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LA GRANGE EVENING OliSERTEH
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Published dully and weekly at La.
Orande. OrRitn, by tJi CrBiiua Kvu
Inn ObitTvcr I'uhlixhiiiir Company.
IIUUCK DKNNIH. Editor
U 11 1 er-rj at Mi- Contnflu, nl la Urande,
Oregon, hk Hfcuntl Ch Mall Muller.
IN THE OLD HOME TOWN
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Bible Thought for Today
WHERE IS YOUR TREAS
URE? Where your treasure is,
thorp will your heart be also.
Matthew 11:21.
Not So Fearfnlly Alarming
The editor of thin newspaper listen
ed to his old friend, Charles E. Coch
ran, in his Ad Club luncheon .speech
in which he told in his vivitl and elo-
t tk. nf ,t, lw.lw.n.. !
who ride trains through the country
without paying ear fare, but. for some
reason, we could not make ourselves
shudder, neither could we force the
belief that the country is (ronijf to
the bow wows because men steal rides
on trains now just as they have stolen
rules ever since we can remember.
The Observer does not approve of
men riding on freight trains for noth
ing, but the Observer at the same tim?
does recognize that this Is a custom
which has prevailed to a greater or
. less extent since railroading was in
itiated. And furthermore, along about
I 5'- .- -ja jtfSp,
j A RECORD WAS HUNG UP TODAY
i ooiil. BELL. MAUE A MILE IN 4:4-8 m--'r-
A RECORD WAS HUNG UP TODAY VZHEN
OOiil. BELL. MAUE A MILE IN 4:4-8
RELIEF AGENCY
VIES ITS HEAD
New Vmk Man
In ( 'o-Mi-ilinnti'
Is S-lc-fol
Work Sui.'-
"I'stcil liv ( 'oiiforenrc.
THE OFFICE CAT
.
iDon'l shoot bullerflies with rifles-
I.aiiKh It "if.
fioes your work g' t Into kinks
(Are you near all sorts of brinks?
j Laugh it nir.
If It's sanlly you are after
Tin-re's no recipe like laughter
j I.aiiKb it olT.
I Modern Methods.
I never purr. I never meow,
Hut, sil Willi Just an ernply stare,
1'pon my placid ridlne face.
And all the lime I'm siting there,
The boss ls writing like thn'deiice,
So fast the paper almost smokes
A stringing out, line after line
Some, stone age, resurrected Jokes.
In fact I'm Jusl llin nicest eat
Than you could ever hope to find.
And yet some highbrows think I'll
bold
And say I have an evil mind.
October each yenr we always mm ui.' The Jokes come In from m ar anil far.
plain,
One of Ihe ladles of l-'ul Arbtlekles '
parly admitted tluit )! had about
in industrial matters.;""1 l''iiUs of whisky. Wonder how
a couil run get liny reliable oy!iIciii-C
I'riiln a witness like that
wandering Willies riding freight trains
probably seeking u more congenial
climate for winter quarters. N
It is all right for the railroads to
proceed against these wanderers fo'1
stealing rides, if they choose to do so.
hut it is doubtful if they will. So fur
as we know, the railroads never have.
Whether they do or not is not so vital
ns the impression left by Mr. Coch
ran's speech that the country is daily
growing worse
While he did not say so in so many
words, the infeience was easily drawn.
We believe things are gradually get
ting better. Of course, there are num
bers of men who will not work. Tlu
hobo is ever witli us, just as the mil
lionaire is with us. I'reouenlly tin
holm (jets much out of life in his way.'
It is not our way, but it is his way. !
I.a (iiaude has some idle men and
there will lie more, but the conditio. i
will be met. The railroads will have
lots of free travelers who ride the
freight trains without paying for the
Kei'viee, but every line of bu.-iiii,vs has
its free riders its burdens to bear.
Years ago this country had a Coey
army which rode trains at will, Th"
newspapers and public speakers were
vitally alarmed over the condition, tint
just when excitement over the matte:
was at its highest the great army molt -
Sometimes they're awful, I admit,
"I'is then tliev give me all the lilamn.
