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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1909
Page
4
County official paper the East Oregonian presents subscription prices for daily weekly and semi weekly editions. Rates cover mail and carrier delivery with terms for one year six months three months and one month options.
A portion of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar appears in a Sunset page. The verse laments farewells as the speaker aims to meet the Pilot face to face after setting sail and crossing the bar. The excerpt emphasizes time, place, and the sea as fate.
The East Oregonian argues Pendleton must finance and support the woolen mill to prevent its move. It warns against relocating the plant, stresses local benefits, and notes power and labor costs can improve with the Bishop brothers running year round. The woolen mill belongs in Pendleton.
Governor Chamberlain vows to veto all bills for salary increases that grant advances to take effect now. He argues against valuing current incumbents’ salaries while state funds are tight and many meritorious requests compete for pay rises. He proposes delaying any reduced pay to end of current terms to curb the surge.
Presett officials argue that those elected knew their pay at the time they took office and should not demand higher salaries. They contend current actiaries are adequate, urging successors receive any raises, guided by business principles to avoid inflated pay.
The Connell area hosts a state college demonstration farm run with local commercial club support. Wheat yields rose from 17 to 30 bushels per acre between early experiments and 1908 under dry farming. Key factors were soil tiling, fallow mulching, discing, subsoil packing, weeders, and surface cultivation to retain moisture and improve root systems.
Umatilla county gains asSenator Smith's artesian well bill passes the senate and a related measure sending 2000 dollars yearly to the district fair clears both houses over the governor's veto The article argues artesian water would boost the region with widespread potential in Walla Walla Yakima Idaho and eastern Oregon and compares the plan to street paving in towns
Blakeney Gray recalls a simple scene where a neighbor's greeting and a shared laugh turn a return home into a warm memory. The humor of calling a chair a cheer frames a moment of neighborly goodwill and community bond.
The Atelnson Globe reports a lively engagement discussion among Gwendolyn and relatives. Mum hopes for a good family fit, Sis worries about care and integrity, Aunt praises intellect, while Father asks if the suitor has a job before consent.
A New York Times column lauds Mrs. Roosevelt for her poised conduct and steady grace during eight years of her husband’s presidency. It praises her restraint, balance, and example to American women, noting she has not merely endured press attention but defined presidential courtesy.
A curious party trick explains how to learn a woman's birth month and age. By instructing her to perform a sequence of multiplications and additions, the resulting number's left and right digits indicate the birth month and the age. The method relies on simple arithmetic and playful curiosity at gatherings.
A Washington Star quip has the impresario noting his preference for Italian grand opera singers because their language is unfamiliar, so he need not pay close attention when they quarrel.
Washington correspondent recounts a story from the late Frank P. Sargent about a Devon immigrant mother whose son, deemed dirty, faced a teacher's note. The boy reportedly handed back a curt reply, My son ain't no rose, send him to school to be learnt not smelt.
A health ad touts Newbro's Horpidity as a remedy for lifelong dandruff. It claims the dandruff germ can be destroyed and offers samples by mail from The Hervelde Co in Ty trot, Michigan, with product sizes 60 cents and 1.90.
The article notes a showing of discord within the Umatilla legislative delegation while Senate members Smith and Cole cooperate closely on matters affecting the county.
In Salem a multitude of measures are debated while the crowd sorts the significant from the trivial, separating the worthwhile from the filler as they consider the future policies and actions.
They Stand the Strain, Our Winona Wagons and Hacka and Rex Buggles are built to stand service. Let us show you our Fairbanks Morse Engines and Scales the best. We solicit your wagon repairing machine work and carriage painting. Charges are moderate and only skilled workmen are employed.
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