To Close Out Low Prices at Our Store Sale
Promote a closing out sale with low prices and a store visit. Dates are vague with August 4 mentioned as the start. No clear event, participants, or locations provided.
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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
8
Promote a closing out sale with low prices and a store visit. Dates are vague with August 4 mentioned as the start. No clear event, participants, or locations provided.
A collage of short items covers hardware sales at Chambers and Day and Hendersons, discounts at Racket Store on ladies skirts and cabinet photos, a Weider Studio promotion, a Crescent bicycle pitch, and local notices. Reports include a county divorce plea, a dispatch job change in Scott, and a tale of Harry Tracy’s dramatic end in a wheat field pursuit.
Special to the Guard reports Mra Eile Blew visiting from Portland for a month with her parents Mr and Mrs Vran in Washburne. Mrs Laura Butler spent a week in Newport. H L Kane visited Eugene. GL Ager returned to duties at the 8 P eta tion after vacation. Mre Belle Prozman visited Roseburg. Mra W L Houston and family returned from Newport. Mrs Sarah J Evans, Chicago teacher, was in town. IT Nicklin returned from the bay. The three legged man performed here. Dr D E Ruff sold his east side house to J Ras Museen. R P Celiwel of Everett, Wash., came to discuss farming. Miss Hattie Hurstort arrived from Everett. Dr J W Geary of Burns attended to business. D Cox threshing for C W Wardburne. Mrs J A Suehnell and Gertrude visited relatives in Halsey. AK Martin went to Newport to bring his family home. Agent M Montgomery visited Looking Glass with his wife. BF Howard started threshing at Ed Bailey’s place. Chas K Bowen of Monroe painting the warehouse owned by A Wilhelm & Son.
Odd 102 Odda and ends in ladies oxforda for $10. Odds and ends in children's oxfords 50¢. A large up-to-date map of the United States and colonies free with a $5 purchase of shoes at one time. Don’t miss our fall shoe line before buying. Mason jar caps and rubber seals advertised with various jar rubbers and Mason jars priced per doz.
Phillip Neil, veteran hop grower and buyer on the coast, returns to Portland after inspecting coast yards Aurora Champoeg and Butteville. He notes disappointing yard appearance and forecasts a fair supply if weather remains mild, but a hot spell or rains before harvest could yield a light crop. He doubts growers can pay 50 cents a box for picking. about three quarters of contracted hops this season priced 9 to 12 cents per pound, with few higher-rate contracts recently made.
DATA FROM HISTORICAL ACCOUNT DESCRIBES HARRY TRACY AS WANTED FOR MURDER ROBBERY AND HORSE STEALING ACROSS UTAH COLORADO AND OREGON. IT RECOUNTS HIS JAIL BREAKS FROM UTAH PENITENTIARY KIDNAPPING GUARDS ESCAPES IN COLORADO AND A LEGEND WITH THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FOCUSING ON HIS MURDEROUS CAREER AND MARRIAGE CLAIMS WITH TWO WOMEN.
The county commissioners court let the contract for road improvement on the McKenzie route to Chas Croner of Eugene at 75 cents per yard. Work includes dirt and gravel in two sections from High Banks to Shurston and Hendricks Ferry to Barney Wood Hill with gravel two rows wide and patch work. Croner must begin soon and finish by October 10.
An advertisement claims sacred cows and temples are defiled by constipation and promotes Dinnings New Life Pills. It asserts the pills cleanse the system, revitalize the liver, promote digestion, and curb appetite with a price of 25e at L DeLano drug store.
One of the season’s prettiest home weddings took place at 650 Hilyard Street when Miss Wille Hanva became the wife of W Gilbert Beattie. The ceremony was at eleven with Mendelssohn’s Wedding March and Rev Chase Woodward officiating. The bride wore white silk organdie and carried white carnations. guests included about fifty in attendance with visitors from Oregon City Pendleton Moscow Noah Bay Hubbard Creswell and Union.
Geo and Martha Hammerely transfer to J H Gilbert 66 69 acres. William Martin deeds 42 acres to Eliza Calvert and to Wm Calvert 42 acres. various estate transfers total amounts range from 150 to 2000 dollars. Eugene and other parties buy lots and adts in Christian’s second addition and Cottage Grove. George K Drake locates Josey claim in Bohemia mining district.
A report lists numerous victims of Jacy in a spree including Guards Frank B Ferrell at Balem Jane and B RT Jones at Salem on June 9, and Deputy Sheriff Charles Raywood of Snohomish County July 3 at Bothell. It notes wounded Deputy Sheriff Jack Williams at Mother July 8 and mentions a reward for Tracy's capture by Oregon and Washington authorities.
Mrs A M Shields of Chambersburg Pennsylvania recalls severe consumption and six months of drink induced illness. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery with a complete recovery and recommends its use for coughs colds and bronchial issues. Free trial bottles and a guarantee are offered at W L DeLano’s.
Dispatches report Harry Tracy the convict killer died by suicide after a pursuit spanning Oregon and Washington. Surrounded in a swamp near Creston he was wounded in the leg and knee, then shot himself as posse members closed in. Sheriff Gardner delivered the body to Davenport for burial in Salem after Governor Geer was notified.
Rev Chase Woodward of the First Presbyterian church of Eugene married Elizabetha Gloot in Oakland on Tuesday August Sth. The couple will reside in the Presbyterian manse on Lincoln street and welcome friends after September. Mrs Gilles is the bride’s mother and Dr Warren H Landon assisted as clergyman.
In Grants Pass a Federal Trades Union with about 500 members divides stores into fair and unfair groups. A boycott targets unfair houses that refused the union’s petition for earlier closing. The town’s patronage of 800 customers is perplexed as merchants refuse to yield, threatening continued strife unless harmony returns.
Two men Albert Abel and Jesse Cheshire in Astoria last Friday afternoon attempted to burn damaged powder spread on a street. When they lit the fuse the explosion scorched Cheshire’s face ears and hair and left Abel with injuries to his mouth and lungs. Abel, from Eugene, is in the Philippines with volunteers. Cheshire hails from Grant Park.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs MP Wheeler Greenleaf in Lane County on August 2, 1002. Both mother and child are reported in good condition. The family awaits visitors and celebrates the new arrival.
An Elizabeth Virginia man allegedly cured of incurable cancer after using Electric Bitter and Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The ad claims the remedy expels "billows" and cures kidney and microbe poisons, blood diseases, skin eruptions, ulcers and sores. Product sold by W L DeLavo's.
In Davenwostr Washington on August 7 Sheriff Gardner refuses to surrender Harry Tracy's body after a confrontation that left him wounded and self inflicted. Relic hunters strip clothing and tear bandages from the wounds as spectators flock to view the corpse. Also reported are a street car strike in New Haven and a violent state election with fatalities in Nashville. A large fire in Indiana causes substantial damage, and a cyclone in Wilmington injures sixteen.
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