La Grande evening observer., December 29, 1913, Image 4

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
MONDAY, DECEMBER, 29, 1913.
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Annual Mmtng Out Sale!
Beginning Saturday, January 3rd
Heavy Reductions in Prices Throughout Our Entire Stock.
Goods must be moved and moved quickly. In order to
our nine tailors busy during the dull season so we will
have them when the spring trade opens we will give re
ductions on Ladies' and Men's Tailored Garments during
the Month of January. Everything in the store reduced.
Prices will be quoted later. Watch our Ads. and save money
La Grande, Or.
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NEW GOVERNMENT. ,
Manistee, Michigan, by adopting
the new city manager form of gov
ernment, has achieved the distinction
of being the first Michigan city to
endorse this new system.
The plan brought prominently into
the public eye after being choBen by
La Grande and Dayton, Ohio, bids
fair to outstrip in popularity the
commission form, of which it is an
outgrowth. The weakness of the
commission plan is that it calls for
fb popular election of men supposed
to be experts in their several depart
ments. It is well known that few
specialists have the personal quali
ties which make them able to appeal
to the crowd. The commissioners
as a result frequently are politicians
of the same type as those who held
office under the usual form of city
government. .
Under the city manager plan the
municipality retains the commission,
but instead of acting in an executive
capacity, it becomes simply a board
of directors with general supervision
of the executive it chooses. Hereto
fore American cities have been
limited in their choice of adminis
trators to the local field. Under this
new plan they can hire them where
they will, ns a business corporation
does. Dayton aimed high when it
offered its management to Colonel
Goethals, but by so doing it gave the
public an excellent idea of its new
freedom of choice.
The city manager is as applicable
to small as to lnrge cities. The De
cember issue of the American City
tells of the satisfactory experience
which Abilene, Kansas, a place of
about 5,000 inhabitants, has had with
the new system. Manistee is nearly
three times as large.
WILL CORN BECOME A GRANDE
RONDE CROP?
Will field corn ever become a staple
Grande Ronde crop?
Karl J. Stackland says it will, and
Knrl is a close observer and has a
good many things up his sleeve that
; have proved very good for this valley.
He says the elevation is not too
jhigh; the nights are not too cold, nor
are the seasons too short.
I He admits that to bring Kansas or
Iowa corn out here and plant it means
'failure, but he holds to the same opin
ion shared by the corn man of the
O.-W. R. & N. company that seed
properly - acclimated will produce a
lIlAAW vinlrl rtt nnr-rt in tbio t'o'lm. an1
.that corn from such seed will ripen.
We do not pretend to know
I whether Mr. Stackland is right or
j wrong, but we do know that if his
jconclusion proves correct there is a
i wonderful future for the Grande
, Ronde valley in the way of raising
'corn.
' Tho major portion of the food-
producing sections of the United
States raise com which makes that
cereal king of all products. Wheat,
of course, is a close second, but
wheat requires large acreage and a
wheat country is necessarily a
sparsely settled country, while a corn
country is just the reverse. There
is a great deal more work to raising
corn, but it can be raised every year
instead of every other year as wheat
is raised.
This valley should investigate
every possibility of growing corn, for
once it is established and proven a
success the tremendous tonnage of
feed will add to the stock numbers
so materially that the increased
revenue will be felt by every one, and
especially the man who farms.
I Jim Hill says there was a time
jwhen a "bond" carried some respect.
jThen, he says, the wiley promoter
saw people liked the word "bond" and
ho began to bond for all he could and
issue stock, too, which brought the
bond down to a very common ex
pression. Hill says there was a time
when a "man's word was as good as
his bond," and that this meant his
word was good. "But," he continues,
"now a man's bond is only as good
as his word." However, such pro
motions as these happened in Oregon
and there are several of them be
fore Ralph Watson and S. D. Vincent
were put on the state's pay roll to
look after all this flossy blue sky
financiering.
If there is a place i nthe whole
country where every farmer should
have an automobile' it is here in the
Grande Ronde valley wherelistances
are great A few days ago Frank
Conley drove in from his ranch, IS
wniles distant, transacted a lot of
business as he always does when he
comes to town, and was home be
tween noon and dark. It is the
farmer who needs the machine the
fellow in town can get alone verv
nicely without his garage bill each
month.
gets his when you buy cord wood
from the boys who do the work.
Some of the Washington depart
ments are installing dictographs. It
lis not supposed they will catch any
thing very incriminating, unless some
: clerk should happen to sleep audibly
: An Indianapolis man shot his bride
;of a week at the breakfast table.
I That is hardly giving her coffe a fair
'show.
I THE TELEmipii I
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A Chicago womn wants a divorce
because her husband dreamed of his
first wife. What brutes some hus
bands are.
Enterprise will have a chance to
think over that proposed new rail
road now while the snow is on he
ground.
Joseph's huskies will match the La
Grande huskies on the gridiron New
Years Day. Good Indians on New
Years always.
We will bet the old Stetson hat that
every candidate for the Baker judge
ship is against the governor except
Bob Carter.
Certainly it looks as though ' city
government in this country had
entered a new lease of life.
John D. says he believes in honest
toil. If you say it quickly, it sounds
hike honest oil.
And cordwood has also taken
its place with other commodities to
help the high cost of living along.
But few people regret paying the man
who chops and hauls the wood his
' " " - nnw ,h( .labor
Germany is suffering from a plague
of mice. Maybe that's the reason
the German suflfrhgettes are so quiet.
nnual Meeting of the Stockholders
of the State Bank of Imbler.
Notice is hereby given that the an-
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By . Appointmanti. Professors
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nual meeting of the stockholder of
the State Bank of Imbler, will be held
a their banking rooms, at Imbler,
Oregon, on Tuesday, January 13, be
tween the hours of 2 o'oclock and 4
o'clock P. M for the election of a
board of five directors to serve for
one year end the transaction of such
other business as may come before
such meeting. ,
SHERWOOD WILLIAMS, '
30t Cndliier.
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munication multiplies a man's capacity
and makes it possible for the business
man to transact more business.
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La Grande National Bank
Organized .in 1887.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
UNITED STATES POSTAL SAYINGS DEPOSITORY.
Capital $100.000.00
Surplus ..: $130.000.00
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.
We respectfully solicit your business.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon