THURSDAY, JANUARY, 20, 1916.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
PAGE EIGHT
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Warm
If you use one of our money
Water Bottles.
You can't. imagine what a comfort
is these cold nights until yo uhave triec
Put one in your bed, and see how coi
warm it will keep you. - '
Guaranteed to Satisfy or Your Money Back.
Putman's Drug Store
tt f&cH Storm
OAIETV
CLUB WILL
HOST.
AGAIN BE
Large Dancing Club in Town Meet 8
BE
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3'ROMXNENT DEMOCRAT TO
ON PRIMARY BALLOT.
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Southerner by Birth but an Oregonian
by Adoption.
Jno. S. Hodgin, for a number of
years a practicing attorney in Union
and Wallowa counties, will be a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for the office of district attorney in
Union county.
This announcement was made by
Mr. Hodgin today, after deliberating
upon toe matter for some time. He
has been in public life for some time
and is generally known Ito the entire
population of this county.
Mr. Hodgin was born in Guilford
county, North Carolina, where his an
cestors have lived for more than 200
years. He comes of old Quaker stock,
though some of his ancestors fought
in Ithe Revolution and the Indian war
preceding.
When quite young Mr. Hodgin left
home, in fact before finishing his ed
ucation, and came to Oregon where he
took up his education at the Pacific
university, an Oregon college. After
ward he spent some time in Califot
nja attending as a post-graduate stu
dent the Standford university and
Lick Observatory. He returned to
this state in 1894 where he has since
resided. In the study of law he was
for a time with former Attorney Gen
eral A. M. Crawford in Salem and was
also for a time a student at the Port
land Law Schools. For eighteen
years he has practiced law in East
ern Oregon, more than eight of that
time in La Grande. He is an Oregon
ian 'by adoption and largely by edu
cation, although the first three years
of his college life was in eastern in
stitutions. Mr. Hodgin is a Democrat in na
tional politics, but by his own state
ment he maintains a strict independ
ence in state and county affairs. It
will be remembered that Oswald West,
while governor of Oregon, voluntar
ily apnointcd Mr. Hodgin to the of
fice of district attorney in 1914, when
it was presumed a vacancy occurred
due Ito a change in the state law.
which construction was afterward
set aside by the supreme court. . Ho
was at the time of this appointment
holdine the federal position of referee
In bankruptcy and also the city at
torneyship for La Grande, both . of
which he resigned when the district
attorney appointment was made.
During1 the short time he held the of
fice of district attorney his record as
an official was good. tt
LOST Somewhere between Orctron
hotel and the Passenger Depot, 300
customers. Finder pleas return to
the Home restaurant, near Grande
Ronde Valley house, and receive a
reward of an elegant meal for. 20
cents-rAdv. . 1-20-tf.
Tomorrow evening, Friday, the
Gaiety club gives the second dancing
J party of the second series for the
'winter. This; the largest dancing
club in the city, has had a very suc
cessful series of parties and tomor
row evening'B affair promises to out
do the others. "We are always look-
! ing for desirable men and women who
want to get in on these acugntiui
i parties" uuid C. M. DeVere who ,?is
; looking after the business end of the
'naotuiiutinn 11 A 11 . mamlura uhmilll
plan- to be' present tomorrow night
without fail we will have a delight
ful' time." Good music will be pro.
vided. ami dancing begins at 9 end
ing at 12. ...... -
'Father Runs Off With Prettiest Girl,
George Ado never wrote a mora
amusing drama than "Father and tihe
Boys," the five-reel Uiversul Broad
way feature which comes to the Ar
cade theatre soon. Mr. Ade must
have had Digby Bell, the famous
Broadway comedian, in mind when he
I wrote the play for it ideally suits Mr.
isell. "t athcr and the Boys," with Dig
by Bell to supply the fun in a re
markably delightful photoplay. The
picture, in brief, shows how father
puts one over on the boys in "Foxy
Grandpa" style. The boys think
father is a has-been, an old timer, 'a
fosnil, but dad throws off his years
and shows them that he can set a pace
too fast for them to follow. And he
runs off with the prettiest girl of the
lot into tne uurgaui. aqv.
