La Grande evening observer., April 16, 1917, Image 3

MONDAY, APRIL 16, Mi.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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The Cheerful
Contributor
BY GRUBHARD STRIPLING.
We would like to ask the Stroller
why Fired Curroy adjusts his cravat
every time ho hears a strange female
voice at the other end of the tele
phone? Why Col. Ivanhoo always sighs
and looks distressed whenever the
words "Mexican Policy" are men
tioned ?
We wonder if tho Stroller is aware
that W. H. Bohnenkamp last month
completed thirty years of continuous
and constructive citizenship in the
city of La Grande? When Mr. Bohn
enkamp first came to La Grande Mt.
Emily was a mere hole in the ground
and old man Faulk was serving his
first term as constable. We humbly
suggest that the City Commissioners
create an order similar to the Legion
of Honor, and confer a veteran's jewel
and the thanks of the city upon such
men as Mr. IWl H. Bohnenkamp.
The Cheerful Contributor had to
meet some pretty tough bills during
"Pay Up Week." There was Bill Mil
ler, Bill Grandy, Bill Church, Bill
Sawyer, Bill Allinson, Bill McClure
and iBill Stoop wore you ever called
upon to meet a worse bunch of bills
than that? Some of these bills were
not quite due, some were long over
due, and some of them we wish were
outlawed. But we were mighty glad
to be able to meet them, even though
it did leave us without any visible
means of support,
The biggest Bill we ever had pre
sented to us was Bill Stoop. Stoop is j
so big that tho only door he can get
through without squirming is the en
gine door at the roundhouse. Bill
was along with tho K. of P. crowd
that went to Wallowa last month.
When Bill sat down to the banquet it
reminded one of an elephant sitting
down to a piece of crochet work. It
took Bill 45 minutes of steady work
in silence to fill the enormous cavity
ho calls a stomach but which anybody
else would call a hogshead. The loco
motive of the K. of P. special got off
the rails, and the train crew fussed
around about three hours trying to
get the thing back on again. Finally
Bill got tired, put his big shoulder
under that little donkey engine and
heaved her back where she belonged.
Then to the astonished train crew Bill
said: "You little animated hill of
white beans, if you allow this thing to
happen again, I'll tear your damn lit
tle donkey all to pieces."
. . ..
Judge C. H. Finn has had a varied
career. Ho has achieved success as
a school teacher, farmer, horticultur
ist, lawyer, and now he is adding con
siderable fame as a theoloTin. The
Cheerful Contributor overhc-r 1 a dear
old mother in Israel remarking that
Mr. Finn is certainly a most excep
tional and extraordinary lawyer ho
was tho only lawyer she ever heard
of who know anything about the
Bible.
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The Rev. G. L. Clark is certainly
a pleasant man to meet on a cloudy
day. It is said that his favorite pass
ago from the Bible is: "Blessed are
the makers of good cheer for verily
they shall be called the sons of the
morning." Mr. Clark's personality
radiates so much good cheer that his
presence would beguile a porcupine
his middle name
ought to be
"Merriments-
He's chased the
wrinkles from a
million brows- --he
will cnas'em from
those who will see
him today and tomorrow.
hi!
Simply another of those wonderful productions that
make the Arcade La Grande's most popular theater
An Ultra-American Joy Show .
Only Today and Tomorrow
COME EARLY
GEO. M. COHAN
in BR OA D WA YrJnNF?
U ARTCR AFT PICTURES
Its productions
such as "Broadway
Jones" that lift the
Arcade out of the
"mere movie" class
and establish it as
the one motion pic
ture theater where
you may at all times
see the world's
greatest photoplays
Broadways Greatest Star
GEORGE
COHAN
RJ
Outshining his brilliant stage career in a lavish photo adaption of his best
funniest play
"Broadway Jones"
A typical American play endorsed by the American public
An Artcraft picture at the
ARCADE
Adults 15c - Children 10c
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a lower price in buying. 4-9-16, 23,
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Spring house cleaning means clean
ing insido and outside. Dull pimply
skin is an aftermath of winter in
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do not gripe. Dr. King's New Life
Pills will clear your complexion and
Virio vonr eve. Trv Dr. Kine's
Now Life Pills tonight and throw off
tho sluggish winter shell. At drug
gists, 25c. Adv.
Mrs. Mary Collins returned from
The Dalles a few days ago where she
has been having a trial over her little
girl. Tho court has decided every
thing in her favor.
(Continued on Fago Six)
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Office
Phone Black 2001
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1708 1-2 Sixth St.
