Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1919)
e o e .vs. the Sunday Morning Observer A LOUL PAPER FOR LOTAL PEOPLE INDEPENDENT ALL QUESTIONS Section Two light Pagei MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Automobiles, Agricultural, Sports, Classified, Etc. VOLUME xvm l .. LA OliANDK. OKEOOX, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1919. NTJMBtfR 173 News of Interest to Motor Enthusiasts TRACTOR SHOW Of APRIL 23 WALLA WALLA TO HAVE MAXY MAKES OX GHOl'XD , Tho Hig Yeniicy Itancli Will lie the Sci'iio of Trqciw anil Truck ' Tests WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 19. (Special) Walla Walla is ready to entertain the thousands of visitors ex pected lu the city for tiie tractor and power farming demonstration April 23, 24 and 25. The home owners of Walla Walla have thrown wide their doors to the Commeicial-club's hous ing committee with the result that Walla Walla will he able to take earn of 20,000 visitors daily. The big (iOO-aci'3 Yenney ranch, where the tractor and truck demonstrations- will be held is close to thi cily. Transportation will be by auto mobile and more than 200 Walla Wal la citizens have donated their cars for the event. This will enable visi tors to reach the ground rapidly and return at their convenience. Many exhibits . already have been received in Walla Walla and there is hardly a day but what some new type of truck or tractor is seen on tho streets of the city. Local decern planning exhibits have their equip ment on hand for tho event and great tents have been rented in Seattle, Spokane and Poniard to cover dis plays of truck and ti actor accessor -ies. One huge tont will be used to dis play power equipment for the farm home whore the farmer's wife will find all that is new and modem '.u farm labor saving devices. Within a very few days all of the many depart ment heads of the Oiogon Agricul tural college, the strito college at Pullman, Wash., ami the University of Idaho will be In Walla Walla, t'l participate In the ovent. So will b') county engineers an.l county agricu1 tural agents from over the northwesi. Acting Governor Hi.rt will be in Walla Walla for the show on April 2 4, and other prominent stato Oi 1 cials plan to take part in the demon stration. Tho program for the event calls fi-r many features of interest to the far mer. The three daya will be given over to' demonstrations of rounf'i wheel and the track, laying typo of tractors. Farm trucks will be loaded to their capacity and tried out under various conditions. Including severe tests on soft ground. Private and public Instruction In the operation, care and up keep of tractors and trucks will bo a daily feature at the show. Discing, plow ing, seeding and harrowing by power machinery ulso will be demonstrated The big Yency ranch orfors every conditions faced by farmers of the northwest and was selected by the general committee after a tour of the country lasting nearly three weeks. Secretary Fetlerman reports more than 150 exhibitors with a belief that additional exhibitors will come in tho last few days previous to the opening of the demonstrations. RAGE IN WITH The New Auburn Car Is Incomparably Beautiful Beauty truly a word to conjure with! Beauty the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the constant quest of civilized man. The "frozen music" of architec ture, the glory of fleeting clouds, the riot of color In a garden all of these touch a responsive chord In ub because they are truly beautiful. The same iB true of our personal possessions. The flash of a jewel on a white hand, the sort harmony of tones In an Oriental rug, the grace of lino in period furniture all of these testify to the delight the dis criminating find in pure beauty. Today we know it is possible for an object to be ornamental as well aB useful, for exterior charm to de note inward excellence, for beauty and dependability to go hand in hand. Today you rightly demand beauty in a motor car and you will find It com pletely expressed in the Auburn Beauty-Six. Beauty In a motor car finds many forms of expression beauty of de sign, beauty of power, beauty of possession, beauty of permanence, beauty of price. It Bums up In a word all the desirable attributes of the car you desire to own and drive, and it is this inclusive beauty that has given the Aoburn Beauty-Six its na tional popularity. The beauty of tho Auburn