La Grande evening observer., June 30, 1917, Image 3

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1917.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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BUILDING MATERIAL
FUEL, HAY, GRAIN, FLOURPRODUCE, LIME, PLASTER
AND CEMENT
Lehigh Portland Cement
Aberdeen Coal
ifm
Wholesale and Retail
e Sawyer-Holmes
Mercantile Co
LA GRANDE, OREGON.
Aetters from
Jhe front
(Letter from Elmer Horstman, of
the U. S. Naval Training Station,
San Francisco, to Ralph Byers, O.-W.
employe.)
"Yeoman School, U. S. Naval Train
ing Station, San Francisco, Cal., June
25, 1917. Dear Ralph: I just received
your last letter and altho I just wrote
you one a day or so ago will write
again. I am very sorry for you Ralph
that you could not make it in the Hos
pital Corps, but you tried and that
alone places you, with the rest of us,
on the country's "Honor Roll" and
before conscription!
With all those fellows going in a
bunch up there makes me feel awfully
lonesome. I wish I could be with
them, but I wouldn't trade branches of
service for anything. The Navy and
I are on pretty good terms now and
hope we will remain so. I know they
call us fellows "Yeomanettes" but
they call the hospital men well, 111
not say it for I may have a pretty
good reason to be on friendly terms
with them sometime who knows?
Jack is in the Radio Station here
and I don't get to see him very often,
and it is only occasionally that I see
Douglas Cline and Vinton Forbes who
are in the Hospital School, so Mr.
Ivanhoe and I are the only real La
Granders left here. There are a lot
of fellows here from Pendleton and
Baker. I met the fellow who loaned
me his basketball jersey at Baker last
winter when the Y played there, do
you remember? He said he wasn't
the fellow who tied the knots in our
clothes though. We are both in the
new class which just entered the
school. There are about 150 in the
school now and I am kept pretty busy
outside of class hours with the office
work. You know I am the Postman
of the school and every fellow thinks
he should have at least three or four
letters every time I get the mail and
they nearly mob me every time I en
ter the building with any mail.
The longer I stay here the more in
teresting the work becomes and to be
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It Is An Old Story But Nevertheless It Is True
WE SELL FOR LESS
That is what crowds of people remark daily.
MY HOW CHEAP!
You will say that, too, if you will come in and look
our stock over.
If you want new or second hand furniture come
across the track and teach your dollars to have
more sense
au voa fciic a ovn - '
HARRIS FURNITURE CO.
Phone Red 3171
Across the Track
H. B. Harris, Prop.
a good Yeoman you have to be pretty
well posted on the way the Navy does
business and that means lots, of stud?
and hard work. I don't know how
soon I will go to sea nor where I will
go when I do but it cannot be any too
soon for me, nor any too near Europe.
I wonder how a periscope looks when
it pops up suddenly out of the water?
Was over to Frisco again Saturday
and explored the beautiful Hotel St
Francis. It is sure some palace.
Frisco is on fire with Red Cross en
thusiasm, they took up large collec
tions in all the theatres Saturday
night and I guess they had no trouble
in raising their million dollars. I see
La Grande raised her share too. Good
for her! I knew she would though.
Oregon has won more honors in this
war than any other state in the Union.
All the magazines and papers every
where say this. A large San Fran
cisco paper printed an item about La
Grande some time ago. It said it was
the most patriotic city of its size in
the United States and I believe it too,
don't you? ,
How are you and our room making
out now? Is it still headquarters for
"the bunch" or rather, what's left
of tie bunch? WoiVt there be some
big celebration when we come home?
Tell Mr. King I went through the Y
in Frisco Saturday. It is a beautiful
place but not nearly so cordial as
"our" Y.
' Ralph W. hasn't answered my last
letter yet. Tell him to forget learn
ing the fine points of "Squads right,
to the rear, march; by the right
Sank; column left by sections, etc.,
and to "company halt" for a while
and write.
Tell all the bunch around the office
and Y who may ask that the Navy is
a pretty good place but there is no
place like La Grande.
Your sincere pal,
ELMER HORSTMAN.
The torpedo boat destroyer Shaw
traveled 8800 miles in 14 days, from
the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic
Coast.
