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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1906)
tmm II loini T) Off I DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, UNDERWEAR, NOTIONS !8 1 TO GO AT FROM 10 to 50 per cent OF FIRST COST fiSALiE BEGINS SATURDAY: MO KIN 1 IN U MAK. If PLACE Baker Bros, old stand on Adams Avenue, opposite La Grande National Bank. i&jm-Sm,3i My i idt; January tne uoraen Kuie More, of PendletoVoreSon, suffered a severe loss by fire. Out of a $20,000.00 stock ooly about $5,000.00 worth of i tl 'marketable goods were saved. These owing to the condition of the building being such that it cannot be used, have been moved to La Grande, and are to be offered to 2 the people here, ' for I: We have hundreds of yards of the celebrated. Broadhead dress oods in blacks, browns and blues. These are ab ' l..ll.. mmPaa4- kAH ah!aIi rr f m rltmt(n Tlinn liiSIf T -kf- " crrtnll ffaAfSfttl tf til ft it rDnl ITllllO - dUIUlCiy PCI ICOl, UCIII5 KIILII Uly llll IIUHI UUIlia. UstJ Will 11 Ul U OIIIUII IIUUUUII Ul lllsVIl IVUI wuimv. iilVVe have ladies', men's and children's shoes in broken sizes. These are without damage. You can get them less than half price . - I? Men's and boys suits at 25 per cent of first cost. Men's and Boys' Hats at 25 per cent of first cost rMcn's, ladies' and children's underwear goes at less than one half price. : Ladies' silk and lisle gloves, 50 to $1.00 values, your choice l5c fr , t 11am.. f I t , 1 4 n 4- a n linlf ii ila t4V ' t iaii ai ia mm 1 e - f I. am miAtnil ' liUUUiio Ul an rtiiiua ul uuc nail wiiai yuu tvvci uivuiu incui quuicu. . - ...... ; ' . . it ' Pnmo in and Innk mot ithat hato - It rnctc vnn rtnthintf fn ifivoctitf tt UVIIIV III KIIU ivvll uf VI ww nut nv vt m v wvJ7 JVM iivr liiiii vvj nibJli'iVi xfCi REMEMBER 'THE PLACE COJPP.LJE & GARRETT REMEMBER THE PLACE 10 - If 1 II : STi .-,. IX H. .BTBWARD, Proprietor and Mgr SANDfORD B. RICABY'S YE BRIGHT AND MERRY MM. H. VEST BIG JUBILEE I'Ml R-S-T RE.LSI La Grande Evening Observer , FRIDAY. MARCH 9. 1906 Published daily except on Sunday One year in advance ... :....$6.50 Six months in advance 3.60 Per month .. 65 Single copy 6c A state election is not sufficient to stop the progress of this county this year. We are not going o boom but we are going to take decided advance step. In other words, the entire state ie entering upon a new ira and Union county will lead the procession as usual. Entered at the Post Office at La Qrande Oregon, as Second Class Matter. : CA BHGHT LIGHTS OF THE fA I 1 3vMIN STREL WQRL D-Sl ; REST COMEDIANS, SINGERS, DANCERS. MUSICIANS Z - , ; SATURDAY, MARCH 10 : t ; PRICES: . Orchestra. $1.00. Orchestra Center, 76c. Dress Circle 60c 2 ; y Gallery', 60.- Seats on sale at Van Burens. STEVHBCLYS:- OPERA. D. H. STEWARD. Proprietor and Manager, n we I Sweely. Shipman & Co. presents , America's Most Gifted Actress Alberta Gallatin IN The Latest London and New York Society Comedy Success "COUSIN KATE" BY HUBERT HENRY DAVIS Z (81 Nights Gaiety Theatre. London.- S76 NighU New Hudson Theatre, N. Y WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 j : ; ; ' x 1 1 . 1 T PRICES Orchestra, $1.60. Orchestra Center, $1.00. Dress Circle 76 J I: Cents. Balcony, 60 Cents. 2 CURREY BROS, ED'S AND PROP This paper will notjpublishany article appearing over a nom-de-plume. Signed articles will be received subject to the discretion of the editors. Please sign your articles and save disappointment. ' ADVEBTIdlNO RATES Display Ad rats fUrnUhed apoa application LookI reading nolloaa lOo per Una Sral . naei- llun, jo per Una nr each nubMqutnl lnae lion. MaaolnUonaof eoartolanee, jerer Una. -rda of Ibanka, 60 per llaa. Everything indicates a record breaker of a fruit crop this year. The sugar factory people are expecting grand results this year. They will have the largest acreage ever planted in this valley. The present council it responsible for cement sidewalks and in the natural or der of progression the 1906 council will take care of the sewerage problem. This has been an ideal winter for lum bermen. They have secured large quan tities of logs and the' markets are such that the mills will be run to their full ca pacity. This means many