La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 23, 1913, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextMARKETS tocAi amp state SWEET POTATO LATEST COMER POTI TO H FRESH FRUITS FLOOD LOCAL MARKETS TODAY. Small Shipment of Sweet Potato at . i a Very Reasonable Price. . " """""""" Sweet potatoes at 8 pounds for a quarter. That U the latest arrival in La Grande markets. Big mealy yel low ones, long; thin ones and fat short ones were included, in the first, ship ment this' year, and local dealers are prepared to supply any and all de mands as to size, quality and kind. The shipment of early Crawford peaches which sold at 75 cents the box during; the earlier part of the week are just about exhausted and the price of those in the market now is about 11.25.' Some of the grocers have on dis play this morning an extra fine grade of Payette cantaloupes. The melons are of uniform size and are sweet and juicy. - ' i - - A few gallons of cherries, plenty of apples, peaches, peach plums, grapes, pears and a few berries are in stock at all the stores. 1 BE SET Pflf'ATtfl.Ii HI ITlTfriVi? ta ni?rnn FOR NORTHWEST. Market quotations today are: ,. Fresh ranch eggs SOc. ,'.-. Butter Fancy creamery, 40 cents 1 lb. roll; 2' lb. roll 75. Ranch butter 1 fl. ro)l 30c; 2 lb roll 65c Flour, Hay, Feed. Etc -Wild Hay (retail) 113.00. . Timothy $15.0018.00. : Alfalfa hay $13.00 (retail). ' Oats $1.40 per cwtt Bran $1.15 per cwt Rolled oats $1.50 per cwt. Rolled barley $1.30. I How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be, cured by Ball's : Catarrh Cure. ? P. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last IS years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business triHiBactlons and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. : NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, ' .',;.,. ,: Toledo, O. ' Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting; directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials seat free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take BaU'a Fauily Pills for cosstipstieo. Sub-Agencies of Nrth Pacific Asso . tion to Abide ; At Pocatella, Idaho, August 30th, will be held a meeting for the formal organization of an Idaho potato sub central, and the making of grade and pack rules for the .handling of pota toes. l' With an' assurance of 2,000'cars of potatoes from South Idaho, North Pacific fruit distributors for the sea son of 1913, i will handle potatoes in carload lots from any district in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, where the established grade and pack rules are strictly complied with, and where the potatoes are definitely sign ed under contract to a local now or ganized or to be organized in affilia tion with one of the sub-centrals of the distributors. , ...... J. U. McPherson, the present state horticultural commission of Idaho, has been employed ' as general superin tendent of all field operations, and he will be assisted by inspectors working under his direction, and under the same rigid rules that now govern the inspection and handling of fruit This department will- give its time exclus ively to the business of potatoes, and outside of the superintendent, : in spectors and experienced and capable potato salesmen we are now employ ing, will require no additional over head expense in the handling of po tatoes. South Idaho now maintains a high grade and pack on potatoes because potato growing there in many places is an exclusive and serious business. For this reason and because the sea son is too far advanced to call a meet ing from the four states, the distribu tors will accept for 1913 the rules of crrade and pack which are adopted at the Pocatello meeting. "'X' Blue Stem flour $140. Patent $1.30, .. . ', .. 'White Qaarr $1.40 sack Snowdrift $1.40 sack. Sea Foam 1150. , V Elkhorn flour $1.40. T Vegetables and Miscellaneous. Celery 2 for 25c. -Onions $2.50 cwt., small lots 2 l-2e' Young onions 3 for . 10c. ' , " . FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL ' ' - ,.;..'' OREGON STATE FAIR Salem, Sept. 29-Cct. 4, 1913 ; A whole week of pleasure and profit; $20,000 offered in premiums on Agricultural, Livestock, Poultry, Textile and other exhibits. Horseraces, shooting tournament, fireworks, band concerts, Eu genics exposition, children's playground and other free attractions, in cluding Boyd and Ogle's one ring circus. ' Free Camp Grounds. You are invited. i Send for premium-list and entry blanks ; ' Reduced rates on all railroads." For particulars address J Frank Meredith, Secretary SALEM, OREGON. ' LONE HAND IS COSTLY SO AFFIRMS PORTLAND FRUIT EXPERT. Individual Shipping to Be' Expensive , .