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. 4 1 -M vJiXh. .'HA. . IMS IV I I A V iJ. iwiii in PAGE FOUB LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVEK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912. V THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS ilDlTOIt AXD OWNER. r Ottered at the iiton"ic at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION BATES. My,.slngle eopf 6 AsAj, per wH)k 15c Bafijt, per month tot 2S6ST)FnCE OEMEKAL DELIVERY. Tha postal authorities at Washlng- tfca propose to regulate, among othei akmgl, the general delivery service The claim Is made that in nearly ev- ms 1S h general delivery window Saij-anaUes baa been utilized more fwniantly to maintain surreptitious correspondence than for the convent as.e ot those for whom the service is Msndnlt It Is asserted that men aul wemen and many young girls ca ry eat clandestine correspondence tfrr-xi&h the general delivery window. The new regulations have become JStettve la Philadelphia and it la ex pected other cities will enforce them. Vtiftr these young persons applying a the general delivery window will asked to give their home address its it they live in the city will also Hs asked why they do not receive t!r mall at home by the regular sail earrler. The general delivery window Is for the convenience of transients and traveling peoplo who stay la a city but. short time and who have no fixed tssidence. There is no reason why It .should be made the assistant of the autcb. condemned "back room" as fur swrtilnc a mans for libertines to set Stares for foolish girls or for those at more- mature years to carry 01 cUadesllne correspondence. It Ls bet tar not to receive mall of a kind that jaanot be delivered at one's home or gfsce of business. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. August 14. US Forts Ontario and Oswego de stroyed by Montealm. J8I3 British sluop Pelican captured the Amerlran sloop Argus In the 1 English channel. tjX8 Steam packet Britannia estab lished a new record by complet ing the trip from Halifax to Liv erpool In 10 days. 9E7 The new Louvre, In Paris, In augurated wtb great ceremony by Napoleon III. (rrt Admiral' David O. Farragut died. Born July 5, 1801. TflfE Prince Ferdinand of Coburg for mally proclaimed ruler of Bulgaria-. law Relief of the Peking legations by the forces of the allied powers. tftt Henry N. Atwood made an aeroplane- flight from St. Louis to Chicago, beginning a trip to the Atlantic coast. THIS IS MY 61ST BIRTHDAY." Won J. Arnold.' 31on J. Arnold, widely known as an Jectrical engineer and Inventor, was tern near Grand Rapids, Mich., Au tftt 14, 1861, and received his edu ctfcm at the University of Nebraska aaxl Cornell university. Ha began his professional career aa a mechanical obCineer for a western railway, but vttbin a few years ho resigned the position to become an Independent consulting engineer. Mr. Arnold first attained prominence by designing and building tlie intramural railway at the Cfclcatgo World's fair in 1S93. Since that time he hns been Identified in a gsoressloaal capacity with many great asurtneerlng achievements. Of late rear hm attention baa boon given artlcalarly to the construction and fcsiproveinrfit of street railways and noways. He devised the plan for elec trically operating the trains of the Ifew York Central road In and out of New York City and later waa appoint or thiol ?nr;lecr to rebuild the Chi cago traction sTstom at a cost of $.- I SS.S'Z. ItMtara II as di cap Tenner. XtftMa Cllir, Mo Aug. 14. The sev tajtti aaiial western handicap tourna- tstte Sh ootinx maodablon bu brought tMSther neartr 00 of the beat shots In tfcw Catted States. The tournament U krnr kerd M the ground of the Kan sm dtr Omn rlab and will continue r TbunKtaf apd rdday. Some good rorea were mwSeTsi the Initial events PIOXEER FEATURE AT SHERRY'S I.eotnre and Stereoptlcan Views Com paring Early Days With Present. At Sherry's Wednesday and Thurs day, 'Carroll E. John.son will preseut " Old West Frontier days" a ser ies of views showing the west in the early days, and contrasts of the pres ent day where the deserts are chang ed by Irrigation Into beautiful farms and gardens. He delivers an Inter esting lecture in connection with the pictures. . This leads up to a grand climax of a moving picture, entitled, "Custer's Last Stand." This Is In Addition to the regular program and will be sen at Sherry's Wednesday and Thursday only. MRS. ATKI.VS WELL LIKED. (.'ood Sized Audience Pleaded Willi Learned and Entertaining Orator. Last evening in the Baptist chu.vl; 11 fair sized crowl heard Mrs. Flor ence Atkins, the pul'shed and iarif a. orator from Nashville, Tennessie sueak In her pleuslng and rorcsiul n aimer upon the equal suffrage quea :;cn. Mrs. AtkV.g .nine highly recom mended and s!ie Iui;y lived up to all expectations. Although a fair sized audience was present many more would have attended had It not been for several counter attractions. George With Sherry's. Fiank George has accepted a posi tion with Sherry's theatre and will be affiliated with the proper entertain ment of patrons of that house. Mr. George was originally manager of the Arcade and knows the business from A to Z. Parkcr-Langborne Wedding. