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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1915)
Want Ads. are offered (Continued irom rage I.) (1 i if They Create a Habit THOSE SAMPLE SHOES. ' s -Better WorkmanshipBetter Materials Latest Styles Children's sandals - 49 65e 95 Children's Baby Doll pumps 49 Children's shoes and slippers..-. i.......,..,..'...60 80? 98f Mines' Baby Doll pumps .............. .......... ,..$1.45 $1.65 Ladies' oxfords, all Btyles .: $1.49, Ladies' $4.00 pum: .-..,. .$2.45 ; Ladies'- gun metal button shoes ..,$1.49 . Ladies' $4.00 shoes .-. : $2 85 Ladies' sandals .: :. , .....$1.65 Men's male skin shoes ;......1...........;.......:...$1.45 , Men's $3.50 heavy work shoes ...........................,........$2.45 Men's $4.50 work shoes .'. $3 45 Men's $5.00 oxfords, latest styles . ...r.......$2.45 Men's sandals ..........I.;.. .;..... .. ... .....,.. $2.65 he nun 'THE PRICE MAKERS PRESTIGE the reflection of QUALITY The aatisf action of good Workmanship, good Mat erial, remains long after tbe price .is forgotten on the House that you build for a Home. - - - - , ' . ' . ...-.! : . a-" ' h. e. roskAmp, ciiac NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 1 r ' . 1000 pounds of paper will be used in our i .new directory. It will hang on 3000 phones. It is the business and social map of the city. Is your name in it. If not, better get in before it is too late. "The directory as an advertising medium , cannot be surpassed. Home Independent Telephone Co. U. L0TTES WholesaleLiquorDealer 1118 Jefferson Ave, La Grande Ofe. FOR PRICES AND QUALITY prodically piled up in the fore ground palisades in the middle distance that would make those of the far famed Hudson look like pigmies and in the background "keeping watch uport its own" our Mt. - Hood the"' noblest mountain of them all. I venture to wy that nowhere in all America has aature been so lavish in the varied things she has collected to mane a pic ture. ' . . 1 venture the precarious role of prophet to- the extent of predicting that the stretch of Columbia above the Dalles will one day, ana that soon too be as much sought after by tour ists as the world iamcd stretch be tween The Dalles and Portland; that the Celilo canal will not only be a great trade regulation but a scenic water highway as well. ' That this will be true unless high winds and sand storms make it very difficult to navigate the canal. Uncle am s engineers will have to study YEARS AGO the crier mounted the aactla ale the came the hand bills and their "hit or miaa" results today the effective way iat the Want Ada they hit the, - Mark.. , That' what count. FOR SALE Typewriter J. D. Lync Room 2 Foley Hotel Bldg. Adv. 4-16-tf. FOR FENT Two or three furnished housekeeping rooms, modern, pan .try, bath; first floor; doss in. Phone main 715, or call 904 Penn. Ave. 4-7tf. FOR RENT An eight room housd enquire Dutli Bakery. 4-16-tf FOR RENT 5 room modern cottage. Inquire Golden Rule Co. 4-8-tf. one small 3-room house and lot on East Adams. Will consider some trade. Liberal terms " to right party Inquire at' 1307 4th St. ; X-14-tf out some scheme to care for - sand . pftp c r v K j i...... uho. ik. rOK bAhh 5 room modern house of Celilo or in the opinion of humble layman the future usefulness of the canal will be greatly limited. Comparison Between the Two Canals There is not so great a diiierencr: between the Panama Canal and tho Celilo Canal as one would at first think. The difference in water level or the - distance a boat is lifted up s 85 feet at Panama end 81 feet at Celilo. The inter:eanic canal cosv bout $400,000,000 in all; the Celilo Canal less than 15,000,000. The Man ama canal is about 41 n iles in length: the Celilo Uitch 8 1-2 miles. It the ship Northern Pacific on which I went through the Panama Canal, about a month since, between eight and nine hours to go from Christobal- the Pacific end of thi canal; about F0R RENT "ve om n0 FOR SALE Black Minorca and white leghorn setting eggs from selected winter layers. Phone Red 192. Mrs. Geo. Chapman... 