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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1911)
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSLiJYER. THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS Editor and Owner. Catered at the oitoffice at La Grande as second-class matter. 8CBSCEIPT105 BITES Sally, tingle' copy it Bally, per week, IB VaUj, per month........ $5fl 3lSEPTEMBETn9n s imitiwi tifTs I I 11 IF SOIl 1213 14 ism 1718192a2T22p threw his weight upon It. One of hla thumbs was caught In the mechanism, but Graham still bore down. He turned the switch, but left the thumb crushed beneath the lever. How many of us would keep "bear ing down on the lever" when our thumb was being! slowly chewed off by the biting Irons? Not many, we ven ture. This Is only an instance where heroic acts saved lives; there are countless thousands of somewhat sim ilar Incidents even right her;- in Ore gon during the past few years, but trains. ' . With the exception of a number of extra freight trains that are not run according to schedule, all of these trains can be found by a number des ignation on the time tables of the Southern Pacific company. Only 49 of these 758 trains carry freight, all the others being strictly first class pas senger and mail trains. The total number of trains departing from the Oakland pier every day is fliov Arit olwava rm a in HoVlt Failroading is a life of exposure and ' 269, of which 20 are freight trains. The endurance; , if the employe risks his total number of arrivals at this same life and sav:a human souls, be is a good fellow but if he makes a trivial mistake Involving small loss financial ly to the companies, then he is court marltaled and let out. ' YOU3G WOMEX. terminal, 20 of which are freight Is 270. '. Twenty of the' outbound trains are through passenger trains for northern, eate,,T and southern points, a corre sponding number arriving from the ; " sam points every day. Sixteen are The difficult question of determining nagsene.er trainj, comine from when a woman ceases to be consider d 1 "young" confronts the Y. W. C. A. of the country, says the Examiner. In New York thr age limit has been fixed at 35. and in Chicago with if ss consid eration, at 30, the inference being that as women go further west they grow eld with more rapidity. Of course these fixed limitations are m?rely for th purpose of establishing a standard. Many women are young at 40 and Some are old at 25. There is KAILKlOADEIW 'HEROES fir TIN ho more reason for regarding every .trains out of all three stations. Innver voiine at .20 or ?" I f nty-two suburban trains depa If there is a vocation wh re employes are called upon more frequently to en danger' their own lives la the protec tion of other liv.s and other people's property than railroading, we want to Jiear of It, There have been many tales told of heroic action fend quick thinking on the part of a railroad em ploye to savejbe lives of otlwrS in trusted to his care biit here is :one from San Bernardino, California; thnt should be presented to the attention of his highness, Andrtw Carnegie. The man in question. N -R. Graham, a San Aa. Fe railroad brakeman, rut off hi own thumb to save a train from au open switch. ' Graham saw that the with had bsen thrown the wrong way for his train, and when the locomotive reached a point within a abort distance of the frog, he grasps d the lever and 1 rca Theztre "The Switchman's Tower" Edison:. A picture of railroad life and a very interesting one. A praiseworthy picture of a no ble human act, , . - ''Wheels of Justice" Selig A powerful story of transgres sion, conscience and remorse. than for presenting every man witn bottle of chloroform at fiO. At . ... .ij v?ry woman is, presumamy oiu enough' to take care of herself. sd the assumption is not unreasonably violent. - ' ' The great objection' Is trie seeminr harshness of th- term. Very few wo men wish to be considered middle- aged, much less old, and th comprom ise "no longer young" Is a poor coat ing for the pill. To be turned away from a home because at the ag: of 30 she ,ls not a young woman is a cruel ifrnht to snv woman's oride. To be yd that only girls are admitted might nrov? a soothing-nd satlsfactorv bs'ir Any tqi(e involving a woman's age "s a-sensitive and delicate point, and mem may rejolc' that in the pfenf nstance the discussion is carried on solely by women amon? women. -' and going to all points within a radius of 150 miles. Out of the Third and Townsend depot in San Francjsco 36 trains, two' of which are freights? de part each 24 hours. A corresponding number of freight and passenger trains arrive at the same station daily. The remainder ofjhls number of trains moving dally are suburban Sev- depart and 68 arrive every day at the Alameda pier. Two hundred and thirty-five sub urban trains arrive at and 214 depart from the Oakland pier every 24 flours. In and out of both of these piers ev ery day there Is a total of 685 trains. r? '-"3 V V- in YOUR CLOTHES 4 1 31 "Subduing Mrs. Nag" Vita r-aph. Comedy. This comic pic t ture give the two leading char ? artera. Mr. Tlrundnv (the fat 1 man)' and Miss Finch, our com- w i edv friends, a splendid oppor- W i tunity and they maka good. You 5 f M. Ill 1 r . . 