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.)
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