-. Experiment, It Stated. . Portland, "Ore., Aug. 23. Troubles are in, sight for those apple growers of tse Pacific northwest, who per sist in playing into the hands of speculative interests by trying to Bell their fruit outside of the regular mar keting interests, who are in a position to secure the widest possible markets and therefore the best values. This is the opinion of shipping experts. Owing to the disastrous effect of last year's marketing of the apple crop, it is stated that quite a few of the growers of the Wenatchee and other districts, intend to "go it alone" , this season. They claim , that their experience with organizations last season was of such nature that they could not afford to duplicate it The fact that those who shipped in dependent of the regular ' organiza tions received far less than those who joined in the selling movement with their neighbors, seems to have, been lost sight of.' Disaster is, therefore, not only threatened to the seceding growers but to all producers if the former carry out their' plans of open competition for business. '" There never was a time when apple men needed good returns from their product as they do at the present time. Last- seasons' experience no matter which way they marketed is one which thej would like to forget with the least possible delay. This year, unless .they persist in ruining the , markets , for the established or ganizations, producers are likely to receive the best prices in years. Only their own bullheadedness can change the situation. The market this season will be en tirely the making of . sellers. If the various organizations are allowed full sway in selling) prices are very likely to be satisfactory but the re verse will undoubtedly be true if pro ducers stampede and fight among one another for the trade. ; There is a big crop of oranges promised in California this Beason, and therefore, it behooves growers, to stand together in their efforts to ob tain the best possible price. ' boil 12V2c; kidneys 8c; kidney aue 12c; sirloin steak 20 to 22e; tenderloin j steaks 25c; T-Bone steaks 25c; rums roasts 18c; round steak 20c; hind quar ter steer 16c; hind quarter cows Me; front quarter steers 14c r6nt quarter cow 13c; Ipg, hnli. dressed 13c; pork loin chops 20o;. pork loin whole 18c comb porK 34c; shoulder pork, whole 13c: link and bulk musses 16c: ham "I burger 15c; steer loins 18c; cow loins 17c: mutton legs 18c: mutton rib chop 20c; mutton loin chops 20; mutton at sho. 15c; mutton stw 121-2c; whole mutton 14c;. half mutton 14c; veal round steak 25c; veal loin cuts 26c; veal rib chops 20c; veal sho. steak 20c; veal stew 15c half veal 16c; smoked ham, whole 22c; brk. bacon, light 25c; brk. bacon sliced 30c; saH pork 18c; sliced ham 25 to 28c; boiled fcuraa 28c; boiled ham sliced 40c; smoked rhosV der 15c; lard 16c; liver 6 to 8c; tongn 15c.; hearts 8c; salmon 20c; hallbu 18c; smelt 10c; ' . '. ii . i. Better Beer LEMP'S BEER ON DRAUGHT Try FALLSTAFF, the King; of all Beer LOTTES BAR 1118 JEFFERSON AVE. New potatoes 2c. Beans- m.-' i-dc: line., 10 cu Cabbage -3c lb. ' - - : Young turnips 5c; 310& Cucumbers field, 5c, 8 for 10. ,' Fresh tomatoes 10c; $1.15 per box. j Stringbeans 3 for 25c. Green corn 20c a dozen. Sweet potatoes 3 lbs. 25c. Frait, Hit. Cherries (home grown) 5c lb. Peaches $1.25 per box. Blackberries $2.25 per crate, dew berries 10c; blackcaps, 2 for 25c. ', Cantaloupes 10c, 3 25c. Watermelons 3c. Grapes (malaga) 15c. Lemons 6 and bOc. Green-apples (home grown) 4c lb. Oranges 35-60-60c. Bananas 40c per dot. . Sugar Fruit sugar, retail (cash) $6.00; same grade 30 days, $6.40. Beet sugar; Cash $5.8Q; thirty days $6.2. "' Honey 20c. i lbs. for 60c. ? Cattle. ' Steers, prime, $7.00$7.35; good to choice, $6.50; common to fair, $4.O0$6.00; "cows, top, $6.00 fair to good, $5.00$5.50; bulls, $3.50 (5$5.00; stags, $4.00$5.00; calves choice, $7.00$8.0O. ' i Sheep. Top weathers, $3:35; fair , to good, $2.25$2.75; ewes, best, $2.50 $3.75; fair to .good, $1.50$2.00 year- ling Jambs, best, $4.60$5.00. Hogs. Best, $7.50$7.85; common to good $6.80$7.00. Chickens. Sprng friers 30c retail dressed. Hens 18c retail. Meat Cuts Retail. Neck boils 121-2 to 15c; brisket poins 12 l-2c; soup bones 6 to 8c; plates 12 l-2c; sho. pot roast 18c; arm cuts 18c; 1st cuts sho steak 15c; good cuts sho steak 18c; prime ribs 16 to 20c; wholesale 16, retail 20c; flank Russians Heavy Drinkers. St. Petersburg, Aug. 23. tSartling protf of the tremendous increase in the consumption of intoxicants in the past ten year's, an J incidentally . of the enormous fmam.al success of the government's liquor monopoly, is pre sented in cf ficial. statistics publish d today in connection vnth the new bud get.,'. The liberal oreas calls it, "the drunken budget". The annual Bale i f ulool.o! is rih d l have grown from t .1,000,000 p.)llo:is to 240,000,000 gal Ions, and it is vMinuted that in th current year the 1 1. 