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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1908)
PAGE EIGHT. EVEMXO OBSERVER, IA GRANDE OREGOX, MOXDAY, ACGtST 10, 108. EIGHT I AGES. list SMsMom IN PRICE-MAKING AT THE PEOFLES STORE lug FATHER EADES COfJETO mm :: nc zumiiLK uuuub remaining here have served their .: purpose and served it well. They now must bid us fare- :. well, and do it in a hurry. This is the time of year that we H : make room for new fall goods by making prices that will make the goods go, regardless of desirability or cost. U : READ THESE PRICES, EVERY QUE OFTflEk ' Oxford Shoes. $1. 60 White Ganvas Oxfords now 75c $2.25 " " 51.15 3.60 Tan " 2.39 Ladies' and Children's Sun Hat 50c to $ 1 .00 Values now - -- All Men's Straw and Crash Hats Half Price. Lfies 85c Uh $1.2" 1 FM 1 Long Gloves g Lisle Gloves now 59c 89c 98c 98c 118 All Sizes in Our Summer Clove Stock. a a a t :: DEMISE OCCCUS AT SPOKANE AT EARLY HOUR TODAY. LadiesSilkand Wain Suits Half Price and Less jj m. HNnMHMHHHBaaBflBaBHBMBBBaBMBBawa k $19.00 Silk Shirt waist Suits 20.00 " " 22.60 " Jacket 35.00 " $9.25 9.98 11.76 17.50 $3.00 Wash Suits - - ' $1.25 3.50 " " - - - ,"" .45 4.00 " ' - - :V .98 4.75 " " . '- 2.25 5.00 " " - 2.45 :: Come Early as These Goods Cannot Remain Long at These Prices :: We People9 s QPLRA HOUSE BLOCK, ore LA GRANDE, OREGON iilllMiltittiiittiiiiiitittiiiiiiiiiittiiitmtitiitiiiiiiiiii...:: f ;;;; .4. 4ff - t THE OREGON FIRE RELIEF ASSOCIATION A HOME COMPANY 34,000 MEMBERS $28,000,000.00 INSURANCE IN FORCE A. Mutual Company can Save Ycu from 40 to 50 per cent on Your Insurance J. YV. OLIVER, AGENT, La GrandcOr. Cor. 6th St and Washington Ave ROCGH HOUSE AT mXGARbT Two Men to B Arrested for Fighting at HI Igor Thla Afternoon. In an unroped arena at Hilgard thla afternoon R. C. Mund, well known in La Grande, and a Hilgard resident known as Peterson, fought a terrific ftatlo duel. For more than half an hour the men continued to pound nie another. Constable Faulk went to the scene with warrants for the arrest of both. , COMBS, NEW, THE FINES! ' EVER WASH COLLARS WHITE TIES MIDSUMMER MILUVERY ADAMS AVK.ME i. MF.RRY-C.O-ROIND STALLED. riUsina Object to Amumnrnt Mu liln lb-lug Eiwtrd on tlio Street, A merry-go-round owner brought his machine to the city this morning but ran up against considerable re monstrance when he attempted to erect the machine on Fifth street. M. H. Kirtliy registered a complaint to this idea, and he moved farther do vn toward Spring street. Here other res idents, Messrs. K. C. Moore and Di"0 Fitzgerald, came to the front with c'j jectlons. The 'owner of the imn.i'i ment machinery was lust seen search ln for an attorney. Just where he will locate la not known at press time IV our Opportunity After a Sltort But Severe Illnem, On of the Floneer Paatora of the Meth odist Church in Oregon Iase Away at Sjokanei Itemalns to Be Sent Here for Interment twenty-five Years Old Before He Could Read Waa Well Known Here. A. Rev. Eados, a well known character In this city, where he owns property, but who recently was taken to Spo kane to be placed In a home for in firm, died this morning- after a short but fatal Illness. Information reached here yesterday that no hopes were entertained that he would survive the day. but night came on and his tenacious life i fused to leave him. Even through the night he was a patient sufferer, death coming to relieve his pain, finally. The Observer is unable to announce funeral arrangements, except that the remains will be brought to La Grande tomorrow morning in all likelihood, and the funeral arrangements will be made at that tima. . Rev. Eades was one of the pioneer characters of the northwest. - He was born in Cole county, Missouri, Nov. 8, 182. . His family moved from there to Platte county, when Abraham was about 4Vi years old. and later, in 1844, corssed the plains to Oregon.' When they reached the present sfta of La Grande, they made camp for two nights where the Slater residence In South La Grande, now Is, and passed on over the Blue mountains and the Cascades to Willamette valley, settling In what Is now Yamhill county. He remained at home until he was nearly S years of age, when all at once, he became Impressed with the necessity of1 obtaining an education. Prior to this time ha could only read In a very limited way. He had