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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1917)
-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1917 PGE TWO TA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER mmmmiamlmmmmmmmmmmm This Store is Laden With Beautiful New Spring Merchandise Yes it is. This is the dawn of a new season. Spring is just over the hill, and will arrive with one of those magnificent golden landscapes, some morn ing soon. Tailored Suits of exclusive stylo are in soft wool velours, novelty cloths and checks. Sport suits are of silk, wool Jersey and wool velours. Coats of course cling to thesport ideas of smart apparel, but many have been modified along the di rectoire lines. They are new and smart and good. So you will enjoy seeing them. . i You are a Guest of This Store Smart and GracefulMillinery Beauty is attained and becomingness assured in these new spring hats, their graceful lines and simple materials. Straws axe more than straws in their many adaptations. Our millinery section is a veritable garden of hats as enchanting as those gardens of an cient fairy tales. (When you step over our threshold, you become our company and we try to make you feci perfectly at home. Of course there is a receiving lineour clerks and our chief entertainment our mer- chandiso. But while in our store you are our guest, and in a very informal way just make yourself perfectly r.t home. Hill's Department vStore Quality and Service Wholesale Or Retail Our Retail Prices consistent with quality and ser vice rendered are as low as is possible to place them. If you prefer to buy your groceries in quantities for'cash we have an important message for you. We can give you greater value for your money than any mail-order house in existence. We Are Prepared to Serve You Wholesale or Retail Harris Grocery PHONE MAIN 70 408 North Fir St. FARMERS PHONE B. 192 Cross The Track J j May Transfer Relief Work, i Washington, March 13. (United iPrese) It is learned the State De- partment is planning to ask Holland land Switzerland to supervise Belgian ' Relief. The transfer means American workers withdrawal. FOR RENT SIGNS Observer office. -For sale st The I BEAUTIFUL SANITAR DURABLE Plat Tone makes the ideal wall finish. Dries perfectly flat but can be washed with soap and "water when necessary. It comes in all col ors. Why not use it this time for your Spring renovating. It is not expensive. I Oxner's Paint Store f crowd of men about the steps is shown, and it is with this picturetoue setting that the hero and heroine meet under the strangest circumstances. When the village gossip learns that her neighbor expects two guests from the city on a special train she calls on the pretext of borrowing a chili sauce recipe, but when it is hurriedly copied and handed her she seems tj 'be in no hurry and sorenely sits upon tho chair which the mother and daughter desire to dust and prepares to wait their arrival. These old customs have been pre sented at just the right time and one feels that they acid much lotiii color and atmosphere to the storjr. 1 l SHERRY'S J, II SMALL TOWN CUSTOMS LEND J J III HUMOR TO FEATURE ARCADE SHERRY'S TODAY ONLY '"tt I : . s n-t . . , a Orange eaten every day will help you tay well. Order SunkUt now and keep a upply of these uniformly good orange in the home alway. Sunkist Uniformly Good Oranges Cformia Fruit Grow n Exchange Onr want ads bring results. Village Gossip and Other Celebrities Cleverly Portrayed. "The Ninety and Nine," the well known stage play by Ramsey Morris which the Vitagraph Company of America has filmed as a five-part Blue Ribbon Feature with William Courtenay and Lucille Lee Stewart under tho direction of Ralph W. Ince, is the attraction at tho Sherry theatre. Last showing tonight. This human interest drama cont .ins many small village customs which ai sure to create a bit of humor in every audionce. The proverbial village gos sip interested in everyone's business but her own is cleverly portrayed and ono actually feels that her presence stands before them. Tho village store with its hubitutil The Broadway success, "'Bought and Paid For," has been converted into u mammoth motion picture fea- ! L.. U Ur.,l,l tK.tnwc ft-nrlv- Made. The popular little actress, Alice Biady, has been entrusted with the star part and has built up a char acter which will not easily be forgot ten. Although the main plot of the story is a very serious one, the com edy vein which runs throughout is a I big and exceedingly humorous one. The situations which arise are all true to life and might occur in your own family. For instance: i Robert Stafford, a self-made mil lionaire, spends many evenings with WILLIAM COURTENAY" Supported by LUCILLE LEE STEWART' in -THE NINETY AND NINEfi AT ARCADE THEATER TODAY A ND TOMORROW ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. AUSTIN BROWNELL, Manager HOUSE WIRING A SPECIALTY Supplies and Heating Devices Phone Main 726 Sommer Hotel Building, next to Western Unioj MadeC C jmARTHY fGARS Imperial 15c 2 for 25c Imperial Club House 1 Oc Imperial Smoker . . 