Pendleton City Finances Show Healthy Balance for 1912
City figures report 1912 operating costs of 345000 with 26000 in improvements leaving a year start balance above 27000. The report lists department expenditures including library street and mainte nance items and notes a bold overdraft figure. A Chamberlains Cough Remedy advertisement interrupts the budget summary.
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Park Deere
North Site
East
Alta
J Welch
Hazel St Tee
Fire Department
Recorder's Office
City Hall
Have You An Orchard Wear It On Your Hat
Paris sketches Futurist fashion in headgear with wild color schemes and fruit motifs. Hats display four color trims such as red violet green yellow and blue with orchard theme accents like apples peaches plums and cherries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Newsy Notes of Pendleton Couple Married Here
Ed F. Miller and Adra M. Ford, both of Pendleton, were wed yesterday by Justice of the Peace Joe H. Parkes. The notice also lists Judge G. W. Phelps improving from smallpox and an arrest of Indian Johnny Drunk after a spree. Real estate transfer records show Dick Adams and wife selling to August Amagon of Stanfield for 500 dollars, two portions of sections in township 1 south, range 34 east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace
Joe H. Parkes
Ed F. Miller
Adra M. Ford
Johnny
Dick Adams
August Amagon
Stanfield
Pioneer Pistol Brought By Freewater Farmer
Iias Old Pistol owned by Marion Butts, a noted Freewater farmer, was shown in Pendleton. The relic’s age is unknown, but Butts says it came from a man who held it for 50 years. It is a muggle loader with powder ignited by a flint on the hammer.
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Marion Butts
Freewater
Pendleton
Mr. Butts
Snow Cost R. R. Over $12,000 Blockade Clears
After a three week snow blockade the Northern Pacific branch line between Athena and the Pendleton Pasco route is near clear. Two derailed engines were lifted, repairs estimated at 1500 to 500 dollars per engine. Total losses to the railway around 12,000 dollars. No injuries reported as crews continued work amid blizzards. townsfolk watch progress. A stray closing joke remarks on a city borderer's view of a gold brick factory.
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Northern Pacific
Athena
Pendleton- Pasco
Hillsdale
Warland
Wayland
Pasco
Pastor Sherwood L. Grigsby Installed Sunday
The Rev. Sherwood L. Grigsby will be installed as pastor of the local Presbyterian church at 11 o'clock next Sunday morning. A committee of Rev. J. W. Milligan of Portland Rev. W. H. Bleakney of Walla Walla and Rev. W. L. Van Nuys of Parkdale Ore will participate in the service. Special music is being prepared.
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Sherwood L. Grigsby
J. W. Milligan
D. D
Portland
W. H. Bleakney
Walla Walla
W. L. van Nuys
Parkdale
Ore
Jis
Minors Barred From Pool In Cigar Stores
Riley Summers, owner of the O. K. parlors, was arrested for violating a law that bans minors from playing pool in cigar stores or entering pool rooms. Before Justice Joe H. Parkes he pleaded guilty and was fined 25 dollars plus costs. Authorities vow to prosecute any future violations.
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Riley
Summers
O. K
Justice of the Peace
Joe H. Parkes
Eugene Municipal Plant Powers City Utilities Reform
The Eugene municipal electric light and power plant, built for 225000, is operated by the water board EB A Lee M Svarverud C B Frank R M Day and B B McKinney. Rates fell from 15 to 9 cents per kilowatt hour as streets receive ornamental cluster lights funded by property owners and city illumination costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene
Water Board
EB. A. Lee
M. Svarverud
C. 8. Frank
R. M. Day
B. B. McKinney
Eugene Municipal Electric l
Wanted horses to pull Shasta Tain
Sheriff Taylor will leave for Baker this evening to bring back Mrs. B Grant who is alleged to have cashed several bad checks in the city. One ended with Albert Bowlsby as endorser and he lost five dollars. The article continues about a hospital transfer list and the oldest inmate Peter Smith from Umatilla County.
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T. D. Taylor
Baker
B. Grant
Albert Bowlsby
Umatilla
J. W. Maloney
Insane Hospital
Salem
Umatilla County
Peter Smith
This County
Mother discovers long lost child in Missouri murder case
Mina G. T. Fisher of Joplin Missouri learns she is mother to Pansy Ellen Hastings Lesh of Los Angeles the self confessed poisoner acquitted of murder in Sedalia Missouri Her discovery arose from an inquiry into the death of her uncle W T Luttrell of Jacksonville Florida Fisher had been unaware of her daughter’s location for twenty years and was near during the trial without knowing she was the defendant.
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Lesh
Jackson
Fla
Mina
G. T. Fisher
Joplin
Pansy Ellen Hastings Lesh
Los Angeles
Missouri
Summer Picnic on the Hudson by Albany Elks
Albany and Troy lodges of Elks organized a January picnic on the Hudson with a steamer trip, open deck dancing, lemonade and dandelion shad refreshments, straw hats, and linen outfits. Over 200 members and wives were to attend as the river marks its 100th day of continuous navigation with no fees.
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Peateres
Elks
Albany
Troy
Hudson
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Judge Fee
Standard Grocery Co
Phone
Recover FitzGerald
Soraegee
Serene Atel Pravides
Yibrary
Empire Meat
Newsy
G. W. Phelps
Iias
Snow
R. R
Dale Rothwell
Optical Specialist
Hanscom
Dalles
Workingmens Clothing Co
Pastime Theatre
Last
The
Main St. Taylor Hardware
la Grande
Taylor Hardware
Thos. C. Ohmart
D. J. Gilliland
Oregon
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