La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 06, 1925, CITY EDITION, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE LA' GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER - Friday, March 0, 1025. THE OLD HOME TOWN j ($nmbt Riming, (Qbmfot It Is Getting Time For That New Spring Suit An IndiionJrnt Newspaper ; FRAN B. rt'PLEBY HARVEY F. MAtMeWS ...Editor and Publisher .........Business Manager PAfiE FOUR By Stanley FIE GDIS TOi CONVICT I RADIO Pibllslfta erenUurs. except Sunday, at 141 1 Adam Avenue, ' La Orandet Oregon. The Observer-Star published every Friday, t Entered at the Postofflce at La Grande, Oregon, as Second i Class Mall Matter under act rch 2, 1179. ' OFFICIAL JSTTlt OF UNION COUNTX AND TUB CITY OF LA GRANDE j . M1WBEH ASSOCIATED PRESS The WfU'.i 1 iivtu la exclusively entitled to use for pib. " licatlfo or " i('Hi"h credt4 to it or hot etherwlw ' credited It piilm&r.cd tin: rein. All rights of republication of . special duuiaituM m thu paper, and also the local news , hereto also are 'tesorvwj. . HUUSCKIPTION RATES By Carrier , DaUy, per month in advance.. ' Utuiy, sue monins in advance.. Daily, single 'copy -.7 to ..$4.60 6o Dy Mall. Dally, per month in advance Osjiy, per six uiouyjs in a4vance. uiuxy, per year in Rutum Weekly WbserverrStar, per year.. 690 ..12.63 ..16.00 ..12.00 . , ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per column lncn............ Display, local, per column Inch...... Time contract rates on application. ..420 .400 HOW EXCELLENT Is 0"y loving kindness, O Ood! there foro thu children of men put their trust under tne shadow of thy wliks. They snail bo abundnntly sntlsfled with thu fatness of uiy house; and thou shnll mako them drink of thu river ut thy pleasure. rsulm 3G:', 8. j Fashion dictntors say men's huts will bo gaudy this year. And no doubt they will be on the men who wear that sort of hut. J ;The grafters in any community or state are usually ;the fellows who Steal what the rest of us would have liked Id have ourselves. !" - ', Some petfele think higher education will take a distinct :ctep upward en it Issuing taking ns much pains to get the boy into the right niche in life ns it does to put him into the proper position on the gridiron. The truth of the matter is that it will do the world very little good to put him in the riglf niche in life if he's so poorly equipped physically that he can't fill it. SINCB THB NBW MlLUINBSt CAMS TOTOWI ijVSBJMar. JIM WATSON HAS BBBN KEPT RKiHT lr. JIM Hs TURNED OUT SOMB iwtft REAL. HICC WORK OFFICE CAT ' V NADS HAHH r0- & Junius Nothing ran rest the tired busi ness limit like good returns from Ills eifurt. , . , SKKVICE There's a poor man outside who wunts something' to eat! Give his some bread und potatoes. But he skeins to have seen better duys- All right; give him u napkin, too. - ... A man with common mMiue must get lonesome In this old world. Yesterday In Congress hint tv siieli.' ' SPKMNVELV. BUT NOT WISELY The Oregon Highway Commission will have something over five million dollars to spend this year for highway development, improvement and repairs. Three million of this is the amount still duo to complete the state orginal schedule of forty-million, and an additional two million 'will be available from other sources. Vhat's going to be done with the money? Senator .Dennis is authority for tho statement that the commission is planning to let contracts this spring for a half million dollar job on the lower Columbia highway to cut out tli jtwists and curves on tho road to Astoria. An expense iof $500,011 to straighten ami pave the new right-of-way .of a road that is nli&uly excellently paved and supremely adequate for everyone except the speed maniacs who can't (negotiate the turns. . If you have ever driven over that road to Aston:), you'll agree, as we do, that the highway is unnecessarily crooked at some -points over the last, twenty or thirty .miles. It's full of curves and turns that could easily have lcen elim inated in the first place, or at least as easily as now, but that's nil the lyn'.tM- with that -particular highway all the way fru:i I hsrii to Astoria. It's paved; it's smooth; U'S fast cno'.ijrh for