City Hall Plans Probed as Hermiston Council Debates Lots
Hermiston council weighs city hall site options after rejecting outside aid offers. Members vote to buy two W. H. Ekiner lots for the project at regular price while earlier donations from J. H. Reid C. S. McNaught and others were rejected. The meeting focuses on funding and site choices for the new civic building.
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Hermiston
Griffin
Hare
Bwine
W. H. Ekinner
J. H. Reid
C. S&s MccNaught
C. L Morgan
Hermiston Avenue
City council weighs offers for land and building
Citizens offered up to $1000 in good faith according to an interview, while W H Bkinner offered a lot and building to meet city needs. The controls refused both offers, and councilmen Davie and McMillan opposed the purchase. The matter will be brought before the council again.
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W. H. Bkinner
Bullam Bulding
Davie
McMillan
Dispatching Shift At Pasco Replaces Walla Walla Control
Dispatching for the Walla Walla branch moves to Pasco under Northern Pacific orders. R J Hubbard, longtime Walla Walla dispatcher, is reassigned to Pasco to manage car distribution for the district. Hunts Junction station is discontinued and trains will not stop there, with Attalla named as the Pasco Wallula junction.
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Northern Pacific
Walla Walla
Pasco
Caya
Walla Walla Bulletin
R. J. Hubbard
Severa
W & O FR
Hunts Junction
Attalla
Pries
Wallula
Alaska Trip Sparks Sav ings Bank Leader Enthusiasm
Gays Gwinn president of the Savings Bank and his wife recently completed a summer excursion to Alaska aboard a special steamer. The voyage stopped at Juneau Sitka Metlahkatla Ketchikan and Skagway with many passengers praising the accommodations as superior to Atlantic steamers. The trip is described as an ideal vacation for eastern Oregon residents.
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Gays Gwinn
M. B. Gwinn
The
Savings Bank
Alaska
Mr. Gwinn Lael
Mr. Gwinn
Juneau
Sitka
Metlahkatla
Ketchikan
Skagway
Oregon
Gwinn
Echo Engaged for District Fair Exhibit
Echo Mewrs EH Brown and Louis Scholl Jr engage space for an Echo exhibit at the district fair. Brown met Secretary Fitzgerald to confirm space and time for Echo. Other towns in Umatilla and Morrow counties are urged to engage space to ensure equitable pavilion division.
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Echo Mewrs
Brown
Louis Scholl, Jr
Echo
FitzGerald
Umatilla
Morrow
Cool Summer in Powder Valley in Oregon
Baker City Herald notes an unusually cool Oregon summer with frost observed at dawn and potato vines nearly mature being killed. Squash leaves withered and turned black. The thermometer reached 75 degrees at noon, prompting readers to question the cool spell on August 19.
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Powder Valley
Oregon
Baker City Herald
Labor Laying Harvest Device Reported In County
A historic notice from Ritaville Times describes a threshing machine innovation where one man operates a power derrick device powered by an engine. Two forks can be managed by a single operator, eliminating the need for one man and four horses and promising significant labor savings in harvesting.
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Ritaville
Sheep Shipment From Valentine & Douglass to Nebraska
Sixty-two hundred of sixteen thousand sheep sold by Valentine & Douglass were loaded into 71 box cars at Pocatello stockyards and shipped to a Kearney Nebraska buyer after inspection by government inspector Dr. Rork. The remaining sheep are to be sent within weeks to the Western Stock Yards in Chicago.
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Valentine & Douglass
Kearney
Neb
Pocatello
Rork
Chicago
Pocatello Tribune
Wireless time signal aids Midway naval voyage
J. T. McMillan, an unofficial expert of the branch hydrographic office in San Francisco, transmitted the correct time via wireless telegraphy to Captain Carter of the navy tug Iroquois at Midway Island, 2700 miles away. The Ocean Beach operator notified Lieut ent McMillan, who brought a corrected chronometer to the station and provided Captain Carter with the timing to verify the Iroquois chronometer.
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J. T. McMillan
Branch Hydrographic Office
San Francisco
Carter
Iroquois
Midway Island
Ocean Beach
McMillan
Cohen Returns Home From East Trip Leaders Plan Fair Preparations
Ivon Cohen Pendleton merchant and Third District Mall commissioner returns with Mrs Cohen from a lengthy Eastward tour through New York Thousand Islands Montreal Quebec Buffalo Duluth Minneapolis and Yellowstone Park. He says Pendleton feels best as they resume district fair preparations with an executive committee meeting set to map fall week details Teutsch is due back soon.
