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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
8
A false tale of a horse in the city water supply circulated despite a solid six foot wall around the reservoir and padlocked gates. Mayor Murphy and Water Superintendent William Sutherland dispelled the rumor, noting only water and sometimes little of it in the tank.
Mr and Mrs L E Penland will leave next Monday or Tuesday for a camp at Meacham with plans to stay several days and return home afterward.
The text urges immediate action at the first signs of a cold warning that delaying may allow the illness to become entrenched and harder to treat. It stresses every hour lost at the start can extend the duration of suffering and encourages taking prompt steps.
Meacham hosts Pendleton visitors who will occupy Barker ranch for the season. They are the first of many from Pendleton to choose that popular retreat as their summer resort with more expected to arrive next week.
County recorder Fred W. Hendley arrived home this morning after a month in San Francisco and nearby towns. He describes slow rebuilding in San Francisco and notes Oakland’s post disaster gains as many firms stayed there. He recalls residents focusing on the fire rather than the earthquake.
Godfrey Neuman operated incubators on his Spring Hollow ranch and hatched 1600 chickens last spring. He charged neighbors per chick, earning money for himself while saving them trouble and arguing incubator ranching is the economical way to raise poultry.
A party of young people led by Douglas Johnson and the Whittemore sisters with Miss Hazel Hamblen will depart tomorrow morning for an excursion on upper McKay creek.
Will Peters, previously with the Troy laundry, becomes manager of the St. John's Ice & Cold Storage plant at St. Johns near Portland, directing operations at the ice works.
H. H. Wessey has sued L. P. Fraker for a judgment of $63.50. The complaint was filed yesterday by A. Newberry as attorney for the plaintiff.
Action for money filed today by 8 J Hastings through attorneys D W Balley and J B Perry to recover 45 dollars from Paul Bar telmis.
Circuit Judge H J Bean winds down the term before summer vacation. Two cases were heard today. Willis v Grant settled, Call v Call continued. Harris is set for next week, likely last business before weeks away. He plans to spend vacation with family on his ranch by Hida way creek and fish the southern streams. September docket lists several trials with dates from September 21 to September 26, including cases for First National Bank of Pomeroy, State of Oregon, and various plaintiffs and defendants.
Mrs. Thomas Fitz Gerald and her sons Arthur and Milton depart for Lehman springs to camp all summer. Alfred Fitz Gerald stays at Lehman, while Frances and Gertrude Fitz Gerald visit friends in Vancouver.
Major A. EB McFatridge agent of the Umatilla Indians with W J Furnish and Thomas Thompson left for Her Miston to meet Secretary James R Garfield of the interior department who arrived there on No 6 this morning.
The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived at quarantine at 3:33 this morning after leaving Liverpool on July 4. She crossed the Atlantic in four days, 19 hours, and 36 minutes, beating her previous record by 31 minutes. The fastest 24 hour period was from noon July 5 to noon July 6, with a speed of 643 knots, surpassing all prior records.
Wireless report from the battleship Georgia dated July 10 states the Atlantic fleet lies 800 miles west of San Francisco at 11 am. Officers describe the cruise as satisfactory with quiet seas and hazy pleasant weather. Yesterday’s maneuvers had ships form in single line and squadron formation with no speed changes.
Thirteen people filed on timber lands in Grant county at the local office on Monday. From Elmira three members joined the group. Clarence Hooker and Andrew Douglas from Bradford Pennsylvania are in the party. Max Rosenburg lists Peoria Illinois as his address. New York town participants include Milo Hitchenck Henry Buehring Ephriam Dalrymple William Higgs Frederick Sheely Frederick Collson William Miler Fred Corran Francis Corran and William Hess.
Four work horses perished when a barn on D. B. Williams farm seven miles west of Pomeroy burned at noon Tuesday. Seventy five tons of hay were lost. The building was destroyed, with no insurance. The fire's origin remains unknown.
Hood River News-Letter reports Pendleton faces a hard rule under the new prohibition law. Officers must obtain a liquor license to sell any remaining stock and buyers would need a physician's prescription to possess liquor, complicating the sale of bankrupt stock.
J M Hemphill a Pilot Rock pioneer recalls three consecutive crop failures in the late sixties. He notes drought ran through eastern Oregon causing wheat to burn off at ground level and many crops in Umatilla and neighboring counties to fail for three seasons. Rain later increased and yields improved, ending a long drought period.
A Philadelphia anecdote recalls Benjamin Franklin hosting a frugal dinner for critics of his newspaper. He served plain fare to illustrate his independence and warned that he could live on such fare day by day if needed. The guests, impressed, silenced their complaints.
Conductor H C Grady left La Grande with 16 cars of rails and ties for the Wallowa extension. The 60 pound steel rails will enable heavy traffic once track laying reaches the Grande Ronde crossing, though yard work will slow progress for several days. Peter Grant departs to supervise material yards as work restarts in the canyon.
Oregon Grand Army men and Women Relief Corps members backed Department President Cora M. Davia of Union for national president of the encampment to be held in Toledo in September. Resolutions passed at Newport during the annual encampment praise the choice and express hope Oregon W R C will prevail at the national election.
Mrs Aurag M Raley and Misses Adna Edith Raley with Mrs W C E Pruitt depart tomorrow for Lehman springs to camp over the summer by auto.
In a North Carolina libel trial in Charlotte, a jury found the Charlotte Observer true in accusing preacher Co. M. Billings of immorality based on a Blackville date line story about letters to a mulatto servant girl. Damages were set at 5000 but Judge Ward granted a new trial on that portion.
The social planned at the Hotel Bowman Saturday evening by the Episcopal Guild for the rectory fund has been postponed to early fall due to extreme warm weather and many people leaving for weekend trips.
A new baby boy was born on July 9 to the wife of Ernest Sleeman at 616 Market Street weighing ten pounds.
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