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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1906
Page
6
The Kaffee Klatch society notes greet ladies Friday afternoon. Several residents head to Portland and Salt Lake for visits and weddings. The Lyle Tuesday Musical invites Ye dames to the Commercial Club for an eight o clock start on April tenth in 1906.
District Attorney Lomax visits Baker City. A brother of Sam Evang arrives from McPherson Nebraska. Crow of Farmers Telephone transacts business in Elgin. J. H. Villa buys the A. M. Mayville on Washington street. Eastern Oregon Commandry No. 6 to confer the Black Cross degree Friday. Mrs. J. D. Slater returns home Sunday from Portland Good Samaritan hospital. La Grande Iron Works to make wood lath and band saw for Lewis and Hanny Enterprise Wallowa county. The firm notes its works cover a large territory. Hugh Hough and John E. Hough of La Grande attend to legal business, return to Baker. Since March 5 Sheriff T. B. Johnson has turned over $104,296.72 to Treasurer John Frawley.
Under the primary law precinct committeemen are elected by the two major parties. By last night filings included Harvey Atkinson in LaGrande No 1 and S A Gardinier in LaGrande No 2, with others in LaGrande No 3 4 and 5 Island Cuy Union Cove Summerville Elgin and surrounding areas. Also listed are candidates in North Powder Medical Springs Alicel and Elgin S and Nt districts.
A cultured woman about thirty five identified as Mrs Emma Bardeleben was found dead in her Palmer House room with a bullet wound and a pistol beside her. A ball boy heard the shot. A city visitor says the woman’s companion is Edith Cooper of Philadelphia.
Transfers include J W Simms to Emma Rankin for 650 dollars and H C Richardson to C C Welsh for 4400 dollars. Other entries list numerous parcel transfers around La Grande and Sunnyside, with totals and lot descriptions, plus a $97.04 state tax item and $112 fee. Also note three gypsy women fined for fortune telling now in jail as a preventive measure.
Frep Jacoss announces a final sale day on Saturday April 7 offering 25 to 40 percent savings on furniture and ranges. He urges residents to inspect stock and prices, insisting he must raise funds and may set prices as he wishes.
Patrons are well fed and spend little in the dining room. The Model Restaurant in Arbuckle offers excellent meals at a very reasonable price with wall cooked, high quality food and comfortable, well appointed dining room. Proprietor J A Arbuckle.
La Grande shoppers flock to Ellers Piano House for a sale on Weber Stock Chickering Schumann Haddorff and over thirty other makes. The store promises the greatest piano values for the money with regular Special Sale prices and evening hours at 1516 Adame Avenue under manager W. K. Davis.
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