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 14: So ciety In the East as well as In San Francisco displayed a lively Interest i.i today's wedding of Miss Julia II. Langhorne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Langhorne, and Lieutenant James Parker of the United States Navy. The bride was born and raised In Virginia and Is the first cousin of the famous beauties Immortalized by Charles Dana Gibson, of whom one la the wife of the artist and another, Mrs. Waldorf Astor, of London. Lieuten ant Parker, the bridegroom, is the son of Col. James Parker of the Eleventh Infantry, now stationed at Fort Ogle thorpe, Ga., and a nephew of former Congressman Richard Wayne Parker of New Jersey. "WHY NOTS." $ Hdlted by A. Long Mutt. $ It you did not read these yesterday. Why Not? If any of these "Why-Nots' put you to thinking, Why Not put the shoe on and wear It awhile. You did not pay your water rent by the tenth, did you? Why Not? You forgot It, of course, but It won't hap pen again, will It? And Why Not? Love is a small sea skirted by board walks upon which young couple walk around, until they beccme dizzy and fall In, but Why Not? A man drank a quart of gasoline by mistake. Now he honks instead of coughs. Why Not? Aa careless as he is he probably has as much right to honk aa some of those who carry a license to do so. The horse, next to man, ls conceded to be the most intelligent of all ani mals. Then, If you can make a busi ness man out of a section hand, Why Not make a race horse out of a com mon plug. Poor rule that won't work both ways. And Why Not? Why Not visit the public library more than you do. The books and literature are there for you and It you do not get the benefit ot them it Is your own fault It you are a progressive, or want to be one. Why Not attend the meeting of the progressives tonight? When you feel grouchy and think the old town la going to the dogs, why not take an hoar off aome eve ning and take a walk: around over town and especially oat In the resi dence district and lee the Improve ments that are being made and the nice residences that are being built p. I will venture to ear that Just one hour of such medicine will take off the "rough." After all the work and money that has been expended on our new fair ' grounds Why Not n-.acadamlze or pave a street and build cement walks to the I I .. . f Ul. , U . , V. . a ..... Uliliu euirauic. luia muugui to auie- iy uof. out of place. It will soon be time for the boys to take up their studies again. Why Not? Before that time comes, try and have all the work done that the boy Is relied upon to help do, ftnUhed so thtt he can take up his school work with the rest. Every time you meet an out of town friend. Why Not tell him of the coun ty fair, Sept. 9 to 14. He may get angry or disgusted at you for talking county fair and go and tell his neigh bor but you can feel repaid by know ing that you have started someone else talking county fair. Now that the county fair is a sure go and a fine program has been ar ranged Why Not all you knockers put away your little hammers and put your shoulders to the wheel. If you still persist In knocking you will scarcely be heard or noticed but If you get out and boost just a little. It will only be a short time until people will begin to realize that you are not a hopeless case. T (Continued from oage 1 this company has a connecting agree ment. To bring about this present devel opment and Ideal situation, has cost a large amount of money which has been secured through the sale of cap ital stock and bonds of the company, and has cost over $200,00, no part ot which represents any profit derived from the operation of the company. The people buying these stocks and bonds have not only shown that they believe In the future prosperity of these districts, but have also placed their confidence in the citizens of the community so served. The principal share holders of this company