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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1908)
EVENING OBSERVER, IA GltANDK, OREG0W, MOXDAT. JTXE 29, 1008. RIGHT PACES. i 4 1 ronUfched Dally Except Sunday. CCKREY imOTHERS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. United Press Telegraph Service. Duily, per month ,3 Daily, Mingle copy. . . . , . .05 Dally, ono year In advance. . . . .-.t.GQ Pally, six months, In advance., .$3.50 "Weekly, one year. In advance. ;.tl.60 Weekly, six m6nths, In advance, , .7 J Entered at the poatofflce at La Grande : ,. ' as second-class matter. . This paper will not publish any artl cle, appearing over a nom de plume. Signed articles will be received subject to the discretion of the editors. Please lm your articles and save disappoint- nent ,:' ' .-,-. Advertixing Maun., , , tisplay ad. rotes furnished upon ap plication. , , ; (. ,.,. . . i .. .. '.. Local reading notices, 10c' per, line first Insertion; Sc per line for each sub " " gequent insertion --.' "V .' '"IT'.-. Resolutions of condolence, 5c a line. Cards of thanka. 5c a line. BENATCRED ALCOHOL. At a time and age when every broad minded cltlien of Union county . Is scheming and turning over In his mind tha most practical steps to procure a denatured alcohol plant somewhere In the county, anything- that sesVes to Instruct the public In the practical points of the new fuel Is Interesting reading. In thin county, where con ditions are so highly inviting to de natured alcohol plants, the following, by James H. Collins In the Saturday Evening Post, Is Intensely Interesting lid Instructive reading: Until very recently It has been Im possible to buy In this country the spe clal stoves, heaters and lamps suited for burning denature! "alcohol. A New York company, said to be the first In the field, opened a shop lust December to sll such appliances. " By New Year It wns pleading for breath ing space to take care of orders. Yet j per cent of the apparatus It hnn-; dies .Hther come direct from Ger many or Is manufactured here on Ger man rights. So this Industrial alcohol problem begins, first of all, with the Inventor. Ten years from now we may have pointed out to us certain affluent me chanical geniuses who, obscure and poor In 1908, had the acumen to get In on too ground floor with an alcohol stove or lamp. ; , Much Heat From Utile Fuel. ; Again, the comparison of cost be tween a gallon of rannllnr. nnrl nn nf denatured alcohol has misled a lot of good people who haven't looked into the matter further. In Germany hta product is sold by the barrel at 27 conts a gallon. In the United States It may be had at wholesale for 28 cents, and tho Whlsky jrust Is putting out gallon bottles of the new fuel un der patented trade names at 45 cents. If gasoline and alcohol were equal in nuatlng value, gallon for gallon, the former would be cheaper. But they are not equals The first feat re of an alcohol stove or lamp ttiat' "impresses the observer Is the small size of Its fuel reservoir. One of the German stoves, for Instance, with two humor. rw w nt m. ni stove, la capable of cooking a meal, consuming onty two fifths of a pint of alcohol an hour. It will heat water and do other work of light character at the rate of one sixth of a pint, bringing cost down to about a cent and a quarter an hour. One quart of alcohol In a special lamp gives a ISO-candle Incandescent light for II hours. A S25-candle lamp burns 11 hours with a gallon, lighting large Interior like a riding academy. Alcohol Is intensely hot as a fuel, so that In a family of three persons all the cooking has been done for an en tire month with three gallons, at e wholesale cost of $1.10, as against $ for the same work from anthracite' coal, ' Congress has thought of a bounty of IS cents on each gallon of this fuel produced by a farm distillery, a a means of helping the young Industry cut Its teeth. Theorists say that the wasteful methods of the American farmer stand In the way of develop. ment that nothing can be done until he learns to be as thrifty as the Ger man. Editors cry for a second Rocke feller to come along and build up the new Industry as Standard was built up. And so forth. The Internal revenue commissioner, however, puts his f Inner on a vital -ar st? . -.r -r.' -f i n -rr i tW I MONEY SAVING Furniture and House Furnishing ii nun jsswrars tt i) JUl) I) Mgskfisj I- SAIiE.i8PI ALL ODDS AND ENDS in Crockery, Granite Ware; Tin Ware, and Hard Ware Must be U Sold at ONE-HALF PRICE. ALL ODD PIECES of Furniture 1-5 to 1-2 OFF j ai ; T to Close Out and Make Room SWEEPING REDUCTIONS in all our Standard Furniture, Linoleum, and Carpets for CASH f? Liberal Terms to the Installment Patrons Come and see what our QRE1T it. 'Phone Black 641 213 FIR STREET Will Save You In Furnishing the Home A Pleas ure to Show Our Goods Come and see them f. B. HAISTE.N Phone Red 1161 1411,1413,1415 Adams Me. point when he says that appliances for burning denatured alcohol are not yet on sale In this country. When the great American Inventor shows the housewife that she can iron .clothes in summer with a small self-heating sadiron, having a fuel reservoir attached, holding only a wineglass of alcohol, and burning less than a cent's worth of the Juice an hour, there will be little need for a Rockefeller or a bounty. Vhcn that happens, many a young fellow In the country, Instead of starting a cream ery, will open up a dlUlllmy lo handle cornstalks on the co-operative plan. And before that advanced stage of the Industry Is reached, many another young man In this country and wo man toois likely to grow comfortably well off as selling agent for denatured alcohol appliances. . , . From several standpoints this In fant Is healthy and worth watching. Gentlemen of the theories, stand back from the cradle and give It air! REMARKAM.E FILM STOIIY. Sherwood Electric 1I Two Changes of Exceptional Worth TliU Week Tiler are two especially V strong numbers In Sherwood's Electric change this week. The features are "The haunted Castle", and "The Gen tleman Burglar," the latter being a 1000-foot film by Edison. The last named film is a sad story of a man who commences to ateal In time of adversity and goes from bad to worse. The entire tale Is one that is pathetic and ends in a tragedy. "The Haunted Castle" Is also better than anything 'seen here " for gome time. These two features alone are worth more than the price of admis sion. They enn be seen tonight for the first time. First Ripe Peach of Season. Freewatcr, June 27. Scigel Eaton, a rancher living In Freewater, exhlb lted a large ripe peach this morning. which he grew In his orchard. Tha peach Is fully grown and Is easily th first ripe peach grown here this season. -llli or July I xciirMlon Kmc. m Frlilay and Saturday, July 3rd iifd the O. 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