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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
5
Madras and surrounding area residents including prominent ranchers, merchants, teachers, and visitors gathered for a county union meeting. Attendees from Lamonta Culver and Prineville discussed local development, irrigation, telephone lines, and upcoming projects while several residents undertook travel and visits to nearby towns.
Ward Farrell hosts visiting friend William Tompkins from Portland a week long. Mrs Farnsworth recovers enough to return home to Kent Washington with Mr Farnsworth and Mrs Whitington nearby. Edyth Rideout closes a successful term with a July 2 farewell event for parents and students. Ice cream cake and lemonade were served. Four months of term attendance included Marvil Akeyson Vick Young Esther Alice and Lora Coburn with some children walking three and a half miles to school.
Regular services will be held Sunday by the pastor at the usual place. A special subject at eight p m is Christian Signature followed by Citizens to Heaven. You are invited to these services.
The notice promotes advertising in the Pioneer with a quoted year wants line and a regular Jo cartoon advert. It mentions subscription for the Pioneer and an 8 tower prize priced at $1.60 per wear.
Gold news swirls around the Torrance county region near Belen and Willard New Mexico as claims surge amid legends of Gran Quivera and old Spanish mines. An engineer based in Chicago identified gold in ballast from a deep cut, sparking renewed prospecting along the Belen cutoff with ballast assays around three dollars per ton.
More than 1 060 000 people left New York for country holidays, about one third of Manhattan's population. Throngs filled steamboat piers as every trolley car train and boat ran at capacity. Over 30 000 travelers were forced to return home due to lack of excursion craft.
Denver July 5 educator charges the present day school system is radically wrong and American homes and society are directly responsible for the faults in education.
Congressman Francis W. Cushman of Washington died at 5 a m in Rosevelt hospital New York from pneumonia. Present at his bedside were U S Senator Samuel H Piles and Andrew S Burleigh. Cushman had undergone an operation recently and complications from pneumonia followed. Arrangements were made to send the body to Washington.
Pekin July 6 Great Britain Austria United States block recognition of a preliminary Russia China accord for Manchuria railroad administration. They insist laws on residence in the international settlement in China must come from treaty powers. Negotiations opened that month are halted for an indefinite period.
Mud blocks 600 feet of Rio Grande track beyond the Royal Gorge at Parkdale, Colo. Details describe the obstruction and location as of July 6, with no clear timetable for clearance.
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