Various Local Notices and Advertisements Relaxed City Briefs
A collage of small items lists ice cream at Hohbachs and dry wood from Minnis, farm goods, dressed chickens from Stark Poultry, new rugs at Pendleton Furniture Co, unfurnished rooms for rent, local transfer services, and store-room rentals. Also notes Hotel Bowman Cafe hours and food service, plus a stray 19th century anecdote about Mme de Provigny detailing a widow’s will leaving a fortune to seniors and a country house for their use.
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Stark Poultry House
Pendleton Furniture Co
Grahams
East Oregonian
Mystery of Paris Ends with Death of Mme de Provigny
Mme de Provigny, an eccentric recluse aged over 70, has died in the long sealed house on Boulevard Poissommiere. For more than 60 years she lived in isolation, wearing white satin since her wedding day when her husband died of apoplexy. The mystery of the long shuttered home is resolved as mourning drapes were placed and the elderly resident is declared dead.
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Mme de Provigny
France
Dreyfus
Victorian
Paris
Boulevard Poissommiere
Servanta
Mme. de Provigny
Water on a Dead Level Two Ditches Run Water Oppositely
In Malheur County the irrigation district presents a rare engineering feat with two large canals running side by side across a flat Malheur River valley. Water from higher ground flows in opposite directions in the same level ground, crossing via a flume where one ditch passes beneath the other, a striking West Coast spectacle.
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Malheur
Malheur County
Oregonian
Malheur River
Suitor shootout ends in death at Oregon City
Math Jancigaj, an Austrian laborer, entered the Schmorker home and shot 16 year old Mary Schmerker to death at midnight. He fled after a confrontation with Mary's father, pursued by a local posse. Townsfolk threaten lynching if captured.
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Math Jancigaj
Oregon City
Mary Schmerker
Jancigaj
John Schmorker
Schmorker
Jancigas
Jancigar
Logging Camps Burned Near Fernie BC in Fire Blaze
All the logging camps at the eastern British Columbia Lumber Co near Fernie were destroyed by fire. The blaze is believed to have started from a spark from a logging engine on Thursday.
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British Columbia Lumber Co
Fernie
B. C
Personal notes from Walla Walla visitors and locals
A long list of residents and visitors in Walla Walla is recorded. Names include Pulford of Boise, Cartano of Athena, Sunderman, Alexander, Cain, Lavender, Tallman, Roesch, McNabb, Bayne, Niswen, Mann, Blake, Gray, Lafount, Brusha, Montgomery, Brown, McIntyre, Raymond, Hurlburt, Pearson, Cole, Lytle, Nye, Jessie Smith, Parkes, Beas Gibson, Slusher, Slater, Hanna, Penland, McNurlen, Waffle, Tay lor, Neagle, Baker, Mattie Andrews, Ira Hughes, and others. The items note business trips, visits, health, settlements, and summer travel to Lehman springs, Meacham, and Birch creek.
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A, BR. Pulford
Boise
Bert Cartano
Athena
A. H. Sunderman
South Main Street
R. Alexander
Portland
Oscar Cain
Walla Walla
William Roesch
Grangeville
Idaho
J. C. McNabb
la Grande
Henry Bayne
Helix
John Niswen
Pendleton
Walla Walla Union
Mra
BE. A. Mann
Wenaha Springs
Er. J. Brown
Pacific Paper Company of
Oregon
Duncan McIntyre
St. Dennis-Harris
R. Raymond
Lehman Springs
E. A. Vaughan
Meacham
Freda Parkes
Parkes
F. T. George
Echo
Horace Walker
T. J. Kirk
W. A. Slusher
Monta Vista
Colo
East Oregonian
Anita
Edna Slater
R. J. Slater
Ee, Slater
la Grande Star
Charles BE
Hanna
A. EB. Penland
Lewiston Man Sees Pendleton Paving Plans
Lewiston businessman M D Mills, returning from Denver, predicts Lewiston will spend about 200000 on street paving, likely adopting bitulithic after favorable Pendleton observations. He praises Pendleton's bitulithic and notes the Denver Democratic convention’s strong enthusiasm and Bryan election prospects. Mills compares Pendleton to Lewiston and cites booming Lewiston Clarkston fruit acreage.
