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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
5
Local ads seek help for general housework and waiting tables, harvest labor, and six room rentals with board. Also listed are lost items including ducks and a blue serge coat, reward offers, used furniture van services, restaurant opening, and a batch of advertisements for goods and services.
Box 41 Pendleton Oregon advertises Unique Shooting Gallery at 640 Main street next door to Bond Bros offering prize targets with best shot prizes including a 30-30 Remington rifle. Also notes Str Bailey Gatzert passenger service from The Dalles to Portland daily except Sunday and Monday at 2 15 pm arriving 8 45 pm fare one dollar.
Notice that the partnership Gillette & Bowman proprietors of Pendleton Dye Works and Bowman Cleaning Works Pendleton Oregon dissolves by mutual consent. Gillette assumes payment of all debts and is to receive all payments owed to the firm. Dated August 8th 1912. Ced. B Gillette. Vax J Bowman.
Porter Charlton left for Italy aboard the Genoa liner which will take him to Lake Como for his murder trial of his wife. He was surrendered by New Jersey Sheriff Wedin to Italian officials at the New York pier and posed for photographers without speaking. He travels in a second-class stateroom.
Thomas Lawson the Boston financier said he would join 25 others to contribute 100000 each to a large fund backing Governor Sulzer in a showdown with Tammany. He claimed Sulzer has little to lose and could help free New York from the corrupt political gang.
London reports from Bucharest that future Balkan alliance ties will be sealed by marriages. Princess Elibabeth of Roumania to Greece crown prince George. Prince Charlee of Roumania to Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia. Prince Alexander of Servia to Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of Emperor Nicholas.
Washington Aug. 14. Addressing 500 suffragettes Dr Wiley declared he exploded the tale that woman sprang from Adam's rib. He said biological study refutes the story and there is no evidence in physiology that woman is an appendage of any archaic male skeleton. He added woman sprang from bioplasm as man.
A brief report notes that the supply of talk exceeds demand, signaling an imbalance in communication or commentary available to meet public interest or market appetite.
The column lists numerous visitors and residents arriving or departing Pendleton and nearby areas. Names include Cc P Bowman Echo Horace Walker Stanfield Asa BL Thomson Echo Judge James A Fee Milton Dave Graybear Pendleton J. W. Keen Athena Hal Corby Lehman Springs Frank Engelman Ione Perry Thompson Vancyele D D Berger La Grande Mrs R Raymond Raymond ranch near Stanton B Calderhead Walla Walla John Chug Stanfield W R Walpole Irrigan Miss Ellen Canfield Hermiston Frank Sloan Stanfield WH Bolle Portland Manuel Friedley Meacham Rev T F Weaver Lehman Springs Mrs C McCook and children Nesmith Ankeney Prof John Straub Athena J F Vaughan B P Stone Heppner Lee D Drake East Oregonian M K R Yates Mrs A Gaepler Lambert San Diego Cal Chick Nelson Robert Livermore Ralph Hassel W L Thompson Portland Joergen Mumm Europe tour encore to Iowa Nebraska.
A large Wallowa county wool consignment bound for Boston markets sold at good prices. The 275000 pounds yielded above 16 cents per pound, about two cents higher than local sales. Growers Jay H. Dobbin Fred W. Falconer C. D. Daugherty and N. C. Longfellow profited. C. L. Hartshorn's lot pending. Market uncertainty eased after eastern negotiators and Hallowell Jones Donad aided the sale.
Portland Ore Aug 14 Ten industrialists were arrested at a street meeting after a reported invasion from California and other states they planned. They were charged with disorderly conduct. Sheriff Ward was notified that 50 members of the organization are en route from San Francisco.
In North Yakima on August 14, the Braves beat Pendleton twice in a doubleheader. Key moments included a disputed fifth inning call by umpire Russ Hall, plus late hitting as Stokke and Taylor drove in runs to seal both games. Pendleton pitchers Peet and Peterson offered solid work, but timely Braves hits and fielding miscues by North Yakima decided the results.
In Rockford Illinois on August 14 at a Catholic harvest festival in Durand, Lorimer suggested he might run again for the Senate. He argued the nation faces socialism and denounced initiative referendum and recall as socialistic errors that could undermine government.
The Knight Templars elected Arthur McArthur of Troy New York grand master at Denver on August 14 and advanced other members in the grand encampment a step. Los Angeles and New York are rivals for the next con clave.
A soaking rain fell intermittently for 24 hours aiding fall plowing. Showers arrived in torrents swelling streets and gutters. Rural districts reported little damage except a small grain loss and wind damage to orchards. Harvesting and threshing were suspended likely for days.
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