COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022
Twin sister moves in; other twin decides she rules the roost
At fi rst, she was happy I was
here, because on a previous
visit she said I was her drinking
buddy. I don’t usually care much
about eating, since my sense of
taste is poor. Last night, because I
could taste the dinner, I ate more.
She accused me of being a glutton
and a parasite. She has, as far
back as I can remember, always
been “MY way or the highway.”
I’m tempted to go live in
my truck to avoid her constant
sniping. I have no money, YET.
She loaned me $4,500, and feels
that any money I receive from
now on must go directly to her.
Please help me. — UNHAPPY
TWIN IN MICHIGAN
DEAR UNHAPPY: Please
accept my sympathy for the loss
DEAR ABBY: When my hus-
band died two months ago, my
identical twin helped me move in
with her. She never married. I do
all the chores — clean six litter
boxes, load and unload the dish-
washer, etc. I don’t know how to
operate her washer/dryer, as she
has shown me only once. She
doesn’t like the way I use my
phone, set up fi les, nothing. She
also drinks a lot, uses marijuana
and is on a starvation diet. If I eat
any carbohydrates at dinner, she
accuses me of being a “glutton.”
HISTORY
Moon brothers were back
in business on the northeast
corner of Adams and Fir.
In August of 1933
Eugene received his certif-
icate to practice medicine
and surgery and returned
to La Grande where he
shared an offi ce in the Foley
Building with Dr. J.D.
Haun.
By 1963 the Moon Drug
Company, which had been
in continuous operation on
this site for 40 years oper-
ated by the Moon brothers,
sold to William Noland
of Yakima, Washington,
and Jack Earnest of Pasco,
Washington.
The new Grace building,
a one-story brick construc-
tion 150 feet on Adams by
56 feet on Fir was quite
Continued from Page B1
then he rerturned to school
to become a doctor of med-
icine. By March of 1928
the drug store, now with
brothers Ed, Harry and
Elmer, was forced to relo-
cated to a temporary loca-
tion west on Adams where
Andrews Variety Store had
been located before going
out of business.
This move had been
necessitated by the plan to
construct a new building on
the site. By September of
1928 the old Grand Ronde
Valley House building had
been razed and the new
brick Grace Building had
taken its place. Again the
of your husband. While moving in
with your sister may have seemed
like a good idea while you were
in shock and the initial stages
of grieving, unless you want to
be her maid for the rest of your
days, make other living arrange-
ments. You are being treated like
Cinderella.
Repay the loan in installments
after you fi nd a job or the estate
is settled. Your sister may have
always been the dominant twin,
but what you are experiencing
now is abuse, and for the sake of
your mental health, you cannot
allow it to continue.
DEAR ABBY: I had a man as
a roommate for a year while he
worked in town. “Rodney” was
a wonderful roommate. After his
an addition to downtown.
Following its completion
it provided space for four
businesses. Moon Drug
occupied the space on the
corner of Fir and Adams,
with Sevens-Van Engelen
department store, Grace
Harness Shop and Thrift
Grocers located on Adams.
Who was Grace of the
Grace Building and Grace
Harness Shop? Grace was
born in Illinois in 1891 to
Nathan Perrine and his wife,
Sophroni. In the early 1900s
the family moved to Island
City where in 1913 Mr. Per-
rine was serving on City
Council. In 1916, Grace, a
popular 25-year-old, mar-
ried Talbert M. Shannon, a
harness maker. Talbert died
at age 35 in 1922 of tubercu-
lease ran out and he was trans-
ferred elsewhere, he came clean
about his feelings for me. Then
the pandemic happened, and he
disappeared for two years.
Rodney is now back and wants
to live with me part time again.
This time he wants more inti-
macy. He’s kind and helpful
around the house. He’s divorced,
very smooth and has a residence
1,000 miles from here. I don’t
want to be “friends with benefi ts.”
I don’t know him well enough to
know if I want more. But I enjoy
his company a lot. I am in my 60s
and young-looking — so why not
just have a good time? I still don’t
want to be hurt. Any advice? —
ROOMMATE ROMANCE IN
CALIFORNIA
losis of the spine.
In May of 1925 Grace
married Ira Alden Snyder.
Ira, a widower with three
older children, was a saddle
maker. The two were
looking forward to the
birth of their fi rst child in
December of 1926 when on
June 17 Ira felt ill during the
night and went to another
room to try to sleep. The
next morning Grace found
that he had passed away
during the night. The cause
of death was thought to be
heart trouble.
Grace was a strong
woman. As the sole bread-
winner for the family she
continued running the
Snyder Harness Co. at 1306
Adams while also raising
her young son Charles. By
DEAR ROOMMATE: Sex
with you should not be part of
Rodney’s lease agreement. What
he is proposing seems more like
a business deal than an attempt to
court you.
If you are looking for a rela-
tionship that could lead to “some-
thing more,” do not jump into
this without carefully weighing
the pros and cons, including the
emotional risk involved. If you
were willing to settle for a “good
time,” you wouldn’t be writing
to me.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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1928 she decided to con-
struct a new building and
expand her business. This
was the Grace building
and the new business she
took there was called Grace
Harness Co. The business
expanded. In addition to
repair work they off ered
harnesses, saddles, luggage,
and canvass goods like
awnings and tents.
