WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1916.
PAGE TWO
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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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
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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
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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.