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EVE.MXG OBSERVER, LA GRAVDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 108
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Ever possible preparation has been made by us to supply your demands for this
Our stocks are now complete in all departments and the world of fashion is
occasion.
j"'V completely represent- .
"S 1 ed in this exhibition of n '
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Easier Millinery Picturesque Modes
r signers who decide positively upon the world's millinery fashions have gone
fa the oli masters in oil for this season's Inspirations. We will have a special showkg
tor Saturday, v COME AND SEE THEM. 'S ' '-V- .
BEAUTIFUL WAISTS-NEW ' ARRIVALSWe can suit every taste and every purse.
EVERYTHING IN PIECE GOODS-lf you have not already made up those Easter Gowns,
there is sUll time, provided you hurry. " v, ,
Come to our store and see all that is good
and beautiful in these lines
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ISLAM) CITY ITEMS. , ,;
Ed Klddlo returned from PortlauJ
Sunday morning.
Ernest Johnson is seriously 111 with
pneamonla.
"Uncle" Alex Ferguson is very sick
t his home cast of tow n.
We wcro shocked last Friday - to
It-am of the death of Miss Katie Castle.
She was a pupil In the Island' City high
school, and a member of class No. $
In Sunday achool. The floral offer
ings from the high school and Sunday
school were fragrant with the love of
teachera and pupils. . It can be Mid
of Miss Katie 'That none knew her
tut to love her. None named her but
to praise."
Saturday little Kenneth, Smith suc
cumbed to the dread disease pneumo
ata, after having been alcK almost
had hoped aguinst hope that ho
might lie spared. Ho was taken seri
ously 111 from the very first. We can
only gay, God's will, not ours, bo done.
The floral gjfts were many nnd
beautiful.', .
Tho sympathy of the entire com
munity goes out to these bereaved
families. . . ;
Samuel Btorey Is eon r I nod to his
homo with la grippe.
Miss Elsie Couch la out of school,
suffering with a severe cold.
Miss Carrie Hunter returned this
morning from her trip to Portland and
Seattle.
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Dr. A. L Richardson Is grading and
Every councilman was In his seat
last evennlg when the mayor droppe
his gavel and from the volume o
business transacted everyone had hi
working clothes on.
The mayor and recorder were In
three week. The family and friends 100 feet
both sides of his home and other ad
Joining property, consisting of possibly
I TRY SHEPHERD
All tills carryin? appropriations originate in the
House. TfeeVe are no conflicting interests to prevent a
Multnomah man from giving a Square Deal to any part
of Eastern Oregon.
preparing for cement walk around "lruclea 10 nwr ,mo tw0 aeparate con-
tracts witn the Grande Ronde Elec
tric company, one for to furnish 4C
lights for a term of five years, an in
crease of seven lights over present
conditions, at the rate of $6.60 pet
month and when 50 or more are re
quired the price will be It.
The pumping contract was made on
the basis of $3000 per annum for
eight hours' service, and if additional
hours are required at the same ratio.
The growth of the city Is recorded
In tho growth of the demand for wa
ter main extension. Petitions were In
last night asking for mains, sl
blocks on Parson street; 150 feet or
O and Fifth, and on Trowbridge fronp
North Fir to Wagner.
Petitions were also presented to havi
a cement walk ordered on a portlor
of Third, by F. L. Harris, et al.
IX C. Stevens petitioned to have Ma-
FOR CONGRESS
pie opened from Adams to Jefferson.
The grade on Second, between Jef
ferson and Division, was petitioned to
be changed.
Charles Tall and others asked to
have a light placed on Madison avenue.
Bids will be adver.tsed offering for
sale or leasing, the pest house proper
ty. The city will reserving five acres
from the 40-acre tract.
There -were a number of bids for
street sprinkling. O. E. Fowler of-
ierca to. ao- me work lor ISS per
month and furnish flie sprinkler. W
B. Uraham and W. H. Reynolds both
bid $4 per day, the city to furnish the
sprinkler. All bids were referred to
committee.
A resolution was offered to have the
paint removed from the windows of
billiard halls. The city attorney stated
that such an order must be made by
ordinance and be was instructed to
have one prepared at the next meet
ing. . ':
An ordinance was Introduced and
passed to the second reading, chang
ing the names of certain streets to
make them conform to the requests of
the postofflce department If carried
this will result In all streets running
north and south will ' be known as
streets and all running east and west
as avenues. Unless changed the streets
will be named In the ordinance as fol
lows;
P street will be known as Pennayl
vanla avenue; Tyler avenue to Palmer
avenue; Pine street to Hemlock;
street in Coggan's( tnd addition, to
East N avenue; O street in Coggan's
2nd addition, to East O avenue; Island
ivenue to Cove avenue; F street In
Williamson's addition, to Pennsylva
nia; E st'rcet, in Williamson's addition
to Q avenue; D street, In same addition
to R avenue; C street, In same addition
:o S avenue; B street, In same addl
tlon, to T avenue; A street, In sami
addition, and Osborn street In Pred-
nore's addition, to Jackson avenue
Parson street to U avenue; Hill to '
ivenue; Harding and Trowbridge tf
Yv avenue; Linn, Wagner and Rob-
bin to X avenue; Douglas, Spalding
and Roosevelt to T avenue; Baker
Klamath and Sears to Z avenue; Cur
y to Crook avenue; Coos, Grant and
Ronton to Lane avenue;. Jackson am;
McDonald to Benton avenue; Mult
nomah to Alder; Wallowa to. Walnut;
Morrow to Walnut; Morrow to Oak;
Marion to Cedar; Valley to . North
Spruce; First, in Williamson's addltloi
to North Maple; Second, In same add!
lon, to North Pine; Third, In samr
iddltlon, to North Cherry; Fourth In
tame addition, to North Balm; North
n Pleasant Home addition, to North
Pine, , . .. . (.
