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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
Worldwide Contributions to the
Comforts of American Homes

The contributions which people of
other parts of the world are making to
the comforts and requirements of homes
in the United States are quite as inter-
esting as the subject of last weeks
discussion, regarding the articles which
producers in the United States had con-
tributed to the comforts of homes in
other parts of the world. Our tea, our
coffee, our corks, our bananas, our
camphor, our licorice, our pepper, nut
megs and other spices, our silk, some
of our cotton, considerable part of
our wool and, strange as it may appear,
some part of the onions, potatoes, and
cheese consumed in the United States
are brought from other countries and
in many cases from the opposite side of
the globe and out of the way parts of
the world.
Few people would suppose, for ex-
ample, that this great agricultural
country imports onions, or potatoes, or
clover seed, or honey; yet the value of
onions imported in 1907 and 1908 was
nearly million dollars in each year,
and they came from Egypt, Australia,
Japan, the Canary Islands, Cuba, the
British West Indies, Burmuda, Canada,
Mexico and Spain. OF potatoes more
than three and one-half million dollars
worth were imported in 1909, the larg-
est contributing country being Scot
land with over one million dollars
worth, Ireland and Great Britain, each
three quarters of a million dollars
worth, and the remainder largely from
European countries and, in smaller
quantities, from the British West In
dies, Australia, and even China and
Japan. Pepper, of course, is not pro-
duced in the United States and it is not
surprising, therefore, that two million
dollars worth is imported annually,
much of it from the Dutch East Indies,
although largely accredited to the
Straits settlements, the southernmost
point of eastern Asia, to which this
merchandise is transshipped from the
East Indian Islands, known a century
ago as the "Spice Islands," while
smaller quantities come direct from
Netherlands, the country which has for
so many years administered the govern
ment of those islands and controlled
largely their lines of production. Nut
to quarter million dollars a year, are
also drawn chiefly from the "Spice
Islands" or the Dutch East Indies.
One would scarcely expect that such
an agricultural country as the United
States would find it necessary to import
clover seed, but the quantity imported
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

According to reports received at the
war department from those engaged in
the work of raising the battleship
Maine from Havana harbor it is sug-
gested that the disaster was due to an
explosion on the inside and not from the
outside 1t is thought that with the
present progress the hull will be raised
by April. All controversy over the
sinking of the Maine may then be set
tied by definite knowledge for all time.
The engineers having the work in
charge have found great quantities of
coal buried in the mud which would in
dictate that there was an internal eX-
plosion. Fears are entertained that
the hull may break in two before it can
be safely gotten from the bottom of
the harbor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

A bill recently introduced in Congress
will, if it becomes law, prohibit the
use of the ''parlor" match in the flu
ture. The bill prohibits the transport
tation of white or yellow phosphorus
matches under the penalty of fine Of
$40, 600 and carries with it imprson-
ment for term of three years. 1t has
been shown through recent investga-
lions that the use of phosphorus in the
making of matches has been source of
great danger to the health of those en-
gagged in the making of these "parlor'
matches.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
ROBERT EATON.
master Illinois state grange.

Jersey there are 142 subordinate
oranges, with about $4,000 members.
In New York the grange work Is in
fine condition. The membership now
is almost 100000 in something like $50
oranges. The grange co-operates hearth
ly with the State Agricultural society
and with Cornell Agricultural college
and the farmers Institutes. The
grange is endeavoring to secure the
introduction of the study of agricul
ture In high schools. Cooperative
buying and selling run into the large
thousands of dollars. Ohio reports
forty-seven new and reorganized
oranges during the past year, with
1880 new members. There are nearly
10000 members in that state, and the
grange has $4,000 in the treasury.
Grange farm property is practically
all insured in grange companies.
In Rhode Island there are thirty
five oranges in thirty-two townships,
and the Order is in prosperous con-
dition. Washington state reports the
organization of 115 new oranges the
past year, which is more than one
quarter Of the total number organized
in twenty Eight states. There Is great
activity in cooperative buying and
selling. In West Virginia sixteen
oranges have been organized the past
year, and the Order IS holding its own
in the face of much difficulty. In Wis
consin and Minnesota the Order Is
weak. Missouri, which at one time
many years ago had 1900 oranges,
reports a comparatively small num-
Der of oranges at the present time, but
there is a gradual growth in member
ship. In Oregon twenty-four new
oranges We're organized last year, and
the state has 1900 members. Penn
sylvania reports show that this state
IS third in organization work the past
year, only surpassed by Washington
and Michigan. The Legislative com
mittee of the state grange is looked
upon as a real power in legislation.
Efforts are concentrated on two great
reforms-viz, equalization of taxation
and the initiative and referendum. In
struction I'm agriculture in the public
schools has become an accomplished
fact, and a grange educational achieve
ment is found in the township high
schools that now dot the state.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
The Verm onter.

