THURSDAY, AUGtfST 30 1917.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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Cove News Notes
Cove, Aug. 30. (Special.) The
last of the cherries were finished up
last week. About half have been used
in canneries and for maraschino pur
poses. Four companies operating here
have, taken about an equal amount,
all shipping East.
A About 16 carloads of black cherries
lave been shipped to eastern mar
kets and two carloads Bhipped local
ly. The minimum amount to a car is
2000 pounds more than has been taken
heretofore, which on 16 cars would
mean two cars more.
Tom Johnson shipped a carload of
cattle to Portland last week and is
preparing to ship another soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Dalton and fam
ily are preparing to sell out and move
"to Louisiana.
Mrs. Fred Houx returned last week
from a visit in Walla Walla with Mrs.
Blain "Geer, and in Milton where
she visited her daughter Mrs.' J. H.
Taylor.
J. M. Atterbury and family have
moved into the Stevens house north
of town.
Rev. Mr. Bane and family moved
into the Buchanan house.
Royal Jones and family have mov
ed to Union. Mr. Jones will work in
the Union Flouring Mills.
Mr. Rowe and family, of Midvale,
Idaho, have moved into the Duffy
house up the canyon.
Miles Belding, a former resident of
1 returned home Friday evening of last
week.
.Miss Eunice Ramsdell who is taking
the nurse's training course at the
Multnomah County Hospital, reports
that she likes the work very much,
but finds it very heavy.
Hay is selling for $20 per ton here
and hard to get at that.
Rev. C. C. Pratt has left for the
district conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Miss Pomona Stacktand is enter
taining Miss Lila May Aault of
Juntura, Or. - '
Miss Mabel Gibson went to Cricket
Flat, Cherry Day with her sister Mrs.
Sam Richards. Miss Gibson will teach
in the Pine Grove school this year. .
Alfred Ingram and family will
move to Medical' Springs soon. Mr.
Ingram will teach in the school at this
place this year.
Mr. and Mrs.' Matt W. Mitchell
spent last week at Medical Springs.
Grover Duffy failed to pass in his
physical examination for entrance to
the Hospital Corps and has returned
home.
Fire has been raging in the for
ests near the mouth of the Big Minam
for two weeks. A dozen or more men
from Cove are helping to fight it.
Charles Playle, Floyd : McKennon
and Charles Webster have recently
bought the Colon R. Frazier farm of
1280 acres, located on the Sand Ridge
between La Grande and Cove. .
Wesley Smith had a serious acci
dent with his "speed 'em up" cat last
week. The machine swerved, ran
Cove has been visiting his sister Mrs. 'into a ditch and telephone pole, dam
Pearl Chadwick, in Union Junction, i aging his car considerable.
Mr. Belding is in the Army eervice 1 Mrs. Wesley Smith and son Clarke,
and has recently been promoted to are living in La Grande this Summer
first lieutenant. He was on his way Clarke has employment there,
to American Lake, stopping here on I Cove has sent $82 to the sufferers at
a short furlough. i Sumpter in answer to their call for
Mr. and Mrs. John Martens and help,
family have moved to Union. i Mr. and Mrs. Robert French and
Harvey Lantz returned home last' son Stewart, Miss Bonnie Severs and
umV frnm Towa. where he has a pood Miss Bessie Kelley, motored to El-
position as assistant chief in' the col
lege experimental- station at Ames,
for a short visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lantz and son,
who have been visiting friends and
relatives in Cove and vicinity, will
return to their home in Woodburn,
the last of this week. Mr. Lantz is
lensburg, Wash., last week.
John Parker has accepted a posi
tion with Rowe & Richardson in the
Valley View Flouring Mills.
Everett Youwell has been home for
a few days. ' His mother returned
with him to Stockton, Cal.
Mrs. E.'O. pttoand daughter are
instructor in Manual training in the visiting Mrs. Otto's parents, Mr. and
Woodburn High School. This is his, Mrs. Lahrmaijn at Aiamosa, oio.
fifth year as teacher in this school.
