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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
5
In a special election on district bonds of 44 000 for a central Milton school and a Freewater building, both towns rejected the measure with 410 no to 162 yes overall. Freewater opposed Milton’s larger, costlier project, and district division had earlier been denied.
Two factions advocate constructing new buildings, each claiming superiority of their design. Talks stall as neither side concedes the other’s advantages, leaving the project in limbo.
Buchanan Coleman a four year old boy living with grandparents on a ranch twelve miles west of Billings Montana was bitten on the foot by a rat Monday. The grandmother sucked the poison from the wound and saved the child's life.
Local briefs list offerings from Hohbachs and Stark Poultry House. Pendleton Furniture Co announces new rug shipments and wood for dry burning. Rentals offered at East Oregonian building and 223 Perkins Ave. Employment ads for harvest workers and a cook. Hotel Bowman Cafe opens 6 am to 10 pm with strawberry ice cream. Lost elk tooth with initials F W B. return to Bond Bros. Hardware ads push specials on hammocks, stoves, freezers and seasonal sale items.
A long list of local and visiting dignitaries, businesspeople, and relatives travel and stay in Pendleton. Dan P Smythe leaves for Portland on business while Dr and Mrs D C McNabb travel to Heppner. Many others pass through or plan trips to Wenaha springs, Walla Walla, and Seattle, including S F Wilson of Athena, W N Dill from H Mueller Manufacturing, A D Rhonimus of Cabbage Hill, and more. Several locals and professionals conduct business in Pendleton, with a few headed to Caldwell Idaho or The Dalles for work, and others visiting family or resting at Wenaha springs.
The North Pacific Brewing Company of Astoria ships Martona malt liquid and hop extract to northwest newspapers for judging. Described as similar to near beer, with Pendleton's new for beer variant that looks smells and tastes like beer. An express car on No 6 carried a large quantity this morning.
Four Tacoma youths aged 14 to 168 years depart Magnolia beach on Va shone island in a 400 mile sound voyage. Ernest Mack Johnny Hoyt Emmet Anderson and Burt Cook plan camping and subsisting on flee and game while visiting Hoods Canal upper sound points and possibly reaching Victoria and Vancouver.
Pendleton defeated Baker City 7 to 6 at Baker City yesterday. Pendleton hit three home runs and Baker City scored twice. Battery for Pendleton was Taliaferro and Conrad, while Gregg and Ward pitched and caught for Baker.
Portland defeated Los Angeles 2 to 0 as Kinsella pitched a grand game. Neagle faltered after injuring his stomach in the sixth. Johnson hit a timely triple and Dangin added a seventh inning single to supply the winning runs.
Seattle committed errors at bat and in the field, handing Butte an 8 to 1 victory. Reports list Aberden, Helfrich, Erickson and Arbogast among players, with Thompson and Spencer handling batteries as the game unfolded. The fragmentary text notes the July 16 date and mentions Butte's win and Seattle's scoring failure.
In the American League games Boston beat Chicago 2 to 0, Philadelphia defeated Detroit 6 to 3, Washington triumphed over Cleveland 6 to 1, and New Yorkbested St. Louis 10 to 1. In the National League Chicago beat Chicago 8 to 4, Pittsburgh defeated Boston 6 to ?, St. Louis defeated Philadelphia 7 to 4, Cincinnati beat Brooklyn 8 to 4.
The regular annual meeting of the Oregon Building & Loan Association will be held at the association office in this city on Tuesday July 28 1908 at 7 p m. R ALEXANDER President C H MARSH Secretary. George Coleman aged 20 of Franklin Til was struck and killed by lightning near Hamilton Mont Tuesday afternoon while working on the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation ditch project, having just received his time check ready to leave the area.
A conference of southern railroad executives, spanning south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi, met in Louisville to discuss possible increases in freight rates on select commodities. Cottonseed oil and other items may see higher charges, while cotton and lumber rates are not expected to rise. General merchandise rates likely stay unchanged. Rail firms cite higher operating costs and restored salaries as reasons to seek revenue gains, with a rate hike on packing house and grain products already announced for August 1.
Charles F. Van de Water of the O R N company touring the wheat belt reports yields well above farmers' expectations though the crop is not as tall or dense as usual. He notes heads are well filled and grain quality is excellent despite a 30 percent shortfall from last year.
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