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Newspaper

La Grande Evening Observer

Location

La Grande, Oregon, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1910

Page

7

Community Notes From Ladd Canyon Visit Families

Ladd Canyon reports visitors and relocations including Mrs. Wm Russell and Mrs. L Smith visiting from North Yakima, Velma Winburn from La Grande, Mrs. Claude Braden and Mrs. Jed Braden, Ed Funk and daughter from Portland, and Lambert Crouse family. Mrs. Bowman and Mrs. Hutchinson’s party visit Hot Lake. L A Fuller joins husband for a move to Ladd Canyon.

Ladd Canyon Rand Wm. Russell L. Smith Siater Reppery J. F. Fuller Yakima Wm. Winburn la Grande Velma Ed Funk Daugher Portland Aira Lambert Crouse Dude” Bull Footthills Crouse Bros. Faria Wm. Hutchinson Lucy Graham Hutchinson Joe Bowman Hot Lake Bowman

National Guards Camp Opens for Bi annual Army Maneuvers

Troops from Washington Oregon Idaho Montana and regular regiments from nearby states and California join about 8000 soldiers at American Lake south of Tacoma for the Department of the Columbia maneuvers. The encampment splits into brown and blue armies for a final big battle with long marches drills and horsemanship tests reflecting Roosevelt era aims.

Seattle National Guards Washington Oregon Idaho Montana California American Lake Tacoma Wash Department of the Columbia Presidio San Francisco Roosevelt

Central Church of Christ Holds Picnic at Proebster Grove

The Sunday school will hold a picnic next Thursday in Proebster grove. Members assemble at 9 a.m. at the church corner and travel by vehicles to the grounds for a day of speaking, a basket dinner, and various games.

Central Church of Christ Proebster Grove

Incoherent wartime rant stirs Jenkins row and silence

A muddled report cites a Jenkins dispute with William Pitt over patriotic words. An unnamed butler supposedly misquotes a statesman and claims to defend the country. Testimony is rejected and little action follows.

Jenkine William Pitt Tiul Afer Ward Statesman Jenkina Jenkins Jenkton

Colors In Cottons

A simple dyeing tip notes that adding turpentine salt and cold water to cotton helps set color. The instruction mentions a tablespoon of turpentine a handful of salt and plenty of cold water for the process.

Sane Effect Innis-Doture Her

A fragment from the Boston Transcript cites a debate on a woman named Innis-Doture and a man’s sleeplessness over thoughts of her. The speaker contrasts sleeplessness with bills from a tailor, hinting at a humorous comparison between obsession and expenses.

Innis Owens Boston Transcript

Feel Good Again After Blue Mountain Tablets Ad

An advertisement urges readers to restore relief by taking Blue Mountain headache tablets available at the Red Cross Drug Store. The copy emphasizes quick relief from headaches and promotes the product and retailer.

Blue Mountain Red Cross Drug Store

Market quotations from Portland and commodities list

Market listings show sugar prices at 6.76 for cash sugar and 6.56 for beet sugar. vegetables include onions radishes lettuce and tomatoes with multiple 10c bundles, fresh peas, and potatoes at 10 for 26c. fruit prices list oranges 60c per dozen lemons 45c per dozen, bananas 40c per dozen, blackberries 2 boxes for 25c, watermelons 1-2c per lb, cantaloupe 10-15c, peaches 10c, plums 1c. meats quote hogs at 9 per cwt live weight, cows 3.5-4c, veal 4-4.5c, mutton 2-4c, chickens 13c, fries 2.00. Portland butter and butter fat prices noted, eggs at locas candled 26-27c, poultry prices for live and dressed birds, pigeons $2.50. Barley and wheat prices listed with historical 1910 figures, millstuffs and flour patent crop prices.

Summer salt cleaned and pressed at Pennington's

Classified notices offer rental of furnished rooms at 1811 Cave with phone contacts Black 822 or Black 851 for other inquiries. One ad lists white Wyandot full blooded cockerels for sale at Fail store. Also mentions a barn suitable for three horses and a barn near the track with inquiries to J. C. Guiling.