The Vermonter issued this week, is
specially informing number. 1t con-
tains fifteen pages of forestry, nine
devoted to Ladies Week at the Capital,
four to child labor, description of a
midwinter trip to Stratton Mountain
and an enjoyable salt water yarn with
a Vermont string to it. Thirty-one
illustrations and two-color cover COM
plete an attractive issue of our modest
state magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

Mr.. Eldridge is a graduate of Mid
dlebury college of the class of 1895.
While in this vicinity he made many
friends who will be pleased to hear of
his appointment to this honorable and
important position by Governor Haw-
ley who sought out Mr.. Eldridge "to
advance the interests of the State" by
placing him on the board of trustees of
the Albion State Normal school.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
improvements at Duncan's.

Many improvements are being made in
the store occupied by Gardner j. Duncan
in the Chapman block. next the railroad
bridge. A row of cabinets have just
been put in for caskets and the store is
rapidly becoming one of the busy places
in Middlebury. He is getting trade and
work from all over the county. No one
can do better job in making old furni-
ture 'come back" to its original beauty.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
u1iooleburY Register

A practicing physician in West Rut-
land has been fined 500 and costs by a
justice for failing to report case of
diphtheria to the health authorities.
The prosecuting officer, in discussing
the case, said the enforcement of the
law was one of much Importance to the
community.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
o. II. keIIex,s Birthday.

A pleasant note from o, II. Kelley,
now living at 2014 Kalorama road,
Washington, conveys the intelligence
that he will be eighty-five years old on
Jan. 7. Remember him. Patrons, on
that day with letter or postal con-
veying congratulations to our worthy
founder.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
VIM. H. Eldridge, Esq.
Twin Falls. Idaho.
DEAR Mr. Eldri1Ua.
NerY truly YOURS.

INlIT4o IT, I'M " III 7.
Mr.. Eldrdge is one of the best fitted
men in Idaho for the place which the
governor-elect has designated for him.
College bred, he has been responsible
in large measure for the high stand
ard of the public schools of Twin Falls,
in his official capacity as a member of
the board in this city, and his enthus-
iastic public spirit has made him es-
pecially valuable in any work of civic
or educational nature that he has under
taken.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

Send loc.. name Of paper and this I'D. for our
beautiful Savings Bank and Child's Sketch-Book.
Each bank contains Good Luck Penny.
SCOTT s. BOVINE, 400 Pearl St. New York
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
APPOINTED TRUSTEE.
VIM. n. EIdridse q Member of Al
bion Normal School Board.

The following is taken from the Twin
Falls News of December 80:
William H. Eldridge, the Twin Falls
merchant and one of the leaders in the
commercial and educational activities
of the city, will be appointed member
of the board of trustees of the Albion
State Normal school. The selection,
by stipulation of Mr.. Eldridge, was non
partisan and non-political, and was
made, in the words of Governor-elect
Hawley, Ito advance the interests of
the state" and to conserve those of the
institution in question.
Mr.. Eldridge some time ago was ten
dered this place by the Boise attorney
who will occupy the gubernatorial chair
within the next few days. The Twin
Falls man declined to accept it if it
was to be considered in the nature of a
political appointment. Mr.. Eldridge is
a Republican and the choice would have
been a comparison, but he also desired
it understood that it would be non-polit-
ical in every sense, and strictly educa-
tional in its tenure.
This readily was conceded by Mr..
Hawley who addressed the following
letter to him in reply:
December q, 1910.
VIM. H. Eldridge, Esq.
Twin Falls. Idaho
Dear Mr.. Eldridge:
Yours of the 25th instant is at hand.
note what you say in regard to your
appointment as trustee of the Albion
Normal school, and like your way of
saying it. | am not looking for men
who are anxious to have positions of
this kind, but for men who are willing
to sacrifice themselves to a certain
extent in an attempt to advance the
interests of the state. | am very de-
lighted indeed that you have concluded
to accept the appointment and con-
graduate the people of the state in
having a man in that position whom
thoroughly believe will conserve their
interests.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

