La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 14, 1931, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextWednesday, January.. 11, 1931 LA GRANDE. EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANl, QBE. I'utro Seven VP L ASSIFIED AD The Market Place of Union and Wallowa Counties -I WANTED WANTED Washing. Will go to the : home, Mrs. L. Mangess, 362-J. 1-14-1 tp, SHARE EXPENSES to Portland. Room - for 3. Closed Warm car. Will leave , 9 a. m. Thursday. Call 166-M.j . , i . .; ' . . . . l-li-i t. I blRL WANTS house or olllce woric. I , Phone Main 811. 1-11-2 tp j WANTED New members for Oregon 1 State Motor Ass'n. and A. A. A. - - Send names to P. C. H., Observer. ; 1-13-2 tp. i WANTEp TO , RENT-r-Apt. or room- lng house. Would buy furniture If I priced, right. Tel. 423-J. l-12-4tp j WANTED To rent, for use In a play, j a lady's costume of the Elizabethan , . period, Phone 17B-M. 1-5-t f. ! FOR SALE SPECIAL Jqt? lpt purchase .boy's and men's sweaters. Mixed or all wool. 88c to 92.66. C. J. Breier Co. 1-14-1 t. j FOB SALE OR TRADE 8 room mod ern home. 1616 Sixth St. 1-14-1 t. FOR SALE Fine dairy ranch fully j equipped. For particulars writs Box j iM urancie. 1-14-3 tp, Observer Want Ad Rates (Count five average frorda to tae line.) 7 Pye line, lat in nor U on Oo 7o .15o Pttr line! ech added consec- Minimum charge on one order .. . ., - RATES BY MONTH S lines, per month " 3 lines, per month $2.25 4 linos, per month $4.00 t lines, per month . ..4.70 Each additional line over five charted ; at 6O0 per line per month. u CASH : IN ADVANCa la re quired ori all Classified orders to earn thope rates. , Higher rate charged on all credit Insertions-' Copy for all Classified orders must be In this office Jit 10 A. M DAY OP INSERTION. Step orders on ad Inserted until fur ther notice muHt be received by the same hoir or extra Insertion will be charged. Telephone orders solicited. Cash rates nay be earned on phone 1 orders by payment on or before date of last Insertion. PHONE MAIN 600 . "An Observer Want A.4 Will Do It" Miscellaneous ROOFING WORK Repair work on any kind of a new roof. Call Chus. Hlldebrand. 620-W. . 1-8-1 mp. ASK YOUR MEAT MARKET .'or Cove Krout; It contains nil It's own Jutco, minerals and vltamlnes, like the best home made. TRY IT. LIKE IT AND BUY IT. Karl J. Stacklond. Cove, Ore. 1-5-t f. AUTO AND WINDOW GLASS Cut and fitted on short notice. La Grande Construction & Supply Co. ia-19-1 m. GUARANTEED RADIO SERVICE On ull makes of radios. Jewell test equipment. Reasonable rates. Wesley McDonald. Phone 140-M. 12-20-t f. GAS FITTING a speciality, plumbing and heating. F. A. Balmes. Phone 1006-J. 12-23-1 m. SOMMER HOTEL Very special win ter rates. With or without private bath. 12-18-t f. EASTERN OREGON School of Music, violin, piano, voice. Credits. I. O. O. P. temple, 447-J. 9-6-1 m. I LA GRANDE MATTRESS ie Up- noistering a KUg Cleaning works. Phone 424-W. Chas. Edwards, prop 12-I-lm. FOR SALE Two two-year heifers. See Earl Zundel, La Grande Nat. bank. 1-13-4 tp. FOR SALE Trailer. $10. 1106 Spring stjeet. 1-13-2 t. FOR SALE Good shelves. Inq. Archie J. Murray, Hill Apts. 1-9-6 t. CECO METAL WEATHERSTRIPS Sold. Installed, guaranteed and ser viced. Materials of zinc, bronze, brass. Openings protected while working. p. B. Anderson, 2102 Cove Ave. Main 208. 12-13-1 m. fCR SALE Goats. Cheap. Good milk strain. Also 50 head of ewes to let out on shares. Hot Lake sanatar lum. :. 11-6-t f. Automobiles - USED CARS 1928 Chevrolet Coupe $ 375.00 19S0 Chevrolet Club Sedan .... 695.00 1930 Chevrolet Truck 625.00 1926 Ford Roadster 115.00 1924 Ford Tudor and trailer .. 145.00 1929 Ford Truck 625.00 1926 Chevrolet Coach 235.00 1927 rrd Pickup 146.00 1925 Star Sedan 145.00 1928 Durant Coupe . 365.00 1927 Bulck Sedan 495.00 1929 Chevrolet Truck 525.00 1925 Chevrolet Sedan 235.00 1926 Chevrolet Coupe 235.00 1924 Ford Touring 65.00 1025 Dodge Sedan 265.00 1927 Essex Coupe 295.00 All cars have 1931 license LARISON CHEVROLET CO. 1-6-1 t. FOR RENT MODERN bungalow, basement with garage, together $30.00. 