La Grande,
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Bad Cough? Feverish? Grippy?
You need Dr. King's New Discovery
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coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all
bronchial affections. At your drug
gist, BOc. Adv.
Feeding Young Chickens
Washington, D. C, April 14.
(Special) Youn; chickens should be
fed from three to five times daily, de
pending upon one's experience in
feeding, say the poultry specialists of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Undoubtedly chickens will grow fas
ter when fed five times than when
fed only three times daily, iur. it
should be borne in mind that mure
harm can be done to the young chick
ens by overfeeding than by underfeed
ing. Young chickens should be fed
not more thnn barely enough to sat
isfy their appetites and to keep them
exercising, except at the evening or
last meal, when they should be given
all they will eat. Greater care must
be exercised not to overfeed young
chicks that are confined than those
that have free range, as leg weakness
is apt to result in those confined.
Tho young chicks may be fed any
time after they are 36 to 48 hours old,
whether they are with a hen or in a
brooder. The first feed may contain
either moistened hard-boiled eggs,
johnnycake, stale bread, pinhead oat
meal, or rolled oats, which feeds or
combinations may be used with good
results. Mashes mixed with milk are
of considerable value in giving the
chickens a good - start in life. Tho
mixtures should be fed in a crumbly
mash and not in a sloppy condition.
Johnnycake composed of the follow
ing ingredients in the proportions
named is a very good feed for young
chicks: One dozen infertile eggs or
one pound of sifted beef scrap to 10
pounds of corn meal; add enough milK
to make a pasty mash, and one table-
spoonful of baking soda, and bake un
til done. Dry bread crumbs may be
mixed with hardboilcd eggs, making
about one-fourth of the mixture eggs,
or rolled oats may be used in place
of the bread crumbs. Feed the bread
crumbs, rolled oats, or johnnycake
mixtures five times daily for the first
week, then gradually substitute for
one or two feeds of the mixture finely
cracked grains of equal parts by
weight of cracked wheat, finely
cracked corn, and pinhead oatmeal or
hulled oats, to which five per cent of
cracked peas or broken rice and two
por cent of charcoal or millet or rape
seed may be added. A commercial
chick feed may be substituted if de
sired. The above ration can be fed
until the chicks are two weeks old,
when they should be placed on grain
and a dry or wet mash mixture.
After the chicks are 10 days old, a
good growing mash, composed of two
parts by weight of bran, two parts
middlings, one part cornmcal, one
part low-grade wheat flour or red-dog
middlings, and 10 per cent sifted beef
scrap, may ibe placed in a hopper and
left before them all the time. The
mash may be fed either wet or dry;
if wet, only enough moisture (either
milk or water) should be added to
make the feed crumbly, but in no
sense sloppy. When this growing
mash or mixture is not used, a hopper
containing bran should be accessible
to the chickens at all times.
After the chickens are two months
old they may bo fed four times daily,
with good Tesults. After they are
three months old, three feedings a day
are enough.
When one has only a few chickens,
it is less trouble to purchase the pre
pared chick feeds, but whore a con
siderable number are rdtilred it is
sometimes cheaper to buy the finely
cracked grains and mix them togeth
er. Some chick feeds contain a large
quantity of grit and may contain
grains of poor quality, so that they
should bo carefully examined and
guaranty as to quality secured before
purchase.
As soon as the chickens will eat the
whole wheat (usually in about eight
weeks) cracked corn, and other grains,
the small-sized chick feed can be elim
inated. (In addition to the above
feeds the chickens' growth can be
hastened if they are given sour milk,
skim milk, or buttermilk to drink.
! Growing chickens kept on a good
' range may be given all their feed in
a hopper, mixing two parts by weight
of cracked corn with one part of
wheat, or equal parts of cracked corn,
wheat, and oats in one hopper and the
dry mash for chickens in another. The
beef scrap may be left out of the dry
mash and fed in a separate hopper, so
that tho chickens can eat all of this
feed they desire. If tho beef scrap
is to be fed separately it is advisable
to wait until chicks are 10 days old,
although some poultrymen put the
beef scrap before the young chick
ens at the start without bad results.
Chickens confined to small yards
should always be supplied with green
feed, such as lettuce, sprouted oats,
alfaifa, or clover, but the best place
to raise chickens successfully is on a
good range where no extra green feed
is required. Where the chickens are
kept in small bare yards, fine char
ronl. o-rit. and ovster shell should be
kept before the chickens all of the
time, and cracked or ground bone may
be fed. The bono is not necessary
for chickens that have a good range.
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