La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 28, 1925, CITY EDITION, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Text' Yednesday, January 281923, THE-CT GKANDK OESEEVEE SFJfl nFFP (IN I The Busu Man's Newstater I, 1 mm mm t. ' m ! Ulllllwll iiuiiuw I J ; T ,. , IVI I, ADD CANYON (Special) The postman chuntfuM his mode of travel frequently thette layn owing to the many deep Biiowclrlfla on the rout). Mr. and Mrs. Burt Kail were din ner gui'Hia with Mr. und Mrs. A. 1 KurtfiiHon recently. The two eighth prade pupils, Beth Myrl Miller nnd Lola Han tnn, who took the mute examina tions recently passed with high honors, mukfntf Knerp uveru?e of 85.5 und 1)5 per c?nt respctlvey. They are now attending hitfh sehool ut J-u Grande. Mlwi llelch Pet-hler, who re cently had a ratllu installed. Is en joying interesting programs every evt'nhitf. Hh still retains her cheer ful disposition althoiiKli cnnUiied to her )n d ronsianlly. Miss llt-li'ii Austin, who spent the week end at home-returned lo her srhool wtrk at J.a Orande Hunday evi-ning. The Miasms Ruth Drnmsmith, Helen Austin and lietli lli-ryl Mil ler visited school J'Yiduy. Alius Marjorle rediler Is staying In town now while utteiullntf hlKh school. Mr. and Mrs, lien Cottner mntlo a trip (o J.a Grande, a fi-w tlitys BgO. Mr. nnd Mrs. (.. Prosson nnd son ond Mr. nnd .Mrs. Hurt Kail and daughters were callers at Hot Lake reeently. Roy Pet'hler, who hnn been vis iting at WaitHhurg, Wash., return ed liouie reeently. Old "ngllsli Silverware Offers ;mkI Dividend LONDON AP) There In o great boom at the moment In an tique silver over here, and genuine examples of the art of the old Eng lish silversmiths are at present fetching high prices In the salt rooms. Quite recently a standing salt cellar which welKhed only ten ounces brought $1 1, BOO, or tiO times lis wefirht In pure gold. The keenest buyers arn said to be fortdgners nnd colonials, and quite recently enormous quantities of fine, old silver havo boon ship ped in the. United Hfntes. Asked for the reason Tor the Increased d. 'in a nl for old silver, a welt known expert said that It was an excellent Investment. The longer it wns kept the mom vulunble It be came, and collectors were buying It with that In mind. Faking In con nexion with old silver is very rare nowadays, tho export, udded, an the penalty hod been made so great that what was to be gained from tho deception was scarcely worth the risk. nt -. .-. t . ii . . 'i i i'tr . , tinnm , , ', .(. 0'tnii'i, kWln M ' ' , !iv.of fh. Auihorlwd . DmlriKuuir; wh.r 111. n,aa. " ( lr mnr o( the Timk.n Hn. J vlf. Ctk.t It .v.ll.H.i uhert rnumr Timk.'n B.sr I Iiiki u. ki1 n ih. or. 2 J and blttk Timk.n cvujnt, I.i'iRliton's Welding & Machine Works V ik r-;rll lti Iron t Ttm- Gifts For Every Occasion Always New At Richardson's Art & Gift Shop Ln (irimle3 House of Art. rictuifs. Frames, China und Glassware. """. t v KJIsssssIbIbZ Ill i r . . . . . . II U l m H I 1 ; I IB History of Rural Mail Service is Interesting Few Institutions ln the history of American progress can bo cred ited with a in uro salutary effect upon tho march of that progress than the Itural .Mall Service of tho I'ost Office Department. No other single Instrumentality has done more thun tho rural mail service toward "bringing tho pity to tho country," and relieving the prosaic, existence of farm life, or has been as effective In establish ing closer contact between tho farmer antl his markets. It has boon tho most important factor In making agriculture an exacting business Imdcntl of Its one-time precarious classification which con veyed no broader meaning thun "tilling the soil." ,,,, .kim.i- Twenty-nine years ago tho fann er, and hts wife, and children, led nn existence of almost complete Isolation, living upon widely scat tered farms, some of them miles apart. They hnd comparatively llt tlu communication with