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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, PAGE TWO CORN SIUGE MUCH 0 FORMER BOOSTER. Chas. Tullis Find Hay Will Do Aa Well and la Cheaper. Pendleton, Dec. 24. That alfalfa silage is not a success such as he an ticipated and that the feeding of al falfa hay will bring just as good re sults as the silage is the belief of Charles Tullis, local dairyman, who erected a silo on his place last sum mer and has been feeding alfalfa ail. age this winter. He believes that corn silage will be good, however, and is planning to put up corn next summer if he can secure land on which to raise the corn, day. "We put our silage up properly is not profitable," said Mr. Tullis to "I am convinced that alfalfa silage and I have been told that it is all right. But it seems to do little goou. I don't believe it is any better than feeding hay and I am not going to put up any more alfalfa silage unless I can be guaranteed better results than I have had so far." -According to Mr. Tullis he was not Of Course your turkey was nice and tender, but how about a nice ham? We have Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon. Buckwheat Cakes and Maple Syrup ... Full line of Fruits and Vegetables.1, The City Grocery and Bakery E. POLACK, Proprietor. or v Your Eye Specialist will tell you that the ideal light for sew ing or reading is the soft mellow light of a good oil lamp. The Rayo is em phatically a good oil lamp scientifically constructed to provide the maximum of correct light, and proved good by years of satisfactory service in every civilized country of the world. Lamps No glare; no flicker. Easy to light and care for. Inexpensive and econo mical, but the best light at any price. Ask Your Dealer For The Rayo Standard Oil Company (California) . PORTLAND . Jbrl resultrN use Pearl Oil, advised by agricultural experts to try alfalfa silage but he saw no reason why it should not be good and so gave it a trial. The only people hi has found insisting on the value of alfalfa silage have been men who are in the business of ' selling silos. Even those men all are not advising alfalfa silage as he has had letters from one company' stating that they were in doubt as - to the value of using alfalfa in this way. Silage is prepared by chopping tne hay, corn or whatever feed is used and packing it in strongly built silos which, when covered over, 'become air tight. The silage becomes cook ed and is fed out during the winter months. Corn is generally used for making silage. , ing of inhaler and a bottle of Hyomei, costs $1.00 and extra bottles, if aftewards needed, are only 5 cents. Always use Hyomei for bronchitis, cold -in the head, husky voice, croup of infants, and any inflammatory disease of the breathing organs. Newlin Drug Co. Sick Headache. Sick headache is nearly always caused by disorders of the stomach. Correct them and the periodic at tacks of sick headache will disappear. Mrs. John Bishop, of Boseville, Ohio, writes: "About a year ago I was trosbled with indigeation and had sick headache that laster for two or three days at, a time. . I doctored and tried a number of remedies but nothing helped me until during one of those sick spells a neighbor advised me to take Chamberlain's Tablet. This medicino relieved me In a short time." For sale by all dealers. CRAfT ON THE GRIDIRON. When the Carliele Indians Outwitted '- Harvard's Highbrows. In football o full field run from kick off to touchdown is a rare piny. Once It was uiide by a Carlisle Indian, wbo covered the long distance In n game against Harvard. Oct. 81. iU03, and did so by the craftiest, wiliest stratagem ever perpetrated by a redkkin upon bia pale faced brother. 1 The first half bad closed with the In dians in the lead five points to none. Harvard opened the battle by sending a long kick to Johnson on Carlisle's five yard line. The Indians quickly ran back to meet Johnson and formed n compact mass around him. Within the recesses of this mass of players John son slipped the ball beneath the back of Dillon's jersey, which had been es pecially made to receive and hold the ball. Then, the ball thus secretly transferred and hidden, Johnson utter ed a whoop such as Cambridge bad not heard since the days of King Philip's war, and Instantly tne bunch of In dians scattered to all directions. Some ran to the right and soma to the left, some obliquely and some straight op the center of the field, radiating in all directions like the spokes of a wheel. The crimson players, now upon them, looked in rain for the ball, dumfound ed, running from one opponent to an other. MeanwMIe Dillon was running straight down the field so as to give bis opponents the least opportunity for a side or rear view and conspicuously swinging his arms to show that they did not