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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1913)
Mcnuggnts I terete BloiT i i , .... i. -.4- :-fj;Mad to La Qraade - LATEST DESIGNS , Best Building Material , .Had la La Qrande. , ,3 , : . , KnOWB jj-v.-' vJ E. C. DAVIS Cof 6rwwMd' s Ave ' - La .Grande. lllSiEO ALL ROADS INTO UNION ARE v ,. NOW PASSABLE - t . Hone Show Not to Be Hindered by V Lack of Bridge. f Fifth Annual Show Union Live Stock Show A&s'n June 5, 6 and 7 at Union, Ore. A bigger and better show than ever. Cash prizes for track events. Free Feed, Free Entrance, Free Shel ter for All Exhibits Send For Premium List G. W. BENSON, Pres. GEO. A.SCIBIRD, Sec. Retail DepartmentPhone Main 8 .... . .. , ., . , . , . - For Lumber, Lath Shingles, Sash and Doors Ruberoid Roofing GEORGE PALMER LUMBER CO. I Three Room House for Rent Furniture for Sale Will sell all furniture for thiee room house and wiH rent house to party buying. Will not sell part of furniture or rent the house furnished. House modern, good location, , cheap rent Snap. Call1 .'&t Obesrver office. Let Us Protect Your Health 1 . ) JX . by putting your plumbing in first-class sanitary con- it dition, connecting it to sewer so i will pass all sani- ' tary laws. I i Licensed Plumbers BAY & ZW El FEL' LA GRANDE Complete Equipment tor Resetting and Repairing . Rubber Buggy Tires LA GRANDE IRON WORKS : J , : , D; FITZGERALD, Proprietor ' COMPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY . Union, Ore., June 3. (Special) Union wishes everyone to know that the bridges will all be put in as good shape as they were before the flood came which- came so near putting them out of commission. There is a large force of men at work and it will not be many hours before they will be as ever. It seems as if the story has got out that some of the bridges will not be safe to cross but that is a mistake and Union wishes everyone to know that everything will . be in shipshape, even the bridges for the coming ; stock show, - The teams are out getting the roads leveled np and the race track was never, in t finer shape. . If you' wish to see one of the finest stock shows that was ever staged just come to Union on June 6th, 6th and 7th, . : Miss Osborne suffered an accident at the race track Sunday but did hot sustain serious injury. i ' .0. P. Pratt, has been in Sale Lake for some time on business but ex pects to be home for a short time. A. J. Bolster delivered a good tem perance lecture at the M. E. church Sunday evening. ... , Grandpa Coffinbury is able to be up and around after quite a Beige of sickness. : His. many friends are glad to see the "old gentleman out once more. -' . The eighth grade examination will be held on June 3rd and 4th, instead of the 5th and 6th. Supt. Bragg kindly made this change for us so that the dates would not conflict with the stock show and we greatly appre ciate his kindness in so doing es pecially the young people that are taking the it. . L. Mcintosh is trying to hire a horse for a short time to use in his delivery of groceries. He had all the public carriers in town at : work and was himself out ' on ' a bicycle and came to the conclusion that he had better hire a horse. Stac will soon get an auto for that purpose if his grocery business keeps growing at its present strides. . ., Will Hutchinson, Jr., and family went to North Powder last Friday in the auto and spent Saturday and Sun day with relatives. . Tom Brashear has had city water piped . into his residence. No more wells for him. r ;. A great many people are complain ing that they are unable to get any one to cut their lawns. Everyone is so busy that the lawns suffer in the rush. ' ' Carl Forsstrom Jr., is on the sick I list The little fellow has trouble with his stomach. s foufflr Bti BuwoTOfftne,, The IfloHl to which the subjects of the cur avail themselves of the court's privileges may be gathered from the fact that aa many as 66.000 odd petitions have been presented In a year.- x:' - .' .... '''.X'-.'J 1 ' Use the Toothbrush. . The regular use of the toothbrush la necessary not only to remove the acid Incrustations that eat holes ta the teeth, but also to sweep away the germs of many terrible diseases. These QuU the necks of the teeth an Ideal nesting place. They multiply a million fold In a few., hours unless washed away; then they go down the throat enter the lungs, the stomach, the eusta chian tubes and the passages behind the nose. . There they cause consump tion, diphtheria, earache, catarrh, bron chitis, tonslUtls-in. fact it would be difficult to say with certainty what dis eases may not arise from the germs that have grown upon the teeth. :. It is now-; considered ' almost certain ' that many cases of appendicitis have this as their 'origin. Hence there Is no process of the toilet so important aa that of brushing the teeth. New York World. . Rogar