La Grande evening observer., January 25, 1916, Image 4

Tuesday, January 2&t
f AGE FOUR
' LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER '
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner.
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THAT FARMERS' WEEK.
Only here and there, chiefly among
those who have had occasion to look
into the matter thoroughly, do L
Grande people realize the scope of
the program slated for next week's
Farmers' and Homenrakers' festivities.
That hundreds of people are coming
from everywhere in Eastern Oregon,
is not generally realized. The im
mensity of the whole thing is under
estimated.
Unless the promoters are to be
ruthlessly dippolnted, hotels will
he filled to overflowing, and there
will be need of private home facili
ties for the fanners. The educators
from college and United States
bureaus alone will go a long way to
wards gobbling up the hotel facili
ties. When a half hundred' instructors,
experts and leaders assemble in one
place, something is bound to happen
for the upbuilding of the communities
in which the meetings take place. So
it will be here. One can scarcely con
ceive of a branch of farm life or of
homemaking that will not be covered
in the week's program. How will it
be covered? By the men who give
their life's study ti the respective
questions; experts and highly special
ized genuises who speak with author-
ity.
There is a dual purpose in this pro
grain. First, it is a week for farmers
to get a "college education" for a
Bong. Professors will come here pre
pared to give, in six days, the crux
of a college education in agriculture,
horticulture, agronomy, animal hus
bandry, road making nul farm busi
ness efficiency that otherwise would
require months to acquire. ' In Uma
tilla, Morrow, Harney, Baker, Wal
lowa, everywhere, the merits of this
week ore thoroughly appreciated and
big delegations are coming. Are it'ie
merits appreciated at home? Do
Union county farmers and towns peo
ple realize that if this plan is to be
annually brought to La Grande, the
I treocraDhieal center of Eastern Ore-
' gon, that Union county people must
bend every effort to make it a success
"right off the reel?" '
' Secondly. The same wide source of
information will be diffused among
, mothers, parents and homemakers
I that will go the farmers. Hence
it is especially drafted for the urban
as well as rural element. Card clubs,
tea parties and frivolities must per-
, force go by .the boards next week;
' opportunity for the mother, chef,
housekeeper, wife, farmer, stockman,
-dairyman, road "builder, orchardist.
etc., knocks it. the doof of Eastern
Oregon next week. Will Eastern Ore
gon' people' avail themselves of this
chance to let Opportunity have full
sway? - ..y
WANTS FARM WEEK TRAIN.
Farmers in North End Can't Get in to
Attend Farm Week Program.
Elgin. Jan." 25 (To the Editor)
1 1 see by your paper that you are go
ing to have a big Farmers' week. But
'unless we farmers can persuade the
railroad company to give us a tram,
say from Elgin to La Grande and re
turn each day, it may be a city folks'
week for all we can help it. There
are scores of people who would like
to. attend but can't be away from
home on account of doing chores
such as feeding stock and milking,
etc. We cannot get to La Grande as
the trains now run and do any busi
ness without being -gone two nights
' and part of three days at an outlay of
I about ten dollars. It will be a great
thing for the farmers and La Grande
and 4he railroad company if a motor
car was put on.
A FARMER.
The Last
I JainMarv G
' The
PIG CLUBS URGED AGAIN
STATE
AGENT SENDS OUT ADVICE.
Many Reasons for Such Institutions
Set Out by State Leader.
L. J. Allen, state Pig club agent
working for the Extension Service of
Oregon Agricultural college, has is
sued his preliminary statement con
cerning this year's work. He goes oii
to say:
Pig clubs are being organized
among the boys and girls of Oregon
by the Extension Service of the Ore
gon Agricultural college in co-operation
widh the Burenu of Animal In
dustry, U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, the State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction, the county school sup
erintendents, teachers and parents.
The Corn club members are raising
profitable yields of corn where.it was
thought impossible to grow;it a few
years ago, and it is hoped the import
ance of feeding crops to live stock on
the farm may bo emphasized in thi3
Pib club work.
