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Dunkirk Evening Observer from Dunkirk, New York • Page 5

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DONkiRk OBSKBVER, fUBSDAY, AUGUST 1883 of By NBA ttrvleV Saloui; Aug; picking (lowers lu Che Wlllaniette Valley these day; Ilka aome-sort ot modern doiuii't It? Well, hot necessarily. These tin of the humulua tupuluB, or hop vine, and destined to bloom again on the top of beer steins from California. The combination job, racatlou, and recreation that u'jmea -every to hop-raising sections lias begun in Oregon greatest hopyard Seer Makes harvesting- 60 per TO.ut;" 'America'a hop-growing lbr6ught of families from the farms and o'ven froni large For two or, three weeks, hop-picking is Oregon's ma a Industry, Jand the same 'tiling is true In hop-harvest time In to'rnla and New York, tho other Breat American h9P-produclng re Legal bear has meant Jobs for thousands of Oregoniaus at season. For this year the Oregon hop acreage has been. increased 10 per cent, to 17,000 acres: Next year the year following, still moro acreage will be added as the hop vines-'planted this year after beer's advent begin to bear tho curious flowers that mean so much In the life of a or even'a brewdrinker.

What Hops Are--and Do The grower Is now getting aboii 45 cents a pound for his hops, anc tho prospect of good future prices has.been a great stimulus hop growing iii all the hop areas tbe country. Hop vines are planted from cut lings and trained up wire trellises or tall poles. It. la tho hops which Made bv BUVCKSTONE MfoGx Oldest Manufacturers of WaaEing Machines In AMERICA 268 Lake Shore Drive, East HlRNlTUHE-FilNERAL DIRECTOR. PHONE 2756 FALL COATS or DRESSES DRY CLEAHEIJ and BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED By Our SWISS METHOD Quality Uncomparable DRY CLEANINQ 328 3824 Call for Deliver Fret Plumbing ind Heatinf to 129 CtntrtJ Arenue i Telephone Whole families are going into the hop-flel'di these days for a omblned task and vacation the hurried harvesting of hops i i add the flavor to next winter and summer's beer.

The large-photo shows a family at work In an Oregon hop-yard. Hop-flowers are shown In the ivo the aroma and bitter flavor beer. They also have, certain dle-tetlc lialities, and due to certain res- nous substances they contain, ave a preservative effect on beer, etarding the of licroorganisms that turn the brow pur. also act as a filter In ain straining processes in "hcer- naklng. Western hops are par- iuularly strong in tliolr resinous ualities, having sometimes twice much as tiie famous hops of Cent, Bohemia, or" Bavaria.

Vlust Act Quickly The nature ot thr- hop plant lakes it necessary to conduct tiie with speed and prompt- ess. Tho hop is a climbing vine the nettle family. Its flowers the hop of commerce and beer irewlng, and they must bo picked iromptly on ripening, for they leteriorato on exposure to tin veather after becoming ripe. So when.hops are ready fo ticking a huge army muet takn he itinerant western mil pickers who migrate from ilace to place following tho ripen us? of cherries, apricots, peaches and other crops, usually join in Jut there aren't enough of them thousands of other workers nust Join in tho hop picking. un So the liopyarda have becomo vacation centers for many sections an old Oregon cus- tbni for a whole fauilly to spend a joint vacation in the hopyard and In the recent lean years it has meant not a vacation, bul means -for providing winter clothes, shoes and schoolbooks.

Tho'auto has largely supplanted tho steamboat, the train and the liorse-drawn wagon that assembled pickers in pre-prohibition the camps established it the different hopyards. the vacation spirit still obtains, with lightly dances, bonfires, songfosla and similar vacation time amuse- nents. Families Work Together Tbe hours soo the throngs in the fields, working two or more to a row, stripping the hops from the vinos. Whole families can work together, tor all is piecework the rate this year -Is a cent -a pound--and tha combined work of two or three small youngsters can often top the wages of an ndult. The average adult picks 250 pounds dally.

