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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
7
A local ad invites patrons to rely on Neagle Brothers for wagon repairing machine work and carriage painting. It promises moderate charges and emphasizes that only skilled workmen are employed. Winona hacks Rex buggies Fairbanks engines and scales are offered for sale.
Special Officers warned that the government would press the fight against liquor on the Nez Perce reservation until bootleggers were driven out or jailed. Thomas Craig, Vollmer hotel keeper, is under arrest for introducing liquor as a quantity of beer is seized to be used as evidence in federal court. Craig moved to Vollmer and built a fine hotel, but the Dick decision shut saloons on the reserve, collapsing his business. He later sought a Lewiston saloon license but the council limited licenses. Arrest followed a midnight ride to Vollmer. authorities say the case shows local efforts to curb bootlegging amid ongoing restrictions.
State Pure Food Commissioner J. KR Fields conducts today’s checks on Lewiston soda fountain supplies as part of a northern state tour. He reports shipments will be sent out of state for noncompliance with pure food laws while also inspecting milk, prepared meats, and fountain goods. The cherry slug threatening Clarkston orchards prompts urging arsenic spray on very young fruit.
Mrs Barr arrived from Chehalis and told police her husband, a locomotive engineer, intended to travel by train from Chehalis to Portland and then to The Dalles to meet her. She described her life, marriage in Tennessee at 14, widowhood, a second marriage, and her fragile mental state. Authorities kept her for observation.
A sheepman and his family barely survived a ford of the Boise river at Rogsford about 36 miles above the capital. The outfit worth about 500 dollars was lost as the driver fought to free the team and the wagon swept away downstream. The horses drowned after two and a half miles as the family reached the riverbank.
The Portland Chamber of Commerce Bulletin highlights southern Oregon’s grape culture in the Rogue River valley. Nearly a million vines cover red lands in Josephine and Jackson counties with Flaming Tokay leading quality. Soil, elevation and sun meet European standards, and hill lands offer $200 to $500 per acre profits without irrigation. Clearings cost $10 to $25 an acre. prepared plantings run to $5,000 per acre for vines. Market focus is refined packing and shipping to eastern markets. fall rains are timed for ripening.
A newspaper ad claims Sexine Pills cure overwork and nervous irritability for both men and women. It promises restored strength and energy with a money back guarantee, pricing one dollar per box or six boxes for five, from Pendleton Drug Company.
If you have lived too long in one place consider furnished rooms today and seek a change of scene. Don’t deal with buyers offering half what “the right man” would pay. A new test of want advertising could boost your store today.
WANTED ads seek men women and families to place premium offers for daily weekly and semi weekly East Oregonian subscriptions and classified sections. Rates listed for one to six insertions, place ads by mail with payment. weekly carrier rate noted.
Classified rental notice lists a nine room brick house with electric lights hot water and a good range three blocks from Main atrest. Applications accepted at 408 East Bluff or J M Bentleys Court street office. Also unfurnished housekeeping rooms at East Oregonian office and two three or four room housekeeping suites at 301 S Main Street via Spoonemore rental agent 117 East Alta Street.
The classified columns offer the greatest market for used articles and cash for anything of value.
A dense reads column lists physicians surgeons and dentists with offices in Judd and Savings Bank buildings. It also shows lawyers such as Carter Smythe Perry Lowell Winter Peterson Wilson Raeley Richards and others practicing in associations block Schmidt building and Smith Crawford building.
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