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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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Stand, Portland; Muliiumah Newt
maud. I'oriiana.
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Dally, ix iiionfliK in advance .......... S3. 00
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Dally, per month 60c
Weekly Ohervr-Klar, by mall,
per year In ii'lvanne ..... fl.fiO
MKMIIKH OK AShOClAIKO I'HIONN.
The ANHocinttifi I'rens' la exrlnnlvely
entitle! In tine for publication of all
newB diHpaiehf'H eredited to 11 r not
otherwise credited In this paper, and
also the local news published therein.
All righta of re-publication of apodal
dispatches here also are reserved.
Take the Loan, Buddies!
So practical is the advice offered by
the editor of the Pendleton Tribune to
his fellow ex-service men, that we
take this opportunity of reprinting the
editorial in question for the benefit of
the local service men, who will receive
aid through the soldier's bonus bill,
recently voted on hy the people of
' Oregon. The editorint follows:
(Word from the state aid commission
promising application blanks in the
hands of service men within a month
has hastened consideration of what
feature of the Immius law to take ad
vantage of, and sentiment in favor of
the cash bonus seems to be on the in
crease. This is a sad mistake and one which
beneficiaries of the act will always
rogret if they pass up the Superior
advantages of the loan over the cash.
The reason for this growing' tendency
is the service man's prejudice against
red tape and delay and the necessity
. of filling out accurate and detailed ap
plication blanks, of having property
uppraised in short, he does not want a fact to bo reckoned with,
lives. So have thoiw with -whom they
come in contact in their undergrad
uate days, which may account for the
crop of weird economic and social the-
ories which our higher institutions of
learning sometimes produce. It wen'i.
hurt college mji at all to work for
a couple of months with men who.-e
points of view differ widely from
thoBe to which they are accustomed.
The real function of the university
is to teach one to live with his neigh
bors in this world as pleasantly and
usefully as possible. The college bjy
who spends his summer in a fo'castle,
perhaps under a bucko mat-.', should
know more about his world and the
people in it by fall.
-' IN THE OLD HOME TOWN U- " T -sb
Private Homes
to be bothered
But it was on the avowed supposi
tion on the part of the American Le
gion that as least 75 per cent of the
service men would take the loan, that
the bonus bill received such a huge
'favorable vote June 7, and the boys
should not shirk, now that the bill has
passed. It would work hardships on
the state financially and amount to
taking a considerable loss'in each in
dividual case, to say nothiiur of the
splendid chance to develop Oregon
It is rather surprising to learn from
a report of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United Stales that apartment
houses are increasing faster in cities
under 100,000 population than in larg
er cities. It seems clear that the
adoption of "multi-family dwellings"
has not the same economic necessity
in smaller communities. There is not
the same argument of limited space
and prohibitive rent for Bingle houses.
There is the same sort of economic
pressure, to be sure, but it is not so
great.
Perhaps a good dear of this apart
ment house development in small cit
ies is due to emulation of the metro,
politan centers. Little cities arc big
ones only too much, in matters where
they might better follow their own
natural lines of development..
The superficial ccnclusion from this
report might bo that the American
people are to - become a nation of
apartment-house dwellers. This is
not necessarily true. If families are
subject to such a centralising force,
lured hy the comparative chenpi.es
nnd case of housekeeping in fl.-ls,
there arc also decentralizing forces
in operation. Hetter transportation
is taking people out into the suburhs,
and modern household machinery and
improved facilities of many kinds are
tending to give the private house all
the comforts and conveniences of t'a
luxurious apartment house, with fur
greater privacy, hcalthfulness and all
round satisfaction.
The reaction from communal life is
les.-
than the material improvement- that
arc making individual homes ni.iri
inviting and attainable. There ni.'.y
be a good deal of phophecy in Kin
ling's story, "As Easy as A. B. C."
