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Page eight L& GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER MONDAY, MAY S, 1916 1 4 41 4 4 4 4 4 4 4? 4 4 4 4 4? 4? 4 X 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 - 4 -f 4 4 4 4 SHERRY THEATRE Today The Brilliant liluebirrj Photoplay'-.. UNDINE With the Matchless Beauty Ida Schnall The Venus of Mfxierin Times, TWO 'COMKMKS ''. To-day and To-morrow I- 4 4 4 4 4v Hie Aid from SasuwrriUe and AM- There u Boca speculation as to (L SiaJ, eoi!'. k cream and cke whether they would' vote to join the were sered. hundreds of Uiousand-i of other train.. it jL I. A youn people enjoyeo men now threatening to strike if their wage demands are cot met. Grand a -wemer" rout lhuxsday eveow?. A bonr.re was buiit in the church I yard and the members with some oat-; ; side goest taynytd the evening roast ;ing mrainse ani pUirinr games. , ; Will Bell and Miss Hattie Kaingr ; were married at La Grande Thursday ,'aad wiil faxats on a homestead in Ida ho, loey are now visiting wiUi the jbrviffi parents in Imbier. S' -Why? The of course. Phone Main 40. Chief Conductor Garrison, said today mat ne 003. not oeueve tfiere a any direct connection between this conven tion and the trainmen' labor troubles iat admitted the subject might come up for discussion. Six hundred and fifty divisions in the United States and Canada are represented. The meeting will list two weeks, daring l which time, the nnm n-rrln wilt tw. La Grande Pharmacy reconstructed and new etff'irmr Uwt- -Adv. &-8-2t Foley Hotel Arrivals. I H. E. Lowell, Corvaliis; RalnH Cram, J. Rhodes, S. K. Clark, M. i Wolfe, C. M. MobSey, T. B. 'Salmon, i Portland; Jas. E. Beard, D. 8. San 'ders. J. M. Sturgis, Emmett Callahan. : Portland; J. B. Perry, Pendleton; K. C Graves, Ellen M. Russell, Seattle; 1 1. C Joyce, Baiter; K. L. Patterson, 'San Franci.ico; Jf. A. McX as, Wal lowa; H. T. Kelly, Fred J. Small, j Baker; Geo. Link, La Grande; Milton Bloch, San Francisco. , GEOGRAPHERS AT FAt'LT Absence of Accurate Knowledge Often Cause of Resort to Bad Expedient Once oar customer, always one. J La Grande Pharmacy. Phone Main iu. Adv. 5-S-2t. London, April 10. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press). Lack of geographical knowledge has cost the nations of the world mUlior.s of dollars m treaty making, declared Sir' Thomas Holdich, the British army's greatest geographical author ity in a lecture before the Royal Geo graphical Society on "Problems in Boundary Making." "Lack of exact knowledge," he said: "Is the first rock on which boundary treaties split, rtnere maps did GREAT GUNS!! Look WhatlRead "f TnH7' Ji7:'UUA:, Mr- 5"d f 1UM""' w for them to be trade. I Mrs J. H Clark, H. L. Alexander, 1 the a:bitrators have been forced r- ,imcier; u. L.Kosenneid, 4an r ran-; DJatedly into tdontinir th worst f! i expedients, the straight line. f IrtiBLER ITEMS Jmbler, May t. (Special) A. Page is building an addition to bis garaere which will give the new build ing just twice 1m former capacity. (Jharley Squire is also planning to - cure part of the expected increased Wedacsday, May 17, and the proceed; will u.cd to pay for apparatus re cently p! i-;d or, the school grouL School will dose May 18. M. II. Uoiuer, of Portland, who is one of the west's big grain dealers, ii having delivery of Grande Ronde wheat made to Hells Bluffs. Iowa. ; Cisco; James Bainbridfre, Bert Latz, : Portland; E. C. Skiles, Seattle: J. E. 'Ransom, Utika; Corrinne Bue, Bertha ! Bue, Lewiston; O. W. Rawlings, Salt j Lake; F. V. Martin, Boise; W. Ward. Payette; H. W. Floyd. J. M. Cham- berlzin, H. J. Mauser, Jas E. Bannon, Portland. ELK SHOES '.....;.ri.98 MULES KIN SHOES '". '. '. ... . ... ........ . .$1.49 DRESS SHOES ........... . $2JM Meo's -pants .: . . .'.)Se Men's Work Hats ...;.......'..j.J.-.98e Men's Dress Hats ; 98c Men" Khaki Shirte r 98c Men's Sport Shirts 98c 'Ifcwton CJartei-s ...10c Paris Garters 19c Arm Bantl.i ..... Silk Hats C'ais - : 39c Elgin and Property La Grande Exchanged A deal was brought to a close in . t - : . r i t 1 1 r it!" Ten cars at Imbier and 40 more at u: u ' ... i . I fc'ftiraieieu ins rcniuciictf urgucny in fil t ,1. " ?,d,? are thU citv to M- K- IIenry r residence .,.kml'Uot 0" South Foui4 St. in La and the shmment made in hulk. At'- j- nrun- nn j . ; . r . ., j ' r . . . " ,(,; ..