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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1925)
Friday, October 10,1925. THE I-A GRANDE EVENTNO OBSERVER Pnge' Five Local News In Brief COMING EVENTS Union County Annual Armis tice lay Celebration La Grande November 11. SI r. 1 ti I li nrs. a bennl y specialist from Chicago, while there. Tf field representative-of-the board of 'Plan 110 IT rftltl foi permanent improvement. $7.6:11, Christian education, arrived In la ,tt" I &9o. The touil payments, there Grande this morning on their way acdtfltls AilalllUlc rore. for. expenses of general de- j to Knterprise, where they will hold , (part men ts and public service" vii-j a nuigioua education conference (Continued rrom Page One) iierprwea. ucnw anu ouuayn wrrr today and tomorrow. They will re- $19,517,707. The totala include turn to La Grande to hold a con- cut tonal education at Salem. They n'l payments for the year, whether ference here Sunday and Monday, win continue the departmental mad from current revenues or The liev. Can Nuys hit DISASTER : I l supvivnn TELLS TALE (Ton tinned from Fagtt One.) .in irln.t Yitk uini niilium wlmn- 1 tin nuuiy tnlks In the afternoon fallowing on . from the proceeds of bond laBtiea. sul,nmrmo WIVB rammed, lie wuh Uorr.st Ranker Here Gerald Tucker, fonst runner, is spending u few days in La Grande from the mountains. lleturnlii 4 from Coast A. M. Lee, of Winchester, Ida., slopped In La Grande yesterday on his wuy home from the coast. W.'ll Lecture Here Mrs. V. A. Held, general secre tary of the Oregon Christian Wo uaa'b iii.ifc.ionL i y society will be in La Grande Tuesday, October 20, and will lecture at the Christian church that evening at 7:30 o'clock All members of the church are urged to be present. Uncle from Business Trip '- Otis Veal has returned to .La Grande after a business trip to Ab erdeen, Washington. Went to Lime- After a short time spent at her home here, Mrs. liobbs returned to Lime this morning, where she is employed. , To Visit Sister Mrs. J. U. Oliver went to Baker this morning and will visit her sis ter there for a few days. Her s.s ter, Mrs. W. A. Hall, will return to La Grande with her. NIGHT SHOW BRIMFUL OF (Continued frum Page One.) friends here, having been pastor of adriresa hv C. A. HVtwurd. suberln- Of the governmental costs the Preabytorian church here a tendent of the Marshfield schools, ported above. $8. 472. 104 was number of years ago. He came here , The public Is Invited to hear the highway. $1,(1:16,640 being in 1900 and made La Grande his address of !r. Carl G. roney. 1 maintenance and $6,036,464 home for live years. 1 urctddent of Willamette university construction, at Salem, Thursday evening at the high school auditorium. Dr. Doney is scheduled to speak again Friday forenoon, preluding JO YMENT i the dcPartment meetings, with .speakers already named. J. A. Churchill, superintendent of ptiblto Instruction In Oregon. will be ushered In with a parade. Will deliver a speech at 11 a. m. Games will begin at 8:30 and danc- j preceding the organisation of a ing at 9 o'clock. j county unit of the Oregon State for for for Revenues The total revenue receipts of Oregon for 1924 were $20,211,162, or $24.30. per capita. This was $S. 326.035 more than the total payments of the year, exclusive of the payments for permanent im provements, and $63S.446 lest than the total payments Inelndtng those for permanent Improvement. Property and special taxes renre- Announccmjent was made today Teachers association. C. W. How-'rented 38.0 per cent of the total by Police Chief Clint Huyncs that'urd will explain the objectives of revenue for 1924. 45.3 per cent for Returned to La Grande Miss Nadine O'Stilllvan has re turned to La Grande, after spend ing threo nionthu at Dayville, Ore gon, where she visited her mother. I Taken Home Mas Carrie Hunter has been no one will be allowed to pluy the guinea at the show not 21 years of , age. Persons under 18, unless properly chaperoned, will not be allowed to attend, Mr. Haynes says. Martians Kind Home Brew , Aecessity, bay a Scientist PASADENA, CaJ. AP). Home brew Is a necessity on the planet Visiting Here Today Among the. out-of-town business visitors here today ure: L. Den hiun, of Elgin and U. W. Hates, farmer of High valley near Union. taken" to her