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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
7
If you are undecided where to send your vehicle for repair this shop offers inducements for good work promptly done and that little money settles the bill. Carriage repairing with an expert painter to do good work reasonably. Old rigs made as good as new. Gasoline engines hacks Winona wagons and buggies.
Spokane Chronicle reports on the city bridge fund totaling 400000 with 17119998 expended by April 1. Labor costs reach 66043.22 and materials 105160.06, leaving Washington street bridge costs near 84974.44 after deductions. Stevens street bridge totals 6548.46 with girders paid separately, projecting about 12000 total. A reader advocates tree planting along roads as a civic project.
H. Blair president of Blair's business college and city beautiful committee member told the Spokane Chronicle that setting out trees on each side of public thoroughfares into Spokane would beautify the roads and benefit the country. The committee heard the proposal yesterday but took no action. Blair described a California trip noting a long line of wagons during rain as context.
Mayor Moore proposes a Spokane civic trip for high and grammar school pupils to Seattle during the fleet visit. He argues the trip would show Spokane’s part in recognizing Pacific coast commercial importance and instill U S naval pride in youth and adults alike.
Work on Elgin new high school begins fast with steady progress toward completion within the contract time. The 74 by 23 foot two story brick basement structure will cost 20 060 and include 10 rooms with broad halls and modern improvements. A steam heating plant will be in the basement with heating and ventilating systems described as perfect.
A contract closes for transferring 500000 acres of the Oregon Military Land Grant to the Oregon Valley Land Company of Kansas City. The deal, worth about 1500000 dollars, reverses prior policies to promote settlement in small tracts across a 12 mile wide strip from the Cascades to the Snake River. The region, praised for fertile valleys and potential crops, includes Goose Lake, Catlow, Warner, and Sprague River valleys, with tomato yields in Catlow touted as famed.
Governor Mead appoints a state wide commission to advise on quarry sites for crushed rock to build roads. The panel led by Judge Co Hanford includes Judge Edward Whitman, Samuel Hill, Joseph M Snow, Prof Henry Landes, John Warrasmith, Karl Bowers, and Samuel C Lancaster to promote quarries such as Seattle’s Deception Pass project. Wenatchee votes on a 55000 bond for a Columbia River water system with a million gallon daily pump.
An advertisement touts Sexine Pills as a universal tonic for weakness and nervous fatigue. It claims to restore vitality, calm fluttering nerves, and provide restful sleep with a guarantee. Pricing listed as $19 per box and $5 for six boxes, with the note that Pendleton Drug Co offers full guarantees and does not substitute.
Three separate property notices describe a five room house on three lots near a school with modern improvements at a phone contact 2771 or 106 Blaine street. G W Amundson of Sumpter Oregon offers a homestead relinquishment of 160 acres with about 10 acres in hay and cultivation, a house, barn, and running water priced at 100 dollars. A six room house, seven lots and a chicken house with some fruit, two blocks from a school, is priced at 2000 pounds with half down and favorable terms, contact "W" at the newspaper office.
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