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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1911
Page
2
Pendleton store urges Christmas buyers to shop now for best holiday stocks. Exclusive one of a kind items sell fast, with delivery options and free packing for out of town gifts. Buy this week or next to secure top selections and avoid waiting until the last day. Gifts kept for later pickup or delivered when desired.
We are forced to sacrifice our Men's Clothing and Overcoats due to excess for the season. Prices start at $22.50 for suits and overcoats and rise to $32.50, with several price points listed as sales progress.
Holiday department offers slippers from old-time carpet to patent pumps and kid slippers in colors and styles. Aprons in lawn and mull with lace trim priced 50 cents to 2 dollars, plus two and three piece sets with handmade lace. Embroidered chiffine and marquesette waists shown in latest models priced 6.95 to 320.00.
A plain hemstitched linen lined cloth and buffet scarf offered as a remembrance. Line of beautiful linen pieces, drawn work scarfs and cloths with scalloped doilies in all sizes. Lace curtains on special day only with prices from 5.00 to 2.48. Christmas handkerchiefs in varied linen and embroidery, holiday boxes free with purchases of 1.00 or more.
Pendleton's Cleanest and Best Grocery announces main store numbers and urges Xmas shopping. Featured items include imported figs and dates, bouillon cubes, Tryphosa and wine jelly, extra fancy walnuts, pure maple sugar, high grade catsup, and more at promotional prices.
The Orpheum presents a packed Vitagraph Monthly section with news from the past month including the International Motor Mont Recess at Huntington and the start of the Avistors at Shovemhead Bay. It describes films such as How They Stopped the Run on the Bank and Christian and Moor, plus The Squaw's Mistaken Love and An Accidental Outlaw and An Old Sweetheart of Mine, all tied to the Tuesday program.
A number of strikebreakers caused trouble in a car provided by the C W R R W company and were arrested by Mar Phat Stephens, fined five dollars, and sent to Pendleton. The US scow Wallowa ran aground four miles east of here and will undergo months of repairs. Thanksgiving dances by local Red Men and related social events drew large attendance, with notable fundraising for a United church. Nomination lists for December 6 elections published. lyceum event featuring Rickett’s Concert Company announced for December 6. personal mentions include residents visiting Portland and Baker City.
Special correspondence from Hermiston Oregon December 4 reports boosters furious at opposition to the West Extension project. Editor Reeves says delays stem from funding and engineers find it feasible. opposing meetings carry little weight now. Local events include Otto Sapper buying a music stock in Portland, Strollers quartet concert December 24, and a December 6 Baptist church chicken supper. A new precinct voting site near Columbia schoolhouse is set, a nursery project is planned, and a large Hermiston Commercial Club smoker is announced for December 8.
Spokane, Wash announces plans for the 1912 National Country Life Congress and fifth National Apple Show with band contests open to western groups. An estimated 60 to 75 bands will perform in city parades and concerts, amid a $350,000 apple show complex to house congresses. The Inland Empire Federation of Commercial Clubs grows to 38 chambers, aiming for 100 member organizations by year end. The Central Fruit Marketing Exchange will push campaigns to secure markets for the apple crop.
The revival at the Christian church will extend for at least a week. Mr Ridenous, who helped in the revival, must leave for other work today, but the meetings continue with renewed effort. Misa Linkenfelter from Seattle will solo again Tuesday at the Pendleton service, and no service is held tonight. The meeting drew many converts and young men taking steps toward church membership. The evangelist delivered a strong sermon on The Sinless Christ, with See Time and Harvest announced for Tuesday night.
Local man H Brown of Muscadine Alm credits Dr Kings New Discovery for saving his wife's life from a severe bronchial illness and cough. The ad touts the medicine as a universal remedy for lung trouble with a price and a free bottle offer. Also mentions Meacham praising a growers movement led by HL W Otis of Peshastin Wash.
For sale 480 acres wheat land with half summer fallow and half in tub ble, ample water and fair improvements. Short hmans to Vanevele ware. For piidleninrandilross J. C. Tuyen, Tuniper, Ore.
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