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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1917.
LA GRANDE
EVENING OBSFiRVTCT?. .
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This Is Orange Week
n,at Uranges for Health
S1i?T- t(ay to enjy 11118 Srcat annual fit festival.
1?us Orange week everywhere, and Saturday,
March 10th, is National Orange Day. You can buy
JtofiooM, healthful Sunkist Oranges at special prices all this week
from almost any dealer. Order a dozen now, or better, buy a box.
Ea oranges such as Sunkist will keep.
Sunkist Oouige an iuiev. firm, nrl nrootir.ll. :t t
J ? "rM "1 Price.. A.k that your Sunk', b.
"SuSSL" original clean, cn.p tiuue wrapper! which are itamped
S?11?' Grower Enhance A C-Oiratlve Noo.
Profit OrcaaiiaUoo of KMOQrawvt, La Angeln, California.
unkist
Uniformly Good
Oranges
Oavr L. A. 91 Imiua-IM
Charities and Correction Con
ference to Deal With Misery
Chicago, March 6. (United Press)
The abolition of human misery will
be the keynote of the annual national
Conference of Charities & Correction
at Pittsburgh, June 6 to 13, Get oral
Secretary W. T. Cros3 anncincod ivro
today.
Unfair food urices. neeiected rhil-
dren, slum districts, criminal classes,
President Frederick Almy of Buffa
lo will talk about "The Abolition of
Poverty." Other speaker mill be
Thomas Mott Osborne, WilfredxS.
Reynolds of Chicago, Kobert A.
Woods of Boston, Edward T. Devine
and Morris Hillquit of New York, who
"HI SDC-ak On ROT inenrnn..o. n
insane, mental defectives ai d unmoral rv r. ., ....
conditions in out of the way rural . ci, .lua.
districts will ba dealt with and plans lf"y-iive hundred social workers
outlined for the elimination of them ! are expected to attend the conference
from natonal life. I from all parts of the United States.
AReminiscence of Harvey Scott
(By Jabez Nelson)
A long, long timo ago, before the
typewriter
the newspaper office, I was telegraph
v-u.iur ui tne i-ortiand Oregonian, and
nurvey &cott was - editor-in-chief,
Cii. :j.'aj .....
wua vwa, 1HIO V I 111 a
snort, solt pencil on the nrdin,,
scratch paper still D-enernllv no,!
newspaper offices. He wrote a char
acteristic Wand th
legible to those familiar with it, but
which embarrassed
they exchanged their "takes" of Scott'3
copy for other matter. Other printers
pi ef erred Scott's manuscript, for the
joy of reading it and tihnking about
xne ideas in it.
Joseph News Notes
Joseph High Moots NyBsa High Fri.
day Night for Kautcrn Oregon
Championship High School Jun
loin to Present Play Friday Night.
Joseph. Ore.. March 7 iSmvinn
G. Pogue, brother of Sam Pogue, re
turned homo the last of the week
from Missouri.
Mrs. Harland, sister of Mrs. E. E.
Hoist, has been very ill this week
Numerous repairs are now being
mane in and around the Odd Fellows
hall.
The Odd Fellows held initiation last
Saturday evening. About 30 enjoyed
a good dinner.
Miss Lexio Stmchen, superintendent
of our schols. received a teleornm
from Prof. Prescott of Eugene, head
ot tne uregon High School Debate
league, stating that Josenh must mm.
port the affirmative at Nvssa. Ore.
gon, March 9. All Joseph is hoping
that the local high school will win as
it would be a big step toward the
state championship.
The negatives were received Satur
day from the pictures which were
taken this week c.t the school house by
T. O. Juve. Out of about 70 or 80
pictures only seven or eight will have
to bo re-taken.
Clarence Carpenter, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Carpenter, who has been
attending Willametto university at
Salem, returned homo Sunday on ac
count of his eves. He expects to re
turn to his stu;lies in th efall.
Paul Irvine, principal of th .Tnsenh
high school and director of the dra
matic classes of the school, announced
this week that the juniors will stage
a three act Tilav entitled. "The King
dom of the Heart's Content," at the
Peoples theater. Fridav. March 9.
The men of Jottonh. en invert a finA
sermon entitled "The White Life" at
the Methodist church, Sunday after
noon.
Ross Leslie returned home this week
from La Grande where ho was a pa
tient in the Grando Ronde hnsmital.
A game was played on Wcdnesdav
of this week to decido which rlasjc
were the champion basketball nlnvers
of the Joseph high school. Tho fresh
men won over the seniors, who Karl
hold the championship uo to that
time.
Immediately after the heavv snow
of last week we had several days of
roal spring weather.
A very profitable and intematinir
mooting of the Ladiea' Aid wan held
Friday at the homo of Mrs. Ausmst
wnite.
The Josonh 120-ooimd team nlnnn
to play the tntomnco team on Satur
day of this woek at Jcsoph.