OFFICERS.
John N. Woodfin, President.
Chas. e. Ross, viee-Prssident.
lvor S. MeFarlane, Treasurer.
J ohm J. Murphy, Asst. Treasurer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
Meyers Testified Against Clark.

Washington, April 3.-Old-time
senators are recalling the initial ap-
pearance in Washington's new SEN
ator, Henry L. Meyers, who will take
his seat when the Sixty-second con-
gress convenes tomorrow. 1t was
back in '99 that Meyers first came
to the national capital to testify as a
witness in the case against Senator
William A. Clark, the copper king,
who was alleged to have bought his
toga from corrupt Montana legisla-
tors. 4 ss4stf,
Meyers told the senate investiga-
ting committee how he and two 9TH
er Montana assemblymen accepted
$4,000 each on the primise to vote
for Clark. Immediately afterwards
Meyers appeared on the floor of the
Montana house, waving aloft thirty
thousand-dollar bills, and deposited
the money on the speakers desk, and
in a dramatic speech charged Clark
with corruption and bribery. The
Clark people set up the claim that
the money came from the Marcus
DAILY crowd and that the performance
was a put up job Certain it was
that the money was never claimed and
it was added to the public school
fund-of Montana.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
Horsewhip for Smokers.

Chicago, April 3.-While Chicago
has a municipal election of it's own
| tomorrow, it lacks the novel interest
attaching to the April battle of bal
lots in the nearby town of Zion City
the late John Alexander Dowie's
famed "holy city" one Of the ques-
tions to be decided in Zion is the es-
| tablishment of a whipping post for
tobacco chewers and smokers Will
bur Glenn Voliva, overseer and sue
cessor to prophet Dowie heads the
anti-tobacco party, and is confident
that he will be successful at the polls
and regain the power wrested from
him by the worldly independents" a
year ago.
In addition to providing for the
public horsewhipping Of tobacco US
ers, the Voliva platform advocates the
driving out of all independents" the
municipal ownership and operation of
all industries on a cooperative basis,
the profit-sharing system for en-
ployes and the absolute prohibition of
the employment in any industry Of
any man who uses tobacco. Volva
also proposes to drive all the church
es from the city and to prohibit the
preaching of any religion but that of
Dowie.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03

Save money by reading today's ads
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
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LOCALS ;


See Lane & Son for signs.
Pastime pictures please all.
Dutch Henry for coal. Main 17S.
Phone Main for United Orchestra.
Wall paper. paints. etc. Lane & Son.
Phone Patzoeder for fresh meat
and lard. Main 446.
Wanted. waitress-Address Home
Bakery. Hermiston.
Front office for rent in Judd build
ing. F. E. Judd.
Watch the bill posters for prices Of
the Golden Rule Store.
All kinds or fresh fish all the time
at the Pendleton Cash Market.
The king of all &c cigars, "Devlin's
Fives," Joe Sullivan sole agent.
Everybody goes to the Orpheum to
see the best and the clearest pictures.
For rent-Bight room house at
s09 East Court. Inquire Ralph How
land.
Bungalow on north side Of river, al
so furniture for sale. Charles ]. Fer
guson.
|. C. Snyder guarantees good spray
ing Yours for good work. Phone
r. SS12.
wanted-Girl to do general house
work. Inquire AT Perkins Ave.
Phone Black 1854.
Wanted-Woman or girl to do gen.
eral housework. Inquire Mrs. w. r.
Ellis, 315 Lewis street
The Library and Ciciv association
will meet on Monday. April 8, at the
city hall assembly room, at 1880.
Cookies, cakes, doughnuts. pies and
bread cooked fresh every day at -he
Royal Bakery. Phone Main 449.
Phone Red 1851 for quick auto cab
service. 25 cent fares in city. Rates
by hour or mile for out Of town trips
Special rates to horses boarded by
the week or month at the Commercial
Barn, 62e Aura street. Phone Main IL.
Sharon & Eddings have secured the
local agency for the Johnson Ideal
Halter. the best cheap halter in the
market.
Mrs Rose Campbell is new showing
a complete line Of new spring hats for
street wear. Call and see the beau
-tiful patterns.
For Sale-Two acre home east
Pendleton. Alfalfa, fruit, garden
Good buildings, water system and
bath Address ]. H. Bryant. Pendle-
ton, oregon.
Phone Main 90 for good clean lump
or nut coal. Prompt delivery to all
parts of the city. Crab Creek Lun-
ber Co, 700 West Alta street.
II you want fresh meat from a
new. clean market, pnone Main 4Ab.
Farmers Meet Co, Conrad Platzoeder,
manager. 224 4. Court street.
Two carloads brood sows on sale
at O.-W. r. & N. stockyards Saaur-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03

