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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
8
The Observer reports Northwest and Pacific Coast league scores for La Grande fans. Scores posted between 5 20 and 6 oclock each evening after prompt transmission and delivery, enhancing timely local coverage of all games.
H O Walker circulated a petition in a local area collecting signatures for a revised and consolidated city charter. One hundred bona fide voters have signed, meeting the legal threshold for submission to the people at a special election. The petition shows no objections during the canvass. An ordinance is expected to be introduced tonight to authorize the charter vote.
La Grande Land Office decision in government v William Roberts upholds that entrymen may prove grazing use by showing the land is grazing land, even if they did not personally graze it. The ruling, by Register Bramwell and Roelver Eberhardt, affects 20 to 40 similar cases and challenges prior agency practice.
The King sisters, aged five and six, are billed as the youngest attraction on the Panatages circuit and will appear in La Grande tonight. The program also features the Kingsburys with "The German Band" and the new moving pictures "Moscow covered with Snow" for the first time tonight.
The menu for the tamale supper by the St. Peter's guild suites tomorrow evening at Mrs. James Wussell’s residence includes chicken tamales Boston brown bread and butter DI pickles and good coffee all for twenty five cents Proceeds go toward the guild hall building fund.
Publicity Manager F. P. Currey visits Elgin to improve cooperation between the Elgin and Union County clubs. He aims to inflate financial aid and moral support for the Union County float in the Portland Rose Festival parade in June. Currey plans to return tomorrow.
Funeral services for Mrs Valimont were held at 2 30 this afternoon at the B W Grand residence on Adams avenue. Rev C E Deal of the Methodist church officiated. Interment followed at Masonic Cemetery. The infant’s body, recently deceased, was exhumed and laid beside its mother.
Three acre tract to city units for ease ideal for gardening and poultry raising. Includes fruit varieties and good improvements. A bargain is taken at once. Date 4 21 28. The Real Estate Loan and Commission Co.
A public hearing in New York discusses connecting the McAdoo tunnel to the New York Central line and linking it with the Steinway and Broadway Lexington avenues lines. It is widely viewed that the McAdoo tunnel will connect these routes and extend transit access.
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