La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, December 05, 1912, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO D -t-itw v'n t a -irvrrw 'cTruvrTvrTi MQviirTrT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1912. TO THE VOTERS. v; I an a candidate for the office of chief, of, polio ud solicit votes oo the strength of my put - record ta suppressing crime and punishing criminals, and base my petition on a long esperi- - race In police mitten. Insofar as honesty and determination will permit I will enforce, If elected, all city ordinances. 3. H. McLACHLIN. " 4X0USCEJtE.T. . i si-ruby announce myeelf as a ' candidate for tho office of city 4 I recorder, and will deeply apprc- elate any assistance given me In the comlnc cltv election. ' . t LEE WAK.MCK. v . i i A 4 , in this of iiilMaii ' eternally watch Day in and day out the Governmenthas its eyes on a National Bank. Its experts swoop down at any minute to see how it is guarding your money. The argus eyes of Uwle Sam are eternally watching its conduct. This National Bank is therefore one of the safest in the world. Your account solicited. Come in and we will tell you more about it. UnitedStatesNationaSBanik La Grande Oregon $100,000; Surplus, $10,500; Capital, $400,000. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS J. K. WEST II. E. tOOLIDGE FIU.IK fONLET WM. KILLER A. T. HILL J. (', HEKT T. i. SCROTI C. T. BACON J. L, CATISES8 Let Us Protect Your Health by putting your plumbing in first-class tanitery con dition, connecting it to sewer o it Till pass all sani tary laws. BAY & ZWEIFEL LICENSED PLUMBERS , LA CHAN0E Warm Up Cold Corners In every house, no matter how well constructed, there are some places it is impossible to heat, pro erly, by the usual methods. It may be the bedrooms, bathroom or den. You may not need to heat these rooms regularlr, but there are times when you do want heat there." "With our Luminous Electric Radiators You can heat any room anywhere in the housQ, if there's an electric lamp socket handw Simplv screw in the connecting plug and turn the button. The handy little radiator does the rest. "Warms up the out. of the way places in a hurry. Luminous Electric Radiators afe light, strong, beau tifully finished and moderately priced. " At our of flee- .. '-v.. : . .. . -.. .rT3S5g!Eg!3a Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co. "ALWAYS AT YOTJR SEBVICE." ; ABISfCKCEMEKT. . I hereby announce sayself as a candidate Xer the office of city recorder, subject to tae will of the Toters of the city of La Grande. Having been city au dltor for the last three years I aa thoroughly familiar with books and affairs of the city and can give entire satisfaction In this office which Is of great lm- portance to the taxpayers. N. J. MANSAGBR. 11-15-tf i ANNOOTCESIEJiT ' . j ne. ')V" announce myself as a candidate for chief of police an5 will deeply apprec'ate any ...llum -i,.... i. , nn. A nt .ty elwtion. Hoy s. Claim. Deposits, I bank Am i ADS BRING J RESULTS W FOR. RENT Close in housekeeping rooms. Inquire 1303 O avenue, coi ner Seventh street 9-25-tf LOST Gold belt buckle. Finder please return to Sherry's theatre. 11-13-U FOUND Kit of auto tools. Owner may have same by calling at the Observer and paying for this ad. 11-24-tt XEW ROOMING HOCSE 1512 Adams avenue; close in; nicely furnished: bath; rooms for rent. Phone Black 1731. DOR1 RENT Five room modern house $15.00. Call Mr. Andrews, Golden Pt!e Co. 12-4-4t FOB SALE 320 acres of timber land in sections 9 and 10, twp. 3 north, Rge. 39, E. W. M., Union county, Ore. Price $4.00 per acre. C. S. Bradley, Enterprise, Ore. 12-3-lm ONE BAY HORSE taken up at C. L. Squire's barn at Imbler, Ore., Fri day, Nov. 29th, 1912, age about 11 years old, weight about 900. HorBe strayed In about 3 o'clock In the morning with saddle and bridle on, ( branded on left shoulder and brand indistinct. Owner can have Same by paying for this notice and feed bill. 12-3-5t WANTED Would like to lease hotel now doing business. Call Observer. 