WEDNESDAY, 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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!: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!
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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
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. 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 .