La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 13, 1913, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1913. . PAGE SIX Lie E EfTLNlWJ CS2TE2, " ft 1 I i ' r i f. m ss i EGG MARKET COISTET MEAT AKD HALIBUT ABB FIRMER, Apple Trad rntlna? flood la Fort land Shops. From Portland cornea the following Announcement, In regard to Portland ' Markets: Storage operations are general In the egg trade and the market Is firm er and la come Instance! fractionally higher. : . The demand for eggs la now fully p to supplies, and In some lniitnaces tetter, Most of the call Is coming from storage interesst, but the fresh consumptive demand Is growing and the two added together take care of everything now coming from the country. The market for eggs along the coast Is generally showing a stronger trend with some advances In the price. San Francisco Is now quoting 18c for best, which Is but a fraction lower than the price in effect here today. Best yrlce in Seattle la standing at 20c. Country Meats Are Firm. - Country killed meats are firm in the Front street market. Hogs are going well at 11c for best offerings, while extra fancy calves are ranging from 14c to 14c. Receipts are quite- fair la the hog trade. Halibut Market Firmer. There was considerable strength in the market for halibut In the whole sale trade. Best borings were firmly eld at 10c a pound, a substantial ad vance over previous figures. Salmon remains firm at former figures. Apple Trade Continues flood. While the , tales of apples in tbe . wholesale market do not reach . the MONEY TO LOAN l on farm lands in Union, S Wallowa and Baker S counties. I When youfwant good I SERVlCE,jCALL 1 JONES Transfer Co. Large Wagons - Goody Horses Careful Men! f n i LetJUs Protect by putting your plumbing in first-class sanitary con dition, connecting it to sewer so i will pass all sani - , tary laws. Licensed Plumbers BAY & Complete Equipment'Jor -'.. Rubber Buggy Tires t A GRANDE IRON WORKS D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor ' COUPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY ' grand totals of last week, the move- ment Is considered very tavoranie sua I far better than the trade had anu pted. : ..-" ' Eggs have touched the low point of the 'year, and. retailers are generally I selling the best ranch stock, at 25c ' dozen to ' consumers. This Is . the time of the year . when cold storage operations start, therefore It Is the I general rule tor prices to go to the bottom. . , . - ' ' There has been a gradual Improve ment In the quality of eggs that are being offered to consumers. Former ly It was the rule for anything In the shell to be sold as good eggs, but this Is no longer possible, owing to . the activity of the pure food Interests. Eggs are now one of the cheapest foods In the market, but tbe public has scarcely recognized . the fact Prices have been so low for such an extended period that they have not yet acquired the taste for the hen prod'ict. ' Mlllloni of dollars' worth of eggs .are annually stored in the United 'States during the latter part of March and April. The latter Is gen erally considered tfie""most favorable i month for storage, because not only Is the production greater then, but the quality is better. Only the beat eggs are placed In storage because It does not pay to put In Inferior stock. Tbe loss Is too great. Some Interest put eggs In storage during the hot weather months, but they seldom make a success of this, because the stock Is not first class when It Is put In the ice houses, because of Its over- TOU JITJST TBI OH GOSSARD CORSET TO EEALIZE WHY IT EXCELS If you are in need of a corset phone Red S221. and I will call and give yoa a trial fitting. A complete line of all new spring models on band. Prices $3.50, $5.00, $6.50 and $8.50. Mrs. Robt. Pattison rhnne Red M1 