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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1919)
o o o e ""ft FT" A LOYAL PAPER FOR , LOYAL PEOPLE THE SUNDAY -MORNING ' OBSERVER INDEPENDENT ON ALL QUESTIONS Section Two Six Pages MEMBER OF T.HE ASSOCIATED PRESS Specfial Features, Churches, Etc. VOLUME XVIII LA GRANDE, OREGON,' SUNDAY, MAKOH 2, 1.919. . NUMBER 131 V III PEOPLE LOOK TO LA GRANDE DEALERS FOR' INFORMATION ON THE NEW CARS DAYS Of 15 Union County Great Market for New Cars the Coming Season . T- e general belief exists that nion county v. ill bo a irre.it market for cars the coming season, provided wie automobile dealers of La Grande make a campaign of publicity and ex planation as dealers in other cities are doing. . ' This was the opinion of a Sand Ridge rancher, who expressed himself as being in the market for a car. Ik did say that he was reading every thing he could get hold of regarding different makes of machines and is very much iWrestcd in some of the special features which he believes vital To a car's life. He asked for a list of the dealers in La Grande and what cars they han dle, which was given and then he said he hoped to be nble to call upon them or have some Information explaining their car3 given him in some manner. The regret still hangs that deal era, here have not put on an aulo show thisyyear. Interest is so universal in the motor driven vehicle nv that a show is considered' of greatest im portance. Pendleton is arranging for a big show in a week or two and other towns in tfle state are following her example. , - The tractor men are also clamoring for information and the market for tractors is apparently a good one, provided work is done to capture it, The man who is on his toes in the au tomobile and tractor business is es sential to the industry, according to the buyers on the market. They like to have he salesman call and hear him spiel about his machine. the Premier and another machine will be carried andthe M. & M. is arrang ing its selling force' to take up (he new lines and push them hard for the timing season, jf the reports are cor rect. The steam car has been under dis cission here for some time. A lot of engineers live in La Grnndc and there is a lurking feeling in the mind of every man who runs a locomotive that he should be using steam for power instead of gasoline when he is on the country road. Several of thev men have examined steam cars and there is a tide of sentiment turning somewhat in favor of them. Auto Is a Passenger and Not a Pleasure Car, Is the Claim Light Tractors Are Popular With the Valley Farmers Indications are that a great per centage of the plowing in the valley this year will be done with -tractors. The light tractors for the small rancher is coming into favor and the demands for information relative to the merits of the different machines reaches The Observer ofen from the ranchers. -Already a number have been sold of the different makes and new lines arc contemplating entering this field. . in the automobile business here. He has taken on a good line of muchines and is making every nrrangement to hit the ball and hit it hard us soon as the season properly opens. RECALLED country's gross businbss multiplied ics worn on the occasion will be a three-fold between I860 and 1X80. The jif.MlO h ind embroidered Spanish silk wur prices 'began to decline in lKtiu s'nnwl, l.M) year old. ns well as some and continued downward until 1SS0. ; other unimio and attractive robe's bv and knights of colonial days. Wages, however, continued to rise un til 1872. This burst of nrosnerilV af- tor tho Civil War, commentators fay, was due to tho great new regions of the west, like the cold fields of Cali- COOL DOE W LL 'HEAD RELIEF Al'I'OIXTUI) TO AI-TEIM'Altti WOltK OK DlSAlll.KD SOI,l)li:i;S DISBANDKD TKOIH'S MKET WITH SAME OLD I'HOlfl.KM. Poor liilatimi Hill Considered by Legislature New Yorkers Are Storing lloozc. kulic Southern darkey characters in an old plantation song; a volume of melo dies and harmonies' in old-fashioned KMtlir ill Cltl.lU ill!.... ........1.., .. ..... forma, that were just being opened' by mc f the best 'voice, in. T Claude, and a noted non-resident solo ist. The musical direction is under for development. Thev noint out in. parallel conditions exist today on n world scale. Not only are there vast undeveloped regions still to be ex ploited ia our own west and in Alas- hejka, but plans for developing the untold new wcann ot south America and Asia, together with the trade demands ui ..unipe, oner prospect of a boom (frit ys in American enternriso sn,'h , a,.. ;Lai NEW YOIiK, March 1. A Civil the able liianngcment of Dr. S. H. Roe who is proving himself quite an apt instructor. " ... The scene is a visit by iPoston reln tivos, Aunt Sophia, Cousin Jedcdiah and Hezekinh to their old home town. Mrs. R. H. Cokcr, an accomplished elocutionist, as Aunt Sophia, will givo an interesting reading entitled 4'Greea Grow the Rushcs-O." On the whole this entertainment will 'more than please and interest you, and is welt worth more than