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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1910
Page
7
Bud Barclay recounts a chaotic Fourth party where fireworks misfire led to a raucous scene. A man’s romantic interruption, dangerous strung crates, and a roman candle clash ended with the narrator injured and placed in bed. Lost watch notice from P. K. Wright follows.
Sugar cash price $6.75, beet sugar $6.75. Vegetables list onions 5c, spinach 3 for 26c, peas 10c, rhubarb 3c, lettuce 10c, radishes 8 for 10c, green onions 8 for 10c, tomatoes $0.10 lb, new potatoes 26c per lb. Fruits oranges 45c per dozen, lemons 35c per dozen, bananas 40c per dozen, strawberries 15c or 25c, cherries 26–36c per gallon, gooseberries 30c per gallon, raspberries and blackberries 2 boxes 25c, dewberries 2 boxes 26c. Meats hogs $10 cwt, cows 3.5–4c, veal 4–4.5c, mutton 6.5c, chicken lic. Butter extra creamery 21c, store 23 23 per cent. Butter fat delivered Portland. Cream 27.5c, sour 25.5c. Eggs local candied 26–27c. Poultry mixed 15.5c, fancy 16c, turkeys alive 20–21c, dressed 27–28c, pigeons $2.50, dressed chickens higher than alive. Barley producers price 19.098, feed 23, rolled 26, brewing 24. Wheat nominal track club 79, bluestem 83, Willamette valley Ste. Mill stuffs selling price Bran 20, middlings 29, shorts 21, do 19–25. Flour new crop patents $5.15.
Classified snippet offers a wanted seven room furnished house with a contact phone Red 1181. Also promotes Pennington's cleaning and pressing service with two phone numbers Black 851 and 44. Advertises quick summer salt cleaning.
Local fraternal groups announce regular meeting nights at various halls in La Grande Grande Ronde Circle No 47 meets first and third Thursday evenings I O O F Hall La Grande Lodge No 41 A F and A M meets first and third Saturdays at 730 pm B P C E La Granite Lodge No 433 meets Thursday evenings at 8 o clock Elk club corner Depot St and Washington Ave Crystal Lodge No 60 meets Tuesday evenings I C O F hall Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No 27 meets Monday nights Castle Hall old Elk s hall visitors welcome.
A brief exchange quotes a Washington Star line about a euphemism for unemployment. The dialogue features a small boy and the term "Patoer" as the speaker explains that such language lets a man claim freelance status rather than admitting job loss.
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