NO l'l.ACK KOI! IT
Lunatic (entering asylum withat-
tendiint)-Is that clock right?
Attendant Yes, unite right.
Lunatic - Thou what on earlb Is if
doing lu-re? '
WASHINGTON, Oct. I!. Col. Ar-
'iniir v mihih. luriner uiiiiri fiimmissmn-
jer of New York, will head th central
latency to be established here by the
jii&tionu) conference on unemployment
to co.ordinnto emergency relief of tho
workless wae earners throughout the
country.
1 The conference desires, Secretary
Hoover ui(, in making the announce
ment Tue;duy( to see the whole coun
try organized on n community basis
to e fleet the quick distribution of jobs
to the involuntary idle through effici
ent operations of the emergency pro
igram adopted la$t week. Informal
; machinery, voluntary in ita nature, is
being set up in the for pi of one of the?
( conference committees, which under
the direction of Colonel Woods, can
j receive reports from various- commun
, ities of the progress being made and
transmit to the different localities suc
cessful employment methods tried out
'in others. '
Hope was expressed in high a d minis
ration circles Tuesday that President
I Harding's suggestion for a review by
community authorities of the unem
ployment situation and steps taken to
alleviate it in local areas would produce
a picture from which it would be pos
From the way lhe.atrn managers sible to determine where there is evi
advertise their bal.iing beauties you'd! dene e of ".slackeiism" in any eommun.
suppose chorus Kills were the ouly ity. i
people thai keep clean. j The municipal and other authorities
. . J were said" to have shown great intor-
nrlnkinir liltker never rets n m:.n l in siena P'anneu nere to ueal
anywhere, but some men would rath
cr he tlifhl llinii rtrMstflnril I
ins own unemployment, it is ieit it;
would be brought to such undesirable j
Somo automobile, drivers evidei l ly , notoriety through publication of the
try lo blow people off ihe hi reels fuctf, that emergency measures in that
with their horns. It can't be done, jcommunity would promptly .follow. -
, .Reports of local organization are
, You can drop a hint and nobobdv"'0"1'" ntt the conference steadily,
will pay the least attention lo it, but Mr- Hoover said, adding that tele-f
il is different If you drop a ten-dol-1 hiul been received from the
llj,!- 1,111, jmayors ol .Memphis, Chattanooga,!
Nashville, Tenn., an;l Youngstown, O.,!
Anyway. Tien Ford made It possi- "tatinir that they were organizing to;
hie for two people to fliv ns cheaply "eft K,r.. unemployment situations
as one. J v 1
lerence. j
The report of the fommunitv on mu
o agree with the general opinion 'i(.in,.t nro,!inivH(1n fn .,nmn1nvmorf
that most of Hie dry humor these TlWMhiy niKht Slli(1: ' j
days Is wet. ..Tk mti,,iu r DMnmniictin- ,a.
'suits must vary with each locality and
Kemeniber that nnmmerti can belno methods capable of universal adop-'
used to pull as well as to knock?. ' tion can with safety be recommended.!
Therefore specific recommendations to.
Heart balm of $ AO, MOO Is'' little, communities are confined to the very!
enough for any woman. A broken 'urgent one that following the leader-j
witll unemployment and where any
jcommunity has failed to proffer aid to
heart might to be worth that amount
any day If the man In the case has
il.
ship of their mayors with united local
committees they accept this primary
obligation to the full.'1
TAKK ADVAXTAflK.OFTllTS SPUTA!, SAf,H 01-'
COTTON
BLANKETS
SI. 98
A pair of full-slietl cotton blanket-., CtxTii Inches at II. (IS is an extraordinary value, wilhont a dimht.
Unlay we sold them nt that price and will sell them tomorrow at the same price.
You mny have youi eiioice of grey, tan or wh ir, with blue or pink borders. Taken from our regular
stock, anil priced especially for Thursday and Friday bargain day here! Ask In see iheiu loiuor-
roow.
