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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
"Little Mary" Made Him Cry
Hardest months of the year to come
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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
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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.
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market advanced
entire line money
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was bouciK. before lio
we quoteSuake trie
values
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and the prices
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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.
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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.
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Front Laced
He possesses a magnificent
voice ol great range, power
and qnalitv combined Avitli
keen dramatic instinct audi
in everv case
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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 !
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