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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1917
Page
8
This morning redecorating the lobby at the Penleton Hotel got underway. Permits were issued for a small building on Spruce street costing 300 dollars. Local notes include Bucking at Round-Up Park tonight and drill plans for Pendiston Reserves and Silver Grave, with rifles to be shown by Silver Granya.
Jack Bronson offered a patent remedy claimed to free users from the habit and was arrested for marching without a cease. His trial was set for the afternoon. Locals Jell Brown Tom Searcey and Sheldon Ulrich, Marines, were connected to a recent explosion at Mare Inland. Brown describes the blast and hopes for orders to European waters. W N Taylor, an auto worker, was arrested for speeding on Lewis Street and acquitted for lack of evidence.
Pendleton reports circulated today that Floyd Irwin, known as a trick relay and pony express rider at the Round-Up last year, was killed at Cheyenne. No official source or details have been learned to confirm the rumor.
Instead of the midweek meeting at the Methodist Church on Wednesday evening a farewell service will be held at the parsonage for Dr and Mrs Shirabear who depart for Singapore. They plan to reach there on the night train the four forty six and will serve on the departure night.
The county court learned the State Highway Commission will reimburse about half of last year's survey costs for the Sinte Ronda project. Highway Engineer H C Nunn reported the commission voted to pay the county roughly 2000 dollars. Three convicts escaped Sunday from the prison farm, not yet located, including George W Allen of Columbia County, J W Dunn of Clark County, and Jamon H Hall of Chelan County, all with prior convictions. The men had been irrigating the prison farm near finish Walla Walla Union.
Pendleton scouts from Bingham rode train 17 wrecked at Pleasant Valley to Gibbon and faced hunger. After a long wait they found a noon meal and returned home by 1 36 am, with scouts Lloyd McGee Levi Ankeny Bart Marlein Leal Blydenstein and Rupert Graham among those present.
A Round-Up board of directors met last night to discuss routine plans and concessions. The session focused on standard business matters and forthcoming actions by the organization.
Organizers plan a charity exhibition with lemonade and peanut concessions inside the grounds. The event will be run by the management team to ensure patron access and profits. This year profits will be given to the Red Cross and managed by that organization.
In Oregon the supreme court upheld the conviction of Georgy Hoffman of Portland for selling liquor. The decision clarifies the legality of prosecuting illicit liquor sales under state law.
Philip Schneidemann, a German socialist and Reichwing member, played a prominent part in shaping the cabinet crisis and influencing the crisis that affected the German empire.
Woe, the undersigned, hereby a grow to charge 20 cents for a shave and 6 cents for a week shave beginning July 7th. Phillips & Hasse, Ww. PD Humphrey, J. Ek Hart, Reetz & Freeman, Arterburn & Thim, W. W. Edmisten, Reed-Parry, F. Akimoto, Mark Patton, Wm. Bennett. Pendleton, Oregon, July 24, 1917.
Chicago July 71-4 Hubert Allerton a Pratt County millionaire intends a novel method to recapture a roaming lion on his estate by luring with a mate supplied by Cy De Very of Lincoln Park 200. Hunters hope the male lion’s release will draw the lioness from hiding and lead to capture.
The readable text outlines a crude, unverified plan involving a lioness and a tunnel under woods to drive her into submission. It references Pratt county officials and mentions luring and starving the animal as a supposed method. No clear event or outcome is stated.
In a forested 200 acre area around the Aller ton estate, horseman hunters have halted efforts, awaiting battalion arrival. Nearby families lock themselves indoors, fearing the ongoing siege as frost and fog complicate the search.
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