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- ■ ■»■WB 1» The Sale at the BOSTON STORE will continue until everything is sold s * Dinners Costing $100 a Plate Are Not Uncommon. — FADS THAT SWELL THE BILL Artietie and 3o*nia Effects and Lua- urious Surroundings Help to Pile Up ths Pric*—Methode of the Manager ef a Modern Dining Paleo*. to come witum it» uniiu. When tbs commercial arrangements, so to speak, have been made be sits down to map out bls campaign A typewritten plan is sent to the steward showing just what bls department may be required to do. another to the deco rator. another to the electrician, one to the bead waiter, one to the chef, one to the wine keejKT nnil one to the "confectioner of souvenirs.” These are the banquet manager's trusted lieutenants, without whom bls suceoss* es would be little more than frantic endeavors.—New York Letter in What To Eat. ENGLISH INN SIGNS. How would you like to pay 3100 for I a single meal? There was a time I On* That Cast ■ Reflection on Kina when this question would have seemed George III. absurd. but now, with our rapidly One of the last stopping place« of the gruwiug wealth. It excites little com Txmdon and Weymouth coach was at merit. Ye*. $100 a plate banquets are a little Dorset village, whose principal not uncommon among the Four Hun I hostelry was known as the Ass' Head. dred. and $40. $30 and $»/) a plate are Bo good were the refreshments, so quite ordinary chargea for twentieth I obliging the host nnd so reasonable the century banquets. To the ordinary charges that the luu ' did a thriving trade and wan well spoken of through mind, however. It Is not easy to imsg Io* s list of delicacies expensive out the district In one of George IIL’s visits to Weymouth the royal party enough to foot up such an amount or stayed at this Inn und had lunch. This an appetite so expensive as to desire was very gratifying to the loyal host, them. Nightingales' tongues and bum who Immediately took down his orig mlng birds* wings, washer! down with inal signboard and erected a full length the costliest wines, would not satisfy painting of the king in Its place the up to date diner, however. The Ilonceforth the inn should I m ? known caterer does not depend entirely upon aa the Iloyal George. The proprietor his chef and his steward for the suc of the rival hostelry in the village pur i cess of great ”functloM.” Artists and chased the Ass’ Head sign for a few mechanical geuulsea are his chief as shillings and had It placed over the sistants. He must be able to trans door of his house. Now. It so hap form a New York banquet hall into a pened that the coachman and guard CM4S. B. WOHDES fhp . d melhasb plaza In Venice, a corner of old Japan of the Weymouth coach had t>een PratMut V Aa-PraaMraf or an ancient Greek or Roman palace, changed on tlia day this alteration of as hts guests' taste or whim may dic the signboards took place, and they tate. were both atraugera to the district Fads of millionaires and the fancies but their Instructions had been to stop Capital Stock $100,000 of club* aud societies always seeking at the Ass' Head. and. seeing the sign the unusual hove brought to pass the on the rival bouse, they pulled up Opvn for butin«* «vary day in lh« ye*« «xcapting Sunday! and kgal holiday*. 3100 a plate dinner. The production there. This much annoyed the orlg of the surrounding* they demand ne Inal owner, who. foreseeing that his cessitates the outlay of thousands of pocket might suffer for bls loyalty. dollars for each separate banquet. It Immediately had nailed to the bottom would never do to have two banquets of the painting of King George a alike, as goes without saying 4. M. WOHDBN. (Mb lar NETTIE MBl.tUSE la charca of sav/ag. board with these words in large let There was recently given in a new ters: "This Is the original Asa!