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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1905
Page
8
The page highlights varied ads from hardware and piano stores to hotel and restaurant listings. It mentions job aims, special offers, and local business promotions as readers seek deals and assistance. A feature on maritime tales notes a Portland sailor’s hubris and a colonial political note outlines Idaho socialistic aims with a referendum plan.
E Huson of Helix and N McDonald near Athens call on locals while G W Morrison and wife from Adama visit. Henry Lantz leaves for Puget Sound on business. BF Ogie of Athena guests at Hotel Bickers. James A Fee returns from Heppner circuit court. Mrs T M Lowe improves after illness at High Street home. Conrad Platwweder slowly recovers from rheumatism. Jerry Kimbrell surveys irrigation ditch at McAdew ranch. Mrs DD Brownell of Umatilla visits Hotel Bickers. improving from grip. Albert Wurzweilen of Joseph in city for several days before Portland trip. H H Gilbert, Birch Creek promoter, also in town. Roads to Pilot Rock dry. grass spreading. BE Gambee and wife pass through en route to San Jose. will relocate after selling Camas Prairie land to Mossie Brothers.
Continued social notes list Jolly Neighbors gathering with prize winners Mrs J P Ballivan and Mrs Lee Teutach. Grace Wold, Oregon Daily Journal society figure and bridesmaid candidate for Bickers Owenhouke wedding, to arrive Monday hosted by Miss Bickers. Eleanor Vincent entertained friends at a chess game and later a San Sovel club gathering hosted by Mrs FW Vincent with colonial table settings. Mrs George Hartman Jr hosted Chafing Dish club. Five hundred played with prizes to Mrs Lawrence Frazier and Mr JPMred Shoemaker. consolation prizes to Miss Ethel Jolincotn and Ate fwn Davie. guests included Mr and Mrs Ber Davis, W H Harrison, Fred Shoemiker, Mrs Rey Ritner and William Keller.
Clot Notes and The Current Literature club plan officer elections at Mrs. G A Hartman Sr home on March 7. The Thursday Afternoon club meets March 2 at Mrs. E P Marshall home to discuss Rush. The Musical club convenes March 3 at Mr Att Alexander with Miss Jessie Hartman leading the program. M A Header departs for Portland Tacoma to buy furniture for enlarged Moore space. The Brownfield Matlock building upper story loaned by Mr Rader for use as a meeting room.
Contagion at Baker City reports that William Patterson's home on Valley Avenue East is under quarantine as Eldon Patterson battles diphtheria. The Baker City Democrat notes a resurgence of scarlet fever in the city with one physician reporting eight to ten new cases in the last ten days.
The piece claims Washington Irving confessed to orchard theft with a boy who led him to better apples. It also notes that in 12 Southern states 173,000 farms are owned by Black people and mentions 25,000 churches, then quips about a young man advertising for a wife in classifieds.
Employment agent J Spoohtmore reports demand for labor is high but the supply of workers exceeds opportunities by about three to one. Ditch construction west of town and in the north end absorbs many, with herd of men remaining idle. As wood weather continues, new work starts daily and the lambing season in six weeks may push more men into sheep camps.
An advertisement warns that many poisons come from undigested food and promises that Dr King’s New Life Pills cure sickness from those poisons or offer a money back guarantee. It urges readers to Tallman & Co.’s drug store to try them.
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