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ISq jtran lEwntng hBrwr 1 want Ads County New; VOLUME XXIV. SECOND SECTION LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1925, NUMBEfc 69 Thousands Crowd Detroit Dance Floor When Old:Time Steps Are Tried Again Will Hit old fuutiloiR'd dunce i-v-r coims buck? This um'stlon , which Is echoed front every purt of tho country vi-r Ult(; Hnry Ford started to pupuliirlKc tin- music und dunces 0f ycsti-rduy, finds an nnswr In the Detroit NVwh In tho review of n old fuHhlom-d dance held iw ii n experiment in a .Detroit danet; hull frequented by the HU-calk-d younger set. (ifiieiais of tho dance had sU,' i,l tho dunce, for tin; cx press brno fit of those of another fc-eneration who hud been liti-rdlly crowded from the dunce floor by modern juzx music. Itut, they Hcurcely anticipated "five thouKjtnd men und women howling for tho right ti,diiunco.M the waltz. srhottlsrhi: polka and form dances. And Included In thosu'who participated in this demonstration weru ull uj,'e from Hlxtuen to sixty. "The .spirit or the quiidrllle, that iM-jrun In a lowly wiy must havu blinked its eyes in wonderment," won tho Jelrolt News. "It was eil throuuU tho hall since It was hullt. "itand clapping was lost In the Miouls and demands for "Moro, more." Tho spirit of the dance communicated itself to the young er generation and thry fousht with the old timers" for sparo to dunce. If the orchestra hud bern able to stand it tho jam would have kept them busy ull night. As it was, tho quudrile was no sooner over and tho rcgulnr hall orchestra called in for relief than a demand for a "rye. waltjs" arose, und to tho astonishment of the manugemont and others -who had declared the. old-fashioned dunces would never "catch on," tho floor wus ju in Tiled even moro than for the (lundrllle, and tho y'lls were just as loud for moro of that. l'lemled With Crowd, ''It. became neceswory to plead with the crowd to get off the floor und give other; a chance, hut it was not until promises had been megaphoned for old-fash - 1. ...... In tlm mwImI. nF Itrw... ulUi and tiinerf when the society I ion,Ml , ,lanCPH ovor' Tuesday that reporter gravely reporlcd. "the l"yn.,i,nB 1,kft ordPr waa restored. the hopelessneHs of trying to dunce in the throng depurted with a promise to return . next Tuesday when conditions m;iy bo better. "I never uw anything .like it in my life, und I have been in the business for twenty-five years." wild J. l. Wood, owner of tho Arcadia. "I doubted if there would" be more than a hundred try lo dunco thoac old-fashioned dunces. Hut look at ill" brave und the fulr wcro in at tendance." It was born in an era of kerosene lamps, tin-types iiiid fiddlers. Tuesday night, it fu'eed hltrh power ' flood lights, moving pictures nnd a super-orchestra aided and allotted by Jlen ry Kurd's four-piece old fashioned orchestra. Dunce Floor Crowded 'lt faced au audience ihut 111 orally jammed tho vust hull, jam med until police were culled nnd the big front doors locked in tho fucrs uf hundreds who tried in vulu to jam Into the soothing crowds. J 1 i'n ry Ford wus not there, but a piirly of his repro seiilaliycs nnd (heir friends wore. II was a different crowd from that whieh usually appears at public dunce halls, although the sheik nnd his shelia were not missing. Hundreds of old men nnd women ii nd thouKinuls of middle-aged couples crowded the floor from the first note tin stayed until the bust. ' - "It was ! : W 0 be f o re M r. a n d Mrs. lten fro volt, the Ford dnne ing leuchers, up pen red and. gave a brief liemonsl ration of tho old rush loned dances on the stage. Then begun an effort to form sets for a quadrille. Every mim nnd women of I hut 'vast oudlecc seemed determined to danee it. t took almost half on hour to drive some of the less-determined folk from I he floor .so that Tlie' set could bo nmdi! up. Jt. began at last and things went With a whoop.