IXFORMATIOX TO THE VOTER,
(Continued from page 1.)
rousing vote.
Especial attention is called to the In
formation at the head of this column
There are two changes In the vottnr
ilaces, namely: the Third ward ant
he Fifth ward. Notice them.
TWENTY YEARS IX HARNESS. .
'"ctcriin In Insurance 15 ashless and I
Sllll In Active Service.
H. P. Lewis, the veteran life insui
nee man of Union county, is in re
elpt of a handsome medal from thi
Jew Tork Life Insruance company
hlch was presented to him ' by thi
' ompany In commemoration of 3
ears' continuous service. The meda
' a handsome gold affair, and is onl.
Iven to those who have stood the tes
t time In the company's work. Twent.
ears' service for one company and h
me district is certainly a splendid rec
ommendation. Mr.' Lewis during al
these years has made La Grande hi.
headqaurter and has written hundred)
f policies. He has seen many poli
cies coma to. maturity and scores 01
death olssea paid. Many widows and
orphans can testify to his care and
painstaking efforts In their behalf, and
it is his' privilege to say that In not a
single Instance has the New York Life
company failed to keep the pledgee
made In the policies he has written.
The Observer la pleased to say that
though Mr. Lewis has been In the har
ness for nearly a quarter of a century
he Is still writing insurance and has
lost nothing of his old-time activity In
the work, and still continues along the
old linos of fulfilled promises and care
ful mathematics.
East or Arrivals.
The Fair store has just received by
oxpresa a shipment of ladles' suits,
these suits are especially attractive
for Easter wear and the ladles should
-all at the Fair store and see them.
Thoy are now ready for Inspection.
Fine linen
paper by the pound ai
Confidence
when eato, that TA.
highest wholesomeness-tha tit
nothing in it that ,can taear
. distress you -makes the repast
doubly comfortable and satisfactory.
This supreme confidence jou
have when the food is raised with
The only baking powder made
with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
There can be no comforting confi
dence when eating alum baking pow
der feed Chemists say that more or
less of the alum powder in unchangeo
alum or alum salts remains in thefood.
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Pay day in La Grande had several
new ovations this morning. The usu
ally quiet event was marked today by
the presence of nearly every depart
ment head of the O. R. & N. company,
nd all the principal officials of the
company. Another feature of the most
'mportant day of the month to railroad
employes was the new system adopted
n Issuing pay checks. Through vari
ous motives, the checks were not mall-
id out from the company's offices nt
Portland, but were taken In charge by
Paymaster Brown who, accompanied
oy a large list of officials who are out
n an Inspection tour, and who per
sonally pays out the checks today.
Those He re.
A speclul train composed of three
private cars, 01, 02 and 03. the Drivato
ars respectively of General Manager
I. P. O'Brien, Goneral Superintendent
M. J. Buckley and Superintendent W.
9. Campbell, reached the cltv at
thortly after 10 o'clock and remained
iero until after the noon hnnr in t
hese three cars were practically all '
he department heads of the company.
liocal lunployos A.sw-niblcd.
By reason of previous announce-
nent, nearly every railroad employe'
f the city was at the ticket agent's'
window at the appointed time and the
payment of checks went on rapidly.
ft Is not believed that this system will 1
oe adopted permanently. ,
The special with Its load of O. n .
Cleveland, O., April 16. AcfJve
work of forming a labor party In Ohio
began today with a committee of seven
who will start the work. At a meet
ing of the labor council last night the
movement was authorised. The mem
bers will begin the campaign for elec
tion of state and county candidates. If
proper assistance comes from Chicago,
.New York nnd San . Francisco, the
movement will be made national.
TIITIEE MORE CARS. :
Oldenburg 1 Ramsey Have Shipped 36
Cat of Potntom,
With only three more cars of pota
toes to be shipped, Oldenburg & Ram
sey, local representatives for Page &
Son of Portland, have about closed the
season's shipment Thirty-five car
loads have been shipped from Union
county and when the remnants are
sent out the total will be 38. These
shipments netted the growers not 'W
th;in 60 cents per hundred and
oral average is nearer 60 cents. This
Is positive proof of tho proportions of
(the potato Industry In the Grande
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numie v auey, as other shippers of the
city will t,rin? the grand total of ship
ments colse lo 100 cars. "
Pur'hntcd ItlocJi Proprrtv.
I Today the papers were signed which
i consummated the sale of the M. 8.
(Eloch prope-.ty on Adams avenge to
A. B. ConUy. Mr. Conlev winlr,."
w. oiuciais went on to Huntington thl P''sslon about the middle of
arternoon.
Kemp Is Coming.
The same Kemp who gave us "apvn
Oaks" last year and delighted his audi
ence, appears In the delightful roman-
orama "if 1 Were King." Fndav
evening. April 17. In Central nh...w
Christ. Seats 50 cents: rhiM.
half price, at Selder's.
Mrs. Bloch will then go to Portland to
visit her sons and daughter, Miss Stella
who are now there. '
Holler Takes Tvo Straights. .'
Portland. Ore., April 16.-Dr. B. F
Roller defeated Victor McLaglen In
two falls last night which took up lit
tle less than 10 minutes wrestling.
ua never a contender.-
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