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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1912)
1912. 1 0. W. RAiLflQAD & NAVIGATION uniirr. Eitnniruir T LA GUANDE EVENIXO OBSERVER. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, PAOF STT WIT MfUHC I LAIW 7 4 hi ' .'v ii , 1. Real Economy to You. Use Your Credit. It is GerHo edo .... .... - . . . . EFRICERATORS ,-Juiv. August and September are the hot months. Do n't day longer. A good REIIGERATOR is a necessity in j our home. . 1 have THREE GRADES of them at prices from f10.50 to $3.3.00, suitable for any home and you can get one here on a small payment down ana ery easy terms, having all summer to pay for it and during the time you are using it. Hot Weather Cooking On A Detroit Vapor Range is an economv in protecting your own health. . Its fuel expense is one-liaU.thc cost of wood and will not heat the house at all. It will boil , . or, bake moth quicker than does a range and it will last a life time- ' You-may- have it on EASY PAYMENTS. : . . '- '; . Blue Flame Oil Stows and Gasoline Stoves at $2.50 to $10.00. These are good ones and you need one in your home. Get it here. Term's are easy: The Portland Motor Washer is the latest motor en gine made. No exposed parts where you can possibly injure your hand or tear your gar ments as do the old style piston cylinders. This .will wash faster and ,. cleaner than any other machine made, owing to the peculiar construction of its parts. There is no waste of water as after it leaves the machine you can run it anywhere on your lawn, or irrigate your flowers. Save labor, save time, save laundry bills and buy this" machine on easy terms and ever after be happy FREE Sewing Mdchine are now in a MILLION homes in this country and the users vote them the most perfect and easiest of opera tion of any machine ever put out. Isn't this a wonderful record fora 4 r9i- roonrrl ? Tt is fast, disnlaeinsr all other makes of sewing machines, for it is the hand somest, easiest running, automatic locks and lifts, 120. steel ball bearings, warranted 25-years and fire insured for 5. years, and you can have it at $5.00 down and $1.00 a week. : . - FOR SALE 25 second-hand sewing machines. All makes at $5.00 and up, all in good repair. " '-in M' Steel and Brass Beds Largest Stock In This City 7-8 inch post steel bead, any color, any size, regular $ 3.50, my price 1 1-8 inch post steel bed; any color, any size, regu ar $ o.0Q my price 1 1-2 inch post steel oea, any coior, any se, iuoi w v $ 2.90 . 3.90 . 7.00 . 12.00 2 inch Dost steel bed, any color, any size, regular $lo.00, my price . The best bed spring on earth on free trial with any bed r ' - -1 it is real economy to buy your rug lUUlIIUMlllIUW Uial known rugs as Smith's Saxonys, Smith's Extra Axminster, Hartford Axminster, Koxberry Axminster, lahal "Wiltons, John and James Bromley's Body Brussels Rugs, and also a good se lection of 1-4 and 1-2 Wool Ingram Rugs suitable for your bedroom. Get it here on easy payments. - EXTRA SPECIAL For Cash Only 10c a yard off on all lineoleums in the store for 15 d.tyo. 25 rolls to select from. Get it now and save money. renmsula R D. Kaistes FURNITURE ON EASY PAYMENTS Peninsular mMilfa r Most beautiful and pleasing range ever put into the home. Warranted for 25 years. Easily set up to city water. Great fuel saver. Bakes as evenly as a BAKER'S BRICK OVEN- Cooks your bo:led dinner in the oven while vou are baking bread and with' its precisely construction oven carries all odors of cooking into the flue, thereby entirely eliminating the odors of cooking circulating through the house. ? Make your-home, comfortable and buy a PENINSULAR STEEL RANGE. - : ! It U already a well-known fact that the Harrlniau lines, during the last ttw years, have made great vtoi.ys la reducing train accident, an.l the. oh of life and personal lujurlcn jilt., tendant thereon, la fact,. they werej 'practically' pionec-ra In' this resy!Lj That their efforts have borne eatisrac- j tory fruit is well evidenced by th'J' remarkable figures, pirbllsnea bw. time ago, showing that in the, yea; 1910- they carried 49,491.000 passen cpra. wlthou: sacriflMng a single life, Tliifl record embraced