La Grande evening observer., January 08, 1929, CITY EDITION, Image 5

Tuesday; January 8f 192ft - hi i
LA GRANDE EVENING' OBSERVER 'AH ,M
Uocal News In Brief 1
jo iiukt-r ror Day
1). M. 1'nguu, of this city, went
to Baker to spend the day.
To linker ou Itiuliiras -
Mrs. E. Lynn, of La Grande, went
to Maker todav on a combined
business and pleasure trip. .
Mr. Ilott"" Hettim -" .. i .
Samuel H'osan, of Baker, ru
turnvd td his homo this morning
following- a visit in l.a Grande on
business. . '
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l linillc Johnson to Enterprise
t'liuille' Johnson, of Portland,
passed through Ia Grande today
on the way to Enterprise .when he
will work In a logging camp. t,
To llesiinm Iliineli Work
t Kenneth Bates, of Troy, Ore.,
passed through La Grande this
morning en route home. , Mr. Estes
has heen visiting his sister, Opal
Huckler. in Hood River.
Sir's, Dallas and (irotn Here
-.Mrs. C. M. Dallas and little
OuaKhter. Greta, of Meachattii are
hi 1-a Grande today. Greta has
llteen very ill but is now well on
Jlio way to recovery.
Jlcen in Hols '
, N. K. Matthews, of Wallowa,.
lyissed through tills city this morn-
Hoise where ho has been visiting
friends.
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I" Moel " .;.? , I ,!
it 'I'tie Women's Missionary society
of Hie Christian church will, .meet
tomorrow afternoon at the home
of Mrs. A. IV Nelson at 608 N.
jivcnue at 2:30 o'clock. ; ' ".
llwk From Portland ' i
, Mr. and Mrs. H. t Thomas and
JMldren, Margaret and Ulchard, ol
i.tt tlrande, returned today from
i'urlland where they visited for a
U-w days. Mrs. Thomas went on
to Iinhler this morning-where she
teaches school. . , ,
To Ue In Enterprise
.Mrs. G. H. Shipley and little son
0. it. Junior, of. ltlgglns, Ida.
liassed through ha' Grande this
morning on the way to Enterprise
where thev will loin Mr. Shipley
to make their home.
Mrs. Kettvls Returns :
Mrs. Claude Heavls, of Enter
prise, passed through La Grande
today on the' wuy to her home
from Portland and Pendleton
where she has been visiting friends
anil relatives. ' '.
Mr.. Lottrldtfo Ylsits-e-
J. P. Lottridge. of Baker, Is
registered at the Sacajawea Inn.
Mr. Sutherland Here
X. H. Sutherland, of Baker, is a
visitor- in this city today. Ho is
staying at the Sacajawea Inn.
Here From Tckx-asel
. Mrs. W. G. Kobortson, of Telo
teasot, arrived In this city yester
Oay. She Is at the Baculawca Inn.
Ill I'Youi Inriuciua
.C. E. Happcrsett Is 111 at his
home suffering from flu. Ho Is
reported to be better.
Mr. Coniktock Conies
.-. H, W. Comsloek, of Baker, who
arrived In La Grando yesterday
for a short stay, is at the Sacaa
woa Inn.
Mrs. Baum Prom Vnlou
Mrs. Itay Baum, of Union, was
a visitor In La Grande Sunday
when she attended the ML I, A.
institute. . '
Andy May Visits
Andy May, of linker, proprietor
of- the Baker Itadio shop, was In
l.a Grande Sunday attending the
M. I. A. Instltuto In session hare
iron
Mr. Choc man to I n Ion
- K;; W ChoeHtiiun, ay to salesman
for therM. J. 1 Gbss company, was
a business visitor In Union yester
day., c fi .-
Star to Mwt-
Hope Chapter, Order of Kastorn
Star will meet tomorrow nifrht at
8 o'clock -In the, Masonic hall In
regular session. Installation of
officers will be followed by a so
cial hour. . . ' ,
To brave for WImmminUi
' Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Klnzel, of
Merrill, Wis., who have been visit
ing In La Grande with Mr. and
Mra..L.. K. Klmeel and Mr. and Mrs.
