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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1910
Page
5
Mr and Mrs C E Happersett and family come home after an extended stay in Portland with friends. They visited friends and attended the rose show with Miss Frances Massee head account.
P T and T employee visited La Grande with relatives. Union experiment station head Will Vogel and George Clark watched a ball game in Union. Naomi Williamson returns to University of Oregon for vacation. Ethel Tucker stock company heads to Airdome from Twin Falls for engagement. Lowe company heads to Wallowa. Mrs Morrison to Los Angeles to resume health recovery.
George Hibbard returns from Salt Lake City to bid his mother farewell before she sails back to England. He will not take his position at the American Express office until in about a week.
R. J. Nyren of Pleasant valley visits friends in the city. John T. Stevenson leaves for Boise on business. Mrs Sandercock of Portland visits her sister on First street. Reuhn Zweiffel of Bay and Zweiffel travels to Wallowa for a big plumbing contract. An Endeavor social at 1701 Washington Ave hosted by Ford A. Ellis with ice cream and cake. Father Luke Sheehan of Joseph Catholic church visits with friends. Rev. Father Aalders returns to Joseph with Father Sheehan.
Engineer Frank Rechlin and Miss Vira Hart married yesterday at the bride’s parents’ home in Hilgard. Rev. Upton Gibbs officiated. Rechlin recently earned a promotion with the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and is a regular engineer. Hart has worked for the same railroad and is known in La Grande for her many friends.
Traveling Passenger Agent Jack O Neil and Assistant Passenger Traffic Superintendent K M Scott moved through the city this morning en route to Baker and plan to return to La Grande this evening.
J. H. Keeney and family return from a ten day Portland outing after attending the Northwest railroad agents convention. They praise the arrangements by street car companies and railroads, citing many special trains side trips and ample amusements.
District No 1 Union County Oregon will accept sealed bids by 4 pm June 21 1910 for 290 four foot split yellow pine and red fir wood cut green not after July 15 1910 and delivered to the high school building. Fifty cords due by July 15 1910 and all cords by Sept 13 1910. Bids may be rejected. Arthur C Williams school clerk June 18 21
Frank Barker, 25, of the Third Infantry, was executed at sunrise at Walla Walla for murdering Ira Messenger, a Civil War veteran, with a gas pipe during a quarrel at Medical Lake two years prior. Barker declined a priest, did not write to his mother, and appeared untroubled before the sentence was carried out.
Short classified notice seeks a six or seven room furnished house with phone contact Red 1181. A barn for three horses is also available for rent with inquiries through this office.
The executor of the estate of William D Shell has filed a final account in Union County Oregon. The County Court judge will hear objections on June 27 1910 at 10 a.m. in the court room at La Grande Oregon. Interested parties with objections must be present. GRO L Cleaver listed as agent.
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