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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1916)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGE EIGHT Eenefic Bath at roXAY YOXMX The daily bath is a health-help. Commence these Fall days with a sponge bath'. It will keep you in prime condition and enable you to resist the lassitude common at this season. Mil lions of pores on your body will be op ened and that "tired feeling" allowed to ooze out. Our line of Bath Supplies includes everything which makes bathing pleas ant and beneficial. Bath Brushes, Sponges, Soaps, Colognes, Toilet ,' Waters, Sea Salt, Etc. Quality the best and prices right. La Grande Fharmacy ADOLPII NEWLIN, Manager Quick Delivery Phone Main 40 La Grande, Oregon GAS FRANCH IS ROUNDED E OUI ere it is passed the taxpayers will have opportunity to oppose it if they desire. It must be passed just the way it was published, and if not suited after ono publication must be amend ed and republished. Forest Fire Is Extinguished FIGURES INSERT CONCERNING ORDINANCE. City Manager Lnfky Forces Commis sioners to Oust Him. To declare the office of city mana ger vacant, and to fill in important blanks in the gas franchise ordinance, were two of many important subjects for the city commission to discuss and act upon lust evening. F. J. Lafky forced the commission to drive him out, rather than resigning; of his own accord. Commissioners - McKcnnon and Ilaworth voted to declare the of fice vacant, and Commissioner Palmer against it. It has been understood that Mr. Iufky would compel the corn emission to oust him ever since two reommiHHloners during the absence of Mr. Palmer sent a note to the mana ger asking him to resign. The pres ent manager holds until midnight when the office becomes vacant, and it is presumed that J. E. Foley will be named to succeed him tomorrow. There wa's no fireworks about the pro ceedings whatever, but during the eourt.0 of the evening the retiring manager pointed to some of the facts pertaining to the administration, and .also cited some of the obstacles that have come up mid have been settled. Gas Question I! p. Several interested parties in the gas franchise were present. An in formal .recess was taken (luring which all concerned talked the matter over ivnd filled in the Hunks as follows: Plant to be flushed within one year; $55,000 to be spont on it at the rate of 110,000 ier year. Tho maximum charge per thou sand, 1 1.50. The franchise fees shall be; first three years free, next two years three H'r cent of net profits, next five years five per cent. With these provisions tho ordinance will be published and Pendleton, Aug. 30. The forest 1 fire which has been raging at Meach ' am for the past three days has been ! extinguished with little resulting damage. There were from 300 to 400 1 cords of wood nearby and fast work ! was done by the fighters to quench I the flames. F. W. Connor, district state fire warden, returned to Pen dleton this morning from Meachnm The blaze had been put out by the time he arrived on the scene yester day. E, O. Sicke, deputy state forester from Salem, says that up to this time the forest fire situation is the best in history. Greeks Arrested an Fined for Selling Booze Centralia, Wash., Aug. 29 Louis Sonny, proprietor of a North Tower avejiuo grocery store, was arrested by the police Saturday night on n charge of selling ;ltquor. Dominie Chicker, another Greek, was also ar rested, the police alleging that he was acting as Sonny's agent in the sale of the intoxicant. Sonny was fined $00 and costs in police court, and Chicker was fined, $10 and costs, both paying their fines. VOLUNTEERS CAN SPEED COURT RULES THEY ARE PARI i OF DEPARTMENT. Caution on Part of. i.,M!- nnd Firemen Cited. I , j A much-mooted topic in La Grande, j 1 ,.! oWuhm-o was settled yesterday insofar as the municipal court is con-1 1 cerned. when Municipal juago wuc.. Eakin ruled that volunteers am -"" l and parcel or tne nre aepuraiima i are not amenable to speed restriction laws when they are driving their cars to fires. It had been the contention generally that only the fire truck is i . hi- nn nn desired soeed. Th ruline came in a case in whicn , Jarvis Emigh of the Valley creamery was defendant on a charge of ob-, ' structing firemen on their way to the Mason fire two days ago. He was de-, clared guilty and fined the minimum I ! of $2.50. Judge Eakin ruled that it is . not only necessary for pedestrians 'and traffic generally to give room, ' when the Are bell ring . for the com-1 bination car, but for all volunteer fire- ; men who may be in their own cars, i ! Tho question has long been a dis-! I puted one in this city and elsewhere , in the state where similar conditions j eX'8t' Caution Is Urged. , I On the strength of this decision, the ' public and firemen aliite have before them a practice of caution. It is not the intention of the law, that the vol unteers shall go the limit of speed their machine would produce. This would endanger human lives and no fire is more serious than a life is val uable. Consequently volunteers can run their cars at say 25 or 30 miles and still have them under reasonable control and get to a fire with great speed. This is faster by, a good deal than anyone else could drive, it is pointed out, and still there would be no great menace to human life. Any time a car is going 40 or 50 miles on a city street life is in danger. No ex igency warrants that speed everyone must admit. I The Public's Duty. At the same time the public owes itself and endangered property the precaution of gettrng off the street when the fire bell rings and remaining off until all volunteers have passed As a volunteer car is undistinguish able from any other, it behooves the public to remember that the street should remain cleared of traffic for n considerable time after the fire truck has gone by and the volunteers must bear in mind that strangers afoot or in cars are not expected to be familiar with the volunteer provisions and therefore it is up to all concerned to exercise the greatest possible caution i under the new ruling for the chief aim ! of the volunteers is to give the great- j est possible aid in the shortest space of time without endangering the pub-i , lie which in turn is required by force of circumstances to be alert to condi tions during a fire alarm. This re quirement is that nuto3 and teams go to the curb and pedestrians to tne walk. Those School Shoes Are Needed Now AND AT THE UNITED STORE YOU CAN PIT OUT TWO OF YOUR CHILDREN FOR THE PRICE OF ONE ELSEWHERE Get Wise, by Trading Here You Save Money GIRIiS' SCHOOL SHOES Solid leather soles, best of counters, best of shoe caps, shoes that wear. Black, button styles, vici, gun metal, patents ... - 98c, $1.23, $1.39, $1.49, $1.69, $1-89, $1.98 MISSES' SHOES Or growing Girls' Shoes all new style toes, low heels and medium heels, vici, patent or gun metal, button or lace $1.49, $1.69, $1.79, $1.89, $1.98, $2.25, $2.49, $2.69,' $2.98 BABES' SHOES To fit the infant - or the growing babe 'Infants 25c, 45c Childs' first steps 49c, 69c, 98c BOYS' SHOES Full of boy wear made of the best leathers, heavy soles and solid counters, satisfac tion guaranteed in every pair. But ton or lace, tan or black $1.15, $1.25 $1-39, $1.49, $1.69, $1.79, $1.89, $1.98 LARGER BOYS' SHOES AS ABOVE $1.69, $1.79 ,$1.98, $2.25, $2.49, $2.9t BOYS' E. S. SKUFFER SHOES $1.49, $1.79, $1.98 ;. BOYS' MULESKIN SHOES $1.25, $1.39, $1.49 ' BOYS' ELKSKIN SHOES :' $1.49, $1.69, $1.89 . . ' , YOU CAN, ALWAYS DO BETTER AT THE UNITED STORE 125 BIG BUSY STORES J. C. PENNEY CO. ( PIG PLANS LETTERS GOING FORWARD TO VARIOUS BANDS. mm jw Get the Round Package Used for Century. Ask Fpr and GET . T HUE-a em ESUSJ Mi fit8fKM I lACItt,wl5.,U.9.A. Big Table for All Musiciais One of Proposed Schemes. PENDLETON'S "GAS" SHOUT A week from Sunday has been . tentatively set for the proposed coun ty band picnic at which time it is pur posed to have every person who has a horn and can play it. to come to Riverside park for an old-fashioned picnic, a place where people ,of the I county may meet each other and visit the whole day long and listen to a! united band concert. A meeting of the Elks' band management, the 1 1 " C. 1 .1 1 4 lommerciui ciuu, ineiciiuuiu in gen- i THE ORimimt. Made from clean, rich milk with the ex tract of select malted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infants and children thrive on if. Agrees witS the weakest stomach of the invalid or the aget. Needs no cooking nor addition of milk. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee) etc. Should be kept at home or when traveling. A nu tritious food-drink may be prepared in a moment. A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing sleep. Also in lunch tablet form for business men. Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price Automobiles Can Run But a 1 .. If I ' ' 1 . - , "uy8 " ol"He ..I. oral, and the Neighborhood club will remiieion, auk. inai, me avui- , . ..... , t . ;. :: t.4. . i j .. - i age capacity for gasoline m Fondle- .,;,. dptsl:U A week from Sunda .t Wo ,1 t.u:i nf n. U(?h On . ' -- ----- i iwie gvno w oiccu Vt 111 It: uil I - " lufeii im t for tViB reason that nnvnral ah- . ... m. ... .1 Ktnnrionl nil ton permits keeping only enoug hand here to last two or three days lspn?ye0mhlenres 5 thS La rS band duty- The comPany two ?a UT" mpany has concentra- was stated todnv bv L. B. DeWitt. s.e!n,mlmbltIl.?Ine bTa"d young boys as night operators, it was I tet larSe gasoline supplies at all dc was suited today by 1 id. uewitt, wiil he mvsent on that occasion Let- J., 'B UUJS " nignt operators, it was 1 "r local manager for the Standard Oil " lolnt ot 1, Wfn Ilnln a.11e and according to the answer, 1 P known the service is in- exnansion. The two I Standard Oil company has concentra- Co. Consequently if a strike conies xjnrth pJjp? ThomnWs hnnd t lt 1S .practicable to employ a girl Kipley said 80 per cent of the em- u . :ii .i:.rt -rnm;nA . . r . . ODGrator. nwfliiRp nt tha rwn-rmn r n nvac wi ho afffoH via the city will, face a gasol ne famine. 