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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1916)
PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER FRIDAY, OCTOBER .13, 191G. -i ? Haft Scliafjfner & Marx clothes are fhc kind you want for fall YOU'LL .-.be impressed with the difference in appearance between men who wear Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes and the other men you see on the street. There's a style about them which is distinctive; not because of extreme or freakish ideas, but because of a dignity which marks the wearer. There's a fit and finish in them which adds to this impression: and a quality of materials which tells its own story of your good judg ment as a buyer of clothes. For young men Varsity Fifty Five suits Varisty Six Hundred Overcoats and for older men the best ideas in these very stylish models, adapted to age, figure, and the dignity of business standing. We can fit any figure and the prices, $20, $22.50, $25, $27.50, are low for such goods 8 TILT SHOES NETTLETON SHOES GORDON HATS STETSON HATS THE OBSERVER, CLARKE LEITER, Editor and Pub lisher; J. D. MEYERS and H. B. LEITER, Owners. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. Daily, single copy 5c Daily, per week lfic Daily, per month 65c Daily, per six months in advance $3.50 Daily, per year in advance . . . $7.00 By Mail Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $4.00 Weekly Observer-Star, per year in advance $1.50 Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must reach the office the day before the ad appears. A program was marked out and has been completed, in large measure, by the enactment of singularly carefully framed legislation. The national banking law was so amended as to permit banks to lend money within safe limits on farm mortgages and to recognize the peculiar needs of the farmer by giving his paper a maturity period of six month. The Federal Rural Eco- farm-loan act was passed, creating a . banking system to reach intimately "In the field of production, national terms suitca to the farmer's needs un- illll NtnfO nrrntinwia tm n i i ts-t n . . ... will get the same or a better article r8 have been rendering e fee live 1 i s'mPatnetlc management, to m- f K . '. uccn remitiing eiiecuve troduce business methods into farm at a cheaper price. service, but, to th0 second half of ,,,..,. to systematize nn,I t.o rH,,P0 the exorbitant rents paid by city i merchants? And at the same time in-1 juring our local merchants who are paying local rents, keeping up the city and county governments, and . paying wages to clerks? Entered in the Postoffico at Lai If you do not find what you want SEES' regn' aS SCCnd ClaS3 i" a local store, all you nave to do is to ask for the article. The store will gladly send away for it, have it shipped with its merchandise and you will save freight or express. You CITY'S DUTY TO FARMER By David F. Houston, Secre tary of Agriculture, who urges Businessmen to Coope rate in Promoting Rural Prosperity. i Article IV Neglect of nomics. disseminating knowledge, the old way through personal contact. It will reach its full development in 1922-23, when there will be expended under its terms from State and Federal funds alone $8,680,000 in the direct educa tion of the fanner and his family, and probably from other Federal and State community fuiids from three to fout millions more. With increased local support this will permit the placing in each of the 2,850 rural counties of the Nation two county agents, in most cases a man and a woman, with the assistance of district supervisors, all working with the aid and direction of the great forces of the lflnd-CTflnt. rallofroa nnA ha FW. partment of Agriculture. , lie ae continued.) . Louis W. Hill Is Re-Elected. St. Paul, Oct. 13. -(Special) Louis W. Hill was yesterday re-elected pres ident of the Great Northern railroad. E. C. Lindley, for the past six years general solicitor for the company, was chosen vice president and general counsel, succeeding R. A. Jackson, re signed. It was nnnouneed the Great Northern has 24,000 stockholders. A little thought upon the part of ' agriculture involved in distribution, the cost of handling of farm loans, to our local people will do much toward no "V8"'1"".'1.1' attention bad been giv- pllu, llpon the ,narket mortgages building l, Gra-ule c-mmovin - JiV lm,T,s," ma,le "P t0 wo aml which will be safe investments for . uuimim, up i,n U1.1.KL, impunm... naf tilmJ ycars n(;0- j. vcn tm? . f . , . . , more men and women. old and you:-. , economists of the Nation had shown 'iIr..,i on,.rnVi(,s fA, Address all communications to THE OBSERVER. 1710 Sixth Street. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1010. DO VOUK SHOPPING AT HOME Why send away to Portland, Chi- putting more money in circulation. , a singular nuiiiterence concerning . capiul of the Nation and to lead to This is our homo. We can make "omenis in uus neui. tney nad been a reduction in interest rates. Then,' the citv of La Grande what we will ,n'sJ,y s u,l',nK ' ,e economics of m- thel.0 Wl.,.p cnacted the cotton-futures! mi m. 01 iii i ii.il c ui. (Iiisti v. hniikilli tmnsnnr nlmn. null. j- ... , , , .. Patronizing local merchants, local lie del. s. international navmenVs. ' o . ' '1 ". 'Vl..0 . ' . iui un- aoi'i'i istun in iiiu uut-Tiiiiuns manufacturers, keeping and spending poratie.ii finance, economic theory, and 0f t. exchanges, and for placing the our money at home will help everyone. the. e-olic systems of the medieval trading in cotton' on a sounder basis; i Let's trv it and see , and ancient world. But a mere hand- tho grain-standards act, to establish: sto. fi'l .had shown any appreciation of the standards for grain, to remedy certain difficulties which vexed N EUU.VSK AN LECTURES (Continued From Page 1) Manners of the Nation in spite of iaml the warehouse act, providing for j their knowledge of tneir striving? ;iicpnsing bonded warehouses and against them. In the minds even ot,mnkiLr nnssihle an ensilv twntinhln ltw fii hrTrt u'urrt ot.u'ii ilcmine i - I i .... , . . . and to provide ammunition, clothing jmd munitions eonorallv for the allies. the possibility of HUriPg results of farm products, 'and the more order w.th.n a reasonable tune. ; , distribution of farm products. Not eago, New York and other cities f ir I factories and mills were reopened, u". ' Remedial Iegisl,ilioii. Jess important for farm operations is goods that yes can buy in La Grande ! men put to work, and even new fac- ' "But things have moved rapid'v. the Federal-aid road act, excellently) at the same nriec or cheaper' p lories built. This brought prosperity. An Otlic,. of Markets, t makn invest'i- conceived to safeguard the expendi-j n , 1 , . 1 ' , , j such as we have now. If there had gations in all directions, was organ- lure of 100.000,000 arising under the i;o you Know mat our mercliimu , . , ...ar ; ., io moM(hs of existence ized in 1)t:f. was ranidlv evteml...! 1 act over the five-year neriod. and cer- carry just as good a line of goods as the taritr bill would have necessitated and today possM.vs a larjre trained ;tl,in " serure better results from the the city stores, and jusi as exclusive I bonds to carry on the government: personnel, with a budget of apprcxi- j S2S0.tHiH.000 or the equivalent now an etyles in all lines would havP meant souphouseB in every mately a million uollars. It has nc- jnunlly expended in the Nation for La Grande's stores are just as up- to-date in millinery, hubcrdashery, clothes, suits, shoes, and all articles of wearing apparel for men, women and children. They buy their goods from the same wholesale houses, and are called pon by the Portl: Do you away for city; no work for men, no market for cumulated a gieat mass of valuable i Rood roads. farmers and no business for the mer- n. formation and has extended aid to "Preceding these measures was the chant. j farmers and communities in many di-j agricultural extension act, one of the Adamson Bill Analyzed. rections, and particularly in the field 'most significant educational measures "The Adamson bill is legislation to of tho markst'ing of perishah'es I ever adopted bv any Government. Its increase the wages of a certain group through a market news service. Ctr-1 terms vou are familiar with. Like the wi iiiiii-umi wuim-is wuiiiuii iui-;iii;u- i.iiu ui uir iir.eMiuuiua ui me otnee roau act, it proviues tor n verr sicr- tion of merits. Maybe it's just, may- will require time. Manv facts imist nificant thing for co-operation be lie it's unjust; maybe it's just for part be secured and conclusions reached be-; tween expert State and Federal tho same traveling men as:nn(1 "".n.ist ior omers oi inni group, lore euwuve nctnn can retaken Uvt agencies. It undertakes to bring 1 1 nnil firm. I vomiiimsion, or oi-m-r nun i'u ik" niuiiu imngs lu'cmu id c (nine, it nomc to tne people the best scientific 1 mm itrms. . ltailf Qbnnlil ImvA invoqt i irnted tnp vi not nivmcnr.. fn :ivnit .. ! ... : 1 l l-j. t ; . .1 . , .v ... (i rtiiu 1'i.iiiiitii ino ii-ij;i" uvaring on 1 know that when you send ' nierits of the issues. It is not an course of mmiiry to begin doinc them, nroduction and distribntion lfT I goods you are helping pay eight-hour law but a vage bill. ; The present generation needed service. ' vides for the most effective wav of A "NEST EGG" Misfortune is liable to overtake you in money matters. Then it is that a good sized "Nest Egg" in the Bank comes in "powerful handy." Over and over again have we seen comforting relief come to those who had accumulated a fund in this bank. If you haven't started an account, now is the time to do it. In seasons of prosperity, place a part of your income in our bank. Some day this fund may carry you over a rough and rocky road. ca Cfrande fational ank Capital Surplus $2o0,000 Deposits $950,000