their neighbors or the outside world, ex cept that derived from weekly trips to the ndjucent vlllugo. More often thun not the farmer lost a full day's work and his props were neglected In order to obtain expect ed mail at the village post office. Mali ItrliigA Touch. In those days the furmer's mall consisted largely of communica tions from relatives nnd friends. Today the dally mult Includes, us ually on the very dalo of publleu tltffi. the metropolitan newspaper, containing market reports nnd ag ricultural news; the weekly nnd monthly fnrrn Journals and maga zines, and business letters from the village merchant nnd the more pretentious establishments In the rt 1st iint city..: All of theso are now brought to hi" door or to i)f boy a few yards, away. The rural carrier Is the farmer s post office and his agent. Through htm 'he conducts transactions fur the sale of his llvo sttick, grain, a nil nt her fa rm prod uce. From him he hnys stamps nnd pavs his bills by postal money order. In short, the letter corrkr ln tho med ium that hns tronsfnrmed the once sochided habitant of the rural dis trict Jnto a cosmopolitan citizen, conversont with current affairs und occupying a larger place In the destinies of a great nation It llltory. It was Post master General John Wnnamnker who flrvt offloiully suggested In' 1891 the rural mail Idea to congress. The plan wits fought in the legislative branch of the government for five years be fore It was given a tryout. Tho first bill authorizing the es tablishment of the service was In troduced In the house by Kepre. sftitut( James O'Oonnelt of Mich- iKan, January 5, 1892, It carried an appropriation of $t;,0()0,ooo but failed of passage, A yenr later I congress wan induced to approprU aie iiu.ono ror experimental pur poses followed In 1894 by $'Jo.oeo more. Mr. Wnnumakcr, helieving the amount Insufficient even for experimental service, declined to use the fimney. On January 9. 1806. $10,000 was added by congress and on October 1. the same ynp the first expert I mental rural delivery service was established fdmultunvouHy on ibn-n routes In West Vtrwlnln, one front t'hrlestown. one frmn I'villa, and nn1 from llulUowii. From this small beginning, nine months later found tbf mrvtc,. operating on M routes emanating from 43 post of. ficis In ;r:i Htutcs. Twenty. eight yenrs Inter, or June an, l f me rural moil service bad grown to 4 4.:ft route with a total mileage of l.o:.,714. mhuciI whii Uta.nno. I In comparison with 'the intlg. ntf1ent appropriation of $iit.iiMi mane i,y congress more thun aj Ideas are like people. Thy iiiuru r of a century ngo t thinu;. ,.,., rr!,t. If you work one over iiitate the service, it now re.iulr.-R jtlni It becomes nervous and trou an annual cxnvudUurtt. ol JII,2o,. bWsom 000 to keep It functioning. Tho first county to be complete ly covered by rurul mall service was Carroll county, Maryland, where county service was estab lished December 20, 18119. There are very few counties in the coun try today that are not honey combed to the uttermost corners with free mall delivery. By 1016 2(1,080 fourth class post offices had been discontinued us a result of the extension of the rural mall service. It Is estimated that an annual saving of $1, UK!, 040 was accomplished by the discontinuance of these offices while the elimina tion of star, or contract, routes is estimated to save $:i,4S2.tt7o per AWunu .a When the service was first In augurated the salaries of rural carriers was only $200 a yenr. They may now get as much as $2160 a year, depending on tho length of tho routes, while the motor routes of 50 miles or more pay salaries of $1450 to S2t!00. T'nder tha administration of H. H. UlUnny, present Fourth Assist ant Postmaster General, a marked inerenso In rurul delivery facilities has boon made, the number of routes climbing from 43.ii4! to 44. 