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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1912)
1 '""'T','''--''-,1i'-'r-H..w.--, fro la IE: f. - .- CLOTHING heavily reduced 1 (":S,ir There are plenty of Clothes Sales these days, but there's as much difference between them and their methods, and what they really mean and what you get for your money as there is between the clothes themselves. We are now holding our CLEARANCE SALE r ANNUAL which means that all our stock will be offered at prices ot 25 per cent discount. Low enough to force sales. Nothing reserved. All our high grade Suits, Fanb, Hats and Furnishings will go into this sale ait Cut Prices. It's the Buying Opportunity of the Year. Don't Miss It. Clothiers And Furnishers Lumber, Lath, Shingles and Rubberoid .... WENAHA LUMBER CO. Greenwood and Madison Sts. Phone, Main 732 Res dived . that I have put up with dim, smoky i oil - lamps long enough that I want a light that I can see by, one that I won't have ta clean and fill and bother with; one that is always safe and reliable i -.-that I will start the NEW YEAR right, by using electric lights. (Signed) ..- ALWAYS AT OUB SBRYICE EasternOregon light JPowerCo. DRUNKARDS WIVES AIDED. New League Aims to Join With Saloon Keepers for law and Order. Pittsburg, Fa., Jan. 3. Christmas Day, 1910, a woman, poorly clad and with face swollen with weeping, came to the home of Mrs. Stella Masters, in the fashionable Bast end district of Pittsburg. "I saw your name in the paper and how you were working to help people made poor by drink," she said be tween sobs. "I didn't go to my pastor because he couldn't do anything. I'm afraid my . husband wouldn't listen J to him. . My tlrosband makes.jslx.dol'lars a day In the, mills but he spends It all for drank and today Christmas Day Just think of It he drove our six children out on the street and beat me. He was drunk. Is there no body who will do something for drun ard's wives? Can you help me?' She grew hysterical and could not finish her pathetic story. . Mrs. Masters, W. C. T. U. and church worker, . club ' woman ; and suffragist, today said she was taken aback by the appeal of the woman and she realized that the 14 years of her work along charitable lines, bad somehow failed to hit the mark. Right then and there site made the resolve, '111 do some thing for drunkards' wives and chil dren." A short time later the Protective League for the families of drunkards, the most unique organisation, of Its kind in the country; was formed. Mrs.' Masters ItWgTiwahen she was asked whether the league of which she Is president, had secured any swear ing off pledges. "We dont do things that way," she said. "Most pledges are Jokes. They ore made only to be broken. "First we appeal to the saloon keep er and then to the erring one himself. After a Cold Auto Ride what could be more comforting or exhiloratlng than a nipe cup of Hot Chocolate, which you will always find ready at this season f the year at our Soda counter? We give it to you pure and cheering, full of that goodness and nutriment so peculiar to the best quality of Chocolate. It is a food, drink and medicine all combined, at low cost. Solder's La Grande If neither of these two appeals does any good we go to the courts. "Our work is broad ln scope. We have monthly meetings, but we have no paid treasurer or secretary. Our dues are only 25 cents a year. We banded ourselves together like the Crusaders of old and aim to do Just what our name Implies. Protect drunk ards' families. During the past year we have help ed iflfty families. That Is, we were successful in that many Instances in weaning away supporters of families from the curse of strong drink. . ."Fifty JamJ lies sounds small and In consequential, doesn'. it?.; But: isn't ' remarkable thing when only ' one person ';is "turned into better paths. We do not assume things, or go by hearsay. Our members go Into sa loons themselves, right up to the bar if necessary. . "We are the saloon keeper's friends and they are our friends. We work together. They know now that we realize they have a legal right, at least, to make tbeir living as they do, and the better class of saloon keep erg welcome our aid In conducting re spectable bouses. "Most saloon keepers are not bad at heart and then we always have the law to back us up in our demands and licenses are hard and expensive to get1 if protests are' filed In license court. But we make no, threats., .We talk It over with the saloon , keeper end give him a chance' to mend his ways.' A second offense means more drastic methods." Here is how the league goes about its work, quietly and unassumingly. A drunkard's wife or mother or some woman of the family ..writes to the league, asking for help. One of the members looks into the ease. This woman detective gets the names and ' addresses of the places where the husband or son spends hl9 money for drink. Then she goes to the saloon keeper, and talks the mat ter ove rwith him; If he refuses to act at the first ap peal which usually falls on deaf ears the league member tries a talk with the drinker himself. If this falls a printed notice Is giv en the saloon keeper warning him not to sell to John Doe who is a person of Intemperate habits. A copy of the liquor laws of Penn sylvania goes with the notice and the saloon keeper has learned by this time thnt failure to comply with the otie meats trouble ttlig a mw license next year. A particularly hard fight was put up on Christmas- and New Years day 'RBt J ear, to close all places where strong drink Is sold. The court refused Mrs. Master's request on the grounds that It could take no action within the bounds of law. Nothing daunted, Mrs. Masters and her colleagues carried the matter to the liquor dealers' association. The dealers were ready to promise if all the "speak-easles and one-man clubs and, bar room drug stores were closed also!" But the women haven't given up the fight and mean to accomplish their aim before the end of another year. While Mrs. Masters reluctantly ad mits it is rather Utopian, she is push ing a tight to have women barred at all times from all places where strong drink is dispensed. The work is be ginning to attract country wide at tention, and letters are pouring in, asking for information relative to or ganizing leagues In other cities. : .;- Complete Equipment for Resetting anifcQepairing J LA GRANDE IRON WORKS D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor COMPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY What Makes a Strong Bank? L AMPLE RIESOCECES Our resources arc $1,160,0 W, . composed of well secured loans and cask, 2. AJTPLE CASH BESEETE Our cash reserves are usually 2 to SO per cent of our Immediate liabilities (de- . ; posits subject tovcheck and always more than 15 per cent of our total liabilities, the amount required by law. ' 8. ADEQUATE CAPITAL. Our capital - is $100,000.04, . and our surplus, which Is profits earned and retained as additional capital, is $105,000.00. ' ''V ' ; '' " ' f-''; 4. , CAPABLE MANAGEMENT Ever- since its orgaiisa tlon 25 years ago, this bank has been under careful' man agement. Its officers and directors are men , who have achieved success in the banking and other lines of bust- 1 Bess. The fact that we have safely weathered every fin ancial storm during our career, and are today greater and stronger than ever Is evidence of good management. If you are not already a depositor or client of this strong and successful bank, become one now. If you are, tell your friends about us. . La Grande National Bank LA GRANDE, OREGON. CAPITAL . . . $ 100,000.00 SURPLUS , . . 105,000.00 RESOURCES ... 1,100,000.00 ' Fred J. Holmes, Pres. W. J. Church, VicePres.. F. L. May es, Cashier E ad Zundel, As't. Cashier
