La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 09, 1916, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1916. PAGE TWO LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER ( Shoes for Dress, Shoes for Business, Shoes for all Occations Of correct and shapely styles of the best leathers, carefully made by the best makers. That's what we have for you, gentlemen, in footwear if they were not just so, rest assured we wouldn't say so. Men's Dress and Semi-Dress Shoes, Button and Lace, Patent Leather, Vici, Gun Metal and Tan i $2.75 to $5.50 Dr. Reed's, health Shoe with cushion inner sole and best grade Vici ...... $6.00 Men's Muleskin Work Shoes, heavy elk sole $1.87 Men's Muleskin Work Shoes, heavy oak sole..... .1 $1.50 Men's Heavy Black and Tan Work Shoes, welted and pegged and sewed sole, high and low top $2.25 to $9.50 BOYS' WOUK AND DRESS SHOES , Patent, Gun Metal and Tan, Button and Lace $1.79 to $3.29 LADIES IT IS THE SHOE THAT PRODUCES THE BEAUTY NOT THE FOOT Dorothy Dodd is the Show that produces style, beauty and comfort. If you desire a graceful, easy, good-wearing shoe, this is the shoe to get. We ere featuring these this year, therefore, we do not hesitate to assert our supremacy. Let us show you a pair of these and you will be convinced. Ladies' Dorothy Dodd, Kid, Gun Metal and Patent, Lace and Button Shoes $3.50 to $5.00 Ladies' Patent, with gray top Dorothy Dodd Button Shoe $6.00 Ladies' Brown, with champaign top Dorothy Dodd, Lace Shoe . . .$6.00 Other makes Ladios' and Misses' Shoes, Patent, Kid, Gun Metal and Tan i. .$1.75 to $4.00 Children's Shoes I. ...48c up Hill's Department Store Undoubtedly the Place to Trade At ARCADE Hart in "Hell's Hinges." How a strong man wreaked ven geance on a lawless community is told in the Ince-Triangle play, "Hell's Hinges," starring W. S. Hart. It will be at the Arcada thentre todnv and to morrow. The Rev. Robt. Henley and 'e.e' Jus sister, faith Henley, come from the East to the western town named Hell's Hinges on account of its tough reputation. At the first service, the tough men and women of the town in terrupt the sermon of the young preacher, a weak character, by their ribald singing and dancing. Blaze Tracy interferes, when an insult is of fered to Faith Henley. Then Silk Miller, the crafty saloon and gambling house man, lures the minister to his place on the plea of doing missionary work among the ha bitues. Dolly, a girl of the dance hall, induces Henley to drink. As a result he tails to appear at the chinch on Sunday morning. While Blaze has gone after the new organ for the church, the disorderly element tet the church on fire. They have taken along Henley, who has be come drunk again and has been led to take a hand in the incendiary act. The better element of the town fight desperately in defense of the edifice. The minister is killed during the me- tflaze meets some of the fugi tives on his return. Aroused to wrath over the death of the minister and the burning of the church, he makes a dash for the saloon, shoots the proprietor, Silk Miller, and sets the place on fire by shooting at the lamps. A roaring wind carries the fiames to the rest of the wooden struc ture of the town and it is wiped out in a spectacular blaze. FISHERMEN Round-trip tickets to points on the Joseph Branch from Looking Glass to Lostine, also to Meacham, will be on sale Saturdays and Sun days at one and one third fare. Return limit will Sunday night. be For information tickets, etc., ask J. H. KEENEY Agent O-W R. R. & N. SHERRY'S upon Baby Hero of Photoplay. Fate played a stranire trick three bank (robbers who were escape ing from a pursuing posse. They were trying to find security in the sands of the Mojave Desert and, strangely enough, found it. But the wind that covered their tracks with sand played a disastrous trick upon a man and wife who were traveling across the desert in a nrairie schooner. When unhitched to weath er the storm, the horses were in securely tied and wandered away. The man sought them in the desert and perished. When the three yeggmen came up on the apparently deserted prairie schooner they were astounded to find within a woman who had just given birth to a child. Before dying, as a result, the woman entrusted her babe to the three bandits who gave their word to her that the boy should safely and properly brought up. agreeable ending and will be related in Bluebird photoplays at the Sherry theatre, last showing today, with Harry Carey, George Berrell and Frank Lanning playing the role of the three godfathers. When the story originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Editor Lorimer pro nounced Peter B. Kyne's work the best printed in that wonderful weekly. "The Three Godfathers" pictures a chain of incidents that will surely ap peal with gripping interest to every theatregoer who likes to be enter tained by good moving pictures films with a purpose other than being designed to pass an idle hour. SURVEYS BEING MADE Plans for Proposed Extension Sumpter Valley Road of Baker, Aug. 4. Joseph W. West, chief engineer of the Sumpter Valley railway, Oregon Lumber company and other D. C. Eccles interests, who for several weeks has been making pre liminary surveys for the Sumpter Valley in this section, is making good progress in running his lines for the propised logging