WEDNESDAY, JANUARY H, 191
fclGE TWO
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
Our Year End Clean
Up Sale Started
Yesterday with great 'vim and enthusiasm, and from all indications this is go
ing to be 'a busy week at our store. We advise you to call early as our stock
is limited.
Any Ladies' Suit in the Store Half Price
Our Lot Ladies' Hats
98c
Our Lot Ladies' Hats I Our Lot Ladies' Hats
$1.48 $1.98
These Hats are Worth Manv Times This Amount
LADIES' COATS
$37.50 Coats $25.00
$30.00 Coats $20.00
$25.00 Coats $16.25
$15.00 Coats ....$10.00
$12.50 Coats $ 8.35
One Lot Young Men's
Long Trouser Suits
Sizes up to 35
$4.39
BOYS' OVERCOATS
One lot of Boys' Over
coats worth many times
the amount, a,t
$2.60
y SUMMARY OF REPORT
Secretary of Agriculture Discusses
Nation's Food Supply Distribu
tion .and .Marketing Recommen
dations. Washington, Jan., 3 (Special)
The food of the Nation is discussed
by the Secretary of Agriculture in his
annual report for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1916. The Secretary states
it is notable that, with the 'exception
of meat and dairy products, ine per
capita production of the leading food
commodities, notwithstanding the in
crease in population, nas remainea
onnmvimntolv the wme or has in-
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creased. It is gratifying to note, he
adds, that the alarming aeciine in
beef production reached Its lowest
1913. and that since that
time there has been a material in
crease, while there has been a mark
et advance in the number of swine
since the census year 1899. The
mimVior of sheen has continued to de
cline, but only to a slight extent. The
number of animals slnugnterea ana
the quanity ,of meat products pre
pared under Government inspection
during the past fiscal year are the
largest in the history of the service.
This shows heavier increase in tne
remaining stock of animals. He points
out that with all the agencies now
available for improving agriculture
there is ground for optimism as to the
ability of the Nation not only to sup
ply itself with food but increasingly
to meet the needs ot tne worm.
MORE TO COME "
Start the New Year
Right
Phone Main 70 For Your Groceries
The Reason we are always about the busiest Grocery
Store in La Grande is because our prices on goods
we can guarantee, are the lowest. Then too, you get
prompt service and courteous treatment When you
buy here you can feel confident you are getting the
Best Goods and we meet any and all competition.
Harris Grocery
PHONE MAIN 70 FARMERS PHONE B. 192
408 North Fir Street, Cross Track
OUR LOT OF 38 MEN'S OVERCOATS ALL SIZES ONE-HALF PRICE
BOYS' WINTER UNDERWEAR
19c and 23c Garment
BOYS' DRESS SHIRTS
23c Worth a Lot More
OUR LOT BOYS' HATS ONE-HALF PRICE
ONE LOT MEN'S FLANNEL SHIRTS, TO CLEAN UP VALUES UP TO
$1.50 YOURS FOR 50c
Tlu'se arc oulv a few of the many bargains vou will find displaved during our
YEAR-END CLEAN-UP SALE
h ill 'sp epartm ent S tore
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BE6SIE BARRISCALE AND WILLIAM DESMOND IN TRIANGLE
PLAY, "THE PAYMENT."
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BESSIE BARK1SCALE IN NEW
PLAY BV GARDNER SULLIVAN
Triangle Star's Latest Vehicle Is Call
ed "The Payment" and Gives Ac
tress Excellent Oram a tic Opportunities.
Phyllis Pago, tho central figure o
"The Payment," the new TrianKlo
play starring Bessie Barriscle, which
will bo seen nt tho Arcade theatre tu
day and tomorrow, is the daughter ot
a plodding mill-worker. There is a
strike, and, after some furious battles
with armed guards, tho strikers gee
the worst of it, and go back to work.
Phyllis feels that she does not belong
to this life, where tho best achievement
is three meals a day and a place to
sloop. She has ambitions and talent.
She wants to become a miniature
painter. So she goes to New York.
Upon arriving in the city she soon
l learns that the plodders are not con
fined to small towns. She secures a
place in a department store, and with
the little saved from her scanty wages
she studies art with an old professor
quite as poverty-stricken as herself.
