TI KSDAV. MAY 7, 1918
LA (iliAADE KVEIvfXO OBSERVER
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Afternoon!
Evening
Wear
An unusual showing, both from point of material
and style. ' .
There are soft crepe de chines, fine Georgette
Combinations of Georgette and Satin.
The styles are the newest, lines are fine, materials
unskimped. Priced from $9.85 to $42.50
j Hill's Denar tment Store I
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T-ir-i"ir'rr'rvrT,ri"i".
8IG. SALE DAY
riCTlKES FKO.U H.O.ME.
CEMETERY SOCIETY A II RANGING
; FOR MEMORIAL DAY $53 NEI'-i
work department at the May Hay! Mrs. Ji. M.- Oliver over Sup. lay,
ale j Her children, Miss --Mavr.ie '-" o
Woodell, and brother, George, accom
panied her.
Mrs. W. W. Graham, of La Grardi!,;,,.
was among those who attended the an-1 "" " "clp ""IW ' ni8 rur
nual meeting at the Summerville i ' The Boys.
metery. .': '
.Mr. Mild Mrs Kd rtmhoa nh.-. In order to brinir home the snirifc
.TED KHO.M SALE INJURED unm friends from Harney Count v. "f non:0 i'Jst little closer to the snl-
CHILI) IS lMPROYINfi. ' M. M. Woodell and wife motored to diers in the liie cantonments on the
. La Grande last Wednesday.
" ....,....,., . .. - I' Mrs. Frank Smith took her two-
SUMMERV1LLF. May ft-tSpec! o(l ht , the h iu, M
ial.)--At the annual meeting held by , f.rani1(. )nflt Wt.,,lleS(1 wner0 th(.
the Summcrvdlc Cemetery Society, it , ittc on0 llm,(,nvont somo minor mtl.
whs decided that a supper was to lie ntions
jfiven on Memorial Hay, as has been ''.", . .
-toe nopular custom for years. The ! Wm. Park wasa Vsitor in LIriii last
;.., r ...in i.. i.. ln. ,wcck.
Pacific Coast, the national war work
council of the Y. M. C. A. in the west
ern department, is asking for a photo
graph of the most familiar spot in
this community. From the picture a
lantern slide will be made and thrown
upon thc screen in the Y. M. C. A.
buildings.
An effort is being made to secure
me Alay liny sale was a success; ojA-nntu un.-.- ui-uMr,niK " photographs from every town
in every way. I f'al receipts-amount- uecamo "vmieuic. bsmlet in the west. The
and j
cd to over ?r,.i. . ;the brooders during a night of lnit.must t,e so t,.lt the rcpro(Ul..
Mrs. C. M. Hale whs in l.a Grni:de'W-ek, and were found ik-Hd the next tion win hv ccar Theilc photo.
on Saturday. ' jmnrning. frnphs should be sent to F. F. Runyon,
Miss Lydia Hug returned from L,l ' Mrs. Louis Meier, of Yakima, is Associate Secretary, National War
Giandc Saturday morning. lover on a visit with her parents, Mr. 'Work Council, Y. M. C. A., 519 First
. Mr. and Mrs. I.ee Fine were in f a and Mrs. Jim Kelluni, and other rela-' National Hunk Building. San Frnn
t; ramie the forepart of this w. itlves mid friends. jcisco, Cnl.
Mrs. Enos Fisher made a business j Madeline Oliver, who was bitten by j' A short description, giving the ti
trin to Elgin last Friday. a dog last week, is getting along nice- lie of the picture, and thc town which
Mr.' nd Mm. John Niedercr visited , ly. There has been no report from ; it represents should be written on the
with their daughter, Mrs. Hoy Spepccr Portland in regnrd to whether the !o;;i leverse side. Every cities and com
m Elgin last Friday. ihad rabies or not. jniunity has its object of interest.. It
Mr. and Mm. John Murchisnn an-lj Mr. and Mrs. Harlem Huffman mo-! may be a busy corner, old building,
two of their children motored down tored over from Elgin the forepart of : fountain, adobe, cosy park, natural
from Covo to attend the May Day sale the week to put in a few potatoes or. phenomena. Whatever it is, it will be
given by the ladies' aid society. jthe Fine farm north of town. In welcome sight to the boy away from
. Mrs. Ida Moatcs, of l.a (ir.vdv Mr and Mrs. George Hardy, whi are' home. It will be a reminder, an in
formerly a SummerVille resident, took i living on the Jasper farnrtiear Aiicel 1 spiration, an old friends and will make
active part as saleslady in the fancy Were guests at the home of M nnd'him happy.