- At th end of tho first dunce n yell arose as has not echo. Sight Worth Kecliij; - -" ft "It was nJdght worth seeing. Thousands ffcro jammed on the floifr trylnp to take the three skipping steps .of the rye-waltz, and under the glare of the flood lights, lit for the motion pictures, the moving mass resembled no thing so much as a. great school of minnows Jn a nnrrow spue TURKEY PLANS Fi l'eiulleton Women Jit Venire. PKNDLKTQN, Ore. Tho numes of six women wcro included in the venire which has been drawn by the sheriff und tho county clerk to serve on trial juries in the January term -of circuit court. Tho term will get under w ay January 11, and Judge Wilson of The Dulles is ex pected to bo hero to preside. The women whoso names were drawn include 'Mrs.1 J. W. Wltherell, Maude Itocdcr, Mrs. Wilfurd Hond. Julia J. Sanders, Itcssiu Munsell and ltuth liuoher. T CONSTANT! NOl'l.K (AD The furklsh republic is going in for agriculture on a scale the like of which the country previously lias never witnessed. Hocognixlng tho principle that there can be no enduring prosper ity in a nation of oppressed and unwilling producers, tho govcrn- trustecs is as follows: ameliorating the conditions under which peasants lived. The feudal sysiem -.which ob tained during the rule of tho sul tans has been abolished. The over lords, who claimed vast stretches of land and used the peasant as serfs, have been executed or ex iled und the land divided umong the people. With the departure of the sultans went the tax on the peasants which look one-tenth of their profits. To create a body of expert man agers the department, of education has established thirteen agricul tural schools, for which there were 20oo applicants this year, and nlso Is sending students to farm col leges In Mu rope and America. Tint department of agriculture Is encouraging sclent if It; I uniting I h rough 1 he dlsseminullim of In formation, distribution of sends and institution of tractors and oth er modern iinehlnery. It has elab orated upon a program, to extend over tho next ten years, for the in tensified production of tobacco and the "throe whiles" of Turkey cot ton, sugar and wheat. As for 1 "resident Kemtil, he is so keenly interested in the devel- Autolst Arrested us Irunk. SAIjK.M, Ore. J. Wesley Taylor, who gave his address as Mend, was arrested by (he police here on a tcnn company. charge of driving an automobile while lntoxlcuted. Tho officers said that Taylor also would bo charged with having liquor In his possession. Ho will bo urralgned in court tomorrow. H. A, Foster lcnes for Miwleo. CLAHKSTON. Wash. It. A. Foster, president of the JwlHtou Clarkston Improvement compuny. who has been here two weeks on company affairs left for Mexico. He is in receipt of a telegram say ing that 60 persons had been killed by au explosion at an industrial property In Mexico, near the one which he Is managing for an Amcr- l'ami Homo Uunis Near KoUna. WKAQI-'K, Wash. Tim farm home of Casper Cleave of tho ltod na neighborhood caught fire, prob ably from a defective flue, Christ mas morning und burned. 1'art of the contents was saved. The house was two stories, with five rooms on tho first floor and several on the. second. The loss was probably J25UO, with u small insurance vakjma's 'kois skt m;v mark this yiiah YAKIMA, Wash. Yakima's an nual crop production for 1925 set a new high record of 47. 1191 cars, worth $47,no:t,til!i. according to a survey inadu by tho Yakima Morn ing Herald, The umount. tops the former record of about $43,000,000, represented returns on crops har vested in l'Jia und sold tinder World war conditions. Willi th single exception of alfalfu, .tonnage of every product In 192& ehowed a gain over l'J'ii. Fruit growers of tho district ured at $16,343,000, Othor Items in the report are: Vegetables, $5,610,260; fruit and vegetable products, . $2,336,200; dairy products, $1,448,766; grain, $1,630,000; hay and hay products, $7, 918,000; hops, $430,000; build ing material, $2,176,000; grain products, $3J7,000; livestock, $S,- 7'.i0,06O: livestock produota. $2,710, harvested a tonnugo which sot a. 000; apiary produota, $110,000; new record both for quantity and for values j Tho i! 1,364 cars of fresh fruits and vegetables are esti mated to bn worth $23,397,324 These amounts include apples, 14 miscellaneous, $1,060,240. Long before Archimedes, tho Mayas worked out a system for , measuring time, which is moro 600 curs, of which have been ship- accurato than any system ever ped and 1700 cars of which remain ' evolved in tho whole course of tho in storage, with the tntiil vuun being driven forward and bnek I opment that be is running an e. by some unseen power. Whit prlinvnlnl farm of his own on the mur. otuti neus,grny runs, were . oll,Hkirts of Angora. inieaiy sprinsiea mmui uie notmeti bonds of flapper and "glittering .smoothness of the sheik Jiair cut. WOMAN WKK JN IfATHTI'lt. AMIANY, Ore. Mrs. C,' K. Sho- 'If the Tuesday night danee Is! waiter. 