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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
5
Local notes list residents visiting and leaving for towns including Elgin Portland Enterprise and Baker City. Mentions of bishops, jurors, a wedding and a carnival musician moving to Lewiston, plus shipping of seed potatoes and a fall on a trap door with minor injuries.
The Elgin liveryman William Fine is registered at the Summer. A trial involving Mrs. Zuber regarding alleged fire ordinance violations is postponed to next week due to her attorney’s urgencies.
Mrs. H. R. Hanna will entertain the Baraca and Philatia club of the Presbyterian church tomorrow night.
Tonight is the last chance to see the double feature at Pastime with Star of Bethlehem and Return of Ulysseas. Cutter and Soule deliver The Gay Photographer to boost the program, praised for their act and singing. Helen Stuart performs selections and dancing with praised voice. A complete change is planned Friday night.
The Scenic will present a four part play tomorrow and Saturday nights for theatregoers benefit. Tonight Palmer and Robinson will change their act completely.
The article describes a new union uniting farmers and non-grangers to seek better transportation privileges, lower grain bag costs, and improved rates. It notes support from a broad base and aims to attract a large turnout at a Saturday meeting, emphasizing that orange growers are invited and that the union includes up to 2,000,000 members in the United States.
The 800 mile Alaskan dog race from Fairbanks to Nome is the sport’s feature this month. Nome Kennel Club sanctions the event with a $10,000 prize for the winning team and $5,000 shared among other finishers. Last year’s champions return as runners up amid expectations of fast times.
Real estate buyers urged to obtain up to date abstracts from a Union County firm. The notice claims accuracy and completeness guarantees, warning of risks from unsatisfied judgments and incomplete legal compliance.
The notice promotes Chamberlain's Salve for skin diseases noting quick relief and cures. It also reports grain crops facing menace from sage rats, with grangers spending hundreds yearly on poison to control them and the sage rat's life cycle ending by August as it retreats underground.
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