TUESDAY, AUGUST .V 1913.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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How Do You Spend
Your Money
Are you doing it in a way to receive substantial bene
fit? Are you laying aside something for a "rainy
day"? If not, you will never have a better time to
begin than now. To get quickly started, begin the
easiest way; come to '
The United States
National Bank
and open a Savings Account. ' Do not wait for a large
sum, for it may never come: just deposit whatever
you have to spare, no matter how small the amount.
We will gladly assist you in getting started. Each
pay day when you get your check, deposit a portion of
it and remember it will draw 4 per cent from the date
it is deposited. This bank is owned and controlled
by local people.
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N. K. WEST, President.
T. J. SCROGGIN,
Cashier.
WM, MILLER, V.-Pres.
C. R. HARDING, .
Asst. Cashier.
By Carlton Ten Eyck. i The amusement people are feeling it
(Written for the United Press.) " Towns that. formerly supported sum
New York, Aug. 4 The open season m" stock to?' " airdomes, now
for the sunW tourist is npon us, the bve nt "B Pure
time of the year when the railroads' theatre.8 8nd these are doing poor bus-
mess, tneir proprietors say.
And it is not only the small towns
that are feeling the effect of automo
bile buying but the larger cities as
well. In the big department stores
theatres, restaurants and furniture
houses it is felt the most. Where for
merly the people patronized the f 1.60
and $2 shows liberally, they now get
their amusement by riding through tht
year
from the far, near and Middle West
make enticingly low excursion rates
to New York and return. On the
streets may be seen a lot of hurrying
visitors anxious to see all they can in
their limited time, and the hotels re-,
port a brisk business, but the ' most
careless observer can see that there
are not so many strangers in our midst
as formerly. The shop keepers also
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contribute mournfully to the evidence counlry "na wnen WBnl lne""e
that things are not as they used t0' amusement they go to the moving pic-
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lure siiuws uiiu lu uie pupuiur jjnecu
vaudeville houses.
"And that's why you miss a few of
the people that August used to bring
to our Main street," said the Man Who
I Travels, to the wondering Man On
be.
The Man On Broadway was wonder
ing in a helpless sort of way what has
become of the August visitors. The
Man Who Travels undertook to tell
him.
gasoline and spark plugs.
answer.1
That's the
"Automobiles," he said laconically aaway. in.s country is more
and the M. 0. B. looked around to see 'prosperous than ever but a good deal
if any brand new make of car was in I of the money that once went for c,oth
sirfit to nrovoke the remark. ""I mean ! in& and triP8 t0 town now goes for
automobiles are the cause of the fall
ing off of fall tourists, patiently ex
plained the M. W. T. "The automobile
is the menace of the west. I mean
the commercial menace. Maybe it is
the moral menace too; some folks saj
it is, but I'm willing to leave that to
the sky pilots. However, I do know
Fine Auto Smashed.
Pendleton, Aug. 5. As a result of a
collision which occurred on west Court
street about midnight Saturday, the
what I am talking about when I say beautiful big .Winton automobile be-
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were placed in the new land office
home in the absence cf a completely
A standing desk and a counter ar-1 new equipment. These two pieces of
rived this morning for the United' furniture practically complete the
States land office and will displace the j equipment making everything new and
makeshift . pieces of furniture that j of the best quality.
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that the gasoline wagon is the rock
on which the west is liable to get a
jolt if the people are not careful."
The M. W. T. then proceeded to il
lustrate what he meant. As just. one
illustration he told his f? iend of one
small farming community out in west
ern Missouri, and I can vouch for the
truth of what he said. This town is
within fifty miles of Kansas City, in
the middle of a remarkably rich river
bottom farming district. It has. 6,000
inhabitants and they are prosperous.
So are the farmers living in the town's
trading district. They have brick
paved streets, electric lights, water
and sewer systems, handsome and
costly homes, rock roads and all the
modern improvements that make the
longing to John Mumm, is a', total
wreck and the Ford taxi cab'owned by
Robert O'Neil is badly crippled. The
damage to the Winton is estimated at
between $500 and $800 and. that to the
taxi at $50 or $75.
The accident was caused by the pile
of gravel and sand lying in the street
in front of the Smith property where
a residence is being constructed, about
fifty feet west of Garden street. Mr,
Mumm was driving east on the stree
near the curbing and O'Neil was tak
ing a passenger west. There being no
warning light placed on the pile of
sand and gravel and the headlights of
the Mumm car blinding him, O'Neil
did not see the obstruction until he
was close upon it. To dodge it he
the Home
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cheerful appearance that ELECTRICITY can give.
