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I TUESDAY. AtTGUHT 20, 1918 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PA fill THREE ' "I! BED 0E0S3 DBUO . 8T0BB . i i a i: The Kodak ote v i Social and ! . - v Peirsonal P- J. Sullivan Is In the city from Elgin. J. C. Schmldt,of ,Wallown, is in La Grande. ; .' E. E. Rogers is in the city, from Enterprise., ' . ' Thomas Burns, of North Powder, la In La Grande.'..', . . .. v. . . ... c ' . James Evans,, ot Elgin, . is n I.n Grande visitor. ' L. R. McCubblns from Enterprise. : Is In La Grnnilc, ' Chris Peterson is a La Grande visi tor, from North Powder.. ',' '?; !.('' - ; "i W. W. Kirkhuff spent the day In La .Grande, from ilmbler. . "Geo. T." Cochran has returned from San Francisco.. ''...'-. ,: D. Davis, of AHcel, is a business Visitor in the city today. .P.'N, CasaelI,,of Imbler, is a busi ness visitor to Lu-.Granile. ., i ;' M. P. Hooper, of Durkee, was a bus iness visitor in La Grande. ' . - . Mrs.' Geo. M. Daily, of Enterprise, is in the city for a short visit. Frank Pearson, of North Powder, is spending the day in iLa Grande. Fred Mitchell, of Palmer Junction, is a business visitor in the city. John Casey left this morning; a fishing trip to Meachara. ., ,' Mrs. Carrie' Punter,-of Island CI1:', ' has returned from a short visit to Bo ker. x ; -s. ' Mrs. Chahles McCrajy returned this 'morning from a visit with friends -in' Seattle. . ,"'j ; . Miss 'Ruth. Roberts 'left 'yesterday' for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Mnbel Rhoades, of Lucid Canyon. Mrs. L. M." Hoyt entertained the Eastern Star social at her country home on the White farmesterday af ternoon. . ; Mr. and Mra. Jack Childs have returned from their trip through California In their auto. They -report a' very nice trip.' ' 1 , . ' t Mrs. Hollister and daughter leave tomorrow for Portland, where they ' will visit with friends and relatives for a period of several weeks. J William Wiule has resigned a po sition as night foreman at the George Palmer Lumber Mills, in order to ac cept a somewhat better position. ' t ' Al Andrews 'fent a letter to his brother yesterday from Seattle, stat ing that hi and Stoddard had both reached their destination by auto, and had a fine journey overland. C.'H. Carpenter of the People's Warehouse of Pendleton. Iarin La Grande today meetjng old friends. He was formerly connected with the N. K. West store In this city. ' Col. F. S. Ivanhoe and J. F. O'Con ' nell left "on the ' early train Sunday morning, via Portland, to make an official visit at Camp Lewis, as mem bers of the local war board of Union connty. iMr. and Mrs. Colon R. Eberhard and family started this morning by auto t,-tltinil unH .Willamette vallev points, going by way of Walla Walla, Seattle and Camp Lewis. They ex pect to be gone about two weeks and while away Mr. Eberhard will attend the Oregon State Convention of Elks lodges, to be held in Portland the be ginning of next week. , ' '' Utlng Plaster of Paris. If yon wish to use plaster of parts tor filling cracks in walls, mix with vinegar lustead of water, theu It can be bandied like putty. Not Teetotal. ' Although. lobsters generally drink rater, they will take a nip If you give tern the chance. Boston Transcript. Silkworm's Fast Growth. In 28 days from hatching a Bllkworm increases 4,000 times Its original size. MISSING Tho very freshest and best lot of candy made you ean buy by the 10 cents worth or by the box at Sllverthorn's . Dy-8-20-tf, .... . , ; , FLASHIIHTS. ... ; It's a prnod thing to be an Ameri can nowadays. ,. - The chap who depend! on luck has a mighty fickle friend. Mighty few men . cno lose en argu ment wltuout losing their tempers, too. .. ... . 4 . 