NEW POTATOES
URSURP MARKET
LAST YEAB'S POTATOES ABE SOW
ALL 60XE.
Watermelons Drop to 2tf Cents Per
. Pound, With Supply Snftlvlent
'
Old potatoes, In tbe local market,
are a thing of tbe past this year. New
potatoes are now selling at $2.00 per
hundred, which Is unusual at this
eeason ot the year. The supply la
plentiful in this section.
, Watermelons have dropped from the
three cent figure and are now selling
at 2&c.
The market quotations today are:
Butter Fancy creamery, 35 cents I
lb. roll; 2 lb. roll, 65 cents.
Ranch butter, 55c 3 lb. roll.
Ranch eggs 20c.
: Feed and Grain.
Alfalfa Hay 113.00 (retail).
Timothy $15.00.
Grain hay J12.00.
Bluestem $1.45
Patent $1.86.
Snowdrift $1.45
Flour
10s Corn Meal 35c per sack.
Bran and Shorts $1.S5 and $1.41
Oats $1.90 per cwt -Rolled
barley $1.90 per cwt.
Cattle, Bogs an! FswL
Heavy hogs $6.00.
Chicken Hens 9c; old roosters 7c
spring frios lte.
Liffat hogs-4 $-4c
Docks Ur weight, UHc
Geese, lire weight ltc.
Cowa 4c
Steers $6.00 to $5.75.
Sheep 4c.
. .FraHa, ,
Oranges 40c to 50c.
Bananas 40c' per dos.
Vegetable and Xlseellaneest.
Rhubarb 8c.
Cucumbers S to 10c
Onion $2.50 per cwt
Green peas 3 lbs for 25c.
Green Asparagus 10c
Potatoes $2.00 per cwt.
Spinach 5 Tbs for 25c
Croon onions fie bunch, I for 108.
Bean White. 8 l-Sc: Una, 10 cents
New Cabbage 3c.
Cantaloupe 10c.
Watermelon 2c.
Peaches 10c.
Cherries 25c gallon.
Green peas 15c.
Tomatoes 15c.
On account of the Ice plant Mowing
np at Bot Lake the automobile ban
duet wOI be postponed nntfl further
er notice. 7S9-8t
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A NEW.
TIN PAN
e M. QUAD
rnrvrlEhi 1312. by Associated Llt-
r;try Press
It wus m beautiful Juue foieiioou
when ii tlu peddler approached Jhe vil
lage of IlHITtxnU
He stop-d bis rig ot tbe first bouse
Tbe bouse belonged to Deacon Rush.
On the back stops, seated side by side,
were tbe deacon's wife and her Dearest
neighbor uud best friend-Mrs. Burt
"Tinware, ladles?" be asked. "Every
thing new and bright- Finest milk pan
In tbe country Tor only 10 cents."
"I've always) paid 15 cents for milk
pans." replied tlie deacon's: wife.
"Yes. and I've sold 'em a high as 18.
but they have got a uew wuy of mak
ing 'em, and I'm giving you tbe benefit
of it I'll bring one in " (
The pun arrived, new and shiny,
and stood all tbe tebis it was put to.
No lenks.und it would almost serve, us
a mirror. A'dime wus borrowed to pay
for It, and after a little more talk It
was left ou the step while Its owner
made a call at another bouse and the
deacon's wife entred ber own to umke
up the bed that had leen airing.'
Now came the row. She belonged to
a man at the other end of the village.
There was grass iu plenty, but she
longed for garden truck. She leaped
the back fence nud helped herself. In
ber stepping ulmut she approached the
kltctieu ior and saw that new pan.
She saw the reflection' of her face
and became astonished ami indignant
A eri.p eared, one honied critter gazed
at tier in a dcf.ant maimer, and as she
was a tMiviiie that had never taken a
bluff she bumped up her back and
sailed in ' -
An hour later Mrs, Burt came back
after her pan. ;:r. I her first jell
bruii;-'tt 'ie deacon's wife' out of the
bouse There' Jay the ouce shapely
and shiny pan In the dirt tcvdden as
3 A GRANDE EVENING
flat as a pancake, it ought do to iuu
bog bole In the Nick fence, but no
artisan could never mold it into a pan.
"Lands sliver esclalmed Mrs. Burt
"Mercy on meP esclalmed Mrs. Rush.
"That cow did ltr
"She must naveP
"And yon let herl"
"Sarah Burt don't yon say anything
like that to me I I didn't know there
was a cow In the garden."
"But you ought to have known. If
you'd keep your fences like otber folks
tbe cows couldn't get In. Look at that
pan that cost me 10 cents ao hour
agol"
"Was I to sit out here and watcb
ltr" protested the deacon's wife.
"You ought to have heard the cow
when she was tramping It"
"You ought to have taken It borne
or carried It along with you."
"That's nothing to do with it It
was left here, and It's destroyed, and
I'll be switched If I ever pay you tbe
10 cents!"
