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' SATURDAY. AFO.TTRT .1, 10 IS"
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We lia vp thorn in all sizes; in various materials
1 nt prices tljat yon ean af fowl, from your savings,
for that vacation tri). We Rnavantee them to
he dependable. .
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DICTION.
: The United States
through Its various
Jinn given substantial
government
departments
evidence of
deep Internet In tho
Ki'eut ' Metro
Hcreen ' spectacle I ','Lct We, Forgut,"
stai rliigMtita Jollvot, at the Sherry
Theutor today only.
.! BeeauiM. this stupendous specta-,
ele , shovs many Incidents which
hear directly on the entry of '.he
United Slates Into the world war.
cordial co-operation has been ex
tended to the, producers by both
nillllury and civil departments. :
General Lester, ill command of
'tho Natliiiml Army 'Camp at Yon
kers, Now York, furnished n. do
tachmont of three hundred troops
Tor service In constructing tho
trenches used lu the battle scenes.
These, scoiios wore staged 'In and
near the French village built for
Iho '.picture.' These troapr waifttug
under tho supervision of an Amer
ican army officer, who, bad' become
thoroughly f&mlllarj with . trench
construction. In -France, bnllt the
elaborate .trench syatem amployad
by the Allied forcti la defadlm
this village from the Invading Oer
mans. So successful was tht dup
lication or the trenches actually
iiHd on the French battlefront, that
the complete work was pronounced
1)erfecli when Inspected by an offi
cer of the French army.' . :;
; In battle Beeves of vivid, realism
theso trenches ware occupied by
Iuikc forces of soldiers ani .the
fighting was - the neurost- jposslhlo
appmurh to actual warfare on the
fields of Fiance. After the dotail
eu sceiien worn staged, tno scenes
showing the destruction of till v(l
lage were enacted with great rcal
1nm. Whllo ."Ge)'tuuil" howlUers
lic.lolied forth, tho village was ra
eil to tho ground by . gunfire, and
' tlici smoking ruins brought home an
Idea of the devastation of vl'higni
In wur-slrieken France, i . '
Also a Hud Fisher Mutt and Je.'f
cartonn. J ' ' 1 . ; ' , '
ARCADE
JtAIHirKltlTH CI, AUK ST A US IX
' "I'rtl'XI'.t.LA."
"Prunella," which was In Its time
ono of tha most popular of stage
- productions, nnd In which dainty
Marguerite, Clark was starred has
been roivcd by the -Paramount
Pictures Corporation, and wl!' be
tho attraction at the
Arcude Thta-
ter tonight, . ,
The screen version has been talt-.on
en bodily from tho plav and many
features . that were Impossible of new stokers, to see how it works,
reproduction on the stage, such as Huiterlieat Device,
the details of the glorious oli gai- "Do you see thee nests of long
den where dwelt Prunella and her 'pipe lying at your feet?. These
llueo aunts, hove beien Incorpom'-mcsts, which are In groups of four,
i d In the screen version. Tho old 'fit Into those 4-Inch tubes you see
sun dial and statue of love erected. In that boiler above you, and theso
by 'Prunella's run-away father ate nests of pipe by using the heat of
all beautifully shown. , . It he waste , gases from the boiler.
Maurice Tourneur, the dl.t.ttor,
ndinJiieil that "Pruuella" was hie
,-ivoriie play, and to It he has Tie
'voted nil of the artistry and talent
which have made him famous in
such productions
as
"Barbary
Hheep" 'The llliie Bird," and "Ro.ie
r.f the, World."
"THK AWAKKMMi, ;
MontflKtie 1avb and Dorothy
Kelly nro co-starred In "The A-
wukenlna;," the new . World-Picture
llrndy-Made which will be seen at
the Arcade Theater oa Sunday.-This
picture has that Indefinable some
thing ' railed charm In the most
generous proportions, lit Is a story
of life in an arthitsV colony and
elinff weeds
the principal , figures are two or
phans a man and . a girl. The
man Is called 'The Beast," on ac
count of his generul disagreeable
character , and his disreputable ap
pearance. Tha girl ,ls Murgunritu
and when she comes Into "'Iho
Beast's" life she entirely tihaupea
his character, makes him change
his mode at living and makes h.B
general tenderness coins to the sur
face. ; The story is replete Willi In.
clJ.ent- jThe staging Is the .most j
tefectlye ..seen Dn tho screen In a
long,' long 'time. The wholo pro
duction: Is an exceptionally charm
ing knd entertaining attraction.
nAILItOAl)' COAL Blll'I'l.Y.
Total Of IW.fMM) Tons To lie Ktoi-eil
- In Irficnl Yunls.
