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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1915)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1915. LA GRANDE EVEJSTNG OBSERVER SHE TUBS IIIIPPEII III OIIII Pliaer'Log2d "Over Lands $18.00 perwrei V;;-,;:ift. per yr.,;rfY...:'v Several inquiries about Palmer Lnds r eominc i us erery day. ; Am aoon as the snow melts, the remainder will tell with a rush. PeJmer Junction, where there is general merchandise store, post office, station on the O. W. R. N etc., U within four miles of any part of these lands. The cost of clearing is low. The aotl is rich and deep. This is a natural stock and dairy country, while: grain, vegetables and fruit are raised with, excellent result -.An annual rainfall of SO inches, woll water within ten feet, living creeks m:l BirinjjK iJinisu :.;V iibunuiiiice of -water. ;' If interested let us stow , - detail. - - f LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OK GEKMAN CHIEF OF STAFF i. NW;is a mighty poor time for you to die, C Now is also a mighty poor time for your wife and children to lool for a job? Protect your family by a policy in the FirstNaUpnal Life . : , !f youV property bums you tan replace it if tU live. P If ywu die, your debts and. your 'death expenses wilL f laave to be shouldered by your loved ones,' Hovt long - could they live on what you will leave themt. vThink 1 it over.". You cannot afford to gamble on this hap . piness.' i ' ; IT IS GOOD BUSINESS TO BE PROTECTED Whenever You Want to Buy, Sell, Trade Rent or Insure,-See Geo. H. Currey 18 BLM ST. - Phone, Black 2001 W1Q MOVES REAL ESTATE LA GRANDE. OREGON. II USED AUTOMOBILES At Good Bargains Ask to aSee Them LEIGHTON'S GARAGE Fine Watch and Jewelry t Repairing is our specialty : JB We will make your f ' V ' w tch keep time - x I Old jewelryxnade like p&Y S ' new . ' j . v All work doue in our I " I ( own hop. V , ' Siegrist & Co. 1 j Largest Jewelry Store - in Eastern .- Oregon ' ' '1 " f : r- Li . 'irTlllllllii icnnAr cffcs'Udted States Government Like all other National Banks this one has to under go periodical examination by Government experts for the benefit of depositors. It has to keep a large sum in absolute reserve against its liabilities and it is subject to the direct supervision of the United States Government ; No institution could be safer for banking your money. . Accounts solicited. Every facility given consistent with Government: rules. ' ' The United States Nat'l Bank I v Capital ,; t!00,009 : Surplus 113,006 Deposits $364,841.14 OFFICERS and DIRECTORS WM. MILLER J. C HENRY - 'Tkit ia thn latfist nhotosranh ? of General von Kulkenhnyn, the- man inn -whom the burden of war . rests mitt in Hprmanv thun anv other ex cept iflie 'kaiser himself. He, succeed- ed Oeneral von Moltko as chief . or Staff wome weeks ago, and durtBR 1 J. L. CAVINESS J. F. CONLEY T. J. SCROGGIM C. T. BACON A. L. RICHARDSON U. G. COUCH GEO. T. COCHRAN i a : I most of that time he has been in the field. General von Falkenhayn ; was minister of war in July when tho conflict broke out, and the kaiser wan so well pleased with hU work that he was promoted as soon as von Moltke was displaced. 7 MAKE A ' NOTE of the fct that an abstract is an absolute rj necessity when you purchase real estate. No matter how well posted s M;t,t k mn'ilin'l Viqxij. full hlstnrv nf t.hn narcal. a vou : dc when we make an abstract af it ' Accuracy guaranteed. - J ., THE ABSTRACT TITLE CO. J .iF Foley Hotel Bulldtof. x v J London, Fob. 2.-r-(By Mafl to New Yorkv) "I know I am dyiner. 'Jbot I don care. ' It's always our hick. It runs Sn'our family like wooden UfS't1- My Jather-was killed at Abu Klea; hi? father at Isandlwhana; his grandfath er at ithe.-Alma, and his great-ynmd-father .at 'Waterloo." The dymir soldier was an Irishman of tbe Liverpool. Regiment, wounded in the oik fight at Ypiea. Describint; .the acene, iLt. H. R. Watson of the ! Highland Light Infantry says it was the. most philosophic death he ewr witnesses!. "His destination mark was shown clearly on his pallid face, and H itrieil im the most sympathetic way to reconcile him to the inevit able," "said the lieutenant; "but l;e needed no bracing up." "To the last," continued the of ficer, the young Irishman kept up a (Continued chatter, "why, more mem bers of my family then I have bin - ns on imy cJtathee," fee said, "have died on battlefields since war was first invented. Now, its simply my turn; .v . . .-' Bo you know ita been said that if one of us died in bed he wouldn't have the impudence to suck Saint Peter to admit him to Heaven, but would wan der about the two places until he met somebody who would kill him in a decent fiirjit.. ' ' "That's the way we are built, and I would much rather die here than in CARBON BRIQUETS The Fuel For Your Fireplace NO ASHES NO DUST NO WASTE ALL HEAT ASK TO SEE THEM Eastern Oregon Produce Co. Inc. PHONE MAIN 700. the most comfortable bed you couM rig up at home. The man who dies at home doesn't know the pleasure ot death. v "There's much in the joy of fight ing that appeals to me, and I wouldn't miss a set-to like this for all the world. ' ' : "Good-bye, old chap,, you were my superior a day or two ago, but we're e;uals now." Petrograd, Jan. 31. (By Mail to New York.)--The . Cossacks do not ihold a very high opinion of the pro ess of the Turks, if a story told by n Russian army surgeon recently re turned from the front is to be believec. "Early in the fighting," he said, "I operated upon a Cossack who had lost an arm. When he was about recov ered, I asked him what were his plans for the future. " 'I'm going to enlist in the Cau casian army,' was the reply. '"But how can you, with only one mm?' I inquired. . " 'We Cossacks don't need more than one arm to beat the Turks,' answered the soldier in all seriousness.. "Since then, I have made a practice . r- . ...... . . oi usKing every ossacK wno nau to urdergo a similar operation as to his intentions, and almost invariably I have received a- similar reply." : D. R. FONG MEDICINE CO. CHINESE ROOT AND HERB REMEDIES Curra Bodily Diseases With Root and HerbTreataumt Phone 762 Free Consultation ' La Grande 1412 Adams Ave. Ore. Rotterdam. All loaves of bread now sent into Belgium from Brabant (ire now, by order of the German au thorities, cut in two, as . many in stimces have occurred in which let ters have been smuggled ncross 'tho frontier by this means. Berlin. According to Herr Karl Schcffcr, one of the German, "apost les of. idealism" the war was begun be cause "the artistic regenerations of Germany is, only possible through ca tastrophe." After the war "German genius will develop Impressions which will kill Cubism and Futurism." Cost S38.60 to Cross Continent. 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Two of the 44 n w and uttractive; Vrhriinrv flrm.nil. and make, at home yourself, the stylish but economical clothesJ clothes which are accurately described an beautifully illustrated in tho new McCall Publications. - Get the New McCall Book of Fashions Today If It's Stylish It's McCall-lf It's McCall If s Stylish! GOLDEN RULE CO La Grande, Oregon.!
