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The" Observer
Newspaper.,
Puhuah.4 Sally and Weekly at
' La Grands, Oregon.
La Grinds Evening Observe
Publishing Company. .
BRUCE DENNIS, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoffice at
La Grande, Oregon, at Second-claw
Matter,
Address All Communication! to
Tht Observer, 1710 Sixth Street
City Official Paper. County Official
Paper. 1
Evening Telegraph Beport of United
-. yrtu Association.
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y Country Tie ef Thee, tweet Land
! Liberty.'- ,:,;;. (;
LA GRANDE LOSES A GOOD FIRM,
ft is, hot customary for a newspaper
to mention editorially a closing out
(ale of any firm,, but there ore so
many heartstrings and feelings of
goodfellowship surrounding the Gol
den Rulo Company in La Grande, that
the Observer cannot see this institu
tion dissolve without calling attention
to the part it has played in the devel
opment of this city and community.
That Mr. Mac Wood and Mr. Will
lam Casey,' principal owners1 of the
company,;' should see fit to close out
the stock and cease lousiness is a pure--y
matter 'and Jhis paper' lias nothing1
whatever to say, for all men have
their own affairs to handle and any
conclusion reached by; the individual
is wholly his own.
. The Golden Rule and its active man
agers have been quite a factor in La
Grande for many years. No public
Improvement, no move for the bettor
inont of the community' ever passed
tho Golden Rulo Company unsupport
ed. Mr. Wood has devoted a great
deal of his time to public work and bis
efforts have ever been turned in the
direction of right, and a desire to im
prove La Grande morally has always
been his. He has served the city in
many capacities, having 'been one of
the commissioners who put the present
form of managerial city government
into effect Jit wus a task of large di
mensions, for every 'feature' was new
and had to be tried out. '.His mature
judgment and his eminent, fairness
helped materially to make La Grande's
form of government a "thorough suc
cess from the beginning. tv :
When tho Golden Rule Company's
etoro will have been closed out, us it
will be in e short time, it is sincerely
doped that both Mr. Wood and Mr.
Casey will decide to continuo us resi
dents, of La Grande, Ilowcvor, if bus
iness should beckon to them elsewhere,
the unanimous good wishes straight
from the heart of all La Grundo peo
ple will accompany them.
JUSTLY DUE THEM. 4
It is all right enough for the author
' Itios to give notice to Germany that
any further wanton destruction and
burning of cities on their retreat will
be mot with reprisals. Hut what is to
bo done about tho destruction already
inflicted on the people of Belgium und
tho occupied portion of France ? There
' need be no notico About this part of
tile wreckage. It can only be suitably
, paid back in the raiding of a strip
' alout 4 hundred miles wide from the
' jfthune up to and including Berlin.
' JThat is a necessary measure to suit
' obly iiid-.ict in the mind of the warlike
liun what it means to be invaded and
overrun and robbed and pillaged.
They can learn the lessons of war, it
seems, in no other way than by the
vigorous!, administration, of their w
:edicljlf'
No one can beliove for a minute that
CermaMje wJJl eyer beb)e to pay pre-
fA i
f'V" Swa r; .sfV A V J .11,:
' r $ p Capt .
'jJOBKLEIL
MARIAN N ORR1E
, TBo!0 getting breathless
Mlowlni Florlda'a first and Amer
Jca'B only woman mayor-t-Major
. Jlai'lan HorwlU O'BrioD. i
1 ' '? "O'Brien'' as Just been
I , tacked on.' It formerly was ih
elusive possession, :p kw?''
' esmptlcn manager, the political
' aeetrlio iu4dd her to Tiefory
half of an indemnity to cover the dam
age in a material way they hav,i al
ready done. ' There should be a Heidel-
burg, for a Rheims; a Frankfort, for
an Albert, and so on down the line,
and then a complete strip of devasta
tion wherein blackened ruins may
through the centuries of time to conir
stand as a spectral' warning to the
future Hun of the wantoness of var.
There will be no satisfactory outcome
of this affair, as it .now stands, until
the kaiser's country has been j-etaliat-
KM- is , vu
It is all the more coming to them
now, when they are burning, and de
stroying, when It can do them no pos
sible good;'' ntfS 'Is an' tfibdrfi ' part of
tho savageness -of -a- people that- has
boen schooled in the -glories of ;wav.
