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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1925)
Tuesday, May 2(5, 1025. THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Fatfo Five 1 inn, , ,M, 1 Local News In Brief COMING EVENTS Speeim municipal bond election June 3. Union Uvo stock Show at Un ion, Juno 10-11-13, ltKiilur hcIiooI ch-ctiou from 5 to 7 p. in. June 15. ' prlntn1cnt E. A. Kay re. the vx iintlnlnc hoard hits finished jrrad inc the eighth gndc piipera nnd gradt-a nnd dtplomua arc beinff sent ioul today. llt'VV StIIMlll.V ;i Mr, and .lrn. c li. Smith were fisltinir Oh-nda In Clrunde Sun- I heir home in ut Watlowu. J.Morod to Wallowa Mr. and Mim. Johnny Allen mo ton d to Wallowa Sunday and ii nt the ilay. jln-r From Coi l land Dr. K. . Wilson n lurm d to i ortland lam t-venint,' ufter Kpend Lik a few daya lu re on husinoHs. 4 Vent hi linker Mr. and Mrs. C 10. Wnoh went Itakn- litis uioiniuK on train No. ?'t to spend I ho ,ii,y. Tin y will re- ii ii lo I -a Gmntie thin evening- vtil lo Wallow a I ('.force T. rorhrun and Colon 11. ij.lit-rhitrd, utlorneyH. went to Wul ioa tint; liiorniliK on lepal busi- Yi-dtliu; .Moihrr Mrs. . Sl ut'liisH, or Kuh-m! Is vi ctim; in i.n (inmde at the lioin" or her mother. Mih. K. JneohKon. I t h. KbuMoss waa formerly Miss ;im:i Jaeolunon. j;ma jjiouijsoi .ifled j;as Mrs. A. K. Searle win in . Ln. iCrindf fro in her home at Wal tluwa. She Ik en route cast, called ;by the illness of her mother. ( Mere oil Itushies j It. I. Marlin. of Cortland, of the llirm of Wodherry and Company. railroad supply house, mis a busl i ni'ss visitor to f,a Grande jester- '" I Mrs. I tun tin- lleie j Mrs. Clyde Ituntim; arrived in drande Sunday from her home at Porilnnd ami will spt-nd several days here visiting friends and relatives. Itetuiiieil Hotue . Mr. nnd Mrs. Cal l.nrm nnd small daughter. June, returned to their homo ut Wallowa thin morn iiiK after Hpendlni; lust nlsht in Ui Oninde. Mr. I.arin mtende the Old Timers Club meeting hero !aat evening. LOCAL GOLF I TEAM CHOSEN Mis Seals licit Minn Mne Seals 1m visiting in !.u flrande at the Willlum Heuls home. Miss Heals was formerly employed hen; wilh the N. K. West Company She now miikerf her home in 1'ort-luiid. VMtetl Mere Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mathews re turned to their home at I'endleton. Sumhiy, after vlsillng here since Thursday at tho home of their daughter, Mm. I.. H. Norton. Returned Hume After visiting at Eugene for sev eral days with Miss lie I. or is Pear son and other friends. Miss Mel ha Hanks relumed to her home here this morning. Visited daughter Mrs. M. A. Brown returned to her home nt Allcol thin morning on branch line train ufter visiting for eight days with her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Stacklund, nt Cove.. Things ure ull set for the inter city golf tournament to be held here Saturday and Sunday of this week wilh ihiker, Ivndleton. Wal la Walla and Ui Grande partic ipating. The first Mights will he teed off Saturday morning with Sti holes to go before the final reckoning. The Im Grande team was selected this morning from the Hcores made in the IS hole, elimination play lust Sunday, NelK (Vmrse lUi'onl Topping the lbt of the I .a Grande team is Elmer Stoddard who won first place as u result of a score of S 1 turned in hist Saturday. This score is the best IS hole card ever turned In here. Mr. Stoddard took 4U strokes the first time around and on the home stretch chalked up 41. lar for the cour.se is 3ii and although the nine holes have been shot tn 37 this is the first time anyone has ever turned in such a low score for the total of 18 holes. The La Clrande team in the or der of play includes, besides Mr. Stoddard, Charlie Itcyliolds, O. I.. Iirlson, Hay Murphy. H. E. lixon. S. I. Crowe, Joe Curr, Chwte Holin enkump, Luther Dunn and Earnest Wat kins. Handsome trophies including a huge loving cup for the individual low score nun and the w inning team have been put up by the La Grande Country club. To Visit ilniigbtei' Mrs. J . A, 1'hllllps left La (Jrande tills morning for Uiiker to spend two weeks there visiting wilh her daughter. Mrs. J. Carpenter, To i.it (iraitdlniigbtrr Mrs. I'.ebecca Klldow arrived In Ia (Irande tills morning on truin No. :M from Santa Monica, i.'Hli iornia to visit , her for several weeks at the home of her grand