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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1902
Page
5
Electric seal jacket remains available at the ongoing closing sale with a price tag of 17 50. Shoppers can still find the garment among discounted items as the sale period persists. This notice highlights the continued affordability and stock status at the store.
A dense OCR of classified items and ads lists real estate rentals and sales, dry goods, clothing, and household goods. Mentions Water street rooms for rent, Cleaver Bros. Co. items, a jewelry or fashion line, pantry and grocery notes, and a planned meeting Tuesday. Also notes weather, limestone prices, and local services from Wade, Tullman, and Martin City Bakery with Valentine items and a Chinook forecast.
A Saturday Evening Post excerpt boasts that year as record setting for wheat exports over 6 million barrels weekly, steel and railway consolidations, crude oil steam locomotives, and wireless messages. It notes higher coal costs and investor losses, with praise for trust development and dividends, plus a separate item about Mrs Henry Scales stopping a runaway horse to prevent damage.
Mrs Mary A Stillman widow of B Stillman died at the Ion Academy home after a brief illness lasting a week at age nearly 70. A pioneer resident of the county since 1872 she lived in Milton Pendleton since 1886 and leaves husband two sons Horace J and A D Stillman and daughter Mrs Elizabeth Chambers. Funeral set for 1 30 tomorrow at the family residence with burial in Olney cemetery. She was a communicant of the Church of the Redeemer.
Death of Mrs Jeasle K Hill wife of Dr J W Hill of Hill Military Academy in Portland from heart failure funeral held from Trinity Church and burial at Riverview cemetery She was born in Westport Conn in 1816 educated at Elmira married in 1878 to Dr Joseph Wool Hill and helped run the school She leaves two sons Joseph A Hill at Shefield Scientific School New Haven Conn and Benjamin W Hill a student at the Hill Military Academy Also notices: county and state papers examiner schedules and a mass meeting in Walla Walla for a public building and post office and courthouse needs.
In Walla Walla on yesterday afternoon William M. Smiley and Miss Ida W. Schou of Freewater Oregon were married by Rev. J. W. Compton of the South Methodist Church. The newlyweds immediately left for their home in Freewater.
A surge of fat stock is being shipped abroad to Sound markets. J. Kennedy, buying for Frye & Bruhn of Seattle, led seven cattle cars from the W and C line and Athena lot. Wright & McCarty plan seven cattle cars to Tacoma tonight, Kennedy to Seattle Wednesday with five more sheep cars. In three days, 2400 sheep and 175 cattle head moved.
A prison uncover reveals a convict forging silver dollars and distributing them via accomplices. Officials are surprised by the scheme and warned to beware counterfeit coins when obtaining Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, advertised as a five decade health remedy for indigestion dyspepsia constipation and nervousness.
Attendees at the county Burcay School convention in Athena on Thursday and Friday will receive the agent's rebate when buying tickets. The railroad allows one and one third fare off, provided at least fifty tickets are purchased. Return fare arrangements will be made if the number is sufficient.
The Thursday Afternoon Club postpones its annual reception and dinner after the death of Mrs. E. D. Stilin. The planned Thursday evening entertainment is moved to a later date.
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