It would be well if all members of
Corn clubs would enroll in the Pork
Production work and thus lend a hand
in the endeavor to improve the quality
of swine in Oregon, and at the same
time learn how to make more rapid
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Take, b caAitut mctvCS
YOU HAVE HEARD ALL YOUR LIFE THAT "YOUR MONEY
IS YOUR BEST FRIEND".
IF YOU ARE LETTING YOUR MONEY SLIP AWAY FROM
you, stop nr. -a . j
YOU CAN STOP IT IF YOU IVY ILL. YOU WANT TO BE
INDEPENDENT. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN BECOME SO IS
TO BANK YOUR MONEY.
BANK WITH US.
WE PAY 4 PER CENT INTERESTS TIME DEPOSITS
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE, OREGON
Capital 200,0O0.00 Surplus $50,000.00
Resources $1,000,000.00
Fred J. Holmes, President
F. L. Mven, Cashier
C, a Penington, Vice President
E. Zu
Rnnital knd H. K- Coolidce.
Assistant Uashters.
Fre ". Holmes
C C. Penington
A. BtoUand
DIRECTORS.
J. G. Snod grass
H. S. Brown ton
A. T. Hill
J. F. Conley
F. L. Meyer
H. E. Coolidgs
Week at West's
learaoce Sale
Sale That Shatters Competition
Every Article in the Store Reduced
MEN! You Last Chance This Week
I
. - s - nr.- i j,'. -,.Imi . ..V
to visit West's during the January Clearance i&le, :and pick-up .a HigifGrade;,,,,
00 to $6.00 on it. ".Benjamin," "jmscn-.vvicK-:; ''
Tailored Suit and save $5.00
wire," "Society Brand'' and "Fidelity" makes
guarantee this i store s and. the. makers
them.
$15.00 Men's Suits for $11.25
$17.50 Men's Suits for ...... .. .. ..$13.15
$20:00 Men's Suits for $15.00
With every suit goes a double 1
which is all that need be said about,
$22.50 Men's Suits for ...1
$25.00 Men's Suits for
$27.50 Men's Suits for ".....
:;...te,..$18.75
..$20.65
Your Choice of any $20 to $25 Overcoat in the Store
Now $9.95
Regular $2.00 Pants now, ...$1.50
Regular $3.00 Pants now, $2.25
Regular $4.00 Pants, now $3.00
Regular $5.00 Pants, now $3.75
"Manhattan" $1.50 Shirts, now $1.20
$5.50 Mackinaw Coats, now $4.15
$7.50 Mackinaw Coats, now .........$5.65
Regular 50c Men's Caps at ...... 39c '
Regular 75c Men's Caps at .........60c
Regular $1.00 Men's Caps at 75c
Entire Stock men's Sweaters 25 per
cent off.
Regular $3.00 Gordon Mats. now at,
..: $2.40
Last Week of the January Clearance
Sale of "Best Ever" Suits
We have whittled 25 percent off the price of every hoys suit in the store. These
"Best Ever" suits are not the ordinary boys' clothing usually advertised. They are the
best and smartest in style of all boys' clothing. They are what the name "Best Ever"
stands for. . '
TMEV
HAVE HO
EQUAL
BOY'S SUIT
ALL-WOOL
Regular $5.00 Suits now $3.75
Regular $6.00 Suits now $4.50
Regular $7.00 Suits now
Regular $8.00 Suits now
Boys' Overcoats Half Price
Regular $5.00 Boys' Coats $2.50
Regular $6.00 Boys' Coats $3.00
Regular $7.00 Boys' Coats .