twice tho price charged, 35c for adults and 15c for children, Tho Christian church's object in giving this entertainment is to 32cure funds to buy 100 or more much noeded song hooks for its services. Don't forget the night and don't fail tn come. Tickets on salo at silvertn?rn i drug store. . country has nevor before knmvn I Support Poor Relation. ine mania for taking propertv from i War veteran came to town tlie other S".'fe c"P"hl enough to acquire it and J"Ugo Knowlcs of Home Service I Section of Hod Cross Makes Selection. giving it to those who are not, has penetrated even to the legislature of the Kmpire state. A bill now before that body would nmend the state con stitution so ns to compel roll-to-do citiams to support poor relatives. Against such enactment there is n Al. Daniels Will Take on the Line of Auburn Cars "Now that the war 'is over there is a tendency on the part of a few individuals connected with the manu facture, sale and use of passenger automobiles, to R esume the use of the term 'pleasure car' when sneaking of them," soys Chase Bohnenkamp, . of W. H., Bohnenkamp company, local dealer in Chevrolet passenger auto biles and trucks. ''Nothing could be more unjust or untruthful than to connect the nam-? 'pleasure'- with as" indispensable a utility as the automobile has proven t be during the past four years, es pecially. It is not a pleasure car, but a passenger car. , And it has never rightly qualified for such a mislead ing designation s;nce tho early days of use. when as an innovation radi-1 ! cally different from nnythii'g hither- j tofore used for traveling purposes, it ' was adopted by some who chose to j make use of its utility purely for j plcasureable purposes. The same is j true of railway coaches and steam-! ships. There are a certain number her who always have and always will use them with recreative aims. Yet no one ever refers to even a parlor ear as a pleasure car or to a steam ship as a pleasure btiat. Then why label the automobile with such an ap pellation? "If the automobile, in spite of its utility, was so high priced as to be within the reach of only n very lim ited number, then it might rightfully; be regarded as a luxury. The term 'pleasure car' might then be used with some modifications. But su:h is not the ease. The ownership of automo biles is confined to no special class of people, small salaried clerks as well as men with trades own and operate them. - ! "In many instances they have been ; the means to more economical an,! better liviiie. enabling their owners to live in rural districts whe-c rents and living is cheaper a"d yet reach their j place of business easily every day i The same is true of the business man ' who has found tho automobile an in valuable business -assistant, actually i saving him much in time, energy and money. "A recent investigation into the use of automobiles in farming districts re vealed the fact that the paenger au tomobile is used 00 per cent of the time for utility purposes." Tho Auburn line of automobiles is coming back into this section of the state and Al. J)aniels, who has han dled a number of different lines, is to be their agent. At least that is the current report in automobile circles. The Auburn line has bloomed out of late into a. number of different type cars, each of which has stronj- claims hy the makers. , Mr. Daniels expects to have a line of the machines in some time during the month of March. Hamilton to Have New Home for His Growing Business Bert Hamilton, who handles the Nash car, is to have a brand new ga rage for his home just as soon as contractors, can put up the building. It is to be located on Adams avenue ud Julius Koesch is the party who is building the .structure and has leased it to Hamilton for a period of years. Mr. Hamilton has mec ith success La Urandc high school last year. juay to meet his soldier son on the way back from France. He had nar rowly escaped sleeping in tho park. There war. na room to be had at any price in the over-crowded hotels, de- Li,;t ti,f. f, i i.'.t .,.., ti. Col. H. B. Coolldgo has been ehos-! hosteli ies had just opened. A friend I ! r"""" '"i enbyJndgeJ.VV.Knew.es to.,eadof llis ,.. ,,, himevcr, rescued 1 side tenemen t o he e,i I the after-care d vis on for sold ers i , , . ,- , , i. , mar. in en and sailors who are returned In a f1,,m 'y lak'"E h"" to '"s clu1'' ' f' elevat?r "PO'KnonU of the un- dlsabled. conditions. . "Conditions are just tho same here! l"'r "est side. If this amendment! There is much to this section ot'now !ls thcv wcr" ho said.jwcre to be passed and enforced there! the work and in a short timo tho "Most of us Northern boys made New wou'1' probably be a marked slowing! boys who have paid tho physical York on our way home. The townll,own of the sternly migration of n! price of liberty, who huve mado the Nvas fu" 01" 1,s and our friends who'd ', considerable portion of our population I "Little Fills andOften the Purse" IS ODE PRICE PROVERB world safe for coining home. neuiis m me people will swell up In a full realization of whnt war Is. Colonel Coolidge's