La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, December 13, 1915, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT " LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1915. Your Christmas Stationery ? A very appropriate gift for mother, sister, wife or friend. ' :". '." . All the ; latest 'styles, jjoth" in-.'.correspondence";, cards, Xnins greeting cards, and box stationery, in the Symphony1 lawn, Lord Baltimore," Marniette,. Ustaeo and Tulif linen. -;"'"'.;' ' ' SEE OUR DISPLAY WINDOW. Potman's Drug Store The REX ALL Store Wlasco; J. F. Phy, Union; C. H. Marsh. Umatilla; D. B. Reasoner, Washing ton, and A. L, Clark, Columbia. LODGE TREE IS PROPOSED EAGLES INSURE SANTA CLAUSE VISIT. Elks to Dance at Holiday Annual December 27th. While there is yet much to be ar ranged, it is ' a certainty that the Eagles' lodge will hold a Christmas tree this year for the children of La Grande. Just what day and hour it vill be held, is not known, neither ia it known if the proposed plan to hold it out in the open will .be carried out. The Engles will have full an nouncements to make in a short time in this respect. : ' December 27th will be an all-import-' ant evening to members of The Elks' lodge here. On that occassion the lodge will give its annual holiday ball , and the committees are working out a likeable program for that occasion. It promises to be one of the citv'a leading social affairs for the holiday periou. ....' .. Tomorrow night several' Knights of rytnias win go to uigm in automo biles to be guests' of the Elgin lodge i ior me evening, ine. j,a urande ac tors who recently put on the dram atized lesson of friendship will be again called into service at Elgin, wnere a Class or is being taken in tomorrow night. The La Glanders will put on the five-act drama for the blgimtes. ...... ....;,,..;...' . Red Xross Lodge No. 27 will cnn. vene this evening at 7:30 land put on uio ran oi page in time to lot lodge members attend the dancing party. .. The Forty-nine and Christmas tree committees of the Elks lodge will have a meetings of importance Tuesday night. All members of the committee are urged by the chairman to be present, " - " -v , .;' FLAG IS PRESENTED. ; the presentation address, and Judge J. W: Knowles accepted the banner on behalf of the court. Pupils of the high school attended and after the addresses, the audience, filling the court room, stood and sang "Am erica," led by a quartet consisting of Miss Reatha Fowler, Miss Joyce Uraig, Or. A. F. Foley and G. W, r ranklin. Mr. Boyd in nresontinn- t.h hnnni said it was the emblem of the soul' of the American people. A nation has a soul, as much as an individual. and this inner light and life is the better 'part of the character, ideals and ambitions of the people. The flag stands for all these aspirations and convictions ana so properly may be an object of reverential tribute. Jiulre Knowles replied in the same lofty vein, wun remrKS inspiring patriotism and good citizenship. - Ine banner was placed ...by the Juagos bar and the eiirht new citi zens came forward in turn unit tnnlr the oath of allegiance to the great repuunc. cacn, as he swore fealty to his new irovernment. nlnraH Viio nana on the banner. - Iho new citizens are John L. Cunningham, who was hnrnn in An. stralia; Martin Dunley, also born in Australia; Victor Merssman. hnrn in Germany; John Roman, born in France; Mortimor, born in Ireland; Thomas Mitchell, born in . England; Nels Bernhard Onstrom, born in Sweden; and Henry W. Cleman, both in Canada.. Thus five of the eight were former subjects of Great Britain. , The Sons of the American Revolu tion have presented flags to each of ine circuit courts of Oregon, to be used when the oath of allegiance is lunen oyN new citizens. . G. A. R. VETERAN DEAD Wm. Pangburn, of South La Grande, SuccumDS at Advanced Age The death of Wm., Pangburn en sued Sunday evening at his home in South aL Grande after a brief illness Ho was. taken with a sudden spell of sickness Saturday evening, but his condition was not discovered until Mr. Moon, an employe of the Atkin son store, who went to his house Sun day morning. His condition did not improve during the day and. in the evening the end came. The deceased was well advaeced in age, being some whore near eighty. ' He wtas a Grand Army veteran and has heen a resident of La Grande a number of years. He was an uncle of Mrs. Fred Spain of Union and a sister formely lived at Cove but is now dead. '..'' The John Flannery family was per haps the best acquainted with the old gentleman, and were present dur ing the last hours of his life. G. A. R. Members will have charge of the funeral which has been set for 2 o'clock Tuesday at the Henry parlors; Perry Parents Organize. Perry, Dec. 11. (Special) Thurs day evening, .the Parent-Teachers as sociation was reorganized. After a year's faithful service. President Mrs. U B. Stoddard; Vice President, J. W. Eshelmlan; Secretary. Mrs. H. Nelson retired from office and new officers were elected to fill their ..places. Mrs. Fred Robertson was elected as Presi dent, F. E, Borheman as vice, presi dent and Mrs. It. J. Nelson