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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1908
Page
3
Local notices list meeting times for M W A Grande Camp 7708 Odd Fellows and other fraternal groups. Events cover Mondays Fridays Wednesdays and Saturdays with visiting brethren welcome and officers named.
The Union area reports a range of items including a car tire incident en route to Imbler, a fine English setter gifted to L A Wright, Jessie Gilfillan resuming teaching in Baker, Bruce Plaster recovering from a fall, a five month old child’s illness, and bridge progress over Catherine Creek. Additional items cover business changes, lumber yards, nurse training, family visits, health improvements, potato market visits, and local sheriff actions including a sawmill sale and subpoenas.
Notice to creditors to call and settle debts at Lilly-Foster Hardware store to wind up business affairs. Also testimonial for Fo ley's Honey and Tar from A J Nusbaum and A T Hill praising its success for hay fever and summer colds.
Manager J K Stomig of the Virtue mine eight miles from the city shipped the large compressor from Ingersoll-Brand factory Philipsburg NJ to the mine. Wil Eile moved the compressor from a flat car on O R N tracks to the logging track borrowed from Shockleys McMurron Lumber. OMe Meldrim to haul the air compressor weighing 2 1 00 pounds requiring 14 horses to drag the wagon from Baker to the mine.
The text appears fragmentary describing an act by others with guidance implications. Details are unclear but the piece centers on an influential action and its effects on readers or officials. No specific names or places are clearly readable in the available portion.
An advertisement offers Arnold's Asthma Cure Co guarantee to cure asthma bronchitis and catarrh with a full refund if the medicine fails. It provides Seattle address 383 Arcade Building and a forwarding line for Morris W. Knight in Cove Oregon Box 38 for 346 days.
The notice lists location and contact numbers for Paul's Cigar Store with night and day telephone lines.
Notice states surveys of fractional sections and townships in the East Willamette meridian have been approved and received. The plats will be filed September 15, 1908 at 9 a.m. Applications for land entry in the townships will then be accepted by Register F. Bramwell and Receiver A. A. Roberts.
The ladies of La Grands are invited to a fall opening on Friday and Saturday, September 11 and 12, featuring what is described as the finest millinery ever shown in La Grande. Miss Emith succeeds Mrs. J. R. Forrest.
Readable text notes a sale offering two tablets for the price of one at Ret Cross Drug Store. No further details on brands or quantities are provided.
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