C ft. Kamslcv. l mill man of Tr.
tine, was a Joseph visitor this week.
S. C. Shankland of Poi-tland wan in
Joseph Friday.
toil
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An Effective internal lubricant, for use in the
' treatment of
Chronic Constipation
A trial treatment will convince YOU of its merits
Levy-Vogel Drug Co.
Prescription Specialists
Cove Grain Meeting
Is Well Attended
About 75 growers attended the Cove
bulk grain meetinsr vestexdav and
much interest was shown in bulk grain
handling. When the growers were as
sured that one season's sack bill would
pay for an elevator capable of hold
ing their crop and that another Ren.
son's Sack bill would par for the farm
equipment necessary to handling grain
i'i bulk the men were immediately in
terested. A grain meeting was held in
Elgin today a.nd tomorrow one is
scheduled for Irabler.
Lodge Introduces Armed Ship Bill.
Washington, March 7. (Unied
Press) Senator Lodsjc yesterday
attempted to introduce the armed neu
trality bill in the Senate. The meas
ure is identical with tho previous bill.
Owen moved bills for introduction
were not in order as foreign relations
committee expired Sunday.
President Marshall sustained
Thomas declared Lodge's bill not in
order, as Congress is not in regular
session. He was sustained.
A Bilious Attack.
When you have a bilious attack your
liver fails to perform its functions.
You become constipated. The food you
LANE'S ACTION DECRIED
Throughout Oregon the action of
Senator Harry Lane in standing with
the filibustering senators who on-
posed the armed neutrality bill and
"talked it to death" in the closing
hours of the Sixty-Fourth Congress,
let nnpnrkr! "hn nvaoo nf 4-ViA ot-l-A J
Vice- pounces him. The Portland Telegram
vncu. oaf- n.hf on.,a hn 4.: i? ii
nig Lane is being considered, and if
the recall is applicable to a United
Mates senator, further says that it
will be launched against him.
Despondency Due to Constipation
Women often become nervous and
eat ferments in your stomach instead despondent. When this is due to con
rrt.: : ..1 l. - ... At.irvnrirtn if io AtmH.r nnmAr4-1 u.. ...1.
of digesting. This inflames the stom
aoh and causes nausea, vomiting and
a terrible headache. Take Chamber
lain' Tablets. They will tone up your
liver, clean out your stomach and you
will soon be as well as ever. They only
cost a quarter. Adv.
stipation it is easily corrected by tak
wg an occasional dose of Chamher-
lain's Tablets. These tablets are easy
to taxe ana pleasant in effect Adv
FOR RENT SIGNS For sale at
i The Observer office.
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LJ A IS STRICTLY CUSTOM MADE n
M A $k IS GUARANTEED THROUGHOUT
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D MRS. C. H. SCRANTON S
A Residence 1703 Second Street n it
j Phone Black 481 J
The Pneumonia Season.
The cold, damn weather Vfnrh
seems to be the most favorable for
the pneumonia germ. Now is the time
to be careful. Pneumonia often re
sults from a cold. The ouicker a rolrl
is gotten rid of the less the danger.
As soon as tho first indication of a
rnlrl fllHionM n V "Hw, . !..:
ic luvua III i I , i "I I' " wunv wuaiiiuciuuu a
O . t . .... . t Pnnrrh RAmalv A a 4a .. 1 . e
was noi a sticKler for revised w mo vamo ui
proofs, and as tho nrrmfYenrW , thl3 Preparation, ask one who has used
extremely careful about the editorials. I U-Adv-
r i .. i r-
icw ui rurs poc into tne paper. Still r t f f f f f n
mere was the instance where the '
Shakespearean line, "' Tis true, 'tis !'
pity, and pity.'" Lat one night the I
Iroofreador found, in a Scott editorial, J
the line "Under which king, Bezon- j !
ian? Speak or die," in which Scott ; I
had inadvertently written "Benzon-J
ian." The proofreader came dmim. I
stairs m some distress and asked
what the line meant. Mont of
BRAZILIAN STATE A .J.
SOLID BED OF COAL 4.
Rio do Janeiro, March 7.- - !
(United Press). On his return 4
from a trip to the interior today !
the Brazilian Minister of Indus- 4
tries declared that the state of 4
Minas Geraes ( about the size A
4" of California) is practically one 4"
V solid bed of coal. Imported b - 4
members of the staff didn't know 1 tuminous coal (the only avail- $
Czar Nicholas of Russia w f.vir! nf
fish of any kind. He is especially par-
iiai to rrovoncai dried codfish, sea
soned with oil, popper and garlic.
Even better the Czar likes Wabeljan,
codlings prepared in oil.
Butter Labels for sale at
The Observer Office.
Governors Plan a
National Exposition
Washington, March 7. Governors
from many states gathered here yes
terday to consider plans for the es
tablishment in Washington of a per
manent states' exposition of state in
dustries' products.