11-30-12. SALE OR TRADE at a bargain by owner. Fine house, two lots close In at Corvallis, Ore. If you want a bargain and mean business ad dres at once Box 727, La Grande. Ore. 11-30 3tp MAN WITH WIFE, no children. Am competent as foreman on ranch or horse logging camp. Can do anyjfn. uiiile vour diamond ring 1 worth kind of farm carpentering or black- smithing. Here only a short time. Write Box 727, La Grande, Ore. 1 1-30-3 tp LOST. Lost, stayed or stolen: brown mare colt, six months old, fore top cut off. Was in pasture on the Wm. Grand)' ranch. Reasonable reward for Its return to the ranch or Grandy's home in La Gande. LOST Elk tooth watch fob. Finder leave at Sommer hotel. Initials L. L. S. engraved on tooth. Reward. 123tf rvri itcJAT Large rurnlscc.i room. 110 a month. 803 Penn avenue. 12-3 2tp HOI SB TO RENT North Side. 1314 Jackson avenue. Inquire next door 12-3-3tp A.WOINCEMEST. I hereby announce my candl- dacy for the office of chief of police at the coming city elec- 4 tlon. If elected I pledge my hon- or that I will clean up and ad- Just a number of lax conditions that now exist here and make La Grande a better place to live In. U RATBCRN. Icing the CaV. For the first time Kthel chanced to eee her father preparing to shave. Running Into the kitchen, she exclaim ed. "Oh. mamma, guess what papa is folng?" "I don't know, dear. What is he doing r "lif's waking a cake out of his fare." replied Ethel, "lie's putting the b'lng oo It now." Chicago News. Hoptful. Her Legal AcviserMsdsm, you hsv hsd thtfe hnshnnd. and every one ef them either went crasy or turn ed oot to be worthless. Tot yon are thinking of marrylug again! Fair C1I ent Tea. sir. I waul a safe and sane fourth. Chicago Trlbnn. Often tlie life shout which least can be muni m Cm jut (bat euje the most. - a umunnnit crorsu m nunuuirwb tinwiii Thi Mississippi River, Its Magnitude y. I. and the Area It Drama. The r Mississippi river, lying wholly within the temperate son, fat In this respect more fortunately situated than the more fertile vslleyed Aniaxou. since the climate bere, varied and sometimes Inbotipltable as It Is. offer conditions of bumao development there. denied. ' The tuulu stream is 1Z0 miles In leugtu tliiit bs. aboiif. leu tiuira that of the geioe. As Murk Twain has wild, it is 'the crookedest rlver', In the world. traveling, miles to cover the same ground that a crow would fly over in 75. For several hundred miles It Is a mile in width. Kin k lit 1SS2 It was seventy miles wide wlieu the flood was highest The volume of water discharged by It into the fcea Is second only to the Amuzon and Is greater tban that of all European rivers combined (otnittini: toe V ulval. Xbe uuiouut is estimated at 13!) cubic miles annually that is. It would Sit euuuully a tank 13U miles long, 139 miles wide und 13U miles high. With Its tributaries it provides somewhat more titan l'i.000 miles of navigable water, more tban any other system on the globe except the Ama ron and more tbun enough to reach from Lake Superior to Paris by way of Kamchatka and Alaska, about three-fourths of the way around the globe. The sediment deposited is 400. 000.000 tons, enough to require daily for its removal 500 trains of flfty cars, each carrying fifty tous, and to make each year two square miles of new earth over a hundred fer deep The area wuti.u it diu.us i roughly 1.250.O0O square miles, or two fifths of the United States. Tbat Is. Germany. Austria-Hungary. France and Italy could be set clown within this area and there would still be some room to spare. It has the strength, for tbe most part pot to no use whatever, of 00.000.000 burses. Tbe differenoe between hlgb water and low water is in some places fifty feet, which gives some Impression of tbe range of -Its moodiness. John Flnley In Scribner's Magazloa SHE WAS GOING TO DIE. Then Something Happened That Mads ths Sick Girl Wsll. An Atchison young lady bad been 111 tnr uriniu tlma u 11 .1 flnallv hdHaltiA ,mnch aepregsed. she told , marrled ! alater. who im arolntlne In pnrinir for her, tbat she knew she was going to die, and that she might as well distrib ute her po"ssKlona "I'll give you my coral beads." she said to tbe married sUter, "but Mury Is to have my dia mond ting because you have had sev eral diamonds given to you by your husband." The sick