1. J ...nln "Billy'' the very latest song i hit of the s ason by Miss Steph- If f enson. n A I'HY.SICIAX WITH GKIT. Dr. Kirby, 'suffering today' at the hosnital with a badly fractured ankle, has the symnathy of his many friends, nr.. Kirhv. like otVrs of his nrofes 'orunrlergtf too much physical hard Ship in the every day call of diy in mlnfsterinjr'to the 9ck and afflicted, o have to stand suffer stinging pain ..'fW,!"" amimtntlon of the foot, is seemingly too much. As an.txample1 of courage the doc o -itwnda or. H ,b"re iin mi 'villy under it all and it was only when nMr'u' r"v from, EWt to M Grande had come to an end. and he n-oo. rarr'od to the oneratlnsr room that his heart temporarily fai' d him. Hie recovered control of nis nerves though, In a moment, and went on he table at the hospital, cool and collected. It Is coolness and "nerve f ihat stand as th' pre-eminent nwall- IKH11UIIB Ul m BUIIO'U OHU ir:i,''i.iH that is why he had it at command, ' 1 1 . '8 COMMISSIOJi'8 POWERS :-r,- tajxed. sus. Among the many important decisions handed down by the supreme court of Oregon this week is one of extreme Importance to Oregon. , It places the railroad commission, of this state to be within the constitutional provisions when the commission commands the railroads to do certain stipulated things. Lest Tuesday the supreme court rendered an opinion in which the powers of the railroad commission to compel railroad corproatlons to abide by its rulings are held to t su preme and strictly In accordance with the constitution. The opinion Is In the case of the state of Oregon, respon dents vs. the Corvallis & Eastern rail road, appellant. , ( The supreme court holds the com mission Is delegated powers by the legislature which cannot be exercised In a legislative manner, but as a sep arate body to compile rules and carry out details In the manner of special officers. ' Our clothes have class, character and finish. They have all the little touches of individuality that make them different from the ordinary "ready to wear' clothes and they fit perfectly We're prepared to meet your wants in clothing better than ever before ? Mnny Trains Enter 0'nd- San Francisco. Sept. 21. (Special) More than 717.000 passenger trains a year, making a string of 1,523,850 cars and locomotives, or a single train tjiat woi'ld Btretch more than half way a around th world, is the annual record of the San Francisco bay terminals of I the-Southern Pacific company. How- j ever, this is by no means a great por tlon of the traffic of this company. A ; recent' compilation of the train service E t rf tWthrre terrtmals on the' bay, lWAKE ALWAYS WELCOME 1 ;Cflkland pier, -Alameda -pier and the Third and Townsend denot In San W91 , FranciBco. shows a dailv total of 758 A Strong Modern ' ' Bank . Efficiently wndnclej, not only In the Interred of Ha slock .holdars, bnt of Its depositors and patrons as well; .With ofticlala well luonn and trusted; In tb community. With capital, surplus and undivided profits of $210,000,900 and total resources of f 1,000,000.00. " The La Grande National llnnk offers to firms, corpora. . tlons and Indlvldual-i the best banking (tenter, and Its oill- rem nsk a eronaI Intenlew with those fonteraplatlny changing accounts or. opening new ones. La Grande NationaljBank LA GRANDE, OREGON. CAPITAL ... $ 100.000.00 SURPLUS . . 105.000.00 : ' RESOURCES . . .1 .000,000.00 ' - An article that has " real merit should In time become popular. That such la the case with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been attested by many dealers. Here is one of them. H. W .Hndrlckson. Ohio Falls, Ind.. writes, "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best for coughs, colds and croup ana is my best seller." 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Phone Main 75. 9-23-tf ' " ' 'ii W 1 ,i FOR RENT-Partly furnished rooms for Ilghthousekeeping. Inquire of Mrs. N. Larson, 908 cor 3rd and J.. 9-15-6t FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT Everything first class. Bath. In quire 2201 North Fir. , 9-16-7t FOR RiENT Furnished sleeping roms. Also fine housekeeping suites, atrict ly modern. Inquire 905 Spring street. Phone Black 381. .. .. ..9-20-12t WANTED Position as housekeeper, Phone Red 3222. 9-14-6t WANTED A modern unfurnished house at once, Inqulne Dave Clark, court house. 9-12-tf ;.V Fred J- Holmes, Pres. , W. J. Church, Vice Pres. ' F. L. Meym, Casket Earl Zundel.ss'.'. Castver MMMIlUHtIIHtHHIMMMMMltltMtW X' LOST Black auto cushion between I T fJpBndft .nit TTnvo, v. " viiuKB uu lug .river. v Reward. Leave at Observer office. 8-Sl-Hf WANTED School board and room. girl 1 to work for Phone Black 112. 9-16-6t LOST Baby pin, Roman gold, letter ed "Lola." Lost between Observer office and postoffice. Leave at Ob server office. 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