4-23-10tp FOU RENT Two nicely tfurms..ec rocnis for l.ght housekeeping, w:?h lath, Ifp one bed room. Hode.'At charges two blocks from center of town 1512 Adams, or Phone Black 3901. ... -2 -i? cottage,- 1707 Second street. quire 804 Main street. Adv. 4-28-tf In- half as lone for the J. N. Teal to make The Dalles-Ceh'o. trip, although it is hoped that when conditions have been adjusted the trip will be made is it least 40 feet deep-I understand . FOR, RENT Five-room house -with eight,feet.is the maximum in the cei'ar. wents am. water, au .acK UelUo ditch. : " - - Uncle Sam collected the . sum or1 . ., ., J780O from the owners of the North- L,Hjjooa, gemie anonnorn em-Pacific as toll for allowing her to! mi,cn. cow. 81X .yra eo throusrh the canal. This was com- isrocerjr.-nu... nntad on th tnnnace of th shiD. Of 1 course there is no charge for toll on WANTED :By competent girl gen eral house or hotel worn, rnone Black 3902. Adv. ' 5-4-6tp. the right 7 9 v.s. ji m ii his old. Call 5-3-6tp FOR RENT Four room modern house with bath. Inquire 1600 Jef ferson ave. . 6-4-it WANTED Jobs mowing Phone black 3562. , lawns. 5-5,5t. . on- WHISKIES WINES BRANDIES GINS, ETC. PHONE BLACK 51 Distributor JOf ' 1 Lemp's St. Louis Beer Geyser Brook. The Only Whiskey For You the Celilo canal. If Coneress had not he fre tolla for coast-wise shiPDinir law at its last session the Northern Pacific making the trip from American port of Philadelphia to American port of Ban f rancisco would have paid no toll. The locks in the Panama Canal ore 1000 -feet in length; it took six elec tric locomotives to tow the Northern Pacific into the locks and the mam moth gates are run by electricity and run as smoothly as clockwork, the thine that struck me as most curious at Celilo was that the gates were open-1 '. 77 ' . ed bv hand power much like the old vy w iou iu give nume w ih tannioned railroad tuimamie wnoscy j unw auurew . n, imc vu- motive power was two rushing, grunt-j : server. 4 : 5-6,3t. ing, prespiring humans, I was told . however, that the motive power A GOOD PROPOSITION, in restaur would soon be changed to electricity. ant, requiring small capital. In But the scene which etchel deepest j vestigate. J. F. Phy. 5-5,4t,p. on the memory and imagination, of I - ; .r those fortunate enough to take the FOR SALE Wicker baby carriage HELP WANTED Immediately, hon- est boy, 14 years up; good pay. Address W,' care observer. 5-6,3t. and child's iron bed. 831. , Phone Red 5-5,2t,pd. initial trip through the great Eastern Oregon ditch, was the coming of Cel ilo. Twilicrht had faded into darkness, rritlZ FOR RENT Nice four-room house, On our starboard side the portapre box , N 9(wn Y R f chean. car special train fussed and fretted o. l Ave, Kent very cheap, and wheezed and tooted as it impati- P8" black 3102. 5-6,3t. . ently backed along waiting for the T .., , . Teal to tie us an3 let those of her j FOR SALE-Or will trade for a good passengers who were to return to I cw, or two, a span of four-year-old The Dalles disembark and board it I geldings, weighing about , 1400 or Even the hungry laborers who hadj 1500 lbs. Address "js," care Ubser- been waiting hours to take this train to supper forgot their hunger in the snirit of the occasion and ran along side the boat, and cheered us. The "first families'' of Celilo were there in force standing in stolid silence on ie walls of the last dock as we were pushed up to the level of the upper river. They stood wrapped in blankets and viewed with stolid silence un- punctuated ' by even gutteral grunt the big fireboat of the paleface come up for the first time from the direc tion of the Great Water oast the "boiling waters." The miracle of mir acles to them was taking place be fore their eyes but the stocicism of their race was triumphant and they irave no