. Electricity represents the new, clean, sanitary method and does
away with all the petty annoyances of matches, scratched up walls,
danger of fire from upset lamps, besides the care and cost of other
old methods of lighting. A ... - ,,' '
You say you can get along with kerosene lamps but why shouW
you? Now is the time to havt that house wired for a small pay
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present day western farm and small swerved his car sharply and collided
town life so pleasant. wjtn the Winton with great force.
The farms there this year produced j Fortunately no one was hurt,
bumper wheat and corn crops, and the j The frame of the Winton was brok
merchants of the town looked for greaj en on 00th sides, the radiator totally
prosperity. But what has happened ? ruined, the fenders and running boards
The peoplefof that one Missouri town broken and one wheel smashed. The
this yeaiQpent-$200,000 for automo- ,. .,.: )iSve .to be taken completely
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This is the season of the year when
the flies are bad and it pays to fight
them all the time.
j money bc"vM-f.r -i-. Those who did
j not have the ready cash mortgaged
j their homes and their land. Those who
could not do thut, gj.ve nttss f or their
, machines.
cording to B. F. Trombley of the
Oregon garage. The Ford had one
-!iwl slashed and suffered other min
or damages.
Considerable censure is being direct-
That $200,000 passed out of the ea- against those responsible for the
county and the state for all time. Ex- sand an( gravel being in the street
cept for the agents' commissions, not vnthout a warning light. Several oth
a cent of it remained in the county that er automobilists report that they have
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produced the wealth and not a penny
j of it will find its. way back into the
community. But the financial loss to
the Missouri county and small town
! goes farther. Those people who have
bought automobiles, most of them,
pinched and saved to do it They now
are economizing in every possible and
impossible manner. Women who have
, cars are not buying gowns. They do
not need them. Riding in their ma
chines over the roads they need noth:
ing but old clothes and linen dusters
for the rain and dust would ruin fine
gowns if they had them..
The men who have automobiles to
pay for are not buying new refrigerat
ors and cook stoves. They are making
the old ones do. The broken coffee
pots and kitchen utensils are being
u.a.ued. I he old iamily clock will
have to serve another year. No farm
machinery is being bought they are
making the old plows, cultivators and
reapers last a while longer.
There is absolutely nothing doing in
the pian. and organ line and none ot
the car owners ever thinks if enter
ine the town jewelry store. There is
little or no trade in luxuries. People
are not building new homes nor paint
ing the old ones, as is usually done ev
ery summer in such a town.
In short, the automobile took out of
the town and county all the surplus
wealth that the tremendous crops pro
duced, and the retrenchment felt nec
essary by the purchase and upkeep of
the automobiles is felt in every line
of business that is boasted by the lit
tle town.
But business is not all that feels the
effct of the automobile wave that is
sweeping the middle western country.
almost had accidents
cause.
from the same
No Damage to Wheat.
Pendleton, Aug. 5. No damage to
grain is reported here from the storms
of Saturday and Sunday evenings, the
rain which accompanied the thundei
and lightning not being heavy enough
to beat the grain down. The wind
reached a considerable velocity but was
not of sufficient violence to do dam
age, according to reports. The weath
er of the past few weeks has been
made to order for the farmers and
harvesting is proceeding rapidly. By
the end of this week, quite anumber
of farmers will have completed their
own cutting. The market is still at
67 cents with but few small lots
changing hands.
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HANSON & K1NION, PROPS.
BIDS WANTEB.
Bids will be received up to 5 o'clock
p. m. of the 8th day of August, 1913,
by Arthur C. Williams, school clerk,
for the tearing out of an old and
the installation of a new heating and
ventilating system for the central
school building at La Grande, Ore.
Plans and specifications can be had
upon inquiry of the Architect, J. L.
Slater.
A certified check of five per cent
of the amount bid must accompany
each bid, and the right is reserved to
reject any and ail bids.
ARTHUR C. WILLIAMS,
Clerk of the Board
Daily, July 31; Aug. 1, 2, 4 and 6,
1913. Adv.
LU.MLER WILL NEVER EJt.
CHEAPER.
:han now. ' As you know, the
lumber fit for milling is gtltim;
ucareer every year. Thou why .
not begin building now and take
advantage of the preaeti'. !.;
ket? Later o nyou will rpt
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