Gus Houx, of Baker, spent Sunday
wth hiB Uncle Fred Houx.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Richardson and
family, of Big Horn, Neb., have sold
out and returned to Cove to make
irn,i -nth la uiaivino- tisi t iithfir ; it their oermanent home,
on Katherine Creek. j Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McCall recently
About thirty-five ladies, members 'entertained Mr. McCall 8 mother Mrs.
of the Red Cross, met at Guild Hall S. E. McCall, of La Grande, and three
last Wednesday for work. The princi-1 sisters Mrs. Horace Kinney, of Oak
pal work on hand was shoulder capes land, Cal., Mrs. Walter Francis, of
for the soldiers. The. ladies are Sidney, 111., and Mrs. Arch Bacon, of
working faithfully and are accom-. La Grande. - ,
plishing much. Many finished arti- Mrs. O. E. Huntley and daughter
cles are ready to be sent to head- J have returned to theirhome in Cup
uarttfrs. They will meet again this run, Idaho. Miss Marion Conklin ac
week at the same place. Icompanied them.
Mrs. C. C. McCown and son Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Mitchells visit
of Grandview, Wash., who have been in Medical Springs was shortened by
the guests of Dr. and Mrs. McCown, the burning of the hotel at which they
WANTED - - Apples and Potatoes
To store for shipping, we have modern warehouse
facilities for handling your crop.
LA GRANDE FRUIT CO.
LET US DESIGN BUILD AND ERECT
YOUR MONUMENT OR MARKER
Vermont Marble & Granite Works
Corner Cove and Jeff. Ave. Phone Bed 61
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TO PLAY FOOTBALL
, Qualicum, t 3. C, August 30.
(United Press) Patients at the hos
pital opened here by the military hos
pitals commissions will play baseball,
golf, cricket, basketball even foot
ball instead of securing their, ex
ercises iby the usual hospital recre
ation.'. ' : r
The patients are each asked to se
lect their favorite game and are then
given a physical examination to see
that they are able to play it. Sports
however, are compulsory, as these in
charge of tho hospital say that proper
exercise is necessary in overcoming
battlef ront injuries. '. . ' '
A new unit is being completed to
the hospital and will bo m use be
fore the end of this week '
DALLAS MEN ASSIGNED POSITIONS
Dallas, Or., Aug. 80. (Special
Dallas men who have recently been
commissioned in the national army
left today for stations where they
have been assigned to duty. f Captain
Walter L. Tooze, Jr., Lieutenant Les-
e O. Tooze and Lieutenant Robert S.
Kreason have gone to American Lake
while First Lieutenant H. W. Brune
goes to the artillery camp at Fort
Stevens.
ENLISTED MEN WILL
GET COMMISSIONS
Men In Regular Army Given Commis
sions If Good Material.
Washington, Aug. 30. (United
Press) Here's encouragement for
conscriptable youths who have not
been drafted yet, whu have failed to
get into officers resorvv training
camps and who still want to go to
the front as officers:
Enlist in the regular army. , If
you show that you ar officer mater
ial, you'll get your commission. . A
case in point:
An anxious father wri'e t-.' Vash
ington to get the re .ease from tho
regular army of his sup, who ran
away and enlisted about nine months
before, so he could go V: an officers'
reserve training cainp.
"Not much," came ba';'t tho an
swer from the commander of the com
pany in which the soi was serving.
"The training camps wcu't got this
young man I saw him first. He
made good. He's nov u non-commissioned
officer. I hava reioituneivl
ed him for a commiov-.on in the regu
lar army.
"I assure you that he will pass the
examination and he will probably hold
his commission and w in France be
lorp the class now a the training
camps have even graduated into the
officers' reserve."
This is but one of 6,000 commis
sions which will be issued to non
commissioned officers who rose from
privates in the regular army within
the next four to six months.
Upon the recommendation of the
General Staff, the "top sergeants"
some of whom have done , duty un
der two generations of commissioned
West Pointers, and who had resigned
themselves to non-commissioned lives,
are going to be given their chances
in this war as commissioned officers.
WASHINGTON FAIR OPENS
TODAY; BIG ATTENDANCE
Chehulis, Wash., Aug. SO. (United
Press) The southwest Washington
fair is on in all its glory today.
Thousands are attending the annual
Show of grains, fruits, stock and home
and factory products.
