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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1905
Page
3
A pair of thieves unlocked the front door, blasted the cafe window, and looted eight hundred dollars before fleeing on a velocipede toward the tracks. A posse pursued but the culprits vanished with their concealed horses several miles below town.
The Circuit Court heard cases including a foreclosure suit by Union R 2 Company G W Bushman and First National Bank of Union for 16 bonds totaling 36885.44 plus 8000 attorney fees with Leroy Lomax as plaintiff’s attorney. The court also heard Anna Oliver v city of Le Grande over statute of limitations, ruling the statute did not apply. Charges against Chas Denny for larceny of quilts from Blue Mountain House resulted in a guilty verdict. sentence set for Friday morning. The docket includes J D McKennon v R W Deal over horse ownership and multiple indictments expected tomorrow.
Wm Ramsey, jailed on fraud charges, was declared free by the judge. The case concerns business risk from unpaid sight drafts and a potential appeal to the supreme court. District attorney Lomax says he may seek legislative changes to criminalize such transactions while Ramsey had passed several drafts to his brother in Illinois, all honored or returned.
0AC notes good daily attendance as work continues. A new illustrated catalogue will soon be mailed. Enrollment totals include Mechanical 144, Literary Commerce 79, Household Science 73, Agricultural 64, Pharmacy 60, Mining 43, Music 37, Special 23, Dairying and Agriculture 46. The college flag hung at half mast for Hou. J M Cbardh. Union county ranks fourth in student numbers.
Readable names include Morey and Waronma with mentions of 710 and June. Several garbled phrases reference activities on weekdays and various calls, but details are unreadable. No clear event, location, or outcome emerges for a solid card.
New hope arrives for nervous troubles with osteopathy as a healing art. The article claims gratifying successes using the curative method and notes patients showing marked improvement and declared cured after treatment.
The chapter mourns the loss of Jonas M Church a devoted Royal Arch Mason and active member who aided the distressed with sympathy and effort. The resolution extends heartfelt sympathy to his family and orders the resolutions to be recorded and transmitted to the proper parties.
The La Grande National Bank directors meet on December 6 1905 to announce the death of J M Carrier a bank director and officer. They express sorrow at his loss calling him a true friend a trusted counselor and a man of integrity and charity and sign the resolutions with Robert Eakin Fred J Holmes and J M Berry.
A wedding occurred February 7 1905 at 8 pm at a corner home in La Grande Oregon uniting Mies Hate Oliver and Fred Johionoo with JF Day pastor of Fires Baptist Church officiating. The bride wore an embroidered white silk gown and the groom a black suit. A banquet followed as guests congratulated the couple and city friends extend their best wishes.
Due to Presbyterian services the week night meeting is rescheduled for Friday. Members and friends are urged to attend the service. OH KING EO Harper departed for Pendleton last evening to finalize arrangements for the creamery he will operate there.
The administrator of the estate of Jane Ball deceased, Borge Ball, announces a sale of undivided halves and parcels in La Grande and Arnold Additions, Union County Oregon. The sale is private and cash, subject to court confirmation, with proceeds to settle estate debts and costs.
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