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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1914)
PAQJg EIGHT PRIffAT, FEBRUARY 6, 1914: LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, E FRIENDS ACT , UNION EXPERIMENT CHIEF MAY BE CANDIDATE. - State Representative la Said to Be Waiting for Union Citizen. La Grande V'puiling" strong: for Robert (Bob) Withycombe of Union, for county representative. The po litical camp at Union has been buzz ing for some time without Robert's acquaintance in the matter, and the Imzting has reached La Grande. Local friends of the 'state experiment chief see in him . man of ability to handle fthe work cut out for an Oregon law : maker, and before long Mr. Withy- itAtnlin nrill iHannuar Yta ia Kit i n ir anf !ua. ly talked of for the job. True, he tarns away in, fitting modesty and tltanln nna 1 fni dii n-iracf 1 t n tr if Vtut liiiiiina "v, . - . "-hh" ft I wm though 'he hasn't declared himself in the Tace, he has nevertheless not re fused to run. That he will consent ;to run, his friends confidently believe especially when he has had time to digest the boom which has broken loose in the past few days both here and in Union. ' BIKER BISHOP 1 LONG TRIP WILL VISIT THE HOLY LAND THIS SUMMER. Bishop O'Reilly Expects to be Gone Prom Oregon Eight Months. m. Rev. Jlishop Charles J. O'Reilly Bishop of Baker, leaves Sunday night for a six or eight months trip to Rome, the Holy Land and other places 01 imere&i in inu ajiumi.. hb will sail for Liverpool from New York on the 24th of this month in company with pilgrimage of which he will be the chaplain. , The bishoo passed through the city this morning on his way to Pen dlcton, where he will visit the Mis ttfon on the Umatilla reservation, one of the prospering missions of East rn Oregon in this diocese. From tthere he will go on to Spokane from -which city ho will begin the pilgrim Age to Rome and the Holy Land. He expects to celebrate mass in the 'an us Monks' church at Jerusalem on Easter morning. The trip is" the prescribed visit to the Holy See which every bishop i; required to make every five years. Ilaktv Woman Dead. Mrs. C. M. Foster passed away at 2 o'clock this morning at her home on Dewey avenue, her death following an extended illness. She had been failing gradually for sev eral weeks, and it was many times given out that she could live but a few hours, her vitality in each ncae pulling her through the crisis when it was thought that she could . not survive. Tho deceased was about 00 years of age. I NEW FOUR ROOM HOUSE RENT Inquire G. G. Adcook; phone Rod .31 or-Black .H02. 2-0tf. Read tlio advertisements too. REX HALL DANCING ASSEMBLIES Each Saturday and . Tuesday. Clan and Private Lesson Taught Afternoon and Evening; Private Lemons by Appointment. Bert M. Sherwood, Proprietor and Instructor. Hall for rent Monday, Wed nesday and Thursday nights of iach week, except holiday nights and also nights preceding holi days. Rates, $50.00 to midnight; $10.00 per hour after midnight. No decorations can be permitted t i ' 4 WIT COMB INSTALLATION Y AT 11 DEAN OF THE PACIFIC SEMI NARY TO BE HERE. Rev. W. C. Drahn Will Be Installed Castor of Zion Lutheran Church. Rev, P. W. Fredrick, dean of tho Pacific seminary at Portland, will in stall the Rev. W. C. Drahn pastor of Zion Lutheran church, Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock. Professor Fred-: rick was formerly a professor of the Chicago Lutheran 'seminary, one of the largest of its kind in the country, and was for several years pastor of the English Lutheran church at Pas adena, Calif. While he is better known as an educator than an author his sermons and addresses are always full of rich and mature thought and of the kind really worth hearing. Rev. Drahn, the local pastor, has been in La Grande nearly a year and has sufficiently made up his mind to make La Grande his future home, to defi-. nitely accept the call extended to him last spring. All branches of the work have shown a marked improve-' ment during 1913 and Zion church is j looking forward to a very active and; prosperous year. Pror. Fredrick will remain in La Grande several days as a guest oi Mr. and Mrs. urann, in the interest of educational work. Pas tor Drahn having been a member of ! the board of directors for several years, is keenly interested in the wel fare of the seminary at Portland. ENGINEER DRAY YOUNG ENGINEER PASSES PORTLAND HOSPITAL. IN Leaves