La Grande evening observer., January 17, 1917, Image 4

LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1917.
NOW COMES THE BIG MONEY SAVING
EVENT
Begins January 18 jjgfe&fc 4f Ends January 27
TEN-DAY CLEAN-UP SALE WQEEEAlJ. COST PRICES ARE FORGOTTEN WHERE YOU HAVE
A CHANCE TO BUY THE FINEST FALLAND WINTER MERCHANDISE AT LESS THAN FAC
TORY COST. A CLEAN UP SALE OF BROKEN SIZES ODDS AND ENDS AND DISCONTINUED
LINES. 3
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ITEMS BELOW ONLY GIVE YOU A HINT OF THE MANY BARGAINS THROUGHOUT THE STORE
Clean-Up Prirt on all Ladies' Suits. The newest styles, latest fabrics, most
all sizes. Values to $40.00. Your Choice - - $6-49
The (ileal est ( 'oaf, Bargains ever offered, values to $37.50.' Your Choice $6.49
All kinds of Dresses Stunning styles for dancing, street and afternoon
Reduced 33 1-3 per cent.
One lot of Coals, Suits, Dresses. Your Choice
One lot
Choice
Clean-up Prices on Sweaters, Kimonos, llousedressea.
Ladies' Shoes Iiutton and lace, all sizes, values to $4.50.
wear.
$1.93
Your
$1.95
Kntire Stock Ladies' Shoes at Clean-up Prices.
Clean-up d January Sale Prices in every Department.
33c
One lot Men's Suits, values to $22.50. Your Choice
One lot Men's Overcoats, values to $20.00. Your Choice
Stetson Hats
One lot Children's Wool Underwear
Clean-up Sale of Entire Men's Clothing Stock.
Regular $15.00 Suits, Clean-up Price $10.00
Regular $20.00 Suits, Clean-up Price - $13.35
Regular $22.50 Suits, Clean-up Price $15.00
Regular $25.00 Suits. Clean-up Price $16.65
Regular $30.00 Suits, Clean-up Price ! $20.00
Kntire Stock Boys' Clothing Reduced '5:5 1-3 per cent.
$6.90
$6.90
..$2.49 Cordon Hats $1.98
Money Saving Prices on all Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Towels, Blankets,
'Muslin Underwear ... -
Bates and Carsonia Ginghams, 1st quality, yard 11c
36-in. Dress Linen, heavy weight, yard i ............:.....:.........;..::L35c
One lot Ladies' Cashmere Hose ....-... 19c
THE OBSERVER
An Independent Newspaper. !
Published Daily and Weekly at La'
Grande, Oragon, by the
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
PUBLISHING CO.
J. D. MEYERS, President, H. a
LEITER, Vice President, CLARKE
LEITER, Editor and Publisher.
Entered at the Pootofflce at L
Brando, Oregon, as second class
matter.
Address all communications to THE
OBSERVER. 1710 Sixth Street.
will be lost is the fact that publica
tion of the delinquent tax list helps
collect taxes. No one likes to pay
taxes. Publication of the name of de
linquents on a certain date each year
was of great assistance in the collec
tion of taxes because no one likes to
be published as n debtor or as one un
able to pay taxes due the county and
many made the effort and did ratso
their tax monies in order to avoid this
contingency.
If the legislature desires to make it
easier for the owner of property, lot
them further amend the delinquent
tax laws by abolishing the usurious
penalties by which unfortunate peo
ple who are temporarily embarrassed
for ready money pay heavily for their
misfortune.
The senate has passed a law provid
ing for 5 per cent interest with 8 per
cent as a maximum under written con
tract.
Let them wipe out the 10 and 12
and 15 per cent interest and penalties
now attaching to certificates of de
linquent taxes.
The house of representatives wnL-h
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lkflT.klf miytvi I 11117 MI W Will IIUL UU HMD
DUJWIUhNI lAXhH h.nii it. wnnl.1 hiir Kntn.. of thn liwn
A great huloliooloo has been raised Li..-,,. wno ,. ini,,r,.R..i ; hnvimr
over the publication of the delmnnent uu tax certjfj01lte8 nnd who are back
tax notices in the newspapers and the of thc prcSCT)t jaw ,,ssimI by the
house of representatives has pned a hmsy without public notice of de
Wll providing that the noticer in the linilll,ncVi umcl. the poat car(I
jULuru un .tin mi uy ji.im.ii euros. : mili:n system. the amount of
'delinquent taxes will steadily in
i crease and those who like to fat
I ten off the misfortunes of others will
irenp a continually growing harvest.
I Of course none of the Shylock, like the
On fialo in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel
News Stand, Portland; Imperial
Hotel News Stand, Portland.
City Official PapflT. Member
Fivbb Associations.