girl expected the married sis ter to fall ou her neck und weep, not only at the Badness of ber Impending and untimely deiitb, but because of her generosity In tbe mattei of ber corals. So It was no wonder that every nerve in the Invalid's body was Jarred by the murried wster's auxwer: "Well, of all the nerve: (living me your little strlnst of cheap corals! Why. they cost only every bit of SlTst It makes me tired." the married sister continued In excited times, "tlie way you Indulge Mary Why, she's at a party this very inin ute. and I'm slaving here with you As for my diamonds, didn't I help my husband scrimp and save?" i'.ut r.uiit Here tbe sick young w man. bimyed up by righteous Indiana '.ion. tier bioud puinpiiig tbrouub her veins with anuer. sat up. put her feel liruily on the floor, got up and dressed "You can take the next train for Home." she said to the astonUbed mar ried sister "I'll Juse wear my din uioiid ring und corals mypf a little while toni'er " This Is a true story, and. although the incident otvurred six months hl-o. the Atchison young lady basn't Is-eii sick a minute since -Atchison tJlooe Could You Do Battarr "I was one of a r"t.v of four taking an early dinner at nn oen air resta-i rant In Cologne on the K 'irth of Jn.v several years Hgo." nays New VorK Tribune reader "We sent a Kllte re quest to the orchestra le.ider to play The Star SimiiKied Banuer' and were 'ulil that the composition wns lin known We wore surprised and vexed and miked a lot about tbe song. Its orlirtu. Its beauty, and Oriallr dlscov ered that bail the bandmaster played it we nil Tour of us could have simg :i: only 'la-la to tbo second verse and nil i after It ' IS' ; Is a I! Maine's Needls Rock. In Blue Hill bay. Me there pinnacle rock only six feet in diameter its top which projects to wlth:n seven fert of the surface of the water and risen uearly perpendicularly cut of a depth of seventy -eight feet. The existence of this rock Is an evldem-e of tbe difficulty, even In woll known waters, of demonstrating that no Iso la ted rocks are lying In wait for need less vlctima Harper's. i The Goed He Did. "Do yoo' really believe, doctor, tbnt 1 your old medicines really keep any- body silver arked tbe skeptic. ' Surely." returned the doctor. "Mt i preaciitions nave kept three druggist and tbelr families all's In this town for twenty ye irs. "-Harper's Weekly. Pretty Leng Run. Dutch Comedtsn 1 played Hamlet once. Chorus-Did yon have a lone run? Dutrb Comedian About three miles. Judge. "... . . -v Classified Directory EKATERHiX QfBDBKS A. 7. A. M. La Grande Lodge No. 41, A. F. ft AM. hold regular meetings first and third Baturdayi at 7:30 p. m. Cordial welcome all Masons. N. MOLITOR, W. M. A. C. WILLIAMS, Secretary. u. P. O. E. La Orande Lodge No. ill meet each Thursday evening at I o'clock In Elk's club, corner of Oe tiot street and Washington avease Visiting brothers cordially lnvltei to attaaa. T. J. BCROGQINS, E. R. ' H. E. COOLIDGZ, Rec. Bsc WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Ls . Orande Lodge No, 161 W. O. - met every first and third Trv days at L O. O. F. ball. All rial lug members welcome. D FITZGERALD, C. C. J. H. KEN NET, Clerk. MOOERX WOODMEN OF AMBRICA La Qrando Camp No. 7703 meets o the Arts and third Thursday eva In&t oi each month In tbe K. of V nalL V letting neighbors welcome. W. A. DUNN, V. a W. F. LANDRUM. Clerk- ROTAL NEIGHBORS Meets srr. second and fourth Friday ever; month. All visitiu, members cat dlally Invited. COIU FITZGERALD, Oracle. LTLLT C. K1MMLE. Recorder REBEKAHS Crystal Lodge No. sv meeu every Tuesday evening in u I. O. O. F. hall. All visiting msir bers are Invited to attend. DELLA WAGNER, N. G. MISS ANNA ALEXANDER, See. L. O. O. M., La Grtnde Lodge No 850, Loyal Order of Moose, holds regular meetings every Monday at 7:30 p. m. in I. O. O. F. hall. Visit ing brothers cordially invited to at tend. B. L. LEAVITT, Sec'y. " R. J. GREEN, W. D. