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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1919)
'the Sunday Morning'- Observer a c& turn INDEPENDENT, , ON ALL QUESTIONS SECTION THRE'e.. MEMBER 07 THjl ASdOClXTI-D FRIS3 VOLUME- XXIII. SIX A(iKS LA (iUANUK, 01tK(iONT, Sj-U:V MOWXlX(.,.CK,TORKU '-(!. 1i10. SIX PAGES NILMIiKli 20. A Few Observations In . The Middle States Ity Uruco Dennis. ARTICLE ONE. To go back to where one was bora and raised is quite a privilege. There are those who crossed the Rooky mountains and the time limitation has not washed and cleansed them so they are welcome back in the state of their nativity. Fortunately the time limitation has run on the writer and he can RO back and does go occasionally, but not often. Why not more often is a ques tion I have been asking myself. It is only a three-days' trip. William Bol lons and Jim Corbett and Joe Kccney all tell you to take No. 4 at 4:50 in the morning if you nre going to Kan sas City, for it is the Kansas City train. Probably it is, but it was a bum train a few weeks ago, and its twin coming west from Kansas City to La Grande was a lot worse. So loyal have we be come to Oregon that we do not believe that w,li jinp.ie ut least. It seen.t that everyone travels now. This prwjjerity has not in ulo fi.-h of one and fowl of another entirely, for they are on the trains from the southern lady with all her customs of the southland to the logger from the pine camp, who can't get used to hav ing pant sany logger than the average stylish skirt which .'ndies wear. This 'pet" Kansas City tvein was pulling out of Gooding yes, Gooding, that's the town where the cjIVjjc is located and the owner of th;: tewn tried to be governor of Idaho, or wits governor once well, it was. at Good ing when a lady with a southern ac cent began to converse with nnotlie ing itself, and the open-countenanced ropean situation, and as we all trav eled together and talked more and more, the same spirit ttnd same divi sion of the eastern Oregon returned soldiers was reflected keep out of Europe. But, regardless of what the soldiers may think or tho civilian may think or want, the league of nations will be put over with very little change. That is in the garfio and it will be done. Hiram Johnson, who, by the way, has a lot of support In the middle states, will not achieve what he started out to, for the league will be put through. Very likely it will not stick. It will I western woman smiled and discussed the possibility of putting iiter on land around American Falls. Pullman car smoking-room discus I sion brings out many things of inter- est. One mat) was on his way to set up a potato digger anil he had his heart centered in the working of that machine; another was .on the sad mis sion of attending his fathers funeral; another had been on a visit to the coast ami was getting back home, planning on the big stories he woulc tell his neighbors about things he had seen in this country. There always it I be like a much-advertised marriage only to be tollowea oy a divorce later but nevertheless tho league will be made go thiough, for the present at least we will belong to the same layout that the European countries belong to. Whether we will stick for three months, six months, or a year is an after consideration, but America is to be u member of the league. some fellow who starts it. Things were running well,, when in came a bie fellow with a black cigar and a deep voice, saying, "Well, how do we all stand on the li'ague of nations?" Then came the fireworks. There was a mar from the state of Maine who actually thinks anything but a Republican should not be allowed to live on this earth. Beside him sat a Texan wht had never hiaid of a decent persor voting anything but the Democratic there is any right good railroading tinns to hrinc them to the Chester- done after we leave the Short Line, and' fields of the south where men knew it is a little better on the O.-W. than how to treat ladies," and quite an in- laoy across tne aisle wno snoweu sums licket wilh this kimi of a jury un,i of having lived in the open air ami witm,sscs t0 tcatifyi thc k.ntuc of na was probably the mother of a laej tions wcnt on the grill for trial. Long family. Tne southern lady questioned , on(, dr(lwn.nut was the (t,bllte nmi the wo3rn men, sayini they wcr;- , .i, lhr, ,.,,. :;,, ,w he t-t i..i...j .. i... r ..i;r..... ! it is on the Short Line. The farther east you get the more there is a don't-care spirit prevailing among railroad people. And besides, on the middle west roads the general had to have a little shep was the event closed. But it was closed be cause Green River was the end of thi journey for one of these debaters, sc the circuit was broken when he lef! the train. About the only thing that vim talked for some time was governmen-. voice of thnt kind of stuff. A little 1 interests, and then :he rattle of an empty brain, such as that woman pos sessed makes the noise of a ruck crusher sound like music. But the run ui men vucioiink iimno i western wumuii was iin inv-ic iui-i iivi i , , , - . . h,!r .nrf .. much older men than I fcool wnrbinir -nH f .er she had v.ood operation of the railroads, the crowded trainmen of the west. This is notice- j the stream from the turbine wheel condition of the Pul man, causing ,1 able to one who rode with many of Loutn 0f Mason and Dixon's line . f? bless the man who was hand those middle states railroad boys years I(W h8 she cared to, the conversation! ht " 1V h ,, ' ago, and now to return and see the Ltoenly took a little twist and M.. ! the wo,',d "'f ,f hl5, a'""1" frost of age settling over them-tothc southern lady reaped it. she h..." , u" . t!'c 1 not. how many have been given clear- admiUed to her neighbor that she h.l wo"1,(l f ""f tten '.l ut-. U'lfl , J t- . , , j r..ii i..:! yet to ut di-Unnined, for often tht ance papers lor ineir mmi i uu n grown very ionu oi a i ui w.uiu sec how surely time takes her toll . while he was in the service and local whether one in preacher, merchant,) ed in a southern ramp; that her mito mtirrtA man nr Imnkpr ' I mnritln hnA tinon flt his HUnOSal flllfl h Thocn woro nhprvat..nnit nmrk'ine a' hn vnrv wHcome truest at iiei 1 At Cheyenne two carloads of sol recent trip to the middle states and 'home. Then the demobilization cairc they were verified by a prolonged stay i an(j the boy came back to the const which took me over the railroads of; she decided to come out and see him. Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. j but to her horror when she Rot to Upon leaving La Grande on a cool Portland she found the boy had mornimriat 4:50 o'clock with no assur- mother and a sweetheart nnd he told ance of sleeping car accommodations ; her to put on the soft pedal, for Measure of G re it n ess. Croat men. great events, great ppoclis, It has been said, grow as we ree-ede from them; una the rate nt which they grow In the estimation of men Is in some sort n measure of their greatness. Principal Shnlrp. . To Tell Age of Fish. Year rins on the scales of flsh nre used in Norway and France to deter mine the ace of sardines, whether they have reached their full growth aud when they will spawn. Observer advertlaU; pays. FOR SALE One five-room house, with bath, modern, with full basement, well- people have a chance to do things and lighted and ventilated, ?Mu"; one livo-. room dwelling with toilet and sink, i succeed in mussing things up pretty I badly. Medicine From, Horns. ,, In China a largo trade xlsts In fleer, reindeer and wild sheep hnniH for use In 'medMnes, and Hongkong, as the chief ceuter of trade In Chhiese medicines In south China, Imports l coslderable quantity of such goods annually. .temp Cross RollcallI tlx Bookworm peared. A bright and breezy book Is Ian Hay's 'The at Million; How They Invaded France and England." Nicolay's "Our Nationn in the Build ing" and Farrand's '"Developmejit of the United1 Stitfcs" nre tow unusually interesting and readable histories. Each gives a summary of our his tory without the mtass of deUils wo are supposed to know. We Americana are too prone to be satisfied with th history we studied in the eighth grade. Why not Americanize ourselves by reading one good book on American history this year? ",More books in tlu: home" is the sjognn f tho Children's Book Week which will be obesrved widely through out the United States Noverber 10, to 15. 1U11). Children ro insatiablo renders. One good book in your home is worth two ut tho neighbors. But select the right book's for you children or they rrfay select the wrong one for themselves. This campaign comes at an opportune time for selection of your Christmas book buying. Tho Public Library has many attractive lists nnd will gladly furnish you ex pert advice in regard to books for boys and girls. Among tho new books recently re ceived at the Public Library iB "Ore gon the Picturesque," by Murphy. A beautifully illustrated "Book of Rumlv les in thc Oregon Country and in tha Wilds of Northern California." "What every Woman Knows" by Barne. is a delightfully whimsical 1 Butter Wrapper! printed at th play in which Maude Adams has ap- Observer office. Linen From Nettle Fibre. A company bus been formed In Ion mark for the manufacture ot linen from the fibre of nettles. At n recent exhibition every one was struck by tho whiteness and suppleness of tho table cloths and napkins made of this nettle fibre. OH YOU SPUDS ! Phone BIkck l()4l for spuds, raised on dv hi net non-irrigated. Next cao!uyn Wednesday. Allowance niaue for own deliv ery at car. DEPENDABLE COAL KEMMERER, ROCK SPRINGS Wyoming Coal. j'llT UTAH COALS. fir. Main 732. diers who were with Pershing on the big hurrah march in New York and Washington, caught up with us. They were Coloisido and Utah boys am' were just out of the service. And say, they were outspoken offi; cers and men. They were all opposed to the league of nations, to the presi whaUver. one trusts to luck to quite an -would ruin his standing at home if it .! extent. TSurely no one has had enough became known that a married 'woman , dent, to the secretary of war, nnd sleep that early in the morning and the; had journeyed from a southern city to about everything else. The Y. M. C. A. thing to do is to curl up and forget the 5ee him. And that was what was wor ( got it squarely in the eye, and the slo world before Dr. Phy's railroad station j rying this poor', empty-headed crea- gan of the whole crowd was ' keep has been reached to the east. Sweet j ture. She thought the western mei out of Europe, for America has not sleep will usually overtake a good con- j were