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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1916
Page
8
Seattle reports that 200 tons of engines cars steam shovels and other gear assembled at Balboa will be moved by vessels through the Panama Canal to Alaska. The shipment must depart Balboa before October 1 to reach Anchorage by Cook Inlet navigation season and support the Alaska allroad project.
A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Hi Frakes of Pendleton is noted. Various local updates follow including hospital news, gas fire at a station, travel plans of residents, Woodmen convention attendance, charitable assembly, and upcoming events.
Morning warning from Fire Chief Ringel urges owners to be cautious as satellite tanks receive fuel from public stations. A recent fire is blamed on a park source. officials stress motorists should secure gasoline handling to avoid fires. Street work: City to cut weeds on overgrown lots, with charges to owners if ignored. failure leads to city mowing and billing. Also notes on a July issue of Quieres week featuring Nancy Teksern story about outdoor life and a critique of a husband’s absence on Sundays. There is no indication of any approved demand by Baker counties for forest receipts. Judge Marsh denies such a move and explains state law allocates 26 percent to the fund of origin and 10 percent for forest road construction.
An irregular memo notes Superintendent of Instruction Powers in Pendleton enroute from New York after attending a NoEL convention. He intends to meet Prof Hamp ton to discuss trade and a proposed move backed by Pendleton residents toward more and better schooling, while remaining skeptical of outside influence.
Brady Howdvatell notes difficulties following a recent harvest as frost and rain hinder travel and field work. He mentions delays in autumn planting and expresses concern about accessing roads and distant fields due to deteriorating conditions.
Rev and Mrs Snyder and family depart for Portland by train with plans to attend the Presbyterian synod in Rugeny and then coast to the lake. Pastoral duties, a large spring gathering at Lehman, and upcoming state normal school move are noted along with a vaudeville case in Athena where HB Parton and Miss Ethel Betts face charges of unlawful cohabitation.
About one hundred fifty Rebekahs and Odd Fellows traveled to the grove at the old agency grounds for a Sunday picnic. A plentiful lunch was served and a program entertained the crowd in the afternoon. Mr and Mrs A Pintim and Prontor later motored to Leweton.
The fragmentary notes show Mr Proctor seeking Indian media figures for sculpture work. Several locals including Rose, Myrtle Road, and Willan Lisher Howter are mentioned with travel plans, visitors from Portland and Gilman, Mont, and various social and commercial references, all in a late stage of editing.
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