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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1903
Page
8
The Christian church at Thurston, recently remodeled, was dedicated Sunday with Rev. Wigmore from Monmouth and Rev. Olsen leading due to a dispute. A large crowd attended from miles around and over 200 was raised to clear all encumbrances. Repairs exceeded 100. A church dinner netted 37 and a three week protracted meeting begins tonight.
In the county clerk's office today a petition for letters of administration for Chas W Griffin was filed. The estate valued at 2900 dollars consists of personal property. W Griffin appointed administrator with bonds at 1000 dollars with sureties G R Chrieman and John S Kelly. C F Littlefield J L Simpson and G E Detmering named as appraisers.
Seventeen year old Guy Myers son of M. M. Meyers of Saginaw drowned while bathing with his younger brother in the Willamette near Dillard's Ford. An expert diver recovered the body after eight feet of water. Despite resuscitation attempts he died. The incident follows several similar river accidents in the county area.
The school board will set contracts for major improvements at Geary School likely at Thursday's meeting. Plans include a cement basement floor, moved toilets connected to sewer, with separate bids for cement, carpentry, and plumbing. Ground improvements at Patterson School include loam filling and tree plantings by nearby residents.
Judge Dorris quizzed two belligerents after a Saturday night incident. A Merit and C McNongal, described as having drunk and fought, explain the other started it while an officer notes the workers will be paid from wages. Both men are set to report for work in the morning.
A fragmentary notice notes a teen woman associated with 3 percent to her bed amid social backing. Details are unclear but indicate a local incident or testimony linked to youth and social circles.
The program for the Foresters Picnic in Eugene on Saturday August 15, 1908 runs from 9 a.m. with a parade starting at the lodge room and continues through the day with races contests prizes and a ball game at Fat Man's Island. Prizes include parasols shirts hats purses and a championship belt among others. Dancing from 6 p.m. to midnight and a noted baseball game is promised as the highlight.
Postmaster J L Page reports bids for the Eugene post office improvements have been received. Work will begin shortly with changes aimed at better equipment and greater convenience for the public and postal employees.
Cottage Grove Oregon August 11 reports the city council enacted a Sunday closing ordinance and last Sunday the town operated as a closed town with all business suspended except one cigar store that remained open to seat the new rule reflecting the recent ordinance.
The Portland Flouring Mill Company operates several mills with total daily capacity across locations in Oregon and Washington. Mills include Portland Oregon Tacoma Spokane Oregon City Harrington Odesea Lind Salem Albany Red Crown Magnolia and others with a combined 1900 barrels daily.
Mr Ingham returns from Bohemia mining property tour and declares the district’s future very bright. Oregon Securities Company advances preliminary work including roads and power development, and Bohemia is praised alongside Blue River as a leading Oregon mining district expected to attract attention in coming years.
In a tense clash CTAB TORTIA Bears edged You Have Awe Biguatars on a close score as fans watched a pivotal regional showdown. Alda led with key plays guiding the Bears to a critical win amid late-game pressure.
Scripps dispatches report a deadly Martinique cyclone that destroyed four villages, leaving about five thousand homeless. The same date notes firmer stock markets and an election result in Ohio. Paris reports a metro railway fire in which at least ninety people died in the underground section.
Reports detail a Silver Bow jail escape by three murderers and two robbers, with one suspect caught after a pursuit. Separate dispatches describe Pope Pius X coronation in St Peter's Basilica before about 70,000, plus a 103rd birthday celebration in Vandalia Illinois for Uncle Bank. Additional items note a suicide attempt in Roseburg, a real estate shooting death in Colfax, and a Portland father drowning while saving his son.
The Amador gang of convicts, believed to have fled Corral Pass, is now hiding in the Devilas country. Dissensions have divided the group into Amador and Eldorado factions, each acting independently.
Henry Micheal, a wealthy fish and oyster dealer in New York, plans an extravagant celebration for two years since his wife's death. He says he endured misery and now marks the occasion with invitations to about 200 guests, 2000 bottles of wine and many kegs of beer, at a banquet costing a substantial sum.
Nerbert T. Condon, formerly attorney and newspaperman at Eugene, has been registrar and secretary of the Idaho Agricultural College at Moscow. He will take the same position at the University of Washington in Seattle at the start of the next school year. His salary will be 1500 per year.
Typos in Session Washington August 11 The 40th session of the International Typographic Union began here with nearly all of the 315 delegates present. Chairman Whitehead presided as secretary Cortelyou of the Commerce and Labor Department Public Printer Palmer and other prominent men stood by. Commissioner McFarland and Willis Moore head of the Weather Bureau welcomed delegates. Moore, a former printer, congratulated the union on its strength and spoke of the President of the United States as a friend of labor.
Sedalia reports 30 persons injured in a Missouri river train wreck near Sebnell. Katy passenger train No. 6, en route from Sedalia to St Louis, derailed as it left a station, with no fatalities.
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