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LAQRANDB, uT OREGON
GapiufBtock fully paid . 180,000
Surpluafuttd, r , ;. 13,000
Liability of Shareholder 0,000
5RelponkibihtT.v,- s- r.in-113.000
Wedaerieral'bankiafl aadvkxohanse basiness.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING. DEC, 21, 1904
Confideration, of New, Year
iesolutions is now m order.
Impeachments come seldom
bnl they have a most whole
some tlfect. '
Ft no q a ganeru Diuuig an'xonange Business,
rafti' bboght kni sold y eartora nd JToreiga banks . U
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JOSEPH PAL1IER, President
J. W. SORIBER. Cashier
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EeadlThe3 Daily -Observer
Incideatally iu the Chadwick
casewho got the cash and
where is it now? - " :
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-At any ratemake he- little L i ' WlNTFP WHF'Af INI II. 1
people happy throushout- the! '. . '
unnstmas holiday. ;
The fact that " the excess o
man over woman is nearlv 2.
000,000 indicates a shortage in
the crop of sweethearts .
Over one hundred residflnoBB
have beer erected in this Vqity
during the past twelve months.
La Grande Beems to be growing
some. .. '...,.,
Wall street prefers lamb
while the taste of Mrs Chadwick
was for old bucks - t
It is said that the United
States Steel Corporation has
orders amounting to l' 25,000
tons a day in excess of "its ca
pacity, i i
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( The land fraud case is fur
nishing' as much interesting
reading matter , as the Chad
wick case or a forty 1 round ' to
a finish boxing contest. Each
day furnishes another round
and a new fighter.
It is said that Opportunity
never knocks but once for, each
man. This i9 not true. She
comes a hundred times, but in
a different guise each time and
Take a pencil and check . off
the new residences in voiir
neighborhood and see bow
many you can count.. The ef
fort will surprise you. - ' '
Miracle workers in Merrie
England are claiming to be
raising the dead . The foreign
tours.of Marse Henry and the
late D Bennett Hill are now ex
plained.
, Do not forget -.to i let 'your
friends iu the East know.jibout
tne many advantages possessed
by La Graude and vUniou J Co'.
A good way to do this is to or
der, the Weekly Observer sent
to some friend i who you have
reason to believe would make a
good citizen, One dollar pays
lor fifty-two lettars, and) every -
oneof them will explain' a few
of the many ,' good features of
this town and county.
The Crop Reporter, published
monthly by authority of Secre
tary of Agriculture, for - Dec.
1904 reached the Observer Wed
nesday morning. From ' ' the
following .figures are selected.
The department estimated , the
acreage sown to winter wheat in
tne fall of 1904 in the United
States at 31,155,313 acres. This
is 1.6 per cent less than' the' ac
reage sown in, the fall of 1903. '
1 tie Department in , its esti
mate of the acreage sown, to
winter wheat in -the fall of 1904
by states gives' Oreeon 486.595
Washington' 425,805, Idaho 175,
752 and California 2.091,178,
These estimates -make- b fall
sowing, of the four Pacific .states
aggregate 3,131,821 acres.
The visible supply (of "what
rine urs
MI was much afflcted with soiatioa"
WTltes Ed C Nud, Iowavtlle 8edwiok
uo Kan, "going" about on crutches
and suffering a deal ot pain. 1 was
induced to trr Billard'a Rrio T.inion,
I used three too bottles, It Is the
greatest lniment I ever oaed, have
lecommended it to a number of persons
all express themselves aa beln
niea dj v I now walk without orutch
.h.u0pr.p.r.dUge.rd U SSSTlSt
4 M a h 4 W .A .1 a a t a Iftf I ft a
ae, until sne isj"" "oor on the farm." Newlin
gone away .-r East Ofegonia n . , Dm
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in stock Eastv..of Vthe ftockj
Mountains on Dec. 1, 1904 was
WWSWW V Mil V IM ( t" v
same date 1903 the - supply-linf
stock was 51,857,000., These
figures show 3,530,00 bushels
more on tne nrst or tnis Dec
ember than on the 1st day of
last December. . i
' The visible supply of wheat
on December 1, 1904 on Pacific
Coast was 3.733,000 .Vgainst
391,0Q0 on the same , date in
1903, showing . 142,000 more
bushels of wheat on ibis - Coast
now than a year ago.
ans
$46, $48, $52, $55
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Very handsome styles.
Payments $8.00 down
and $4 a month. Write
us for particulars. Mail
Order? Ven?piiy' and
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filers Piano House
351 Washington Street.
- corner Tark -'Portland,
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targrstdrffl also Spokane
and "Seattle, Wash., and
Boi.se, Idaho.
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$1.00 or over on meats and 1
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complete, stock qt meats, poul
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u Phone 1601
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UAiversity
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Boarding school tor yonw man A boys.
Box 34S University ParK Station,
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