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will and when you will, you'll not find bargains like these. We've saved them specially tec emphasize our Regular. Friday Surprise. Sale
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and to give those who have not yet been able to attend this great sale an .opportunity to "get in" on the good things:.
Two Great Big Half-Hour Specials For This Day
3 prs.Men's Knit Wrist Cotton Gloves 10c 10 Bars .Crystal White LaundrySoap 25c J
10:00 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 9-3 Pairs to a Customer 2:00 to 2:30 p.m.. Friday, lan. 9-10 Bars to a Customer .'"".'.'
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All Remnants HALF PRICE. Wool Dress Goods," Wash All Ladies and Children's Suits and Coats af
Goods, Linen Goods, Curtain Goods, White Goods HALF PRICE
Hundreds of Other Just as GoodBargains all Over the
Store-You'll Have to Hurry if You Want to Get Them
The Peoples Store
Inaugurators of La Grande's Greatest Sale
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Tit Is claimed that 3,000 Methodist
ministers get only $500 a year each,
aut tfiiiik of all the slippers and mot
tto cards presented by admiring par-jshoners.'
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BIG CITIES CUT DOWN EMPLOYE
I STAFF.
La Grande Office Has Not Felt Prun
ing Knife As Yet.
It is asserted that more than a
thousand men of the American Ex
press company have been, laid off,
owing to the increased parcels post
business and the subsequent loss to
the company. The new order of
things has affected a large number
of men in Portland but so far no one
of the local office has been affected.
The new rates that will go into effect
some time in the near future will
arrest, somewhat, the business of the
postal department, it is said. But
the postoffice department is handling
sbch a variety of things that it is
certain that express business wijl
never be what it was before, ac
cording to belief.
Crooked Genius.
Once upon u time tlie city .of Lnn- '
don bud to pay u county rute, but tnla
was legally abolished ninny years ago.
A certain attorney, who bad at on
time been connected wltb local taxa- !
tlou, lilt upon the brilliant Idea of re- I
levying tills obsolete rate n id turning !
tlie proceeds to bis own use. He got
the proper demand notes printed, dis
tributed. them in the usual fashion tin (I
the recipleufs paid up like lambs'. The
swindler hn'd''n'1fogular olllce, a collec
tor and all the usual accompaniments.
It is, said that he made over $15,000
a year, and no one ever thought ot
questioning the legality of the Ifete.
If the crooked genius had been 8ti?-
3ed with a couple of years' profit nu1
then quietly discontinued the colleo j
Hon of the rate the chnnees are that '
no one would ever have been any the
wiser. But he wim greedy and kept i
on year after yonr, until by chnnce J.
demand note fell Into the hands of sonjfl
one who knew. Pearson's Weekly.
Vnnunl Meeting of trie Stockholders
of the State Bank of Imbler.
Notice is hereby given that the an
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 Cashier.
One Man Applauded.
Camllle Snlnt-Snens was present
when Verdi's "Hymn of All Nations"
was rendered for the first time at the
ipenlns ceremonies of the world's fair
In London, and he gave this reason for
the "failure" of the composition: "T&e
hymn was arranged to Introduce the
national anthem of the vnrlous coun
tries, and. not knowing thnt the 'Mar
seillaise' was at thnt time In bad re
pute, it was used as representative of
France. The Emperor Napoleon when
he heard the strains turned pale, and
the knowing ones In the audience were
so greatly embarrassed that no one In
the great throng dared appland. Yed,
one man did applaud, and that was L
Napoleon arose In bis box and directed
his opera glass toward me, and 1
looked at him through my glass. After
A few moments the emperor hurriedly
departed."
Tne Vegetable Caterpillar.