38. wus found dead in a any criterion the entire city ofibuth tub at the home of C. A. Wei Detroit will be donelng the old- J(.r h(.n. ,y MrB Welder und her lime polkus. seholtisehes, iiia-Hon, who had been awny a few drilles- and waltzes Inside 'of a ' lnin)lU.M. A ,,iysiclaA who exnm week. On every ' bund putties ,,.,, thl. ho(ly lIml ,it.ath lad were forming for homo dances in v.lURt.(l hy drowning, nppur- the near future. Husincss men . (.nt ,,H. r(isim of a ruUUnK Mll.IL nnd their wives as well as those Th(.re were no bruises on the. body, in less- hrrpftrtnntMndustrlal roles. Mrs S,0waile"r. who witir'hor were present, nnd professional ,iuslmnd uiM liv,.(1 llt ,,, Welder men rubbed elbows with factory . , fop HO tJl( ha(, btM.n ltI workers It w-us a study in types , husband wiih at. and contrasts." - v J.jiI(im ja hf! lhi((. of h(! Ilt.i;if(.lL "' - 1 ',,. C(,uple have, no children. Wishing You All A Happy New Year and The pleasure and satisfaction of becoming better ecquaintcd with Joel's -Personal Service. CAm.K snai-s, TAiii;s i:yi; ALItANY, Ore. Two automo biles and occupants took Uj ferry boat ride down the Willuuietle riv er several miles when I he cable on the ferry nt Irish Rend broke, hit t he ferry niii n In he eye und Knocked him unconscious. Small boats were used to land the women und children pussngers, und a launch from I Yorla went up und lowed the ferry flow n lo 1'eorla, u hen- it WllS tied UO. The ferrymtiu will lose Ihe sightl of the right eye. iihANKirr savi;s ini-ant. OUKflON CITY, Ore. llnby bliinkeiK and a iiilt snved the life of Wilbert Nuhols. four-months-old son of Mr. und Mrs. Williu Nichols, or this city, on Clirlslriius duy w h'-ii th" 1 tu by w us pitched IhroiiKh the glass window of their sedan. When the cur skidded and partly I overturned mi Cliiikauuis heights roiid. the biiliy uus hurled from lh' mother's arms through a win dow to the ground. When picked up by Ihe fallier, however, It wus uninjured. The coverings had act ed as a pud. Kll Whitney. Inventor of the cot tun gin, "us a gunsmith, lie Intro duced sliindiirdi.ed pints and divi sion uf labor In his New shop. id divi t:il gun .AyNew Lark Convenient in Location Low in Price Superior in Service. MARKET JOEL'S GR0CERIES IS ft- V V.Y', -Jb& it. Burke Artanrn of Omh,i. tho young mn who Indii'Kl tjhihlp fanl'f to t-irry iounii in r-urv , thu n3'. It poetlble lor Ihourtn'ls of Amrlin to tour Europ t mlnlniu of .idiw. t ttnnn to In to to i'rom Clro lo Capetown.' the (ull IMifth of Africa, by tulomobll. U never bai been don, before. tk- ' world's lilMtory. now! L jsm SAVE On Good Clothes To clear out our cases and shelves and make room for Spring goods, we are giving you a remarkable opportunity to save on CJlothing and Furnishings of top quality and style. Prices are low quality the highest that leading manufacturers can attain. On Sale Saturday - The Fine Fashion Park Suits! One-Third Off Regular Prices Better Look In At This SHIRT SALE Even if you think you don't need shirts. right now, you will want new untra suunm ur later. Better make it sooner! Better make it NOW! Final clearance of all shirts. A great variety. Plenty of YOUR SIZE in the newest styles and colors. 25 off ' On All Shirts. Shoes At A Saving No investment will give greater returns than Inlying shoes at our January Sale prices. Same good goods as always at mighty in teresting reductions. Box oxfords and shoes in latest shapes; black or tan. Reduced 25 and ,20 Off Kegular Prices Hats'and Caps 25 Off All the late Fall styles in Hardeman hats; new felts and new shapes some wonderful values. Nohby caps; varied colors every one a bargain. Sale Of Underwear You can well afford to figure a year ahead while the January Sales are on. We're quot ing mighty good values both in union suits, and two-piece suits; medium or heavier weights. Investigate, and you'll invest. ., 251 Off Save On Gloves If you need a new pair of gloves, here's a great opportunity to buy at a saving. All-leather gloves, smart dress styles, reduced , . . W Off Itinil:ii- Trims'. 0 ASH BROS. i "The Store That Keeps Faith" '