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1896 Stock
Snoes
We have put on sale for a few days a complete line of Gentle
men's Fine Calf Shoes, in Lace and Congress.: , These goods are this
year's stock and their selling price "will "be $2.50; but as an induce
ment during the month of February we will offer you
These Goods for $1.75.
Gentlemen, remember the price. It's less than the Shoe cost
us, but that's our look-out, and it's to your interest to examine the
Shoe and be convinced.
ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
PEASE & MAYS.
Pruning Shears,
Pruning Knives,
Budding Knives,
Pruning1 Saws,
Tree Pruning Shears,
Bean Pumps. .
Myers Pumps,
Sulphur, Lime, Salt,
Dunne's Solid Sprays,
AT
WEB I BEflTOjl'S
Bicycles
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Bicycle
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Bicycles
Bicycles
XVIilTTS CEOWK,
Removal
Notice
Nolan's Book Store now located at
No. 54 Second Street, near Union.
T TygrH Val
ley Creamery
Is
Delicious
Ask Vanbibber & Worsley for it.
40c. Every: Square is Full Weight.
TELEPHONE K"0-. 80.
CREAMERY
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The Dalle? Daily Chronicle.
ntered a the Postoffice at The Dalles, Oregon
as second-class matter.
"WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1896.
BRIEF MENTION.
LeaTei from the Notebook of Chronicle
Reporters,
Forecast Fair tonight; colder Thura-
mi T T i - ;11 1 1 O 1 i 1
xuo Acgumwr win leave o u ciuvk
in the morning for Collins Landing
The faneral of John Bird will take
place at 2 o'clock tomorrow from the
residence.
The coming event in social circles is
the maeqnerade ball by the Workmen
and Woodmen, February 14th.
Just received at the Wasco Warehouse
a carload of "Byers Best" Pendleton
flour. This flour has no superior on te
Pacific coast- Try it. . ' d7-ti
Rev. R. C. Motor will preach at Fair
field school house, Feb. 15th, at 2 p. m.,
and 16th at 11 a. m. Communion ser
vice on the Sabbath. Everybody in
vited. ,
lne streets in Jrortland vesterdav were
very muddy and sloppy. In The Bailee
the streets are so dry we have com
menced thinking about the street
sprinkler.
Rev. E. B. Sutton, state organizer of
the American Protective Association for
the states of Idaho and Washington,
will lecture at the First Baptist church,
Feb. 13th and 14tb, at 8 p. m. Admis
sion free.
The ladies of the Christian church will
create a good deal of amusement tonight
by telling their experiences as to how
they made a dollar. Some will tell it inJ
prose, some in poetry and some by
pantomime. A good musical and liter
ary program . will be given. All this
takes place tonight at the Christian
church and all it costs to be present is
15 cents.
The beauty of the private residences of
The Dalles never fails to eicite admira
tion from all visitors. .Architecturally
this city is the handsomest in the state.
Ever since the fire it hire, become the
fashion to erect beautiful lsldences.
There is scarcely a plain-looking build
ing under the bluff and a walk on the
hill will well repay the effort expended.
The plans of them all, with only three
or four exceptions, have been executed
by one of oar own citizens, Mr. J. C.
Crandall, who, while disclaiming to be
an architect, certainly fills the bill
pretty well.
Sunday's Harmon at St. Paul's Church.
The text of the sermon at St. Paul's
church last Sunday morning by Rev.
Gos s was taken from Genesis ii :16 17 :
"And .the Lord God commanded the
man saying, 'Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil thou
ebalt not eat of it, for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou ebalt surely
die.' " Rev. Gobs epoke of the uses of
the temptation presented to the first
man, and that it was God's purpose to
place temptation before all of bis suc
cessors. The design of the command
ment was to bring out and test the dis
position of man whether or not he was
willing to snbmit himself to God's pleas
ure. The knowledge of good and evil
was presented to Adam as a very de
sirable thing, and to Adam's children
yet present the same allurements. The
blessed hope follows that 'as in Adam
all die, so in Christ shall all be made
alive."