I
Uncomparable Values"
Giving the best values at all times is the thing that has made our feUC
CESS. Buying in immense quantities for 83 stores and paying spot cash, there -bv
securing additional large discounts enables us at all times to undersell our
competitors, It also brings to us the very best merchandise manufactured.
Men's winter Cups ... 25c, 4"c
Men's Gloves and Mittens ..... .25c, 49c, 69c, 98c
Men's Mackinaw Pants ;,.$2.98
Men's Mackinuws ... J3.98, $4.98
v Men's heavy fleeced Shirts and Drawers. .39c
Men's Outing Gowns .'. 49c, 98c
Men's Sheep Pelt Pacs, 10 Inch top .$1.98
Men' work Shoes'.-. . .$1.98, $3.25, $2.49, $2.98
Men's dress Snoes 2.95, $3.50. $3.98
Boys' school Shoes ...$1.49, $1.69, $1.79, $1.98
Girls' school Shoes . .98c, $1.15, $1.25, $1.49, $1.69
. Boys' Bib Overalls, all sizes ,...49c
Men's Bib Overalls; any size desired 49c, 69c, 79c
Wool Blankets .... ....$2.98, $3.98, $4.98
Cotton Blankets . '....49c, 69c
Ladies' Outing Flannel Gowns 49c, 69c, 98c
Children's Outing Flannel Gowns, all sizes... 49c
Ladies' Satteen, or Outing Petticoats 49c
Girls' Satteen Bloomers, all sizes ......25c, 49c
Ladies Fleeced Union suits ............. ... .98c
Ladies' Wool Union suits .$1.49, $1.69, $1.98
Chtldern's Ruben Shirts . ; 25c, 49c
Dr. Denton's Sleeping Garments ,..69c, 79e, 89e
Ladies' Spring Housedresses, sizes 34 to 48. . ,98c
12 l-2c Spring Ginghams 10c
10c Spring Ginghams ...'.;...:.i8 l-8c
YOU CAN ALWAYS
DO BETTER AT
THE UNITED STORE
83 BIG BUSY
' STORES
J. C. PENNEY CO.
ARCADE THEATRE
To-day Last Day
Praise for Alaska.
within the next decade the potential
greatness of this territory, as a pro
ducer of natural wealth will become
so firmly established as to dispel the
last lingering doubt of those who
have assumed the express or implied
attitude of scoffers when Alaska has
been under discussion," says the re
port in conclusion. '" , '
FOR RENT Light
tt-ooms. Telephone
Adv.
housekeeping
Black 11202.
1-20-tf.
A Blender Program
Her
"THREE JEANETTES"
A Rip Roaring Flitting Comedy
"Only a Bathing Suit
Salesman"
Starring Rosemary Theby & Harry Myers
Washington, Jan. 10. "Alaska is a
land flowing with milk and honey
like the promised land of the ancient
Israelites but the milk must be sought
out, and the honey carefully gathered.'
The future and possibilities of the
territory of Alaska are thus ambig
uously expressed in the annual re
port to the Secretary of the Interior of
Gov. J. F. A. Strong made public to
day. The roseate word picture painted
by Governor Strong is based on solid
facts and figures as to the increased
agricultural activities, greater miner
al output and the vast coal fields
which await only the coming .of the
new governmrit raiHroad to make
them big factors in the coal market
' Discussing the Alaska Coal fields
the report says: "Tests of the Mat-
anuaka coal for steaming purposes
were made during the year under the
direction o the haw dauairtment.
and the coal was found eminently sat
isfactory. This field, therefore,
should supply the government with
all the coal it needs on the Pacific
coast, including Hawaii and the Phili
pines, for naval and other purposes.'.'
, ! That the Pacific coast will find a
new market at which it can aurchase
coke, thus affording it relief from the
present situation is indicated by the
statement that the Alaska coal fields
contain large quantities of coal suit
able for coking purposes.
