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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1909)
?TEJTIXfl 0 BSERYElt, tA GRAXDE, 0BEG03 oo o a aQooo pupbp 5 Gifs selected now will be well bought. More Satisfactory Diamonds pbgupup ex Solitaire Diamoed Rit $22.5 to $40.0.00 from i 11 gs W atches P n FIVE HUNDRED SOLID GOLD ANT GOLD FILLED WATCHES WIT HELGIN, WALTHAM, IIAMJLTO $12.50 tO ILLINOIS, SOUTH BEND AND ROCKFORD MOVEEME' . .... .... .... .. ........ $175.00 .... Libbey's, the world's best cut glass. Stoufer and White's hand J . .;. Jewelry, solid gold and gold fil led of every description. .' The finest line of detachable umbrellas in Eastern Oregon from . ...... .. .. $5.00 to $25.00 We invite every person in Union county to visit our store and look o our stock, as we know that we can save you money on your Christmas goods. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN OUR PROMPT ATTENTION. ANY ARTICLE IN OUR STORE LAID AWAY BY PA YING A SMALL DEPOalT. The best engraving in Eastern Oregon. 3 LETTERS FREE. IF YOU SEE SEIGRIST & CO.'S NAME ON THEBOX YOU KNOW THAT IT IS GOOD. The Largest J iVw'elery Store in Easier n Oregon La Grande, Oregon. -7 - - n LA GRANDE EVENING QBSERVFR Published Daily Except Sunday. . GEOEUE 1L CUBBEY. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. United Press Telegraph Service. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daiu; single copy 6c Dally, per month 65o Dally, six months In advance . ..$3.50 Dally, ono year In advance $6.Ea Weekly, six months In advance . . 75c Weekly, one year In advance ....$1.00 Entered at the postofflce at La Grande as second-class matter. other one of those La Salle theatre successes which has a six months stay In Chicago to its credit Billy Clifford who is a clever and moat popular com median, together with sixty pretty pretty girls as helpers, and a cast of principals all noted for musical com edy work, have been selected for this the premier production. "A Girl at the Helm," will be offer ed, Monday, December 27. I'nia paper win not publish any j article appearing over a nom de luiae. Signed articles will be re vised subject to the discretion of the editor. Please sign your articles and save disappointment I Advertising Bates. ! Local reading notices lOo or line Irat insertion; 6c per line foi each tabsequent insertion. I Resolution of condolonce, 6c a line. Poor old Oregon, according to agi tation in possibly more of a humorous vlen than serious, Is about to be torn to pieces. Eastern Oregon i.nd a por tion of Eastern Washington with a portion of Idaho, is to be formed into one state, and Southern Oregon and Northern California into another. Treka is to be one capital and Spo kane the other. We may expect a mun ber of such space fillers until congress declares war in Nicaragua or upon the insurgents withl nits own body. This Uuneness In Congress is almost driv ing the newspaper men to madness. Kven B. Tillmun lias not yielded his pitchfork. KetchelIJohnson Prizefight. A fight beteen an Anglo-Saxon and an African negro will always draw a crowd, and California is going wild over any kind of a fight now, con sequently the Keteheli-Johnson fight at Coffroth's Arena just outside San Francisco, was one of the best attend ed fights ever pulled off. This fight had especiall interest as Ketchell Is only a middleweight nml Johnson, the burly negro, a heavy weight. Despite the difference in their weights, Ketchell gave the champion the fight of his life knocking him down In the twelfth round. The entire fight is given, showing the nervy white man, fighting against the odds of weight, putting up a fight that Is said to have been the finest exhibition of boxing ever seen. lie sure and see the negro that Jin Jeffries is going to lick on the Fourth of July. Farewell Week at the National Stock. The popular National Stock Com pany will close the most successful Btock engagement in La Grande theat rical annals on Next Sunday night, when the Pastime will be taken over by a motion picture company, and, needless to say everyone in La Grande is Borry to see these people leave. Tonight the bill will be James J. Corbett's famous piece 'Facing the Music," an excrutlatingly funny com edy, In which the ex-prizefighter made such a hit. New specialties will be in- Christmaa boles for tale, Ferguson'B. I Plum I - : Pudding I PAST. MS: TH ATRE p p p p p p KETCHELL. JOHNSON PRIZE FIGHT 1 p. ra. to 10 