1 al income front this source 'vill te ' $400,000,000 r mere thnn one-fourth the entire rev. etnue of the empire. ' , When the government monopoly of the sale of spirits was esetablithed in 1895; it was confined at first to four governmental departments but within a decade it has been gradually extended to the whole of Russia with the exception of a half dozen of the smaller outlying provinces.- Since the establishment of this system the gov ernment has sold to the people., of Russ:i nearly three billion gallons of vodka alone, and sociologists 'agree that the amazingjn-e valence of drunk enness and crime among the lower classes is attributable almost solely to this fact At the time, the govern ment piously announced that in tak ing over' the liquor business it was ac tuated less by the hope of financial advantage than by moral and hygien ic considerations. . They said the priv ate saloon keepers; were ruining the people and that the government must step in and prevent so much intemper ance. ,':' .' " . . The result has been 'Just what. op ponents .of the ,. project, predicated-r-systematic alcoholization of the Rus sian people. . Graphic illustration of -the system was furnished in the re cent official inquiry among school children of Ekaterinodar. Out of 6,- 721 pupils it was Ranted that 63 per cent drank. Of these 25 per cent hod taken to drink at the age of eight; 20 per cent at the age of seven, and U per cent at the age cf six, while many were found who had been, supplied a steady diet of vodka at four years of age.' - ;' : v-,,.r. A recent medical congress here ascribed the alarming spread of men tal diseases among all classes to ex cessive use of intoxicants, and the of ficial journal of the ministry of jus tice admits that "the general connec tion of alcoholism and criminality among the masses is becoming evi dent." Figures, are given showing that .in districts where the consump tion of spirits is above the average, there is always an increase in crime. The apalling increase of suicide also is attributed to the government's sys tematic alcoho'ization of the empire, it being-almost in direct ratio to the rale'to intoxicants. . In the past ten every million to 35. In larger cities evry million to 35. In' larger cities the figures are even more striking. In Moscow in the past six years the num ber of suicides has quadrupled, and in St. Petersburg it has increased from five in every 10,000 inhabitants to 16.4. More than 300 public school children who are allowed to buy intox icants because the government sells them, took their own lives last year. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the firm of Clark-SnooW Produce Cq. is this day dissolved' by mutual consent, D. M. Clark, retiring from said form. All account owing said firm will be collected by Mr. Snook and all bills of the firm will be paid By Mr. Snook. Dated Lu Grande, Oregon, August 19th,. 1913. W. D. Adv. SNOOK, CLARK. 8-19 Notice Special Stockholders' Meeting. Notice is hereby given to tfte Stock holder of the Grande Ronde Reservoir Co. that there is a special stockhold ers' meeting ealfed for Saturday, Sep tember 20, 1913, at 2:80 p. m. at the Commercial crab rooms, for the pur pose of asking the stockholders to. instruct the direction to tell or dispose of the company's property and also for dissolution of the corporation! ' . By order of the board of directors. GEO. STODDARD, Vice President FRED J. HOLMES, , ., Secretary Pro Tern. Aug 19 lmo. , , Adv. the city of La Grande, Oregovu the construction of hail surface paw-. munt, together with gradipg aal drainage, as follows; ' On the alley be block 106, . CnaplinV addStfo, SGS square yard? of paving, same tavfc constructed according to the plan sad specifications on file in this All bids to be in by 8 o'clock p.