Pioneer Ed Davis and the Early Wallowa Mill Life
The narrative recalls M. Davis from Kansas who moved to Wallowa county in 1884 and established the first planing mill in the valley. He hauled machinery from Meacham along the Oregon Railroad and Navigation line and spent years freighting while weathering hard times and grasshopper turmoil. Old Mac, the nickname for McCrae, is noted as an owner who sold his plant and entered the hotel business with growing success.
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Wallowa
McCrae
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Gate City
Wallowa business boom fuels growth and family success
The passage highlights a modest host famed for being generous at meals with three daily offerings. It notes a thriving Wallowa beef stake operation and a growing enterprise, including Gate City Plan Shell led by Theo Shell and Bruce Cox as treasurer. The Wallowa drug store maintains a strong trade and prescription service.
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Shell
Theo. Shell
Bruce Cox
Wallowa
Market Quotations Sugar Vegetables Fruits Meats Portland Markets
Sugar cash price six sixty seven cents a pound beet sugar four sixty-five a hundredweight. Head lettuce ten cents, green onions three bunches for ten, tomatoes ten cents per pound. New potatoes ten for twenty five, cabbage four cents, green corn two cents, string beans ten cents per pound, green peppers one fifty per pound. Oranges fifty cents per dozen, lemons forty five cents per dozen, bananas forty cents per dozen, blackberries two boxes for twenty five, watermelons one to two pounds, cantaloupe ten and one cent per pound, peaches ten cents per pound, plums ten cents per pound. Hogs five weight well finished nine dollars per cwt. cows three and a half to four cents, veal four to four and eight, mutton three to four, chickens thirteen cents, fries twenty cents. Portland Markets Butter extra creamery thirty five to thirty five and one eighth, store twenty two and a half to twenty four and a half. Butter fat deliver price Poultry chickens eighteen to eighteen and a half, fancy nineteen cents, turkeys alive twenty and thirty one, pigeons squabs two fifty, dressed chickens one to two cents higher than alive. Barley producer’s price 1910, feed twenty five, rolled twenty five fifty to twenty. Brewing twenty six. Wheat nominal track club eighty six, bluestem ninety three, Willamette Valley ninety, Valley ninety seven. Millstuffs selling price Bran twenty two, middling twenty, shorts twenty four, crop nineteen twenty five. Flour old crop patents five thirty six.
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Mc Crae hotel fuels valley trade and timber hopes
The Mc Crae hotel serves as valley HQ for arrivals with guests taking charge of the office when the Jenciord is away. Charley Flynn’s cigars and milk are in demand, driving ongoing orders from local and external buyers. F. A. Galloway leads the druggist business and plans a move to a new store building as a future Wallowa payroll town materializes.
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McCrae
Jenciord
Charley Flynn
Wallowa
F. A. Galloway
Local Merchant Eyes Expansion To Improve City Drug Store
A business note cites a merchant planning to widen space to renovate a difficult-to-beat drug store. The speaker is identified as a local entrepreneur from the area.
Wallowa Businessmen Highlight Growth and Services
Bigin has resided in Wallowa two years with Mrs. Dowden in charge of millinery from Portland. Dr. Gregory plans a small hospital in Wallowa to aid the county. Hi B Halston runs a furniture and embalming service, while J L Maxwell operates a well equipped packing plant and modern retail. (To be Continued.)
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Wallowe
J. L. Maxwell
Wallowa
Lcy
Fraternal Lodge Meetings Schedule for La Grande
La Grande Camp No 7703 meets Mondays at the I O O F Hall with J R Snook as C D B and Cox as Clerk. Women of Woodcraft Grande Ronde Circle No 47 meets first and third Thursdays at the I O O F Hall with Chloe Robinson as G M and Lizzie Ellsworth as Clerk. La Grande Lodge No 41 AF and AM holds reu ter meetings first and third Saturdays at 730 pm with John H Hodgin as W M and A C Williams as Secretary.
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Women of Woodcraft
Grande Ronde Circle No. 47
1. O. O. F. Hall
Chloe Robinson
G. M
Lizzie Ellsworth
AF. & A. la Grande Lodge
A. F
A. M
John “. Hodgin
W. M
A. C. Williams
Fraternal Lodges Meet Weekly In La Grande Area
B P O E La Granite Lodge No 433 meets Thursdays at 8 pm at Elk's club corner Depot street and Washington Avenue. Visiting brothers Dr G L Biggers Ex Ruler Hugh McCall Rec Sec. Woodmen of the World La Grande Lodge No 169 meets second and fourth Tuesdays monthly. All visiting members welcome. Neri Ackles C C J H Keeney Clerk.
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B. P
E. la Granite Lodge No
Elk’s Club
Depot Street
Washington Avenue
G. L. Biggers
Hugh McCall
Woodmen of the World
la Grande Lodge No
Tuas Cay
Crystal Lodge 60 Meets Tuesday Evenings
Crystal Lodge No 60 holds weekly meetings on Tuesday evenings in the J C C F ball. All visiting members are invited to attend. Miss Anna Alexander serves as N G and Mrs Jennie M Smith as Ges.
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Crystal Lodge No. 60
Anna Alexander
N. G
Jennie M. Smith
Ges
Knights of Pythias meet Mondays in Castle Hall
The Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No. 27 meeting repeats every Monday night in Castle hall the old Elk's hall. A Pythian welcome to all visiting Knights. Ed Wright, C R Lincolon, M of R 8 B.
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Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No
Castle Hall
Old Elk’s Hall
Wright, C
R. L
Lincoln
Masonic Chapter Announces Regular Meetings
Hope Chapter No. 13, F E 8 holds stated communications on the second and fourth Wednesdays. Visiting members are cordially invited. Mary A. Warnick, Sec. Pauline Lederled, W. M.
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Hope
C. B
Mary A. Warnick
Pauline Lederled
W. M
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Kansas
Mac
Portland
Bluestem
Willam
Valley
Midling
Shorts
WA County
Natural Resources
Shell Combs
Edara Confectionery Co
Mirs
Gregen
Fine Packing Plant
Union County
United States National Bank
Mac Wood
Golden Rule
Pennington’s
F. D. Hasten
M. Packer
Repuatrer
Palace Restaurant
Bramwell
J. C. Guiling
Ave
Tiffany
Oregon
J. H. Peare
la Grande
Land Office
la Grande Camp No
J. R. Snook
D. B, Cox
Neri Ackles
C. C. J. H. Keeney
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