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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1917)
MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1917. OTS TWO LA OKANUE EVENING OBSERVER l See Your Figure Improve Each Day It only requires one minute and a half each morning to correctly adjust your Gossard Corset. But in that brief period of time you improve your figure and as the days go by you see a transformation. Gossard Corsets lace in front. The idea was originated fifteen years ago and today front-lacing dominates the world of corsetry. The laced in front principle makes it possible for you to see the lacing in the mirror while you adjust your corset and also makes possible the correction of any figure imperfection which have de veloped by improper corseting. Gossard Corsets . . . .$2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $5.00 up HILL'S DEPARTMENT STORE Quality and Service LEGAL NOTICES i Notice of Meeting of Board of Equall j zation ' Notico la hereby given that the County Board of Equalization for Union County, Oregon, will convene at the court house, La Grande, on Mon day, September 10, 1917, and jjublicly examine the assessment roll, correct all errors in valuation, descriptions or qualities of land, lots or other property, as assessed by the county assessor, and it shall be the duty of all porsons interested to appear at the time and place given. ! All porsons having grievance re garding the 1917 assessment may ap ,poar before such board and present their affidavits containing grounds for ! complaint. All such affidavits must !bo prosented during the first 15 days of the meeting of the board. J U. G. COUCH, I Assessor for Union County. Adv. 8-20 to 9-11. J HOME GROWN COOKING AND EATING J APPLES j Shrine To Honor Heroes. Victoria, B. C. Aug. 27. (United Press) Honoring Canada's heroes who have fallen in the great war, a shrine will be unveiled at Esquimalt tomorrow with fitting ceremonies, The names of men from the Esqui malt district who were victims of Get' man bullets will be inscribed on the sides of the shaft. The sale of post cards will help pay the expense of erecting the shrine. "The Birth Of A Nation" Tells The Story Of Abraham Lincoln COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY TRAINING ARMY INTERPRETERS. iSlnvory In half tho slates of the Unlonl Abraham Llnioln, the man risen from tho people to deliver them.' Tho moral and political separation of one hulf the soverlgn i.Uites from the rumaimlrr of thu Unlonl The tre mendous and never- to-be-forgotUm American Civil War, with nil its hor rors! Thon tho Carpetbag rule; de vastation of the coiiquurod South; the flee and ignorant slaves creating a reign f terror among tho whites the organization and tho enforccrmfat of tho Ku Klux Klnn upon tho Murks Washington, August 27. (United Press) Expert in terpreters bv the hundreds will soon be needed to carrv sends the bewildered spectators tn, )UjSjlloss of rjnf.0 Saras ,1(.w national army abroad. stumbling out of tho theatre, struif- , , . .... . . ... ', .. gling for t,heir bearing and gasping1, -'plete couiws in military interpretation ot foreign for every breath. ! languages, approved by Secretary Baker and the war The iiirth of Nation win never College, aro being offered for the summer at Columbia see a rival, rr it has covered all the University, where linguists of every variety will be turned drama of the Natlon-nnd covered it ()ut fo,. homQ nn(J fjo(l Bpl.vjeo during tllC War. TllCy will too vividly for others to even approach , ,, ... , " . ' it. Every time it unfold, upon a i vnUl thc nnny with thc rank ot sergeant. screen, that time tho lire-drama of j First class interpreters, tho war department has found, Amnion is re-enacted. i .u.0 a iarti cass to muster into the sendee in large num- Am, .n a f rcs , h(- An applicant for the' preliminary training course nted at the Arendo tomorrow for . , nnn,, ! , , A, .., one duy only, The tickets for the ciiuiv uuu. nuic iu ixau i-iuuijj. evening show can be