5.,' ' Young men should remember that he wlw Is once a cheat,Is always sus pected. ''( i ' , . , . " - (' i - . It sometimes gives a man a jolt to discover Hint a very pretty girl Is also enslble. ,;.'' - " The time to be a friend mvhen the other fellow would be absolutely alone If you didn't go to him. i One of the things a young man ought to be told Is thut If he clients one man he wins the distrust of many. ' Everybody admits: that life Is a game of give and take, but too ninny people wont to be on the takers' side. It doesn't make any difference ho rich a mnn is his wife can always find something In hlui to find fault with. . Women may like to be flattered, but we Imagine that they must often get mighty tired of the gulf that some men hand out. Whenever we bump Into one of those strong-minded women we al ways congrntulute ourselves on hav--Ing selected one of the other variety. WARTIME DEFINITIONS Prisoners Married .men. Liquid Fire Prohibition I' - whisky, i nnidlng Tarty 1 p. box..,'.., ; ! m. at tho Ice- Hcllevlog Party Friend wife on pay day. v. , , " t-i ' Ohsen-atlon Post The front room window. , ' , Cnmmiflage Rouge, popdre do riz, peroxide, et!.' ' Tanks Ilusbnnds whose wives are In the country. Reveille Shrill voice exclaiming: "It's seyen o'clock !" r' I. ; . :,. J ' ' '. .1 ' : Listening ' Pbst A party telephone In Anywomnn'8 ho'use. . Flank Attack Whet little Willie' gets for putting flypaper pn baby's head. V i Over tho. Top Your wlfe'si hints to you concerning her lack of anything to. wear. ,',' Allies' Three Inte commuters mak ing up n set of excuses for home con sumption, v: Gnssed The result of listening , to n clintty neighbor's detailed descrip tion of her appendicitis operation.' Code The", hard look your wife gives you when you have company at dinner and you nsk for more chicken. Center of Agricultural Production. The center of agricultural produc tion of the United States, according to the value of crop and animal products for 1017, Is in -west-central Illinois, as shown by a diagram just Issued by the department of agriculture. The states of greatest production ore: Iowa, $1,330,000,000; Illinois, S1.256, 000,000; Texas, $1,045,000,000; Mlssou rl, $947,000.000 ; Ohio, $851,000,000; Nebraska, $774,000,000; Indinnu, $706, 000,000; Kansas, $735,000,000; New York,' $700,000,000; Minnesota, $040, 000,000; Pennsylvania, $030,000,000; Georgia, $005,000,000; Wisconsin, $.")OS,000,000 ; California, $576,000,000; Michigan, $534,000,000, and Ken tucky, $520,000,000. ' In 1014 there were In thl country but five companies undertaking to pro duce aniline dyestuffs, and now there are eighty engaged In this business. v The shoe export trade' of this coun try will be hit by the establishment of n great shoe fuctory at Punta Arenas, Chile, which will be equipped with the most modern mechanical devices. Verbal. "'J ': "It was a quiet Fourth." f . "Decidedly." "I don't think I henrd a single explo sion nil day." "I heard one." f'Cniinon crnckert" "No. I passed a motorist who had just had a breakdown. He was ad dressing a few remarks to his car." Birmingham Age-IIerald. Hash. War has not changed the American darkey. A dusky cook of an American rpglment now In France was being quizzed by an officer about the cleanli ness of that free-for-all army product known as bash. "How do you make your hash?" duti fully Inquired the officer. "We don't make It, boss," wai the answer. "It Just accumulates." Canals In Sponges. Most sponges have a canal system, and there Is a continual current of sen wnfr passing through It, always flowing In the sume direction. The water Is made to flow In that way by a series of peculiar cells, the like of which has not been found In any of the higher nnlmals. The sponges de pend 'entirely for their life on this water current. USED OLDSMOBILE ' . ' ' ., ' : Eight-cylinder, seven-p8enger418 model Oldsmobilet abso- lutely as good as new. This Is not a wornout model, but a strict ly modern car, with every convenience and refinement. Houk wire wheels and fine grade teat cover. Mechanically, this car is In perfect shape. Present coat of car new with equipment is :t ?2350; will sell for $1650 cash. ' V y 1 . ' . See W. R. Eeinhardt, Sommer Hotel, La Grande . ' . '. . . ., ! ' ' ... . ": DUFFEY WRITES HOME COVE BOY