La Grande evening observer., April 21, 1913, Image 7

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1913.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
PAGE SEVEa
The United States
National Bank
: I Stands among the foremost in the state in pro
, portionate increases since its organization
1 YOUR ATTENTION
ti. e t-n llta f -Jlsvurinrr rnmnara.
H to vaiibu iu uiv tvuvTf nig vuuiuiw
tive statement:
Commenced business January 11, 1909.
Total resources April 4, 1909.v . $249,527.23
Total resources April 4, 1910
Total resources April 4, 1911
Total resources April 4, 1912
Total resources April 4, 1913
N. K. WEST, President
T. J. SCROGGIN, Cashor.
Board of Directors.
T. K. West, Wm. Miller, T. J. Scroggia, H. E. Coolidge, A. T. Hill,
C. T. Bacon, J. F. Conley, J. L. Caviness, Judge J. C. Henry.
Complete Equlpmenfjor Resetting and Repairing
Rubber Buggy Tires
LA GRANDE IRON WORKS
D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor
COMPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY
The Royal Neighbors of America
will call a special meeting, Friday,
Aprl IS, at 2 o'clock p. m., at the
I. O. O. F. hall to transact Important
BUY and PLANT
ROSE
BUSHES
THIS WEEK
5000
Cabbage Plants
NOW READY
La Grande Seed and
Flnrctl Cnmnnnu
OPPOSITE SOMMHB H0CSE
rVENAHA LUMBER COMPANY
386,064.59
393,220.22
526,454.82
560,074.34
WM. MILLER, Vice President
H. E. COOLIDGE, Asst. Cashier.
business. Every members presence
Is requested.
Cora Fitzgerald, Oracle.
Minnie Ktamell. Recorder. 4-16-2t
When You Are Plan
ning to Build
remember that our sMngles, sash
es, doors, flooring and other lum
ber are recognized In this com
munity as thoroughly trustworthy
and high grade, and that we do not
make a practice of over-charging. -We
bought our present stock wben
lumber was lower in price.
it
II
OK W HERE
LOCAX WHOLESALERS; EXPECT
SHIPMENT DAILY.
Sugar Goes Down 20 ('ems In Face o(
Free Sugar Tariff.
New potatoes are expected in La
Grande by local wholesalers any day.
The shipment Is already due, but
every (rain Is watched with antlcpa
tlon of recelvng the first oona'gnmput
of 1913 potatoes. The prces are not
ascertained, but will probably be
around 10 cents a pound.
Sugar Prices Down.
Notwithstanding that the wholesale
markets of the country are quoting
tonsderable strength In sugar :n the
face of free sugar tariff, the prices
went down this morning 20 cents on
a 100 lb. sack. All grades sank ac
cordingly but sugar Is going up It Is
believed, and that soon too. Lemons,
are a shade hgher with an even tone
In other commodities.
The local market quotations are:
Eggs ana Baton.
Fresh ranch eggs Selling at no.
bought at 22V4c
Butter Fancy creamery, 40 cents 1
lb. roll; 2 lb. roll, 75c.
Ranch butter 1 lb. roll 33c j 2 lb.
roll 60665c.
TCgeubiea and aTlieellaiteeas. .
Onions $2.00 cwt, small Iota 2 Ho
lb.
Toung onions Ec
Potatoes 60o per cwt.
Beans White. ( l-c: Una, ie eat
! Radishes (Callforala grown) Be.
Cabbage 2 He.
Spinach 3 lbs. for 25c.
- Frolt, El-
Home grows apples 80c.
Oranges 3S60c.
Bananas 40c per dot.
Grape fruit 2 for 26c.
Sugar Fruit sugar, retail (cash)
$5.50; same grade 30 days $5.90.
Beet sugar, cash $5.50; thirty days,
5.90.
Lemons 45 and 50c.
Celery (California) 15c; 2 for 2oc.
Honey 20c. 3 lbs. for 50c.
Green peppers 20e lb.
Turnips 2c lb. , ' :
Asparagus lac.
Rhubarb 3 lbs. for 23c.
Green peas (CaU 20c, 2 for 35c.
Fowl and Miscellaneous.
Ducks, dressed. 18c.
Geese Dressed 18c
Wild Hay (retail) $12.00.
Timothy $15.0016.00.
Alfalfa hay $12.00 (retail).
Snorts 1.40.
Oats $1.50 per cwt '
Bran $1.25per cwt.
Rolled Oats $1.50 per cwt
Rolled barley $1.35.
Blue Stem flour $1.41.
Patent $1.30.
White Quarts $1.40 sack.
Snowdrlfti $1.40 sack.
Sea Foam $1.20.
Cattle
Choice steers $6.65.
W
Factory Representative
will be in La Grande shortly to close agency for the best and most complete
line of ' '
AUTOMOBILES
now on the American market. It is the BEST ADVERTISED, BEST
KNOWN AND BEST SELLING line now before the public and includes both
Pleasure Cars and Trucks
If interested write immediately to the
Northwest Auto
617 Washington St., Portland Oregon.
Common 9S.60O6.7S.
