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CLOTHING heavily reduced
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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