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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1903
Page
2
Prominent figures comment on unions and education while a Harvard professor cites frost evidence on the Moon. A ship the Minnesota is launched in New London and unrest looms as workers strike. Finland grants authority to close schools and expel undesirables. A 12 year old dies after contact with a wire in Elizabeth City as crowds watch.
The O H R N announces expansion into Central Oregon. Arbor Day is a Utah legal holiday. Governor Wells and officials planted trees at the capitol grounds. A logging camp near Centralia, Washington, killed James Marvin in a crash between two large logs last Sunday. The Oreania Steamship Company at San Francisco refuses a $2 head tax on aliens entering the country. Alfred Allen of the Canadian Pacific police is arrested in connection with the shooting of Frank Rogers at Vancouver, British Columbia. Professor Clark of the University of California says clean food can alter insect growth. Union Pacific to be blocked for a week due to a fourth landslide at the Aspen Innel. passengers and freight rerouted via Portatello. A decomposed body found near Astoria likely Albert Anderson of Westport, missing. Edward Segerstrom found dead on an Astoria street from heart disease after heavy drinking. Asa Roberts, jailed in La Grande for attempting to murder his mother in law, declared insane and sent to Salem asylum.
Prank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason attested December 6. Advertisement claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and urges readers to send for testimonials. Sold by all druggists with Hall's family liniment featured.
Charles Hanford and his company appear at the Frazer Opera House on Monday evening April 20 drawing strong interest. Critics praise his Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing and his Petrucio in The Taming of the Shrew as career highlights after a tour marked by favorable press notices.
Jas. Lindsay farm near Alba offered for sale covering 640 acres with 140 acres timothy and over 200 acres wild hay that can grow timothy. Portions suitable for wheat and barley, balance pasture, ample water, fully fenced with good buildings. Available in one two or three tracts with easy terms. Bentley Hartman.
In Wincheaster M M Amatin advised his ailing wife to use Dr Kings New Life Pills after doctors failed to help her stomach and liver trouble. The remedy gave relief at once and she was cured. Only 26¢ at Tallman Co drug store.
Subscription circle led by J. F. Robinson and George Perringer to fund repairs and sprinkling of the mile and a half road from the city limits by St. Joseph's Academy to the driving yard. Names include G. W. Froome, M. J. Carney, C. L. Bowers, E. P. Marshall and many others with subscriptions continuing today. Road work aims to fill depressions, level rough spots, clear rocks and brush, and sprinkling through to October first.
Ross Cald Storage Co to build a 26 by 72 foot boiler house and a 14 by 80 foot tank tower. Construction starts as engines and piping arrive around the 20th. Brick scarcity shifts boiler house to corrugated iron. Seventeen carloads of ladders used for packing walls. twenty men now at work, with more to be added as materials arrive.
Pendleton Business College will hold commencement on May 7 at the Christian church with 11 graduates in two classes. The Commercial group includes H. A. Yates J. C. Scott M. F. Milarkey. Stenography and Typewriting group lists Della Privett Nona Bollerman Luvena Hale Maud Sheek Orville G. Edwards Ethel Kimball Mabel Whitman Blanche Guiliford. Program features Judge Lowell address and class oration by Della Privett. oration by Edwards. valedictory by Luvena Hale. diplomas delivered by President Robinson. music directed by Mrs. Marston including a piano solo by Ethel Kimball. A second class of nine graduates will follow late June or early July.
AG Watt, fiscal agent for the Co. R. and N. Ry, Co., visited the city yesterday and today. He oversees tax payments. The company contributed $24,000 from last year’s assessment, paid during May.
Delegates and visitors gather in Burlington Vermont for the state Young Men's Christian Association convention. A reception and banquet start the event, with proceedings to Sunday featuring speakers from Vermont Ontario Massachusetts and New York. Major General O Howard is expected to address Sunday. A fog jam incident on Coal Creek Washington freed about 3000 loge.
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