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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1907
Page
8
George Palmer Lumber Co seeks 26 Tamarack logs 30 feet long and 10 inches top end taper. Red Fir logs 850 neat feet with 16 inches at top end and no more than 2 inches taper along the length. Logs must be free from wind shakes and rot and shipped to the La Grande mill.
Society notes the M. E. Junior League hosts a party next Saturday from 2 to 5 at the home of Mr. J. W. Sericar. The event invites members and friends to join in the afternoon gathering.
Acer furnished rooms and cots arriving for the new Hot Lake sanatorium. The plant will open next week to 200 guests with 80 cots after April first completion, costing about 490000 in improvements and 12000 for a water system. Professor J W Hoff resigns Pendleton high school post to teach mathematics in Portland. Pacific Express reports $502.46 more January business than last year.
Local items show Judge Crawford and others traveling for legal business, managers and buyers from Baker City and California in town, and various residents arriving from Elgin Pendleton and Wallowa. Weather lore predicts six weeks of cold after Ground Hog Day shadows.
Sellers tout the Majestic steel range for low fuel use and high satisfaction. A few heaters, including carriage heaters, remain available for winter warmth during travel and at home.
An observed Longfellow Day decree sets February 27 as a holiday. Local doctors Volp and Moormeister open a public Union Hospital in the Corpe and bank buildings, inviting physicians to direct patients there.
Dr M K Hall, confined at home due to illness, has suffered typhoid fever for about two weeks and is now very ill. Dr Whiting of Elgin consults with Dr glucan regarding doctors’ tonality.
Rev R. C. King reports Elgin meetings attract large crowds with fifteen converts. He expects sessions to continue through the eighth of this month.
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