home at Island City t pruvpicq mere is me mere and is very much improved. Miss and. also provided that life r Hunter was at Grande Honde ho-' moisture to live, .in the rr v.n.t i.v- mii whir.h . opinion of Dr... Charles E. St. shu apent so in e time at the home the organization. Miss Marie Con nelly, director of health education at Portland, and Thomas Gentle of Monmouth will give the concluding talks Friday afternoon. Yakima Buying: Seed Spuds in La Grande (Continued from Page One.) 1923, and 64.7 per cent for 1017, The Increase in the amount of property nd special taxes collect ed was 177.8 per cent from 1017 tn 1923, but there was n decrease of 2.1 per cent front 1923 to 1924. The per capita property and spe el?l tuxes were $9 S3 in 1924, $0.65 In lf?8 flnd $8.79 In 1917. Enrnngs of general depart ment k, or compensation for ser vices rendered tav state official, the last to leave the submarine und only two others preceded him. He said he was afloat 46 minutes be fore ho was picked up. Kile said he saw no life preserv ers while In the water and that no searchlights were playing from the City of Home. The submarine's lights, ho testi fied, were burning when he left the battery room, to mount the bridge. BANK WINS VERDICT OF $13,241.41 (Continued from Page One.) To citizens of the Grande Honde valley the case Involves more Hum a controversy -over the payment of notes and interest due the bank by Miller. ' Last February the hank nttached a claim to the interests of Miller in land inherited by him from his grandfather, the late A. H. Con ley. heavy because of bad weather con- ' represented 5.9 per cent of the to- one of the early day settlers and n ot hci s.ste.r here. Fined in Police Court Dan Trent was fined $26, which he paid, by Judrr'1 J, D. Slater in the municipal court on charges of disorderly i conduct. Attended Conference , . ' ' ;. H. G. Avery returned to . La Gruudu yt-sterday . from Corva, ," where he attended a convention of county agents of the state Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; ' '? Went Pheasant Hunting George T. Cochran and G. L. Putton were China phens-int hunt ing this morning. They returned with six birds. , Attiir.l.u Gin ml Lodge . "j. " "t Mrs. Krunk Mclt.nnis,. or Imbler. 'pusied through La Grande . this morning en route to her home after attending the Pythian Sister grand lod;:e at Eugene Monday, Tuesday, (and Wednesday ol, this week; A tended Fimerwi , Orniilcd a Divorce Mrs. Wltllrm fondit hns return-' 'Judge C. H. McCullock decreed cd from Seattle. Washington, wne-e'a divorce yesterday in favor Of ny B'ie- attended the funeral of Mrs. William Taal. her brother's wife. ron Harlow against Dorrls Harlow, hxh or La Grande. The grounds ; were cruel nnil inhuman treatment. Home from lltmttii"' 'iH , Oonre B"fi hl'fi returned tn his home hero after several days spent. In the mountains hunting. He did not ttill any deer b"t managed to Ing Severn 1 phens-mts. SlirnninT In lin Grrnde Mrs. Nellie R. Ornee nnd M-s. F. .1. Roberts, both of Cove, are ptirgn at the Sommer hotel while shopping In La Grnnde. 'In City Yesterday j Harold Hall and small son were visiting friends (n La Grande yea Jterday. Mr. Hnll is visiting his 'iv rents at Union. -He is en route i to Salem from Halfway, where he ill. ,i.eu an irrigation conference. He left this morning. Mr. Hall is well known here having formerly been employed here. A'licit Relatives Here : Mr. and Mrs. H. C Hsinsbro have returned to their home nt Bremer, ton. Wash., after a visit here with relatives. Mr. and M;a. . Roy P.. NHnrtenbower, nt the Sommer'hotel. Deer Hunting . Mr. pnd Mrs. W. H. Oooderhnm nountains. wh'we they will spend week deer hunting. They will rro fioui Portliiml Dr. and M-s. N. ('.Hampton and r. and Mrs. Charles Swindells. Portland, are visitlnrr in La i inde the guests of Mr. and Mrs alter Leisman. They expect to turn to their homes Sunday. S:nd Horses to International- Gus Levy, of Baker, was a visitor to La Gunde today. Mr. Vvy is prep-iring to send several head ot saddle horses to the Pacific Inter national Livestock exposition in Portland, Ortober 31 -November 7, Inclusive. Mr. Levy reports that enva'ry buyers purchased 20 head of horses out of 70 offered for fi:ile around Union. The prices ranged from $76 to $125. ( dltions. fir vera I Union