United
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1917
his wife, a popular clamor arose
against him. No doubt that ingrati
tude saddened him. Bat that has al
ways been the way of republics. And
no doubt the admiral knew that the
clamor only arose from a few and the
honors that hod been paid him since
probably sofenod the blow. We hope
at least that the admiral knew that
he had tho reBpect and admiration of
the thinking American people and
that he had forgotten the .time when
a few were snarling at his heels. Ad
miral Dewey's life was one of devo
tion to his country. He was on able
and far-seeing officer. (We hope that
L. C. Smith Returns
From Trip to East
'Munitions Crazy" Says La Grande
Automobile Dealer of the East
Everything Is High.
Picked Up By
The Stroller
The oft-told tale of the prosperity
of the East is brought back to La
.Grande again by L. C. Smith, who re
turned this week from a business and
pleasure trip. "Munitions crazy," is I
the naval academy is at this moment the epigrammatic way in which Mr.
I haven't found out yet who that
red-headed girl was talking to the
boss.' '
It may be cold in Eastern Oregon
tut.it is a dry cold, and we dont feel
chilly, thank you.'or clammy. r 'V. . -vit
Which reminds us of the young
man who was at the dining room table
vl his 'boardL-ig house ' sipping hie
clam soup. He put down his spoon.
"What's the matter," ' asked the '
landlady, "is your clam broth cold?"
"Yes, Madame," he answered, "it's ' '
cold but not clammy."
"Arctic cold grips Eastern Oregon,"
reads a newspaper headline. Cold,
yes, but not quite Arctic, thank yon. '
training a group of young Perrys and Smith describes the sister states from
Fnrrnguts and Deweys to fight their' the Mississippi to the Atlantic "Every
country's future battles. i,an wno nas even 0 lalne 18 maning
' ) Run screws or some part of ordnance.
ITS VP TO LAWSON i.The prosperity from munitions mak-
Thomas W. Lawson has made sen-' B is reflecting upon every other line.
,, ot,..rn.o no.-! o ,,mW f mn ikverything is high; and everyone has
'By innuendo he accuses Secretary Mc- T-0".0' monv'
a,i ri xi wn-v,...-. ,i , It is sometm
sometimes impossible to get
including Sec'rotaVy Tumulty and' 'hotel accommodations. People line up
Count von Bcrnstorff of profiting by .
two blocks for ever matinee or even-
the leak of tho president's peace note. ' " periurmaiiL-e m. u.e u.. ...
It is up to Mr. Lawson to make tho "lls yu must llP in dollars' not
wifwJ , ,n cents.
a ill L 1 1. 11113 V .t vi 1 1 H-
,times ?2; other times and places you
' ure charged an admittance fee. Food
at the hotels, restaurant and grills is
The hulalmloo has anion because of
the intimidation exerisid ly the
press of Multnonmh 20lln, ir on the
county commissioners. Throughout
the state these notices were printed
only two newspapers and at small ex
pense to the owners of property on
which tuxes were delinquent. Ill Mult
nomah county for fenr of certain
ncwspaimrs the county commis
sioners published them in four
daily new ipapet-s of Portland. This,
of course, was unnecessary but the
county commissi merit for fenr of t.ie
metropolitan press chose the lesser of
two evils.
The country press will survive th
shock
prime mover in this legislation
though of this or urged it upon the
members of the legislature, nnd we
presume there was no lobby of these
gentlemen in the house or out of it.
Art
ART JOUCKNSKN
Jorgensen's death is
Tho days of muck-raking in this
country are over.
Congress with all its power of sub-
.mil, n . mifnnauka nnJ ivtmnntlini.
them to bring books and papers with J 6 '
them should be able to determine the I
i truth of Mr. Ijiwson's charges. .' nfl.,, U C Dnwr.
If he can't make good he should be III I Jf II. O. UUVO
punished.
Laws of libel are not sufficiently Ranniipt T hlirCnaW
strong to punish Mr. Lawson if he hus DUIKJUtl I IIUI iUfly
wantonly defamed innocent men. j
I Over fifty boys will attend the Y.
M. C. A.-high school boys' banquet
Thursday evening, during the last
ftw months over fifty hign school
boys joined the Y. M. C. A. and the
board of directors of the association
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The La Grande National
Bank Issues Booklet
One Virtue of Books.
a proof "What if n book in dull?" inquires is making an effort to make tho Y.
that industry at; well as war has its ! Samuel MoChord Crothors in one of M. C. A. a "worth while place for
soldiers. Just how he met his death is the monthly magazines. "It can t fol- the boys. At th.? banquet the secre
Inot known. None was thine to see. j low you about. It can't buttonhole you tury of the association will present a
nriss wil survive me iiui he lio ikx n man. ninl t he tritiute ana siiy: une worn more. v nen you mm scnuoi-i. m. v.. jk. lenuuvc chid
Whenever the delinquent tax ' that he was a voting man of cheerful shut up a book, it stays shut." But plan, the club plan calls for some
list was published in a country ne.vs
paper it meant extra work for com
positors, extra work for makeun men, more sad.
extra work proof-reading, extra paper
and ink. The pay the country news
7aper got. fur this service was not ex
orbitant, nor was it graft as one of
tho Portland newspapers wou'd have
tho people believe.
