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LA GRANDE EVW1KO i "OUSKKV Kh
FRIDAY; 'AUGUST 31, 1917
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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
. An Independent Newspaper.. ' ' i
Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the r
A GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO.
J. D, MEYERS , H, B. LEITER ; CLARKE LEITER
President Vice-President Editor and Publisher
Observations
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Louis W. Hill will want to take the Round-Un back
with him to St. Paul. '
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Oregon is asked to produce 50 per cent more wheat in
1918. Old Man Oregon has not fallen down vet when
Uncle Sam called.
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Stories arc commencing to come back from the Ameri
can front in France. The United Press has an able set of
men with the armies. Any one who reads their corre
spondence in The Observer will form the impression that
they arc an alert, clever lot of newspaper men.
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La Grande is getting into the limelight as 'a military
center. First as the headquarters for Company M, next I
as tne Jiome or the .La Grande Hospital Unit, and finally
as the headquarters for Company L, of Dallas. We are
proud to welcome Company L here; we hope that their
stay will be pleasant and profitable.
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APPEAL FOR, AID FOR ; SUMPTER RELIEF FUND.
Sometimes a mean man is liber
al with his conversation.
Hf somebody beats your best the
thing1 for you to do is to improve
your -best.
.
The poorest excuse a man can give
,is to; blame society for his own short
comings. '. "X .S.C- '
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; 'We'd rather see a boy. trying for
the fine apple at the top of the
tree than filling himself, with the
.woim-eatert and bruised fruit on the
.ground, because it is easy to get. .
If it weren't for the new recipes
she gets hold of to try. woman
would soon grow tired of canning
stuff for man to eat.
" In other words, variety is the spice
of spicing.
Notes From Camp,
Fremont Cal.
Friends:
Sumpter, Or., Aug. 27, 1917.
Sergeant Langrede, truck 1 driver,
knows today that some kind of auto
mrliles Ji not require water. He
spent two ho-i.-j hirilin- for the place
lo pour wator int.i Major-General
Hunter's air coo el machine.
H. W. Happel, commissary general,
has perfected a system whereby he
feeds two armies without much
trouble-r-an army of soldiers and an
army of workmen. Chinese form the
backbone of his system. He has
learned some Chinese words in order
to handle his copks to tiie greater sat
isfaction of all concerned. It i'e not
unusual to see Happel suddenly end a !
discussion with a couple of orientals
by a few, well-chosen gutteral fiMes
in the language of See Yip Sftm.
vShoes for School
Don't Economize by Buying Cheap Shoes
Did you ever buy a 75c. ax? . How long, did .it:
last? You can buy shoes the same way cheap,
shoes, but how long do they last? Ask ypnrclif,...
the question when you are looking at shoes'this
kFall. Now is the time when cheap-made shoes can ' "
easily get by because you are paying ay little
more for good shoes Avhile the cheaper ones take '
the prices you used to pay for the good ones. " ' '
We have shoes in stock now that we have kept
over from Spring and. Fall and are selling them at
their old pricesyou will find these shoes cheap -in
price but perfect in quality. Come in and let us
show them to you.
Black dull button Li... ....,. . ;...;. $1.75
Black kid button ... $1.75
Gun metal button
Patent button, white kid top
Patent' button, cloth top
: JJull button, broad toe
$2.00
$2.75
$3.25
$3.25
JLlk skin -rompers, Scuff er style ....... $2.50
Tan button romper Scuffer style $2.50
Black button romper Scuffer style .'. $2 and $2.50
Dull button romper Sniffer style . .... .... $2 and $2.50
Patent button, canary tops $2.50 and $3
Gray kid, button, cloth tops ; $3.25
Dull button, plain toe.: ; $2.25
Patent white top, sport bal ... $4.50
Patent button, dull top .'. .' $2.35
Patent button, cloth top ......:........ $2.65
Black English lace, dull $4.00
Black English lace, white rubber sole $6.00
Read the Observer classified ads,
We are appealing to you for financial help for fire
: swept Sumpter. .Every business house with their stocks
ranging up to thousaiids of dollars has been destroyed,
nearly 50 homes with all the contents of clothes, bedding
and furniture have been lost completely. Churches,
- lodges and public halls Imvc been wiped out and little or
no insurance was carried by any owing to the extreme
high rate charged and at that difficult to get. Light and
water plant put out of business, our people are facing the
: Winter with from six to 10 feet of snow for months. Last
; year snow began JNovember 1. It will soon be here. Fuel
is a grave problem. The impression unfortunately has
. gone out that Sumpter is not in serious need. It is and
hel must be had at-once to prevent further and acute;
sunermg. .
