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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918. LA GRAXDTS EVEXIXO ' OBSERVER r VUi'J i"WO Hats are noticed nowadays---. Is yours a Gordon It nays lt he particular tell vim whv. The llC'I'C. head. aitst We (Jordon have the Yon will say'" It look and feels as if iverc niade fur we.". That's the beauty about, a Oordon. Just coine in and see. '.'' . Hill's Department Store "Over the Top" By An American Soldier Who Went ARTHUR GUY EMPEY Machln Cunntt Swing In Frenes tcurliiin, WIT. by Arthur uui luyvJ , 8VNOP8I8. CHAPTER i-Flred by the news of tit sinking of the Lustlanla by a, Clermun submarine, Arthur auy Empty, an Ameri can, leaven lila office In Jersey City anil Koca to Enaiuml where he enlists In the UrlllHli army. CHAFfEH II After a serlod of train ing Kmpey volunteers for Immediate serv ice anil soon finds hlmiielf In rest billets "somewhere In France," where he llrst makes the acquaintance of the ever-present, "cooties." M pw A PT 1,1 R TlT1ftii()v AltenilH hla first church sorvteeB at the rout while a fler nian Kohker circles over the congregation. CHAPTrtK IV Empey'e command toes Into the front-line trenches anil Is undor nra lor mo nrst iimo. CHA'PTKlt ' r--lCilipey learns to adont h n-..-.:; tr ine Brnsn Tommy. "If you arc going- to get It. you'll got It, so never worry." CHAPTER VI-BarK In rest Dllltts, urn- pey gets his llrst experience us mens orderly. .. , - ntAWKB VTI lCmney learni how the British soldiers sro leu. CHAPTpit Vlll-Bnck In the front-line trench. Kmpey sees his first friend of the Irenrhes "no Went," I CUAPTBrt IX-EmrcV makes his first' visit to a dugout In "Suicide Ditch." CHAPTER X-Kmpey learns whet con tltutce a "duy'a work'! In the (rout-Una TMTX'PTKR XI-Kmpoy goes "over the top" for the first time In a charge on the QermRn trenches und la wounded by a bayonet thrust. CHAPTER Xll-Empey Joins the "sill cldo club" as the bombing squad Is called. CHAPTER XJlI-Eucb Tommy gets an official, bath. ... VllAT'lTITi XIV-Kmpey helps dig an advanced trench under Uurmsii fire, CHAl'tElt XV-On "listening post" In No Man's Uuul. CHAPTER XVt Two artillerymen "put ono over" on Old Pepper, their regimental commander. CHAPTER XVIl-Kmpey hns narrow es cape while on patrol duty lu No Mane Lend. CHAPTER XVIII-Bnrk In rest billet" Empty writes an.t stages a farce comedy. CHAPTF.R XIX Hnldlers have many ways to amuse thcmtteyes while "on their own." .. ' I CHAPTER XIX. ' On Hit Own. 1 Of course Tommy cannot nlwnys lie producing pluys under Are but while In rest billots lie linn numerous other ways of amusing himself, lie Is a great gambler, hut never jilnys for large smites. Generally, In each com pany, you will find a regular Cnnllcld. This man bunks neurly nil Iho itnines of chnnce and Is nn undisputed uullinr lly on the rules of gambling, when ever there Is mi argument among the Tommies uhnut some uneermlii point us to whether IlougliUm is entitled to Wulklns' 8lxieiH-e, the innlter Is tnken to the recuKiilxcd nuihortty mid his (le- clslou Is final. The two most popular gnmes tire "Urtiwn tuid Anchor" und "Houko." The purnpliernnlla used In "Crown nnd Anchor" consists of a piece of ean vns two feet by three feet. This is divided Into six equal squares. In these squares ore painted n club, illitninntl. heart, spade, erown, nnd tin Hnchor, one device to n square. There nre three dice used, eneli dice marked the siime us the rnnvus. The banker sets up Ills giiiuhlliig out lit In the corner ot it billet and Blurts bnlly-hoolnc until a erowd of Tommies gathers around; then the game starts. The Tommies pltiec bets on the squures, the erowu or anchor being played the most. The hunker theu rolls his three dice and collects or iys out us the case may be. If you play the crown and one shows up on the dice, you net even money, If two show tip. you receive two to one, and If three), three to one. If the crowu does not up pour nnd ymi have bet on It, you