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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1922)
J IT PAm four- TZ? OnSNDR EVENTNTT DTlRETlVJTn La Grande' Observer ISiKIII'KVDI-.N'r KHI,APKIU meat it then wrapped in two or Uwc-el pieces f pupcr, put in. a )oiil- buc ket uml dclivcrod 4y an auto ilruck.i lubiniitd unity and weekly at La I costing two - to t,hrco thousand dol-j For Little Girl Grpduates- Oranrlo. On-gun, ry L-a Grande lrn- uk uunTvur riiniiHhitifr ('omuaoy. HUUl'H HU.MNIH, Editor. UUSCJCIl'TION IIATEI. II jr Carrleri Dally, per month . Dally, per thraa month a Ually, per alx mo., in ad vane . Dally, alnirle copy 4ua c Itti, ' , Moreover thu meat is charged to be ,billu at the ond nfi'the month und paid fur iphiui.'uml if, the money Enter.-d at the Pontoff Ice'at I Orand 1 iivutlabl. - - .. OreKon. u Bmond Ciaae alall Matter, j --yVji j . rvnut,. people, today, under I theae conditions, must pay uuuhtu 01 ftMuVm??.!?11 communications to THH triple for their meat compared with I OBHKUVUIt, 141b Adaw Ave.. La i , ' ., 1 Orande, Ornron. , what they paid 20 yearn airo,, J he! 1 1 rt ' truth is, Lhnt todav everyone, from! ; 1 fillet' b) 6lh home to the proprietor! i himself ia lazy. j j . o one wants to do anything him-1 76fl ' jelf Mhich he-ap. possibly avoid. Kv I.SS 'iffone' is 1l1nK to spend as much ftr hrs "turlo un he can on amusements, HUtomobiling and movies. Telephones, hijrh schools .ami credit sy sterna are wonderful inventions; (hut they all lend to increase the cost of distribu tion. The retailer in up against fash ions and customs which have bound him with ropes that aro almost too stronff to break. What tho future wijl iuimr forth I don't know, It, how ever, is evident that the retailer in not tft blame for present conditions. You and I, as fathers and mothers, ;a' to blumo. Our hitfh schools are tii blame, jtctuil prices can be re dwell only as the spirit of work, thrift and usefulness again pervades tho community." II y Mull. Pally, per year, In advance , ,.... Dally, a be months. In advance Dally, three months. In advance . Dally, pur - month Weekly Obsurver-Rtnr, by mall per year. In advance , ... .15.00 .14.60 .lit C1TY AM OI M V UlTiriCJlAJj I a ri;n. On eale In other cities Oregon Hotel tfewa Bin ml, Portland; Imperial News Bland, I'orlland, Alultnomah Neva titand, Portland. , tfRMHKIt OP ASSOCIATED PIIEM. The Annuel aed i'rtna la exclusively entitled to unit for publication of all news dlHpahlM-f credited to It or not olhorwlHu credit fd In this paper, and alao the local news published therein. AU rights of le-pubhcallon of special Ispatchcs here alao are reserved Bible Thought. Tor Todajj HKI.'IICK KTRKNOTH. HELP: N' - ' Cud la our refugo anil strength, a very present help In trouble. I'Balm 4 0:1. Jack Dompscy certainly yearns to get licked, lie came homo wearing a monocle. ' ' ' ...... i . O-r I To Babe. Ashes to ahcs, du.t to duftU if. Laiulis dpn't f;ct you, tho umpire must. I'oise Statesman. ' The Cost of High Living.- t. - ii THF OFFfT HAT : ' - t?A'-., . ..... (ilk ' jfV ' The New Soft l Throe UKgeatlona for the grammar school girl's graduation frock. About three-fourths of them will be made in white organdie with ruffles and lace, but the severoly tailored IrocK wun almost no iruis win claim attention. "Vou woulJ net six months in pris on," ro plied his father. "You wouldn't forpet to feed it while I was uway, would you, father?' Why American families are gettinf: smaller is explained by Herman Koe of the Northfield News: "The av eniRe man has all he can do to sup port a wife and a Ford " .. Why go to Patagonia to hunt a pre historic creature?, We saw one the other day dolled up in an effort to resemble a flapper. HOW IT IS AT COIXECR Youth's Companion: At one of the dormitories of a college for women i two young; housemaids were compar We like a good hall game and wei'ig notes on academic life. well, said ivoran, oimpnng, ine faculty has the brains, anJ; the college Again comes' the proof positive of i the co;.t of high livin;;. ,Al