accumulated some stock and these he disposed 'of and entered school, and did not stop untl latter he had graduated from the Willamette university. After leav ing school he moved to Grant county nd taught school for quite a while. He waa the last principal of the Blue Mountain university, and, for the past 16 year or more called La Grande his home, and still had a home In South La Grande. His wife passed away a few years ago, and about three ! years ago, while handling wild horses he was kicked and suffered a fracture of both legs, from -which he never fully recovered. former Pioneer Flouring Hill company will be able to do nearly as large a business by running night and day as It could with the old mill. Among the stockholders In the new company ara Messrs. Kiddle, Bldwell and ofher3. Dut-h Ships Burn; Many Die. . London, Aug. 10. According to a dispatch a large number of passengers were drowned when the Dutch ship Amstelland caught fire off the coast of South Africa on August 6. The ex act number of dead is unknown. The way to find time to do every thing la never to let time find you do ing nothing. Bryan's Tariff Fprwn Rcady., .Lincoln, Aug. SO.-Bryan.lay ' completed the draft of his spJ be. made at Des Moines on fho (( question, and then began the prepara'1 tion of his speech to be made at the notification of Kern, fo rthe vlce-pres- Idcncy. '. r V ' i-flur Pommandor Takes Cliargta. San Franclfco, Aug. 10. CoJ. Marl on P. Maus today took comaiand of the department of California, U. 8. A., succeeding Genera) Funston, who was transferred to Fort Leavenworth, as commander of the department of the gulf. ' ' ! BAY & ZWEIFEL : Plumbers and Tinners j ! Pump Work and Gutter Work a Specialty : We are prepared to furnish and deliver material promptly. Call un Retail Dpnarrmpnt Phnno Main a r - . .....v . ..wliv it.ui.i V. SB ii pioneer riAvitiNa mux MKN BUY ANOTHER PLANT. itr 1onllirntln) of $25,001) Ixliiml fit y ')ttiUIts Buy the Idle Mill at 1 mbler ll Mi-nnn Much to I'nlon County ( as It Can Now Be tntd Hint Flour Output Will About Equal Other Yearn. i i It is bad enough to buy Drugs at all, but why pay more for them than is nec essary. A visit to our store will con vince you that our prices are really lower than you have been payinq. All our ptices are marked in plain figures. Red Cross, Drug Store t A. C MAC LENNAN Pnpr. LA GRANDE, ORE. One of the largest deals In personal pnrperty, and ono which hns a great bearing on the Industries of the Grande llonde valley, enpeclrtlly the flour phase of It, wns ronsummnted late Saturday evening at Imbler, when a corporation of financiers living at Is land City, purchased the Imbler flour Ing mill owned by L. J. McKennnn and Jess Henneman. Tha deal called for a transfor of 125,000. Idle for Ixmg. The Flouring mill at Imbler has been Idle for the past year and a half, but In a very short time now. It la to be run 14 hours of tha day, the cor poration known aa the Imbler Flour ing Mill company having doclded to operate the plant Immediately, and keep It running until tha close of the season. The deal was occasioned by tha low of the Pioneer Flouring mill at Island City recently. Had the financiers of that mill not been able to buy tills plant, their fall work would ' have been at a complete standstill. By reason of the transfer mentioned, tha Let us furnish you with an estimate fn-ir unrk. No order too large or small for ou- best attention. Lei us reline that old stove. At a slight ex pense we can make it as food as new. BAY & ZWEIFEL 211 DEPOT STREET s - 911 nFDrtT CTSFPT e e ! THE GEORGE PALMER LUMBER COMPANY RETAIL DEPARTMENT WeSolicitlYour'lOrders far Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Mouldings! Chain vyood a. JF 1RTIICIAL m THE ONLY PURE KIND The only kind of that w. ban die in retail 'traas Is artificial made from purs artesian water-th. only pur. les m Us city. A delivery wagon will bring thu PURE ICE to your door on notification by telephon. or otherwise. To regular patron, our price, are one-half cwnt per pound. NATURAL ICE handled In wholesale lot.. Look out for th. Gr.ndv lea wagon. 'Ilione Black 671. GRAM THE ICE Hi GRANDE R0NDE ! MEAT COMPANY f P0E l)S YOUR ORDERS :TW0 PHONES: City Meat Market Main 50 Fir Street Market Main 48 Our large trade permits u3 to handle only th best of eyerything to be founding first class market '