Red Saunders Near Bride in Fairfield Mill Opening
Henry Wallace Phillips portrays Red Saunders in Fairfield as he builds a strawboard mill, hosts a village opening, and protects Miss Mattie from a mad dog. Red grapples with nerves, romance, and risk, eventually proposing in a tense, hopeful finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Mattie
Fairfield
Fairfield Strawboard Winstsdaine Company
Fairfeld
Red
Mr. Saunders
Buckskin
Ied
Buck
Lettis
Miss Mattle
Misa Mattie
Mattie
Merk
More Pensions for Lane County Veterans
Congressman Hawley helped secure pensions for Lane County old soldiers including Benjamin F. Adams of Cottage Grove receiving 12 dollars Abner T. Andrews of Springfield 15 John Desher of Springfield 20 Arthur S. Haskell of Eugene 12 John O'Brien of Lorane 12 Gideon B. Standish of Lorane 12 and Riley Winfrey of Lowell 12 with the totals reflecting their service and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Hawley
Lane County
Benjamin F. Adams
Cottage Grove
Abner T. Andrews
Springfield
John Desher
Arthurs. Haskell
Eugene
John O’brien
Lorane
Gideon B. Standish
Riley Winfrey
Lowell
Secretary Ferguson Dies at Manila
Washington reports the death by heart disease of Arthur W. Ferguson secretary of the Philippines commission at Manila last night. Appointed in 1898 he previously led the French claims commission and was famed as the ablest Spanish American translator known to official Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red
Hed
Demilt
Lettia
Misa Mattle
Washington
War Department
Arthur W. Ferguson
Philippines Commission
Manila
Commission
French Claims Commission
General Pension Bill Would Raise Widows Funds
Washington reports a general pension bill introduced by Chairman Scalloway to raise monthly pensions from eight to twelve dollars for widows of Mexican and Indian wars Civil War veterans and Spanish American War widows. The measure would add about twelve million dollars to the pension roll, covering roughly seven thousand Mexican War widows, three thousand Indian War widows, about one hundred eighty five thousand Civil War widows, and around one thousand Spanish American War widows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Scalloway
New Hampshire
Delinquent Subscribers Must Be Stopped
The Postmaster-General issued an order effective January 1 requiring subscribers to daily and weekly newspapers and periodicals with second class rates to nearly settle their accounts to keep receiving the publications. Publishers may not mail weekly papers to subscribers more than a year in arrears after July 1, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie
Fairfield Strawboard Manufacturing Company
Fairfield
Red
Postmaster-General
J W Kirk lands bookkeeping post at Garman Hemenway Co
J W Kirk, long at Eugene Business College, secures a bookkeeper job in the large Garman Hemenway & Co store at Cottage Grove. Track Manager Ormond R Bean of the University of Oregon has sealed a dual field meet contract with Whitman College, signaling plans for spring track expeditions into the Inland Empire, including trips to Corvallis with Pullman and a Beall signing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Kirk
Eugene Business College
Garman, Hemenway & Co
Cottage Grove
Ormond R. Bean
University of Oregon
Whitman College
Oreron
Inland Empire
Cotrada
Pullman
Beall
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Henry Wallace Phillips
Mattie Runevar
Misa Mecus
Let
Demit
Gia
Kel
Mites Mattie
Miss
Mattle
Martins
Ferguson
Saunders Familly
Will
Siz
Chinery
Mr. Parrel
Viti
Lettie
Red Saunders
Chania
Ami
Jimmy
Morpheus
Galt
Chanta Seechee Ranch
Tulu
Himelf
Wiij
Tred
Regan
Laetus
George
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