tho Kn- 1 tolpiise IJve Stock convention . th" cost of meat was di.icussed. The pio! diicer had his side, which was vvrv, good and no one could find fault with his claims nor his profits, for he bos. been making mighty few und those' few have been light. :, - 11 Then came O. M. Plumnier of the j Pacific International Live Stock! Show, who contended the retailer Is ikL. boosting and rooting, that is not to lil.une for tho high price o." ,)(Kj ,.1,...., boostintr. but when a ilnn. meat, but laid it to the manner in , kvu wiilks into the irrnnd stand (and girls has the clothes, but, believe me which we live, the demand for. dcliv-j We.ow an apology to an honest-to-i the maids has the looks!" ery service, credit, etc. Ho ww iToUi'Ood -donkey ( and- piocee.: to bray!" lowed by Kicd H. liixby, whif is u big, the entire afternoon, we lose interest.! I-enine tells his countrymen that cattle producer in California and iilsu , ''1( nonkcy re f cured Ui claimed that .tho relief shipments come from Am owns a retail store for meats in Ung: hB came neither from Baker or La ' ericun llolshcvista. That man may Ileach. Jle said , the retail end is a Giande, for which linker . ami La; have his faults, but he's a darned good profitable end but he agreed that the i (;,i,n,,, Can giyo due thanks, so we politician. domains, of tlic.peuplc for service, do" conelude that he was one of those ' run the prices on retail meats upward. ,Hhe- he-males who run around trying! THE SIMI'I.EIt LIKE. He advonited the parkers entering mjn, ut,cr folks' business and tin- '-'fe: Infuriated Surburban (to the retail field, for the spread be-; wur, jn g,.m.ial. He has a good jolt neighbor) "Well, Im' warning you! tween the packer's piico to the re ; coming to him, and the only thing ! You koep your dasheil bees out of tnifer and the price the consitmc t raves "him iir that 'he is such a mv gaMen or, by thunder, I'M I'll pays is iaige and Mr. Hixby thinks jtt(, bit f two-cent runt that it shoot them!" tho big packers can handle the re-, wuui, ,hanie to muss him up. ! tall end of the business cheaper than Thought for the Day. can an)'on else. '. I ' . ' ' "Be not forgetful t entertain stran- Right along this line comes Bnbson .' Well, uhirh particular hive or mos-, BerS- for thereby s c have enter- the statistician who is recognized Br o,uitos anj ch.cgers have you picked mined aneels mninrrri," n wiziml on facts and here is wha as the place to waste your money . . "Bab" says about the meat business: and vacation th.s year? I "My thoughts go back to boyhood; Receive! Thanks for Stolen Apples. Opening an unstamped letter on which slio was surcharged 8' cents, Mrs. 1 1 en in, of Burner, Knglnnd, was astonished to find an anonymous note thanking her' for some apples stolen from her orchard. The writer added tliut lie Inid robbed her orchard for Ave years In succession. "The apple's are still very good." he finished, "but I hope that you 'will use a good fer tilizer before next year." Insist on Style And Fine Quality This jummer .IN Style alone Isn't enough; you've go! to have the tailoring and the fubrics that hold the style in place. We know we have tho clothes that will give you real, servict they're guaranteed to? do it. , . ;f..:: Hart Schaffner & Marjc Clothes; ; , ;' , are carefully tallnrrtl by hand tc make thein last longer. All tlui new smart modcU for. summer .fear, In two and three button sacks; sport models; lively summer colorings, J'rlced (rout $26 to J60. , ,. , . . With Low Attached Collar i Tho coming of tho sort shirt with tho low attached collar is sure to bJ a comfort during the summer. So much 'aro these In vogue that they are now coming 1" colors und 'stripes as well as plain white and tan. Our showing at tho .present time Is surely extensive for it con tains many new fabrics some colored materials, stripes, soft colored shirtings and aeroplane cloth and pongee. These are. all with the very new low soft collar. Coiiie In and see I hem. I'rlw-H J2.II0. 