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Cohen
Mra. Cohen Maude
New York
Thousand Isles
Yellowstone Park
Ivon Cohen
Prince
Pendleton
Third District Mall Commission
Wheel Horse
Cohena
Canada
St. Lawrence
Thousand Islands
Montreal
Quebec
Buffalo
Great Lakes
Duluth
Minneapolis
CBE
Roownevelt
Commission
Messrs. Cohen and
Teutsch
Mr. Teutsch
Caat
Car Inspector Killed by Switch Engine at Pasco
Irving W. Rand, six car inspector for the W W & R at Pasco, was killed when a switch engine, while repairing a truck, kicked the car and crushed his chest. A sister in Tyler is named. remains to be shipped to Sprague for burial. Brakeman W A Kauffman suffered serious bruises and a near miss when a box car rolled toward him but he escaped.
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J. W. Rand
Pasco
Irving W. Rand
Www
Tyler
Sprague
W. A. Kauffman
Northettt
Pacific
Dette
Northern Pacific
Garde
Lune
Coal shipments eyed from Arkansas mines to Idaho
Information from B E J Martin, manager of Russelville Anthracite Coal Mining Co of Russelville Arkansas, indicates orders for 6600 tons already placed in Idaho, with expectations to reach 1444 car loads or 20000 tons this season. He proposes using Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line interchange to move coal south and backhaul grain cars north, and mentions exploring Lincoln Illinois for potential shipments if Russelville production falters. He notes rates of 6 dollars per ton from Mixcourt river points, 9 dollars including coal at mines to Idaho, and 10 dollars for hard coal from the river to Idaho. In a separate item, Homer Gearhart’s 11-year-old son drowned at Castle Rock Washington on the Cowits river ferry. body recovered.
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Salt Lake
BE. J. Martin
Utke
Union Pacific Cara
Missouri River
Martin
Lincoln
Russelville
Utah
Idaho
Mixcourt
Homer Gearhart
Castle Rock
Wash
Quarantine Rules Change for Sheep Importation
At the state sheep commission meeting in Portland the quarantine rules were amended. Oversight of dipping requirements was relaxed for sheep brought into the state after a Federal injunction by Judge Wolverton. The commission will seek an attorney general opinion on enforcing the annual dipping law until September 1 and extend compliance time for Willamette valley counties.
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State Sheep Commission
Portland
Wolverton
Washington
Attorney Generals
Willamette Valley
Land Deal Nets 1180000 Wheat Farm Sale Near Myrick
John Campbell sold a 240 acre wheat land ranch four and a half miles west of Myrick station for 1180000 to J E Montgomery, Puget Sound Warehouse rep. Montgomery will rent the farm and Campbell plans to move to western Oregon to raise stock. The Montgomery brothers had earlier sold Texas Panhandle lands for a profit of 8800, buying land 18 months ago at 5 per acre and selling at 11 per acre.
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John Campbell
Myrick Station
Mr. Campbell
Oregon
Montgomerys
Panhandle
Texas
Amy
J. E. Montgomery
Puget Sound Warehouse Company
Fine Wheat
Montgomery
Puget Sound Company
Campbell
Campbell Ranch
A. BH. Montgomery
Helix Bank
J. B. Montgomery
New Perce
Umatila County
Campbell Place
Death claims Albert Staggs in Weston
Albert C. Staggs died Wednesday afternoon after three weeks of failing health. He was from a pioneer Weston family and had recently lived in Portland. Survived by a wife and five sons and one daughter. Funeral held at Baptist church with Rev. Norris presiding.
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Weston
Albert C. Stages
Stages
Albert Stages
Albert C. Staggs
Portland
Geo. Stages
Mr. Norris
Lewiston Water Bond Election Scheduled for Sept 21
Lewiston voters will decide on a $57,000 city water department bond at a September 21 election. The issue is widely discussed in business circles and a detailed statement on the bond’s purpose will soon be issued by City Controller Nickerson.
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Lewiston
City Water Department
Nickerson
Missouri man dies after second appendicitis operation
Robert P. Jones died at Dra. Pearce and Anderson hospital in Sumpter after a second appendicitis operation within a week, the only hope of saving his life. He was 36, a Missouri native, and left a wife and one young child.
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Robert P. Jones
Dra. Pearce & Anderson Hospital
Sumpter
Missouri
Ruby Horses In Iowa Arrive From New York Shipments
Imported Percheron Clydesdales Shires Belgians and German Coach horses arrived in Nevada Iowa in three carloads with more due. The first load reached Barrett barn from New York Friday and a second load came by freight yesterday. One Belgian stallion died en route. Mr A C Ruby importer plans to move best horses to Pendleton Oregon while the rest stay in Nevada for recovery and viewing by visitors. T P Worsley oversees operations with French caretakers.
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Nevada
Iowa
Nevada, Iowa
New York
Barrett
Lough and
Jones
A. C. Ruby
Chicago
T. P. Worsley Hans
Farmers & Merchants bank at Yakima Articles Filed
Articles of incorporation for Farmers and Merchants Bank at Yakima filed with county auditor. Capital stock set at 30006 dollars.
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Farmers’ & Merchants’ Bank
Yakima
Courtty
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