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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1909
Page
8
Lent begins with ashes at Catholic church symbolizing penance and long abstinence. Palm Sunday prior year palms burned for ashes. Lent lasts 47 days with midweek and Friday services at Church of the Redeemer. Episcopalians pledge abstinence. Bishop Scadding urges renewed devotion and warning against religious apathy in Oregon.
The council will consider ordering a steel bridge for the Lee Street crossing of the Umatilla River this evening. A report from the investigating committee will be received and Mayor A. B. Eberhart, with council members, inspected the site. The decision favors a two span, twenty foot wide bridge on three cement foundations.
A batch of brief notes records people visiting or traveling between Hermiston Walla Walla Lewiston Adama Pilot Rock and Pendleton. Notables include F C Proun P Grant YN Smith X O Carbertson J A Whitby John Gentry Thomas M Fisher and many others stopping at or passing through for business illness hospital stays or travel. Roy Moss returns from Baker City and plans to become a forest ranger near the Umatilla river headwaters.
A pair of celebrated local alumni, George Strand and Elmer Storie, returned to their old high school for a visit and joined a recitation. The new teacher asked them to stand when reciting, exposing their unfamiliarity with the class. Both men admitted they did not perform well and left amused by the awkward moment.
Sebastian Greiner of Hart, Oceana county, reports a pig that fasted involuntarily for six weeks, a remarkable case in Michigan. The owner searched for the missing pig until it reemerged from under a pen during a thaw, its weight loss halted and then reversed as the animal began to eat again.
Frederick F Lane a 49er and longtime Whitecomb County sheriff in territorial days was crushed to death by a rolling log near his Lummi Inland home. He was 83 and had lived in the county about 40 years after moving from California in 1858.
A street lantern is found after an unnamed man leaves it on the curb, prompting a startled reaction from Tommy. The brief item notes the incident as part of local daily life.
Dr Henry Waldo Coe head of Furnsh Coe colonizing work spoke in the city about the water ditch improving 17 000 acres and selling remaining land this summer for cultivation alfalfa potatoes and fruit trees. Purchasers urged to level and improve land for uniform fruit varieties for better marketing. Coe plans to attend Taft inauguration and has toured Panama. he is a friend of Roosevelt.
County Commissioner Walker, Road Superintendent Lavander, and A E Eberhart visited washout sites yesterday to measure proposed steel bridges. Eberhart represents Columbia Bridge Co of Walla Walla. Lavander notes roads are in poor condition in several areas, especially where the soil is light.
A vivid theater scene advertises the wreck of the steamship Republic with a wireless display. C Q Dy is calling for help through United Wireless Telegraph Co. W A Seale, general agent, featured at Bowman Hotel as part of the exhibit.
Mrs Lillian Lawton of St Louis sues Mrs Enid Clifton Gillisple for 10000 dollars for alleged alienation of her husband George Lawton's affections. Lawton testified to frequent visits at Gillisple's Greenwood home and that he gave 15 cents a day for household expenses. The couple had separated last July and Lawton admitted the visits. Lawton's wife obtained a divorce at Clayton on Saturday.
A brief item notes that the shortest sentence containing all letters of the alphabet is Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs reported in Home News.
A compact adage notes fear as a driver of mortality anxiety, suggesting that worry yields more tombstone turnover for undertakers than actual labor. The aphorism reflects common caution about stress and diligence in daily life.
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