La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 21, 1917, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917 LA' GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGE TWO Millinery Designed For Easter Wear JACK O'NEILL REM FOB BIG BOUT WITH BERB There is one thing that comes as surely as Easter Day and that is the necessity of a new Hat. In our Millinery Section, your quest for the beautiful hat may begin and end for we are prepared to satisfy the most fastidious. Day by day we are adding more new designed hats to our already beautiful display, and we cordially extend to you an invitation to visit this department Every visit you will see something new. HILL'S DEPARTMENT STORE Elgin Recorder: With each suc ceeding meeting of tho Elgin Com munity club the members and those who attend realize the more the bene fits derived from the organization nnd the good which can be accomp lished through that medium. The first meeting of the club held this year was called primarily to discuss the building of a new gymnasium and it was proposed to finance the move ment by public subscription and put up a frame building for the joint use of the school members and citizens in general. Tho Community club was quick to realize the need of such an institution and oppointcd a committee to consider the matter in detail and report at the next meeting. FARM SALE BILLS Get prices on farm sale bills at The Observer office. AT ARCADE THEATER TODAY AND TOMORROW N. Y. Coal Dealers Keep Up Price cm; v r f 4 At" " 3 sir 4 Tv x. 10 It i I t 1 '('CM 1 A WORLD PICTURE 1-nnAnv- m a n r LEW FIELD Ji"Tha Man 1 ...WftOdtOCa JC1S1 Jj S3 r in, ' ! ' k , t 1 . i 3 ' J New York, March 19. (United Press) The usual fifty cents a ton reduction in tho price of coal will not be made this April 1 by New York dealers, it became known here today. Tho large operators allied with the anthracite roads may not offer any re- i duction at all and those who do decide upon a decrease, if they do, are not expected to make it more than 25 cents. Eight and nine dollar coal is the prospect for Now Yorkers this sum mer. Meantime many of the dealers are preparing to face trial in Feder al court hero on Indictments charging conspiracy to boost prices. Spring Seeding the I.awn. O'NEILL HAS BEEN WORKING i I'AITHIXLLY FOR CHAM ! I'lONSIIIl' MATCH AND ! HOPES TO WIN PURSE : Jack O'Neill, local wrestler who I will meet John Berg, coast light i heavyweight champion in a finish ; contest, has rounded into fine shape and is now tapering off his training by doing some light work daily and expects to be in the pink of condition when ho tangles with the champion on next Friday night at tho Arcade theatre. O'Neill has worked faithfully since March 1st in preparation for the match. He was examined a day or so ago by two physicians and was pronounced "fine." Seats for the match are on sale at Arcade theatre and reservations may be made any afternoon. Indications point to a full house, for this contest as many seats aro already sold and inquiries are being made from out side towns as to the details of the contest, prices, etc. This wrestling match is to be a finish affair, best two falls in three for a purse, winner take all. The loser of this match gets nothing but glory. The big match will be preceded by a wrestling preliminary between Gar ity and Stewart followed by a second preliminary between another Garity and Ford, the winner of the respec tive matches will wrestle in a final bout immediately after the first fall of 'the main bout. Wood and Spencer, amateur light heavyweights will mix in a five-minute bout to decide the su premacy of tho two- Recent Arrivals . Foreign & Domestic FISH & CHEESE Holland Herring, 4 for -25 Alaska White Fish, per pouud K Anchovies, per pound C Norway Mackerel, each ; -lc lied Alaska Salmon, pickled, per pound Brick Cheese, per pound 40c Limbergcr Cheese - . Chilli Cheese, per package -15c Full Cream Clieese, per pound 30c nnlianCheese, per pound 0c Harris Grocery PHONE MAIN 70 408 North Fir St. FARMERS PHONE B. 192 Cross The Track SHERRY'S Favors Good Roads. Wheeler, Ore., March 2, 1917 (Ob server, La Grande, Ore.) JJear Sir: Tho road legislation adopted by the legislature just closed provides the means whoreby Oregon can enter up on and carry ouc a comprehensive bet ter roads program. By referring house bill No. 550 to the people for their ral, T'u" 1 "T; w v., th Z Georse Holt, who plays the role of roads is put squarely before the peo- . J .' . . f v; Die of the state of Oregon for their , 1 " decision. It is up to those of us who are in GEORGE HOLT CRIMINAL Role in: "Through the Wall" An Ex ceptional One. ' Blue Ribbon feature, "Through, the I Wall," released by the Vitagraph, Lu- - "' kin S,.liir Tc-inni, tvliinli io tV.a -foo- terested in this proposition to see that ! ...... . 