ANNOUNCE
MENT
In reply to a statement juiMished in the Oltsen-er last Thursday by Y.
11. l!ihnenkainj Co., stating that : "The aiilumtihile business is rapidlv
weeding nut audits who have no ' faeiliiies for looking after their custo
mers op rendering' them service, anil is yetum; on a more legitimate
basis." ,
1 wish to state that 1 told the ( "he 1'olet representative last January to
Ket another a.ucnt as soon as possible as I did not care to handle their cais
any lonucr, so 1 tliink the liohuenkanip Co. is wrour aUut their weeding
proposition.
Kioni May IS, 1)17, to October 1, 1 T)l T. I sold fnrty-fniir new autonmbiles
of which the Auto-Klectric Service Co. joo'ked after the service end of the
business.
I hope to sec the new agents sell omewlieiv near that number f ears
in tin- same lenirth of time with all their facilities.
J also wish to thank the public for the courtesy shown to me while 1
was in tlie biwiuess. '
GEO. B. RICHARDSON
OUIiUNO the. farmer's
hare of the wheat dol
lar Is one of the war
time Jobs Uncle Sam lias
done since food control
. became possible. After
Ave. months of grap
pling with the problem.
Uncle Sain Is now trans
lating Into the pockets of both produc
ers nml consumers benefits derived by
the Nation. He has shut off specula
tion, produced a free market aud
movement of nil grades of wheat, cut
expenses and Induced a normal (low of
wheat In natural directions, and ef
fected a thousand other economies.
The Food Administration Grain Cor
poration, which supervises the sale, or
Itself buys every bushel of wheat pro
duced In the Nation Id its progress
from country elevator to foreign buy
ers or domestic consumers, marks a
new step townrd national efficiency.
How In four short months It has been
done Is lnld In the following episodes
wherein two bushels of wheat traveled
to market. ;
One tlno fnll afternoon. Col. Kill
Jenkins, who farms somewhere in Mis
souri, loaded his wheat Into a -wagon
and drove along the black road that
led across the prairie to town. When
he reached the co-operative elevator
of which he was a stockholder, h
pulled up on the scales, checked his
gross weights carefully, and began to
unload. The manager came out and
asked:
"When yon want to sell this wheat?"
MI dunno,H. he answered. "One
time's about as good as another.
these days. T won't weigh any more
later," he added, with a dry smile.
, "Wheat shrinks a lot," admitted the
manager. "I hear the Government
wants as much wheat as It can get
Just now understand the Allies do
eat a terrible lot of It since the war."
"What's whent to-day?" asked Col.
Jenkins, getting Interested.
"Well, let me see," parleyed the
manager. "I guess this wheat'd bo a
good No. 2 under the new grades."
"Grades? What about grades? That
Fond Administration seems to mix Into
mighty nlgh everything from rabbits
to axle grease."
"Hold on, Colonel," said the eleva
tor man, good-naturedly. "The Food
Administration Is not to blame. Con
gress passed the act nnd told the De
partment of Agriculture to fix the
grades. - They became, effective last
July. I sent out a letter on It."
"Well, I guess you better sell for
the best you can said the farmer.
"Lam needed at home." And he drove
away.
A New Order In the Grain World.
ONYERSATION'S of this
kind might have taken
place in almost every
lit town lu the great grain
WJ belt of the Nation uft
tW er August 10 : for revo
lution in grain market
ing was taking place. Uncle Sum
had started on this rcmarkablo ex
periment; he was going to see wheth
er wheat could be marketed minus
rake-offs to the speculators. This
necessitated complete control by the
Government of storage facilities, trans
portation end distributive agencies,
and the marketing machinery for
whent and rye.
Everybody was troubled; most of
all, tho officials of the Food Adminis
tration Grain Corporation who had
undertaken, without salary, and nt the
sacrifice of their personal connection
with the grain trade, to whip Into
shape the forces that would drive for
ward the big business machine for
marketing Aiuericnn whent A single
control; and a $30,000,000 nonprofit
making corporation to do the work.
