Orchardists invited to series by Cordley at chautauqua
La Grande hosts a seven day series with A B Cordley dean of Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis. He will lecture on orchard pest control and thinning costs while a large class of local orchardists is formed. Secretary George Tochran handles join requests. Also noted are abundant fish catches and prices for fish and byproducts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Cordley
Agricultural College
Corallis
la Grande
Cordley
Iolley
Pler
George Tochran
California growers dump fruit to prop up prices in sea disposal
San Francisco reports that orange growers dumped large quantities of fruit into the sea to maintain prices. The same tactic by local fish companies and dealers has led to indictments under the Cartwright law, with severe offenders to be vigorously prosecuted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California
Forty Foot Cement Platform Begun at Depot
Workmen started laying a cement platform at the depot. The structure will be forty feet wide across the front and taper to twenty feet at the ends, providing truck loading facilities.
Luseland Land Company Tour Passes Through City
The Luseland Land company and Minneapolis investors touring the West with homesteaders and landowners moved through the city on Number six on their eastward route. They had visited major Northwest cities and continue toward eastern destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luseland Land Company
Minneapolis
Northwest
The Case for Home Wiring and Electricity
In La Grande the article extolls wiring a home at about $2.00 per room and promotes inexpensive lamps, fixtures, and electrical appliances. It urges readers to ask a neighbor who uses electric light and to invite a representative to call at the house to explain why electricity should be adopted.
Market Quotation Report from Portland Markets
Sugar prices 6.75 cash and 6.25 beet. Vegetables include onions 2¢, spinach 3 for 5¢, asparagus 2 for 26c, hot house lettuce 15¢ for two bunches, tomatoes 19¢, new potatoes 256 per pound, celery 10c per bunch. Fruits list oranges 40c per dozen, lemons 5c, bananas 40c, strawberries 15c per box. Meats prices for hogs 10 dollars per cwt, veal 4.1 to 4.2, mutton 5.2, chickens 18c. Portland Butter 29c, eggs local candled 26–27c. Poultry mixed 19c, hens 19–20c, turkeys alive 20–7c, dressed 27–28c. Barley producer price 19, feed 23, rolled 25, brewing 24. Wheat varieties listed 82–83c club, blue stem 81–82c Willamette 82–83c. Millstuff prices bran 19.50–20, middlings 29.80, shorts 21.92–21.50, chop 19–28, flour new crop patents 5.15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Delliver F. C. B
Business opportunities and notices in old town ads
An old Observer page lists a business opportunity to invest 2.50 for a month of wardrobe care from Peningtons, a job ad seeking a lady to mend clothes, a lost tooth setting note to return to the Observer, a reward, and a sale ad for two Old Town residences by Snodgrass and Bartlett with seven and ten rooms respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penington
Hik
Old Town
He, W. Bartlett
Fraternal Lodges Meet in La Grande Doings
M W A La Grande Camp No 7703 and Women of Woodcraft Grande Ronde Circle 47 invite visiting neighbors to meetings at the I O O F Hall. La Grande Lodge 41 A F and A M holds sessions first and third Saturdays. Other lodges including La Granite 433 16 0 F Rebekahs Crystal Lodge 50 Knights of Pythias Red Cross 27 Hope Chapter 13 and related officers listed for attendance and schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. W. A. la Grande Camp
I. R. Snook
Grande Ronde Circle No. 47
O. F. Hall
Chloe Robinson
G. M
Lizzie Ellsworth
la Grande Lodge No
A. F
A. M
John ©. Hodgin
W. M
A. C. Williams
B. P. C. E. la Granite Lodge No
Elk’s Club
Depot Street
Washington Avenue
G. L. Biggers
Hugh McCall
la Grande Lodge No. 16
GEO
Rebekahs Crystal Lodge No. 50
Cora Fitzgerald
N. G
Susan McIlroy
Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No
Castle Hall
ED. Wright
C. C. R.L. Lincoln
M. of
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Erpert Cordley
I I
SUN
Sherwood Williams
Imbler
Ore
Selder
Luseland
Sta Nse
Oregon
Marlin
Lee
Ray
Alain Arearms Co
New Haven, Conn
la Grande Investment Company
Adams ‘Avenue
Mac Wood, Golden
Rule Store
Adams Ave
Red Way
Cherry
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lady Cook
The
Savoy Hotel
Fourth St
Flist Street
Black
Madison Ave
Observer Office
Observer
the Observer
D. G. Brighoux
Depo
la Grande, Oregon
Endrigks & Hall
Geddes Grocery Building
Modern Confectionery Co. Mis
LA Grande, Ore
D. BE. Cox
Women of Woodcraft
Woodmen of the World
la Grande Lodge No. 169
Neri Ackles
J. H. Keeney
J. R. Oliver
Bacon & Hall
Physicians and Surgeons
LaGrande National Bank
C. T. Bacon
M. K. Hall
C. H. Upton
M. D
la Grande National Bank
Geo. W. Zimmerman
Home
Pacific Main
BE. Moore
Erla Carlock
Pierre Doullet
San Jose Conservatory
Burrows
Mahaffey Building
T. H. Crawford
State
United States
D. W. C Nelson
Baker City
Chas
Cochran Geo. T. Cochran
Cochran & Cochran
la Grande National Bank Bld
la Grands
Drm
P. Mende HN
Adama’ Ave
H. L. Underwood
Red Cross Drug Store
P. A. Charlton
Hill’s Drug Store
At Price
D. M
la Grande National Book Building
Professional Directory
Ledies
Gentimen
Falr
Hood River Berries
L. C. Smith’s
U Ave
L. C. Smith's
U. Ave
Adams
Cartain
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