Aug. J. Htange. will leave the lat
ter part of the week for the-lr homo,
ltcH-overlnic From Illness
.: Mrs. Joe Houthall, who lives at
301 Spruce street, has recovered
from an attiiolt nt tnnnl III la. HIip
was able to como to town yester
day after be Ins confined to her
homo for several days.
Knurl) to lift Urnmlrw-
Mr. and Mrs. K. -it. GreenSind
children, Murgory, t Dorothy and
Norman. Qf La Grande, .returned
to their home tills morning from
Spokane, Wash,, whore they hTive
a. 11. J. Ilochtrltt.
To lMerirlM
i'ltul l Sloll. of Enterprise.
i.-is.vecl through La Grande, this
morning on his wny home from
Portland w here he has been visit
ing his sister, Mrs. Hert Hamilton.
.Mr. Sloll Is connected' with the
Knterpriso Livestock company.
M-es III HiikIhiiuI
Mrs. K. V. Huehne and children,
Johnnie and Lorraine, and Mrs.
John Heath, ull of Kamela, came
to l.a Grande this morning. Mrs.
lloehm-'s husband, F. V..Hoehne, is
III Hiirfering from pneumonia In
the Grande Hondo hospital and
was reported to bo a little better
today. ,
Mrs. HiihIIo Leaves
Mrs. A. O. Brodle left Sunday
nk-lil for. ' Portland and for her
lioine In Eugene. Mrs. Brodle is
well knowii in La Grande. She
lius been siiendlng several weeks
lure with her foihor and mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Chris MITIer. and with
lu-r daughter, Miss Mary Gould
Parsons. .
Tcaelii-s 1000 In Swim
Archie J, M.urroy spends Ills
niHlers In La Grande and his sum
mers in ISakor. Today hn went to
linker on business. Mr. Murray Is
msnaKer of the municipal natator
iinii In Haker and during the last
four your he has taught more than
lmio persons to swim. About 75
of thai number have been poo
He from !a Grande, he says. Mr.
Miijyiy has even taught two women
wl!o were .inure than 60 years of
aire In swim. One of his star pu
1'ils, Mr. .Murray says. Is Palsy
Keating, who Is but four years old
ami Is already a splendid swimmer.
Mr. Murray misses his natatorlum
in the winter. In the summer he
avci-aKes from three to five hours a
"liiy In the. swimming pool. The
Miss Scott Goes to 'Inihlcr
- Miss Alice- Scott, of Inibier. re
turned -to her home yesterday to
begin teaching In an Imbler school
following, the Christmas holidays
which Miss Scott, spent in--part
with her aunt, Miss Itosa Sher
man, In .La Grande. . .
W". H. Uedman. of Portland. re-
feaentatlve iff tlio H.-G.T)unnoo)rn-pany.
is a business visitor In this
city today. Mr. Uedman was form
erly of Walla Walla and recently
received a promotion which
changes his heat quarters to Ore
gon. r
To Live nt Ontario
Miss Josephlno Kelly, of this
city, left Sunduy for Ontario to
make her home with her parents.
Miss Kelly has been In quarantine
here for scarlet fever and had been
unable to movo to Ontario before
because of that.
Mnrjorlo Comllt Holler
Miss Marjorle Condlt who Is a
student nt the University of Ore
gon, Is recovering from a week's
Illness due to- tonsllitls, and liar
Just been released from the uni
versity Inflrmury; according to
word received in I-a Grande. Miss
Condlt Is the daughter of Mr. and
Airs. W. M. (."ondit.