Endorsement of the plan is expec
ted. The action will probably be fol
lowed by the introduction in the ri.
ous state legislatures of bills provid
ing me necessary appropriations.
Joseph Gtbbs. of Leicester. Mnu.
is still doing police duty, although 88
years old. This iB his 46th consecu
tive year on tho force.
Weather news is now received re
gularly by wireless at 270 uuitmir
radio stations located in nine of the
Northern, and Western states. In thl
way the wireless operator is enabled
to give his neighborhood the weather
forecast as soon as it is issued.
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exactly, hut thought it would be
sacrilege to change a letter. I stood
out against all tho other; said the line
was good Shakespeare.
only the change of one letter, so as to
roaa liezoman. I 'convinced the
proofreader I was right, and next
day he commended mn fr. M,. ,.t
who told me about the line, which is
from "Henry the Fourth." It was
quoted in ridicule from a bombastic
play of Shakespeare's time, long since
forgotten. Shakeneare put in into
tho mouth of Pistol, a servant of
Falsfcaff.
After this incident I fnnnrl T fcorl
acquired an entirely fictitious ren-
utation as a student of Rnic.--,
and I was obliged to rend the urnrlr.
of the master in order to hold up
my end of the conversations when
Scott would bec-in
Shakespearean point with me.
NErr.HRnril.v mvirp
Freely Given by a La Grande Citizen.
Wren one has suffered tortures
from a bad back and found relief from
the aches and nninc that r.amAo
vice is of untold value to friends and
neighbors. The following neighborly
advice rnmeq f rum n T a n.n.i :
dent.
Mrs. F. HunreKa. 1Ah MJntl. c
r , t DUUjl.-Vb W
turningo. At times I could Jiardly get
about and thf Tin in in mv KonV time on
severe when I got down, I could hard-
iy Riraignten up. sharp pains, like a
knife HtlVkinir mn in mr Knnl tnAV
away mv breath for a minute. Doan's
KldnPV PI 1 1 a warn vAAMmnHJJ
highly that I got a box and found
them beneficial. Four boxes perma
nently cured me of lumbago and since
then. I flAVA Hnr V,aA ant oinns At
--F - . 11. .u 1 ' J nino ui
backache. I could not advise anyone to
wiko a Detter medicine for lumbago
than Doan's Kidney Pills."
Price fiOf nt nil rtenlern rinn't olm.
ply ask for a kidney remedy get
Uoan's Kidney Pills the same that
MA. Burs-cas had. Fonter
Co., Props, Buffalo, V. Y. Adv.
! able kind) is selliner in this citv ?
I- for twenty-five dollars a ton. J-
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After Grip
Winter Colds
Bad Blood
You nre pale, thin, weak with little
vitality. Your liver is sluggish and
the bad blood causes your stomach
muscles to lose their elasticity aud
become flabby and weak then
iiuliireslion.
' Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, purely vegetable and free from
alcohol or narcotics, is the great and
powerful blood purifier of to-day. Ex
tracted from American forest herbs
and roots. Contuins no alcohol. In
gradients printed on wrapper.
Take it as directed and it will search
out impure and poisonous matter
throughout the system and eliminate
it through the natural channels.
All dealers in medicines can supply
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
in liquid or tablet form, or send ten
cents in one-cent stamps to Dr. Pierce,
Invalids' Hotel, IlufTalo, N Y for trial
package of tablets.
WHAT WOMEN OF OUR
NATIVE STATE SAY.
TI - . r ...
xAiguue, uregon. "in rinsing my
lam 1 ly I have al
ways found that
I could depend on
Dr. Pierce s rem
ediitt for all ail
ments. I gave
them the ' Golden
Medical Discov
ery ' for tonsilitis.
Afire thmnt. huA
g'S coughs and grip,
and it alwavs
ed them. I
gave them
'pi.....!
Pellets' for sick headache, hllinnaneot
and constipation. I urn glad to recom
mend them." Mhs. CiWUH PB45, 11
N. Lawrence Street.
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Keep Your Eye
On Palmer Lands
The last five sales have beea from raaidente who reside
away from Grande liotule valley.
It apparently ia the same old atory: Home people aa
a rule do aot realize the opportunities that areeee.
The first settlers of tixie valley did not appreciate the
value of that large fertile tract we now call the Saadadge.
It waa tfae very last land in the valley to be occupied.
A few years from now aot a few ef those who read these
liites will state: "I did not know fiat Palmer valley would
ever be the prosperous country it is."
It will be too late then. The opportunity is now. N
experiment. Many families have already dowkaatratod
the productiveness of the soiL You know the location, aear
railroad, near Elgin, adjoining a foreit rcserv, wbirfi b&oss
oheap range for stok and free fuel for all timo.
Come in and let us reason together.
Geo. H. Currey
Opposite
T. M. C. A,
Phone Blark 2001
tOi WHO U4TES
REAL ESTATE
Next to Obsenror OfXko
100 Btai 0tce0t
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