This work Is n necessary arm of the
Food Administration, allowing the
Government to do business quickly
and without red tape. Its stock Is held
In trust by the President of the Unit
ed States. For the time of the war It
will supervise the rate or purchase
the part commercially available of the
800,000.000 bushels of wheat and the
50.000,000 surplus of rye grown! In
America In 1017. Its Job Is to find a
market lor every bushel. Irrespective
of class and grade. Under its patron
age, wheat screenings are moving Just
us easily as No. 1 Northern.- It mut
also work out satisfactorily the local
prices for wheat nt each of almost
SO.00O country elevator points, adjust
thousands of complaints, organize the
gathering and annlysls of date, Inspect
concerns reported as dealing unfairly,
solve vexntlous disagreements among
the trade, and deal effectively wltn thc
allies' purchasing agent nnd the neu
trals who may desire to purchase.
In the early dnys, following thejde
temilnntlon of prices for 11)17 whent
by the President's Fair Price Commis
sion, confusion existed In every part of
the wheat-producing regions. This was
Intenslllcd by tho Inauguration of the
new grnln grades, as promulgated by
the Department of Agriculture, which
took place nbout the Rame time, nnd
led to diverse complaints and a feel
ing among farmers that the Grain Cor
poration of the Food Administration
was responsible for both the price as
determined nnd stricter observance of
grain grades. But the corporation was
responsible for neither act. It Is pure.
ly an administrative arm of the Gov
ernment formed to buy grain or super
vise Its sale at the prices determined
by the commission, and It must do Its
work on the basis of the new grades.
Rut to return to our farmer and his
expectations of price.
Introducing Two Bushels of Wheat
Lying side by side In his wagou had
been 2 bushels of wheat Hint fate had
marked for strangely different ends.
They were very much alike, those
bushels of wheat, and to look at them
you would not have suspected the
strange and wonderful adventures In
store for them. Yet one was destined
to travel abroad for consumption In
France; the other to find Us way Into
Georgia, where It was milled and Its
flour finally reached a New York
baker on the East Side. But In the
siim of the travels made by the two,
as wo shall follow them, will be un
folded the International panorama of
wheat marketing In time of war.
Finding a Price at a Country Point
High war costs of production gave
Our Missouri farmer much concern as,
to his returns nnd accounted 'for his
depression over the prospects of his
wheat "grading down"; for that meant
a reduction of 3 cents per bushel un
der the No. 1 grade. But It graded
No. 2
The elevator would also deduct r.n
nddltlonal & cents a bushel to cover the
fixed charge made In this locality for
handling and selling. The 5-cent
charge Included the commission of 1
cent per bushel customary In 1017
among commission. men for selling the
wheat to domestic millers or foreign
buyers. . ,
The elevator man was none too sure
ns to how to get at the price which
this whent should bring. He knew
considerably more about human nnturo
than freight rates and decided to
"check Hit" the problem to the nearest
zone agent of the Grain Cortorntioiv,
So lie wrote a letter to the representa
tive slntjoned nt St Louis. That let
ter was reCerred to the trallic expert
In the New York oflice,. who transmit
ted the following rule for determining
the price of wheat at any country
point:
There Is only one price for wheat at
a country point That price is always
to be arrived at by taking as a basis
the price at the most advantageous
primary market where we have fixed
a price and deducting the freight to
that market and a fair handling profit
That Is the price to be paid for wheat
at any station, regardless of the point
to which It may be shipped.
Working out the price which should
be paid for whent at your station Is
n fine occupation for nn off day. If
you cannot find the answer, write to
the Food Administration Grain Cor
poration In New York City and Its
trallic expert will 'give you alii.
Finding the Price of No. 2 Wheat at
Sikeston.
AKE an ncninl example:
An elevalor mnn In
Sikeston, Mo., wanted
to know what price
No. 2 wheat should
bring at his station
when ' No. 1 wheat
at New York City was $2.2S per bush
el. Here is-how lie went about It:
The freight rate from Sikeston to
New York being 16.08 cents per bush
el, he deducted that from yj.'JS per
bushel nnd found Hie price nt Sikeston
lo he $2.1102. From this he deducted
1 per cent per bushel for the conunls- I
slon firm's charges, which put the net
price f. o. b. Sikeston nt $J.1002.
