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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1911
Page
6
Electric lights along the approach will guide attendees as every town within 100 miles of La Grande will receive second annual chautauqua posters. Wallowa Umatilla and Baker Counties will see wide citizen familiarity with the event as contracts are signed for auditorium restaurant and ticket office buildings.
Australia intends to establish a federal district modeled on Washington with central government control and a premier city. A world wide competition will select sites for 36 public buildings while seeking the best engineers and architects to design the streets parks and governor general residence with prizes of 8750 3700 and 2500 for top designs.
formation will be furnished to persons of proper responsibility. This will include topography rainfall and temperature of the federal capital and surrounding district. Thirty are public buildings to be erected and the specifications provide for an elaborate system of parks.
Spokane June 20 Special Members of the Masonic order in the northwest consider Grand Master Jeremiah Neterer of Bellingham proposing a program to attract and guide boys into right conduct. He urged lodges across Washington to adopt the plan, noting 175 lodges with 16 500 members and predicting constructive work in character building if implemented.
Oregon Agricultural College adds a public school music course this summer with Miss Mabel A. Garrett as instructor. The program has no extra fee beyond the $5 registration, covering clerical costs, and offers four drawing courses alongside music.
A Beta Zeta chapter installation at Oregon Agricultural College marks 11 charter members including Lyle V. Hendricks and A Harry Nitschke from Eta Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Bert Pennington from Beta Gamma of California. The group held initiation at the hotel Julian after a banquet, outlining the society’s 1879 origins and status as a leading medico pharmac fraternity with international membership.
The text lists prominent physicians and pharmacists joining the Beta Zeta chapter as charter members including Clarence M. McKellips and others, indicating the expansion of a professional fraternity.
The fragment lists individuals across multiple cities including Corvallis Bend Oregon Spokane Washington Seattle Seattle and Portland with initials and surnames such as Galloway Prescott Gerdes McKay McGill Peery Hand and Thornton. The text appears to map names to towns without full context or actions.
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