7 and oTheroanitions X teleUone office With the harvest largely finished Mr. of that 80 in the county today ask- 2?o HXtW DeWitt estimates the principal hard- infr their opinion of the proposed date. STL?: ihe company -. -v fA.u7 .- i t. rr thini Amninn rt tho nrnnno nti dora ...... - ship will be on autoists am. in sell- ifhe answers indicate satisfaction fLTn,Zlf t0 mg tne supply on nana ne wm an- ty, nitino of nri-ano-pmfints mm.."-D...ti..l.i.iw. deavor to use some discretion. mittees will ibe called at once. With the order to the railroad whilo thnr ia much imwrtaintv 'brotherhoods to strike Monday morn- a,out the details, it has been deter- i ing the strike situation is becoming mined that all musicians and their i.. : i ..n.. Txru:iA ......... ... ..' exceuuniKiy uiiereauiiK iuvun. nmn lady mends snail oe seated at a giant MANY TRAPPED , (Continued From Page One) FAREWELL RECEPTION. Students Lonving Town, and Teachers Too, To He Feled. At tho Baptist parsonage, 1407 Sixth street, Friday evening will be held a reception for students and tenrhnra about to leave the city. All members of the congregation and the Baptist church arc cordially invited to come to meet those soon to leave the city for their winter's work. Our Want Ads brlnir results. clares that President Wilson's plan besides granting the principal point at issue without any hearing does not guarantee that the remaining points be arbitrated, and merely proposed that the brotherhoods' demand for time and a half for overtime and the railways' demands on the brother hoods be left to future investigation and determination. This does not mean, he says, that the brotherhoods the main trouble would be confined t,,i,i for tho nipnin lunch nt. whirh T.u run, and preference will be uiven to Tniddlewest and eastern railroad flTwiTi.o mamtinnl. will hA wnifpra anrl perishable freight. points Pendleton and eastern ure-.at which the food and drink shall be n? expressed the opinion that the have modified their demands in tho supplied gratis. Free coffee, cream puonc win oe surprised at the num- least, and that the roads by sacri- and sugar for all who come is also uer of. men who will remain loyal fice of the principle of arbitrat.or proposed. Since the Observer sug- to their employers and said Wilson's , would pot effect a settlement e t : . gested the v proposition editorially, proposed legislation is obviously rea- of the present controversy. He iK- mere nas Deen mucn juvurauie com- nnu ouviousiy necessary. ! neves mat lr yielded, it would l. gon would uouotiess suner. unui tilla county residents would not suf fer for food it is said. It is said that there is not more than three days suddIv of casoline kept ahead in Pendleton. As soon as this has been exhtusted people might have to take Dobbin and the shay for transporta tion. Local Agen T. F. O'Brien of the O-W. has received orders not to sell any transcontinental tickets which wiil not get the passenger to his destination liy September 4 at 4 o'clock. mcnt heard both here and in the other Railway presidents met at Chicago rectly encourage train brotherhoods towns and it appears certain that the today to lay plans for meeting the 1 and other classes of employes to stunt will go big. j strike. I make enormous demands, refuse to , T. 1 Press dispatches from all parts of arbitrate and threaten to strike. So ' Telephone Management Answers, j the country reflected the shock every it is concluded in the interest of T . industry felt at the strike prospect. ' rational, peaceful methods of settlin ; Salem, Or , Aug. 31. An answer Intel-urban lines plan to use every labor controversies that the rai has been filed by the Independent Tel- available car, but realize their facili- wavs must refnso am, nlan of BM. i : i .. . ...... . " - i - . Ex- tlement nrovidinir arbitration of tttt entire controversy. , . ephone company of Forest Grove to tics will be only a slight help. E a complaint filed with the public ser- tensive use of motor trucks is' pla YOUR LAST CHANCE To-night "THE RAIDERS" ARCADE "Best by Test" SHERRY THEATRE gggMM WILLIAM FOX Presents . XH EDA IN Adapted by Mary Murillo EAST LYNNE A Masterly, Modernized, American Version of This Internationally Famous Stage Success Directed by Bertram Bracken "LUKE DOES THE MIDWAY"
