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LA OTvANDE EVEXTN'O OBSERVER'
Amvn TrECEMr,ER M, MLS.
An Independent New Kpoper
Published Daily and Weekly lit La
Grande, Oregon, by I .a Grgnde Even
ing fibserver Publishing Company.
PP.UCR VtRNNtS, Publisher. O
Kiitcred at the Postoffice at La Grande
Oregon, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Address all Communication to
Tha Observer, 1710 Sixth Street
City and County Official Paper.
Kveitfniy Telegraph Iteport ol. United
Press Association.
Un.-aie lit Other Cities Oregon Hotel
New .Stand, Portland; Imperial News
Stai:d, Portlnhd; Multnomah Hotel
News. Stand, Portland, Oregon.
war primarilpto !01,t-k tl0 war mania
out of Germany to make (ierinsjyy , -jr
soOy for Hurting liO war 'id re
pentant for her military arrogance and
ambitions. And whats the re ill 7
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Oregon's Industrial
News. .
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Americans. The United Ktntes wc.Oto i ----
fcoilK OX THE l U
Tho uncit nt conflict that haa rag-q
ej with iore or hUejfslty ine; Marshfleld Coo Bay dirict cut
I .. npliMni-.l!l.lk. AA..nfll.,i k Ojl'f IHA ,. ,.t I , in A ' (.&
" '"lie Germans are not hjry for the "",uw "
war" writes a re,ondcnt fromi1'',"" t""'n TTUt," tot Salm--Jfcit.!iitHwy commisdon
war, , writes a . .. rc., ,onU, nt nm,w,, s w leal), ,,, as tilke bids Januarj7th on 70IV',U
(..oblcnz. I haw been told .Perof sty, ,(I thinn whom enus-l,,,,,,! wk
times by German citizens I1W0 that , ,,,,,) .uiPcis are directly and con-l ,,' ,. '
they are sorry the war stopped, for ti;,uouly related.. Superstition r- Klamath rallw-Miean.Bay .aw
they thought they might have won. !,! at it, exclusion,, fro.,, !"'" 'nC?aStS c"Pac,tr. i" ,0-'m 1
. wnoity remote or v.iumy dnpon :
th,1 I.mwtani
inhuman, tut Tc-
p.iu:y whi.T
SUBSCRIPTION RATt'S
By Carrier
Daily, por month 63c
Daily, per three months... $1.9'
Vn'tly, por six months in advance $3.7.1
Daily, -per year i: advance. . , . . . $7..rll
Daily, single copy .....flr
By Mail
Daily, per year in advance SS.00
"Defeat has not
man people here
regret the f infd:i;
not became it v:i;
cause it was a mbl
brought Amt'i i' a into llie war.
"Ormany wmil'l make Frrn'-e suf-
fei ugain tonwio-.v, v.o'iid r.gnfb
threat, n civili:'.1' thm t r.n 'ov. if he
could :t. n-vay with it,
"Something ni;iat hapwn to this
(jennan penpln more tliiin h-ip-
penrd. Tlicy re too h;i'-Hr!i'y !-l'out
everylhinK."
Somethini? will happen to them. It
I'M'i-ml 4Ki I -rr-
4b iH-tf i it !-j iiur.ir. u vt ..n r. i Kiirht hulls tjujlt at AJierdeen to ie
Ji'n;'j a onlrov.Msy wi-ere no
eo;i.mf;; f t .ii'tird of &iri ( :a' io-i
iMfstR, f - ill In Hie roilm of 0: ini-
1 fitted with machinery at PsrLhind,
J Portia A fcinn Enirine & Ma'Vioe
; work launch one vessel and k'h vcr
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I j w
hi
ki-oval.jft all have Maine ru lit .o '.another to the Rovernmcjit Dt-ej:
will happen in the form of monetary '"f.-'niTe.
l.jl '.vhen a iii.!(!on h:.. h
f rjfc'alltd fnU) Hfalu'o law th? tiij(i
r,vi t; m liioiHef no, afi In all
!.e... ce, d?;es not rlulm to hive
ciii, be1 Bi the Jitflnhls of knowl
U' Imt it elalins Hie r-ollro pow
er lo" r"K'.alo the attain of a cjm
n titiiily for Kh hultli, eufety. und
I'cne! al Wflf.'.re.
omf n to the dofenso of the
:i!'i
v.-ho h j ve ltt'rt e ve r e I y
Daily, per nix months in advance $2.50 i indemnitirK and other puni'ive mom- ciltlclsert by certain of yuur corn-
paily, three months 'n advance. .l.2.i 'r fa. heavier than the ullifn wnild !,l ondems jn r!istu.Hiim tho Iran f h--t
Daily, per month
'flio f-'iitiirdnv Kvenhiir Olwerver. bv I
rnai), per year in ndvunre $1.50 i not bet n
Weekly (Hserer-Star( by mail, pet ' cffnLiam.
year in advance. .
wl. ... -i- i.i . e : i,.,,i w has been VliUx-il on Mia ilu. I is'a
nave evir innuvin. i":n.iy.
Kir ini.i j.Hjri-.ji't-iii diiiiiin
Only thus
Oth, VM
Por'Ja nd Port commission to 1
12,00'ton h-ydock.
Portland Pacific S.eanr-kip e?m
pany to entablih Portland-?: ivn1.:;!
service.
Butter scoring contest of we.U"-r)
dairy products show to be htlrl in
Boise, Idn., Feb. 10, 11 and . Any
creamery in Wyoming, Montana, Col
orado, Idaho, Wafdiiivrton, Oiv.tn,
Nevada, California, Arizona, ..New
Mexico a yd Mtrth is eligible.
(i!tnf!j'e New sawmill t,'oin in
fekplione orders-carefully selected
and promptly delivered
.$1.30
1 Tl-.! it i. i.b.1 n
ran '.he object of ,,,',,; ln;ln (J, .,,, y to ri,.
llie war lie iiil.i.ii.-.., ..n: .i-. ....... r,,r , the pe(.tlleli.l at the past
people be l.n.ui lit to the humble and. whcn whole cities and counting
repentant frame of mind wbi- h in nec- were in'de deiiola' and de'-ioi ':it -essary
for the future welfare of the "d, nnd to slate- that wo alio till
world and the salvation of their own adopt the samo niethoila i.f .on
a(JUls jtroHliiK dlaoaio thai' word In voiuie
i 'hi lJui-ojto during lt:i! "blatk (i...tl!"
... . - ., fund other pestilences. The.ie eritita
Demobilizing Profanity j,!iy . Kreat on bng .ievt
an U nnecessj.ry Evil. ichrnumi Remiemen. i.ist -n to
. jv.li'.ii J.i.siis Christ hjs lo anv about
As a nation we allowed ourselvi-.s to It:
become unduly proline duri.,K the 2l1' "o'!er unto Caesar the
war. We took it for granted that the 1 1 """-'
.. , , :u rim (Jod tho thliiKH th.it belong to
soldiers mur.t necessarily swear a lot, ye , ku th p,.Mr.
and proceeded to perfect Jhe art ini,,,,, .ho i,ko , be ,,..;, fol t,13r
civilian life. niucli sponkinR, ar.il who Bay their
Perfectly resectable peojde, who prayers from the hoivn lorw, tl'Jt
would ordinal ily have been ashamed , they may ho heard of nion, bin, vet
to use such lar,rlmi;e in private liTv, j y. I fay unto you, priiy In socvit.
luldly pasted on auton-bbile wind-j ''ora who ,e,)th ln "cr,'"t
-V.1..I.1. i i .,k.. l.,,t It,.- '" reward your openly.'.
ai:d wore on their' coat;
"Ty Couiupy Ti ot ThH mmi Ln4
There Is Some Distress in
, La G-rancle Now.
This city 1m usually free from di:
tivna. It in hcM'jiu that the hand of
clnirlty must be sti-L'U-hed to any of
our Titular citieiii. Occasionally
til.i kii nf. in'unli' rnnvn into I ji Iii-iinrln
fnr th.. winl...' .....I fi.,,'1 I Ii.'.i.h.'K .'s i heiizolll 1'llS.
