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THE GEORGE PALMER
RETAIL DEPARTMENT
Wc Solicit Your Orders for
SHINGLES
RUBBEROID ROOFING
DEADENiNG FELT
BUILDING PAPER
We are prepared to furalsnand deliver material promptly. Phone
MatnS.
WANTED?
To Buy Some Good Second Hand
Cook Stoves.
I have a number of splended bar
gains in second hand heating stoves.
Many other lines in which you will
findspecial prices.
SUYDRM
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YOUNG
MEN
Wear correct clothes live
clothes, Mr. Young Man. '
It's right that you should do
so. Get the best!
Good clothes are always a
ladder to success.
Call to mind your successful
friends and you'll find that they
are good dressers.
We always cater to the
Toung Men's trade and spare
no pains to have
"JUST BIGHT CLOTHES"
We've new suit models for fall,
1 made from swell patterns and
colorings of woolens specially
adapted for Young Men's wear.
Every smart style kink in the
cut and in the tailoring is
worked out to the limit of
good taste.
OOOD CLOTHES
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A PB0FESSI0NA1 DIRECTORY.
ELECTBICAL ENGINEERS.
I A PICKLER.
Civil, Mining, irrigation Engineering
ad j trveying.
Estimates, pian and specifications.
Office in V aeakamp Building.
La Grande, Oregon.
TIAYI.
MRS. GRACE McALISTEIl.
Teacher and Manager.
Telephone Farmers 1976.
PHYSICIANS.
DR. G. W. ZIMMERMAN.
Osteopathic Physician.
Office Sommer Bldg.
Office 'phone. Main 63; Residence
phone Black. 951.
Successor to Dr. Moore.
J. H. HUBBARD. M. D.
Physician and Surgeon. !
Office in New Bank Building Rooms
20-21. 'Phones: Residence, Main
89: Office, Main 79.
DR. A. L. RILARDSOnT"
Physician and Surgeon.
I Office over Hill's Drug Store.
Office Phone 1362. Residence Main 65.
N. MOLITOR, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Corner Adams ave and Depot et
Office Main 68. Residence Main 69
BACON & HALL.
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office In La Grande National Bank
Building. 'Phone Main 19.
S. T. Bacon, Residence, Main 18. .
M. K. Hall, Residence, Main 52.
C. H. UPTON, PH. Q. M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Special attention given to Eye, Ear
Nose and Throat.
Office In La Grande National Bank
Building.
Phones: Office, Main 2; Residence,
Main 32.
VETERINARY 8UBGE0NS.
DR. P. A. CHARLTON.
Veterinary Surgeon.
Office at Hill's Drug Store, La Grande.
Residence Phone Red 701.
Office Phone Black 13 1.
Independent Phone 63.
Both phones at residence. '
TJR. W. H. RILEY.
Graduate Ohio State University.
Vaccination, Dentistry and Surgery
of all kinds. Country calls promptly
answered.
Office, 14 Adams avenue.
Phones: Pacific, Black 1901.
Independent. 373.
DENTISTS.
J. C. PRICE, D. M. D.
Dentist
Room 23, La Grande National Bank
Building. Phone Black 1991.
TEACHERS OF MUSIC.
Rarest Of Rare Age Attainments Discovered
Within L,a Grande's ; Borders
JOHN PREDMORE'S AUTHENTIC AGE IS OVER 114
- latuLaotu v.i his JntJlUKV. HALE AND HEARTY AT 111 TF1P nv iim
imllt C0STOTED -AS Til E HAPPIEST-H1S B1ETU S "0"
Mr8 Calvin C. ThomaBon, Staff Correspondent.) -
PREDMORE FOR SAT. DAILY
La Grande may Justly number
among her citizens the oldest man In
the state, John Predmore, on whom
the light of three centuries has fallen.
This interesting old man is often seen
on the streets of the city, or sitting
about in the grocery stores hotly
Biders unjust During his forty-seven
years' residence here he has been en
gaged In many law suits, only this
week telling visitors that be had
walked a mile out to the Proebstel
bridge to get a horse to ride to Oro
Dell to see what could be done about
the ditch crossing his land.
Although he, himself, does not
know his age,' a record received in
reply to a letter of inquiry sent by
a La Grande citizen to London states
that he was born in 1795. At a time
when all the countries of Europe and
America were in a state of upheaval
because of the ideas of political
equality that were threatening the
foundations of the strongest despotic
governments, he was brought- to Can
ada, when yet a small child. His
father was an Englishman, and his
mother, nee Marie De Rosa, a French
woman. In the French settlement
ERLA CA BLOCK.
Teacher of Piano.
Pupil of Pierre Douilet of the San
Jose Conservatory.
For children the Burrows course of
music study and musical kindergar
ten.. Studio In the Mahaffey Bldg.
ARCHITECTS.
C. R. THORNTON.
. Architect and Engineer.
Surveying, Civil and Structural En
gineering. Twenty Years Experience.
ROBERT MILLER.
Architect.
Office 1107 Adame avenue. 'Phonei
Pacific, Main 1. Home Independent
. No. 8.
ATTORNEYS.
C. H. CRAWFORD.
Attorney at Law.
Practices la all the courts of the 8tat
and United States.
Office In La Grande National Bank
Building, La Grande, Oregon.
Chaa. E. Cochran Geo T. Cochin
COCHRAN & COCHRAN.
Attorneys.
La Grande National Bank Building.
La Grande Oregoa
H. H. LIOYD.
Attorney at Law.
Practices in all the Courts of the Ut
wad United States.
Elgin Oregos
. wiiXiamm. ramsey
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Rooms 15 and 16 Sommer Block. ,
La Grande, . Oregon.
Fine Tailored Snlts.
