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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1905
Page
8
A garbled ad offers a quirky pitch about digging clams and down by the sea, promoting coffee as a companion. It promises the same good kind of product and hints at expertise from the speaker.
Fragmentary text notes a coffee sale at the Owl Tea House in Pendleton described as twenty five cent coffee. References clams crabs and corkscrew minds with unclear meaning. The phrase Mohter's Pride and a sun-turned boy appear as fragmented images.
A brief item notes Owl Tea House aiming for six bars of silk soap priced at S50. The exact context and entities are unclear due to fragmented OCR text.
A saloon fight between Frank Murray and William Pearson in North Powder left Pearson critically wounded after Murray stabbed him in the left breast with a pocket knife. Police intervened to stop further injury, and Pearson’s condition prompted fears for recovery. Pearson reportedly provoked the fight, which began as a drunken altercation and escalated to blows.
Karl Baldus lost six stacks of beaded wheat in a fire at his farm east of town. The crop from 40 acres, expected to yield about 40 bushels per acre, was damaged when the blaze started in stubble roughly 100 yards from the stacks. The cause remains under investigation.
The ad promises relief from summer headaches caused by heat. FP. and 5. Headache Wafers cool the head and stop temple pain quickly. It also claims to cure nervous, mental, or bilious headaches fast.
A fragmented line suggests a comparison between practical, solid financial holdings and flashy but riskier investments. It hints at prudent wealth preservation, valuing stable assets over impressive but precarious gains.
Allie Baldue fainted after rushing half a mile to help at a blaze that threatened a house and barn. The grain loss was uninsured, a setback for Baldu’s farm. In a separate incident, Fred Holmes fractured a leg when a wagon overturned on Fox hill during strong winds near Island City. He received care at Bacon & Hall before returning home.
Rev Perry Chandler pastor of the North Methodist church at Heppner is in town on his way home from Moscow where he attended the church conference. Last evening Webster A Chandler son of the pastor, formerly of this city, stopped for a visit and is bound for the east to locate and practice law.
Mr and Mrs George Hartman Jr returned from Astoria where they visited for weeks then joined a camping party into Nehalem country south of Astoria and in the Coast range mountains. The party fished hunted and several deer were killed by members.
In police court this morning E. J. McCarthy received five dollars or three days for being drunk, and George Smith got thirty-eight dollars or four days for disorderly conduct. The latter was arrested by Mareha Coffman yesterday evening while attempting to open up hostilities with a Chief man.
A historical ad claims dandruff stems from a germ in the scalp and promises permanent cure by killing the germ with Newbro’s Herpicide. It urges readers to mail for samples to The Herpicide Co Detroit Michigan, via A C Koeppen and Bros, special agents.
A 16 year old Indian girl rode toward the reservation with Umartillas when she fell from her horse and became too intoxicated to ride. She was placed in a wagon and taken home as onlookers, including two saloon men, commented on the scene and condemned the behavior. Several accompanying Umartillas were also intoxicated.
Governor George E. Chamberlain proclaims Labor Day a legal holiday on Monday September 4 1905 in Oregon. He urges workers and employers to meet in friendly social intercourse to strengthen relations and enhance prosperity. Proclamation dated August 28 1905 in Salem at the state capitol.
A. Z. McAllister has purchased a one third interest in Brock & McComas drug store, joining W. F. Brock and F. G. Mitchell and Clarence Adams. McAllister will oversee operations at Brock & McComas with headquarters there, replacing Donaldson pharmacy as sale point for the coming year. H. E. McCann plans to leave for Seattle.
The Josephine Jeffry company brings a three week engagement to the Fraser theatre starting Sunday September 5. Opening show will be A Deverted Bride, a tonal drama featuring Min Deffry in a premier performance. She recently starred in A Wicked Woman and is familiar to Pendleton theatre audiences. A forest fire near Cove threatened the Grand Ronde area, burning farm buildings and Amber resources, with wind shifting to the north preventing further damage. Culdesac census counts 637 residents, with nonresident short-term visitors not included in the tally.
A Sunday dust storm forced C B Lyman Conductor W H Kelsay and guests from Missouri to shelter under cottonwoods along the Vinatula river east of town. Monster trees toppled but sheltering tree endured. County Commissioner Horace Walker, visiting Weston, reports severe storms with minimal damage and delayed threshing. harvest in Weston mountain may require at least 10 more days.
Mr Hawthe Stanfield a major Pendleton property owner has visited Baker City in recent days to consider investing and making the city his home The hot weather in Pendleton’s summer is seen as undesirable and Mrs Stanfield is impressed by Bakers cold pure water and the overall appeal of the city
The board selected janitors for each school building with work to ready facilities starting September 1. Appointments include T. M. Lowe for the high school and North Side buildings, W. C. Thompson for the East End building, and Bert Wisdom for the West End building.
Word reaches that the Umatillas now with the wild west show in Grand Rapids Michigan are unhappy with their jobs and strive to return to the reservation. Money will be sent for some members from here, but several in Grand Rapids cannot afford travel home and must stay until they earn enough to buy a ticket to Oregon.
Co H Oleott and family move from Pilot Rock area back to the city for the winter. They had been on the farm since early spring and Mr Olcott raised a good hay crop. His cattle mass did well despite tough conditions.
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