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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1920
Page
7
Claire Haley and Mie Mildred attend gatherings with friends, while Miss Ruth Terpening marries Dr William Oretheam in Cheney Washington. News covers engagements, weddings, and social events including Portland connections and notable local families attending gatherings and ceremonies.
Local Overbeck & Cooke quotations show December wheat opening 2.52 and closing 2.47. March figures range from 2.58 to 2.41 with Chitwago Grain Market listing 2.62 open and 2.47 close. Other grains and commodities appear with mixed quotes across July, September, and other months.
Agana Guam July 26 Captain Gilmer governor and commandant bans whistling within the city limits under a five dollar fine terming the noise unnecessary and irritating The order signed WW Gilmer asserts sole lawmaking power in Guam noting it may be the only U S possession with such authority.
Denver regulation changes allow adobe construction due to home shortages and high material costs. Requests have been filed as inspectors outline three conditions: only in frame residence districts, guidance on brick making, and required finishing coats of paint.
Construction of a building to house the federal bureau of mines experiment station in precious metals will be started next month. The building will be near the Mackey School of Mines and staff will be established here before the first of the coming year.
Moonlight too has advanced in price here. The park commission recommended to the city council that the moonlight too be allowed in rowboats and canoes on the lakes in Wheatlake Echo Lincoln and Hollenbeck parks be increased from twenty five cents to thirty five cents an hour.
Clinton Indiana July 26 The coal strike expands as 2560 miners walk out at Clinton Meld Union officials refuse comment though workers appear dissatisfied with the federal commission award and plan further action as the dispute widens.
Pittsburg Kansas July 26 lazy pause sweeps southwest Kansas mines as many miners refuse Saturday work in protest against fines. District President Flowatt says over half have quit and more are expected to join tomorrow while operators dispute Flowatt s tallies and insist his figure is too high.
The phrase suggests a scheduled event by the Lady Maccabees tomorrow described as a poetic notion. Local context and exact event details are unclear in the fragment.
July 26 dispatches from London report allies planning a conference in London with the Moscow government to begin armistice talks while Polish forces recapture Grodno and river crossings see heavy fighting. Reports note troop movements, prisoner takings, and shifts of front lines as relations between Britain and the Moscow government loom.
In Los Angeles a sequence of earthquakes rattled the area with minor damage reported after a tremor described as possibly the heaviest in the series. The event came on a gray dawn with observers noting the earlier quake the prior Friday and a subsequent sharp aftershock.
Reports from Mexico City claim Francisco Villa has returned to activity after a freight train wreck near Torreon and telegraph lines cut between San Domingo and Santa Mulinia by bandit leaders. General Calles asserts Villa is under strong government pressure and will not be a threat much longer, though activity in southern Chihuahua alarms the region.
Johnson remains jailed in Joliet after a federal bail petition was rejected. The request argued the case should have gone before Judge Carpenter, who originally sentenced Johnson for Mann Act violations. The hearing occurred at a hospital in Chicago on July 26.
Chicago July 24 ex-flyer Troy Millen was dismissed as a possible suspect in the New York trunk murder mystery. Patrolman Trumbell of the Detroit police, who met Millen in jail here, said there is no resemblance to Eugene Leroy, the former Detroit house occupant linked to the murdered woman.
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