SIX WEEKS DISTANT.
Altogether Probable the Locks Will Be
Used by April 1st.
Messrs. A. S. Mac Allister and Emile
Scbanno returned from the Locks last
night. There they met Captain J. II.
B. Grey of Astoria and Mr. James Craw
ford of the Chamber of Commerce of
Vancouver. The committee hoped to
find Chief Engineer Fisk at tho Locks
and find out from him the specific infor
mation required before making plans for
the celebration.
It was learned that Mr. Fisk was ab
sent for the time, having lately gone np
in the Sound country. On his return to
to Portland be will be sontrht. hv the
committee there.
iiio uncuiHitB imu a very pleasant
interview with Lieut. Taylor at the locks,
and were shown by him through all the
various departments and the uses and
explanations were very explicit. His
suggestions, also, were made so frankly
that the committee were deeply impres
sed with tne importance of the recom
mendations made by the engineer de
department, made to Congress at the
special session of last yt-ar,. when they
asked for an additional appropriation
to finish the middle lock with a wall
of masonry and to protect the whole
work, made apparent by the high water
of 1894. The Lieutenant was freeto ad
mit that the locks would be in condi
tion to operate within . the next b'.x.
weekB, but how long they could be
operated successfully was a question
which would be hard to answer, con
sidering the many contingencies and
circumstances which may arise in a
work of such magnitude, and also
what' action the war department
will take in the matter, in consideration
of the recommendations made by the
engineers. He does not anticipate any
reason why, the locks should not be
successfully operated for several months
in the year as they now are. '
It is to be understood there is work
yet to be done on the middle lock before
it 'is entirely safe to operate it.
By being too eager in using the water
way before the work is entirely com
plete, there exists a possibility of en
dangering the lower lock at a certain
stage of high, water by washing down
the natural wall of the middle lock.' I.
was supposed that the natural rock here
was stable, but it appears that on con
tact with the air it crumbles away.
Hence the middle lock may have to be
walled on the river side by concrete, two
feet thick, at an estimated expense of
$6,000, folloVed at some future time by
solid masonry (see diagram a). How-
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It AST
e,ver the latter work might not interfere
with commerce, and may be done; at
any time while the locks are in nee.
It may be a matter of surprise to our
citizens to learn that before the locks
can be Baid to be a permanent improve
ment, the appropriation of nearly half a
million will yet have to be made and ex
panded, involving two or three year
mjbre time and work. This breath-tak-ijfg
announcement was made by Mr.
lac Allister today, but, properly under
stood, there is no sting in the news.
The danger exists in that any ordinary
high water will wash the embankments
on the river side, made insecure by the
flood of 1894, and thereby endanger the
whole work. It seems that in that year
the water encroached on the shore line
(see diagram bb) washing dirt and debris
over the lower lock and tearing out some
of the rip-rap of that lock. A wing
dam was built out In the river to an
island from about the center of this
shore line, bnt the flood was so resist
less it tore out the dam and overrun the
lock as stated. To prevent a repetition
of that disaster, possibly involving the
entire destruction of the locks, it will be
necessary to replace this shore line by
rip-rap, a distance Of about 3,000 feet.
An appropriation of $413,000 will there
fore be necessary to complete the work.
This will include, besides the rip-rap,
the walla of masonry and concrete on
both sides of the middle lock, and some
minor details mentioned in the en
gineer's report, in fact the absolute com
pletion of the work forever.
Reviewed, the facts are briefly these :
There is every probability a boat will
pass through the locks about six weeks
distant. If its passage through the
canal does not endanger the work, the
waterway will thenceforth be nsed
at all ordinary stages of the river's
depth, but if the washing from the
action of its propeller crumbles the na
tural rock" of the middle lock a short
delay will be occasioned, " but which
could be remedied by laying concrete
walla on both sides of the mid
dle lock, a comparatively trifling
piece' of work : as', to ' time, labor
and expense. The expenditure of $6,000
will accomplish it, and in two or three
weeks. The outlook is therefore hope
ful and the gentlemen of the committee
return in a very agreeable .frame of
mind.
