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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1908
Page
8
Pendleton officials consider seeking state guidance to exempt real estate mortgage taxes for city and school purposes to stopWalla Walla migration of affluent mortgage holders. Oregon allows state county exemption but city and school tax relief may be pursued to keep residents and attract new ones. Council plans discussion at Wednesday meeting.
The Umatilla County O A C association holds its first annual banquet at the Hotel Pendleton this evening at 9. Flutes serve 30 members and invited guests with Prof. A B Cordley present as college representative in President Kerr's absence. Johnson's orchestra provides music. no formal program. An 8 o'clock business meeting will precede in the hotel parlor.
Poultry and sheepmen near Grants Pass plan a monster coyote drive to exterminate the pests using nonfirearm methods. Coyotes will be chased into a corral by dogs and killed with clubs, with a dance and big feed to follow the slaughter.
R W Henneman exalted ruler of Pendleton Elks leaves for Hot Lake Sanatorium to fight la grippe and tonsillitis. He has suffered several days and needs complete rest, per the report.
Judge Bean returns from La Grande where he sat yesterday at Judge Knowles request to hear testimony in two equity cases in which the Grande Ronde magistrate had been a party before his elevation to the bench.
Thieves stole a plush robe valued at about 4 from the buggy of C. R. O'Brien hitched near the Goey store on West Alta Street yesterday. No one has been identified as the culprit.
Pendleton residents learned last evening that F T George of Echo was in town for business. He was described as a local business visitor meeting contacts and discussing local commerce opportunities.
Pride triggers a staged prank as Jack Robinson, an 18 year lodge absenteee, is kidnapped by a Woodmen of the World degree team and carried to the lodge hall to receive every degree in the book plus extra for practice ahead of the big initiation next Monday.
Pendleton Elks express strong interest in the big Elks carnival at Walla Walla this week. R. W. Henneman has received programs showing a busy week with band concerts vocal music and vaudeville sketches each evening.
Pendleton will host the woolmen of the state on January first for a pilgrimage to the National Wool Growers convention at Pocatello on January 14, 15 and 18. Thirty men are expected to leave Pendleton in a special Pullman secured for this purpose.
Heppner asks Judge FitzGerald for a copy of Pendleton’s near beer ordinance as a model for a city solution. The move follows La Grande and other Inland Empire towns patterning after Pendleton to curb near beer sales.
Quarterly inspection of Company L Oregon National Guard and a competitive drill for vacancies will be held tonight in Armory hall. Colonel McDowell of Portland will conduct the inspection as three corporalships are open and two more may open with sergeant promotions. Lee Drake moves to first lieutenant and D B Bailey to second lieutenant. commissions pending arrival.
The city of Milton sues Higler and Laura Harris in district court to obtain an easement allowing use of the Little Walla Walla river in its low channel to connect with the city flume. The easement would supply water for lighting power fire and domestic use. Milton offered $150 which was refused prior to condemnation actions.
Led by R Alexander a party of local Odd Fellows heads to Ferndale near Milton to institute an Odd Fellows lodge tonight. The delegation includes G W Brady Henry Taylor J T Brown and R F Kirkpatrick.
The will of the late Mary Eckley Hodgell of Milton was admitted to probate by Judge Gilliland this morning. It disposes of about $500 in property and Henry Frazier of Milton is named administrator.
Mr and Mrs M A Raver arrived home after a stay in Walla Walla where they were guests at the home of Mr Rader's brother Attorney C M Hager.
City scavenger Frank Day sits in county jail after being jailed on a forgery charge for cashing a check he says a woman caused him to sign. He claims Alfred F. May gave him the check for scrap iron, and the woman signed the name Edward Zeuske. Day explains he did not endorse the check, the woman did. He recounts his remorse and presents his story from a jail cell as arraignment looms in Parks court.
An elderly whitehaired man named Lonesome Knee Cap from the reservation discovers that westbound trains do not always travel west. At Walla Walla at 11 am he tries to board an incoming train. Conductor Gordon Menzies halts him as the man protests he wants to go down the line and must wait for No. 1.
The Misses Whittemore sold their Riverside addition acreage and will move to Corvallis soon to enroll at Oregon Agricultural College. Ruby Whittemore resigns as bookkeeper at Peoples Warehouse while Clyde Whittemore leaves her position at the Wonder Store. Blanche and Eunice have studied at Pendleton Academy this year.
During a Saturday football game in Chemawa Oregon Mrs Smith wife of the town center misplaced an envelope containing stocks bonds and drafts valued at 2000. The valuables were recovered by Thomas E Hulme of 648 Seventh Avenue who contacted Mrs Smith a few hours after the game and returned the property.
Unofficial charges allege giving and receiving bribes by proprietors of the Northern roadhouse on the Colma gambling place and certain San Mateo county officials. The grand jury is investigating with claims officials were bribed to overlook conditions at the roadhouse.
Governor Campbell urges lawmakers to act on blue laws with emphasis on Sunday baseball. The statute bans Sunday amusements, yet Texas Baseball League cities still play on the first day of the week.
A reflective note on how pursuing modest goals can impede breakthroughs. It argues for higher aims, discipline, and sustained effort to reach remarkable outcomes, urging readers to resist complacency and cultivate ambitious focus.
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