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bpeud Wcek-eud lu Bak
nu aira. R. Worrell apcnb
, lio -ua W(ll frt.nd lu Baker.
YMiing lu' Bakeiv .
J- W. Kedhtad Is.Tinitlng In
Baker. While there, she will be
tbe .gueiib t Mrs. Sheff Smith.
Kotiiiii tu linker
i mi. and Mrs. Joe Scuulta. who
f have boon visiting In La Grande as
surais or Mt. and Mr. M.
returned home. Ila-
Kcr Herald.
Rclurn from Vacation
er, and Mrs. J. u. Robbins return
ed last night on No. 18, after spend
ing a two weeks' vacation in Seattle,
lortland and other coast points.
New League Opens Series
The first game in the Boy Scouts'
Basketball League was plaved Sat
urday afternoon in the Y. M. C. A.
gymnasium. Patrol No. 1 won from
Patrol No. 2, by a score of 8 to 2.
Wife Bi'aler Arrested
George Johnson was arrested Sat
urday night and charged with disor
derly conduct. He was released on his
own recognizance. It was llol thm
Johnson mistreated his wifo hv h,.t.
ing her. His case came up in police
court yesterday morning and was con
tinued because the defendant was out
of town, i '
Improvements Being Made
The interior of The Toggery is un.
dorgoing some important changes. The
shelving is being extended to the rear
end of the store, and new furni'ii'e
has been ordered forthe entire estab
lishment. It will probably be several
weeks before the latter arrives here.
Pioneer Visits Portland
J. W. Minnick, pioneer resident of
Union, is a Portland visitor. He is
here with his. son, W. A. Minnick,-city
clerk of Twin Falls, Idaho. Mr. Min-j
nick is a native son of Ohio and mov- I
cd to Union in 1878. Oregon Journal, i
Social Hour Is Planned
The' Women's Foreign Missionary
Society of tbe eMthodist Church will
mecn Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock in
the parlors of the church. A short
Jesson will be followed by a Valentine
Social and refreshments will be serv
edi All women of the church especial
ly strangers, are invited..
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j COMING EVENTS.
J, Feb. 8. Baker-LaGrande bas-
i ketball game at high school
E'm, 8:30 p. m.
Feb. 9. Union County Ad
Club banquet, Foley Hotel,
' (!:.'!() for farmers.
Feb. 7-12. Fanner's Week
Convention.
J. Feb. 10. Dr. Louis Albert
I- Banks lectures at Methodist
Church, 1:20 p. m.
Feb. 14-10. Piune Week in
Oregon.
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BOY'S SUITS
AT COST!
A Complete Run of
sizes
in the Latest Models. in
SERGES,
TWEEDS,
COKDITKOY,
niid niiiiiy other fabrics
in the All-Ycni-Uound
AVt iht of Cloth.
Compare Our Prices
Uefore Buying.
PAY CASH AXI) SAVE
Clint's Clothiery
"The Store With a
Conscience"
1108 Adams
DANCE
TUESDAYS
SATURDAYS
fTi'krt (tlven Karh La'ily DaiM-er fur
Pritc To be (iiven Avay Lacll
Tuesday Night.
Drawing at 10 o'clock.
REX HALL
N. A. Desilet, Mgr.
Announcement
OLD-TI(ME DANCES
will be given In Rix Hall on
Thursday evenings. Nothing
Ductile graceful, Id-tlnn
dances will be danced." Music
by Undsey's saperb orchestra.
ETerone enjoyed the first
danci; be sura and attend
those to bi givO. fersfeas
by appointment Call Main 4J.
Visitor V Kphnenkamu Horned-
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Grady, former
residents of this city, arrival Satur
aay evening for a few days visit
with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bohnenkatnp.
iney are fendleton residents now.
Is Somewhat Better-
Eileen Groupe, the little daughter
of Olaf Groupe, who has beer! under
treatment at Hot Lake, is doing
well as could be expected.
Legion Meeting Monday
The regular monthly meeting of the
American Legion Post will be held
Monday, February 14.