: buttons consiKiiiiijr tne auiser an-i
I various o'.her Germans to the: lower
Aenal 0
Starts Saturday, January 4, Ends Jan. 31
Every Article in the store at Clearance Prices
Arnott Suffered
for Thirty Years
confronted with want and then, of
lint this is an exceptional yenr.
kSirli:io.s him made Itself felt in tho
community and Kiime very (rood peo
ple have been overtaken with calam
ily
is ill nnd has been for a lenKth of
time. Fnmilic'H are in Htraifrhtcned
circumstances and It. la the duty of
every cit.iv.'.'U to survey his immediate
community for cimes of Buffering.
VS hen a worthy case Is found no time
nhould ho lust in reporting H cither to
tho city or county authorities or to
the J!ed Cross. Wc are all here to
help each other. If any person Is
oj;otir,tical enough to believe ho can
live within himself he should think
once more, for the riches of today
may take wiitRs and those who are bo
very comfortable with tho niRhtfull
may awaken ln tho morning to find
themselves pcnnilfss.
Are wo our brother's keeper? We
mo. Most assuredly wo are: The
(treat human family needs the bonds
of friendship pulled tighter. It reeih
to perform nets of charity and kinil
nesn lo know and appreciate ita blc
iriTf. Therefore, if you have a neighbor
who is d v.n and out, make it your
special older of business to assist
him.
!
regions.
The habit spread nlurminirly until j
little children imitated prown-ujis audi
fi-eo.eirtlv outdifl them in extnessillir .1-
In some cast's the bread winner violent and profane condemnation of
all thinirs pertaiiniiK to the (li'.-ipi.;el -.j.
Wilhellil. Even the preachers fell into
n too common form of condcmniiiK
the Hun, and a loved army chaplain
with the Yanks in Prance is reported
to have said "If Hwearinjr will win the
war, I'm for swearini;."
The sohlieis are now. sekiiii; the
rest, of the American people a i;ood
. ... i mm rr;.,;., 1
example in mis i-cl,-iu o. .,n..i...
soldier nublieation abroad. Stars and
The Hist piopostla.i lieaiu thr ol
voreo of church and p'ul-i, aud the
otl.cr ineaitH it la not nH'esBary lj
have inittlic meetln'i t... unguis in
liriiyer i 4 1 'worship.
J. A. STODDARD.
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".Nothing on
Ho Says
Karth Like 'Tniilnc'
-Troubles Ovcrctmio
Another ronKon why a mnn never
c;oh quite, enough money 1b becoMso
lie always wants one moro piece of
pnmerty.
What lias become of tho old-fashlon-
The official !Uont who put woman on a ped-
ental and lett her to utarvo tQ quiui
up there?
Strines. in renoi tcd to have a iked for
a readjustment "nf the profanity out-j 0lr pnnon Bi,nply Js tlmt no mnn
put. Thin U no New Year resolution ; 0in:Mt to yte owed to prow the kind
stuTf about Kwtarin off on'e for aliiof whiskers that look like nonessential
and cutting it out forever aud ever. It industry.
11 simply a KUirKi'stinn that overybody
make a nan ami decent nUeinpJ 'lo
return to normul itn-d":i
tluniielves. Tlie worl
strain is ovrr, and pe.u i
be ushered in without d
stroyin the
lisli lanj',ii!i'
f expre iiiiic
of the war
u-e c:ll SIKttly
confpl;te!y de
! of the 1'ii-r-
Governor Witliycombe Is
Soldier Governor.
Association Chosn a Cood
Man for the Job.
In selecting A. ('. Ha:nj
the State Teachei s' a so.-i:
foniinjr yenr
cil of lli.it l:
1 to iie:iu
i s' a :'.oi'iat ion for the
the reii eent'itic couu
idv made a wise choue,
Tf the truth could be discovered, prob
ubly It would be found that It makes
a horsefly pretty Novo to try lo get
vblnod out of a ttivver.