To Sec Mediterranean
The Young Women's Education
al auxiliary of the Methodist Epis
copal church will go on a tour of
the Mediterranean countries to
night when the group meets at the
home of Mrs. It. V. Tyler at the
corner of Klrst and K. Miss
l-'rances Monger has charge of the
program which is to Include a study
of Athens, Italy. Constantinople,
Jerusalem, Egypt and Algiers. The
meeting begins at 8 o'clock.
Joe. Hopkins Goes Back
Joe Hopkins, one of the three
managers of the White Elephant
chalet and Dude ranch at Wallowa,
lake, was In La Grandu yesterday.
Last night he attended a meeting
of the Wallowa Lake Wonderland
board of managers. Mr. Hopkins
was In New Jersey and other east
ern points this fall In connection
with business for the ranch. Next
vpnr he hones to send a carload
Haker nut will open May 1, ho of saddle Morses irom me ru......
to i ne
wiyn.
Men's and Young Men's
Suits and Overcoats
Now Going at Exactly
HALF PRICE
Don't Miss the Biggest Clothing Buys in La
Grande History at the Quitting Business Sale '
at
PtiiUlt'toit ,
H. V. Volbcra;. of pemlMon ar
rived in La G run do yesterday. Mr.
Vol berg- la at the Foley hotel.
Prom Baker - -
Mr. and Mrs. V. Smith, of Baker,
are In this city today. They arc
at the Foley hotel.
Xit'avca City-
Frank Hastier, of the Vavney Air
Linos, iuft La Grando yesterday
follAwlnff a short visit. Ho was
registertrd at the La Grande hotel.
N'Mt Houmaloc VI Its : -
Nick iloumiijoc. of Hakor, ar
rived In l-X. Grando yesterday for
short visit. Ho Is ut thu Foley
hotel. . : ; -; -
From Austin u ?. V
Charles ' Powell '. and. W'ullur
Gramso, of Austin, tut visitors In
la Grande. They arrived yttor
day and aro staying at the Folty
hotel. ' . '
Lcuvra Today " "
G. M. Kyder, or Bakor, left La
Grandu today - following a short
visit. While In this city Mr. Kyder
stayed at the La Grando hotel.
V-t Ilryan lxavi!
Heta Bi-yun, of Hood Itlver. Oro.,
has left la Grande fnllowlag a
vlHit with her friend. Miss Kvelyn
Guhleman.
Ixavo for Portland
' Mrs. lawrenco Hull, of 1-a
Grande, ami hvr mother went to
Portland yi-wti rday. Mrs,"- Hull's
mother has been visitinff In La
Grande. Her home-Is ia Portland.
Baby lUy Bum . ' "-i J,! '
Mr. and Mih. C.' W. Jensen are
tho parentH or; a von and a.lialf
pound buby buy born .yestorday
(evening at tthlr -honie at SIU7 N.
Fourth street
Christmas in Sunny Hawaii Different : j
Than in East Oregon, Reynolds Writes
Christmas In Honolulu, with a
warm sun shlninff over the Islands,
iu sharp contrast to Eastern Ore
gon winters, has Its drawbacks, ev
en thoutch a dworated fir tree re
poses In holiday splendor in the
home.
Thut, at least. Is the way Joe
"SUeet" Reynolds feels about it. In
spite of cablegrams and presents
from his relatives and friends ou
the mainland. It didn't seem like
Christmas, somehow or other.
. J. K, Iteynolds. his father, irot
u very-Interesting letter from 8kei4
a. few days atro. "Well, Its Christ-
mus evo", the letter read . . . "For
so niu reason or other neither Web
or 1 think that It seems like
Christmas but, still tomorrow is
the bis; day and It Is also the day
we play the University of Ureon.
vVeb's wife sent a small Chrlstmus
tree-over here from Albuny . , . tho
cutest tli In if ImaRlnable. Ho we
have set It on tho dintus; room
table nnd heaped what few pre
sents we have lecelved around It,"
tiverett May, who has many friends
In this part of thu state. Is st
Honolulu also. 8k eft Is coaehln? a
junior high sehool football teanV
und also plays on tho Town team,
a football eleven composed of all-
stars, , v "
Like the IrOaiids, However.
iiti It. Bulla at thu tlrjiwhacks
around Christmas time. 8keet is
will be In the Wallowa county town
fur several days. .
