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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
8
Our restaurant offers meals that are beautiful and refreshing. The excellence of our sport is praised by the many ladies who patronize us. If you stop by, aromas from our cookery would dilate your nostrils and tickle your palate, and you would say the meal was very tasty.
City gossip highlights visitors Thos Galvin and families from Grants Pass. An open air concert is planned at the Fountain at seven thirty. Local trades and actions include F C Rinehart from Summersville, J M Price painting the Observer building, and district figures such as CG T McDaniels praising Wallowa. Mrs. J W Scriber improves but remains dangerously ill. The Osburne family moves to Elgin for the summer. Wallowa bank cashier McDaniels reports growth. T E Buehler returns from the east with the late A G Stull funeral party. Household plans for H A Sturdevant and family. Woodmen of the World officer Keeney handles policy payments. Mrs. Wm Wenham and kids head to Pullman Washington for their editor son. M B A district manager Nudham touts Ontario’s flourishing area. Bridge’s Concert Company arrives from Portland and departs for Idaho and Iowa. Pater Bosquet’s carpenters push progress on the new courthouse with West handling stone work. Wallowa Chieftain notes bicycle theft of Water Superintendent Gillman’s bicycle before press time.
In Salt Lake City on June 19 Carl DeVere and Miss Ethel Steward Reid unite in marriage. The bride, known in La Grande, recalls childhood days there and her friends extend best wishes for happiness. Lost a lady's gold handled parasol engraved G. H. P. Return to Mrs. Frank Pike for reward.
Information reaching the office indicates Boise or Caldwell, likely Caldwell, will be here on the Fourth for a real ball game.
J T Smith of Allcel visited the Observer to report his campaign against invading mustard plants harming his wheat fields. He has crews in the fields using grass hooks and beat knives to cut mustard before it ripens and reseeds the ground. He urges similar action by other farmers to avert widespread infestation.
Chief of Police Rayburn rounded up three plain drunks last night and they were arraigned before Recorder Snook this morning. They face ten days on the street as fines, and for the next ten days La Grande will employ a crew of three to remove rough spots in the streets.
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