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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1903
Page
8
Special effort has been made to get the newest and best styles for babies and children. We have a stock which includes something to please all. Bring in the little tots and make them happy. Our prices mean a saving to you.
Real bargains in real estate with several lots and farms offered. Prices range from 2350 for a four acre Pom Seaf town property with house barn and 200 fruit trees to 1800 for three north side lots near corner and a near new cottage. Other listings include 118 acres Big titles from town with 80 cultivated and 60 in wheat, plus 8650 for four lots with a splendid residence. Contact Wade E. O. Building to discuss these and more offerings.
Rev Levi Johnson visited Adams this morning while C B Roosevelt joined the Masonry third degree. Farmers, merchants, and ministers from Elgin to Portland were seen in Pendleton as plans to relocate or invest arose. Notables include E J Hall of Anita, J H Young and wife off to Portland, and W Bollows inspecting division routes. George Hamilton and families visited, while several others announced moves to Pendleton or nearby farms and markets.
Henry Haashelder of Santa Ana California arrives at Hotel St George as a guest and plans heavy purchases of wheat lands in Umatilla County. He seeks profitable locations and fair prices for several sections, convinced by favorable conditions and rainfall patterns that wheat farming offers safer profits than other regions in the United States.
Has Purchased Farm. Rdl. Palmer of Minnesota through N T Conklin bought the J W Sullivan farm on Birch creek five miles SW of Pendleton. Palmer and his mother will reside on the farm. They also hold quarter sections of Wallowa county timber land and a Reho homestead. Sullivan farm covers 60 acres of bottom and upland with wheat. a well known stock firm in the county. Price is $4000.
Mrs Edyth Tesler Wetherred will attend the Womens Club meeting in this city on Tuesday April 14 to present the Lewis and Clark Fair project. She may be joined by Ella Wheeler Wilcox who is to pass through Pendleton that week and may stop here en route.
L B Hansen, who sold his Milton area farm seven miles west on the north fork of the Walla Walla for 1600 dollars, plans to move to Washington after prospecting in Central Eastern Washington. He sold to a Wattsburg man who will move onto the Milton farm soon.
Mary E. Cooley sold land for 6000 to Walter M. Pierce. Two tracts totaling 640 acres lie northwest of Warren and west of the first. W. Courtney sold 147 acres to G. De Graw for 1000 in section M1 town 3 range 36. The Wild Horse place is 10 miles southeast of Athena. A moving picture concert at the Christian church drew good attendance, netting 75 in receipts, praised by Woodmen of the World.
Father Boschi conducts a grand mission at an Italian church in Portland with services in English and Italian. The program began Saturday and will run through Thursday. Later in the week he will hold services in Vancouver.
The county court awarded the plumbing and tinning contract for the new poor farm buildings to Thompson Hardware Company for 500 dollars. The hot air heating plant contract goes to B F Hevk for 450 dollars.
Arrangements have been made for Rev Orchard Haye to preach during the coming year at Plainview ten miles from the city on McKay creek. Services will be held in the school house under the immediate auspices of the Christian church.
Mrs Mae McCulloch returns from Portland with daughter Mia Lola Ashton and her son all aiming to settle here and occupy private apartments soon. They are guests of the Hotel St George as the Order of Pando, led by A P Tugwell of San Francisco, promotes the order with nearly 100 members locally. The lodge will soon elect delegates to the national supreme council meeting in San Francisco in July.
The congregational meeting chose K. Yates as elder and Fred Lockley Jr. as trustee for five years. Sunday School officers named Jasper Reed as superintendent and others in key roles. The ways and means committee includes Rev J Diven, Dr Johnson, H A Zehrong, Mary Moule, and Frederick Nolf. Church finances show near $2,000 raised in the past year for salary missions and expenses.
Dr G W Vaughan, a veterinarian, was struck by severe stomach cramps last night and suffered through the night. He initially seemed near death but recovered enough to rise by midmorning. He had been knocked down and trampled six weeks earlier by a hostile horse, an injury now blamed in part for the present attack. Dr Henderson aided him. Vaughan remains fatigued but better at press time. BE W Graybill, recently from Virginia, arrived in Sumpter seeking a milder climate and plans to invest locally.
The sermon Thursday night at St Marys church will be from the subject The Passion of Our Lord by Father Neate. The exercises Friday night are entitled The Solemn Way of the Cross. Services Saturday will begin at 10 am continuing through the morning tours.
The annual parish meeting will be held next Monday at 7 o clock in the church. A reception at the parish house will follow for members of the classes confirmed last Sunday.
County Surveyor Kimbrell traveled to Athena this morning to survey a new road about a mile and a half north of the city and to lay out several lots in Athena.
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