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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1913)
0 ; ' ' ' j - LA GBANDE EVENING OBSERVER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. I; if: Gifts I . . . From The Store of Useful-. Only Three More Shopping Days Before Christmas Don't Delay Look over this of Practical Gifts It will help you' decide. Gift Suggestions That will Please a Man Bath Robea " ' House Slippers, s $6.00 to $13.50 75c to $3.00. ; Military Brushes Traveling Bags, i $2.25 to $4.60 Set. $2.50 to $25.00. . "j Smoking Jackets , , Card Sets, ; ' $4.50 to $12.00. , $1.00to$6.00. :r -Shaving Sets 1 ...... ., Keiser Neckwear. $1.25 to $12.50. 50c to $1.50. Collar , and Cuff Boxes, t . Fownes Gloves $i.00to$2.75. ! $1.50 to $2.50. Traveling Sets, Tie Racks, $1.25 to $10.00. 7,; . 25c to $1.50. ' Interwoven Hosiery, Linen Handkerchiefs, ; 25c to 50c Pair.. 25c to 50c. Toyland Our Chief Joseph Indian Blankets would please' any one of your friends. Many attractive 'new. de signs to choose from. Note the prices. Largo blankets $5.00 to $7.50, Small Blankets $1.50 to $2.00 V I SI I IN OUR NEW BALCONY. Hundreds of gifts that will gladden the hearts of little folks. Unbreakable toys of every description o select from.' ':V -V'V-.rr.' Sole La Grande Agents for: STEIFi" SIMPORTED GERMAN TOYS. Hand Finished lifelike Toy Animal sand Character Dolls 25c to $8.00 each. She Would Appreciate Any of the Following Gifts PERSIAN IVORY TOILET SETS.: and single pieces, such as combs, mirrors, picture -frames, hair receivers, hair brushes, .etc' Singly Pieces 35c and up. Toilet Sets $1.50 and up Bath Robes. .'. ' 92.50 to $12.00 Silver Mesh Bags, 65c to $5.00. v Vanity Bags, 35c to $2.50. Boudoir Caps, ;V ; "' 65c to $1.75. Sewing Sets. 50c to $4.00.: Embroidery , Pin Cushions, 25c to $2.50. Fownes Gloves, ' . $1.50 to $3.75, ... Embroidered Handkerf;hiefs,' 20c to 75c. Work Baskets and Bags, $1.25 to $2.50. Embroidery Scissors, 35 c to 50c Pair. A Set of Gordon Furs would be . sure to please- her, $8.00 to $200.00 Per Set. Marab Ostrich Furs, $3.00 to $8.50 THE OBSERVER a'28-pago Christmas edition in which I ...:n i j BBUCB DENNIS. Editor nd Owner great importance. There are statistics ' ' " i w'" K've one renewed confidence a MtKKl 1HKIstMAb TO ALL. in his community and will cause the ; : I eyes to open wide at figures mot With Unions and Wallowa counties 'generally heretofore known. comprising an important'unlt, as they I The agricultural industry, the do in affairs of the state of Oregon; timber industry, the railroad division, with the . two counties working to-1 the schools, churches and other gether in industrial maters, in social j branches of society have surged for affairs and along the lines of develop-, ward in the past year at a pace that tnent it is but right and proper to0ne does not realize unless he looks consider these two 1 communities as I deeply into the subject. ' More prod one, and in bidding the annual Merry Ucts have gone on the markets of the Christmas greeting to the people of .world from the Grande Ronde valley one county the same bidding goes and Wallowa county than ever before, forward from the Evening Observer I More money is returning in payment to the other. jfor those products, enlarging and per- - There is no part of Oregon where if ecting the commercial situation to a better conditions eitist than in Union j degree) that is pleasant to observe, and Wallowa counties, and at the j In our endeavor to , cover' these present holiday period it would be events earnest effort has been ex well to stop and take stock of. the pended and every subject treated has many good things that exist here. , j had careful investigation. We today With this desire in mind the Even-1 hand you this Christmas number of ing Observer has herewith presented the Observer , with a cheerfulness La Grande National Bank Organized in 1887. PE8IG1UTED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOYERSHENT. CWITED 8TATES POSTAt SAYINGS DEPOSITORY. . V Capital ......ll08.M0.eO ' Surplus ..130.00O.0a I ' Total Resources I1.00,000.0 , 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. ( We respectfully solicit yoar buitneee. La Grande National Bank . La Grande, Oregon that can only be felt by the man who is proud of his home ': community. This . pride is shared ' by every em. ploye who has assisted in producing this number of the paper. ' : And to the happy people of Union and Wallowa countie? we sayj con tinue in your happiness; look ' not for other locations else you be dis appointed when you compare them with your present home; strive hard to make next year step ahead of the one now recorded, ' and throughout each day of the coming year live in such away that you may show your appreciation to a good God who hag permitted you to exist in this locality. May each and everyone of you ex perience a Merry Christmas and may each1 and everyone contribute to the happiness of others for so con tributing you acquire the real pleas ure and satisfaction of a joyous Yuletide. stop' most at handsome homes, the 'and by thrift and hopest effort now SANTA CLAUS. Some one asks whether the Ob server readers think that children should be deceived into believing that there is such a person as Santa Claus.. , Why, of course not. What all good people think is that children should know there is a Santa Claus. Put into the breast of every kid in La Grande this paraphrase of faith "I know that my Santa Claus liveth." That is the work laid out for the Good Fellows of La Grande. The good fellow is the real Santa Claus. Santa Claus deceitful? Not for a minute. He is all