Will Itcttrm Buiidiiy
John F. Blrnejr, county roadmasr
tor. will return homo next Sunday
fncin a several weeks' trip to Se
attle.
Scouts Play Tomorrow
The next game in tne rfewly or
ganized Boy Scouts' basketball league
will be played tomorrow afternoon at
4:15 o'clock. Patrol No. 8, known as
the Tigers, will play Patrol No. 4,
known as the Flying Eagles.
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iA ""'n'-' from C"nda-
W. T. Hussell and son.
W. W. Rus-
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are visiting with Mrs. Fred Wil
cox and rrmk Kussell of this city
They arc from Alberta, Canada, and
expect to i nil !he corf ng two weeks
here. Mis. Wilcox and Mr. Russell
nie duughtcr and son'of W. T. Russell.
George Cochran Home
George Cochran, popular attorney
of this city who has been spending
a number of weeks at the Hot Lake
Sanatorium where he underwent
serious operation some time ago, Is
so Improved that he Is now able lo
be about enough as to have been
moved to his home btere last
onlng.
Accepts I'oslllon III Pendleton
Mrs. Edna Morrison has returned
to La Grande after spending the
past several days in Pendleton
whepd ahe haa accepted a position
with the East Oregonlan. one of
the newspapers of that city, Mrs.
Morrison will do stenography for
snort tune, after which sh,e will go
on the news' end.
(Jllaiillltiiir l.ifled
Thb only diphtheria quarantine In
the city was lifted, yesterday after.
noon wncu llie j. .tt . WUIKUr home
aflJtiu V.atreet was released from
tiuaranllne.' Only two cases of con
tagious diseasos were reported yes
terday, v. Botrr-r!-(ru8rantined
They arc at the May Donovan resi
dence, 1503- Y avenue, and the Ful-
Viler residence at 803 Jeltcrson,
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ibastcrn Oregon Leads in Criminals
fcastcrn Oregon counties lead all in
the state save Multnomah in the num
ber of criminals sent to the state penitential-',
says Charles Z. Randall,
deputy district attorney of Umatilla
county. He quotes from the report of
the state board of control. Umatilla
Baker and Union, in the order named,
have sent more prisoners to Salem in
the two years ending November, 1920,
than any other counties in Oregon.
Umatilla also lends all in the number
of murder cases, he says he believes.
Hull Call Jliiy Itc Omitted
There- will probably be no annmil
roll call of the local K. of P. lodge
Mils year because of the many other
Irdpe events coming wilhln the nexl
Tew week's. Next Monday night the
grand chancellor and the grand
keeper of seals will be here. On
IVbruary .19 a large number o
members of the local lodge will go
Hi linker where the anniml roll rail
of that lodge will be held. A Dokkic
ceremonial Is also being' planned
for the near future by the local
lodge.
Speaker for Patriotic Exercises
- Judge T. H. Crawford will be the
'speaker at the high school next Fri
day, when special patriotic exercises
will be held in commemoration of
Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Other
features of the program will be pa
triotic singing and the flag salute. In
the U. S. history classes, Lincoln will
be the main topic of discussion dur
ing the diy. Lincoln's birthday an
niversary is on Saturday and thi
being a school holiday, the exercises
will be held the preceding day. I
Klamath Wants Shorthorns
L. A. West, of Klamath Falls, is
here inspecting a shipment of pure
bred Shorthorn cattle which is to be
.-hipped to the consignment ale at
Klamath Falls,-under ,the supervision
of the Klamath .county farm bureau.
The farm bureau there is arranging
for the finaucing.of the sale with She
Kfiunath county banks. The ship
ment wHI toclude 20 head of catt'e.
Mr. West expects to finish his work
by tomorrow. ' "
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Winning Aeveiops any human helm I
quit o much as meeting every alnle j
j obligation. nal or Implied, that he I
' fer assumes. The Brewnt day habit. !'
