La Grande evening observer., January 11, 1916, Image 8

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1916.
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iRazor Strops
Regular ; Metaloid Leather
Raor Strop for
Mailcanftie fiber sti-ops are niade of selected hides '
taken from animals especially adapted, 'lhcsc tibora.;
are treated with a chemical solution that transforms
thorn info what is known as .Nutaloid leather and
which is used for grinding belts and strojw, for cdg-
inff tools and instruments.;' ,
Sec our display window
PUtmdn's Dtug Store
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COMING TO ; SHERRY'S THURS
DAY AND-FRTDAV.
Cwmm"l Name of Film in Which
She Will Star.
Prune (crowing has been healthy and
prosperous for several- years', back,
A A. A - Wt 4Wa ' "an m lUa namMan
Thedu Bara's conception -of ."Car- Li i,lf,i, wt,. n tt,n )r
FJrtAn" in nrtMiiinrlv hw nwn nnH bIia . .
V makes, the' most of her opportunity. I has before, all of which Is very plea-
tier ngnt in .the cigarette factory ana 1 sant. And although California is thu
PRUNE
OUTLOOK
and naturally failed. Everybody saw
so many failures tnat mey urn u
realize that there were some big suc
cesses where location ana care were
A Typical ' ouccewi ,
On nf the best established and suc
cessful prune orchards of Oregon is
that of A.. M. f anning ui ouvriuuu,
Yamhill county. For about fifteen
years this has brought in clear two
to five thousand dollars per year, and
higher, but with one or two except
ions no one thought enough about
it to start in and try to get a piece
of the pie, , ' : . ., ; ' ., '
Mr. Fanning originally was in the
railway mail service and in the early
nineties started to put all of his earn
ings into a ranch. : JThen he had it
planted to prunes and cared for un
til the prunes were about a bearing
age and supposedly able to support
him, instead of him supporting the
ranch. He moved on with the place
paid for and out of debt, but without
a cent besides and has mado the or
iWd nav biar ever since, but in spite
nf that onlv one or two other plantings.
were.jn.ade in. the neighborhood up ;
until a lew years ago. , ;
'The location is naturally suited to
prune growing. A breeze from. the
ocean comes through an opening,, in
the hills, tempering the climate in
winter and causing an air drainage
that makes frosts scarce. ; ;
V Some Petite Prunes
Iii view of the idea that the Petite
or French prune will not do well . in
I the Willamette Valley, or in most of
Oregon', the experience of Mr. "Fan
ning is interesting. He has four acres
of French prunes which have been as
LOOK AHEAD
When you buy your wearing apparel for the entire family .-,
now at The United Store for less- money Later on you will .be . .
able to buy all those newest creations the ; nicer ; things .for
Spring and Summer because you '11 have the money on hands
, saved from your earlier trading at The -United Store. If you see it
at all in townyou can bank you'll see it for less at this store, ,
. therefore it nays to - r - -' j"...:jS i'i1'.,
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- her death-scene are triumphs of dra
. matic skill, v She displays throughout
, the wonderful facial control that has
; made her famous in the moving-picture
world.,. Coming to the Sherry
theatre Thursday- and Friday.-Adv.
Become a Paid' Amateur Nurse.
"Although I am not at all a profes
sional nurse," says a writer in the
- January Woman's Home Companion,
"I can cook well and prepare many
dainty dishes, and the idea came to
. . me that i could take care of an in
valid in my home. I spoke to our
family doctor at once, and in less than
., a week had. a 'patient,' a semi-in-.
valid whose family wished to travel
' for the summer and were delighted to
find a private .home where she could
be cared for during their absence, She
was with me three months and I re-
, ceived $16 per week (f 195 in all), of
;. course not all profit hut I considered
i myself well paid. Since then I have
had two other patient, and intend
. keeping this work up for a year; when
our home will be paid for."
'Our Want Ads brin results. - v -
greatest prune producing Btate and
responded well to the profitable mar
kets of the past few years, Oregon
seems to have gone ahead oven more
rapidly considering her former pro
duction, I I -
The greatest incpenc. In
Iterest In Oregon has been in the lasit
fave or six years, rtot because location
and climate were not thoroughly sat
isfactory before, but because Oregon
farmers have in large oart only be
gun to realize what has been going on
in orchards in their midst. It is prob
ably perfectly true to state that' Ore
gon prunes are in Una for much more
attention 'by both producer and con
sumer than they have had before. '
One' trouble in that th Avnrn era
farmer does not ordinarily become a
first class fruit growor the first thing
nor get Interested in fruit easily , if
he has been raising just grain or
Stock. , Fruit reauirea tha rtorht In.
tion, as well as the right, care. Just
because apples are a big? success -in
some section, it is no sign that! they
will do all over the state, ami h
ame: thing: is just as true with .pru
nes, cviy vregon prune plantings
were often made on the wrong spots
Profitable as. the Italian prune, though
or HeW niatitlnirs the' latter would
i always be selected (He attrftites
heavy yeariy" fHihlfigf. ;i-. ,
If left alone th j'e'iiU Prune would
in this section, gvoW sixty feet high:
The reason they do not 6ti tyell is that
they are "not handled- fight. The
common system is to prune thtf f thine
trees till they are well shaped arid
about five years old, or at a bearing
age, and then go on the idea that no
more pruning is needed. As a result
they fill up with a crop the size of
grapes heavy enough to ruin the tree
and neither tree nor fruit, is worth .