Also ii slightly heavier blanket In size GSxSO, offers an oxceplional'opiii.rlimliy for bnsn sized hlauli
bih at t'i.'iH pair.
l;uk op Brown
MKK'C'KRIZEB USLK
HOSE
29c
These are "spronds" or those with slight
feets some of whleh are hardly noticeable ami
In no way Impair the wear cf the hose.
They are In all sizes, and In black and brown
Wry specially -priced at tiUc, pair. -
IMione orders filled
PLAY SUITINGS
' Special at
1 5c a yd.
A heavy quality of saili ng selling regularly nt
20c yd, Kor children'8 ilay suits, rompers, mens
shirts, aprons, ntc. Fast colors. Very special
tomorrow at I Be yd.
Me- AW
P LA CK
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INeWl Pat. Leather
PUMPS
$7-75
Arrived this morning by
express. One tint prom
ises to be the most popul
ar pump of the season
with patent leather at its
helKh! already. This
pump is of liKhtweight,
patent, with an Instep
suede bindini:, and sinrle
instep strap or suede. JliRh Louts heel and light
weight turn sole.. A beautiful shoes for dress. In
all sizes now. If you are hard to fit better conio
early, l'rire $7.7." pair.
Special Selling of Ladies
SHOES
Besit of Maks Included ...
A snle extraordinary of odd lots and broken sizes or our very hest shoes
Many ure ARMSTRONG make. Tl er are brown and black kid in mili
tary. I'uban and Louis heels. Nearly ull sizes In the entile lot. Choice at
$.1.0(1 pair. ,
$5.90
Srt'H TALK
"ItusinesK Is bail."
"Can't you redact- ofiic
nskt ii ihf wil.
"Ye, I kih-vs I'll have 1
I si eiHtm'apher gouil-bytv"
I "llambi:"
Arc
expetis
i kiss tin-
This is 1 1n season when the emm
Iry is sin-wn with the wricks of the
June hiineyiimonH.
If you di-sire to see some women
lilae ulip jusl tfll 1 1t - in lln-y shoitlil
mil smoke.
A man smokes a pipe for solace - a
woman Ulcs of I' lll slnns.
The bird who always is looking for
Ihe brt-aks In this life usually hm-m
broke.
The government announce grimly
that, it will lis Ihf price of bacon. It
has already been fixed your honor,
bv HvpH-ts fixvr.'. What we want is
fd away as if by magic ami nothing to have 11 unfixed.
more was heard of it. lluu is tin
way thing; come and go and there i.
no use to get all fussed up over some
thing that is out of the ordinary
No one blames the rai!rnals for
wnnlinjj all the help they can get n
any undertaking', but we fail to sec
where there is anything feat fully ciaM
irernu. or ahumintr about the ptcM-nt
condition.
I It I ook a hninlili
Toe in poetry.
raven to put the
A. II. W.
loadt'd with
the mouth.
s:v the head that
w loloni nrvt-r leaks
Only open discussion can give
world an 1M n Poor ipeiily arriv
"N marriage a failure?" people ued
to ask. And now they n-k, pro-1
hiliition a failure?" One question i-tIou't liKik
us easy to answer conrltiMvely a- th.
other.
I.Al'tlil IT OFF
Ate yon worst I in a fluhi?
ie you cheated of vmir rlrht?
Laugh It off.
tragdif of I rif!''
Accord in jf to iu' report TrVy
is m th prip of tl li .'. I,. Th
Pall :;'-'-tH M'l'HIl ( ke tK - nic
cffec o.k Tr7 W.Jsf itt jii si.t
,".'. .lull jrwit4 tVfir. !ii"!
po i'h Ihst etybi "n
rur now, if he only hfcd t'V retimed.
P'i'C- 9 o
Turn "Yap" n round, and it -.pel')
"pav." I-- that what .'pan ha- been'
holdinif the island for ?
tA lip-readiiitr expert sayt thai wo-IVj-umpriate
more clearly than men
rlea ly?
V, O. for
Feel Old?