"If yon don't I'll sue your
"You dasn'tr.
There it was. you see the first real
quarrel between neighbors tbe village
bad bad In many long years. Tbe
bappy minded peddler and tbe fighting
cow disappeared from the scene, but
the quarrel remained. It did more than
that ' The news spread and within two
hours Mrs. Henderson was saying:
"Mrs. Burt sbonldu't try to lay the
blame off on Mrs. Rush. When a wo
man's busy making a bed she ain't
thinking of cows. - I hope Mrs. Rush
sues for the 10 cents."
And In the bouse right across tbe
street Mrs. Holllday was saying:
"I'd let ber sue and be banged to
herl ; When a new 10 cent milk pan
la left on my back steps by a neighbor
If a my duty as a Christian woman to
go out there every few minutes and
see that ifs all right I shall certain
ly advise Mrs. Burt not to pay the
10 cents."
By , the next day the Tillage was
about equally divided on the question,
though some few were Inclined to blame
neither the peddler nor cow. It was all
talk for a day or two, and then cam
action. The factions no longer bor
rowed nor lent They bowed stiffly to
each otber or not at all on the street
They revived ' gossip that bad been
dead fifteen years and rolled It nnder
their tongues.' Carried Into the church
es? Of course It was. When a thing
like that gets started In a village
there's no telling where It will end. It
drew the elders and deacons and two
ministers In. and It made the attend
ance at sermons and prayer meetings
mighty slim. To all peacemakers the
deacon's wife would reply:
"I wasn't set here on this earth to
took out for other folks' milk pans, and
I Jest won't do ltr
And tbe reply of Mrs. Burt would be:
"She ought to have known about the
cow. and I'll never pay that 10 center
It was a quarrel and a division that
lasted five years and might have gone
tn for another five but for providence
taking a band in the game. A
tramp who bad the measles beaded
that wey, and be simply handed the
town an epidemle. Not a score of
people were spared. While none died.
all went to bed to be doctored and to
do heap of thinking, and the result
was mai as rasi as iney coma crawi
out tbey eased their consciences by
confessing their errors and asking for
forgiveness.
"Here is the 10 cents," Bald Mrs.
Burt as she tottered over to tbe dea
con's as soon as she could stnnd.
Sarah, I don't want it" was the re
ply. "These measles bave made me
see that-1 ougbt to have watched that
milk pan."
And the village of Harrison loved
Itself and its neighbor again
A Delicate Position.
"That was an annoying coincidence,"
said Mr. Biggins. "It took great tact
to manage it"
"What's the trouble?
"The pension examiner and the life
Insurance doctor both called on me at
tbe same time." Washington Star.
A Good Rule.
If yon wish success In life make per
severance your bosom friend, experi
ence your wise counselor, caution your
elder'brother and hope your gunrdlan
genius.
The pain of life but sweetens death;
tbe hardest labor brings the soundest
Deep. Albert Smith.
Like Veal er Roast Pig.
"I think not. but I am Interested."
"Tbe eggs of those ducks taste like
quail and nre on tho menu of first
class hotels only. They gobble up all
la sight at 75 cents a dozen. As to tbe
birds themselves, being reared In a
tropical country. I don't think they
could be brought here alive, but tbe
epss can be brought by the million.
If batched here the tasto will still be
better than that of our ducks. I fig
ure that it will be something between
veal and roast pig."
"Aud the little article you spoke of
Sarcastic
n,ft.if.hau Holme I wish to be
vaccinated. Doctor-What's your bnsl
'noes? Hawkshaw Holmes I'm a de
i tectlve. Doctor Stand out of lino,
'please, and give somebody else n
chance. There is no danger of y'ir
ever calclilujf anything Iiostou Globe
OBSERVER.
AS
La
La
SKATING TEAM
TO MAKE TOUR
Fiflesn Speed Ecys to B3p
Campaign In Boston,
CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE.
International Contests Will Be Ht'd !n
Boston Eastern Titles to Be Dec did
In Syracuse Middle West Honors In
Cleveland.
A squad of fifteen of tbe fastest uu:u
teur speed skaters lii tbe United State
ond Canada Is being organized b.v the
International Skating union to mai.e i:
tour of tbe Canadian, Western. Miii.lle
States, New England aud Eastern
Skating association districts uud coin
pete in the various championship
events scheduled by tbe union: Tlils
new arrangement was decided oft at
a meeting of tbe International Skating
union beld la New i'ork recently. Tbe
New England association, which bus
teen under :be bun of tbe union. was
placed in go id standing again.
The union elected tbe following offi
cer for tbe present season: President.
Allen 1. Hlnnchard of Chicago: lirsl
vice f resident. Cornelius I'ellowes of
New York; second vice president
James A. Taylor of Montreal: thlri
vice president. Peter It. Olsou of Oil
cago; recretnry and treasurer. Lti!'
How Sea birds Dnnn.