"The completion of the government
system of railroads at. -the earliest
possible time is a matter of prime
importance to the territory." says the
report. "Many farms are being home
steaded in the vicinity of the rail-,
abroad on the hills and in the valleys taPromcnt and was probably adopt
of the interior, and the costal region. I V60""80 11 . w"8 solnethl"S . for
As the railroads of the west were "l "me lue Japanese were seizing
CURIOUS JAPANESE RITE. ,
The Art of Divination Through ths
Uo of Tortoise Shall. '
. The curious art of divination through
(he medium of tortoise shell, ,1s very
popular ' throughout . the island king
dom, being used upon muny occasions
to iiseertuin the timeliness or possibil
ity of various projects. ,Tbe Impor
tance, of this practice In the eyes of the
fiipuuese may be 'inferred from .the
fact that the Holds lu which the sucrod
rice for, the coronation ceremony was
grown werje Selected. jurough tortoise
shell divination. ., , ' ..... ',
The divination Is 1 effected by first
worshiping n god called Uravanokaml.
Then a tortoise shell, is takoD and
Eastland Case in Court.
(By United States.)
Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 20. Six
of eight defendants indicted in con
nection with the Eastland horror of
July 24 when 812 excursionists lost
their lives, today prepared to fight
their removal to Chicago for trial. The
proceedings were to begin today be
fore Federal Judge Clarence Sessions
here. The defendants are: Geo. T.
Arnold, Mackinac, President of the
it. Joseph-Chicago Steamship com
pany; W. H. Hull, St. Joseph, vice
president; Captain Harry Pendersen,
Benton Harbor; Joseph M. Erickson,
chief engineer, Grand Haven, and
Steamboat Inspectors Robert Reid and
C. C. Eckliff, Grand Haven. The
defendants have been at liberty under
$8,000 bonds. Walter C. Steele, Ben
ton Harbor, secretary-treasurer, and
W. K. Greenbaum. Chicaeo. e-eneral
manager of the Indian Transportation
company 'have agreed to trial in Chi
cago.
REASSESSMENT ORDERED.
(Continued Froi Page One)
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V . war iMdities
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J 'London The War
Office
scraped Inside until quite thin and the ' has received the following from
outside surface polished. In the shell . a soldier's wife : JL
lire several uoilow squares In each of . "Sir My husband has gone to
ighlch there Is a certnln Blgn marked 4 the Dandelions, so will you '$
In black Ink. The whole is then baked 1 4 please iell me how to wet. J.
4 Elopment money." .- 4.
b Birmingham War wvlH
4- .have caused a dearth of wedding J.
under great beat, causing, crocks to ap
pear In the surface... These cracks are j
then studied In, accordance with, the :
tormuiae lu the divination book, the ; rings here and manufacturing
result being' a ,8ort of code 'message
rrom the goas . v. . , ., ... .,
This Is not the earliest forui of dlvln-
aflon known in .Japan. Previously
there was. a kind called Kutoman!,. in
f jewelers aire "urn stump" on 4
T account or the scarcity of gold.
4- Petrograd Russian soldiers 4
4 wounded for the third time are
r not sent back to the front e- A
tfUich the suouliler blade of a stag was .4 cording to a new armv ruling JL
vejl in place Vf a tortoise shell. The 4 . . .'-.-- .... -4,
'tortoise' shell inetbKi. which probably 4,444,44'4'!A
cpuie irum mina. was, considered ,an
and one on a state charge. Both were
for assault.
The water superintendent spent
$25.25 for repairs to meters and gen
eral overhauling. Have been pump
ing since January 12th. The O.-W. R.
& N. Co. have been cut off and are us
ing their artesian well except when a
flue burst in their pump hoilar.
Water users don't seem to understand .
that practically all the trouble this
year is inside the buildings. Letting
the faucets run often freezes the
waste pipes. If the stop and waste
were opened and the faucets were
opened there would be no trouble.
Portland, Astoria and many cities of
the northwest are using much more
water than in the driest year during
the irrigation season. Some 1500 to
1600 connections would run the entire
Grande iRonde river through if alt
opened at the same. -time.
