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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1915)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1915. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER 1 r. Your Christmas Shopping can be done with the Rst Satisfaction Here Biamonds The Gift de Luxe Splinters from the stars the ancients called them, and they were to them the sym bol of affection as undying as the stars themselves. So what could be more fitting as a Christmas gift mounted in ring brooch La Valliere, or other attractive ways. Prices as low as $15.00 and as high as $500.00. Come in and have a talk with us anyway. JVe will be glad to give you the benefit of our years of 'experience in judging and choosing diamonds. ' We will save you money. SIEGRIST & CO. Largest Jewelry Store in Eastern Oregon XKK 4 . WEST REFLECTS -TREND OF FINANCIAL IMPROVEMENTS : Financial "dopesheets" prepared by the National City Bank of Chicago, are credited, generally, with being the nearest to correct of any middle western forecasts. Hence the follow ing from their monthly financial let ter, rceived by La Grande banks, will be of interest to La Grande" people: The west is about the brightest spot in the country, for an immense volume of business is beine done with the movement spreading to virtually, all industries. . The primary market movement 01 grains is surpassing all records and the car shortage on many lines is becoming acute, v In many localities there is considerable com plaint about the condition of corn, and farmers are selling the best corn at very good prices. Advice from various sections tell of reduced acre age for new winter wheat, but it is impossible to say yet what the real condition is. Most farming commun ities are enjoying a high degree of prosperity which is likely to continue GUESS IF THEY ARE MARRIED ! scw chop Me lite. iW?5? i hi-' mi$mm&&2s Vwe 'j ' 1ST' IT p T lOWD HERE AUEE. ' . . " 1 . . 1 1 . ' for gome time to come. The country merchant is making large purchases iu' this market to supply the demand .'or the sort oi , meichandise, which oroinarily moves as soon as prosper ity becomes prevalent in the crop dU wicis, - - '.,';' Notwithstanding successive advan ces in price, the steel mills have more business than they can handle and the demand seems to be inoreasing all the time. The prosperity reflected by .business revival in this section is not due to rash work farf oreign govern ment but on the contrary "war or ders" are no longer the chief factor making for Industrial ' recovery : in this section. It is due rather to the increased demand from .domestic sources with better buying in many branches which up to a few weeks ago were not active at all. ; The present recovery is likely to go good deal further, for the country has scarcely yet felt the good effects of .the bountiful harvests and the phenomenal showing of our foreign trade. The European war is still the ohief factor affecting trade 'affairs but its influence is not nearly as de pressing as it was a few months ago. .'About $126,000,000 in dividend and Interest payments will be disbursed this month, while In January the to tal will be considerably in excess of $200,000,000. This will swell the fund available for reinvestment to unprecedented figures and ought to give new impetus to bond trading which just now is showing the great est activity of the year. Since the European war beoran the American makets have taken nearly one billion 1 aouars oi loreign government secur ities. Three quarters of this amount, or $750,000,000, represented loans put out by Europeiui governments, the balance being : accounted for by the loans made to Canadian and Latin American , governments. - The position of the foreign ex change market has . been materially strengthened within the last six weeks by the negotiation of large credit 'balances for the account of foreign govornmonts. Money market conditions will con tinue easy but interest rates may be expected to advance moderately in response to tho expansion of busi ness - , . . The people fear little from the present session of congress. This ie because the disturbances caused by the war abroad have been so great as to put a stop, for tlia time being at least, to the sort of .adical legisla tion w..ich a few years ago , upset business and led to pronounced , de pression. WHnt ;g more to the point, thi offset of recent dec'sions handed ''wn by tto United States Supreme Cr.'.rt hjs beon distinctly helpful, Unless fresh complications should develop abroad the chances are that the bond market of the next few months will be as memorable as the bond market of 1909. The "pure in vestment buying" seen of lnte has beet) the best and most intelligent that has been witnessed in any mnr ket for years past. People are no longer thinking first of a large in come return but chiefly of tho things which go to insure 'the safety , of principal. This is a scund position and means much, for the security of a situation which might easily be come dangerous if undue inflation should be permitted.! With a record breaking surplus reserve, the banks have boon forced to adopt such safe guards ns should rostrict loans on collateral in which the so-called "war stocks" figure prominentftr. Busi ness generally is being "conducted safely, and even in the stock market there is less indication of speculative excesses than there was a few weeks ago. The country is going : ahead rapidly although cautiously. . .1. j. . .j, .j. .j. .j. 1 4. J London The government post J 4 office telegraphs department 4" 4 has begun the employment of f 4- girl messengers in all parts of i bngiand. . . 4. .j. .J. .!. .f. .. FOREIGN 1 BAN FAILING BY CARL W. ACKERMAN. . . . (United Press, Staff Correspondent Berlin, Oct. (By Mail) The cru saders against the use of foreign words and languages in Germany are temporarily blocked. Ernest Brues, a Dusseldorfer writer, has discover ed that there are 100,000 foreign words in the German distionary and it is calculated that it would take many years to get them out. The weedine process, which becran several months ago, is continued in some part of Germany every week. Last week a big meeting was held in the townhall of Duesseldorf.' At the meeting were members of the German Language club and the President of the International Hotel Keeper's club. All agreed that foreien words should not be used, especially on signs, but the Hotel Keeper won a point or having the word hotel, which is originally French, remain as a German word on the ground that 40 per cent of the visitors to hotels here are foreigners. Finally the meetincr adopted this resolution: "This meetinc. which is attended by representatives of Commerce and Trade for the District of Duesseldorf, considers it its duty to point out that foreign words still annearinc 011 signs, labebvnameplntes, etc., should be replaced as far as possible by gooti ucrman words. The phrase as far as possible was put in after Brues informed the meet ing of the 100,000 enemies in the Ger man language. Thursday" Special Neck wear at a price you can't afford to overlook. The dainty Xmas gift for one. day only, the, most extraordinary offer. Our entire line of ladies' neckwear, values up to and including 75c values at .............. ..i 23 Remember this is for Thursday not Friday. See our window. 1 EE. KIRTLEY Ladies' Ready-to-Wear r : : THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY EVERY HOME IN LA GRANDE SHOULD HAVE ELECTRIC LIGHT. Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co. Always at Your Service Telephone Main 43 Announcement Fairbanks, Morse & Co. standard line of gasoline and oil enpinc-s pumps, windmills and electric motors. 2 horse power gasoline engine $50.00 4 horse powdr gasoline engine ..... $99.00 6 horse power gasoline engine . 114'J.OO Other pizes in proportion f. 0. b, Beloit, Wis. Ask our nearest agent about it. , ,-...,..,. J. J. QU1NLAND CO. inc. Salesroom & Shops Inland City, Oregon. Phone Black 1392 Ajax tires, Oakland automobiles, garage in connection. Jones' Little Pig Dairy Farm Sausage and Maple Syrup and Hot Cakes for your breakfast. Does not that sound good?
