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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1912
Page
5
Local notices list specials for travel and lodging including auto trips anywhere in the country and hotel furniture room rates by week or month. Also ads for wood sawing, rentals, farm goods, jobs, lost watch, wood sales, landscaping, and a river ferry to Portland with a $1 fare. Capable vendors include Judd Building, Famus King Cigar Factory, Smith Bros, and Pendleton Cleaning.
Passengers leaving Pendleton on the Pendleton Umatilla motor are urged to obtain tickets at the depot before boarding. The railroad company insists on adherence to this rule to ensure proper fare collection.
For sale or trade a second hand 1911 Model 6 Reo passenger car. Will trade for other items or assets as negotiable.
Pendleton area listing by Penland Bros Transfer Co offers quick furniture and piano moving, household goods transfer, and truck services. Customers are urged to contact Box 292 and call Main 359 for transfer work amid seasonal moves and picnic crowds to the country.
Penland Bros offers quick moving in city trips and country transfers. Specialty is furniture and plane moving with a base rate of 29 dollars for main services. They haul anything and advertise rapid mechanical transfer work.
City and country auto trips advertised with prices for night stand after 10 pm at St. George Cal e. Phone numbers Malin 464 and Malu 155 listed for contact.
The City of Pendleton Oregon requests sealed bids for a two cell prison steel cage one dark cell and one padded cell. Bids must include plans and specifications and be filed with the Recorder by 5 PM August 7 1612 and opened at 7 30 PM at the council meeting. The City may reject any bids. Dated July 26 1912. John Hailey Jr Recorder.
Pendleton Common Council on July 24 1912 assessed costs for Court street between Main and Ash. Property owners may pay in ten annual installments per Oregon law within ten days. forms available at City Recorder’s office. Dated Pendleton July 20 1912. John Hailey Jr.
Many residents and visitors are listed in Pendleton wrap ups with names including J Mooney Pilot Rock A G Newton Eeho Mrs James Hill Helix Gunder Turgeson Helix farmer A I Behwefer Walla Walla Nesmith Ankeney Bingham Springs and local officials. Travelers from Pasco Portland Bingham Springs and Meacham are noted with auto trips, train departures, and weekend outings.
The state convention of the Bull Moose party opened in Albuquerque on July 23. Delegates will be chosen for the national Chicago meeting starting August 3 and a complete state ticket is expected to be selected. The third party movement has grown rapidly in strength in the last month, according to New Mexico leaders.
Representatives from every county attend the mass Roosevelt convention in Helena to choose delegates for the Chicago third party convention next month. Each county has ten votes and will decide whether state and county tickets join the national ticket in the field.
The regular annual meeting of the Oregon Building and Loan association will be held at the office of Will Moore at 117 BE Court street this city on Tuesday July 30 1811 at 7 p m. R ALEXANDER President WILL MOORE Secretary.
Special prices on cordwood including dry red fir slab wood cotton wood yellow and black pine offered in five cord lots. Clean Rock Spring lump and nut coal available. Kopitzke and Gillanders advertise and invite inquiries at Malin 173. Wanted position by experienced chauffeur available through J S care this office. Glycerl is a byproduct of the soap factory.
The Rev Joseph Kovats a Baptist minister in West Pullman filed a slander suit for 1000 dollars against members of a rival congregation. He alleges they met on October 1 1910 and claimed he killed his mother in Canada and fled. His lawyers say his mother died in a Canadian snowstorm while the family resided there. The West Pullman dispute arose after Kovats led dissenters from the original West Pullman church.
A Madrid dispatch reported by the Universe from Oranese Spain says a revolution has broken out in Lisbon and Oporto Portugal. The news was received at Oranje via Veria near the Portuguese border. Senor Barossa the Spanish minister of the interior denied the revolution claims as unfounded.
The Orpheum presents four reels including Have Lust for Gold a tale of a claim jumper and map of gold, The Prize Essay a Lubin school-life film starring Miss Hawley, The Last Dance a Selig romance with a tragic finale, The Girl Bandits Hoodoo a Kalem farce with Ruth Roeland and Marin Sais, plus religious shorts and a Night in Chinatown. Moving pictures extend the program with extra acts. come early to avoid the rush.
The Pastime presents a Lubin feature The New Physician with Jack Harrison Helen Stuart and Johnsn rivals in a town hospital tale. A flirtatious doctor stirs envy among townsfolk while Helen exposes the faked danger, with Edison and Patho-American shorts The Father and The Squawman’s Sweetheart also noted for dramatic pauses and Indian vengeance themes.
A two reel Eclair America film, Cosy invites Monday and Tuesday audiences to a musical drama inspired by The Holy City. A stormy sea scene reveals a white city on a hill, with vivid water spray and wind driven darkness. The kiss of Judas is among the memorable images.
Open Air theater crowd lauded the farce comedy A Night in Chinatown last night. Frank Rice's performance as the Chinese Chief Cook drew sharp praise for its realism and audience reaction, with critics noting the convincing portrayal and strong comic timing throughout the show.
Do not miss seeing the Elke parade in Portland at the Grand Theatre Sune day and Monday only. Beginning next Sunday the Grand Theatre will offer a two weeks engagement by the Vin Moore Stock Company in one act comedies and dramas. The Moore Company is among the Wests best travelling stock outfits and arrives from Ellensburg Washington after a six weeks engagement. Opening play will be A Runaway Match a funny farce full of humor and situations. The shows are up to date clean and wholesome with two performances nightly.
A woman habitually seizes chances to outshine those around her. The remark suggests she uses every moment to emphasize herself over neighbors, reflecting a boastful, attention seeking behavior.
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