1306-4th St. 1-14-1 tp. MONEY TO LOAN We are represen tatives for the ' Prudential Insur ance Co., and can malm farm 01 city loans at attractive rates of In terest. Chas. H. Reynolds, insurance, loans and bonrln. FOR TRADE MODERN 6-rm. house, unfurn. Full I KIMBALL RADIOS 1931 radios will basement. Close in ot 1U3 Hemlock. take piano In trade. T. K. Bellamy. Inq. 1701 Wash. 1-14-2 tp. I 1-8-0 tp. FOR RENT Five room furnished house, on Oak streot. S?e J. R. Oliver. 1-14-6 tp. FOR RENT 1 2-rm. furn. apt. Steam heat. Adults. Ph. 360-W. 1502 Wash. . .. 1-14-6 t. FOR RENT Furn. apt. Cor. 6th & N. Phono 147-R. 1-13-t f. FOR RENT 3-rm. furn. mod. apt. Heat, 1305 Pcnn. 1-13-3 tp FOR RENT Commodious furn. . apt Garaee and etc. Landls Court Apts. 1-10-t f- LOST LOST Ford chains. Wash. Apts., Mrs. L. L. Quirk. Reward. 1-13-2 tp FOR RENT Store space 27x110 ft., formerly occupied by J. C. Penney Co., Depot St. Inq. Archie J. Mur ray, Hill Apts. 1-9-0 t. FOR RENT Pionos, see Bellamy. 1-8-6 tp. USED CARS 1924 Light Delivery $ 65.00 1925 Ford Model T Coupe - 65.00 1920 Ford T Roadster 115.00 1925 Ford T Tudor 75.00 1927 Panel .Delivery .125.00 1020 Fdrd T' Tdaf lng ':.:.;........... lOff.OO All cars have 1931 licenses. WE TRADE PERKINS MOTOR CO. MAIN 600 1-13-2 t. COVE PERSONALS FOR RENT Three room furnished apt. 1101 O avenue. 12-30-t f. FOR RENT Mod. houses, unf. Close in, good neighborhood, 146-W. 12-20-1 m. FOR RENT Furn. rms., steam heat: garage, 1502-lst, 813-J. 12-20-1 D. FOR RENT Furnished apt., 180b-4th street. 12-0-t f. FOR RENT Furnished apt., 1809 Adams. r3I3."rW!9? kiod td PMT Ti i m liniiaai onrl art fa with baths, clean, quiet, low rates. Adults, 1810 Greenwood. 8-10-1 m. By Mnf. I.cona Price Observer Correspondent) COVE, Ore. (Special) Mrs. John Valentine has been taken to the hos pital at La Grande where she will undergo a surgical operation as soon as her son, Desmond Fulp, arrives. Mrs. Valentine has been ill for some time with diabetes but seemed to be getting along well under the treatment she hod been taking. Re cently she had an attack of flu which left hor In a weakened condition, and she now has to undergo on operation for gall stones. Following a severa attack she was taken to La Grande Monday night and a message was sent to her son Immediately. Her condition is considered critical. Miss Amanda Zabel, head of the English department of the Eastern Oregon Normal school, Is to give a review of the play "The Green Pas tures" In Cove under the auspices of the Woman's Improvement club. The date has been set for Wednesday, Jan. 12 unless the weather Is such that Miss Zabel cannot drive across the valley, In which case It will be postponed to the following Wednes day, Jan. 28. This ploy has had a phenomenal success in New York. Everyone Interested in this program is welcome to attend. Rev. C. W. Tenney, president 'of Gooding college, will speak at the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morning at 11 a. m. Among the Cove people who visited La Grande Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Barker, Mrs. Mlnnette Sentner, Mrs. J. R. Fletcher, Mrs. Delsman and Claire Smith. They report a great deal more snow at La Grande then here. A telephone message received Sun day night told of the death of Mrs. Arthur Burford. Arthur Burford is the son of Jim Burford and spent his boyhood near Cove. Mrs. Bur ford leaves her husband ond a tiny baby. The many friends of the Bur fords are sorry to hear this sad mess age. Jim Burford is , al9o reported to be quite 111. A number of Cove people' are plan ning to attend the B. Y. P. U. rally In Baker Friday. The rally Is being hold earlier than usual this year to take advantage of the presence of Dr. H. E. Hagen in Baker at that time. Dr. Hagen is in charge of the Young Peoples Educational depart ment of the Baptist church In Ore gon. Ho was in a foreign mission field for a great many years and has an enviable reputation as a speaker. MISS ZABEL TO SPF-AK AT COVE JAN. 21 Theodore Hagey, ' Monte Davis, La Vnuri Smith, Rita Harris, Malvlna Millard, Haael Clarke, Gertrude Hagey, George Hagey, Burnctta Mus grove, Betty Or ton, Irene Haefcr and Howard Houx. Lewis Peck left Tuesday to, spend the week in North Powder. O. Klopfensteln, of La Grande, is a guest at the C. Bcrtsch home. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Conley arc expected to return from their honey moon in Washington Wednesday of this week. . -L .. ' J. Ward Evans To Preside In Place of Allen Wy Mrs. C. A. Hunter (Observer Correspondent) WALLOWA, Ore. (Special) John Crawford, who tendered hie resigna tion - as city marshal recently, has been given a temporary appointment by the city council and will serve as marshal until the first of March. At the same meeting the new officers of the city were sworn in. J. Ward Evans was elected president of the council to preside in the absence of Mayor L, F. Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Al len and son, Howard, left Thursday for Salem where Mr. .Allen will at tend the legislature us the Joint rep resentative from Union and Wallowa counties. Mrs. Allen and Howard will remain with Mr. Allen at the state capital during the session and Howard will enter the seventh grade in the Salem school. C. A. Hunter went to Portland Sat urday with a, "carload of Hereford cattle. Ho expects to return Wed nesday. A carload of sheep and o.e of hogs from the Community Ship ping association were also in the stock train out of Wallowa Saturday. Mrs. W. P. Poole entertained the Ladies' Aid of the Presbyterian church at her home Wednesday ovo nlng. Eighteen members were pres ent and after the business meeting a social hour and refreshments were enjoyed. The Methodist Ladies' Aid met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Pred Jones with Mrs. J. E. Tulley as assistant hostess. The Ladies' Aid of the Christian church met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. C. L. Bales. Miss Helen Dale spent the weekend in La Grande visiting friends. A number of young people from Wallowa drove to the lake Sunday to enjoy the splendid skating that is found there where the lake is frozen over. Mrs. Bruce Cox entertained tho Friday Bridge club at her home with a luncheon at 1 o'clock followed by cards in tho afternoon. Mrs. C. A. Hunter made high score at bridge and tho consolation prize fell to Mrs. J. Ward Evans, Five Inches of snow fell In Wal lowa Saturday night and motorists found traveling difficult on Sunday, before the road workers cleared the highway. Many calls came in to tho local garages during the day from country roads and side sUoeta In town where cars were stalled in tho snow. I Word has been received fifi Wal j Iowa by friends of Mrs. Susie Davis wiiu ie.fc nura last uccooer mat sne is in Corvallis with her daughter, Mrs. Howard McLean. Until the first of the year Mrs. Davis was with her daughter, Mrs. K. W. Inman at II wacc, Wash. She expects to remain away until the first of March. Cold Weather Is Chilling Mexico MEXICO CITY (A1) Cold , weather is sweeping across most of Northern and Central Mexico and has carried temperatures below zero in some mountainous districts. The "norther" has also lashed the gulf sections and ed in the uplands and Northern high winds, rain and snow are report-states. COM MI SHI ON K 1 1 H CONT'IKMED WASHINGTON AH six mem bers appointed by President Hoover to the new tariff commission had senate aproval yesterday after Edgar Brossard, Republican, Utah, was con lirmed by a vote of 45 to 30. Lincoln Dixon, Democrat. Indiana, was quickly approved without opposition. Legge Innocent Of Charges Is Board Verdict WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 W, Chair- mVin Legge, of the farm board was , exonerated by an investigating com mittee of the national farmers union yesterday of charges that he told the senate agricultural committee the farm board had acted to depress tho prlco of wheat and cotton. Cal A. Wood of Kansas, chairman of a subcommittee sent here to in vestigate Legge's testimony, expressed confidence In the method employed by the board In handling, wheat. The investigation was made as the result of charges by John A. Simp son, president of tho national farm ers' union. Wood said he believed Senator The mas ot Oklahoma, Simpson and Lcggo all had been perfectly frank In the controversy. It was a state ment by Senator