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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1909
Page
7
Portland market notes wheat bids easing across the grain trade with bluestem at 1.02 per bushel and fortyfold near 99 cents while club wheat sits around 87 cents. Hog prices hold near 9.10 per hundred, sheep demand firms, and live stock markets show firmer lamb and wool values as rains affect clover and grazing.
President Mary Wood Swift of Berkeley leads final arrangements for the sixth triennial National Council of Women session in Seattle this week. Delegates from the International Council of Women, eighty from Toronto, board the Princess Charlotte at Victoria and head to a special train for the expo grounds luncheon hosted by the Seattle Federation of Women's clubs. Foreign consuls will attend and address guests during the program.
Lincoln Neb July 27 Nebraska will have no state primary election this year though three supreme court judges and two regents of the state university will be elected this fall. Today platform conventions are being held for the promulgation of platforms and the selection of state committees of the various parties. The omission of the state primary election is due to the new non partisan judiciary and regents DIN which provides that candidates for those offices shall go on the ballot without party designation.
Long Branch New Jersey July 27 annual exhibition of the Monmouth County Horse Show association opens with a brilliant display. Fashionable Colony guests arrive from Newport and Bar Harbor including Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Keelhold Vanderbilt Frank Gould Mrs Frederick Gherein and Senator Edward Murphy Jr. Prize money this year totals seven thousand dollars.
Montgomery July 27 The Alabama legislature opened in the social session at Governor Comer's call to strengthen liquor laws and consider an anti locker club ban An education bill to require compulsory attendance a concealed weapon ban and a juvenile justice reform are part of the agenda plus forestry preservation efforts.
London July 27 Great Britain faces a major labor dispute as miners in the Miners Confederation vote on a nationwide strike to support Scottish workers resisting a six penny wage cut. The executive committee will meet to decide action, with strong sentiment favoring an all mines stoppage that could halt British industry and prompt factories to terminate contracts amid coal shortages.
Silence falls on Treadwell street as the Bank of England closes for its 216th birthday. About 1,600 officers and men enjoy a company outing funded by the bank, which employs nearly two thousand people and maintains a minimum personal balance of 2,500 dollars while not handling small corporate accounts under 25,000.
The National Hay association opened its annual convention in Cedar Point Ohio on July 27 and will sit for two days. Delegates from leading firms nationwide are represented in strong numbers. A local note from Wallowa Sun reports improving haying conditions and excellent yields as good weather continues.
Walla Walla Washington private enterprise moves to develop irrigation on the John Day and Deschutes rivers after government abandonment. John Day Power Co incorpored with $500000 to generate water and electric power and irrigation. Project spans parts of Oregon and Washington with 200000 acres potentially watered. Dr Blalock and associates announce surveys of 12 townships and signups from many landowners.
Pendleton common council invites bids for Lewis street and associated streets improvements from Gastling Jeff Davis to Patent Eddy and Church streets, with excavating and filling prices per cubic yard, rolling per 50 foot frontage, under ordinance 604. Bids due August 4, 1909 at 7 30 p m with $100 certified check. council may reject any bid. Foley's Honey and Tar advertised with a testimonial from L M Ruggies of Reasner Iowa about curing coughs and stopping lung hemorrhages.
Four times as many potatoes are forecast in the Willamette valley this year than last year. Oregon Lumber Yard invites inquiries with price offers for multiple cars disposed in 4 ft lengths.
Nashville, Tenn. July 27 The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether murder convicts slated to die in their home counties can be executed in the state main prison rather than the local facility. Attorney General Cates seeks amended judgments for Ceci Palmer Wilson Virgil Lee and William Marshall to allow execution at the main prison in Nashville instead of the counties where crimes were committed.
Kvenpen Bros advertise Foley's Orino Laxative as superior to pills and ordinary laxatives. The product is claimed to aid stomach and liver trouble, ease habitual constipation, sweeten the stomach and breath, and gently stimulate the liver while regulating the bowels.
The Bulletin derides the quality of ponches as they grow around Harrisburg, calling them a disgrace to their owners in a terse local note.
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