; Of course we have other troubles,
but we don't have to press our bail
tlowu with one hand whllo we put our 1
Mutt on with the other. Dallas News, t
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j To enable n mnn to smooth a row
co;n;reii shlewalk while standing erect
t lone -hauilled trowel has b;en pat
emcd. the Imnillp belim so mounted
that the face of the trowel will not cut
Into the concrete.
here,
Indications are that 1013 apple wop
in Oregon Washington, Montana and
Idaho will total approximately
000,000.
One of mcst conspicuous example"
of public ownership of street railways
is case Of Motion Klcvated, H.Cft i.OOO
deficit in ai: months on 7c fare
Portland-r-Erirle flour mills to eiect
another ruiii; capacity 1000 bids. j
Rosebuijj to make weekly live sto;k:
slj:pment to Portland markets.
t Oregon City Ical man ships 300,-!
000 strawberry plants to California'
firm. I
KoseburprHerd men of state vnnt. Vell, sir, a neighbor of mine pv.i
herd law amended not to extend to mo oato this Teniae a few weeks
mountain ranges. ;ilKOt aU(1 u's tne fin3iit thiUg I have
Oregon City W. P. Hawlty tojuV.r run across in the sixty-seven
build $25,000 home here. I years of my life." declared Thomas
Oorvallis Ilenton county, to havojp. Arnott, of 124 South Kay st.,
2000 acres beans next year. Growers . Spokane, while in MurRfttroycl's
want warehouse and cleaning plant Orug store recently",
here. "I have suffered for thirty yeirs,"
Salem Wittenburfr Kinp company he continued, "with A bad stomach
importing cp.rload cabbage daily, as ; and other troubles and spent a large
well as between 50,000 and 100,000 part of what I made for treatments
lbs. carrots. Celery, turnips, parsnips .and medicines, but never did pet
wanted. i;iny better until I bean taking Tan
Pendleton County court lo set lac. Everything I would eut would
aside $;"0,000 this year to grade road!hurl, me and the gas on my Btom
betwecn Pendleton and Morrow coun-jach would rise up into my chest
ty line. land cut my breath short. I would
The state lime board asks 510.000. Just have- to gasp for breath. 1 wan
It asks authority to sell lime outside; ""easy atl the time, for fenr I had
thp stnt; As nn PYnprimPiit in i!tP heart trouble. I would have blind
I (socialism it is a failure. Idixzy spells when I could hardly
Oregon City Southern Pacific to:Htn on my feet. I also nufrereu
construct new steel bridge here. j Willi headaches and simply felt Play-
Corvalliu Eleven miles Benton 0,1 l,,lt n"r!y R tlia time,
county roads to be hard surfaced, to1 t ,n now eat what 1 wnnt wit""
cost $220,000. , ;ollt b hurting me for the first time
RnJbiir Onn hiinHroH thonsnml'i" thirty years, and since my food
lbs. beans sent out from district in a
wees.
ino unites Wasco Milling company
running nt capacity; three eight-hour
shifts.
Oresham Ycarlv fruit and veireta-
ilile pack of cannery over 2.000 caes.
Salem Contracts let to Columbia
Contract company for 50,0o0y;lrds of
road materii.l for paving eighteen
miles between Jif.lem r.r Aurora.
Iiiver and l::',.'or i.riopriation for
Ore l proves .'' .t OO for CVio-:
Hay; $ LOO.t.OO for Vanuina bay air!
hnrbor, and 1,0)0 -for Couilie bar
and haibor.
IIr,ul Iiiver county to increase taxc
0 per cent in HMD for good roads
work.
I.elianon New $10,000 cannc-y
building authorized by hoard of dirce
trrs. Kquipnient t. cost r000.
Hobinett Stadhtrtl i 1 company
building cil warehouse here. Capacity
five carloads.
Portland State hhrhwnv comniis-
During the Period we are closed
telephone your orders and we
will be dad to make deliveries.
, Idlg
' on
Newlin Book & Stationery Co.
its and the gas stopped forming
my stomach 1 don't have any
moro trouhlo with palpitation and
shortness of. breath. Why, before j
I took Tanlac the least exercise !
would completely tire "io out, but
now I can walk or work ajl day j
lope; and feel none tho worse for it.