7 o, .l...... i-. this act is jatifieJ ut the specuil elec tion to be held June 4. To do se, will ture at the Sherry theatre last time tonight, finds in his part one of the require a united effort on the part of . . , . ..... XT , 1 ' v . particular capaoihties. Never was all who are interested in this great movement for better roads. In my humble way I wish to sug gest that in each county an organiza tion he nerfivtrtl. to he known as a Jack O'Neill, Jr., 15 year old son of "Better Roads Club." These clubs to the wrestler, will eive an exhibition of fancy rope spinning. This young man hns appeared at the round-up at Pendleton the past two years and is considered the best with the rope of any lad his age in the country. ine wrestling tournament will be preceded by a five-reel picture and orchestra music which will give the more timid as well as the feminine admirers of the manly art an excuse for being present. The big show starts at 7 o'clock. J. Garlield King will referee the amateur bouts. Fritz Lottes will of ficiate in the main bout. C. D. Emn hiser who made the match will an nounce the details. Jack Penre will keep time. IX J f-J mM fi a p 0 Jf rj N ,:-.r. 1 Oxner's Paint Store St.- rPaint i if rt 5? 1 l'OlOU'I.A WANTI',1). 4? Very great care should be taken in putting down lawns. The soil should be thoroughly loosened and worked, and allowed to 3ettIo evenly. Other wise patchy places will appear on the lawn. Work the soil when it is in good condition, and instead of sow ing the seed at the earliest possible minute put it off until the soil has had a chance .to warm up sliirhtlv. This will give lime for the first crop of weeds to come up. The weeds can be lemoved, tho soil worked again with the rake, and the grass seed sown. A good mixture for lawns in this country is made up of "0 percent Rhode Island Bent, HO percent Creep ing Bent, ."0 percent Kentucky Blue Grass, and 10 percent of cither White Number Clover or Rcdtop. Many do not care I Grande lor hito Clover in the lawn; fori Night. thorn Iledlop may be substituted. Tliis grass seed mixture should be sown j Pendleton, March 21. ( Special) at the rate of one pound to every !150 j The E::st Oresronmn yaws: C'onsider H(i.re feet of lawn. Do not roll ; ;,i-lc interest has been aroused among heavy clny land unless the seed is j Pendleton wrestling funs in the bout sown late in the spring after the'dan-! to be staged in I-.i Craiiue Friday g;v of rains is rast. 'evening of this week between John Co over the lawn carefully in about IRtvg of Spokane and Jack O'Neill of 21 days after swing, and reseed all 1 .a G.ar-.de. A number will rrobal.lv the patches ilvit have failed to get a :Ka over to take in the event, good stand of glass. If this and the j i;0rir is ore of the best known prcce.ling directions have been care fully carried out, a good lawn is as- BEKfJ-O'XElI.L HOI T AliOr.SINV, INTEREST PENDLETON Will Probably Co to l.a to Witness Match Friday Paint manufactulrers would like to know bow to make a lie! tor Hour paint. No other paint is subjected to such hard service and it must be made right. Thus far the Shorwin-Wil-lianis Co. have the best floor paint. sured by the first of Julv. ' I Berg i 1 wrestle: s i ehnmpior. on the coast, and claims the hip at 175 pounds, lie is Carelessness At Civ Cms ; CKT IT AT n veteran of over 1000 bouts nnd be fore he began his mat career was a strong man. lie has met some of the best nil n in the country, including Frank Coteh. O'Neill claims In bo nnrthwrt- C''"1j'1" Ichamj.ion at 175 pounds. He has wrestled all over the country and has .. l., r : .i i: persons who pass over grade railroad Z l,i- 7 'V'-" . , ., , 1 1 1 om his belt. He is u great favor ite in La Grande and he expects to add to his prestige Friday night by i In vow of all the agitation which has mured the safety-first in recent years, it is rather surprising to say the least, to find that of those ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. AUSTIN imOWNELL, Manager HOUSE WIRING A SPF!CIALTTT Supplies and Heating Devices Phone Mara 72(5 Summer Hotel Building, next to Western Unioa ciARTHf Imperial 15c 2 for 25c MadeC lossings proualilv one-hall or more fail to look to the right or left before moving across the tracks. This esti mate is based upon the reported find ings of investigators for the Califor nia Railway Commission. In observ ing the drivers of 17,000 motor ve hicles it was found that over (it) per cent looked neither way before cross ii g railway tracks. Something over two percent looked in one direction on ly, while the remainder, less than 28 per cent, looked both to tho right and left. Of 6,400 pedestrians 49 per cent looked neither way and 15 per cent looked only one way. It is believed that these figures may bo taken as fairly typical of the country as a whole. They indicate both the menace j i of the grade crossing and the need of I eilucnting both drivers nnd pedestrians jito greater caution. From the March J Popular Mechanics Magazine. I J It is easy in this world to live after jtbc world's opinion; it is easy in soli tude to live after oi:r own; but the great man is he who in the midst of tho c ivd keeps with perfect sweet re? s . independence of solitude. 