'That the-iO.-.W. H. &.N., does
not mean to be short of coal this
comlna winter .Is evidenced bv tha
fact that It now Has on tho ground i
in small plies scattered about, somo work disagreed with him so much go,
16,000 tons, and ..before winter Indeed, that ho hud to go 'to the coun
there will be at least 60,000 tons, l try to temperate. While away he be
The O.-W. R. & N. system alone gun contributing light . humorous
uses S.200 tons everv 24 hours. sketches to magazines and Dnners. and
which Ui consuuilug coal at a rupld.1
Vla tha t," aaid A. W. Pefley,
tpatlal roprawDitativa of the me
chanical . department of tha com.
pany, ' with headquarter In Port
land, "where all tha coal comes In
by water, the coal Is stored on the
water, In barges, built especially
for that purpose, and, as the coal
Is on the water all the time until
required for use, there is little
danger of spontaneous combustion,
i i'Not havlni these facilities here,
ybu;.'soe, .we .have, spread out our
coal hi small piles, which could be
easily handled In case of flra. Unit
Is why our yards look so ragged.
' .- New Locomotive Devices.
"We are now just Introducing a
few labor saving dvlcea on our lo
comotives," continued Mr. l'erley,
"which will be a great savig, so
far aa actual labor Is concerned.
'This huge device Is the 'Duplex
Stoker,', each one costing about
(22,000, but the saving In fuel anil
labor offsets the cost. We, have 40
contracted for, and could use twice,
that number, had we the time nnd
necessary men to Install them.
Under the old system a nidn
had to work hard to put in three
tons of coal an hour,, and sweat to
do It, while this new device, is cap
able, If need be, of handling seven
tons an hour, and all the, fireman
has to do Is to regulate the slides
'In the tulv. the coal being injected
Into thebollera by steam Jets the. flow
being controlled by the engineer,
as to quantity required at any one
tim It Is practically nolcoless
when ' In operation, and there Is
nn dimt flvlnir ntifint the Fnh of
the engine.
"I am going up the hill shortly,
one of the big Mulllet engines
recently equipped with one of thu
bring the, steam from the ordinary
3 HO deg. notch up to about 640
and 700 deg., according to the heat
In the boilers at the time. Iiy this
means we add that much to the
(efficiency of each so equipped."
Cause Of Coal Shortage.
Referring to the question of coal
shortage 'again, Mr. l'erley sold
that It Is due to lack or trans
portation facilities, as well as coal
cars. "But," he said. "It will lie
hard to convince the general public
of that fact next winter, and that
Is why tha government at Washing
ton Is- urging everyone- to lay In
their supply now, for maybe, next
winter all our cars will be needed
by tha government for other pur-
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DESTROYER HARD TO BEAT
Fierce Wisp of the 8ea Is 811m Built,
kooiCf kimuer anu LC-. '
structlv. j
The destroyer people-- have great
faith In the durability of their lltth)
ships. They un slim built and not
much thicker In the plates than seven
puges of the Kumliiy paper, hut maybe
if hut Is JJieJr fKifi'ly, ', There Is no get
ting a fair: wallop .at them. They
wade the issue. One tnnn compared
I them to a hot-wuler bottle. Try to
I swat a loaded hot-water bottle. What
, happens? .When .'you poko It In one
place doesn't It come bulging out In
'unotlier to make tip for. It? . Hiiro It
I does, writes James I', Connolly In Col-
'ler's. ' , ,
; now do yon account for tho de
stroyer which hud her stern cut off so
that Iho men In the after compartment
leaned out mid chinned themselves up
to the deck from the Inside? And how
do you account for tho way they come
bouncing alouf ut better Unm twenty
knots In a gale of wind and a rough
sea and nothing, happening to them?
(let fdioolt up yes, but, they come
i home, don't they? Thoy sure do. Aluy
Ibo It's the way they're thrown to
: gether loose and limber. . -. ir.
, Whatever It Is, thoy'aro dashing In
.and out of here on their Job of convoy
ing merchant ships and hunting U
: boats. They expect to get their humps,
mid they do; hut so. king us they get
inn even lirenlv they: nro , not kicking.
The chnrtliouso gang on . the .84!! soy
they are satisfied Unit they got an
'even break. (The 343 was cut In
! halves by a torpedo and made port.)
i'J'hey nro sticking a new stern on tho
343., When they get It well glued on
l she. Is going out again. '';
. ' Maybe th6 same U-hontymi can't
i always toll, some people have luck
I mayboVthaf same U-boat will come
; drifting her way again. And If they
see her first oh, boy! 1 ' :
BEST LOVED ENGLISH POET
Thomas Hood Made Hla Reputation aa
, Humorist Wrote Clever ,
' ' Verse.
