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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1909
Page
2
Cash paid for chickens at the Grande Ronde Cash Company. Advertisement promises highest market prices and quick cash. Includes contact line Red 14 and notes on crop prospects affecting supply.
GI teams in a City Inez league will play Sunday games through the season with La Grande Baker City Huntington Perry and Union involved. La Grande hosts and travels Sunday schedule includes Huntington Cove Union Baker City and Perry. Managers listed. Archie Miller and George Cleaver active in promotion. future all star aged 30 plus team planned for carnival week.
The City of La Grande files a case in the Oregon court against T Ralston & Company. Defendants must appear by May 28, 1909, or the plaintiff will obtain judgment for 19.00 plus costs. Justice A Stewart orders weekly publication in the La Grande Evening Observer starting April 15, 1909.
Travel to Oregon via Harriman lines shows a 4 percent rise in the first six weeks of Spring, reaching 9479 home seekers for 1900, with Portians and Willamette Valley towns contributing large numbers. Through April 1 to 15, 707 new builders from the East arrived, and cities like Hood River Pendleton La Grande Elgin Baker City Walla Walla Lewiston and Spokane record notable gains. Officials expect all prior colonist movement records to be broken this year.
Bramwell quits real estate and feed store work after taking a job with Amalgamated Sugar Co. A sale is offered on the best located feed store in the city at a bargain. Bramwell and Black urge immediate settlement of debts to C. J. Black, in the usual office.
Partnership between F L Lilly and E H Foster dissolves by mutual consent. E H Foster retires. F L Lilly to run the business solo, collect debts, and pay firm liabilities as of April 7 1909. Signatures: B H Foster and F L Lilly.
A major water pipe for domestic and fire use has been badly displaced by weeks of landslide activity. In several locations the line is nearly disconnected risking a water famine. A new pipe has been received and repair work is underway.
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