Pendleton News Briefs Highlight Mail Delivery and Local Film
The Pendleton Commercial Association approved action to push Sunday mail delivery. O D district game warden E F Averill handled the first C O D parcel post package under the new law, delivered yesterday. Local barber Walter McCully stars in The Bandit's Child at a Pendleton theater, after joining Kalem in Los Angeles. Ralph Ham, track maintainer for the O W R & No, was injured when his motorcycle collided with a rock on a passing track at Barnhart, possibly sidelining him for a month.
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Walter McCully
Pendleton
McCully
Kalem Company
Los Angeles
Glendale
Ralph Ham
Barnhart
Divorce Granted in Case Noted by Judge Phelps
Judge Phelps grants Jane Carden a divorce from Fred Carden. Woman awarded title to west half of the new quarter in section 19, township 3, north range 33, custody of minor children, and $20 monthly child support. Foreclosure suit filed by L A Dickenson against F B Van Cleave and wife for $2700 plus $250 attorney fees. Western Land and Irrigation Co and West Umatilla River Water Users Association named as defendants claiming interests in mortgaged property. J B Perry to defend for plaintiff.
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Phelps
Jane Carden
Fred Carden
Suen
L. A. Dickenson
F. B. van Cleave
Western Land and Irrigation Co
West Umatilla River Water Users’ Association
J. B. Perry
Suit Over Horse Trade Between Smith and Sherlock
W P Smith sues Tom Sherlock to rescind a horse trade claiming he paid $29 in cash and $11 in property plus two mares valued at $125 for a sorrel horse and a bald-face horse. He says the animals proved unbroken and caused a runaway yesterday, seeking return of money and property, $50 damages, and a temporary injunction preventing removal of the horses. Lowell represents the plaintiff.
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W. P. Smith
Tom Sherlock
Smith
Sherlock
Lowell
Pletutitt
Nelson earns Century Club trip for Equitable agent record
Clark E. Nelson, who recently became local agent for Equitable, qualified for membership in the Century Club and earns an expenses paid trip to the Century and Quarter Million clubs convention at Mackinac Island Michigan July 7 to 12. He will depart for Spokane tomorrow to meet Edgar W. Smith, Portland agency manager, who also qualified for the larger club. Nelson wrote 1,090,000 in life insurance in far less time than allowed, earning a speaking slot at the convention’s first session. Smith, in eighteen months, has become the company’s top personal producer in the state.
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Lake Michigan
Clark E. Nelson
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Century Club
Macinae Island
Michigan
Spokane
Edgar W. Smith
Portland
Nelson
Mr. Smith
Agreement Near on Tariff Measure Seeks Final Paragraphs
Washington July 2 Senate Democrats moved toward a final Underwood Simmons tariff draft. Key provisions include mutual life insurers exempt from income tax on premiums returned as dividends, a one tenth of one cent per pound stamp tax on cotton futures with delivery refunds, and a Hitchcock amendment vote to curb tobacco production. Finance panel held further talks as caucus resumes tonight to settle remaining points.
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Washington
Senate Democrates
Mutual Ife
Finance Committee
Mutual Life Insurance
Reversal on paving case surprises city lawyers
The Pendleton dispute over six leads to a reversal on key points. Attorney R R Johnson voiced legal satisfaction while City Attorney Charles H Carter threatened a rehearing. The ruling centers on monopoly implications, affecting Webb and Raley street improvements and likely halting further attacks on that line.
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R. R. Johnson
Johns
Charles H. Carter
Pendleton
Webb and
Raley
Stanleys
City Dresses Up Pot Fourth Big Program
Continued from page one. Saturday Program features a horse racing event lineup starting at 1 30 p m The highlight is a 2 20 team pulling contest with horses or mules pulling cross locked wagons loaded with men The load must be moved at least four feet
Angry at wife drives attempted double murder in Portland
In Portland Gre July 2 Dairyman Chris Schneider 59 angered by his wife Lauise Schneider’s divorce the previous Saturday waited at their home and shot her as she returned to fetch trunks. Their 12 year old son blocked another shot by slamming a door. Schneider then shot himself, collapsing unconscious. Hospital surgeons call the wounds serious but not fatal. Schneider said he had nothing to live for and wished his wife dead. Mrs Schneider said her husband had often threatened to kill her.
