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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1910
Page
15
The La Grande community recalls a successful chautauqua led by Ted Rinehart with Joe Folk and the Castle Square Entertainers. Park commission support and local volunteers funded a ten day program featuring education, culture, and entertainment. Plans aim to improve attractions, reduce prices, and attract top national talent next season.
The Golden Rule Mercantile Company, a leading La Grande retailer on Adams Avenue in the Huntington building, offers a complete up to date stock. President and GM Mac Woods, a 18 year La Grande resident, has expanded the business to cover dry goods, ladies wear, millinery, footwear, hardware, housewares, builders supplies and more. The firm operates a basement bargain area and maintains a payroll exceeding $1.5 million annually. There is an opening for you.
A B C Laundry built a strong trade in La Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley by first class work and fair prices. Proprietors C. B. and L. F. Dunn run branch offices across eastern Oregon with growing success. The shop employs 26 girls and seven men.
The Grande Ronde valley apples gain foreign and national esteem as exporters, led by Ramsey Fruit Company of Oregon. For four years they have shipped large volumes to the Orient, with China becoming a major market and demand rising yearly. Ramsey Fruit operates on Jefferson and Greenwood, a major wholesale firm handling fruit across the west, midwest, and southeast.
Poem extols Grande Ronde Valley's mountains beaches and mines. It praises fertile grain sugar beets woolen mills and lakes while urging work ethic and hospitality to attract settlers. The verse highlights climate scenery and abundance in the region.
The first church in the Grande Ronde valley was constructed in 1874 marking a milestone in local settlement and religious life. The building established a focal point for surrounding communities and remains a historical landmark in regional heritage.
The article notes La Grande's elevation standing at 2700 feet above sea level.
The business career of Wm Miller & Bros spans about 22 years in La Grande. It remains one of the citys pioneer firms now focusing on its own city property, money lending, and an extensive abstract department based in Enterprise in Wallowa county. The firm offers city property at reasonable prices and operates the oldest, most complete abstract books in the county with efficient service.
U R Wilson operated in multiple northwest towns before deciding La Grande offers the best overall prospects for his electrical supply enterprise.
George Stoddard rose from a seven year old helper to vice president of the Grande Ronde Lumber company, a major Oregon plant at Perry on the Grande Ronde River. The firm operates two shifts, mills 200000 feet daily, with a modern planing mill and box factory, and maintains a 10 to 15 million foot lumber stock sourced from Blue Mountains timber belts. Its logs travel by a 13 mile railway, supporting markets from New York to the Midwest and West.
Mr. Wilson, veteran in the electrical supply trade, has opened a new La Grande store after handling shops in Wallowa Baker City and Spokane. He bought a suitable building last June, offers a complete modern stock, and promises superior goods and service to the public.
The Baker City Grocery company, six years old, is eastern Oregon’s only wholesale house with a trade that spans Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It carries a single line of goods aimed at retail grocers, emphasizes fair pricing, and promotes the Royal Club line of superior groceries. Salesman B. L. McIntosh covers the eastern Oregon territory.
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