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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1917)
PAGE TWO LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER "Little Mary" Made Him Cry Hardest months of the year to come SLUSHY AND SLIPPERY FEBRUARY AND MARCH GOOD STRONG SHOES Choice Fruits That Will Please You i2- CANNED, DRIED or j Quality and Service x if, l1i4, (K "r Mav sar a lot inVoctor's brUs. V Our shoes are rightly priced, afulthat is y they get valuable newspapenij'aec STYLISH SERVICEABLE I ' l tor th ear 'round standard of this store Men's Shoes, all leathers, all styles $1.5tnip Ladies' Shoes, all leathers, all styles $2.39 up Children's Shoes, all sizes 49c up Hill's Department Store Missions To America. Final Action. As vice-president of the Pullman I . company, General Horace Porter used to receive numerous complaints from j An appal from the mountaineers of supersensitive military men who had j Kentucky, North Carolina and Tonnes occasion to travel in the company's j ec, addressed to each of the B.OOO cargi Preshuterian women's missionary soc- One of these, riding on an extra "'ties in the country, was met hy the train hurriedly added one day in a holi-1 Presbyterian Woman's Hoard of Home day rush, deemed the negro porter neg ..Missions by the sending on November ligont in some small details and de-1 21 of four representatives on a tour ligent manded his instant discharge. Realizing that, in the circumstances, the employee had been excusable, the General replied simply that investiga tion was bing made. Again the pro test came. Then again and again, each more violent, vehement and vindictive that th last. Attempts to mollify the complainant failed utterly and he wrote finally with such ferocity that the Gneral dictated this response: the porter, shot the conductor, burned the cars and discontinued the line. I trust that this will be entirely satis factory to you.'The Christian Herald. of inspection of the mountain country. .They will acquaint themselves with the work of the mission schools, and will investigate conditions preparatory to an educational campaign which is to be made in answer to the appeal. It is claimed that in the South there are 850,000 school hcildren, and that only or. out of every 400 ever finishes the grammar grades. There are 200 teach ers, but only sixteen have state diplo mas; and of the 900 preachers, many of whom have had scant schooling, about eighty of them are unlettered. The Christian Herald. As Mary rii-kfnrd and her leading lllllii, Man. .Jwmr. mil In., tin- K"iln her screen sweetheart whispered sweet jiutliiiiint Into her little pink ear. They spoke of their fiirtlironihig marriage, of the wedding iclchral inn they would prepare for thrlr ninny friends anil (if their honeyiiiiinii on lier father's old fishing sihminer. The birds In the treetops twittered their Joy over the coming event, and Vtp sun never seemed to shine so bright. Alien. In. her sweet heart suddenly f ist Into tears. Since he was a wee lnilille she had llt:t'l iM-r-u liini ri.t, n lid that now, just when all seemed serene, the tears should course down his manly cheeks puzzled her greatly-as i did the cam era man who was securing a ilmi'tuin;: scene for her new Artcrai't photoplay. The Pride of the Clan." "Little Mary" looked up In surprise, mil the camera man stopped In his work. No she had not broken bis heart by some unkind net or remark. The cause for the (cars was an onion. SHERRY'S Robbed by IJrother, Suspected hy Mother, "Hig Treniaine's" Plight. "Big Tremaine," the great Metro production of Marie Van Vorst's novel with Harold Ixckwood and May Alli son as stars, which is to be seen at the stolen the money. These are heavy burdens for one man to' bear in silence. John not only does all of this, but he helps Da vid s widow, and his conduct is so straightforward and honorable that he wins the love and respect of his neighbors and another girl. The neighbors call John "Big Tremaine," and that is just what he is a big man SHERRY'S TODAY r ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. AUSTIN BROWNELL. Manager HOUSE WIRINC Supplie9nd Heating Devices Phone Sommer Hotel Building, KA Ntfain 726 netA SPECIALTY Western Unioj j .Briqu .eis oeoo A Guaranteed Fuel... Cost no more "than coal. Holds fire longer than most coals No slate, no clinkers, little soot. well; Don't crumble. flATl TTTnntLTinnnTTTTirv TOYvA LOAD n LJ i-K T pf- SCENE PROM BIO TR.EMAINE Sherry theater tonight brings forward family problems in a striking manner. John TrAnnine, the hero, is robbed by his own brother of a sum of mon ey which has lcen entrusted to him. The brother, David, also wins the girl John loves. Broken-hearted, John leaves his home, remaining away sev en years, and then returns to find that his mother suspects John of having whose spirit cannot be crushed hy ad versity. seeing