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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1917)
TUESDAY; FEBRUARY 6, 1917. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGE' FIVB 1 ' f n) Avert Sickness Many a serious illness may be .averted by taking the right medicine at the right time. Consult your physician concern . ing your health or your individ ual ailment, and bring his pre scription direct to us, and we will compound it with the right medicine followng his minut est directions. There is quality and exactness to our work that brings results. RED CROSS DRUG STORE Harry Cleaver of Aliccl was in the city yesterday. Our hot water bottles are of real worth. Fully gauranteed. Levy-Vogel Drug Co. 2-1-tf Coming Events February 7 La Grande executive committee for entertainment of Cattle & Horse Raisers' Convention meets at Y. M. C. A., 7:3 p. m. February 10 Meeting at Enter prise to organize National Farm Loan Association. February 16, 17, 18 Christian En deavor Convention in La Grande. February 19 Elks' Annual Ball. February 19-21 Oregon Retail Mer chants Association, Portland. February 19 to 24 "Pay-Up Week" is La Grande. March 8, 9, 10 Automobile and -torcycle show. April 24-25 Cattle and Horse Raisers' ' Annual Convention at La Grande. May 7 and 8 State camp Modern 'Woodmen of America nwets in La Crande. Mrs. E. P. Mosamnn returned from Baker last night, where she hud been invited to give a talk on art before the Alpha club. Following the pro gram the Baker women tendered a re ception to their guest. We pay best prices for second hand furniture. DYAL'S FURNI TURE CO., 404 Fir St., Phone Black 8351. Adv. 12-4-tf. For chronic constipation and bowel disorders take a treatment of Ameri can Oil (heavy). Wonderful results will follow. I.evy-Vogel Drug Co. 2-1-tf June 24 to July 1 rand Ronde Chautauqua, La Grande. Jury 7 National Education Asso ciation in Portland. July 14-19 North Pacific Sanger fest, Portland. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF Collection of News Paragraphs and . . Advertisements. Mrs. Leora Oliphant returned Mon day morning from a two months' east em trip. She probably will live here. We pay better prices for used fur niture. Phone B 1241. Cor. Fir and Jefferson. E. J. Doaoase . 12-2v-tf M. E. Berg has taken a position in the office of O-W. Superintendent (William Bollons. Distinctive candies for those who want the best. Supplied fresh each week. Levy-Vogel Drug Co. 2-1-tf All kinds of electric light globes at Silverthorns. 1-29-tf We pay highest prices for hide and sheep pelts. Peoples' Meat Market, 1119 1-2 Adams Ave. Adv. 12-5-tf. The Elks gavo . a pretty dancing party last night for tie younger en tertainers at the recent Elks' show. Singer Sewing Machines. New and second hand machines sold on easy terms. No interest. Repair work a specialty on all machines, Chas. M. Shapland, agent, Foley Hotel Bldg. Phone Red 451. l-17tf Wood Sawtng. Wood sawing promptly done, city or country. J. J. Murchison. Phone Red 8672. Adv. tf School tablets, the best made at 5c and 10c. All kinds of school books, miscellaneous books, always at Sil Terthorn's Family Drug Store. . , Dly2-6-tf ; Wklylt Money to Lean. On improved real property in Union county, no delays, current rates. La Grande Invests eat Co. Adv. Our new and up-to-date line of fine stationery is pleasing to the moat fas tidious. No advance in prices. Levy Vogel Drag Co. 2-1-tf For That Congh and Tickling in your throat, use Syrup of Wild Cherry Bark in combination with Guaiacol and Eucalyptus. It gives quick relief. Levy-Vogel Drug Co. 2-1-tf Mrs. Adolph Newlin left yesterday for Harrington, Wash., to visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Rieth. Misses Jones and Rabone We carry a full line in Ladies' Suits, Coats and Skirts in the S. & H. gar ment We make Suits, Coats, Skirts and Dresses. A perfect fit guaranteed. Remodeling done. West New Bldg. Superintendent Bollons, Assistant Superintendent Corbctt and General Superintendent M. J. Buckley, of the O-W. R. & N. company, are near Pen dleton today on company business. The very best line of rubber and metal hot water bottles and fountain syringes and ice bags, all warranted, may be found always at Silverthorn's Family Drug Store. Dly2-(itf; Wklylt Announcements Notice. Kniehts of Pvthias. 1st and 2nd "rank will be conferred this evening. W. D. McCarthy, C. C. 2-5-17-lt Auto Owners Notice, The Economy Garage announce the opening to auto, motorcycle and gen eral repair work. Service and econ omy our motto. Red Williams and Fred Burgess, 1114 Jefferson Ave., opposite O-W. R. & N. depot Phone Black 3341. . 