That tale foreshadows a time when
crowds will be viewed with horrot,
and "invasion of privacy" will be an
unpardonable offense. Every family
will live by itself, protected from in
trustion by the most elaborate elec
trical safeguards, and will still, by thj
progress of scientific discovery, lie
through reclnmiition unii the building able to keep in touch with all the
of homes. world and enjoy dramatic pciTorm-
Of course the administration of the jances, concerts, public addresses, etc.,
tjtato aid law will mean the filling I without personal contact with strang
out of numerous forms. Every service 'ers.
man should realize that the commis-1 That is going pretty far, but ihere
sion is handling the taxpayers' mon- is a good deal of human nature in
cy and that the manner in which it Kipling s conceptions Tropic arc not
is handled means much to the average only social but solitary. Communities,
per capita weal h of the people ofso far centripetal, may turn centri
Orcgon of which he is one. But how j fugal.'so far as they have any choice
much better would it be to have in the matter. People get tired, even
$9,000 credit available at any timejtually, or living in public. Family
within the next thirty years than to re- life is the oldest of social facts. Civ
celve (00 hard cash tomorrow. The iliiation began with family groups,
latter would go for a month's vacation and may end with thrm, each family
trip, or an outfit of clothing or the living a patriarc hal life again, with
like and be gone and forgotten in a a private home that u a veritable
few months, while the loan would cn-.cattle.
able a man to make a nice first pay
ment on a home, allow him to buy u
piece of land, pay existing debts or
improve real f-Ma'c that he may al
ready have.
In a majority of cases the M-rvir-e
man will titlier have
, estate or some one in his immediate
IN THE OLD HOME TOWN
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'MP. WHILE TORE BEASLEf WAS CUTTtS AT THE
SCHOOL YAWP TODAV TUP LAWH MOWEW BROKE POWN.
THE OFFICE CAT
ay Junius
grass, ''has been accuse! of almost
everything except dancing tlie shim
my." . :
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DOWN
THE
'.'I.' MARBLE
' . , STEPS
reads a sign on a 9th St. restau
rant, Cleveland. 1 "Not with the poor
teeth I have," says Hardllo Abel.
m Kaid So?
Junius;' our cat, oh may his Jokus
IncreaKC,
Awoko one morning from u dream
o' rlea:i
And saw within tho moonlight of his
room
Oodles or people .each with face of
"Bloom.
Plontil'ul ga) 'had 'mado our Junius
hold
Although some shivers made his
back feel cold.
"Why lookest thou?" Each person
raised his head.
And gave them links that should
have knocked lit in dead.
And with a groan these peoplu made
reply
"We are the guys that awful cat
y did guy."
''And did 1 .lie'" asked Junius.
"We'll say So, ' '
Replied i ho peoplu. Junius spoke
moro low
HiiUchefrlly still and said: "Why,
' h'lesn my boart
To tin a Hist class Mar Is an art."
Tho people, sighed and vanished. The
next niglit .
They camo again, and now with
faces bright
And showed ilin mum's of those who
really lied I tin host
And lu. Thu Oltico Cat led all the
rest.
Why Leave Out Union?
The La Jrande Observer in its .is-.-ue
of July 127, has a 'column review
of the camp-ground conditions in :ta
piece of real cities and towns outside of La ; ramie.
ami entirely overlooked the Union
family will have ,t, nd he willing toiranip ground recogniied as the fin
let him take a liin on it. When fig-let in Eastern Oregon, where there
uipiJ out in cold dollars and rents ac-1 m running water, city water, shade,
ceptanre of the loan fralurr iiteans jaanitary unlets, free fuel, cooking
about twae ns much to the average iajige in large kitchen, out-door dnlik
Iwneficiary as the ra-h payment, and ! iiiir fountains, irrass. canm-lend, r. an I
Keu-i-il Willi. With One Stone
A . Vargiulii editor threatened to
publish'tlio niimn of a certain young
iniiii who was seen hugging and
kissing a girl in iho park, unless his
subscription to iho paper was paid
up lit a week. Fifly-nine young men
called and paid up Iho noxt day.
while mi. .ovrti, i m I J a eai llik ir-
aiu'e."
