La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 28, 1930, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextUa $fmtto lEuattttg brwr J, VALLEY NEWS GENERAL NEWS VOLUME XXVIII LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1930 NUMBER 189 OVER THE VALLEY Mabel E. Morton, Valley Nnwa Editor Phonvv: Residence, S26-J; Office, Main IT Suffers I'liinful Awldcnt . Clyde ' McK Inula of Pleasant Grovo suffered a very painful ao cldont una tiny last week, which t'lor a time threatened the sight of Jhiu ii.ft eve. l.nte renorts from lihn til the Cinuido Konde hos pital, however, are to the effect that ho Is improving satisfactorily and IL la believed the eyesight hutf not been Injured. .Mr. MclCiiwle wan sharpening tho teeth on hi burrow piopnratory to soon start ing Bptinff work in earnest. He had one harrow tooth In the for;?, Itnvo UktA Mooting Tho finul mooting of the poultry school which has ooen In progress for mune time at Jsluml City wns hold Tuesday with what has been roported as a very profitable ses sion. Thero Is yet to bo hold In connection with. this series, a cul- .Mr. Wood!! Hotter- ltelums Homo ' . 4 Mrs. Kddie IfloMand who hus been In the valley visiting at tho I hoin of -Mr. and Mrs. Andrew? Blokland has returned to her home at Kuterprlse. ling demonstration which will be an nou need tutor. , prof. Don Stew art of Imbler and County Agricul turist Harry Avery havo boon In char go of the meetings assisted by .Mm. Irwin MDss of AIlcol. These throe having been ulvlng uulle and when it becamo red hot ho generously of their timo lately took It out and tho first blo.w on jt went It from Mr. McKinzic's hand in such a way that it struck him in tiie; eye. The burn was very severe. He was taken to Jjl Grande with alt possible speed and given attention by a special ist. Tho handago was lifted for the first time Wednesday and it was found that the vision oT that eye had not been destroyed. Mrs. McKinzIo und Glenn havo been si ay I n g in I -a Gra n do while Mr. McKinzio was in tho hospital. ; o . fins CiiicMs J M I'M. Harry Kisher had for her guesiv. ml nor noine on mo ihiuiui City-Cove highway Tuesday, Mrs. Chris Jtertseh, Mrs. Halph Corn stock and Mrs. Glenn Lincoln of the Mill Creek canyon road above tho Cove. Mrs. A. J. Hecker of lower Cove and Mrs. A. J. 1-aird of Cove. o Mr. Stone III . Mrs. I'Tcd Ktono of Isl:ind City who .has been HI for soni.e time, Imln'oved considerably but has re cently suffered a relapse und Is reported as being quite ill a'-ialn. Her daughter, Mrs. Charles Luc Is hero curing for her. , Jfa Kin J. I). Dubbin of the Moss Chapel neighborhood hus been 111 of tho flu tho past week. His condition is improving now, according to reports. with this special work, a lnNar Miles Woodell, of Dry Creek who lias been ill of neuritis was Im proved suflleicntly yesterday to sit up for a little while. Tho re port that Mr. Woodell was ill in I .a Grande mndo last week was er roneous, us he hus boon at his home all the time. - o -uiiuui riavintr oeon nem carry in ittMlirni uo he winter at liubh-r. this one at Mrrt Hallie R.inrieraon s aeun Island Uiy and one just coming at hrr ,IOII1(0 lu l)ry Cfe(k nftttr on at Allcel..' Their aorvlcos havo I her Pcond experience In the been gratuitous j Grando Hondo hospital. Sho Is very much improved In health. Heaiillfylng IMai-o 0 Havo Ihtby (ilii Friends In Iho valley have to-,-' celved word within tho last few days of Iho bh'th of a buby daugh-1 tor to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Shafer, As soon ns tho weather gets a bit warmer Mr. and Mrs, ltuy Dun cun on tho Mill Creek canyon road expect to have tho work on their practically new homo com pleted. They urn working on the exterior now making the walks, etc., imc putting in rock gardens. A very line refrigerating room has been built in the busemcnt of tho new homo which Is said to be very successful there and would be workable In other piuccs also. o . Visits In Country Miss Lilian Knuulz and M.tss' HVIen Jean Hpcckhnrt of the Iowa district are enjoying visits from their doting grandmother, Mrs. John Kpockhart of La Grunde this week. Jast evening they t wore joined by Mr. Hpeckhart and I lev. O. L. - Kendo!) for dinner Homo Front l'orllnml Mr. und Mrs. Pete Kvanson liv ing on the Island Clly-Covc high way hu.vc relumed to their co.un tiy homo after having spent the winter months in Portland, a win tor's vacation which they are re ported to havo thoroughly enjoyed. : At Hot Luke - Mrs. Alex Kobcrtson of Covo , avenue Wiho