1-31-tf 6 1-2 Per Cent Money. $30,000 for long term at 6 1-2 per cent interest for loans 'on Grande Ronde Valley farms. See W. B. Sar gent at La Grande Investment Com pany at once. 2-2-tf NOTICE, The undersigned Treasur er of Union County has funds cn hand with which to pixy warrants issued on the Road fund from number 711 to 800 inclusive, endorsed July 8, 1916. All such warrants will be paid with interest to January 8, 1917. . . JOHN FRAWLEY, Treasurer of Union County. First publication, Jan. 6;second Jan. 13; third Jan. 20; fourth Jan. 27. BEN GROUT OBITUARY Dr. Ralston, physician, surgeon and osteopath is now locateo in rooms 12 and 13 over Silverthern's Drug store. Main 21 j Night phone Main 81. Adv. a 10-lS-tf. The funeral services of Benjamin Grout held in the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon were attended by a large number of sympathetic friends among whom were many associates of his school and college days. Ben Grout was born in Harney county, December 23, 1886. He re ceived nearly all his early education in the public schools of Union county and La Grande. Upon completing the work in the La Grande schools he en tered the University of Oregon, where he was graduated from the electrical engineering department in 1911. He was connected with the Portland Rail way, Light & Power company for about two years after which he taught in the high schools of Raymond, Wash., and Hood River, Ore.,where he established the confidence and esteem of those among whom and with whom he worked. 'Jn the summer of 1916 he went to Juneau, Alaska, where he almost immediately assumed a respon sible position as electrical engineer with the Perseverance Mining com pany. While engaged at his work he was caught in a snowslide from Mt. Juneau which resulted in his death, January 26, 1917. Mr. Grout was especially prominent in athletics during his high school ca reer as he was also at college, doing particularly brilliant work during his last year at the university. His work was always straight, forward and clean as well as effective. July 9, 1913, he was united in mar riage to Miss Claire Pratt of Port land, Oregon. To this union one son was born, Benjamin Grout Jr., Oct. 19, 1914. Mr. Grout leaves to mourn his death his wife and young son, a father and mother, two brothers and one sister, besides a host of intimate friends throughout the state. His life was cut short but ho leaves a record of strength and courage and generous kindness that lives in the memory of those trusted and respected by those who were nearest his life. "SHIPMENTS'1 WAIT OWNERS There are 44 "shipments" at the American Express company's local office waiting for consignees to claim them. Tomorrow is the last day these "packages" may be obtained , as the bone-dry law then goes into effect with a sealed lid. Express company employes believe that a number of the packages will be left over and have to be returned to consignors. THE FORUM La Grande, Ore., Feb. 2. (To the Editor of The Observer.) Your desire for information on the high cost of living can not be solved through the columns of your good paper, as you no doubt know, for it is a subject that time and applied science will havo to solve. Though it gives great pleasure to known our editor freely gives space to the readers of this, our home pa per, we truly know that it is "little drops of water and little grains of sand and so on; that it is also little bits of gossip and little bits of truth, that go to make the proof. So I agree a little with both Mr. Dyal and Mr. Garrick. We should keep our land in producing shape. We should not have to depend on any other nation to help us do so. As Mr. Garrick says: "We should use that $70,000,000 and also $25,777,550 for fortification; that $20,000,000 for nitrate plant and $34, 523,000 for deficiency and $1,225,043 for the military academy, to" teach us in efficiency, to govern ourself in such a manner that we should have no need for such waste in rent, interest and profits or the very things hat brings about such conditions as we now have." If Mr. Garrick has the living price of a working man figured down.' to ten or fifteen cents a day, his for tune is mado (as the saying goes) and he had better apply for a job at Washington right away for I am sure he will have no trouble getting one, for if the Wall street gamblers can feed the common people on ten cents a day, they can have no worry about strikes, and such like. I have just read a piece in the lit tle McCall Magazine entitled "Keep ing House for President Wilson" by Helen Hainbridge. Here is what she claims the expenses of Mrs. Wilson's table-keep amount to, almost $1000 a week. Here is just a little clipping from that piece: "All table expenses must be paid by the president, even including the mcnues for the great state dinners, and as these latter are notable epicurean feasts, they cost enormous sums. Only the breasts of fowl are served. (I guess the negro servants get the rest.) A roast is used for but two or three people and noth ing but the choicest bits of vegetables are ever considered." Now, I want you to understand that I am not find ing fault with the president's living in the least and I don' blame him for liking good chicken, and with all the work and worry of the nation, on his hands, needs the best of care to