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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1910
Page
5
Short items include Cowpuncher's Ward and Trimming of Paradise with notes on Buddhists in India and a feature on a Romantic Girl. A musical piece titled Song I m Awfully Glad I am Irish rounds out the collection.
Miss Lulu Townsend travels to Hot Lake for a position. Miss Katherin Woodruff of Union visits the county metropolis. Councilman George Kreiger rests at home in West La Grande. Mrs. G. T. Fleming ill for days. Mrs. Alberta Hopper Goodman of North Yakima visits friends. Miss Eaton and H. A. Gallowa of Enterprise News Record are land office visitors. Mrs. G. Katsch, Mrs. R. L. Pardin, and Mrs. A. Pardin of Fairbanks attend to city business. Clifford Lamb of Union, J. M. Short of Elgin, Fred Ewing of Liotine, J. H. Milnaugh of Wallowa spend last evening in La Grande.
W J Townley Migs Townley Har ry and Robert Withycombe and W H Vogel visited Union last evening to attend the Chautaugay traction.
A. H. Feldén and wife Mrs. Anna Hoffman and Mrs. A. D. Danie attended the Folk lecture at the Chautauqua grounds last evening, gathering with Cove people for the event.
Bridge Superintendent Campbell and H A Davis left this morning for Minam to undertake two weeks of repairs on the county bridge. Miss Belle Darby of Toppeniah departed for home via Salem Oregon after visiting friends, staying with her sister Mrs. R W Logan for several days.
Ex governor Joseph W. Folk left this morning for Boise to attend a lecture course. He plans to visit Portland afterward but had to return to Boise to fulfill the engagement there.
Dr F E Moore the Enterprise of teopath who formerly lived in La Grande passed through the city this morning on his way home after attending the state medical board meeting at Portion Shdey Mk Ud bees.
Delile Green of Smith and Greene and M3 Greene leave on a two week pleasure tour to Portland Salem and other Willamette Valley points.
County official J M Selde comes home to Cove amid high demand for cherry pickers. Citizens report difficulty securing enough workers as the town faces shortages and rising appetite for the fruit.
J. W. Davis, employed at the Palmer logging camps, lies in the hospital with a severe ax injury that nearly severed his foot. Doctor Molitor attends him and hopes to save the limb as he battles for recovery. Grant Geys, a former Panama Canal employee, has just returned home from Curry County, where he began healing arrangements.
A short project aims to link the lake with the Pacific via a canal from Floras Lars to the sea. The plan would allow seafaring vessels to reach the lake. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson have relocated from Kamela to La Grande to settle there.
Ben Halsten of Wal lowa visits with his brother Fred B Halsten this afternoon after running a furniture store. The pair hosted a local guest during the outing.
Former Portland yardmaster Doc Harned is reassigned to the Joseph run and will reside in La Grande. Mr and Mrs Harned have leased Mrs Brook's new bungalow and will live there.
Postal cards from the La Grande party en route to Yellowstone Park report safe arrival at Baker City and Weiser. A Weiser card says they have no need for horses. The group includes Mr. and Mrs. Hall and W. J. Church among others. C. H. Seeman, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Seemann, visits La Grand e, and after a year at the government naval school in San Francisco, takes a furlough to spend time with family before resuming his four year course.
G. M. Mickleson left La Grande this morning for Payette Idaho to spend a vacation before moving on to Santa Barbara California where he will assume the principalship of a large commercial school next winter. The position is a deserved promotion with several teachers under his control. He was formerly a commercial instructor in the La Grande schools.
A dialog about Miss Yankie and Lord Chichester features a Derby victory praised as newsworthy. Lord Defendus notes the win while Miss Yankie asks about an election bet. The piece pivots on wit about grandmothers and quotes classic opinions from Galveston News and La Bruyere.
A short ad touts Chamberlains Liniment at twenty five cents as a cheaper, superior remedy to plasters for back pains, side and chest aches, recommending a piece of flannel dampened with the liniment only.
Radical inter county league changes prompt La Grande to disband and reorganize. Manion and Pidcock join from Joseph with Walters and others. next Sunday's series vs Enterprise eyed as pivotal as rosters shift and possible league realignment looms.
Bridge Superintendent Campbell and six men left today to raise the Minam bridge and complete extensive filling. The structure, one of the county's largest, will receive two large approach fills while general repairs proceed, benefiting residents of Unton and Wallowa county.
L. M. Raynor of Riverhead, New York, reported a twig caused his pocket to be picked in December 1908, stealing his watch. He only learned of the loss after returning home, and recently found the watch hanging from a twig at head height, leading him to suspect the branch was bent as he passed.
Letter from Bird F. Lewis to patrons of Lewis Printery announces the sale of the printing plant and goodwill to Messrs Whiton and Heubach formerly of St Charles Minnesota. He asks customers to extend the same kindness and prompt payment to the new owners, confident they will deliver improved service.
Whiton and Heubach announce purchase of Lewis Printery and plan general job printing in Lewis building inviting public patronage. They sign J E Whiton and B W Heubach.
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