*’— hotel In New York a bachelor dinner Londou P. T. O. at which the guests were seated In a corner of Venice. The effect was a DISCOVERY OF COAL masterpiece of scenic art and electrical Ingenuity, and that, quite as much as the rich viands, was what the host Mentioned by a Jesuit In 1679 Mined First In 1749. wanted and was paying for. The So far as known the first mention of doors along the corridor at the sidcF of the great banquet hall were removed, the occurrence of coal In the United Delivered Daily from the Altamont and in their pluces balustrades were States is contained in the journal of set to give the ap|>earance of Vene Father Hennepin, a Jesuit missionary, Dairy. Wholesale and Retail. tian balconies Beyond stretched a who in 1079 recorded a "cole mine” on transparency 130 feet long and twenty Illinois river near the present city of feet high, showing moat realistically a Ottawa, 111. Every Ikdailof Our Dairy ¡»Sanitary, insuring Coal was flrst mined in the Rich street In the city of cnnals. Between the Parity and H«altl>fuln«'»»<>f Our Products. this aud the dining room was a wa mond basin, Virginia, about seventy terway on which plied a gondola with years ufter Father Hennepin'ji discov a party of troubadours, who played ery In Illinois, but the first records of aud aaug as they passed to and fro. production from the Virginia mines The tables were set about the room, wore for th« year 1822. when, accord at one end of which a beautiful gar ing to one authority, 54.000 tons were den of growing (minis and flowers had mined. Ohio probably ranks second in prior lieen laid out. In Its center a fountain which tossed Its light spray almost to ity of production, as coal was discov the celling Thousands of tinted elec ered there in 1733, but the records of tric lights abed a soft blue lllumluation production date back only to 1833. The mining of anthracite In Pennsyl over the whole. giving the effect of Italian twilight, One could scarcely vania liegan ntxpit 1790, and it is said I realize that abut out only by the stur- that fifty-five tons were shipped to Co dy walls of the hotel and thick bang lumbia. Pa.. In 1807. Reports of the ings were the glare and rumble of anthracite coal trade are usually begun with the year 1820. when 363 tons, one Longncre square. Hut there Is an endless variety of for each day of the year, were shipped elaborate and picturesque effects cre to Philadelphia from the Lehigh re Before this, however, in 1814, a ated for the twentieth century diner. gion New York furnishes the most striking shipment of twenty-two tons was made examples aud the most numerous, from Carbondale, also to Philadelphia. II though London nnd Paris vie with her It Is (»robable that the actual produc for the honors of extravagance. Mme. tion prior to 1820 was between 2.500 Madeleine Lemaire’s dinners are per and 3.000 tons.—Washington Star. I haps the most notable of Paris. She Why Boys Play Hookey. has n special fondness for the an A child plays truant either because OOOOOOOOOOOO <><><> <><><><>0-(><><X> »I cient In effects, and In a Grecian court her guests sit at a Greek feast and the school has too little Interest for All the room with their singing. An him or else because the parent cannot Probably in other striking effect followed a supper properly control him. to n notable visitor from abroad. The most cases ls>th circumstances affect I guests were led to n room which hud his conduct, if the subjects taught I been arranged to represent a pastoral and the teachers themselves were in . scene, with growing turf and foliage. all res|»ccts what they should be aud Of, Old Continental Whiskey ' nnd running nbout among the trees If the parents had fall control of their were several little lambs. Overhead children, there would be little heard of Water Mill Whiskey J was suspended a huge ball which sud truancy or Its effects. There are three Normandie Rye denly burst nnd showered American causes of truancy, therefore, which de- Beauty roses on those beneath It. servo attention—a narrow curriculum F. F V. Rye The banquet Itself Is a gigantic un which falls to meet the needs or In dertaking. for under the manager's su terests of all the pupils; Inefficient pervtalon conies the selection of dish teachers who by reason of a lack of es. their cooking, the sliver, glnss nnd skill, tact and sympathy fall to reach china, the mode of service and the some of the pupils; weak or Indifferent hundred and one other details. A great parents who fall In their duty of keep dining palace seats from 1.300 to 2.000 Ing their children tn school.