Li GRANDE EVENING OBSERVES
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YANKEEjJCHESS
Once Miss May Ogden Goelet of
New York City.
FRIEND OF QUEEN MARY.
(Could Not Bs Appointed Mistreu of th.
Roboi Bcuse Sh Wat Not Born In
England Collect! Jewell and Hit a
Marvalou Necklace of Turquolsea.
It Mas recently reported In American
newspapers tbat tue Duchess of Itox
trarghe, who before her inurrlago was
Miss May Ogdeu Goelet of New York
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Duchess of Roxburghe.
and Newport, had been offered tho po
sition of mlsVressbf lh.3 roWSTo "Queen
Mary, vacated by the Duchess of Dev
onshire, consentient on the appoint
ment of tho duUe to the governor gen
eralship of Canada.
Tho rules of the court require that
tho mistress of tbu robes should not
bo of lower rank than a duchess, and
this rule considerably limits the num
ber of ladles to whom the premier po
sition In Queen Mary's household could
bo offered, lint tho rules also snv she
must be uu Kngllshwoman by birth, I
so the Duchess of Itoxburcho was
barred.
Of the duchesses the two who staud 1
most high In the regard of Queen !
Mary are tho Duchess of Portland and
the Duchess of Roxburghe. The Duch
ess of Portland is mistress of tho
robes to Queen Alexandra, otherwise
it is more than possible that the posi
tion would have been offered to her.
The Duchess of Hoxbuighe's friend
ship with Queen Mary Is not of very
long Htnndlug. Her grace was, of
eourse, receKcd at court after her
marriage, and afterward, with her hus
band, was the' guest on several occa
sions of the lute King Edward VII.
and Queen Alexandra.
The Duke of Roxburghe is one of the
best all around sportsmen In England.
He shoots, skates, rides to hounds and
has half a dozen other strenuous pas
times, in all of which ho excels.
He took part in the South African
war and won much praise. During a
reconnolssnnce at Itcnsburg a private
lost his mount. The duke, realizing
the great danger the man was In, rode
out under a heavy lire and effected his
rescue, the private and peer riding Into
safety on the same horse.
The duchess has a wonderful collec
tion of turquoises, which has attracted
a great deal of interest in society. The
chief item in tho collection Is a large
ornament for the neck composed of
hundreds of turquoises, all flawless
and of great beauty and value. Tho
duchess had a hundred pieces of Jew
elry broken up to fotni this wonderful
thing.
Denosits of tungsten ore have been
discovered in Korea and mines are be
ing opened. I
A new scenic railway is provided
with switches which turn its cars
around and make the passengers ride
backward until otheT switches are
reached.
Our Want Ads bring results.
Professional Directory
FRATERNAL ORDERS
j, F. & A.M. La Grande Lodge No.
41, A. F. & A. M. holds regular
meetings fi.st and third Saturday
- at 7 :30 p. m. Cordial welcome to all
Masons.
LOCKE B. MOE, W. M.
A. C. WILLIAMS, Sec.
3. P. 0. E. ELKS, La Granae Lodge
No. 433. Lodge meets each Thurs
day evening at eight o' clock. Home
and club privileges cheerfully ex
tended to all Brother Elks.
FRANK C. BRAMWELL,
Exalted Ruler.
ADNA B. ROGERS. Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Red Cross
Lodge No. 27 meet every Monday
night in Castle HUl (K. of P. Hall.)
A Pythian welcome to all visiting
Knights.
IW. D. M'CARTHY, C. C.
DELILE GREEN
K. of R. & S.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMER
ICA La Grande Camp No. 7703
meets on the first and third Thurs
day evenings of each month ;n the
K. of P. Hall. Visiting neighbors
welcome.
H. E. DIXON, V. C.
W. F. ASHMAN,
Clerk, (Y. M. C. A.)
and fourth Thursday evening at 8
o'clock at Eagle Hall. Visiting mem
bers are we' omed. , ti
C. E. STTT, Pres.
C. W. COOK, Fin, Sec.
DORSEY BEAUMONT, Rec. Sec.
DENTIST
E. P. MOSSMAN Dentist; rooms 7,
8 and 9, Sommer building. Phone
Main 717; office hours 8 to 12 a. m.
and 1 to 5 p. m.
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS.
DK. J. L. INGLE Osteopathic phy
sician. DR. MARGARET INGLE Osteo
pathic physician. Diseases of wom
en and children. Third floor New
Foley Bldg. Hours 10-12 a. m.; 2-6
and 7-8 p m., and by appointment.
Office phone, Red 1761; residence
Red 881.
VETERINARY
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD La
Grande Camp No. 169meets every
first and third Monday at Eagles'
Hall. All visiting neighbors wel
come. ROBERT McLANE, C. C.
JOHN A. READ; Clerk.
.. O. O. M. La Grande Lodge Nr .