appointment to this important place Is lobked upon as a most fitting appointment, for his heart and soul are with the men who aro have done tho fighting. , MAKING GOOD IN ATHLETICS democracy, will be(conie lo wcet us. lou coimln t tret It fa then that the; room in 'a hotel or nonrdiny-liouso , without paynif? double prire ami iueii j you had to engage it weeks ahead. "They say there are thousands of men out of work here now, a large) part of 'cm soldiers. Everywhere I go I see boys in uniform doing niako-. shift work, selling papers,! souvenirs, ! Roosevelt memorial, pictures and what: not." It was just the same thei The! town waf full of boys from all over! the country -who were in New York , for .the first time, maybe. They liked; it and wanted to get jobs right here.; There was all sorts of talk about ln-! bor troubles and business panic. Hut, pshaw, things straightened out quick enough. Everyhody got jobs pretty soon, business boomed and we had on of the biggesU period; of pros perity in our history. The tiiuno tiling will happen now." Conditions Similar to Civil AVar. -( This veteran's optimistic conclusion is fn accord with tho carefully though out prophesies of New York finaneiiuu not merely as to the labor and busi ness outlook in this city, but in the country at largo: There is, they con tend, much more tb;in a superficial parallel between conditions following the Civil War and those of the pres ent. The comparison is brought out in detail by a recent survey made by the (iiiarnnty Trust Company, of New York. This analysis shows that the .CORVALLIS, Mar. 1. Three of La Grande's former high school students are making good in college athletics at 0. A. C. this year. Two of them, George McDonald and Howard Stod; dard, are of the last graduating class, while the third, Joe Reynolds, wns graduated two years ago. Joe Reynolds has already made i; football letter for this year. So far he has been in every basketball gama the varsity- has played this season, so that his letter is assured him in that sport. The track season is still in the offing, but tho outlook is bright. George McDonald and Howard Stod dard, being freshmen, are not eligible for the varsity this year, but have made the freshman basketball team. Both are playing on their fraternity teams in the intramural series. Their chances for the varsity next year are good. Both were first team men of i pom the former to tho latter nlune of prosperity. On the other hand some are inquiring hopefully if this would not mean a larger exemption in in come tax statements. Booze Being Stored. Gotham's chief worry these (lavs. however, is the imminence of national prohibition. Since the statement by j the prohibition forces that orderly pri- j vate homes will not be searched for ! stored liquors there has been a sternly ; sale of bottled goods in largo lots. Flat,! parties are going to be exceedingly popular after July 1st. One acquaintance of ours laid in a; dry weather supply two months ago. . It took up no small part of the limit-1 ed closet space in his flat. But, altt.t, j he admitted to us that he hud already been obliged to renew his supply throe! times and the third lot is almost gone. The general motto neema to be: ; "Drink, drink and bo merry, for to' morrow wo are dry." V Big Time Coming - Next Friday Niglit' at Christian Church It will be a splendid entertainment known as the' Old Folks" concert, pre sented in quaint old-fashioned cos tumes in sweet melodrama songs of other days. Among some of the interest hit rel- We believe in the policy of large sales and small profits instead of small sales ajid large profits. While we emphasize quality in every department of our store, we also protect your, interests in the matter of price. We af ford an economy that con sists in getting the best goods at lowest possible The fact that we buy for cash and; discount all bills enables us to sell at a closeonargin. Quality goodssuperior service and fafrprices is what we of fef . ' i Trading at our store will prove a real economy as well as a pleasure. La Grande Pharmacy Quick Delivery Phono Main 40 L& Grande, Oregon Pl iw Old Firm Said to -Have Taken on New Line of Machines $845.00 mm&m& $845.00 III ' ' , III ' CHEVROLET MODEL 4-90 J A report is.urri;nt but cannot ht vtrifiwl unttl Fred J. llol'nes of the Island City M."f f -onim- return", from-Portland, that his firm hui tak en on a new line of macl'Tni. i . TJic M. & , company. m.:Ae the Studcbaker rar in tlii eMioi ! .the state and .while it had ,'h2 necm-v ftudetmkei s were as thirk a ha if 11 the.proverbial bark. Knr fnmo reason the Stud.-bakrr and the k M Adit the covers, had n fallii." mi!. .; nhirh time the old M. A M. firm has carried no cars. Knur however, nccordme to 'l"lo What is. the first CQst of your car . What is the upkeep, of your car What is the-Depreciation on your caV . Monday We. Talk Price Tuesday We Talk Upkeep -' Wednesday We Talk Depreciation w. H BOHNENKAMP SPECIA& WE HAVE SISVERAL GOOD UfiED ?'0RD3 0 o the Stanley "ta!ii ca if o " O o . o of O o o 5 o oj o I o o 7 Uucli line-!!