keep him in good health so that he may perform his duties as he should for the good of his dear people. But I claim that everyone should havo a share in the good things of life; a chance to work and a chance to play, and where people have to work all the time and no time to play, they should at least have enough to eat to keep soul, and1 body together. Here is another clipping from the government bulletin: "As a result of government researches it was found that pellagra is produced by an in sufficient, poorly balanced diet and that it can both bo prevented and cured by the use of food containing elements in the proportion required by the body. The application of this knowledge greatly reduced pellagra in 1916 as compared with previous years. This reduction is believed by experts of the public health service to have been due to improved economic condU tions which enabled wage-earners to provide themselves with a better and more, varied diet and to a wider dis semination of the knowledge of how the disease may be prevented. "It is feared, however, that pellagra may increase in 1917 by reason of an increase in food cost out of propor tion to the prosperity now enjoyed by this country- The great rise in the cost of forage, particularly cotton seed meal and hulls, is causing the people in many localities to sell their cows and thus there is danger that they will deprive themselves of milk, one of the most valuable pellagra pre venting foods. The high cost of living has further served to bring about a reduction in many families in the amount of meat, eggs and peas con sumed, all of which arc pellagra pro phylactics. In effecting economics of this nature the general public should bear in mind the importance of a properly balanced diet and refrain from excluding, if possible, such valu able disease preventing foods. It is believed that unless this is done there will be a greater incidence of pellagra next spring." What good doe3 it do to have scien tists to solve these problems unless we apply our knowledge. Out of our schools now come capable young men and women, but for lack of place to apply their knowledge, they go on a delivery wagon at $40 per month, or the girl into an old dry goods store at the same price and forget all they have been taught for lack of applying the knowledge that our government needs. A few there are (if their pa's or ma's have enough money to buy them a job or a husband) who have a good job we call a success, a great success sometimes, but the other fel low is a failure. It fs just as im portant that we fertilize our brains and use them as it is that we fertilize our soil, and ship our products to Eur ope. Yes, the government needs Mr. Gar rick to teach us to live on ten cent1? a day and Mr. Dyal to teach ua to keep our land fertile, but above all, God needs minds to solve the prob lems that confront us today, the high cost of living and also the high cost of dying. JENNIE DISQUA. : . - . , i - . .alt i 1 W hi Sftr SocOMdJrfrmf ffcfunr THE PRUPE ' OP TUB CLAN AND if M7 could spMktou'he wouldy: r'Comt, and seelhe part! I love best of all-in tSTttory that never grows old." ft SEE HER At The ARCADE I R 71 Ej I i jM I"; tL-3: 4 t New Skirts for Spring Featuring very attractive models ' newest arrivals Tlie materials are the most desir-5v- able Poplins. Serges, Panama v Cloth, n varintv of Strined and Plaid Wool Velours, and a full range or novelty iabrics. Taffetas in plain black and navy, stripes and a beautiful assort ment of large colored plaids. Shirred effects, pleated models and some tailored styles, trim med with fancy pockets, tabs and buttons. ' . . ,. . An unusual comprehensive sliow-'1. inc- in all lengths and in waist bands from 22 to 40 inches,, rang ing in price from $3.98 to $14.75 T GOLDEN RULE O Guafiiij tfo, same-lta N I La Grande's s Store r. . ' t r i The construction of a pipeline 220 miles long has enabled oil to replace wood for fuel for navigation and other purposes in the interior of Kongo. I'most heavily loaded train recently was 'established by a Kussian raiiroau, tm which an American locomoiive nauieu a train 2800 feet long; with a load of 4424 tons. A new European record for the Specimens of almost every pre cious mineral have been found in: Spitzbergen, but there are no signav according to geologists, that precious minerals exist in paying quantities. Happiness and unhappiness alwayn register. We Carry a Full Line of Fresh Vegetables and Fruits ORANGES GRAPE FRUIT BANANAS APPLES CABBAGE LETTUCE CELERY CAULIFLOWER TURNIPS PARSNIPS . CARROTS AND A FULL LINE OF GROCERIES PLEASE GIVE US A TRIAL MAMMOTH GROCERY DOINGS OP THE DUFFS. I WoUDEG-'WHAT T?M IS dOiHtf To WEAR. AT the PAUce Tomorrow NIcJHT? He Wwr TEU. ME WHAT HIS I CCtfTOME. IS HE IS PUTTIHC IT OM NOW 60BSS -I MOST GO OP AMD fur tf Ln--fl-1&K-IHG MV MASK ' 1 V bfaW . .i WW Mil I II 'J - T'' 1 " 1 TfCLCn1 I . i r mwJNi int a r t i 1 i. y ' w. iu rii in ii i a'-i vioi i I m ii nil. ' B9 If HERB? WHO fSjlV v