850 Loyal Order Of Moose holds
regular meeting every Wednesday
night at 8 p. in. in Eagle Hall, fifth
floor Foley building on Adams Ave.
Visitors always welcome. Dues pay
able at Youn's Sweets.
GEO. YOUNG, Die.
HARRY SWART. Sec.
O. E. S. Hope Chapter No. 13, O.'E.
S. holds stated communications the
second and fourth Wednesday of
each month. Visiting members cor
dinllv welcomed.
MYRTLE A. BROUGHTON, W. M.
MARY A. WARNICK, Sec.
BfVAT. VF.TOHBORS. Iris damn
meets every second Friday after
noon and every rcurtn Friday eve
ning, every month in K. of P. Hall.
All visiting members cordially wel
comed MINNIE BUNTING, Oracle.
NELLIE V. VINACKE, Recorder.
REBEKAHS Ciystal Lodge No. 60.
Meets every Tuesday evening in the
)I. 0. 0. F. Hall. AU visiting mem
bers are invited to attend.
DILLIE RANDALL, N. G.
ROSA GLASS, Sec.
DR. H. W. RILEY Granduate Veter
inarian Hospital. 1409 Madison Ave.
State Stallion Inspector and Inspec
tor of stock for shipment. Home In
dependent Phone, Black 41. Farmers
Co-operative Phone, Maui 112.
ATTORNEYS
CRAWFORD & EAKIN T. H.
Crawford and Robert S. Et-kin, Att
orneys at law. Practice in all the
courts of the state and the United
States, Office, West Jacobson build
ing, rooms 9-10-17. La Grande Oregon.
COCHRAN & FBERHARD. Geo. T.
Cochran and Colon R. Eberhard
Attorneys. La Grande National
Bank Building.
E. W. EASTMAN Lawyer Offic
Rooms 1 and 3, La Grande National
Bank Building.
R. J. GREEN Attorney at Law..
Rooms 14-15; Pahner-Roesch Bldg..
La Grande, Ore. Practices in all
State and Federal courts.
ALBERT SMALL Attorney at Law.
Rooms 26-27, La Grande National
Bank Building. Practices in all
state and "ederal courts. Phon
Main 11.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
H. E. ROSKAMP, Contractor and
builder, La Grande, Ore., Phone Red
1981.
K. & L. OF SECURITY. Mt. Em
ily Counrll No. 2646. Meets icond
ARCHITECTS.
C. B. MILLER Architect, Room 28,
New Foley Building.
Sell it The Observer want ads will
sell it.
Farmers Meeting for Union County
To be held at La Grande City Hall, at 10 a. m. Y 07 1 Oil tl
the last Saturday of this month, to-wit, J3.I1 La I lilO
r : ; : ;
To promote A NEW ERA of prosperity and thrift by enabling all people to
enjoy fullest benefits passible under the FEDERAL FARM LOAN ACT.
A Personal Letter
American Farm Finance League
Minneapolis
Chicago Atlanta New York
Springfield, Mass.
The League's primary purpose is to focus
public attention upon the benefits possible
from fullest utilization of the federal farm
I loan system, to investors, also to borrowers.
To the Editor of The La Grande Obsrver:
HERBERT MYRICK, Chairman
Springfield, Mass, January 17, 1917.
My Dear Sir:
As editor of the oldest newspaper at your county seat, will you please take charge of the
arrangements for the mass meeting of the people of your county at your county seat the last
Saturday of this month to wit, January 27, 1917? It is suggested that you invite a few of
your leading citizens including the directors and heads of local agricultural, business and
labor organizations, also of any national farm loan associations in your county to form
( themselves AT ONCE into a committee to arrange for hall, publicity and speakers.
Please accept, with the author's compliments, a complete copy (paper covers') of his book
"The Federal Farm Loan System," which will reach you in a few days, postpaid. You also
can get free on request to Federal Farm Loan Hoard, Washington, I). C, its leaflet "Farm
Loan Primer."
Tins material together makes the subject so plain that you or any of the bright men or
women in your community or county to whom you may assign different phases of the subject,
doubtless will be able to present same adequately to your mass meeting January 27. ' By
relying upon the talent available in your own community, the spread therein of correct infor
mation will be aided.
Please observe that the first and most important work now is to emphasize the attractive-
ness of Federal Farm Loan Bonds to small investors or large. Where can a better or safer in
vestment be had for $25, $50, $100, $500 or $1000, or any multiple thereof, than these bonds.
The extent to which they sell must govern the number and total amount of loans that can be
made. Kindly read carefully all that is said on. this point.
It is not possible for us to send you a speaker from abroad. Possibly, however, you can
get such assistance by addressing "Agricultural Extension Director" at your state agricultural
college or state university. In several states said institution is doing most excellent work
on this subject by disseminating literature or -providing speakers or organizers.