Under the new scheme the money
formerly wild to the newspaper:. lor
disposition and exemplary habits ; not Dr. ( rother s books. His epigram very definite work anil it adopted by
makes the news of his death all the ! suggests a new test for the books on the boys, it will mean social gMher-
Under the new insurance 1 your shelf, which ones stay shut legs of the hoys that will be of great
system of the Union Pacific railroad j which ones call out: "Read mc?" It interest and benefit to the boys. The
his heirs will le paid one year's sal- is not the loudest books one hears ' program for the evening will be:
ary. Rut we regret that a In Crande best; loud-spoken books defeat their Tonstmnster Charles Reynolds
lniy's death was tho first to ii.nugu- j purpose if they deafen you till you Thc High School Joe Reynolds
rate this new system of benevolence, j can't hear yourself think. Thomas The Y. M. C. A A. C. Hampton
Carlylo is, for ure, one of those thun- Thc Church Rev. C. A. Edwards
ADMIIt.M. DKWV.Y dcrers. Quiet voices reach the ear Thc Baker Conference
One of the saddest things about the better; undertone voices like Charles
publications will go to Uncle Sam fo: j passing of Admiral Dewey is that one Lamb's. But books do know their
postal cards and to clerical help in
the hheriff's office. The cost to the
owner of delinquent property will be
the same. It is nil right to try thc
new scheme. Perhaps it will work.
The feature of the old system which
pisodc in his life's history could not place, and sometimes that's a big re-
o wiped out. When the American lier.- l oilier s.
people in a m inient of patriotic real
i.resented him with a house i.i V;.sh- j Repairs to Nation) league tnse
iuti'im. he was at the height of his ' hall parks have been halted now that
areer. When he dwiliil that house to
President Goo. McDonald
A Few More "Burrs" Rev. G. L. Clark
A Tentative Club Idea . . . .J. G. Kin-?
The Domestic Science ..Clayton Ingle
IaIs of Music .The liig Noise Quintet
John McGraw has gone to Cuba,
where they have hot air nlr.'nys.
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"BANKING MADE
PLAIN"
Educating the public in a practical knowledge of the simple methods
of banking is a mission to which enterprising banks all over tho country
are more and more devoting themselves, and as a means of scrrice
to the commuity, one of the latest booklets along this lie entitled
"Banking Made Plain" is now being distributed by the La Grande
National Bank
The booklet is noteworthy because of condensing into a small space
a really remarkable amount of practical information, concisely yet
readably stated, and typographically attractive.
The forepart f this booklet gives in a concise manner the pre
liminary requirements of banking in relation to deposits, checks, and
accounts. There are fifteen sub-heads under the heading "Accounts",
thirty sub-heads under the heading of "Chocks'", fiftetn sub-heads
under the heading of "Deposits" and other main headings followed by
various sub-titles are "Identification", "Overdrafts", "Banking by.
Mail" nnd how a "Clearing House" operates.
A few of the Sub-heads will serve to indicate thc naturo and scope
of the booklet, as follows:
"How to Open an Account'', "Forms of Accounts which can be
Opened", "How to Balance Your Account", "Bank Statement", "De
posits for Collection", Deposits by Mail", 'Deposits of Husband and
Wife'', "Death of Depositor", etc.
We find more good information under "Checks" such as "How
to Draw a Check", "Altered Check", "Lost Check", "Undoted". "Post
Dated", "To Stop Payment", etc.
The latter part of the booklet deals with what every borrower
should know and gives a similar wealth of information and in
cludes brief and adequato treatment of such subjects as "Notes"
"Colb'.ttrr.l", "Discounts", "Note Made by Minor", "Note Made by
Married Woman", "Negotiability" and many uthers.
Under tho head of 'Drafts" and "Bills of Exchange" are "Accept
ance", "Acceptance for Honor", "Due Date" "Joint Drawee", "Notice",
etc. '
Th.a.(?.1Iows.MIn.(,orsements" Kvin an explanation of many kinds
srscrs, following this up with the imnortant auh.
"Collections "I,
ful "Bank Don'ts".
and liability of 'ndorscrs
jects of "Protest", "Collections ',
, "Lost Paper", and some very use-
Any one who wishes a conv need onl nnnl th Kr,u i
will be distributsd free. ' " '