all the Union , Pacific and Southern Racine nue. nnJ affiliated ronJs, aggigatlng 17, 9o mi'cs of railroad. ;Jhe total num- gjber of pAsaengers carrlcld one mile P I dm-iug period named was three bll- j l'on. This -ottonishing ' raul' was mainly, due to the installation ui tomatic-bloek slgnaK; the applica :ion to locomotives and cars of the latest and most modern safety appli . tlic pvatem of surprise tests in vogue to determine the efficiency of trainmen and engine aien in the ob servation of danger signals and se vere discipline administered for fail ure to properly observe suoh signals; also, the board of inquiry system, un. fler which plan the officers of the company, working hand in hand With public-spirited citizens, Invited to sit on such boards, investigate- accidents n,i imnnrtiallv determine the cause and responsibility therefor, and the full publicity given findngs of such hoards, all of which have been recited in detail in the "press from time to tiTfi In the nast. . It Is now proposed to extend the I nf the camnaien for safety . to cover every activity of the railroad service, there being many accidents, other than in train service, which re biiH in death or Injuries to passen- 1 gers and employes, euch as tccur In ' shops, round houses, offices, sfatlons, , raro Th1-: camnaien HI1U jtmto. 'contemplates thfappolntment of a general safety committee, composed of general officers of the system, rep resenting the transportation, mechan ical, rordway, claim and other de partments. This committee will meet' monthly to consider reports, sugges- lions,' recommondations, etc., for the prevention of accidents.' In addition ' be committees on each opraiiug dlvi- ' to the general tommit;ee, .there will -slon, composd of the superintendent arid bis assistants. Each 'divisional committee will also have In Its mem bershap representative .employes from evry rank of the service, Jncluding coaductors, engineers, firemen, brake- men, agents, trackmen, switchmen, carmen and Bhopmen. These employes will be encouraged to freeiy. expre?a , tlirtr opinions, an thQae of thelr f?l- iow-worknien, rgar:I)ng. anytmng . thev mnv have observed, which, would . iave a "tendency to cause ncc!dints and to suggest whatever fuey ti:ink ' would be a safeguard. This plan iv based on the theary that It Is the em ployes themselves, and; not the Vtotk, holders', officer's or foremen, who ar paying the fearful toll of deaMi and Injury; that it Is the men and tbejf families who will derive the greatest benefit from the prevention of erol-" dents; that accidents are not Inevit able, as past record would lead one to believe, but that a large percent-, age of them can be avoided; also Aat in many cases it nctnally requires less time and-energy to prevent 'an ac.;l than it does to report one. These di visional committees will meet at least once a month and will carefully consider all suggestions looking to tho prevention of accidents. , Any.. inmedial measure which can be ap plied .without unusual expense or Marked changes in the standard, a pliances, or practical the road, will have Immediate attention at ' taa hands of the devlsion - superinten dent. Suggestions embodying" out lay of a large sum of money or 1m portani changes In standard will be referred to the general safety com mittee for action. T, - ' The question may arise If en- V (Continued' on aeyen.rt " Gherry Packers And Pickers WANTED! We shall want 50 people at least, have fine camp ing places for all. "Write or call today. A fine way and place to spend your vacation. .. . - C. M. & G. G. STACKLAND r Cove, Oregon : Modern Dentists ALL WORK WARRANTED Modern Dentists Bad teeth, poor digestion, improp er assimilation, impaired nutrition and irritable disposition go hand -in hand and contribute materially , to the many social and financial failures. No one should be without a satisfactory dental equipment at prices and terms to suit the condi tions regulating vour af fail's. Pet of Teeth . . $.!)0 Qolg ','tcwn 5.'0 Purcetsin '. .'.00 B l idge "crk j.-. i . .'. 0 Sliver filiingg '. ,7j Fxtrsctloc '. :.. JM The Modern Dentists : OTEB ITEWUS'S DBCG STORK. 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