Storewide Summer Goods Sale Ad
All departments represented with price cuts from 10c to 50c. Summer stock reduced to make room for daily arriving fall stock. You lose money if you miss this sale with bargains listed at 25c 50c 19c 10c.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1904
Page
5
All departments represented with price cuts from 10c to 50c. Summer stock reduced to make room for daily arriving fall stock. You lose money if you miss this sale with bargains listed at 25c 50c 19c 10c.
A compact roundup blends storefront blurbs and classifieds. Withee's and Roosevelt's promote fashions and goods while Hawley Bros hawk fresh produce. Memorial notes cover sermons, hospital visits, property for sale, and rental offerings.
Dr Garfield and Mrs Garfield visit Long Beach and condemn the area's weather as mostly dismal with three sunny days in three weeks and several cold foggy blustery days. They favor mountain outings for relief from the sunless spell.
Work on the levee will commence September 1 with the only tasks being replacement of the facing at the west end of Water Street and extension downward of the wall near Star Street.
Wheat prices were largely steady today with clubs at 4 cents and bluestem at 70 cents. The subdued trading activity reflected unchanged supply and demand conditions across the regional grain market.
A stream of visitors and locals appears in Pendleton with Joe Bailey of Echo in town, Milton’s Matt Mangrove at St George, and F W Schmidt back from mountain vacation. Many names from Walla Walla to Helix, Meacham, La Grande and Long Beach are listed among guests, movers, and a few returning residents.
The Order of St. Francis ceremony at the convent began at 11 o clock with Bishop O Reilly presiding. Miss Mamie Thayer Chewelah Miss Mary Meyers Los Angeles Miss Sophie May Spokane and Miss Josephine Maginetti Tekoa took the veil as novices, while two graduates Sister Mary Jacobina and Sister Mary Oliveria from Philadelphia pronounced vows and became nuns.
A Wheat farmer describes a novel bookkeeping method using a stick of lumber as a teaching aid. The exchange shows humor and practical instruction on managing farm accounts with simple tools. The vignette captures small town life and inventive record keeping.
A farmer leaves with his board book after marking grain yields and farm items. McComas retorts to return it, joking it will make good kindling. The scene ends with a note on livestock disease control and federal instructions for handling sheep shipments and health checks.
W M Wilkinson purchases the ice cream and confectionery store on Court street beside C C Sharps Wall Paper house of BE Turplinger. The store is remodeled and improved and will open for business in a few days. The new name is the Cabinet.
Perry Calvin a 16 year old Way arrested yesterday on larceny from a lodging house. He appeared before Circuit Judge Ellis who refused his plea and continued the matter. Calvin was accused of robbing a man who befriended him of $10 during a shoeg binge. The Model bakery on Webb street was noted in the lodging house context.
H H McReynolds of the City Hotel in Pilot Rock reports slack business amid unusually fine local crops driving residents to the country to tend farming interests. Many townspeople have also left for vacations in the mountains or seashore, awaiting a busy fall and winter.
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