He tells her she has real ability ani
with a couple of years' training abroad
unquestionably would win recognition.
Then she attracts the attention of
Royburn, a wealthy lawyer who
chances into the store with his wife,
lie offers to send her abroad if sha
will consent to his terms. She con
sents. Three years later, as the result of
her studies abroad, she has become fa
mous, Society flocks to her, and
among the fashionables is Reyburn's
wife. Mrs. Keyburn forms an instant
liking for the young artist and insists
upon her cominjr to their home. Phyl
lis is strongly cYawn toward the wo
man sho has wronged, but tries to
keep away. But Mrs. Reyburn insists
and sho becomes a frequent visitor.
Mrs. Reyburn tries to arrange a
match between Phyllis and her hand
some young brother, and, sure enough
the young people fall in love.
Then Reyburn intervenes. "You are
not the woman for him," ho tells her.
"f you marry him you will be cruelly
deceiving him and my wife," Phyllis
pleads for her happiness. "You'll
tell!" she exclaims in sudden fear.
He slowly shakes his head. "I won't
tell, but you will. There'll come a time
when you can't stifle your conscience,
and then" Phyllis knows he speaks
tho truth. And to this picture thjre
is a smashing finish with a big lesson.
Are We All Slaves to Our Nerves?
In the January Woman's Home
Companion, a writer says:.
"I am always newly amazed when I
hear people say that they cannot exer
cise self-control; that they cannot, for
instance, give up a harmful or un
pleasant habit.
" 'It is a habit I cannot get over,'
said a very pretty girl to me a few
days ago. 'I have to bit my nails.
I've done everything! I've even gone
so far as put bitter aloes on my fin
gers. It doesn't do a particle of good.'
" 'I shouldn't try aloes.'
" 'What would you try ?'
" "I should just say to myself: 'I
can control niyseu, unu 1 uiu gums tu
do so.' And then I should start right
in to prove it, and I shoud prove it
over and over again each day.'
"What slaves some of us are, not
only to physical habits but to mental
ones as well, slaves to habits of doubt,
of pessimism, of envy, of temper, and
egotism, of selfishness, of temper or
irritability, or meanness, of varity, of
self-deprecation, or the deprecation
of others, of instability and morbid
ness. The weak, the unreliable, the in
adeguate, the unkind, the moody, the
cisions only to doubt and change them,
and who make resolves and promises
only to break them, these are of in
ferior and slave class. And if we
could see truths and facts in vivid
pictures and symbols, as Dante and
John Bunyan saw them, we should sv3
all these men and women bent like
slaves while these habits, their tyran
nous masters, cracked long whips
across their backs and compelled them
to drag heavy burdens hither and yon.
To how many masters have we been
slaves to-ady, and how often have we
bent tho knee obsequiously to them.
Hail, King Envy and Selfishness, you
who direct my comings and my goings,
and note how completely I am your
slave! And you, Oh Weakness, who
have so long set yourself to rule over
me, seo how long abase myself and all
my God-given strength before you!
Here is my slave neck for you to put
youd foot upon!"
SHERRY'S
In search of adventure a young mil
lionaire from the west decided to show
the big city how red paint should be
applied. Before he realized what was
happening to him he faced a confi-
' dence man's revolver, was relieved of
his bank-roll and fell out of that ad
venture into others equally exciting.
In picturing "A Stranger from Some
where," to be exhibited at the Sherry
theater for the last time onight Blue
bird Photoplay, Inc., have created one
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AN IMPORTANT LETTER
FROM A WOMAN
AT SHERRY'S
OLD PAPBRS For sale at The
Observer ofnoe, 25 cents a bundle.
Oregon's Fruit Crop.
Oregon's 1916 fruit crop will net
growers fully $9,000,000. This is the
valuation placed on the commercial
shipping crop, and does not include the
value of fruit consumed at home. Tak
en altogether, the crop was worth $1,
000,000 more than in any previous
year. The apple crop proved to be
I bettor than had been anticipated. Ths
total shipping crop is estimated at
about 3000 cars. On account of the
continued car shortage, a large pro
portion of the crop remains yet to be
moved. While apples head tho list in
point of value the prune crop takes
first rank for tho amount of outside
money brought into the Btnte. The
1916 production of Oregon Italian
prunes reached the 40,000,000-pound
mark, the shipping value of which was
$3,000,000. There was a creditable
showing in other varieties of fruit.
