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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1902
Page
8
A bargain table promises savings on ladies shoes from four to two dollars and eighty cents and men’s footwear at equally low prices. The copy notes shoes will wear well and fit the pocket book, highlighting styles at four dollars, two fifty, one forty and other discount prices.
Dindinger Wilson Co is identified as successor to Cleaver Bros with contact details listed as Phone Black 91. The terse directory entry notes the business lineage and a primary telephone listing.
The Daily Kaat Oregonian promotes classified ads as a low cost way to convey needs and offers. Ads from 15 to 60 cents cover selling, buying, trading, hiring, and renting. Readers are urged to use the classifieds to reach about 1000 to 6000 people and maximize value for surplus goods.
An old style appeal promotes using want ads to lend or borrow money and to advertise renting a house room or store space. It suggests using ads for lost found or animal notices and argues ads are cost effective and worthwhile.
Walter J. Lubkhen and J. EB Kennedy visit Weston and Athena while Zoot Houser arrives from Portland. Mrs. Dillon and Mrs. Carrier travel to Chicago for business. several locals report arrivals, departures, and town errands with mining, road, and school project notes.
Walla Walla February 7 as a result of the good roads movement the county commissioners purchased three improved graders to operate in district crews overseen by the supervisors. Each machine will be assigned to a commissioner’s district and will be managed by all the supervisors as needed. The graders will be received from the market in a few weeks. Also noted are events at Red Men’s Carnival with Woodmen of the World visiting and special movies, drawing large crowds to the armory each night. Funeral arrangements accompany a second incident: the body of Mrs Holman S Turner wife of Rev Turner is sent east with family members. services planned at the decedent’s childhood home.
A massive hotel and apartment block planned for Seventy third to Seventy fourth streets and Broadway in New York, to be built by W. E. D. Atokes. It will be 417 stories high, cost about 6 million dollars, and house 2200 people. The complex will include a large telephone exchange, a central hub for 2000 lines, a wine cellar, 18 electric elevators, a top sky room, and a basement swimming pool for hundreds. Construction has taken two years to lay foundations, with completion still years away.
Frederick Schucks was executed today in Detroit for the murder of his paramour Mrs. Craig. His last words alleged to be a defiant statement as the crowd roughs assaulted the hangman before the sentence was carried out. The item ends with a clipped and nonsensical aside on advertising and steam power from the Newark Advertiser.
The Northwest Wool Growers Association at Hielena on February 7 named Salt Lake as the next meeting site and elected officers: President Jesse M. Smith of Salt Lake. Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Bailey of Portland. Vice president Richard Scott of Oregon. A. S. LeGrow of Washington. Frank Hagenbarth of Idaho. W. K. Flowerree of Montana. 66, 8. Hickok of Utah. and Patrick Sullivan of Wyoming. Executive committee members include J. N. Whimeon of Oregon. J. Cambon of Washington. Frank Gooding of Idaho. O. P. Hatch of Utah. Timothy Kinney of Wyoming. H. H. Nelson of Montana.
Rev Dr William H Roberts announced tentative revisions to Presbyterian confessional doctrines. A subcommittee was formed to draft the final form and a brief statement of doctrine will be considered for popular Week Cipetown. Commandant Marinas captured by the British near Laingsburg.
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