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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1911)
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1911. PAGET 3 33 I li'h : i' 1 1 I III I 34009. OV OUGHT TO KSOW this shop, and Its ability to gem yon best Our one strong-ist desire Is to tarn oat the best LEAX1G AND PRESSING and to price our services to meet your satisfaction. lVe tie UeTe we do this. If your gar. ments need our attention send them to us and we wll do yonr work promptly and guarantee not to ruin tbe materials. : ILITE DYEING & CLEANING Vv OAKS tiiln 64. H. B. Waggoner AY TOCIt 1VATEIB BEXT TOJIOR.i V Plumbing and Heating John Melville 128 Adams An LA GRANDE. ORE- ... Southeastern Washington's Greatest Fair Septemberl8to 23 1911 $30,000 IN PREMIUMS AND PURSES. ' Greatest Race Program ever offered in the northwest SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS IN V EVERY DEPARTMENT. luuiiris uaiiy nj Kuszrs ram- . - BOS - ' ' ' ' ITALIAN BAND Special Rates on All Rallorads. WALLA WALLA, WAiSH. ill J. H PE1RE, La Grande's Leading icweer . Opposite U. 8. Laal Office tj.ft4t I Mllll4llUMMttHtfl 0 ....-.- ' ..... . fftWF mriA lot i, a domnnafrflta' the nSft of PpITT Pnen- " iv vui suujr auu v- mll xr o i t ' xv- !. -v naicr DjgKius iv juiu. lie oor Farm". Why not hate a bath us ana also Ore protection ior 'ch stream at S5 pounds pressure JOn ent and show yon one In etery ) BAY & PLUMBERS, HEATERS, Treasurer's Call for City Warrants. There are also funds In the treas ury to pay all warrants issued against the water of La Grande city np toand and Including No. 9,729, endorsed Sep tember 21, 1911. Interest on all war rants on water fund from No to No. 9,729 inclusive ceases from date of this call. La Grande, Oregon, Sept. 1, 1911. KOLW. LOGAN, City Treasurer BOOTH'S Extra Select EASTERN ysters . Jn Tints and Quarts. Fresh Shipment Daily Absolutely Guaranteed Phone 70. Stageberg & Saitdborg Savoy Hotel EUROPEAN PLAN The rooms are good and Steam heated only one block from depot D. C. Brichoux. Pro WANTED! A boy to learn the cigar trade. One who Iwes at home, li takes three years to learn this trade, and I want the boy's pa rents to be willing for the boy to learn it. Fam Us King Cigar Factory 106 Fir Street A dams Aveaae, -'- n tn& Installed Ann at Pinnir ) ... - room, hot and cold water, ulee I your numesi ion umc x In case of fire. Call and let ns take ( day operation. ZWElFEl SHI METAL ; WORKERS 8 o in the OEDINANCE NO Mi, SEIZES 1911. An ordinance declaring the cost of lmroving Adams avenue from the west curb line of Fourth street to tha east curb line cf First street; determining the property benefited thereby, Irvy ins an assessment thereon to defray the' costs and expeaa3g of the im provement; providing for the assess ment roll of the same and directing the entry of said assessment in tfc; docket of city Hens; providing a time when the sanw shall become delin quent and requiring th city recorder to prepare a special assessment roll in accordance with the assessment herein levied and to collect said as sessment. , Tha city of La Grande does ordain as follows: Section 1. That the council has considETed the proposed assessment of tha property benefited by the Im provement of Adams avenue from the wpst curb line of Fourth street to the east curb line of First street and all , objections mada thereto, and hereby ascertains, determines and declares Lot 8 and the recorder of the city of La. Grande Is hereby directed to prepare " a special assessment roll In accord- j anos with the foregoing assessment; , and enter the said assessments in the i docket of city liens. Sec. 2. It is further provided that said assessment shall become du3 and payable immediately after tbe samej is entered in the docket of city Ifens and delinquent within ten (10) daysj thereafter. '. j Sec. 3. When the recorder of the city of La Grande shall have complet- ed the special assessment roll In ac cordance with the provisions of thia ordinance, tos shall without delay give f at least five (B) days notice in on or j more of the newspapers hving gen-i eral circulation In said city of the, time when such assessments will be come delinquent, and also that said LAST STANDARD OIL DIVIDEND, f PorporatJon