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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1918)
EKIDAY, MAttCII 8, 1918 LA GEANDE E EKING OBSERVER Cove Enjoys , Chautauqua PROGRAM INCLUDRS MUSICAL AND UTEUARY NUMUJCRS Calvin Comb Returns and Will Resume I'ubliujliou of the "Cove .Sfnlincl" . .. . CO VIC, March 5. (Special.) Cova Is enjoying a musical anil lit oiiiry treat in tlie form of Chautaii xiun pioKfaiua. vhat (hone 'high ham entortuinuu'iila are appreciat ed Is pvldunced liy l)w tact tliat Chniitunqna hair Is crowded every nflornoun and ovenlng. ' . Qno ' very nolicahlo thhiK In tlio audience is the. presence of no many upper Kiades and hlKh school pupils. This has a teudoncy to prove that tile rlslni; Renoi ation Is keen in " their appreciation of upyortnnltleH to?uf' ((iilio good, clean knowlcilKn wheth er It he from the written page or from the words of an eloquent, plat form lecturer. It Is refreshing to realize that wo have in our midst men and women who aro broad minded and progressive enough to fif,552.Sl for the year eiimnif December; 1HT. over 1010." Among those present who ire promtneai in the church work were f'nutor C. V. VMr., Walla Walla, leader of the wnral work in the northwest; Pas tor j, V. Norwood, Ilolse, president nt the local conference: Pastors O l. Uurfncr and t. Klffle, who hnvo chaise of the German work; Pastor J. J. Nfllhery. Walla Wullu, former ly president of the Idaho confer- itmce; . j-ror. w. V. piaiz, Walla walla, who hn;- charge of the edu cational and young people's work: II. K. Loop, Portland, field mission ary secretary. The conference was held lil a liulldinK recently pur chased by the church conferance, which has been remodeled to meet their convenience. Mr. noil states the convention was a success and satisfactory In every detail. - ' Cove New Jlotes. Karl Daker . has returned from Portland where he finished the short In the Holt's Caterpillar lib expects to return far With the Colors a! trucks yet but expect them soon, uevor bueu In a elothlnu; store slit course school. the fall term. . MIbs Mildred Halmnrk has been III for several days. Master Claude Ifakor Is Blck with place within the reach of all the op- j the "'ens'es. portunlty of broadening tlio Iiiind and extending their vision through ouch mediums as the chuutauqiia literary programs. y Mt. I''nmiy (JraiiKe Moeis. " Mt.: Fannie Orange mot for the first time In their now hall with a good attendance, a good dinner and a good time In general. One appli cation for membership was received. Past master M. L. Carter was award-j cd a beautiful pin, emblematic of ! the order as a medal for five years 1110 stationed at Camp Lewis recent of falthrul service, ably presented ! sont Sl-00 to the finance commit by Worthy Master Ernest Organ, j lee ror tlle benefit of the Red Cross. Miss Jean' Stearns has been on the sick list for several days. All ladles belonging to the sur gical dressing class will please meet at the work rooms Tuesday, March 12.. at. the usual hour, ' ; BORN To Mr. und Mrs. Harlan Koger, March 4, on eight-pound girl. ,:. HORN To Dr. and Mrs. McCowan in Portland, February 28, a nlno pomid daughter. ' . Tom Jones and Darrel Fulp who The following program was rend ered: . - Select rending J. B. Tallant. Recitation Gladys Daron. Story Chas. R. Organ. Recitation M. L. Carter. Select reading Mrs. Georgia Gas-sot.- : ' RecitationMrs. T. F. Organ. Select reading Howard Gasset. Recitation Mrs. Agnes Daron. "Grange Sentinel," paper Miss June CUadwick. Mr. and Mrs. Den Miller are the proud 'possessors of an SVt pound boy born February 28 In Baker, at tile home of Mrs. Mlller'B parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey White. Both mother and baby are doing nicely. Tom Jones who enlisted in the bakery department last summeiv has recently been promoted from cor poral to sergeant. . Calvin Go8s has returned from Astoria where he has been on busi ness for several weeks and will re- Roll call "What have you done 6,11,18 11,0 publication "of the Cove to help the U, S. government the present war crisis?" Attended Adventlst Conference. Ernest Bell , haR Just returned from Boise, Idaho, "wtiore he attend ed the. convention, of the Seventh Day 'Adventlst church, convened for the church officers and conference workers of the southern Idaho con- forence. Mr. Bell reports tne work j as increasing in nil its different de-1 pertinents. The Increase in mem- j bership this year orer last is 100.' The financial report in nil the dlf- ferent departments shows a gain of j Sentinel Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bachelor, parents of Mrs. Dan Peterman, have returned to their home In La Grande. Lester Johnson made a trip to La Grande last- week