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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1906
Page
2
The issue includes advertising rates and submission rules, notes on signed articles, and a military civilian rifle club movement. It reports Oregon’s Adjutant-General Finzer promoting civilian rifle clubs and confirms the school board’s decision that pupils must complete twelfth grade to graduate, implying no graduating class next year.
A confrontation with the Standard Oil Company is set, as the government presses regulatory action led by President Theodore Roosevelt. The piece casts the company as a large problem and the administration as a stronger force against it.
Foreign shipowners and allies claim the measure would lower freight costs if American ships competed more. The speaker argues this would aid exporters by improving market access and potentially lowering shipping charges.
James B. Gilham leads as Recorder, with David H. Proctor for Treasurer and John Frawley for Coroner, sharing the slate and coordinating campaign efforts led by 1M. Hilts in the candidate lineup.
One sixty horsepower Russell engine boiler and fixtures complete in good running order. Reason for selling out in electric power. Inquire of La Grande Milling Company La Grande Oregon.
Property owners are hereby notified to clean up their alleys and repair their sidewalks at once. Three work horses one dapple gray 1200 lbs brown clubby horse about 1000 lbs shed behind bay mare 1000 lbs bent in left shoulder Last seen on the road towards Union $16 for their return to G. A. Peterson Ladd Creek.
Gus Robards a Garfield stockbuyer has been missing for about a month in Spokane. He reportedly carried a large sum of money and is believed to have been foully dealt with. Friends and relatives have organized a search.
The piece outlines incentives for U S citizens to join life clubs and practice rifle and small arm shooting to prepare a reserve of expert marksmen for national defense. It notes clubs as branches of the NRA approved by the War Department and allowed to compete with military teams in national contests.
Co operative Observers Meteorological Record for April 1906 from La Grande Oregon station lists daily maximum and minimum temperatures and daily range. The page includes advertising text for Hollistur 8 Rocky Mountain Tea and Newtin Cave Co. with prices and claims about health benefits.
The new operator announces purchase and renovation of the chop house offering clean first class meals for 20 cents. White cooks are employed and best of service promised.
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