reserved now and llreil('ll 01' Uerinail. Ills hURincss Will not l)C merely to lie must eon- tll entwined with lovo of Northern cr for Southerner, and visa versa ;thoso who intend seeing this wonder- translate military documents and Icttoi'S f suffering, death, depuir and heart jfui production should not wait until verse intelligently and aid officers with only a knowledge rTw r, m, . ,T I . . , ol '''"K'h in carrying on that part of their business which of I). W. Griffith s indencribablo pro- at the best ones wro rapidly boini' 1 1 i . i duetlon, The Birth of a Nation, a I taken up. The prices for the evening mwt f lono foreign countries. realisation so swia, so mighty, "in1 show are; lower floor noc and 75c; Before I'eceiving appointment to the service the appli- absorbing that it mnke! three hours balcony coc. Tie tiatinco seats me cant must pass the regular army physical examination whirl byko a fey momentan.1 j not reserved snd are 26c and 60c-. a,U08t as big a job as learning a COliple of languages. He ; ; must also prove American birth and citizenship and loyal- iZw Et. it::;: jl!;,0, w,nso, of, Unite? fnt?- Is but they did not expect to see the thoroughly probed in a search tor Haws. The thoroughly young Hercules who with matted hair trained interpreter is immediately assigned to duty, for and bearing a club with his brawny the government is at Present shv of linoilists. Tf lincnm- 'iroust exposed to tho breeze-stroll piston his course before the national armv needs him, he nt: : ' Uu! ,,n', .v be assigned to duty in the camp where thousands of CM1F TIMY I1IUI Y I MininT tuv te'iiporanly interned, or to the department of UHUL lUUfll UI1LI aro Included Einrene P.,ll....n. N! ,1'lst K'C 11) VCSt lgat lOU service. Itvron. llenrv liiii'i-imi m.,1 A.l.,1,, I ARC A DE HOUSE PETERS ATAR- 5c PER POUND OR $1.50 A BOX Hot Lake Tomatoes, 24-pound box $1.25 Milton Tomatoes, per box 95c Home Grown Peaches, per box ...85c Home Grown Sweet Corn, per doz. 25c Home Grown Pickling Cucumbers, per gal ...35c IT IT'S ANYTHING IN THE FRUIT OR VEGETABLE LINE WE CAN FILL YOUR ORDERS Harris Grocery Phone Main 70 Fanners Phone B. 192 408 North Fir St. Cross the Track T TRUNKS A large attractive line of Trunks and Bags just received from the East. The prices have not been advanced but cut. This is the enly article we know of being cut, and think it our duty to let our many satisfied customers know and take ad vantage of this opportunity. Furniture Exchange E.J.DONOHUE Fir and Jeff. Sts. Black 1241 QUICK DELIVERIES are a feature of this lumber business. When you give us an order you can confidently rely on getting your lumber a little before you need it That means no delay in construction, no waiting time that you have to pay for. Think that over. GEO. PALMER LUMBER COMPANY Retail Dept. Phone Main 8 Kan 'ington. Lumber and Millwnrkcrs' I'nion. (United Spokane, Wash., Aug. 'J7. I tosh) j Will' now tin a gripping, tense drama of hrothmly love, lloui? fetors, the Rplnmlld t'allns-Pnrntiiounl utar, will lie seen at. (ho Arcade today only in till) production "The Tleii of the Axes," tho unusual story by William Ad- ilion Ijallnnp. " In 'Tho Heir of the Ages" be seen as a primitive man in the nays j plants, over 2(10 have already become of cave life and shows tho human members of tho union, according (o Instincts of unselfishness and love, j ',0 organisers. A number of plants loiter the situations which confronted ;bnve permitted the orgnnizors to work among their men without objection. Union lenders declare thev are much GERMAN SOLDIERS KEEP RECORDS OF PILLAGING. Mm ages ugw cnnie nirain when he is superintendent- of a mine in a small Western (own. lie falls in love with 1 oppose io violence ami mientl to com iiliin Ar .. :n. n ignorant little mountain girl only;,,, wh,(. of any Uiml. io lose nor io nis won mess onuner in the hit st. and then nearly loses his life in mi effort to save theirs. Mrs. Coo. Lantrdon of Nnnipa, is ili,. vni,,.:! ,,f m;uu v..it;... r..- .. r... How he finally wins the objivt of'.i,...u v,..., i. .'