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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1910
Page
5
Prominent Elgin stock buyer F. Be. Graham stops at the Foley Hotel. Red and black rule cards and rental notices are displayed. The Foley reports 25¢ cots, private rooms, and ready dining room service for Fair week crowds.
Visitors to La Grande October 5 to 11 can consult the famous Clairvoyant and Healer at 1428 Adams. The Keefer Hotel hosts the service with a special reduced fee during fair week.
Geo Van Riper of Scott Mun gell Implement Co visits the Foley showroom representing Anchor Buggies. He showcases Buffalo Bills harnesses in red paint as part of the display and sales effort.
A local ad promises a clean house with a vacuum carpet cleaner and all work guaranteed. Prices are right and two phone numbers Red 662 or Red 141 are given. The Indies of the Presbyterian church meet tomorrow at the Manse to transact important business and elect new officers. Dues should be paid up to date at that time as the new year begins.
Leon Dawson plans to re enter Willamette University for a second year. Mrs Frank McAllister of North Powder visited La Grande and stayed at the Foley. F E Graham of Elgin stopped at the Foley on business. Jack Eddy B Forsyth and J Bodle of Pendleton were in La Grande as Foley guests. J Brophy of The Dalles was a Foley guest after a La Grande visit. Wm Remington of Foster Melburn Co makers of Done Kidney pills stayed at the Savoy. John McRae Summerville hotel man attended county central committee meeting. Frank Pearson of North Powder lodged at the Foley. David Cox who visited his son and daughter in South La Grande heads to Portland for a visit before returning to Terre Haute.
A Halloween dancing party for eight married couples is being arranged as the season’s social highlight. The function will occur on October 31 with invitations to go out in about two weeks. Hon. Herman Rothchild, a North Powder merchant and former sole Democratic representative in Oregon’s lower house, spent the night here to assess county politics, claiming leaders are asleep.
Attorney George T. Cochran and Attorney T. H. Crawford are in North Powder for adjudication of water rights on the North Powder river. Cochran will travel to Portland tonight with his brother C. E. Cochran’s proxy to attend the state central committee meeting tomorrow.
C A Galloway and family arrived from Elgin to attend the county fair. Mr Galloway will also attend the county court sessions this week.
Sol Harris, a Portland salesman, is in the city on business at the Summer. Alex Slater, Union County constable, transacts business in La Grande today and stays at the Summer. J M Choate from Summerville is among those ready to attend the fair tomorrow.
The Lady Maccabees will sell Boston brown bread Boston baked beans salad meat pies and cake Saturday afternoon October 8 at Russell's meat market in a church fundraiser offering a variety of homemade baked goods and savory dishes.
L. E. McNabb deputy organizer for the American Brotherhood of Yeomen visits Island City to recruit new members ahead of a planned homestead in La Grande.
Medford Oklahoma residents C. N. Palmer family J. A. Akin family and D. L. Akin son Lee Stillwater Okla S. H. Brooks of Medford are in Oregon looking for a site. Norman Disalet just back from Portland and Walla Walla slept one night in the O R N depot due to Pendleton Round Up lodging shortage.
Frank Jolly of the firm Jolly and Desailet fell seriously ill yesterday afternoon and was rushed to Grande Ronde hospital where he is to undergo an appendectomy.
P. H. Spillman and Robert Withycombe from Union arrive for a week to view the experimental station exhibit and are staying at the Summer hotel as guests.
Cold prevention and cure ad for Blue Mountain Cold Line from Wright Drug Co. Claims to stop colds early or cure settled colds in one fourth the usual time and offers a 25 cent price with guarantee.
Mrs S D Vandecar will be in La Grande next week from Tuesday through Saturday to take up orders for switches and related items. She will also buy combings and offer a large selection of switches and puffs. She will be at the Foley hotel in the room next to the parlor.
Dr Mendelsohn advertises one price for eye examination frames and glasses with 29 years of practice. He claims superior service and equipment, a large stock, and endorsements by leading Pacific coast oculists and La Grande physicians. Repairs available while you wait, and office hours listed.
A church fundraiser notice to be held Friday October 7 at the Odd Fellows hall. Dinner served by the Presbyterian church ladies to support church activities.
The modern restaurant traces to the late eighteenth century French Revolution when noble chefs opened houses offering prepared meals for charity and profit. Public interest grew as fine cookery spread, books on culinary art sold well, notably The Gourmand Almanack of 1798, and the term restaurant meant a place to restore strength.
A humorous dialogue about fishing reveals a man’s fear of his wife discovering his secret pastime. The quip hinges on a home tension between hobby and marital scrutiny.
A poem urges authors and playwrights to write of love over grand theories and distant wars. It argues affection moves people more than complex ideas, and that simple village romances outshine highbrow debates, urging writers to let their typewriters free on readers' hearts.
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