daughter, Mrs. I. C. Bowser. i Mere Yesterday Mr. nnd Mrs. Sam Benson, of Un ion, were visitors to La Grande yesterday. Mrs. Benson was re reivlng medical treatment from Dr. Bouvy for her ryes. Here for Week End Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Webb spent the week end In La Grande with relatives. Mr. md Mrs. Webb make their home nt Maker. They formerly lived here. Uc iimcd Homo After visiting his grandmother. iMrs. M. H. Caton. here for several days Howard Caton returned to , his home at Teloeaset this morn ing on train No. 24. SlopjM'd Here Dr. and Mrs. George E. Dale nnd two daughters, Lillian and Helen, slapped a short time In La Grande Sunday rrrTrnTrp 'Tn-Ttmr nmr-nTtrcmr or srTiom stip'rur Tcturn m .u i'.hwi 1 1 li in n.i iv cr, i u ey inuue the trip by auto. Here Yctcrilay Miss Cora McCrae and Miss Mar garet Kvnns passed through Lu Grande yesterday by auto en routo to I heir honi'-s at Wallowa. n trip to 10m met t, Idaho. ited friends here for a short time, jing is open to the Kehim this Evening Miss Jessie Parsons will arrive in La Urande this evening from Spo kane, Washington. Miss Persons has been teaching school at Spo knmv and with the close of th. to her home here To spenk nt liaker-i- Dr. Thomas E. Green, member of the Staff Council of the Ameri can National Ued Cross, will be the guest speuker at the Chamber of Luncheon on Wednes- nfter Commerce hey vis-! day. May '11, In Baker. This meet public. Library Open Tomorrow The public library which has been closed yesterday and today lor ledeeornltoil will be opened to morrow morning at the regular time. The public is invited to come end s-'e the new arrangements. Kctiirucd from Portland Harold Robinson, manager of the local Woolworth store returned Sunday from a business trip to Portland. Mr. Ito'dnson attended ting of managers of Wool- stores while (here. l yrt l!l r Ilomr iroui Walhiua it upending t lie past two i wilh friends and relatives 1 1 Iowa, M iss Mauri tie Moore eturmd lo her home In La Hades lb-lug sent (hit Aecnrdlng to county selio Right Now At Clint's Largest Assortment in Stylos nnd Quality STRAW HATS In I .a (Jiaiule Make your srlcrlion now SI. 93 to S4..S3 Ueturnetl Home Alter teaching schol here for the past nine months Miss Francis Mo I'ann has returned lo her home ut Baker. After a short time spent there with her parents, she will go lo Eugene w here she w ill enroll in the I'niversily of Oregon. Motored lo Baker Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Humphreys. accompanied by Mrs. A. B. .Cherry. and Mrs. Frank Jackson, were am ong the La Grunde people w ho at tended the Eastern Slur meeting at Baker lust evening. They motor ed to that city late yesterday after noon nnd spent the night there, re turning to La Grunde this muni CLUB VOTES IN FAVOR OF AMENDMENT (Continued from Page On.) DRUGSTORE The best Aspirin Tablets money can buy, at a price nil can afford. That well describes Aspirin Tablets They ure tuude m-k'nllflo-Hlly mini Till"!'! uMplihl, 'dtsinU-Knili' quickly ami prompt relief. Handy Pocket, 23c Glass Drugs Inc. La Grande, Oregon HUGE TWER UNITS TO MOVE TODAY (Continued from Psge One.) with the Calumet Gas and Eleetrtc company, thi n ihe Northern Indi ana Gas unit Electric company,! then the Indiana Hydro-Electric company, the Interstate Power 'Service company, Indiana and i.Micmgan r.iecinc company, nni 10 tho south with the Indiana Powe compuny, and tn.o Kentucky by a. connect Ion with the Kentucky Util ities company, the Kentucky Hydro-Electric company, and the Louisville Gas and Electric com pany. North of Chicago the super-power lines connect with the Wiscon sin Power and Light company lines and those of tho Southern Wisconsin Electric company, with other connections extending into Minnesota. SUmUHMUlOO lmeMinent The great system ts carried across the Mississippi river ut East St. Louts. III., nnd St. Louis, Mo.. suite of Missouri. I Nowhere else in the world is in j terconnectton carried lo that ex tent, and the ln.su 11 interests dc jbate tho claims of Switzerland to the greatest system in the world. Some electric lines possibly curry heavier voltuges. but nowhere has such a pool of power been created. The pool represents un invest ment of more than $ii.oou.oyo. remains as tt is. ! 