Wife and Two Small Children Made Engineer Year Ago. Engineer Henry Dray, aged 28, died , PASSES at Portland yesterday after an illness in tne service of the dinner and the commencing two" days before Thanks- speech list. The Methodist Aid So giving. While the funeral arrange- ciety, abetted by the splendid faclll ments. are incomplete, the body will , ties and conveniences of the new arrive here tonight and the funeral . church basement, was able to serve will probably be held from the resi-U toothsome dinner piping hot with dence Sunday afternoon. Mr. Dray n,uch dispatch and satisfaction to has several relatives aside from his i everyone. wife and two children,' Evelyn aged This is the first time the basement four, and Albert aged one and a half has been used for commercial club years. I purposes and the success was so Mr. Dray was born in La Grande marked that others will probably be and lived here always. ' He learned , held there in the future, railroading, first as a fireman and Several out of town guests attend about a year ago was promoted tod. including Jim Miller, traveling engineer having a regular run out of passenger agent for the O.-W., A. W. here. His death is a distinct shoct Perley", Prof. J. A. Churchill, Christ to the many friends in the city, as well as to the relatives. Starkey Pioneer Dead. J. SIT Hagey the Starkey pioneer who died yesterday morning, was born in Burlington, Iowa, March 15, 1845. He crossed the plains in 1848 and settled in Union county. " He wa3 married April 25, 18G7, to Miss Nancy Hnrpole, at Salem, and to that union were born nine children, four sons and five daughters. Sixteen grand child ren were his. In addition to the wifo and children, one brother, Wesley Hagey, lives at Portland. The sons include Ben, Henry and Fred of Star koy, and Marion of Hilgard; Mrs. Nellie Wilson of Portland, Mrs. Jessie Turks of Cottage G rove, Ore., Mrs. Minnie Glnss. Mrs. C. E. Stults and Miss Eva Hagey, all of Hilgard. Mr. Hagey was a prominent citizen of his community and highly respect ed. He was deputy assessor and road supervisor for several terms, and though nearly 70 years of age, was sturdy and active until Christmas, when he was taken ill and failed to recover. The funeral services were held today from the Henry & Carr un dertaking parlors. Banauet Pleases 100. 4 Continued tram "sge One,; ands and never scratched passenger, and held this out as a good argu ment for La Grande people to extend to Eastern friends in urging them to come via the O.-W. through La Grande, O.-W. employes have a marked ability to obey the rules and avoid disaster, he said. He also urged the establishment of an exhibit hall here. ; - Manager Lafky Speaks. . How 700 acres of almost worthless land near the city of Salem were transformed into building sites for fifty cozy homes and 600 people in a few short years t was told by City Manager F. J. Lafky, in a short ad dress on the manner of publicity of the Willamette valley. He recited how Salem had learned, and predicted that La Grande would soon learn, that it was far more profitable and es sential to become known as a com munity elsewhere, than not to be thus known. r He reviewed how he first heard of La Grande in a commercial way when the city of Salem wanted to buy first class horses they pur chased the La Grande horses. He. emphasized the necessity of cutting up the large land holdings. Superintendent Girdler Talks. City School Superintendent John Girdler brought home the fact that when La Grande commences her cam paign to get 1915 fair visitors to slop here, she can use no better med ium than the school argument. "Tom Richardson will bear me out in this I am sure" said Mr.- Girdler. "The schools of La Grande are worthy of ' advertisements and the schools of any community are profitably used in the campaign for settlers," he said. Mr. Girdler closed his terse speech with a story tnat called for a companion yarn" from State School Superin-j icnaent nurcnui, . wno was a guest at the tables, and in addition to "spinning" his "yarn" Mr. Churchill briefly recited and reviewed the in dustrial fair policy of the state edu cational department. District fairs showing fruits of study in ten depart ments of agriculture, such as corn growing, garden products and the like, are to be held prior to the county fairs; the ten winners are to be sent to the state fair and there ten are picked to go to the San Francisco Panama