Walla Walla Girls Defeat Local Coeds In Narrow Victory
In Pendleton a hard fought girls game ended 15 14 as Walla Walla defeated Pendleton after extra minutes with a late field basket breaking a 12 13 tie. Pendleton's McDonald Mentzer Anderson Hampton Coutts Sturdivant faced Walla Walla’s Miller Crawford Baltemore McConnell Martin Flord Cox. officials Otto Houser and Ralph Wrench.
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Pendleton
Walla Walla
Pendleton Girls
Claire McDonald
Alta Mentzer
Ida Anderson
Lois Hampton
Celter
Edna Coutts
Ia Sturdivant
Rnreto
Fay Miller
Susan Crawford
Jessie Baltemore
Bertha McConnell
Ruth Martin
Ruth Flord
Ruth Cox
Otto Houser
Ralph Wrench
La Grande Light Rates To Be Investigated
La Grande Commercial club asks the state railroad commission to investigate rates charged by Eastern Oregon Light & Power in La Grande and related towns. The filing seeks just and reasonable rates and may include a plant valuation amid broader regional rate scrutiny across baker Haines Rock Creek Imbler North Powder Bourne Union Elgin Cove Hot Lake Rock Island and Allcel.
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Salem
Ore
la Grande
Eastern Oregon Light & Power Company
la Grande Commercial Club
State Railroad Commission
Baker, Haines
Rock Creek
Imbler
North Powder
Bourne
Union
Elgin
Cove
Hot Lake
Rock Island
Allcel
Light
Portland stenographer weds old millionaire in honeymoon
Jacob Goetz, a western mining contractor and pioneer, married Portland hotel stenographer Isabella N. Sweeney. The bridegroom nicknamed Dutch Jake says he is 60, while his wife is 37. He claims a $14 million fortune largely from a Coeur d Alene mine sparked by a mule’s kick revealing gold. The couple honeymoon at the Great Northern hotel in Chicago.
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Chicago
Jacob Goetz
Great Northern
Isabella N. Sweeney
Portland
Jake
Coeur d’Alene
Pendleton Notes Buys 1914 Buick Roadster
W A Dusty Rhodes owner of the St George Grille purchases a 1914 Buick roadster model 36 from the Oregon Motor garage. Requiem High Mass for Thomas Milarkey Jr set at St Marys next Tuesday. Merchandise Shoot Tomorrow at Round-up Gun Club grounds with two trophies.
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Buick
W. A
Dusty" Rhodes
St. George
Oregon Motor Garage
Thomas Milarkey, Jr
St. Marys Catholic Church
Foreclose Mortgage Suit Against Lillian L and Crawford
Swayze as trustee has begun a suit against Lillian L and A Crawford to foreclose a mortgage securing a $2000 note unpaid by the defendants. Raley and Raley are the plaintiff's attorneys.
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Flb. Swayze
Lillian L
A. ©. Crawford
Raley & Raley
Debate judge from Crook county returns from The Dalles
County Superintendent I E Young, who served as a judge in a debate between The Dalles high school and Crook county students, returned this morning. The Dalles team won the decision.
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I. E. Young
Dalles
Crook County
Kick from Horse Breaks Leg in Barn Accident
James Beck suffered a broken shin after a horse kicked him in his own barn on Thursday while handling the animals. He is temporarily crippled as a result of the injury.
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James Beck
Beck
Two Marriage Licenses Reported For Youthful Couples
A marriage license was issued today to Boyd D. Johnson and Lettie M. Geiss, a Milter couple, and one to Finley M. Grayveal and Doris Gil of this city. The groom in the first case was under age at 20, and the bride in the second has just turned 15, requiring parental consent.
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Boyd D. Johnson
Lettie M. Geiss
Milter
Finley M. Grayveal
Doris Gilmore
Holiday city returns as Gory moves back home
The article notes Gory’s return to town after leasing rooms in the new Raley block on Alta street and recounts his absence marked by his former store burning. It mentions health improvements since leaving and relief at leaving turbulent times in the Orient, with China cited. Snowfall was reported in Pendleton and Echo, with four inches near Echo and a blizzard near Helix.
