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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1910
Page
7
Union County Oregon invites sealed bids for one hundred cords of 8 ft 8 in yellow pine or red fir wood to be delivered and piled in the courthouse basement in La Grande. Bids due before 1 o clock on June 1 1910 to County Clerk ED Wright. County Court reserves right to reject any or all bids.
Local lodges announce weekly meetings and visiting member invitations. Groups include La Grande Lodge No 16 I O G P Fuccampenean Star Encampment No 31 and La Grande Camp No 7708 with schedule notes. Also listing Elk's club venue and Rebekahs Crystal Lodge No 60 and Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No 27 with meeting nights and host details.
The notice states tickets for the Chautauqua are now on sale at Bohnenkamp's store and encourages those who have engaged tickets to call for them. W R Jones, treasurer, signs the notice along with J R Oliver offering a rent loan analogy.
The report lists prices for SUGAR at 4.75 for cash and beet at 6.25, vegetables including onions at 2 cents and asparagus at 3 pounds for 26 cents, fruits with oranges at 40 cents a dozen, meats with hogs at 10 dollars per cwt, cows 3.5 to 4 cents, veal 4 to 4.5 cents, mutton 6.5 cents, and chickens 13 cents. Portland Butter at 27 cents, butter fat deliveries at 2 cents, eggs at 23 cents, poultry with mixed chickens at 19 cents and turkeys alive at 20 21 cents, dressed 27 28 cents, various grains and millstuff prices, and flour up to 5.55 for new crop patents.
District School Board of Noonel La Grande Oregon invites bids for two story brick high school with basement and for plumbing heating and ventilation. Bids due May 23 1910 at noon with 1 percent certified check. Deposit 10 dollars for plan return. ARTHUR C. WILLIAMS, School Clerk.
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes Mr Crimsonbeak and Mrs Crimsonbeak puzzled by fog in Newfoundland. The gag hinges on constant west winds making treetops point east, guiding the hunter who loses his bearings.
The Cleveland Leader quotes a couple discussing marriage for financial reasons. The groom admits he married to end an expensive engagement, framing the union as a practical choice rather than romance.
Brander Matthews lectured at Columbia University in New York City on Mark Twain identifying four gifts he saw in Twain. He ranked Twain among writers led by Cervantes and Moliere and highlighted Twain as a great storyteller and moralist with superior stylistic merit, predicting posterity for Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer and Pudd nhead Wilson. He praised The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg as among the finest of its kind.
In a will, A B Corbett of Crabwell Hall Mol ington Cheshire England directs cremation and a £3 cup to Cheshire Golf Club to be competed for on cremation day and all anniversaries. Also notes a light Halley’s Comet sidereal news item and Woodmen of the World lodge details with meeting nights and a welcome for visitors.
A fragment from a La Grande market page advertises products for sale by all dealers with emphasis on the Chief Joseph brand. The wording suggests a general sales pitch amid sparse OCR text.
Directory listing doctors and offices in Ames and La Grande National Bank Building area. Includes names T Bacon M K Hall N Molitor G H Upton Geo W Limmerman and others with office and residence phone numbers and street locations Adams Ave Depot St Summer Building and Bank Building references.
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