Let them have for themselves some
of the glory they have been rioting in
the past four years.
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CHANGES OF-70 iTEARS. i
Mrs. Levi Ankcny, who died at the
family home in Wulla Walla Sunday,
was to the pioneer munncr born. Five
years boforo her birth" her ' father
came to tho Oregon country with the
immigration of 1813, a member of the
immigrant train that was guided
across the plains and the mountains
by Dr. Murcus Whitman, notes the
Spokesman Review. Her eventful life
of 70 years began with tho discovery
of gold in California. The Pacific
northwest lay then u wild und lonely
land. Old Oregon, embracing n far
flung region which extended from the
California line to the British posses
sions on the north, und from the Pa
cific ocean to the summit of the Rocky
mountains, was peopled by fewer than
10,000 whites. Three millions are
here today.
Wulla Wulla alone has larger popu
lation than there wcro white people in
1818 in tho vast legion west of, tho
Rocky mountains und lying between
Mexico und Canada. Within the span
of Mrs. Ankcny's throo score years
und ten the American nation expanded
from 20,000,000 to 100,000,000:
Born in a log cabin in a ploncci
community of tho Willamette valley,
Jennio Nesmith enjoyed the distinc
tion of seeing both futher arid hus
band sit in the senate of the United
Stales. But the greutcr romance that
unrolled before her eyes was the mi
raculous development of the' rich re
gion that was so wild und desolate
when sho was nn infant and which
became so wonderfully altered long
before her death.
July 4th In Fiance,
Star, Satur-10-4-21
day and Sunday.
SINGER SEWING MACHINES.
The acency is with Coolidge's Paint
Store. Oct one of these prize machines
and your sewing , troubles-are over, i
Some good second hand machines for
..1 l,..,, IMI'11 A DM U'lllll XV.Y.
n-28-flt,p. -. : afc-i -. Artnfc'iVaa
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Captain J. J. O'Brien; Florida Na-
(." Hardly, had the Ink "dried bo toe,. ,
marriage ceruncaie wuen ids ex
campaign, manager,' end head of '
Moorehaven's select council,
kissed his culef executive goodby
and left for the battleflelda of
France." , it-i-n -
PUBLICITY FOR SLACKERS
1 In the list of liberty bond shirkers
and slackens offered to the newspa
pers for publication the other day
were four names instead of three.
The fourth man got wind of the
intent of the liberty loan committee
and hastily sent m a substantial sub
scription. Mis name was therefore
stricken-from the list before it was
printed.
Appearance in the press of the list
of throo wai an evidence that more
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nturjes -wuuiu in prinvcu uiiicds nuu
scribtions were forthcoming. Numer
ous '.dilatory persons therefore has
tened td;fwBn!flbiwity:',"!jj!?
, Here it fa 'practical illustration tefi
the .bower Of publicity to. force per-'
sons who can uo xoeir amy to oo n
Thdte, is 'a' siirillfir" provision now in
the Oregon tax laws. 'The tax shirker
is first given notice by.rna.il .ot .his
delinquency.'' He knows that if he
does not : respond .' Within1 . a -certain
time his' name' will 'be published in
connection with an advertisement an
nouncing the availubility of a tax lien
upon his property to any person who
wilrjiiy hjs taxesfdt: hnru j ,v;
For on' -.unexplained reason an
avowed single tax advocate wishes to
dispense with this publicity. At a
time when the adequacy of public
revenues is made precarious by wur
conditions -and when other folk uro
devoting their chief energies and their
available means to prosecution of war
work, he finances an initiative meas
uro seemingly designed to interfere
with the collection of taxes.
Tho lesson of tho liberty loan com
mittee's publicity ought to be pluin to
the mose ordinary understanding. Tax
money, like bond money, must be had.
There 'arc always 'slackers and shirk
ers. Moral force , must be,, used to
compel some to pay. Portland Oro
gonian. Observer advertising will bring re-
sn!t.
It's the
Oregon Way
To put over the Fourth Liberty Loan even as it
is opened is the way they do things in Oregon.
To think, talk and figure in advance; anticipate
our quotas and volunteer our applications for
subscriptions is the plan of OUR campaign in
which for the fourth time, we send put DOL
LARS to back our BOYS. ...
