' Yednesday, January 281923,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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