road extension from the Dixie mountain summit into the Logan valley territory. The Sumpter Valley is considering all told, four logging roads, the one to tap the Logan valley section, one west from Austin into the Susanville district, another from some point above Salisbury to the section be tween there and Whitney and still another to the China creek and Trout cretk sections. These proposed roads would be used by the company to handle the logs from the timber tracts now held or in prospect of being taken over by the Oregon Lumber company, Baker, White Pine Lumber company, Stod dard Brothers Lumber company and F"ank B. Mitchell, the latter being the bidder for a large tract of timber on the middle fork of the John Day river in the Susanville section. The work now being done by Mr. West was announced by President D. C. Eccles of the Sumpter Valley, in a'l interview in the Democrat some weeks ago, and while all projects out lined above are more or less tentat ive, one or all may be carried out im mediately, such action hinging on the rates the railroad makes on hauling logs to Baker from the various points mentioned. In the neighborhood of three billion feet of timber could he handled by the present Sumpter val ley system and the proposed extens ions, and this would be but a begin ning of what could be handled from the territory thus opened up. Where Is the Russian Navy? While little is heard of the move ments of the Czar's fighting forces on the seas, both the Baltic and Black soas fleets have had more than one brush with the foe, in which the gal lant tars have covered thmselves with laurels. BY WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS. Petrograd, July 2. (By Mail.) "Where is the Russian navy?" For several days I have been ask ing this question of statesmen, jour nalists, diplomats, writers, Duma members and others. For reply, a flock of question marks seems to rise in the air after the fashion cartoon ists and comic supplement artists have inaugurated. Nobody seems able to tell us. "What has the Russian navy done in the last two years?" 1 have de manded time and time again. The response is more question marks. Navy Secretive. The British fleet is an open book compared to the Russian navy. Every body knows the English warships are "somewhere in the North Sea." One can look at a map and tell pretty much just whereabouts in this sea they must be. But no such precision is possible regarding the Russian men-o-war. "Why so much secrecy about the navy?" I asked a member of the Duma. "It is the navy's way," he an swered, shrugging his choulders. be "The navy is different from the army. In I We pet a dailv communiaue based on iuiniiing this pledge, two of the yegg- t,he army.s activities, but the navy is nni.f tl, Kol, t t...l .ju. lh B. lage ( port the babe to the nearest settle ment 50 miles away. The third man reached haven but surrendered his libertu to save the child. The story continues to an rage every time it is mentioned. I r . , . L. . IK solutely in secret, and discourages any sort of publicity." The navy has had at least one Home Institution Pianos $187.00 Easy Payments. Knabe Ivers & Pond. Estey. Schumann. Bush & Gerts. Bennett. Sterling. Several Others of the best makes. RICHEY PIANO HOUSE tip Home Institution Players $387.00 With $25.00 in music. Knabe. Ivers & Pond. Estey. Schumann. Bush & Gerts. Bennett. Sterling. Several others of the best makes. No catch penny methods to catch the unsuspecting customer. Wo do not offer music lessons and charge accordingly. We buy goods direct and not from Portland retail houses. No culls or worked-over pianos to dump upon the public. Your contract or notes will be right at home, and not with some eastern concern. Prices count, together with selection of goods, call and we will convince you that we are right upon both. brush with the Germans, during which two of the large German ships were sunk, together with about three destroyers. In Petrograd a rumor Bpread exaggerating the victory, and some mention was made of it in the Duma. The naval authorities were furious. They wanted the entire affair to pass without a line in the papers and with out the public knowing anything about it. As the news had leaked out it became necessary to explain just what had happened, and this the navy considered prejudicial to its plan of campaign. "Everything depends on absolute secrecy, so far as the Russian navy is concerned," an official told me. And that is as far as he could go. Checked Teuton Drive. This mudh; however, is known of the Russian fleet: It played a very important part in checking the Ger man left wing advancing through Courtland on Riga, and undoubtedly did its Bhare in preventing the cap ture of that port. It played havoc among the Kaiser's legions operating along the Baltic coast and the shores of the Gulf of Riga. It has operated in conjunction with the British in the Baltic, had kept the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Riga se cure, two exceedingly important tasks. In the Black Sea the Black Sea fleet aided Grand Duks Nicholas' advance from the Caucausus into Asia Minor against the Turks. In the tak ing of Trebizond, it was officially ad mitted that the fleet did important work. ' Navy Unprepared. At the outset of the European war, Russia, of all the great powers, was