CORSETTEEE Your Health ZWEIFEL LA GRANDE Resetting andRtpairing heated condition, therefore caunot be any better when withdrawn from storage. On the Pacific coast storage opera' tlons start earlier than In the oast, because the season Is more advauoJ California always stores Its eggs from two to three weeks earlier than eiii.e. Oregon or Washington, because of the earlier season there. Before being placed In stor-.ce every egg Is carefully selected, it Is "candled", to see that It is first Class, and Is then put Into new 'cases so that there can be no contamination from dirt' In old cases. Tbe candling pro- cezs consists of placing an eqg In front of a very strong electric lUht or candle. A fresh egg Is transparent therefore the older stock Is quickly discovered. After being placed In case, the eggs are then taken to the ice houses. The room they are stored In Is kept at a certain temperature but not so cold that tbe stock will freeze. After the market . becomes short of fresh eggs and prices at! vance, then the eggs are taken fiom the storage places. They are recac died and the poor stock placed on o-.e side and the better quality on anoth er. Only the latter are as a rule sold to consumers. Nine months Is the full limit that eggs can be kept In storage and with drawn In a marketable . condltiou. After six months, however, the deter ioration is so great that the stock Is no longer considered first class. Hereafter It will be unlawful to sell cold storage eggs as fresh stock, or even ranch' stock. The law . will be strictly enforced, according to offi cials. Contrary to some beliefs, the cold storage egg Is at times Is better in quality than the so-called fresh stock. This Is during the heated season, when It Is impossible to gath er them quickly enough v to stop de terioration. ' Rhubarb is now coming to market in abundance, and tbe price is going down. iMbst of the stock is coming from California, and Is selling retail at 12 ',4c a pound. Hothouse stock from local places Is still coming, but It Is quoted slightly higher.' s It was not many years ago that to matoes couldn't be secured all year in the local market. Now they can be had any time. Some specially fancy stock Is now being offered from Mex ico and Is selling at 10c a nound Buy a sack of potatoes at a time. because that Is the only way to Bave money. Good stock can now be se cured In the grocery at 75c a sack In fact some sell It cheaper. While there are some good oranges in tbe market, most of them are more or less frost kissed. The best are selling around 30 to 40 c a dozen, but the smaller sizes may be obtained from 20 to 25c. The1 latter are theJ most popular. The local market quotations are: Floor, Feed and Grain. , Wild Hay (retail) $12.00, Timothy $15.O016.0O. ' Alfalfa hay $13.00 (retail). ' Shorts $1.45 per cwt Oats $1.60 per cwt Bran $1.25per cwt Rolled Oats $1.50 per cwt Rolled barley $1.45 cwt Blue Stem flour $1.40 sac7:. Patent $1.30 sack. . White Quarts $1.40 sack. Snowdrift $1.40 sack. Fruit ttu Home grown apples 75c $100 a box. Oranges 25Q60c. Bananas iOc per dos. Pineapple 20c and 25c, stse. Grape fruit 1015c. Sugar Fruit sugar, retail (cash) $7.70; same grade 30 days, $6.10. Beet sugar, cash $5.50; thirty days, $5.60. YrtaMee and sflseellaneens. Onions $2.00 cwt email lots 2V4c lb. Potatoes 50c per cwt Beans White, S t-lc: lt.se, 10 eeate Radishes 2 batches lie. Cabbage 2c.. Spinach J lbs. for 25c. Celery 15c bunch straight (Pom grown 16a) Heney 26o. S lbs. fer See. Green peppers 20c lb. Squas-Jc lb. Turnips 24c lb. Earn aed Bettor. Freeh ranch egg 25c. Butter Fancy creamers'. 45 cents. 