The total losses carefully compiled by the committee
appointed by the Mayor of the city readies over $200,000.
Hours of painstaking work results in the fact that from
$7500 to $10,000 will he required, after cutting relief to
the bone in order that the situation may be relieved. We
appeal tor help to you and your people. Please take the
all remittances to the Citizens National Bank, Baker, Or.,
who will receipt for all sums sent. AVill you not come to
our aid at this time. Respectfully,
DR. C. E. EDWARDS,
. H. E. HENDRIX,
'-w - -REV. R. C. LEE, , Committee.
Mark your cheks, drafts, 'etc., Sumpter Relief Fund.
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WE MUST FINISH THE WORK. , ,
"With the first installment of the liberty loan com
pleted, immensely gratifying as is the result, We must re
member that the financing of a great war is never com
pleted until the war is finished; and we are going to finish
this war to our satisfaction in order that America may not
be finished. We must stay on the job and do it in true
American fashion. We have proved ourselves on the first
test; we must be prepared for the second, the third, and
the fourth if need be.
"This war must be fought to a finish. It must be so
fought, because there is an irrepressible conflict between
two irreconcilable principles and systems of organized
society that never will be'settled until it is fought to a fin
ish. The world can no longer survive half democratic and
half autocratic. One or the .other must triumph. We are
confronted today with an analogous situation to that
which confronted the Nation in 1861, when the immortal
Lincoln said, 'This Nation can no longer endure half slave
and half free.' We had to fisrht, that irreconcilable issnn
Polev Hotel Arrivals. r.f tv.n IvLnn.i v. t t-u i..
L. D. Smith, George W. Nolan, J. carnation, formerlv of Oreo-on ilinrf
O Prtnnoi" Thnmao Tliinnnn T 1 .. n .) . .
-rr ' y . " . v, , ,"' suddenly nere Wednesday afternoon or
Mrs. Olive Jennings, Boise; Franklin
apoplexy. The stroke followed an at-
tertein, New. York City; G. S Free. : tack of acute indigestion at noon, from
burger, Portland; W. Av Trace, Snn , which he had apparently recovered. He
Francisco; Eev. D. Loree, Redmond, leave8 a widow and a son. He, was
Or.; P .M. Fulton W. U. Tel. Co.; about 60 years old..
Miss R I. Jarvis, Minneapolis, Minn.; I
J M Blakely, Enterprise; J W. Powell, The Rev. Mr. Potwine was for
Wallowa; Carl Lungwitz, Chicago; R. twenty years rector of the Church of
I. Moore, Catlow; P. M. Williams, La !the Redeemer at Pendleton, resigning
Grande; J. F. Black, J. S. Williams, j 1903. He was well known in tbis
C. O. Wexler, Wm. Salisbury, A. Bur-' it vu 1.. v.- :., , fr:An.i.
ton, Pendleton; O. L. Lube Baker; . who , b(J ieved t hig death
.Tnmps Wrve. Caldwell : Edvthe Daw-
beur, Gooding; G. W. Ellis, Mr. Frank J
E. Smith, Elgin; Don L. McKay and Electrical goods of American manu
wife and son, L. J. Allen Corvallis; .facture are extensively sold in Porto
Theodore Manken, G. C. Rollens, Pen-, Rico. '
dleton; C. O. Life, Pendleton. '
WELL KNOWN RECTOR DIES
SUDDENLY IN CALIFOKMA
Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. 31. (Spe
cial) The Rev. William E. Potwine
Electric street car advertising cards
which animate familiar advertising
figures when the cars go over rail
joints and up or down hill have re
cently ibeen patented by a New York
cartoonist.
