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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1911
Page
2
A Stanfield letter accuses a water project of repeatedly flooding lands and causing unsanitary conditions. Signatories including Slened, M. R. Ling, E. M. Wheeler, George M. Ward, Ralph A. Holt, G. L. Hurd and others demand a canal to spill excess water into and threaten liability if not completed.
Tomorrow's Newsy Notes feature Miss Angela Shroeder directing the regular story hour for children. James A. H. Gwinn named trustee at Cliande J. Hanscom creditors meeting. Current Literature Club plans hostesses Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Hampton at High street home. Knowledge contest closes tomorrow. contestants urged to mail answers. Mrs. Patten hospitalized after a stroke near Riverside. Four in police court including Smith Peterson and Simon jailed for public drunkenness. Miles fined for indecent acts. Echo fire correction: hydrant water status clarified. milling company unaware no water in their hydrant.
A group of Civil War veterans traveled to Pilot Rock today to attend the funeral of John A. Owings who died in Salem on Wednesday. The service was conducted by Rev. E. W. Warrington.
J Arnold, who led a street carnival here years ago, was in the city yesterday negotiating with the district fair board to secure a concession for a large show to be staged during this fall’s fair.
Local residents taking the 1:30 Northern Pacific train to Pasco this afternoon can see and hear Theodore Roosevelt as his train stops there for fifteen minutes between 4:36 and 4 o'clock.
Dr W B McClure, formerly head of the federal bureau of animal industry in Pendleton, now secretary of the National Woolgrowers Association, is in Washington representing wool interests in tariff legislation. In Portland Mrs W T Love, long-time rooming house operator in Pendleton, plans to invest after a recent fire loss. her husband has gone to California for the Old Soldiers Home.
Henry Shaver, who died Wednesday night at the local hospital of typhoid, was not a county charge but an employee of Twohy Bros. He had not drawn two months of wages due, and reportedly held a $500 bank account. He had no relatives in this area, but is believed to have a brother in Iroquois, Canada.
Rev Nathan Evans pastor of the local Methodist church returned from Hood River where he gave the address to the Cottage Hospital graduating class of nurses. While away he officiated at a notably tall wedding, the groom six feet six inches in stocking feet and the bride just under six feet.
At a Portland banquet honoring Col. Roosevelt, Fred Lockley former East Oregonian circulation manager, staged a Taft impersonation with a Senator Bourne figure. Dressed in golf pants the pair entered and engaged in a mock exchange. Lockley as Taft greeted Teddy and asked where he had heard the name.
New York reports preparations underway to double track the Harriman system from the Missouri River to the coast. Work will begin at multiple locations simultaneously.
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