La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 01, 1916, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextLA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1916. ere to Shop to Advantage f or tKe 4th?-Here WITH THIS STORE FAIRLY A HUMMING WITH JULY CLEAN-UP SALES IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. ;. J IIALF PRICE SALE OF WOMEN '0 AND MISSES SUITS, COATS AND SILK DRESSES-GREAT SACRIFICE ALE ON ENTIRE STOCK OF MEN'S SUITS SALE OF BOYS' WASH SUITS, SUMMER PARA SAO LS, WOMEN'S SUMMER UNDERWEAR AND WASH OOODSMJREAT CLEAN-UP SALE OF WOMEN'S FOOTWEAR SALE OF MEN'S HATS BESIDES MANY OTHER CLEAN-UP-SPECIALS ALL OVER THE 'STORE . ' ' fAGE SIX Wh Read Yesterday s Big Page Adv, of Specials - - Watch Our Windows 1 THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS. Editor and Owner Entered in the Postofflce at La Grande, Oregon, as second class - matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Daily, single copy '.. 6c Daily, per week 16c Daily, per month 65c Daily, per six months in advance $3.50 Daily, per year in advance .... $7.00 Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $4.00 Weekly Observer-Star, per year in advance $1.60 Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must reach the office the day before tht nd appears. his success possible demands that he trade centers, it will also be a strong do otherwise. - I tonic to business in the interior. The country needs this year in po-j After all it may not be necessary litical life such men us Hiram John- for a state to put all of its eggs in Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street. THE COUNTRY NEEDS THEM. Political fate this year has eliminat ed all political parties save tlw two old parties. There are no Progres sives in name this year) but there are able men who were In the Progres sive party who are ut; present like "orphans." Such a well rounded out man as Victor Murdock at the present moment feels lie has no political home. He is mistaken. Ho should get in and support Hughes, as should the rank and file of the Progressive party. Roosevelt's udvice is good ad vice, for by supporting Judge Hughes we believe wo will have a president who stands firmly against the1 political graft and buccuneering that caused the Progressive party to form. In him we will have the independent man who does what he believes is right even though the man who worked for Mm the hardest and made I son, Victor Murdock, Henry Allen, William Allen . White, Ben Lindsay and tiia other strong characters who one basket, commercially speaking, as Oregon has done to build up the city of Portland. It may be possible to battled for right in 1912. This is a pa- I spread things out, which all must triotis year a year when the country agree would be a much better condi i3 passing through, a crisis and every ,tion. son should do his best, which cannot be done unless men stay in politics. THE NEW FREIGHT RATES. All trade centers where rates have been built on water competition got a body blow when the Interstate Com merce Commission ordered railroads to revise their schedules in order to give interior points an equal break with coust points. This means that preferential rate heretofore applying to jobbing cen ters has been wiped out and that in terior cities like La Grande can ship from the eastern markets on the same footing that Portland and Se attle cun. The reason for this radical change is given to be because at present there is no water competition due to tht fact that all boats are at work on ocean trade and no const shipping ex ists. But once given to the people the Commission would huve a hard time rescinding the order if it saw fit to do so. There seems to be a reasonably well grounded belief that the Com mission has been waiting for the op portune time to make this ruling, and in doing so establishes for the in terior country rates that will be per manent. While the new order of things is bound to affect the coast cities and spread business from the extreme YOUR BLESSINGS. The Mexican ambassador who is sued a proclamation to Americans telling a war with Mexico will be a long, bloody one should turn his mega phone across the line and shout his message into Mexico. Americans know it will be long and bloody but can we afford to stand more insult ? An Iowa cavalry company backed down when it became necessary to take an oath they would go anywhere and under any commander. An American soldier thinks a little further ahead than some give him credit for doing. Two men came down Adams avenue one day this week one had both legs off above the knees; the other had one leir off at the bodv and the other off above the knee. They walked with The 1917 automobiles are being an short crutches and were boon com-; nounced, which will add nothing to punions. Of course they live on life's joys for the man who has finally churity -but they see a lot of funn made up his mind