hold the ball. Thus, without being detected, be passed through the entire Harvard team, excepting the captain, Carl B. Marshall, who was covering tho deep baekfield. Obeying Instructions. Dillon ran straight nt Marshall. Tho latter, as suming that the I ml Inn Intended to block hlni, agilely Rldostepped the Car lisle player, and as he did so he caught sight of the enormous and un wonted bulge on the buck of Dillon Instantly divining that bere was the lost ball, Marshall turned and sprang nt Dillon, but the hitter was well on his way und quickly crossed the line for n touchdown. Parke H. Davis In St. Nicholas. Diverting Hie Attention. Cook (7 a. m.) Please, nia'nm, the dog got hold of tho steak that was for breakfast. Shall 1 go out and get an other? Mistress Is there any news In the morning paper? Cook Yes, Indeed ma'am big accidents nu' horrid oiur ders nn' bomb explosions an rumors of another war. Mistress Very well. Warm over something left from supper and pluce the paper by my husband's, pli'.te.-Puck. Lincoln's History of Himself. When Abraham Lincoln was electee to congress Charles Lnmnau. then edl tor of the Congressional Record, tie cording to the regular custom, for warded to Mr. Lincoln as well ns U a'.l other nrenibers elect n blnnk to b filled out with facts and dates wbick might he made the basis for a bl graphical sketch In the directory. Mr Lincoln's blank wns returned prompt ly. filled up In his own handwriting with the following Information: "Born Feb. 12, ISO!). In Hardin couo ty, Ky. "Education, defective. "Profession. Inwyer. ''Military service, captain of volur teers In the lllack Hawk war. "Olllces held: Postmaster at a vert small olHce. four times a member of the Illinois legislature and elected to the lower bouse of the next congress. M AVOID CATAIIHR. Breathe Hyomei It Medicates the , Air You Breathe and In stantly Relieves, Why continue to suffer from ca- tahrr, stopped-up head, husky voice and other troubles of the breathing organs when the Newlin Drug com pany will sell yon Hyomei with a guarantee to refund the purchase prlf If it is not satisfactory. Hyomei la a pleasant, harmless and antiseptic medication which you breathe a few times daily through a mail inhaler. It effectively and promptly relieves all catahhral dis charges, sniffles, foul breath, watery eye and the formation of crusts in the nose, or money back. Charity Begins At Home There will doubtless be a few families who will spend enough money this Christmas, on friends and and near friends under the mock disguise of duty to make the first payment on a home. Do you realize how rapidly La Grande is be coming acity of homes. Look about you, you can count a dozen or more of your friends who only a few years ago were tennants. Don't chill the home getting germ, let it de velope and start the new year right. La Grande is not booming but it has a steady substantianl growth. Lots are worth double to day what flhey were three years ago in many sections of thia city. "While we have been recognized for years as the pay roll city, our payrolls have annually inoretusetl with our growth. An investment in a La Grande home means a profit, not a loss. I have several choice properties that are prieed light and much of it on very reasonable terms. No excuse for paying rent year after year. You could have bought several years ago. Paying fo a home is a pleasure not a burden. CALL AND LOOK MY LISTINGS OVER Geo. H. Currey He Who Sells Real Estate La Grande, Oregon .e,.,in,i,i,i,J.,,.,...l,ll.l.l. . . ---firirrii-ijuuurfr Do You Comply With the BUT TER LAW? If not, read the following law and have your Butter Wrappers nicely printed, with your name and weight of butter thereon. CAUTION! CHAPTER 179, SECTION 3. "It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, offer or expose for sale, any short weight butter within the State of Oregon. All, butter sold or exposed or offered for sale in rolls, prints or ' squares within the State of Oregon, shall be plainly marked: .'Eight ounces, full weight,' sixteen ounces, full whight,' 'twenty-four ounces full weight,' or thirty-two ounces, full weight', every roll, print or square sold, offered or exposed for sale shall contain the number of ounces marked thereon; and any person, firm, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine or not less than $25.00 nor more than ?100.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than six months; or both such fine and imprisonment." The Observer can' furnish you with good parchment Butter Wrappers, printed according to law. We are printing for the best bnttermakers in this valley, and would like to add your name to our list of satisfied customers. You can send your order by mal. Write plainly and state the size yen wish. The Evening Observer La Grande. Oregon i I a s . 1
