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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
5
A stream of travelers and residents are listed with arrivals and registrations in La Grande hotels. Rev W H Gibson returns from Enterprise, J W Haris from Elgin BE, Miss Florence Taylor from Walla Walla visits La Grande, and others including E B Wood, O R N detective, and families from Spokane Pendleton Walla Walla and Caldwell pass through.
W. L. Patterson of Baker City arrives in La Grande on land office matters. He is recognized as a leading attorney in Baker County.
Mrs Pete Thiesen and children Miss Hazel and Master Brother and Miss Margaret O Malley of Portland return from an overnight stay at the head of the lake. G H Sutherland Walla Walla plumber with a city sewer contract is in town closing the deal with the mayor and recorder.
W. D. Edmonston of the government bureau of entomology is in La Grande for a few days to attend to department matters and oversee work.
Mr and Mrs A W Leffel and family return to La Grande to settle for the winter after spending part of the summer on their Rondown homestead. Miss Grace Murphy, a Fall store cashier, leaves for Shoshone Idaho for vacation. Miss Edith Bork takes over Murphy’s desk.
Doctor Phy and party arrived home today after mostly horseback travel through Yellowstone with the final leg by train. They say they saw all there was to see and enjoyed the trip immensely.
W. C. Calder of Baker, a major timber buyer in Eastern Oregon, visits on business and recalls buying a Chalmers-Detroit from Postmaster Richey. Calder says the car was a fine ride and never refused to go even when driven by an amateur.
Will Neill and Lowell Williamson travel the Cove trail into the upper Minam region seeking fine fishing as they push toward a rugged wilderness area. The expedition ranks among Union County’s toughest fishing ventures and parallels the Elgin trail to the Minam river’s wild lands in Oregon.
W R Ladd, limp from injuries suffered in a wreck near The Dalles two months ago, called on O R N officers here today.
Sale notice offers a town lot ready for close in with cement walks and streets on city grade. Cash terms. Phone Red 1141. Public sale details not fully provided in readable text.
Advertises Blue Mountain liver pills as best on earth for dizziness. Promoted at Red Cross Drog Stora with no further details on ingredients or efficacy.
A treasury official cites society figures as prime offenders in smuggling noting cases from Harlem jewel thieves to a Naples visitor with jewel lined shirts. He recalls a musician who smuggled in a Stradivarius in a custom stamped case and other diversions from Paris and auto shipments. The editor frames a broad laxity among notable offenders and the challenges for jewel appraisers.
A shopper reports a light rain scene outside a store where a woman's umbrella released a jeweled hatpin, gloves and two men's handkerchiefs. It appeared like shoplifting but confusion follows as she picks up the items.
A light paragraph from the New York Sun features a speaker joking about finding Mary’s emerald hatpin and gloves last week, with two of George’s handkerchiefs hidden in umbrellas as a humorous hint. The tone is whimsical and domestic.
A humorous man posted an advertisement in a paper seeking a wife and asked applicants to enclose a carte de visite. One candidate answered with a clever letter refusing to send her card, noting there is some authority for putting a cart before a horse but none for putting one before a wife.
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