day, April 1st. For particulars. see
Lee Teutsch.
Special sale on sheet music. Many
popular pieces going at 10, 20 and
Csc, for this week only. Snyder
Music Co.
Penland Bros. Transfer Co.. phone
Black 1891. Piano, furniture and
heavy trucking Of all kinds Calls an
swered promptly. Office CAT Main st.
For sale--Two hundred acres COED
timber grazing land. about 50 acres
tillable. running water on place. This
Is a snap IL taken within next thirty
days. Address W. B.. Box 341. city.
You can't burn slate and gravel!
Don't try it. Phone Dutch Henry,
Main 173. for clean screened Rock
Springs coal-either lump or nut. It
burns clean and gees further.
New hydrants-Do away with your
old rod and stop-cocks and use the
anti-freezng hydrants. Call and see
them at the Sanitary Plumbing shop,
304 E. Court street, Alex Burt, prop.
For sale-Reynolds' Automatic
Harvester. Has only cut 100 acres.
Easy terms. Inquire OK Pendleton
Iron Works. Marion JACK or 8. c.
Bittner, Pendleton. Ore.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
LIBRARY CLERKS
DISLIKE EXTRA SESSION

Washington.-Much as many con-
gressmen may dislike to return to
Washington for an extra session that
bids fair to extend through the hot
summer months, their grief is not
greater than that of the employees of
the congressional library.
When congress is not in session, a
position in the big government s6,-
100000 library is more or less a sin
ecure. Save for a few scattered stu
dents, the big reading rooms are prac-
tically deserted, and the clerks have
a hard time finding work to occupy
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
At THE PICTURE SHOWS
Orpllcunl.

Orphcum.
Pendleton's favorite picture theatre
Excellent program for Tuesdays
change.
/. His Trust Fulfilled. This Bio
graph subject while being a complete
story is a continuation of that told in
His Trust" the synopsis of which is
as follows: The master leaving home
at the opening of the war to join the
Confederate army, tells his body-ser-
want to take good care of his wife and
child. The master is killed in battle,
the house is sacked and burned, leav-
ing the women and children homeless,
and the old negro gives up his little
ca bin for their comfort. The opening
scene takes place four years after
ward.
! 2. Mamy's Ghost. Vitograph. A
dramatic incident of the war between
| the north and south, in which an old
cclored Nanny and little boy rout
the enemy and save the boys father.
3. After the Boxing Bout. A good
| film giving an illustration of what
happened after the boxing was over.
It is a lively comedy.
4. Max Embarrassed. Pathe. Max
has trouble with two girls, but when
they roll him down a mountain into
stream, in a barrel, he loses no time
in telling them that he is well rid OF
both.
B. The Irish Honeymoon. A great
big feature. The tour of bridal
couple through the Emerald Isle. A
touch OF comedy mingled with scenes
in the beauty spots of old Ireland.
The third Kalem production made
Oh both sides OF the Atlantic ocean.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03

son drama. story of the fashionable
part Of New York in conjunction with
the Wall street stock market. 1t con-
Germs the love affairs of a woman
and two men, both of whom wanted
her
The Little Shepardess," Selig A
love story beginning in Italy and end
irg with her wedding to her lover IN
America, after a jealous rival has at
tempted to separate them
"In the Hot Lands" Melies An ex-
cellent picture, containing number OF
thrilling scenes and much interesting
scenery.
Forget Me Not" Comedy. Full Of
life from start to finish
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
them.