You should see our fine tailored
suits silk and net waists, fine line of
silk elastic belts. We carry the larg
est line of pillow tops In town. Ele
gant line children's, misses and ladles
coats Jo arrive in a few days.
Call and see our fall lines.
(S-30-8t) VAN DUYN CO.
- Milk Goes Up.
Beglnnin? Friday, October 1st, the
Blue Mountain Creamery will sell as
follows: 15 quart tickets, fl.00. One
quart of milk, 10c. Two quarts of milk
15c. It will pay you to buy tickets.
The creamery will close at 5:30 p. m.
beginning Oct. 1. (S30-0O
MESSENGER SERVICE.
A We deliver and pick up par- A
4 eels. Quick service; 'phone
Main 2C
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where the Predmore home was made
in Canada, the language of the moth
er was in common use, and the Pred
more family rarely used the English.
Mr. Predmore says, however, that he
always liked the English language,
and when a boy he waa wont to make
his way to a neighboring family
wuere mi lather's tongue was in
vogue. He has never succeeded in
speaking the English without a strong
French accent ' '
After the migration of the Pred
more family to Canada, the father
was at first Hght-houBe keeper on
an island at the mouth of the fit
Lawrence. Soon afterwards the faraT
ily moved to RimouskI, where the
survivors of the name now live, ai
Mr. Predmore supposes. Five chil
dren were born to John and Marie
Predmore, two sous, and three daugh
ters. It is the intention of Mr. Pred
more to visit his old home next year,
after an absence of fifty-four years.
"I find all changed," he said, "but I
think I go."
The incidents of his boyhood in
New Brunswick Beem to be dimly out
lined in the mind of the man who has
reached his one hundred and four
teenth yeur. A question from a vial
tor, however, suggests to him some
loilK forcottfn lnrlriont whlrh ha will
relate in a vole; that almost pipes
in its French. Inflection.' For Instance,
it was asked if he recalled anything
regarding the Napoleonic wars, Wa
terloo or Austerlitz. "Napoleon," he
queried. "My vator used to read to
de children about Napoleon. He war
with England." "Did he read from
a book or from a newspaper," was
asked. "He read de paper. Every
eight days he get de paper from Lon
don." Mr. Predmore tells of assisting in
the construction of the first depot in
Quebec, and shortly after going to
New York. From New York he took
ship for California, crosBing the
Ishnws of Panama In 1855. I!o flnent
a few years In California, and the::
came north to Vancouver, Washing
ton, there selecting the Bpot on which
the Catholic church constructed the
convent. He is a member of the Ca
tholic faith. It was In 1862 that Mr.
Predmore came to the CSrande Ronde
valley. Since that time he has re
sided here continuously with a few
short absences. Last year he was In
Portland, but his Journeys from home
are very rare.
He was formerly the owner of a
hundred acres of land on the north
wide of the track, and he still owns
there a number of little unpalnted
houses that he rents.- He also Is own
er of property In Oro Dell. Through
the Scrlber bank failure, he lost $5,
000. The houpe in which he lives
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SUGARFACTORY
NOTICE
IH.B l--.'. I.''' "
THE SUGAR MILL WILL BEGIN
OPERATION ABOUT OCTOBEB 4th,
ALL OLD EMPLOYES AS WELL AS
ANY NEW ONES SHOULD HAKE
APPLICATION BEFOBE SATUR
DAY, OCTOBEB 2nd, TO THE UN.
DEBSIGNED AT THE SUGAB NIL.
A. THOMAS.'
" ACCOrST.H OF THE 5AP0L.
was erected In the year that the rail- -
road reachedjA Grande, 1882. Here
he has lived for the past twenty'4er- '
en years, alone for the greater part
of the time, for he has never been
married. A few years ago a nephew .
of the old pioneer came to live with '
him. This mas aiw ti
time here. .
He received the Observer repre
entatlves- at his door with warm
hand . shakes, and open cordiality.
With haste .he pushed aside a bed
from before a door leading into an
adjoining room from which he
brought out a rocking chair for the
lady of the party.
He seated himself on the bed where
the fast , approaching twilight tell
upon his strangely wrinkled face, and
showed ' to advantage his small
form, clad in worn trousers, striped
shirt, and iqok apron, for he had Just
finished his evening meal. He said
that he was in good health, ate well,
and Blept well.. Sometimes he ate
four meals a day, he said. He spoke
of his excellent lung power, and it
can well be seen that he has wonder
ful chest capacity. "Once I .weigh
167 pounds, but I weigh . about a
hundred now," he said with a laugh.
He volunteered to show the party
over his house, part of which he at
times rents. ' His own rooms contain
a number of carpenter's tools, such
as saws, squares, etc., hanging about
on the wall.. On his small table he
pointed to a bowl of plum butter
which he made last year. In his
store room he has a large can of.
paint which he expects to use on his
houses soon.
Mr. Linus Rosa a La Grande pion
eer, seventy-flve year of age tell of
his first meeting with John Predmore,
some twenty-five years ago. Mr.
Ross was driving from Meacham
when he saw a little man coming on
foot toward him. The sturdy pedes
trian had for a staff a fir limb from
the top of which the foliage was un
trlmmed. When opposite Mr. Ross
the little man Btopped. Mr. Ross did
likewise. "What's your name?" ask
ed the foot traveler of the driver.
Upon receiving the .!slred knowledge
the little man waii-cd on without
further conversation.
Story after story of the long, re
markable career of Mr. Predmore
may be learned from the old settlers
here, it is rarely in the course of a
lifetime that one has the opportunity
of talking with a man who has lived
In the time of the French Revolution,
the Napoleonic wars, the second war
with Great Britain, the Mexican war.
the Clcll war, the Spanish American '
war, and who Is likely to witness still
many other history-making events of
the world. " .