Pennington’s Cave

M W A La Grande Camp and Woodcraft Circle Meet Regularly

M W A La Grande Camp No 7703 meets every Monday in the month at the I O O F Hall. All visiting neighbors invited. I R Snoook, C D Be Cox, Clerk. Women of Woodcraft Grande Ronde Circle No 47 meets every first and third Thursday evening at the I O O F Hall. All visiting members welcome. Chloe Robinson, G M Lizzie Ellsworth, Clerk.

la Grande Camp No I. R. Snook Women of Woodcraft Grande Ronde Circle No. 47 I. O. O. F. Hall Chloe Robinson G. M Lizzie Ellsworth la Granite Lodge Woodmen of the World la Grande Lodge W. C

Local Lodges Advertise Weekly Meetings and Welcome Guests

Bebekabs Crystal Lodge No. 20 holds Tuesday evenings at the I. C. O. F. hall with visiting members invited. Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No. 27 meets Monday nights in Castle hall offering a Pythian welcome to all visitors. Officers listed include MISS ANNA ALEXANDER N. G MRS JENNID M SMITH Ses and BD WRISHT C C R L LINCOLN M of R S&S S.

Crystal Lodge No. 20 I. C. O. F. Hall Anna Alexander N. G Jennid M. Smith Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No Castle Hall Old Elk’s Hall Bd, Wrisht C. C. R. L. Lincoln

Freemason Meetings Held Saturdays At 7 30 P M

A F and A La Grande Lodge No 41 A F and A M holds reunions first and third Saturdays at 730 PM John Hodgin Worshipful Master A C Williams Secretary

A F. & A. la Grande Lodge No A. F A. M John “. Hodgin W. M A. C. Williams

Tales of Cities and extreme temperatures featured

The piece notes Baltimore's bid for a 1914 world fair to mark the Star Spangled Banner’s centennial written during the 1814 Fort McHenry attack. It also cites Miles City Montana with record temperature variation including a 178 degree range and a 67 below zero low.

Paris Berlin Baltimore Fort McHenry Miles City Mont United States Trely Arctic

Port Personals and Opinions in 19th Century Notices

A compact selection of quotes from several papers. The Washington Poat mocks Patten in port personal notes while the Birmingham Age-Herald and Philadelphia Inquirer critique Lipton Harvard and Morgan. The Boston Globe remarks on John L. Sullivan and spelling of proved.

Thomas Lipton Birmingham Age-Herald Harvard J. Pierpont Morgan Philadelphia Inquirer John L. Sullivan Sullivan Eliot Boston Globe

Innovative aviation devices showcased in early tests

An English national physical laboratory uses a whirling table with a sixty foot arm to test air ship propeller thrust. A French seronaut patents a deflatable balloon that packs into its basket and can be carried on a man’s back. An English inventor unveils a triplane guided from a seat suspended between two triplets of wings.

National Physical Laboratory England

Indians' Pride and the Reserve Among Five Civilized Tribes

A reflection on Native reserves separating Indians from whites, noting Full-Blood individuals within the Five Civilized Tribes. The piece attributes aloofness, reserve, and pride to culture, language, and distrust of whites, while acknowledging occasional religious or artistic persistence and a proverb about Indian patience.

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Ladd Canyon News L. A. Fuller North Yakima National Guards Camp J. E. Whiton’s Printery Bind F. Lewis Lewis Building Ehmann Bohemian Club Club Per Doz Bluestem Willamette Valley Shorts Mac Wood Golden Rule Store F. D. Hasten Jersey Bramwell J. C. Guiling Singer Sewing Machine 3Rd Street Tiffany J. H. Peare Land Office LA Grande, Ore D. G. Brighoux DIFC D. BE. Cox Bebekabs Hope Mary A. Warnick Pauline Lechrlee Neri Ackles C. C. J. H. Keeney Clert Tales of Port Personals Aviation Professional Directory MH. Upton la Grande National Bank Geo, W. Zimmerman Pacific Main J. E. Moore Cor. Adams Avenue Greenwood BE. Porter Day T. H. Crawford la Grade Sergeon Hill la Grands Sea of Nay Modern Coffectionery Os Wire Gragen Chas. E. Cochran Cochran Geo. T. Or Cochran la Grande Oregon M. P. Mendels HN Adama A. L. Underwood Dora J. Underwood Res W. C. Nelson Mialne Baker City N. Molitor Adam Depot Street Ofc la Grande Nationa
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