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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
8
The county superintendent denounces dilatory reporting by school clerks and directors. Libraries not properly tracked as districts fail to list owned books. many bonds are inadequate or unapproved. Grand jury may probe accounts. past calls for full export of district finances loom if ever ordered.
Warren Construction company has rented the suite in the Association block formerly used by Mesara Winter and Collier to serve as headquarters during the street paving contract. The firm will equip the rooms for office use and operations.
For office purposes, and during their stay here the company's draftsmen and other office employees will be stationed there. While it is not known now just how soon the company will commence actual work on the streets, it is presumed such will be started within a very short time.
The Eagles band gave a 17 piece concert at the court house grounds drawing hundreds of residents, including men, women, and children, in a moonlit evening of enjoyment. The crowd praised the music, and the event proved summer concerts in Pendleton are worthwhile and sought after by locals.
Sheepmen range in Union and Umiti counties report streams drying earlier this season due to scant snowfall and extreme heat. The O R N company struggles to secure water at Huron Kamela and a temporary North Fork tank as wells and springs fall low.
General representative Charles A. Barrett reported on a business trip that the Athena district wheat crop averages 40 to 50 bushels per acre with excellent quality. No extraordinary yields yet, but many fields approach 50 bushels while most fall wheat will not fall below 40. Some spring sown grain is lighter.
E C McCook, new Juniper County farmer, bored for water and after reaching 135 feet depth struck an inexhaustible flow. Water stands 17 feet deep and has not diminished after two days of pumping, a breakthrough for the previously dry region.
Funeral services for seven year old Charley Burton were held at 10 this morning from the Baker & Folsom parlor. The service, under the auspices of Pendleton and Daphne circles and Women of Woodcraft, was conducted by Rev. Neller of the Congregational church. He was the son of Mrs. Sarah Sutton and had recently arrived from Delta Colorado, living in Umatilla.
A Grand Ronde Lumber Company employee at Perry is under arrest in La Grande for kidnaping his 18 year old bride Mises Toney Brown. The couple wed after an elopement at Elgin on Thursday.
Mrs. T. J. Lloyd and children arrived home after visiting Mrs. J. B. Carroll who lies in a critical state with a brain blood clot requiring an operation. Her left side is paralyzed. In other news, J. Ro Brown of Stage Gulch district threshed bluesnem wheat testing 64 pounds per bushel as bluestem yields run heavy but perhaps thin overall.
A cent drop in the local wheat market lowers club to 57 cents and bivestem to 59. Farmers hold for higher prices with no waiting reported today.
W S Varnum defends new phonetic system in a Portland letter sent to the Oregonian. He argues phonetic spelling can reduce paper use and speed reading, while critics warn it would distort language. he urges a state convention to promote reform in textbooks and teacher instruction.
A testimonial from Frederick Manuell of Butte Montana describes starting Newbro's Herpicide on April 6 and, after twenty days, his scalp shows renewed hair growth. He reports thicker, lusterful hair by July 2 and credits the product with destroying the cause of dandruff and baldness, promising continued effect. The ad promotes purchase via A C Koeppen & Pros Detroit Michigan, and The Herpieida Co. Detroi.
The Denver Post lists numerous figures alleged to have committed corruption or abuse of power. It mentions Nelson Morris, General Orloff, Governor Peabody, Senator Depew, Senator Pratt, Senator Aldrich, James B. Hyde, Richard A. McCurdy, Hannah Ellis, George B. McClellan, Ex Mayor Van Wyck, W. S. Devery, Richard Cangeld, Reginald Vanderbilt, W. E. Corey, Charles W. Morne, T. D. Sullivan, Russell Sage, Alexander Dowle, Abraham E. Hummel, Thomas Taegart and others in a broad denunciation of public and private wrongdoing.
Harris Bridges, brought from Washington by Sheriff Shutt, pleaded guilty to stealing a horse from Ben Swaggart and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by Judge Hean Heppner Gareite.
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