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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
2
Ice blocks from the Ross Ice & Cold Storage Co display bouquets of flowers frozen in the center of 200 pound cakes. A future prize piece will feature a large block with fruit and flowers in the center and a hollowed top punch bow for serving punch.
Umatilla County sees a thriving mountain sawmill sector east of Weston with Fletcher Lumber Co and three smaller mills Smith and Johnson on Weston mountain Ollinger on Linkton mountain. Combined output around 60000 feet daily supports higher prices than last year per Weston Leader.
General Gillespie, chief of engineering, will be designated president of the board of ordnance and fortification on the retirement of General Miles.
Pendleton’s Commercial Club began in spring 1892 with 31 charter members led by T. F. Rourke and others. It laid out county roads, pushed abolition of the old fee system, and surveyed routes to Adams and Long Creek. The group influenced city and county governance, funded a library, and planned a club building as a key community enterprise.
The fragment notes a project abandoned due to unspecified restraint and private interests. It mentions plans for a monument or significant building and a drawn proposal to proceed with construction soon, though details are garbled and names or dates are unreadable.
West end residents protest irrigation ditch watering a patch of eroponte caused by a cartain at Thai price. Intake below sewer outlet releases odor across the field and sides. Fish and eel die along the ditch. Street commissioner orders reinstruction and a cotton insert at intake. mayor to view the site this afternoon and council to draft action at next meeting.
I Cummings of Vinson and George Church of Milton were in Pendleton for a few hours yesterday. Many residents including Mra W. N. Brey, Miss Nellie Ringo, and Miss Lena Delong visited Pendleton, while others headed to Hingham, Lehman Springs, and Priest Lake for vacations and outings.
The S year-old daughter of Charles Manning of Stewart Creek near Pilot Rock died after two months of pneumonia. Her remains were brought to the city today for services led by Rev. G. W. Rigby. She was interred at Olney Cemetery.
A city labor federation plans a nine o clock May celebration with extensive advertising. A meeting outlined campaign structure, committees for speaking, dancing, amusement and printing, and efforts to secure rail rates. Inclusive efforts aim to attract residents from farms and ranches to join the festivities.
A Thursday item claimed a man named Kemper robbed a woman of money in Portland. The man identified as Fred Kemper, of this city, denies the report and says he is employed by the O R L & N at Quinns, with no involvement or knowledge of the crime.
Charles Bond and J W Sullivan returned from Portland with stock for their new store. They will open in the room now occupied by Hilly Krasarp's barber shop. When the barber moves out, the firm will move in and offer a neat, complete line of gentlemen’s furnishings in the city.
Postmaster Ferguson brings in a prize radish with three well-developed bulbs. The top bulb shows early spring readiness, the middle for late spring, and the lower bulb into prime. A potential fourth for early winter was halted by being pulled up.
T. R. Nelson reports Tom Nelson, a local blacksmith, is confined to bed with typhoid fever. He has been ill for a day or two and is progressing through the early stages of the malady.
Co. L Adame son of Walter Adams, an agent of the W. & Ft., is visiting his father for a short time. Mr Adama operates for the O. Ro & N. at Bingham Springs, recently transferred from Huron.
HM. E. Collier has returned from a few days at the Peebles ranch near Meacham and will depart with Mrs. Collier on Tuesday for the same place to spend a week or two in the mountains.
Berkeley 4 reveals remodel of the upper floor of the Despain building to create ten new office suites. The renovations aim to provide the most convenient office rooms in the city once plans are completed.
W T Sellers formerly with FW Schmidt in Met Rock drug business moved to Weston to join Schmidt and pursue locating in the wheat belt. A longtime Vimotina county resident of Ukiah for 13 years, he plans to leave the county to fulfill a yearlong aim and will operate within Umatilla County while staying in touch with friends and familiar locales.
Pendleton Sportsmen's Association will hold a four medal shoot tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the club range. The event gathers members for the competition and awards in a community shooting gathering.
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