hus been recuperating formerly of this valley but now re-- from tin -operation ot curly wln- slding in Stockton, Cul. This is tor is at the ljike again taking tho first daughter In tho Shufer" further treatments, family which has five hoya. ' ' ; ." . ' ' i ii Electing ami Shower . i At the regular meeting of the ' creditable performance. , Island City aid society held yes- ' o ! terday at the home of Mrs. I-imjna Ablo To Ito Out- Aged I July Ill Mrs. William Schroeder of Island City has been reported as being HI at her home (his week. Lat est reports woro that sho was bettor. - o Has HI H Inlay Party Theie was a. very happy birthday dinner given Sunday at the iconic of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Klsher on the lowrer Covo road, that day hav ing been the birthday of Mr. Klsh or himself. Mrs. Fisher served a wonderful dinner at noon, hr guests being MY. and Mrs. Charles Gray, M)r. nnd Mrs. G. M. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Klsher nnd chil dren Josephine and J. Now ton. Kmmi Good Season Prof. J. W. King, principal of the Imbler school Is expecting a very good baseball season from present prospects. In splto "of the fact that five regulars woro lot last spring. The team has already been organized and plays Its flisi. gamo a week from today with Covo at Imbler. Tula! 'Kempy' To Town Membeis of tho Sinnmervlll; ltebckuh lodge uro looking for ward to Monday evening when they repeal their home talent, piny "Konvpy" at Iho North Side L. D. S. recreational hall on Kir st reel. The play went over big last week at Sumiiiervllle, playing to a cu paclly house. They have consld crahle dramatic. talent ut this, cen ter In tho valley and each year they put on a number of very A SEASONABLE RECIPE Old Time Soft (iliigoiiirentl One cup brow n sugar. On tablespoon buttor. One egg. Three cups flour. Two teaspoons cinnamon. One and one-half teaspoona gin ger. One-half teaspoon allspice. One and one-thhd cups butter milk or sour milk. Two teaspoons soda. One-fourth cup hot water. One cup niolasscH. Cram butter and sugar togeth er.' then add the egg well beat en .Sift the flour with tho spices and add alternately with tho butter milk, to. which tho soda dissolved In hut water has been added. Stir In the molasses. Muko In a flat oiled and floured pun In a fairly hot oven. Prosperity In Dairying Proves Helpf ul to All In a bulletin just issued by the' Oregon State college, tho effect on other, In fact on all lines of Indus try as the dairy business succeeds or fails Ih pointed out. (Hunker, grocer, uuto- agency, hardware dealer, farm implement dealer, dry goods dealer, even con fectlouaiies, drug stores, and bak eries a strongly linked chain In which all industries tire joined with tho dairy farmer, a chain in which tho dairyman is the key link, reads the bulletin. . l-'armers lncomo goes back di rectly Into the community. Money fiom the sale of butter substitutes, practically alt of which are manu factured out of tho state, is sent away from the state and never be comes a part or cutrrs Into the commerce of the commonwealth. In dollars .ami cents, tho dairy industry Is tho largest In tho na tion. It exceeds both the steel In dustry and the automobile Indus-, try. it accounts fur an unnuiil tin novel of four billion dollars, ol which three billion goes to tho ittrmcr und back into tho local com munities. "As tho agriculture of our na tion prospers, so, likewise prospers lis commercial Industries." Nearly fji per cent of tho output of our lumber mills is mild to be usod on tho farms unit tho farms of tho na tion use more, stool than all tho railroads comjhinctt, , Dairying Is one of tho major ao Spud Meeting March 29th Is Of Importance Potato growers in tho Grunde Hondo valley will watch with In terest the discussions and findings at tho mooting of potalo growors from oiglit states to be held to- tivitioB of Oregon with nil annual "irnw t Boise, which 1m llio income of approximately 1!5 mil lion dollars, nil of which goes di rectly to tho farmors of Oregon nnd which flows Into every channel of trade In tho state. On an average In tho state of Oregon In a normal year each dairy cow brings In $100 for her products of which $f7 is for butter; nloue. l'or each cow out of pro duction, tho community loses that $57 of buttor and for each cent de cline in price of butlerfat the com munity loses per cow per year. That is what tho cow does for tho coinmuhy und when the cow loses money, the whole community loses j IIMII11-) I III! 11 11 1 J- lllWlll-lllllK) I