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Pendleton
Echo
Helix
Bananas Sell By The Pound Debut In Local Market
The Peoples Warehouse introduces a new banana sale method with Ray Crystal announcing bananas will be sold by the pound rather than by the dozen. The move, already in effect in several cities, aims to reward value for both merchants and customers with current price seven cents a pound and likely eight to nine cents to retailers.
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Peoples Warehouse
Ray Crystal
Wife Sues for Divorce Alleging Desertion
Maury E. Williams today commenced suit against her husband Ira C. Williams for divorce alleging desertion in 1912. They married in Terre Haute Indiana in February 1909 and have a four year old boy. Custody sought. Represented by James H. E. Scott of Milton. Mrs. Williams lives near Milton.
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Maury E. Williams
Ira C. Williams
Terre Haute
Ind
James H. FE. Scott
Milton
Williams
Begging Prevalent In Portland Unemployed Batter Streets
Portland reports a spike in begging with many idle men on the streets. Passersby are approached for meals as the season’s downturn drives laborers to seek daily sustenance in town.
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Portland
Ordinry
More Houses Quarantined for Smallpox
The police quarantined three days listing Jess Vaughan at 60¢ Post street Asa Daub ner at 421 Madison William Yokaris at 1015 E Court street and Robert Clark at 222 Summer street. Roy Raley at 625 College and John Mitchell at 210 West Webb placarded for measles while 8 J Keesler at 616 Calvin street is under chickenpox quarantine.
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Jess Vaughan
Post Street
Asa Daubner
Madison
William Yokaris
E. Court Street
Robert Clark
Summer Street
Roy Raley
College
John Mitchell
West Webb
Sues to Cancel Lease Over Endorsed Note
Eleanor Cameron Payant files suit against S. F. Wilson and M. L. Watts alleging Wilson endorsed her $290 note to Carl Plucker and she pledged a lease to 0 acres in section 15 township 3 north range 35 to secure it. She says $200 was paid, she repaid, lease not canceled, Watts as lease partner. Seeks lease cancellation and $425 judgment. Attorney is J. C. Hurspool of Walla Walla.
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Eleanor Cameron Payant
S. F. Wilson
M. L. Watts
Wilson
Carl Plucker
Watts
J.C. Hurspool
Walla Walla
Pleas Entered in Cattle and Horse Larceny Case
Bert Pixlier and Joe McBean along with Roy Pambrun pled not guilty to cattle larceny charges and their trial is set for February 3 with H Tt. Watt and W M. Peterson defending. Charles Edwards also pleaded not guilty to horse larceny and his proceedings were scheduled, with his mother in Vancouver unable to fund defense and W. M. Petergon appointed as counsel.
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Chuollty
Bert Pixlier
Joe McBean
Roy Pambrun
H. Tt. Watt
W M. Peterson
Charles Edwards
Vancouver
W. M. Petergon
Baseball Meeting in Pendleton Fizzles Out
Attendance shows serene indifference as Pendleton weighs organized baseball for the coming season. No consensus reached. businessmen urged to participate, but officials feel disappointed and may drop plans. A renewed effort could occur before the Western Tri-State league ends.
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Pendleton
Pendleton Merchant Goey Returns After Year Abroad
Goey Ung D. Goey, a prominent Pendleton Chinese merchant, arrived back yesterday morning after spending more than a year in his native country and will re-enter local business.
Pendleton Knights Join Walla Walla Initiatory Work
Pendleton Knights of Columbus and 40 ladies travel to Walla Walla by Sunday morning train to support a large initiatory class. Schedule includes Mass, luncheon, three degree exemplifications by panels from Spokane and Pendleton, an all Knights banquet, and afternoon entertainment for visiting ladies.
