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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1906)
it i i T I ti chool Days! I THif GOLDEN RULE COMPANY I Is preparing as usual to fit the Children out with everything in wearing apparel and school supplies. WILL SOON BE HERE AND LOCAL ITEMS I: All the newest and staple things in Dress Goods f The Best in School Shoes The Best and Newest in Caps The Best in Hosiery 0ur 250 hose for 180 has ncvcr bccn matched Tablets, Hencils, Pens, Ink, all at "Golden Rule' Prices ALWAYS THE LOWEST THE GOLDEN RULE COMPANY Larerest Storp- 1308, 1310. 1312 ADAMS AVENUE Smallest Prices J . A Square Deal C. B. SIMMONS. President . -. - - - See'y and Mgr. PHONE MAIN 31 PARR-SIMMONS COMPANY INCORPORATED Dealers in Grande Ronde Valley Products Fruits, Hay, Potatoes and Grain ::: Apples a Specialty LARGE " COLD STORAGE WAREHOUSE Hay Wanted Mow HIGHEST PRICES PAID Jefferson Ave. and Greenwood St. Call and see us before you sell La Grande. Oregon WATTS DRUG CO. - J iAii.1 -MS. Corner Depot Street and Adams Avenue. WIDE AWAKE MEN Walter Pierce. W. G. Hunter and En gineer Pickler returned last night from a trip up Grande Ronde river. Thev are investigating sites ect, relative to an irri gation project. These wide awake men realize what irrigation means to this val.ev and are planning to use some of the waste waters or Grande Ronde river. It is act ually bordering on to a sin to Datientlv re main inactive and permit the waters of our streams to pass on to the sea with out attemptine to store a small Ddrtion of it to be used when it would do the most good. Yog may take our very best land that sells readily for $65 and S?5 Der acre, with water the products would justi fy at least a doubling of the present value. EEE(TRI( CONCERT COMPANY Dr. T. R. Monk, proprietor of the Electric Concert ' Company will give an exhibition at Cove next Saturday evening and will also exhibit at North Powder the following Tuesday. The Electric Concert Company has given a number exhibitions at various points in this and Wallowa valley has been able to satisfy all who have attended. Aside from the splendid concert features the Doctor has a first class moving picture machine and literally miles of the best picture films to he found in the market. One of the most interesting at this time is the film which shows every detail of the terrible San Francisco disaster. School Books and School Supplies Toilet Articles and Fine Stationary Our Prescription Department is Complete and our Prices are Right. (ONEERING WITH PRESIDENT (SiTlpps News Association) Oyster Bay Aug.' 23-General Bell chief of staff, called upon the president today to d.scuss the Brownsville situation oeiore taking rurther action. He says that the established negro troops with the whites were sent -back to Fort Reno. Agents for the "POSTAL TYPEWRITER." It i has the universal key board and only $25. A Uniform Poiicy iScripps News Association) St. Paul Aug. 23 -The committee of insurance comm ssioners to day adopted a resolution favoring a standard policy for every state in the union and are now determining upon the form of the policy Nothing New SMELFLEX HAIR PINS W CANT BREAK 'EM jt SCHOOL STATIONERY ALSO SIDE COMBS AMD BACK COMBS I E. M; Wellman & Company ADAMS AVENUE Graft'" is a new word, but it is not a new crime. Achon.the son oh Carmi.the son of Zabdi. the son Zeran. took the accursed thing and the angar of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel." Gahazi. the servant of Elisha. the prophet in d.sobed ence too graft from Naaman the leper, "and the leprosy of Naaman clae unto him an J he went out from the presence of the prophet a leper as white snow." Graft is a d.sease as bad as leprosy but it is a prevental disease and the honest people of Die United States have determined that it shall be exterm inated. Ex. m Aoeraeon two iisiermen had a strenuous fight with a 63-foot whale in the lower harbor, lasting from 4 until 1 1 o'clock. Miss Mabla Williams is in Hi gard to day visiting friends. Remember the Commercial Club dance Friday evening. Do not forget the cooked food sa'e Sat urday at the G randy & Russell market. The rain will have the effect of bring ing the campers home. Ex-Commissioner Robert Blumenste.n came up from Elgin on last night's train. Mrs. E. G. Adcook is spending the day with Union friends and will return on the evening train. Mr. Harry True, of Spokane, is in the city an business connected with land matters. Master Earl Jeffries, of Fruitdale left this morning to visit his grandfather, who s quite sick at Payette, Idaho. The rain which was heaviest along :he Sandridge than here, will result in great good to the sugar beet growers. Mrs. L. A. Pickler, who has been at Seven Devils, the past few weeks, re turned home this morning. Jo Smith went out to the Hot Lake this morning in the hopes of securing re lief from the rheumatism. Rev. 0. H. King and family, who have been fishing on Fly creek for the past two .......v.. ..... j MM,, M.J . Among the many delegates which Gov ernor Chamberlain has appointed to the Irrigation Congress appears the name of W'.T. Wright of Union. It is reported that the wood producers of this vicinity have formed a trust and hereafter the price of four foot wood will not be less than $4.25 per cord. Mrs. S. A. Parker and daughter of El gin and sister Miss Hettie Rogers of Sali da, Col, are visting Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Hays of this city. Mr. and Mrs, George Grant leave this morning for their newly acquired farm. The places is what has been known for years as the Page place. Tomorrow being St. Bartholomew's Day, there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion at St. Peter's church at 1 0 o'clock. Pendleton is soon to have a matress factory, ar.d Stayton, in the Willamette valley, is to have an excelsior plant. Good for them and La Grande offers f. good field for such similar enterprises. The 0. R. & N. Company has a corps of their surveyors at work laying off the grounds for the extensive new improve