La Grande evening observer., November 07, 1913, Image 4

THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DBNNIS. Editor and Owner
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Grande, Oregon, aa aecond clasa
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HOW ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL'
CLUB?
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At a recent meeting of a number of
citizens $600 was raised to aid in pay
ing the Commercial club's indebted
ness. This is about half the amount
needed, and the remainder must be
raised by free will offering. Free
will offerings have been decidedly
numerous in La Grande the past year
and many will hesitate to give to the
club.
, But there should be no hesitation,
for a Commercial club is just as. es
sential as any other institution in the
community. There can be no getting
along without some tort of an organi
zation of this kind. Western cities
especially must have Commercial
clubs, for around thesfc clubs center
development. It is the information
bureau for the stranger, it is the home
of the man who comes to the city
seeking location and investment. It
is the glad hand for the convention or
gathering that chooses to come to La
Grande. And with all of these facts
staring the community in the face,
. there is nothing to do but get in and
support the club as it should be sup
ported. f
La Grande has outgrown the days
when everyone can run his own bus
iness and give no time or support to
public matters. Next HvnlYi the
state meeting of the Farmers' Union
is to be held here and this city will
entertain the farmers in a proper man
ner. But that entertainment will
largely hinge on the Commercial club.
The same is true of the state teach
ers' meeting, of the K. of P. conven
tion, of the Butter and Cheese men,
and of the Oregon Retail Merchants'
association, all of whom are to come
here in state assembly.
We have grown big enough to.cn-
tertain our friends, to hold open house,
and in order to do it successfully we
must have a Commercial club that is a
live' going concern-und that cannot
be unless sufficient money is raised
to defray its expenses.
GOVERNOR WEST PLAYS POLI- lived by said property by reason of
TICS. said improvement, have made their
report in writing to said council, which
Those who have been deluded by report has been received by said coun
Governor West's loud claims that he cil, and is on file in the office of the
La Grande National Bank
Organized
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
TOUTED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY.
Capital $100,000.00
f Surplus $130,000.00
tgj Total Resources $1,000,000.00
For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have
successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La
Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley.
W respectfully solicit your business. .
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
Is not playing politics while in office
have but to familiarize themselves
with the county attorney appointment
in Wallowa in order to disprove the
governor's claims.
He promised A. W. Schaupp, an at
torney of Joseph, that he would ap
point him to the office of county at
torney. Not- only did he promise
Schaupp but he announced the fact
to several and it was generally un
derstood that the county attorney mat
ter in Wallowa was settled. Then A.
M. McCorkin, a great Chamberlain
and Lane supporter, entered the race.
The governor was seen by McCorkin's
friends and the seeing proved too
strong for "the man in He executive's
chair. He fell for McCorkin, thus
turning down Schaupp, breaking his
promise and proving to all who knew
the circumstances that Governor West
did play politics in this appointment.
Schaupp's friends were indignant,
as they had a right to be. One of
these friends, who is connected with
the church, called on the governor, and
to use an old politician's language,
"passed the buck up to West." And
the governor squirmed but failed to
convince Schaupp's friend that politics
were not being played. In fact the
governor Btood for the accusation.
So it goes. The governor has rode
over his enemies by fooling many in
the belief that he was above playing
politics, yet here is a case where he
was caught with the goods on him.
More Wests, more enemies to state
institutions, more wild-eyed I. W. W.'s
and Oregon will be anything but a
desirable place to live in and much
less a desirable place to have a dollar
invested. ,
COFFEE
IF A HOUSEWIFE SHOULD
COMPLAIN THAT THE COAL SHE
WAS GETTING WAS UNSATIS
FACTORY AND YET REFUSE TO
TRY THE COAL FROM ANOTHER
DEALER WHO ASKED HER TO
TRY IT, SAYING THAT IF SHE
DIDN'T LIKE IT BETTER THAN
ANY OTHER HE WOULD RETURN
HER MONEY, WOULD YOU PITY
HER HARD FATE?
