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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1902
Page
8
A local advertisement touts a bargain table with foot comfort and savings. Ladies shoes priced at 4 cents, 2.30, 1.65 and 95 cents, plus men’s shoes offered as cheap but good, aiming to help the pocket book while providing durable wear.
Dindinger Wilson and Company announces itself as successor to Cleaver Brothers with contact listed as Phone Black 1, indicating a business transition or rebranding. No further details on location or services provided in the fragment.
The East Oregonian invites readers to use affordable want and for sale ads to reach 1000 to 6000 people. Subtypes include employment, housing, trading, and lost or found items. Ads range from 15 to 50 cents, with 16 cents for a single insertion and higher discounts for multiple insertions.
A fragment notes considering columns as a means to an expense worth examining and ends by suggesting an advertisement as a potential payment. The tone implies evaluating an ad as a revenue option. The text references columns and costs without specifying names or dates.
In Pendleton many personalities are mentioned as visiting or returning from trips. H C Means comes from Echo, Victor Liebe returns from Portland, William Eastman from Adams, and T A Lieuallen from Adams. L L Palmer of the F B Kirkendale Shoe Co in Omaha plans a hotel stay. Beasie Burrows arrives from Lairande to visit the Kopitzke family. L W Williams of Portland, auditing the O R N, checks the cashier’s books. Mr. and Mrs. Casper Van Dran depart for California for Mr. Van Dran’s health. The Lieuallen brothers attend to Frank Curl’s wheat business amid sickness. B E Galey of The Famous Store Weiser Idaho visits Pendleton. Alex McCrea of Umatilla Implement Co from Athena is here. James Whittemore and Mrs. Jack Overturf of Milton visit their sister Mrs. Susan Weleu and plan to return Saturday. Mrs. H G Burns and a son arrive from Reardon Washington to visit her parents. Revival services continue at the M E church with good crowds. Francis Norton resigns from O R N and heads to Portland next week. William Shepherd succeeds him. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Gribbling leave for Ritzville to make a new home there after his recent marriage to Daisy Bills. Charles Marple and his wife with four children return from a three months’ visit to Virginia and West Virginia. they traveled east via Northern Pacific and back via Union Pacific, calling Pendleton home again. The Virginia winter has been severe with six inches of snow at Berkeley Springs.
Henry Blackman, longtime Heppner leader and four term mayor, says the Democrats will reject alliances with populists or Republicans. He travels to Portland for several days and endorses a clean, all Democrat ticket, keeping the party separate from entangling pacts. Heppner native also notes Democrats in his area stay quiet while backing a Jeffersonian, anti fusion stance.
John L. Sharpstein explains to the Union that Walla Walla’s baseball club paid no salaries to players this or last year. He notes the team did not guarantee any money, players were unpaid, profits were used to cover expenses, and the pledge to avoid salaries remained unbroken.
William Scott of Helix states to the East Oregonian that the local wheat has not been hurt by the cold and he will not need to resow except on small exposed areas. He deems the grain in good condition and expects no major losses from recent severe weather. John Hagen foresees resewing a large area though exact acres are unclear.
A child of Mr and Mrs Irank Curl near Pendleton Academy contracted scarlet fever. The family had just returned from the East and the home was quarantined this morning with a contagion sign. It is the town's only case and precautions are in place to prevent spread.
Principal F L Forbes of Pendleton Academy expresses optimism that funding will come to start a new 15000 dollar structure across the river in North Pendleton. Pendleton and Umatilla County pledges total about 5000 dollars with more expected from elsewhere. The current property is valued at about 4000 dollars and builders are estimating costs to complete the plans and specifications. Nearly half the Chinese applicants for admission to the United States are refused in San Francisco.
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent with forty days of penance ahead. Protestant and Catholic churches plan daily services and Easter preparations. Redeemer Sunday school aims to lead in diocese per capita offerings, seeking over $100 and possibly $200 through mite boxes and child efforts.
The Oregon Fish and Game Association reports 176000 trout planted in Umatilla County streams over the past two years with plans for 100000 more annually. The group, with 75 members, seeks new members at $1 yearly and may expand to distribute bob white or California quail. Efforts to import English partridges face high mortality. secretary A E Gebhardt facilitates information.
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