lose, and so on. The pen-enliige for the bunker Is large If every square i is Played, but If the crowd Is partial to, IV conic in and let its styles and shapes are particular hat for your say two MiuareK, he bus to trust to luck. The bunker generally wins, The Kitine of "House" Is very popular ulso. It takes two men to run it. This giune consists of numerous squares of cardboard containing three rows of numbers, Ave numbers to a row. The numbers run from one to ninety. Each curd bus u different combination. The French "ostuinlnets" In the vll ItiKeR are open from eleven in tlio morn lug until one In the afternoon la uc cordunce with urniy orders. . After dinner the Tommies cougre gute ut these places to drink French beer at a penny a gluss uml piny "House." ,,As soon as the estnnilnct is sufl eleutly crowded the proprietors of Hie "House" gumo get busy nnd, us they term It, "form u school." This consists of going around nnd selling curds at , u frnnc each. If they have ten in the, school, the backers of the gitmo dc duct two fruncs for their trouble mid the winner gets eight fruncs. Then the gnme slnrts. Eucli buyer places his curd before him oil the ta ble, first breaking un mutches Into lif ted! pieces. One of the backers of the gnme lins i a small cloth bug In which nre ninety card hoard squares, each with a num ber printed thereon, from one to nluo- ity. He raps on the tuhle and cries j j out:. "Eyes down, my lucky luds." I All noise ceases nnd every one Is at- 1 tentlon. . The croupier places his hand In the bug und draws forth n numbered squnro uud Immediately calls out the number. The innn who owns the card with Unit .particular number on it, covers the squnro with a mutch. The one who covers the lirtceu numbers on big curd first shouts "House." The other, bucker Immediately comes kover to hi in and verifies the curd by culling out the numbers thereon to thn mini wllh the bug. As ench number Is culled ho picks It out ot the ones picked from the bug and suys, "ltlgbl." If the count Is right he shouts, "House correct, puy the lucky geiitleiiuin, und sell him a curd for the next school." The "lucky gentleman" generally buys one unless lie litis u miser truce lu bis veins. Then another collection Is ninde, n school formed, nnd they ca try on w llh the gnme. The culler-out has ninny nlckiiumes for the numbers such us "Kelly's liyc" for one, "Leg's Kleven" for eleven; "Cllckety-cllck" for sixty-six, or "Top of the house" memiliig ninety. The game Is honest and quite en joyable. Sometimes you have fourteen minihcrs on your card covered ami yon nre waiting for the fifteenth to be culled. In an Imploring voice you cull out, "Come on, Wntklns, chum, I'm sweating oil 'Kelly's Kye,' " Wntkins generally replies, "Well, keep out of it draft, you'll cntch cold." Another game Is "I'mitoon," plnyed with curds; It is the same us our "lllaek Jnek," or "Twenty-one." A curd game railed "Itrag" is also popular. Using it casino deck, Die dculer deals each player three cards. It is similar to our poker, except for the fuel. Hint you only iise'three cards mid cannot draw. The deck Is never shuflled until n mn i shows three of n kind or a "prlle" as it Is culled. The vultie of the hnnds are, high curd, a pnlr, a run, a flush or three ot u kind or "prlle." The limit Is generally a penny, so It IB bard to win a fortune. The next In popularity In a curd guine railed "Nap." It Is well named. Kvery time 1 played It 1 went to sleep. Whist nntl solo whist nro played by the highbrows of the company. When the gnuiblers tire of nil other games they try "Bunker mid Broker," . So you see, Mr. Atkins hns bis fun mixed In wllh bis hardships ami, con trary In popular belief, Hie rank nnd file of the British tinny In the trenches s one big happy family. Now In Vlr-1 glnln, nt school, I v ns fed on old Mc- (lufTy's primary reaiicr, which gave me Mil opinion of un Kiigiisliinun about equal to a "ft Minute Man's backed up by u Slnu Feluer's. But I