In the past, proof of patriotism has not been larking. ' But there
arc Btill a few a very few. thank Cod, who do not realize the
immensity of this War or appreciate the principles involved. A
very few others would "let tieorge do it" while still others fool
themselves Into thinking the war is almost over.
EVERYBODY'S HELP IS NEEDED. WILL
WE HAVE YOURS?
UNION COUNTY FOURTH LIBERTY
LOAN COMMITTEE,
THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY ,
La Grande National Bank
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Mioes tor
You will find here all
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Men's and Women's
Store Closes
Saturday
8:30 P. M.
WILLYS HAVE
riWOLINE PLOW
TRACTOR PRODUCTION WILL BE
OPERATED SEPARATELY
Effect of Distributers of the Tractor
Company and Overland
Is Awaited
TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 24 Special
telegram One of the most important
transactions consummated in years
transpired yesterday when the control
of the Moline Plow company passed
into the hands of the Willys-Overland,
Inc. The latter cohipany is now in
possession of SI per cent of the stock
and the remainder is still retained by
the Moline. The acquired organiza
tion will remain intact' with the ex
ception of Frank G,. Allen, vice-pres
ident and general manager. No mer-;
ger or change in the latter s financial
status is contemplated, according to
John NvWillys, '',;.':,! . .'.'.' .JL.'..
The tractor business will be operat
ed as a separate organization. Steps
are now being taken to transfer some
of the machinery from Moline to the
Toledo plant and as soon as this is ac
complished tractor engines will be
manufactured in Toledo. Gradually
more work will be done at the Toledo
plant until the entire tractor will be
produced here. It is not believed that
the complete tractors will be built at
Toledo before another year.
Production at the Moline plant is
running fifty-four a day. The com
pany is 4800 tractors behind in orders.
After the Willys-Overland plant starts
manufacturing the complete tractors
the Moline plant will confine its activ
ities to the production of agricultural
implements. It is very likely that the
selling forces of both companies will
be combined as a result of the proba
ble cessation of passenger cor manu
facture. : 1
Moline has twenty-two branch
houses, and 30,000 dealers. The Willys-Overland
has moro than 100 dis
tributers i and 8000 dealers. Coinci
dent with the announcement of the
control of tho Moline interests, the
Mi.".
Men
the popular styles of the season. We'll see that you are properly fitted, and our
quality will keep you
Men's Dress Shoes, black or tan $3.50 to Sj10
Men's Work Shoes, service guaranteed..-..?-! to $8
Boys Shoes, black and tan, all leather...$2.75 to ?6
Women's Shoes, for street and dress wear, new-
. est styles ,:,:,, , ,U . 'Z.'K,$6 to $12
Misses' Shoes of Quality, black, tan," brown.....-..,-:
.: . 1 :-: ,.$3.50 to $5:50
Children's Shoes, black, tan, white: lace and but-
ton :;:;,.;;;:',; ; $1.75, to $3.50
Patent Leather Shoes, lace and
Willys-Overlan'd plant received a $25,-
000,000 order from.Jhe government
for Liberty twelves. This. aided to
the present contract will bring the
Willys-Overland Willed war orders
over $75,000,0;QO. ,''..'
. The Moline flow ebmpany is one of
the oldest and most' successful of the
big farm-operative equipment manu-
facturing concerns in the country. U'
has factories at Moline and Rock Isl
and, III., Frecpo'rt, 111., Stoughton,
Wis., 'Minneapolis, Minn., Pougbkeep
sie, N. Y., and owns the Acme' Steel
Co. of Chicago. For many years the
business of the company was devoted
to the manufacture and sale of tillage
implements, but the line was' greatly
increased by the buggy, wagon and
seeder and drill, along with binder fac
tories, which were acquired,
The Galloway-Rees Company Jyyve
the local agency lor -La urandc,
HUNS iCHAIKJE ItERAVAlA ; ;
AMSTERDAM,;,' Oct, 4. ,r'ew,'i ot.
Lulgarla's ..unconditional su.-rendun
now Is being published ln -tie GtW-
man press.
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"We are betiased." .IJi'frtanc.
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that frequently appears li-. - lh-i
newspaper,, artiolea.- tTh :Fi'anifof4.
Gazette -admltstha suriend!r '.is,-a
d'rect result of development on
the - western" front...."- 7. '..-:.