Mill. ei Enough Anthow
Heir Mr Junius:
I never was graduated from col
lege, but isn't tins a subjunctive
clause: '
I alHavs enjoy reading the La
Cralido Evening Observer (adv.)
better if I read Iho colytim. 'The
Office Cat ." "
I'CMsy .Mlsllr.
"Cleopatra." observes Lot Snod-
j "Ladies, watch your skirts, we
i are not responsible," Is the warning
i sign In a shoe-shlnlng place.
''Those guys must .be very tem
peramental, " says Ben Zinc who
wrote us about it. j
Yo Tor lolvnm Editor !
Getting up a dally colyum ' is no
picnic. If we print jokes, folks say
we are silly If we don't they Bay
we are too serious. If we publish
original matter, they say we lack
variety If we publish Uwngs from
other papers, they say we are too
la.y to write. If we don't go to
church we are heathen If wfl go
we are hypocrites. If we stay In the
omce. we ought to be out ruatllng
news If we rustle for news, we ure
not attending to business in the of
fice. If we wear old clothes we are
nlm-pna If uA u-eur new rlntlms
they are not paid for. What inl
thunder Is a poor editor, to do any
how? . Like as not someone will say
we swiped this from an .exchange.
Wo did
Two-faced humans are so common
here in La Grande that it is seldom
that they are placed on exhibition
at the drug stores, yet they are fre
quently seen, there. Now that
America's as dry as Sahara fewer
still will be preserved In alcohol. ' :
At Coldwator, O., there's a big
sign on the side of a factory, Chut
reads ' '
-Tho Knm irtfta Qni-AuHur fiimnonv" '
At least here's a place to take
your Ideas that you want to spread.
. An electrician had arrived heme
at 1 a. m. and was preparing to on:
dress when his wife glared nt hlni
and said: "Wats the mutter? Wlrd 1
you insulate! uut tne shock was)
ioo grout, i 'J ne -eiectrivtau ; aroppea.
dead;, ",' , .1. i ; .
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A fairly good' singer waff. filUv
Her Voice, sympathetic and uiotla4
Her vedc simply rans ' i
When some songs she sang; ' .
iJu u on ot befall uj .sj uytly fef Qr-'tl
Anyway a married man , doesn't
have to go Into court to- have his
object font overruled. , .
Ancient Women Had "Rights."
In an ancient Hnh.vlnn province
there have been discovered records on
clay tablets belongic? to the period
of about 210 It. t. showing that' a
woman's "college" or "university" had
been established In a suburb of the
city called Burns, and that women
had equal rights with men In enmmes
clnl proiMTiy and political affairs.
this alone is sufficient mgumei't to
pass up the hoc of lea-f reMs'alue and
go through for the loan.
This is rot the time to weaken
buddies take the loan.
College Seamen '
t iperatitig fti.tit;i;t'rs of At lant ir
stramhip ci'mpaiticj report that ev
ry day cin- of univi-rity under
frrdduittrH an mikm a ijiiivatinn to
them for yU nt Mwinx n or steward,
.incp mt of thi r havr in mirwj only
a va'RtK.ti trip to Kumpr, to South
.America rr n the Pm-ifu' ('& -t, thiwe
vho find employment ar few.
