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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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