Cverwuk, wrfT, '"y totttm
entriininr. .iR-nnih d kclib. Thcw
mi coiilMbc lo kidney trouble, anj
(.ah or ditrttmi kiiiary. ti oae
fv.l cU it middW t'
hrbcuk, ovcmorl Jnr llitraiaJ kid-nry-9
m 4 hladdrf toht fce uritcm w
hoc from nrutc and ninuout matter
that cauiM one to (! old. titcd, lin
f, tut. They hinih backache, rheu
matic pjiirn, lore mtiKclri. ttitT Join It.
Mti. J. D. M'!!-t. Sy.h. N V, nli;
'ftf ntnf iars t iifwl w.'k k.dfu-ttroubt
tnl chcumatBi. I hd '" I ( J
ltl rt.tt'l- mtid all pity I
tlarr oh-Tf I (t Attr lab'
it. g imn biJIIr Ml l if Ksl'MI 1'iils I rin H
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STATEMENT. other security holders, holding 1 pe; NOTICE TO CltEIMTOUS.
Statement of the Ownership, Man- or more of tot"' "mount of bon" ''j
acement, Circulation, etc., required by morttrnpres, or othe securities: (If
the Act of AUKUM -M. JU12. of UHhere are none so state.) United State.,
Cran.le Eveninfr Observer pubhshed Na ,ona Bank, .a Gruntle; l.a Grand.. been appointed Executor
daily, except Sunday, at l.a Grande, National Bank, La G.ande. :( Kstntp of y
Oregon, for October, 1921. Averame number of copies of each;ceasci)i hv (he Coonty Court of
Editor, Munaginc Editor, Business tissue of this publication sold or il3-1 state of Oreiton, for Union county All
MunaKer and Publisher, 'Bruce Dennis.i tnbuted, throuBh the mails or other-ip(,rsons m,.,vill(r clnimst afroinat the suid
.a Grande, Orciron. to paid sub-nber.H during the estat0 ar(, h(..(,by requid t0 presont
Owners: (If a corporation, Kivc its six months preceding the date shown them to tho uml.rsi(;ne(ri wjth the
name and the names and addresses ofabove- (This information is required; prop,,r vl)at.hers within six months af
ptockholders holdinir 1 per cent or more; from daily newspaper only.) 21o0. j tel. ,hc (,.,tc of tm notU.e nnd t0 ,0
f total amount of stock. If not a
BKUCE DENNIS.
ipicsent the same to the undersigned tt
orporation, give names and addresses! Sworn to and subscribed before met i.a Grande, Oregon,
,f individual owner. La Grandel this oth day of October, '1921. ,,.,, ,v.h. K
of iiuiividual owner. ) La Grande
Evening Observer Publishing com
,pany, Bruce Dennis, La Grande; Flor
ence J. Dennis, Iji Grande.
Known honilholders. mortgagees, and
CHAS. H. REYNOLDS,
Notary Public for Oregon,
(seal.) (My Commission Expire
Feb. 24. 1!)24.)
1 lated. October Hth, '1021.
FRANCIS II. CARBINE,
Executor of the Estate of Wm.
Carbine, deceased.
Dly. Oct. R-d:l-2u-27, Nov. 2.
V.
The Big Thrii-minute Western Feature
WithGrek Cait
also;
a tw0-reev0medy
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
VERA GORDON
(The "Mother" of "Humoresque")
-in-
"The Greatest Love
Dedicated to the one to whom v turn iti joy or
Sorrow OUR MOTHER.
SPECIAL
"The Romance of La Grand"
A moving picture made in La Grande with
La Grande people in the cast
'iii ' V Dob
From which these damt'
little SNOW FLAKE
are made.
All the freshness of sui:.
mer sun, that drowse
over wheat fields, is em
bodied in them.
Just open the package
gmt 4 whif of their
fart. wtaJaUerate J gwii-
O O .
jTx 11T frri' :it an an b.Srt
'f 'k for Ciiden
43 iflOl i u.'.&tS
W& WW :?-
PACIFIC COAST BISCUIT CO., Portland, Ore.
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