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Newspaper

La Grande Evening Observer

Location

La Grande, Oregon, United States of America

Date

Jun 06, 1911

Page

6

Iowa and Tennessee Sunday School Conventions Open

Cedar Rapids hosts the 46th Iowa State Sunday School convention with a three day program and large attendance. Chattanooga opens its Tennessee Sunday School association meeting with national speakers and a three day schedule. Grand Island also begins its Nebraska State convention as teachers gather for sessions and a Thursday parade.

Cedar Rapids Meredith New York Tennessee Chattanooga Tenn Tennessee Sunday School Association Grand Island Neb Nebraska Herbert Moninger Cincinnati R. A. Waite

Baker B P E O Stalling Three Dates Set for Baseball Game

The Baker Elks avoid hosting their local brothers for a baseball game. Three dates were proposed but all were cancelled. May 30 was moved to June 14, Flag Day, due to Baker celebration. A later date was proposed for the following Sunday, but the Baker group cited another engagement in their town.

Baker Elks Elks Baker Aggregation The Bakerlies

Denver Replacing Wood Signs With Iron and Bronze

Denver is replacing old wooden street signs on poles with combination iron signs and ornamental bronze signs. The new signs will be visible by day or night and are part of a broader effort to standardize street naming.

Denver

NEW AND OLD KIND OF STREET SIGNS

Long narrow signs use eight candle powered incandescent lamps inside to light letters on a mica background. Illuminated letters are visible at a distance and can be removed without damaging the standard for name changes. The lamp is designed to resist tampering while allowing easy cleaning or repair.

Fractured Chatty Exchange on Luck and Matrimony

Snappy dialogue bits reveal characters bantering about frankness luck and marriage. A wary tone emerges as one speaker predicts good fortune while another laments bad luck and a meddling mother-in-law visits.

Seen the Comet and The Town Went Wet

The column notes there was no comet this year yet onlookers remark the town voted wet. It reflects a local sentiment about fortunes and prohibition era style change.

Notice for telephone directory changes

Our new telephone directory for the combined systems will be issued soon. Parties intending to have telephones installed or desiring any change in service should call at our office in the Foley building before the 10th of June. Home Independent Tel. Co. 6-3-to. 10

Foley Building Home Independent Tel. CO

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Workingmen’s Mr. Workingman ASH Bros Riverside Addition William Miller & Bro Adams Avenue J. W. Spencer Union City Harriet McDonald Sixth Street Mires & Clarke la Grande Ore Boys’ Savers’ Club A. B. Cherry Mgr. Cherry Pennsylvania Chamberlain Ralston Rhilston Pattison Bros Grand View LA Grande Investment CO B. P. OE Stalling Grande Lodge Tng Tess My Kryptok SION Armour Simon Pure Royal Grocery H. Pattison the Electric Supply CO Robert Pattison Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co
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