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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1909
Page
5
President Taft travels through Milwaukee to Lacrosse and Winona Minnesota, delivering speeches on tariff and labor. He supports union organization while protecting nonunion workers and criticizes the court system, urging Congress to pursue broad justice reforms.
The colonist rate for the Pacific coast began Wednesday and the first train load of home seekers will reach Portland Saturday. Cities along the valley must showcase their beauties resources and advantages. Eugene will host guests and citizens should warmly welcome them. Every resident is a committee of one to help newcomers find a home. Gentleness and hospitality are urged rather than lavish incentives.
Ni folk Va September 18 large party of sailors on shore liberty from Hampton Roads attacked Charles Lees restaurant. The place was stoned and wrecked with beer bottles missiles and broken crockery. Naval authorities were notified. Standard Liquor Co began suit in circuit court for 293.60 alleged due on a liquor bill from Jacobs a repeated offender running a blind pig in Eugene. L R Edmunson attorney for the plaintiff.
Engineers for James J. Hill plan a main railroad from Bend toward Odell entering Klamath county with 5000 to 6000 men needed for the work as soon as crews can be housed. The route is described to follow the Walker basin from Bend, cross the divide near the survey party, then descend the Williamson river into Fort Klamath country.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the key to health, claiming it strengthens stomach liver kidneys and bowels, purifies blood, and invigorates the body and mind. It promises vigor for the weak or sickly and notes a 20 cent price with a local guarantee.
J Ryder, who sold property on Wynoo ski road, is relocating to Eugene to reside in a new home he has built there. His daughter Miss Agnes will begin university at the upcoming opening next week.
The passage extols the mission of blood corpuscles and claims Hood's Sarsaparilia strengthens them to battle disease germs. It presents the medicine as a unique combination of multiple agents, produced by a proprietary process, claiming thirty years of proven worth with no substitute or equal.
Chicago Sept. 17 A resolution condemning both the guaranty deposit law and postal savings banks was adopted today by the American Bankers Association.
In Chicago on September 17 bankers from all states gathered for the American Bankers Association session. James Forgan of the First National Bank of Chicago urged periodic loan and investment classifications by a directorate or auditor to gauge management quality, advocating five asset classes and transparent ratios to guide conclusions about bank health. Los Angeles selected to host the 1910 convention.
The University of Oregon in Eugene expects opening attendance excluding music law medicine and correspondence courses to run between 600 and 700 with total attendance surpassing 1000. Nearly 300 freshmen planned and a 25 to 30 percent increase, possibly another hundred by end of first semester. New instructors include Edward Thurber Yale Harvard graduate, Bertha Stuart physical director for women, Gustav Buchen in debate and public speaking, and Richard A. Grider mining instructor. Mrs J W Steffler and daughter of Carthage Mo visited H J Reynolds family. she is Reynolds aunt.
Bowles leads a mixed refugee group into the Ararat chateau after a panicked escape from attackers at the gate. The plague cripples escape by ship and bank vaults are ransacked as they plan a charity ball to lift spirits while awaiting aid and a possible rescue.
Word arrived of the death of Bishop J. B. Milla a former Eugene resident who passed away in Annville Pennsylvania. He served as bishop of the United Brethren church.
A Portland style report details University of Oregon and Willamette University critique by Dr Homer Homan at a regional conference. The event drew ministers, reporters, and attendees to discuss secular and spiritual education, with speakers like Father Flynn and Bishop Smith quipping amid a pledge to anti-saloon work.
Springfield plants new turbine now fully assembled and ready for thorough tests before delivering the initial unit. The upgrade ensures Eugene and Springfield have stabilized power and light service this winter with two generators. capacity targets 1900 kW, overload 1500 kW if needed.
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