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0 t-H ' 1. LA.-(3 RANI) E EVENING OBSERVER AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEK Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUDMSHING COMPANY. J, O. MEYERS H. B. LEITER CLARKE LEITER President Vicc-Preaident Editor and Publisher ANOTHER NORWEGIAN LOOMS ITjP AS TERROR OP THE COURTS . . POWNES white kid (;l(')Vl:s FOR DUES mY.voun w. s. s. .STAMPS IJKHK Entered at the Postoffice at 1-a Grande, Oregon, as Second-clars Matter. ' Address All Communications to THE OBSERVER. 1710 Sixth Street. LA il I I I !l City Official Paper. County Official Paper. Evening Telegraph Report of United Press Association. - Member of the Associated Press (Morning Telegraph Report) The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of j all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and j also the local news published herein. j On Sale in Oilier Cities: j Oregon Hotel News Stand, Portland; Imperial News Stand, Portland. 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Phone Main before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the : carrier has missed you. j "My Country 'Tit of Thae, Sweet Land of Liberty." mtr- J w m:A ?jM ,y ii m ij wk '$m ' . 1 v 1 . is :f'H j EVENING CLOTHES FOR ELKS BALL When Mlsa Molla BJursted came This winter Norway has sent ns to America four years ago she another star in the person of Mrs. amazed American women tennis Johan Rogge. who promises to oe stars by the strength and driving come a second Miss BJursted De tactics of her play. It was some- fora the summer tournaments are thing that had never been seen on started. Although Mrs. Kogga American courts and the best of was defeated by Miss BJurstea at tho Americans were swept off an Indoor match in New YorK re thetr feet by her tremendous cently, her play was or sucn drives which almost equalled high character that experts unite thnse of the strongest men play STANKIELD'S CAMPAIGN ASSUMES PROPORTIONS? Ii. N. Stanfield's cundidney for the nomination for Unitee Slates Senate is assuming definite THE PRINTED WORD IX WAR j The world war began with the .sutnnie announcement Unit might makes right as clear a statement of t'hv; proposition as ever j was made followed by a spontaneous roar of denial from peoples: in whom the instinct of self-preservation rote to meet the el1a!-; Icnge. ' ' i The struggle between good and evil, which is generally invis-. lblc und can bc-apprehended only by instinct, has been dramatized by the war, and the whole world has become the stage of a miracle play. Humanity enacts its great allegory, -Immediately upon the invasion of Belgium our newspapers showed a clearness and profoundly of thought, and an eloquence which can hardly be matched in the history of popular literature.! Jhey became beacons to the people. Iht full publicity which 'i nublicun thpv frnve Id nil flip (Ipi'iiinti nmivitrondii L-iiiiumiii- thni rlm ( lni- J O" - "--I"-r t "i"" ,.. , M man arguments would defeat their own cause, showed an absolute j stnnfioid through to success hecause faith in popular education, a faith which was justified. ho is a worker, a man who doss things I" doubt whether history can show any case of the triumph of a mnn who hliS :he 'nf''1e of n . ' ill ii , , 'thu people who know him and gain;- intellect in a democracy as remarkable as was the acceptance ol !tll AJi(lcme of thP T,00J),e mc.?t2. conscription by the American people when they saw that war was The state is entitled to the active upon them. They reversed one of th? most deeply grounded tra- ""vices of a km who knows how to ditions of their race and history, as it were, in a night, becnus, lS, they saw that both justice and common sense required the change. ! both, individually and collectively, and M'Since that time every rlav has slio.wn fresh ex-a in tiles of th i"J5 Stunficld in iuat.aui-h a mnn. intelligence which enabks "tuir democracy to improvise wliatever , shifts the times dunand. hlxperts appear, among us who know exactly how many liberty bends each town can absorb on a given date. The work is done by voluntary effort. If the V. .M. C. A. needs S35,(k!0.