live In Union and Wallowa counties and con trary to the circulated report the Bell Interests do not own a single share of stock, although we fall to see wherein It could be any detriment to us if they did. ' Regarding the question of rate3, all we ask Is, that the people treat us the same as If It was their own mon ey that was Invested Instead ot ours. We believe that the great majority ot business men, farmers and working that a company serving the public as this one Is, should be entitled to earn enough money to properly operate and maintain the system In addtlton to the going rate of Interest. We claim that we are at present earning no more than enough". If enough, to meet these charges, and to substantiate this claim we are willing to throw open our books and accounts to any committee ot fair minded uninterested parties, who may be appolnted'to make an In vestigation along these lines. Our rural rates are In particular very low, and do not, and never have, paid their Just proportion of the cost ot operation and maintenance ot the system, to say nothing regarding any interest on the Investment. When this Co-Operatlve company first began business in the Elgin dis trict, we made every reasonable effort to bCtig about some condition where by that community, as well as the balance of the county, would escape the nuisance of two telephones, but without any apparent result, so that today the business men ot Elgin are compelled to subscribe and pay for the service of, both companies In or der to secure a complete service. Rgardlng the matter of service we believe we are rendering as good as It. is possible to give. We employ more operators and trouble men for the number of stations Involved than sim ilar companies. Practically every tel ephone Instrument In the city has recently been changed for a new one. Our exchanges tn the two counties are connected together with first class copper circuits and the transmission Is perfect. The traveling public claim the service Is aa good or better than anywhere else along the line, and we know of no parties better capable of Judging. In this day of progress a corpora tion should have no secrets from the public. Its policy should be an open book, and Its attitude clearly under- stood. This company Is always will ing to meet the public open and above board, only asking fair treatment In return. We believe in reasonable and scientific public regulation, and await the coming of the rate-regulating pub lic service commission, which will fix all rates. A second telephone system starting up to serve a community such as this, which ls already served as well as can reasonably be expected, can only be classed as a public nuisance, and an Imposition upon the community. It has only been a short time since La Grande escaped the ourden of sup porting a dual telephone system which fact, judging from the recent action of the business men Is still fresh In their memory. This Idea of starting a competing telephone system through Ignorance of certain parties, and where the con ditions do not warrant the same has been tried out In a great many In sauces with the same result, making an extra burden upon the public, and an ultimate failure of the enterprise. The following clipping from an Ohio paper will show that this city ls up against the same proposition that most of the eastern cities have been called upon to meet In the past years: The cities that attempted to secure better telephone service by Introduc ing a competing telephone system are begiiinlngto realize the folly of their course. The opinion prevailed some ears ago that two telephone compan ies would reduce the price ani givt better telephone service, but It baa been learned by experience that it not only doubles the expense to the people, but ls an awful nuisance. In tome cities these duplicate companies secure franchises under the name ot co-operative companies, whoa a num ' er of people csanize-l and secured privileges under certain representa tion. They were encouraged In their efforts and the public is today paying the price of its folly with an unsatis factory double system, no one being equipped, "telephonlcally"' without paying for both systems, those not havingtwo being at the disadvantage of not being able to talk to those who are on the other line. Dayton (Ohio) News. HOME INDEPENDENT TEL. CO., S. D. CROWE, Sec. and Gen. Mgr. AMI ELECTS DIRECTORS FOR ESSCIXG YEAR SELECTED. All Efforts of Association Applauded and Commended. Enthusiasm flowed unbounded last evening when the members of the Grande Ronde Chautauqua association met for the