The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-13


partnership was dissolved, John hav-
ing an ambition to embark in the regu-
lar grocery business for himself. He
! found a store to suit him in No. 81 Sec
ond street and having got the front of it
painted gorgeous red, he filled it with
goods and there you will find him at all
reasonable hours of business. But John
Booth is not running an ordinary grocery
store any more than he is running it in
an ordinary way. He seems to have
made it principle to keep the very best
Of everything in his line believing that
the wisest housekeepers are always will
ling to pay good price for a superior
article. Not that he has not the cheaper
grades of goods for those who want
them, for he has, but if he can sell you
"a coffee that is cheap at % cents pound
he can sell you some that is cheaper still
| at 80 cents. If he has some customers
who want tea at 25 cents pound there
are others who are willing to pay five
times that sum and SO with all the rest.
the store that is more striking than any
other is the immense variety OF canned
goods that fill the shelves. Done up in
bottles and cans and jars of most attract
live form and shape there appears to be
everything needed to tickle the palate of
the epicure or supply the requisites Of a
well filled larder. Almost every country
on the globe pays tribute to John Booths
store.
Here are pickles and chow chow, and
curry powder and olives, and Piccalilli
and olive oil and picked onions and
Worcestershire sauce and cocoa and salt
and gelatine and pulm pudding from
England. Caper sauce, and sardines, and
olives and peas and mushrooms in bot
ties, and mustard and citron, and seed
less raisns and soap from France.
Pepper and cinnamon and allspice and
nutmeg and mace and cassia and "a st
ard and cayenne and ginger from South
America and the islands of the Southern
Sea: Pine apples from the Bahamas.
Cheere from Switzerland. Herrings
from Deutchland. Extract of beef from
Germany. Lemons from Cicily. Coffee
from Java and Costa Riea and Salvador
from Cuba. Bananas from the Sand
wich Islands. Teas from China and
Japan. Cocoa nuts from India and
Vermacilli and Macaroni from the land
of the Dago. But John Booth believes
in patronizing our home industries as
well. Hence we find on his shelves the
Columbia Packing Company's lard ;
Warmers butter, and potatoes and eggs
and apples, and dried fruits, and par
snips, and carrots, and cabbage, and
onions, and .beets, and turnips, and
celery, and garlic, and horse-raddish
the products ofithe farmers of Wasco
county. But our limits forbid longer
description of this model grocery store.
The application of the whole, is s-this
If you want anything in the line of fine
groceries that you cannot find elsewhere
in The Dalles. go to John Booth.
The Pcndleton Alliance Convention.
From Seth Morgan, who attended the
late meeting of the Farmers Alliance
held at Pendleton, we learn the condi-
tions. under which Melburn, the Aus
| tralian artificial rain maker, proposes to
produce rain in Eastern Oregon. Mel
burn wants $3.50 for making the test and
| 5000 against the expenses of himself and
another man. Mr.. Morgan has shown
us a blank copy of the agreement that
Melburn wants the alliance to sign, but
we notice that Melburn, is very careful
about making any condition as to the
amount of rainfall he proposes to pro-
duce- AS far as the agreement is con-
cerned any quantity that could be
! legally called Grain" would meet its con-
ditions and yet it might not be of the
least service in the world to the farmers
The alliance will therefore demand a
contract that will keep themselves safe
on this and other conditions as well and
they have written Melburn to this effe It.
It will be just as well if the alliance is
very careful about signing contracts oi
this kind unless they have, and know
they have, dead sure thing.
At the January term of county courts
the new law, requiring publicity of pro.
ceedings and list of claims allowed, goes
into full effect. The proviso that courts
shall not be obliged, unless they see fit
to publish claims where the fees are
fixed by law, was inserted in the cause
of economy, yet it is exactly in the mat.
ter of fees ofofficialsfhat stealings come
in. All the complaints made in Marion
county about county officials were over
the matter of the fees collected by them
Those items are the very ones that
should be exposed to the light of pub
llicity.-.Sdlen, Journal.
BORN.
On Tuesday, Jan. IL, 1892, to the wife