I'lll- udy is to reduce tho surplus oat (Continued on Pago KlghL) npocifiu purposo of , doing away with Bomo of the disasters expeii jnced tho last few years In the west and northwest, A very few years ago there was a largo acre age in potatoes In this valley, tho greater per cent having been pro duced for seed purposes and wtero passed for certification. How ever, a poor market has lessened tho acreage considerably in tho last two years. This your saw a good crop and a good prico but tho acrcago was comparatively amull. An experiment In preventing periodic overproduction in the potato market through elimina tion of purely speculative plant ings will bo tried in the Pacific northwest and Itocky mountain area if plans to be considered finally next Saturday at Hulse, Idaho, carry through. Oregon has been invited to have representatives at the gathering along with thoao from noven other potato producing states. The Boise mooting In tho outgrowth of one just held nt Walla Walla, whore W. A. Hhorman, ohlof of the fruit and vogetable division of tha bu reau ,of agricultural economics de scribed a successful project of this nature carried on in tho south Atlantic states Inst year, and of fer od federal financial assistance in repeating it In this territory. "It has always boen evident to everyone that excessive potato acroagea are'eausod primarily by tho speculative clomont," says K. K. Jacknunn, extension farm crops specialist, who attended the Walla. Walla mooting. "If this element could ho excluded there would be very few yoara ot disastrous prices. "Last year the federal noopk. chose tho south Atlantic states to. try out on experiment in control of this factor. Advance arrange monta woro made with till elements concerned nnd all wtorkod together surprisingly well, They sold the (Contlnuod on Page Bight) 7'i risky to cook a tot of doughnuts i at once . . . cook only N a lot oj doughnuts il A at once ... II . cook onl) I I AT7 & at a tme Whbw coffee is roasted in bulk the flavor is risked. That's why Hills Bros, roast only a fen pounds at a time by their pat ented, continuous process Con trolled Roasting. The flavor it perfectly controlled nothing like it. Fresh from the original vacuum pack. Easily opened with the key. HILLS BROS COFFEE 1930 Closing Out MICA AXEL GREASE All Sizes - at Bargain i IM)XT IlKKAK VOlll HACK TKVI.Mi TO OH. VOl ll IIAIl MS 10.T HIIN VOI It T I'. M ! I; It . IIOVT IKillT W I T If VOl ll WIIT-. OVI'.K TUVIXO TO Oil, Till-; II.Ml- m;ss in tmi; iiorsE iiium; it it to i s wm:iu; vk ark wr.u, koi;ii'i-i;i f lit THIS WOllli. We still have some Second Hand Har ness and Collars at a Bargain. GRACE Harness Shop Kiddle, the numbers of that or ga nidation gave a miscellaneous shower for one of their members; MJlss I'M 11 h Hermann, whoso ap proaching wedding has been the inspiration for a number of such events recently. Tho presentation which was a surprise on tho hou orco came in tho lato afternoon and included a wide variety of lovely and . useful gifts, china. glass waro, linen, etc. There was a splendid attendance at the meet ing,, which was a work, meeting, tho work being Iho finishing of two (uilts. -The pot luck dinner ut noon whs complete. .Mrs. Km ma Hloklund, absent for a good mluny weeks, presided over the business meeting, when a number of im poilunt mailers were discussed. ' o " CI is mo In HrojwJcast Noon market reporls over radio station K)AO will be' moved for ward 15 minutes lo 12:30 o'clock begi n nl ng next M onda y. 1 a nil :tl. The change Is mado In re sponse to many requests from far mers who want to hear the reports completely und still be able to get back to work by 1 o'clock. No change has been mode In tiie eve ning maiket broadcast which is to continue from G:JG to 7 o'clock. or l-ll Club Mvcte Moiuhiy evening the membera of the Tawanka 4-II club, made up of pupils of the Allcel school, with Mrs. Irwin Moss us leader met at. the home or Mrs. ilattlo Krls wold to hear the 4-11 progruni. broadcast from station KOAC. State club leader, If. C Seymlour who spent last week In this coun ty working umong present clubs and assisting in organizing some now ones, told of work over the statu und the Tawankas were de lighted to hear hint describe In , detail their meeting which ho ol- tended while here. Mrs. l-YIs-wold served some rcfreshm'iits utter the progruni was concluded o Yhlt Mr. and Mrs. Ule Knule and two children of Starkoy were giir-sts j over the weekend nt the home of Mi. und Mrs. John Dahlstrom of Moss chapel. Tho mill having dosed down at Starkly, Mr. und ; Mrs. Knute are on their way to North Powder to. spend th' next week:; at the home of his nvjthc'r. o Starltng Sm.