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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1916
Page
3
Morning fog clears to mild sun as river rises after yesterday’s rain. Payette woman undergoes hospital surgery. two drunks sentenced. Umatilla Masons elect officers. bear story corrected. Woolgrowers to attend Heppner convention. steelhead run expected as water releases aid migration. The New York Sun notes Mrs. Starcher’s mayoral victory in Umatilla.
Pendleton experienced an intermittent power outage yesterday with the line going off in the morning and returning briefly in the early afternoon and again in the evening. The Wiehts disrupted service from 6:00 to about 7:20 PM.
The State Department lodged strong representations with the Carranza government over the arrest of American citizen Ricardo Solis. Solis was arrested at Matamoros and taken to Victoria for trial. A departmental investigation confirmed Solis holds American citizenship.
President Wilson opened the White House social season with a dinner in honor of his cabinet. Guests included Vice President and Mrs. Marshall, Col. and Mrs. E. M. House, Gov. Martin Glynn of New York and Mrs. Glynn, Robert Lovett, Cyrus McCormick, Joseph Willard, Ambassador to Spain, Charles Gibson and Mrs. Gibson, and many government officials and personal friends.
The will of George C. Boldt, famed hotelman, filed in New York on December 13, bequeaths his entire estate, valued at over 16 million dollars, to his son George C. Boldt Jr and daughter Mrs. Glover Boldt Miles. Boldt names himself executor and owned all Waldorf Astoria Hotel stock and the Bellevue Stratford hotel in Philadelphia.
Chicago December reported that a representative of the Canadian Pacific railway announced the American legion of the Dominion had sailed for Europe on the day.
Under the nom de plume Michael Strange Mai Taonard M. Thomas a society belle publishs a volume of poems that reveal a passionate soul. Before her marriage she was Blanche Oelrichm daughter of Charles Oelrich. She marches annually in the New York City suffrage parade.
Albany report notes eight hundred attendees in the New York Education Building as Thomas A. Edison is conferred the degree of doctor of laws by Dr. John H. Finley. Edison accepted the honor from his Orange, New Jersey laboratory via telephone, a unique feat in the history of university honors. Fate a flirt who fools men and then giggles at them.
Gustave Alum, 35, secretary aboard the Granite State travel ship, shot and killed his son John, 10, and daughter Ethel, 4, at their home in Rickmond Hill before fatally shooting himself. Police say the incident occurred tonight, leaving the community stunned.
One hundred thousand rounds of rifle ammunition were seized by authorities in Calveston Texas. A man who gave a New York address was arrested in connection with the seizure. The ammunition was suspected to be destined for one of the warring factions in Mexico. No changes in liquor situation reported as ballots held in seventeen Texas cities produced no shift. Chelwen Chicopee Lawrence Lowell Worcester remain in Home column.
Local paid advertisements list furnished apartments and rooms for rent at Lilleth Stonewall and nearby, plus a furniture sale at Baker Furniture Store. The Cadillacs agency reports a price rise of 100 at 6 pm tomorrow with orders before Thursday noon. contact via phone 46 for details.
A woman identified as Smith left a young girl at the Day Nursery on Madison Street and fled. By night she had not returned, and the child was taken to the Foundlings Home on Wood Street. Police search for a man named Mr Smith, 96 years old, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, 140 pounds. The child wore a faded blue dress, black shoes and stockings.
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