5c w. d. McCarthy Otfkeaod Factory 106 Depot St. Lis Bl?f . QUICK DELIVERIES art a feature of this lumber business. When you give as an otir you eaa enfidently rely e fettiaj year lumber a Uttle before yoa aeed it. That mean ao delay In cnstroen, no wai-ag tine thtt yoa have to pay for Think that evw. GEO. PALMER LUMBER COMPANY Retail Dept. Phone Man 8 T; A WORLD PICTURE - DRADy -M AD Ef mVZ?' , ALIUDliAUy -bought and Paid For EDIWC BRQADHURTTt rameuj Smtttst sSWX ill WW SIU No. 9314 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE United States NationaliBank At La Grande, in the State of Oregon, at the Close of Business on Mar. 5, 191" Resources Loans and discounts 573,773.35 U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) " . 50,000.00 Bonds other than U. S. bonds pledged to secure postal savings deposits 10,000.00 Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including: stocks) owned unpledged " 7,980.03 17,980.03. Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of o An a - subscription) onA'An Value of banking house (if unencumbered) "ooaaSa Furniture and fixtures . 3,88.7' Net amount due from approved reserve agents in New York, Chicago, and St. Louis 132,530.36 Net amount due from approved reserve 8gents in other reserve cities 43,024.19 175,554.45 Net amount due from banks and bankers( other than included in 12 or 20) I 8,925.81 D'her checks on banks in the same city or town as reporting bank 1,327.04 Outside checks and other cash items 840.77 Fractional currency, nickels, and cents 191.74 , 1,032.51 Notes of other national banks 4,030.00' Federal Reserve notes . ; 45.00' Lawful reserve in vault and net amount due from , Federal Reserve Bank v 69,158.46. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due : ' from U. S. Treasurer 2,500.00 Total $938,210.44 Liabilities. Capital stock paid in: 100,000.00 Surplus fund : 20,000.00 Undivided profits 10,606.91 Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid . . 6,677.81 3,928.10' Circulating notes outstanding 50,000.00 Net amount due to banks (other than included in 29 or 30) 13,540.51 Demand deposits: individual deposits subject to check 493,484.88 Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days . 26,825.61 Certified checks 107.68 Postal savings deposits 6,131.79 Total demand deposits". i 526,549.80 Time deposits: (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more notice): Certificates of deposit 120,832.88 ! Other time deposits 103,359.70 . Total of time deposits 2li4, iaz.ua Total $938,210.44 State of Oregon, County of Union, ss: ' I. T. J. Scroggin, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. T. J. SCROGGIN, Cashier Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of March, 1917. F. S. rVANHOE, Notary Public Correct Attest: J. C. HENRY, U. G. COUCH, GEO. T. COCHRAN. Directors. WANTED To buy ten million feet of lumber, or will furnish cash to operate your mill and market the prod uct. Phone Main 711. W. R. KIVETTE ft the "boys," a good follow as in his bachelor days, returning home de based from drink and carousing. On those occasions, Virginia's sensitive nnture rises in revolt and she hates the brutish, pasionate man whom she enn scarcely recognize as the husband of those first happy days. Would you like to be in this young girl's position? It is very doubtful if any girl would bc willing to change places with her if they first witnessed what she had to go through. This latest Brady-Made World lecture will he at the Arcade 0 ntiv today and tomorrow in connection with the Hip podrome vaudeville. Hay $21 at Prairie Citv Prairie Citv. Mnrrh .'- citV Of hav is nrpvnlonl ! ax. I .liAM-n tho John Day valley. Seme of the l armors wno sold hay in the fall for JS per tin ari now hivSrv.T ; oVilr.. in from Ifeikor at the price of $21 per Ion, laid down. Several farmers are out of hay entirely and more will be if the severe winter weather hangs on much lonj?er. J)0NT fail to see the Pack-1 ard Twin Six at Hamil- jE j ton's Booth at Auto Show, I w j Saturday and Saturday Even ing. ! p i 1 Let us print your farm sale bill. Ai