IN SERVICE, SENDS A WITTY LETTER TO FRIENDS. Talks to Hia Former Companions In This Community, In His Plain, ,-' ' t' , -Happy Manner.. Grovcr TTuffy, of Cove, who has joihed the colors, Shows his Wit in the fYillnwIno lritlpf' tiHill-oaaa,! tn hia nA friends in the Cove: .' ' To Judd Geerr his fellow rough necks and other various generates and degenerates About the town of Cove, greeting: "'' ' ' . ; ' Fellow sufferers: Being about to complete my second installment of mil itary life, I will in a few words eluci date upon the hardships and perils first . encountered by "those - dear boy:', , In civilian life I have marveled at the courage of military men and have wondered if all soldiers were brave. They are. There is no question ubo'it it. The reason is simple: After a few weeks of this existence, neither death, hell, the kaiser nor totof prohibition holds any terror. ' Infantry drill regulations wera un doubtedly written by a farmer, else why get up at 6 o'clock in the" morn igri ? They tried to make a carpenter but of me. but did not succeed very well, although the task was a pleasant o(e to the instructors -at all times. I got by .fairly well until they Insisted upon holding an examination, and the instructor asked me how to cut a raf ter. I told him lust to suit himself nibout the matter and cut it any way he wished.. My grade was not strong enough to choke an adding machine on carpentering. .--Actually, a man getaaajiaed.tQ be ing shot in the arm in this gnme thut every time he sees a horse syringe he begins to roll up his sleeve. The jokes told on the new ones are I good. Here is one told on a boy" from a prohibition state, possibly Oregon. His fellow compatriots say that before leaving for the camp he decided to have a "day off" and rented one of those swell little dining rooms "in a city hotel for his party, f A decanter of "red likker" was served and before partaking of .the spirits he ordered up some limburger cheese, smearing it over his glass. When asked by his admiring friends why he did such as that, he replied, ''You see I have been living in a prohibition state so long where we have to sneak a drink in a livery stable or a stock corral that I can't enjdy a drink unless I have the familiar odor." I, of course, long to see old Cove and her people before II Hit the grit f,or Berlin, and 1 am wondering what kind of a winter Sam White is pro phesying. ; I suppose that the quiet summer evenings are. punctured with shrill cries of the .local pool sharks. Perhaps the bootleggers have all been run to earth. If so, 'tis well, for Cove's priceless moral tone will be better preserved without the knights of the corkscrew. Which side of the SQUIRREL FOOD " " FATHEAD ONE 6oN6--rHl5 y . t -rue ser his one oteRi i FRITZ I . ' GROVER JllipB Ik . - ' tOH! captAiW! ' tH6 SIWK 15 pAOSS 110 VOOF? ATTIC IM5TEA0 OF PLAV'M6 SAPE AMD TAKING IT auo EAY- VOO SLOUCH THE 2."" At-L uJn-O- HI I3TTR NAKK'5MAMVrtil-' BePo'Re voo caki - UJART f o. . ..... .. i I I M d - DMLl IU LU. - . . . . - . . I I3TTR NAKK'5MAMVrtil-' ' V AND LESS IMEOJj S t. I BePo'Re voo caioI HI- store do the daily, loafers sit on now ? This is based on the assumption that there Is no f iro in the stove. Now, In closing, which I find I must do, I wish some of you highbinders who infest that region of the Grande Ronde valley would drop a line to yours truly, who knows enough on most of you to force you to go to work and raise wheat for the army. BOYS AT THE FRONT . NOT FULL OF HATE By Lowell Mcllett, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITjl THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 10. (By Mall.) The hardest hating is done at home. And the nearer one 'gets to the land which is' no man's, the less of hate one finds. . Un a town well to the renr, I came Upon On officer of some rank as he was soundly condemning the conduct of an under .officer. The latter had provided food for, a young German officer, en route through the town as a prisoner. . ,i "Bread and water's