However, it is not necessary .to rely upon any outside assistance. The knowledge of
the subject possessed by yourself and others in your community, amplified bv the data you
should receive as above stated, will enable you and your people to make a brilliant success of
an enthusiastic "get together" of your people. To this end the practical suggestions below
outlined may be of some service. They are politely tendered only for that purpose.
Very respectfully,
(AMERICAN FARM FINANCE LEACU E,
I Signed by Herbert Myrick, Chairman.
Arrangements: for the Mass Meeting at La Grande January 27, at
The City Hall, 10 A. M.
At a conference of the Agricultural Council of Union County
it was decided to issue a call for a mass meeting of farmers of
Union County, Sr.turday, January 27, at 10 a. m. at the City Hall.
Besides fanners who are directly interested in joining the National
Farm Loan Association of Union County, the editors of the-news-papers
of the county, the members of the commercial association
and business organizations of la. Grar.de and all interested in the
subject of rural crcait:: lire rcspactfully invited to attend,
It is believed that th."s will be the first time in American history
that nil the people in all the counties have had a. chance to come
together at the same timo to consider the same subject!
THE FEDERAL FARM LAND BANKS.
The United States land bank for this district will be in Sptkane.
It may be open for business in April or earlier. It does not lend
money. Tho farmer who wants to borrow for five to 40 years
time, at reaso;iablc interest and easy terms of repayment, joins
(or forms! with r.ine or morn other farmers) a national farm loan
association, with which he does all his business. When this local
makes a loan, it cashes the mortgage note at its land bank. Against
such security the land bank issues bonds, tho sale of which fur
nishes more money to loan. The borrowers repay principal iyy
small installments or more, and the bonds are gradually paid off
from such proceeds. Already over 50,000 farmers have applied for
loans aggregating $150,000,000, but the total sum available for loans
from the capital of the 12 land banks will le less than $11,000,000.
The balance can be obtained to lend only from sale of federal
farm loan bonds.
The bonds .will yield a fair rate of interest, are tax free, and
should prove a most desirable investment. Being in denomina
tions from $25 up, every person, even children, may earn and save
until by owning a bond they have at least that much stake in the
land. For larger investors, institutions and trustees, federal farm
loan bonds may be ideal. Only as tho bonds are sold, will there be
money to lend, after tho $750,000 capital of each land bank i loaned
out. Free buying of bouls by local public, free lending by the
system; no sale for bond;., no loans. Land bank shares ought to be
a good investment also.
MASS MEETINGS OF AM, THE PEOPLE, JANUARY 27,
in each county in the United States arc to be held at Ihe county seat
at 10 a. m. January 27, being the last Saturday in this month, to
consider how they may derive the fullest benefit in the shortest
possible time from the operations of the federal farm loan act.
The official call is issued by the American Farm Finance League,
composed of representatives of national farm loan associations and
others interested. Its chairman is Herbert Myrick, the president
of Farm and Home. The official call reads:
The hour has struck for the American people to realizo their
new opportunity. A new era of thrift and prosperity is at hand.
It is rich in promise of progress economic, social, spiritual.
It enables the poorest and richest to acquire "stake in the land''
by buying land bonds.
It helps the farmer to own his own farm to become proprietor
instead of tenant, independent instead of dependent.
It safely and profitably employs the people's savings, no matter
how small or large, in building up their own community by putting
their savings into federal farm loan bonds.
It is the ripe fruition of America's century of co-operative thrift,
and of 200 years of associated finance in Europe.
These brilliant possibilities are within the reach of every person
and of each community. These possibilities are afforded by tho
federal farm loan act of l'JIO. As a means of help to self-help, it
is tho Great Charter of Rural Credits, Popular Savings and Thrift
Investment. The new system is now about to go into effect.
Therefore, by virtue of the universal interest in and benefits
possible from the federal farm loan system, the American Farm
Finance league hereby calls upon
the people to gather in mass meeting at the county seat
of I,a Grande, at 10 A. M. on January 27, 1917, being the '
last Saturday in January, for the purpose of considering
the Federal Farm Loan Act.
At such time and places, the people are urged to take such action
as their wisdom may approve whereby both would-be investors
and would-be borrowers may be enabled to enjoy fullest advantages
of the new system.. Each meeting also is invited to form a county
branch of this league.
To facilitate the movement the editor of the oldest newspaper at
each county seut hereby has been respectfully requested forth
with to ask a few citizens in the county including the editors
and heads of locul or county agricultural, business and labor orga
nizations, also any national farm loan associations to form them
selves at once into a committee to arrange for hnll, publicity and
speaker.
NON-POLITICAL, NON-PARTISAN.
Please observe that federal farm loan system is absolutely free
of politics. It is non-partisan. All parties championed it in con
gress. Indeed, only five votes were cast against it in U. S. Senate
and none on final passage. In House, only 11 voted against it. Of
no great roform can it 1 said that legislative opinion was so
nearly unanimous, regardless of party. The same is believed to bo
true of public opinion in general.
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