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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
8
An advertisement touts Empire Coffee as fresh roasted and appealing to coffee cranks who demand the best. It claims to please customers and notes Pendleton hosts the only exclusive tea store in town.
Empire Coffee asserts healthful benefits when properly prepared and contrasts its blends with canned coffees lacking fixed off. It invites readers to try Java and Mocha coffee in a follow up note.
A promotional note promises a free beautiful Japanese china cup and saucer with a 3 pounds for 1 offer, available for thin week only upon request. The item is framed as a limited time incentive aimed at drawing interest and orders from readers.
Interior Department lays down strict directive to prosecute illegal fence enclosures on public domain in eastern Oregon. Special agents are to act on information, identify lands, and proceed to prosecution with little need for a formal complaint. The rapid enforcement begins April 1, 1907.
The Walla Walla Statesman reports grave risk of coal dealers facing bankruptcy as costs rise. Dealers pay $2.50 to $3.50 per ton at mines plus $3.50 freight, totaling $5 to $6, then try to cover costs by selling at $9.50 a ton cash in advance, offering no delivery.
Professor Spence a dancing teacher known as Hig Light Fantastic and Blonde Van Dyke left Pendleton last night on the westbound train after taking about $100 in advance from pupils at Muster Hall. He owed teachers and creditors and fled before completing lessons leaving unpaid accounts. Marshal Guridane helped settle some bills but several creditors mourn the professor’s departure and vanished funds. Eight or so lessons were promised but only two were delivered.
Peter Corbett a well known native faced Judge FitzGerald in police court after admitting he had been drunk on reddish firewater. He thumbed Cottonwood street to show where he drank. The judge sentenced him to five dollars or three days.
The city office reports street paying assessments now payable with several residents already settling their shares. B F Renn and Joe Ell led by example paying their portions and pledging further support, saying they want the pavement and are ready to pay. Others who paid include William Roesch and Carl Weiesert.
Funeral arrangements for William H. Gill are corrected from yesterday’s notice. The service will be at 10 o clock tomorrow morning Saturday at Baker and Folcom parlors on Cottonwood street. The Odd Fellows will conduct the funeral and interment will be in Olney Cemetery. Gill’s sons are members of the Odd Fellows. Interment plans and procession details follow the updated schedule. In Adams, BR. & N. officials are securing names of citizens to address a coal seizure case. The mayor will oversee sale of the coal seized from a Walla Walla car, with proceeds sent to the consignor. Prosecution is unlikely in the case against Like Caen in Washington, and the matter may be dropped. A Walla Walla fish hatchery plan advances with a bill and $2500 appropriation drafted after a meeting at Jones-Scot company. Four Beech er Flat children rescued by neighbors are in sheriff custody as Frank Beeson faces court for alleged neglect.
A fire heavily damaged the home at 1101 East Webb Street occupied by Miss Mary Dyer and sister this afternoon. Firefighters contained the blaze to the interior and extinguished it after a rapid response.
A Baker county senator introduces senate bill 24 to regulate grazing of outside sheep on Oregon lands. Nonresident owners must obtain licenses from county stock inspectors, pay 20 cents per sheep to the state school fund, and face fines or imprisonment for grazing without license or diseased animals. The measure may merge with the Woolgrowers Association bill as session prep continues in Salem.
Increased attendance prompts a new teacher for West End school. A first grade will open Monday and be staffed by a board chosen teacher. With the addition, the local corps rises to 29 teachers.
Mrs. F S and S Ivanhoe of the high school faculty will leave for La Grande tonight to join her husband and son, then proceed to Portland tomorrow night for a brief visit. Mr. Ivanhoe will go to Salem, and she will return to the city Monday morning.
A reader advises using a bottle of bitters to relieve stomach trouble, claiming it produces immediate benefits and that ailments disappear soon after starting the remedy. The note underscores rapid, beneficial results from the tonic.
An old advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy with fifty three years of reputation. It claims to cure poor appetite indigestion dyspepsia colds malaria and female ailments.
A blaze in Sandon British Columbia wrecked the Filbert hotel the Hal moral hotel and a barber shop. Inmates barely escaped with their lives as total losses reached twenty thousand dollars amid twenty degrees below zero weather.
A Pendleton Drug Co representative extols Vinol cod liver oil to residents, claiming it strengthens run down, sickly, and weak people including the elderly, with a concentrated formula free of nauseating oil. The note says Vinol is sold by leading druggists across the country.
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