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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1917)
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1917.; LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. PAGE NUCJ r Fine Watch I Repairing Is Our Specialty We Will Make I Your Watch Keep lime Siegrist & Company Largest Jewelry Store in Eastern Oregon Paiat Will Make Your Place Pleasing to Eye PAINT makes storo fronts more , pleasing and entrances inore In ; vltlng, just as the uniform wakes the soldier seem twice a uera. A liberal use of paints, oils and vsmtsU lu tbo business world brings back tbe money taken from the purse for their pur chase many times over. They are the emblems of business prosperity and growth, and those are magnets to all. If the merchant is prosperous It Is good wisdom that be should let the people know it, and then, by a rule as sure as the workings of mathematics, be will have more prosperity. And tho merchant who is not doing quite so well would be equally wise to furbish up his place and make it put on tho tidy, bright air so generally character istic of tho headquarters of successful enterprises, Fighting Top of Super-Dreadnought New York J ft'V' fey Captain H. E, Coolidge, of La Grande, has offered his services to the U. S. Army officers Reserve corps. Captain Coolidge received his military training in the Third Oregon regi ment under Col. Gantenbein and served with the Utah troops in the Spanish-American war. PLOUGHING GARDENS I will plow up your garden Rates reasonable. ' A. G. HERMANN, Phone Red 3351. I also have a cow and a small wagon I want to sell. City With Well Painted Houses Advertises Itself A C1T set upon ft hill cannot be bidden." Neither can a house set In a well kept yard and surrounded with a painted fence. Both are con spicuous, both exclto curiosity from afar. When tho beholder draws near er and becomes acquainted In detail conspicuousness grows into dignity and curiosity becomes admiration. A clean city, a clean community, a clean neighborhood, a clean house- one possesses as much godiy vir tue as the other each is to be sought by blm who would dwell in an atmosphere of godliness. The masses must be educated to a standard of clean liness as they are educated to a standard of mo rality or to any other standard. Begin by teach ing tho children by precept and example; contin ue by encourag ing tho youth to observe tbo teachings of childhood. You will hnvo attain ed success when you, teacher and preceptor, observo strictly yourself all precepts laid down. A city, a com munity, a neigh- ooruoou, n noino - that is clean, thnt ,Jtl; 1V H mmm milinloa tln alilp- Yi It of "cleanliness even from Its remotest crnnnies, needs no other advertisement than its own virtues. Tho paint brush is one of tho great est cleansers. Set tho pace by painting up your j bouse, I I I ., r, r, Depend on This YOU CANDEPEND ON A GOOD CONVERSA TION WHEN USING OUR COPPER TOLL LINES. Photo by American Press Association. The fighting' tops of the lattice masts of tho United States navy are found in no other navy. This shows one of the masts of the superdrcadnauRht New Xork. The size of the tops may be Judged from the number of men assembled there. United States Super-Dreadnought New York X 41 rj? & J? ? 4 & 3? 4 I 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 s.. ., hi i 1 mar" n Pi i I I "Off-the-Tray" the lunch service recently inaugurated by Union Pacific System that is proving immensely popular, is a new reason why you should insist that your tickets read Union Pacific System. Coffee ... ioc Sandwiches . ioc Pie .... ioc Doughnuts . 5C Hard boiled Egga . . . 5c Special Meat or Fowl Sandwiches (in season) . aoc All "Off-the-Tray" foods are of same high quality as served in Union Pacific System dining cars. The waiters pass throuRh day and tourist cars with liht foods at small prices. You will enjoy this feature. Wm McMurray, Genera Passenger Agent Portland Tips mm mm ;. - ft WiA Photo by American Press Association. The monster New York Is n 27,000 Ion wiirshlp, 573 feet long. She carries ten fourleen-lnch guns. There nre 1,014 otliccra and men lu her crew. United States Battleship Connecticut :''! t , m Photo by American Preas Association. The 18,000 ton Connecticut wns lnld down In 1903 and cost $7,011,174. She has four twelve-Inch and eight elght-lueh guns and can make a speed of 18.8 knots. Her crew comprises 85G oQlcers and men. United States Dreadnought North Dakota 'Jits' ; . . ' - Thoto by American Press Association. Tho North Dakota, 20,000 tons, Is 521.5 feet long. Sho has ten twelve-Inch guns, and her crew numbers 927 olllccrs and men. HOMF! INnFPFNHFNT E TELEPHONE CO. $ ft - ij I v ' " j'1 v( 1 Beinp; on the lookout for important personages an Observer reporter strolled across the track and captured Farmer Smith in his lair. Slipping my way in I Btole into a scat unob served and was just in time to hear Parmer Smith give his opinion upon advertising. "The man who having things to sell, whispers tho tidings down the well? will never reap the shining dollars: like him who climbs tho tree and hau lers." Another of Farmer Smith's mottoar : is "never advertise unless you have the goods." ,f Our want ad3 bring results Are You Missing Any Messages Intended For You? You receive your mail promptly telegrams; always reach you telephone messages usually get to you people who have messages to deliver to you personally are measurably sure to find you "in." But it always happens that some of the peo ple who have business to do with you do not know you. They could not send a telegram, or letter, or 'phone message for, while it may some times happen that they live nearby, they are strangers to you. Ilaving an offer to make which might be of more immediate interest to you than .to anybody else in the city, they must get their message to you through the classified advertising columns. Unless you are a regular reader of these col umns you will miss .the message. Somebody will ' get it, and respond to it someone to whom, per haps, it is not so important as it is to you. If you realized that your letters were going astray that telegrams addressed to you were not reaching you you would be anxious to find an immediate remedy for such a condition. Why not also see to it that the classified ad- , vertising messages intended for you shall not be lost? 1,
