La Grande evening observer., March 16, 1916, Image 4

THURSDAY; MARtlf''l6;
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER 1
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THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor mnd Owner
Altered in the Poatoff ice at I
Grande, Oregon, as second claw
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. THE CHANGE
In this spring a young man's fancy
Will turn not to thoughts of love.
To the blooming of the roses.
To the cooing turtle dove.
But to visions of the trenches,
And to thoughts of grimmest hate,
To the Hinging of the bullets.
And their deadly song of fate.
In this spring the young men march
ing Turn away from home and maid,
With no time to murmur softly
What in other springs they said,
For their country, in a death grip,
Cries upon them for her life.
And their forces in stern earnest
Gather for the final strife.
Not a spring, this, is of roses.
Nor of love and birds and flowers;
For most sinister ita portents, -
Dark and bloody are its hours,
With no time for tender passions
Trampled is its early Woom
And the young man's fancy shudders
As life seems one ghastly tomb.
Baltimore American.
. MORTGAGE INTEREST RATES
A western farm paper in discussing
Rural Credits BilU introduced by the
joint committee of the two houses of
Congress says of the land, bonds to
be issued under Government auspices:
"If the bonds bear much less than
four per cent interest they will not be
attractive to investors." '-.r.'''
It they can be floated at four per
cent the scheme will be a great suc
ess, says tho Country Gentleman. A
four per cent bond should give the
farmer money on mortgage at about
five. . The building and loan associa
tions of Ohio, which have lent nearly
twenty millions to farmers at a rate
of only one per cent above what the
bonds sell for, are conspicuously suc
cessful. A Wisconsin land bank mak
ing small loans has sold bonds to the
extent of nearly a hundred thousand
dollars. It charges farmers seven per
cent, and pays five per cent for the
money it lends. It has not yet paid
any dividends, but expects to do so
in the future.
Many Ohio farmers,, under corn belt
conditions, prefer to pay a trifle more
to the building and loan associations
on a ' flexible amortization plan run
ning many years than they would bo
obliged to pay ordinary investors on
short terms. The Wisconsin settlers
getting money from the land bank at
an average of one or two per cent less
than they used to pay and they are
plensed. Prior to tho organizations of
the land bank most of them, being set
tlers on cut-over timber lands, could
get no loans at all.
In criticising the plan as being of.
small use unless the bonds are floated
at less than four per cent our West
ern contemporary takes the corn belt
attitude. The Com Belt has not suff
" -...x. rH with other re-
gions from lack of money on land mor
tgage. ' ;
The Ohio experience seems to prove
that money on land-bank terms may
be very useful und corn, belt condi
tions, but the Wisconsin plan shows
the farmers who need the new sysWm
most are those in undeveloped regions
and in other localities where values
are low and the quality of the land is
not very uniform. ' .
These parts of the country are not
ui mnnw m mortgage
now auio w - - .u..
at all, in many cases, and in others
t .Mu t. vm-v hitrh rates. Tney
idf. not possess attractive properties.
'Their lands are not uniform. They
are substandard risks. Or course they
I have to pay superstandard rates. That
The Rural Credits" Bill seeks to
i thorn ml make them safe
and therefore attractive. That is a big
and necessary work.
FASHION FANCIES
Ktrinad silk sweaters come in jer
sey, heavy knit and taffeta weaves.
The poke bonnet comes back more
poked than ever.
Th " irt on milk suit are a
trifle Tonger than cloth jackets, ofton
measuring about Zo incnes.
r L v .;nt linan
Uimity.nainsoon, mhuwuiki
organdie cotton basket cloth and "will
o' the wisp" may form your new cot
ton gown.
u, dreiiun have insertions
tirhrfo ohiffnn with narrow bands
of the serge applied to the chiffon.
FloWers and loops of ribbon trim
the newest petticoats. .
