La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, December 01, 1910, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER.!, 1910. D E LEG AT ES u iioflD mm o T! WEBSTER URGES LARGE ATTESD. 1 . A5CE AT COXYEJiMON. ; . . . . . . Jletting t Form Prospective Leglsla tlons ' to be Held December. 12. - Wllffl i Yd . i I kite land of my own te offer. I sell strictly on percentage, Both awaer aa layer receive the same fair treatment. I mean that your property Is offered at exactly the price joa place on it We In rite year consideration f the followlnic listing. ; . City Prop erty Poor room house, two lota, food cellar, 1414 Z avenue. Thlg place hat been Hated for aome tfane at $1100. ; A apecial price, if Isold during the .next ten daya, at $950. $600 cash, time on balance. ; -v; ; . Two story house, with barn, lot 55x90, one door north of M. K. church.1 South; $1400, $600 caah bal wce on easy terma. ,r' ' " -;""4;;! 4 : - , . '; J. , svJ- V i Seren room bouse, eiAted west end of Pennsvlvania. 5 ' . wr wwuw iVUUUHUVU) WtJ W tbV4 AM J ; Poui J,r?ce, $1,000. ,Why pay rent? Terma $100 down, balance $15 per month. .. Flna larra hnma In Nnrth I j nmita V1-v. .1nrij v ........ i m ' . ' ' . - ..uvuncuuniiiuun, uaiu ua out sauamgs. me or- nrd; an Ideal home with ample room for garden, poultry, cow and horae. Thla la an exceptional fine offer. Price $4,000.' . ' . ' . : , . , Nice new home, two lotavln West La Grande; price $2,000. v 1 : ' 3c - , A well built house on Main Avenue, facing North; close In; price, $2,600. Oe-half caah, balance on time. '-... - ..,-..... Four room house on Monroe Avenue; nice barn and extra wall hnm nmofy tcrri' TZszz Icli, room nouse wnn cellar, city water. All In good condition. $1400, easy "terma," " " House and two lota in Block 1. Grandys addition, for $1100. Three lots In same block at $900. This Is desirable property.'.;. : '. ; ". v'' ' V a new seven-room house on East Adams avenueroomy basement, plastered, well flnlahed throughout. . $2,600. -M--.. .. . 12 room house, barn, 8 cres of land, 100 fruit trees, barn, spring well and city water. Sightly view; ' ' nice home In South La Grande. . ; , . ' 1 . Large 10-room house with entire block of ground. Here is chance for Investment; five houses can be built on thla property. All close to the high school building. Good barn on piace, price $3600. Five room house, modern plumbing, lot 60x110, near court house, beautiful location, $1800; $800 cash, balance two years. :. ; -.;'v' ... Seven room house onxAdams .avenue; well built plastered, basement, desirable location, $2600. $500 cash, balance on easy terms. r. 'a ' ' Four room house, near big brick school house, north of track, $1100. ' i Plastered house In North La Grande, entire block, $4,000 on easy terms. ; Nice home In North 1 Grande, fruit, barn, accessible to new R. R. shops $1700. Town Lots I have some splendid buys In town lots In all portions of the city. Very good lots for $100. 8ome extra choice locations at $300 to $750. Farm Lands Fine Stock Ranch 2600 hundied acres near. La Grande, 300 acres of meadow landfrom which 400 to 600 tons of ha? can be cut annually. Well watered; reasonable terms. ' - Near 1 Grande Fine foothUl farm four nllea from La Grande, 800 acres, well Improved, $16,000, terff t. v . . Sandridge Farm - 160 .acres well Improved. AH good land,' 70 acreB of summer fallow i seeded, one hau mils, to nine' months' school, less than one mile to depo This Is a snap, $92 per acre. Terms. - - ' Sandridgearm .160 acres near good school and depot adjoining place. Good roads., all th way to La Grande, miles. Fruit Farm 20 acres commercial orchard In Fruitdale, trees 8 years old, well cared for and in splendid condition. $7,600. Ten-acre Fruit l?arni SRuated near school house in Fruitdale, trees 12 years old, crop estimated between 2,000 and 3,000 boxes; $6,500, good terms or will exchange for city property. 80 acres one Quarter mile from the city, modenrhouse, fine eellar with spring'; five acrea of fine or chard, crop goea with place if taken at once. Fine dairy, fruit and poultry farm, $5,000. Here is a Snap V : 320 acre farm, 300 acres summer fallow and seeded to grain, water right six miles east of La Grande, $52 per acre. Investigate this. Look This Up 600 acres of land eight miles east of La Grande, well improved, fine stock, alfalfa and grain ranch. Mt Glenn Farm fJi r.