-.. .. , : , ... . !'"" ,riiue mini owneu an excel- business in oil and repairing, by erect- I particular timewjrk is plentiful. . tent residence property in this citv the . .. L. . . . I I. I ,(3w r nV Whfl to in fvwnn. ....... .. . Berry smithy. Mr. Squire will act ss agent for the Chevrolet machines. Clay Fox is sporting a new Dodge. Eleven pupils in the Eighth grade worried their way through .the state examination Thursday and Friday. Imbier will have its first high schoo! graduates and commencement at the end of the present semester. The students ire rehearsing the third act . "i ri i . , - ... YXfi inare orJ.e I location of the lots he secured in U imbier warehouse renorts some diffi- I - i. n j i . lJ ...I.. : , , . uiiub is valciiciii. auu iir one oi ine cuity m ecunng sufficient help in bert reRidence sections of that city hamllmg the sacks. being improved with gravel streets, . Work of remorleling the Hull prop- and as a building location is rated - . T'Cr Way "If Hu" ha" rst class. Mr. Winn does not give purchased a quarter block just acroM gsession of his residence propertv the street to fit un as a chicken tiark ! u: ...:i i ij .n . . . ,. r ! m n.i i;ii,y uiibii tiuiie asi. anu win for his grandson "Gene" McColdrick. then continue his residence in Elgin, - Jesse Berry has purchased a lot I having no plans to leave h-re at the irom if. lj. Alexander and movivi hn'.... romedy "Tbe Elopment of Ellen' with blacksmith shop to the south, leaving The trade was orginated and Sar the following ca;t: Robert fiiepherd,- ,ot ttween the shop and the Co-:ried to a successful termination by isMimi imtvi-. nicnaru roro, r.men , "iui .wr. nivxanuvr Ntnnn Khodiaq. n rpftlfv firm Kl- Conldin; Molly Ford, Elva Conklin; ""PC sell to some business con- Max Ten r.ych, Ijiwrence Martin; cern- Dorothy Marck, Ethel Wcstenskow; Harry Waddell is having his entire Jane Haverhill,-. Edna Holmes; John house repapered and the woodwork Hume, Kipling Larscn. Rehsarsali varnished. see being conductexl by O. I). Fleencr. ( Thursday afternoon and evening the fjntX'ah Uachttr. The play will te Social Aid Society entertained i'i probably be given on the evening of McGoldrk-k hall in honor of the Lad- igin. Elgin Recorder. Railroad Conductors in Convention- St. Iuis, Mo. May 8 Eight hun dred representatives cf the Order of Railroad Conductors of America met 'for their first triennial convention. The disadvanUees of the xt rat-Hit - line have, been illustrated in several I instances lately, notably in boundary t .1 ; ..... .- r . i i j. . . . . ' - uj9uict in 1 1 1 1 iii anu aouuiern A . rica. In one cose an awkward inter ! national complication arose when it was found that a wide tract of valu i able land bad been erroneously " as signee to cngiana and hnd to be tran sferred to Belgium. Then there was ths adoption of a definite meridian which crossed the Kalahari Desert, the eastern limit of German South west Africa.- Thw entailed years of scientific labor, costing a sum equal to tne value or tnotKands or square miles of useful map-making to find out where the meridian really lay. "Absurd incidents atese over th delimitation of the boundary 'between the United States and Canada. One of the main difficulties arose as to what was meant in the treaty by a 'main channel.' Between Vancouver and the mainland thJre is an achiDelaeo and among them at least three channels triit might be called main channels. Chief among these bslp.nds was one called San Juan. In 1859 a pig was shot by an American on San: Joan and the American was haled before a British magistrate and threatened with imprisonment. This put a cli max to the dispute. American honor was touched and troops Were landed from both sides. It looked as if the pi incident would lead to war; but thj position was saved by ubitra tion. The award gave away the K UN JLMITS THF I IMITCn CTADC 1 U111 1 XjU iJ 1 Jllu Busy siORES 10 BETTEB IT 125 BIG J. C. Penny Co. Inc. whole archipelago Statss." to the FATHER DRIVES OVER BABE Child Pitched From Car And Is Killed Before Parent's Eyes i Chicago, April 23. Jolted from her father's side in his automobile, 5-year-old Mabel Mary de Bord was run over by the car. She died later of her in juries. , The accident happened in the rear of the family homo at 1020 South Levitt stiiet. George de Bord, who is a United I salesman took the child into the gar age with him. He put her .beside lum as he sat at the wheel. He drove into the alley. A sudden jolt of the automobile threw the child out. She rolled under the machine and one of the wheels passed over her. The father picked up the child, car ried her into the home and summoned a physician. Dr. Peter T. Burns, 103(5 South Levitt street who worked over the child for many hours but in vain. "It happened in a second," the grief stricken father exclaimed. "Before I . could stop the car it ran over her. I'll never drive the car again." 2 J . ' Flour Down 40c. We Mean AH Home Flour. Sugar Steady, Berries Fine, and Oh You Suds. We have a Peach,. Packed in Syrup, full and Peeled, None Better at Any Price, 20c Per Can while they fast. Stop a moment and reconsider this, make us prove it. We have em cut open, get your eyes on the Peach And you don't need any Specks on to see the difference. My friends kindly look us up, advice is free. We search the 4 corners of the Globe For Bargains. What's good for us, is good for you, one can help many And many can help one, that is in a case of this kind You can see what we are getting at, think it over. We have Pickles 3'2 gal barrel at $1.25 barrel. We trade for dry 4 foot wood. Bring us yaur Eggs. 200 boxes Apples sold in 12 days. See me for apples. T have bought 1 1-2 Cars Sugarthis far, so you can see how we feel on sugar. Ji W. S. A llinson, Proprietor ' Middle Store, In the Middle Block-Quite Easy to Find 9