Slakes Enormous Profits In Last Eight Years. i New York, Sept. 15. Stockhold3rs of the old Standard Oil company today received checks representing thu last dividends to be disbursed by the great corporation. Under the reosnt decision of the supreme court of the tnlted States ordering the dissolution of the company the old organization must b3 broken up, before the end of the year. Consequently the final divi dend for the year will not be paid by the old company. In the dissolution of the parent concern the stockhold ers are to receive stock In the subsid iary companies equivalent to their holdings in the old corporation. It Is not considered likely that the stock holders will suffer any loss of Income with the change In organization. Since tba organization of the Stan dard Oil company In 1882 down to the final dividend the stockholders have received dividends amounting to the enormous sum of $752,000,000. For the past eight years tho company has paid to the holders of Its $100,000,000 of stock an average of $40,000,000 per annum. In 1900 and 1901 It paid $48, 000,000 and in the year following $40, 000,000. The dividends, however, wen? much leSB than the total earnings. The original value of, the property haB been Increased greatly by the re investment of a large share of the earnings for the extension of Its busi ness and the acquisition of securities. Although the Standard Oil company never issued an annual report, or made other returns regarding Its bus iness other than publication of Its dividend, investors neyer lacked con fidence in Its ability to pay dividends, and the high rate maintained made the company's stock sell at from four to six times Its par value. The highest price ever reached was In 1901, when It was paying 48 per cent per annum. The stock then sold up to $842 a share. A Diplomat.' Little Wille Say. pa, what Is a diplo mat? 1 Pa A diplomat, my son. Is a person who can prove a man a liar without calling him one. London TU BUS. ". No great thing Is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or fig. Eplctetus. the whole cost of said improvement la the manner provided by resolution duly passd by the council on the 28th day of September, 1910, to be the sum of $203.60, and the property herein after described is specially benefited by said improvement, and the spe cial and peculiar benefits accruing to each lot or parcel thereof or parcel of land within the assessment district and which Is so specially benefited by reason of said improvement, and which has bcon equitably apportioned among all blocks, lots, parts of blocks and lots, lands and real estate bounding, abutting, contiguous, fronting and ad jacent and tributary to such Improve ment and within the district created for the purpose of making such im provement to the extent of the bene fits to such lots, parts of lots, lands and real estate, by reason of such Im provement and In no case in excess of said bensfits, and the amount set opposite th'i description or number of each lot or part thereof or parcel of land for which said respective parcels is assessed, is as follows: GRANDY'S ADDITION. . , . BIockNamc ol Owner. , Ain't of Ass'm't ' " - 2 " Kate Hanley and Caroline Ry- - near son .$126.80 2 Kato Hanley and Caroline Ry ' ' ' nearson .. .. 12(1.80 assessments may be . paid in Install ments, provided each property own'.r shall make application therefor with in ten (10) days from the date of the first publication of said notice. Said application to be made under and by virtu j of the provisions of Chapter 5, Title 26 of Lord's Oregon Laws. This ordinance this ba In full force and effect from and after Its approval by the mayor and balng published In one issue of 'the Evening Observer. Passed the common council on this, tro 6th. day of September, 1911, by S councilmen voting therefor. Approved by the mayor .this 9th day of September-, 1911. A. L. RICHARDSON, - - - ' ' Mayor. ' Attest:' C. M. HUMPHREYS, Recorder of the city of 1m Grande. CHINESE INGENUITY. How On Cover Was Mad to Fit f. Roomful of Sletpert. A writer in a French matruzino tellw a curious story about bow tbey man age cheap lodging houses in China. Along Chinese roads, It seems, there are many of these lodging houses, where the ''charge, foe a night's lodg lng