and was Initiated Learning I'Yciuh Ah a I'asllmc. (Letter from Arthur Martin 'Somo .j whnro In France" to Euln Wat- 1:1ns.) :,. . . SUNNY FRANCK, Feb! 2, WIS. Pi-tend Eula,: You say If 1 tell you what t am interested In, you will try to write a nioro Interesting letter! I don't know what to. an swer unless I say "everything." You wrote a very interesting letter as It was. And say, tho Jokes you sent Sinn added b, unique original ity. - They were certainly enjoyed by all of ns.V I passed them around and everyone In the. billet read them and enjoyed a good laugh. Yours was tho first and only letter1 con taining any tiling of Unit , naturo. Send some more. . ' ; I see that you Allcc folks are proud of the liberty, bond sales and you certainly have a right" to bo. I am proud of it tqo; also the Y. M. C. A. contributions. Tho "Y" is sure tho soldleis friend. It will certainly have many new members rhen the Sammies return to'tht states. . We hnve no '-Y" In this village- but are expecting one soon. A secretary was here a few days ago looking over the prospects. . I haven't, learned yet whether ground hog day means anything here or not. If it does I am afraid he Is doomed to disappointment, for, although he could have seen his shadow at any time today it is very unltKely we will have any more winter for spring has been here In all her glory for three weeks, there fore thehending of this letter. . This is sure a beautiful country now. Fine weather and everything Is green and growing. I am at a ioss to know what to write as we have been In the coun try practically ever since wo hnve been here so don't see much of In terest. When we can't find anything else to do we fool with the French lan- into the Elks lodge. , Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Chadwlck made a business trip to La Grande Satur day.' ' . ' A carload of hogs was shipped from Cove Saturday by J. A. Rus sell of La Grande. Ernest Organ was a business vis itor In Elgin last week. Carl Peterson, with his family, have moved into the Philip Con ley farm. and... has. commenced the erection of a new barn. ' guugo. It isn't what I would call a difficult language but, we ( niont of us) don't pick It up very fast on ac count of being with English speak ing Sammies so much, practically all of the time. I can count to 100, say good ..morning, good afternoon. good evening, good night, good byo, j man, woman, girl;' boy, soldier and! a few other , words. My ground i word la good. . 1 J hope you aro getting along well in school. Don't fear tho exams i they are easy If you think no. j ; . i :" As ever, ART. ' . 1'iuil Young to Clyde Kiddle. SOMEWHERE ELSE IN FRANCE, Jan. 89, IMS. Dear Clyde: Re ceived, your letter today, dated December 11;. also received your shipment of tobacco somewhere! about the, 15th of anunry. Would: havo answered beforo now, hut huv- j Ing to make a short move about j thnt-tlmo and landing at our pres-1 ant destination with a severe 'ear-! ache, haven't felt much llko writ ing. Still havo niy ears full of cot-, ton, Many thanks, for the smoking; j sure did come in handy. If they ever give us boys an examination of the head when we run out of to bacco some of us sure will como home. , " News is a litllo scarce at this writing, ' The weather Is fine here. A little cold of mornings and evenings but the snow Is gone and it looks like spring would be hero before loifg now. I am afraid I won't enjoy this spring as ono usually does. You know about what happens here in the Bprlng. Better como over, and bring some of tho boys along to hunt (open season ovor here on Germans now.) , Some of us boys got new hats the other day. Same style as last year, yep, tho ' style hasn't changed n d - bit; same thing. The boys are all In good spirits today exotpt Roy Klnkead. He got a Christinas box today with his mother's return address on it, so he was ' expecting a Christmas box from home, but when he opened tt found it 'as from some one in Bos ton, Muss. Wo supposed that the censors at Hoboken got the wrapper on the wrong box. Roy has a bar ber shop started now. He has one stall next to tlio mules where he cuts hair, and etc. Haven't got our Jl suppose that groceries of nil kinds! I aro still going up. I went Into a Ut ile store and asked the price of a can of toinulocK; they said It w.ih "two francs, or forty rents, nnd the very some grade us your He's; I guess that Is going some. Have got over here, tfhoes nre nuro high. Everybody wears wooden shoes ikj tliut leaves the leather for the men in tlio trenches, v v 7 Well, Clyde, as 1 can't write mud (Continued oq l-ag t.) Arcade Theatre TODAY AND TOMORROW : m tinj iifS- GrmDINfABPARfl'' iiieyevjorane !AADTrDAFTIi-. 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