LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
MONDAY; JANUAUY 15, 1917.
Uncle Sam Studies
Fertilizer Problem
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We Still Have a Few
Ladies' Suits & Coats
which we do Hot wish to earn over, so we will
still voiitimie to yive vmi a GREAT REDUCTION
these NEW AND UP-TO-DATE garments.
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Millinery
Bureau Of Soils Conducts Experi
ments in the Production of Potash,
Nitrogen and Phosphates.
e also have a few hats left that von can got at
98c, $1.48 and $1.98
Worth many times this amount. They are froin
fast at this price and there is a good reason Thcv
are all New Hats.
Hill's Department Store
Quality and Service
ARC A DE
DUSTIN KARNIJM IN
"A SON OK KUIN"
AT AHCADE THEATER
Dennis O'Hara (I)ustin Farnum) is
a poor Irish peasant lad who loves
pretty Katie O'Gracly (Winifred
Kingston). Dennis dreams and Ionics
to go to the land of promise, the
United States. He is lured hy the
extravagant newspaper accounts of
police uniform. The plan is made for
Katie to come to marry Dennis. But
as Katie suspected Dennis O'Hara's
next letter says that he is no longer
a policeman. He has lost his posi
tion through a graft exposure in
which though innocent, he is compli
cated while the "higher up" officials
escape. His refusal to betray others
is the cause.
Ilis fearless, honest character has
made him a power in his district, and
the reform leaders enlist him. The
grafting political-constructor's daugh
ter is caught in the collapse of the
poorly built viaduct and Dennis' warn-
AT ARCADE TOMORROW
I tT ml Sxmml-
Kamela News Items
Kamela, Ore., Jan. 15. -(Special)
Engineer Schubert and family re
turned home from California Monday
night on No. 8. They report a fine
time.
Engineer C. M. Hutchison and -.Yife
left Sunday for Texas, making the
trip on account of Mrs. Hutchison's
health.
Mrs. Schaiffer returned home Sat
urday from California, where she was
called some time ago by the sickness
of her father.
George White made a trip to La
Grande Saturday, returning home on
No. 5.
A wounded elk has been found near
Hanlin's spur. The game warden was
notified and came up Sunday morn
ing to look after it.
Freight train No. 2101 had a wreck
at Casey. Three boxcars were off
the track. The accident delayed Nos.
5 and 4 for several hours.
A dance was piven in Kamela hall
Saturday night. Several were pres
ent from Meaeham and Duncan. Ev
eryone reported having had a good
time. The music and supper were
good.
Elmer Earl got a cinder in his eye
and had to go to La Grande Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Frank Hanlinc went to La
Grande Wednesday and to Meaeham
Saturday.
Miss Pugh, the school teacher, went
to La Grande Friday night.
The weather has been very nice this
week. Couldn't have been better if
it had been made to order. The nights
are quite cold. The roads being broke,
wood hauling has commenced again.
The annual report of the Chief of
the Bureau of Soils, United States De
partment of Agriculture, announces
that the fertilizer investigations of
that bureau have been established as a
iicparatc administrative unit. The work
of the division is divided along three
lines which deal respectively with the
three fertilizer ingredients potash,
nitrogen, and phosphates.
Potash. A plant will be erected on
the southern Pacific coast to experi
ment on a commercial scale with the
problem of extracting potash from
kelp. This experimental plant is made
possible by a special appropriaton of
$.175,000 for this purpose. The Bureau
also is cooperating with cement mills
l.nd blast furnaces to determine by
analysis whether the potash now lost
varants the necessary txpe.v-.e to re
cover it. It is investigating the ques
tion of extracting potash from wool
fcvourings, and is making an effort to
get in touch with companies in the
country which are engaged in cleaning
raw wool on a large scale. The bureau
mso has publised a number of alunitc
determinations dealing with various
irethoris of treating alunite for potash.
Nitrogen. The Bureau has equipeJ
a laboratory at Arlington (Va.) Ex
periment farm with apparatus for
testing the uulercnt met -ids propos-
A Fine Line of
CHEESE
Kimmel's Fresh Cottage Cheese, with cream, per pint 15c
Wisconsin Swiss, per pound 40c
Wisconsin Creom Brick, per pound ' 40c
Tilamook Cream Cheese 30c
Elkhorn Kraft Cheese .. 35c
Bluehill Pimento Cheese 15c
A complete line of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables at AH Ttimes.
Harris Grocery
PHONE MAIN 70 FARMERS PHONE B. 192
408 North Fir Street, Cross Track
SHERRY'S
cd fur fixing atmospheric nitrogen, j MAN V NOTABLE
DUmrt FARNUA XI
a son of ehim"
PALLAS' PICTURES
Dust in Famum and Winifred Kingston in "A Son of Erin."
bow easy it is for a strapping Irish
lad to get appointed to the New York
palice. It is Katie O'Grady, who with
out his knowing it, by a denying sacri
fice, pays for his passage to America.
