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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1912
Page
4
Publication information for the Gast-Gast Qregehay paper and the Oregonian publishing company. It lists daily and weekly editions, mail and carrier delivery options, offices in Portland and Pendleton, and official designation as city and county paper with security bureau and entry details.
In this verse a vision of future artists at rest and renewed labor unfolds. After earth’s last scene, the Master of good workmen will restore creators to paint anew using celestial tools. Saints like Magdalene, Peter and Paul inspire, while art thrives without money or fame.
Pendleton seeks tangible growth through business, urging less election rhetoric and more action. Locals credit the Commercial Club and central citizens for recent gains including the Welkin mill amid efforts to attract industry and boost the town’s economy with practical, measurable progress.
City discussion favors hard surface paving over macadam for Main Court and East Alta. Warren Co. cited high costs, but council seeks cheaper yet durable options. Residents on the north side press for a narrow hard surface street with wide parking to improve winter and summer usability.
The piece predicts Roosevelt will win the Republican nomination as Taft fades and La Follette’s influence wanes. It envisions a Roosevelt versus Wilson race shaping a progressive path for the nation and imagines a possible reactionary third-party split led by Cannon or Sherman.
The men who held up the train in Mississippi and escaped with £169,000 deserve a stronger designation than train robbers and are described as barokens in contemporary rhetoric.
After thorough inquiry the engineers announce completion of investigations and render a verdict closing the matter. The case ends with authorities confirming final findings and no further action anticipated.
Fragmentary notes mention women on a jury and a colonel who may be drafted. Additional lines reference birds, blooming batter cups, and dynamite amid bad weather, lacking coherent event or dates.
A fragmentary report recalls a tense moment where Colonel Sterser faces a heated exchange with Celene Culpepper and friends. The vignette hints at a barroom confrontation, a bartender threat, and a wild mix of old loyalties, signaling a chaotic scene tied to Prohibition era tensions in New York.
New York cable quad report claims President Taft attended a civic reception with a choir at Gicer. Brocklin was noted as the guest speaker, and a dispute arose as John Hedges deserted his speech. Bets declined to pause, saying the peroration was nearly finished. The suffragette organ needed a lawyer, a good one, and someone suggested Job Hedges.
Mrs. Carria Chapman Catt, a leading reformer, is named ambassador and meets Hedges in his office. He greets her with exaggerated courtesy offering a seat shade and warmth before she demands to be treated as an equal. He offers a cigar while she insists on business respect.
A Kentucky blacksmith was elected justice of the peace. In his first case, a dispute over cow ownership, the plaintiff’s attorney spoke a half hour, then the judge interrupted, saying he was persuaded. The defense argued another hour with grand oratory referencing the eagle, Cross, Bonny Blue Flag and Old Kentucky Home. The justice declared, Well now, don't that beat all.
A tale from Delta Colorado cites a chicken farm where chicks are tagged with brass leg bands bearing pedigrees. An English visitor asks how such bands appear on small chicks, and a farmer quips that all chicks come from registered stock, claiming IT invented the idea. The anecdote appears in the Indianapolis News.
Representative Sulzer in Washington likened Russia’s hush on the Passport question to a man who hates talk and tips the barber before the shave. The anecdote ends with the barber’s puzzled reply and the silent man’s reaction.
A Detroit Free Press report quotes a man sternly declaring the money exchange as hush money. The brief item conveys an accusation without detailing names, dates, or locations.
Augustus Thomas, guest of honor at a New York Lotus Club dinner, criticized modern dramatists for cynicism and distorted views of life. He mocked their belief that marriage is a lottery, noting that in a lottery you still have a chance. The Detroit Free Press quotes his remarks and adds a quip about war in heaven being a bygone notion.
Anna asks what Mr Eklund charged for sewing on soles. Clara replies she paid 65 cents and got fine work, though she dislikes him and Anna.
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