I Aliens I have taken a barrel of!
niedleino of different kinds and lived :
on a diet, iilinost starving myself,!
iryinir to, Ret rid of the trouble, but i
I KiiftVreii 'just tho samo until I got'
Tanlac. So 1 kaow what Tatllae .
' :.'; lon for me nnd I appreciate It
i-eeueh to tell cvoiybmly at'out It.
my opinion there's nothing on'
earth like It." !
Tav,!.-u- is sold in I. a Cli-ando by Si!- j
vcMlliom and lilchardson Drug,
.itori's: In I'nion by L. A. Wright; I
ia .North Powder by I,. A. ltussi'l ;
and In Klgin by Scott K. Harris..
- Adv. , . I
e Am Closed
.1
for Mr. Haipptoli is not
antly .piciru-.l ta i.i
body, but his heart and i
t school woil.. I'Viv i-
work a.; .Uic-. ,
sevelcd all 111"
bund-.".ate
liani,.:
Too niucli praise cannot be liivcn
(lovei'i-.r Vi(!iy;'ol.ih.' for his condst
tnl star l in ih-inan lini: that the peo
ple i.f On e;.! ', f. he a deep and pro
found interest ia the returned soldier.
The i'i.v.'Hi.m- ii-alic-! how Pl'.'lle
we a'.' ii peotde to talk lots nn.l" ''' ''' ,!,:' 'l' h" ""
,Vi little on s-.i, h maUci, and he there- tcntion. He ii. d.-v..t..l to ihc'dcv.
f..rc has iak"ll the bit in bis leeth and I o lit. of the yoar.e and in that
appointed Mavnr (leorge linker of pacity he has .... a flis wcrth.
. ....... I ...t.i. ii i. ! His fllH tli.au fa will be ol
All vl,.f 1 'iow Cc.n-c know be is child nnd its ftiltii.' -! hi-, wttl
d.-r" in (be rulle-l sense, lie .thought will be ol tne ivn.u .;
en who lllll-t leach that ihi'd. tor A.i. Il.imp-
npointment for ton know.-. UV-r than m.-'t .cn that
it-, nnd hetiirnslit is inip .saihlc to h ..e t- "1 !-
lac
.il is ci' cn
live th. ii
i. He has
r im.aac-.s
oi.' nar at
th.
While a steel tube Is stronger and
more rbrl.l than a bap of llie aan.o
metal of e.iual weight, a Preach scien
tist has demonstrated that a tube Is
more flexible than a bar of tho samo
exterior dimensions.
1 The wheels of one new farm trac
tor are equipped with radiating legs,
.which enter and. grip the soil, wblbi
nnotbee bus no wheels and literally
. tinlka over the ground on skids nt
tho en. Is of four- legs, J
utes SIMUUHI for llma-
coilsti:u;a:i tinker
dis.oii-nr-, 1 by th.'
;-n stito'i 'his fali.
.-.tiro.
v f ont bat, holy.
: lanr.
lii'-oaic
n pruccc.l
rhhors lb.
va'itn a r
the prest!;-
51! ..pun'
nmi'tti e
it will I
nt
('litb-d
Teeter
phone ordel-s
to. I'Jiolie K
promptly at
I U.'ll. The
l'J-'J7-tf.
sain approjin
tilla county roads.
The t'nde of 'he
has been p-er.erallv
e'ections in '...-;;'..-I.egl.sh.tor:'
ti l.e r
Ilitid to pet re-.
Halfway Highly per rent
ers of eountv gel part of til.
f i oiu daii ing. t
The DallesState highway coninii.--:
sion approved $ll:0'.'0 lcid:-e over llc-i
schutcs. Koseburg to Win -l.f.te!- land
to be paved. ?'.I2,..P0 wi'l be eNpcia!-;
ed in the p'roject. j
Sah in -State fish ard game com
niis.sioti iiectis additional f 'll'Ol) lo com
plete (V-vgon ( 'itv "fishinp-. '
with dir
fbnse s.
by bi-r d.
