Water Commission Audit Highlights Minor Discrepancies
City authorities report the water commission books from 1904 to 1995 show no material errors. Receipts differ between cash book and pass book by about 12 thousand dollars, with recommendations that the superintendent not take receipts until paid. Trial balance shows balanced ledgers and confirms assets and liabilities across accounts.
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City Recorder
Messrs. Cranston
Thompson
Commission
Brown
Water Commission
Mutern
Convicts on Roads Plan Tested in Whitman County
Samuel Hill president of the Good Roads association J N Snow state road commissioner J J Crown director of the association visit Colfax to present to Whitman county commissioners a proposal to employ the first convict labor on county roads following a Good Roads meeting in Walla Walla this fall.
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Walle Walla
Samuel Hill
Good Roads’ Association
J. N. Snow
J. J. Crown
Colfax
Commissionera
Whitman County
County and State Convict Work Plan Across Walla Walla
The commission considers a contract where the state provides convicts and guards, pays salaries and transport to a county site, while the county supplies housing, tools, materials, and supervises work. An account of produced materials will be kept for settlement. Colfax to Pullman is the likely test route with an aim for 30 convicts in the county jail and later a prison along the road.
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Walla Walla
Colfax
Pullman
Donkey Engine Era Opens Puget Sound Clear Lands
The Mount Vernon Argus proclaims the donkey engine era in clearing logged off land in western Washington. Experiments in Skagit county show stump pulling cost under half, with 62 acres cleared and growing potential for cultivation. Land value rises as timber lands become productive farms attracting settlers and capital.
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Mount Vernon Argus
Landa
Skagit County
The
Seattle P
Washington
Puyallup Valley
Puget Sound
Queen Esther Charms Pendleton In Local Opera Night
A three hour Pendleton High School production of Queen Esther drew 700 in attendance, presenting a full cast led by Min Com Kinsella as Queen Esther and Zoresh, with strong support from Miss Mytilene Praker and Prof. Noordhoof. The performance, praised for training, vocal range, and period costumes, filled the Frazer Theater and benefits the high school societies.
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Pen- Wetton
Queen Esther
Ahasuerus
Esther
Emet Haman
Mordecai
Zoresh
Haman
Tate
Mordecia
Jacobia
Hegal
Beau‘eoue Malde
King’s Guards
Scribe
Leet
Leesona
East Oregonian
Tern Wan Mowt
Pendleton
Jher
Bether
Zoros
Pendleton Academy
Noordhoof
Jane
Prof. Thetage
Ahwenerne
King
Heritage
Spokane
C. BP. Perrin
Mr. Ferrin
Mr. Ferrin Cully
Herbert Ruppe
J. H W. Wilson
Prof
L. R. Traver
Charles A. Hill
King’s Tall Guards
Mre
L. H. Traver
Mise Tess Shepard
Norma Alloway
Parnlee Halley
Rachael Vogel
Faye Sullivan
Nora
Robinson
Rether
Eva Wood
MacMinn
Dutticulc
Frazer
Chickering Grand Pianos Featured At Local Store
William Temple Parduwes buys a quarter grand piano from Fillers Piano House Pendleton store, making five Chickering grands in Tunatilia county with four from Chickering. Temple selects the costly mahogany quarter grand for Water Street home after trading in a Crown Orchestral piano. Eilers Piano House remains the West’s largest dealer, seeking agency if a better instrument appears.
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William Temple
Eilers Plano House
Pendleton
Tunatilia
Fillers Piano House
Water Street
Piano House
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Gray Bros. Grocery CO
Report OF Water Commission
Tallman & Co
Aries
Wmtings
Pendleton, Oregon
India
Gutterviie
Tia
Bert Huffman
Chickering
Boston
Prof.t
Big
Baer @ Daley
Despain’s Cash Store
Court Street
Golden Rale Hotel
Victor
Santa Claus
Cook
Perry
Nolpf
Victor Talking Machine
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