The Colosnp j. Voll: ,.Zoltuiip
deeply :; pessimistic; sayo H"'wiaW
he unwise , to, jlaco iny hopes on
a counter movement. ""
Amoiican Y. W. C. A. secretaries
In France have reverted to the
"bikes", of their childhood; Gaso
line is difficult to get, expensive
and needed for the army. . Conse
quently, largo numbers of the Y.
W.C.A. workers use bicycles trav
eling between the clubhouse, fac
tories and recreation centers.
Topless Sport Model
Loofc, Your Best and Be
Comfortable in a
FRONT LACE CORSET
the only corset with the patented
VENULE
Back and Front Shield
Be fitted to the corset designed for
your figure. There are
LA CAMILLE MODELS
for every figure. They are always
fitted by a scientifically trained cor
seticr. This service goes with the
corset and such comfort.
A full line of the latest models al
wayi on hand. Priced at $2.00 and
up,
Mrs. Robt. Pattison
Corsetiere
Rea. 1702 Oak. Phone Red 8221
Womeii, Childrnii
thoroughly satisfied.
button, all sizes; values.to.
It U All ESTATn.TBAfiM'SrW
L.,; Pnten,t . was, Issued ! th ttiltetl
r0l...,t'. Tnnh n''viilinv finr -
iraetNllttBec!)2k.''and another tract.
In Sec'26 of.'-Tp.4,!,SR' 36 EVVM.!
eonsistlnc toeethor-.af 160 actesi"
D. :Somirier - and; Aniella Sonrmer
of Elgtato' c;.'!R''-!Hlbbard ot-'Xa1
firahda,; diafact- In-' SoC.;' tlWfli.
NR,'38"'EWM. . 1; 5
M. J. Goss of La Grande ,'.d.
B" Hlbb'ord conveying the SW -Iqiiar-
f 13, 14. 15, 16, 17, 18, ID, 21, 22
and -23, all in Block i of -Hind-,
man's addition to Elgin.
'.' Picture-Transmitting Set!'.t":'','::
Ah apparatus for transmitting pic
tures electrically 'Is among the latest
scientific toys. It Is described rind Il
lustrated in Popular Mechanics Mag
azine. The sending nnd receiving In
struments are1 synchronized. by;tUatcel.
rod, although another system may be
used for longer-range- work. AiPhoto
grnnh imust flmt be renroduced;,pn, a,
copfle'r platP, -which Is rolled flveTj the.:.
cylindrical nlatert pt,, the. sending ma
thinej ,A' ncedlCiheld against It trav-.
elS; f rom one end of tlm.-rojl-rio-the
other, and rthexplotnreiis reproduced
onTjopor'at the n;her ejid ef the Inie,
aiilijiaMe
Woo
Blankets
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We have splendid
facilities for clean
ing and renovating
these articles
They will be
returned as clean
soft and fleecy as
when new
STANDARD
LAUNDRY
COMPANY
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.$8, choice........ ;!
Sneed of Carrier Ploeone.
j On fairly long Journeys, say to 109
Biles or more, the carrier pigeon wlllv'
Leverage-, a speed -of from 87- to'-43
miles an hour. uThe best-horse In the
-orld can only keep up a speed ap.-'
proximate, to that for six or'sovch mlD ,: 1
ltea at most - The pigeon's 'speed-la-''
),bout 33 yards a second, -i- i '
-, :-wM
Cut This Out It Is Worth Money. ' ,
DON'T MISS THIS THIS. Cut out
this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it'to
Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield Avenue,
Chicago, 111., writing your name and
address clearly. You will receive !in
return a trial package containing Fo
ley's Honey and Tar Compound, for '
coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney :
Pills, for pain in sides and back; rheu
matism, backache, kidney and bladder
ailment; nnd Foley Cathartic Tablets, ,
'a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing
cathartic, for constipation, biliousness,
headache and' sluggist bowels, Sold
everywhere. '"' ' ': '' ' . Adv.
w.v ' 1 " r'
,', Tew fall-' suitings Iti fine' Imported-
woolens that: arb-100 per cent "
t.-ool ahd-'guarantoed1. " Both ladles','
and gentlemen's clothlilb. ' l: " '
liM-lt THE ' TOGGERY
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