2.50, P. 00, $3.50 and up to J5.00 In pongee. ; Seven Years Selling "INTERWOVEN" Hosiery For Men, ; : Without A Single Complaint Is This Stores Record! Jewels From the River Bed. Ceylon's great sport is the hunt ing (if Jewels which are often to be found In the beds of rivers. Some times these streams are dried up for a lime ami then the rewards are great for the hunter. Government per mission must be granted before one limy go gem hunting, and during ob tained this permission, Hie hunter Is allowed to keep a. I be funis. To the Inexperienced eye, the precious peb ble, as It rests on the ground, looks llko an ordinary stone, the expert can detect tho valuable ones at once. "Edwin Clapp" Shoos - y.rraMiMiU'M.t.M:lM (Incorporated) "Florsheim" Shoes mill J ; Whooping t'ougli. This Is a very dangerous disease, particularly to children under five years of . age, but when no pare goric, eodetne or otho ophite is la eusily cured by glvin j Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Most people believe that It must rur. its course, not knowing that tho tliuo fa very linuch shortoncd, and that Gift of Good Literature. Don't forget that good literature siven will do for you the following things: "tllve you an outlet, keep before you the vision of Ihe Idml, supply a better knowledge of hlltlinn nnliire; 'l-ogrnr the past to vou. show rou the irlorv or !thoro llttls danger from tho di tho commonplace and give you a mas- ise',su when this remedy Is given. Itj but the main thing is teamwork,' tery or your own language." O. Al- , " ' " "sen in mimy oipiovnucs- pnen m tooiiisii enthusiast. phonso Smith. ;j . ; ,- -TTTT"""- of whooping cough, with pronounced sdecess. It is safe and picasuut to take. Adv. Just So. "Ah," said the professor at a foot ball match; "1 can see that success at this sport can he attained only by per fect co-operation among the players, each subordinating his own Individual ity to that ef the organisation of which he Is a part." "You man he riviit re- llaeful Cigar Ash. Stalin miy be removed from polished oak very easily. Sometimes we find, to our dismay, a blue stnln on our table or bullet top, made from ' water or some other moisture. Snva cigar ashes until you have what yon know wlir he sufficient, when moist, to cover the stain. Do not use any more water than enough to ninko a thick paste. Spread over stnln and allow to become perfectly' dry, then brush " off with a soft cloth. Vou will find the surface restored. UAflS Wanted at The Observer. days in tiloucester, Massachusetts.; The ofiee cTjc ilnlU over , ait. i I i i lucre was a uutcner snop near rr.y , untjn an), mslk, lhat jf ,,,,. lh(. home where we used to buy our meat., jt sun.lvi. ,h wi0 fi. ,,y Uu, Wliy. , , 1 can see 11 oo.v ..uu.. ..... mu, havr b(tn n w t iiacon hanging up on the wall, a. big; - , . . . . ' block in the ceilte." of the store, be-1 :, , ,, ' ,..,!! hind which was a fat healthy butcher ' , tne ro-gus rails ; . the proprietor of the establishment Juuillal : da f,,r ," "l SPECIAL- i. ii 'ilk and the Hole employe. When my I how to iik-ntify a (.'hristian, but he J it'i "if w i"" i" rirmi "Min- in- nmrrt u town to toll the hoys hov bijf they J wert. is'n, in a well, ho isn't all Chiisti.m!" I ! y. ' Town chii Kcns are just like (hose on a g tin' ritrmJ Jf ' you allow them to run J around too imith they gvl touh. . .. . , i ,, " father wanted some beef he Knvo hi M LTj 1?" , 1 WIK,1 U !! Ihe money and unit me to the market ' . . P i to ret it. The butehor ffavo me the l'MV " .' .' J.,.t r-.iu... ,.,.il1) ; ; tuniniir JiOjru leaves the nifs of fish ! a brown, Paer and 1 bk it home, paying rush for the same. The price of troiMl beef in those days was twen ty to thirty rents a pound- There, howevetr( were no deliveries and thv 'butcher didn't spend anything on ice in the winter time, for 1 remember tbe frost tluie( iisi-d to be on those butch er store .windottji, although the butch er wa.i a lieijthy, happy .moJi.. "Tos'ay the'wmie store is used fin a luitcher 1ivp hut it is steam heated and the pmprietor huVs nearly a much ice in the winter as he does in tho