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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1910
Page
7
The Observer extends Monday service to read prize fight returns at the bridge by the Observer office. Water sports at the park will also be shown starting 1 30 if the fight begins on time. The aims are to accommodate spectators with dispatch readings.
District Superintendent J. D. Gillilan leaves for a closing Idaho conference trip. He will travel through Wilstering sands and snow in a heavy fur coat and follow a schedule of appointments from July 1 to July 19 at Payette Fruitland Ontario Yale Brogan Nyssa Emmett Sweet Ola Thunder Roseburg Smiths Ferry Council Cambridge Welser Huntington.
A. B. Jacobs O. C. Finklenburg and F. B. Merrill left Baker County by auto to inspect the Powder Valley irrigation project and visit Eagle Valley. Merrill, from St. Paul, is on his first Baker County trip and sees strong money making opportunities, with interest in the Ontario Albany road grant across southern Oregon.
The market report lists sugar cash at 4.75 and beet sugar at 6.76. Vegetables include onions at 1c, spinach 3 for 25c, peas 10c, rhubarb 8c, lettuce 10c, radishes 3 bunches for 10c, green onions 3 for 10c, tomatoes per pound at 0c, and new potatoes at 2c per pound. Fruits show oranges 45c per dozen, lemons 35c per dozen, bananas 40c per dozen, strawberries 15c to 25c, cherries 25–35c per gallon, and berries 2 boxes for 26c. Meats list hogs 10 cwt, cows 31% to 4c, veal 4 to 4 1/2c, mutton 6 1/2, and chickens 18c. Butter extra creamery 26c, store 23 23 1/4c, butter fat at Portland. eggs candled 26–27c. Poultry mixed chickens 15–16c, turkeys alive 20–21c, dressed 27–28c, pigeons/squabs $2.50, dressed chickens 1–2c higher than alive. Barley producer price 1909 crop, feed 23–25, rolled 25, brewing 24. Wheat nominals for various grades 79–83 and Willamette valley 8?c. Millstuff selling prices: bran 20, middlings 28, shorts 21, crop 19–25. Flour new crop patents 6.15.
Classified notices show furnished rooms for rent at 101a Adama Ave for eight dollars monthly, requests for a 6 or 7 room furnished house, a lost engraved locket left at the Observer office, a summer suit cleaning offer at Pennington's, and a fireproof hotel with 120 rooms in Seattle offering a long lease, prominent corner location, large lobby, and telephone wall rooms with P O Box 1628.
fraternal groups in La Grande list weekly meetings at various halls. M W A La Grande Camp No 7703 meets Mondays in the L O O F Hall. Wehrkahs Crystal Lodge No 0 meets Tuesdays in S O O F hall. Grande Ronde Circle No 47 meets first and third Thursdays in the I O O F Hall. Kalhts of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No 27 meets Mondays in Castle hall. La Grande Lodge No 41 A F and A M meets first and third Saturdays. B P C E La Grande Lodge No 433 meets Thursdays in Elk's club. I C F Subordinate La Grande Lodge No 16 meets Saturdays. E 8 Hope Chapter No 18 C B S meets second and fourth Wednesdays. visiting members invited.
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