Crabb's Bran Broth. Roger Crabb. '- who lived In seven teenth century England, was a persist ent faster. He sold off bis stock in trade he was a "haberdasher of bats" and took uphla residence In a hut near Ickenham, where he lived on 3 farthings a week. He described his experiences In a pamphlet ' entitled The English Hermit: or. The Won der of the Age." "Instead of strong drinks and wines," says the eccentric Boger, "I give the old man a cup of water, and instead of mutton 'and rab bit I give him broth thickened with bran and pudding made with bran and turnip leaves, chopped together." Vig orous health was the result and bis abstention from food was regarded with such suspicion that, on one occa sion he narrowly escaped being burn ed alive as a wizard. .: Employes and Merchant Meet. " Atlantic City, N. J. June 3. Closer relations between employers and em ployes was urged at today' session of the National Association of Clothiers, which opened its 17th annual conven tion here yesterday. Discussion of transportation questions, suggestions for improving the association's ' na tionaf credit bureau and for latyrov ing conditions relating to '(cancella tions and returns of goods by retail-' ers occupied this morning's sessions. Election of officers and directors will be held iate this afternoon or tomor row. . It was expected that the usual custom of re-electing all officers for a second term would be followed. , , Reduced to 8elenoe. -Amateur Landlady How do '' yon manage to keep your boarders with such poor accommodations and so lit tle to ent? Mrs. SUnidlet (confidential ly) I let them run a week or two be hind with their bills, und they never catch up -Yonkers' Statesman. The Main Point , Flpltor nolnies sets ti Klfsintlc sal nr.v . from ttuit mining'" corporation Skelter Able to loi-nt gold mines. I be Hotter--Not much. Able to lor.-is stoe-k puri-lnisei's. Mfe , There are miiuy echoes In the work but few voices. , Lunch Goods For Picnics Cream Cheese Swiss Cheese . Boiled Ham Saratoga Chips . Canned Meats Wafers Pickles Olives Come in and let us show you these goods . 1 r . i .iii .i . . . . i. ' ,; ' ".'. . ' A " .. .: . . '. ' . . . Prompt Delivery MAIN 43 MAIN 43 J. G. Snodgrass QUALITY GROCER Hsafsajaajaajsaisagssjaisiijaaiw THE ONLY WAY TO DO - vawyers' Foes. ; Do professional men earn as much now as formerly? - We hear of big doc tor bills and huge attorney fees, but is the average' s good? Jefferson, who never turned around without, noting the fact lu his dairy, has left a record of his legal fees. He was earning $3,000 very, shortly after he began . to practice' in what today would be called a village.' I have the word of former Attorney General W. U. Hensel for the statement that James Buchanan, Penn sylvania's only president of the United States, earned an average of $0,500 a year for the first-five years he prac ticed law lu Lancaster. At the end of that period he was making $3,000 a year. How ma qfpflng lawyers in America today d(i thut well? - Lancas ter at ,the time when Buchanan was doing this was a town of but a few thousand people. And a dollar when Monroe was president bought as much as several dollars would buy now. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Petitions to the Czar. In Russia there Is a court of peti tions through which appeals are ad dressed to the emperor. The court was originally founded In the rtln of Iran - IV. In : the sixteenth century. When Catherine the Great ascended the throne she Intended to receive all appeals personally, hut the task soon passed beyond her powers. The Czar Paul as a young man tried to Imitate Catherine's example, and he bad a large yellow Iron Ihx' at: ached to one of the ground floor windows of the Winter palace at St.v Petersburg Into which petitions were dropped. The box was periodically openinl and the contents submitted to the czar. . This metllfld.ot reeelyti',. ';.;i'tl"" .wry'nlr PRINTING QUICKLY AND PROPERLY Is to have the Press Facilities. Material and Work- ; ' men. The Observer's Job Department has within ' the past six weeks added x . . j One Two Revolution Pony Cylinder Press. One 10x15 Chandler & Price Job Press. - j ' One 12x18 Chandler & Price Job Press. ; " ' One Pew er Wire Stitcher ','T'T;1 On? Chandler & Price, Paper Cutter ... J ; One Portland Multiple Punch, ; ,;. J ; One ten horse ppwer motor, and ' "" j ''" I Over SI ,000 worth 'of type and materiaL Thic added to our former equipment, which con-' sisted of Mergenthaler Linotype, Babcock, cylinder press, two job presses, cutter and perforator makes ours positively the . .. ' .''' " .'i ' . ' -'. ' .',''-'' . .'! , . ; " .'.',;':',''.;;, BestJEquipped Job Office Between Port land and Boise Sixteen People Work at tho Observer Office.Quite a pay roll each week, every cent of which is spent in La Grande. .' ........ , '..'.;...' ; '''', -v ' .' i'.v -,');
