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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
10
Excavation starts for a two story frame Catholic academy building with basement on the site of the present academy. The old church hall will be moved, the academy will house four classrooms, and adjacent grounds will feature a twelve foot sidewalk area in front of St Mary's church.
Special correspondence from Elmira on May 11 notes farmers praise rising prices, the lacrippe visiting locals, and new butcher shop successes. Rev. Whipple of Carlton accepted a call to lead the Christian church and will assume duties the first Sunday in June. Mrs Walters and Mr Fred Walters visit. Bradford nears brick kiln completion. Grimaley buys an automobile. Doris Hale trips with parents.
In Alma on May 10 residents share social news including Mrs Kate Rows visiting Elmira and a dance at Mound. Roy Merce passed through, Ethel Satlee and Wittle on visited, Grace Luce called in, and mail carrier Luce reports chicken pets but delivers mail. Bert Allegar promotes hogs and oxen for breaking, Jay Johnson of Mound and John Mohler of Prineville mentioned. DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills offered by druggists.
Local notes report Uncle Will Wooten selling dried fruit, school to close in two weeks with teacher Mina Myra Sheldon. Accounts of a runaway incident, frosts damaging fruit, and a fire at J. L. Deaver’s. Social visits, a Pleasant Hill baseball game, carnival forthcoming, and a late elopement marriage of Charles Whitney to Eva Gerardin in Escanaba.
Eugene merchants press forward with plans to hold a large Fourth of July celebration at the new fairgrounds on Saturday July 3 and the main event Monday July 4. A meeting of the Merchants Protective Association is set for Monday to finalize a program including religious services and a band concert. Salem notes it will not celebrate July 4 due to the Cherry Fair, while urging valley towns to join in regional festivities.
Timothy Goodrich a pioneer of Oregon died at his home Monday after months of illness. Born March 10 1837 in Athens county Ohio he married Rowan Ann Knight in 1856 and moved to Oregon in 1862 settling in Marion county. He later farmed in Yamhill county and moved to Portland last fall for medical care. Survived by a widow and seven children in Oregon and Portland circles, with remains to be taken to Yamhill.
Chicago May 11 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson attended a meeting of government meat inspectors and refused to be drawn into controversy with James A Patten over wheat valuation He said Tam through with wheat talk and questioned if current prices are real He suggested farmers would plant wheat if $1 a bushel could be guaranteed and defended the department s crop reporting system as superior to private brokers efforts
Jas Laird a famed Coos county pioneer dies at his son Joseph Laird's home in Myrtle Point after a lingering illness. He was seventy on May 1 and is survived by several children. His son James led Western Union line work in the area. Laird ran the Roseburg stage line for years and held the Roseburg to Coquille and Coos Bay mail contract. In recent years he lived in Brewster Valley and was brought to Myrtle Point for care.
A reader suggestion promotes a banana cream dessert using five bananas five teaspoonfuls of an ear and ten cent package of Lemon JELL-O dissolved in boiling water. Mix fold fold and mold chill then garnish with candied cherries and whipped cream. Jell-O priced at 10 cents per package.
Memorial Day events planned with Memorial Sunday services at Presbyterian church at 11 o clock led by Rev Seldon Adams and a Monday Decoration Day program at the cemetery and M E church featuring an oration by Rev Nickle. Arcade theatre changes noted as Chae Hall and Irwin Bath take ownership.
Weekly report from Eugene markets lists dairy products including butter per roll at 50 cents and creamery butter 60 cents. Livestock prices show good cows 3.5 to 4.0, steers 4 to 5, veal under 125 pounds at prime dressed, mutton on foot 4 to 5, hogs on foot 7 to 7.5, dressed hogs 5 to 6 cents. Grain and feed items priced: flour 4.50, wheat 1.00 bushel, chopped feed 30 per ton, cracked corn 2.40 per 100, bran 28 per ton, mixed feed 31 per ton, shorts 34 per ton, rolled barley 29 per ton, oats 65 cents per bushel. Also produce prices for potatoes 1.25 per cwt, onions 1.75 per cwt, lemons 4.00 per case, oranges 3.50 per case.
Portland market report shows eight months of the crop year yielding 90,484 bales shipped by rail and water from Oregon, down 38,825 bales from the same period a year earlier. Monthly figures follow the overview.
Salem May 11 Six members of the state board of regents attended a meeting at the state house. Frank Carter said the city would honor contracts with Ashland faculty as a moral obligation but would not operate the school after the year. Richmond of Weston offered 500 dollars to keep it open and others would give. Ayer and Spence supported private normal schools. Benson Ackerman and Hofer opposed private operation. The executive committee was entrusted with disposition per prior board resolutions.
Springfield gears up for a major Fourth of July celebration to be led by the Commercial committee and auxiliary, with committees forming to plan events and hire funds. Local business changes include Mersdorf Wolfe & Co. sold to J W Carman and G O Knowles, with Alice Weatherson and I D Larimer joining the staff. Local notes mention Alvie Prichard's lodging incident and a Eugene trip by a deputy, plus Perkins & Machen buying the Wendling retail meat market and Pratt Halverson taking charge in Wendling.
James A. Patten, the Chicago wheat operator, speeds toward Chicago after two weeks in the Mexican hills amid trader speculation on potential sharp moves. California grass cattle move north, with cattle at $5.75 high and lambs climbing to $5.50, while hog supplies stay tight and general sheep demand remains steady. Wm. Alden Smith, Michigan senator, turns 60, noted for farming, law, and railroad ventures.
Mothers who value their children should keep a box of Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. They break up colds cure feverishness constipation teething disorders headache and stomach troubles. Sold by all drug stores 25c. A trial package free by addressing Alley 3 Olmsted Le Roy NY.
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