Cows, top 65.00. '
Fancy light cows 66.00O6.2S. I
Heavy calves $4.0006.50 ewk
Fancy light calves IS. 6 8.
fists.
Beet llghr-68.66. .
Medium light $8.56.
Best heavy $8.60.
Rough and heavy $5.7506.00.
Slice j i
Best yearlings $6.607.60.
V tailings $4.80 cwt
Ewes $4.004.25.
BASEBALL GOMES
HIGH THIS YEAR
Major League Magnates Boost
Prices of Admission.
VERY FEW 25 CENT SEATS.
Grand Stand Prices Going Up, and Mo
gula Blame It on the High Cost of
Everything Else Game a Gambia
For Magnate, Say Foster.
By TOMMY CLARK.
Wben "Charlie Ebbets, president of
tbe Urooklyu club, made bis little
speech on tbe high cost of baseball, In
connection with bis new $700,000 base
ball stadium In Brooklyn, he lnadvert
entiy. perhaps, started Ore of Indig
nation among the fans, which has been
smoldering for a couple of years. Eb
bets says tbe price of baseball Is going
np, makes no bones about It and Inti
mates that the fans must foot tbe bills.
In other words, they will be taxed
more for seats which formerly cost
tbem from 20 to 00 cents less. The
Dodgers' owner explains this by say
ing players' salaries have Increased
and everything else has gone np too.
In mapping out a plan of recouping
Ebbets Iihh derided that there'll be
fewer twenty-five cent bleachers at bis
new stadium, a raise of 00 cents in the
price of box seats besides and a small
er number of fifty cent seats. Ebbets.
however. Isn't alone in the movement
to raise tbe prices, for supporters of
the Athletics In Philadelphia have seen
their cbeup bleachers replaced by
grand etiind extensions, and Boston
rooters ulso have bad their twenty-five
cent seats decreased In numbers.
The Giants', management, too. hivs
felt compelled to stretrli the Ki'iuid
stand lilt bltfhiT prices, of i-oursel i
around both siili-s, mid i!ie old time
blencherlte linn Imh'H ' st . :;c'.i!y pushed J
further mviiy from tbe lnnne plute.
While the luitlinll publie lets nut i
long mid riuuoux yelm of protest :
againxt the liierensel mst of the nil- ,
tlomil niort. the uiiiguuien are einphiit- i
ic ill declaring thut higher prices ciin't ,
be helped.
The situation that confronts the mag
nates Is made known by John B. Fos
ter, secretary of the New York Base
ball club, who has been Identified with
the diamond game for twenty-five
years.
"The baseball public little realizes
tbe tremendous cost of baseball," said
Secretary Foster, dlscnsslug tbe pend
ing movement to raise the admission
I charges in some cities. "Big crowds are
seen at the Polo grouuds. and tbe fans
get. tbe. idea, that fortune are made
oreruigbt In tbe game. But tbe profits
ire not so great wben. say. that out of
s crowd of 2U.0OO probably 2.000 are
deadhead.
"RuHeball owners, like other people,
bar been forced to sit back and see
expenses steadily climb during tbe past
twenty year. Take one item alone,
placer' salaries. Men tike Matbewson,
Cobb and Wagner are paid any way
from 25 to 40 per cent more than tbe
slant of the Brotherhood days. Tbe In
crease in tbe wages of tbe average ran
of players I much more. A player get
tins; $1,000 twenty year back was
thought to be well paid, but the same
man today Is receiving two and three
thousand dollars. - Even the minors
have cut In on the higher scale with
an Increase of 2." kt cent In their
salaries.
"To carry a team throuKb a season
now requires tbe services of nearly
twenty-seven men. In tbe old days
fourteen and even twelve players were
deemed sufficient Tbe raise in play
ers' wages began wben tbe Americsn
I league was created snd the resultant
I keen competition with the National
league. Teams started to bid against
I each otber for star players, with tbe
result that now many are paid bank
' presidents' salaries. Back in 1880 a
team's franchise could be purchased
J for uboiit &ir.(K)0. but that sum would
hardly buy two players of the Cobb
' and Mathewson type now.
I "Along with that of the players tbe
; wages of umpires and other officials
were lucreaseu 00 and 100 per cent
Then to take up another Item of ex
pense that of transportation. " It costs
about 200 per cent more to send teams
around the country now than It did in
tbe days before the interstate railroad
laws went Into effect Arriving at a
hotel, a baseball manager finds that it
costs $5.00 a day to bouse each mem
ber of bis team. Hotel arrangements
were vastly different in tbe old days.
"Tbe greatest cost, however, that
was jaddled on tbe magnates was the
building of the great stadiums in New
York. Philadelphia. Cincinnati, Cleve
land. Pittsburgh. Boston and Brooklyn.
The fans became very high toned In
their tastes and wanted only their
stands constructed of Iron and steel.
