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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1904
Page
5
Local notices mention Sunny the Boston at Wirhee’s gilt and Martin’s cream, with notes on new spring shirts and department store offerings. Vendors like Teutsch’s, Haw Lee cream, and Sargeant of Athena advertise goods. Weston area crops praised and farms report prosperity.
Store notice proclaims summer goods reduced up to one fourth with room for fall stock. Readers are urged not to miss the sale, promising numerous bargains and new stock arriving soon.
The article recalls costly lanterns carried by a passenger conductor era with blue glass fronts and owner names in old Hoglish. It notes elaborate displays at hotel meetings and high ticket prices. Also mentioned is a Chicago Baptist Church service schedule with morning worship and a Union meeting at the Presbyterian church.
An Orville California resident recounts a curious late 19th century tale in which a young woman, angered by unwanted advances at a mining camp near Carson City, challenges a man to marry her. A minister marries them on the spot, the groom becomes wealthy, and they later tour Europe. The bride later laments motherhood with a line about her hatch of ducklings.
After two years the widow Mrs Gustav Kix fulfilled her dead husband Gustav Rix's last wish to scatter his ashes in two places. One half was scattered in the Bronx park and the other half will be taken to Germany to be dispersed in the Cologne botanical gardens. Rix, born in Germany, studied insect life in the Bronx and created the Rix butterfly from cross breeding. His large butterfly collection was donated to the Bronx Botanical Gardens.
Conrad Platzoeder has bought 60 head of fat hogs from W Card of Tutuilla and 60 head from McElroy four miles east on the reservation, plus 16 head from the Owenses on Camas prairie and 25 head of cattle from Jack Siighim east of town. The Camas herd is noted as top alfalfa fats, while Brix ham hogs were grain fastened and could pass as full-fed grains in Eastern markets.
About 150 people plan to go to Walla Walla to see the Ringinie circus aboard the O R N. A special round trip fare of 1 is expected if at least six excursions are booked. If not, the price will revert to the regular train rate. A survey crew is advancing the preliminary work on a new electric belt line for Grand Ronde valley toward Union.
The Oregon Press Association will hold its annual meeting in Hood River during the fair. The fair runs Thursday to October 20, with the association meeting on Friday and Saturday the 14th and 15th. President Moorhead expects a Salem club presidency discussion and possible election from local press talent. The next meeting may move to Portland for the Lewis and Clark fair, inviting broad participation.
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