the manner in which she is
attend will feel better , by so doing, j handling tbo Centennial celebration
You will not only be well entertained. There la a live bunch down ,at the
but you will leave Elgin with a better - mouth of the Columbia and tbey are
feeling toward this country" when ; preparing on the 10th of Augiist to
once you know how It has been hewed . open a great demonstration which will
from the rough by sturdy men and last a month. The Observer acknovl
women. y ' ' j edges an invitation to attend and it is
- ... .. .-. j with rfgret that we find such Is im
possible for we would like to be there
and see the energy displayed at sea
level, i
COTFS PHOTOGRAPHS.
Determined to make the Cherry
show live in the minds of the people
Cove hag adopted an . expensive out
a very fine way of keeping the mem
ory of the occasion bright. During
the day an official photographer took
photographs of the displays of fruit
the babies and various other interest
ing features. Since the even there haj
been finished a number of copies of
each negative and they are neatly put
up in a box making a handsome ex
hiblt and one that no one would think
of destroying. These are being sent to
many of the people of the valley and
as a result Cove's Cherry show Is on
the mantel of many , homes. It took
work and expense to do this but it is
worth all it has cost The Observer
acknowledges receipt of the elegant
pictures ana tne committee has our
thanks for them. : There is nothing
like ' a photograph taken on the
groundg for photographs do not He.
An engraver may ftJtich up a negative
before he ma.de a cut to print but a
photograph brings out the bad and the
good allkei.
LABOR STANDS BY JI STICE.
Since the Observer
communication - sent
published a
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claiming to represent the laboring peo-J roa orderg on more me and
pie of La Grand- a number of nun' the workIng hourg Gue8g th!g
have spoken of it. Each ha8 tkentown ,!tUe rJght to coraplain . Sup.
the stand that the Times disaster al ' nnia VA11 wono ,., , ,. .,.v
Los Angeles was a heinous crime -xni
no pay rolls and little farm lands sur-
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ruilly ones brought to Justice as any-' , '
one in this whole country. There la' Just to show the remainder of the
Old Friends and New
Winning permanent, lasting friends is the work
of time, and this bank numbers among its clients
hundreds of banks and business houses with whom ,
s 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 6ame 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, V.-ceft-es.
F. L.lMeyert, Cash;e Earl Zundel.ss"!. Cashier
OMMIIHMUMUllUHmiltil HHMMtMHH
, "Christmas was always a specially
festive holiday on the Harriman es
tate," writes J. Holmes McGuiness,
rector of Arden. in August Sunset
Magazine. "Each year a census was
taken of every man, woman and child
thereupon, and the list -carefully stud
led that a suitable gift might be pro
vided for each. Mrs. Harriman her
self presented these, and her husband
stood beside her. It was an absolute
rule with them nobody should be for
gotten. But mistakes will occur. One
Christmas evening, at the close of the
djstributlon, somebody asked 'Where's
Tom. Tom was the most forlorn boy
on me piace a nair-orpban, a poor
little heart broken chap who lived
with a drunken father in a shack four
went around: Where was Tom? Im
mediately Mr. Harriman took It up. In
vestigation proved that his name by
some mistake, had been omitted from
the list Mr.. Harriman then disap
peared. He had found a sled, a fine
sturdy sled such as every boy long for
and muffling himself against the cold,
he set out on that stinging night drag
ging the sled, tramping four miles
through the woodg to carry Christmas
to that little shack and Its lonely oc
cupant." v
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A WOMAN PATHFINDER.
"For 33 years," writes Frances A.
Groff. in Western Personalities in
Sunset Magazine for August. "Mrs.
Abigail Scott Duniway has been either
pnesident or president at large of the
Oregon Equal Suffrage association
Her life is the strongest kind of an
argument for the cause she pleads
Seeking no other than the ordinary
lot of woman, she was called upon to
be father as well as mother to her
hcildren and to her invalid husband,
too. In her heroic and herculean ef
forts to play a man's part in life's com
bat she encountered not only opposi
tion and ridicule, sneers and vitupera
tion, but a thousand obstacles and in
equalities before the law, many of
which she was Instrumental in gradu
ally righting. That woman should en
Joy a complete political equality with
man became ber conviction. Her ef
forts secured the franchise for the wo-
franchlBe lost when the territory be
irin of Washington territory In 1883 a
came a state. ' ' Mrs. Duniway has
fought for the ballot, not that women
should rule men, but that they them
selves should be free. The granting
of the franhcise in the states of Idaho
and Washington has been largely due
to the flowering of her early efforts.
She says she will retire from service
when the women of Oregon are 'free.'
It is hard to picture Mrs. Duniway
without a suffrage fight on hand the
smell of the battle smoke has been the
life In her nostrils."
At to the Fireplace.
The sld ot tiiviun. .iiniiid
well splnyed or leren- in ontw t r
fleet the OPHt n,v Art- nmi !
Hon Tin hiit-k iimirt innn firwnri tO
tht top for thi hiiii I'uriMi' Hnd
tlreplaie should not Ih- loo dwi A
projwtlnB chimney prixim-" n fh-i
of pufthlnc tne mit nwn.v..' wi"r,
receding one hwKonw nun - usurer to
enjoy the hospitaittv ot the ,wn nr
For thi reason th IniriHinMik thai i
the nrepla-e hullt info- Ho- wall ot in
room in ospwlaiiy coxy "rt Mrtniinvt
- A Bird Mystery
Af'er year ot stn1t nvoted fo h
tonic Profr!or Alfrl NVwion of Cnoi
brlilre tned thn wtth.Mit douht h(rd
mlenttlnn If th KTrntvit niyivrv n
the entire animal klncdom. "m my
tery." he sdilnd. "thaiVnn Ih ih mr
explained ty th niodtrn man of (
ence than tiy th Kliupiv minded '
ace ot antiquity." .
Inquisltlvenets.
"One half tdf world doesik't tnow
.iw the other naif Uvea," quoted hf
wise sny. .
"Thnfii rleht." agreed the ltnie
mutf. "Men are not o Inquisitive a
wonit-n."- Philadeiphln Rword. 1 ,
One Wsrt. '
"What, th world l wnliliin for - iid
a nmn nlioxe irrnini Blltn-1. ,".iv
otnf rt of n jinii. -nsiv , xini'i' tt
mid IiihsiwikIvh iirpiirntloii tiit w i '1
Blvr dull hmnh ttt niny nn
York Sun
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Sale 1
(Dsitively Closes Aigiisilsi
All Summer Goods Sacrificed
I All ladies dresses reduced 25
EntireLine
Mens'&Boys'
ClothingReduc'd
25
Half Price
Millinery
Includes our entire
stock of exclusive
and stylish millinery
All summer
reduced
25 per cent
to
50 per cent
60 ladies
suits at
Half Price
Ladies wash
suits
Half Price
Summer parasols in all the newest vaX
terns reduced - - - . -
20
Entire Line of Oxfords. Men's, Ladies'
and Children s, Reduced - -
10
These prices in foirce until August 1st only I
You know what a sale at West's means"
. K. WEST, The Quality Store
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8crlbbler Can you suggest a simile
for giving advice? Scrawler How
would pon ring water on a duck's back
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