A lavender ' nightgown is not un
common, in this day of colored linger-
POL1T1CAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Primaries, way
For PubUe Service Commissioner
I hereby announce my candidacy for
Republican nomination to the office of
Public Service Commissioner for bast
em Oregon district, asking the sup
port of all KPub'WRIGHT. 1
For County Clerk
T0 Republicans of Union county:
I hereby ask your support for the
nomination to uie on ice 01
clerk and pledge you the best that
is in me should 1 e noraui
elected. "A dollar's worth of service
for every dollar spent.
CASS la. nuaiiniwfii).
. For County Clerk
t n.innltli-tinK nf Union
.nnil.lar mv rtindidacv for
wuiiiijr L j vv.a. J -
county clerk favorably at the coming
primaries. 1 nave Deen uepuior cuuu-
ty clerk under air. wngiu. iur ounic
time and am familiar with the work
of the office. .,,
KENNETH Mcuukmiiv.
For Sheriff
Hnnrliibite for Republican nomina
tion for sheriff of Union county.
H. C. (HAL,) KH.E.S,
Deputy Sheriff.
For Sheriff .
T harahtr nnnniindt TT1 V candidaCV for
the Republican nomination for sheriff,
o,ikiu.t tr 4ha nrimn rif trt he held On
May 19, 191 "Competent and faith
ful service." ,
T. H. W1L.UAMSUJN.
... A T'aris correspondent in the Wo
man's Home Companian says:
"Pull sleeves of mousseline de soie
are weighed at wide , intervals with
large white pearl beads.
Special fashion tendencies observ
ed are: ' '
Thn hin distension in skirts; the
vogue of plain godet skirts; the equal
vogue of plaited .bell sKirts; tne sioev
Inaa pnrnnirA over' the white lace
blouse; middy blouses of striped jer
sey cloth j the Breton peasant oiouse;
silk blouses straight and seamless at
Wk. with surnlice fronts tying at
the back; sleeves that are frilled and
puffed.
His Crime
Captain "What's luo charged with
Casey?"
Officer "I don't know the regu
lar name fer it, captain; but I caught
him a flirtin' lin the park."
Oaptalin Ah, that's; impersona
tin' an officer." -Judge
Canyon City to Hold Election
Canyon City, Or., March 15. A
mayor, five councumen, recorder and
treasurer aTe to be chosen at the com
ing annual city election to be held
here April 3.
a,
dccmint
A MAN'S WIFE ONCE PERSUADED HIM TO GIVE HER
AN ALLOWANCE.
SHE OPENED A BANK ACCOUNT.
THE HUSBAND BECAME INVOLVED.
THE MONEY ITHE WIFE HAD IN THE BANK. UNKNOWN
TO HER HUSBAND, SAVED HIM FROM BUSINESS FAILURE.
GIVE YOUR WIFE A BANK ACCOUNT. SHE IS YOUR
BEST FRIEND2AND:BEST PARTNER.
BANK WITH US.
WE PAY 4 PERICENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE, OREGON
Capital $200,000.00, Surplus ?50,00u.y0. V.eio-jrces $1,000,000.00
Fred J. Holmes, President; C. C. Peni, -i, Vice President; F. L.
Meyers, Cashier; E. Zundel and K. E. Cooli-ne, Assistant Cashiers.
DIRECTORS
Fred J. Holmes, J. G. Snodgrass, J. F. Conley, a C. Penington, H.
S. Brownton, F. L. Meyers, A. Blokland, A. T. Hill, H E. Coolidge.
For Sheriff
riAm.t.afif. ftnnlirlntti for sheriff of
Union county. Ore., subject . to pri
ma election. May 19, 1916. "For
the people."
D. H. Procter
hliosin -andMRtp for county
olort foaires tbn nirl of the Voters for
that office. If nominated and elected
will continue to give best services to
the county as he has in the past as
County Recorder.