- 80 acres, all good land, 6 acres in orchard, large barn, several springs near school, raral delivery. Tarm produced 40 bushels of wheat to the acre last year. $8,000, very reasonable terms. V 50-acre Fruit Farm Vs Situated near Summervllle, will trade for city property or will sell on very easy terms Fine Farm v 760 acres tight miles from La Grande. Last year this 'land produced, 129 bushels of oats to the acre. Veil Improved, $6? per acre. Terma. , . . - . In Lower Cove . 320 acres, 60 cultlvatable, 400 fine fruit trees, fine spring, $4,000, easy terms. ',. ' Grazing Land 240 acres, well watered In lower Cove, $7 per acre. Mountain Ranch 8plendld fruit land, large meadow, several acres In alfalfa, three miles south of La Grande, $8,000. - V Timber Land 80 acres south of La Grande, $800, one-half cash. GEDM Pu T M R E A L ESTATE :7 ' Lionel B. Webster, chairman of the state executive committee of the Good Roads association, has sent credentials to several La Grande people in an effort to have them attend the. Good Roads convention at Portland, Decem ber -42. His letter to La Grande peo ple saytV'; 'f-'. ''.'."' -; "The principal purpose of this con vention Is to consider Questions of legislation -neceeBary to carry forr ward the Good Roads movement In a practical way. It will be necessary to have some legislation to make the Constitutional . Amendment effective and enable the people of a county to take advantage of the privilege grant ed by the amendment i; -; V "In -addition to that there should be legislation providing for some Iviu atMitt uii. juBt wnat . form of such aid should be adopted will ,! be one or the important matters to be considered. There should also be leg islation providing for the appointment of a State Highway Commission, de fining the duties of such commission, etc., and this . is a matter of much Importance. Then there are the con vict labor bills which are to be gone over and also other matters of road legislation that may be suggested. "On the whole this will be a very Important meeting, and one which will be of great Importance to the state at large. It Is hoped that you may be able to attend, and that you will give the matter such publicity as the Im portance of the Bubject and the cir cumstances seem to suggest." Humor and Philosophy tr nVJiCAt M. SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. JJE is a friend Indeed who assures your wife that you were Just call ed out when she finds you not in your proper place at the office. : '' Don't tell all you know, it may leave you with lota of time on your hands. A bird Jn'tbe hand is worth $35 and costs if It is in the closed gen son. Don't ask a woman's age. She might te)l you and thus destroy a time hon ored Illusion. . :- . Never kick a man when be Is down. He may be able to come back. ;; ; " r ' . . , . .; ; Men never gossip Still the married woman usually begins hers with "My husband says." Many people are proud to be able to trace tbeir ancestry backk to the May flower, but sometimes we wonder how the t ancestors would feel about the matter. ' If some persons would spend . as much time in bard work as they spend looking for a soft snap they might af ford pork chops three times a day. The open season Is nearlv here when the city sportsman takes to the woods and the rural resident tarries In hit cellar the while, v ; UstUss Information. ' Bo knew Just iiow to sail a boat - And bow to drive a trotter. If any scheme was to be worked He was the little plotter. Advice on every puzzling point He was quite free in giving- In fact, he knew most anything But how to make a living. He knew which roads about the town Were smooth and which were hilly. He knew what stocking were In style. Now. doesn't that seem eUlyt And be could Juggle a cravat To make It lit the collar. For be was wise to everything .But bow to grab a dollar. - He knew how oysters should be fried. How chickens should be basted, Could tell you the Ingredients Ot everything he tasted. Crocheting, knitting and all that He knew the latest stitches. Was bandy man at everything ' But getting next to riches. Bad acting plumbing be could fig Or mend a chair or table. A broken window pane reset , And stop leaks tn the gable. His mind a storehouse was of facta Now. doesn't it aeem funny That while he knew so very much He couldn't get the money T W i ; All r. v- LOifC aasty , in i 'w': a. At H'x-rJ, n.