as secre tary. A splendid program in connec tion with the election of the officers was rendered by the school children, and it is now plainly shown that the aim of bringing the school closer to the home is being accomplished. Advertised Letters. , List of letters uncalled for in this office for the week ending December 10, 1915. ' , Gentlemen Bickford, Leonard;; Creek, Roy A. (2); Green, Lloyd; Huey, John K.; Johnson, Martin; Mar tin, A. A.; Press, J. W.; Pelland, D; O.; Ladies 1702 Spruce St.; Bray, Mrs. Birtie; Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde; Gent, Mr. and Mrs. Simon: Holmes. C. N.; Ingals, Mrs. Flosse: Lone. Miss Blanch; McKenzie, Mrs. Mabel; Smith, Mrs. Harve. , ...... These letters will be sent-to the dead letter office on Dec. 24th. 1915. if not delivered before. In calling for the above, please say advertised giv ing date of list. E. E. BRAGG, P. M. ' Says I to Myself, Says I, No Matter What You Need The United Store is the Place to Buy i .., v , Keeping their expenses as low as they do buying for. as many stores as we do and those big cash discounts, 1 can readily see where I make my savings and stretch my dollars me for The United Store. Ladies' Gypsy boots.! $2.98, $3.50 Ladies' blue velvet Gypsy' boots .$3.50 Ladies' fur belts . . : . ... . '. . 98c Ladies hose ............... ...10c Ladies outing gowns . . .49c Ladies' outing skirts 25c Ladies' outing sacques . , . .' .(. .. .49c - Ladies' outing kimonas 98c Ladies fleece hose 19c Ladies' fleece tmioriB 49c Ladles' wool unions , ; $1.49 Ladies1 new coats .$7.90 Girls' new coata. i ... .$2.98 Men's Men's Boys' Men's Men's Men's ' Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's work shoes $2.98, $3.50, $3.98, $4.50 lace boots - $3.50 $4.98, $5.90, $6.90 lace boots ...... .$1.98, $2.49, $2.98, $3.49 dress shoes ........... . $2.98, $3.50, $3.98 stag shirts, a $4.50 value. ........ ..$2.98 wool pants $1.49, $1.98, $2.49, $2.98 corduroy pants .$1.98, $449, $2.98 Pelt lined coats ........ . . .... . . . ; , $3.98 canvas coats .' . . . u . .$1.69 work shirts ( ; , ,25c wool shirts , , . ,', , , . .98e wool sox .... .i. . ... 15c, 25c, 39c canvass gloves ........ . ... . . . i-. ;-..... .5c union suits .W...-98C YOU CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER AT THE UNITED STORE 83 l J. C. PENNEY CO. WAT BIGGER TRADE ,1'HY ON COMMITTEE. Stale Association. of Judges to Revise Road Laws. J. F. Phy, county judge of Union, is a member of a committee Atmnhitoii at the Portland . maetlnc nf rannhi judges last week, to revise the pres ent road laws with a view of having a new set passed. The committee was appointed in accordance with Mi own. era sentiment of the association that the state road laws should be revised, Chairman Holman appointed a com mittee to formulate a revision and report at the next annual of the association, which will con vene in Portland on the second Tues- The' session SAFETY FIRST MEETS. !' Monthly Meeting of Employes Railroad Meet for the Day. of . Representatives from tall ; depart ments of railroading hn tha O .XXT ho. tweeo Huntington and Umatilla'are in La Grande today to lattend . the monthly Safety First meeting. . These gatherings are held sometime between the 5th land 15th of each month and the 13th -was chosen for December. Routine matters came up tor discussion today. ...... ' , CONFERENCE INVITED. La Grande Bids for Next Year's Fathering of Y. M. C. A. Boys. Circuit Court Receives Emblem Fr0ii? Sons of Revolution. in a patriotic ceremony Monday day of December, 1916. afternoon, a boautiful silk American; will last four davs. nag was presented to tne Circuit. Tha ..mmittoo ,:..: ,..:n i. court by the Sons of the American i composed as follows: W. M, Bushey, v. mo uiiLurunse mnrion, cnairmnn: rnilo liolbronk. Daniel Boyd made Multnomah, secretary; F. S. Gunning, Revolution Record-Chieftnin. If it isn't an ANSCO it isn't the best Having left an urgent bid for next year's conference the La Grande dele gation returned today from Ontario whore the Southern Idaho and East ern Oregon Boys' conference was held. The registration showed 135 present. Baker is also after the con ference and ia committee will name its choice later. Rev. G. L. Clark, Secretai-y Roy Uiark, Kenneth Williamson, Albert Currey, Jerry Hopkins and' Allen Hunter were in the La Grande dele gation, returning this morning. I I I I I I ! I I J V iradc-Loans. i U acres of a fa fa land, clear J of incumbrance to trade for La 4' Grande proiierty. $8000 Tri- 4- i' vate money to lean on farm J I- land. See Henry T. Hill. Adv. I 12-lff-tf .j. jt. . .J. . Jt. . .j. .j. LEAVES THE MINISTRY. Rev. E. B. Fyke Goes to North Yakima to Represent Insurance Company. 