Thomas about Legge's testimony that precipitated the dispute. Other members of the committee were M. W. Thatcher, manager of the Farmers' Union Terminal association, St. Paul, Minn.: J. R. Callahan of Wisconsin and Thomas Howard of Colorado. W. 0. W. HEADS FACE THREAT OF NEW SUIT DENVER (JPi Threat of another suit to block tho working operation of tho now insurance rates of the Wocdmcn of tho World, with head quarters at Denver, was made here ot a meeting of! delegates called to rcadopt rates enacted at the Oakland, Cal.. meeting Df tho organisation two years ago. The Colorado supremo court re cently ruled the altered lnsurarico rates were not constitutionally adopted bocaus the Oakland meeting failed to specify the exact vote. John J. McCue of Boise, Idaho, leader of the faction opposing the change, said if the present conven tion ratifies tho legislation of the Oakland "meeting in 1028, another suit probably will bo filed to block its operation. Informal - approval of tho entire Oakland legislation had been given and a final vote was to be taken later on. Congressman W. C. Hawley of Ore gon, chairman of tho Denver Wood men's board of head managers, acted as chairman of the convention. tho St. Louis-Saiy Francisco, railway to put into effect two cents per mile passenger rates over Its system, The roads asked suspension of the rates, which are due to go Into ef fect Feb. 1, and an investigation. Tho St. Louis Southwestern Rail way company, the Missouri -Kansas-': Texas Railroad company and the Mis souri Pacific Railroad company Joined In the application.' The brief contended the reduction would "require similar reductions In passenger fares between numerous and important commercial points on the lines of railroad operated by your pre test ants and . . . require numerous reductions at points on the lines of your protectants which are local to such lines." His wife Mildred Kerrigan. 18. a confessed accomplice, was sentenced to a three-year term but was paroled to relatives here. - j Infant and Girl Perish In Fire ORDINANCE HELD INVALID' SALEM OT A Portland city ordi nance which attempted to prohibit auction sales of Jewelry was held In valid In an opiV.or oi, the supreme court, written hy Justice Belt. It was a test suit brought against the city by Carl Korber, The opinion af firms Judgo Tucker of tho circuit court for Multnomah county "It seems to the court after a sur vey of the authorities," says the opinion, Mthut tho business of vend ing Jewelry Is not inherently and necessarily pernicious." ' PHOENIX. Arls.i Jan. 14 (P) A three-day-old boy and an eleven-year-old girl perished and three per sons were seriously burned when fire destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Connie Atkins yesterday. Louise Patterson and the infant sen of the Atkins, who had not yet received his first name, were.over ccmo by smoke and died when flames j spread through ; tho house, reducing It to ruins, as the frantlo parents tried to rescue the children. . ' Mr. and Mrs, Atkina and Mrs. Alice Wilson, 60 years old, who was visit-. )ng tho Atkins, are In a Phoenix hoa pltal suffering from serious burns. ; Havana Students, dressed as worn- n, beat five members of feminist party for spanking girls. traiqhfenth9FENI)M and Repair thd-TOP . FRED'S BODY FENDER SHOP Sit Greenwood St. TEX YEARS IN PRISON PORTLAND ) Donald M. Kcrrl- ! can, 29, was sentenced to serve ten i years In McNeil federal uonltentlary I lor roDomft tne posiqiucc at urenco. Ho stolo 93.35 and sqmo money order I blanks. Ho pleaded guilty to tun 1 oharge. :.)W1BHI LORlMER'S LA GRANDE ' CITYDYE WORKS Cleaners of Fancy Gowns Men's Suits Dry or Steam Cleaned Phone Main 72 102Vf Depot Street SUCCESSORS TO WARDROBE Three Roads Ask For Investigation WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (PI Three of tho largest Southwestern carriers j Tuesday protested to the Interstate j commerce commission me proposal oi CHILI, V, .IN; JiPAlX . MADRID WpairisuaUjvar-m, and sunny, Tuesday was gripped by a cold wave of unusual intensity. Three persons were reported frozen to death and snow had fallen In nearly all parts of tho country. The