Havo New Son w'
A baby son wan born to Mr.' ttnd
Mrs. Itoscoe Kversole Inst nlKht.
Tho; baby welshed nine pounds.
The mother and son are at the
home of Mrs. Kversole's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Uaron, at
Lower Cove.
W.' H. Guild, division supor.m
lendont of the 0,-W. railroad, re
turned last niffht from I an Inspec
tion trip which took him to Hleth,
Pendleton and Huntington.
ltd urn 1'Voni Ivlston
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hunter, of
this city, returned yestorduy from
Lewlston. Ida., where they visited
Mrs. Hunter's mother, .Mrs. E. W.
Barnes, who has been very 111. -Mrs.
Barnes Is better now. the Hunters
report. ,
Mr. Kimpp lUvovorn
tnndent of tho city, has rouovered
; from a Lonjr illness, foTlowlnft a
major operation which' was per
formed Nov, 17. Mr. Knapp.was
downtown yesterday and today for
the first time In nearly two months.
lA'avcM'nn Spei'lti! Triiln '
Miss Patty Hurtrnhower, or La
Grande, boarded the University or
Idaho special train w hich passed
through La Grandu Sunday morn
ing at 2 o'clock. Miss Hartenbower
returned to the lTnlvorslty at. Mos
cow to begin her 1920 studies al
ter vacationing- In this city with
her parents.
Playlna; Volley Ball
Two volley ball teams have be" n
started In La Grandu, one for
women nnd one for men. 1 he
tuies ajiuVpmcteB i-hobl t-j the
bail room of the La (i ran do hotel.
The women practice every Tuesday
ind Friday nights from S to 9
Vclock and the nicr. play from 5
to 6 o'clock on the saute nights.
GradiiaioH Willi Ilci-onl
Miss Phyllis Ansell, of La
Grande, returned to this city to
day from Portland where she has
been nttendlnf? a comptometer
school.. Miss Ansell completed the
course In five weeks, which is rec
ord time as the course ordlnurlly
requires ten weeks tp complete.
Miss Ansell will be employed in
tho O.-W. It. & N. orricer, here.
Clinrles IlickM tcturiiM '
Charles it. Hicks returned yen
tenlay from Kansas City, Mo.,
where he snent the Christmas holi
days with hfs parents, Mr. and
Mrs, George H, Hicks. Charles
Hick's father Is president of the
Bowman -Hicks Lumber company
and Charles Is In La Grande learn-
j lnffthe lumber business. . ,
tio to Kufcr prise '
v' Mr. and M'rn. Chase - Bohhen
kanip, of this city, am in Enter
lise this week wher Mr. Bohncn
kamp Li a witnefs in the case or
the state asainst Harry Newbertr
who is cliaiK'd with second de
grce murder. The Bob nnka tups
4 J 'armci-La- oramlu-.lii IMU -
I'Kther ( rawford who was n pupil
In the sixth grade at Central schoul
In La Grande, died In Cucur
D'Alene. Jda Saturday Bfternooii,
aecordlnff to reports received here.
The little jfirl waa 11 years old and
It Is reported hero thut diphtheria
was the cause or the death. Mrs.
