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I i . re c. E e y u- i- 3 PAGE FOOTITEE!? DAILY EAST ORgQONlACPtKPtfiTOW,' ORgQO. SATPftPAT AtiftflT' 3 1,19 161 "T "Coal for Winter Will Depend on Supply of Cars We strongly recommend the purchase of your winter supply of coal and wood NOW, when prompt delivery can be made from our present supply of Castle Gate Coal and No. 1 Fir and Slab Wood. B. L. Burroughs Incorporated Thone 5 College & Webb Sts. THE BANK OF BUSINESS As II. stands today, the American National Bank Is equipped to render to business and to individual customers, every modern banking service. All Hie functions of litis luuik center on facililat- ins business operations. This makes the American National essentially a busy business mens bank. t Your account is Invited. The AmenciariNationalBank Pendleton. Oregon. 'Strongest Sank in Eastern Oregon' i ii mm mi mm mm mm ill mm m OW8S 3 ArtooftEgHT -M that stands wear and tear Dresgfaf furniture, Uia waff of grown-ups and 111 rough and tombla of children will nat injur it. II iiriea hard aad ataya ksrd 4hat'a why it b eaD, d LowVs Hard Drying .floor Faint. This paint if mada eajra aUUy for floor. Eaay Vs low teSca I Kbit. ma pahtf ta I and walk an ft ' Eaalar to kaaji i nop U o& ' Wai pains and want jram know mora about ft In and look at tta diapUSJ panelai aak, alaa, tea im acrlptrra tttaratarSt L. J.McATEE Phone 153 513 Main St SRsditts ;SaIatLaaa(a6aaattiaiaiaaa 12.500 Square Feet of Floor Space Unusal Displays of Beds SHOWN IN M R WliST ROOM. Wood !!,!, Urawi Reds. Iron Beds. In Vmi Martin and En aniel finish. Iiel for miiton or BliiKle bHl. Cruikshank & Hampton I14.1S K. Webb St. QCALTTY COCNTS llione 6a 12.500 Square Feet of Floor Space to S3 rS e 2, f -t PUTBURSTS OE EVERETT TRUE or ts ANt AhffOKtG. WITH A THIMOrVV. V I re v I S6 xov, or i"j - -OM it. HASN'T 1HC ivcnoic psRirJG: on what. T. CTPjMinejr CojOtloiJiwt DAILY MARKET NEWS, LOGAL AND GENERAL Including Pendleton Prices and Auod&ted Presa Beporta" The following prices ara tha pricesf bears led to their undoing In the corn being paid to producers by Pendleton, business bouses. wherever retail prices are given tfce fact will be spe cially mentioned. Eggs and Poultry. Eggs, 65 cents. (Retail price is E5 cents.) Hens, 20 centSL Spring fryers. 30 cents a pound. . Country Ham, Kto. , Ham, best quality, 28c Bacon, best quality, 40c Butter Fat and Butter. Ranch butter, $1.10 & roll. (Retail price la also $1.10.) trade. Oats showed stubborn resistance to selling pressure from the start. , Provisions declined after an early bulge and the average of prices was lower. Coffee Futures Reverse, and Close Is Higher. XEW YORK. Aug. 20. The extent of the recent decline seemed to be at tracting little more demand in the market for coffee futures today and after opening eirht points lower to one point higher, prices sold about 42 to 6a above last night's close. This carried December contracts up from 7.95 to 8.rl cents and March from 8.4 5 to 9.05c, but most of the demand was attributed to covering and the advance was checked by reports a fur ther decline at Santos. Later fluctua tions were irregular with last prices showing reactions of some 35 to 50 points from the best, but a net ad vance of 4 to 13 points. - September 7.37c; October 7.58c; December 8.10c; January 8.26c; March 8. 67c; May 8.70c; July 8.80c. Spot coffee, dull; Rio 7's 8 1-2S8 l-4c; Santos 4's, 14 1-4 15c. City Delivery Feed kimI Cirain at Seattle SEATTLE. Wash., Aug 21. Cits delivery: Feed scratch feed $87; feed wheat $92; all grain chop $77; oats $75; tprouting oats $78; rolleO oats $79; whole corn corn $80; rolled barley $70 barley $75. Hay Alfalfa $32 per ton; double ccmpressed alfalfa $36; do. timothy $42; eastern Washington mixed $36. clipped Hog Market Ijower In Seattle Friday. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 21.-r-Hogs, receipt 88. Market 25c lower. Prime 16.254116.73; medium-to choice 15.75 16.75; rough heavies 14.004? 