Naturally all this costs a great deal of
money. '
"Thin burden proved too heavy, and
the Philadelphia Amerlcap League
club shortly after tbe beautiful Sblbe
park was completed was forced to
abolish tbe twenty-five cent seats.
TbI move was taken notwithstanding
tbe fact tbnt the Athletics have bad
champion tennis since 1008 and Phila
delphia Is a good baseball city. While
the tlT-fes were never given ont. It is
believed that tbe Philadelphia club Just
barely mnde expenses during this pe
riod." In Private.
As be started out with tbe boshel of
ashes be walked Into a clothes line tbat
He didn't see.
Wiieii lie bad picked himself out of
t h- uiIi pile und recovered bis but be
k.i i in the buck yard and relieved bis
f.l'll'itf '
, "Henry."' called bis wifa
Well?" he suapped.
I n t stand out there to do It Come
K'nilL'Mt into tbe bouse and tell me
' thut It's all my faulf-Detroit
Free
Press.
Straight at It
There Is no use of our "beating
around the bush." We might as well
out with ltn ret as iaut. We want
yon to try Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy the next time you have a cough
or cold. There Is no reason so far as
Co.
wt can see why yon should not do
os. This preparation tj Its remark
able cures has gained a world wide
reputation, and people everywhere
speak of it in the highest terms of
prlase .It Is for sale by all dealers.
S. ADS
BRING
.'RESULTS
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FOR RENT Large furnished .viu.
Suitable for two. Dr. Darland. 4-9-tf
FOR RENT Two modern live room
bouses with bath and pantry.
Phone Red 3381. 1221 W. Avenue.
4-3 1 month.
WANTED Two or three furnished
rooms' for light housekeeping or '
small furnished boose. Address P.
O. Box 37. ' 4-6-tf
WANTED Boy to learn cigar trad
Takes three years to learn. Must
board at home. Fam Us King Cigar
Factory. 4-8-tf
See Wheelwright about your con
crete work. Call Observer. 4-6-tf
FOR SALE Early Rose seed poU
! toes. Also . do garden plowing.
Phone Red 621. A. O. Hennas.
4-8-lmo.
FOR GliENT Small house furnished
or unfurnished. One block from
shops- - Call Red 1232. 4-11-tf
WANTED Partner in greenhouse)
business. More business than I
can successfully handle alone. For
. particulars apply at greenhouse. A.
B. Cherry. 4-11-tf
FOR RENT Furnished housekeep
ing rooms. Phone Black 392 or call
130.1 O avenue. 4-3-15t
FOK SALE CH K AP 11 ores and run
about. Inquire Dr. Underwood.
4-11-tf
BOARD AND 'ROOM Mrs. M. Green.
1325 T avenue. Itiona Black 11.
4-12-tf
HOUSE FOR KENT,
storo
-Inquire OMdes
-1S-fit
WANTED Lace
curtains to
do up.
4 19 tr
Call Red 581.
GARB AO hi HAULED Phone Black
721. Prompt service. 4-16-tf !
WANTED Chauffeur with A 1 reN
erences wants position to drive and !
keep In repair Automobiles. J. E ;
Sherman, Hot Lake, Oregon, Box. 270. 1
, -. 4 18 Ct'
XR RENT Store bulldng, corner of J
Adams and Fir. Inquire S. R. Ha- '
worth, 101 Fir Ct 4-14-M '
FOR SALE Early Ohio seed potatoes ;
La Grande Investment Co. 4-14-t?
FOR SALE Huosehold furuiture. O.
Muelenburg. Man City 4-14- ti
EGGS FOR HATCHING At reason- :
, able prices, from thoroughbred.
Premium stock, none better. Black ,
and Buff Orpingtons, Ot. I. Reds.
Barred Plymouth Rocks, Indian
Runner ducks, Fawn and White,';
Blue Ribbon winners. Can spare t
few eggs from this pen. Choice) ;
' cockerels of earn variety for sale. ,
Chi. K. Perry, 131 5 Jackson vs.
,nr ?-2V wMy 4-4 11 I . .j
FOR SALE Team, good horses,
weltfrt about 2,000. 1208 First St.
4-ie-tf
FOR SALE Piano.
Cash Bazaar.
See Mrs.
4-1 6-t
FOR
plants.
SALE Hoodriver
2105 Adams Ave.
strawberry
4-1S-12t-
FOR SALE OR TRADE
cheap. Phone Black 721.
Wlmll?
4- Mt
.YWiSri Students at the North.
vifEtcrn rehool of Chiropractic. No. 4.
Depot street. 4 18 tt '
FOR SALE Shorthorn
B'rk.'hlrc Boars. G. O.
Grande. Ore.
Bul! m
Twl,
1 17
FOR PPNT-Housekccplng
for man nd wife only. Call
ngs. 1"U Porrrxl litft.
roo.
mo
18
!8 tf
WANTED Girl tnr general
work. Phone M 78.
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