county farmers John, astronomer and physicist f , who grew potatoes from certified the -. Mount Wilson observatory jHeed Kold their crop this vpar to near here. . . be shinned to Yakima to be used The water 'supply on Wars,-as as seed. . Tt Is believed that Jess reveaied ii- a Benes of tests just potatoes will be harvested here thlf. completed, by . Dr. St. John, is; fail than is needed for local con about one-twentieth . that , found aumptlon. About fr3 per cent of on' the , tops ;,or t;ie , senu-anx mountains of Southern .California. : Besides '..being- ' on -perpotual emergency' rations of '''.water" the Martians, if there are any sucn creatures, also are.Biiort of. whit this , planet calls air. - The oxy gen supply there is only" en per cent ' of that oh tho helguta o', Mount Everest hr thQ jH'nialayas. and "on ."Mount- EvcVest explOiejs must use oxygwv -tanks to keep alive. . , ... . M. - In the ' matter' of ' hekt Mars is better off than was formerly sup posed. In fact, says Dr. St. John, Iho Mars temperature, often .de scribed ub excessively cold, may be nearly 'the same as that of this earth;- since Mais absorbs all but. about 15 per cent of the the average crop will be grown in Oregon- this yenr. it i, reported, nnd nhout i8 per cenf of tho nor mal crop is reported In the United Stales. . NEW GROCERY ' OPENS DOORS t revenue for .1924. 6.9 per cent for 1U2S and 10.6 percent for 1917. Business and nonbusiness U- frelghter from the valley in pio neer days. There was a time when the Conloy holding stretched as far (Continued from parr One.) f'lU.Hne of me ts nnd fish greet the shopper on the left of the entrance: freeh fruits and vegetables are on the right. Behind them are ar ranged staple groceries nnd canned goods In templing array. A wo men's lounge and lavatory will oc cupy the attractive balcony at the light and heat reaching It from!roa)r of Btorp "ot lf-s.erve 'ne sun As a bas.s of compari- ftn?, cl1" n'1" . , son, if la stated that this plan-'t absorbs only one-half the lig'.it and heat received from the sun, and reflects the, remainder.' English Ban isters . to Revive i" Moots to Aid Voting Counsel j iV i .. t Vrsltln-r for Three Months Mrs. N. ,S. Kleshninn returned to her home at Wallowa this morning, after spending a few days visiting Mrs. Gutridge here. Mrs. Klesh nuin has been to Kllenshiirg, Washington, where she v1slto( her daughter. She a'so stopped at Mil ton tn visit her son and visited an- Othe son who lives on a near here. She has been from home three months. irk from Portland Mrs. Caroline Deal has returned La Grande from Portland, where visited the various schools of. Will He Here First ' Week metlc therapy there. Mrs. iv-al .Mrs. Jean M, Johnson, general attended a demonstration H-eretitry of the Oregon t ouneti or n at the Benson hotel on per-( religious education, of Portland. uent waving and hair dyeing by and the Rev. Walter l.. van isuys. LONDON (AP). A revival of the old custom of holding "moots' in too Middle Temple is bui no planned for November. ! The moot is a mock trial de signed to give men -'in 'the legal profession and now women t'ie opportunity of arguing legal problems arising from' establlsh iwt 'funhi In tho form inii Whioh cases arergued Hn' tlli' coin t 'df ippral. Two counsel are assign ed for each side and when they have put their, case, the- Judge ylves Judgment.- Justk-or Binkey haa proinised'to preside over the first. moot. v- . This Is considered to he one. of the best methods of giving -Junior counsel an opportunity of pnttlng and arguing a case, as .well as ranch . gathering hints regarding proceu- away our thotis;ind dollars worth of Improvements. Including up-to-date display windows, showcases, shelving and lighting effects, will be revealed at the Toggery when the pine-board protection shell is removed about Nov. l. - After the fire the first of August.. when much of the front store goods i was damnged, all lines of ready-to- wen r garments were sold out. They will be replaced with new and more exclusive slocks. E. T. Andrews and A. V. Andrews, ' proprietors, an nounce. The tailor shop hau been running at full capacity In the back room, serving customers through the back door eepsrs constituted 38.0 ner cent of l M eo could see across the acres of tho total' revenue for 1924', 29.6 per I