large payrolls. We have enjoyed an annual railroad payroll in this city for many years in ex cess of $360,000 but this evidently will be largely increased when the company makes the improvements in the shop and round house s contemplated. Their present intention is to' expend $250,000 in improvements in this city this year. A large manufacturing plant ' that will give employment to anywhere from two hundred to four hundred employees is one of the future probabilities and if it comes it wil be definitely announced within the next sixty days. This will not only em ploy a large force of mechanics in its con struction but will be the means of not a few homes being built this year. Just keed your eye on La Grande for 1 906, Nearly all the opposition to the Santo Domingo treaty in the press is due to a belief that it is likely to implicate us in similar relations with numerous other countries. "We know of no single arguT ment advanced for our intervention in Santo Domingo." says the New York Evening Post, "which does not apply, .or could not be made to apply, to all other republics in arrears and in difficulty be tween us and Cape Horn. And the greater part of theh-.debt like those of Santo Domingo, is practically of the na ture of gambling debts. Speculators havs simply taken chances, as in a lottery, and now we are to guarantee the lottery." Id another editorial on "Uncle Sam as Pan American Receiver," it sets forth the size of the job it thinks we would shouldering by ratifying the treaty. It says: "Santo Domingo first placed a loan with foreigners in 1869. On it she has been in default for more than twenty years. Colombia has had a foreign debt for some 83 years, during about 47 of which no interest was paid. The corres ponding figures for Guatamela. Honduras, and Venezuela are, respectively. 78 and 48, 78 and 72. 83 and 41. Costa Rica and Nicaragua have been in default for more than half the time. Salvador has repudiated a part of her foreign debt. Thus It appears that if Uncle Sam is go ing to set himself up in the business of liquidating all outstanding Pan-American debti, he will not lack for occupation!" Current Literature. Crop conditions for this season of the year could not be in a more promising condition. The fall grain is looking fine and the ground will soon be in elegant shape for spring work. A good country cannot be held back. The high prices for horses the stockmen are receiving is an incentive to increase the production. Union county has been noted for good horses for many years and the annual expectations represent thous ands of dollars. - . SPfOAL NOTICE . All persons holding accounts agaiqst me are requested to present the same to me and receive payment, also all who are indebted to me are requested to call and settle, as I expect to leave about March 16. Fred Bock Spring is coming; look over your photo supplies. What's needed, we can supply. We have all the latest photo requisites at right price. Newlin Druo Company. Every business man in this city should become thoroughly interested and inform ed in the question of irrigation. When we store the waste waters of - this section and conduct it on to the valley lands, -then will the large holdings be subdivided and our population will rapidly increase. The building of fifty or one hundred new homes in this valley every year for the next few years would bring almost as much money into this county as . our an nual wheat crop. This statement might stagger you at the , first reading but a . moment's consideration as to what that means will convince you of its correctness. , NOTKf. . Notice is hereby given that my wife, ". Rosalia Johnson, having left my bed and board without just provication, that that I will not be responsible for any bills the may contract from this date. 5 . Axle Johnson Dated this eighth day of Feb, 1906,,t Perry, Union county Oregon.. Z D-H. STEWARD, Proprietor and Manager. , , V.r j TUESDAY, MARCH 13. in A Startling Sensation THE SIMil! ID 8-BI0 VAUDEVILLE ACTS-8 er S " Beautiful Scenery ; Entire Production Carried Novel Vaudeville .; . , Surprising Climaxes PRICES-Orchesttaand Orchestra. Center.'. 76 . cents.- Dress Circl. .H 5 Balcony. 60 cent.. Children in G.llary, 28 ents. ?