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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1906
Page
4
An O R K & N engineer laments Christmas traffic as freight and passenger trains run at peak speed. Exhausted crews, minimal repairs, and constant overnights mark the season, yet workers count higher wages and bonuses as the holiday commerce pumps profits for businesses and workers alike.
A Wyoming girl, Miss Sadie Simmons, braved a foot of snow and a bitter storm to fetch burial materials and transport the infant drowned by a fatal illness from the Green River ranch near Kendall to Pinedale. She rode over 60 miles each way by steam wagon and saddle, enduring fear and hardship to ensure a proper burial for the baby as her family faced inconsolable loss.
A fragment of a poem from January Scribner attributed to Olive Tilford Dorgan. It speaks of tender longing, captivity of the heart, and a desire for eternal union beyond morning, merging themes of love, pain, and death with a dreamlike tone.
Oregon and Washington farming grows large vegetables and hops with high quality texture and flavor. Potatoes weighing one pound and up are common near Heppner, while hops production tops the market across the region, yielding significant value. Sugar beets show high sugar content and rising cultivation due to strong demand from mining towns, camps, shipping, and exports.
General Adna R. R. Chaffee, at a frontier post, learns Apaches have left camp, killed settlers, burned homes, and driven off stock. He sends a telegram to the War Department and orders telegraph wires stretched before the chase begins. He remarks the expedition needs no humanitarian instructions from Washington.
Anaconda Mont declares its novel park center city treasure with benches as galleries for summer games and twilight concerts. Residents see a rare frog parade as 100 specimens migrate from Warwick township toward French Creek amid dwindling pond water.
About 49 years ago a Dorchester woman was expelled from the Second Congregational church for speaking in a prayer meeting. On October 21, 1906 Rev Anna H Shaw was welcomed into the pulpit and preached the sermon by the church trustees. The colored Baptist of Bolve organized a church named St Paul Rev L J Jones of Denver led preliminaries.
The Hotel Pendleton has been refurbished throughout with updated telephone and fire alarm connections to all rooms. Bath en suite and single rooms available. Hemiquarters for traveling men. Sample room and free? RUS may indicate a promotional offer.
Excellent Culaine offers prompt dining room service Bor and Billiard Room in Connection. Only three blocks from depots.
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