temperature In Madrid was 2 degrees above zero. Even the Mediterranean was cold. The island of Majorca was covered with snow. Hv Mrs. A. !. Cotililin (Observer Correspondent) COVE, Ore. (Special) r A special program has been prepared for the entertainment at the Women's club Wednesday Jan. 21 when Miss Amanda Zabel, head of the English department of the Eastern Oregon Ncrmal will review "The Green Pas tures" and the club will hold a silver tea. This is not the regular club day but Miss Zabel finds it im possible to be here except on Wed nesday. This is an open meeting and a cordial .invitation is extended to all the women of Cove. The meeting is called for 2 o'clock. Reports from the third and fourth grade mid -year examinations have been receivea ana are a imiuws. third grade, LaVaun Smith, first with an average of 04; Monte Davis sec ond, average 91; Rita Harris, third, average 90; for the fourth grade, George Hagey was first with an aver age of 90, Gertrude Hagey and Betty Orton tied for second with an aver age of 95, Hazel Clarke, Irene Heafer and Bernetta Musgrove tied for third place with an average of 94. Ger trude Hagey road the most books this semester with 12 to her credit. Those neither absent nor tardy were CONDEMN (1. It. X. TALKIE LONDON Bernard Shaw's first talkie, "How Ho Lied to Her Hus band," was presented in London for the first time but fell flat. The critics with hardly an exception condemned It with such adjectives as mcmncnoiy, auu, stagey, aisap polntlng, tedious, and UfcicBS. . Cox Auto Electric A. C. KEI.I.OOO. Prop. BATTERY and ELECTRIC SERVICE Phone M753 1425 Adams Peerless It really is free from Rock and Slate and DOES hold fire long-. VANPETTEN LUMBER CO. I'JIONE MAIN 78S. "GOOD SETIVICIC QUICK" 4 V ? I '.VVUftt..' i THes'e RESOLUTIONS once made are sure to hold for the year I O W WARNOCK MGR NO MORE HORSE-LAUGHS Remember what our school books taught us about the lives of inventors who lived many years ago? How often we used to read, "He went on with his experiments in spite of the laughter of his friends, and the rididiile of his neighbors." How different is the modern state of mind! This age is remarkable for its keen awreness of progress . 4 . the eager willing ness pf most of us to accept new things, and better ways. The skeptical 'person is the exception expectancy is the rule. . If we read about an invention that will wash the middle of our backs, we say, '"fair enough; tomorrow there will be an automatic way to keep our noses powdered." ' New things and better ways are an nouced. regularly in this paper . r 'i in the advertisements. Every day you may ' be expecting something that will make your life easier, bleasaiiter, hlore healthful. Pos sibly a new electrical contrivance, or a car that's easier to drive, or a new idea in breakfast foods. Follow the advertising columns . . . and sooner or later you'll get the good news. People who make it a point to know what's going on read the advertise ments every day. o SCOKCHY SMITH Trademark' Registered U. s. Patent Office A TRUE APPRAISAL By John C. Terry Professional Directory Physicians & Surgeons A. U RICHARDSON', M. D. Physician and 8urgeon Office over Olass Drugs Offlcs Phone, M-16 Res. M-E6 LE6 B. BOCVT, BL. D. LEW A WILKES, M. D. Practice limited to diseases of the Bye, Ear, Nose and Throat. New Foley Telephone Building; Main It DR. F. L. B ALSTON Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat 1-7 SOMMER BLDQ. Phone Main 778. Astrologer MBS. FREDERICK BALME9 801 N. AVE. Peai'lngs Dally. Readings by MaU a Specialty While our service Is ex pert and elllclent, it Is not without genuine affection. This enables us to carry out Instructions to the let ter. We Understand Snodgrass & Zimmerman Main 62 ,'lWSis95PS!!e 5? OLD STEVE HAS QOT HOLD 0P TM' M!SisiSi'M':'&' t FRONT END OF A CONSPlRACr ' say, slats' whoswshe's just soundin -v li K'ffif, eSK0N TM'iESEKTRAT' WUSIE'S) THE MAN OUT FORME YPARDON ME FOR V UflS Tu- wjiic wini- TAKEN SUCK A SUINE 7 -BUT 1 GUESS IT'S A FEW MINUTES 545-11 ' v"' -irfrtlC GONE CAR ENOUGH. L8?? S?.- MATCH BY TV4 1AIU I . . 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