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K. of C.'s
Pendleton Knights of Columbus and
Walla Walla
St. Patrick's Church
Hotel Dacres
Odd Fellows Hall
Michael Flohr
Pendleton Council
Spokane
Thester P. Edge
State of Washington
Hotel Grand
Pioneer of 1848 is Dead in Walla Walla
Samuel M. Kees aged 78, a northwest pioneer of 1848, died of blood poisoning in Walla Walla on January 24. Born February 21, 1836 in Illinois, he moved with parents to Oregon in 1848 then traveled to Walla Walla in 1861 with cattle. He lived in town several years, owned the farm nearby, and leaves wife and two children, A. F. Rees and Mrs. Lillian Julian, both of Walla Walla.
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Samuel M. Kees
Walla Walla
Mr. Kees
Sinois
Lebanon
Linn County
Ore
A. F. Rees
Lillian Julian
Tango to Thrill Vassar Faculty Feud Over Tango Teaching
The January 24 report from Poughkeepsie notes Vassar College will teach the tango at daily tango teas in Vassar Inn. Faculty split with many professors welcoming the plan while others denounce it as unmoral and Vassarlike. A counter-movement to cancel the teas arose. A quoted Vassar girl mocked Yale as hypocritical for diverging from saintly conduct.
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Poughkeepsie
Vassar College
Vassar Inn
Vassar
Paris Sees Food Prices Spike Amid Prolonged Cold
Extraordinary four week cold spell in Paris continues with no relief. Potatoes now near double normal price while fresh vegetables cost four to six times typical levels. Food costs rise as cold persists, affecting households and markets across the city.
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Paris
Boy Prisoner In France Faces Long Sentence At Twelve
Roy Magnier, twelve, is in Paris today as the most studied prisoner in France. He is serving a long sentence for attempting to murder an elderly woman by slashing her throat with a jagged razor. When arrested he told gendarmes reform school would be his fate until twenty, then three years in the army before release.
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Roy
Paris
Raymond Magnier
France
Haitian Rebels Threaten Capital Man? Navy Moves
In Washington on January 24 the Navy Department ordered the cruiser Montana to await orders at Port au Prince to aid Nashville in keeping order after official dispatches said Haitian rebels threaten the capital.
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Washington
Navy Department
Montana
Port Au Prince
Nashville
Capitol
Grain bags slide as prices dip and tariff shifts stir farmers
In Pendleton a local debate on grain bag prices follows a Moscow report claiming seven cents per sack, later corrected to eight cents. Prices range from seven to ten cents with downbeat Portland markets. Tariff changes cut the ad valorem duty, while feedlot losses loom for western Oregon cattle feeders amid higher purchase costs and weak sales. A horse auction is planned near Pendleton, and the region eyes a mass farmers meeting in Heppner.
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Moscow
M. H. Houser
Farmers’ Union
Pendleton
C. Rinehart
Houser
Mostow
Portland
Calcutta
Uma
Ia County
Hermiston
Pioneer Now Asks Land for Homestead Near North Powder
Mrs Belle Chase, a long time Oregon resident approaching seventy, files on a homestead near North Powder hoping to secure title with help from friends to secure a place for her declining years.
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Belle Chase
North Powder
LA Grande
Orégon
Mrs Chase’s Oregon land claim and early journeys
Mrs Chase filed on land at the La Grande land office and traveled to North Powder. She came to Oregon in 1862 as a girl, with family long based in Salem, from Pendleton. Her grandparents were Mr and Mrs Joe Mosler of Salem. She recalls 1952 plains travel. her Missouri origin train arrived ten years before the Ohio train that reached the Grande Ronde valley in 1862.
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la Grande Land Office
North Powder
Chase
Oregon
Salem
Pendleton
Joe Mosler
Plains
Missouri
Grande Ronde Valley
Prisoner Policy Purports Profit in Fire Death
In Los Angeles on January 24, a life insurance policy naming a $7000 payout for Wheeler by way of his death was found in Wilton E. Davis’s possession. Davis, a Civil War veteran, is accused of burning Wheeler alive in the Sawtelle cottage fire on January 1. Deputy District Attorney Frank Blair disclosed the policy and said items once owned by the dead man were recovered from a box of goods Davis stored with a friend.
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Los Angeles
William Gardner Wheeler
Wilton E. Davis
Wheeler
Sawtelle
Frank Blair
Blair
Davis
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Ferndale
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