-.vlf i , Hconomical. V'MtiV V . j AtWWMMASi "III f ' t h'-i til I ijlltl ' .; ; ICotlce. , : ; ; Notice of the Recorder of the City of La Grande, Oregon, of "assessments for the Improvement of Adams ave nue from the west line of Cherry street, to, the west line of Spruce street. ' y ;: Notice Is hereby given that the as sessment roll for the Improvement of Adams avenue from the west line of Cherry street to the west line of Spruce street being in Improvement District No. ,1, in the , City of La Grande, Oregon, under ' the provis ions of Ordinance No. 497, series 1910 entitled "An ordinance declaring the cost of Improving Adams' avenue from the west line of Cherry street to the west line of Spruce street, as sessing the (property benefited there by, declaring such assessment, and directing the entry of the same on the docket of City liens, authorizing the Issuance and sale , of bond3, to pay for said Improvement; and declaring an emergency" the same being in im provement district No. 1 of said City, is now in my hands for collection and that any assessment therein may be paid tod me at any time within sixty days . from November 29th, 1910, which is the date of the first publi cation of this notice, without penalty Interest or cost; and each property owner Is -hereby notified that on ap plication to the undersigned, : within ten days from the 29th day of Nov ember, which is the first dae of publi cation of this notice, he will be al lowed to pay such assessment in ten annual installments, the 'first instal ment thereof being due and payable on or before the 29th day of January, 1911. If application not made' as above provided the, whole amount will be due and payable at the expiration of said sixty days. All property own ers Interested are hereby notified to appear at my office In the City Hall and pay the same. - By orders of the Council, Novem ber"23rd, 1910. - - ' Following Is the - assessment roll No.;9:' : :'v, :., Assessment Soil No. 9. Block H, 110 ft. Coggln's 2nd Ad dition, Thomas Moore, $282.87,; - Block I, Coggln's 2nd Ad. James Hough, $227.41. . ' Block J, Coggln's 2nd Addition, James Hough, $228.65. Block K, Coggln's' 2nd Addition, Ella Mason, $227.60. Block L, 49 ft Coggln's 2nd Addi tion, Ella Mason, $110.93. Block L 62 ft, Coggln's 2nd Addl Ford A Ellla, $117.62. ' ' Uock M, 26 ft, Coggln's 2nd Addi t"; n. Ford A Ellis. $57.40. ; :xk M, 85 ft, Coggln's 2nd Addi f Wm. Anson, $171.15. ' ' N, Coggln's 2nd Addition. W, C ' wmbs. $317.75. I -vckr, 30 ft, Coggln's 2nd Addl Mabel L. Scott, J67.8G. : ' 1 ck V, 89 1-2 ft. Coggln's 2nd Ad f V HarHs French, $202.45. ck V. 72 1-2 ft, Coprln's 2nd Ad dit.au, Robert Shafer $164.84. '. - Block 6 Coggln's Addition ' Annie Moore, $117.64. , Block W. Lot 1, Coggln's Second Ad dition, Ambrose Wright, $143.41. Block W, Lot 2. Coggln's Second Ad dition, "John Blumensteln, $143.49. T Block V, Lot 3, Coggln's Second Ad dition. John ninmenntpln t1i.?5!n Block 6. Lot 1, Coggln's Second Ad dition, S. F. Newhard, $115.85. Block 6, Lot 2, Coggln's Second Ad dition, S. F. Newhard, $115.85. v Block 6, 30 ft Lot 3, Coggln's Sec ond Addition, D. C. Callahan, $67.86. Block 6, 31 ft Lot 4, Coggln's Sec ond Addition, D. C. CaJlahan, $70.12. Block 6, 21 ft Lot 3, Coggln's Sec ond Addition, D. C. Stevens. 147.99. .biock e, zo n. L,ot 4, uoggin's Sec ond Addition. D. C. Stevens, $45.73. ditlon, Annie'Moore, $115.85. J,' Block 6, Lot 6, Coggln'i Second Ad dition, Annie Moore, $117.64. ; Block's, Lot 4, Coggln's Second Ad dition, Bertha Somers Est, $229.00. Block 5, Lot 5, Coggin's Second Ad dition, Calla Richardson, $229.00. ' Block' 5, Lot 6, Coggin's Second Ad dition, E. Thorsen, $219.39. Block 5, Lot 7, Coggin's Second Ad dition, E. Thorsen, $219.39. ' Block 7, Lot 1, Coggln's Second Ad dition, J. G. Johnson,' $230.04. rBlock 7, Iot 2, Coggln's Second Ad dition, Annie M. Ostlund. $229.00. Block 7, Lot 3, Coggln's Second Ad dition, ' James Begg, $229.00. 1 Block 7, Lot 4, Coggln's Second Ad dition, Mrs. L. M. Sullivan, $229.95. ' - D. E. cox, . Recorder of the City of La Grande. ..k v ' .. , , , , ,.. .- . Want ads pay, one. cent a word. Soo - Spokane tRonte -THE SHORT LINE c -TO Minneapolis, StPaul AKD ALL POINTS EAST EQUIPMENT! . Electric-lighted Observation Cars and Standard Sleepers, the most up-to-date Tourist Cars and through din era. ''" Through tickets to all ponts east are on sale by your local agent at lowest current fares, , Details Berths Literature G. M. Jackson. Geo. A. Walton, Trav. Pass. Agt Gen. Agt. I4 Wall sit, Spokane.