. . i. . . u .. , ... . . . ons. ( win here slut goes to Wnlle his henit is biiiuirbl nbont in a man- v.,ii ,.;:, .. ,i i . ... . , , walla to visit relative;) and then on iter which must be seen to be enjoyed. ',( rorthtnd House l'eiers as the cave man, clad in uie iocs m ine eensts lie lias Ml-1 Clnssitled nds solve led with his club, was a surprise to problems. your want ; ttutuanw Willi the French Annies, July 15. -(l!v uiaiH ( United ss).-sawmill and logging camp 1 Mtss) I luemiieutarv t-videiiee lias just I.een secured bv t'kers throughout this district, are ,1.,, I,'..,.., i, ,,,;i:(l " ,1 i it , X ' r being oiir.um.ed into the i.nmw ,lu ' 1(1,(11 niilif ni'v authorities estalilisliiiiir that Ger und Mill Workers' union, of tho loon uiany s youngest, ehisscs (if 19 and 20-vear-old troops iar is men working ux Spokane lumber tieipated in the pillaging and destroviim-of French villages rs plants, over 2(10 have a rea, v beennin j ,. . . , , . . ' M 1 1 ' " 11 iii.iv iiiar preceded tne tieriuaii retreat, ol last March. The following diary round on a Gorman prisoner of the class of 1917 illustrates the mental attitude of these Ger man hoy soldiers towards the "military, necessity" , of sacking and ruining villages and private property-: ' Dec. 7. 'Toward evening, pillage excursion: to nearby village. Dec. L'O Preparatory inspection of 'aptain Otto. Dur ing afternoon "sneaked" different sorts of colors, oils and pinchers. Carried away as sonveiiiers several beautiful cups. Dei'. 11)5 --Fainted signs. Pillaging-excursion. Do.'. 12 1 Forenoon, still more pillaging. Carried awv all sorts of colors, also wine. Afternoon, Christmas feast. We were given some small presents. Sent four packages, one containing Christmas souvenirs, two containing a cup and glass each (all pillage) and the third a little teapot. The lieutenant made us a beautiful discourse. dan, II Afternoon at Chaunv. There is mightv little left there. Fob. 21 Wo have received orders to destroy all wagons and vehicles that remain at Grandru: to render them use- jloss bv sawiuir them. We destroyed ten. Fob. 'J'J - AH (tf the beds, springs and mattresses have been gathered together at Appilly to be sent into Ger many, March i ---Worked at an artillery position in the vicin ity of Sineeny. Sineonv is in ruins. The villages, inelud- rrssBatsvinvaMr' ' oil:' i haunv. are all in tlamos. All -of the trmt trees have R. been sawn down. March F - Worked on the roads. Nearly all of tho houses tf Hiehanoonrt, including the tower of the chuivli have been blown up by a mine. March 17. At S:!0 we departed from Fressaneourt for Morliers via Versignv. We arrived at Mortiors at -l:o0. No cantonment especially. It is now five days since Ave I have received bread. 4 WHAT HAVE YOU FOR SALE OR WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BUY? We Buy and Sell, or Exchange Furniture If you want to make mouey you must save money SO COME TO HARRIS Where Your Dollars Do Double Duty HARRIS FURNITURE CO. 406 Fir Street Phone Red 3171 H. B. Harris, Prop. rcorvonrc -iwa rwRMRnnraMn M ILITARY rfiSPA RE ON ESS THE UKIVERSITY OF OREGON In i-dolt (on to rmpt(t rur- lit V0nrdl anil U'i(Jt educAtin, of 'rft lull ef po ititiitloa In MiUTARY DWILl, DOWCKTIC SCONCE ATS AMD CCMMSJtCIE rtn fr ffcl(vn fntitr nervsc. Vur country ti Utln ftr rrr or Wai and TIjh Wiwivtn tfnd th University," A4Ur Kiltr.ir, ISRIVERSITT OF OaEGOS. Eufirae, Orenoa WANTED - - Apples and Potatoes To stove for shipping, wo have modern warehouse facilities for handling your crop. LA GRANDE FRUIT CO BEAUTIFUL FIGURES i'.'Jv : ' ' '' result from intelligent attention to correct corseting. Front Laced offer the world's best achievements in design and a careful selection of su perior materials to properly work oat these designs so the style lines are re tained during the entire life of the corset . Appreciation of the fit, style and comfort, however, can only be had through a trial fitl'ig the hardest test. Pauline Lederle Sommer Hotel Bldg.
