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REPORT OF CONDITION NOVEMBER 9, 1905
.' BESOUHCES" LIAWUT1ES
Ina and Discounts . ....... $612,016 22 Capital stock $100,000 00
; ' United States Bond ...... 60.000 6o Surplus : 20,000 00
" ReaJ Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 17.958 00 Undivided profits .'. . 40,614 15
Due from banks and U.vS. treasury 74,611 20 Circulation ,....'...,'..!....:''. 60.000 00
v , Cash on hand...;...... :,.,;.... 68.981 23 Deposits i...'. 61S.029 62
.. Total'' t $825,643 68 . Total . . $823,643 66
; 1 " ' v OFFICERS AKO DIRECTORS . ".
GEORGE PALMER, President. F. L. MEYERS, Cashier.
GEORGE L. CLEAVER, Assistant Cashier. W. L, BRENHOLTS, Assistaut Cashier.
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J. M. BERRY, A. B. CONLEY, : C. a PENINGTON, F. J. HOLMES. F. M..BYRKIT.
With ample capital, large experience, and unsurpassed facilities, we offer you absolute security for your
deposits; and solicit your banking business, promising you courteous treatment and every liberalty
consistent with conservative banking. " '. -
summer and kept growing.'. Young Will
iam Barlow had built man day dreams
of what honor and profit he would win by
taking to Oregon the first grafted fruit
and go down in history as the father of
the fruitlndustry in Oregon, but fate was
against him. The box weightd something
over a hundred pounds with the grafu
and soil to keep the grafts growing, and
..m. r,H ivi had to brf left on the
bank of the Grande Ronde river and it
was left for others to reap a fortune and
go down in history as the father of the
fruit industry m Oregon. All thai was
left for him to do was to sit on the cast
away box and weep, and then resume
his weary jurney. which after struggling
with forest and snows and the abandon
tnent of all the wagons in the Cascade
mountains ended on Christmas day 1 844,
when the older members a foot and the
shildren in baskets strapped on cows
entered Oregon City.
s While young William Barlow was weep
ing because of his disappointment in hav
ing to abandon his box of grafts there
was not then in all Oregon a grafted tree.
With the prophetic vision common to
pioneers he saw a big future industry
and that vision has been realized. In
1900, but 65 years after his misfortune,
the orchards of what was then Oregon,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon; grew
fruits on 12.962,671 trees, valued at
$2,270,726.
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IS MADE BY TAKING X
, ADVAN1AGE OF
BARGAINS
Especially through the X
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Our stock is replete with hand- X
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some aesKS, comroriaoie rocxer, w
dressers, sidebeards, iron beds T
rugs, etc., an comoing wiui mauij
04 usefulness
v' Pictures and Mouldings
! Charles Dana Gibson has ceased to produce those fine drawings for which
he was noted, we have a number of his handiwork in stock. Rembrant
water colors and Carbon Aristotypes make handsome ornaments. Framing
v dune nere uieiie e uuv ivuh uimi mhmii
i : - Eldridgs and New Royal Sewing machines are carried here
" ADCOOK & HARRIS,
ADAMS AVENUE , ' '
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Paper or Paint this Fall?
IF SO. CALL ON STANIELS & JARMAN
.GET THEIR PRICES
' 'We art closing out our entire stock of wall paper at a great reduc
tion prices, to make" room for the largest stock ever put in La
Qrande. We handle everything in the line of Painte, Oils, Glass, etc.
. We do all klnde of painting, paper hanging and decorating. Call and
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( $ 5TANIELS & JARMAV,
Dealers in Wall Paper, Paints, Oils. Class. Etc
WE HAVE OUR OWN DELIVERY
With the purchase of tho Nobraska Grocery we have inaugur
ated our own delivery service which will enable purchasers to receive
their orders much sooner than heretofore. Phone in your order for
your dinner and the deliveryman will have it to your door before you
know It,
Our prices on groceries are as low as any and
,-. our goods are a little better.
MRS MAGGIE SHEARER
La Grande Evening Observer
MONDAY,, NOVEMBER 20, 1905
Published .daily . except on Sunda)
One year in advance ... $6.6C
Six months io advance.- 5.60
Per month '...X.. : 6
Single copy....! - 6c
Entered at the Post Office at La Grande
Oregon, as Second Class Matter.
CURREY BROS, ED'S AND PROP
ADVKRTMINU KATRH
iHsplay Ad nm narntabe epoa appilaMli
oail wading aolUwi ton per II Mnt aw-
Uon, s per line tor ansa anhwiiueol Iw
Uoa.
(wXatldoi of eondoleaee, je i er Itaa,
tB el thaake, 5t par lias.
CHE FIRST FRUIT FA LURE IN
OREGON
In the fall of 1844 an immigrant train
was encamped on the Grande Ronde river
near where the thrifty village of Hilgard
now stands. The long journey from th-.