anything. ' And if the tree does not
bear, the top grows so fast and strong J
mat ii oiten overwneims -ana ruins
the. root. v-'--s-,..,,,-.. i
Ladies' New Spring Corset covers -... 19c
Ladies) New Spring Braasiers 25c
Ladies', New Spiring Night Gowns . . ... '. .49c
Ladies New Spring Muslin Skirts ......... .49c
Ladies'? New Spring Combinations . . .. ... ... .69c
Indies' New Spring Envelope Combinations , .69c .
LacUes' New Spring Chemies . i ........ t . .,. .98c
Ladies' Outing Gowns .v.. :. i..., . v . va49c
r'Vll.lion'o nnMnir Rowns .'..!..:. . .. ...'49C.
, .... . . . .... .... , .oc
, ,ii....,'.,'..i.r. ..4c
Ladies' Outing Skirts
Ladies' Knit Skirts
Children's Knit Skirts
Ladies' Wool Hose
49c
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.15c, 19c, ?5c
Men's mittens -
Men's Unions
. Men's Wool Sox ... . ... ......
Men's Wool Gloves
Men's,Sweaters
' Men's Navy Blue Sweaters ...
Men's Canvass Gloves ......
Men's Cotton Sox ........... .
Men's President Suspenders .,
Men's Rubbers
s Boys' Rubbers . .'i . -'ii .,
Men's Pacs, for woods vi . .". .
Men's German gr-i r v
.........25c, 49e;
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15c, 25c, S9e
..........25e, 49c
.$U8, 2.9S, 93.98 '
;,...98e
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........ w;.... 6c
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..'.:;. vU'. ;v,,;69c
....';.v;. v.... 49c
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DO BETTER AT
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Jti Q. PENNEY CO. ;
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145 tons of iprunes to dispose of. No
body wanted them, he could not sell
them at any price. A pool was be
ing made up around the state, but he
saw nothing attractive about the pro
position ana iinany went io .see an
acquaintance who didasmalj ship
ping business and wanted to know
how to go about selling prunes any-
way. ' : . : ...... . '. ' l '..J-
This party gave hlnTtliS name of!
tnree . brokers Witn Whom ne dealt
himself .back East and '.gave a few
suggestion as" to the ropes, so Mr.
Fanning dag UjJ an Arhisby iode book
so that he could say a lot in a ten
word telegram, and succeejdeq in' get
ting rid of the 145 tons at 3. 1-4 cents'
a Dound. netting him S.Rnh' Lhnirii
I operating' expenses to justifv the
by Mir. Fanning so that td6 irtuch
rruit cannot Bet. The yield has
been heavy and sizes good though not
as large as nose pi the Italian
French prunes this year from the
four acres averaged 49 to the pound.
However, the" Italian is the typical
Orogon prune for the section and
does well. The trade looks to Ore
gon tor it and. it is the" most satis
factory variety.. , ,. , , ..,;
V " A Marketing Experience '
" Things have not alwavs beei i' bdd
of roses. iMarkets have! tlier bad
spells. They had a particularly bad
one 11 or 12 years agoV HrTFann
ing had the lease of another Orchard
besides his own that year and had'
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tfyW.need au engine talk to us. We liave placed nearly fifty Gray;
W.. iengines in. service in: .this territory.
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our KN aiyir prices are lowest
OUR ENGINE SERVICE IS BEST
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W, H. Bohrienkamp
be advised except under unusual 'til-
cumstances, such as existed at that
time. Tho prune packers put the
fwii- m 1m W...AH maMw J : i. . 11
the individual grower could and jmu tne company calculate on de
pait of last year. The Canadian com
pany did not have facilities for turn
ing out a complete shell and was short
of the capital needed for enlarging
and remodelling its plants. ,
' . The latter difficulty'was relieved by
he Russian . Government, which ad
vanced $20000,000. The former diffi
culty watrsolved by subletting work
to jibout'Jjftjr pther companies, most
of them" in this country; v, ( v
The contract with - the Russian
Government provided for payment on
livered under the contract, it was re-.Theiib-cojitracts
provided for pay
ment, sub-contractors at 'the o1ace
of assemblage of the completed snails,
Some tof these sub-contractors had to
bp supplied .with funds for enlarging"
iiioir ipiniiLB ana payments to mem
used .up inYet of the $20,600,000 paid
in aayance.. oy uussia. ;. : .
..ComDUtation of" the' amount de
livered fyikfr the Con(jdac,. it was re
ported, showed that 50v000 worth had
been turned : over in .Decembei' and
Marguerite Clark
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A story xxf Circus life full of many laughs--and
tears. Send the children to see the cir
cus and parade. Tuesday only. ;
ARCADE THEATRE
therefore can sell it to better ad
vantage. Likewise, they do business
on a small margin, and at . less
expense than the grower could if he
had to hunt up brokers ' and -.conduct
all the business. In addition there
are. great opportunities of making a
gigantic failure of the venture. , In
this case the prunes could not be sold
at . all in (he regular ways and . direct
selling was a' necessity. . . '..
