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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1908
Page
7
A selection of 500 fabrics in fall and winter weights is shown in the tailoring department. The range is from Ed WY Price & Co, renowned as the world's largest producers of tailored-to-order clothes.
Notice of a November 24 1908 special election in La Grande Union County Oregon to approve amendments to the city charter. Polling places listed by ward with designated judges and clerks. Recorder D B Cox signs official notice dated September 1908.
George Palmer Lumber reports shipments averaging four cars daily as business grows and orders rise. New box factory machinery, two weeks overdue, will be installed once the building is finished and painted, with experts ready to set it up.
A rough gray granite slab was placed at the unmarked grave of F H Balch author of The Bridge of the Gods. The ceremony near Lyle gathered friends from The Dalles Hood River White Salmon and Lyle with many schoolchildren present. The schoolhouse built by Balch as a Congregational minister will receive a commemorative tablet noting the builder.
Carpenters and decorators rush to finish the city’s gleaming preparations for a grand historical pageant. Philadelphia aims to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the City of Brotherly Love with an all out festival on a scale never seen before.
Preparations finished for the forthcoming session in Washington next week. Topics include rates and rate making railroad taxes valuation of railroad property car distribution and oil shortage. Electric railway construction and operation will also come under review.
Sealed bids are invited at the city recorder’s office until ? oclock pm on October 7 for one hundred cords of good red fir or tamarack wood four feet long. Deliver to the city pump in Oro Dell. J. T. Williamson, Water Committee chairman.
P J Daley claims electric bitters strengthened his mother after illness and stomach complaints. The ad notes the medicine improves flesh and energy and promotes digestion, with a call to buy at Newlin's drug store.
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