1 "n on. defeating Berg. Ponder Plant Has (Muiles for Fire capes. Es- Fire escapes in the form of large Pietal chutes have been provided by a powder company at Crrney's Point, N. J., for the safety of the men working in its smokeless powder plant. Just under thy second-story windows of tho numerous small structures in which the men work, are fire-escape plat forms from which lead several of the metal chcutes, placed at a sharp nngle. In an emergency the men can run through the windows and slide safely to the ground in an instant. The dan gers of handling smokeless powder are not as great as is popularly rnnposed, fort it does not explode like black powder but instead burns rapidly. From the March Popular Mechanics Mngiv.ine. be composed of all those in the coun ty who are interested in this work. These clubs would have for their prin cipal function the dissemination of in formation relative to the bond meas ure, dealing with its importance and the great practical benefits accruing to the state by its adoption. Then each county organization should select one or several delegates to what might be termed a "State Better Roads Committee." This com mittee would thus be a state-wide ov ganization and its function would he to gather the necessary information, arrange for the publication of tin; lit erature needed, plan publicity cam paigns to be carried out by the news papers of the state and generally to act as the central binding-together body for the various county organiza tions. Funds will be acquired for this work nnd I suggest that each cour.ty organization adopt a rule that each member pay a nominal sum, perhaps ' one dollar, for membership in the club. 1 The sums thus raised to he used in ! carryirg forward the campaign, : suggested above. A fact which impresses me very! strongly is that this road bnd moi:-- I use is a state- wide pvonositioa nn.l j to secure the adoption of the measure and the result ir c benefits, we, wi:; live outside of Portland, should 1al;e upon ourselves the duty of eonduetirg a vigorous and energetic campaign for the success of the measure at the special election to be held June !th. Kinldy consider this ma! I or with those in you- crunty who ace inter ested in this better roads moveme.it and arrange for the organization cf your county better roads club. I shall be more than pleased to hoar that such an organization is per fected in every county of the state, for only by united effort can wo se cure success for the measure nt th? coming election. there a better villain than Mr. Holt. Now the man of the underworld and now the gentleman of respected so- j cicty. Always, however, a finished villain. Throughout tho picture we marvel at his criminal running and in a num ber of instances we doubt his charac- SIIEKKY'S THEATRE r ! S4 f jr. '' ': ( i tJJiOlKili HOLT NKI.I. SIHI'MAM and Ivm. w.y-L in "Throui.l. ".' ' LAS !' TI.HE TODAY !:e other than the man ter to play of crime. Like all other criminals. Heidel mann, which is the clr.iraeter ho plays has one wea!;no.-s. Tins is a complete diary in which he writes down tho dif ferent deeds of crime in which he is instrumental and over which he gloales. Determined net to be ruled by the law even though he is caught, Ileidel man possesses a signet ring which is most mysterious. At the end of the story when he is trapped nnd about to bj taken into custody he jumps from the fourth floor of the court house and when this fails to bring death he picks the tor. from his rintr lumuy write me, letting mc know ' swallows the death dose of poison what you think of the prospects for which it contains, tho organization of such a club in Throughout, we find in George your county and giving me any ideas Holt, all that could be desired in a which you may feel disposed to give master criminal and his make-up in a as to how such a campaign as I sug- number of instances is remarkable, gest could be strengthened and mado more effective. Sincerely vours, FRANK A. KOWE. Member House of Representatives. For stringing beads quickly an in genious German has uatenten a crank operated machine which feeds them on the point of a threaded needle. IGARS Imperial Club House 10c Imperial Smoker . . 5c w. i). McCarthy Officean . Factory 106DeptSt. Levis E! i ! u A new type of electric fan blade, it is claimed, eliminates to n great ex tent, the whirring sound when the is operated at high sj cd. A combination coin nnd ticket fare box nnd rei.istcr for electricNrars is so designed as to separate the coins and tickets and register the value of each. Street cars are ofien hot and 'ose when filled with people during ihe rush hours. F'ectrie thermostats are being used 01 S".ne ears to regulate the heat nut. ' atically and Veep it at n constant temperature thu-, insuring a savb r in heat and greater comfort. A factor in the ultimate relief ofi Girl messenger "boys" actually hur , f l5fLr- shortese may be the action ry. Western Union Manager Fowler of the Chinese government, which has of New Brnswick, N. J., hired two U decided to have paper-makers taught try 'em and got letters praising their in governmental schools. spoed from many customerS. rialinum, which is many times more costly than gold, has grown so in nvn i : rity among the buyers of cxppn" ' e jcft-elry that its use n the manufac re of electrical n'-irntus is grow: -smaller oac- s leSS costly sub stitutes are .isc. . .-red. j fin - .... t', i . QUICK DELIVERIES are a feature of this lumber business. When you give us an order yon can confidently rely on Tett'i ' your lumber a little 'fi re yon need it. That means no delay in construction, ro waiting time that you have to pay for Think that over. GEO. PALMER LUMBER COMPANY Retail Dept. Phone Mau .