good enough for him,", declared the angry, superior. "And dry, hsrd bread, at that," The dav before. I had seen a batch of prisoners brought into the 1st head - quarters back of the line. It was a hot duy, and they were exhausted by their march. Two sickly looking lads fainted and fell just as they were be ing lined up for inspection. Water was already being carried to the pris oners. Some of this was diverted for the purpose of resuscitating the two who had collapsed and the others were then given as much as it was safe for them to drink., Immediately after in spection all. were marched to where food and hot coffee was waiting for them. I asked the offifcer in charge about this practice. . . "Starving prisoners after we've got 'em won't help defeat .Germany," he replied. . Hate 'Em With Shells. He iad been in real danger of Ger man shells and bullets for a month, I without a single day's rest. ' And, it could be added, the Germans had been in- real- danger1 from the-shells,,fi)tj bullets Tie controlled. ": " 'Hate 'em?"esponded the officer in the line, to the query. "Sure we hate 'em! J We hate 'em with big shells, little' shells, rifle bullets, ma chine gun bullets, bayonets, bohibs and gas. In fact we're so busy hating em In that way that we haven't time to mate them with our mouths. But af ter we've taken them prisoner It isn't worth while hating them, is It? And, besides, what's the use of wasting good first-class hate on men you've already captured?" ! A British correspondent whose name U well known to American readers, went with me to visit an American division. He was anxious, he said, to get at the psychology of the American private, to learn what he was thinking and what the wr meant to him. It was the day after the whole British line first started chuckling over the Australians' sizing up of the Ameri cans as great fighters, but too rough." The men we saw were part of the same force that had earned this real tribute from the rough-and-tumble Australians. Picked a "Tough One.'y . I tried to steer the correspondent into a group of smooth-faced, bright looking boys, but he mnde straight for a lean.- leather-skinned veteran of BY AHEnN FRITZ uots of sfviKe. OlO THIS vnoa. til& A IV0;i?f?t V OK) THE BAL.L MAKlrOf PAC&S AT THE FATHEAD .iie forgot it ujas LAST BALI. AWD TRlEP TO 5L-AV THE P6 T '. Most Extraordiiw these New Welworth -It ' Likewise, to know that the price you pay for the Blouse is the ; lowest pos sihle .price 'at which a Blouse of like character can be sold; that the pri.-e t i vnu tuiv is in 'fnot the vnt urico at which the. same Blouses are sold in fjie . ih ini-.r,at' stm-os in tho bircost cities. And is not this assurance Adequate reason I- why you should prefer the nationally k nown and nationally favored .Walworth the Blouses that are sold (at the same price the nation oyer? '' ; ; Tho iiew Welworth Blouses that go on salt- tomorrow; would warrant a nuw.'h hi.r1wr ni'ii'e than $2.00. - There are iusta limited quantity', and when tluse are ' gone no more 6t the same styles will be obtainabe. It ' Welworth when wantingianiuhcxpcnsive.Bjmi Welworth, Blouses in This Cty, Hey ft ' Phone and ' Mail Orders Promptly and Carefully Filled A the Spanish war, whose tin hat slanted rakishly down over his eyes, giving him an appearance of indescribable toughness. He was chewing tobacco, which didn t alter the impression. Presently the distinguished corres pondent returned and pulled me Aside. "By Jove," he said, "it's remark able! That chap's fighting for the same thing your President it. You know what I mean says America's In it until Germuny learns she's lick ed, and Jthat then we've got to devise a way to pievent'any more wars like this. Says he doesn't believe in pun ishing Germnny, or anything like that, but he's willing to see another million or two of them killed if necessary to make the huns understand. He thinks it will take oBput a year or a year and a half.'