! known 'In alang as pasting thj bck."il
I Is kcepinr thousands f men from snc-
ws. Whitr yon may have agreed !
to do. even If It seems nnwls or no- !J
: raonjhl.arte!vanl. Is tbe thng that
; tnosi be done at all enstm. T accept
I the fall nieanre of todar'a dat.es and ij
ruponsibilltlM antematirallir Ilia ru
( for greafr duties andreponiibilitle J
porrow. 'ji8m Whitman &
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IF
ER MEETING
WOULD ENTERTAIN NATIONAL
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.
Mdwin P. Gates Says He Is Well Re
, paid for Western Trip By Recep
tion Received litre. '
PORTLANP, Feb. Portland
seek the- national Christian Bndfj
convention in 1923, the first gel
gathering which Hill follow the
vention in New York next July,
cording to a decision reached at
Meeting in the Hotel Portland yester
day afternoon.
Portland's strongest competitor U
Des Moines, Io-wa, but it is believed 'game of ball and throughout tlie game
tk.fr . u. i v:-i. tu.) -i kl- ti i -
,ai viic iiiifloiwiici j wimiii hip
Northwest can make at the 1921 con
vention in New York City will out
weigh any appeal the Middle West can
put forth.
Edwin P. Gates, geeral secretary of
th United Kneitv nf rht-ietian Vn.
deavor, and Paul Brown, national in-1
termediate superintendent, arrived in
Portland at 8:30 o'clock yesterday
from La Grande for a busy day on
the convention topic.
"The central Christian Endeavor of
fice at Boston, made quite a sacrifice
in letting Gates come out here," said
Brown, but Gates added he had been
well repaid by the reception he receiv
ed at La Grande on Sunday at the
Eastern Oregon convention.
LAWRENCE VILLE, 111., Feb. 8.
Emmet Bunyan,' school teacher, and
five of his pupils. were killed outright
yesterday at the Crossroads school
house, tVp and a half miles west of
here, when a can of nitro-glycerine
exploded. Another pupil, is expected
to die.
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The explosion occurred during thef will-power, manipulate his voice to
noon recess when one of the boys
found an old .can partly .buried in the
bank of a creek near the schoolhouse.
Not knowing itB contents, he tossed
it across the creek to another. boy and
when the latter tried to open it there
was a terrific explosion, crumbling
one wall of the schoolhouse and hurl
ing the teacher and six of the pupils
out 50 feet through the air.
This is the center of the Southern
inois oil field and the can was such
as is used to start oil wells flowig.
. '"Cigar Nomenclature, ..
Th. DOpienclatitre of the eifar'trari?
Is one of the vei interesting phase
of democracy. Ne gentleman Intent
npon building up a market fer a in
cent cigar ever named It fer a states
man. Be complimented. Instead aa
actor, a philanthropist, a race horse,
a hjpnthetlesl Indisn maiden or sup
posltltlous Spanish grssdee. T hsre
named a 10-cent cigar for a statesman
would hare been to "queer" both the
Clear and Its Inrolnntary patron. The
people would not hare stood fer that
sort of thing. It irnnld have pre
sumed a certain superiority which thej
woold hsre rebuked both at the cigar
sisnd and at the polls. Philadelphia
Public Ledger's "On Second Thought."
Te Writs Well.
For a man te write well there sr
ivqolrcd three necesssries: to read the
'est authors, observe tbe best speak-
ana much exercise er his own
sirie. In style, to consider what ought
is he written, and sfter what manner
he must first think and excezltate his
matter, then choose his words and ex-
,raln wlSht f either, then take
f"rp ln Placing ana ranking hoth mat.
ter and words that the composition be
comely; and te do this with diligence
and often.. Ben .lonsnn.
317 N, Fir St.
Phone M TM,
SEE THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
ANNIVERSARY CAKE IN OUR
DEPOT ST. WINDOW
Otiler Inker! for Illi (It (!, WwIiIIiijc mul ( Mt-ilrrilii( i.nkr.
CukfM mmle for unjr occnhloti. MmioKmitm mm til$n np.
Ird Mud niHilp in SiiKr rr ( liilt. I'rttiri-tMl H lt lh', H'.
ftvit lnir llenltli H;ch1, It etrfitiiJiiM llt M'htf id the.