-1 September 3rd, 1913,. and" accoa by a certified check for 5 per cent afT" the amount bid. The eounciT rtBssrwjsj the right to reject any and all Sadte. La Grande, Oregon, August 2Iafc. 1913. LEEWARNIC3C Aug 22, 5t '. Adv. City Kecordnav NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. ' Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the council of NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. . Notice is hentbv riven that bids will be received t the council T the city of La Grande, Oregoss, ftar. the construction of a concrete nsw. voir, estimated cost la (flvmjtju Fourteen Thousand Dollars, saaa te be constructed accordiig to tte sSsass nd specifications on file in thi l.a All KM, n K tn . S --- -- iv vs mffMtf w Bfr u if W svasssssiissss. p, mn sepiemner ora, xvia, ana ssb--companied by a certified check fir S per (yent of the amount bid. Tire eassjs. cil reserves the rigRt to reject angr and all bids. . La Grande, Oregon, August flat,' 1913. LEE WARNICK. Aug 22, 6t Adv. aty ! Don't Overlook This You can cook on your ELECTRIC IRON by using the UTILITY . . HOLDER; Costs but 25 cents and enables you to invert your flat lros ' , into an efficient heater, useful for many purposes. - After the current.: r 1b shut off from the Iron the heat will remain in It for long time ', keeping anything hot that you may place upon it..' It warms' diM: baby's milk, keeps the sharing water hot and often saves you builaV -. ing a fire in your. Range. Better get one today. :- , ' :( , Don't forget if your house ia not wired that for a small: nay ment down you can have it wired todae. If you have not investigated" : this liberal offer, phone us and our Representative will call." Mtaj ;ji have taken advantage of this why not you? - Phor.s Main 34. ' 1 ... 'i : Eastern Oregon Light and Power Co- Always at Your Service . , Irregular Kidney Action. Just as soo nas kidney and blad der irregularities occur,' whether the urine is too frequent, too , scanty, is burning, or leaves a full feeling in the bladder, then you have a warning that should start you at once to taking Fol ey Kidney Pills. You need them, and they are a strong and pure medicine that will help you at once. Try them. a at Bargains in Real Estate i 820 Acres 60 acres under cultivation. Small patch oil alfalfa, abeo - 135 peach trees,, some applespears etc., 208 acre good lanVca .i be cultivated. One half million feet of saw timber on place and four good springs. All fenced.'' Rural route by door,, telephone : i line near house. Will trade for a residence in La Grande wovtb ..... from $1500.00 to $1800.00. Balance part cash, and will take a: . mortgage for security on other half, or will sell tutight;. andJ , will take $2500.00 down and mortgage on balance. . Six roomeiV '.v house partly finished. ? --,(.:',. Three 'and Three-Eighths Ajres At Union, Oregon, all fenced; Un- ; der good cultivation, some alfalfa, some potatoes and-garden, cow pasture, good seven-roomed house with nice hall, rock r cellar, good barn, chickei. house and 'other outbuilding!)..' Thi place is adjoining the city of Union, Oregon. Will trade for some good property in La Grande, i Price $3600. y ;'""-'''" 208 Acres Three miles east, of city of La Grande. " 60 acres in fall - wheat, 25 acres in spring grain, 80 acres in alfalfa, balance in pasture, but some more of it can be cultivated. 50 shares cf water right in the La Grande Irrigation Ditch. . Small orchard two years old. Four-roomed house, good cellar, good shed, bar. Halfvof the crop harvested goeswith the place. There is a mortgage on this property for $3700 which can run yet for f oui years at 8 per cent interest.' Can be assumed or paid oif. Price $70.00 per acre, terms to be arranged on balance of payments We have four five-roomed modern houses, close in on the north side of the railroad track. Will sell either one of them for $2560 each on terms of $200 down and $20 per month. , - , 4 lots 60x110 feet each, beautiful . modern home of seven fim'sned . rooms and two more may be finilhed.. Good cement cellar un der house. ' Fine barn with lights and water, will ' hold three head of horses, one cow, buggy and five tons of hay. Private garage adjoining. ' Place .is all connected with sewerage; A . splendid bearing orchard on lots, cherries, .apples, pears, . peaches, plums, apricots and splendid strawberry patch. Beau tiful lawn and shade trees. ' Situated on M street near High School. Price $5000.00 ".' . tm C. J. BLACK & COMPANY I