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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1902
Page
7
A fragmented OCR reads like a bank page with names Hank of Weston and Pendile, listing officers such as Wade cashier and Kilgore. It mentions a capital$70000 surplus$85000 and general banking services including drafts and transfers to New York, Europe, and Japan amid election terms.
A fragment notes a meeting for the Knights of Pythias at the Society Hall with a mention of LaMon Lopag. Details are incomplete but indicate a local lodge gathering and potential candidates or speakers. Local readers may recognize names and venue from town records.
Commerce trade prices list from Pendleton includes turnips 76c per sack parsnips 75c cabbage 4c per lb green onions per bunch cheese 2c per lb onions 2c per lb potatoes 2c per cwt apples 1 per box horse radish 12c per lb garlic 6c per lb poultry and eggs prices: chickens 3.60 to 4 per dozen roosters 4 to 5.60 turkeys 10c per lb geese 9 per dozen spring chickens 3 per dozen ducks and pigeons per dozen eggs 5c butter 50 to 60 per roll various cattle hogs prices. Pendleton Retail Grocery prices for sugar coffee rice salt hides pelts flour feed hay prices wood and various grains listed. ranch eggs 25c per dozen at Sta Stand Grocery Court Street.
Hotel arrivals in Pendleton include J. I. Reddick of Portland Henry Noch of Portland M. Call of Pilot Rock W H McClintock of Portland Thomas Duncan of San Francisco and many others from Spokane Colfax Athena and Seattle The list names dozens of travelers with towns and initials across Oregon Washington and California plus a note of Mrs Charles Harkins of Eureka dying in Eugene and buried in Walla Walla after illness in Eureka flats and polmonia related death.
The Pendleton hotel advertisement proclaims The Best Hotel in Pendleton and as good as any, promoted by Van Dran Brothers proprietors. It emphasizes quality lodging and hospitality in a concise local business pitch.
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