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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
8
A motion to pave streets in La Grande wins swift approval and forms a special committee of Mikasa Keelger Andrews and Curtis to report next morning on how to proceed with street paving near the federal building and planned construction.
Made Brooks visited Union yesterday. C R Hitberd returned from Twin Falls yesterday. B F Webb sold his interests in the I M S Co and will return to Ali of potatoes left here 182 cara from Imbler.
The Daily Chronicle notes an admission fee will be charged for the graduating exercises on Friday evening May 26 to benefit the La Grande school library. Student speakers include Mae Noyer Debates on topics by Alberta Hopper and Will Nett. Damaged farm observations from J J Nunn are included. Funds support library construction and maintenance in The Dalles Chronicle.
The Commrefal club rooms on the second floor corridor of the La Grande National Bank building have been refurbished with upholstery and furnishings. The space, 10 to 12 rooms inclusive, now feels cozy and ready for tenants or meetings as described in the community notes.
A mounted elk presented months ago to the B P O E lodge by Julius Fisher arrives in La Grande as a four foot ten inch antlered specimen weighing about 900 pounds. Taxidermist Hi Baker completed mounting for Ska hall fixtures after corporation funds. A separate note recalls an early morning highway robbery where a man with a revolver robbed a streetcar conductor of 17 dollars before fleeing.
Report notes demand for a mail box at the west end of the depot platform after a prior removal. Mentions Miusiy traveling to the traffic with intent to mail letters, describes delays, and records J. DeLong arriving on an afternoon train. Voter advised to vote "No" and references $21.
Cove May 21. The Index of the Cove Cemetery Deeoeration will serve dinner on Decoration Day from 11 30 to 2 o'clock. Everyone invited to bring a well filled basket. Program includes musical selections by band, congregational songs, prayer by Robertson, reading Blue and Gray by Mrs Stackland, double quartet, address by Dr Blevens, recitation by Clara Hancock, Benediction by Rev Curry.
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