SCHILLING'S BEST COFFEE IS
MONEYBACK IF YOU DON'T LIKE
IT BETTER THAN ANY OTHER.
Order it this time and you will next.
NOTICE FOR PROPOSED STREET
IMPROVEMENT.
To whom it may concern: You are
hereby notified that the commission
es appointed by the common council
;f the city 01 La u ramie, Oregon.
"lake an examinee;. i the property,
"P" VIlitn assessments are to be
lovled t0 Py the costs and expenses
of the atreet improvement hereinafter
described, as to the valuation and ex-
Itent, if any of the benefits to be a-
in 1887.
VT " i I70 formal and
MurW ' all other occasions V
' fwWtit u P5f s'ove 'hat is
villlllli. Cn'CCt m 'e skQU
R)wneS A
I Gloves-' , j
1 Mm ,are ALWAYS correct, and are I
vISli -ft irWKI we" mace besides. I
Jfli There is no substitute for Fownes
'! W-w1 il Gloves, any more than there is a
1 1 mH'V s'tute fr Sood manners or .. '.
Fownes Gloves for Women
$1.50 to $3.75
recorder of said city, and is open for
your inspection. That it is the inten
tion of said council to levy a special
assessment against all the - property
hereinafter described for the purpose
of paying tb,e costs and expenses of
improving Second street from the
north property line "CI . Spring avenue
to the south line of the culvert ex
tending over the irrigation ditch or
canal crossing said Second street,
through lot 3 in block 13 and lot 4 in
block 5, Grandy's Addition to said
city, by laying thereon Gravel Bitu
lithic Pavement accroding to the plans
and specifications therefor heretofore
adopted by said council and on file in
the office of the recorder of said city.
That the real property included in
and the boundaries of the district bene
fited by said proposed improvement
are as follows: , ,
Commencing at a point in the cen
ter f the alley in block 18 in Gran
dy's Addition to the city of La
Grande, due west of the nothwest cor
ner of lot 3 in said block 18, running
thence south along the center line
of the alley in blocks 18, 17, 16, 15, 14
and 13, in Grandy's Addition to said
city to tho sot iii property line of
Spring avenue, thence cast to a point
due south of tTie center of block 10,
Grandy's Addition to said city, thence
north along the center line of the al
ley in blocks 10, 9, 8 7 6 and 5, Gran
dy's Addition to said city, to the
south line of the right of way of tli
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navi
gation Company, thence northwest
along the south line of said right of
way to the north line of lot. 4 in block
5, Grandy's Addition to said city,
thence west alung the north line 'of
said lot 4 and the north line of lot 3
in block 18 of Grandy's Addition to
said city to the place of beginning,
said Improvement District, consisting
of and including the following de
scribed parcels of real property, to
wit: ..
The east half of blocks 13, 14, 15, 10
and 17, and the west half of blocks 10.
9, 8, 7 and 6, in Grandy's Addition to
said city, and jots 1, 2 and 3, in block
18, and lots 4, 5 and 6. in block 5 in
Grandy's Addition to said city, all in
the city of La Grande, Oregon, and the
estimated cost of said proposed im
provement is $16,311.(10. You will
further take notice that said city coun
cil will meet at the council chamber
in the city building,of said city on the
10th day of November, 1913, at 8:00
o'clock p. m. of said day to consider
making said proposed levy and will,
then and there giant a hearing to any
and all persons feeling aggrieved
against, or on account of, said propos
ed assessment.
Dated at I,a Grande, Oregon this
6th day of November, 1913.
CITY COUNCIL OK LA GRANDE,
OREGON,
LEE WARNICK,
Recorder of the City of I.a Grande,
Oregon. 11-7 10 t I
DIES AND PLATES
Fate of Those Used In Printing
; Our Money and Stamps.
ALL ARE JEALOUSLY GUARDED
But, While the Dies Are Invariably
Saved, the Steel Plate Are Melted
Down and Become Some Part of the
Armament of Uncle Sam's Warship.
