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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1913
Page
5
A local notice lists events and services around town including a dance at Moose Hall on Thursday night, barber shop at 632 Main, daily fish arrivals, Oregon Market, and a chicken tamale offering at El iots I C Snyder chimney sweep Phene aol M.
Classified notices show a mix of job requests and sales in Pendleton Oregon. Individuals seek daily or hourly work, piano tuning, and room rentals. merchants offer insurance, meat, furniture, real estate exchanges, and storage. Lost animal notices and rewards appear, with addresses and phone hints for contact.
Dry Cascade Fir and Yellow Pine slabs offered by Van Petten Lumber Co. call 92 to order. Industry ad emphasizes unbeatable slab wood selection and availability.
A supplier advertises availability of oversized posts made from live timber for construction or fencing. The item emphasizes large dimensions suitable for sturdy outdoor installations. Suitable for landscapers and builders seeking durable, ready-to-install timber posts.
A G Winnerling advertises readiness to drill water wells to any depth with price estimates. Inquiries invited at 116 W Webb Street. Ady.
Van Petten Lumber Co advertises Owl Creek Coal as the best option and invites customers to try it, providing contact phone number 92 for orders.
A large social dance is planned for Christmas night at Moose Hall on Thursday December 25. Admission is 60 cents. All are invited for a good floor, music, and time.
A Christmas Eve dance program at Moose Hall on Wednesday December 24 1919 offers two cash prizes for dancing. First prize for the best couple in the waltz and second for the best couple in the two step. Admission is 10 cents with a 5 cent dance fee.
The Alta House announces a home cooked Christmas dinner tomorrow for 25 cents. Turkey and all the trimmings will be served. Located at the Alta House with B. B. Gervias, proprietor.
Christmas masquerade ball, main event of the season, organized by Saturday Night Dance management. Thursday Dec 25 at Eagle Woodman hall. Cash prizes for best sustained characters and best costumes for ladies and gents.
A florist advertises Flow era on East Court Street offering blooming plants and flower boxes as holiday gifts. The note suggests seeking a more suited present for a lady, inviting readers to consider floristry as a thoughtful option.
Seventeen year old Edward Driscoll was shot and fatally wounded after being summoned from his bath by aunt Miss Margaret Driscoll to investigate a hall noise. The burglar fled after a pursuit of a block. Edward, son of Mr and Mrs Daniel Driscoll of Menlo Park, had been living in the city while employed by the Pacific Mall Steamship Company.
Over twelve years Canada lost 9 million working days due to strikes, averaging 750 thousand days per year. The figure highlights the persistent disruption to productivity and the bargaining dynamics across industries.
A string of personal mentions notes residents and visitors: Charles Behrens and Fred Blum of Helix spent time here. J R Kaniga of Hermiston visited Pendleton. Engdah the Helix mayor stayed overnight. Connore of Helix tours. John L Baker from Meacham came down. George Olson from Freewater and Alvah Crowley of La Grande lodged locally. Dan P Smythe travels to Portland for Christmas with his mother. Clarence Bishop heads to Salem for holiday. A Keller and F A Brunson from Hermiston were in town. Rinehart returns from Walla Walla due to his mother's illness. M Stewart of Hermiston visits Pendleton. A C Hemphill of Pilot Rock among overnight visitors. Buckley of C W B N Co visits. Guy Matlock of Passtime theater from Portland after moving picture convention. Harold Thompson, Oregon Agricultural College student, spending Christmas here. Co Berkeley of Spokane arrives to spend Christmas with relatives.
Max M. Norman of Bridge Street recalls writing a letter in 1883 for Benham and Royesen to Captain Larsen of the Swedish bark Superior. The missive, intended for Marseilles, finally returned yesterday after decades in a desk at the Swedish and Norwegian consulate in Marseilles or a French post office. The envelope bore postmarks from New York October 5 1883 and Marseilles October 18 1883, with Paris likely among faded marks. Norman, now a firm member, ordered the letter and envelope framed.
A Japanese diplomatic delegation and a marine detachment are expected to arrive from Manzanillo to pay a formal call on Huerta. The Imperial envoy travels aboard the Mikado’s cruiser Izuma, now anchored at Manzanillo, as civil and military demonstrations mark Huerta’s patron saint anniversary.
An advertisement extols osteopathy as a broad healing art. It explains that disease stems from interference with nerve impulses and vital fluids, and treatment aims to adjust misaligned parts to restore the body's natural equilibrium. The osteopathic exam seeks the mal-adjustment causing obstructions to nature's forces and treatment reestablishes health.
Seattle December 2 Jack Johnson a miner was killed and Amedia Rossi and Eugene Tollini were seriously injured in an explosion at the Black Diamond mine near Seattle.
Oregon counties move to appoint county field and farm demonstration agents under the Oregon Agricultural College. Five counties have approved funding: Lane Crook Coos Tillamook and Harney, each with targeted appropriations. Baker and Grant plan district collaboration. Wallowa Marion potential. Malheur Union Klamath weighing. Douglas and Jackson counties exploring adoption with Prof. French leading efforts.
Colonel Wardell G. Robinson of Oswego leaves most of his estate, about 1 million dollars, to two cousins Frank Pethbeone Thomas of Newark and Mrs Anna F Hollan of East Orange New Jersey. He reportedly inherited 5 million from his brother Belevan Robinson. Six Oswego businessmen testified he was of sound mind to avoid contest.
Nearly 1,000 workers at William H Tauber hosiery mills in Kensington walk out over a 2 percent wage cut after January 1. Company says January business slows and wage reductions keep all hands employed. most striking workers are women.
Philadelphia reports that a divorce case involving Clement H. Cunningham of Lansdowne, Pa., and Irene D. Cunningham was reversed by Judges McMichael and Ferguson. The suit stemmed from her alleged failure to break a pre marriage celibacy vow from 1895, with the judges ruling her refusal does not constitute grounds for divorce.
Judge Ferguson states that conduct by Mrs Cunningham cannot be cruelty or desertion and notes that Mr Cunningham’s silent acceptance of his wife’s attitude for over a decade amounts to tacit approval of it.
Virginia Vaughn, 81, noted lyricist, poet, and translator linked to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Browning, was killed by a streetcar on Eighth Avenue. Daughter of abolitionist John Champion Vaughn, she was a friend to major authors and active in literary circles.
A movement to raise pure bred draft horses in Klickitat county starts with William E. Hornibrook purchasing four fine draft mares at the Portland stock show. Each weighs about 1800 pounds and three are Belgians with one American bred Percheron. Cost to acquire was 3600 dollars.
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