A delegation came here from fort
land on a special train today, which
is known as Portland day on the of
ficial program. Tomorrow Is Se
attle and Puget Sound day. ' .-
K. 0. M. Picnic Will
Be Held Sunday
The Kansas-Okhvhoma-Missouri pic
nic is Sunday, Sept. 2. The officers
and those1 who have been active in
promoting the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri
annual picnic have been ques
tioned often as to whether there will
be a gathering this year, and this
article in to assure them that the an
nual get-together meeting of those
who came to Union county from these
three states will be held this year
as usual in Riverside Park, La Grande,
and not only this, but everything
points to one of the best social times
yet held. : They have secured Rev.
G. L. Clark to make the principal
talk, and that in itself will be worth
making a special effort to be pres
ent and hear. There will not be so
much time devoted to program as
heretofore, as this feature in the past
has been so lengthy that no oppor
tunity was given for the real social
features.
Members should remember the busi
ness meeting at 11 o'clock and be
present then, as there will be several
matters to discuss that will need to !
be settled this year. We want to I
spread the luncheon at 12:30 prompt
and start the program immediately
thereafter. Remember the rule of the
association is to hold the picnic rain
or shine, and make your preparations
accordingly.
The public is invited to the after
noon program and the park is also
large enough for everybody to plcrjc
therein, although the K. O. M. body
will have a separate noon hour. Reg
istration books will be on the grounds
and all those who hail from either
We Never
Substitute
IWe have built up our grocery business on the
principle that people know what they want and ;
are entitled to get it. If you ask for an adver
tised article in this store, and it is ia meritorious
one, you get it. If you ask our opinion as to :
what is best in a certain line, we will tell you to .
the best of our judgment, but we never try to
induce a customer to buy something "just as
good" because we make more profit on it than
on advertised articles.
Don't you think you should give all your gro
cery trade to such a store f
A full line of Fruits and Vegetables
Our Corn on the Cob and our Tomatoes are es
pecially good at this time.
The City Grocery
& Bakery
The Home of Fancy Groceries
of the three states are expected to
make themselves known. Many pleas
ant meetings of old time neighbors has
thus been accomplished.
LIQUOR DEALERS PRE
PARE FOR PROHIBITION
Victoria, B. C, Aug. 80. (United
Press) Victoria liquor dealers are
preparing for prohibition.
Large quantities of liquor are being
shipped from this city to San Fran
cisco, the value of the first ship
ment alone being $10,000. Although
many are expected to lay in a large
stock for private use, liquor dealers
believe they will not be able tg un
load their large stocks by October 1,
when the law goes into effect.
Engineer Killed.
Seattle, Aug. 30. (Special) Engi
neer W. B. Durush of Spokane was
killed and C. F. Ellis of Hillyard was
injured when the ongine cab and two
express cars of a westbound Great
Northern fast mail Arain were de
railed Sunday near Trirfdad station.
Don't forget, Jitney
HALL Saturday night.
dance, HEX
8-30-3t
ALFALFA K AY
BALED AND IN THE STACK
Carload of Tono Coal Just Arrived
See Us if you need Coal and Hay
SMITH-NOBLE PRODUCE CO.
Home Ind. Phone M. 7J4 LA GRANDE.
Union County M. 291 OREGON.
CAMP BRINGS PROFIT
TO
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 30. (United
Press) The American Lake canton
ment is bringing increased prosperity
and many men to Tacoma. The city
is crowded and all lines of business
report an improvement in trade.
The Commercial Club is endeavor
ing to find accommodations for the
families of officers who will coine to
American Lake. A special commit
tee has compiled a long list available
houses, apartments and rooms, but
the list, say club officials, is far tod
short.
were stopping. They were very for
tunate in saving their wearing appar
el but had to seek lodgings elsewhere
for the night and were brought home
Tuesday by Lee Wilson. It is thought
the building caught fire from a defec
tive flue.
Mr. Finley, who has been living at
the Soldiers' Home in Roseburg, Or.,
was married to Mrs. Wells, August 8,
and they are keeping house in East
Roseburg. The many friends of Mr.
Finley in Cove wish him much happiness.
Mrs. Wilson has sold her. property
in Cove to an Austrian from Rock
Springs, who will take possession the
first of November. The place sold for
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