1 lb. roll; 2 lb. roll. 85c. Hanoh bwttec I lb. rell 25c; 2 lb. roll 70cO75. Cattle Choice $8.60. Common I6.50OC.75. Oowa, toe K.TtOI.M. Fancy light cowe $8.0006-25. Heavy calves $4.0601.61 cwt, Fancy light calves 701c. Begs. i Best light $8.15 Medium light $8.10. ' Best heavy $8.00. Rough and heavy $5.7506.00. Sheep. Bes: Iambs $6.6 cwt Ordinary lambs $6.66 9 15 cwt Poor lambs 4)4.6 ewt , Best yearlings $5.2 ewt Yearlings $4 J ewt Ewes $4.6604 JS. Few! and atiseeUaaeeM. Ducks, dressed. 18c. - . - Geese Dressed 18c. HOW SHE SOLVED IT By EDITH V. ROSS , "Tbe servant question T remarked lira. Tldball to Mrs. Stratbniore. "Talk about the cost of Uvlngf It's not to be Mpokeuif In tbe same breath as ' the servant question. And tbe trusts! What do 1 care about their extortion when I can't get a servant without paying her double wuut 1 used to pay? And she won't stay with me anyway!" 'It's tbe universal experience.' re plied Mrs. Strathniore. ' "I'm having the same trouble." . 'When I found 1 couldn't use white or black servants," continued Mr.' lid- ball, "1 thought I'd try yellow. So 1 got a Chinese cook, who was highly' recommended by the employment agent , who sent him to me. , 1 thought that coming from tbe Celestial king dom far away on the other aide of tbe globe, where bis class are very poor and must live on mice and such things, he would be In clover at $25 a month, with as good focd as tbe market af fords, notwithstanding roast beef Is north nearly Its weight In gold. But I found that je bad come over to make money In order that be might go back home to feed on tbe more expensive diet of kittens, and nothing but bis wages In dollars and cents counted with blm. What do you suppose be did when I paid blm bis first wages Why, be said I bad agreed to pay him $30 a month, and when 1 demurred, although tbe dfbner was to 'be pre pared, be wild: 'Kelly good. I go to 'not her place where I get $30.' " 'How provoking!" sympathized Mrs. Strathniore. Weil, there wasn't any use to begin back where I had started with white help and run through tbe races to tbe Chinese, so I must stick to tbe yellow. determined to 'fight It out on this line if It tj;es all summer' and told the employment agent to send me an other Chinaman. He sent me a mild eyed man, who looked as Innocent as dre. though not tbe some ' color. He went into tbe kitchen, cooked an excellent dinner, asked me for a small advance on his wages, which I was silly -enough to give him. and the next morning. !::- riif: ximnds below, I went d vi :n-(i round tbe fire gone out tu We kitcueu and not a sign of breakfast My man bad departed with his advanced pay." What a miserable creature." put In the listener to the tale of woe. 'I was obliged to make a fire my self and get breakfast Luckily I bad learned to cook before I was married my daughter shall learn to cook If worth a million and I got up a break fast whlcb I had paid the Chinaman to get I thought that it would be better to keep on getting It myself without paying some one else to do It tor me. but my husband objected, and. since I hadn't yet got through with the yel low peril. I railed on the employment man for another cook. He didn't say anything, but be looked surly, and I knew well enough be was thinking that I didn't treat my servants kindly. But 1 smothered my anger and paid for another servant "This one remained with me two days, got up excellent meals, and I was congrntutnllW myself that at last I had found a treasure when, on the second day. he paralyzed me by giv ing me notice that be was going to leave me. "For heaven's sake, I exclaimed. why do you go? Why does every Chinaman who Is sent me goT 'He bealtated. and I urged blm. Fi nally he said: ' 'You no pay Chinaman.' "Don't pay? The last man I bad I advanced bis wages, and be MX nie without even working out what I had paid blm.' "The man shrugged hi shouMer "Tell me why you think I lnnt pay my servant their wares?" I uroM. "He went to the kltrheii tndle. turn ed It uplde dvn. H?nt there mi fol lower side of