those who observe the state speed law. And it doesn't need a hnlf million dollars of the state's highway money this year just to take out a few curves. Such an expenditure, if made, cannot lc classed as cither ,:,r " 'oo1 propose) .... . . . . .. , . hi l.uv .oiihH1iiik all mm to nvur cihlh-ui or vuwwimcui mil n can oe rinssca as looiisn ;i nt.,itt.i:i trouM-m imd abbuul vfiyn Oregon'a highways have many and varied r.ecds far more primary. Hero in Eastern Oregon, where we are naturallv more m"s' lho"':M VM Acquainted with hirtiway conditions and needs, the streteu of highway between I .a Grande and Haker is the most I ' i, ,r""" iut it I f . iha-s n-rr lt--n knonn lo turn bv in"" miuini I'l hmv luiu-r uiHt.iueill limeade 111 tne : Knot, an.l w.ilk in titatc. This portion of tho Old Oregon Trail receives so much heavy tafflc that three resurfacing of gravel each reason is required t keep it in proper shape. There is iio stretch of main highway in Oregon that needs paving 'iid deserve.', paving as does the Oregon Trail here. It wouH !'( .i coonomy to the commission and an important link l.) tV stale's highway system. . The OWrver cannot conceive of a lettcr place for a hlf million dol'is than to pave half of such a project i-specially whe t Vnt half million might otherwise lie spent in taking a few simple curves out of the Astoria highway. Eastern Opon tfumld g busy on the situation and s-.v tljat our .-!i::!v of the five million this year is sx-nt Uith isely and wej. onouBh to live In town and spend P " ' ,h.e s;'n"'- His time at a coumry ciuu. . .! .. . .. .. I...... nepresi'nlHtive Tilson. t'tniiieeti-i l.Ml'I,OYi:S IANCE DIXUIU.l)!cut Jlepn,k.un floor PiU,,.r. wa, , OrV Irhoorn ehatrmun of the liepulH'an I "Thirty tnen emploeH iivrc housc conilIimw on COmu.iUees. inttinattHl. three on the ami." ' I (Yum Indiann lnllv.) . . I Tht senate, aft it two sesi;ionu. I It may be ull rlut to scrap the d whntever wns done Wed- ! navy so long as we ure not culled ( nesdny In violation of eonute rules, upon to serup anybody else. when Vive 1'isident lmwes took i jthe chair should be considered le Ilr's aii holiest limn wtut has a Kil and r roper. plug Mime for suie nun Aittru.ses Harry M. Snodgrftss, Known to Thousands as "King of the -Ivories," Gains First Big Time Contract Through Prison Recitals. , j When the grim gates awun? open to 1ft Harry Bnod grass, con vict number 1311, back Into the world again, he had the salt and.1 pepper suit the state gives all re- j leased "guests" and a five dollar J bill. Dul he reckoned without his many friends to whom his fame j had been broadcast by radio. They had st'nt him gifts totaling over! J10.0UU, In cash, a new touring car, and many gills of apprecia tion which did much to dispel the gloom that years of Incarceration i had put on tho shy little man. But one of the best presents that i await rd htm was a contract tot ; the Kelth-Albee Orpheum Circuit j "big time." And another was an j Invitation to play for Brunswick records.. 1 ' H( at ion WOU, located In Hie nomination cf Postmaster Gvncral ! dome of Hie stnte capitol a fow Sew. . i J hlorlvK from the grey prison on j t M it so ml river culled for tal-' Krank U. Kellogg was bwurn in ' 'iit to broadcast t the thousands as secretary of state and William ' who nightly tuned in for their M. Janlinc us secretary of agri- i prep rams. Warden Crawford, the culture. xf I humanttarian boss of the prison. j organizt'd n band among the prls i Senator Swanson. Vhginl i. re- (oners. Soon the first program was '. introduced In the special sesHion j t nt out Into the darkness by the J of the senate his world court reso- lei boreal waves. i lutlon. - i Itadlo fans began to ask for solos by the band's pianist. Modestly Senator George 11. M. Moses, j enough. Snodgrass, who. previous New Hampshire, was selected as to going to the cells had been a llepublican candidate for president splendid pianist, gave his first pro- jgram. wus was picked up uy I rad i o-lovers who recogn ired the singing In and off signal of the (By the HsMM-lntwl 1'ress) The senate confirmed the i station. The "Missouri Waltz' and other I : oos played by "the King of the ivories" from WOS soon made