Is no accident its Identifying individual ity is neither ultra-modish nor freak ish. The boldness, of Its linos Is a fine expression of daring mellowed by experience, of outstanding artis try tonipered with discretion. And. best ot all, the Auburn's beauty Ib the cloak of Its power anil the maBk of Its brute endurance. The Imprint of creallvo designing Is to be found everywhere In me Beauty-Six; but if you cared noth ing for design, tho Beauty-Six would Buper-sati&ty you by its perform ance in the whirlpools or city tramc or on the grey roads of the open country. The Danlol Auto company of La Grande is distributor of tho. Auburn for Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho. CADILLAC FEARS ENDED (FroJU Cadillac Charing Houso) Stern necessity a fow month ago cut Cadalluc production; first a quarter, then three quartets, with Ibe possibility staring us in the fact of no Cadillacs at all after January 1st.- Maybe we didn't admit it to anyone, but those were anxious times; a bit foggy anead, with much subject for thought atter one1 had read the (l,-.y a news and smoked his pipe and may be stretched out for tho night. It may have seemed a little ungracious, the things tho factory folks had to put In their letters, and maybe a little of that same feeling got into the organization at home; the ser vice man was a litllo more brusque than was necessary and the star salesman a bit crabby about selling renewed cars that is, if you wore lucky enough to havi a service man In tho army. This war business was a worrisome task. While wo all did what we had to do most willing ly, occasionally some of us forgot to smile. War is over and there will soon bo plenty of Cadillacs .for everyone. Not only that, but there are plenty or neoiilo who will bo glad to get them, and with the old-time pep and enthusiasm and with the ncw-tlme recognition or Cadallac goodness to help us boost, it's going to be easy to sell more of them than we ever dreamed ot Belling before. NASH C HEAD MEETS DEALERS BERT HAMILTON AND HILL MOORE MEET THE. HIG MAN OF COMPANY "Betterment" Is the Slogan of the Concern that Makes Popular Machine. John Anderson Reports Sale of Eleven Cars During the Past Week Standing in front of the Multnomah hotel in Portland a few days ago Bert Hamilton of. La Grande and Bill Moore of Baker, took considerable pleasure in introducing a mild man nered man to their friends. This man was Mr. Nash, head of the Nash auto mobile concern, ami 'he is an individ ual keen as a sword, mild mannered as club woman, yet as decisive as Henry McGinn when delivering an ar gument in a Chinu lawsuit. Mr. Nash had journeyed to the west to meet Oregon dealers and he ad mitted he found a good bunch of men, ull content with the Nash car and everyone booking more orders than the factory could well see its way clear to handle, although as Mr. Nash remarked, 'the war is over now and while we are like all concerns, more or less handicapped, we arc going to turn many Nash cars. The thing that I wish to impress upon the public is i that the Nash car is here to stay. It. is a life work and from day to day ; our engineers will work hard to in- j stall betterments and improvements. ; The standard of value, while excellent at the present moment, is to bo made better. Every man who owns n Nash can rest assured ho has someone be--! hind that car who has a personal in-1 tcrest in it and will see that it makes good." Both Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Moore returned from Portland with even greater enthusiasm for the Nash car than they had possessed before for they Baw and hoard more of the rer .sources and ability of -thfriji?? "com pany, and met the president who is far from an idle talker and who means every word he says about standing firmly behind the cur that these men as local agents for Union and Baker counties are selling. Mr. Hamilton is also booking many orders for Oaklnnds and his portion of the Cadillac allotment is pretty well taken up now before the season has fairly begun. Indications are good, according to Mr. Hamilton, that there will bo moro good cars sold in the Grande Hondo valley this year than ever before. John E. Anderson, of the Maxwell Service Station, reports a fair vol ume of business for the week just passed. The salea on which deliveries have been made total eleven, and thore are a few other deals which have been made but will not