ments which are in contemplation and for which material is beginning to arrive. Contractor Geo. Wagoner has sold his pleasant home on the west end of Adams Avenue to Mr. Nibly, the wood dealer. The consideration being $2,000. Mr. Wagoner expects to move out to his fruit farm in Fruitdale. Mr. Joseph Woods, proprietor of the Red Livery barn left this morning for Haines where he goes after a team which a pair of unscrupelous persons left after using it for two days. There will be something doing if Joe gets on their track. The pr3sent shower so far have done no damage but a protracted rain would inconvenience the farmers matterially and would result in more or less loss. Owing to the scarcity of labor this season harvest is not as far advanced as usual at this time of the year and much of it is shocked in the field. Cashier F. L. Meyers and Contractor John SUter have returned from Newburg where they went to inspect the pressed brick for the new La Grande National Bank building. They were successful in finding the desired quality, and as soon as the brisk arrives the building will be pushed to completion. Mr. N. D. Varner, of Wallowa is in the city this week transacting business Mr. Ba mens one of Wallowa County 's lead -ing dairyman. Djri-g the m;nth of June his dairy herd consisted of fifty two head of mi'ch cows. He is or.e of strongest patrons of the wallowa branch of the Blue Mountain Creamy Co. and says he is more than satisfied with his monthly check. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dickey arrived this morning from Tacoma and will visita few days prior to going to their recently purchased farm near Baker City. They bought a fine 400acre tract, well watered, for which they paid $10,000, and is con sidered a great bargain by all who know the place. It is possible that their son. Mr. C. E. Dickey, and son-in-law. Mr. T. H. Boynton, will assist in the management. iiilpi AN ATTRACTIVE SMOKE There is a fas- cination m La I-.ore ue . spec.al c .- usa . "now ".because!, the high est type of a cigar Havana filled, twra.p.r.hardma - It i;n.taio'. has many i get the reil thing. C. E. HACKMAN, Phone Red 1281 Cor. Adams Avenue ar.d Greenwood Ul ' Jack Chillis Hurt This afternoon, shortly after two o'clock while JackChiids was moving the Baptist church, the capstain pulled up and struck him. Mr. Childs was fully thirty feet from the capstain when the pins pulled i-p. He was struck on the head and rendered unconcious. The capstain weighs nearly a ton, and it is remarkable that with such a weight falling upon him that he escapes with his life. At the time of going to prees he had not regained conciousness. Dr. A. L. Richardson, the attending phy sician states that no bones are broken, and thit so far as he is able to determine at this time he thinks ..hat no permanent injury has been inflicted. Robbed a Today PALMER HOU JOHN PALMER, Prop. Heat Market while Charles Disqua, the ,f ftranHv & PiKQftll market. was at dinner today some one entered through the back door and opened the cash register and carried off all the change. As near as Mr. Disqua knows the robber or robbers secured in the vicimily of twelve dollars. In the afternoon Chief of Police Rayburn and Constable Faulk rounded up five likely looking hobos and took them to tne city jail where they were carefully searched, but nothing of more value than a bottle of alcohol was discovered. The men are still kept in prison, with the hope that after dancing the bedbug jig a few days they will be able to know more about the disappearance of the coin. F'rstc'asi accommodations. Board by the day week or month at reujonable rates New furniture throughout. Centrally located ADAMS ANENUE, between Fir Greenwood. KNIFE MAN IN JAIL John Sumpter. who claims to hail from Butler, Nevada, reached La Grande yes terday and proceeded to fill np on rye water and mix up with everything he met. In the course of his wanderings he met Chief of police Rayburn who at once placed him uuder arrest. While the ar rest was in progress Sumpter made a few flurishes with a large butcher knife, but before he could create any damage he was placed in a harmless condition and taken to the city jail. This morning he appeared before Justice Hough, where he waived examination and was placed under $300 bonds to appear before the October term of court. RIBBED SECTION HOUSE A warrant is out for the arrest of Chas. Black, of Hilgard. charging him wiih robbing the Hilgard section house. It is alleged that he stole some five or six dollars in cash. Sheriff Childers left for Hilgard for Black and the witness this afternoon. 11IS l to DONT START Off HUNGRY When we can satisfy your carvings for something good to eat at little cost. Our food is selected with care, cooked with skill and served in appetizing style we are not afraid to have you take a peep in our kitchen and see how we do things, we might write volumes on cook but that would not do you one tenth the goed that one of our regular dinners at 25e will. Treat your stomach with good eating and thereby make a wise head. The Model Restaurant J. A, ARBUCKLE. Prop. We Hlt Wmslilv J Cft UetlTlckfU for $4-3" OPKN DAY AND NIGHT TIMBER (IAIMS We can locate a number of p as on good timber claims of two million feet and better. Foley Bik. La Grande Investment Co. ICC GREAM AND ICE CREAM SODA Mone Better y R'wpts. a Spd cialty Not Heart Disease iScr.pps News Association) Rome. Aug. 23 Lapponi declares that the Pope emphatically denies the rumor that he is suffering from heart disease. A (OMDERATION OF STATES (Script's New Association) San Salvador. Aug. 23. The Unionist party has been organized here for the purpose of uniting all the Central Repub lics into one Republ.c. Doctors Prescriptions ar.d Fa- 9 Y r . . . X -.c.sa A.ways j Attendance. t RED CROSS DRUG STORE d LENNAN, Prop t Prescription Pharmacist i AT COST Season is ccr for Eontlereer,-s SMmcr nave 25 ported patterns , ol over. Wi,: sell a. cos, yards , each piece. Ai, s,i;a3:c frljdie, cr:Ci lri Est flr AL. ANDREWS! fl J m,LVIK a"d "ABERDASHER eeM a