unappreciative and (inattentive; got a friend in the bunch over there.' science in the Grande Ronde valley and for when a woman travels several Soldiers have a right to kick at ev by thc time the train reaches Tclocasct hundred miles to sec a man of course ! erything that is bestowed upon them Old Morpheus has such a good hold on 0f course. Her heart was torn. That j when they enter the service, but sol bi victim that thc whirl of Chris John-, furv of a woman scorned was assert-i diers cannot be all wrong on this F.u- full basement, vegetable cellar, $950; one nine-room house with bath, ar ranged for hot and cold water in every room, wired .throughout, vegetable cellar, with buildings fof garuge and woodshedv not quite finished, close in, at $1800; iie fivt-room dwelling with full basement; one stort room build ing, with '."kortos in -ear with full base ment; or.-.- sto building, almost new; three- oihtr small buildings, close In; one four-room hNuei'ity water, elec tric lights, stone foWIution, cellar and woodshed, near paved street, $800; Mars' rock quarry for $12,000. There is a fortune for t.ie right party. All above on terms to suit. J. L. Mars, owner. Grande lotule Lumber Co. son's North Powder flouring mill, nor the tramping of the cattle feeding along the tracks in Baker county will serve to arouse. About the time Hunt ington is reached any La Grande pas senger bound for the cast will awaken for it is impossible to pass through Huntington without checking up all your belongings your conscience in cluded. When you trot up and down the platform watching for some of the railroad boys who used to live here such' men as Shorty Logue and other notables you while the time away un til some hard-boiled Short Line con ductor jerks out ''all aboard," and off we go into that sea of sage brush and promises known as Idaho. Idaho, yes Idaho the home of Borah the best irrigated section in the United States and the most desolate stretches of sage brush to go through to get to it. Just why there is such heavy travel now is a question ucuai.-u " upon various occasions. As a matter of fact, there is hothing remarkable about this, for people have money and they are spending it. It is the most natural thing in the world for a person who makes monoy to want to travel, hence the very large number of trav elers at the present time. While some think, and honestly so, that these arc not prosperous times, they are mis taken. There are some lines of busi ness which are not prosperous and wVch have been very hard hit by tne .r nd its aftermath, but business as a whole is .very prosperous. W e Bre spending the money .that was raised by placing a bond issue a mortgage if you plcase-Mm the old homestead. I do not mean to say it was not ncces- tn-mit th morceaze on ' home, but be that as timay, there is a lot of money left to c(rcuiaic aim while that Is going the roundsbusi ness is going to be good, very .good. TVor. nmHablv will ine tic when Ihe screws will tighten, but why enter into that vale of gner before u i is time to tak thc plunge? The j tntmov-spending era is with us. It is changed condition that confronts us. I A meal on the diner ?or a dollar isj gettir off easyhcn a few years ago a person could We very xd pork chops, potatoes, ceffce and icei sream on the ol Frisco Flyer o. of i Kansas Cit for 65 cen'B 'Ten cents I for the black boy waiter then wa'b quite aft rirfiCW take my advice mnj j Outer Cirtumfmrrtee 'mffl 1 85" W:i w Li wmi , ' Uftimtiatrl, tK or;'j ticun ("e of r.fiy ir(U(C 144 uk ii! 'rr h greitr ltn tit L-ariHq irrvnl-'fici hmere are you $wx, to get those . Any inru r tubt when i:vla" its outer mtinnh-rwe )h ference as is .c.o.. hy iM vA l Recognizing thi basic princinft thii (iitfervm,e inlo'tht MichtlUi c vndiej'i v )!.M?gfr around :r(rt.wd -its tuner drcuiti- !!as.r;uf(,';i above. Kut cl-ry oi hri' ti;)fc is ui') fcrwtce bcinj; of i.-f.ictU iliy th Sluc IlI' i'-iJ'j- h in f-.rnric? or cii'iiurn rcr-xt f. t , bfinu shsfK-r t fit, ift'.-'X' VichtUn ydnntit.lt hum built kc hi makiffi Jl rinq-thujtad. o'fVftic'tly ;traisi' it's outpr circum- awp length athf inner irrumfcrence. re m. -fi'I if - ;lc of thrai;in, it i i.: t f TjKhpn t.n i, c outer "Arcum- l .'vd'i.wh -.KaK.Vitchlin Til'.'es, -,.'ii of tens) ' nt cuftprc.HHiiin. 'on tpull when vou ride iw. .nrroumlinir ine niwr Anridbedisorb-fgrany ten -.t and OordOoto be bQW andftet 'Jie :ud kidcOsafely next 'epe you had r.. . .(., o.irr.,.methin if O Si zJo or I II ' nV - -. : i y i ia -. -o . 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Just tlm car fur 'n inns, nrcliitcPts, con i Ii cL'tilar family car fur i'-itviili 31 -inch tini all irrintrt the convenience I fric wit'i t!ic (1'iraliility Ij::tr. Lmy ordefj will liclivoy. ( 3 GARAGE . 1. ! O - Clean and ing ressing Called for and ;Delivered o it, it is done light. US TROVE IT. SKJi MY WINDOW ' " ' The Wardrobe WOOD W. BERRY If we d LET City Restaurant & BaKcry PS From the Minute You Enter ' " tiU you leave we try to mnk you feel at homu at th iff res taurant. We leave nothing un done fhat will add to your com fort nd enjoyment You'll find service, food and - sppoint ments all to your liking and you II have no reason to be dis pleased Sarith the check. ' Try dinner or luncheon here soon. ANTHONY ROBBINS, Props. 5 o o o o o O o