The recorder collected $23.93
principal and $1.40 interest and $1.20
penalty on District No. 96 and 60
cents for one building permit. He is
sued warrants fa $1401.04 on bills
allowed. He issued one dance and one
dray license on Treasurer's receipt
for $5.00 for each. The latter I rec
ommend refunded as the license here
tofore issued covers the same loca
tion. i -.. -j
The treasurer collected $559.46 im
provement district installments;
$219.10 improvement district interest;
$703.91 water rent; $5.00 taxi and
$5.00 dance license. He paid $163.13
water warrants; $19.30 road war
rants; $14.00 contingent
$714.37 improvement district interest;
$100.00 improvement district No. 99t
First street warrant and 50 cents in.
terest on same.
There were fifteen delinauent
users on the eleventh. . .
tne pioneers of civilization so will
the building of the railroads in
Alaska cause the wilderness and now
waste pluces to bloom and blossom."
Although "gold" and fAlaSka"
have been made almost synonynous.
the report states that probably the
most conspicious feature of minim?
development in Alaska during the Inst
year is shown 111 the greatly increas
ed production of copper ores.
"Shipments of copper ore by the
Kennecott Mines Company have
reached as much ns a million dollars
per month or more, the ore beine
shipped to Tacoma, Wash., for treat
ment."
"The vast possibilities of Alaska
industrially, agriculturally, and com
mercially justify the prediction that
npon all
Magazine.
things foreign. Japanese
K X
Wheat Going Up
but wc have not yet raised onr price on Domo Separators. We
have sold 41 of them in a little over a year. They are priced froin
$15.00 to $G0.00. We know of no other scpjirator tlrat is priced so
low, Sind we know of no other that .will do better work.
WE ASK YOU TO LOOK BEFORE YOU BUY
Fangi of a Snak.
. Examine the finest catnhrlo mwvii.
nnrittr ft hltvh i . .
.0- pv"n uin-ruscope ana its
nolnt will int . . j LT. . . II
iuuku nuu nmnr a
snake's fang similarly inspected ap
pears perfectly smooth and sharp. In
each fang Is a groove wblcb connects
by a tube with sort of hnirfhMi
I gland-Just beneath the ey.. When the
j snake strikes a muscular contraction
simultaneously forces thn r,,m ..
of the bag through the tube and alone
v tutu uit? uesu or the Der-
speaking, lias two dlsilnnr n-..... ,-.
i do roys In some mysterious way the
1 1 Vr'8b .tbe walls ' veins
W. H. Bohnenkamp Co.
old time: witch finders.
8ur Sign by Which Agent of tho
Evil One Were Detected. '
Three hundred years ago the busi
ness of finding out witches was welt
established and accepted In courts of
law as highly proper.
In 10-19 it Is recorded that the magis
trates of Newcastle, England, sent to
htotland for nn expert witch finder.
This gifted person proceeded to show
his skill by quickly discovering fifteen
witches and securing their conviction.
One Matthew Hopkins was a cele
brated witch finder of that period.
It was easy to discover witches when
yon knew how. The suspected person
could be forced to weep and then de
tected by the well known fuct that a
witch could shed only three tears and
those from the left eye. or she could
be pricked with plus to discover the
spot insensible to pain, which was a
sure sign of dealings with tbe devil.
, That women were fur more likely to
dabble in witchcraft than men was
conceded. Tbe reason was satisfacto
rily explained by a famous German
text book on witches published in the
fifteenth century. It was simply that
women were inherently wicked, where
as men naturally inclined to goodness.
Exchange.
We Can
Fill Any
Prescription
s
Many labor under the mistaken idea that they
must take then- prescriptions to the druggist
whose name appears on the prescription blank.
No matter who writes your prescriptions or
what druggist's blanks they are written on we can
fill them.
Our stock of prescription drugs is large and in
cludes all the new remedies.
Registered pharmacists only da the compound
ing here.
. Their experience with our exceptional facilities
insure accuracy and promptness in filling.
La Grande Pharmacy
A. NEWLIN, Manager
West-Jacobson Building Opposite Bohnen
kamps Hardware.
Main40 Quick Delivery
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