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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
4
An 19th or early 20th century ad touts Lane's Family Medicine as a pleasant herb tea that treats the stomach bowels purifies the blood and cleans the skin. It claims to cure headache and backache and notes druggists and dealers sell it for 26 cents.
Portland July 24 Dr Roy A M Collins a leading young physician was shot and killed by his wife only six months after their marriage at Major J G Sladden's residence 722 Flanders Street Police say motive is temporary aberration from unfounded jealousy Mrs Collins 48 was arrested and confesses to Dr Charles Frisbee noting jealous threats by her husband Both had prior marriages and she ran a dressmaking business in Portland before meeting Collins in Honolulu where they were married Collins 34.
Mrs Bertha Seward of Marcola caused anxiety in West Springfield by leaving her child with a neighbor and traveling to Eugene to have dental work. She reappeared at noon today saying she had gone to Marcola and back, prompting police to search.
Cottage Grove meets Springfield next Sunday at home after a prior Cottage Grove win in Nesmith town. Springfield aims to reclaim the upset as the season resumes and local fans anticipate a competitive clash.
Two hundred former residents of Illinois gathered for a dinner at West Springfield Grove after a long ride along the car line. Rev Moore from the Divinity School gave the chief address as a well rendered program proceeded.
Helen Washburn broke her shoulder and dislocated her right wrist when thrown from a pony around Springfield. She also fractured a right clavicle, suffered facial scratches from glasses, and sustained additional minor injuries.
An extra crew of twenty five Japanese workers arrived in Springfield to clean the yards for the annual inspection roughly on August 1. Afterward ten more workers will join the team to handle repairs and maintenance at Springfield, enhancing the railroad facilities.
The city council will meet tonight as Springfield real estate market heats up with 18 lots sold in the Clark and Wash addition and eight more sold this morning. W. H. Dempter visited the town to inspect progress while contracts for sewer work across the city are set to be let next Tuesday. Mayor M. M. Peery and architect E. R. Wells attend. Plans for a Beebe residence, Springfield, are finalized.
Household effects for A Wigmore of Seattle and A A Lawrence of a northern point arrived this morning, indicating a transfer or settlement. The items were delivered and logged for both individuals, with no further details on contents or destination provided.
A photograph shows the replica of Robert Fulton’s Clermont launched at Mariners Island New York for the Hudson Fulton celebration next September. The hull sits on the ways as builders face difficulties duplicating the original primitive machinery while preparing a precise Hudson run.
Professor L R Alderman notes five hundred students will enroll in the universitys correspondence department next year with last years figure over two hundred and sixty. Combined with music and undergraduate enrollments about twelve hundred will receive work, nearing fifteen hundred with Portland law and medical departments included. A journalism school is being discussed as a future venture.
A poet-narrator finds an aged bull-puncher dying in a forest clearing. The man recalls his prime with bulls and the dust of old logging camps, laments replacements by a donkey-engine, and dies beside the skid road as a donkey engine screams nearby. His rough epitaph tells of a once-proud life hauled to the dump.
The notice records a July 27 1909 marriage at a Eugene parsonage with Rev D H Trimbie officiating and lists Dr Shoop Pink Pain Tablets promising quick relief. It also notes the University of Oregon scholarship awarded to Rachel Applegate by the Oregon branch of the Association of College Alumnae for 1909 1910, its fourth year.
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