him fnrnous. His technique is perfect. A had mrr "It's ten to one you're always late Spake angry Mrs. Brown yTw.elve-thirty . -r is, siraiKin ( l ou il meet me here in town! You made me stand around und wait You need a calling down! "And when did you get here, my dear?" Asked Mr. Brown in fun. Said Mrs. Brown. "Whtn t got here The clotk read "ten to one"' The sntsc tribe of tho deserts hnc titi taxes to n. Why, theu. an they sniti i;at mere grapefruit. It's a good eye waih. First Villain: I'll be there at midnight. Second Villtin: All right, but don't foriret the papers. first Villain: No, and uu bring the tcbiuxo. A .MHI-M'aridil InM-uil bn- jn 1 In-n M'ttliNl In sntierlniHl. 1 1m must Unw gtHNl lnucr tnt-r there, The situation with tegard to per sonal llbtrtv is prett bail, but ' President Coolidge returned to tho senate the nomination Liuf Charles II. Warren to be attorney general, but omitted the nunilna- I got you ln of Thomas F. Worn! lock lor i tie interstate commerce commis sion. Plant Grafted Walnuts, Tliey Make You Money ' One of the heal blocks of -Vrooinan Kramntette In the st a t e. se 1 ec t t y pe, well 1 gro n. All other stocks ; Filberts. Apple. Pear. Cher, ry. Prune. Plum. Peach. Apricot, etc. Small Fruit u, etc. Bight Flock at right ptices. Submit your want but. send "for price?. 35 years in bn.u- CAUiroN Miismtv c. Carlton, (iwtiii. A Reliable Bank Reliability that means lii'lpfuliiess as well as safely no mailer what the emergency. La Grande National Bank Souml. Ui-liabli',' rrogrosshe iiami ih:m:i it iliki; MAIUII 4111 Cdiuo in and look ovei' our stock, of now Spring Siiits, Suits that have the snap and appeal to men, young or old. II. S. and M., $15 Up Other Makes $29.50 Up Also new. peppy numbers in smart Top Coats of new material and new colors. ' $18.50 Up 1925 Hart Ochaffner ft Man Snodgrass' first phonograph ree-f ords ure to be on nalt within a short time. The first of these re- j produces Identically the famous broadcasting program from WOS. . Youth iets llrlcf Slay. HOOD RIVER. Oie. X. Miller, youth Indicted by the grand jury on a charge of non-support of his wife und & baby, received until to- ! brought bofore the circuit court to- ! day. If Miller, who pleaded guilty. ; wtlJ provide $oUU lo care for the I family,- he will receive a suspended sentence. CHINAMEL C'HIXAMKL MAKK3 SPUING IIOCKKCLKANMNO KABY. Let us explain the many uses that Chlnamel can bu put to. Oregon Hardware & Imp. Co. Judging fiem the stuff they mind in old Kink Tut's tomb, lo "I'm im4 Rttnc to stm-ls. nn tint ke." . gnvnhorn hIio had Ji"t g'Hte iutu llir lianlwarr httl niv sil to Hie imu'lliu sules iiuiil. "hi ou'I hotter Mit Hir saniid iniit, TtM-nS no ilmuuul fnr l tat he- In flit town. lirrr j t-t a tint In Hh whole pUiv.' I The 41 lit s nrt taking their own! ;.s.t I'm- in Ine 'olnrne I 111 Your Favorite Recipe Use THE WORLDS GREATEST Home Made Cakes Fresh Saturday . , - . 1 Call in and liavc a cup of coffee ami inspect our Kkhclicu Canned ..t'ooth. We will cut anything you . wish lo sec- J. G. SNODGRASS Exclusive (Jrocer I'HONE MAIN 73 You Will Notice a Big Difference SAT.ES a',', TIMES THOSE OF ANY OTHER BRAND Ih funis' Knit Caps ':. r l.-ftirc A - : ! V r e-in'TH j U inj.lf an 1 ?HV f V.! P" TT-; ; to O!!:!. ni.tvM t; I'ltKSSKS, fie to 1" In . tr pui,,T x-..tc. t;drnfetid to wh and t t.-l-.t- vm a!t;e in 1 Mty Vv.hm Norton's Kiddy Shop Balloon Tires Optional Equipment On All Fold Models At Only $25 Extra See the New Modtli I . ei'Kins Motor Co, MARKET JOEL'S GR0CERIES I'UONB MAIN 703 I'l oh l)i cs;ml Chickens. Kmsters and Friera srKCl.M. SATCKDAY t)l.Y V!.irr licn SI i '.'.! Irok ICuivh Kkrs. Xc INCOME TAX m m ii ut nr. Hde jir luene tux smttnHiit i arei1 hy one tm knows. Two jcars wilh t . S, Inlrrtinl Htumic lHirinirtit. If. INI. IS I ALONE Y Ideal for Washing Machines CITRUS GRANULATED SOAP dissolves completely and makes in stant and lasting suds. No undissolved particles left to spot the clothing. Pure soap granulated for your con venience and economy in using in tub, washing machine or kitchen. eSfadt by the manufacturers pftht CITRUS WASHING rOH'DER O l.A I.UIM'I. IS1 .. 4th and Adams riKw in n. I.J. j Itailklins; -