Multiply this by husband, wife, a couple of lads or lassies in their 'toons and may be one or two younger children and the hopyard vacation ditferi from all others In that the mohe; rolls in Instead of out of the va canonist's pocket. Hops--- as'baskets are filled aro poured into huge hopsacks weighed, then haulod to tho yard'e hophouse, where skilled specialist kiln-dry the gre'en, moist hops the fields into.the. pungent, hops of the commercial world Baled, thoy find way Inti the markets of the world. By: JOSEPHINE HARDWICKE For miiiy years 'Captain Hiram Chapman, the Dunkirk lake boat captain-whose'intercstiiiK story Mr Allaii-Parkcr of Versailles told you a few ago, owned a picture which for a long time was thought be.one of the great master's Raphael. So firm was the ion that it was a genuine master that'Captain-Chapman Had it in The story of how it came" into aptain' Chapman's pof-session Mr acker gives better than any one se.

day a sailor- came to ersaiiles' looking for any mat lib might be a' sailor. People sen to Captain Ilis name as -Ned Gallagher," and lie hai li's picture called 1 the Fain with him. iok him in and. the sailor gave i Chapman. He salt iat two nieri sold him" the painting $2 when he ild him' it had been an icy wanted to sell it to some on ho was going out-of the coiintrj cd Gallagher sailed over th "It's quite a story, how-Ned Gal gher became a sailor.

When 1 as a small boy, he went to schoo day i a robin's hcst insid is shirt front. The teacher trie i make him give it.lo ickcd up one of 'those old incd lead inkwells-and threw i her. Then he was so scared fo of punishment, he ran awa id shipped on a vessel. At firs icy weren't going: to let him sta i board, but the captain told, hit he could climb to the top of th rgest mast and "down again, the ould let him' stay. He did i hat's 'the way he started.to be "lilor." That winter while he was a 'licle Hiram's, he made a wonderful piece of weaving.

Tli still in Captain Chapman' Id house. The picture, is how i alifornia with Mrs. Lucy Deal ilrs. Barker of Fredonia, thougl much of it that while Uncl a had it, she borrowed it an ad a copy ma'de. I'm judge rt but it seems to me a wondcrfo The family had Uncl picture sent lo New Yor see if it could have been pain by Raphael, but they said th anvas was not the kind lie used.

Then came one of those dcligli il surprises that one gets once i great while, for Mr. Parker of red to take me up to Captai hapman's old home that 1 migl ce the rug the sailor had mad or him. The house is now ownc Miss Edith Parker, a cousin Ar. Allan Parker's. The i hous nd Captain Chapman's work is ai ther story which I hope to hav ou read soon.

Mr. Parker things a eve liough the painting not iaphael tliat it must have bee ainted by some one who pcrhap UP a great name--but there is ignaturc on the picture. It will a ays be one of "those uncxplaiue BLUE BLOODS OF STOCKTON HOLD ANNUAL PICNIC Third Reunion Was Held At Bear Lake Summer Estate. Stockton, Aug. 29--The third an ua4 reunion of the "Stockton nine Bloods" took place at the llawdon summer estate, at Bear Lake.

Games'and water sports were the order of the day, after the meeting adjourned until the test Sunday In Jurte, 1934. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. James Wright, Mr. and Mrs.

Forest Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Turk of Stockton; Mr.

and Mrs. Gilbert Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. Milo Bailey and son, Clinton, Mr. and Mrs.

Floyd of Dun- tirk; Mr. and Mrs. John Mr. Mrs. Harold Malley, Mr.

and Mrs. William' Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent' Coughlin, Mr. and Mrs.

Sam Frisbee, Miss Sue Mullen of Buffalo; and Mrs. Den Palmer of Jamestown; Mr. and Mre. George 1'rendergast, Mr. and Mrs.

Ray'Costine of Frodonla; Newman of Silver Creek; Marjorle Jean Frisbee, Marian Bailey, Dorothy'and Marian Rawson, Joyce Wllllains, Harold and Donald Newman, Billy and Dobby Bacon, Joseph -Pains, Bill Hamberger, George Leary, Jospeh Healy, John Groman and Edward Smith Jr. MRS. JOHN G. SOMMERS HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY IN MAYVILLE FRIDAY Mayvllle, Aug. 29--Mrs.

John Sommers reached her 81st birthday i'rlday and the event was celebrat ed with party given he daughter. Mrs. Agnes McCliircn She -has been a resident ot Ma for G5 years when she -cam 'rom Wurtenberg, Germany. Sh net her husband on the steame on which they crossed tho Atiah c. She has five living children, Mrs Anna Flanders, Mrs.

Agnes McClar en, Leonard Sommers and Georg V. Sommers of Mayvllle and Mrs Albert Cadwell of Orville, Wusl ngton. She also has 12 grandchi dren, and 16 great grandchildren. DUNKIRK STREET-MARKET Tuesday, Aug. 29 Apples, $1.25 Beans, 5c qt.

Potatoes, 23c half peck, J1.75 jushcl. Pears, fl bushel. Italian squash, Sc 1 Summer-squash, 5c. Onions, 2 qt. basket'15c.