that he can spare life ut that. They have become Jifc'-.the money for a second hand 1913 customed to their respective handi- model. caps and they are plodding through j ,r life aa best they can. ';? ! Hughes and Roosevelt have dined, Have you stopped lately, as you ; discussed national questions as only left your home in the morning to go two Djg nlen can and I10W understand to work, and inwardly thanked God eacn otner. A1j the waiiing about ill for health, sound limbs, a. clear, brain feeling existing between the two in and something to do? V j the past did not have a leg to stand . f !n. "Telling people what to do" is f i fine thing if it is told by the right ! ' Chautauqua stopped business while party. During the Chautauqua the everyone had a good time. It is a number of automobiles entering the fine thing to have a few days among grounds has been very "large both day ' the trees and with the sky as your and night, yet not a single accidents- 1 only covering. And Lou Beauchamp not even the scratching of a fender-i-, dil not say this, either. has been reported MERGER PLANS ARE MADE , Large Eastern Machinery Companies to Work on Peace Orders , New York, June 16. Plans are be ing worked out, and will probably be announced early next week, for a large combination of companies manufactur ing machinery. The E. W. Bliss com pany of Brooklyn, which is working on large shell orders, and the Poole Engineering & Machine company, of Baltimore, also engaged m making munitions, were mentioned today as the concerns around which the consoli dation would be built. Persons in terested in the matter said there would be seven concerns merged, selected from a dozen or more which have been considered. The sponsors for the plan said em phatically that the new concern Would not be known "as a (producer of muni tions of war. On the contrary, ma terials for peaceful purposes would predominate in the output. Both the Bliss and Poole companies are long established concerns. And this is due to "telling people what to do," and Carranza probably is looking for a that telling wns done in a nice way chance to slip Villa's outlaws across by William Day and his assistant '.the line in a raid while he detracts who were in charge of the automobile Uncle Silm's attention in delivering parking. Police at the entrance also over the prisoners asked for. ' ( assisted materially at night in direct- ' ing traffic. With the number of ma- I There should be flftv families from chines that gather Tor any public ' Wallowa county encamped at Chau event in Union county it is positively ! I"" next And they wil1 necessary to have a traffic man in come if we Put frtl the right kind charge. of n effort. "We still do business even though The conductor who snatched the the roof is removed from our heads," . deaf man from the railroad tracks at remarked Mr. Silverthom, William Sheridan, Oregon, is entitled to the Ash and Leo French as workmen largest Carnegie medal Andrew has slowly but surely took everything in stock. from around them but a thin layer of brick and the plate glass fronts. "Still we have more on," said Mr. French, "then some of the fairer sex on a summer evening." And they have. ALASKA LETTER TELLS OF NEW TOWN. Conditions as Writer Found Tersely Told. Them in the winter, when they get about five or six hours of daylight. They claim they worked all last winter here, had between three and four feet of snow and it got about 40 degrees below. I , don't know whether I care to take any of that or not. We struck several good towns (small ones) on the way up. Seward and Juneau were lively but everything was overdone. They are booming this place but I cannot see what is going to make a town out of it. Some think it will be the terminal of this road but it looks to me like Seward would be. They are building on that end of it too. I saw an article in the local paper a day or so ago stating there was an average of two building permits is sued daily, but the most of them are tents with the exception of the main street. They claim !J000 inhabitants here. There are between 600 and 800 idle men here; most of them are "bo hunks" Uncle Sam's favorites and they wonder why the Americans are not as patriotic us they used to be. Isn't it a joke? They are not doing much on the road at present. Claim they are going to start the ball rol ling next month. Fellows that have been working did not get a pay-day this month the money has been ap propriated but they cannot touch it until July. 1 started Monday setting up the uCSJEIBI'il MEN W1TH THEIR CHESTS OUT AND THEIR HEADS ERECT, WITH INDEPENDENT WALK AND CONFIDENT AIR. THEY ARE INDEPENDENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BANK ACCOUNTS. WHILE OTHER MEN WASTED THEIR TIME AND MONEY THEY WERE PUTTING SOME INTO THE BANK. . -,MWKE YOURSELF INDEPENDENT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. BANK SOME MONEY NOW. BANK WITH US WE PAY H PER CENT INTEREST Money for Improved Farm Loans Major Tap Thomas has had a very busy week. His tented city kept him up and at it both night and day. The snap of the soda pop corks and the rinding of loose change in the- park served to cause slight investigation, but he satisfied all that nothing but the highest decorum and correct and proper manners existed within his jurisdiction. I Cove insists that her cherry crop is larger than last year, and we will An intensely interesting letter from Anchorage, the new government boomed town in Alaska, has come for- Wal i.?