The means Uy wtlch sea lards ipienci.
their thirst when l.tr out i -'n Is '!f
sctIUmI ly an old skipper, wim tt-ils
how he has seen bird at e.i. lar trim,
any laud that cmild furnish thorn vu
ter. hvirtng around and under a storm
cloud, clutterine like ducks ..n a hot
day nt n pond and drliil,!mj m the drops
of rain as they fell. They will smell
H rain HO mile distant or eM'ti farther
off nnd scud for It with almost Incon
ceivable swiftness.
THE TWIG OS BENT
the tree is inclined" is an old adage and a true one. It applies not only to trees
and children, hut to cities as well. La Grande as a community is just emerging
fromthe condition of a village and assuming the aspect of a city. It is growing
toward the south and the Connordale Addition. Anyone doubting this statement
who will take the trouble to walk down Washington avenue and take note of the
activity in paving, grading, opening up of streets and building operations will be
convinced of that fact. As the city increases in size, its growth will continue
along these same lines. That is a matter of past experience and common sense.
In fact, the direction in which the city of La Grande must grow has al
ready been determined by natural conditions and surroundings. It is hemmed in
one one side by steep foot-hills; on another side by the Grande Ronde river and
hundreds of acres of natural manufacturing sites that will soon be in demand;
on the third side by the railroad tracks, shops and yards. Therefore it can only
grow to any great extent in ONE direction SOUTH TOWARD CONNOR
DALE. The best residence and business section will grow AWAY from the
smoke, dirt and noise of switching engines, mills and shops not TOWARD them
Connordale is the only large tract in the city available for a restricted,
improved and uniformly developed residence section. The city improvements are
already in. Property is still cheap. Within a short time it will double in value.
Think this over, then go down and see for yourself or let us take you over this
property. Your own judgment will confirm the truth of these statements.
Grande Development
La Grande National Bank
Grande, Ore.
PERRY SCOTT'S TURKEY.
This Wonderful Bird Was Well Fixed
With tegs and Wings.
The story of Perry Scott's turkey has
come down from Revolutionary days In
Carolina. Colonel Gordon wus act-us
tomed to tell of tbe busty march wblch
be made before KudolpbV legion, lie
wus Just sitting down to dinner when
orders were given to cross tbe Ashley
river. It wus nearly nightfall when lie
bivouacked in a valley In which the
onvalry under Wayne bud Just u
camped and, with bis umcers. begun to
sup ou dry bread and potatoes. The
infantry which' be coimuuuded were In
a starving condition, und the couiinls
sary was without umucy. but raiding
upon tbe farmers wus sternly made
punishable by death.
Iteports of the hungry condition i
tbe newcomers bad circulated umon-j
Wayne's men. Just as the colonel le
gan to , eat his musty bread u prlvnt
from Wayne's cavuiry appeared aim
said respectfully: "Perry Scott tiau
some money, colonel, and knight a
turkey. We have unfortunateiy eaten
all but one leg. I took the liberty ot
bringing that to yon." The colonel
took the leg gratefully and bad scarce
ly finished It when another of Wayne's
men appeared with the same story ol
Perry Scott's turkey nud another leg
Tbe colonel congratulated himself on
bis luck- and. handling the drumstick
over to a fellow officer, went out of tbe
tent It was growing dark. Another
cavalryman catue up. whispered the
story of Perry Scott and cautiously
banded over n third leg. Tbe colonel
continued his walk through the camp
and before his return bad been secretly
offered twenty legs and fourteen wings
of Perry Scott's turkey. ,
Wayne's men had raided a poultry
yard the previous night and concocted
tho story of Perry Scott's purchase to
protect themselves In case any turkey
j bones should be discovered. The bun
ger bitten faces of their new comrades
were more than they could bear, bow
ever, nnd each man. unknown to the
others, carried his share into Gordon's
camp at the risk of detection nud
death. It was not until the war was
over and the troops disbanded that
Colonel Cordon told tho storv of Perry
Scott and his many legged fowl. Ar-J
gonnut i
Bldg
274 St ark Street
Portland, Ore.
Charlie Dooin believes that bis team
will go higher In the National league
race aud has picked out second place
for the Quakers.
Up To The Minute In
PAINLESS OPERATING
THE
MODERN
DENTISTS
DEPOT STREET AM) ADAMS AVEM'E.
Over Newlin
LA GRANDE,
DR. THOS.
- Manager.
THE:. PRIO
GOLD CROWN .... . d r
PORCELAIN CROWNIV
BRIDGE WORK
Hours:
1 Daily 8 to 6.
Evenings 7 to 8.
Sunday 9 to 12.
IiADYATTENDANT
Go.
Manager Griffin, of tbe W
team, and Manager Busch, of fa.1
orsburg team, are tied for battlagl
ors tn the Virginia League.
Drug Store.
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C. OHMART,
E IS RIGHT
SET OF TEETH Vfc
Silver Fillings
Extractions
All work warranted. If week
is not right we will make St
right without extra expeiar
to vou.
EXAMINATION FREE.