Crawford who formerly was or
mmist at the Colonial theater here.
i hud' gone to the Idaho town and
was joined by Esther a short time
' ago. The funeral was held this
morning In Coeur d'Alrne. it Is said.
thoroughly sold on the Hawaiian
Islands, "The other day we went
out fishing in our bathing suits all
day long and we got more tanned,
so that you can sco what kind of
weather It is here. Today vo went
dove hunting and had a very good
time ... . 1 am beginning to like it
over here very much and ull ready
Web and 1 think of this us our
hornet so Its hard to tell when I'll
be back up there. Now that I've
gotten this fur I want to keep on
going until I've taken v Japan,
China,- Australia, South Seas, ln-
idla, Egypt und parts of Africa, Eu
rope and South America,'
In a part of th lengthy letter he
describes the Hawaiian In detail.
l"ln one. of Kipling's poems he stat
ed that East Is Eust and West Is
West and ne'er shall tho twain
meet but when he wrote that he
hudn't seen Honolulu and these
wondorfut Islands ... In the middle
of tho Pacific over 2. Out) miles
from the nearest mainland. Here
we have the Japanese, Chinese,
Portuguese. Filipinos, Sumoans.
British, Americans, Hawailans and
i many othora some bloods unmix
. ed, and then aguln you will find a
i person with all of tho above and
some more added , for luck, looks
lor good measure.1
Half JapancM..
The Hawaiian inlands, known as
the crossroads of the Pacific, he
wrote, are 2U In number, of which
nine are Inhabited. The group ex
tends for 39U nilleo from north
west to southwest. San Frunclsco
Is 2,4 IS miles, Sydnoy, N. S. W.
H2i and Aukland,. N. Z S,8o
miles away . . . The1 population Is
about 330, 0U0 In which the Japan
ese compose about half of thut
amount. The largest Industry Is
the growing of sugar cane. "Speuk
ing of pineapples." ho wrote, "I've
always liked tho canned ones until
I came over hero and could get
them fresh from tho fields. Now
I the canned variety tastes dull und
Iflat, not so Juicy."
Speuklng of pronunciation of
Hawaiian numes, ho said: '"The
names here aro really pronounced
different than they are on the
mainland. For Instance, Hawaii is
I pronounced Ha-wle-ee and Hono
)lulu Is pronounced Hoo-no-lu-lu.
They pronounce every letter us
though It were a sylluble In our
lunguugc,"
All Itnces and tYeeds,
On the Towji football' team on
which Web Edwards and Skeet are
playing, there are boys from the
mainland; Japanese, Chinese, Por
tuguese', Huwaitnns and mixtures,
he wrote. 'I think nothing of their
color, ci eed or race you "JuhI do
It over here, that's all tnero Is to
It".
Skeet hi ado his home ( In Il
Grande until after school when ho
ul tend cl O. S. C, later coaching
at Baker,1 La Grande and In Ne
vada, before going to the Islands,
V ifr 1 ' " '
HOQVER'S, PASTOR'
ST; T'sia
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! WASHINGTON (A PL r. Consid
eration 1h being given la proposal
to adopt standard uniforms fur
officers of the American merchant
marine In an effort to avoid confu
sion caused by the present variety,
I niforms similar to those worn by
naval reserve, officers may be ftp
proved, with chances In distinctive
Insignia denoting the flag of the
Hue served, ;. , ' ; ., r ,
KXPLOIT AFIUCAX IXHF.KT
HAKAIt, French West Africa
(AP Forests which produce lilt
varieties of trees in this sectton of
the Sahara, popularly believed to
be a barren desert, are to bd ex
ploited by a French syndicate
w hich sees the possibility, of sup
plying France with, mil road timber
normally imnorted.
Augustus T. Murray, of tho
Friends' church In Palo Alto. Is
still to be Herbert Hoover's pas
tor. He has Just been appointed
to the Washington. 1. C, church
which ' the president-elect at
tends, ,
ltAII.KOADS Nl:i:K INCItF.ANE
VIENNA (AP Austrian State
Hallways aro asking the National
Assembly to sanction an Increase
of 14 S6 per cent In imssenger rates
and 10 per cent In frutght rates to
provide for a stnklmr and. Invest-(
ment fund. An Increase mt 26 to
GO per cent In commuter rates also
will be sought, but It Is planned to
Issue transferable flocks of tickets,
which will to a degree offset tho
faro rise, . !