TakiniT o'liiB' v6ar tlri'ffl nnnthar tha
plape has netted $5,000 per year.The
orchard', now has , 70 acre's of prune
trees,, but for most of the time 50
or 55 acrts. the most . orofitable
year this, orchard brought' in 410,000,
of which $2,500 '.Was operating ex
penses. ' ' . ' -' ' .,
An orchard .cannot be considered" a
permanent investment unless the sniT
fertility .is kept. up.-so that continued
productioii can be, obtained. For' most
of the 17 years' that Mr Fanninc has I
been on the "place'hims'elf lie has prac-
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t,-t.u vicau vuitjvuiuii, uut ne was ne
cided that "this' is' the wrong hasi's.
Now his system is' to plant vetch as
early in the fall as possible; so that
and to plow it under' about May.
This adds nitrogen to. .tHe soil and
keeps up- the supply ofJh'ninuiC
His next step will be to. apply
ground limestone to neutralize' the
acid in. the soil. That, it seems cer
tain, is needed and will be a treat
benefit. Except for cranberries, sour
grass and a lew. insignificant plants,
an . alkaline soil will do better for
what. grows on jt than a sour soil.
After knowledge, of .results of lim
ing has been obtained, other steps in
fertilizing will be made, lintil every
kind of orchard care is of that kind
that will bring permanent success.
Meanwhile' the Italian prune is mak
ing itself at home, it is bearing sys
tematically and well, save in the few
years when' too much rain and too
cold weather cuts off sap flow from
bloom and fruit, and the size and
flavor of' this variety of prune is
making a continually improving de
mand from dealers and consumers.
livering $360,000 worth this" month' and
pivvfiw wvri,n in reuruary. me con
tract cans -lor delivery or the entire
0,000,000 shells not later than the last
of August' next... ; ;.: .v
The stiock was-one of the blithest of
tne war priitas In the early s(pecula
tion jn w)T.3tocks. . It was fancied bv
Canadian t. speculators as well as by
speculators,., on the New York curb.
ihe eommon advanced to 119 and
cioseo lasf week at 89. A sale was re
ported yesterday at 55 an J at the
close the highest bid price was 66. The
"referred declined from 102 at the
close of last-week to a bid price at 89.
Senator,; Gurry has , been prominent
among the-Ganadians who have don
work on inanitions One son; Captain
In a i Montra regiment, was killed on
his first day in the trenches. Another
son, jCapfi V.' G. Curry, served, with
the Canadian1 division which was so
badly cut up near Ypress that it bad
to be reorganized. He has since served
Coffee
If your coffee is poor try
blaming the coffee : ; the
best cook can't make good
coffee if you buy poor. j
v. . Schilling's Utijittflade
ihtwont taste bitted
ish, kyt the chaff is taken
out; WWi't be muddy
it is evenfy gfotond; Won't .
be weak dtt its riChi
aroma is sealecf'in1 by the -airtight
tins. - The?i' tins
are revolutionizing t'he
coffee- business. .
It take less Schilling's . .
Best; thaK makes it
econoniicall..
Schillings
Best
as Vice President of the- company in:
charge at its New York office..
Grippe Will Get You if You
Don't Watch Out
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SEEKS $10,000,000 LOAN.
Coming soon Mary Pickford in "Madame Butterfly"
New York, Jan. 10. The Canadian
Car and Foundary Company was seek
ing a loan of $10,000,000 yesterday so
it might complete the filing of war
orders amounting to $133,000,000 for
the Russian Government. At the of
fice of the comlpany it "was said late
in the afternoon assurances had been
given that the money would be raised
today. ... . .
The Canadian company' got no coil
solation from J. P. Morgan & Co., or
any of the banks or trust companies
in the Morgan group;. Neither did
rt receive aid from the National City
Bank, which is the New York deposi
tary and fiscal agent or the Russian
Government. The President of
large trust company though the aid
would be rorthcominir from the itus
sian Government, which desires to
have the contract performed. : ;
The company's war orders were not
obtained . through J. P. Morgan " &
Co., who have placed most of the
munitions contracts for the allies,
but by personal negotiation between
Senator Nathaniel Curry of Mon
treal, President of the company, and
representatives of the Russian Gov
ernment. The first order vras' for
2.600,000 shrapnel! shells and 2,500,000
high explosive shells to coat $83,000.-
000. ...
The contract was placed in the early
Thfact is, that when e-Hnne or similar ailmAnts
geWiold of you, you don't find it out at once. The
symptoms come after the disease has begun to de
velop and a remedy should be used at once to pre
vent further development.
Laxative Cold Cure -
if promptly used, will stop grippe and colds in the
start. It is worth while to stop these ailments. The'
remedy should be kept on hand for use whenever
needed. ;
25 cents - Guaranteed.
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;:, A. NEWUN, Manager
- Wcst-Jacobson Building Opposite Bohnen-
. kamps Hardware.
Afain'40 V . Quick Delivery .
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