Missouri river, with no feed for the oxer,
and horsek that drew their wagons, but
the wild grass they could crop after each
wearisom days travel. From the south
pass through the Rocky Mountains, grass
was dry as hay and from the Pacific
Springs, now in Wyoming, the first water
on this side of the continental back bom
that flowed into the Pacific ocean, was
scarce and what little the animals could
find among the sage brush was crisp and
often covered with alkaline dust, had re
duced the strength of the teams so, thai
it seemed impossible for them to drag' the
wagons up the Blue mountains to Lee's
encampment, now Meacham and tht
remaining three hundred miles of the
journey to the white settlement in Oregon.
The older men and heads of the fam
ilies that composed the train were con
vinced that to enable the emaciated oxen
to drag the wagons over the Blue. moun
tains and the rest of the journey their
loads must be lightened by throwing
away everything not absolutely necessary
for use on the way. It was a sad but im
perative duty to overhaul the contents of
the dusty wagons and determine what
should beabahtfoned. Family keeD sakes.
books, even family bibles, pots, and kettles
were thrown out Some of the wagons
were coupled shorter so that some of the
weight could be sawed off the wagon
beds. ;-
In one of the wagons belonging to Sam
uel K. Barlow there was a box of several
hundred grafts of choice orchard fruit
scions that his son William, a lad of some
eighteen years had started with from
Illinois In the early spring and carefully
watered and cared for all the spring and
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BUYING UKUU MUKL uuuu
WITHOUT RISK :
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When you com. to Hill's Pharmacy for an, jfJ
distinctly understood that in case your 1"J? n BAM AT
promises you may return it and WE WILL BUY IT BACK AT
FULL PRICE-no arguments, no unpleasantness, do delay-your
money is yours immediately upon request , . .
A. T.
Prescription Druggist
Oregon is loser again. With only one
recognized representative at Washington,
this state will lose three fourths of the
annual free distribution of seeds. Why
don't the bunch resign; can't they see how
the state ie suffering.
There was a bull fight the other day at
Ciudad Juarez, near El Paso, Texas I1
was given for the benefit of the delegates
to the mining congress. One matador
was badly gored and another was carried
out bruised and bleeding after a bull had
tossed him In the air. The arena war
packed with Americans, including many
women. Most of . the Americans left
however, after human blood had been
spilled, refusing to witness the continu
ation of the brutal sport Their departure
it that time was the next best thing tc
not having gone to the fight at all.
A Creeping Death.
Blood poison creeps up toward the
heart causing death. J. E. " Steams.
Belle Plaine, Minn,' writes that a friend
jreadfully injured (lis hand, which
swelled up like blood poisoning. Buck
ten's Arnica Salve drew out the poison.
healed the wound, and saved his life.
Best in the world for) burns and sores.
26c at" Newlin's Drug Store.
Healthy, happy babies. Mothers say
that Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea . is
the greatest baby medicine in the world
Makee them strong, well and active. 56
cents. Tea or Tablets, Newlin Druo Co.
MEAT CHEAP
But not Cheap Meat
Having purchased the Bock Thomas
ihops and also the Bull market we are
n position with the three shops, to furnish
our patrons with choice meats at a less
price than if we had only one shop. It is
not our Intention to raise the price on
meats, but it is our intention to reduce the
price, and thereby hope to increase our
trade. A trial order will convince you of
the assertion. .
Grandy& Russell
; THREE SHOPS
Adams Ave. between G randy and Depot
Adams Ave. between Elm and Fir. .
Fir st between Jefferson and Adams Ave.
Main 50 ; Main 78 Main 70
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THEN CALL
? Wn. REYNOLDS
THE TRANSFER MAN
He will take that trunk to the De
pot or your home in less time than
it takes to tell it
. Wagon always at your service
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PERFECT RUBBER C00DS.
We thorouehly examine our RUBBER GOODS and sell none which
I. Xrfect HOT WATER BOTTLES. FOUNTAIN SYRINGES.
BULB SYRINGES, ATOMIZERS, complete new stock, fullly rubber,
long wearing, stand hard usage.. , - , . "
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LA GRANDE, .03
Call up Main 29 for .
NEW WALNUTS ALMONDS
BLEACHED SULTANAS ',"
Cluster Raisins Muscatel Raisins
Cirrnn and I Mtinn Pp ' ' : ..':
Dates
Figs
Heinz Mincemeat
BAKER BROS
PHONE MAIN 19 : ( (v ,: Adams Ave
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GAMES GAMES
Holiday Novelties
Golf glovts l
Fleeced Blankets
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E. M. Wellman & Company,
ADAMS AVENUE
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ST; LOUIS LIVERY AND FEED STABLE
LARS EN & NORRIE. Props.; ' - '
Special accomodation for Com
mercial men -
: Firstclas. turnouU furnisd ;
-'iSsrr ys;Z--: day or night
BEST SERVICE
. GUARANTEED
Horses boardee by the day,
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RIGS FURNISHED. FOR PARTIES, PICNICS AND FUNERALS
The best Carry-all in the City.
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t JULIUS ROESCli, Proprietor. ''' : '
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j Largest Brewing Plant In Easiern Oiegon
Ask for U ; Grande Beer and get ithe Best 5
LA GRANDE BEER IS MADE IN LA GRANDE I
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