Shoes That Fit Feet and Give Comfort
A brief note promotes shoes that fit well and offer comfort and satisfaction. It emphasizes value with good wear, right price, and affordability, suggesting quality footwear at low cost.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1903
Page
8
A brief note promotes shoes that fit well and offer comfort and satisfaction. It emphasizes value with good wear, right price, and affordability, suggesting quality footwear at low cost.
Gray's Harbor Commercial Co promotes a broad lumber inventory including dimension lumber lath shingles doors windows molding tar paper and apple boxes. The copy emphasizes a wide stock for all grades and invites customers to place orders.
Portland sees the Indrapura arrive with 2500 tons of Orient freight. R and N crews relish fast runs, trimming tonnage to 900–1000 tons for nine to eight hour trips, avoiding local switching and delays. Stock and sheep traffic also draws quick, steady rhythm, while overall overtime and fatigue shape the evolving era of heavy freight on the O R N.
E Harrington of Taare Company San Francisco reported he shipped about 12 000 mutton sheep from Umatilla County this spring and would buy 26 000 mutton sheep yearly if available, about 600 monthly. He praised the county’s fine mutton sheep but noted a long standing focus on wool over meat.
Baker City Knights Templar invite Pendleton and La Grande brethren to Easter Bagster services conducted by Rev. J. W. Bell. A reception and banquet follow. Pendleton attendees include Forster and Taylor among many others. Athena delegates listed.
The OR and N will add dining cars to all passenger trains as soon as cars are ready at the factory. Eating stations except Huntington will be abolished and passengers will get first class meals at reasonable prices on trains Nos 11 and 6 and Nos 1 and 2. Since the Pullman era, dining service has improved and will continue to improve under a new superintendent overseeing the department. The dining station concept is outdated and the railroad aims to stay current for travelers.
Echo guest R N Stanfield attends Hotel St George today while Carl Ford recovers from a month at home with the grip. Cecil Wade visits from Walla Walla and attends Whitman College. Clyde German and wife return home after visiting T G Montgomery. A D Stillman and Senator Pierce travel to San Francisco for hearings in the Victoria Island case. Reverend A R Johnson of Spokane visits Rev Jonathan Edwards. Misses Lynde ill at grandmother’s home on Jane Street. J W Dorman plans an extended western trip for health. Miss Adnal Raley improves steadily after returning home. Mrs R A Lent returns from Enterprise, Oregon after cousin Cecil Chauvet’s illness. A W Burcher and wife visit with nephew William Kemp. Charles Green, San Francisco wool buyer, in city at Hotel St George. RK W Thomas of Philadelphia visiting T C Taylor. Thomas sells manufactured goods on the road for 38 years. A B Noble recuperating well after gallstone removal in Walla Walla. Telegram from Dr Vaughan says Mrs Vaughan recovering well after appendectomy in Portland.
H. Holcomb will tomorrow ship a carload of heavy draft and medium weight horses over the W. and C. R. to the Sound. He notes a surplus does not exist in the county, making horses for shipment hard to obtain.
Calvert Meade of Oakland WoTteaver of Portland secretary of the Pacific Coast Elevator Company Charles Hamilton William Moore and WM Spires traveled to Cayuse to discuss settling fire losses from warehouse destruction. The company claims no damages against the O R N due to lease terms and warehouses being on company land even if fire origin is linked to the company engines.
A divorce petition was filed this morning by Lawra Pierce against Nelson Pierce alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. The filing, handled by attorney A. Newberry, seeks custody of their minor child and includes requests for related relief. The Pierces are described as half-breed.
James Welch in Portland is described as suffering smallpox after several days illness at a hotel before the disease was diagnosed. He was then moved to the Peel House for care and isolation.
The notice lists varied properties for sale including 400 by 582 feet lots on the north side for 1000, three north side lots with a corner house for 1800, a four acre edge of town with house barn and 200 fruit trees for 2000, and 60 acres in cultivation with a 4 room house for 2500, plus many more parcels and prices. The seller invites discussions on available offers and promises additional listings.
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