Water Fight Ends in Disorderly Conduct at Court
Judge Chamberlain disposed of Dave Stone and Chester Post with a fatherly talk and a seven dollar fine after a water fight at the Christian church. John Vanslyck, a Weston brickyarder, faced charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. Orville Duncan, 19, Weston Jud, was held on $200 bond for trial after allegedly striking Vanslyack with a shovel and bricks.
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Hays
John Vanslyck
Weston
Orville Duncan
Smith
Athena
Vanalyck
Duncan
Big Vanslyck
Women in Harvest Fields at Athena and Umatilla County
Athena the bar owners daughter Lula Gross works as trousta bout earning two dollars daily while studying at Athena high school. Dozens of women in Umatilla County harvest the wheat crop, many employed in cook wagons. a Pendleton paper reports women operating machinery to prove field work possible. Mrs Shatrum and Miss Hoopers from Fulton and St. Louis demonstrated engine handling and sack sewing on a Shatram ranch thresher field test.
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Athena
Lula Gross
Troustabout
Pendleton
Mel Shutrum
Fulton
Bertha
Ollie Hooper
St. Louis
Shatram
Mia. Shatram
Bertha Hooper
Editors End Straight-Ticket Support In Whitman County
Whitman County editors at last week’s convention rejected straight party tickets. They will select candidates agreeable to editors and charge advertising rates for all tickets. This marks a radical shift from past practices of editorial amplification and campaign funding.
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Bossier
Whitman
Washington
Colfax
Republican Gazette
Democratic Commoner
Annally
Salt Lake Elks Win Award in Mormon Valued Contest
The Salt Lake lodge of Hike received the silver elk worth $1000 from the awards committee. Davenport Iowa notes one state lodge failed proper certification by July 1. Awards include largest attendance Kansas City Orat $500, Pittsburgh $804 for second, Butte Mont $200 for third, and greatest average mileage Pittsburgh.
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Salt Lake
Davenport
Iowa
Kansas City
Pitteburg
Butte
Mont
Pittevurg
Mystery Mileage Prizes Highlight N Y Race Results
In New York the event awarded prizes totaling 750 dollars for first place with 98 000 miles run, 800 dollars for second with 68 000 miles, and 49 000 dollars for third with ? miles, reflecting a distance based scoring.
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Diet
Brooklyn
Be Agai N. Y
Farmers threaten independent warehouses over wheat deal
Farmers accuse buyers and warehouse firms of inflexible rules on sales day and storage charges. They seek independent warehouses under state law, arguing current practice limits farmer marketing options and leaves them at the mercy of single buyers.
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Wheatraisers’ Association
Farmers' Committee
Dan P.smythe
East Oregonian
No Trace Of Lost Boy In Northwest Kidnapping Claim
A Portland woman’s report of Cecil Britzin in Gypsy custody is found groundless by Portland police. No trace of the child has been found, though many believe kidnapping possible. Small search parties will persevere in the mountains seeking remains by odor if the child is dead.
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Portland
Cecil Britzin
Northwest
Harvest Field Dry Weakened Fortyfold Wheat Prospects
Farmers A J Wagber and Wm Tompkins near town report Forty-fold wheat failing under heat and drought. Beaten stalks crack in wind, yielding seven sacks per acre on Wagner place, with grain scattered and hogs needed for collection. Tomplings and others share similar poor results. Harvest crews scarce. locals expect relief in a week as threshing machines move in. Watts and Booker report higher yields, with Watts averaging over 46 bushels per acre and Booker 40 to 45 on reservations.
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A. J. Wagber
Wm. Tompkins
Wagner
Acre
Tombling
Bill Booker
World Christian Endeavor conven tions at Geneva
Delegates from around the world gather in Geneva for the all European and world Christian Endeavor conventions. The all European gathering opens Saturday and runs to August 1 when the world meeting begins. Delegates exceed past totals, signaling growth of the movement with millions enlisted since its founding and literature translated into numerous languages.
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Christian Endeavor
Geneva
Switzerland
Miners Strike Ends After Eastern Ohio Labor Tie
Eight thousand miners in Eastern Ohio end a strike that began in April after agreeing to the draft terms set by the scale committee. Operators and workers will accept the formal proposal, ending the work stoppage.
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Ohio
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LE Grow
D. H. Preston
P. B. Colbern
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C. A. Barrett
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Oregon
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Salt Lake Elks
Lost Boy
Donald Victor Raley Peterson
Will M. Peterson
Clark Wood
Athenan Togal Leminary
Halven
Donald Victor Raley
Feterson
J. H. Raley
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Birch Creek
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Jinks
Dudley
Tom Defreece
Campbell
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