(IOO, the 'multireel' million Americans are canvassed in a weeK. line is tne bureau, tlie systein, the red tape vl this st.-te tiny are supposed to be n:pe gigantic collection. The machinery appears and disappears as at . , , , i i r . Oregon dots not need any orators required, and by a kind of magic. r.. 0,,lt)1.s .u.p a im! on ihc ml.,.s Whoever thought that a man would say to us. ''Drop that i like constitutional lawyrs th-;; piece of white bre:id which you me raising to your lips! The fate of tlie world five hundred years hence is at stake"? .John Jay Chapman, in Atlantic Monthly. p. Uncle Sam wants you to get the Thrift Stamp habit so that you will go on saving just the suuie after the war ends. Thrre are still rome with that old fashioned ideav that dress clothes have to I:: made to order; and how very fcolUC it is. . When you can come hire, pick out the fabric you want, rce the finished suit, and try it on. Looking at it is in 'rely a matter of business; you'don't buy it unless you like it and want it. H4RT SCHAFFNER & MARX put their best workmanship into these i evening clothes; they're fine in every way. You'll like them, and they're not high priced 837.50 up. . : THE r HOME OF. HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES rioerf not need a great fur.sti- ',l-ional lawyer in the Sen.'ilc fur the S'-nnte is overstocked wilh cons'itu tionnl lawyers. Mxireover, constitu j::ial lawyers do not do much else oil pick tho constitution to niecc.i, ' that does not jret results for the ELKS, ATTENTION! visitor to Spokane last week and 1 v.!ill- (.hero attended the meeting of j , Western Pine Manufacturers' Asso- Regular meeting this Thursday evo ciation. ining. Initiation. District lleputy Virgil Coverstone who has been on a furlough visltiug his relatives and friends Tor the lust few days, left for Camp Lewis Sunday. LoRoy Parsons 'and family made his brother's family a visit while enroute to their home in Knterprlse from Elgin. Tom Edmonds of Lostine was a business visitor, Wednesday. At the Miller hotel: R. I). Merch ant, Enterprise; W. Stone, S. F.; W. H. lluruelte, V. C. Frederick, S. F.; N. Disallion. Portlnml; F. M. O'llrien, Mrs. O. C. Holding, Cnrl- Crand Ii::;'.hecl iluler Bradley will be present on nr. official visit. P!ea-f cvlnd. ?.;.;.:';; A. ('HEURY. Seety. maximum output. The same thing ap plies to the other products. A Senator who does not know his subject cannot discuss it with a gov ernment official. It is not enough to bo merely' a Senator from the state of Oregon. This is not the day when nere pull will get appropriations or will gi t business. A Republican Sen ator who knows hi subject and who can talk it clearly and thoroughly could do' more in the way of getting business for the state from the.gov- iinmcnt t!mn Ihe biggest Democrat ton Zwelfel, ,vho is lot informed as to details and ! T. A. Mel v.ko nv.rc1;.' relies upon the fact that Barns, Baker; Ben A. Bellamy, I ho, r.s a Democrat, wants something j Portland : Shirley Cramer, lielse; J. done. Today business men urc having M. Clirmhcrlain, PorllMid ; S. Lous-. Snore lo do with the government af-i.ir.tr Hurd, Portland ; ( ri01iyo. , Coffj fairs than ever before. I he govern ment wnnta to know what Oregon can do, and there seems to be no one who Fraternal Directory L. O. O. M. La Grande Lodge No. 800, Loyal Order of Moose holds regular meetings every Wednesday night at 8 p. m. In Eaglo hall next to Elka' Dldg. on Vashlngton Ave. Visitors always welcome. Dues pay ablo at Young's Sweets. GEO. YOUNG, Die. - HARRY SWART, Sec. A. V. .v A. M. Ln ilrnnde Lodge No. 41, A. F. & A. M. holds regular meetings first and third Saturday at 7:0 p. m. Cordial welcome to all Mason?. KOUERT S. EAKIN. W. M. A. C. WILLIAMS, Sec. P.