-oii (Jut at l.mn liucknian's neur Ali ce 1, where they have the new chicken house, large, commodious and with every modern feature, things ure beginning to get busy, for the coming seiuwti. Mr. Kijek insn hus Just recently leeelved a shipment of Sana buby chicks of tho White Leghorn breed which ure now In the brood'-m and get ting good starts In the world. Mr. liuekman ha? a number of rice- , trie brooders, it 'il as other fine equipment and is making ev ery arrangement to cure properly j fur this end of his farming en , tcrprlsc. , t Mrs. Crurret Hloklund of near Island City In able to be out again after ' having hud a prolonged plege with an obstinate case of the flu. m o Moots Vhicvidy Jtlue Mountain grunge meets In irogu lu r session next. Wed nesda y at iin ;11 day meelinc at, the hull. Kntortaiii This lOvculng ! Mr. and M,rs. Hay IMokland of j Island City and Mr. and Mrs, John j Dahlstrom of Moss Chapel ure en- i teiiuintng this evening at the j Dahlstrom homo In honor of Miss I Edith Hermann and Howard! Smith whoso mhrriago has been announced as an event of,, tiie near future. o Dinner (iiiest. Mr. and Mrs. H;irry O. Avery of Island CHy ate having as their din- I ner guests this evening. Mr. and I Mrs. W. It. Ledbetter, Mario and j Lyle of Allcel und Mr. nnd Mrs. Krank Miiveunou of imbler. o Cicl New Kin Hubert Clnrk was In Wullowu last week and while there, pur chased a fine registered Jersey bull from mutter's famous herd, t Tim animal will head the herd on the Clark farm which Is being .op erated by John Dahistroni. o Dinner Uursts Mr. u nd Mrs. HVmry Hermann and children, Kdllh, Hazel. Har old and ('ceil of the Island Clly Cove highway were guesln last Sun duy at the Dick Kmitli home at Island City. Mr. Long Lpjilii A few weeks ago the severing of connections on Iho part of C. L. Long with the Oregon State col lege was hi lefly announced. Of ficial unnouncemVnt has now been made by tho college and Its com mendallon of the work of the spe cialist In horticulture who has of ten been a visitor In this vallev rends ns follows: ( " AHcr 10 years of service to Oregon as extension specialist In (Continued on I'age Eight) IMBLER H. S. BOY WINS U. P. $100 1930 SCHOLARSHIP Virgil I'hoato, senior in the .Siiillh-Hiighcs dt'parlment of the Imbler high school was u warded the L. V. scholarship of J 1 on hy tho counly committe, 10. A. Say re. superintendent of schools, ltoberl Withycombc, superlnl"iident of the Hastern Omgon Kxperimient station, and J. 10. Reynolds, at a meeting held Tuesday afternoon. They were assisted In making the choice by Prof. Cecil It. Griggs and Trof. Don Stewart, Hmil li Itughcs instructors lit tho two schools contesting, I'nion and Imb ler. Hoy Conklln, a sophomrire of the L'nlon high school was award ed second place, lOxford .SmSth of Imbler m;ide third place and Da If Baxter of Ciilon was given fourth place. According to the plan, each school represented offered the names of six students in this par ticular dcpailiiieut. Krom I'ufou were chosen Kodney Miller, Itoyal Wilde, Willard lOdvaison, Klls worth llalsay, Boy Conklln and Dale Baxter. The hoys represent ing Imbler were Virgil Choate. Ex ford Smith, Norvin Woodell, James Bed ma n, Don Brown and Claren Rollins. These boys Were selected by thfir instructors because of their landing In this particular fir i a partment and also their standing in school. It. Is a real honor lo come to any of these hoys. i The scholarship which amounts j to $100 in cash and the railroal . fare lo Corvallis is good Tor the first year at (lie slate college und 1 Is .paid by the 17. 1'. railroad alter j Iho student has arrived on the campus at Corvallls, I FOR BETTER SERVICE Through consolidation of our facilities and improved equipment in our three large stores, we announce the discontin uance of store. 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Square Jar . 18c BATHROOM PAPER Northern Tissue , ' 3 Rolls. ..25c Each TRU BAKE CRACKERS Full 2-lb. Net Package 35c MOTHER'S OATS With China Premium Large Package 35c FLOUR DIN A - MITE PEAS PINEAPPLE MacMarr A tasty, laxative, Majestic Fancy Sliced Blend Health Cereal No. 2 Cans No. 2 ' Cans 19-11). Sack $1.59 Package . . . 23c Each 10c Each 27c SATURDAY PRODUCE FEATURES BANANAS, 3 lbs 23c ASPARAGUS, II). 15c LETTUCE, 2 Heads 5C RHUBARB, 3 lbs . . . . . 29c RADISHES & GREEN ONIONS, 3 bunches 14c i