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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1906
Page
6
The Hotel St George run by George Darveauc offers a European plan with steam heat and en suite baths. It advertises modern conveniences including telephone and wireless connections, hot and cold running water in all rooms, and a large new sample room, located a block and a half from the depot with an electric sign visible.
The Hotel Pendleton has been refitted and refurnished throughout with telephone and fire alarm connections in all rooms and en suite baths. It serves traveling men with commodious sample rooms, free bus, excellent cuisine and prompt dining room service. A par and billiard room is in connection and it is three blocks from depots.
We offer Fairbanks-Morma Gasoline Engines for irrigation of mining equipment. Agents guarantee satisfaction in dry climate. Get estimates for irrigation plants and competitive pricing.
A Portland Oregonian sketch honors J H Koontz and his wife as Echo and Umatilla pioneers. Starting in 1863 with a news stand and later a store, Koontz became portmaster, built a broad business, and helped found Echo. The couple funded Koonts Hall dormitory for Pendleton’s Franciscan Academy, reflecting decades of public service and temperance work.
A letter to the Republic editor warns of a new tiny brown aphid like insect damaging fruit trees and shrubs in Yakima County. The pest lurks on sunlit leaf undersides, appears as a brownish red speck, and quickly drains sap causing leaves to turn brown and die while migrating to greener areas.
In Zillah residents report currant bushes browning as if frostbitten. Herbert K. Rowland asks readers for remedies or methods to combat the pest to aid local fruit interests and county orchards.
Repairs to the track on the River mountains disrupt the block signal system causing passenger trains to halt. The damaged circuit forces trains to move through the block with danger signals active, and a brakeman must walk ahead to ensure no oncoming trains are in the block, creating substantial delays.
An East Oregonian brief notes Dr King's New Life Pills as a pleasant and effective cure for constipation. The ad claims they prevent appendicitis and tone up the body, priced at 26 cents at Tallman & Co.'s drug store.
H B Royce of Owly saloon in Joseph Oregon visits Walla Walla reports all saloons in Wallowa County escaped prohibition but may reopen. Voters passed a June initiative allowing cities to amend charters and grant liquor licenses, enabling saloons to operate if cities amend their charters despite county dry status.
An advertisement promoting Kodol for dyspepsia as a stomach aid after meals. It claims to ease indigestion, reduce flatulence and sour stomach, and rest and restore stomach function. Sold by Tallman & Co.
San Francisco’s Union Square, famed from London to Cairo, gleams anew as the Manila Hay monument rises at its center. Forty five days ago bushes browned and grass burned yet the area remains a delight amid brick chaos. Now the California Promotion Committee home and the St Francis annex with 200 rooms surround the Dewey monument, offering a modern hotel interior with Corinthian columns and ample comforts as the East Oregonian notes.
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