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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1910
Page
7
We can supply finely tailored suits with satin lined jackets for 11 25 dollars each. Prices are so low that no one will carry over suits to next season. crowding them out now. This sale emphasizes value over future pricing.
Closing prices list various fabrics and children wear including 36 inch bleached muslin 10¢ dress ginghams 6 1-3¢ prints and 7c prints, sun bonnets, Zoe children’s overalls and baby caps, lawn parasols and lace curtains at low figures.
Bargain alert as stores offer a suit priced at ten dollars, a value equivalent to about twelve fifty in regular retail. Limited stock noted, with discount highlighted for shoppers seeking formal wear at reduced cost.
A store advertises boys and adults earning "clothes money" offering substantial discounts. A dollar buys 1.25 dollars worth of clothing with several suit prices slashed from 6.00 to 1.50, pushing a rushed sale of boys two piece suits up to 11 years old.
The Eugene Weekly Guard lists Charles H. Fisher as editor and publisher and notes publication every Thursday in Eugene Oregon. It states subscription prices of 1 50 per year prepaid and 2 00 at year end and names agents for subscriptions and business in the area.
A speaker denounces the July 14, 1910 rally as dominated by street railway gas firms predatory trusts and big railroads. He says guards and those profiting from vice will attend while wage earners small taxpayers merchants and honest citizens will be excluded from any chance of selection.
Reports claim the 8 P Co may back an assembly drive to replace direct primaries, with rail interests possibly naming railroad commissioner candidates to gain control. Critics recall historic vote buying and machine politics, arguing the assembly would shift power from the people to corporate interests, as Judge McGinn warns about who would be invited to participate.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times argues that $200000 yearly for O A C is modest while noting compared to large state universities. It cites Michigan Illinois Minnesota Ohio Wisconsin Iowa and Kansas incomes exceeding $900000 to $1800000, and asserts Oregon does not over or under fund O A C given population and wealth, yet the college achieves much with the amount.
Hon J L Kruse a leading Republican from Sherwood Route 3 issues a voter circular denouncing Simon Harvey Scott Co for backing Governor Geer in 1902 and Chamberlain in 1906 and 1908, alleging efforts to defeat direct primary law and aid railroads and corporations in senator selection. He cites May 14 1908 Portland Republican convention delegates and Fulton’s stance on direct election of US senators.
In the national convention Oregon delegates voted unanimously against the direct election plank. Living members of the delegation favor an assembly convention to let party members pick candidates, criticizing voters as too weak-minded to choose suitable Republicans.
The Oregon constitution amendment proposal, filed and ready for a vote, shifts railroad development power. Opposed by corporations, backed by the Oregon Idaho Development Congress, it follows Idaho style district construction. With twenty one railroads under construction, supporters urge the measure as a defensive power for citizens.
The Lane County Asset Company advances surveying and right of way work with grade stakes set, aiming to map a coast route for a railroad to Coos Bay via Siuslaw. Backers urged to fund the project, promising lower freight rates and regional growth for Eugene and Medford’s new daily paper under booming prospects.
New Orleans July 11 unprecedented mosquito scourge hits Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf coast. Pests drive workers from fields and deer and other game flee swamps into open rice fields. Timber crews suspended in Calaseu area as swamp access narrows. Livestock choked by insects, stock killed in lowland gulf flats.
New York July 12 Gifford Pinchot said he would travel to California tomorrow to stump for Hiram Johnson in the bid for the gubernatorial nomination. He is endorsed by the Lincoln Roosevelt league of California.
Notices record multiple births in Oregon locations including Eugene Roseburg Florence and Creswell from June to July 1910. Names include Mrs Graves Mrs Murphey Mrs Phelpa Mrs Medley Mrs Watson Medley Mr Vaughan Mr Woodard and families. Childs genders listed as daughters and a son.
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