found Tom- Iu"y 'I"1 iff. best iiiuin im3 14 e'B - llf inti ii through mi.l llirnugli. lie MeVM Ibliiks of Liuictlni i-is iimcem, If una inukes a rosily ii. .,inke uud Tommy juiys wllh his bloo.i. there Is u gvn ; oral eonileuiuiilloii of the iilfieer. He i Is Just pitied. II Is PXHelly the Kiime us It wus with Hie. Light HrUutle ut . llulucluvn, to say i:..ililng of liulllpoli, , Neuve ('Impede lir.J l.oos. IVrsouully ; I remember u Hale Incident where twenty of us were sent on n trench mid, only two of us returning, but I will tell this story Inter on. I said It wus a big happy family, und ' so it Is, but us In ull happy fumbles, there lire servants, so In the British army I here are ulso servants, ottlcers' servants, or "O. S." us they lire (oruied. Ill the American urniy the common niitue for them Is "dog robbers." From a controversy In the Kngllsh pupers, I Winston Churchill ninde the i.tute- inenl, us fur as I can remember. Hint I ho officers' servants In the British forces totaled neurly two hundred thousand. He claimed Hint this re moved' two hundred thousand excep tionally good und well-trnlneil fighters .from tbo actual firing line, claiming Unit the officers, when selecting u man for servant's duly, generally picked the mini who timl been out the longest and knew the ropes. But from my observation I Hud (hat a lurgu percrulugo of the servants do go over the top, but behind the lines they very seldom engage lu digging (turtles, futlgites, parades, or drills. This work Is ns necessary as uctuully eiiguging In nn attack, therefore I think It would he safe to any that the nll round work of the two hundred thou sand Is about equal to fifty thousand men who nre on straight military du ties. In numerous liistnnces, officers' servants hold the rank of Innce-cnrpo-ruls und they ussume the same duties uud uulhorlty of a butler, the one stripe giving hltn precedence over the other servants. : . " There lire lots of amusing stories told of "O. S." One day one of our innjors went Into the servants' billet und commenced "blinding" ut them, saying that his Jiorsc had no straw and Hint he per sonally knew Unit struw hud been Is sued for this purpose. He called the Inuce-corporal to account. The cor poral answered, "lSllnto me, sir, the struw wus issued, but there wasn't enough left over from the servants' beds; In l'uct, wo had to use some of the 'ay to 'elp out, sir." It Is needless to suy that the serv ants dispensed with their soft beds that particular night. Nevertheless It Is not the fault of the Individual officer, It Is Just the sur vival of a quaint oltl English custom. 'ou know mi Englishman cannot be changed 111 u day. , lint the average English officer is a good sport. He will sit on u fire step nnd listen respectfully to I'rlvute Jones' theory of the wuy the war should be conducted, . This war Is I grntltnilly ' crumblllli; the'' once- Insure t immutable wnll of enstu. : ' ' j You would be convinced of this If you could see King George go uinong , his men on an Inspecting tour under I tire, or pause before it little wooden cross In jiome shell-tossed field with tears In his eyes its he rends the In- scrlptlon. And u Utile Inter perhups hcntl over a wounded man on a stretch- j er, putting him on the head. i ' More Ibun once in a hospital I have : Seen tilled lied Cross nurse fetching ' nntl currying for a wounded soldier, perhaps Iho one who 111 civil life de-' llvered the conl nt her buck door. To-j day she does not shrink from lighting ; his fug or even washing his grimy body. , Tommy admires Albert of Belgium be-1 the brigade machine gun company. It cause he is not n pusher of men; he , almost broke my heurt to leave my lends them. With Id in It's pot a case : company mates, of "tuke Hint trei.ch," it Is "como on i The gtin we used was the Vlckcrs, und we will take It." j Light .303, water cooled. It Is amusing to notice the different i I wus still n member of the Suicide characteristics of the Irish, Scotch