Thomas Hood wns prohnhly one of
the, best loved of the English poets and
humorists, though often classed among I
the "minor English poets.".: But every
one knows his "Song of the Shirt'
which brought out forcibly, though
poetically, the wanted life and early
death of the overworked women, the
unfortunates of the poorer classes. His
"Bridge of Sighs" Is equally effective.
. These ore mimed aa his best works,
yet his reputation was made as a hu
morist, lie wns the son of n book
seller, born In London. His father died
when he Was young mid 'his mother
.l .a Tntl..U,n .h.u n'l.M.na
studied under a delightful old vicar.
He tried to become a clerk, but such
after his return to Ids beloved London
he was made subeditor of the London
Mugazlne. : i r ;
This position brought him In contact
with all the brilliant men of his time.
DeQuIncy, Charles Lamb and others.
Later ho started the Comic Annual, In
which he caricatured the people and
events of the day satire done so deli
cately and cleverly that the events ho
made fun of will live solely because ho
made them of Importance. '
. The Inst of Ms life wus spent on a
sick tied, and It was during this period
thnf he wrote his two famous serious
poems above mentioned. ,
Garden Memories.
Our present joy In growing things
grows deeper, as color and fragrances
of our actual garden blend with colors
nnd fragrances from long ngo. ' Wood
bine over :1 tho rnfters takes on the
semblance of In petite chambro verto
In 'Normandy whero we lunched one
September noon many years gone by.
. . . In April the clear crimson of
our tulips brings back those plucked
wild on hills near Florence In long
vanished spring sunshine; nnd the lit
tle plnk-tlpped daisies that border the
lied make one see ngaln those In Al
pine grass, high on the great slopes
above Iusnnne, with the glory of the
lake, and Savoy, nnd Mont Blanc
spread nut before; those In English
meadows In sweet, ehllly early sum
mer. , What associations come on the
breath of lilacs, or lllles-of-the-viilley,
or n few sprigs of blossoming helio
trope, recalling nn almost troplcnl riot
of color In a great bed of heliotrope on
the shore of Ijike C'omo, with every
soft shade of lavender, deepening to
richest purple anil a cloud of ninny-
tinted purple ' butterflies hovering
above. Mnrgnret Sherwood.
, ' Respect for Speed.
Human respect for Rpeed depends
chlelly upon Ihe method of locomotion
that Is employed. Human legs nrf one
thing, a bicycle Is another, an automo
bile Is nnother, and n railroad train Is
another, while nn alrnlnne Is "still
something else ngaln." All these have
their measures of supremacy as estab
lished by the records, hut In Sneaking
of speed In nn uhstmct sense "a mile
a minute" will probably never lose Its
rhetorical force. That rate Is about as
fast as any rational human being
wants to move when he Is on the level
of mundane things. For him It repre
sents the iirme of speed and always
will. Flying, of course. Is another mat
ter. That gives a man a sense of re
moteness which makes the speed seem
less terrific.
A Test of Time.
Another way In which a man can
tell when he's getting nlong In years
Is by noticing whether a reference to
the veterans of 1S sounds nt all funny
to him or not
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Job tv-lnliMg, The Observer Jllaln ST.
FIGHTING IN THE
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IwmawMiix si vmMiti'mmmXMmtw:-i'-"i'
I'lissnges on the rocky heights of
Ldolng some Of the most spectacular fighting of the war. 1 i- ;- tj-,' '
APPEALMAOETO
GOVERNMENT CALLING NURSES
FOR CIVIL HOSPITALS.
To Train For Nursing In Army Hos
' pitals, tof'lteplacc Those Now ;
j In Service Abroad. .
With Dr. Anna Howard Shaiv, chair
man of woman's committee, Council of
National Defense, backed up in her
call for 25,000 young women to enroll
in the United States Student Nurse
Reserve, by Surgeon-General W. C.
Gorgas, U. S. A., the importance of
this undertaking is brought home to
the women of La Grande today.
Shall this cttll.for "first aid", help-
ers go unheeded ?
' Women who.desire to enter this scr-
?f Tthe eovemcnt .can registe,
here in La Grande with Mrs. Peebler,
Mrs. Albert Hunter, or Mrs. Kay Lo
gan.. . .:.,'..; v . ;;,;.' -
, . Outside Registering Places.
Mrs. Minnie Baird, Union. .
Mrs. Chris Johnson, North Powder.
Mrs. Hugh Huron, Imbler. ...
