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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1914)
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Tuesday, January 20, wu THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editur and Owner. 1 - And Now Comes the Climax of Safe Bargains at WesFs Entered la the post-flkc at Graade, Oregon, aa second 1: ., ; ; AertMRBff rates mi application. AO j: 1 a ' S reach the office the day before Ibt ad appearf. ' Addreas all communication to THE OBSERVES, 1710 Sixth Street. PAGE FOUR SUBSCRIPTION BATES. .Daily, single copy .... ...5c ' DJy. per week 15c Daily, per mumlk CScji Daily, per six awita ia ad- vmm J 257, ar rr ;' J Bally, by mall per year la ad- vancc ....(. ! Weekly Obi ;rer, per year in., if advance ANDERSON SUSTAINS WEST. I Light the boa fire and get out the J Unci - . Bring forth CoL Lawson who can' J kill a rat and never look at the rat. j Take Your Choice of Our Entire Line of Ladies' Coats For $9.90 Prepare the chariot and four white horses to transport the governor and Miss Hobbs. .- Shoot off the sky rockets and ring the bells. ' why? .. .. .... Jodge Anderson, of Baker county, ,J has sustained West. . - - Sustained him in what? ! In jumping on Copperfield the frontier town on the Snake river. As the parade files past the court Iti those fearful CoDtterfieldianB be burned in effigy; let Baker county be ----------------------..-..-...... clothed in white and proclaim to the j world that she has been purified; that she is the only pure mining section in ine universe. i;iap your hands in praise, foe chr millenium has been ushered into Eastern Oregon with alias Hobbs and the colonel in com mand. V. :c , But look Another parade It is partially hid by silk laces, high priced draperies and tinsel. Look closely A float car rying a Western Oregon hotel, and a poker game in progress, on every floor; another float it is Western Oregon's white slave traffic; still an. other it is the well-dressed influen tial saloon men of Portland selling liquor on Sunday; yet another The state house at Salem filled with numberless clerks and commission;-, grabbing the taxpayer's money in purely "legal" manner. No martial law in the Willamette valley. Oh, no. What a farce. How easily some are fooled. Includes AbsolutelyEvery Coat ihloreff romT$20.00T to $40.00. None Reserved . Take Your Choice of Our Entire Line of Ladies. Newest For .1 $9.90 We Must Clear The Racks of Every Suit In The Store Imme diately - Hence This Offer On Suits That Sold Regularly Up to Wesfs Sixteenth Annual Clearance Sale BETTERING THE POSTOFFICE. A change in the poetoffice money mder system is promised by which such an order may be collected at any rffiee instead of merely the one on which it is drawn, simply by the en dorsement of the payee. It is said that the express companies are op posing it But then we have them, always with us, the promoters of the plan argue, so that the opposition is rather in the nature of reason for ap proval, and should have the effect of hastening the change which would make postoffice orders like a check, oe rather a certified check for the government order would insure that the drawer had deposited the amount called for, whereas uncertified checks are every day sent and taken on honor that the drawer has the amount asked on deposit. No careful thought on the subject can,we believe, arrive at any other conclusion than that this change should be made. It seems like an anomaly that this govern ment of a continent should . compel a holder of a promise to pay to hunt out just the one postoffice, before he can get his pay. . ' The proposed ch would give currency to this class of checks or orders, and that is just what they have lacked since they were instituted.-''.:'. :.. v. . There ought also, with this reform. to be another, and that is to reduce the price of an order to a sum merely nominal. The government, it should La Grande National Bank Organized in 1887. BESIVSaTED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES G0YXK5KEST. CKITED STATES POSTAL 8ATIXG9 DEPOSITOR!. Capital IIOO.KK.O Surplus ., U0,8 .0 Total Resources tl.OOO.OOO.O For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have successfully catered to the monetary wants of people of La Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley. We respectfully solicit your business. La Grande National Bank La Grande, Oregon be remembered, reaches with its post office, regions that cannot be served ly other conveniences, and hence the people roundabout must rely on this service. So orders should be made nominal in their cost, something like a letter, and be endorsable so as to give them currency. If this should be done to a proper extent we should thereby institute another reform thai has long been asked in vain, and the lack of which has been a reproach to us; that is, a means of sending small sums by mail. , To think of a continent cf a hun dred million of people still using stick postage stamps as currency of value for small sums is almost in crediblt. We should be able to buy from the government checks or or ders as we buy