und club, huvlng Jumped from the frying English soldiers. Hie Irish and Scotch ; pnn Into the fire. I was assigned to nre very Impetuous, especially when It j section 1, guri No. 2, nnd the first time comes to bayonet fighting, while Hie '"In" took position in the front-line Englishman, though a tiille slower, ; trench. thoroughly docs his bit ; he Is more ' During the day our gun would be methodical mid has the grip of a bull-' dismounted on the fire step ready for dog on ll captured position, lie Is Instant use. We shared a dugout with slower to think ; tbi.t Is the renson why ! the Lewis gunners. At "stand to" we Iio never knows vfv.n he Is licked.- would mount our gun ou the parapet Twenty minutes before going over; nnd go on natch Inside It until "stand the top tbo Engllsl Tommy will sit on i down" In tho morning. Then Iho gun tho lire step nnd tnorouguly cxninliie j would he dismounted und ngidn placed the mechanism of I.;:, rllle to see Hint It ; in rendlness bn the fire step. Is In working order mid will lire prop-i We did eight dnys In the front-line erly. After this ev. nliiiillon he Is sat- trench without anything unusual hnp lslled mid rendy to incel Ihn Bodies. ! penl'iig outside of the ordinary trench lint the lrlshmui. or Si otchnian sits : routine. On the night that we were to on the llro stop, hi rlllo Willi bayonet "carry out," a bombing rnld iigninst the fixed between his knees, the butt of which perhaps is sinking Into (lie mud the bolt couldn't bn opened wllh u team of horses II Is so rusty but he spits on his sleeve nnd slowly polishes his bayonet ; when ihls Is done he ulso is ready to iirgue wllh FrlU. It is not necessary to mention the colonials (the I'ail'iillans, Australians uml New Zenliinders), the whole world knows what they have done for Eng bind. The Australian nnd New Kealunder Is termed the VAnznc," taking the mime from the first letters of their of llclnl d-situation, Australian nnd New Zealand urniy corps. Tommy divides the Germnn army Into three clusses nccording to their lighting abilities. They rank as fol lows; Prussians, Bavurtnns and Sux ons. When up' against a Prussian regi ment 11 Is u case of keep your nnpper below the parapet and duck. A Imag ining all the time and n wtir Is ou. The Bavarians are little better, hut the Saxons arc fairly it.uid sports and art willing occasionally to behave as gen tlemen mid tnke It easy, hut you can not trust any of them overlong. At one point of the line the trenches were about thirty-two yards ,uiurt. This sounds horrible, but In fact It was cusv. because neither slili rtiuld nhull ,' ,,,,,, fl.,mt.ue trench for fear shells would drop Into their own. This eliminated artillery fire. j In these trenches when up against the Prussians und Bavarians, Tummy , hud it hot time of It, but w hen the Sjix- i uu "took ovtr" it wm pii uic; they would l across that lliey were H- OQt uud would uot firn. Both sides would sit uat the parapet uud carry on u conversation. This generally consist ed ot Tommy telling them how much lie loved the kaisrr, while the Saxons Informed Tommy that King (leorge wus h particular friend of theirs und Hoped that lie was doing nicely. When the Saxons were to be relieved by 1'russluus or Buvuriuus, they would yell Ibis Information ucross No Alan's Lund uud Tommy would Immediately tumble) Into his treuch und keep his hend down. if an English regiment wus to be re lieved by the wild Irish, Tommy would tell the Suxons, uud Immediately u vol ley of "Donner uud Blllzens" could he heard und It was Fritz's turn to get it crick In his buck from stooping, uud the people lu Berlin would close their windows. . Usually when nn Irishman takes over a trench, Just before "stand down" In I the morning, he slicks his rilie over I the top, ulined In the direction of Iter-' lin, uud enguges in what is known us I the "mud minute." This consists or tiring fifteen shots In a minute. He Is not ulmlng ut unythlng In purliculur : Just sends