Jut no- urenipl'iyment is wide
pre;id urnonE rfjmi'n, nnd trnc who
havr t'on' down to the sej in hip In
fre have the irrfri'n'.-t.'. The ves
l nianntfers, however, nrie no jrr
ri of their fcelinp in the mutter.
wish they murht tak? on na-y
of nrne college hnyn, if only hh a
miaria of rncouraKintf AmiT'.n youth
of the proper type to po to Ihey
know It would be nx for the "f rvu f ,
for the lxys mid for the pulpit-
Men who follow the wa, tm!uy nn
since men firnt tuilt hip- hivi to
work hard'r than ulmoHt anv l:un.
men. They work, too, under di.vipline I
of
aMojrrther the finest mid ln-st appiint-
ed rarnp-trroutid in tins jiart of the,
ta'e, full of toufits rvrry nicht. t
nr Twin fall it man last week Hent ;
m far av to hy that The t'nion ramp- i
irround it the t in-1 ween Twin Km IN !
and !x Anreleii. And that isn't !!
I'nion citizen oft'U vinit the ranit-'
ground and extend the jrlad hand to!
travelers and ak thern to i ome again.
Certainly our -anp-g round in worthy
of mention. Union K'puldiran,
The li!t of ramp-grounds referred
to ahovc wa prepared by a 1'ortland
automobile rade journal, hut wt
tand correeted, nevt-rthelrss. If ijii
(irande had as fine a camp-ground a.-
l-'nii-n thrre would Ik li-ss worry in
Ijk (irande. The fMwerver wa at
fault, too, for not arbitrarily adding!
Union to the list prepared at IVrtland.
(Jov-rrinr Small of Illinois pli-.nl
that "the king can do no wrong," and
seems to te getting away with it.
If Kaier Wilhelm wears out his wrl
eome in Holland, he knows now where
to go.
Jack Johnson has come hark, look
ing for a fight. And he'll gt it, with
another knock-out, if he runs afoul of
the law again.
o
Kdard Rok is certainly an optimist.
anyone. Moreover, mey art- $
clas rather a hard lot
Tiu; iiiajonty of the men wo ?o to
collejpc in America, on the oher hind
nd itj thun one-tenth uf uiif pr-
,!t ?'! - hi: )r,(.I
lelphia. We dnln t suppose anything
could te done for Philadelphia.
Congress doesn't seem to realize
that business won t Kn up until fed
eral expeiMlitntes, and tv rome
. . , st,
Reduce Clothing Expense
AN Ol.l) Sl ir RKMODKLKD IS OFrEN AS
ATTRACTIVE AS A NEW ONE.
MAKING NEW SUITS
is our regular Imsincss, arid if you want a new tailor
nuidi' outfit wc can give you the perfection of the
art at ri'iiiarkalily low prices a reduction in expense
even in the new product.
I'.l'T, if you want to economize, bring your old suit
to u for remodeling, cleaning and pressing. Wa can
make n marvelous change in that old suit a change
that will add tone to your appearance and much long
er life to the garment.
The WttYdrabe
. . - i woonw.BEBiHr
Dry lleaning a Specialty
'DURA BELLE
Hair Nets
3 for 25
Hair K,.to
2 fon2s
It's The Goods Behind. '
The Price That Counts
The good that's exactly what we mean. It's not price alone we lake ill consideration when
we advertise our merchandise. . Our merchandise has to bo of quality character. It has to ronn
from reliable sourcesi before we put it in the hands of the public. If you buy price only, you must
nni nrr rnliahln mnr.-hmidlse but If you consider both ouallty and price, N. K. West & Co. 1
the place for you to shop. Twenty-five years of quality merchandising.
.c . Many Fine New
Wool
ens
, Here for I'all Showing
Already we have received sevoral now pieces
of fall woolens plaid and fancy skirtings, 'nico
tines In brown and navy. Flannels, Serges, Wool
Jerseys, etc. All very new and at prices that
mark a new level In woolen dress goods.
Women who like to dotheir bow Inn early, mid
who liketo .have the pick of' material at 1 heir
first showing should visit this store oltcu dur
ing the next few weeks, ,
WEAIiWKLL SHEETING
For Service ; ,
This stauiii-h, firm fabric is the same ma
terial as used in the "Wearwoll Sheets," fa
mous fur their durability. It Is sold at tills
store only in La Grande.
