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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1906)
, J Fail Opening After months of dilligcnt search uc have completed our Pall Purchases. Goods have been arriving for the last six ueeks and from time to time ue have been able to give you a glimpse of the many new lines that ue will carry during the coming season Our stock is complete and we cordially invite you to attend our formal FALL OPEMXG SALE, which .ill occur Wednesday, September 26th and the wek following tnibg Wednesday, October 3rd. With out indulging in self pra se we fel this year we can serve you better than ever before better goods, larger assortment, more novelties and in $oU of th. rising market at practically the same prices as prevailed last year. As this is an occasion, especially for displaying our merchandist we want you to feel thit you are welcome whether ready to buy or not we want you to know what you can buy at our store and what you have to pay New Autumn Colored Dress Goods The fabrics especially in demand among early purchasers are now to be seen in the largest and best chosen assortments of plain colors and fancy effects we have ever shown at this time. The remarkable sales being recorded every day are proof of the unequaled worth of the lines at these prices. Fine all wool Mohair, . Children' Dress plaids 50c 18c to 60c Shaddow Checked Wool Dress Goods 60c to $1.15 Fancy plaid waistings 35c to 60c Opening sale of Womcn's.Children's and Misses' new fall coats and skirts, offord remarkable opportunities The widespread interest manifested in our '06 Fall Garments is due to the att-active-ness and authoritative character of the styles and the extraordinary values at popular prices $8.50, $10.50 $15.00 $3.00, $4.25, $2.75, $3.00, $5.00, $6.00 $3.50, $4.50 For Women's New Fall Coats in soft Dlaids. charminn srevs and browns Misses- New Fall Coats in all tn and the like. Soma of the most clever popular styles and colors. At these , models of tha early season. Every ' Pr' are showing many styles oarment beautifully tailored and c:r-; Y men la"r " 'no rect in fit and style. 1 ble manner. CHILDREN'S COATS In bearskin, astrakhan, crushed vol vet, and cloth in white, blue, red and brown, the most beautiful line we have ever shown. 1 LOCAL ITEMS ! : t r-s : : : i i 5 HEATING STOVES Mrs. Carl Thompson left for Woodburn Oregon where she will visit relatives a few days. Engineers Girbreth and Baucom. of tha La Grande division of tha O. R. & N.. are in the city today on a vacation. Pendle ton E. 0. County Superintendent E. E. Braggs left last night for Salem where he will attend a two days' session of the county Superintendents convention. A. A. Roberts and son returns i this morning from Portland where he has been visiting with Mrs. Roberts. Mrs. Roberts will return in a few days. - A A. Roberts ard son Edward returned this morning from Portland wbere, with Mrs. Rboerts, they hava been visiting the past ten days. Mrs. Roberts remained in Portland to regain her health. Roy Corbett came down from the Aurelia mines last evening. He reports the work at the mines progressing satis factorily and the most of the mill mach inery now in position and that the mill will be crushing ore within a few days. Engineer E. A. Stephens left yesterday morning for the upper Grand Ronde river with a load of supplies for his mines, Mr. Stephens is interested in the Eureka groupe, and as he is no tenderfoot in the mining business, his friends look for him to ar.vinnnlish. rei?Ht with this oroo erty. i. v MILLINERY We have established a separate department for this line and. having secured the ser vices of a milliner who has had several years' experience in San Francisco and other large cities, we feel confident that we are as well prepared to take care of the ladies' wants in this line as any house in the city. All the latest novelties in pattern, trimmed and street hats. Come in and look them over whether you want to buy or not - always welcome CLO T ri I N G MEN'S YOUTHS' AMD BOYS' a nice li. il l: u:i. - u,. Vn-itlrcr covaS. I f'3.ve 11 11 UllltS 10 UllUK auuuu ii6"b r.- t .li c;q and orices. If yu are line vj ocicii iiuiii, an ui.v- thinking of getting a stove call and examine them, I am sure vou will find one that will suit you. magazine coal heater is a wonder, it will save coal. Try and you wil it is wonderful be convinced. and My how 55? ! MRS- T.N. MURPHY Hardware and crockery. :::: & SMOKE Flora Dc Hackman COVE BANK CASHIER i ne eastern uregon i rust ana savings Bank announces today that it has seVir- ed a cashier for its branch bank at Co George Stock, of Los Angeles, is th 'J.ma'Avho will have charge of the baftk there and is already at Cove supervising the installation of safes and coun Mr. and Mrs. atock will make tneir hdkne in the Cova where Mrs. Stock's parent! Mr. and Mis. H. C. Myers, now reside. Mr. Stock has had a large experience in banking and has the ability needed in his possession at the head of tha branch bank. KELLY UNDER THE KNIFE Dan Kelly, Baker City's crack athlete was operated on yesterday at Eugene, at the home of his trainer, Bill Haywood, the surgeons hoping to correct an injury received by the world's champion .printer upon tha day he smashed the amateur record of 100 yards and did wonderful things in jumping. At that time Dan Ketley strained him self slightly, and the injury has bothered him somewhat ever since. Although the injury was slight only an operation would relieve it, and Trainer Haywood as well as the young man's family, insisted that it should be corrected in order to make him as nearly physically perfect as is possible. Kelly went through the operation nicely it is said, and is getting along quite as well as could be expected. Otherwise he is in the bes. of condition. ill !Lf the Ask your dea'.r for this popular brand :n !0c a-.d 12'4c sizes. Trv