Prosecuting Attorney
To the voters of Union County:
I hereby announce myself as candi
date on Republican ticket for the of
fice of Prosecuting Attorney ior un
ion County. Oregon. If nominated
and elected I will endeavor to enforce
the laws without tear or lavor ana
to prosecute the guilty as well as pro
tect the innocent, ever mindful of the
rights of the tax payers of this coun
ty. Your support is respectfully solicited.
RODNEY J. KITCHEN.
Aitchisdn Will Not Be In Race
Salem, Or., March 13. Clyde B.
Aitchison, chairman of the public
service commission, will not be a
candidate to succeed himself at the
coming primary election, according to
information emnnating from apparent
ly authentic sources. According to
these reports he has been offered a
lucrative position with the Interstate
Commerce commission, but whether he
contemplates accepting it or entering
into some . field of business is not
known.
He is a resident of Portland, and
was appointed a member of the com
mission when it was created in 1907.
He was re-elected in 1908 and 1912.
Under a law passed by the last legis
lature, changing the public service
commissioner districts, he and Com
missioner Campbell were both made
residents of the western district, and
had Aitchison become a candidate, the
two would have been pitted against
each other. Campbell has announced
his candidacy, and he has opposition
in Frederick G. Buchtel, head of the
state weights and measures depart
'ment under State Treasurer Kay.
Former State Senator Dan Kellaher,
John McGuire and First Assistant
State Engineer Percy Cupper aTe
considering becoming candidates, hut
have not filed their declarations. The
first two are of Portland and the Inst
of this city.
Intended Suicide Presented at Revival
A man who was on his way to the
iriver to end his life when the
evangelist met Ihim, was used as his
subject last evening by "Three
Fingered Jack" Godwin, the ex
gnmbler, who is cond.icbmg a series
of revival services in Centenary
Methodist church. The man was in
troduced to tho chtirohful of people.
He wore his, oi l clotthes because he
sent homo his best suit that his
brothers1 might wear his clothes af
ter ho had committed suicide. A
collection last evening led to the
purchase of new clothes today, relates
a Portland paper.
I "I'm only a beginner at this work,
.but I have never seen such quick
resDonse as tho people at the Centen
ary church hnvo given me,", said the
evangelist today. "There were seven
conversions last night, and there was
one man at the altar before we had
sung the invitational hymn. Begin
ning tonight I'll toll of my own con
version and then some stories of my
life. I am hero to save sinners, not
to talk to a church filled witih
Christians. I uso a little gambler's
phraseology once in o while ami if
people dont like that they can bring
cotton and put in their ears until
I'm through talking. Our moo.tings
are entirely undenominational."
One of Mr. Godwin's valued pos
sis.rions is a little Bi'.ilo given him
when ho wna converted, in Spokane
in ISM. U is nearly worn out and
is was suggested that he carry it in
a leather case similar to a playing
card case. .
"That would never do for me," he
If vou are looking for ideas v :
For some way to beautify your home v
If you want Curtains and Draperies that are new
stylish and really do beautify " .
. Just see the display this week cm the ledge, -middle
Aisle, of some very striking and tastetul Curtain
and Drapery Materials. ;"' .;v
We have a big line of new fancy
CRETONNES
In various weaves,
Striking patterns,
Attractive colorings
121-2 25, 35, 40, 50 Yard
We show the largest and most complete
assortment of
CURTAIN SCRIMS
New patterns, ,,
The best values
ever offered
15, 25 35, 40, 60tf Yard
More New Neckwear
Now on display at our neckwear' counter some very new ickwear,.
styfea just received for Women and Misses. New Cape, Ouevelier,
Spanish and Roll effects in large or small Collars. Dainty --styles em
broidry trimmed or lace trimmed, Vestees, Separate Collars, awl Collar
and Suff Sets. Al priced at
1 ' , 25 and 50 :. ;.""':.' ;
Middy Blouses! Middy Blouses!
a Big
Shipment .
