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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1906
Page
7
Local bank notices show Pendleton Savings Bank and First National Bank of Pendleton with capital and surplus details, officer names, and services. Nearby ads promote the feed yard on Aura Street, City Livery Stable, Graham the Furniture Man, Bowlsby Pawnbroker, and attorney Eder West with other classified notices and goods for sale including alfalfa hay.
The week saw 59 head of stock left the Wonl yards Werle with Bhoep leading shipments to Kaneda City and Portland. A gravel bank collapse near a road work site buried a man, saved by nearby rescuers, with injuries expected to sideline him for months. Oregon legislature extended elk protection to Sep 15 1907, restricting hunting to a brief season. Foley's Honey and Tar touted for coughs and lung troubles.
Report from Canyon City last week records a case of extreme cruelty by Lee Weiser a 12 year old boy left in charge of stock near Mt Vernon. He allegedly hacked cattle with a broken leg bone tied to a pole fatally injuring two animals and wounding others. He was bound over to the next circuit court term.
Earnest Hambleton son of W P Hambleton faced a grave incident when a gravel cave-in trapped him briefly in a city area. He escaped unharmed after workers freed him.
Report from Lostine Democrat notes discovery of coal near Chico by John Beggs and others, with local ranchers and a sheepman in town several days last week. Mr Heges says he disposed of all his sheep and received a tip-top price. The find follows artesian water drilling nearby, causing elation in the district.
An old advertisement notes public speakers are often interrupted by coughing and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar to cure coughs and colds. It claims no opiates and mentions Koeppens' drug store in a yellow package.
Housekeeping rooms in an East Oregonian building are available unfurnished with hot and cold water and a bath on the same floor. Inquire at the office for details and rates.
Market report lists prices for Pendleton area items including celery at 10 cents per bunch, cranberries 20 cents per quart, dressed chickens 40 to 50 cents each, dressed turkeys 20 cents per pound, ducks 65 cents each, geese at 1 1/2 cents per pound, tomatoes, sauerkraut 1 cent per quart, butter 6 1/2 dollars per roll, eggs 36 cents per dozen, sweet potatoes at 8 cents per pound, potatoes 1 cent and 1 1/2 cent per pound, squash 25 to 30 cents each, cabbage 3 to 4 cents per head, onions 1/2 cent per pound, and Grand Ronde apples 1.50 per box.
Hoboken N J Dec 4 At the annual meeting of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church it was announced that during the past year 100000 had been raised and distributed for mission work in the Far East Regular steamboat trips on Lake Klamath have been given up and boats go when they can and come when it is needed.
An archival ad fragment lists contact details for Pendleton Tee and Cold Storage Company with a phone listing Main 178 and nearby businesses Altost Henneman's cigar store opposite Great Eastern store and an additional phone entry.
A sales pitch praising aged wines and whiskeys, highlighting 1893 Mel wood whiskey and 1900 wines. It touts mellow fruitiness and favorable flavor, claims reasonable prices despite high prices elsewhere, and invites lovers of good things to buy, noting items sold only as
Riparia to Lewiston leaves daily except Saturday at 6 40 a m. Lewiston departure daily except Friday to a m. Pendleton agents Smith and Murray of Portland Oregon listed for guidance.
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