Ho next compared this price with ;
what he could get If he sold at St. '
Louis, bis nearest priinary mnrket At
St. Louis the basic price Is $2.18 per '
bushel, and thc freight rate from ;
Sikeston to St LouAs C cents per bush- !
el.' This would make the Sikeston l
price 52.12, less 1 cent per bushel for
selling charges, or ?2.11 net The St. .
Louis prico would therefore govern,
being advantageous to the Sikeston
seller.
If our Imaginary 2 bushels of wheat J
had started from Sikeston, 6luce It was : I
a No. 2 grade, we must deduct 3 cents . J
per bushel, which would bring the i
price f. o. b. the elevator point to
$2.0802 per bushel. As our Imaginary '
elevator man Is charging 5 cents per J
bushel for handling, which Includes i
the coaiiolsslon fee Juet mentioned, we !
deduct nn additional 4 cents to arrive i
at the price the fnrtner received. This J
price would bo $2.0-102 at the elevator. . i
Some of that 4 cents will return to our !
farmer If the elevator prospers; for It i
Is owned co-operatively. J
When Farmer and Elevator Man Dis
agree. '
" Had this elevator been owned by prl
rote firm or person, or had It been a
"line" plant, Col. Jenkins would not
have been so bland and trustful.
He might have refused to sell nt nil
and arranged to store his whent or he
might have taken It over to a com
petitive concern which offered a high
er price; for the Food Administration
has not yet nttempfed to regulate the
prices paid farmers for whent nt coun
try points. It does, however, offer to
sell for any farmer or farmers' organ
isation wheat offered at terminal
points, but makes a commission charge
or l per cent tor its services.
SHOW YOU
OUR 6000$
- AND
PRICES.
That's fair. All we ask is for you to bring in your gro
cery list ami let us show you our goods and our pirees. .
Ye know we have the best quality; we know wt; lm;
fair honest prices and you will find that our good groceries
cost no more than others ask for inferior grades. ' ; :
Phone us vour grocery order todays . ,'
HARRIS GROCERY
Phone Main 70 and 77, Farmers Black 192
408 North Fir Street Across the Track
"United States Food Administration License No. G50255." '
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OIL BURNERS
Your wood is gone, the summer is here, that
s oil burner that, you have longed for is ready
to install in your Range FREE. TRAIL and
guarantee cover your dollars.
TH Y THRIFT STAMPS AT,
Furniture Exchange
Fir nni Jefferson E. J. DONOHUE Ulack 1241
Best Prices Paid for Used Furniture
... ,
The Kodak business has so far in-.
creased that we have had to enlarge .
our room for these goods and all
Kodaks are now free fi-om dust and .
in plain view, so that customers may !
see at a glance just whnt thev need. !
Haily 5-7 tf. " '
BABY I-HIY
,lv" 'WHIM"! in Prt.lumi
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P'UhiniB. California
But nnl lh
V. me la
Mr. Grain Farmer:
Are you prepared to handle your grain in hulk? Do not
wait until Spring nnd Summer when you are buried with work
and worried with labor shortage, hut build your graneries now.
You can buy tho lumber nnd roofing paper for a first-class
1000 bushel portable granary for Sfil.oR ami it will hisl for
years. Sacks for the same amount of grain will cost you
$125.00 and this would be a dead loss against this year's crop.
' A granary of this size can be moved anywhere, and can be
filled directly from the thresher, doing nwny with high priced
labor handling and sewing sacks.
The boys in the trenches need the sacks for sand bags for
the protection of their very lives and perhaps your boy is
among them.
Spend your money in your own valley by buying lumber
manufactured at home. When you buy sacks part of the
money goes to India.
BUILD YOUR GRANARIES NOW
Be prepared by building them before the farming season
opens up. Be sure to get good lumber, well seasoned, as low
grade lumber will give you trouble in a few seasons. Don't
Use green lumber.
Save money keep what yon spend at home prevent loss
and damage from exposure to weather leave the sacks for our
boys in thc t nckes; help win the war by building gtanarics now.
Tortable granaries of this type are universally osed in
other sections. One trip with a good team will haul the ma
erial for one granary For particulars as well as prices on
Union County lumber for ail farm purposes, see
The George Palmer Lumber Co.
LA GRANDE, OREGON
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