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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1911
Page
4
The Observer notes La Grande will host a busy season with a 4th of July celebration a Chautauqua series and an aviation meet. The Commercial Club backs the air show with refunds if no flight and promises honest dealings with tickets and guarantees.
The program lists Indian Justice a Pawnee warrior story of love with an Apache maiden. Also Alone at Night a Gaumont release about a child's pity for the aged and a Gaumont comedy. Dreaming Alone sung by Mise Stephenson with music by Miss Gertrude F Holly of La Grande.
Gov West leaves the state house to pursue criminals who fled the penitentiary. The governor, perhaps self conscious about recent parole leverage, seeks to aid in the manhunt and tighten security.
A West Coast observer laments escalating crimes by real estate sharks who run confidence games on the public. The piece urges swift action with a proposed special dispensation and a rapid enacted remedy to curb such offenses.
North Powder reports a heavy strawberry harvest this year and residents search nationwide for workers. Local canning operates in winter and strawberry packing in summer, highlighting seasonal labor needs.
Editor Observer questions why La Grande hosts a city festival while a shaded park remains unused. The letter praises the park's trees, grass, water, and stream and contrasts it with hot streets and crowded sidewalks. It also notes Pendleton businessmen’s stance on celebrations.
A farmer's wife writes about choosing a sensible plan for a park, noting its distance from town is similar to Riverside park and asking which option is best. The fragment suggests community planning but lacks concrete facts.
The New York American notes scholars doubt Shakespeare wrote all the sonnets. It cites his lack of publication and consent, hints at personal defects in the verses, and suggests other members of his circle as possible authors, though naming them remains uncertain.
Report from Mayo Ireland describes Achill residents using peat huts called scrawhbogues to burn turf for six weeks to season sods into soot. The soot is essential for potato crops, with peat abundance making fuel inexpensive and potatoes a staple.
The text recalls a society favoring age and the idea that wrinkles and gray hair hold no barrier to new conquests. It quotes Mary Montagu and remarks on views of women of different ages, expressing contentment with a world offering "paradise for old women" while delaying return until fit to appear.
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