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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
2
County board of equalization for Union County Oregon will meet at the La Grande courthouse on Monday October 18 1909 to examine the 1909 assessment rolls and correct valuation and description errors. All interested parties may appear with affidavits outlining grounds of complaint during the first week of the meeting.
Bids for a five foot sidewalk on the north side of Lot 6 Block 110 Grandy addition La Grande Oregon must be filed with the city recorder by 4 pm October 20 1909. Each bid requires a certified check of 10 percent. Council reserves right to reject any bid. D B Cox recorder October 11 1909.
An advertisement claims Pape’s Dieuretic quickly cleans and vitalizes kidneys and urinary organs, relieving backache headaches nervousness rheumatism sleeplessness and urinary trouble from the first doses, asserting no other medicine can match its prompt cure. It urges immediate use at first sign of kidney or urinary disorder.
Physicians and merchants tout Pape's Diuretic as a trusted remedy for backache and kidney and bladder discomfort. The ad claims rapid improvement in kidney liver and urinary health after use and urges buying the fifty cent treatment from any drug store.
The administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of Frank Milne deceased offers private sale for cash or time. The lands include Northwest Quarter and West Half of Northeast Quarter and more in Union County Oregon. Sale is subject to a mortgage of Fifteen Hundred Dollars and will be held after November 5 1909 as directed by the county court.
I have used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since 1872 and have never seen a failure. I am a commercial traveler for eighteen years and never start a trip without this, says B.H. Nichola of Oakland. For sale by all good dealers.
After a long delay the local contractors Campbell and Pitzgerald expect rapid delivery of steel for the Oro Dell bridge to La Grande. Pressures from large bridge concerns delayed work, but the contract awarded to La Grande bidders will now proceed. cement abutments ready and erection to begin promptly.
Three men depart this morning for favorite hunting grounds. Night Policeman John Walden, his son Claude, and Jim Mutholland plan a lengthy stay in the wilderness. They cross Looking Glass and travel about 40 miles beyond, aiming to bag substantial game and return only with success. They carry ample camp gear to sustain them during the expedition.
John Halden of Lewiston Idaho died after an accidental gun discharge three miles west of Echo on Monday. He was with three brothers traveling to California when he attempted to remove a firearm from a wagon to shoot a jackrabbit and the bullet struck his right chest. He died soon after at Doctor Young Helpen's office.
Detroit reports striking seamen deny responsibility for an attack by strike sympathizers on survivors of the George Stone wreck on Lake Erie. Six men drowned, twelve saved, but attackers struck as they reached shore, with one survivor knocked into the water. Rescue by police followed. Mr and Mrs Judd Geer returned from Portland and continued to Cove via Union.
A wire wireless message from Key West reports at least a thousand men employed on the Florida East Coast railroad drowned in the hurricane that wrecked Key West Monday. Many victims lived in boat houses attached to the trestlework, all of which was destroyed.
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