—"Chari- persons, all of whom must be served ties and the Commons.” simultaneously and each of whom must tie served as If he alone were to Better Castles Than Cavern*. be considered, This gives some Idea I find the gayest cnstles In the alr perhaps of the banquet manager's tnsk. that were ever plied far better for The office of this modern magician comfort and for use than the dun suggests, with Its roll top desk. Its geons in the air that are daily dug and typewriter nnd Its telephone, the office caverned out by grumbling, discontent of any manager of large enterprises. ed people.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. Uere be meets the people playing the part of hosts nnd goes over the details An Indorsement. of the entertainment with them. He She—What did you think of the min suggests, consults, advises nnd decides ister’s expression of the belief that the on each Item not enly of the menu, world would soou some to an eml} but of decorutlona and of service. Fre Ha—I was rather Inclined to think It quently aud particularly In the case of would before he got through with hit clubs nnd societies he Is offered a <XX><XXXXXXXX>8 fixed figure nnd must lay out a scheme sermon CHRISTMAS CAKES We make the best Cakes, Pies, Bread, etc. out of the very best flour. . Everything is neat and clean in our baking department and open to your inspection. . Van Riper Bros, handle our bread and will deliver it to your door if you will mention it to them.-^^ KLAMATH COUNTY BANK KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON ALEX MARTIN, President ALEX MARLIN, Jr., Caahier E. R. REAMES, Vice-Preai.ieat LESLIE ROGERS, Arot. Cashier The Pioneer Bank of Klamath County STATEMENT OF CONDITION AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 29. 1907. Kxeocaisa Izmns and Discounts............................. Bonds and Securities............................. Real Estate,.Buildings and Pistares Cash and Bight Exchange.................... 1643,800.13 UAMLITIBB Capital Stock, fully paid Surplus and Profits......... Due other flanks............ I 100.000.00 12,088.64 40,061.98 491,649Al deposits ................... 8643,800.13 I, Alex Martin, Jr., Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly ■«ear that the above «tale men t ia true to the best of my knowledgexnd believe Aux M abti . x , J a., Cashier. Subscribed and «worn to before me thia Sth day of July, 1907. [SKALj A. M. WoBDBM, Notary Public for Oregon. CITY BAKERY First Class Plumbing of tuli kind at lowest of Price Opposite American Hotel The American Bank and Trust Co. Laundry Trays H. BOIVIN, the Plnmber, Agent, WEISS & ARMAND PROPRIETORS ALL KINCS OF FRESH, SALT AND SMOKED MEATS SAUSAGES1OF ALL KINDS ) MIDWAY B6LMONÏ STABLE -1ÜL SHOP General Blacksmithing and Wagon Work Livery and Feed Stable Both Saddle and Driving Horses PIK« 456 PHONB Kluu:h Fallt, Orason City Meat Market ALTAMONT DAIRY ___________________ PHONE I 314,982.78 W.M4.M . 20,160.8 248,091.93 James B. Moore, Prop. Opp. Martin Flouring Mill Wood, Posts, Shakes CHAS. R. BALDWIN BEST EQUIPPED HOIEL IN SOUTHERN OH ----- b (l Every drop 18 as pure an Government inspection can make it. It is bottled in bond under Government su pervision and that carries.the guarantee of abso lute purity. Pure is the word that tells tho story, and when the government places its (). K. on whiskey you may bo sure it is pure. Sold by C. D. WILLSON Wholesale and Retail Dealer £ Horses boarded by the day, week or month. Fine livery teams at reasonable rates Grain and hay for sale — Hay baled or loose. Lakeside Inn M rs . M. M c M illan , Proper (• !! <» ’--- l! _____ <• Modern improvements. 73 rooms and suites.__ ' ’ Sample Rooms, Bar Room, Parlors, Two Club ' > Rooms, Etc., Etc. i1 > SPECIAL RESORT FOR TOURISTS J CASH MEAT MARKET Opposite Van Riper Bros. Phone çg6 We deliver to any part of the city Phone orders given careful and prompt attention. We cut hams to accommodate customers-^^^^ J. W. Hawxhurst, Prop.