WhHt. It U iiutrHioiiM hikI drlk-liMi, tU:iMainMlJ
l phwrlHM. Joe puch. .
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IiiinNh l"Mlry. Try them, 3 or fi.
KiiglMr'llMtr llUulla. d. Willi xncrl lind.-r.
iirn. iliiiNia wlih chrte. . " ,
I hrne Ifimiii done iii lif himdla-'of 12. 23' .
I m-iianilt .Mi-Mina, liii-ge ulmt 'Hk diaeil. ,
l,iigllli Itork Cke, UOo down.
Whenorcfering tread call for k6THER:S,
"BREAD, lo that we may? ju the bakers with
families, who are out of work fti La G-jnde
today, totworkr - . nu,H
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TAKE FAST GAMB
SCORE OK 34 TO.21 RESULT LAST
EVENING.
Game Marked By Good Sportsmanship
Throughout Score Shows I'laj.
Even At All Times.
The Railroad Shops basketball
team defeated the Bankers' team last
night at the Y. M. C. A. by a score
of 34 to 2l The score was 15 to 10
fa i ui 6T the winners at the -end of
the frrat half and the winners a
ded
19 points during the second half, while
the Bankers added 11 points.
Both teams played a mighty giod
W9S C1CM", 1 lie iwiifccia wcio
ly handicapped in not having '.heir
full team, Mctcalf substituting at cen
ter. - '
The line-up of the Railroad Shops
was as follows: V. S. Kelly and E.
Hesse, forwards; Wm. Stanficld, cen
ter; P. Atwood and R. Welch, guards.
I The line-up for the Bankers was as
follows: T. Scroggin and George Por-
ter. forwards: Glenn Motcalf, center:
Don Nichols and Grant Gcddcs,
guards.
Chester Lindley was referee and B.
, B. Christian was umpire. John Don
ovan was official timekeeper and Har
ry Clark, Bcorer.
For the Railroad Shops, Kelly got
8 field goals, Hesse 5 and Stansficld
4. For the 'Bankers, Scroggin and
Metcalf played a good game at for
ward and Nichols wis strong on the
floor.
SWEAR WORDS MAY
LEAD TO RECOVERY
SOUTH BEND, Wash., Feb. 8.
"D n it!"
With that expressive phrase, a log
ger, who last November lost control
of his vocal organs through an nl
tack of paralysis, gave his nuisc his
first verbal indication of 'his desires,
and she at once decided that the pa
tient could, by using a similar amount
better advantage. Subsequent events
have proven sho was right.
The logger wss brought to the hos
pital in a helpless condition and seem
ed unable to speak. Recently he be
came hard-pressed to make his attend
ant understand what he wanted, and,
growing red in the face as though
from over-excrtibn, exploded the cuss
word that miy lead to partial recov
ery. STANFIELD WILL
HAVE NEW $50,000
LARGE HIGH: SCHOOL
STANFIELD, Feb,8.-t-Through ac
tion taken Saturday by the' school
board, R. W. Hatch! architect of Pen
dleton, was commissioned to draft
plans for a $50,000 high school to be
erected here this summer. The money
for the building is already available
and work on the building will be rush
ed as fast as possible.
The new building will be two stor
ies in height and have 10 class rooms.
There will be an auditorium and gym
nasium so situated that 'they may be
thrown together fdi" large meetings
when desired. TheV'irh ichonl will be
of concrete or hollow tilo with u stuc
co finish. .
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Malleweth.
The celebration of llallnwern dates
back to antiquity, ft was s holiday
i'nn.,blnln elassle mythology, Druldlc
beliefs and superstitions of that far
away time. The i-lisne to a social
anniversary was gradual and Anally
becnnie a recognized time for general
merriment.
Feb. 10th Inst day to pay wutcr rent
without a penalty. 2-H-2'..
107 Depot 81.
Alain 75
FARMERS OF COUNTY
AKE l. SESSlgN
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tereat this winter, Amqjig t mat
ters that will be taken up in this re
gard are economics)! feed ratio and
breeding of better types of duti v cat-
Ug. The marketing proutem will tlso
be discussed.
