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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1907
Page
8
A company asserts that only those who never try its Cupfree remain unconvinced by its aroma and claims long standing customers praise its rich delicate scent. They note the coffee trade is prone to adulteration and misrepresentation and propose that gaining a customer’s confidence is the best advertisement.
Empire Coffee is priced at 40c, 35c and 25c per pound, with the varying rates likely reflecting blend or roast options.
Seventy to eighty Pendleton firms move to form a credit association to protect merchants from bad accounts and to handle collections. C E Roosevelt of the Beaton store leads behind the plan, aiming to elect officers and adopt by laws after meetings. Members would pay five dollars a month dues, with a lawyer to manage collections for the group. The effort follows hardware trades’ success in self protection against bad customers and seeks similar benefit across other lines.
Miss Evelyn Seeman of Union has been selected to replace Prof. Chester V Fletcher as Pendleton Academy modern language teacher. Fletcher resigns to join Pueblo High School and will handle Latin this year. Seeman, a graduate of Heidelberg, arrives tonight and starts Monday morning with strong recommendations.
Special from Wallace Idaho says Steve Adams will stand trial next Monday in Wallace for the murder of former Governor Steunenberg. Attorneys for Moyer Haywood and Pet Ubone of the Western Federation of Miners will face Adams’s lawyers in what is described as a critical stage of the case. Adams had been a principal witness against Moyer in prior proceedings.
A Pendleton entertainment night featured Baer and Kelly, the glee club, Prof Driscoll and family, Edgar Shockley acrobatics, and a debut by the Glee Club under Jd. H. Mitchell. The program, including orchestra by Johnson, set a record gate of $402 for the gymnasium fund, despite expenses, promising funds for future events.
Western Union manager George Gillette says the wire network is badly crippled with only eastward lines working. No business occurs west of here. At the Peringer home on Lewin street a birthday party for little Murrel Peringer is underway this afternoon. It is her ninth birthday with 46 guests attending.
W H Garrett reports stock hay shortages across interior districts as heavy snow and storms reduce supplies. Crook county stockmen face weeks of feeding with limited hay, while some forage remains at Baldwin Sheep and Land Co. hay creek ranch. Chinook melt offers hope for later grass and water in mountains. Summit snow stood at six feet along Ochl oven pass between Prineville and Mitchell.
OO, B. Harper, president of the Blue Mountain Creamery, will relocate to Pendleton to oversee the creamery there. He leaves La Grande's operation to W. W. Weeks and will devote full time to Pendleton, aiming to make it the eastern Oregon creamery center. Harper and his family will move soon. Also notes Snake River Line progress as Oregon Short Line reports Huntington work expansion and Ox Row tunnel activity with crews arriving.
An old advertisement claims dandruff stems from a germ burrowing into the scalp and asserts only Newbro's Herpleide can destroy that germ for a permanent cure. It targets both men and women with thin brittle hair and offers samples by mail from The Herpleide Co. in Detroit.
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