FAMILY CARES.
This Information May Be of Value to
Many a Mother in La Grande,
When there is added to the many
cares inseparable from the rearing of
children that affliction of weakness of
the kidneys and auxiliary organs, the
mother's lot is far from a happy one.
This condition has often been correct
ed by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills.
When relief comes the mother's bur
den will be lighter and her home hap
pier. Mrs. J. H. Fisk, 1707 Adams ave
nue, La Grande, says: "I can certain
ly speak a good word for Doan's Kid
ney Pills, for I know they are med
icine of merit. I have given them to
one of my children on several oc
casions for bed-wetting and kidney
disorders and they have always prov
en very beneficial."
Price 50c -at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same that
Mrs. Fisk recommends. Foster-Mil-burn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv.
Road Contract Let.
Pendleton, June 80. (Special)
The first ten miles of the Wild Horse
road, beginning at the Pendleton end,
will be hard surfaced with standard
bitulithie by the Warren Construction
Co. This company was yesterday af
ternoon awarded the contract by the
state highway commission with the
consent of the Umatilla county court
af$er its bid had been declared the
lowest and best.
The winning bid for the work com
plete was $119,120.42 which not only
was the lowest bid for bitulithie but
for any pavement offered.
Let us print four farm sale bills.
Our want ads brinjr results. ,
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Summer Shoes
"White Canvas Pumps in many different styles
White Canvas Shoes in high or low heel
Ivory and Grey 10-inch Boots, a very beautiful Shoe, per pair
White, tan and black Sandals, from Infants' sizes on up.
.$2.50 to $3.50
$3.50 to $5.00
.$7.50
L. J. French Shoe Co.
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The
mi Wonder Of The Age
CIVILIZATION
is the most astounding and dar
ing production since the begin
ning of cinematography and the
theater.
A picture that appeals to humanity.
A lesson to old and young never
to be forgotten.
A million dollar production.
One year in the making.
40,000 people employed.
Entire cities built and destroyed.
Ten thousand horses in thrilling cavalry charges.
Forty Army aeroplanes in great air battles.
The United States Navy destroys two battle
ships in full view of the camera.
FORWORD
Nearly nineteen hundred years ago the son of God, as he stood
in a temple in Jerusalem, was asked, "Which is the first com
mandment of all?"
He replied, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,' this is the first
commandment, and the second is like to it; 'Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.' There is no commandment greater than
these'." Today the great, sorrowful eyes of this same Son of
God gaze down upon blackened fields, where the mangled bodies
of men are strewn as grains of wheat, upon flaming shattered
hamlets and stricken firesides.
As He listens to the screaming of the shells, the crashing of
monstrous guns, all the ghastly symphony of the reddest war
mankind has ever known, His heart must recognize the bitter truth
in the statement of one of the world's foremost educators
That in nineteen centuries Civilization has failed to accept hon
estly the teachings of Jesus Christ.
This is an allegorical story of a war that has laughed at the
world's flaunting boast of a "higher progress.
It does not concern itself as to which side is in the right or
wrong, but deals with those ranks which are paying the grim
penalty the ranks of Humanity.
If the awful trail of battle stretches vividly through the scenes
of the narrative, it is in the hope that a shocked and appalled world
may henceforth devote itself more earnestly in the cause of peace.
Let our Civilization not bo a mockery of our cherished ideals, but
rather a synonym of that glorious work Humanity.
Dedicated to that vast, pitiful army whose tears have girdled the
universe the mothers of the dead.
THOS. H. INCE.
CIVILIZATION
is the most astounding and dar
ing production since the begin
ning of cinematography and the
theater.
A picture that appeals to humanity.
A lesson to old and young never
to be forgotten.
A million dollar production.
One year in the making.
40,000 people employed.
Entire cities built and destroyed.
Ten thousand horses in thrilling cavalry charges.
Forty Army aeroplanes in great air battles.
The United States Navy destroys two battle
xips in full view of the camera.
This marvelous picture will be shown under auspices of the Grande Ronde Chautauqua Association at Riverside Park, on the evening of July 4th. Admission
50 cents. Costs nothing to visit the park and to picnic there.