KKKK TO mSVHOlt MLK -CAIUO
(AP) Th Blver Nile,
usually a blessing but sometimes a
peril to EgypL is to bo controlled.
Construction work to be carried on
under control of tho Minister for
l'oretgn Affairs is expected to In
terest numerous American com
panies, but competitive bids prob
ably will bo received from coin
panles in all countries.
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HAVANA (AP) Ambulant bar- J
hers, of which there are many In 2
Havana, no longer will be tax free, 'A
Abut will bo forced to pay license, 5
fees under a new1 municipal law, (
n'ho law is a result of ugitation by J
established wioldei-s of the brush 2
and razor, ; i
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Christmas Is over and In two
weeks printers on thousands ol '
newspapers will never even reineiu-,
ber using the letters Y-U-L-E.
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WASHINGTON AP PeftnuW
aro inorwasing In Industrial im
portance, the Uepartnrumt of Com,
merco reports, 'citing consumption :
of around 100,000 tons yearly in
American . candy manufacture
lone.. , Although 12 states yearly
produce 800.000 tona worth mors
than $33,000,000, nearly 20,000
tons aro imported yearly, chiefly
from China. The department Adda
that the peanut accounts for- 5
per cent of nut consumption In
this country. .
. Across .from Hohnonkutup'tt
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$1.95 - $5.95
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"Destroyers of High
Prices" ' !.: ':'
- For Each to Determine
"It depends on oitrsi'lvVs,' snU
III Ho. (hn Kuxe of t'lilnnlowii.
"wIibIIiit our hi moKt frlpmla nre our
hest frlruils or worst enemies,"
Woslilndnn Slnr. '
Among Grindttone Uiet
Jinny a t'linp ;.!i kie Ills lioie
lo (lie grindstone would hn heller
off If he used It to slim-pen his wits.
Form nnd Fireside.
FIGURES IN NORTHCOTT TRIAL
THE STORE V-TH CCSOCS
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HIHMHIPIII Ill rilfllTTSTT 1 j
Here "r wrne of the hlirhliuhtK In the trial of Cordon KUtwnrt Northeolt, who went into foiirt itt
Klvfrsirfe. Cal.. Jim. 2 on chsrae nf murdering youth Ht the Norlhcott poult it farm. Noitbcott. wlm
wn halted a the tiie man" prbn- tn hfs enidure Iu Ciinadit. Is shown nt iipper right. At HpiM-r b-ft
in his niibr. Htrextfd in i'(tni..I.t and now s'tvImk a life term. lielow her Is K.inf-rd Clurh,
North' oil's nri hcA' and original hccut. Centrr 1 Wither Collins, one of the youths ultfgi'd to hiivo
Iwen munlfrwl. litiow Is a mne on the .oribo;t plate, where mom of tne bot ure aliened to
, lu I'urti killed - " r "'- .
. .1. il, jioni.Nr, (
J. H, Nodlno, formerly a rt'sl-
diMit of the Grande Itoiide valley,
pussed ttwny at - JolmnniisijuiK,
Cal., on Jan, 1, according to word
received here. Ho leaves his
widow, Mrs. Ltxxle Nodlno, threo
flu llif lit nrM! Mi'M .1. Wrluhl .liihun. '
t insbii rg, Leila Nodlne. l)en
murk, Ore, und Mrs. Ittilph Hwerk
Ing, of Han lhtrmudtno. Cal,, nnd
ono brother, Kml Nodlno, of Im
bler. - , ... . : .
Mr. Nodine. vyus born ut 1'iilon
Dec. -6, IslM nnd nuido-hla hot if
In this part of the coiinlry until
nboul 16 yeuin ago whin he wciu
to Cull lorn la which was his place
of reHldcnco until death.
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