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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1910
Page
5
A fragmented entertainment note lists film titles and acts including Empty Cradle and Lucy Fortune Told with Pathe and Edison references. It mentions sisters, brothers, a cow puncher act, and a song When You've Won the Girl You Love alongside AMISSION shorthand.
James Johns is in La Grande on business while Deputy Sheriff George Lingren returns from Union after serving legal papers. Bramwell and children come back from Logan Utah after an extended stay. J Ash plans to stay in the city awhile. Hume and Perrin sisters return from a Cherry Ranch outing near Cove. Mrs L Harris and daughter Bea arrive from Tillamook to visit J W Oliver. W Baker takes over management of Ethel Tucker stock company. Katherine Cleaver arrives from Colorado Springs to spend the summer.
Mr and Mrs George L Cleaver of this city. Miss Clara Foreman of Lincoln Nebraska to visit sister Mrs H A Bridges and others in the city. Will French returns from a 2000 mile auto trip through Idaho and Nevada. Chase Bohnenkamp at the wheel. Marion Davis from Walesa opening bids for Union school building. Nat Kimball returns from Lambda Sigma convention in Detroit after visiting eastern cities. Conductor Norton reports on Johnson Jeffries fight in Reno. Buckley reunion brings Andrew Buckley and family from Minnesota to St Paul area events.
Hammerstein, broken in health and discouraged after failing to sign famed singers in Europe, returns to New York. He had planned to secure Russian singers but could not enter the country because he was a Jew. Canteleup Sundie today at Selder's.
The town of Joseph reports rapid progress on a new school building by contractor Bert Smith expected to be ready for fall occupancy. Plans also include a sewer system for West Pendleton linking to the Umatilla river, with council adoption and advertisement for bids.
Airdome screens The Man from México a rip roaring force comedy about a husband jailed for a spree who lies his way into Mexico. Belasco kin and a strong cast deliver many laughs with Gibson and Post drawing an ovation and Miss Godfrey offering an encore singing Last Rose of Summer.
Sealed bids addressed to the recorder of La Grande are invited for constructing 520 lineal feet of standard five foot sidewalk on C Avenue. Plans and specs are on file. bids by 4 p.m. July 20 with a 5 percent bid check. Council may reject any or all bids. D. E. Cox, Recorder.
The ordinance requiring property owners to remove weeds will be strictly enforced, according to J. W. Waldon, chief of police.
Any loose stock in the city will be taken to the pound at once. Phone Black 3721. G. W. Farris, Poundmaster. Canteleup Sundle today at Selder's.
County officials accepted the plat of survey for the Evans town site adjoining the depot grounds at Lostine and sale of lots is now on. Couch and McDonald of Wallowa handle the tract if you wish to join the ground floor. For sale second hand furniture listed. Indiana Ohio Live Stock Insurance Co enters Oregon seeking agents in Union County to sell livestock insurance. apply to F H Pageler Portland Oregon.
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