exposition in 1915, at the ex pense of the .state will all expenses paid for a week. In addition to this attractive prize, the state pays premiums that make it desirable and remunerative for the school children, to become diligent and painstaking in 'their efforts to compete in the various fairs. The meeting adjourned with less than two hours having been consumed id nmi,),.U tf.l.lJ -i uvnuiaii oiuciwunu oi ove, ana others. $t t3Ji.iir $ SOME PEOPLE SAY IT PAYS S TO ADVERTISE. ; A man who had been hunting property in the city came into $ & the Observer office and insert- 8 ed a WANT AD in the columns of this paper. Through this - . medium he succeeded in getting in touch with a party who had an acre of ground to sell to- gether with a four-roomed cot- 8 tage on the same. This he J bought for $700. and everybody S is congratulating him on his buy. ? There is no use arguing, when S this .paper reaches about two thousand readers every night and as many more through the - weekly, your arc TO a position to make known your wants to just so many people. If you had to 4 go around and see that many f people it would take you four . months. Think of the time sav- ed. But for tho want ad in this paper this man would not have been in the position to make $ this buy. There are many such buys waiting for someone to - y come along and expresse a wish. $ The chances are in this case about 5000 to 50. If your time is worth something the cost of the ad is trifling. Wood DeaW. BaaJtrapt.. Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 5. Since the bankruptcy proceedings of 1 B:. F. Cook, a wood dealer of the : Meacham-Kamela district more than one fuel firm of this city is liable ton have to pay double prices for sup-! pies of wo'od purchased through.! Cook, as the fuel furnished' by tftis1 dealer is said to have Seen cut f rom government timber against the law. I One firm in this : city has pur- I chased about 30 carloads of vwoocj, through Mr. Cook andi he- in turn I purchased it from another party who 1 purchased the Wood from the original , cutter. The man who cut the wood , is now being sought by government investigators and cannot be found. ' Neither can the man tos whom: he sold the wood be found: -This left : the responsibility on B: F. Cook,, the third owner of the wood, and the parties to whom he sold. Now- Mr. Cook has gone bankrupt, and local dealers are the "goat" on the same , principle that the law requires the ; buyer of a stolen horse to return the property. 1 Just what will be the outcome of the case, the local fuel dealers are not prepared to say, but at present : they admit they seem liable to lose: money. Injured While Danciitg. (Baker Herald.) Harry Neery the well known trav eling representative of the Honey man Hardware company, is suffering from a broken bone in his right foot, the injury being caused! by ,a heavy fall. He slipped and: fell to the floor in such a manner a3 to twist his foot under his botfy and causing a painful, although not especially serious injury. WANTED Man and wife to' work on farm, Phoms Farm 194. H Vehrs. 2-6, 6t Something That Every body Ought to Know IflHAT IS THE MATTER with Adcook Uv & Fritts? They do not have a sale on very often, but they have one now, a. real bonafide sale. And quite a number of people have taken advantage of it al ready. It will pay anybody that needs anything in the furniture line to investi gate us before purchasing and see how cheap they can get it of us. v Adcook & Fritts, SLATER BLDG. Kippered Salmon We are now carrying Kippered Salmon which is a Smoked Salmon already for eating. It comes in every week, there fore making it fresh for use at all times,; it sells at 25c per lb., something differ ent from Fresh Salmon: ' All Kinds of Vegetables and Fruits for Sunday PHONE MAIM 721 BERRY BROS. GROCERY FOR RENf Furnished three room house, large rooms close in, including water, $16 per month. Six. room house, bath and toilet, close in, includ ing water $16 per month. FARMS FOR SALE t have a splendid list of farms for sale. It will son be time to begin thinking about spring. Logged' Over Lands . The cheapest good land in Union county is the Geo. Palmer Logged Over Lands on Looking Glass and Cabin Creeks. Keep your eye on the weather conditions that prevail in this section. I have actual photographs of this land, call and inspect them. Geo. H. Currey He Who Sells Real Estate La Grande, Oregon Cor. Fir and Jeffersoa Sts.