All of the notes. bonds, checks and
miscellaneous Issues of the govern
ment, Including postage stumps. Inter
im I revenue stumps and the different
denominations of currency issued to
national hunks, are printed from en
graved plates in the bureau of engrav
ing and printing nt Washington.
The original dies are tever destroy
ed. It? a system of transferring the
impression or design is passed from
the die to it soft steel roll, wbk-b Is
later hardened. A hundred plates cou
he produced from one hard stoi ro'.l
All of this engraved work receives
(iiL- saint- supervision and Is accounted
lor Just as accurately as the securities
that are printed therefrom. Every
morning the plates arc issued to the
vartots printing divisions of the bu
reau, and In the evening, when the
day's work is over, they are returned
to the vaults of the custodian of dies,
rolls and plates, where they nre count
ed, checked and looked up with time
locks.
After approximately 50,000 impres
sions nre printed from a steel plate It
necomes usek'ss as far as its original
purpose Is concerned. The delicately
engraved lines and geometric In the
work become worn, and tho portrait
loses its' detail. When the plate he
comes so affected as to render It unfit
for further satisfactory printing a dn
plicate is ordered to be made for
printing future orders from the treas
ury department. The old plate is then
canceled and laid aside, subsequently
to be destroyed.
This destruction, or, rather, trans
formation, takes place Just after the
1st of January each Tear under the dl
reetlon of a committee appointed by
the secretary of the treasury composed
of three persons, one of whom repre
sents the secretary and acts as chair
man, another the commissioner of In
terual revenue and the third looking
nfter the interests of the comptroller
of the currency.
Under Instructions from the depart
ment the committee makes n schedule
In duplicate of all the canceled mate
rial, the original list being retained by
the committee to form a part of Its re
port to the secretary and tho duplicate
placed Inside the box In which the
plates nre to tie packed. The boxer
are made to hold an average of loo
pounds each. As each box is tilled Un
cover Is nailed on and the box num
herod and sealed with the treasury
seal. The sealed boxes are then stored
In the vaults of the bureau until suen
time ns Is convenient for their convey
ance to the place of destruction.
The committee recently reported t-
the secretary of the treasury the de
struction of 4.32fi pieces, wolghlug
41,S() pwmds-'ive.r twenty tyus with
Many New Styles in
Afternoon and
Evening Gown?
JUST RECEIVED-NOW ON DISPLAY
STYLES ARE OFFERED HERE THAT WOULD DO CREDIT
TO THE MOST EXCLUSIVE CITY STORE AND PRICED
MUCH LOWER. EVERY NEW SHADE AND FABRIC OF THE
SEASON IN THIS SHOWING. COME IN AND LOOK THEM
OVER TODAY $15.00 TO 60.00. . ;
Society Brand Full Dress Suits
. SOCIETY BRAND PULL DRESS SUITS NOW CARRIED IN
STOCK SAVING YOU THE TROUBLE OF WAITING. PRICE
$40.00. .
Full Dress Vests
$5.00
drawn from tfie vaults. To convey
ihis vnst amount of metal required the
services of eight laborers and a team
of draft horses attached to one of the
huge money wagons, of the bureau,
making eight trips to the United States
navy yard, where the creinutiqn take."
place in the foundry.
On arriving at its destination the
committee directs thevxiiloadlng. The
boxes are removed trom the wagon on
to Hand trucks and taken by clevatoi
U to the Hour level of the cupola door
The boxes nre here opened, the carbon
duplicate schedule removed and the
plates again counted and checked a
tl?y are cast Into the furnace.
i'.om the time the plates are taken
from the vaults of the custodian until
the last one is thrown into the (ire the
are under the watchful eyes of the
members of the committee, who see
that none goes astray, for if one or twe
of those plates should fall Into lllegitl
mate hands and later be put to lin
proper use It would probably cause
considerable embarrassment to the gov
eminent.
In order to ascertain whether the de
structiou has been complete, the coin
mittee must wait until all the melted
steel !s drawn from the furn.icn ami
the cupola opened and cooled. The
I melted steel Is poured into molds cov
ering a great variety of castings that
evontunllv, find their way to the nrma
ment of our modern battleships.