5 'Mr I Rev. E. B. Fyke, former castor of the Methodist church of La Grande and at present a. resident of Prairie City, is about to leave the latter place and take up a new line of work, ac cording to the following news item from the . Grant County Journal; which says: - "A farewell reception was tndered Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Fyke at the M. E. church Inst evening. An impromptu program was given and light refresh ments served. Mr. and Mrs. Fyke ex pect to leave for North Yakima in a ehort time, where Mr. Fyke will have charge of the work in several coun ties for the Guarantee Fund Life As sociation, of Omaha, Nebraska. ,; New York,' Dec. 7. The company which, as previously reported, was projected to develop Americun inter ests in foreign enterprises on a larger scale and by different methods than ever before, took legal form: yester day as the American International Corporation. The company was in corporated at Albany with a capitali zation" of $50,000,000, consisting of $49,000,000 common stock and $1,000, 00 of- managers' shares.' ' Frank A. Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank, with whom the project originated, is to be Chair man of the board. , The directorate embraces representatives , of more large corporations than were ever be fore assembled in any one company. The directors are; J. Ogden Armour of Armour & Co., Charles A. Coffin of the General Electric Company, Wil liam E. Corey of "the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company, Joseph P. Grace of W. R. Grace & Co., James J. Hill of the Great Northern Rail way Company, Otto H. Kuhn of Kuhn, Leob & Co., Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific Railway Company. Ambrose Monell of the International Nickle Company, Henry S. Pritchell of the Carnegie Foundation, Percy A. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil. Com pany, John D. Ryan of the Anaconda Copper Company, Charfes H. Sabin of the Guaranty. Trust Company, William, L. Suunders of the Ingersoll-Rand Company, James A. Stillmxm of the National City Bank, Charles A. Stone of Stone W Webster, Theodore N. Vail i of the American Telephone- and Tele-1 graph Company, Frank A. Vanderlip of the National City Bank, Edwin S. I Webster of Stone & Webster. Albert I H. Wiggin of the Chase National Bank I and Beefhnan jWInthrop of Robert Winthrop & Co. Charles- A. Stone of the Boston house of Stone & Webster,- owners of public utility companies the country over, is to be Wesident and Willard D. Straight Vice President. The wide scope of the company's endeavors was summarized in a brief official' state ment as follows: "The company isjorganized for the purpose of doing an international bus iness and establishing trade relations with different countries which will help make a world-wide market for our products; for financing and pro moting; the development in - foreign countries by American engineers of great public and private undertak ings; for assisting in financing the re habilitation of industries in foreign countries and for the purpose- of un dertaking such domestic business as seems advantageous in oonr.efction j therewith," 1 The charter confers wide . powers. The company may buy and sell all varieties of domestic and foreign se curities. It may contract with do mestic or foreign governmental bodies 1 for franchises, concessions and so on. It may explore for mines or other ricnes of the earth, manage and own them. It mal engage in agriculture or ca.-ry on a general merchantile bus iness in any part of the world. It may build and .operate hotels, restaurants, shops, porks and other places of en tertumment. ' MERRY XMAS. YOU SHOULD SEE THE HAPPY FACES THAT COME INTO OUR BANK TO GET SOME OF THE MONEY THEY BANKED DURING THE PAST YEAR TO BUY PRESENTS FOR THEIR FRIENDS. SOME COME IN TO START BANK ACCOUNTS FOR THEIR CHILpREN (THE BEST PRESENT OF ALL). SOME START BANK ACCOUNTS BEFORE THE FIRST OF THE YEAR SO AS TO GET A GOOD RUNNING START. , THEY WILL BE HAPPY NEXT YEAR. BANK WITH US. ' WE PAY 4 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS La Grande National Bank LA GRANDE, OREGON Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Resources $1,000,000.00 C. C. Penington, Vice President .. , . s undel and H. E. Coolidge, . Assistant Cashiers. DIRECTORS. J. G. Snodgrass. J. F. Conley H. S. Brownton H. E. Coolidge A. T. Hill F. L. Meyers Fred J. Holmes, President F. L. Mvers, Cashier Fred Holmes C. C. Penington A. Blokland ft' i Gift Choosing Made and Economical Easy BOB WHITES COMING. State Sends Four (Yates of 12 Birds Each for County. Advices from tho state irnnio farm 10 the Wing, Fin & Flectfoot club say tnat tour crates of Bob Whites for liberation in this county, were shipped today. Secretary Wenzel will be ready to receive thorn tomor row. There are 12 birds in each crate. Although fpw ouail exist in this valley, it is thought thnt with careful preservation ty sportsmen, tho flocks rtn be propagated and con served until there will be good sport provided in a few vears. It pays to select holiday gifts earl y in order to get the pick of the season's goods, and to save time and money by av oiding hurry. It pays also to get practical, sensi- ble and useful things such as we now ' have on display: '...' ....... 'i Victrolas, and Edison Disc Phonographs, Library Lamps, Fountain Pens, Book Files, Cut Glass, Toilet Cases, Manicure Sets, Brass and Silver ware, Gift books and latest Copyrights, fi ne Stationery, Dolls and Toys of all ki nds. Newlin Book & Stationery Co.