p. m. Tuos. Bruce Manager. TONIGHT NATIONAL STOCK CO. IN MONDAY FACING THE MUSIC." TUESDAY. P p f iWILLCOCK BROTHERS Quick Transfer ' The next few days will be especial ly trying ones for the sterner sex. I'p to this time they have not given any great attention to the matter of se lecting Christmas presents but. the time has arrived when they must get into the game, consequently if the head of the family conies homo looking wor rled, it does not necessarily mean that his business has gone to rack, be is simi ly trying to find out what the family would appreciate. ? Walla Walla Is today In the midst of one of the most exciting municipal campaigns in her history. The question ta wet or dry. While the dry's have put tarth a great campaign, everything considered, If they win It will be one of the greatest tempranc victories In the northwest. "Faust Tonight" "Faust" is the play offered by Miss Delia Prlngle at the Steward (H. ra House tonight. Miss Prlngle will ap pear as "Marguerite,' a part that she ia exceedingly strong In. C. K. Van Anker as "Mephiato" is probably as good as many of the so-called "great" Mophlstos. The play will be correctly staged which goes a long way toward making "Faust" n success. The cos taming is absolutely correct, and the pcenlc effects are built expressly for Jliss Prtngle. This wonderful play will live for ever and "like the sun" It is none lie leas beautiful for its tif.v TVJ.cts are ee'.llng rnpldly which fail Insures an B. R. O,, 'rouse, , . Phonea: " Da, Red 71. ' $ Night. Black 1S71. P P dpecUl 9cnerj M?2k c.'aaa vaudeville ?s:lal- i P P ties. All Seat 25c. P PP PPP-PPPPP P-P A Good Buy Eight Room Modern House New-Close in-- S Partly Furnished I Price $4,000.00 The Best Plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Liniment and bound on to the affected parts Is super' or tv any plaster. When troublod wi'.b n lame bucli or pains la thes bide or chest, give it a trial and you are cert ain to be more than pleased wi:n the prompt relief which it affords. Ttiis liniment aio relieves rhuemVh pain and Is certain to relieve anyjne tuf his filed nofioo of Intention to make ferlng with that disease. Sold all good dealer. jTfte Franco-Amer- t kan Plum Pud'l ding I Raisins ty Currants I Cider . j Oranges Sweet Cider for Mince Meat t H einz Mince Afeaf and "Hone I I Such" Mince l Meat in Packages I l Olives in the I bulk, Pop Corn, I etc, at the Burglary, Theft and Larceny Insurance OCB POLICY COYEBS All onU roeda and personal aff3ts belonging ot anj member of CM finsTy m CMC aiatwl Uu hj barglarj, theft r larceny, in elisUag tkefts ky scrraita r etker employees. ALSO COYEBS DA SAVE Ta pre party, planking and other fixtures. AUowa tlx montba vacan cy wtUeit tie. Ho co-Iusaranee. No Inventory of the property is eetssary. BATES FOB A YEAR. Private Residences ana Apartment Honses. $1,000, $12.60; $2,000, $22.50; $3,000, $30.00; $4,000, $36.00; $5,000, $40. Each Additional $1,000 $5.00 Stables. Each $1,000 .. .. .. .. .. . ....'..$15.00 Vacant keasea (plumbing fixtures and damage to bonaea each $1,000 310.00 L0GAN-SHERW00B REALTY CO I CITY I GROCERY 8 ,.$$!'$$$S$$S Christmas boxes for sale. Ferguson's. Terms "The Girl nt l!e .Helni." We have had,-"Th Tiro, Jhe-Vive pnd th Chi," " A.V'nluht for a Day," "The 01rl Oostlon." "Cindi-rilla." etc., rnd now i'ot;tt; h-& lates nuivlt al mm xdy classic "A Clrl r.t the UAiu," an- J r,.ic, ni'H'K,' I PKONESj $ " . . liiilciii :,.iiTi The ! . Sum Total of Human Happiness Is attained by the man who aelects a puce which la approved by hla ii'D an' adaptable for his entlro f ftmHjr. to live amidat auch condl tlons Rpprx!:nates about the keen eat Joy imaginable. "Where are -!! n '.N-niUHnnit to t fourl In tho rapidly growing NortbfttT 111 ro :. J ti CV J tt'LAC'C He hs large amount of property Hated to tsxft. ynn, Kay Tirana. Timber Lands, with or --v.t .?.r.'.iiiiKinRt. rr( , ikL Let aa akiwt' C L BU.CW, 7ie rfeaf Estate an ' 4' i i -J -i j- it A Merry Ghr AND A Happy New TO ALL istmas Year While extending tlio fioirmliTTtnTfa 1 i. -e j. . ,lJ x r "" v uiu uoku ui irienas, we announce also our readiness ror tne noiiaay trade. We have the best things to wear for men and young uwu mat me country produces. - .WSf ,.,B- . .( i tit" 'y ' ' Our prices are the lowet that it be made and no pains will be spared to render each ! irnfi r, n'aa&T ! Daily ASH BROTHERS THE HOLSH OF GOOD CLOTH fcS v.?Dscrvcr, 65c per Mmih a D D p D si f