'Local conditions determine lo cal prices." Mr. Warm holt z as serted, continuing that because of the high overhead costs Ihe piles remain ut the 3.i-tif cent rate. ; I'.lci'tloti Announced Dr. K. P. I Hindis, city comnils loner. spoke briefly of the com ing municipal election, June 3rd. and asked for the support of the members of the club to put the four projects "over the top." Chairman Meiton Kiddle, mem ber of the chamber of commerce health committee, then introduced Dr. W. T. Phy of Hot luke, who delivered the main uddress of the session. Or. Phy told of plans und-r consideration for molding n Health Week" In Ut Grande and the county In the fall and of oth- phins to increase the health conditions In whatever way pos sible In the county. He also pointed out, following a historical review of the .qrigJuiu. lion of man kind; -tin iu vh "DT heredity, showing' how parents, nut I up to standard, would have off -) spring that would further ' tend to be a drag lo the race and also pointed out that the only way to upbuild the American people, men tally, morally ami physically, wis by giving the same attention to mating of himan beings no is given to domestic animals. Jn this v ay. by following the rlg'it principles, I r. Phy declared tint In the course of time the race would be bettered to n great de gree and ou Id not enter into u period of decline. Markets POIULAM1 MAKKKTS PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Live stock steady. Eggs and bulterfat steady. Butler 4:ic. IHTTEItl-'AT. SAN 1'ltANCISCO (AP) rfal 4 7c hen- today. WEEKLY GHAI.N M ADULTS ASIIINGTGN" (AP). Grain exports from toe I'nited States last week wre '2, 7 "i9,ihi0 bushels as ctimpar.ed with o.IMN.imiu bush els the previous Week. Commerce department figure's .Monday gave the following com parisons between Jast week's ex ports .and those of the previous week: Wheal, l.ai'H.nnii bushels against 2.3 1 K.immi; rye, 4'itt.noo again a" l.tcil'.tuti; outs, ;tfir,'Miii ugainst l.-27a.on(t; corn. 1 1 I.oihi ugainst Dtfi.iMio; barley, 3n2,tiuu aguinl lSli.dOd. 'anadlan grains e x p o r t e d through tin- I'nited Slatert ports :T"0.rc ' S.7S4,ntH bushels against ;!,7o:i,lnnt bnstwls. Flour exports from the I'nited Slates ports wi :n,lMf biurels against 74,000, REPORT MADE OF MISSIONS (Continued from Togo One.) slons. and alt the work of Ihe church." The report recites extraordinary activity on the part of the women's missionary organizations of ihe churches. There are &y4ti local women's societies with a combined membership of -3y,os4 organized lor study and service lor nutionul and foreign missions. The American Indiana who are at least nominally readied by the j various enterprises of the Board I I' of National Mi.slons number ubout 5L30M. nbout l& per cent of the to tal Indian population as reported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Presbyterian missionaries have L'll.HH vi nil i luuauiui nui i tn three non-reservation government boarding schools. For me training of l'resbyatrian Indian workers the hoard maintains four Bible, schools. Un the Navajo reservation seven boarding schools are served by Prosbytoriun Missionaries. "There are t'l Oriental missions under the board stretching over tho territory from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and Winlersburg in southern California. Churches among Chinese are ut present con fined to seven city and town cen ters in California. ."The work among Ihe Koreans is conitued lo one large eity ten ter, ioa Angeles, where there are siiiiii L'MHl tv'nri-aiis and to one 'small town, Diuuba, In ihe south ern purt of the San Joatmiu val ley. "The work among the Japanese varies. In that while most of it is carried on in the city centers or in towns of font) or over, our Jap anese ministers have each from one to ten out stations." CITY DADS , TELL PLANS i FOR WATER ; (Continued from Pg One.) giving way to a point (hat placed it beyond repair. Is no longer func tioning and the mill pump Is tho , only recourse left In the case of-1 such un emergency. different synods of the church, has in cooperation with the board of Christian education provided evan gelistic nnd vocational addresses ill Presbyterian schools and colleges, has taken steps to place. In pulMlc libraries wherever there ure Pres byterian churches ,n section of books relating to evangelism, mts- l .1 L -L , l .i-Ull - I L ! vote Juno 3rd at u special municl pal election, the commissioners in vite the public to attend