-,,12, Pwtt. from l?js driver I am going to run and am go brother Will, who is running a pile ing to try her out tomorrow. It is driver for the railroad builders there. i..a , i.; The letter says in part: iha8 onlv little mo..e UD to dftte. ha9 Anchorage, Alaska, June 1& I ar- ! aU the iatest improvements. After rived here a week ago last Thursday j we try it out as a driver we are going but did not go to work until last Mon-, to take tnB ieads off and a6dert "av . . . ., . . ., 1 rick ear out of it and go to the front. Had a nice trip up the first three. They have 10 howe ?russ spans to days out of Seattle. The weather . raise the flrst thins. There is about could not be beat. We came the in-j30 miles of this road buUt side passage most of the way but , We are sleeping in tents. The when we struck the open sea she was weather has been cloudy and we have pretty rough. It took us 10 days to had 8everal ,:-nt snowerB. mBL I i P- a v v i I weather is about the same as it is in We had a good time on the boat, a ui, .(( ; ,u j good live "bunch, every one knew each i Qnn (. tor, ;i,t other and anything went. I would not have missed the trip for anything under the conditions I came on. I got my meals free too and everything was first class. Of course a person don't want to start out broke on a trip like that for you can spend money on the boat They issue meal tickets 21 meals for $7.00 and commissary books cost $5.00. You can get anything you want out of the commissary. I spent 60 cents out of my book in a week. These follows all seem to be here for a stake spending just what they have to nnd I am doing the same. This is a great country; it never gets dark; you can read without a son can get along without an over coat. YOU CAN HAVE beautiful hair if you keep the scalp, lelean and healthy. Neglect results in baldness. We recommend TRADE. MARK HAIR TONIC trTSZ'rZ nght anytime. A-h,stoto S altUyd win w. ciu tf hnri hu Ilia Wnth If ha Hmtr-nA RiuVil, OUIU UIU.V D the Cherry fair July 20th. the darkness he would be up all the us' 50c md ?1'00- A sign telling where the city limits cease and the county road begins on the line to the city park would save some autoists fines. time. It doesn t seem right to me and they say it is just the opposite The Roosevelt-Hughes visit prob ably was not over a "bottle and a bird," but it seems to have been a good visit nevertheless. LEVY-VOGEL DRUG CO. La Grande, Oregon 6 La Grande National Bank LA GRANDE, OREGON Opital 200,000.00, Surplus $50,000.00, Resources $1,000,000.00 Fred J. Holmes, President; C. C Penington, Vice President; F. L. Meyers, Cashier; E. Zundel and H. E. Coolidge, Assistant Cashiers. DIRECTORS Fred J. Holmes, J. G. Snodgrass, J. K. Conley, C. C. Peningtoa, H. & Brownton, F. I Meyers, A. Blokland, A. T. Hitl, H. E. Ooolidf, Hitchracks for the fanners is a vital subject nnd has been neglected entirely too long. So vital is it in fact that a number of merchants have a proposition on at present to lease ground to install racks them selves. Such a movement will not re flect credit upon the city, and it is hoped an easier way may be found out of the diffieultv. "I have a fine time," remarked one j Chautauqua lecturer. "I lcnrn my I speech before I start on the circuit land then I only have to work about , two hours a day. The rest of the time !I spend in reading, eating T-bone steaks and visiting with people." Can you beat it? Judge Wanamaker urging the Golden Rule for the courts of the land might have asked for the millennium at the same time. Now, America demands an apology from Austria. How long will it be coming? Jefferson county is getting ready for a county scat war. They all have to have it but one will be enough. Chautauqua has grown strong enough to even buck the weather. "Swat tlio speeders," is the slogan at police headquarters these days. Are you going away to avoid "hot" weather? the Good time for road dragging. Lieutenant AJair, of Portland, who lost his life in the first Mexicnn war battle, was a man of courage a good i(.-t1li.ie TftA ...1 .. a . Second-hand furniture wanted. Do t-e paid ham; too earnest praise cannot not sell until you consult Byers, on Kpnuers Telephone. S-16-lm A Real Automobile Bargain 3914 car, electric lights and starter, motor overhauled nnd car guaranteed in 1st elass shape; good tires, run 6350 miles. Call CARL EVANS, La Grande Garage.