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Red Crcsi Lodge No. 27 meets every Moalaj night !a Castle hall, (old Elk's hall ; A Pythian welcome to aU visIU Knights. H. W. RILBT, C. a R. L. UNCOLN. M. of R. ft S. O. E." 8. Hope Chapter No. II, O. X S., holds stated commnnlcaUons tin, second and fourth Wednesdays o each morth. Visiting members cm dUlly tavtted. MRS. MARIE JACKSON. W. M. ' MART A. WARNICK. Bee. F. O. E. La Grande Aerie No. 259. Meets every Friday evening at S o'clock, at the K. of P. hall. Vis iting members cordially welcomed. JOHN A ROGEQS, W. P. L. F. BELLI XGER. Pec. Special School Meeting. Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of school district No. One of Union county, state of Oregon, that a special school meeting of said district will be held at the auditorium of new high school building in said district on the th day of December, 1912, at two o'clock in the afternoon for tbe following objects: To vote on the proposition of levy-. Ing a tax for the maintenance; and for the payment of Interest on the bonded debt of the district and for the payment or bonds of the district and for the payment of the debt of the district. Dated this 23th day of November, 1912. S. N. BOLTON, Chairman Board of Directors. Attest: ARTHUR C. WlkLIAMS, District Clerk. JUSTJARRIVED A CAR OF NEW FURNITURE consisting of nice rockers and dining chairs', dressers, buffets, library tables and other arti cles too numerous to mention. What makes life more pleasant than a comfortable, well furnish ed home? If you need any of these comforts come in and ;look us over. , You will find our prices right and our furniture new and irp to date. r , W carry a first class line of RANGES and HEATING STOVES. n Our ranges are gwan lt yea--We are also agents for the PURE FOOD KITCHENETTE. Adcook & Fritts WALK A BLOCK AND SAVE A DOLLAR l l l raYucusii in 8CKTS0SS DR. R. E, L. HOLT Physician ana surgeon; successor to Dr. N. Moll. ' tor; corner Adams avenue and De pot St Phones Office Main 18; , Residence, Main 738. DIR. M. K. HAIjL fhysician and sur geon. New Foley Building, third poor, rnone aiain bj. G. T. DARLAND CHIROPRACTIC PARLORS. No. 4, Depot St. ad join in g Oregon Hotel. Phone Red 176L A, L. RICH R HiON. M. D. I. W. l.bi Ctii-lN, M. D. Dis. lUcbardson ft Loughlln. ivslclans and Surgeons Piion fflce Black 136J. Dr. juciiiusoiTs Res. Main 65. Dr. Loughlln'a 'Res. Main 757. i. H. UPTON, Ph. G. M. D. Physltlaa and durgeon. 1 fipeclal attention tt Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Offlct in La Grande National Bank Build ing. Phones: Office Main S; Rest, dance Mala II DR. H. L. UNDERWOOD Diseases of the eye a specialty. ' OR DORA J. UNDERWOOD Dis eases of women and children. 01-, flees: Adams avenue, over WrigEf jf. Drur Co. M DR. FRANK BARRETT Physician and S jrgeon. Imbler, Oregon. Calls answered day and night GEO. W. ZIMMERMAN Osteopath Physician. Over Lilly's Hardware store. Phone Main 63. . Successor to Dr. F. m Moor. VETERINART. OR. P. A CHARLTON. Veterinary Snr geon. Office at Hill s Drug store, La Grande. Residence Phone, Red 701; Office Phone. Black 1811; In. dependent T'noae 63; Both Phones at ReslJence. ATT0R5ET8 AT 1AW COCHRAN ft COCHRAN Attorneys Cbaa. K. Cochran and Geo. T. Cocb rtn. La Grande NaUonal Bank Bu'ldlng, La Grande, Oregon. H. CRAWFORD ROBT s EAK1M CRAWFORD ft EjUh.s Attorney i at la. Practices In all the courts of tbe sute and DnlteJ SUtes. or lice ir. La Grande National Bank Building, La Grande, Oregon. . J. GREEN Attorney-at-Law. Rooms 9-10, Sommer Bldg., La Grande. Ore. Practices In all state n f"rtral eonrti. II. E. D1X0N, LAWTER All State and Federal Courts. Collections. Rooms 4 and 5, La Grande Nation al Bank Building. 'oUce to tbe Public. I have sold my half In the grocery business located at 1316 Adams ave nue to C. J. Black and the firm will henceforth be known as Cummlngs ft Black. All accounts owing to Cum mings ft French should be paid to the new flrmTand all outstanding ob ligations of Cummlngs ft French, t a firm, will be paid by the succes sors. 12-2-6t T. E. FRENCH. i OB SALE. M rsj.Mi. - , ..... . - . n vut"'- uey or ugai lop ong gy in first class codnition cheap. 1409 Madison. Phone Black 41. 1 2-2-6 1 TO THE YTKRR- I am an independent candl- date for the office of chief of po- lice and if elected will give ev- erybody a square deal. W. A. STANLEY. 4 tpSs. i ..,.,. .