'Whale
list from the club woman I without good ten. hers, ju-'l as It is
i-e of duty is overshadowed impossil 'e to have i.aa.l .'...'.dven with
drc for newspaper notoriety, .out goad mothers.
ci- criticism innv be lodged. The critical line for Oregon schools
against the Port 'ard mayor it imi-4 . i- at haul 1'ccmi c ur Ma-"' na- "
be luliailtcd thai l.e 's a doer of. fit to u.te .b.wn any nd.litii.nnl tu.r-tiling-'.'
Lining ina'teis on the table i Dial schools, th,1 hiuirni: the ou'pft
lilrki- no bit wi'l. him nnd if you take! of ten-lien for llie future,
a proposition f.. the city hall. ia Port- i We hope the g.n.oal public will
land you had better be prepared tnt:vke Mr. Hampton's i ..'"niincn.bitions
ih fend il for you will got .action he-1 and follow lu in. lor what be says will
oft know it. "be 1 1 ..in sincere tul Innesi suioj oi
fere V.
Per this reason'he Is the ' oe pioper'tlni situati.-r and will ve'
person to (fat nt the hCi.U.f the sol icui.uks.
' di. r situation. W'i' ii combe has made '
an l.ppoin'idclit whah in.' state wiU S'e hope ttie lictmani
teloice oer for t.eorgc linker's diplo- (d41dage of New ) car's 1
inai-y is lacking to a great ilent iiri'soine una h, jiecded re. da',
when eaiployers fail la da as th. y . (, -
l,-:-ecd to d.i, during baiapiet hours Rio.1'- Read to
... ntnl hours of intrude when the hoc. The i.nselti-b
were leavi'ift. be will lit.it, s,Ulii
tbeir panics out to the ttfit ire 'stale,
.''lij'ioi t l'er itlhe inoVenieiit. lb
will make good and o&r returned hoc;
will liave a friend in court.
be ran.
dcin
;0 taking
ay? W, make
"Sorrv for the War,"(6o
giey Claim. 49
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The mental attitude of the (icrmaii
people .since the signiiif; of the aimi.
;! ' ?.. .! 1 11. '
illal forget ib'tn . W.s
n.'d f.re lh.)-e wbo are
Ucss for ttll'lliselies.,'.,
Ilapiin'ss.
th ' b '.i'p!.'i
' C '"p.,;. t.ki'Ol
Th- ilistM
s,. .:n" happl-
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'if the st.oaa,
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gestion ric.
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3 DAYS MORE
Buy your War Savings Stamps according to your
pledge. It i3 a patriotic duty and a binding obli--'',
s c" . , gation. " s
La Grande 'National, Bank
Mem tar Kcacrml KerT Syst
DosiiU'.iiWd Hfjsitiirv of tha I'ulVotl Suites
i . - 4-' fi
m viovt-rnnii'Tit
h'ethV;
."H:'.':'rt
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Phone us, and your or
ders will receive OUR
PROMPT ATTENTION.
Phone Black 1761
WILSON BROTHERS
in: laiiors new rotey Building
ill . ' ...
1
Sfl.aiU" is superior to
any'otlRT front lace corset,
1'or without the IcnZir
IVaturos no t?oi;set can pos
sihlv bo just as good. It
font ains the master touch of
scientific const ruction,
j You do not sacrifice com
1 fort for stvle snd ron do not
sacrifice1 style for comfort!
i ylicn you wear
NION pfegl' LA BE L
nn i
' A compVte line always on !
i'hninl, pticedii.t ?2.50 up. j
i Mrs. Robt. Pattison
'. Cortiere " "; ,
:i Phone KY.l ;ll"Jl
- 1 11 IF
Oa Street,
Kt. 1702
j r.
r. Business Man-
As a matter of economy you
should consult the- Obser
ver's Job Department before
placing .your printing we
are satisfying La Grande's
leading firms put us on
your calling list5 Phone Main v. f
37. Only Highelass Printers,
1 A y
are e.j.jipiueu..w r. ; .
r 11 O t
(51 9 B
ii-irTTTim i-rff" r'rrit- ir iniftmmt.
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