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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
6
Local social column details numerous visits and engagements. Notables include Miss Lula Matlock and Emmet Eten as a bride elect, many guests from Stanfield and Walla Walla, and travelers like Mrs Ottie Langay and J. C. Hager.
Freewater notes recount a Red Cross drive near completion with 24 members filling a 150 quota and no German Protestants among locals. The Fraltvale teachers stage a strong program with the grade and a later crab dinner for Armenian relief. Families share Christmas visits, and residents report car repairs and homecomings from Corvallis and Crystal Springs.
Fragmentary report notes soldiers, a minister of foreign affairs, and date ships in United States ports. It mentions requisitions and bedding, a parade of measures, and Dutch steamship companies subscribing funds to a Melian roller fund, with unclear names and places.
East Oregonian reports Christmas day events in Umapine with Presbyterian Sunday school exercises, Grange officer elections, and widespread Christmas visits. Families from Milton, Walla Walla, and Corvallis guests attended gatherings, with a notable Odd Fellows banquet planned and a large Pleasant View reunion dinner.
A wartime era health notice touts Megtron as a tonic that combines iron with medicinal pepticon for easy digestion. It claims benefits for anemia fatigue nerves and digestion and urges one or two Pepticon pills after meals to improve vitality and blood strength.
The article notes star female players like Margaret Curtis and Alexa Stirling contributing to the war effort. Curtis serves as director for the Red Cross Bureau of Referees in France while Stirling joins the National League for Woman's Service and trains as an ambulance driver.
Mise Florener Philippi and her parents attended a Christmas Eve event at the Vampir hall in Early Oregon. The following Thursday, Miss Rens Herp, daughter of Mr. and Aire Lane Harp, wed Ton Montgomery of Peon View in a popular ceremony.
Families of soldiers at the front have ardent helpers in two English women. Lady Orenmore, eldest daughter of the Earl of Beasborough, and Lady Anglesey, Marjorie Manners, wife of a Fingland peer, have donated greatly to war relief and perform much personal work.
A fragmented Gibbon community page recounts neighbors visiting Portland and Pendleton, local visits to Pendleton High, and routine daily happenings. The piece mixes names such as Rae Orerenion Spaeth and John Tier War with references to stores, farms, and shared concerns, concluding with a quoted remark about stomach issues and ongoing local chatter.
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