me piay on the screen arouses a great glow of admiration for John and a strong hope that the love of this new girl in his life will hlot out all the injustice that has sur rounded him. It does, and "Big Tre maine" becomes all that the name im plies. (if cfei 'tStel I j 'FRESH plete Assortment market advanced entire line money a LargtVtoek ancrTom was bouciK. before lio we quoteSuake trie values We Have Our stock and the prices savins Harris Grocery PHONE MAIN 70 FARMERS PHONE B. 192 408 North Fir Street, Cross Track Loan Association Forms. ' ganized a national farm loan associa- tion to be known as the Freewater Pendleton, Ore., Jan. 29. (Special) Xational Fawn Loan association. The farmers of the east end of Loans of more than $50,000 already Umatilla county met Friday and or- have be?n applied for by the group. cullrclt to boxirivt'ii l.)V I'idsrc Whipp. iOth nt theVMotho- i ins7j)al clmrcR, lias already aroiSd much inter est. The siiijiSieoiiies Veil rct'uninientioa nv TVf various press reports of hisVowcr in otlier Oretron cities Hoboes Gather For Their Annual Meeting nee from the start. Buffalo, Jan. 9. (United Press) In "front" and on the "blinds," on "deck" and "underneath" nnd always in suite of the trnin crews, rfolnfrntae j.'U'itonO, I to the annual convention of the Inter national Welfare association began ar riving here today for the opening ses sion, scheduled for tomorrow, but still somewhat uncertain due to the heavy non-arrival list. For the International Welfare asso ciation is the title under which the hoboes gather to discuss their trou-' bles. The call for the convention was issued in the Hobo News, published bv James Kads How, the millionaire bo of St. Louis. The News is resentful of the deri sion in which the hoes are held and so ended the call with the statement: 0,t..n f.M- nil Ota hnl.n wills 1 1 is audi-. trnmif. nor is ho a bum or a vee-crman. ARC A DE Cleo Kidgley and Wallace Keid at Arcade Theater. Cleo Kidgley and Wallace Reid, the splendid young Lasky stars who have appcrred together so frequently with such great success, will be seen at the Arcade theater, today and tomorrow, in the Jesse L. Lasky production of "The Yellow Pawn," an unusual so- ' Golden Windows." i Miss Ridgley, known for her beauty ; and vivacity, as well as her splendid dramatic ability, has won for herself ! a place among the leading photo-dra-imatic actresses of the country, while i Mr. Reid has the distinction of being .one of the most popular, widely known, and able of the younger gener i ation of stage and screen favorites. "The Yellow Pawn" has to do with ' j the artist life in th fashionable Bo- hemian set in New York city and deals At Arcade Today and Tomorrow. 1 I H II II H I! II II II H II n KKA fc" " " n ii u ii n ii CLEO RID&LEY and 'THE YELLOW PAWN' Woman." and "The Hnnso WitVi tv.o ciety drama from a story by Frederic Arnold Kummer, prepared -for the screen by Margaret Turnbull. Miss Ridgley and Mr. Reid first stepped into Drominenco bv iV,air. splendid performance in the. T noVr production of "The Golden Chance." Sinc that time they have appeared together with the same degree of suc cess in a number of other productions among them being "The Selfish with the love affair between the wife of a district attorney and a famous painter. How the artist's Chinese servant brings about a terrible situation and later rectifies it, makes a theme of absolutely unusual intensity. In the cast supporting the two stars are such distinguished players as Tom Forman, William Conklin, C. H. Gel dert, George Webb, Olive Golden and others. 3 oda. rt Corsets ' Front Laced He possesses a magnificent voice ol great range, power and qnalitv combined Avitli keen dramatic instinct audi in everv case THE J. D. LYNCH CO. Tickets are on sale at Van Burens ADMISSION 50 CENTS ! He is the migratory, the casual and to I the community's eternal shame the . nftnn ilni.nl nl.ivod Wrtrt'or . I :....ll.. U.. 1 : iv'iii.ii in iniH'M i-ii-iiivin- in nur iioie social system, but for all that a man who does the hard ami really neces sary work for thj life nnd well being of his fellowmen." To prove that the boos are tradable. I a pencil will be substitute for a ravel I at the session. lis light rat-tat will be ! all that will bo- reeded to call the ! HU 1 1 1 : K l.AHKl.S Ohscrvcr olVue. -l or sale it Thf . knight? How. of the road to order, smvs SOLID COMFORT Standing, Sitting or Lying Down When you stop to think that you spend between five and six fhoii hours every year in your corset, you must realize how importin it is tnat you nave a peruvuy commnamc co:set, A iworly fitting corset froijuentty leads t severe nervous and organic troubles which cnuse years of suffering. In the MODART Corset Ve have a garment that always gives genuine comfort, sitting, stendir.g or lyii-p: down. PAULINE LLir.UI.K, Sommer Hotel Bldg.
