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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1911
Page
5
March 28 29 30 at Thelsis Theatre presents The Open Road a gypsy camp tale feature film illustrated song Call me up Some Rainy Afternoon Miss Nellie Garrick with matinees by Mr George Birnie. Evening showings listed.
Local boys and girls sell twalves of Take One Shoe Polish at 10 cents each to earn forty cents and a fountain pen. Advertisement lists contact A. W. Westby at 129 1 Grand Ave Portland Oregon and notes lodging, meals, and monthly pay offers. Includes references to sewer pipe calls and cleaning contract services with phone contact.
Local merchants announce new stock at W. H. Bohnenkopp and company including rice and wallpaper. Events include Lyle Tuesday's Musical program next Friday at Hill Orchestra with a large turnout expected. Community notices list guests at the Sommer and Foley hotels, church meetings, and hunting trip plans by Circuit Judge Knowles and others.
Arrangements are under way to take students from the Catholic school to Joseph in the chapel car. The date is not set but will be announced soon.
The 44th annual session of the Newark M E conference began in Central church Newark with Bishop Henry W. Warren of Denver presiding. Pulpit changes, expected to be few, will be announced near the conference’s end next week.
The 10th annual United North and South amateur golf championship began at Pinehurst North Carolina with favorable conditions. The event is the season’s banner amateur contest on the Pinehurst calendar and runs through the remainder of the week.
Tony Ross faces Morris Harris in a 10 round bout in Rochester. Kid Fernson meets Pete Shaughnessy in a 15 round bout in Muskogee Oklahoma.
The Evening Observer notes that ads in the classified section generate real value. A. L. Rice of Imbler spent 1.75 and closed a deal worth over a thousand dollars. La Grande merchants offered 1,000 for property and sold for 200 more after a 2.50 ad. A woman renting rooms reports relief from inquiries. ads are one cent per word daily.
For sale or rent items include 4100 acres of mountain pasture with good water listed by E. M De Long Farm 174. Also 160 acres six miles north of Summerville Oregon with 7 acres under water and 900000 feet of saw timber priced at 14000 per acre or trade for near town. Includes several selections of buggies in Is land City and a partly furnished light pig 9808 at Corneird and oi.
Ten acre parcels near the city with road access and usable improvements. Listings advertise six to ten acre plots with varying crops including apples cherries and garden space, small house and barn, and suggested acreage values. Offers emphasize down payments and balance on time with potential crop income to cover costs. Farm lands available across the valley and city.
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