Radishes, 2 buncnes'So. Melons, 10c-15c. 15c qt. Lima.beans,:22c Blackberries, Gc qt. dozen; Peppers.

dozen. :Egg.plant, 5c. 2 qt. basket lOc. 5cV8c lire; Peaches, 2 qt basket 15c.

5c Carrots, bunches locv bunches lOc. Pickles, J5c hcSared; 2- 15c. Swiss chard, inert: if (anything to buy or sell, an idvertiiemcnt in the OBSERVER will lirfp bu. MRS. MARY DORWIN DIED ON SUNDA Creek, Aug.

29 Mr Mary Dorwln, 76, died Sunda afternoon at the homo of he daughter, Mrs. Milo Boutwell, miles west ot this village. Tho funeral service will be he! Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Mil Boutweli- home.

Mrs. Donnan is survived by tw daughters, Mra. Edith.Howard an Mrs. Nora Boutwell; a son, WI lam Dorwin, who is employed government and travels. Mrs Dorwln a member th iherry Creek Baptist church.

ADVERTISEMENT Bids for repairs to roof-of hall building, Dunkirk, N. proposals f6r making permanent repairs to the city bn accordance 'with tibns of the city engineer, will received by the common council a meeting of Sept. 5, 1933. Prospective bidders may obtal specifications at the office of c't must be In the hands of th city clerk not later than 5 o'cloc i m. on Sept.

5, 1933. The council reserves the right reject any or all bide received. A. W. HARLING, City Clerk.

N.rroi Not Hultky The liCad that Is narrow from ea to ear 'usually' has the. accompan ment'of a body that Is hot up health' par, says a writer I th St. Louis "Globe-Democrat. Sue subjects wilt often tend to be narrow In. inental scope and consequentl tgotlstlcal.

will niake con tacts with, people poorly and tend to ward They and unrtlci larld will Incline rather than.physical I Ueir lystcncs. EUctricily Still Myttcry Discoveries of science lu the pas mndred years tend to show tli nter-rclation nf all things, tho kin ship being some sort of elcctrlci unKcmcnt. as yet not understooi as, indeed, no form ot electricity jnderstoiid. Accused Kidnapers Camera Shy i laadoro Ulnmeufcld. above, Irlod- to hit tho photographer who was taking his picture as ho loft federal court In Minneapolis after bone arraigned for conspiracy In the kidnaping of Charles F.

Urschel, wealthy Oklahoma City oil man, Peter Hackott. below, Indicted on tho same charge, also was camera shy when ho left court behind his attorney, Ernest Carey. It Is claimed that some of tho Urscnel-ran- scm money passed through tholr hands JAMESTOWN ATTORNEY TO HEAD BAR GROUP Jamestown, Aug. 29--Attorney Hubert H. Jackson of this city Monday was elected chairman of lie National Conference of Bar Association delegates at Its annual neoting In Grand linpids, Micll.

Mr. Jackson attended ns a dole' representing tho New -York ir association by appointment of imuel Soalmry or Now York, iresldont of tho association. CARD OF THANKS Wo wish to express our thanks tho Dunkfrk Laundry ofilcluls, employes of Dunkirk Laundry, Liunkirk Community club, I. 0. O.

frlenda and neighbors uittloue nf cars, flowers, and other kii.dn.ess shown during tho illness and ujeath of our husband and fath MRS JOHN LARSON. MHS. ELLEN I'MISS. I there is anything you wish lo buy or sell, an advertisement if Ihc OBSERVER will hrlp HANDWORK DISPLAY OF A Work done during tho sunim tho boys and girls who hai attended tho' city playgrounds exhibit nt tho Sohater storo Main street. Puronts and friend if tho' children whoso work Is dl played have been visiting tl store for two days and examlnii articles there.

A.doll houso built and furulsbo ly tljo children who attended tl Vowlon stroot grounds occuplt nost of one display window, hiao has been supplied with til urnlture mndo by tho chlldro Other articles Include holder napkin Hugo, embroidery ul scrap books mndo by the chlldn during their recreation hours. Heather Fires Sean From Sea The unnuiil custom of Imrnli hentlier In big bonllres is observe In the western Isles, oft Scotlan Hugo IIres blitzing In Hie mountnl: of Jnrn nro soon by flailing vessc SO nillo.i iiwny. The Inrpre numb form an Impressive sppni. Coming rice Predictions Range Frdm $30 $50--Basket Situation cated Jjy Early grapes ot good quality are tho roadside stands and Mooro's rly are ready for shipment tMs eek In most of tiie holt. Thoro 11 probably bo few elilpmouts of rly.

srape-a this year use of tho tonnage used In sup ylng the roadsldo- inarkoU uckoru that come Into the hilt. Tho season tills year appears to 0 from a wook to ten days earlier an normal, duo in part to the ex- ss of warm, dry. weather; Some timato that Concords should be ady for shipment by Sept. 18 or Niagaras about tho 10th. Many aiittngs of Portland and Ontario ro now ripo.