70; the mileage- from 1.169.239 to L20R.7U and the number of In dividuals served from 29,1 13,8KS to 29,021.123. Illinois leads the nation both In the number of rurnl routes and in mileage, there being lM:t7 routes covering a distance of 7o,7T miles In that state. Ohio Is second with. 2G42 routes nnd a mlleago of 63, 82t; Missouri third with 2rr2 routes covering &l.n74 miles; Iowa fourth with 2229 routes covering (10,734 miles; Texas firth with 21UU j routes covering so.nns miles; Penn sylvania sixth with 203U and 53 385 respectively, Kansas seventh with 1902 mid rt,4;4 respectively, and New York eighth with IMS und 47.130, respectively. Figures for olher states nre: Htato No. Hto. Mileage Indiana 1X45 Michigan 1X30 Wisconsin 1720 Minnesota 1720 Georgia 1035 Tennesseo ims North Carolina 14"2 Oklahoma . 1258 Nebraska 1173 Alabnma llflfl Virginia 1145 Mississippi uiiifl Kentucky 1R 54.795 50,703 45.540 49.1rt2 47. on 40,295 85.499 88.077 33,590 St.943 2,887 26.884 22.497 22,797 25.008 18.0R2 21.S02 i ti.es S 11.794 10.873 10.K42 11,654 33.478 7.91ft 8.892 7.922 30.052 7.344 7.959 6.893 K.840 fi, 030 6.02O 2.758 1.&4H 2.191 l.MSn 1.031 1 . 1 01 'lis 12S 17 Mouth Carolina .. North Dakota Arkansas - Month Dakota .. California 892 8.1ft 744 712 4t0 Maine - 44 West Virginia 449 Maryland 429 Wushlngton 4 15 Colorado 85S Vermont 84 1 ljoulsluna . New Jersey , Florida Massachusetts, Oregon , IS7 aos 2 2S6 ?I0 tonnectlcut 28 New Humpshlre .... 248 Itloho 22 Montana 204 Delaware Ftnh New Mexico Khude Island Arliona Wyoming Dlst. of Coin in hi ii Nevada Hawaii- 101 61 69 AS S5 84 4 4 1 Kxrfeilinic tlie ipo limit nlon the ronl to nurc'j in jimt ns tlantrnrons ut monff any tttlu-r roail. Author lo YiJt Pendleton PENDLETON, Ore.' Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong, au thor of "Let er Duck," the book written around the Pendleton Itound-I'p,' who 1ms been inter ested In the wild west show since 1912 and' has written and lectured about the Hound -Cp, will visit Pendleton early in March, accord ing to information received from" Ituston. Ills home. Perfect Balance QddbeQrdthers MOTOR Itiiara A Coltltit)!!. t'rops. Stages Seave La Grande for Joseph Daily 8:.10 12:110 3 :."I0 Arrive : 10 :50 1 :.ri0 5 :.ri0 It Is Fine to Regain Health -But Much Better to Keep It There nre unavoidable illnesses. Regular physical examinations, however, would do away with a great percent of our sickness. Through them any health menace is found in its in cipient stages and corrected before it impairs our efficiency. Such examinations are of value only when made where every scientific equipment is complete. The Hot i Lake Sanatorium . Dr. W. T. Phj. Owner and Director. $144.00 Pits you out with n fivc-tule Receivinp; Set complete with all necessary accessories set up in your homo, ready for use. Ask for Demonstration. W. C. KKI.LY Phone IWn Noyes' Karber Shop. GRADUATES IN JOURNALISM GET START AS OWNERS SEATTLE, (AP) The country. 'not the etty, 1b the field for young men and women who take acad emic training In newspaper work, opines J)r. Matthew l.ylfc Hpencer. dean of the school journalism of tlie t'nlverslty of Washington. He! and Ho I 11. Lewis, who was grad uate from the school ten years ago and is reputed to have uehlev ed a comfortable estate, besldsi j Influence, us publisher of a week iy ai i.yoeu, wusn., a oairy com Imuntty, have worked out a plan, 'under which they report that sev en new graduates are acquiring newspapers. Dr. Spencer or Mr. Lewis buys a paper and forms a stock comp any,- retulning 6! percent of the stock and putting 4!i percent Into narrow. A grad late Is placed in charge of the paper, receiving a salary ami drawing dividends on the 4!) percent of stock. The dividends uro applied in payment on the stork. When the di vends have 'paid for the 4!i percent of stock, the & percent Is placed in escrow, and payment continued on It with dividends. "It Lsn't entirely