matter up at once that vou'r help may be of great good. I U). a (.'()11IlIS1011 alld we fought it to a right conclusion. We- J
The Governor has appealed to the state, but the response ' lm(,u'ltc(l fllom in America: we obliterated slavery ' J
is not such as we feel the people should give. Kindly make i , om the fl'0 SQl1 of tllis Sr('at Nation. That is what we 1 1
Supporting' the
Government
This is a time for every citizen to support the
United States Government and ninny are doing so
at considerable cost or sacrifice to themselves.
We have joined the Federal Reserve Bnnking Sys
tem established by the Government to give greater
financial stability and strength 10 the member banks
and protection to their depositors.
You enn give your support to this grent Govern
ment enterprise mul n!so otitnin its protection for
your money by becoming one of our depositors.
nave got to do tor the entire woi-lrl dnstrnv dosnnfism
j which is another form of slavery, and make liberty su-
jpreme. In no other way can the world be made safe for
. democracy It is a noble ideal; it is the only kind of an
mem lor wnicii a great republic like ours, a republic of
lrcemen, could or would fieht." William O. Me Adoo. W Caiminir Tnmatmm m nmv vnrv n0.id-
7 . ' v tr x viioviici uic
Quality and Price of
Barrington Hall Coffee i
Has Not Changed.
You get between 60 and 70 cups of this Famous Cof
fee to every pound which makes it cost you about
3-4c a cup.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Member
Federal Reserve
System
LaGrande National BanK
Mt. Emily News
J MT. EMILY, Aug. 31.(Specinl.
'All firewardens have been appointed
gamewardens too, in order to better
j protect the forests. All forest rangers
,nre game wardens, and hunters may
las well be careful this year. Birds
are very scarce ud here, the past hard
Winter seems to have killed them out
Deer have not been noticd either. The
extremely great number of campers
hnve probably scared them away.
Among the ninny campers up here
there was a party of vounir neonle
I who went a mile or two from camp tj
j sec ore of our fine sunsets. They fn'l-
cil to take a lantern along and had a
! vrry hard rime to find their way back
nfter the mil bad set. Next time they
I wit; kiMV better.
! Overnlls are nil the rage up hero
! now. Men, women and girls wear this
orated with huskleberry Etains. It
must ou said that many of the young
ladies dressed that way look even
mr.re charming and chic than when
dressed in their usual garb. v
' Takes Position on Portland Paper
Portland, Ore., Aug. 31. (United
Press) Mark Woodruff, one of the
Pncific northwest's best known pub
licity men, for the last three years
has been assistant secretary of the
bureau of publicity and conventions of
tho Portland Chnmber of Commerce
severed his relations with tho chnm
ber today. He will work in the ad
vertising department of a Portland
paper.
11 Spokane Slackers Sentenced.
, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 30. (Spe
cial) Eleven men pleaded guilty in
tho United States District Court here
commonsense garment and r.re woll , sciwuve oraic jaw and were sent 1 1
sn'.isfed with it. The prevailing ?tylo:fnc.M. to fnm Me ' to six months J
is the regulation blue usually turned !'n ini'- Three other men in.lirted f-r 1
up more or less, the' whole vrrr.ent ,h-ivirg failed to register pleaded not '
liberally sprinkled with dust aid de- I guilty. . I
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quality is gooa prices range trom about 70 to 90c
per box.
Peaches range from 60c to $1.25 a box mostly yel
low freestone very nice quality and size.
Cantaloupes both yellow and green meat.
Scarcity of watermelons price raised to 3c per lb.
Muskmelons are. very fine retail about 6c per lb.
OTHER FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Carrots rinvmn.na
Beets
Yellow Bantam Corn
Crecn Peppers
Celery
Sweet Potatoes
Cabbage
Malaga Grapes
' Peach Plums
Holly Apples
Oranges
Head Lettuce
Green Peppers
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