14.75; Pigs 13.00t 14.00. Cattle, receipts none. Prime 10..00 $110.50; medium to choice 8.509.50; common to good 6.50 ft 7.50; best cows and heifers 6.75 7.25; medium to choice .6.2566.25;- common to good 4.25 tt 5.25; bulls 5.00-6.00; calves 7.00(14.00. Further Break In Corn Market Are Recorded CHICAOO, Aug. 21 Further breaks were In evidence al grains today be cause of liquidation in corn. At the finish, wheat for December delivery was unchanged from yesterday's fin ish at $2.37, while March was off 2-4c at $2.88 )-2, corn showed a net loss of 7-8o to 4 l-8c while oats were up l-2c to $-4c There was a decline In pork of 20 cents and a loss of 15.00 17.00 In lard while ribs were a shade to 12 l-2c higher. Buying by strong commission houses caught the wheat market after It had broken c at the start and prices were carried back to about yesterday's fin ish, the market easing off. closing firm. France and the British com mission were still out of the market but Germany took 200,000 bushels at the gulf. Over-confidence on the part of the Overbeck & Cooke Co. Pendleton, Walls, Walla, Portland Members bf the Board off Trade. Stocks Bonds Grain Private Wires to all Exchanges Room S J odd Bldg Phone M l.lttle New In Wool .Situation This Week BOSTON1. Aug. 21. The Commer cial Bulletin today says: "With few exceptions sales of wool during the past week have been of re tail description. Prices are barely stoa'iy on the basis of last week's sr.les. There is little new with refer ence to'the. new domestic clip. The , manufacturers are generally engaged on samples and it is hoped that the mills will be reopened gen erally by the riiddle to the last of Sep tember, although some of the New England worsted mills have been closed this week for an indefinite period." The Commercial Bulletin today will publish wool prices as folows, with the statement that quotations are more or less nominal. Scoured basis: Texas fine 12-months, 1.521 1.60. California northern 1.55 8 1.60; mid dle county 1.50; southern 1.25 (tv 1.30. Oregon Eastern Xo. 1 staple, 1.50 m 1-65. Territory fine staple, 1.65; half Mood combing 1.4041.45; three eights blood combing 90 95; one fourth -blood combing 70 it 711;; fine clothing, 1.40 1.50; fine medium clothing 1.25 iff 1.30.. Pulled Delaine 1.60; AA 1.35 1.45;; A supers 1.051.10. Mohair Best combing 4050; best carding S840. CI PENDLETON, OREGOlf In lull 'tfWll! - mn oA bUtiori-uviU Institution. - oppoarrs hotel piNDLETOjr Stock Market Making 81, cracKeaT -.k . . 1,11 I . " o - . - , ' 'i - - market made further progress towards recovery today, yesterday's rebound from low levels of the early days of the week being very substantial! en hanced on a pronounced expansion of business. Not onl were the days transactions the largest of the week, but they en compassed a more diversified group of stocks. Including Investment rails as well as many speculative specialties recently subjected to serve pressure. Local banks manifested more liber al attitude regarding time loans. tbiih holding to long prevailing fates and call money upon the calcu lations of the shorts by loaning over .-ea ax 7 per cent. Steels, equipments and oils were the most active stocks, followed by motors and their subsidiaries, rails and ship pings. Sugars recovered part ot tneir loss and tobacco, leather and paper issues featured the specialties, metals also hardening. Sales 625.000 shares. The bond market failed , to keep pace with stocks, either as to the tone or activity,, although liberty issues ex cepting the .3 l-2s, were mostly high er. Among foreign 'bonds United Kingdom and Belgian Issues eased slightly with Anglo-French 6s while Paris 6s made a fractional gain. Total sales, (par value) $7,475,000. Old United States bonds unchanged on call. UNUSUAL VALUES Men who have been friends and patrons of Penney stores for years will tell you that here they are always able to buy high grade , merchandise for less. They will also tell you that back of every sale is one of the largest and fastest growing mercantile organizations, in y the world and that if by any chance their purchases are not , abso lutely satisfactory a cheerful adjustment is always to be had. -1 Warner's Closed Crotch Union Suits $1.79, $1.98. ; A standard rib-knit garment; fits perfectly; and wears wel short or long sleeves and long legs, ecru and flesh colors, $1.79, $1.98 Men's Athletic Unions $1.49 Made very roomy of good muslin in popular cross-bar ; pattern, with elastic rib inset 'across the back to. long wear , and corhfort, knee length, no sleeves, sizes to 46 ; . . . . . .... . . . . $1.49 L'IEHZtBys' MeshKnit Unions 79c, 98c , y SI i Ecru color mesh knit unions, iust like dad's, short sleeves and knee length, priced according to the size at 79c and 98c ; : v Boys' Bal U Ecru color, elastic rib unions for boys with short sleeves arid kne length, a good garment for fall . . 