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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1910
Page
5
A crowded local page notes Joseph residents and visitors, including Anna Hrooks, Jeff Freteh at Peoples Store, Geo Ferguson in Union, H Knox Co moving HQ from Copperfield, and Rev Upton Gibbs officiating at Cove. Other items mention travel to Portland Spokane and Elgin, church events, and civic meeting plans for La Grande with a neighborhood club gathering scheduled for Tuesday the 22nd.
French counsel in the Philippines reports a plan to raise a colonial force of 809000 colored volunteers. The circular praises American colored troops in Cuba and the Philippines and directs securing as many as possible.
On Tuesday March 29 at the foothill road to Hot Lake the Earl Jones estate offers at public auction 18 head of horses 3 to 12 years old 8 head of cattle a brood sow with pigs 6 bronx turkeys 50 Rhode Island hens 1 dozen White Wyandottes a mowing machine incubator and brooder hay rake derrick fork and rope 2 wagons hay rack hacks buggy 2 walking plows a harrow 2 cultivators 2 sets double harness 1 set driving harness 2 saddles 200 sacks good clean patent stoves and a general line of household goods Terms 10 cash and over 310 6 months on approved security Auctioneer Ed Stringham.
Dr. W C Spencer of Huntington president of the Eastern Oregon Medical Association is in the city today as the guest of Dr. Molitor. The association’s annual convention, long staged in La Grande, may move to The Dalles this spring though no decision has been announced.
After new officers were installed for the Junior-Sophomore Literary Society at the high school yesterday a program featured Recitation by Francia Carbine Piano Solo by Hilda Anthony Reading by Craft Groupe and solo pieces by Zoe Brage Maude Ledgeworth Jeanette Wheatley. Several numbers were cancelled due to absence.
L W. W. reports the death of C Chinn in Spokane on March 19 8 from diabetes contracted from bread and water while serving a 35 day jail sentence for violating the street speech ordinance. Funeral expected tomorrow with hundreds of socialists and Industrial workers in attendance.
Notice is published by the U S Department of the Interior U S Land Office La Grande Oregon announcing Walter E B Pratt of Alicel Oregon filed June 24 1909 to purchase 8 12 acres 1 4 section 8 township 2 south range 40 east Willamette Meridian under Timber and Stone Law with appraised land 40 timber 245 00 and 205000 board feet timber at 1 00 per M Final proof date set for April 21 1910 before the Register and Receiver at La Grande Oregon to establish claim or file a contest before patent issues.
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