minimer1. Moreover, the pro prielur does not cut any meat liim He!f. Mornirn:; he is usually found in the store, but afternoons he is usually j " out uutomtthiline;. He has n hook ," keeper who keeps the accounts, n bit: cash register, two cleiks, and anan t who runs the delivery autoinobite.Ow-'i Uir to posnible breakdowns he has, two automobile:. Kot only is every- J If you can't lirinir an enemy to his t kneeij b; fair - m-uns, .just In a on J J himitnd U-t Katun? take its course. i f Hobby waited a donkeV ahd hf i i had seen tin donkey in a near-by field. J j ' "What, would happen if I stole that I mmu donkey?" he asked his father. We have on hand a few Electric Washing Mach ines of standard make which we will sell at re duced prices. These are new machines in perfect working con dition which have become shopworn. Sold on easy payments with a liberal discount for cash. , , . , Eastern Oregon Light & Power Company i i : i i I Bring Us Your FILMS thing run on u much more 'expetisivi- basis but the clerks s'xn't do more than a half day's work. They see i the pi-oprietor loafing ami they l.Saf ' ' themseles. None of them hnvonnyr interest jn the business and each one 'J is .trying to gi t by witli as little work as possible- ' r- . - " 1 ' fiinil.invnlal qii'stion j ' whether or nitt this stoic Is s,y.ii apv more pounds of beef mid pro- J visions iruwi ii.iiiii io yt-HIS ago. ..I I know the rent has doubled und ollii,. exl'i-n.-.'s have tripli-.i and ipiadrupled l init I seriously doubt if this store i ! selling any more goods. Clourcster -v- . ,,.,.. )',,,,,, ,',,,- , I,,, 1 ! i hasn't as much p,pu , as it Imd ' "" U "ll ''I' "' ' f j 20 years niro, nl thci'e are more ii ri't'i-tly, iii'iiilcd properly J butcher shops. It is probably tine J ;1 n d liilurilcil il'OHI 1 1 V. I J ii..., olo". v.titni; .no. t- nit-Mi per . 'Mi. : . 11. . I.:., l el- i enpila now than in those d,vs, but ' I J j.1".' ,h, K,'i' inn ver shoi is nu-o. Todnv, however, when one of the neighbors wants steak: she no i longer sends her boy to get It Ihu it probably playing fo.rtKnIl or Vr..-, " Ijcinir for a hii:h s-hnol niinstnl wlii.tH' os perhaps he is at the movicst. T.S-rl .lay the motion- t-dei boncs to the 5 , katcller shop, the Uiokke. per enters 1 ery sine that the output of (His finishing MTV iff WO l'l'll- ' is no great-r than it w;l 0 years ,,.,.. I;'t ns develop a J i thu order on an eli'so-ite filing lent, this in turn is tri.'cn 10 one the clci'iu, wlio cu'.s the liitiit. Thv II find vou 'II know. Finishing that's right lid riglvUov time ii I. . our si)oclalVj'.v RED CROSS DKUa ' STORE AN INCOME OF $100.00 A WEEK iiinoiiiils (o no more Hum 10.00 a week in (he end if it is all spent, as you go. Sound liusiness judgment dictates that a iiortioii of your earnings lie set aside, as a reserve against possible ful lire misfortune, or sickness and as a means of gaining financial independence. A savings account in tin's hank is a sound invest ment. It, will work for yon every day in 111" year and always be available in the hour of need. La Grande National Bank CapiVAl ;vut flrpliM, S3flA,CaW.C57 Ch Made In ange Palace Confectionery Mi: Albert Cain, who JVip the jiast year and a halt has. been connected with the Palace Confectioiierv L'is .voiced his wish fo sever his connections with that place. Ir. .1. T. liichardson, who recently purchased the .Palace has complied' with this request, and lias associated -Mr (ieorge 'young of La (Irande with him in the Candy and lec Cream Business. Mr. Richardson aiftl Mr. 'iiung will now operate both the Palacv and the Vming's Candy Shop uiider the one management. The many friends of George Yoinig will lie pleased to again see him back in thciold stand where he delivered the goods to the .public for a number of years. - Mr. K'ichardson. wishes to thank the public for their support in the two months that he lias had the Palace and announces that he shall now permanently locale here and with Mr. Young w?U feed the folks good home made candies and cold drinks. . t t v!' t I o e
