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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1905
Page
3
A butcher advertises a wide range of meats and urges customers to try a trial order to prove quality. The copy emphasizes selecting only top specimens and proper slaughtering, with prices stated as low yet aligned with high quality.
Bock and Thomas promote Chamberlains Stomach and Liver tablets as a pleasant easy to take laxative that acts reliably. Sold by Newhin Drug Co.
A local ad touts a combined grocery and meat shop offering staple and fancy groceries, vegetables, and a cold storage plant with ice kept produce. It claims best prices and urges orders to prove the business. Watermelons and berries are advertised as kept on ice with poultry.
Crescent Seattle Grocery Co advertises cash prices with closer margins than credit, claims own delivery wagon ensures proper delivery, and offers the Monopole brand as a guarantee with errors cheerfully corrected. Zundel and Lawson advertise in the notice.
A drowning occurred yesterday afternoon when Henry Freshman eleven year old brother, both unable to swim, fell from a log while wading in the river near Promise, Wallowa county. The older boy disappeared. the younger was recovered alive but died later. Bystanders and a doctor tried to save them. The body was sent to Promise and the younger, who worked at Perry mill, had planned to return home on the morning train.
Manager G H Steward at the opera house has secured the National Stock Company for a three night entertainment in La Grande. The show is expected to draw good crowds, with reports from other towns praising the troupe as one of the best on the road. Ten performers will appear on stage while the remaining musicians and specialists provide intermission entertainment.
Members of the Kojer Potemkin mutineers, who surrendered Saturday, are dispersing across Roumania. They say they are not hostile to the Czar but were misled by a revolutionary leader and intend to stay and learn the Boumanien language.
A large Good Roads party arrived by train to inspect county roads and resources. La Grande Commercial Club welcomed delegates including Col. W H Moore and Hon Wm Bradburn with breakfast and tours to Elgin. Meetings set at the courthouse with civic turnout urged.
Independent road right-of-way has been secured from Eigin and through the canyon for a new railroad. Several surveys were made in the past and plans often faded, but this time sources indicate the project will proceed with construction. Joseph Herald.
Citizens owing for city water must call at the City Recorder’s office to settle. The ordinance requires payment in advance on the first day of each month, with meters due the first of the following month, and nonpayment within ten days will result in shutoff. Later rules require payment to the City Recorder instead of the Water Superintendent.
President Roosevelt authorizes Lieutenant General A R Chaffee to perform the duties of secretary of war during the absence of Secretary Taft and the interim absence of Assistant Secretary of War General Oliver.
Alelah Lottie and George Kreiger returned from a visit to the Anna Jquar mine on Ostivrne creek. The ledge on the Kreiger and Mr Vm James property runs fifty feet wide and a tunnel nearly one hundred feet long. Miners are at work with a long exposed ledge, awaiting a mill site.
Water consumers between 2nd and Greenwood streets along the Jefferson Street line will have water service shut off tomorrow July 11 from 2 to 4 pm due to repairs. City Water Superintendent Hu Gilman issues the notice.
A hot wave hit the French prairie Saturday with thermometers near 100 and 114 in sun. Lice on hop vines decline as heat intensifies. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is advertised for headaches and digestive ailments. Newlin Drag Co.
Saturday heat shattered prior records as the weather bureau thermometer hit 105 degrees at the station. Advertisements tout Bright eyes and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as eye brighteners amid the heat.
Help needed for all summer work hauling cord wood. Apply to John Anthony or send to Box 142, La Grande, Oregon.
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