the com mission meeting lo be held tomor row night in the city hall building beginning ut 7:3" o'clock. At this time tho proposed issues will he discussed pro and con and (lie nnd tin? purposes explained fully tu those present. The commis sioners Invito anyone who has any suggestions, or grievances to be present and air their views. Pipeline, Springs Leak. City Manager Crews was notifi ed by tolcphono late lust, night thai a serious leak had developed in the- pipeline three miles from Itu Intake ot such u slxo that it Is be yond control. Early tomorrow morning he will leave for the h-nl; site, accompanied by water depart ment officials and u crew of help ers for the purpose of remedying tho matter. It is feared, however, that the water supply may have to be shut off for a period of 4i hours during which time the city will he suppli ed by tin Bow man-Hicks com pany's pump, which will be donat ed for that purpose. The city pump, beca use of nge and general UOTEL ASTOR 2nd HiU Lot Ang.tM EVERY ROOM hu PRIVATE TOILET 50 Bath, New, Modern CIo,e to Shopping District and ThcAtrei FREE GARAGE Tariff from $1.50 For The Family Pimentos that arc. opened ure kept fresn by pulling them in a Jelly glass nnd covering with olive oil or vinegar to which u little sugar has been added. Hall's Catarrh Medicine ir-nf. both local and Internal, and ha, been succewful In the treatment of Catarrh for over ferry year.. Sold by all druSgi jts. F. J. CHENEY &. CO-.Toledo, Ohio More QUALITY More VALUE More SKUVICK In Clothes, Shoes and Furnishings every day in the year. Shop here and see! The New York Store 1210 A da it 19 A rani with tin- sizes of - Iioxm, frluvt-M, Hlllrts, anil cnllal-H krpl in III' nir.n i.s u Unit? .suvt-r in Hiiop-pliiK- fOKTI.AMI tiltAIN M.UIhKT J'OUTI.ANIi. On-. (AT). Whv:it 1 1 : i-. I white II. S. Ilaiirt, May. $l.."; June, SUi.'i; soil whltn, May, June. Sl.i;.'; Iianl win ter, northern Hprliiif, May. Jl.tiu June, $1.!ih; !.T,X; June white. May, llals No. western re, ll.a.s: llllll. $1.7": June' at 2 while Teed. May. Iiar.l $I.7H. May. iMay. $:;s: June. $:;n; No. 2 Kiay, $;l7.i,u: June, $;!7.i,o. Corn No. 2 Y. slilplneuf May. tfJ; June. $l'.i: No. 3 V 'Hliipinenl. May, $1.S.r't; June. Jls. Go. ARCADE Wednesday nnd Thursday NEW -TOYS 1 'I Al tended Convention MIks (iladys IJenhom returned lo her home here this morning atttr. attending a convention oi tne iio beeca lodge al Ashland, Oregon. Miss ltenham also visited at Port land while uvvay. Other members of the lodge here who ultended tho 'convention were: Mrs. William Me Clurc, Mrs. l'rank,McPherson. and 'Mrs. I.uey Grnham. They will re 'turn to Lu Ciixmde this evening. S-Tl-A-R STARTS WKDNKSDAV Personal Mention HOOT GIBSON In The "SADDLE HAWK" Filmed at Ililard Mrs. .S-lgel nine, of I'nlon, was a visitor to Ixi (Irande yesterday. Mrs. W. Halsny was a visitor to La Urande yesterday from her hoiiM' at Piilou. Miss lit ss Kelly p nt yesterday fn l.u Grande from her home al Cove. Mrs. Murford I invls. of Kumela. was shopping In Ea Grande yesterday. Mr. nnd Mrs. Edwin Marvin, ol Wallow a, were visitors to En Grande yesterday. Miss Condn Hunks spent Sunday at I'nlon at the home of her grandmother. William West and Charles Tstn- l is. both of Pumpkin l(idg-. w vr-. business visitors to Ea Grunde yts-t-rday. J. sse crum. of Elgin, spent yes t. rday tn m Grande on busin as. Prank Hall, of I'nlon, was in Lu Grande yesterday. Mrs. Merton Huvls was shopping t'OME EARLY! I Admission IN V "rout the singe play by Milton Herbert Gropper and Oscar Ilnmincrstein, 2nd, as produced on t he stage by Ham If. Harris. Keenarlo by Josephine Eovett. Supported by MARY HAY PLAY SUITS FOR I50YS AND GIRLS For 79c - J1.00 - $1.15 and $1.25 Sunbonncts for 65c Art & Baby Shop 'KVEIIVTIIINO l'OIl THE 1AUY" iiiiMSTrrriii(j iiotoi fmuiwr hiiIk. rtasu'ino KUTTKKICK PA'rniHNS I). M. O. THREAD General Cords Go a Iiong Way to Make Friends. Jennings & Shumate Buy This Home n-t-iMiiii iiou with l.alli, Soiilli Mile, SIUOII.IIO. Ti'l'llls. W Exchande 7-ixdoiii lioiisf and luilli, Inrgi; on North Side. Will c fliuiigo for gvotl automobile. WEEKS & BLACK liKAIl'OKS New l,,lcy Itliljr. Mil: Inslii'llllco liimns rr" MBLE jQVMadiiiient feSj3 v&eeBmi BaePM behh 1 "Our (Jang" Comedy, Circus Fever Harold Lloyd And The. 'LITTLE FRENCH GIRL" Two Hif FeatuiCK! 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