It may he a yoke for an eight inch
gun weighing three or four tons, or It
may be some minor casting for a tor
pedo tube It Is not beyond the range
of possibility that the odicer who sights
one of the Immense fourteen Inc h rllles
may have in tils pocket at the time a
note nf some denomination printed
from a steel money plate that has de
veloped by a series of eruditions Into a
part or tile very gun he is adjusting t"
wrenk destruction upon any object In
the path of Its flying projectile.
What appears to be a waste In one '
department of the government thus be
comes a valuable asset in another. -New
York Times.
The Modern Polonius.
"My son. be polite until you have n,
cumulated your first hundred thon
sand."
"Yes. dad " .
"After that the regulation thing Is to
be crisp and terse." Louisville Con
rler-.Ioiirnal.
Anger begins In folly and ends lr.
renenta nee. Pythagoras.
Keeping In the Heat.
Ton speak Incorrectly when you say
that your fur coat is warm. There Is
no heat in the fur coat at all, but It
keeps yon warm because It prevents
the heat of your body from passing oft"
into the cold air. The Bible says that
God "glvetli snow like wool." because
snow is a poor conductor of heat. Just
like wool, and protects the seeds or
fruits and vegetables in the soil in whi
ter Just as wool protects your bodily
heat A saucepan which has been used
will bring the water to a boll more
quickly than a new one beennse Mie
bottom being covered with soot 'Jt ab
sorbs heat more quickly than Highly
polished new surface. TV cook pol
ished the lids of kettles because, when
bright, they do not draw the heat and
la this way ke;p tho contents warm
longer thai if dull. New York World.
Full Dress Shirts
$1.50 to $2.00
Fownes White Dress Gloves for
Men, $1.50 to $2.00
"The Wolf a Great Show;
Eugene Walter's play ."The Wolf",
which comes to the Arcade Theatre on
Friday, November 14, might be called
a poem play of pictures. It is very
seldom that one sees a play that grips
the interest and piques the curiosity
with its first line. "The Wolf" does
that. The curtain rises upon a beau
tiful scene, it is Indian summer in the
northern woods. Pines and golden
foliage mingle their light and shade.
A stream winds down the avenues of
cotton wo ids, in the back ground are
the blue foothills. To the right is the
log house of MacTavish, with a great
tree in front of it. Under the tree
sits Ba'tiste, the Canuck, puffing at
his jiipe. In the porchway is the
gaunt form of MacTavish, he, too, is
smoking. The two men pui'f in sil
ence for a moment, while the auditor
takes in the perfect coloring perspec
tive and grouping of the sdene. Then
MacTavish -says: "you say she died,
mon".
This is one of Eugene Walter's
strong points begins his story with
the opening lines. He wastes no time
in unnecessary co.ivsrsation, and he
sticks to the point from curtain to cur
tain.
Another of these pretty picture ef
fects is in act three, Two men arej
squatting in the foreground, standing,!
U the tall, lithe graceful figure of
Jules Beaubein. Hilda appears at the
top of the trail scrying the canoe
paddle. She' stands there an inslanf;
holding the paddle like a spear, framed
in the oark pine pho golden le-uage
color; with the sunset redening omi
nously at out her. One almost exp;ct
to hear the wild cry of the Valkyrie.
A little later come the great and in
tense scene of the play, which is with
out doubt one of the most novel and
gripping scenes ever staged.
Vegetables & Fruits
FOR YOUR SUNDAY DINNER
Celery Cabbage
Sweet Potatoes Pumpkin
Cauliflower Squash
Head Lettuce
Hot House Lettuce
Dry Onions
Green Peppers
Jonathan Apples
Prunes
Cranberries
Pineapples
Tokay Grapes
Bananas
Florida Grape Fruit
We are now ready to supply you
with Rogers Nut Bufjter in all
three sizes, 15c, 20c, and 35c.
Berry Bros.
Grocers
PHONE MAIN 721.
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