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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1909
Page
8
Jeff Bull again secures a beet pulp contract for winter use feeding about 450 head of cattle at the factory. He has teams ready to haul straw and hay as threshing begins and will consume about 400 tons this feeding season. Straw used first, then pulp.
Tonight at the Pastime stock company stages Milton Nobles romantic four act play The Phoenix. S. M. Curtis directs with Gerald Gray by S. M. Curtis and Masks by Carl De Vere. Natino Blanch Grange Girl tones the ensemble alongside Russel Furbish Leonard L. Blaks Tucker Kitty Loraine and Mike O Connor Ike Pigeon completing the cast.
The article notes a play running for three nights with the later half of the week featuring the Sterling English drive titled Mable Heath. It also reports a train shooting incident near Huron with yeggmen opening fire. McShean and Hanford were close to being struck as the train slowed. Pendleton arrests over selling garments for men and ladies, with possible salt theft from Blue Mountain house.
A Powell family traveling from a Southern Colorado town to Medford via two Ford cars reached La Grande this afternoon after 22 days on the road. Their camp equipment and several young girls accompanied them, with a broken spring cited as the only serious mishap so far.
Manager C. T. Bacon of the Band has received an invitation to participate in the Northwest Band Concert in Seattle on September 6. Prizes include 50 and 350 dollars in class A and 320 and 220 in class B. The band plans to perform William Tell and The Poet and the Peasant. attendance is not yet decided.
Acting Poundmaster Tiffany narrowly escaped instant death when a revolver in his holster exploded as he bent to pick an object in a North side pasture. The bullet zinged past his body, missing him by inches. the incident occurred while he moved a cow to pasture.
For sale listing includes Alfalfa Kay and C. D. Scott property one quarter mile east of Flouring Mill in Independence with phone 1536. Also house and eight lots in south La Grande with city water a good well large barn and fruit trees offered by Thos. S. Harris at 1302 B Street with best valley view.
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