-ind in ;' Ohloe Mayes. At tho Northern Hotel ;Chas. W1I-. son, Geo. Hendricks. The Dalles;, D. E. Davis, St. , Joe; J. A. Heed, noise; S. Guy Hursh, E. J. Ryan, Portland; Ii. H. Harper, Shorty RodeSi Enterprise; G. I. Rateliff, CARRIERS WIN I MUXES Have you a little Thrift Stamp .stick, r in your home'.' HIAWATHA KNTKIlTAIX.1ll',..Vr 11V ErwoltTll I.EAGIE. Observer Hoys Rewarded for Paitli- The Epworth League of the First fullness in S.'ivice I Methodist church gives a "Longfel-I low Evening" next Friday night in In compliance with promises made the basement of the church. A previously, The Observer carrier boys number of the scones In several or have been rewarded for faithful aiid the moBt popular poems of Long-; diligent work. A contest has been on fellow will he lllu.itratcil In llvlns for some time for those gaining the pictures. Especially will Ihls he most subscribers and doing the hesi true with lllawatlia, Evaugelino and j general work. A fine gold watch Miles Blandish. The public is In-: went to l.eo Dolan, winner of Hrs'. vlted and a small admission fee for place; a silver watch to ( lark Prite, the benefit of the building fund in second best man, and ciiKh bonusvs to to be rharaeii nt the door. others. do not aet anything. What the state re' 'Is is : n'u:i who will be a'jb.' to for ged the constitution ar.d forget orr. toi and who will take off his co: and go to work nrrmnd the linnatt-n-.'nt:;. as-well as the Semite, on mat te's which .ire of direct bent-fit ?uvl in'rest to the stale. The miiii who i go::'.''; t,o get the results vi!! Ii? tlie -:n v.ho is going i-i inform himse'i t- wlriL the slut": r.e.ls in v. r of federal assistance aivl who will he eoually ""11 posted, in th-se war 'irvs . . what the state can d i i'r the Fe leral Cnvenir-H'iit. Th.' Federal C'lvernment reeds the assiEtunce f):e.;L'ii can give, but is I)"' rocei'.'i."' it beranse it has nut been put up to th' department on a hu'sineas imsis as t" the number of shins f):-c"-nn e-i build, the amount of timber that ran be supplied ; the fni-ilii.ii ': fe- ' oiisi'-'e-l.ien anil ninnufRcture in the various loeiililii s and the an'o'.'.tr. of ;i!,o'' whi -h can be depended upon for thee results. Orcgi.n has ship'-ards ant slip's .v.'i-s Iviag idie at the present time. Mil!? ;"o n.,t !: Ue;-- I'-ei- is able to tell them; the government wants a b:isine:.s proposition put be fore it ":v.i no one seems able to do it. )' th" ;ee;i!e ef the state want a I .'itsircsr. rtr.n, a worker, a mar. who ! Enterprise; J. O. Makin and wife, knows and i: thoroughly uciuninted Joseph; Earn Winnings, Lostinc: with ."very phase of the industries of j Clifford Winning; , Lostinc; ' Ileal Oiogi.u. 1h".v want "Bob". Stanfield,: Caudle, Lostinc; Fioyd J.Iorfit, Lor,-fo-' iie is a we'-jier, has been-a worker ; tine; Harold Pierce, Lostine; Aroil al! his life ' He has accomplished i Pray, Lostine; Kelso Draper, Tort snn thing, and nt-.-ompliahed itiland; Howard Wilmanson, Lostine: thiough his oi.-n efforts, and he can Cecil Childers. Lostine: Mike Mof accoiiinlish :r.jre for the state of Ore-: fit, Lostine; Joe Caudle, Lostine; gon. for the r.atioua! government, than ; Amos Evans, Lon S. Smith, O. W. any oher man tlie people could scndiR... r. v. I'hodnix, Cevnlingo: to Washi'.igton. j Frank Mel'heeson, .Norris Cussins, J o i Lostine. Nellie r- - '' ELKS, La Graudo Lodge: No. 43:t. Lodge meets each Thuin-1 day ovenlng at 8 o'clock. Home ! and club privileges cheerfully ex tended to all lirolher Elks. ."t . t.'nmuw ti.-qti l.'T Exalted Ruler A. B. CHERRY. Secretary K. of L. of Security Mt. Emily j Council, No. 24(i, meets the second i end fourth Monday evening at ; o'clock al Eagle hall. Visiting i members are welcome. , I J. K. FITZGERALD, Pies. ABE HARRIS, Fin-!. Sec. , FLORENCE BRYANT, Roe.. Sob. VVAI.I.OWA N'AVS NOTES Is II ALE D TEMPLE NO. 170 Dra-' . matic Order Knights of Khnrassan. Instituted F'di. 20, 10M. Meets : iloyA tne nurn t rinay or eacn montn in r K. P. hull.. All visiting Votariea welc-jine. :' C. M. HUMPHREYS. Sec." KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Red Cross Lod-'e No. ?7 meets every Monday i;:ght in Castle Hall(K. of P. hall) A Pythivj welcome to dl visiting Kuiclits C. K. McCOUMICK, C. C Dr,i.:i.K GKEEN, K. of R. & S. iiEiiKfiA-KH Crystal Lodge No. 50 nicety e eiy Tuesday evening In the I. O. (1. R Hall. All visiting mem bers e.'o invited lo attend. SARAH J.lcCI.l'RH. N. G. M ATT. E GOLDEN, Rec. Sec. 2JODKKN WOODMEN OP AMERICA La Giande Camp No. 7703 meets on Hie first and third Thursday evenir,,;-3 of each month in the K. nf r. Hall. Visiting neighbors ttel.