Arriving in America, ho actually
does get on the metropolitan police
and so writes to Katie. But Katie
has been told by American tourists of
"faked" costume photos to bo ob
tained at Coney Island, and so does
not believe Dennis' photo taken in
ing is verified.
The reform party wins and Dennis
O'llara, the poor Irish lad is made a
captain of police. Katie O'Grady is
not told of this and a surprise much
beyond her fondest dreams awaits the
little immigrant on . her arrival in
America.
This stirring Paramount picture
will bo shown at the Arcade for only
one day, tomorrow.
Stanficld Bros., of Stanfield, havo
ued H. E. Batholomew of Stanfield
for trespass with his sheep.
The Frcewater town marshal is ar
resting automobilists without 1917 licenses.
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 cough remedy on the mar
ket, as I have tried nearly all kinds."
Earl , C. Ross, Publisher Hamilton
County Republican-News, Syracuse,
Kan.
No Handicap.
Captain White's experience as a
troop commander on the border should
be no handicap to his reinstatement
as adjutant general. East Oregon-ian.
The Wileij B. Allen Co.
Has been selling the same lines of pianos in the
La J ramie territory for many years. One, two,
or even five years' use is not a real test of piano
quality. All of our lines have been thoroughly
tested by our own people of La Grande and
vicinity.
Our method of doing business permits us to
publish the names, the makers and the styles,
with prices of our pianos (thus guaranteeing
the price as well as the qnality) without fear
that a former purchaser mav learn that he has
paid too much.
The Wileij B.Allen Co.
Established 1873
R. F. PETERS, MGR.
Foley Hotel Bldg. Phone Red 451
Evidences now indicate that Harry
Thaw has been away from home every
day he has been out of Mntteawan
asylum.
Lawson'seffort to "show up" some
body was sucessful. It "showed up"
I-awson. Baker Herald.
County Treasurer's Call for Road
There's roi.m fur everybody tu tills
big world, but we can't all lnive front
rooms. Exchange.
"That ac tress' lines are very uninter
esting. Why do they applaud her?"
"For her outlines."
In Kiisslu red egs are exchanged
uad raged birds Hre net fn-e as sym
bols of Joy m Easter time.
The pay of n midshipman at An
napolis is $iW a year, beginning with
the time of his admission.
A Whitehead torpedo runs tl.000
i yards, traveling part of the distance
t the rate of fifty miles an hour.
A kettle "sings" because the air In
the water escapes by tits am) starts
ami so makes the "singing" noise.
The bamboo tree does not blossom
until It attains Its thirtieth year, when
It produces seeds profusely and then
dies.
Kansas City is divided Into districts
and patrolled by board of public works
employees to ascertain paving condi
tions mid neeil.
ml contracts have iiten let f-ir much
:d(l;'i(inal equipment to extend this
vork. This extension of the work has
ben delayed by the impossibility of se
curing immediate delivery of the
r.'uchinery.
In connection with the work on
phosphates, an electrii-al furnace has
been in operation working on the pro
blem of volatizing phosphoric acid
i.nd fixing nitrogen in one operation.
Apparatus has also been installed for
experimenting with the Os wabl pro
cess ol oxidizing arm onia fo- the pro
duction of nitrict ac.l. Bed; those pro-.ct-ts
are attended w.v', techrrcr1 diffi
cult!' '' and no important r; ;ults can as
Jet I"- announced.
Investigations on city wastes have
teen continued and an apparatus and
processes for rendering garbage and
other similar wastes have been devised
which it is believed will prove superior
to those now in use for this purpose.
A full report on city wastes is now in
course of preparation. Some work also
has been "done in determining the
nvuilability of various nitrogenous fer-
tdizer materials' when applied to the
soil, and this work is being continued.
A study of the subject of ammonia
from the by-product coke ovens has
been made and published.
Phosphates. At the Arlington lab
oratory an electric furnace has been
installed and work on the volatization
cf phosphoric acid from phosphate
rock has been begun. A Cottrell pre
cipitator was installed and, while min
or adjustments remain to be made, the
essential fact that phosphoric acid
nay be economically collected in this
way has been demonstrated.
A process for producing sulphuric
acid has been perfected and patented
which gives promise of being much
more satisfactory than the process
now in use.
Genera L
The problem of producing concen
trated fertilizers containing all three
fertilizer ingredients or cny two of
them has been attacked from several
directions, and methods have been
worked out in the laboratory for pro
cueing ammonium-potassium-phos-jhate,
potassium-phosphates, and am
n.onium phosphate by processes which
are new end very promisi.i ;. Patents
on all these processes, for the benefit
of the people of the United States,
have either been secured or have been
applied for.
