La Grande evening observer., May 29, 1915, Image 2

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
SATURDAY, MAY 29, J915
1. 1. GEER REFLECTS Oil EARLY
BALFOUR BECOMES NAVY HEAD
IE VALLEY HISTORY
I J On
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BY T.'T. GEER
(Ex-Governor of - Orejjn)
the stage at "The Point" when I
made the trip to Tuttle's in I-'ebru-
Pni-Hnnr). Mnv 28. A few dttVS sfuHnn hnlwirn Ilninn nnfl Kiunnier-
ago while lookup through The Ob- ville, situated not far from the pres
esrver' I read m a tommumcation ent Conley headquarters on the Sand
: from Elgin a very interesting ac- Ridge.
count of Hon Terry Tuttle and his t . Thgse were "halcyon days" and, to
estimable wife of their Pioneer life my notion, there was no better place
in the Grande Ronde Valley, of their Jn which to spend a few years of
recent residence in Elgin and of. their halcyon days than Grand Ronde Val
next one, more pretentious, was af- jey furnished at that time Hr later,
terward built and that "its interior. Incidentally, it may be. mentioned
decorating, was done by myself. 'as a matter of interest that any day
Naturally, this reference to a cir- 0f any month of this year of 1915
cumstance that occurred in the years falls on the same day of the week
long gone by started in my mind an that- the same day of the same month
incursion into the realm of reminis-. did in 1875.
eenso and 1 easily recalled, as tliougn
it happened but yesterday, my trip to '.j. ,j. .j. .j. ,j, , .j. .j. .J.
Summerville on that very cold day 'n-.j.
January, 1875, now more inan u
years ago ior ine purpose vi vu"1.i'
.j. .t. .j. .j.
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO.
I 'h "V 4 ! J
fng and "graining" the walls and ceil
ings of Mr. Tuttle's new home.
1 kept a diary for 1875 every day
and 1 have it before me now as 1
write, in which is recorded the fact
that on the 23rd of January 1 left my
home in the Cove ,n tne , a ternoon ynnd tonj fit nfter spending the
went to "Hendershott s Point where . ho s with" her parcnt3 Mr. and
(Morning Observer December 1. 1898)
Mrs. Thomas liughcy has returned
from a short visit to Union.
Miss Bessie Goodnough returns to
1 tooK tne stage unaweni " ..,. ft,. cm,ln,,l,.
"Enloe's" on the Sand. Kidge, a stage v'-r : . "nllri,pf, nt r.g 3.4
station, anu remnineu meio yvci , bushel
night with ,J.ohn Norval, o C Mr.P"d Mw . Sam Cochran of the
near Tuttle's place. The next year . g , i(1 . jn yesterday on busi
Norval and I were Renublican 'li-!'M'8C f
dates for the .Legislature, ,-but , the j Contctor Haworth has begun lay
prevailing sentimentof the Un'O'ii; (h foundaUon for the Paul
county voters favored the Democratic Bani building '
ticket and Matt Mitchell, of the Cove, MiBg Syra Kuhn who is teaching
and R. D. Ruekman, of Summerville, I S(,hoo, in' E, j returns to her work
made the trip to Salem the following tomorrow af ter visiting relatives
September. However, in 1891, Mr. here .
Norval appeared at the State House g ' Q Snijth has sent a handsome
as a State Senator while 1 was Bpeyls- j l)ea,. gkin which was tanned by the U-
er or tne nouse oi ui:piuciita.vCn, , limd t;i(v tl,nnery t() Mr. and Mrs. .1
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a member from Marion.
H. Rinehart of Summerville who are
n Thiiridiiv iiiL--ht January 28 i now in 1'ortlanrt but win soon leavo
n, diarv recounts some oi "thS par for California and will not return un.
culars ofan old-fashioned pioneer . L",.t"
dance wnicn was given ui. ine huijib w -. . .. tu-j. .,i0L-oi a
It is stated that certain. ones in the
that country had gone dry it was nj
Populist vote.
