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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
4
An advertisement touts affordable women’s footwear claiming dated styles and clumsy shoes are unnecessary. It invites readers to visit and be fitted with a pair priced up to five dollars, asserting unmatched value for the price.
Directory of merchants offers, discounts, and product listings. Cleaver Bros. Dry Goods Co. advertises collarettes and yard goods. White House grocers stock canned fruit and Swift's ham. Demott's markets meats. cigars at Mark Patton's. Columbia inn bar. Baker Folcom announce furniture lines. DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve promoted. Tallman & Co. druggists highlighted.
Local merchants advertise gifts and foods for Christmas including Japanese goods, candies, cosmetics, and furniture. The scene also covers dental and medical notices, club elections, a Masonic gathering, a Pendleton Chapter election, and social events with messages from residents and businesses around Court Street.
A jumble of short notes lists numerous visitors and residents from Pendleton and surrounding towns. John E. Chigthorn from Buhne, Al Vogel of Plint Rock visiting Poendivton, and W TD Chamberlain from Weston are noted, alongside many others arriving, renewing acquaintances, or leaving for events and family matters.
The county court held a forenoon session and will reconvene in the afternoon to consider a liquor license for Echo. Applicants are Tom Delaney and John K. Cleghorn with Delaney circulating the petition. Of about 70 signatures, 14 changed their minds and signed the remonstrance, while the remonstrance carried sixty plus names.
The court concluded the petition did not certify a majority of Kebo precinct voters from the latest election. Echo Town will continue to operate as is until a new petition with more voter signatures is submitted.
Revival services at the Christian Church progress with morning and evening sermons led by Rev. W. Jenkins of Hood River tomorrow. The schedule includes Holy Communion at 1 am, evening prayers, and sermons by Rev. Otis W. Turner of La Grande with Epworth League activities and midweek prayer meetings continuing.
Pendleton Academy traveled to Weston today for a football clash led by captain Dale Liesner and quarterback Ruppe. The Pendleton eleven dominated play with hard running and solid line play, earning a 15 to 0 victory as of four oclock this afternoon reported by telephone.
The era's social column notes a Dec 10 wedding where Margaret Louise Pont-better Brown and James Lawrence Van Alen joined the so-called 400 circle. The bride, niece of Mrs Frederick Vanderbilt, wed the groom, heir to Victor Van Alen lineage, amid New York society chatter. Portland's population is listed at 6,452, ranking second in Colorado in density, with fiscal figures showing government receipts for the Portland port year at 12,0? trailing expenses.
The new farce Browns in Town features a light-hearted show with clean humor and no innuendo. Mis Fanny Middgeley headlines the cast with engagement noted, while top artists headline the stage tonight in a lively production.
Report by J L Ray & Co with Chicago Board of Trade and New York Stock Exchange brokers notes light trading in wheat. Prices opened higher in New York with May wheat fluctuating around seven and three quarters to seven and four tenths, while weekly shipments were reported liberal and market firmer earlier in the week.
Captain W. Johnstone of the steamer Smiles City is injured after a fall at Dorr Lane and remains in Mercy Hospital with a possible partial paralysis. The article discusses medical prognosis and future experiments at government stations, noting US imports valued around 1 000 000 dollars and a shift to Oregon manufacturing. It also mentions education and a daily newspaper plan at Supp er aliurtie.
An old catalog item listing toys and household items for sale with prices such as 75 cents for air rifles, 25 cent and 15 cent children’s dolls, 50 to 75 cent items, iron trains, buggies, go carts, teeters, toilet cases, vases, cups and saucers, and musical instruments all advertised as bargains with limited stock.
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