the rtonrrt In red chalk were Chinese elm rni tei "'now did they wmie there?" I k ed. "What do they mean?" "'You oo ny rhlnioitii He write that to tell oilier Ciilpniiieii.' nas tile reply. "A lliht litvke iu ,.M!i mi iu:lo brain. "7sa w&stA a'Chinaman'To work for me. thinking the Chlneee In nocent of tbe ways of western serv ants, and. heboid, be bsd gone far be- i yond them In shrewdness! He had de- : manded more than I bad agreed to pa? ' and. wben I refuned blm. not only left me with tbe dinner uncooked, but left behind blm a fain statement 1 " Translate If I kuIuV "This lady belly bad. She no pay ages' "After arguing with the man a long bile I induced him to remain with me oa condition that I pay dully, but he was Kitlxfled that the swludllng was on tbe otliei xlde and preferred to get bis wugnt jit tne eud of the month Bnt wben be wa advised by a friend that he i-oiild get more at another place he left me. " "Slue then I bnve been trying all sorts of expedients. I endeavored tc get a jrlrl for the afternoon and even- i Ing. to sleep in ber on borne. Tbus ! far I've not bud a single hlte for tbis ; plan. I've considered giving up hoUHe- j keeping and tbe comforts of borne, but my husband and children could not en- ' dure boarding. I have finally decided to plod on as I am. indeed, there are j advantage In doing one's own work.. We have onr bouse to ourselves, bave oo fear of disasters In tbe kitchen, and It Is mot ti less expensive." . BULLS IN PARLIAMENT. The Welcome 8ound That Cheered Lord Balfour of Burleigh. It would be hard to say which of England's two bouses of legislature "t-kes tbe cuke" for committing bowl en., and still more difficult to pick out the member who has taken pride of place In tbls respect during recent years. But perbaps for simple effec tiveness Lord Balfour of Burleigh would be burd to beat when be suitl, 'The noble lord shakes his bead, and i am glad to hear It!", ' Another noble lord during a debate on Indian affairs exclaimed: Talk of tbls as a loan to India! It Is a flea bite Is the ocean!" Nevertheless It stands to reason tt at tbe lower bouse Is more prolific In quantity. If not in quality, In its stock of howlers than tbe upper, seeing that it baa so many more opportunities. ' Captain Craig, the fl;ry Ulsterman, cooked the following oratorical stew: 'The naked sword Is drawn for tbe fight and never again will tbe black smoke of tbe Nationalists' tar barrels drift on tbe home rule wind to darken the hearts of Englishmen." If any fthing could kill home rule one would think that would. . Sir W. Hart Dyke was criticising tbe standf&g order forbidding peers from speaking during general . elections. Some one bnd quoted Lord Halsbury as doing so. and Sir William solemnly said. "I muat admit that tbe honor able gentleman has gone to the top of the tree and caught a very large flab." London Tit-Bits. Easy. "Henry," she said, "I wish I could organize a society of some kind. It seems to be the only way to secure social recognition in this town." "Weil, why don't you go abead and organize one?" "I can't think of anything that I'm an authority on. If I should organize a drama club some' other woman who knew more about tbe drama than I would butt in utul get herself elected president It would be the same way with suffrage, ethical culture and child study and music. I'm unfortunately not an ' authority on any of these things, and If I got op a society I should, of course, want to be the head of It" . "Well, why. not organize a Browning club? You can pretend to know all about Browning, and tbe other women who pretend to know all about htm won't know whether you're fooling them or not" Chicago Record-Herald. Five Varieties of Salmon. Kamchatka has Ave varieties of salm on cbavitcha (king salmon), krasnaia (red salmon), keta (dog salmon), gor busha (humpback salmon) and klshuteh (sockeye salmon). The ran of cbavitcha begins about May 10 to 20 (old stylo) during the period of spring rains and the overflow of muddy water. They run in large schools, and the run con tinues for several days. The fish, which weigh twenty to twenty-five pounds. Is purely a Kamchatka fish and Is not found In tbe Okhotsk and other districts. Consular and Trade Reports. He Didn't Hush. "Mamma." queried little Willi. "what is 'hush V "Why do you ask, dear!" said his mother. ' "Because." explained the observing urchin, "when I asked sister what made ber hair all mussed after ber beau was here this afternoon she aM. 'Hush, dear.' "Chicago News. Deadlier and Safer. "Let's send the czar a bomb conceal ed In plum pudding." "Why not merely send him a plum pudding?" suggested the other callous plotter, "if he eats It our work I done and we ruu oo risks." Louisville Courier Jonrnnl. YMI Mtf CURE THAI BAGKAliric. Piinalous lh hc. U'lM". ll f"l iMMimr. Ul packiMi ' WUr .rS Alio-MATIC-ltKAy, iu piautot rt mu hb oir for si I Kjdor, Bladder wl Ury troabU hm on tnl HI rao down, tlr.it. wmk sod without new w thti rauifctbl (ombmuJon of tutor. karbr and wrts. Aa a tonic laiatlw It huaatoml. Mother Gray Aromatie-lx' l old by ljrni iaorarnlhTaUoreta. SaniSa awt FKJCX. AdiiM, Tbe Mother Gray Co., la lluy, H. I. I l WANT , : BRING RESULTS n FOR SAL&100 quarts of fruit 1662 Oak St Phone Black 8752. -ll-3t FOR RENT OR SALE A new med , em house for cash er terms. 1366 W avenue.' Phone Red 8881. 8-8-tf ! FOR BALB Plane. I Phone Red 1232. MT tents. THREE FINS LOTS Oe. Washington aveame, 50x110. Each priced $t7l.0 . per tot. . Terms If desired. Address "T," care Observer. Ne agents. . 2-22-ot WANTED Clean, rags at the Observ ' er office. Pay 2c per lb. 1-16-tf FOR RENT CHEAP 2 small homes with 1-4 acre of ground, 1 . block from shops, furnished or anfurnlsh ed. Phone Red 1232. Black 257. ; - - - 8-8-tX ' SIGHTLY LOT Faolac north. Orsr looking the 'entire valley. 31se ' 66x116. Price $666.66. Ne street -assessments. Easy terms. Ad drese "R.L.," Observer. 2-28-tf GOOD INVESTMENT 2 small houses and eight 80x110 lots on "W" ave nue, close to school. Owner has to leave town, and will glye right price and terms. Address. "F," Ob. server. 2-22 tf DRY WOOD FOR SALE $3.50 per cord. Phone Red 61. 12-21-tf FOR SALE BY OWNER Modern 5 room bouse on North side. Close to. Size of lot 50x116. Price very low.- Term like rent Address "D" Observer. 2-22-tf BOARD AND ROOM 1601 Adams Av. Mrs. O. E. Moore. 3-4-tf COLLECTIONS Bring your harl old collections or any other to roon 9, Newlin drug building. FOR RENT Furnished rooms. Mrs Brltta. S-8-6tp WANTED Girl for tone raj hoeee work. Call Dr. Underwood's el flee. X-Stf PIANO TUNING. Expert work guar anteed. Chas. Berger, P. O. Box 188. -- t-f-St FOR OUfltT House and bam, iwe acres ground. Fifteen dollars per month. Phone Farmers SOS 2-V6t FOR SALE OR TRADB FOR CITY PROPERTY 10 acres of Improved strawberry land at Kennewlck. Wn. Address Box 345, La Grande, Ore. ; 8-7-t FOR SALE 200 egg Incubator in perfect condition; $7.00. Call at Clnb Tailors. Black 1241. S-10-tf FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR HORSBS Five passenger Overland car. U W. Weeks, Imbler, Ore. 3-16-6t IXR RENT Three room house large garden spot Place for chickens On X avenue. Phone Red 192. ' 3-10-tf FOR RENT "Nicely furnished single room. 1311 O avenue. Phone Black sti- J-10-tf FURNISHED ROOMING HOUSE TO rent to right partlee on corner of Sixth and Washington. No chll dren. George Ball. FOR RENT Five room furnished bouse to right parties. Phone Black . S-ll-tf FOR) RENT Three furnished rooms. Phone Red 251. . 3H-tf xoncE, Heng War Oo. have houckt th Hip Ylag Gfceng etere formerly known as Hong Tuck store. LOW YOUNG, TOT SAX WONG LAM, LTB JDt. 1 I .