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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1909
Page
7
Wiley B. Allen Company promotes pianos at the Summer Hotel block sample rooms. Choose from Knabe Mason & Hamlin Hardman Fisher Milton with a few days left to call and hear Mr. Little play. Pianos fully guaranteed for 250 dollars and up.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the greatest health builder and a cure for weak or sickly stomach, liver, and nerves. It promises perfect action and vitality with a Newlin Drug Co guarantee.
Orchardists of Cove report a profitable prune harvest with prices around $20 per ton. Dr. Corp notes A Conklin of Cove netted $2500 on 15 acres, plus $2600 from the price crop and $500 of hogs fattened in the orchard. Fall apple picking begins with high quality fruit despite a light yield.
Commercial Club directors met last evening to plan welcoming Senator La Follette for a lecture and to discuss Carson mine prospects. They urged clarity on camp permanency and employment, a river wagon road, and railroad talks over the Grande Ronde and Wallowa valleys. The secretary was ordered to report on publicity fund debts and public money due at the next meeting.
Subscribers are reminded that timely and proper delivery is essential. The office notes that failure to receive payments or paper affects service quality and urges readers to report delivery issues to ensure continued satisfaction.
Attorney Oliver tells directors that rate hearings in Spokane yielded concessions and that further benefits are expected as hearings proceed. Towns operating at a uniform price of 14 dollars per square will see contracts printed with a 1 dollar note due in 80 days. Solicitors using lower penciled figures on tract notes plan discounts with banks after erasing the higher amounts.
Local police alerted to arrest KR E Stack and H H Melver, Carson City Nevada officers report. the two men pose as advertising solicitors and swindle newspapers by attaching raised notes to advertising contracts to block pages for sale.
Milard Nelson, aged Youth, who terrorized tenants on Zuber Brick last Saturday, serves time in jail after being arrested and arraigned. He was fined 50 dollars by Recorder Cox. the date of the fine is not specified.
A strong dramatic play titled Paid in Full is well staged at the Pastime with an able company delivering moral lessons and dramatic climaxes. It will be its final performance tomorrow night with good specialties between acts.
Local fraternal groups announce meeting nights and invitations. MWe As La Grande Camp 7703 holds monthly on the 8th and 3rd Mondays. La Grande Aerie 269 meets Fridays. GEO. ABHGG and C. P. W. A. WORSTELL listed. various lodges including Woodmen of the World and Foresters of America invite visiting members. cemetery plat and regular sessions noted with officials.
La Grande Lodge No. 433 meets Thursdays at 8 PM at Hilk's Club Depot Street and Washington Avenue. visiting brothers invited. Crystal Lodge No. 6 meets Tuesday evenings. all visiting members are welcome at ten. Mrs Tillie Commins Nxa Alexander brothers.
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