La Grande evening observer., January 24, 1916, Image 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1916.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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SHERRY THEATRE . To day
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Pathe Presents the Famous Comedian
RICHARD CARLE
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"MARY LAMB"
A Rollicking Comedy in 5
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CONFLICT IN DATE LEAVES UN
; CERTAINTY.
Enterprise High School Scheduled for
u . the Same Night.
Jefferson high of Portland is
booked to play the La Grande high
here next Thursday evening. Thero
is some indecision about the game on
account of a previous arrangement
with Enterprise to have been
played the same night. The Jeffer
sonians are touring eastem Oregon
and it is hard for them to change their
dates, but until Enterprise consents
to other arrangements than those first
made, Manager Reynolds is raher up
in the air qver the matter.
It seems well nigh certain, neverthe
less, that one of the two teams will
be here for that date.
The games between Union teams
and La Grande teams at the high
school Saturday night, had to be
called off on account of the blocked
train facilities.
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' Union, Ore., Jan. .21. The Union
Athletic club basketball five defeated
the North Powder club team here to
night by the decisive score of 29 to 10.
The game was fast and furious from
start to finsh a:id both sides were
fouled many times for roughness as
the game was one of the roughest and
hardest fought contests ever Btaged
on the local court. The Union quintet
entered the ,game with a desire
to even things "up as the North
Powder -squad defeated the locals at
North Powder some time ago, but the
boys from the ice town were just as
determined to eliminate the local five
from the championship race. This
makes a game apiece and leaves the
championship honors in rather a mud
dled up state. The La Grande M. I.
A., and the locals have a rubber game
to play off and the North Powder
team and the local squad also have a
rubber game to be played. Some good
contests are promised for the fans in
the near future.
A fair sized crowd witnessed the
game here tonight. '
The lineup was as follows:
North Powder. Union
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Pendleton, Jan. 22. The Waitsburg
High School basketball team which
met defeat on the local floor last week
at the hands of the Pendleton High
school team, last evening defeated the
quintet from here in a fast and excit
ing game on their own floor. The
score at the end of the game, 84 to
18 in favor of Waitsburg, according
to a message received here. The girls'
team which also made the trip from
here to play the Waitsburg lasses
were defeated 20 to 9. This was the
first game for the local girls away
from hime this season but they ex
pected to win because of .the great im
provement they have made in the last
two weeks, and the showing made at
the first of .the season. Tonigh the
girls on, their return trip will play
Weston on their own floor returning
home Sunday.
Just because they refused to take
a "dare," four well known Fresno
motorists 'Barry Cool, George Mur
dock, Carl Lamoine and H. R. Mc-
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uunum uimusb lost tneir lives in tne
recent heavy snowfall recorded in the
Sierra Nevada Mountains. Hunting
ton Lodge was their destination, and
once there the quartet was forced to
wait over several days before even a
railroad train could be forced through
to the outer world. The party left
Fresno at ten o'clock Saturday morn
ing in a Maxwell touring car, and
when but 35 miles out ran into a snow
Storm. At Ochenden the snow was six
'inches deep, and the road was particu
- lar,l,y treacherous. At one point it
j was necessary to sidetrack a big
truck which could not make the grade,
in order to let the Fresnoites by.
At Shaver the snow was nearly two
feet deep, and it was thought fool
- hardy for the party to proceed, every
resident of the town predicting fail
ure. This did hot deter the Maxwellites.
Between Shaver and Big creek a new
-set of chains and fifty feet of rope
were worn out, but in spite of the ter
rific grades and snow and slush the
Cascada hotel at the creek was finally
reached. There the Fresno motorists
were informed that they might as
well make up their minds to stay, as
a specially geared, high powered car
of the Pacific Light & Power company
had essayed the Huntington Lodge
run the night before, only to fail after
proceeding less than a mile.
It is only four miles between the
two points, but the climb is six hun
dred feet for each mile. The Max
well proceeded to within a mile of
Huntington Lodge before its drivers,
exhausted, decided to return to Big
Creek and take a fresh start. They
Lee Ma gee.
Some baseball authorities believe
that Le Magee is the greatest player
in the game, with the single exception
of Ty Cobb. He showed wonderful
form with the Federal League club
of Brooklyn last season. Capt. Hus
ton, one of the owners of the New
York -American lieagfwe club, who
negotiated the deal, paid $22,500 M
the Fed. Magee is equally as good as
a second baseman or outfielder. The
New York club needs a second base
man, and it also needs three good outfielders.
backed down the hill, to learn that tho
Pacific 'Light & Power Company car
was getting ready to "trim" them as
hill climbers.
The final spur for the adventurous
Fresnoites came when the other ma
chine returned to camp, limping be
cause of a broken gear, but jubilant
because it had gone further up the
grade than the Maxwell. The smaller
machine was sent out to do or die,
and it "did." Huntington Lodge was
reached after hours of the most stren-
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uous enon, wirougu uuep auuw uuu j
over trozen roads wnicn grouna tne
rear tires to pieces. On the way two
of the Fresno party, Cool and Mc
Donald, almost succumbed to the cold
in their efforts, and were not fully
recovered until the party once again
arrived at Big Creek, down the grade.