E. 'B. Fitts, dairy specialist, whn
has a national reputation w a au
thority on dairy cattle, will be one nf
Lthe principal speakers from 'the out
side. He was one ot the judges of
the Eastern States Dairy. Show List
fall and what he has to iiy wit! be of
interest to all farmers who are now
in the dairy end of farming or expect
to add a herd to their other branches
of farming. -
Fred Merril, of 'the dairy council of
Portland, will also be here tomorrow.
He will discuss mutters relating to
the milk question.
Thusday's meeting will be devoted
to animal husbandry, Friday's meet
ing to poultry and Saturday s meeting
to business mutters. The most im
portant of these Is election of farm !
bureau officers for the present year, j
iNEW TODAY!
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FOR RENT Sleeping rooms, close
in. Inquire Belmont Hotel or Phone
Red 124 ll 2-8-3t
LOST 1921 License pinto No. 7021W.
Please return to Observer Office.
2-8-Jltp
LOST Black leather card case, liciv-
ko-Walker Insignia. Leave at La
Grnndo Nat.ionul Bunk. 2-8-3tp
FOR RUNT Two rooniH for llglil
housekeeping, two blocks from
high school. Man and wife, or two
young ladies proforred. Imiulre
at Observer. 2-S-L'lp
Feb. 10th last day. to pay water rent
witnout a penalty. 2-B-it.
FOR TRADE A five-room niod-rn
house in Portland for one in La
Grande. Pyramid Land Co.
FOR SALE A five-room house ar.d
large lot in the 1500 block on N n'e.
This is surely some bargain, p'ic
$1800. $800 cash. Pyramid Lund
company.
WANTED A woman or girl to help
with housework and enro of chil
dren. No laundry work, good wag
es. Write or phone, Mrs, W. C.
Jackson, Enterprise, Oregon.
2-8-2t.
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WITH YOl'K
INCOME TAX
Why not lnive your tii(M)!,u
lltyiorl rorri'ct? We nlvo your
fniiiin inl a! fail h nu.I riKiitH
unr -'Xpert caro und clost;
ui inly and Inviu'lt'.bly hh'vo
Hotiiv- lax tu our el Ion U, io(
by Ixattng Hit; Covt'i'iiinviil,
but by goMlng your "lint in
romu" rlyht,
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New $7.75 Now $5.00 : .
. Reclaimed $7.00 Now $4.50. .
The U.& Anny Goods Xa
f 20GDEF0T STREET .
We ar9reparcd with a goodasup
1 of lancy Naval Oranges for you.
i-none .Main 76, "J. G. SNODGRSS.
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Feb. 10th lust day to pay wator rent
without a penalty. 2-8-2f.
MOXKY TO I.OA.V.
We can make' two loans of ton
CARffS wm'$
Where your Gredit is Good Use it
COMPLETE
La Grande,
Stops the Itching,
Clears the Skin
Yoii
tht! vrn
who suffer from Jilc.ciiin arc yii on
c of tlfsimir duilro satisfied that nntli-
'iiiK will rid you of a persistent malady 1
Eczema ''hangs on" and it requires time to
(Tfeet a permanent, cure you should exercise
the KTeatesSt eaution in the seleetimi nf the
remedy used. Ordinary ointments and lotions
are., unknown (jiiantities avid theminsist
upon knowing just what you are nsing you
may at the piy-irnt time lie losing ground' hv
using a remedy you are not ahsolutely sure oi.
NYAL'S ECZEMA LOTION M
is in our opinion the host lotion you eould pos
sihly use it relieves the itching and irritation
after the first application its eontmted uso
will work wonders. ' -: .'-,
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more
and
Know tne toriiuila
eertain as, ito what you
Nyal's Eczema Lotion comes in
' 50c and $1.00 Bottles.' ' .
Red Cross Drug Store
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thousand dollars each, on Jlrnt
mortgage improved valley farm
prVerty. Security Land Savings
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it Cherry's begins on
2-8-21
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Don't forget tbe sale Thursday of
these beautiful plants. See our win
dow.. Cherrva Florida ' S-B-at
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