be in cluded as closed until tho cars are actually In the hands of the purchas ers. Tho list of tho eleven new car owners includes the following: Olo Erickson, La Grande, Max well; John Murchison, La Grando, Maxwell; G. M. Richer, La Grando, Chnlmers; JDr. Klrby, Elgin, Essex; Albert Eaton, La Grando, Overland; Hen Holllduy, La Grande, Ford; William Cantrell, La Grande, Ford; M. A. Tumor, North Powder, Max well; N. B. Chisham, Union, Muxwell; E. E. Beatty, La Ginndo, Maxwell; W. A. Bunton, La Grande, Ford. Fire Chief's Oldsmobile Travels 65,000 Miles Still in Active Service "Eleven years ago when Chief Hugo R. Delfs of tho Lansing, Mich., rire department, purchased an Olds mobile roadster to replace hlB horso and buggy In answering fire alarms, he-created somewhat of a sensation," snid Chase Bohncnkamp, local Olds mobile dealor. "At Hint time his car was the fourth automobile In America to serve in this capacity. Of courso, pooplo said it wns-.t'! practical, said it was sure to break down at tho most Inopportune moment and pre dicted that It would not be long be fore the chief would return to his faithful horse." "It Is easy to Imagine then, how much groulor a sensation was created when Chief Delfs persuaded the coun cil of tho city to also place In Borvlce an automobile pumping engine, the first ot its kind In tho entire country. This, by tho way, was also an Olds mobile." "During all tho ton years In which ho used his car every day, Bummer and winter, the chief nays he lias nov or had the slightest occasion to re grot his purchase. Ho has driven an average or 500 miles per year, or a total or 65.000 miles Naturally tho nmjnr pirt or this dlrtnnco was cov ered at high speed lu answering fire alarms, tho most gruelling kind ot work rnr an automobile. Ileglnnlng (he day It was put Into sorvlco a enre rul record has been kept of oporating and maintenance coats. For IltJGO days total expense amounted to $2240.60, or approximately 3 1-2 cents por mile. This exponse Includes all' re pairs and replacements, tires, fuel and oil. And the neat part ot it la that the car is still as good a worker as ever." ;. "Last fnll tho Lansing department required an ei't& picro ot equipment to serve as a supply wagon. So, ln Btead of buying a now machine for this purpose, the commissioners pur chased a new model 45 eight-cylinder Oldsmobile for tho chlof's per sonal use and transformed the old Oldsmobile Into a enpply wagon. With a box body built onto the reur nnd a new coat of paint no ono would ever suspect that it had seeu any service at all. let alone ten strenuous years of it. Tho chlot'a new car, which he has had tor a little over three months, has already run moro than 3000 miles without requir ing a single repair.' Portland Salesman Has Joined Hamilton Forces to Sell Nash Automobiles W. H. Evans and family have ar rived from Portland and located per manently in La Grande. Mr. Evans is one of the outstanding salesmen of Portland in the automobile world and he has contracted with Iiert Ham ilton to tell tho merits of the Nash, Cadillac and Oakland cars to the peo ple of this valley. He likes the town very much nnd in his own language "I am glad I came and I am going to j (make all prospective purchasers of machines glad 1 came, fur the values J are the strong points in machines and I know the values.'.' Of 1 H 1 111 Idsmo oil e HI Price Price ' J. I Iff ""A -AS SHOWN ' ' ' I ' I $1600.00 . ' " Oldsmobile Economy Truck The Ideal Truck for Farm and Transfer Use. Buil1 for Enduring Service and Economical Upkeep. Just the right size for average use. 2 . iL j . i i.l i U t mill oixes and Eights GROWN iTHE EVER DEPENDABLE "FORD" ' During the bitter fighting in France I ;in September 1018, when the United States Marines took the heart out oi . the Prussian Guards, and in fact, out T R. Maxwell, local agent for,of the whole German army, and dur Standard Oil, in speaking of the nicr L the wicked fighting at Bclleau its of gasoline had the following to'Woods an(j vicinity, some twenty ma- say regarding the recent De raima record : Oldsmobile six and eight cylinder touring cars are the leaders of their class. The little six is- unquestion ably the nicest finished and one of the smoothest running little sixes made today. The eight must be tried to be properly appreciated. Let us demonstrate. ST.'S" 1 1 ' & . i . i "When Ralnh De Palma, in a trial laD over the