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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1909
Page
8
Smith and Green announce the opening of a new exclusive shoe store in Eastern Oregon. Stock arriving daily, with a full line of footwear and on train arrivals of a complete tailor shop. Opening date to be announced soon with public invitation.
Ray W. Logan and J. L. Caviness will visit the valley to enlist farmers in the Meadow Brook project. The subscription list grew yesterday and today, with success seen under the current plan and most stock expected to be subscribed by Saturday night.
Scores of farmers traveled to Grants Pass for the event with stops at Central Point and Gold Hill. Eight hundred school children led the Grintse Piss delegation.
In Tacoma on March 23 the Swikert case heard arguments as the plaintiff seeks alimony and custody of two children. The report notes a fire at the old county hospital where Parker Pearce and 79 year old Mary died after a lamp overturned, destroying the abandoned structures.
Scranton reports a general convention of the United Mine Workers of America intends to consider action if operators refuse wage demands. UMWA president Mr. Lewis says workers believe their wage advance is justified, noting daily earnings are about 1,450 dollars.
South Casco March 23 The rail line to Portland is closed this week the mall travels by star route to Windham and a rural carrier from Woodford s Thietle the last of the old stage lines into Portland
In New Brunswick on March 23 Frederick Lang was hanged for the murder of Katie Gordon in Piscataway Town. The state had abolished hanging, replacing it with electric chair, but Lang’s sentence preceded the change and the execution proceeded.
Pendleton businessmen and sportsmen organize a hunting club while Milton-Freewater allocates about 35 dollars for a new school building.
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