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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1918
Page
4
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A wartime verse by Albert Bigelow Paine celebrates fallen fathers and mothers with imagery of roses, wreaths, and a sea of tears. It honors the sacrifice and unity of generations as bloodlines merge in memory beneath peaceful rest.
In Senate testimony Secretary Baker and General March assert a Western front policy for the United States. The aim is to concentrate military effort on France, with emphasis on defeating Germany there. They contend use of Russians would be slow and that fighting the Kaiser where the fighting is thickest is the bold plan. If Marcus’ 1919 victory estimate holds, criticism over the method may end.
A notice describes a system change in allotment and allowance checks by the Treasury Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Some checks will be smaller, with amounts omitted then included in other payments. The new method aims to simplify processing and ensure total entitlement remains correct.
The War Risk Insurance Bureau will speed payments by issuing only the compulsory $15 monthly allotment and the government family allowance starting July. Excess allotments beyond $15 or to noneligible dependents will be handled by the appropriate military department according to service branch.
The piece accuses Bolsheviks of a German alliance and labels Lenin and Trotsky as German agents. It notes baseball in Jerusalem possibly aiding players avoiding the draft. It mentions motorizing the 146th Field Artillery after delays and a prison mutiny in Walla Walla following a guard shooting.
In Pendleton today George Olcott T J Tweedy and Frank Michaels, Rock stew, are seen about town. Wilteon and Mim Nina Dean, Pilot Hock youths, were married in Pendleton. In Justice Bishop's court this morning FE Murrow John Allen and F F Sweet, shoplifters who took thermocives from W E Hamlin, appeared to answer for their crime and were held to explain to the grand jury. Also notice Sam VW Sturgis of Pendleton offering a fine Camne Prairie ranch and hay grain stock listings.
Aug 23 report from Purtlani a note on duck preserves owners moving birds to California and hunters in the Lower Columbia and beyond facing trouble as waterfowl flights slow. West coast waterfowl activity expected to impact preserves and hunting plans amid regulatory surfacing delays. Highway waits near Salem as authorities consider permits and completed road work in the region.
Roy Childs, superintendent of the Hood River experiment station, urges Creston apple growers to spray arsenate of lead, noting cooler weather delayed moth development. When warmth returns, moths may emerge active in large numbers.
Hall traveled toward the coyate as a TW propagandier carrying literature and seeking to incite strikes among copper mine and lapse workers nationwide. He traveled with Haywood and 99 others. W. W. bead and 48 Mooney and other laborers were recently convicted in Chicago, according to his account of persecution.
Oregon holds first place in three major contests in Storrs Columbia and Pullman after nine months with a record of 1.707 age. For the week the Oregon record is 49 ema, up 11 from the prior week. The second pen has 1,654 and third 1,559. The college Barred Rocks at Pullman and British Columbia maintain their lead.
Washington August 23. War and Navy Departments Commissions on Training Camp Activities urge young girls to be cautious about acquaintances with callers. They stress the warning targets avoid compromising conduct while affirming the overall integrity of servicemen.
Salem Ore Aug 23 Cornelia Marvin catalogues a large collection of original manuscript maps of early Oregon railroads and wagon roads found in library effects. The list includes several maps of Oregon & California Railroad routes including one dated 171 and a survey map by Joseph Linshaw.
Fragmentary OCR lists several old Oregon companies and routes including Corvalile Yaquina Bay Wagon Road. Willamette Valley Railroad. Mountain Military Wagon. Central Military Kopi. 190 Oregon Central military line and others dated 1870 to 1405, with references to Breene City and thinp gna county. The text is garbled, but indicates a catalog of historic road and railroad ventures in Oregon Territory with dates.
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