Mrs. E. E. Anderson, Cove. '
Mrs. Mabel Burnett, Starkey.
The following accredited training
Bchools in Oregon will be used by reg
istrants: . - i . i
Emanuel Hospital, Portland.
Good 'Snmaritan'Hospitdl, Portland.
Multnomah County Hospital, Port
leml. ; .'.'..'-. ,; - .
Portland Sanatorium, Poi tlund. -
St. Vincent's Hospital, Portland.
Selwood General Hospital, Portland.
Grande Ronde Hospital, La Grande.'
MeVcy Hospital, Eugene.
Sacred Heart Haspitnl, Mciifonl.
Salem Hospital, Salem.
CL Anthony's Hispital, Pendleton.
St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Baker.: ,
St. Mary's Hospital, Astoria.
Dalles Hospital, The Dalles.
Mercy Hospital, North Bend.
OFF FOR SPKUCR CAMIS.
; There passed through La Grande
at an early hour this morning, a troop
train having on board some. lfp se
lected men from eastern and itoulhcru
states, en route to Vancouver, Wash
ington, to serve in the spruce camps
of Clark county. They lire incmbera
of the airplane regiment p
Bill Hart Picture at Saturday, Sun
day never shown before. 8-2,2t
DR. BRECKENRIDGE BAYNE
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Doctor Brsckenrldge Bayne, popular
In Washington society, is now a pris
oner In Germany as a result of his re-
tie Una vhn th. hospital to !
which he was attached retired before
victorious enemy assaults. He was j
serving aa a field physician with the
British Red Cress. I
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ALPINE HEIGHTS
V
ft
ihe Adamello, w'here the Itnlluns' are
, Watches on Trim Ankles, ,"
I Resident of Newark, Del., Buffered a '
(Shock tile other, afternoon when two !
well-known young women appeared on
I Main street wearing ankle watches.
j l here were several narrow escapes
from accidents when, drivers of auto- ,
mobiles forgot their wheels in the ex-1
cltelnent of the moment. ' .
Nearly every store door nnd window !
held a rubberneck and repeated calls i
of "What time Is It?" but the young j
women did not seem to mind, In the
least the furore they were raising.
TI)oy were nearly and attractively I
dressed. They wore low shoes, with j
black silk hose, the watches strapped
to their trim left nilkles. One old resl-
denter who got n closer view of tho
watches remarked: - :
"Well I be r I have read of j
such things, hut never saw It before,
and right here nt home." .
Argentine Meat-Packlng Plant.
Some months ago n group of Pntn-
gorilan capitalists sopght mid obtained j
a concession from the Argentine gov
ernment to establish n packing plant
in Ttlo Grande, In the territory of Tier- j
jrn purgo, the soulhoniiost district i
of the republic, The plant was to fur-1
nlsh n market for tho stock of the I
sheep and cattle owners of that dls- j
trier, nnd to stimulate the growth of j
Iho Industry there. The company or
ganized, brought In the necessary ma
chinery, and commenced nt once on
Hie construction of Ihe nlnnt Itself. On
Fehrunry 20 opemjlnn were begun j
with the killing of,10,000 nnimuls. ,
- ladies' Hand Purses and the new
patterns in small , Shopping Bags.
These are now on sale at very reas
onable nricc3, at Silverthorn's. 8-3tf
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Full line of Fruits and Vegetables, i
Anything good in the Market You will find
. it here. ' 1 ' ' -
Harris Grocery
Phone, Main 70 and 77; Farmers, Black 192 . .
408 NORTH FIR 'STREET ACROSS THE TRACK
"United States food Administration License No.'G60255." '
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ECONOMY"
DON'T SELL THAT OLD SUIT to tho. rug man,
because it looks'old it has a lot of life in it, and
needs only Cleaning and Pressing to make it last
another-season. TRY IT. , v r. '
, Zwiefel Tailoring, A. B. Rogers
. Foley Hotel Building, Adams Avenue. '
Mr. Grain Farmer:
' Are you prepared to handle your grain In bulkT Do not
wait until Sprftig and Summer when you are burled with work
and worried with labor shortage, but build your graneries now.
You can buy the lumber and roofing paper for a first-class '
1000 bushel portable granary for $54.58 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 against 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 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 la
among them.
Spend your money in your own valley by baying lumber
manufactured at home. When you buy sacks part of tha
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 you spend at home pvevent loss
and damage from exposure to weather leave the sacks for our
boys in the trenches; help win the war by building gtanariet 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. Kor particulars as well as pricei on
Union County lumber for all farm purposes, see
' . '
The George Palmer Lumber Cc.
LA GKANDE,, OREGON
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