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Lewiston
M. D. Mills
Pendleton
Denver
Mills
W. A. Siddone
Northern Pacific Section
Bryan
Oklahoma Territory
Mr. Mills
East
Oregonian
Pastime Pictures Adds New Shows with Illustrated Songs
The Pastime drew Sunday crowds with new and attractive pictures and announces tomorrow's change to all new pictures with illustrated songs. The Dimes also offered excellent, previously unseen pictures and promises another change tomorrow. Lady Audley’s Secret has pleased audiences in recent days at the old time venue, with new songs and pictures at both places.
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The
Dimes
Change of motion pictures at Show Shop continues
The Show Shop has presented a change of motion pictures since Saturday and the run is considered one of the best yet seen. The usual change will proceed tomorrow, keeping up the steady stream of featured films for patrons.
Pullman Spring Water Flow Varies With Crop Land
A spring five miles south of Pullman on 8 H Breeze’s land shows water flow more than doubling in summer fallow fields compared with cropped ground. Washington State College experiment staff will investigate. theory suggests grain growth absorbs moisture, reducing surface flow. W Lawrence plans a detailed study of the spring.
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8. H. Breeze
Pullman
W. Lawrence
Girl 18 Criminal Tool In Counterfeit Tax?
Gladys Wilson, about 17, reportedly led authorities to arrest R M Ellis, wife and Will G Gillman for using the girl to pass counterfeit bills in Tacoma and Olympia. The confession claims the proceeds would fund a traveling show with Mrs Ellis as star during a hula dance. The trio allegedly circulated confederate bills.
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Gladys Wilson
R. M. Ellis
Will G. Gillman
Tacoma
Olympia
Officer Turner
Mrs. Ellis
Ellie
Gillman
Not First Dry Year That of 1908
Old files of East Oregonian show an exceedingly dry year similar to 1895 with crops short and water scarce. A. Ruppe notes the summer of 1895 was very dry, with record heat, limited rainfall at Pendleton, and a dry, westerly to southwesterly pattern, 10.47 inches of rain, and 6.9 inches of snowfall in the period described.
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East
A. Ruppe
Hilton
Pendleton
Jupiter Pluvius
The Orange Junior O A C Annual Received at Library
A copy of The Orange the junior annual for Oregon Agricultural College has been received at the Commercial association library. The volume highlights class rosters athletic records oratory and debate triumphs and other student interests. Marcus Sturve of this city and George Carmichael of Weston are noted graduates.
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Oregon Agricultural College
Commercial Association
Marcus Sturve
Donaldson Pharmacy
George Carmichael
Weston
Umatilla County
Moule Named To Pendleton Schools Post
Augusta Moule was elected by the Pendleton school board to a teaching position for the coming year. She has not been assigned a room yet. Superintendent Landers will decide. Other vacancies remain, with no further selections made. Fuel and supply contracts were awarded: Oregon Lumber for 0 cords of wood, Umatilla Lumber for 100 tons of coal, and LG Frazier for miscellaneous supplies.
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Augusta Moule
Landers
Oregon Lumber Company
Umatilla Lumber Company
L G. Frazier
Oil Explosion Fatality in Portland Fire
Mrs. G Raglinone, a Greek woman, was fatally burned Tuesday when a cook stove exploded after kerosene was used to hasten the fire for supper. She died last night from her injuries.
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G. Raglinone
Portland
Held to the Higher Court in Wallace Idaho
In Wallace Idaho on Friday Charles Burns, arrested for shooting Charles Edwards in the thigh, was bound over to the district court for trial with bail set at 500 dollars.
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Wallace
Idaho
Charles Burns
Charles Edwards
District Court
Also Mentioned on This Page
Teutsch
F. E. Livengood
Teutsch’s Old Stand
Hohbach's
Stansberry & Milne
Malin Street
Bowman
Louis’ Hunziker
Jeweler
Optician
Malin St
Kob Pappens
Dave Lavender
Will Tallman
J. W. Tallman
H. G. Hurlburt
Buttercreek
A. S. Pearson
Freewater
W. G. Cole
W. H. Lytle
A. W. Nye
Lachlan Macleay
Jessie Smith
Joe Parkes
Charles Wall
Bowles
Fred Waffle
Maude Taylor
Frank Neagle
Birch Creek
Pilot Rock
Umatilla Central
B. Baker
Hermiston
Mattie Andrews
Superior
Wihs
Ira Hughes
Genesee
Andrews
Pendleton Cloak
Suit House
IsSth
Department OF Law
University OF Ore
Corbett
M. Lorimer
Main Street
Bridge
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