Regular $7.50 Boys' Coats
.$5.25
.$6.00
.$3.50
.$3.75
Small Boys' Suits at Half Price
These season's new styles of velvet, serges and mixtures new Olive Twists, Middy
and Dombcy styles extra fine suits in every way. '
$3.75 Suits now at $1.87
$4.00 -Suits now at ,$2.00
$5.00 Suits now at $2.50
$6.00 Suits now at $3.00
Small Boys' Russian Blouse Suits all Wool,
Values to $4, Clearance 98c
Take Advantage During the Last Days of West's January Clearance
Sale and Supply Your Dry Goods Needs now at the
Smallest Price of the Year
Sheetings, Towelings, Towels, Curtain and Drao-
ress Goods, Silks, Nations, Underwear, Hosiery,
Now at January Clearance Sale Prices West's
oods, things for your home, things for you to wear
einghere by the merits of the article itself; Every
's it is good.
ow on hand was contracted for months ago when
ears. All prices now during this week are from 15
to offer the same goods for later on. Last week
Blankets, Quilts, Bed Spreads, Pillow Cases,
ery Fabrics, White Goods, Linens, Wash Goods, D
Ribbons, Corsets, Gloves, Ready-to-wear, Etc.
shows the largest variety in La Grande of Dry G
every article is new, and clean; is justmed m b
one knows that when an article comes from West
Supply your needs now most all new goods n
wool and cottons were the lowest it had been for y
to 33 1-3 per cent lower than any sitore will be able
this week of the January Clearance Sale.
I
IMail Orders
Promptly Filled
Sale Ends
January 31
and economical gains in hog feeding.
There will be two distinct divisions
of the Pig club project. Division I,
the care and management of a brood
sow and litter of pigs. Division II,
the feeding and care of on or more
pigs from weaning time for a period
of at least four months.
Objects of the Work.
The object of forming Pig clubs
among the boys and girls may be
briefly stated as follows:
1. To stimulate an interest in
swine production and o teach the
boys and girls how to raise better and
cheaper hogs by the use of improved
blood and the growmg of forage crops.
2. To increase roe number of hogs
raised on the farm in order that the
meat for the home and that required
to feed the extra farm labor may be
produced instead of being bought.
3. To complement the work of the
boys and girls' Corn clubs by how
ing them how they can profitably sell
their corn tnrougn nogs.
4. To encourage the (home curing
of meats on the farm.
5. To teach the boys how to judge
hogs and to select them for breeding
or maTKet purposes.
6. To encourage the growing of
forage crops and discourage the use
of iugh-priced feeds.
7. To instruct the boys and girls
in a practical way in the manage
ment, feeding, sanitation, and preven
tion of diseases of swine, all of which
information proves valuable with re
spect to other forms of live stock
work.
8. To give the boys and girls a
means of earning some money for
themselves while at home.
9. To instill in the boys and girh
while young a love or animals which
wul result in their takinc mnr in
terest , in farm life, and to furnish
them at the same time some work
which will, in a practical way, give an
insight into the business side of farm
life and incite in thera a desire to
struggle for and attain success.
Rules and Regulations.
1. Anv bov rtr o-irl lfn.AAM .
ages of 9 and 18 years may become a
member.
2. Each mnat Biumu t i .
, , v ai least one
dub. beconie a member of the
r " "". cure ior nis
Stock in nersnn. on1 .1 .
the feed given and the pasture grazed,
also srrow as mr.n t tk j "
- - --.- tut, ictu as pos
sible. He must record the weight of
each pig when it came into his posses
sion and at shnH n.ni. -5 .
determine the gains. The date of far
rowing should also be recorded.
m i c , . '",lri wmcn win ne
furnished, eholud be filled out and
certified by ;..
5. Eacl BiCiu. w ; 1
and kept a record of his pig for at
least four months in order to compete
for a prize.
6. The members of the club must
agree to study the instructions and
read the letters, circulars and bul
letins sent to them.
7. Each nflmtiPf mnuf n4...
...mow, ituwdidi
possible, show their pig at tha local
and country exhibit, and the winners
Of the COnntV ovVliMt -nnaf VAI.
pigs at the State faL.
Boy.3 ond girls who wish to enter
the Pig club work nut are unable to
ui.i-i.il unjou sows or ptgg will be as
sisted in securing suitable stock from
reliable breeders in their county.
WANTED A four, Ave or six room
furnished house. Call Main 777.
Adv. 1-25-lt.