Pendleton Post Office Classified Notice
Entered at the post office at Pendleton Oregon a second class mail matter under a local public notice heading.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1911
Page
4
Entered at the post office at Pendleton Oregon a second class mail matter under a local public notice heading.
The board of water commissioners paid 4000 to Venix and Welalotsams for Thorn Hollow land claimed to supply Pendleton with water. A predevelopment clause allows returning the land if springs fail. Officials defend the expenditure and attack critics while detailing finances and the impending gravity-system project amid political campaigns in Oregon's new third district.
The text argues the commissioners uphold their action in a flow dispute and contend they deserve a fair treatment. It references quality and quantity of flow and asserts that a square deal should be granted. The excerpt focuses on governance and equitable handling rather than technical details.
A peculiar case unfolds involving the Lovens family and a disputed poker stake. Lawyers clash over control of a patting stake amid tensions in a small town courtroom.
The text hints Dr Wilay advancing in a prolonged campaign for pure food reform. Prospects of his success appear better as future efforts seem less hindered, suggesting a momentum shift in his favor.
Wallace Idaho reports W W Smith known as Two Penny Smith drove his 14 year old step daughter from a Coeur d Alene river area home last night. The mother pleaded but he refused to let the child return and she spent the night in the woods. Smith, believed to be under insane delusions, was arrested by a deputy sheriff and to be examined for sanity tomorrow.
A farmer four miles east of Colville was killed when he fell from an 8 loom wagon hauling lumber from White Mud Lake. The wagon toppled on Munson hill while the driver tried to avoid a turn. The team remained at bottom. Ross Corle transported the body to town. He is survived by a young wife, a father, and a brother living locally.
A boastful speaker claims vast wealth and power, promising to buy the world and span the distance to the moon. He envisions opulent living aboard airships and yachts, yet says only board and lodging await him at the pearly gates as he asks if he will ever reach a celestial joy-ride.
Ex-governor McConnell of Tolahia visited St. Maries and urged immigration limits. He proposed a bill to bar entry for non English speakers and to criminalize employing those ignorant of English. He plans to lobby northwest and midwest legislatures to draft similar measures to avert envisioned future trouble.
James Whitcomb Riley’s poem contrasts farewell and greeting as life cycles Deaths and births mix with wedding bells and funerals The speaker laments a routine of parting and an unseen manager guiding fate with a folksy tone
A practical organization discusses recurring schemes and theories on trade education in magazines and newspapers. A booklet issued by the Educational Commission of the International Typographical Union is cited as a reference.
The article outlines the Union's Course in Instruction in Printing with practical work and student specimens. Apprentices report wage gains and improved thinking skills, while a frontispiece shows developing creativity among compositors. Over three years 23 hundred students enrolled. NSW government asked to adapt parts of the lessons. American lessons reach France and other countries. The course, sold below cost, is subsidized by the International Typographical Union which refunds twenty five percent to graduates. The union aims to boost craft efficiency as its main weapon.
George White, a Democratic congressman from Cihta Dur, is a young lawmaker who has yet to speak in this session. Born August 21, 1872, he is among the youngest in the House and plans to voice his advanced ideas once more accustomed to Congress. Earlier, his focus was primarily on crude petroleum production.
The subject has been involved in natural gas and oil ventures and brings three years of Klondike mining experience. Born in Elmira New York, he was educated in Ittsville Pay and Princeton public schools. After graduation he taught before entering oil well digging and mining.
A compendium of dates from 1724 to 1910 lists calamities and feats including an 18th century earthquake in Palermo Sicily. Mary Wortley Montagu's death. frontier tensions near Natchez. a Santa Fe revolution. Galena copper discovery in 1825. Lake Ontario water decline in 1846 with Guilt Island reappearing. hurricanes near Antigua St Kitts Nevis and St Thomas. New Orleans riot tied to Cuban expedition. La Patra fire and Spanish shops. 1954 Danish railroad link. a Woodland Wisconsin hurricane. Walter Wellman’s balloon misadventure. a 1910 revolutionary victory in Nicaragua.
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