It was not until the next Tuesday
that friends in Fresno learned that the
motorists were safe, as the heavy
storm blew down telephone wires and
interrupted transportation service so
that no communication with the out
side world was possible. A .special
train was then sent out over the Pow
er company's private road, the four
drivers leaving their Maxwell behind
to gain further laurels as a "snow
fighter."
Asylum Is Place for Mashers.
New York, Jan. 24. "Mashers, og
lers. of women and so called flirts
must be slightly unbalanced mentally
and fit subjects for the insane
asylum," declared Magistrate John
C. McGuire of Brooklyn today, dis
cussing the number of such cases that
are brought before him. These mash
ers receive no mercy from me after
they have' annoyed women and young
girls. Any man who tries to make
love to a strange woman as she
passe him in the street certainly is
wrong in the head. I send lots of
these fellows to the Kings County
hospital for mental observation and
you bet I'll see to it that all of them
found guilty in my court will continue
to be sent there. The public thor
oughfares absolutely must be safe
guarded for women and little girls."
Week to impress people with Itihe
proper ideas regarding the food and
clothing of the child. These two
things, badly managed, cause many
deaths. But the week will be devoted
to entire treatment of the child, with
some definite regard to the nursing
mother. It would be impossible to tell
how many babies are made sick and
die because of the bad temper or the
mental affliction of the mother. '
Let us hope that everybody will get
ready to observe Baby Week. We
will doubtless receive some sugges
tions from the Children's Bureau as
to the methods and demonstrations
to be pursued in this important cele
bration. The significance given to the
observance of the day will be the
measure of a community's intelligence
and uplift.
the "Marseillaise," was composed by
Rouget de Lisle, a captain of engi
neers quartered at Strasburg when
the volunteers of the Bas Rhin re
ceived orders to Join Luckner's army.
They had no music, but at the sugges
tion of Dietrich, the mayor of Stras
burg, De Lisle composed this song on
the night of April 24, 1792. It was
subsequently sung in Marseilles with
immense success, hence its name. The
song as it stands is the greatest re
volutionary hymn in the wrt'd. The
French government recently tins.
ferred the body of Rougotde Lisle
(who suffered imprisonment for his
revolutionary opinions during his lifd
time) to the Pdlace des Invalids with
a British man-o'-war durinir the bom
bardment of Fort MeHenry in 1814.
The melody is an old English drinking
song.
The words of "Yankee Doodle" .vo' e
probably written by a Dr. Shuck-
burgh, a surgeon in tho French and in
dian wars. Halliday, the antiquarian,
asserts the melody is derived from a
chant used in tho Italian churches of
thft T.WfilftH nAntllir '' It . id wrnll
known thathe song was a vintage
song in France and Spain, and a song
or tne reapers in Holland. It is
also said to be founded on a jig of
1745, known as "Kitty Fisher's Jig."
The Caveliers are said to have used
it in ridicule of Cromwell just as the
British used it against the Americans.
The origin of "America" the tune
of "God Save The King" in England
and "Heil dir an Englishman," is
also ascribed to Henry Carey,
The Russian national anthem, "God
Protect the Czar," is one of the most
majestic of hyms. It wns composed
by Colonel Alexis, an officer in the
Russian army, in 1832, to words by
the poet Jonkowsky. It is probably
the only inspired national song ever
"written to order."
son's Eczema Ointment will remove
every trace of the ailment. ' It will
restore the skin to its natural soft
ness and purify. Don't let your child
suffer don't be embarrassed by hav
ing your child's face disfigured with
blemishes or ugly scars. Use Dr.
Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Its guar
anteed. No cure no pay. 50c at your
Druggist.
Boy Writes War Poetry.
Mutual Opposes Change.
A resolution was adopted by the
stockholders of the Farmers' Mutual
l ire Relief Associat.on at tho annual
meeting held Thursday, protesting
agcinst any chnnge in the existing in
stance laws affectirg farmers'
n'ylual fire insurance associajtionsl
The Habit of Taking Cold.
With many people taking cold is a
habit, but fortunately one that is easily
brokenf. Take a cold sponge bath
every morning when you first get out
of bed not ice water, but a tempera
ture of bout 90 degrees F. Also
sleep with your window up. Do this
and you wilt seldom take cold. When
you do take cold ake Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and get rid of it as
quickly as possible. Obtainable everywhere.
Baby's Skin Troubles.
Pimples Eruptions Eczema quick
ly yield to the soothing ana healing
qualities of Dr. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment No matter where located,
how bad or long standing, Dr. Hob-
"Sing me to sleep where bullets fall,
"Let me forget the war and all;
"Damp is my dugout, cold my feet, ,
''Nothing but bully and biscuits to
eat."
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 24. Before he
went ito war, Jack Burnet was a stu
dent at the University of California.
His college companions . often have
wondered -about how fortune Jias
served him since he went back to fight
for King and Country. Today they
have heard from him and ho's a Lieu
tenant "somewhere at the British
front.", In a letter to an old college
chum here he writes his impressions
of trench warfare in verse. Among
other things he remarks in prose.
however, is this: "The Hun gets
rough and hurls buildings, bridges,
shells, gas, fire, bullets, whizz bangs
and a few other incidentals at us, but
bar spilling a bit of good . British
blood, he doesn't accomplish much."