right. The trouble with Santa Claus is that a lot of rich people have stolen his livery to serve well, not to serve him in. They have stolen his clothes. V Santa Claus is not interested in the rich at all. He does not care to give presents to those who are not in want of them. It is the poor that are on his mind and in his heart Let any child in La Grande be broken-hearted Christmas morning and the real Santa Claus that missed him will have a bad day of it . Who is this old apple-cheeked fel low with white whiskers, wearing a rich red suit and ermine cap ? He is an old fraud. He is a snob. Catch his reindeers stopping at a hovel! Not a bit of it. They're trainod to handsomer the better. How their bells jingle at a palace! What costly gifts the counterfeit Santa . Claus leaves there 1 ' Your real Santa Claus looks out for the poorer streets. . . If there' is a dark alley with its squalid home; that is the house that - figures largest on his calling list. Wherever there is a family with a black cloud of hunger 'and want hanging over it, that is the cloudy that he paints with the silver lining of his Christmas dinner and his Christmas toys. Faith 'n Santa Claus! Would a person' of La Grande rob a child in a darkened chamber of any ray of light that entered there? Certainly not. Well, would a single one rob any child, whose home may be a darkened chamber, of the ray of light that a real Santa Claus brings with him there on Christmas Day? No, ho! So, Good Fellows, including Elks you real Santa Clauses get busy, has a bank account, a piece of land the man who is sending his children to school, who is an active citizen in the community. r . This is a sample of the Oregon gospel preached by Chapman at Chi cago. He did not tell anyone to come out here and buy land at a thousand dollars an acre, but he told the great solid, rank and file of the middle states population that there are good openings in Oregon for the farmer who farms veery much in same as he does in the middle coun try. And this is the gospel that is going 'to save Oregon from being a Portland instead of an Oregon. Mr. Chapman knows that Portland has outgrowjn herself (that tehe has a municipality too big and too expens-r. ive for the developed sections of Ore gon to maintain and he is using his every energy to build up the outside state and let Portland stand still for a while until the rural regions catch up. t: And Chapman is right. It is well gravel from the bed of the Grande Ronde river onto the roadway be- ' teween Island and La Grande. It took no high salaried engineers, neither did it take any mixing plant, noi narrow guage railroad to haul the gravel. He did it in the good old fashioned way roads were built be- fore tfie maina for spending money, swep over the county. What was the result? There is a good road between La Grande and Island and the only place one is liable to get stuck is" inside the city limits of La Grande where Mr. Kiddle hesitated on en- encroaching with his' good roads campaign. When , the Elgin ' Recorder ' cools down a little we commend it and every other bonding enthusiast to ' the Fred Kiddle method of building good roads, which can be, done with- : out putting a mortgage ..on every home in Union county. that not an eager, hopeful child of that he was sent to the Chicago land h, in T n r!J ShOW. w. pnii xm wauuc may iiiiaa vuur Christmas cheer. CHAPMAN AT CHICAGO. It Was a good stroke of business sense to send C. C. Chapman man ager of the Portland Coriimercial club, to the Chicago land show, for the land show has been rightfully designated as the show window of all the states. He took an Oregon exhibit not a Portland exhibit and he talked, as only Chapman can, of the resources of this state; of the need of farmers and the inducements being held out to the man who will locate here and till the soil. Eastern Oregon ' -was not over, looked by him, for a personal letter to the editor of the Observer, tells of the attention attracted to this sec ion by the Oregon display. In his letter Mr. Chapman uses that good common sense he has always dis played by urging the people in East earn Oregon to quit promoting but get down to business, do things in a practical manner. By this he means instead- of spreading the stories of men growing rich in a day from pro motion of some enterprise, to tell over and over again the standing of some good man who came here with little HOW TO BUILD ROADS. Elgin's Recorder a very creditable weekly newspaper, throws a redhot spasm because the Observer insists inconsistency prevails when people talk of. bonding a state for sixteen million dollars to build roads' when the road from La Grande to the local cemeteries is impassable at times of the year. The Observer told the truth, but the truth is what hurts all of us. Now,, so far as we have observed Elgin has used the same road build ing tactics that La Grande has used. She has a good street in the business district, but how about the thorough fares elsewhere within the city? Fred Kiddle, who has lived in Island City many years, and probably each year has sworn more at bad roads than any other man in Union county, showed us all how to build roads a year or so ago. He listened to all:i this flossy talk about bonding forji good roads, heard the Warren Con-'! structibn company . and other road J building concerns talk about hard . surfacing country roads afenormous ! prices, and then he went to work with j-J a few teams and hauled nature's 1 Read the advertisements too. I Shoot AT T- S. Makin's j Ranch j Seven Miles East of La Grande j Tuesday Dec. 23rd BeeL Ducks, Geese and Fresh Pork will be Shot for. T. S. MAKIN it
