Pendleton and Weston Social Notices Chronicle
Local items report visitors and residents in Pendleton and surrounding towns including Jinks Taylor and Pauline Myrick, counts from San Francisco to Walla Walla, marriages such as Joseph Snyder and Sibyl Cole, and updates on illness and travel. Community life notes cover hunts for work, business trips, church events, and a memorial context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Snyder
Sibyl Cole
Pendleton
Moethodiat
A. D. Frost
Golden Rule
Dorhan
Clarence Wright
New Pupils Registered and School Activities Note
Three new pupils joined the school this week while Floyd Payne assists singing with his cornet. Last reporter Mr. W. W. Wiley shows improvement. Twenty pupils were absent due to the storm. A literary group is forming with grads and high school students. Water pipe in the laboratory leaked but caused no damage. The high grade class remains popular as teachers stay after school. Examinations begin next week. students work to improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alok- Plang
Mortgage Sale Notice at Auction in 1918
Notice of public auction of fixtures cooking utensils and dishes owned by E B Barnes mortgaged to O B Barnes. Sale begins 1 90 p m Saturday January 1 1918 at the side door Jacob Blood Building corner Fourth and Main Streets O B Barnes to conduct sale with Richards and Watts co tenant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnes
Onder
Jacob Blood
Richards and
Watts
Main
Coyote bounty collector Brone backs Sheep Protection
Leo F Brone of Grand Wallas Wisconsin owns Loma Alta ranch and is a major Kilokitat county sheep owner. He recently collected the bounty on 91 coyotes trapped over the past month and notes profits up to 300 dollars per season from bounties and pelts shipped to New York. He uses steel traps and improvised snares, avoiding poison to protect his sheep dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo F. Brone
Grand Wallas
Wesh
Loma Alta
Kilokitat County
Goldensdale
New York
Brone
Birth of Colonel Bogy in golf history origin
The piece explains how the term Colonel Bogy originated in golf. It recounts Coventry course scratch scoring in 1890 and a remark by Major Charles Wellman that linked a regular “logy” player to a bogey. The anecdote connects Browne Wellman and a London theater song to the naming of the imaginary score. Colonel later added.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Bogy
Coventry
Thomas Browne
Charles A. Wellman
J. Loa
London Gaiety Theater
Wellman
Browne
Golf
Walrus on land shows awkward clumsy motion in shore life
A descriptive piece notes walruses are almost helpless on sand, with old males bearing heavy burdens and females and youngsters enjoying more mobility. The herd behavior, social habits, and vast Pacific range from the Bering Sea are mentioned, with a humorous yarn about a fishing man and a pun involving a hungry dog and salt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walrus
Bering Sea
Strait
Cleopatra Pearl Story And The Pearl In Wine
The column questions the legend of Cleopatra dissolving a pearl in wine noting pearls are not soluble in wine. It explains that even strong vinegar only slowly affects pearl tissue, leaving organic matter as spongey residues larger than the original pearl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleopatra
Cleopatea
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jinks Taylor Wee
Pendleton Vintor
B.A. Cook
la Grande
Mies Pauline Myrick
Weston
Attorney Watts
Marion Jack
Jim Bryan
Helix
York Dell
Frig
Athéta
Johnny Peetier
Tasedey
Pendiston
Hr. McArthur
San Diego
Ioan
High Mcintyre
Athena
Oregon
Mise Gertrede Luca
Walla Walla
Mra
Vincent
Walla Walle
Alex
McKenzie
Adems
Shick
Coolie Boyd
Lewinton
Idaho
Leo Hiteman
San Francisco
J. H. Hiteman
Albena Loval
Farmers Co-Operative Union
This City
A. Barrett
Salem
John Rothrock
A. B. Rothrock
Meg
N. H. Pinkerton
Washtauna
Wash
Pinkerton
Bershes
Rootley
Louie Bergevin, Sr
Spokane
Athens
Louie
Gonzaga College
Koung, Witte
Oliver Dickerson
Westerha
Dickebeon
Pxice
Lizzie Mansfield
Mee
Barris
EB L. Troutman
Waa
Mr.Troutman
Aberdeen, Wash
Clarence Brotherton
Clarenos
Weiteborg
Waab
Adame
Rafter
Mise Lore Flock
McMinnville
Conservatory
McMinnville College
Bert Caréano
Worthington Aye
G. A. Barrett
Sherman
Diego
William Gould
Mre
Goold
E.G. Bret
Alter
Milton Eagle
Jim Hendergon
South Fork
Mr. Hendergon
August Arp
Tosineas
Adams
Los Angeles
Methodist Sunday School
Emery Worthingtoo
Koontz
Worthington
M. E
Obured
Dream
Hobo
Selig
Eclipse
Vite
Sundey
Jobo
Latio
Esaaney
Pathe
William Whitlock
Walla Walla Hospital
Whitlock
Touchet
Tham Brasche
Jesse
Mytick
Alexander Walker
Weston Vicinity
Long Beach
California
C. L. Grockatt
Mr. Meldrum
Coralyo
Floyd Payne
W. W. Wiley
Washington
Colonel 'Bogy
Efimely Sale
FIX & Radtre
Mosgrove’s
Mosgrove Mercantile Co
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