it ard .f it g;s you satisfac tion contr.ua to buy it. and thus encourage home industry. C. E. HACKMAN, ' pk, Rj 1581 Cor. Adams Ave-.ue and Craenwood jfefc A CREDITABLE SHOWING Prnfftnr Hnr.ttftnh&rrv has be3rt m- fnrmi.r) that- a CiranAa etitrlAnf. Afho aT8 I thA BUT. enticn of the Elgin schools, visited "' ! SCHOOLS IN FILL SWING County superintendent Bragg, has with FOOTBALL MEETING There will be a meeting at tha Com mercial club next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock to which all young men of the city interested in football, are invited to attend. If La Gsande is to have a com mercial or city team this year it is high time that arrangements for practise was started that the team may be a success. If there it to be a team, it is incumbent upon the boys to attend this meeting and organize on a business basis, and to stay with the team till the season is over. There is material enough in the city for a fine eleven, if proper practice and coaching can be had. Fooball enthusiasts are earnestly requested to attend this meeting at which time a manager and captain will be elected and plans for the i year's game made. attendingthe University of Oregin are placing the schools of La Grande cn the educational map of the state in big letters Kilpatrick. James Neil, Joel Richard son and Miss Pearl Huff, all graduates of the La Grande high schools and the special course given by Professor Hoekenberry. All secured English credits and are taking Sophomore English. They got one credit in rhetoric andthreein English literature. Earl Kilpatrick already hat a total of twenty-five credits an d will secure three more, thus having twenty eight out of the required sixty, that grad uation calls for. Consequently he is practically half thru the 'varsty before beginning. James Neil will receive a total of twenty- five credits. He too needs only sixty ci edits to be graduated. Ail of Mr. Hockenberry's students have received special grades. PROMOTING DANCING (LUB j Young men of the city have set a movement on fo-t to perfect a dancing club Several of the leaders in themove- ment have already met and organized and laid plans for the winter's entertainments. The Comos Dancing Club is its name and is to contain only a limited number of members, perhaps fifty. Cards and a circular letter are being printed and will be sent to the gentlemen of the city who indulge in dancing. The letter will ex plain that the membership will be limited, and to become a member, the recipient must return the card with five dollars to the secretary. This is the fee. The club will give several dances through the win ter, of an informal nature, to which only the members will be the guests. Then occasionally a formal ball will be given. every rural school in the county ana has found them all progressing nicely, under very favorable circumstances. While the attendance at this time is never large on account of the fall work on the farms, he found that the enrollments are larger than usual and indications pointing to a successful year's work in the rural schools. -r TEAMS WANTED Teams wanted to haul sugar beets from Cove to Union. Good wages. Apply at the Sugar Factory. HOT OFF THE GRIDDLE Is the only way to serve cakes. Every body knows that's how they get them at our restaurant and that's why we're always rushed during meal hours. HAl F YOUR LIFE is taken up with the eating, and drinking and sleeping. The sleeping you don't know much about but the eating you do. Why not then eat the best? It's wonder ful what a good, satisfying meal we can serve you for the price. Come as often, as you please and we'll always be glad t;fiS see you. " The Model Restaurant J. A ARBUCKLE. Prop. $450 UI'KX DAY SL MUHT We Sll Wi-eldy Mial Tlfkflit for $7.50, $10.00 $12.50 $15.00, $17.00 The latest and bait Wonted and Cs wen or diets. in C.i"vmetes. for ewry day $4.00, $5.00, $6.00 $7.50, $10.00 Many new and nobby things in this line, good material and nicely tailored. $2.25, $2.75, $5.00 : Everything from the good strong ones to the d'essy Buster Browns and Sailors. THE GOLDEN RULE COMPANY 1303. 1310. 1312 ADAMS AVENUE Larcrest Store ( Smallest Prices M'GEE FUNERAL The funeral of the late LeOrand D. McGe who died at Elgin last Monday evening, was held this afternoon from the home of J. E. Coffey. Interment was made in the Masonic cemetery with Rev. W. H. Gibson, pastor of the Baptist church, officiating. Mr. McGee was taken suddenly ill last Sunday afternoon while on the ranch of his brother near the Minam. On Monday he was brought to Elgin where he died at ten o'clock Monday evening after an ill ness of but a few hours. Cause of death was peretinitis. L-st evening the body was brought to this wity and laid away this afternoon. Deceased was tha youngest son of Mrs. A. S. McGee of Elgin and lived with her. His death is heavily felt by ail brothers and sisters, but especially by his mother. She was called from Newberg yesterday, to find her son, whom she left in reason ably good healtat. corpse. He leaves, a mother. Mrs. A. S. McGee four sisters and two brothers, M. O. McGee, Mary S. Weaver and William McGee of Elgin. Mrs. A. F. Prescott of Platsburg New York. Mrs. W. S. Arnold of Mashfield Coos county, and Mrs. J. E. Coffey of this city. -ataa44, 1 PROPER PRFPERATIONS I - -IS HALF THE BATTLE- u you wouia go to scnooi, ot course you want to be properly equipped, We have the equipment complete from Books and Stationery to Typewriters. PURE DRUGS PROPERLY COMPOUNDED Unless the druggist does his work properly the benefit to be derived from the doctors prescription is lost. We know our business and take the trouble and time to com pound all prescription as they should be. Our stock is complete and we would be pleased to have you call and become acquainted with our methods of tran acting business. WATTS DRUG CO.! Corner Depot Street and Adams Avenue J 1 I f