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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1914)
f PAGE EIGHT EX GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1914. BAKER QUINT LOSES EWE HOME SQUAD SHOWS IMPROVE MENTS AND WINS. Interesting Game Witnessed by Fair Sized Crowd Saturday. ; Baker's Y. M. C A. got a terrific trimming: here Saturday night when the M. I. A. A. showed a big im provement over the week before and ran away with the inter-club bas ketball game by a 49 to 20 score. Baker apparently lost some of- the form of the week previous while the home squad showed up better, and the wide margin in the eocre tells its own story. There were minutes of high grade ball butat times both teams were off color with the result that the game was intensely interesting and ' exciting. Wide margins in score not withstanding. Ths home guard was a persistent scoring machine and ' by dint of close guarding kept the visi tors from shooting baskets with any degree of certainty. The crowd - was fair sized and enjoyed the contest im mensely. Baker. 1 Field Free Tot goals throw Pta. Burke, c 3 3 9 Gearny, ......... .....2 0 4 Weeks, Miller, g 0 0 0 Potter, f .......3 1 7 Total points ...20 La Grande. Field Free Tot goals throw Pta. Larson, f .............9 3 21 Stoddard, f 6 0 12 Sehofield, c ........... .0 0 0 Woods, c ............ ..7 0 14 Hollister, g ....... .....1 0 2 Bean, g 0 0 0 Total points 49 OS LOUTH BETTER-WALLOW A CLUB HOLDS SESSION. Interesting Matters Pertaining to Good Roads Get Attention. sity of keeping op the ' town and county roads and other improvements. L. Couch, county commissioner, was next on the program. Mr. Couch stated he was in favor .of macadam ized and other forms of permanent roads, and instead of the further wasting of money on temporary roads why not save our money by building permanent roads. Mr. Hay den of the Jackson Duvsll Lumber Co., commented on the splen did way in which the schools of Wal lowa were run. L. E. George pointed out what ' a help to California, were her ; good roads and that we should pattern af-r ter her in this . line and get better roads."'" . . .. , ' . Bondsbuyers New Contract. (Continued I row "pe One.) " Wallowa, Jan. 26. (Special) The second banquet of the Better-Wallowa club was held in the auditorium of the school house; about 32 business men being present at this meeting. ; They were served by the domestic science class, five courses being par taken in. W. G. Trill, a well known attorney, gave the opening speech. Mr. Trill pointed out to the people the neces- its debts through sale of its re sources and still have $41,742.40 left City Treasurer Mansager has just completed his semi-annual statement of the city's financial standing and it is shown that the city is better off to the extent of 124,295.88 than it was one year ago January 1. . - The receipts f-r r'x ir.riths ending January 1, 1914, r a: S'.34, 318.85. With what cash was on hand when that period began, the city had re ceipts and cash on hand Jan. 1, 1914, $152,141.75. The disbursements for the same period were $132,766.66, leaving cash on hand at the beginning of the pres ent year of $19,375. 9, a major por tion of which is held up pending the settlement of the former treasurer's books. The expenditures by depart ments Are shown, the water depart ment calling for the greatest figure because of sewer construction. The department cost for the period $14, 988.56, the street department $11, 871.06, the police department $3,680, 40, the fire department $2,119.49, the administrative department, $25,096.08, making a total expenditure of $57, 755.59. The city's total resources are $796, 157.05, made up of water system, sewers, city hall, city building, pest house property, city park, library and site and furnishings, fire department, improvement bonds and warrants, liens and street and other depart ment tools and equipment With a total resource of $796,157.05, the city has liabilities amounting to , $754, 414.65, leaving a . present worth of $41,742.40 as against a present worth January 1, 1913, of $17,446.52. The cash balances January 1, 1914, were: General .$7,179.71 Water 2,824.32 Contingent .'. r, ..... . 293.76 Road 38.81 Special Interest .... ... 3,452.77 Beaver Creek sinking fund. 4,998.89 Water Contingent ' 19.05 Library 743.97 Park 376.10 There are overdrafts on several improvements amounting to a total of $3,585.89. , Birth Record. Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Mason on last Tuesday, a girL Mother and child are doing well BH Oil CO-OP LOCAL CONTRACTOR HAS BIG JOB TO REMODEL STORE. Contractor Will Use Only La Grande Material and La Grande Men. .'. Work involving the expenditure of some $5000 or more has commenced on the new co-operative store. It will be , new. in the sense that the building now occupied by the com pany .will be completely remodeled, enlarged, amplified, renovated, etc from top to bottom. . Contractor G. H. Rush of this city, has the contract and will expedite the work in his usual manner. He will remove the partition be tween thte present store building and the old Model bakery, put in new and modern display windows, will build a nw basement the entire length of the store and will add another storjr, besides building the structure to the alley ,thu enabling the company to do away with loading and unloading in the front instead of the rear of the building. Mr. Rush will expedite the work so as not to delay the opera tion of the store too long and will make of that building one of the best looking and most convenient in the city.: ; . ; ' , . Mr. Rush has done a great deal of building in this city and all of his work has been that of the skilled con tractor. It seems certain to predict that he will perform the work on this structure with the same dispatch with which he did the work on the Bohnen kamp building, which through his plans ranks among the most imposing in the city. Mr. Rush is one of the home men, who spends his money here and employs La Grarde labor, and has been meeting with the suc cess which his work deserves. AU of the materials will be bought here and all of the labor will be supplied by La Grande. WEST ORDERS ULTIMATUM; RESIGNATION OR DISINCORPOR ATE IS THE COMMAND. Attorney General Instructed to Pro ceed at Once..Resirnation Likely. Salem, Jan. 26. Governor West has instructed Attorney General Crawford to bring suit immediately to disincor porate Copperfield, the Baker county village which has been kept under martial law for the past three weeks, following the closing of the saloons there by state forces under command of Miss Fern Hobbs, the governor's secretary. Simultaneously with the action Governor West has notified Mayor Stewart of Copperfield of its commencement and told the mayor that the only way to bring a halt to the d is incorporation proceedings is for the mayor and all other city offi cials to resign forthwith. "It being established to the satis faction of this office,'' says the gov ernor in his letter to Atttorney Gener al Crawford, "chat until taken from them by the military authorities of the state, the government of the town of Copperfield, Ore., was in the hands of a lawless element, which was using charter as a shield for vice and - as a protection against criminal prose cution, I hereby request that your of fice kindly take the steps provided by law in order that the act of incor poration may be voided." SAFETY PICTURES COMING. ' A. W. Perlye Desires Commercial Club Rooms to Give Display. Efforts will be made to have the commercial club rooms for the pic tures which A. W.' Perley special rep resentative of the mechanical depart ment of the 0.-W., who is in the city with a special car to teach trainmen and others interested some of ' the economies which the road is trying to introduce to offset other losses. The car will be inadequate for the purpose thinks Mr. Perley and he is desirious of having business men of the city attend the exhibition. Super intendent Buell of the Instruction de partment of the Harriman lines wired Mr. Perley this morning stating the safety pictures would reach this city tonight or tomorrow. X Kaiser's Ex-Body Guard to JaiL BACHELORS LOSE MEMBER Wedding of Morton Highland nd Lucy Smith Celebrated. - Saturday, Jan. 24, the free and un trammeled order of bachelors lost one of their most esteemed members, When Morton Highland and Lucy Smith were united in marriage. The ceremony wsa performed by Rev. Drahn of the Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Highland are leaving on an extensive wedding tour to Riv erside, California, where Mr. ' High land owns highly improved orange property. They will also visit Lake port, to look after improvements on land there. Both are well known residents of La Grande. Berlin, Jan. 26. Franz Unnert, un til some years ago one of the Kaiser's personal body guards, today commen ced serving a sentence of six months for stealing. Unnort left the Kaiser's employ to take a position with a bank which paid a better salary. He be came hard up and deliberately appro priated a bag containing $250 in gold.. Another of the Kaiser's ex-body guards is under sentence of death for murdering his wife. The Kaiser has refused to interfere with the heads- NO SIGNS OF YIELDING. Start on Long Journey. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carpenter and daughter, Golda, of this city, leave tonight for points in California, i They will also visit at Phoeniz, Ari- j zona, and New Orleans, before return ing to the city. Dictator's Friends Think They Have Failed to Move Him. Mexico City, Jan. 26. President Huerta betrays no sign of yielding, al though he is cognizant of the increase in the strength of his enemies intrig uing within the capital and those in the field; is handicapped by inability to procure money, and is confronted with Washington's determination that he must retire from Mexico's affairs. Personal and political friends and the highest officials of the Catholic church in Mexico, who have been enr deavoring by methods, for the most part discreetly indirect, to bring about his elimination, are seemingly con vinced that they have failed. ' Arm Grafted on GirL Berlin, Jan. 26. Surgeons through out Germany today are watching with intense interest the case of Marie. Kubacek, who recently underwent a remarkable operation in a hospital at Prague. The patient a dressmaker, was suffreing from c disease of the upper arm which necessitated ampu tation. Just before the operation an other girl, who had attempted sui cide, died in the hospital, and the doc tors decided to try a drafting experi ment Removing the bone from the upper arm of Miss Kabacek they in serted in its place a section' from the arm of the dead girL The operation was successful beyond the doctors' most sanguine hopes, and latest re ports from the hospital say the pa. tient is steadily improving. - Uncle Sam's Loan Office Money en WATCHES, DIAMONDS GOLD, JEWELRY ,. . We sell unredeemed pledge lees than wholesale price. . We sell clothing, shoes, suit cases, gents' furnishing at very low prices. 1111 Adams Ave, Foley BUg. .............. W. ...... Testing Wool Fabrics. Two good ways of telling whether or not the cloth you buy for "all wool" Is really what It is represented to be are given by Miss Anabell Turn er of the home economics department of the University of Wisconsin in the Rural New Yorker. "Unravel a sample of the material exposing the warp and weft threads separately," she says. "Wool fibers are more curly than the cotton. Then burn some of the threads; if cotton, they will burn quickly; if wool, more slowly with an odor like that of burn ing feathers or bone. "If cotton and wool have been spun together in the same thread the above test is not reliable. In such a case, the alkali test should be used. Mix together one tablespoonful of Lewis lye and one .pint of water. Place the sample of goods In a gran ite dish, cover with solution, and boil for five minutes. At the end of this time all the wool will be dissolved out leaving the cotton intact so that tt Is easy to see how much cotton was used to ' adulterate the 'pure wool' fabric- Read the advertisements too. REX HALL DANCING ASSEMBLIES Er.ca Saturday and Tuesday Class and Private Less ana Taught Afternoon and Evening By Appointment. Bert ., M. Sherwood Proprietor and In structor. Hal for rent Wednesday and Thursday nights of each week, escep'; 'holiday night and also nights preceding holidays. Rates, $25 to midcijht; $?Q0 per hour after mic'i decorations can be wrlt't. Post Tavern SPECIAL! A Food made of Wheat, Corn, Rice and Salt, skillfully blended It is a very fine breakfast food, which has a flavor that is not to be compared with any other breakfast food. It comes in 20c packages. For sale by Berry Bros. Grocery Phone Main 721. , - ' " i '. ; ; ; Jk U (f) A DIE TODA Y AND TOMORROW ! ! 1 A FOGHl FOR MILLIONS Universal Weekly OR ADVENTURES OF A GERMAN GENTLEMEN -4 Reels Has all the Big World Events, 5 REELS IN ALL. V J. ALDRICIi LIBBEY and KATHARINE TRAYER Eminent lingers and Comedians In Their Musical Comedy and Singing Travesty Operetta I