the fertile Grande Hondo lands. It cent fo 1928 and 11.0 per cent for.," Miller's undivided one-fifth in HL .,.. jterest In ItiOO acres of that land Receipt from nuslnewi license, that was ordered sold tn the judg consist chiefly of taxes exacted ment rendered yesterday. Action from Insurance and other tncorpo-, will be stayed now by. tho -defen--ated companies nnd from rales Rant's appeal, -tax on gnBoline, while those frAm I . . . , ( . . . , , non-hufllneKs licenses comprise ' mmmmmmmmma-mmmmmmmmmm chiefly taxes on motor vehicles And p mounts pad for punting and f'shing privllegen. Tmlslttcwlttnaa ' " The -net Indebtedness Cfunded The World's debt lens Kinking fund assets) of Oregon on September 30. 1924. was 4t.652,377. or $49.94 per capita. In 1923 the par capita debt waa $49.82 and In 1917. $0.66. . Oregon's bonded debt wna In curred for agricultural purposes, tate aid to world war veterans and l'UIIl II ti l m l ui II "K" ''I . ssesstl 'aluatloiis nnd Tax Ijevlcs For 1934 tho assessed valuation of property In Oregon subject to ad valorem taxation was $1,042. 4 1 0. 1 D ; the amount of state taxes levied was $7.4o,170; und the per capita jevy, $8.97. Wonder Picture . . She crept n t o ' his arms when that gigan tic sliHdow loomed be fore them. MEN AND YOUNG MEN'S Fall Oxfords $4.50 to $6.45 For the man Or young man who demands Service, Style and Comfort, this showing of fers much. Colors, Black, Brown and Light; 1 tan, made from first-grade calfskin. Oak tan soles, leather countersfull vamp and kid lined,, and at this veiy low price range 1 .-i $4.50 to $6.45 : 55 STORES -li, rm-iKioKNT conG to BAKKR JrXR DISTRICT MKET PORTLAND. Ore. (Special) President Ituegnitz of the 4L or ganltlon will leave tomorrow for Baker where he will preside at the 4L district hoard meeting nnd con vention of district 11, to be held there Monday. i' , Tonight AT ZUBER HALL ure. nml pitfalls to le avaiut-'i whin tiiklnic a legal ciibu Into tho glare of a public court. . Eilrs -'49' Show 16 & 17 Oct. 14, 15, LET'S GO! ! ! Sec those Prizes to he given away Free in Hie window, at "THE STORE WITH A CONSCIENCE' Heavy Hrcnilstuff Cmp In '' SwiMlcil to i'ut I. S. I'loiir ST O C li II I. M (AT). The breadstuff crop in Sweden this; year Is more than twice ns large! -.is that of hist year and the re quirements for Imports of Amer ican wheat flour will be corres pondingly reduced. Not Bineelii21 has there been such a hurvest. The greatest gains have been I mado In rye and wheat sown last ! full. The unusually mild w inter I is believed to have been chiefly (responsible. . ' The yield of rye has been more ' than sufficient . to satisfy th.. ! count ry's requirements for I imports of wheat have been r ! rluced from 3:9,000 tons In 1923 to 180,000. MAN KILLING WOMAN MAKES HER, ESCAPE (Continued (from ''Page One.) father-in-law died terrible deaths, the county prosecutor w doluged with letter demanding un investi gation. Kxhumution of their bod ies revealed enough arsenic to "kill u dozen men," according to .the prosecutor. The trial in l!t-2 'resulted in a Heron d degree murder .conviction nnd a life sentence. Apparently the motive of the "feminine llhiehenid" wa to ob tain the petty fortunes of her two hu.shands. She secured only $nooo after the death of her first hn.sbnnd and $2000 rrom Carl's insurance, muk li'g her crimes all the more amazing. Men and Boys' Complete Outfitters of. Quality Wearing Apparel NtMITKIl I'lONKI-.H KI'IAI) I1AKKI!, Cire. A. J. Uenny. 00, dropped dend as he Rtepped out of a pump house on his ranch nan a mile south ol Post station, m-ar .Merlillan, Idaho. He hod been work'ng In the pump house with a rpray. William McBratncy. Ailu county coroner, pronounced death duo to heart disease. There will be no Inquest. Besides the wblo.v. there Is one son surviving. K. J. Denny. Mr.' I.ienuv whs owner of the Capitol hotel, in which the fire started that burned the town of Slimpter. August 19. 1917. He was a resident of Hutnptcr up to the time of the fire. TAXES LOWER . IN PAST YEAR (Tontlnued from Pnge One.) parlments of Oregon for the risen' yenr ending September K0, 1 S4, anuninleri to $!t.1 HS.JtK 1. or 11.00 per raplla. This Includes $410. 