But still Barnet goes on:
"Sing me to sleep where bombs ex
plode,
"And shrapnel shells are a la mode.
"Over the sandbags, helmets, you II
find,
"Corpses in front of you, corpses
behind.
Barnet writes of a lot of. "close
shaves" but not close enough so he
could get a trip back to that "dear lit
tle nurse at the base." And then
again:
"Sing me to sleep where the camp-
fires glow
"Full of French bread and cafe
l'eau
"Dreaming of homo and nights in tho
west
"Somebody's 'overseas' boots on my
chest."
"This game is 'ell and no mistake."
the cheerful poet concludes.
two quarts he will have to wait till
next time to finish out his gallon.
' People who rely on the statement
of the attorney general that they can
import both beer and whiskey or wine
if it is sent in one package, will be
sadly fooled, Auditor Charles F. De
ment said yesterday. He issued or
ders that mixtures would not be al
lowed on one permit. The thirsty can
take wine or they can take beer, but
not both at once, said the auditor.
If the court holds differently then
the double dose will be permitted, but
not before, he declared.
BANK TRANSFER MADE.
Union Now Has But One Institution
- to Handle Money. .
Last week the First National Bank
opened as the only bank in Union and
the Union National Bank has passed
into history. The annoucemet of the
sale was made in the Observer soma
time ago. The change has been un
der way for some time, and its final
accomnlishmont is now reported. Be
hind tKis institution is a strong set of
officials and directorate, who estimate
that they will easily be able to handle
the business of this section. The re
modeled quarters at the old First Na
tional stand are perhaps the finest and
most convenient country quarters in
Eastern Oregon, of which the men be
hind .the First National are justly
proud.
The re-organized First National
comes before the people of this part of
the state as an unusually strong con
cern .that will at once command the
confidence and patronage of the peo
ple of the territory tributary to it.
Instead of two banks struggling
along upon a difficult basis, Union now
has one bank that will be assured of
a good business, that is amply able to
care for the banking interests of the
people to that section.
POLICE CHIEF . EXONERATED.
Thirsty Ones Begin to Seek Relief.
Walla Walla, Jan. 22. The thirsty
are beginning to appear. Seven in
dividuals stepped un to the mahogany
in the auditor's office yesterday and
ordered their booze. One man is to
send to Missouri for his supply, oth
ers will send out money to California
and Montona.
Nineteen permits to import booze
have .been issued to date at the audi
tor's office. As the supply at home
drops off the demand is expected to be
larger.
One applicant yesterday when asked
how much . he wanted said solemnly
"one gallon." as the legal limit is
Pendleton Grand Jury Fails to Indict
Officer After Election Riot.
Pendleton, Jan. 22. A not true bill
was . returned against Ex-Chief of
Police Alex Manning and .Officer Omer
Stevens who were charged with as
sault with a dangerous weapon this
afternoon by the Grand Jury at 1:30.
We pay oest prices ror second
Hand Furniture. DYAL'S FURNI
TURE CO., 404 Fir St., Phone Black
8851. 9-14, tf.
Chamberlain's Cought Remedy Most
Effectual. '
"J have taken a great many bottles
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy end
every time it has cured me. I have
found it most effectual for a hacking
cough and for colds.. After taking it
cough always disappears,' writes i.
R. Moore, Lost Valley, G. Obtainable
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Baby Week
Ohio State Journal: The first
week of March this year is to be
Baby Week. It is so declared by the
government through the Children s
Bureau of the department of labor. ,
ims is a nne tnought to maKe an
intelligent effort to save the babies.
Thousands die every year from lack
of care and intelligence, prominent
among, these causes is the wild and
reckless administration of drugs. It
ought to be made an offence to give
a baby a drug, except upon reputable
medical advice, which advice ought to
be mighty scarce.
It is the purpose in observing Baby
The Old Year's Parting Toast.
(Written by a Boston lady who was
a playmate of Mrs. A. C. Williams
when both were children Ed).
The Old Year and the New Year met
Just on the stroke of the midnight
hour;
One passed out to resign his claim
The other stepped in to assert his
power;
As they stood on the threshold of
"Come and Go,"
The OJd Year's brow was furrowed
with care,
The New looked up with smiling eyes,
Wondering why such lines were
there.
The Old Year raised his glass and
said,
111 drink you a toast before I do
part, When I pass you over the keys of
Time,
111 leave you many a lonely heart.
May the Angel of Justice spread his
wing.,,
And reign supreme both near and
far;
May he touch the hearts of rulers and
kings, i
And teach them Peace instead of
War.
May our Land of Freedom be free
from strifes,
May all unkindly rankling cease,
And when Old Glory spreads her
folds
May her motto forever be love and
peace.
My time' is up, I must depart,
Accept, please, my vacated chair,
I have left you with a White Hou-e
bride,
Here's hoping youll leave a White
House heir.
A. M. M.
Origin of National Hymns.
The national song of the French,
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