Just Received
of These V
Popular
COLLEGE
STYLE
MIDDIES
a Dozen New
Styles Never
Shown Before
$1.25, $1.50
Now
in our excusive women's ready-to-wear-section, there is a veritable
prairie-land of New Spring Suits, New Spring Coats, New Spring Dress
es, and New' Spring Skirts, ready for those women who desire first choice
and desire exceptional values. i
New Suits $15.00 New Coats $10.00 Up
New Dresses $10-00 Up New Skirts $ 4.00 Up
exclaimed, "I'd start to deal off the
bottom right away."
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"GREEN-EYED MONSTER,"
With Mantell, Hinges on Curse of
Jealousy.
Ilonln with' a man who covets the
wife of his own brother, who removes
every obstacle to her hand and tnen
falls a victim to his own self.
Jealousy serves as the basis of the
William Fox production, "Green
Eyed Monster," starring Robert B.
Mantell,. foremost of tragic actors,
witlh Genevieve Hamper. The scen
ario for the production was written
by Nixola Daniels author of "De
struction," and other Fox dramas, and
it may be said that none other than
a woman could have given so com
prehensive an expose of the soul
wracking tortures of one cursed with
jealously. At Sherry Theatre todny.
MARY IMCKFORD, UNRIVALLED
SCREEN STAR, IN WONDERFUL
CHARACTERIZATION AS "THE
FOUNDLING."
"Little Mary1 Pickford, whose
fjreat unequalled ability in creating
lifelike portrayals on the screen has
made her the foremost motion pic
ture star in the world, returns to
Tho Arcade Friday for a two day
i visit in nn elaborate five-part photo
production of "The Foundling," pro
Idttced by th.e Famous Flayers Film
Company and released on the Para
mount Program.
In this superb feature, the Famous
Players havo creatxsl anotiher motion
picture masterpiece. This producing
company, which first introduced the
policy of presenting famous stars and
plays on the screen, and which since
its itouguration, more than three
years ago, has continuously represent
ed the highest feature standard pos
sible to achieve, 1as again indicated
through the medium of this sterling
production its unremitting efforts
for the elevation and refinement of
screen drama.
A number of very human touchs are
skillfully contained in this feature and
delicately suggested by the boundless
art of Mary Pickford. When, as tlhe
cast-away, after yehrs of hardship
and suffering, of loneliness and desti
tution, she crosses the path of her
father.
Woodburn Tests Right to Fix Phone
Rates.
Salom, Ore., March 15. To deter
mine whether tho public service com
mission can leenllv increase nnMir
utility rates fixed by a municipal
irancnise, is tne object of a suit in
stituted in ' the cij-cuit fcourt here
acainst tho commission bv th itv
of Woodburn, and according to at
torneys identified with the litigation
the question is ono of the most im
portant raised in the hisborv of tho
commission, as its adjudication will
eventually, if not the present, af
reet n considerable number of pub
lic utilities and municipalities in the
state.
The Laugh on Him
Mr. Jones had recently become the
father of twins. The minister stopt
him in the street to congratulate him.
"Well, Jones," he staid, "I hear that
the Lord has smiled on you."
.'Smilcd on me?' rePdated Jones
He laughed out loud' TitBitfc.
Colonel House, in reply to the news
paper reDortera whn kootor, vi
Europe, finaly admitted that Europe
was always a nice place to visit
Chattanooga News.
Civil War Veteran Passes Away.
Lebanon, Ore., March 15. George
W. Soule, a veteran of the Civil War
held today with services at Locomb
died on Monday afternoon after a
lingering illness. The funoiral was.
hold today with services at Iacomb
and burial was in the Masonic cem
etery in this place. He is -survived
by the widow, thlree sons,
and one daughter. He was a prom
inent citizen in th IjiKnml,
where he had lived for a number of
years.
J "b "fr -j.
PRINT PAPER ADVANCES
Owing to heavy ed"ance in
the price of print paper The
Observer finds it necessary to
ask those in arrears to please
arrange to sottiA their subscrip-
tion accounts or we will be -forced
to discontinue their pap
ers, much as we would regret o
do such a thing. The price of
white paper is forcing us to his.
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