4 Mi it))porttonments for education to t he minor cvi divisions of the state. In 1S23 the comparative per ruplta for maintenunee nnd op eration of general departments was $12.f4 and In 1017. $r,.yn. The ex pene of public service enterpriser anintinted to $1 1.9 3(i; Interest on debt, $2,(i7&.So(i; and outlays for Buy lor Less We Sell (or Less i - Read once more our Thursday Afl. It will lead you to the great est' SAVINGS ever known in this vicin ity. New York Store DESTROYERS OF HIGH PRICES LKVEXS ASSISTING 11KL.M IX . . puosi;cLTixi .i:i:k, kpaln f William "S. Levens of Huker, state prohibition commissioner, in assisting Carl Tle'nt: district attor ney, in the prosecution of K. O. Zeek and Pred Bi alh, of Vnlon, charged by the state Illegal trans portation of Intoxicating liquor. The ease opened th'a morning un der Judge C. 11. MeCuIloeh. Hpnin and Zeek were arrested May 31, 11)26, by H. O. Klingharrt er. deputy Bherlt'f, and O, M. , ' P'erce. jrehlbltlrn orflcer. at the"'; gate of -tho Union stock show grounds. Two gallon jugs of moonshine whlskv reported by the p. officers to have been found in thai;; Union men's car is on exhibition.',-;, as evidence. I S. Ivanhoe 1s de-"" femMng Spain and Zeek .on th;;i grounds that the thiuor found was not theirs and that they had no knowledge of its existence thoro.' Now Playing THE Arcade Today, Saturday and Sundav iu;ni rorxTKY visrn; P.LNI), Jre. To ncquuliit them selves with the een tral tregon country, representatives of a num ber of tourist Information bureaus in Portland arrived in llend, com ing from Kugene over the McKen Siie piiM. They left for The I mites. RIBBON Wo hii ve a nice line of Kibbon In the popular shades ltlhbuu that wears und washes , ac to 1 5c a Yard. Art & Baby Shop l-'or i'lic Hnby. ; aI . ' In ajiiT iiinoj ;ud riJ mitti iVi.vniiJiiui wiiTT Comedy, "A Rough Party" 1 VACUUM CUP TIRES Jennings & Shumate Huh k Sal- and Scrkf. filll'UtV Tn it IIAINO UMVKHSITY OK OUKdOX.Io Kugene. Freshmen have dusted !q off the chair for their president. o The position In putt yewrs has O been such that freshmen classes have hud three or four presidents . o l.nfnrp nnt who rOuld Ktand the O hexing and the honor, too, could be found. Ofttlmcs the class waa not organised at all. Curtailment of all hazing will be demanded of the sophornorea this yenr. tt has been announced. This together with the plHctng of the freshmen president on the student council as a non-voting member 1 expected to destroy the old tradi tion. Arthur Anderson of Portland ws elected president curly InM week, lie Is a pledge to the Phi Helta Theta fraternity. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O O .i om.i; J(m;i,h ahpiki;s SALK.M. Ore. (ieorgc Jiwph. Mate senator of Multnomah coun ty, probably will nnnoiince hb (sndldary for the orth e of United States senator next week, he said while In Halem. Mr. Joseph la Wc all know this is a good town. In the short space of four tlinnths I huve deelopei a trade that often takes two years to do. Office Supplies at much lower prices, Hehuol Stationery of a better quality. .Social Htatlonery up to dute and correct. MiiBuzims, all the leading ones. HUT I want YOUK pat ronage. W. L. NELSON The Ftatloner ir,ir, Adams Ave. Phone M-fi'J .irande, Oregon "Whin you It In uiy ad It la true. You Get These Items AT UNUSUAL SAVINGS. BRING YOUR BASKETS SAVE A DAY'S WAGES! Evcry-day Needs. Roger's Fine Mustard A 15c value 0c Gold Medul Dressing A Jillc value 21c Lee & Pei-riii's Sauce A 35c value 2'Ju Roval Club Wintergieen or Pineapple Extract 2-oa. bottle - A 40c value 2!lc Cei-to For Jelly Making A 30c value 2I!c Del Monte Strawberry Jam, No 2 tin A 50c value 39c EhmBn's Large Ripe Olives, tal tin A 35c value 2Jc Mission Tomatoes, No. 2'2 tin An lHc value He Kellogg's Corn Flakes , , A 10c value He Shredded Wheat A 15c value lie Schoolbov Peanut Putter, 3-lb. tin An 85c value fi!)c Jello All Flavors - A 10c value He Liquid Veneer A 60c value I'M: Dutch Cleanser A 1 Or value 7c TWO CONVENIENT IX)CATIONS Basket . Grocery uroceteria ' AND MARKET Next to Arcade Theater. Next to Black tat And Hundreds More Market Phone MAIN 130 FOR YOUR SUNDAY DINNER Fancy Fat Spring Chickens or Fat liens to Koast Juicy Steer Beef - Young Fat Pork .Milk Fed Veal. And all kinds of Cold Lunch and Cured Meats Fresh Fish. Market 2 Doors Below Bk-.ck Cat Free Delivery , republican. i . . 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