orer eucn shot wltn u j prayer, hoping that one of his strays will get gnme poor unsuspecting Frltis In the nnpper hundreds of yards be- kind the lines. It generally does; that's i the renson the Bodies hate the man from 1'lrln'g Isle. The Saxons, though belter than the ins, hough belter thun the Prussians u uy'.n H,elr muke'upT'i trait of treachery in their makeup At one point of the line where the trenches .7ere very close, a stuke wus driven Into tho rround midway be tween the hostile lines, At night when it was his turn. Tommy would crawl to this itnke and attach some London papers to It, while ut the foot he would place ting of bully heel, fags, sweets, nnd oilier delicacies that he had re ceived from Blighty In the ever looked for purer!. Later on Fritz would come out und get these luxuries. : The next night Tommy would go out to see what Fritz put Into bis stocking. Tho donation generally consisted of a paper from Berlin, telling who was winning the war, some tinned snusnges, cigars, und occasionally n little beer, but a funny thing. Tommy never re lumed with the beer unless It wnn In side of hltn. Ills platoon got a whiff of bis breath one night and the offending Tommy lost bis Job. One night a young English sergeant crawled to the stake nnd us he tried to tletnch the German paper a bomb ex ploded and mangled him horribly. Fritz had set n trap und guinetl, nnother vic tim which was only one more block mark against him In the book of this wnr. From that time on diplomatic re lations were severed. Itettimlng to Tommy, I think his spirit Is best shown In the questions lie nslis. It Is never "who Is going to win" but always "how long will It tuke?" CHAPTER XX. "Chatt With Frltg." We were swimming In money, from I be receipts of our theat rical venture, 'nnd had forgotten all about the war, when an order came through that our brlgnde would aguln tuke over their sector of the line, The day that these orders were Is- sued, our captuln assembled the com- pany and asked for volunteers to go to Hie Machine Gun school nt St. Omar. I volunteered and wus accepted. i Sixteen men from our brigade left I for the course In machine gunnery. : This course lusted two weeks end wo j rejoined our unit and were assigned to ! German lines was pulled off. This raid ing party consisted ot sixty company men. sixteen bombers, and four Lewis machine guns with their crews. The raid took the Boches by surprise and was n complete success, the party bringing back twenty-one prisoners. The Germans must have been awful ly sore, because they turned loose n barrage of shrapnel, with n few "Min nies" and "whlr.s bungs" Intermixed. The shells were dropping Into our front line like hailstones. To get even, we could have left the prisoners III the fire trench. In charge of the men on gunrd nnd let them click Fritt's strutting but Tommy does not treat prlsoucrs that way. ' Five of them were brought Into my dugout and turned over to me so thnt they would be safe from the German fire. I In the candlelight, they looked very nnd Oregon Grape mot, made up with much shaken, nerves gone nnd chalky i chemically pure glycerine and without J faces, wllh the exception of oue, ai"." nl'hol. This can lie great big fellow. He looked very much i "l:l""'ed ,'" .;ad-t":uw M form in : J .1 pnso 1 like,, him fr.,n, th. .. 1 ? .""V CCM!' V"1'8' 115 dURS,Sl have Sold ' -. . .. .. I got out the rum Jnr and gave each a nip anil passed around some fugs. ' the old reliable Woodbines. The oilier prisoners looked their gratitude, but j the big fellow suld In English. "Thank you. sir, the rum Is excellent and 1 ap preciate It, also your kindness." lit told me his name wns Carl Sehmblt, of Hie Sixty-sixth Bavarian Light Infantry; that he bud lived six .