Santa Monica course, broke the world's read race record re- OIM'I'M.S AUK srrcHNSI-TL E. S. Xorris unlowdcd an Advance oil-pull Rumely tractor last week tor Jnmes Twldwell, of La Gran le. This- Is the third o these tractors Mr. Norris has sold lure, the other; going to Will Glenn, ol I'mbler, and W. J. Case, or Al-irel. It Is claim-; tor this tractor tha- It Is the only one that will burn oil success- rines captured the little 1-rencn vn-;fuy; and njgi,y satisfactory result:' lage of Bouresches. Scarce 200 yards from )E s(, nav0 brvB 0l)Luiuol by beyond lay the German trenches. As the Germans were drives from the pillaee of Bouresches, their i.rtillery the-in'i who own I'.i jj W.H. Bohnenkamp Company ccntly, he was running on the Stand- dmpnc(j a fjPrce barrage behind the ard Oil Company's Red' Crown P90' 'village to make impossible reinforce-j line. De Palma covered the course at ment9 being sent to our soldier boys., an average rate of 93.38 miles per uf beyS fOUBht until their ammurii- f hour, the fastest officially 'recorded tion wnJ exhau5ted. their food was speed ever made on any road course j gnTiei anri they had no water, and still in the world. ' jthey held the village, and still the ' It is a remarkable tribute to the;barage f0ji anund them, ;hen sud full 'and dependable power of "Red dcniy out 0f the hell of fire of the Crowit" that it should have been the barrage a-truck broke through bring ' choice of the prcatest automobilt- inR VRier f0o(j and munitions. I'pon dtiver of the day. and that through its rcccivjne this, our American "war use he was able, to set up such a re- idp(rs" proceeded to drive the German! markatile record. The gasoline sup- out f tne trenches. plied aim was not in any way special-1 It wa, a .-0Ij truck that did this ly ma-fe for the t urpose, but De i Klorjousi work. ma filled his tank from tire regular j Everybody was glad 'and reje!ted gasoline wa m on the garage floor that American industry came in just of the Packard rcprf scntative in Los at p,e t!ght time to endorse Amwican Angeles.w,. courage and tvitoism. ,? "This rcor again demonstrate; A manufacturerof another motor the truth of the Standard, ')il Cofn' truck wrote the War Department ask- pany's claim that Red Crowns straight in)t if it w4tnrt one tf their truck? distiller!, all-refinery gailine, with it that ,nouid f,ave recevrcd the glory, full and continuous ch;gn ofboning an(i (a informed by the i'ar IWpart s lints is absolutely dependable f or i mf nj f,at the truck mentioned in the leration. jUower and lor. mile e9jJ9hol mp just at that particular m here. i" ' " I I -. , - ..1 Farms That Are Priced Right AN ALFALFA FARM Cloe to t'nion. 100 acre. (,otx improvements, (tood land, (iood water ritfht. Some, alfalfa now growing about 15 acres. "h i w farm ftiUHt be Keen to he appre ciated. JjOOO cawh will be con sidered. Annum? tat loan and tond mortgage fur the balance. NEAE, ELGIN 3(0 acres. I'D in cultivation (iood plastered house. Fine large barn. Near acUoul and church. It. V. I), ami phone. $.1000 c;h will handle thin; aHHume federal loan of $5"j00. Owner will take wronrf mortgage or balance. Well fenced, 100 acres more eas ily ptn in cultivation. neIruniom e 100 arm, all tn crop, H arres r,in spring wbotil. 3-ln oatH, 10 ln t&'falfa. hair house Had a new e o splindid ham will field 80 tons of hay. There in a federal loan of $."iC00 that can be assumed. 2 mills, from llnion high xrhool. Land is in the midst nf good farma and nicely located. NEAR LA ORADNE . :, 18.) acn, 100 in cultivation 2b 9 itt fall grain, all fall plow.fi Kady for nifyX, seeding GooA fexye, larfte barn. Fenced and crrtsti ft need. W ater piped to house. Tht land will produce grain or h.iy. An examination of thit farni will convince any one of Ihr low'price hirh 1 an permitted to quote. $11,000. STOCK RANCH n 14 acn, a portion of htt h oin for I t ft Jcnerve; located ,tsabouf7 miles from liion. With the place arc oil the farm imple ment, 12 head of h or mob, a stal lion and 20 tnilch cows. $t0U0 in canh will handle this proposition. Five years' lime on balance. SMALL FARMS One -Brie trjict, 8 milen of a Grande in center of Valley and 1 sne 34-acr farm, all in crop, 11 at-rea in altalfa. The1 prire ol earh is too'ill. Good small I .a , Grande home might be.conAl crcd Avy Tine of Ihe owners. 0 rHEAll stts? I GEO. H. URREY LAGJlANpEpRE. - v 4 " ! e e is . si --- : fa