altruistic," Dr. Spencer saod.i declaring that a young man or woman could ac- FOR SALE OR TRADE A tcn-acro trnct In lowfr Yak Inut .Vnlliyx for I .a Ornmln prop erly. . . picTntrc sirow We have a Moving Picture Show Dislness In one of the coming towns of Oregon. This Is a great opportunity to get into thin busi ness ut a place that has n, good fnl ure before It. Priced 'rutin und good terms; lisnn.nn will buy n fine small home near the Hlverln sehool, two corner lots. A real buy. Good terms. For Rent 1 2-acre troct. close In. Irrigated ami well Improved. PYRAMID LAND CO, CARS ComCudaUu I quire a papr In thia way In thre to five years. . The only cash payment required of the fledgling publisher Is $MM to 11.000 at the start. . PtirUaiut Youths FIimmI. HOOD RIVER. Ore. John Hunter, Pari O'xVeil and Reuben Worth. Portland youths, appre hended by Night Marshal Oonover, who removed a quantity of wine from their automobile, wore fined (50 each when they pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace itlagg. The men said they were en route to Hhermun county. Worth and O'Nell received funds to pay their fines, i oung Hunter remained in juil, unuble to raise the money. DURNS $ Cover wan Covet with wit baking tod afterwaidl apply genuy Vicfts Ctr S7MHUon Jmt U4 Var(y Mr. Pratt is on the Coast at present looking after bus iness interests, but under the temporary supervision of a local man the building mater ial goes marching on. We are sending material to all neighboring towns and some as far as Idaho. There's a reason. Investigate ! The Claude C. Pratt Lumber Co. TIm Poor Man's Frimil" Opito, l ounilrj. I'HONIS S4S Mo btiuriay UimIimm ELECTRIC Curling Irons.52.00 tip Flat Irons ?4.00 up Percolators $7.00 up Toasters $6.50 up Waffle Irons....$10.00 up Grills $9.85 up Hot Plates $4.05 up Boudoir I.r.mps..?2.00 up Flash Lights 50c up Electric Ranges $10.00 Electric Engines ..$12.00 La Grande Electric Co. Apples Ilarley Chicken Feerl. Drums' of Oil. V.gR Maker. Teed. fSrit. liny.. Irish Potatoes. Inxz is not In our line. We , want your business In what wo havn. ' La Grande Warehouse & Storage Co. Jefferson antl Hemlock Sts. Phone Main 794 FJUCKSOX A DUKLAXD For Wood Cutting Atkins and Simonds Cross-Cut Saws Sledges And Wedges Axe nnd Sledge Handles F. L. LILLY B&rdvar rhon Mai. 81 CAN GRANDE KONDE VALLEY WHEAT 1 ". Be entirely used in the manufacture of , Superior Bakery Goods? i SEE OUR DISPLAY IN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WINDOW. J Gwilliams' Electric Bakery "iio.ir: oi1 the ;ui:n hi si" Bum ( Aberdeen Utah Coal It makes the buyer cuss, we know, when the trial load turns out fine, and the second load is not so good, and the third's like the "run o' mine." There's one sure way to' save the day one way v to win the game. Though the wagons may be differ ent ABERDEEN loads IT'S ALL A GOOD Sawyer-Holmes Merc. Coi PHONE MAIN 17 Servicing Batteries We Specialize in Batter Recharging, nopalrlnj and prolonging the wrltui your butter was IntenilMl to Klve ri'imllra of tlie Blxo or make. Our prices anil service must Batlsfy. 8-UOUB nTCCHARCK RKltVlCn :XII PlKtrlbutur FRED T. BURGESS MATS 12S 1308 Jefferson Are. We Have in Stock and Are Agents for AT W ATE R-KENT RADIO SETS Benham MAIN 104 AUTO GLOSS IS VOI R OLD CAR WORTH ?2.0() That is all it will cost you for a quart of PATTON'S AUTO GLOSS Oregon Hardware & Imp. Co. LOOK OVER OUR. WANT ADS FOR BARGAINS ' Money No Measure Of Value 7 The vnlllP nf tclenlinnn - 'itt vamitiL uc lllVUHlirCU in dollars and cents. No community without tele phone service can exist in competition with nother community that has telephone service. Home Independent; . Telephone Co. RECHARGEABLE RADIO A D BATTERIES THU BATTERY ELECTRIC RF.RVICB . Lcltitoo Stachlne Work DMc. tail WuhlDcun in are always just the same, COAL' SHOULD BE. Electric Co. v NEW FOLEY BliDQ. cti - riA oHi l.- ' j V, &ATTEKIE8