annual election of direc tors. Retiring Directors Miller and Cochran and Mrs. E. Polack were re elected and plans for the next year discussed. With the added grounds facilities provided by the par'i com- mission next year's camping space r will be enlarged and bettered mater-' tally and there Is. no reason to doubt the venture made last night that there will be over a hundred families camp ed there during chautauqua week. The work done this year was heartily en dorsed and the membership applauded the efforts set forth. There was never any question of a continuance ot the chautauqua that issue having long since passed beyond the doubtful stage. Are Ever at War. There are two things everlastingly at war, Joy and piles. But Bucklen's Arnica Salves will banish piles. It soon subdues the Itching, Irritation, Inflammation or swelling. It gives comfort. Invites Joy. Greatest healer of burns, bolls, ulcers, cuts, bruises, eciema, scalds, pimples, skin erup tions. Only 25 cents at all druggists.' In a Big Tent Friday, August 16, 1912 ADAMS AVENUE NEAR HEMLOCK STREET. WEST BROS.' RAILROAD SHOW. TEXAS RANGER SEE THE Cowboys, Soldiers, Indians, Mexicans, Rangers and Cowboy Girls. Watch For the Cowboy Band ONE PERFORMANCE AT NIGHT ONLY. Friday, August 16 KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL. lleullh Is Worth Saving, and Some La Grande People Know How to Save It Many La Grande people take their lives In their hands by neglecting the kidneys when they know these organs need help. Sick kidneys are respon sible tor a vast amount of suffering and 111 health, but there ls no need to suffer nor to remain In danger. Use Doan's Kidney Pills a remedy that has curedi thousands of kidney suffer ers. The following statement leaves no ground for doubt. Mrs. Celia Badger, Union, Oregon, says: "For four years I waa afflicted with dropsy. My hands and feet swel led greatly and I had puffy spots be neath my eyes. My back ached In tensely and there were acut pains di rectly over my kidneys and In my left shoulder. The kidney secretions were unnatural and this plainly convinced me that I had kidney complaint. Read ing of similar cases where Doan's Kidney Pills had been taken with benefit, I was led to try them and they gave me relief. I have since kept this remedy in the house and its use has always proven beneficial." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster- Mil burn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. Indian KlUed on Track. Near Rochelle, III., an Indian went to sleep on a railroad track and was killed by the fast express. He paid for his carelessness with his life. Of ten It's that way when people neglect coughs and colds. Don't risk your life when prompt usj of Dr. King's New Discovery will cure them and so pre vent a dangerous throat or lung trou- Glenn H. Piano, Pipe Organ, Musical Theory La Grande, Oregon Phone Black 1352. Comfort Going Home: 1 i and comfort that will, win .ppreciate. Is a box of our d.Udoms amS my lnTdInt and nr: cleanliness fa tbr haadUnt. One tr!il! will auks yon a regular buyer. ' Selder's - ble. "It completely cured me, In a short time, ot a terrible cough that followed a severe attack ot grip," writes J. R. Watts, ' Floydada, Tex., "and I regained 15 lbs. In weight that I had lost." Quick, safe, reliable and guaranteed. 50c and $1.00. Trial bot tle free at alt druggists. ROOM FOR RENT Modern. Call Black 151. 8-14 tf GOOD OFFER SPURNED. Prof. Armstrong Throws Aside Lucra the Salary to Locate Here. The day Prof. Armstrong landed In La Grande there was a wire waiting for him offering htm a $1,200 a year position as member of the faculty as director of music In the state aeademy of Idaho at Pocatello. He refund It so as to stay In La Grande. President S. H. BIng of Rio Grande college, says: "I am glad to bear sin cere testimony to the excellent work and high character of Prof. G. H. Arm strong, who has been director of mu sic In Rio Grande college for the last two years. His work has been en tirely satisfactory ajid we are per mitting him to leave only becmoas w9 cannot offer lnductments great enough to persuade him to stay. In his chosen profession he ls an excel lent performer and a very skillful teacher." Fine Program at Arcade. Among the pictures at the Arcade this evening one ls especially recom mended and is a high class picture In every respect. There are five pictures on the program and Ray Williams iu a new song, the comedy for tonight Is simply a scream and is entitled, "The Four Flush Actor." Armstrong Res. 604 Adams Ave. til Of La Grandej St w . ...... ...m ; 1
