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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
8
A sales pitch touts the superiority of Stetson shoes over competitors with a promise that purchasing the $6.00 Stetson will prove the merits. The note also announces the first shipment of fall clothing arriving.
A string of short notices lists residents visiting, returning from trips, or traveling to places such as Wendling Foley Springs Newport McKenzie Bridge Belknap Springs and Portland. Names include Ivison Marcola Creswell Wendling Cottage Grove Jefferson Roseburg Brownsville Parkmead Oregon City and Salem. Also notes a local cough remedy advertisement and a brief Salem burial reference.
Dan Kelly of the University of Oregon will race a 100 yards in ten seconds at Kincaid Field on Saturday at 3 PM to prove fitness for a trip to Jamestown. Officials include starter Geo Hugtmers and judges Har ris Griffin Burden and Kincaid. Hayward backs the test though timing is by a committee.
The Eugene market report lists Wool and Poultry prices, dairy butter and creamery butter rates, fowl and poultry weights, and fruit and vegetable figures. It covers New potatoes onions lemons and oranges, plus livestock prices for steers cows veal mutton and hogs, and grain and feed values including hay oats wheat and mixed feeds.
In Portland on August 15 the telegraphers strike slows dispatches, hitting large jobbing houses and coastal brokers most. Rumors point to a 20 cent rise in city cream prices after Hazelwood lifted rates, as cream supply wanes and traders brace for wider effects.
Ringling Brothers unveil a lavish show with a grand parade through Eugene on Friday August 30 featuring 1260 employees nine elephant herds 658 horses exotic chariots cages and floats. The event highlights vast novelty and a fully developed menagerie and stage acts with a downtown ticket office at Kuykendalls drug store offering standard prices.
The notice lists numerous land transfers in Lane County including Ben F. Dearing to M. L. Byckman 118 acres in section 34, township 17, range 1 west for 900 dollars and United States patent grants to Andrew J. Titus and Thomas C. Mackey for hundreds of acres in various sections and townships. Also noted are transfers involving Earl Parsons, Astoria Abstract, Tithe & Trust Company, Bernard Senders, Robert and August Vitus, George A. Bosbey, J. H. McFarland, John Pearson, Carrie L. Mercer, Arthur Belknap, Jeremiah Cary, Louis Bean, Harry W. Bennett, James Starr, Edward Quimby, and others with multiple acreages and prices. A physician advertisement for Hickory Bark Cough Remedy and a note about Dr. W. Kuykendall traveling to a National Fraternal congress in Buffalo follow.
Notices promote a forthcoming event at Edmoncongard in Goshen this Friday in September with camping sheds for pickers. The ad urges people to attend and buy supplies from Bee j and Moon Tingley. Dr. Lowe, optician, plans a Eugene office visit next week for eye tests.
A Washington tea table tale features ladies recalling courtship trials among Virginia, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Wisconsin wives. A Puritan fiancé, a racing horse rivalry, a buggy crash, and a decisive Kentucky wedding conclude with the suitor armsby or Henderson choice. Oscar Cox closes with Old World chivalry. Notice to public lands follows.
The Brownsville tile factory yard near town is building its first brick kiln, capacity 125,000 bricks. Proprietor Mr. Loucks hired H Reames of Eugene as supervisor. The kiln should be fired next week and about twelve days needed to burn the bricks for sale. Tile production will follow.
Wilt Bros and Moon & Tingley advertise land locating services for public land rights in Crook and surrounding Oregon counties. They claim thorough country knowledge and accuracy, and invite inquiries at Vincent's restaurant in Eugene or via Sisters Oregon. A. M. Slayter and G. W. Dickinson are noted locals engaging in business matters.
Rare opportunity selling 127 acres four miles from the depot in Toledo Ohio with 70 acres cultivated 30 acres pasture a acres timber good buildings horses cows hogs chickens wagons and farm implements orchard. Price 48 per acre. Enquire at Springfield Hotel Springfield Ohio. Frank J Cheney sworn to pay 100 dollars for each cataract case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason 1886. Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally.
Roseburg Oregon July 25 1907 notice under timber lands act of June 3 1878 and extended to 1902. Joseph O Watts of Eugene filed Feb 26 1997 sworn statement No 8415 for part of section 17 township 17 south range 1 west Willamette Meridian. He will offer proof that land is more valuable for timber than agriculture before W W Calkins in Eugene on October 28 1907. Names of witnesses listed. All claimants warned to file claims by October 25 1907. Register.
Steel crew due today or tomorrow to Coburg area bridge near McKenzie as piers prove difficult. Engineers sunk 60 feet seeking bedrock with cement gravel at 38 and 48 feet, water leakage halting progress. Isolated incidents include a water boy’s 15 foot fall and Burke Williams injuring an arm from cement barrel and later infection risk.
Unclaimed letters listed for Eugene and surrounding area. The Ashland Tidings notes A C Dixon’s return from the East and his appearance before the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding the Portland gateway. Also promotes real estate and livestock offers from Farmers Real Estate and Loan Co. and a wood collection drive for subscribers.
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