outward sign ot the emotions which must have rent their breasts. Not so with the white man. All at mce the passengers on the Teal broke out in a spontaneous cheer. The whistles on the Teal, the. portage special and every whistle near that had steam oc gasoline behind it "wak ed the echoes to honor the occasion. Then the last eates slowlv swung back, the good ship Teal quietly slip ped out of the canal and made land inn, fha reiin.rlarl nrntai'a nf ( 1ftliiinii'l and Snake gently almost affectionate-!! Tl rnnux f i mmnevr '.i ! ly lapped the sides of this "Santa I I he rKUNl LAtLtUKdbl With J( Maria of the New Columbia River"!' , ij I he VtMllLU Hack i 1 friendship man should know banker. Call in u will feel at home in our you Nothing can grow that never gets started. Take a Savings . Account, for instance. . It grows by interest as well as ad ditions. You can start a Savings Account here with a single dollar. Try it and watch it grow. The United Saes National Bank, ' La Grande, Oregon DIRECTORS Wm. Miller Geo. T. Corhraa U. G. -Couch - . Dr. A. L. Richardson J. C. Henry J. L. CaviaeM J. F. Coaler Dr. C. T. Bacon T. J. ScroggiM Do You Earn Your Living? First public market a cash- meat market for. the benefit of the people. 204 1-2 N. -Fir St;,. La Grande. Phone Main 721. MONUMENTiS Latest designs, made in La Grande. We bare our own quarry Rubble and Dimension Stone always on hand. Concrete Blocks E. C. DAVIS Corner Greenwood and S. Ave., v La Grande, Oregon w- - -w I LAWN MUWtKS SHARrtNtP J j .) . By . Special Machinery .s 1 S ' l Satisfaction Guaranteed 1 ' llir' iflli MAKE A NOTE of the f.,ct that an. abstract is an absolute J It IIw I 1 J ! necessity when you purchase real estate. 1 No matter how well posted J J iWj I !! you might be you don't have a full history of the parcel, as yout r?l f "nV' i dc when we make an abstract of it. Accuracy guaranteed. ' i ! 1 l Will '! THE ABSTRACT TITLE CO. 1 t ! Foley Hotel Building. J then flowed on unvexed to the and sea All at once the thought came over us all that the long years of watch ful waiting were over that the emancipation of the Upper Columbia was a reality. ! .. . : .. : FOR RENT A four room furnished house close Garden planted. : Call I ; FRONT LACE CORSETS modern Give the wearer a beautiful back. in, rent cheap.!! .... . M 708. Adv J proper aoaominai support, and ex- j 6-t. i treme style witfh perfect comfort.: J There is a model for every type of J ri r i a. a - naawurBa dlllllllHIIIB I ' - 2i , : ngure. uime ana oe ntted to L,a i Catarrh That Contain Mercruy J (114, and vou will be convin(.eci an mercury will surely destroy the sense ml"0 no yo" will De convinced I nf mnell and completely deranire the of its Supremacy. ! hol viem when entering- It through j J the mucous turfaces. 8uch articles should PRir'tra to nn iwn TTO iievfr be ued except on prescriptions rKlLliS ?AUU AND Vf I 'mm reputable phynlrlnns. as the damnire - ! (I'ev will do Is ten fold to the good you . . 'an possibly derive from them. Hall's ll . . I! 'ftarrh Cure. manufRctured bv F. J. I I D.Ll. D L1.Z I! mi mm m h nsiiss rxisiivfin : Corsetierie ) 'hpnev AV Cn Tnlerin O.. rnntAms no wercury, and Is taken Internally, acting llreotly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the svtsem. In buying Hall's Catarrh dire he sure vou s-et the genu tne. It In taken Internally and made in 1 J Ziy r- Chen" Co" Te-. ! Pbone R. 3221 "Res. 1702 Oak J Bold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle, i Tan Hairs Family puis for cennivtuen. ( vaatvia, Property Owners Attention! MV ENTIRE STOCK OF PAIN TS AND WALL-PAPER OF TEN THOUSAND ROLLS. I AM GOING TO MOVE IN THE NEXT 60 DAYS. WE NEED THE MONEY AND YOU NEED THl.rJ GOODS. HERE ARE SOME OF THE PRICE OATMEALS AND MELTON PAPERS AT 45c PER ROLL. MOItYE CEL 15c PBR ROLL. ALL OF THE STOCK CUT IN TWO SO COME AND GET THE CREAM OF THE GOOD. B. B. NUTTER Phone Red 971. 17081 8TH STREET, NEXT TO OBSERVER.