them.
But when the statesmen and near
statesmen get busy, things are diff
ferent Then the library clerks earn
every cent of their salaries and more
besides. There ar econstant calls for
copies of the old Congressional
Globe which was the name the pres
ent Record" went by half century
ago. Unusual books tucked in out of
the way places are demanded-and
the employees declare-they encounter
few congressman in whom patience is
a noticeable virtue.
I'VE were just getting ready to have
a nice long rest when the president
had to go and call an extra session, u
declared one woman clerk. 81 think
President Taft is just too mean for
anything"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
A Domestic Serial.

Mrs. Littletown-This magazine
looks rather the worse for wear.
Mrs. Neartown-Yes; it's the one l
sometimes lend to the servants on
Sundays.
Mrs. ttletown-Doesn't she get
tired of always reading the same one
Mrs. Neartown-Oh, no; you see, it's
the same book, but it's always a diff
ferent servant.-Suburban Life.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
Stockholders Meeting.

The annual stockholders meeting of
the Pendleton Building Association
will be held in the office of w. f. Mat
lCck. corner Court and Garden streets,
Pendleton, Ore, at $3.50 p. NJ, April
l1th, 1911.
MARK MOORHOUSE,
Secretary.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
Stockholders Meeting.

The annual stockholders meeting of
the Pendleton Hotel Co, will be held
in the office of w. F. Matlock, corner
Court and Garden streets, Pendleton,
ore, at 200 p. NJ, April 11th, 1911.
MARK MOORHOUSE,
Secretary.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
Attention KNIGHTS.

Damon lodge No. 4, X. OF p, will
meet in regular session this evening.
Also presentation of veteran jewel. A
full attendance desired.
d. B. WAFFLE, c. c.
r. w. FLETCHER, X. r. S.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
Special.

Until May 1st we will sell 10 lb.
cans pure lard, $3.50; lb. can pure
lard, soc; ID. can pure lard soc. Cen
tral Meat Market.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03

ExMayor George B. Mcclellan of
New York, is to pass most Of the next
eight months in Italy. There he is to
write number of lectures on politi-
cal economy and political science,
which he is to deliver next winter at
Princeton university, of which he is
an alumnus and Stafford Little lee
turer BY that time also it is ex-
pected that the chair of a professor
ship will be ready for Mcclellan.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03

California's assembly, by a vote of
II to 0, passed the Griffin anti-black-
listing bill, which makes it a misde-
meanor for any employer to prevent
former employe from obtaining new
employment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-03
The Pastinne

The house Of quality. Extra good
program for Tuesdays change.
Love and the Stock Market" Edi-
Milford chronicle., 1911-09-15

tioning the circumstance in a general
conversation, Harry Robinson remarked,
Bet DR.. Leonard's been digging gold
again 20
Robert Stevenson. of New York, is Wis
iting his father, Peter Stevenson, of Ste
vensonville.
George II. NAPLES has bought the good
will and goods of c. f. Thackery' hard
ware store in the Palmer Block, and has
taken possession
Harry Robinson has bought of {. II.
Atkins, the old store house, corner Front
and Chestnut streets, now occupied by
Joseph Walls as a meat market, and will
.re-arrange it and remove his pool room
and restaurant therein, at the beginning
of another year, or sooner, if possible.
Mayor William II. Stephens has rented
the room in the Conner Block now Occur
pied by Samuel Fithian, and will begin
business about the first of October. or as
soon as Mr.. Fithian's new building is
completed and he removes from his pres
eut location therein, John d. Smith has
rented the wheelwright shop now occu-
pied by w. II. Stephens.
J. B. Wharton, oyster revenue cOllec-
tor, of Dover, and A. E. Archer. of Mil
ford, formerly fish commissioner, were in
Milton the early part of this week. The
Oyster Commissioner has appointed
Harry Robinson deputy for Broadkiln
river
Harry Robinson has sold to Mrs. Sam
uel J. Wilson his restaurant building on
BrOadkiln Beach. 1t is understood Mrs.
Wilson will make of it Salvation Army
rendezvous. d. A. c.