1': r sbtol Bom-to Mr. and Mrs. A. K. K.n-
adjourn in groups, and at intervals ! sev, . f.on(
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MMSTOS
C(?CLL
TO P - 4DAf?AZrS7& FSHZ
CENTER- BOMfiB. L7W,
BOTTOM - y4.J. ILrOU&
London, May 27, Lord Kitchener
retains the post of secretary of war
In the new coalition cabinet, which
2..ni.;ntiitlavit Ktnnni. m in I
not at all lntremiem, returning eacn - , ',tto frnm towfl artieslnas received the approval or King
time with a little more hilariousness' 'f 'P ?' ffitanl uSS K "rh "ew irst 1mA
than before retiringConditions grew '""hLe fa beet sugar fac A'n'lty will be Arthur J. Balfour,
a little more interesting and lively in : hnv " b0fifh,lacn Winston Spencer Churchill, ex-head
until about two o'clock in the morn-! to Y, ?:"e.vyai'tiU V. k"ow,, ' , " of the admiralty, takes the portfolio
ing a quarrel was started between two ?iu,; ",.,. ,1 1,7 of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
young bloods while on the floor and ,.j u.ni .,. hv the I.n I caster,
waiting for the music to start. J ! Oiande Lodge No315, Brotherhood I Herbert H. Asquith retains the pre
moment all was confusion, the girls. . Raill.ond Trainmen at Steward's j miership and Sir Edward Grey the
were screaming (of course) and I all ',opera j,olse New Years eve, was de- ministry of foreign affairs. David 'i
imiius iiuiuc run clared by all present to have been
side there was a general scrimmage, th successful one in the his
nobody knowing what it was about t of the orderi , . ,The memory of
nor who was his ally. My diary re- th eveninff win be ionfr cherished as
counts that "Jap Bonnet, Jim Childers'ne of the nlost pleasant events in
and some of the other boys got into 'ial history of La Grande,
a regular war of words, and .that The bowinK 8pjrjt has not only
Sam Burnaugh and I got behind a charms for men- but equally so with
near-by snow drift and used it as a ndies. Last night the folowing were
"breastwork." lout to bowl: Mesdames Robert Smith,
In a little while, however, all the,E nninn Goorgo Davis, W. J. Lind
(lifferences had been settled and the'sey pre,( Moore, J. D. Slater, C. S.
fiance was resumed with good feel-1 Humphrey, Reaves, Spaulding and
ing prevailing all around and continu-, Miss Anna Lean. Mrs. Reavis held the
ea until aayugnt.
I now remember that when I return
ed home I wrote an account of this
typical dance of the frontier for the
Mountain Sentinel, then published at
La Grande, using the Biblical style of
composition, and going into details
more minutely than I would have dar
ed to do in later years, and I also re
member that within a few days I re
proud distinction of scoring 29.
ITALIAN PURCHASES NIL
Not Believed There Will Be Material
Buying of Horses Now.
There will be no Italian horse-buyers
in Eastern Oreiron for some time to
ceived the returned manuscript, to-1 aonie, according to the statement of
geiner witu a private letter iroin r
S. McOonnas, in which he said he
had "enjoyed . immensely" my com
munication and was sorry that he
Lloyd Georfire. chancellor of the ex
chequer . in the old cabinet, will be
minister of munitions in the new one.
- - Full Cabinet Announced.
The constitution of the new cab
inet follows: .
Prime minister and first lord of the
treasury, Mr. Asquith.
Minister, .without portfolio, Lord
Lansdowne.
Lord high chancellor, Sir Stanley
0. Buckmaster.
Lord president of the council, Lord
Crewe.
Lord privy seal, Lord Cursson of
Kedleston.
'Chancellor of the exchequer, Regi
nald McKcnnn.
' Secretary of state for home affairs,
Sir John A. Simon. ':
Secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, Sir Edward Grey.
Secretary for the colonies, Andrew
Jionar Law.
Secretary for India, J. Auten
Chamberlain.
Secretary of state for war, Lord
Kitchener.
Minister of Munitions, David Lloyd
George.
rirst Lord oi the Admiralty, Ar
thur J. Balfour.
President of the board of trade,
Walter Kunciman. ' 1
President of thel ocal government
board, Walter Hume Long.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan
caster, Winston Spencer Churchill.
Chief secretary for Ireland, Thom
as McKinnon Wood.'
Presidento f the board of agricul
ture, Lord Selborne.
First commissioner of works, Lew
is Harcourt.
iPresidento f the board of education,
Arthur Henderson.
Attorney general, Sir Edward Carson.
the advent of Italian horse-buyers, after the delivery of 400 head. I
should have announced French inspec- gave as the reason opposition on the
tors, and that the postponement of the
sale was due to a rush call to Arizona,
wheie it was discovered that a Jarga
number of horses were for sale.
Mr. Wilson stated that Paul Kop-
stock's contract with the French gov-
could not publish it, adding that "if
you would squat your hindquarters
in the editorial chair of a newspaper
in Grande Ronde Valley you would
soon be confronted with the necessity
of being d d careful what you
said or permitted anybod" else to sny
in your columns."
