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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1906
Page
5
Classifieds and notices run through in city columns listing sales jobs and stores seeking clerks drivers and sales staff. Advertisers push products from refrigerators to hats and clothing while a local studio promotes baby portraits. A warehouse accident hospitalizes a worker and a drunken brawl in Seattle ends in a fatality.
Riveting jewelry appeal invites buyers to inspect a large stock of every kind at moderate prices. The ad promises assurance behind each piece with its own Entrantee, relieving customers of risk, from L. Hunziker, jeweler and optician.
Tadge Upton of Walla Walla refused comment on whether he had received a telegram from Betsher Mitchell asking Judge William Ooten to defend her in the killing of George Mitchell near Seattle last Thursday. A private telegram to the Statesman claimed Betsher Mitchell sought the judge after his telegram of congratulations and offers of assistance.
The funeral for Mrs Cicor Hult was held at 19 o clock in the morning from the family home on Garden street. Rev Van Nuys of the Presbyterian church conducted the services at the house and cemetery. Members of the Rathbone Sisters and Knights of Pythias attended. Pallbearers were A J Knight, T G Montgomery, Roy Raley, J W Maloney, W Perry, and Clarence Penland.
At last night's meeting a provisional organization was created for the Oregon & Idaho Orphans Home society. Dr J Smith was elected president, Mrs AL Lowell secretary, J J Lambirth treasurer, and Wm Thar KS Dowden appointed superintendent. By laws were adopted and articles of incorporation discussed. A two-state board of trustees will be chosen from Oregon and Maine, delaying full formation.
Local column lists residents and visitors with travels to and from Pendleton. Dr. W Olinger hosts in Milton, Ernest Younger returns from Bingham Springs, Mrs M L Watts of Athena visits, many others travel to Hot Lake, Pendleton Academy guests, and trips to Hermiston Eugene and Portland noted. Community members, trips, illnesses, and a road-wheat crop remark close the list.
Bits for Terigullion Project Bide solicit bids for the Corbett dam on the Shoshone river eight miles northeast of Cody Wyoming. Work includes 10000 cubic yards excavation 5000 concrete 1100 earth fill and gravel embankment plus 260000 pounds steel reinforcing. Tent meetings by Seventh Day Adventist evangelists begin tomorrow at the old academy grounds on East Webb Street featuring gospel lectures and a discussion of religion with no admission charged.
An amendment to the homestead law reduces the minimum entry on public land from 0 to 10 acres, allowing a 10 acre entry in favorable areas. In irrigated regions 10 acres suffices for family support under intensive cultivation.
Progress in Frisco lists 30 new high class structures projected totaling 14 102 000 dollars with floor space covering 64 acres though many may be undeveloped yet. The bulletin from the Southern Pacific notes delays due to holidays debris removal and economic pressures impacting leases and temporary stores as city growth presses forward.
Captain Patrick C. Hruth and wife left last evening for Lehman Springs to stay a week with Judge Fitz Gerald’s family. In town Hruth toured Chinatown with Marshal Gurdane. The chief gained new insights as detectives uncovered details previously unknown, while a threatened Portland streetcar strike could hasten his return.
Mrs Elmira Rands wife of J Randy died at the hospital likely from typhoid fever and complications after a year of ill health while nursing two children. She was 40 and living at 506 Calvin street. The funeral will be at 10 oclock tomorrow from Rader parlors conducted by Ren Neller for Congregational church. She was a Royal Neighbor member. The report also notes a New York Central railroad sale unrelated to the obituary.
Last year over 12 000 professionals entered the United States. The flow included 190 physicians from Germany and 144 English lawyers. Immigrant actors numbered 1157 with diverse origins, while 1625 musicians arrived including 327 Germans and 242 Hebrews. Architects, clerks, engineers and painters also featured in the totals, along with small counts of Chinese teachers and actors.
The author argues for proprietary medicines as a nationwide blessing noting the benefits of Ryschee's German Syrup in households for coughs colds throat and lung issues. It claims the remedy relieves coughing loosens phlegm and aids sleep, offered at 25 and 75 cents via Tallman & Co with Green's prize almanac.
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