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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
5
The nation faces one of the largest grain yields in American history. Harvest reports indicate strong crops across corn and wheat, with spring wheat uncertain. Weather issues may delay harvest, but overall yields are expected to exceed normal levels and quality remains high.
Multiple classified snippets reveal a Ford with a demountable wheel in first chimney condition offered by City Auto Co. 1h0t Hex demonstrator, Kamiah area calls, various ads for scrap, for sale items, car hire, rooming houses, sewing machines, and job requests. Key names include Allen Knight, Paul Kreft, Blewett Harvester Co, and McNabb. Local notices seek rewards and lost items, with rental and employment offerings across Pendleton and surrounding towns.
Motion picture news notes actor Roseell American, with past roles in The Strength of Donald McKensie and The Diamond from the Sky. At Alta theater Thursday the film Mothers of France features Madame Bernhardt in cathedral wreck footage. also staged acts and other photodramas including The Son of a Mandalen with Petrova.
The annual state health report shows whooping cough deaths far exceed smallpox deaths in Oregon. From 1908 to 1918 typhoid deaths declined, diphtheria deaths fell, and smallpox deaths remained low while whooping cough caused about 3 percent mortality among its patients. The paper notes registration improvements and districting changes.
In August Mra W. St Elena confronted a thief attempting to enter the Kien barn. The man, seen by young Witt Breshfield, fled as St Elena fired a shot and the pursuit continued until the intruder disappeared. Her husband George and others nearby aided from a distance.
Members of the organization meet in the lodge room Wednesday evening August 5 at 7 p m to attend the funeral of our late member Dan Prather. By order of the committee.
In Palo Alto California the Miss Harker School begins its seventeenth year on September 17 1917 with catalog and enrollment details for the fall term.
Auto Store Adame Athena Weston and Weaver Allen Knight Co list daily times at 10 am and 3 36 pm with reservations via phone 400. Ralph Shaffer listed as proprietor Adr.
Honolulu Aug Max Weber German timekeeper on a Maui plantation has been placed under arrest by federal officers after a bottle labeled poison was found in his possession. An analytic test of the contents was ordered amid rumors of a plot to destroy cattle with anthrax.
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