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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
4
The La Grande volunteer fire department is praised for preventing major fires as insurance rates are expected to drop by 20 percent. Editorial comments urge readers to reflect on the past year, plan improvements for the new year, and consider local sewerage ideas linked to irrigation ditches.
A committee examined an irrigation effort spending hours and securing 30 acres from a 400 acre tract. They warn the Sandridge option is costly compared with other acreage and may be dropped without an engineer’s estimate. They estimate saving $100,000 by skipping Sandridge and note long tunnel and lateral works would reach 1000 acres, with river-side expansion planned later.
Engineers Young and Kelany project a dam at 242000 with cement cost cuts, enabling 40000 in canal funding. The plan contemplates vast south and north side irrigation to Mt Glenn and Day farms, attracting 1000 shares and hundreds more acres, with real estate firms subscribing 500 acres. Citizens urge support for a decisive meeting on the 16th to turn theory into a thriving water-based growth for La Grande.
The Pastime theater shows a Montana Schoolma’am as a Selly play, Weary Willie Takes in the Flower Show as a comedy, with Mr C P Ferrin singing illustrated songs. A matinee for children begins at 3 p.m. Saturday in a warm, comfortable venue.
Wallace Trill of La Grande recently completed a college course in the state and now works in the Sunset Magazine advertising department. He has a boost contract over In Matt heur county and does similar work for the magazine as Mr. Rohrabacker did for the Pacific Monthly in Union county. Trill is positioned for reading clerk of the house at the next session, and local friends hope for the appointment based on his qualifications.
Robert Herrick's new book titled To gether is featured at Ferguson's. The listing notes author Charles Rann Kennedy's play The Servant In the House among available works.
The citizens of Banks have decided that the town will pursue progressive reforms and local changes. Residents voice support for new policies aiming to boost community services and civic participation. Local leaders outline steps for implementing the plans.
A bill for issuing a corporate charter has been drafted aligning with the moment when action is deemed timely. The wording signals formal steps toward incorporation and official authorizations forthcoming.
London dispatch reports a rising unemployed movement across the four nations backed by tin interests. The House of Lords is under pressure as a major political crisis looms with calls to abolish hereditary peerage and shift to elective succession to fill Lords seats.
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