Housewives who demand the best in bed
linens should examine this material. , Its
quality can bo easily seen in contrast to tho
others. Trices of Wearwoll bleached sheots
are: ,' : '
Seven quarter
Elgin qiinrtor
Nine quarter .
Ton quarter . .
. 42ii yard
. . 45c. yard
. .' 49c yard
'5do ai'd
MONTE CARLO CREPE
New. for FalL
A new silk material for early fall show
ing, 411 inches wide, in Harding blue, roso
and zinc. A material suitable for blousos,
skirts or dresses, priced at KUI.0U yard.
Men!
Fl
The Best Thing Wev'e
Ever Offered
orsheim
Shoes
$6.50
Few men there are who haven't . remarked
about this sale and few who haven't taken
advantage of It: Several men bought two
pairs, otheis who came too lute could not be
fit at all.i .
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PeVbapi 'we have undcrnlated the facts In
this sale .when We said flu. tli and ?K val-uesT-pcoceediiig
on .the theory that it is belter
to- iihderjttilo. than to oversl'ato. However, ev
ery palf tff these shoes so!d ut ? 15.50 to 18.HU
just ten. months ago. Wo say they are $10.
$13 and JIG value how because new price lev
ell would bring thorn down to two-thirds their
original valui , NOW! Wa ore offering tho re
niatrfd'er 'of ibis slock .it this ridiculously low
price. If you haven't Invested, visit this store
today lf;your size i3 here you'll save several
dollars.
(mS)' "
Silk
UMBRELLAS
For Rain or Shine
These novelty umbrellas in col
ored silks with swagger ring han
dles, or leather Btraps, and stub
ends are fast replacing the para
sol. Far more attractive, more
useful and fast in color, they
combine a parasol and umbrella.
In colors of brown, navy, gray,
green and red also black and
While. Prices ure from fO.UII to
li!.l)!.
DRAl'ERV FABRICS
Storks at Their JJest
Nover wore our stocks of diupcriea so com
plolc, and never were so many new matorlals
shown at one time.
Several largo shipments havo" 'brought, llio
most licuiilirul fabrics beautiful In colorings,
weaves. mid in their soft, loose draping qual
ities. .
Anyone who contemplates, now drapes this
coining spason should see these while quanti
ties are sufficient of one pattern.
Prices range from IOc up to l.00 yard.
In Learning.
In learning, age and youth so fnr'l
nothing : the best Informed take tmt
precedence. Chinese. j
2. J. BL.U h L. A. STOOP
G. J. Black
& Co.
I Licensed Ilea! Kstate Brokers
TI.MIIKIt, Klll IT AMI Cilt.UN
LANDS
STK'K ItANt'HLS
HMH LIKK. and At TO
Hl HAM K
Notary ltMc . '
Office Foley Hotel Bldg. Ad-
" una Avenue
lhimr lllack SIHI
LA tatA.MtK, oyKiO."
This monument, erected to the memory of Joseph
Bradford Carr, in Oakwood Cemetery, New York, is a
combination of classic and modern ideas' in monument
work.
(?etl.Cirr? we have made a profound
fflflffOrdLfih? 8tud of monument building,
i 77 it and nn nrrinr tilafi in
MMm " fiuwu ItM UUl
nanus is sure to receive faith
ful, intelligent execution.
We Will Gladly
Furnish Estimates
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Blue Mountain
Marblefc Granite
Company-
1502 S Are- U Grande, Or.
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WktK Thit Spac
for Bargairg
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LA GRANDE IRON WORKS
MACHINE SHnn Avn tit-.....
All f J. t ni'U ruuiniJIiI
All kinds of machinery, automobiles and tractors re
paired, overhauled and rebuilt
Ascetylene welding of all kindb.
Cylinder boring and oversize pistoni.
Crankshaft. Pistons and Piston PinS reground.
Give tin tri,i . i k.
D. FITZGERALD, Projj.
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