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Portland
Gre
Lauise Schneider
Chris Schneider
Schnelier
Schneider
Scientific Party Is Completed In Nome
The power schooner Polar Bear commanded by Captain Louis Lane arrived in Nome on July 2 after leaving Seattle April 8 with scientists including Dunbar Lockwood Samuel Mixter and W Sprague Brooke and Joseph Dixon aboard for the Smithsonian Institution Harvard University and University of California. Eben Draper John Heard Jr Freeland Leslie and George S Silsbee of Boston will join in Nome and the vessel will cruise the Aleutian Islands and the Siberian coast to survey bird and animal life and collect fauna. Non scientists aboard are noted big game hunters.
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Nome
Alaska
Louis Lane
Seattle
Dunbar Lockwood
Foxton
Samuel Mixter
Moston
Smithsonian Instituton
W. Sprague Brooke
Harvard University
Joseph Dixon
University of California
Eben &. Draper
John Heard
Freeland Leslie
George S. Silsbee
Boston
Aleutian Islands
Kamehhatka
Siberian
Clark Appears in White Summer Suit at House
Washington July 2 Speaker Clark appeared on the house rostrum dressed in a white serge suit white shirt white necktie and white shoes and socks.
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Clark
Washington
Historical Civil War Invitation to Governor Morton
Major Lee Moorhouse holds a rare parchment inviting Oliver P. Morton to dine in 1863 during his eastern visit. Signed by twenty four notable New Yorkers including William Cullen Bryant Cyrus W Fields John G Wool and David Dudley Field the document descended to the governor's grandson now in reclamation service legal department.
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Major Lee Moorhouse
Oliver P. Morton
Indiana
New York
Morton
Reclamation Service
Major Moorhouse
William Cullen Bryant
Cyrus W. Fields
John G Wool
David Dudley Field
Gb. W. Bonney
Charles Lanter
L. G . Cannon
M. A. Murdick
Henry J. Raymond
Morris Kitchhum
Elliot Co. Cowdin
John G. Wool
David Dows
Cyrus W. Field
O. K. Martin
Robert Dale Owen
Wm. A. Hall
James Winslow
George Oplyke
Wm. C. Bryant
Henry I. Pierson
R. H. McCurdy
James Wadsworth
Oliver Hoyt
Isaac H. Bailey
J. Schultz
Union
Invitation to Dinner Honoring Indiana Governor Morton
New York on April 4 1862 invites His Excellency Oliver P F Morton governor of Indiana to a dinner in the city within the ensuing week. The letter, signed by prominent figures, extols Mortons wartime service including vetoing a secessionist rider and personally borrowing funds to sustain Indiana troops in the Union cause. Theodore Roosevelt later ranks Morton among the era's top Union leaders in an Outlook article.
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Morton
Washington
New York
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
The
Times
Choirs Compete At International Eisteddfod in Pittsburgh
Sixty five choirs from Ohio Pennsylvania Illinois and Indiana enter the International Eisteddfod in Pittsburgh. A Welsh male chorus and a London women's choir are among entrants. Children’s choirs perform with Canons varg Lorain Newcastle McKeesport represented. Thirty five composers submit new national anthems in a special prize contest.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Ilinoia
Indiana
Wales
Voicees
London
Canos Varg
Lorain
Newcastle
McKeesport
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Commercial Association
Lore
Wife
Pelham
Harry Watson
Opera
Boston Garters
Paris
Oliver PF. Marton
Great West
Pittehure
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Milano
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