I still have that communication,
with . McCormas's attending explana
tion. On the 30th of Jnnunry, Saturday,
it is recorded that L. J. Rouse and
Zella Ress. of the Cove, came to Tut
tles and that "Zella staid all night
while Rouse and Norval went to Sum
merville to rehearse 'Ten Nights in
a Bar Room.' "
Taken altogether that was a most
interesting week that I passed at the
Tuttle home in the latter part of
January, 40 years ago, and that little
communication from Elgin has served
to revive many memories of Auld
Lang Syne. The uncertainty of life is
well illustrated by the fact that,
though Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle were
somewhat along in years so long ago
as 1875, Rouse and Norval have been
dead more than a decade 'while Zella
Rees, who afterward became the wife
of John Shoemnker, of the Cove, and
whose honored father was buried there
but recently, has been dead quite
uniLy years. '
The 4th of July in 1875 was on '
Sunday and early that morning I tooki
my family and drove to Tuttles. some !
cv mues. ior tne purpose of attending
J. R. Wilson, horse-buyer from The
Dalles, who stomied in Baker yester
day. Mr. Wilson stated that the ad-' eminent to furnish 30,000 horses had ! time in many, months, there are no
vertising done Inst week announcing been cancelled this week in New York I army horse-buyers active in Oregon.
part of the French board in New
York, were of the opinion thut the
consideration named in the contract
under' which Mr. Klopstock was work
ing was ruinously low.
Mr. Wilson said that for the first
Magical Floyds a Big Feature of the Chautauqua
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Mr. Floyd, Who Hea ds his own company.
Mrs. A. C. Zehner, .noted Lecturer.
ber of the company, is gifted along
these lines. Floyd keeps up rapid
fire wit and humor while he works
and their program on opening night
absolutely does not have a dull nio-
Tlin M.ncrirnl Flnvds. cominlf with
the celebration the next day. Soon chautaunua. rank with any entertain-
after our arrival there M. B. Rees, er in this line on the boards. By
with his family, also arrived and mv their merit they have been able to se
wife and I went to Norval's and stnid rme n.l to hold first Dlace for many
o.i mikmu. urvui was to aenver the wnra anA their show is srreater nowlment n it. This is a Brood "oDener
who ,ehnrt rfl'T. nmes Slater. "ihan at any previous time. (for the week and this night program
waCRni.fro"L..?r2.nude' was. Floyd himself is one of the most! will be of as much interest to the
cises were held V mv diwv vV i wond"rful magicians that ever ap
"Childer's i Grove " ,n , peared hefore American spectators.
When I first went to Grande Rond,Many f his feats l:emain a Pu"1
valley in December, 18fi8, the stage venr after 'ear and are gter
line from Umatilla Landing there mystery to those who have seen them
was no Pendleton then entering the 'repeatedly than when they saw them
valley at Summerville, passing by for the first time. 1
Hendershott'8 Point and through j Mohala, the mind reader, does feats
Union. Afterward it was changed to; in mental science that seem inexplic
the Meacham-La Grande route, hut . able. They not only puzzle and be
through the influence of Sam Han- wilder and entertain by their start
H?C v, P.romment,mf;hnnt; of Union, img surprises but her performances
state1! rt?srnur b,t-u"' f 8cienti-
runtyeew f that accompany this
placed on the Summerville-Union 1 , The music tht cormpaniea this
route. This accounts for my taking j'vene84 n Allard, the third mem-
young people and children a sto those
of older years.
America unites all other countries,-
says Mrs. A. C. Zehner, who is one
of the most remarkable women on
the lecture platform. She shows that
one of the reasons the United States
is such a powerful influence for peace
in the world is because all other na
tionalities are well represented here.
The kindly treatment that has been
extended to all immigrants has en
deared us to the nations these people
represent, and their life here, wheth
er they came from Ireland, England,
France, Holland, Italy, Sweden or
anywhere else, acts as a bond between
this nation and their fatheiland.
Mrs. Zehner is a woman of very un
usual gifts and . attainments. One
man who has heard her ten times says
she cannot be beat on the lecture plat
form. She has a remarkable voice
and stage presence. Her hair has
something of red in it, she is large,
very vigorous, and besides her hand
some appearance she has a voice that
will carry a mile. She is instantly
popular with the women of her audi
ences and her utterances are equally
commended by the men. Mrs. Zehner
was born and reared on a big plan
tation in the south and still loves
the southland. She owns three
large ranches in Texas and spends
part of each year in the open life
which they invite to. This commu
nity is fortunate in being able to hear
Mrs. Zehner this summer as one of
the most notable visitors of the Chautauqua.
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