postage stamps in various small amounts, and for use fill these in with the name - of the payee. With bank notes or green backs, with endorsement, there is no trouble or confusion. What is le prevent us from making certificates for' smaller sums, to be transmitr-jl by mail, to a person whose endorse ment would make it acceptable? Of course all this has been discussed time and time again, and no good reason has ever been brought against it We do not do it simply because we do not, and yet we lay claim to being the most practical people on earth. WASHED UP BY THt WAVES Innumerable Article, Many of Value, Reward Search Made Along the New York Beaches. Along the beach at Manhattan and Brighton, as well as at the Rockawaye, articles aggregating $100 in value are picked up every morning, relates the New York Herald. And this amount is considered by the regulars along those shores to be a very conservative estimate. . The articles found range from the gold filling of a tooth to a cork leg. And you need not think the cork leg statement is drawing It with a . long bow. There was one washed ashore the last week in June. It belonged to James J. Fitzeim mons, cook' on a Maine coasting schooner. Fitzsimmons bad removed it, so It came out afterward in a Wa ter street tavern, so that he might In dulge in a bath. The schooner lurched. So did the cork leg. Fitzsimmons wailed an alarm, but the skipper, be ing in a hurry to make a Maine port at a particular hour, refused to luff and pick the leg up. So it washed ashore and Its identity was revealed by a brass plate containing the own er's name and New York address. It was sent back by parcel post .. Every now and then a wig is picked up. The supposition Is that the owner was swimming at night and was over confident that his top piece would re main on his head when be dived. Lock ets and chains are found in numbers. It is likely they are kept on the neck by girls and women when they don bathing costume and slip off when their owners are frolicking in the wavee. Of course they are dropped close to the shore line or they would never be seen again. The constant rolling shoreward of the waves grad ually forces them Into view. Watches, chains, finger rings, scarf pins, cuff links, studs, eyeglasses, belta, fountain pens, key rings, full seta of artificial teeth, garters, era- j vats, hatpins, canes, umbrellas, crutch es, suoe ducl;?8, gold natrpins, purses and scoreB of other things are among the daily morning finds. DARKEST AFRICA. The lovers lingered long. At their feet the noble Zambesi hurried oai ward to the sea. It was in Darkest Africa, but they were not afraid of tbe dark. - . . . . "No," she was cooing, softly but firmly, "I cannot marry you on any other terms. Paps says I'm worth three yoke of oxen and a tame ele phant, and I cannot become your wife for aiy less." "All I have in the world," be pro tested wildly, "la one yoke of oxen." For a moment no eound was heard, save the ripple of the water. She first broke silence. " '"I think " Her voice trembled, and her glance was bent shyly upon the ground. .. "Papa is willing to let me be a sister to you for one yoke of oxen." But he only groaned. Puck. Read the advertisements toe. . A Painful Reminiscence. "Yes," confessed the imprisoned ! confidence man. "I have had moments j of deep regret. I remember on the ' occasion or my nrst arrest I was barely nineteen years old", He paused for a moment "Year put In the good old clergy, man, sympathetically. "I was bitterly disappointed to find that not a single newspaper referred to me as "young in years but old Is crime.'" Puck- On an Ocean Trip. "That fellow gets seasick, but he'a a game sport." . "Keeps eating, does he?" "Yes; he's had four breakfasts this morning." (Joaoq's Phone, Red 3931. La Grande, v FRESH- TAMALES AND CHILI , - All kinds of HOT DRINKS Ice Cream Finest Line of Fresh Candies in town , : HOT TAMALES, OYSTER COCKTAIL, HOT BEEF TEA, HOT TOMATO N ECTOR. "Tea, Da Blood baa sees riding a horse a great deal lately for the pur pose of reducing flesh." "That so? Haa la reduced his weight audit" "No. But you aught to see tae none." The Very Human Worker. A curious type of labor dispute has developed simultaneously in two dif ferent directions in the shipbuilding Industry on the Clyde and among the ccal-trlmmers at Cardiff. In each in- Bianco ue - trouble has Men caused by the fact that a number of work era prefer the enjoyment of their due leisure to working' overtime, even for a considerable addition to their wages. They are not willing to sacrifice their half-hoiiday In order to gain more money by doing more work, the less so aa they have to resist the nressure of their womenfolk, who argue that when the husband works on Saturday afternoon the wire must work also in preparing his meals and bith. Aoo don Dally Mail. "-a.- 's Prem. Sugar Cured Hams Just in GRAPE FRUIT, ORANGES, BANANAS AND LEMONS California Rhubarb, Cucumbers, Sweet Potatoes, Celery, Cauliflower, Beats, Turnips, Rutabaeo Carrots and Cabbage, Head and Hot House Let tuce and Cranberries The City Grocery and Bakery E. POLACK, Proprietor. i i j I i Ml