least prepared for effective sea fight ing. In the first place she had met with naval disaster during the Russo Japanese war and was just beginning to recover her poise when the present upheaval caugTnt her. Still, consider ing her start, she has done wonders in accumulating naval units. England virtually has admitted in principle that Russia should Ihave the Dardanelles in the final reckoning. This means that Russia must become f" FLOUR GOING HIGHER We Have Got 'Em All 14 Different Brands We Specialize On SNOW DROP The kind that made La Grande Housewives famous as Breadmakers We have rccentlv purchased three carloads of SNOW DROP Old Flour properly aged. We advise our eustomers-to buy now. Special prices on barrel lots. Harris Grocery PHONE MAIN 70 FARMERS PHONE B. 192 408 North Fir Street, Cross Track one of the great sea powers, especially in the Mediterranean, as she must at all times be prepared to keep her straits open. This is vital. The clos ing of the Dardanelles for any reason is like a grip at one's throat the pro tracted tightening of which means death. Needs Sea Outlet. Russia must ship her grain by sea, especially by the Black Sea, Marma, the Dardanelles, Aegean and Med iterean. The great rivers of the em pire bring it down to the sea, whence it goes by ship through three tortuous passages to the outside world. It will not stand railroad shipment, long- overland hauls. It is the sea route or none with Russia, so she must in crease her high sea fleet tonnage in order to keep this open to her freight ers. ! Salemites on Long Hike. A. Personett and his wife, a young: couple of Salem are walking across the country and pushing and pulling a two-wheeled cart, which carries their bedding, camp equipment and extra clothing. They are traveling to see the country and expect to see the National capital before they have? ended their journey. "YOUNG MAN-GET LAND" "Land Owners Are the Princes of the Earth" Your Best Land Opportunity To Mak e Good Is ... lovfrd LAND $15.00 PER ACRE, 1-10 PER YEAR, 6 PER CENT INTEREST PALMER Why consider subjecting yourself to the hardships of homesteading, the "red tape" of "proving up", the handi caps of high altitude, fost, poor water, and untried soil and isolation from the con veniences of civilization, when you can get a tract of Palmer Lands at- these terms and prices and live in a settled and proven com munity, within 3 to 5 miles of a railroad, where there is plenty of rain fall and good water, an ideal climate and unexcelled soil. This Photograph illustrates thejrolling character of the country, and shows the fine pasturage, the stumps, trees and occasional clear patches. 3,000 ACRES OF PALMER LAND in tracts of 40 to 200 or more acres of as good or better land than any yet sold, well watered, averaging from 75 to 90 per cent fine tillable farming land and every foot first-class pasture, near abundance of outside range, within 3 to 5 miles of the railroad, Palmer Junction Postoffice and general merchandise store, etc., will likely be sold this summer and fall. 4000 acres have been sold; but this is less than 25 per cent of the entire tract and not over 40 per cent of the good farming land. Fall and Spring wheat, oats, barley and other grains, alfalfa, clover, timothy, Sudan grass, millet and other hays and grasses, corn, potatoes, peas, beans, squash, cabbage, berries, turnips, beats, and many other vegetables for feed and table purposes have been grown with excellent success. Dairying, stock, hog and poultry raising are now the back bone of this community and are rapidly developing. All this in the third agricultural year of Palmer Lands. A FEW FACTS Palmer Lands won third prize at last year's fair. About 25 families are now living on their places. Nearly 1000 acres of new land is now in crops. A dozen new homes have been built this year. The roads are in good condition. The grass is still green and pasture excellent. Both public and Sunday schools are established. More land is being cleared and fences built. Every forty corner is located and staked. There is plenty of timber for wood, fencing, etc. The soil runs deep, even and is subirrignted. The altitude is 2600 feet, rainfall 30 inches. A new county bridge connects Palmer Junction with Cricket Flat, 60 more farmers will ship there. Many new families will settle here by next year. Rural mail route, telephone line and other such advantages are now being talked and planned. Investigate at Once Write for our new illustrated folder, or call and let us show you maps and photographs and samples of grains and grasses grown on Palmer Lands. George Huntington Currey will be pleased to go with you or meet you at Palmer Junction at any time. Palmer Lands are the best new land offer in the west today. They are a real opportunity for a man with small resources and an ideal "invest ment for a man with means. This is an ideal time to look over thee lands while the crops are still in the field. If ycu are interested in good land at low cost do not put off your investigation. You have hcird people tell of the chances they have missed. Don't miss yours. This land that is now selling for S15 will demand $100 n a very few years. An-ange your affairs to look at these lands at once. Opposite Y.M.C.A 108 Elm St Both Phones Geo. H. Currey He Who Mores REAL ESTATE La Grande, Ore.