-,! i-lJk ir city bet- to Coney years in -ew 1 ork (knew the cil ler flinn I ill. II hn.l lu..,,. ui,.,,.l ,,,! ,.,v.,r .,r i,n ii.. - wus it regulur fiuT 1 courdn'i'iiuli Ilfm believe that llu Wuguer wasn't the best bull pliiyi-r In the world. From New York he hud gone to Lon don, where he worked us a wuller In the Hotel Bussed. Just before the war lie went home to (lenuuny to see his parents, the war came und ho wus con scripted. . He told nit) he wss very sorry to bear Unit London was In ruins from the Zeppelin raids. I could not con vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen moving pictures In one of the tiermnn cities of St. Paul's cathedral In ruins. . I chanted the subject because he was 'so stubborn In his belief. It was my Intention to try und pump hltn for Information as to the methods of the (iermtin snipers, who had been caus ing us trouble In the lust few dnys. I broached the subject and he shut up like a clam. After a few minutes he very innocently suld : "German snipers get paid rewards for killing the English." I eagerly asked, "Whnt are they?" He answered: -' "For killing or wounding an English private, the sniper gets one murk. For killing or wounding nn English officer he gets five murks, hut if he kills u Iteil Cup or English general, the sniper gets 1 twenty-one duys tied to the wheel of u ; limber as punishment for his careless ness. Then he paused, wailing for me bile, I suppose. . I bit nil right and asked him why the . snpPr waa punR1Pd for killing un S'fh wllh . he plied : "Well, you see, If all the English gen erals were killed, there would be no one left to make costly mistakes." I shut him up, he was. getting ton fresh for a prisoner. After n while he winked at me mid I winked buck, then the escort came to take the prisoners to the rear. I shook hands und wished him "The best of luck and a sufe Jour ney to Blighty," - ' I liked that prisoner, he was a fine fellow, had un Iron Cross, too. I ad vised him to keep It out of slrht, or some Tommy would be sending it home to his girl In Blighty as a souvenir. One dark nnd rainy night while on guard we were looking over the top from the fire step of our front-line uciicii, wiieu we ueuru u noise iinme- j umieiy in iroiiL oi our iiuroea wire. The' sentry next to' me challenged, "Halt, who comes there?" nnd brought his rifle to the aim. His challenge wus unswered In German. A enptnin In the next traverse climbed upon the sand bagged parapet to Investigate a brave but foolhardy deed "Crdck" went a bullet and he tumbled buck Into the trench wllh a hole through his stomach and died a few minutes later. A lunce corporal In the next plutoon was so en raged at the captain's death that he chucked n Mills bomb In the direction of the noise with the shouted warning to us : "Duck your nappers, my lucky Inds." A sharp dynamite report, a flare In front of us, mid then silence. . We Immediately sent up two star Shells, nnd.lJi Jheir Jbllt jrou.ld see two I Continued on Page 4.) La Grande Taxi Co., Main 713 Calls answered promptly. Savoy Hotel. Toniorr'-v.- 'Thursday being the Fi'aqtiivi! nf thn unuc;n llr,n u-lll I De a c0ic)nll;'o of tnc Hoy Euclmrla:, in St. l'elcr's Church ut 10 u. in. Trespass Notice. People trespnsoing on my farm at the head cf Deal ennyon arc notified to i stay away from there. Parents who'ij have boys from 10 years old up give ! ! them special winning to stay awnyia from there and save trouble. J J I This 6th day of May,-1918. ; ROBERT DEAL. ; 5-6-nt pd. The life history uf Siies ami Lovers " FROM 2 TO 6." Thursday-Friday, Star Red -blooded men of courage are on the firing line and there aro mnnv anemic, weak, dircouraged men anil women left nt hoiuu. At this time of the year most people suffer from a condition often called Sluing Fever. They feel tired, worn out, before the day is half thru. Tbev may have frequent headaches anil sometimes w pimply" or pale skin. r.toodless people, tiiin, nnemic people, those with pale cheeks and, bps, who have a pour appetite and fivl that tircil, worn or feverish condition the springtime of the year, should try J alterative and blood pnrilier. Such a one is extracted from Uluod root, Golden J Seal and Stone