Oregenian.
jof the most unique and unconvention
al entertainments ever screened. Com
plications multiply, adventure piles
upon adventure, and at the outcome
of all there is a "surprise finish" to
cap the climax of excitement and
laughter. Franklyn Farnum plays two
roles in "A Stranger from Soma
where," and during the time he was
being photographed was the busiest
man ever in pictures. Every element
that goes to make for popularity of
"the movies" will be disclosed in this
'Bluebird, and devotees of motion pic
tures are assured in advance of de
lightful amusement.
There Is nothing that will bring com
fort and renewed hope to the Invalid
so surely as good news. When tho
vital forces are at a low ebb and every
thing seems useless, a ray of joy and
assurance will stimulate the weary
body to new effort and energy. A let
ter from a loved one has turned the
tide in many a siege of sickness. Dr.
l'ierce, of the Invalids' Hotel, Buffaloy
N. Y., has good news for every suf
""rlng woman. Write him toduy and
.ell him your troubles, and he will send
you just the right advice to restore yon
to health and bring back the roses to
your cheeks, and without charge.
His "Favorite Prescription" has been
the rescue of thousands of suffering
women. Many grateful patients have
taken Dr. Pierce's advice. ,
Mothers, If your daughters are weak,
lack ambltioni are troubled with head
aches, lassitude and are pale and
sickly. 1'r. I'ierco's Favorite Prescrip
tion is just what they need to surely
bring the bloom of health to their
cheeks and make them strong and
healthy.
For all diseases peculiar to woman.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a
(powerful restorative. During tho last
40 years It lias linmsliod from the lives
I of tens of thousands of women the pain,
worry, misery and distress caused by
Irregularities and diseases of a femi
nine character.
If you are a sufferer, if your daugh
ter, mother, sister need help, get Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription in liquid
or tablet form from any medicine
dealer to-day. 1"0 page book on wom
an's diseases eeiit free.
The modern improvement in pills
Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They
help Nature instead of lighting with
her. Sick and nervous headache, bili
ousness, costivenees, and all derange
ments of the liver, Btomach and bowels
are prevented, relieved and oured.
MINNESOTA GIRL HAMMERS
DOWN NAIL DRIVING CON
TEST CHAMPIONSHIP TODAY
Prefers Chamberlain's.
"In the course of a conversation
with Chamberlain Medicine Co.'s rep
resentative today, we had occasion to
discuss in a general way the merits of
their different preparations. At his
suggestion I take pleasure in express
ing my estimation of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. I have a family cf
six children and have used this rem
edy in my home for years. I consider
it the only cought remedy on the mar
ket, as I have tried nearly all kinds."
Earl C. Ross, Publisher Hamilton
County Republican-News, Syracuse,
Kan. V
A limited number of Christmas
Observers are on sale at The Ob
server office. Ten cents a copy in
cluding mailing.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 3. (Unite!
Press.) Driving twelve ten penny
nails into a nlank in ont minute four
teen and one-half seconds, during
which time she hit her thumb with
the hammer onlv nn. Mian T.illinn
Reike, of Fairfax, Minn., today has
nailed down" the Minnesota woman's
nail driving championship, awarded by
the Minnesota college of agriculture.
Miss Reike, 20, drove a wedge into so
ciety at the same swing, and has made
herself quite a favorite with the
younger set. Her home is on a farm.
Don't Let Skin Troubles Spread.
Red, pimply skin that itches and
burns is embarrassing, and gets worse
if neglected. Bad skin is a social
handicap and a constant source of
worry. Correct it at once with Dr.
Hobson's Eczema Ointment. This
healing ointment kills the gem,
soothes the irritation and quickly re
stores your skin to normal. For ba-
Wedding invitations, announce
ments and calling cards printed at
the Observer Job Printing Depart
ment. 10-28-tf.
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