! V The correspondent added his belief that men who waste their time hating couldn't fight like the men of thej Spanish war veteran type. Tho group of boys with whom I had talked offered another proof of the contention. They didn't talk of the "nun," they talked of "Fritz" and Heinie." rr ! I. ..,. iUn a. inese are uiu nnuvicss iiviuco vv the Australians found "to rough." MISSING I NEW TODAY FOR SALE Good tenm, wagon and harness. Phone Black 342. 8-Z0tf WANTED Nursing, by a practical nurse. 1706 Depot St. 8-ZO-tit FOR RENT Five room modern house near the Rivcria school. Phone Far mer 4015. 8-20,4t WANTED By middle-aged man, po sition as clerk; experienced; can give references. Box (!4U, La Grande, Oregon. 8-20-2t LOST A Wnltham Watch, with sil verine case, open fnce; lost In allay between I.a Grande Meat market and P. O. Finder leave at Observer office. 8-20-21 Observer advertising will bring re sults. '-MWJ SHERRY THE HOUSE MiWred Manning and Wallace MacDonald in "THE MARRIAGE SPECULATION" By Cyrus Townsend Brady. A story of the strangest eontniet a pretty girl ever made and the way it was broken by the man she loved. Comedy, "HUSTLE AND HARMONY." Tho fixed umfaini price of the, Welworth- Ktiiiist,.r tin mighout tile entire country has '.been' $2.00 for the j past several yenrfDespitq aiiyaneitij' lviiiteriahi aiid -v labor costs the price lias' not as yet aivaiiced, while the quality lias been fully values greater than evef in the past.-: , '."';- Isn't there a deep feeling of satisfaction to knmv ihnt . the Blouse you buy js of the sanie lK'w jnodjsh HtyliV!' that is being offered for the first iihio'iii Ihc '','l .try's style centers., . y :' : ' !'.'V V;-';. ' .:''';; l' nJiin T GOLDEU RULE C One of the 600 R. C. U. Stores with an Annual Purchasing Power of , Over 60 Million Dollar ; STORE Few Non-Italian Popes.', A majority of the popes have been Italians, but there Is no nntionnl Huh Itatlon, Pope Clement II, for example, was a Saxon German, whoso finally nnnic was Suldger; Clement IV was a Frenchman named Leo tiros; Clement V was a Frenchman named d'Agoust; Clement VI was another Frenchman named Pierre Itogerj Alexander VI was a Spaniard, named Vorgln ; Culix tux II wu8 a Frenchman lind Cnlixiux III was a Spaniard mimed Bnrgla and wag uncle tP Alcxnndex yi, These aw a few examples of uon-ltallau popes. Especially Grammar. "Yes," she was telling n group of friends In tho restroom, "nil of we girls are going to teach next year." Topcka Capital. . " 1 Cash paid for second liuud school books In good condition, gilvortkorn's Family Drug Store. S-2U-3t. FAMILY DRUG STORE L.A URANOCONCeON. The Carnation Case In the Storeroom '" ' ' It , , ' "The Answer to the Milk Question" On the Farm THEATRE OP QUALITY. Blouses 3 ;' ' ninintr.ini'ilhutkiiij,' the" ntwayg pays to; buy Uk t$. J,.'jj U'fc ; ri..-l...'..-1.. . .-.f-i- V 1J Exclusively. : i fliis- is a Union Store, ' ..and We , Oliservo Union Hours ;';. card oi' Thanks -i We wish to 'express , our. sincere . thanks to all friends and neighbors during our recent .bereavement, iu the death of our beloved mother, for their . kind1 assistance nnd sympathy; ulso for the beautiful floral offerings. j ' V. -. - WII.yAM. II. .GLENN, .' ''',,'.'.'.. ARTHUR C. GLENN, 1 ' . :' - GUY J.GLENN, , - ' DAISY SETTLEMIKE, -MINA STANDIJE'Y," , 'MYKA Ji'KENZlE. . 8-20-lt This eonibinntion is .necessary.' to sup- Ci ...... ..f .,t'f..iti.-i- tssr ly the intensive, SJ wiii'-time effort ot! the- business man. A feature of. the soiiikI, belpfiil eoin- l r liten-iiil banking ssr" kJ jM.liey here main- NAJ taineil is to jte.nl 5i business patrons jsk M the largest possible S measure of t-oopera- G JSK tlon. . . Our officers' eor- dially invite consul- 'jk tatioii upon all nutt.-r ti'i's wherein we cuu be of ser'ice and hold such confereu- ees iu strictest eon- ) fidenee. : - . ' sjiUHi Ol'KNS AN . ACCOUNT. United States National . ''' Bank ; La Grande, Ore. 03 Working'!:. I ,and:v;.r. 'g; i Banking . am di &m T 'if 3 -.'If ; 1 4 VA.llA.N?."9N..,. Job printing, The Observer, Main 37.