is considerably less than 1 cent All the bedding provided is one huge mass of feathers, Into which all the guests burrow. Formerly they used to get blankets, but some time ago those who ran these primitive Inns learned that theii losses on account of tho theft of blankets by guests were far too lurge Something, they decided, had to be done. Finally an lngeuioua man amonj: them hit on this: Over the feather filled room of his lodging bouse be hung an enormous canvas covering. In the daytime it hung neaT the ceiling. At night it was lowered by means of pulleys until it Covered the entire niass of feathers and all those sleeping thereon, thus taking the place of individual blankets. This huge canvas was provided with a targe number of small, slits through which the guests might stick their heads and .'escape allocation beneath the Immense covering. Early each morning the loud pound ing of a drum served to waken the sleepers and warn them to get their beads out of the slits in the canvas Thereupon It was raised again to the celling and fastened there to await the next batch of sleepers. The Humbling of Daaeon Todd. "I tell yon, Edgely," said Deacon Todd as they sat in the park, "the -way : women ' dress these days Is absurd And nine times out of ten it is the fault of men. Just, for Instance, take . that woman coming down the path. Some fool husband has told bei Rhe looks perfectly charming in that outrageous getup. lacking the staminn to come right out bluntly nnd tell her that she looks positively ridiculous." Since this remark Mr. Todd has never been seen in public without bl glasses. The woman was Mrs. Todd. Judge. '-. ' ' Aroussd. ';- y' '. The young woman in the stern ot the boat had whispered softly the word "Yes." ."But stay right where you are. Jack," she added hastily. "If you try to kiss me you'll upset the boat." "How do yon know?' ,hoarsely de nmnded Jack, a horrible suspicion al ready taking possession of bl'm. Lon don Ideas. ' Analysis f Laughter. For the benefit of a melancholy world an English professor has been devoting his careful, sclentiOc atten tion to laughter and has prepared cu expert analysis of the whole business, according to tbe Providence Journal. "Laughter," be says, "is a convulsive action of tbe diaphragm. In this state the person draws a full breath and throws It out in interrupted, short and audible cachlnnations. This convul sion of the diaphragm Is the principal part of the physical manifestation of laughter, but there are severul acces sories, especially the sharp vocal ut terance arising from the violent ten sion of the larynx and tho expression of the features, this being a more in tense form of the smile. In extreme cases the eyes are moistened by tho effusion from the lachrymal glands." Philadelphia Ledger. Complete Equipment tor Resetting snn Repairing . Rubber Buggy Tire LA GRAWDEIROWMIMS -l. M l UfciKALDrProprletor " COMPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY C. T. Cement Consult him before ' goto B. B. Paints, Wall Paper, Varnishes, Oil Etc. Paper ten cents and up. Estimates Furnished Store 1708 1-2 Sixth st m mrmuu V-i(ig.j1 I : in? . . . . Is We Fit . Your Eye with lenses and you have them mounted in the eye glass mounting you are througl EYE TROUBLE Come in and let us talk it over. Our lieQHtisit & (Co, Jewelers and Opticians Mattr tnd Fore. There is no such thing as a 1c i c matter or force. The so calHx! "coa- SHrvatlon" of matter and Us force was demons-J rated years tgo ty Jou! and other sceutlats. When, for lsv stance, a thing "burns up." as we sny, the substances that Rive out the Hsbt and beat are changed, not destroyed Tbe wood or whatever the substance happens to be lwom oHhos nnd gas and if we etmid outlier up all the proil ucts of the burning we should fln that they had not lost, u' particle o; their weight ami that tlu'form of then only wax ctwucd. The rtft'nity o mutter war a leaching of the old tltvc, puiloHoptierx. r if soasi uf them a. Iast. i:tl t'.it- moileru K-acbiiis of ihe conscrvtitlHti or hidU'smieilljlllty of the stufT of ihn ualvi'.-re would eora to rirr(ilHi".itf the aucu'ut kli-u. New. York Ai!)cru',i:i Barley Contractor letting your sidewalk NUTTER for a, in. with Ul u 'if ' J IV i w X it ' - J i 4 1 -:c. h w 1) X