?Sw Zealand's vegetable eaterpiJJIT
Is not vegetable at all. .It Is a: grub
about the length of the Bnger whle
bas Its habltut In friable mold at tns
roots of the rata vine. In many in
stances this grub, known to New Ze
lapder colonials by its Maori name,
aweto. Is Infected by the spores of t
fungus, Cordyceps (Spboeria) robertsiv
While the mycelium of this fungus M
invading .the tissues of the- aweto it
sends up a spore bearing stalk to the
height of from four td eight lnehea
Just between the bend and the first
ring of the body of the grub. By the
time the spores are ready to- dlscharg
the animal dies, and the whole body fji
found filled with vegetal material
The same spot pf ground Is the theatfw
of a second drama of vegetable feroc
ity. While' the fungus is destroy Injf
the Insect nt its roots the rata vine
grows upward by twining about some
tree of less rapid growth and in tb
end strangles its support and main
tains thereafter a tree existence of it?
own.
y t When
fjt'-y'7 demand
When your horse resolves to
our- brand, of food, in
preference-- to all. others we
think he ought to Have it. If
dumb animals could speak we
think the- chorus in. favor of
our grain, and fed would be
a mighty found otn,. but as they
can't, we? will have to appeal
to the owner. Y'wx caa't beat
our braid of feed anywhere.
Phone us your wood orders.
Snook Bros. Produce Co.
Phone Main 706
Fish
Fresh fish everyday
FirSt. Fish Market.
We have our own delivery and
deliver any time.
, JV. Maderick
402V4 N. Fir St. Phone R. 741
Gave Him a Christian Name.
Even the polyglot Swiss interpreter
it the general postofilce admits that
there are languages which would
stump him. Uow would be have solv
ed the problem once presented at the
' Ilampstead Green ' postoffice and re
corded in Balnes' "On the Track of
tho Mnll Conch?" Two ladies wanted
to send a money order to a foreign
tradesman In Oxford street "What
Christian name)' Inquired the clerk.
, "He Is a Turk and bas none." "We
must bnve a Christian name," the
clerk Insisted. "But yon cac't. ni
bill merely snys 'Kotzemollen.' " . "Oh,
very well," decided the clerk. "That
will do. Cut tils name In two and
make the order payable to 'Kotze Mo
lten.' " Solomon could not have don
better. London Chronicle.
Time's Changes.
Why Is It that laws which worked
very well fifty or sixty years ago are
being discarded? Why is it that laws
which a quarter century ago would
have been laughed down are getting
upon the books of every state in the
Union? Why Is it that there are new
Ideas In teaching, new Ideas about the
liberty of the Individual, new Ideas
about a man's relationship with his
neighbor? Why Is it. In short, that
there is a vast discontent with old In
stitutions and old wnys? It Is because
the world has outgrown the govern
ment the Ideas, the habits of thought
that fitted easily and serenely enough
Into the lives of our great-grandparents,
but which are creaking In their
Joints now. Life today Is a very dif
ferent thing from life fifty or sixty
years ago. Toledo Blade.
, A Map That Failed.
The French Nntlonnl library in the
Rue de Itlchelleu. Purls. Is full of wbn
ders for the lovers of history. One of
Its treasures Is a map of North and
South America as French possessions.
The map Is dated liiiM. and here Is the
explntiiitlou of It: Catherine de.Mi"dt
els. the queen of Henry 11. and mother
of Knini-ol II., Charles I. and Henri
III., dreamed olire of the conquest of
the two Ainerlons, Sbe evpn named
viceroys, one for North America and
the otfier for Smjlh America. They
were on Hielr wiiy to tho new world
when the queen's audacious plan fell
through because of events at home.
The queen, however, had a map made
showing her projected possessions uu
der the French flag.-New York Sun,
Have yon eaten too many big, fine dinners during the holidays?
If so, thorouhly cleanse your system' before you become sick.
It is far easier to arrest disease in its early stages than to pcrmai
nently get rid of it later. See your doctor now, and then us, before
the ill effects have settled down upon you. You can then begin the
new year with vigor and vim.
Come to OUR Drug Store.
NEWLIN DRUG CO.
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