89c Men's Blue Cheviot Work Shirts $1.4;, The old reliable work shirt, good quality dark blue cheviot that stands the wear and the tub, our every day prices save . youf fifty cents on every one yoii buy, ask to see them, sizes 14i2 to 17y2 1.4 -Men's Striped Shirts $1.25, $1.49. For the man who wants a low priced shirt in attractive light col ors this one is of more than ordinary merit, plain and military or without collar, some have reversible cuffs tUj, tW Silk Shirts $3.93, $4.93, $5.9 0, $6.90. A snappy showing of silk shirts priced so low that you wonder;, how we do it. Buying thousands of them for more than 300 stores tells the tale. Glad to show you, always. . 4 y "J. C.Penney Co, A NajwijelHstltutldn tions from former levels. , The most buyers have not rushed to operate at the first sign of price reaction but have adhered to their policy ot limit ing commitments as closely as possible Is an indication that further deflation is expected and predictions of scarcity of supplies to follow, based chiefly on the curtailment of production In some leading industries are- being iun.ii disreearded. Weekly bank clearings $7,166,689,609, ' Declines Outnumber Advances In Weekly Bnsiness List NEW YORK. Aug. 21. Dun's Re view today says: , While no single element fully ac counts for the continued hesitation In business, It is even, clearer now than recently that the price question re mains the dominant factor In the sit uation. Resistance to market yielding persists in some quarters, but falls to offset the influence of natural econ- i omlc forces and declines in commodity i quotations this week, as Dun's list demonstrates, again outnumber ao vances by a considerable margin. Liquidation of goods that could not bo moved at previous extreme prices is Mill a feature In Various wholesale ! and retail channels, the prevailing momentary restrictions hastening uie offerings In some Instances, and It is significant that openings of new lines of merchandise for forward seasons j are being made at appreciable reduc- MAIL ORDER CATALOGUES STRAPPED ON BODY FAIL TO TURN AWAY BULLETS SACRAMKNTO, Calif.. All.. 31. (A. P.) With three mr.U order cata logues strapped at vital points around his body to turn awr.y the bulletj. Oeorae F. Davis, 2 years old, made a dash for liberty at ifolsom prison Wed nesday afternoon only to be shot and killed when he was two thirds of the distance across the American river. At one time he had been an. Inmate of a reform school in Oregon, troin which he escaped last year. ' Davis was working with a gan.f of other convicts In the granite . quarry. Suddenly when he thought the atten tion of the guards was turned hei started toward the river In a,- Wild, dash for freedom. Through the two lines of guards he swiftly ran while the bullets wnistiea around him. A fusillade folowed him as he jumped into the river and stat ed for the other shore. ENTER LEGION MEET PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21. Amer ican victors at the Olympic games will be contestants in the events of the American Legion Field Day to be held at Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, on Reptenvber ' 1 1, un der the auspices ot the Philadelphia, rHi m oresent arrange- all the winners for the Legion "meet. A merits. reception committee representing the Earl EbV, the University of Penn- American Legion nd the City of Phll sylvan a runner and a member of the adelphla, will meet the returning ath Legion, who is entered In the Olympic letes at New York to escort them to games, has been delegated to sign up this city. ' ' ' . ' T : . ... ;:, ' ' : -:' ,; -:0-' The Ideal Summer Fuel. i . burns clean f-. yi BURNS WITH LITTLE ASH BURNS ECONOMICALLY . .' Makes Cooking a Pleasure r . ; . Phone 178 ? ; SraE-LOiiMI CO t!SB. ' Qa-Hty Ow.otity Service! -