SEEN IX
ACTORS
"THE WAfiER"
Lyster Chambers and Frank Currier
Among Those in the Cast.
.Many noted actors will appear it
"The Wager," the powerful Metro
Rolfe production in which Emilv Ste- hounds
vens is the star and which will be seen Jarrett
at the Sherry theater the last time to
night. Lyster Chambers is seen as
Jeweler Thorpe, who makes a wager
that his establishment cannot be rob
bed. Mr. Currier has been seen with
Mrs. McKee Rankin, Dian Boucicault,
Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Mary
Anderson, Helena Modjeska, Kyrle
Bellow and Mrs. James Brown Potter.
He has been engaged in motion work
for three years.
Charles Bowser, appearing as an
other jeweler, hr.s supported every
prominent star in America. Hugh
Jeffrey is Duggan, the detective who
Diamond Daisy" and Daniel
is James Stone, the police
commissioner who figures m the
wager which plays such a great part
Don't Let Skin Troubles Spread.
Red, pimply ekin 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 germ,
soothes the irritation and quickly re
stores your skin to normal. For ba
bies suffering the tortures of eczema,
or for grown-ups who have long
fought chronic skin ailments. Dr.
Hobson's Eczema Ointment is a guar
anteed remedy. At your druggist, 50c.
SCENE FROM "THE WAGER.
"Slippery Jim," the sweetheart of
"Diamond Daisy" Doyle, the role tak
en by Miss Stevens.
Mr. Chambers has had a remark
able career on the stage. Having won
success in amateur theatricals at
Princeton, he chose the stage as a pro
fession after the death of his father,
although at that time he was a mem
ber of the bar. He has appeared with
William Collier, John Mason, Ber.im
Kalisch and William H. Crane, and
has starred in vaudeville.
Frank Currier plays the part of
in Daisy Doyle's life.
Jeffrey, to get "atmosphere" for his
part, visited the office of Police Com
missioner Woods and obtained per
mission to watch that official at work.
With him on this mission went Harry
Mayo, who has the part of the police
commissioner's secretary. Mr. Mayo
talked to Guy Scull, secretary to Com
missioner Woods and from him got
many valuable "pointers" as to how a
commissioner's secretary acts under
trying conditions. ' v.
COTTON POSTPONES LECTURE
Republican Improved.
The Tyrants.
To the victors belong the spoils
stems to be the slogan of the new
administration at Umatilla. In mak
ing up the council committees Mrs.
Mayor Starcher and her eouneilmon
assigned all appointments to the wom
en. The two male holdover council
men were given no more committees
"than a rabbit," so to speak. They
vcre left out in the bleak and chilly
air to ponder ovtr their worthlessness
and the majesty of the new regime at
Lmatilln. They did not even get on
the cemetery committee where Joe
Cnnnon would have placed them, nor
I'id they have the honor of being steam
rolcred. They were iced and iftheir
treatment is a sample of the tyranny
tbr.t may come from petticoat govern
ment the proper course for Cyril
Browncll will be to get a horse and
rive a new demonstration of Paul R-
I vt-rc's ride. Pendleton East Oregon
' irn.
Judge iW. W. Cotton of Portland, The last issue of the Union Repub-
scheduled lecturer on the Y. M. C. A.- I lican appeared in seven-column form
high school lyceum course, telegraph- I which Editor Scibird says is to be con
ed the committee that it would be nec- tinued. One of the big advantages
essary to postpone his lecture date cited by the publisher is that the en
severul days. The lecture was sched- j larged forms will enable hm to con
uled for Thursday evening. The date I trol all advertising appearing in the
of the postponed lecture will probably ; paper hereafter eliminating the
be made known in a day or two. reaoy print system, wnich is a curse
to hundreds ot country publishers, ine
Recorder congrateulates the Republi
can on the improved appearance. El
gin Recorder.
Is Your Milk
Clean Milk
"Milk is the most universal
food used by civilized man; Our
lives are largely in the keeping
of the milkman."
The late Elbert Hubbard
spoke these words shortly be
fore he went down on the Lusi
tania, and the wizard's remarks
hold good in La Grande although
Mr. Hubbard is dead.
Milk is on most tabled three
times a day. It is more easily
contaminated than any other
food. Therefore great care
should be exercised in its pre
paration. Is this vital caution
exercised on your milk ?
Mr. and Mrs. Milk Consumer,
you are iavited to call at the P.
M. & C. milk and cream depot
and see, learn, and inwardly di
gest valuable information con
cerning milk, its preparation and
safe-guarding.
Pure Milk & Cream
Company
La Grande . . . Oregon
Our Want Ads bring results.
Pottery
Sale
All Pottery, one-third
off during this sale.
"Black PotterylExcepted"
Come in and look it
over while the assort
ment is complete.
La Grande 'Seed
& Floral Co.
Foley Hotel Building.
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