-OUIt. L. J. MI'NHALL.X C. W. F. ASHMAN, Clerk o.v.il w incH:: y ..oiiior. a county se Portland i:For Hard-to-fit i Women WOODMEIf OP THfi WORLD La Grande Cainp No. 1119 meets every first and third Monday at Eagles' o. I.'. NEIGHUORS Iris Camp eieecs i" ei-y second p'ririay after r.oon rr.rl erery fourth Friday even tt"T. every month In K. P. hall. All visiting members cordially weleom. HENRIETTA GUAR ST, Oracle. NiCI.LU: V. VINACKE, Rce. :l;Hi:" ;roi-'-leaiil ijllili tlie -:i. .1. ,1. naiie Fred ptv.reii both games in 'aliown basket ball t I'-.e (i; m last Friday fir:t leant vain by a to vhile the second by a rceio of !l to 14. a--ler r.jie down with i '-a:-'. I.O'.tine. A social n arurli.c games, in honor e-iti::1: IreleS. parson's fath.-n- I'roin Elgin s soa a vi.-it last week. i;aenseroi( was a business Some women are hard lo fit in corsets; some just think they are. , -Ci No More Currency Panics Do you relllellilicr tlie sliut-iluwiis. the liii.-i-lless tlejiressiun niul the liu-k ol" ciiipluyiiii'iit whii li liilliiwcd tlie I'lirreiii'v p.inii- nf l!':'T.' To prevent niiutlicr i-urrcni-v panic tin lcileral lt'servi liniikinu; Sy.striu keeps mi liatiil an iniiiieiisi' supplv nf i-uneiii-v In fur nisli the hanks which lielun i tin- svsleni which we ne, sn t hat tlicy may al .til iirren-y rciiiii'c',i,eiils ni' t'lllli'S meet tin their ih'pi.sit'U's Hci'sn'l it appeal to vuu tu w ii lion, withmit cost. Iiy lieeinuinn' one llt'JMlsitnl'S itri'- I'iir -Meiiilier l''i'(lt'l'ill Iit-siM'Vc Svsli Cigars at t':c .-.rx'ly ail of my Totecco and s.:?.ne i-i'ic3 2s I cid a voir ago. i ' ? I-'. ,u- re-; I-;: ma. Li ; : . . -'ix S;r;, .10c . . 10c . . 10c .. .15c . . 15c .. .13c r Cat ! al:- in i .! i i"i :U' Cnrii , Mll-il.:. lit u 'I' i'.l i 'i.'S. ; 'i m A r Hall. AH visiting neighbors wel come. Dues payable at the ctpec of the clerk, New Foley Eldg., S a. in., to 5 p. m. ' J. J. SICRCHISON. C. C. R. J. KITCHEN, Clerk. ; I!o?e Chapter No. in, O. E. 9. ho.idu stated eommiinicatlonB the r.ee.on:l and fourth Wednesday of each n.onth. Visiting members eor dtaily welcomed. S.TniK E. GIVEN. W. M. MARY A. WARNICK.Sec. NiwiRnQrutLiJijm.-A-.w.jK.:xzKfXCjniKmMnivA' aggesi Reading for your Family 1 I Tliuh in ideals ef h"'t'. life a 1 civic li'V. I.a.:h in U;c ni:;c.:.:t of r.'.KHn" it brines lo u mcx Tux .I.V.- fori-.ll liai,:N:. 'I'l:; jlat ;r:;ia .ill sg'ucti. 12 Grctt Serials or Croup Clerics for iDlS &n 2'iO Gitcr'.er Stories. Rare artu-ivs by ir.ted n itii- ritit s. "The K'.-t Zaii'.'-riai I'nge in the country." Current Event.;, Naurs .-ud Scie.ice. i''jivi!v I'a ,e, Uovs' Page, Gills' Page, Children's I'.i :c. :ct'r'l Co.n:r, ; t;isg.i le Money 10 ba-e, Games d oports t-.i i :..y, eeuiVija KltLiat:.. iteucs, Tiieie are certain types of fig ures, however full bust and small hips, small bust and large hips, short stout figures that re-piire special designing in corsets. In MODAKT KruiA Laced Cor sets tiieie lac special sir.es and models for just such figu.es. We can give any woman, nf whatever size or shape, the kind of style and fit she should have. McCcIs Mi Leu; AwfTica's I-asl)io Antiioii'.v f, to wikr it how to nave. 1J ;.pl curve: lions. 75 nts per year. r.gM, the Best Stories, the Latest Sty'.js, sine tniMione ( trotupn. hat to Tear how ul id numbers full nf Famous and more 64 S:ud $..JS to the publifacni of the paiwr in which this(j1etapic.usad get 1. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION for 5J w-eks. I ALL FOR fr.i nfr. ru ii M.u. Vouth'. i I..., . v. . . r 2. The Companion Honic Calendar for H IS. 3. McCALL'S MAGAZINE evrry i::o:i:h lor 1 v( nr. i ?2'25 M Subscriptions Received At THE OBSERVER OFFICE Front !' 211 Depot Stroct, r.v" .b Hiv-- Si-ill PAULINE LEDSRLE '..-(r--'-o"T" L-a Grande National BanK