Life wasn’t easy for
Grace as a widow, and her
young son Charles was an
adventurous child. When
he was around six he got
caught in a water meter box
and his mother had to call
the fi re department to assist
in extracting him.
When Charles was eight,
Grace married a widower
nearly 30 years older than
she. This was Charles A.
Playle, an agent for the
Texaco Co. This marriage
lasted six years until 1940
when her husband died of a
heart attack.
Tragedy struck again in
1942 when Grace, age 51,
died of breast cancer. Her
son Charles was only 16. He
had inherited his mother’s
strength and he completed
high school and college
and went on to become the
CPA we all knew as Charlie
Snyder of Eveson, Snyder
and Lincoln.
Enjoy! Keep looking up!
Ginny Mammen has lived in La
Grande for more than 50 years
and enjoys sharing her interest in
the history of people, places and
buildings.
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
59/70
Kennewick
63/91
St. Helens
71/105
67/96
73/108
68/96
63/99
Condon
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Clear
Mostly sunny
and very hot
Mostly sunny
and very hot
Mostly sunny
and very hot
Sunshine and
very hot
54 98 55 100 56
99 55
97 55
Eugene
2
2
59/95
La Grande
5
5
60 101 65 103 65 103 64 100 61
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
5
2
2
2
59 97 67
Comfort Index™
3
2
2
3
2
2
3
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 119°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 4.12”
88°
44°
92°
44°
96°
45°
0.00
0.01
0.45
4.47
5.89
0.00
0.22
0.49
8.98
10.55
0.00
0.32
0.59
17.76
15.11
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
15%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
14.0
0.31
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
17% of capacity
73% of capacity
30% of capacity
90% of capacity
7% of capacity
69% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1060 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 137 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
138 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
58 cfs
Minam River at Minam
294 cfs
Powder River near Richland
16 cfs
Death Valley, Calif.
Stanley, Idaho
Lawrenceville, Ill.
OREGON
High: 103°
Low: 37°
Wettest: none
The Dalles
Sunriver
WEATHER HISTORY
A 30-minute cloudburst on Pittsburgh’s
north side on July 26, 1872, caused fl ash
fl ooding along Butcher’s Run and Wood’s
Run, drowning 133 people.
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
5:30 a.m.
8:27 p.m.
3:09 a.m.
7:47 p.m.
5:31 a.m.
8:26 p.m.
4:03 a.m.
8:28 p.m.
MOON PHASES
New
Jul 28
First
Aug 5
Full
Aug 11
Last
Aug 18
Brothers
Beaver Marsh
63/96
60/78
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
Paisley
Frenchglen
Diamond
61/98
Klamath Falls
56/99
Hi/Lo/W
70/58/c
105/65/s
102/69/s
62/55/c
101/59/s
68/57/c
94/58/pc
100/63/s
102/69/s
95/61/pc
108/71/s
105/76/s
100/65/s
99/61/s
98/69/s
108/73/s
99/57/pc
99/55/pc
Hi/Lo/W
73/59/c
106/68/s
102/70/s
65/54/pc
100/61/s
70/56/c
93/60/s
101/60/s
104/68/s
96/59/s
111/72/s
107/76/s
103/69/s
101/61/s
99/67/s
111/74/s
100/59/s
98/56/s
67/102
Lakeview
54/99
McDermitt
63/100
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
63/102
Fields
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THU.
Grand View
Arock
60/100
65/100
71/106
WED.
Boise
63/98
57/99
55/98
Medford
Brookings
63/104
69/102
69/102
52/62
Juntura
57/101
54/101
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Ontario
73/105
Burns
57/102
55/96
Roseburg
Huntington
58/98
62/105
Oakridge
Council
65/100
75/104
Seneca
63/96
Coos Bay
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
60/99
Bend
Elkton
Powers
60/101
54/98
John Day
60/107
61/107
57/68
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
ALMANAC
Sisters
Florence
56/66
Halfway
Granite
56/92
Baker City
Redmond
53/62
59/87
99 66 102 65 100 61
62/96
63/96
Corvallis
64/105
58/94
Newport
Enterprise
59/97
60/101
Monument
69/106
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
Comfort Index™
Elgin
60/102
La Grande
69/104
Maupin
Baker City
74/104
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
58/78
70/105
Hood River
68/105
TIllamook
Lewiston
Walla Walla
72/108
Vancouver
66/98
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Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
105/71/s
91/61/s
99/61/s
106/71/s
62/53/c
95/58/s
105/75/s
109/69/s
105/72/s
96/68/s
78/59/pc
107/63/s
96/64/s
96/64/s
101/71/s
108/74/s
97/55/s
104/76/s
Hi/Lo/W
108/71/s
89/64/s
101/60/s
107/72/s
64/54/c
91/57/s
106/74/s
111/72/s
106/71/s
95/67/s
79/58/pc
107/64/s
96/65/s
97/63/s
101/70/s
110/76/s
98/56/s
106/77/s
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PHILLIPS LAKE
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny; hot
77
54
94
60
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny; hot
Very hot
90
64
101
64
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Sunny and hot
80
54
94
51
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Hot with sunshine
Sunshine; very hot
98
69
105
71
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; hot
Very hot
98
55
101
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