root. Oneen's root a lt Ior mlv V(.ars aa i)1)Ct)r fierce s tlnlden .Medical Discovery. It is a standard remedy that can be obtained in tablet or liquid torin. A good purge should bo tnken once ''ok w ' persons who have a movement dailv. in order to eliminate matter which may remain and cause a conuinoii 01 uuto-imoxication, poison ing the whole eyst-m. To clean the system at least once a week is to prc- j tire health measures. There is nothing !t ' ' MltKlllta. i HOC 0 lll,t,llJ !1 pood for this purpose as liny pills ! mAe "P o' the May-apple, leaves of uioe nun j.inip, ami sold oy almost, nil druggists in Ibis country as Doctor i i Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, sugar-coated, i ' jeasy to take. . . mmm r mwm 1- u - That's fair. All we ask is to(,Prv niKl l(t us SUOW VOU OIU' ffOOfls and OU1' pll'CPS, ,v, . . V1lf ,1110i;i-. ,., l-,lnw wi li.'ivi. j "cmihv, nc uam un- m fair holiest prices arid V ou will cost no i,,oi'c than others ask Phone us your grocery order today HARRIS GROCERY Phone Main 70 nnd 77, Farmers J31ack 192 -' 408 North Fir Street Across the Track "United States Food Administration License No. G5026B." What Does L J. Simpson Stand For? " Your Kind of a Man for Governor" For Americanism, first and foremost. For Republican principles. For patriotic support of nation's war activities.' For the development of Oregon's vast resources, and the encouragement of agriculture. For frood roads. -For rigid law enforcement. For nation wide prohibition and women's suffrage. For patriotic co-operation between employer and em ' ployee. For national, universal eight-hour day, excepting agri culture. For better working and living conditions for the thou.i ' nnds of workers nnd luborers throughout tho state. For the greatest possible moral, social nnd economic advancement of ail citizens of the state. For an efficient stutc educational system. For a clean, impartial, businesslike administration. "Policies hacked by twenty years of practice." "Your kind of n man for Governor." is f : L. J. SIMPSON :',' (Republican.) Primary FRIDAY, MAY 17th Paid Ad. issued by "Simpson for Bldg., Portland, Oregon. ill- OIL BURNERS Your wood is gone, the summer is hero, that oil burner that you have longed for is ready to install in your Range PRISE TRAIL and guarantee cover your dollars. BUY THRIFT STAMPS AT Furniture Exchange Fir and Jefferson E. J. DONOIIUE Black 1211 Best Prices Paid for Used Furniture 1 1 i i MMejea Mr. Grain Are you prepared to handle your grain in bulk? Do not wait until Spring and Summer when you are buried with work nnd worried with labor shortage, but build your grancries now. You can buy the lumber nnd roofing paper for a first-class 1000 bushel portable granary for $51.58 and it will last for years. Sacks for the same amount of grain will cost you $125.00 and this would be a dead loss aguinst this year's crop. A granary of this size can be moved anywhere and can be filled directly from the thresher, doing away with high priced labor handling nnd sewing sacks. . The boys in the trenches need the sacks for sand bags for tho protection of their very lives nnd perhaps your boy is among them. . Spend your money in your own valley by buying lumber manufactured nt home. When you buy sacks pnrt 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 whnt you spend at home prevent loss and damage from exposure to weather leave the sacks for our boys in the t nches; help win the wnr by building gtanarics now. Portable granaries of this type are universally used in other sections. One trip with a good team will haul the ma terial for one granary- For particulars as well as prices on Union County lumlpr for all farm purposes, see The George Palmer Lumber Co. LA' GRANDE, OREGON BRING US YOUR GROCERY LIST AND UT US SHOW YOU OUR 600P5 AND OUR. . PRICES. for you to hrinc; in your gro- et, Mu.... v , nntl tliat our good groceries for inferior grades Governor League," 411 Selling "ii ii Farmer: .0' O