The committee were pleasantly enter
tained at the locks by Dr. and I.
N. Day, and an excellent lunch prepared
for their refreshment.
LEAP YEAR PARTY.
A Little the Most Enjoyable Xvent
Ever Remembered.
The crowning event in a euccessfol
social season came last night, when the
young ladies of The Dalles tendered
their ' gentlemen friends sli leap
year party at th Baldwin. For day a
a kdbks.
r:,i' --rr,
previous the comingi affair
topic of talk in eocity
devoteea of pleas
with anticipation
corner where
floated the etra,
March, the eeene was
The hall,
been the
and the
quite agog
' from the
was seated
e "Ben Hur
rilliant one.
h of deft
tra
fingers, hadnndergone a transformation
From the ceiling stretched long stream'
era in graceful arrangementAwbile a
profusion of palms and flowers; kindly
donated by Mrs. Stubling, and placed
pleasing effect, made the elegance of dec
oration complete.
Promptly at 9 o'clock the grand march
began, led by Miss Moore" and Miss
Newman, and the figures it contained
were new and graceful. , At its conclu
sion the lancers were danced, and the
young gentlemen being escorted to their
seats by their fair companions, the nov
elty of a leap year party began. The
usual order was reversed and the gen
tlemen sat around the wall, their hearts
beating fast with hope, then slower with
doubt, lest their company for the next
dance should not be sought. The
ladies, out of the goodness of their
hearts, watched carefully for the pleas
ure of their guests, and the walla were
undecoruted by any living flowers.
At 11 o'clock supper was announced
in ' an adjoining room, and from that
time till the close of the dance Mr.
Kellar had hia bands more than full
providing for the wants of his guests.
He did it in a manner that won him the
lasting good will of the ladies and the
recipients of their hospitality.'
Lack of space forbids a detailed men
tion of this most charming event. The
novelty of the occasion was greatly en
joyed by all the participants and when
ever the gentlemen had an opportunity
.of conversing with one another it was to
the effect that this was the jolliest dance
they had ever attended. In the corner
where the lemonade stand waa placed,
frequent toasts were drunk to The Dalles
young ladies, who it was declared again
and again were the nicest girls in all the
world; and if this statement is doubted
its truth can be determined by asking
any gentleman, to whom , waa' given
the pleasure of being ' present last
night. Were a vote L to 'be ' taken
among their friends, ' sometimes
called the sterner sex, it' would be un
animously decided that the beauty, vir
tues and accomplishments of The Dalles
young ladies could not be surpassed
Continued on 4th pace.
OFFICE and SCHOOL SUPPLIES,
3og
iPPiaiib s Organs
For Low Prices, go to the
Jaoobsen Book & Music Company,
162 Second Street,
THE DALLES, OR.
Try a Bottle.
OF-
Atwood's Syrup of Tar, Horehound and Wild
Cherry for that Cough.
DOfiflBIiIi'S DRUG STORE.
Seed Wheat, Seed Oats, Seed Rye, Seed ,
Corn; Afalfa Seed, Clover Seed; Timothy
Seed and other Grass Seeds;' "No? tfiern
Grown Seeds, Garden Seeds,' Early Minn
esota Corn. Dakota -Yellow. Dent Corn' and
StowelTs Evergreen Corn. Yellow Dan
vers Onion Sets, Choice large,-Mealy Bur
bank Seedling Potatoes. .
Poultry and Eggs
Groceries Sold Cheap-.
n , . , r , i e . . .
nougoc ana ooia. ijnoiue aFBorimem oi
Terms Positively Cash or Produce, at ' Ej
J. H. CROSS' FEED and GROCERY STORE
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