Vines of tho uow Fr'edouia grape ro showing excellent production blB year with long woll-illled iuh- 103. Prof. F. K. Gladwln, w.Ii? ile- r-lopod tho now grape at tho Fre- onla Experiment station, feels oa- eclally encouraged about 1 Its quality as a Its produc- on and beliovos that the now va- ety comes closer than any other being the grape that will oven- lally replace tho Concord as the crop.

rice Prediction! It has been especially difficult year to secure any estimates the price that graves are likely o' bring." As tho season draws caror, those who am ii lose touch with th'i. situation are ioro willing to hazard a Miniates run from to 550 on, but none are very sanxulu' Iraut their accuracy. Thwo nro both discouraging am ncouraglng factors to' take. ccouut, as always; It seems lilts that there will, be much smalle cnnago pressed this year tor nrmentod juice than last- year uico companies loaded up i rapoa last year- and although liiblo Informntlon on the tarry ver 13 lacking, It Is certain tha hero Is still a lot of juice in som tile collars of the larger plants Vhllo one plant reports a Jarse fiinago contracted than 'last yaa hn Increase may bo at the- oxpen tho tonnage secured from co'ip ratlveo last yoar. It la still loubtful whether-the E.

wl ircsu any grapes this year for II iwn stork. Demand for Wine Grapes Howovor, tboro Is still a goo irosnoct that there will bo a naud for juice grapes caused ho fast progress that repeal nado. At least two factories bolt have been for pressing out i Htomnilng grapes for shlpmo jut of tho bolt to conconiB th ttntomnlato the manufacture wlnn of uioro than 3.2 "alcoho content. Wineries In central New Yo ire said to be planning on prosl tho grapes they can got In th and, may have to ship grapos to fill their roqiilronien Michigan; avy Insect dar age. will ess no grapes In The quality-ot grapes should od, judging by the of rly.

grapes now ripe. Thera.hiia en some -hopper damage but much as last year when grapes'. odiiced I'fobably -juice In tha. recent history industry. Vineyards, however, are In nth- badicondltton as.regards.cuHiva*..

n. spraying, and especially for-: Izatlon; For two'or. three 7, amount fertlllzer.r.iwed. creased. t.

iii the hills will well If- they produce a halt iho year. Situation v' The package situation Is a esvi dally disturbed condition, use thoro Is likely-to apes preased by nnufacturers, some allvos have 'advised all i i i i owors to lay in a stock of: baa- ts to, handle their.crop with. I reported that basket mannlt in a quandary, about the' (ode NRA on thojr y. After a basket makers'. C'lde ml' been 1 tho istry was transterre.d into Hie mber classiflcation with.

the. lit that hours of labor must idlcally cut and One large baekets claims that the 111 boost the per cent. ncreased Basket Prices Is estimated the muo baskets may go un oe-inncb' $8 a thousand. Baskets outract by tho maker rered at the contract oso sold after the code must bo sold at thD In- reasod price. Banket makeri may forced to deliver contralto! askets at tho contract ough they have.to make them or tho cods.

Cooperatives are von- crlng thoy will hnvn to large'tho Increased'price for has. ots Bold to their members but ivrchased under contract at the 'lo-code prlro. Tho Hudson River i hanno IB said to bo selling jumbos ov $60. The price in tho bolt ias boon around $45. If the price -'lies itp S3 will Increase this cost In baskets about a en.

These questions, like many ithers, are Involved In the prob- nms that have arisen from tin inA regulations. Pyi to Be Plowmen A treasure trove of 378 coins and several valuable ornaments, were plowed up by farmhand at Hjorts- liog, Sweden. The coins were of Danish, and Oerman, as well as Swedish origin. Tho oldest was dalcd I I I I ami bitp.it 1077. TL Inere are other cigarettes but they are not like and Chesterfields are not like any other cigarette.

As soon as you light up a Chesterfield, we believe you will notice that they are mild. And before very long, you will certainly notice that they taste better. These things don't just happen so. There isn't any accident about it. For we put into CHESTERFIELDS all -that; Science knOws and money can buy to make them "satisfy." Just try them! Incur Mrsu TOMOCO Co..

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