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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1904
Page
8
The street committee cleans up unused water cisterns once used by the old fire engine. Four pits across Court Alta and Main streets are being filled with rock and rubble hauled from the streets to prevent collapse and danger. Old gravity systems are replaced by mains, making the reservoirs obsolete and unsafe.
Pendleton Ice and Cold Storage shipped a carload of ice to Echo Ice last night and works overtime to meet large warm weather orders. Outside demand is heavy, depleting stock as fast as it is produced or sold locally. Integrity Lodge No. 2 extended condolences and adopted resolutions for Tivis McBroom drowned in April 1904.
Samuel E. Nye of Walla Walla a pioneer of the Inland Empire died in Walla Walla on Thursday at the age of seven.
Geary Kimtroell and the street committee will cut the levee at Long Street end to drain water from Byers grove and Stonewall Jackson Street. The temporary drain will relieve stagnant water feared to breed typhoid as flooding recedes and a later pipe and levee repairs will restore normal conditions.
Margarita Fischer and her well balanced company arrive at the Frazer opera house for a limited engagement of three nights starting Monday April 18. The young actress is praised as versatile in soubrette ingenue and emotional roles with a refined company surrounding her. Audiences recalling last year’s engagement remember her humor wit and sweet voice and new specialties between acts are promised.
C A Chapman of Moscow Idaho former resident of this city sends a photo of his trotting horse Uno trained on the George Perringer track in the city Uno is a seal brown stallion about 12 hands high weights about 1200 pounds and five years old this spring Uno has strong bloodlines being sired by Gilas and out of Maude and is expected to improve the horse stock around Moscow.
Kit Carson Post G A R placed 13 headstones at Olney cemetery for old soldiers buried there. Stones furnished by U S government free of charge show name, company and regiment. Many graves remain unmarked. once names and numbers are known, headstones will be supplied.
The Athena Gun Club gears up for a social shoot on Sunday April 24 drawing Pendleton club members and many regional sportsmen. A large events list promises a lively day with strong attendance expected. Real estate transfers include Christopher Watson selling 10 acres near Freewater for 2500 to Dennin Riggle and Lafayette Noff selling multiple lots in the reservation addition to Samuel C. Bittner for 7360. An appropriation of 100000000 for a deep draft canal in Germany and Prussia is noted.
Prices for hauling freight drop to 265 cents per 190 pounds from Pontareton to Nye, $5 per ton, with teams moving two tons per round trip. Rev. T. H. B. Anderson will conduct a two week revival at Pendleton's Methodist Church, arriving next Thursday at the invitation of the church. The town clock on the south face runs half an hour slow, now showing 1:30 when the north face reads 2:00, a common time reference for married men returning from lodge.
Portland report notes a revision in the Republican district plan from the East Oregonian. A convention resolution praised the president, revising earlier condemnation into commendation. The change signals shifting party stance ahead of upcoming political events.
T G Hailey attends Jeffersonian banquet in Walla Walla honoring the anniversary of a great statesman's birth. He was among the speakers and reflected on life’s pilgrimage and the pursuit of meaning, noting the idea we live three score years and ten yet achieve little before dying empty handed.
An 1880 advertisement urges readers to take Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to dispel spring impurities and restore health. It claims benefits for general debility sleeplessness indigestion dyspepsia constipation liver trouble la grippe malaria fever and ague and encourages trying a bottle today.
Sheriff T D Taylor of Umatilla County Oregon acts as agent for Madison Jones mortgagee to sell fifty dairy cows branded W on the right shoulder at Dutch Henry Feed Yard Pendleton on April 23 1904 at 10 am to satisfy a note for 460 00 with interest and costs including attorney fees mortgage foreclosures waive any part payments made prior to sale
The item lists meetings and gatherings across Oregon and nearby cities from April to June, including the Oregon Cattle Growers Association in Portland, the Democratic state convention in Portland, the Oregon Federation of Labor in Oregon City, the General M. E. conference in Los Angeles, the Grand Lodge in Astoria, the Caledonian picnic at Athena, the Tillamook county reunion at Weston, and the Oregon General Election. It also notes Charlee Green, a veteran San Francisco wool buyer, visiting as wool season opens, and reports the drowning of Henry Zimmerity while fording Measy Creek near Prineville.
A fragment notes items including Tower Linen 4c Valenciennes Lace 12hat and ribbons 121%e with a HOF Children’s Summer Pique priced at $125. The text is incomplete but indicates a fabric and clothing sale at a shop or catalog.
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