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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
5
Local advertising brief with rates and various small notices. Items include barbershop, markets, rentals, sales, lost and found, job inquiries, services, and real estate offers across Pendleton and Portland. Names such as El Hot, Oregon Market, Penland Bros, J. D. Watson appear, with contact numbers and locations.
A. G. Winnerling advertises readiness to drill wells to any depth with estimates provided and invites inquiries for pricing at 116 West Webb Street.
On Thursday December 25 the Eagle-Woodman hall management hosts a Saturday night dance offering cash prizes for best sustained character and best costume awarded to a lady and a gentleman.
Madam Root of Portland will visit the Alexander Department Store to unveil a line of high grade hair goods and facial preparations beginning Saturday. The event highlights new beauty products and local promotion.
Notice to contractors calls for bids on 6600 feet of drain tile 10 to 3 inches and 6500 cable yards of excavation with removal of 1000 feet of 30 inch tile. Backfilling of small tile to be included. Bids opened 10 a m Monday December 32 1918 at Umatilla Drainage District Stanfield Oregon.
In Paris on December 12 a judge freed a poor woman who stole a packet of chocolate worth 25 cents after proving she had eaten nothing for three days. The magistrate noted mercy but police have lodged an appeal, arguing the ruling.
A fragment notes that many a man sold without getting his price signaling hardships in trade. The line echoes concerns about undervaluation and unequal bargaining common in market reporting of the era.
Bb A Ely of Walla Walla Pendleton today. An eight pound girl born to Mr and Mrs Joe Snyder on December 8. Will Ferguson rode the morning train from Athena. William Wilder a Kecho stockman visited briefly. Mr and Mrs J A McPhail of Cheyenne were Pendleton guests last night. Mrs Ethel Fraker guests of Mrs K R Wilcox on Thompson street. H E B Wilcon from Prairie City Grant county in town today. M O Dennig of Echo up yesterday staying at a local hotel. G W Huffman of Toledo en route to Spokane. Superintendent J S Landers left for Pullman to judge a debate. Mrs Julius Whittek of Pasco returned after visiting friends. Charles Kennedy son of J B Kennedy grain buyer at Condon visiting his father. J W Tallman Pendleton Commercial Club president left for Portland to attend hydro electric commission meeting. Mr and Mrs E G Albert of Winnipeg arrived yesterday via Northern Pacific and left this morning on westbound local.
A Brooklyn bridge incident reports a funeral urn scattered by Joseph McGowan on the Brooklyn Bridge at sundown. The undertaker explained the contractor’s will required burning and scattering ashes from the span. Police questioned the act but no name was released for the deceased.
An osteopathic physician uses the body's natural chemistry to restore chemical equilibrium without active drugs. By manipulating the nervous system, the master tissue directs all parts of the body to correct imbalances, making other tissues its slaves. Adv by Drs. Holsington Judd Building.
Mrs. J. H. Koberg of Hood River Oregon repelled two men trying to break into a Japanese home near her farm. She used a revolver to hold them until Sheriff and Police Chief arrived. The suspects FE Hansen and B Johansen were arrested and sent to Hood River for street labor. They claimed they sought food.
Misa Jen sic E McCann of Brooklyn who disappeared last week is likely to return home soon. Friends report information suggesting no harm occurred and that her homecoming should not be long delayed.
Wheat tests show Umatilla county grown grain surpasses Canadian seed in gluten. George Peringer and partners imported Saskatchewan seed, with 45 to 46 percent gluten, while local storage tests reach high gluten levels. An Irrigation Institute meeting in North Yakima will cover storage to crop growth. Dr. W McClure visits as Woolgrowers’ secretary. Local market bids top 76 cents a bushel amid tighter supply.
Frank Schmidt an 18 year old Milwaukee man claimed to physicians at Emergency hospital that a mail course on memory caused him to lose his memory. He was found acting strangely on the street and could not recall his job or direction to work. Police moved him to hospital for observation.
Martin J. Boyle, once a water boy at Ablemans Wisconsin, has risen to superintendent of the Minnesota division of the Northwestern Road. At 18 he started with a crew of track laborers and worked as a telegrapher, night operator, and at multiple Madison division stations before moving to Owatonna. Now a leading railroad official in southern Minnesota, his promotion was announced recently.
A brief maxims style note contends that romantic disappointment feels preferable to a failed marriage. It frames emotional risk as a personal choice and cautions against enduring long unhappy unions.
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