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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1909
Page
10
The passage argues advertising only succeeds when a store earns trust by fair pricing and strong service. It states advertising highlights both merits and failings, and that non advertising stores are seen as avoiding scrutiny while advertised stores invite critical comparison. It emphasizes honesty, price concessions, and reliable quality as keys to advertising effectiveness.
A 1914 board report argues the complete canal cost at 360 million dollars and defends the sea level option over a lock canal. It identifies sanitation and zone government costs and Panama payments as inflating earlier estimates and cites potential earlier completion dates if conditions stay favorable. The board lists engineers Frederick Steers and others as members.
Eugene Chemical Works advertises clear pure home manufactured Neat's Foot Oil for 60 cents per gallon and 15 cents per quart for 30 days. Limit of two gallons per person. Send postal card or call at the factory. no phone orders accepted.
Mexico City reports ongoing rumblings near Mount Colima with eruptions continuing. Ashes and cinders fell in Colima Tuxpan Capetian and nearby towns while forests were set ablaze by the smoke from the volcano.
Mrs Ina Belle Hubbard wife of Frank Hubbard Jr departed this life February 12 1909 at 8 am aged 32 years 8 months 18 days She leaves a husband four children and other relatives She bore afflictions without murmur and died in the Christian faith The body was taken to Eugene Friday afternoon for funeral Saturday at 1 pm interment in I O O F cemetery Services by H C Preston of Marcola
Weekly Eugene market lists prices for dairy eggs butter and poultry. Also reports on fruits vegetables including potatoes onions lemons oranges and market for livestock and grain feeds with per unit and per ton prices.
Portland reports buying on an active scale with about 1200 bales sold in ten days. Unsold stock includes 7200 bales from 1908, 4000 from prior year, and 2500 from 1906. New lots sold at Salem Independence and Silverton show prices around 7 to 7.5 cents. demand for 1909 contracts remains strong with roughly 5000 bales signed.
The Portland, Eugene and Eastern Railway Co plans major expansion this year. A. Welch says the Eugene Salem electric line will be completed, with the Mackenzie route and Eugene Albany line starting soon. Two miles of Salem track to be finished by April, linking Eugene and Albany lines, aiming for a continuous Eugene Salem route with possible Oregon Electric transfers in Salem.
The Salem report notes the house approved the sterilization bill for the criminal insane. It has already cleared the senate, signaling progress in the legislative effort.
State Capitol Salem Feb 16 appropriations of 283000 passed in house and 10000 in senate. Previous day totals were 1739000 in house and 726000 in senate. Eastern Oregon asylum bill defeated 28 to 42 amid midnight. McArthur moved reconsideration. Seattle Fair gets 25000 after Bean prompted renewal. Jaeger’s bill adds 25000 for Oregon exhibit with 40 votes.
A ledger of current commodity prices lists barley feed at 27.50 to 28 per ton, various wheat track and flour patent prices, rye and millet products, hay from Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon, and numerous dried fruits and coffee grades. It also notes sugar varieties, molasses, and salts with per unit costs, plus remittance terms for early payments.
A rundown of buying prices for potatoes and onions, tropical fruits, sack vegetables, dairy products, poultry, cheese, veal, pork, and various bacon and ham cuts. Prices given per hundredweight, per pound, per dozen, or per box, with multiple grade distinctions and regional notes.
Thurston February items report Mrs. M E Russell threatened with pneumonia and a young Giles son ill with pneumonia. C R Hastings and Ross Mathews prune many trees. fruit inspector visits noted. W S Rinehart plans move to Eugene. J J Totten visiting with daughter Mrs Weinhart. Thurston Davis Debating Society to Goshen March 6 to discuss if Washington greater than Lincoln. Leta Mathews staying with Ross Mathews, J N Hill moves into new house, C O Emer’s house nearing completion. Frank Post and Mr Hughes offer Percheron stallion stock. eight shares sold in Walterville. Mrs Allie Gray and Mrs P J Barrett remain ill. Mrs Miller visits from Eugene. Thurston school basket social Feb 26 to raise funds for organ. Mrs N B Gossler in poor health with appendicitis. Blacksmith C W Yancey to move into Rinehart house. Mrs M E Russell hosts twenty-two county boarders. Harry Russell returns from Eugene as undertaker.
Alma notes an 1909 birth to George Luce and wife on February 3. Lucy Pettit’s accident leaves a mashed toe after a horse slip. A heavy snowstorm melts slowly, trails muddy, river ford closed for six weeks, and rain continues. Mrs. Whitcomb loses smoke and root houses in a fire, with winter provisions gone. Bert Allegar considers moving, Ethel Sallee visits Luces, Grace Luce and Birdie admire their new brother. Clair Hinkson, Glenn Saunders, Roy Bierce visit Johnsons. Boys return from logging camp due to snow. Tug Johnson visits from his homestead. Feed holds up. stock look good.
Lars Hanson of Junction visited The Guard office on Thursday last as part of his business calling routine.
J. M. Stevens of Crow visited the city last week and paid several subscriptions to the Weekly Guardian in advance to secure a large bloc of votes in the exposition contest.
An advertising notice invites readers to watch for a wagon promotion from Boyd Tea Company on page three, signaling upcoming deals and product showcases staged by the tea firm.
Articles filed with the secretary of state reveal a merger forming Pacific Poultry and Pigeon Plant from Krebs-Reynolds Poultry Farm and Eugene Poultry Farm. The combined venture targets 20,000 laying hens, adds 600 pigeons, and plans squab production for Portland hotels, building on past prize stock and a 8000 dollar to 5000 dollar value mix.
Gilliam county and Condon were visited by men from Montana and Wyoming. A Fort Benton man bought 10,000 head of mixed yearlings for April delivery to Condon at $4 per head with wool. Wool price remains $4. 3 after shearing. Prospects show good wool price and ample grass once snow melts.
Birth notices list multiple newborns with dates and parental names including a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Hickey in Eugene West Eighth Street and sons born to Fred Smith and wife six miles west of Eugene on February 10 1909 W L Bristow and wife in Pleasant Hill February 12 1909 Fred Wentworth and wife in Eugene February 12 1909 and Eugene R McCornack and wife in Florence on February 6 1909.
Crow, Feb. 17. Birth announced for a son to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Curtis. Charles Layne buys a hopyard to start hop raising. A Palestine basket social draws a large crowd. Miss Bessie Bailey returns to East Eugene after a week away. she will teach near Jasper for four months. Miss Jane Van Prooyen leaves Crow for Leaburg with Hazel Kink. Etta Owen assumes Crow school duties. B. J. Owen family plans to move to Crow from Ivison.
Mound items recount Charles Layne's homecoming from the south, Mrs H D P D Johnson seeking medical care in Eugene, Chester Bierce earning his eighth grade diploma, George Prescott claiming another wildcat, and A D Bierce family dining on a feast of chickens. Social news mentions Mrs Henry Price visiting M D Johnson's, dull weather quiets life by the slough, and optimism for an electric railroad arrival near the Siuslaw mouth.
Chicago futures show May at 1.14 1 4, July 1.00 3 8, September 95 7 8, December 95 1 4. Tacoma milling blue stem at 1.16 and export bluestem at 1.10, club at 1.00, red at 8.
Orwood Fruit Spray representatives will be at Chambers hardware store Saturday February 20 to explain the merits of a Oregon product designed to distance all tree spray from foliage. SEE HIM.
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