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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1920
Page
3
A sale of gauze cotton garments offers bodice tops shoulder straps and fitted styles in sizes 36 to 50 at unusually low prices. Prices like 85 cents and 1.00 are highlighted, with remaining stock including knit bloomers in flesh color or white.
Donald Woodworth of Pendleton traveled to Adams Sunday as a guest of Beulah Spencer. C. & Cramer, Mins Rowsche, A. F Flege and Dorothy Plegel joined. Otho Stoll of Pendleton and Nelson of Nolin also visited Adams. A two inch rain fell Monday night, refreshing the area. Numerous locals attended Pioneer picnics at Weston and Pendleton, including the Blake sisters and many families visiting from nearby towns.
A Sunday baseball game on Echo grounds ended in a ten inning thriller. Echo edged Hermiston 6 to 5 after taking the lead in the last part of the tenth as Otis McCarty, visiting from Butter Creek, noted the win. Local notes mention residents and visitors from Butter Creek, Umatilla, Stanfield, and other nearby areas.
The article records book donations and branch outreach including 164 Hooks to branches 133 branches and 30 meetings in a library. It cites fines collected, monthly receipts, and branch circulation figures. It also mentions The Ford international weekly presenting to the County Library and quotes Henry Ford on opportunity and industry.
A playful verse recalls a centipede enjoying life until a frog asks a puzzling question. The centipede grows distressed as it ponders the order of steps and the meaning, ending with a contemplative image beside a ditch.
Ward, Roy Oimstead, Thomas Clark, and eight others pleaded guilty in U S district court to conspiring to bring liquor into the United States from Canada. Seven were sentenced to fines, including Oimstead and Clark, while three others were fined. Ten defendants were arrested after a Meadowdale raid in Washington state in March, where over 1,000 quarts of liquor were seized.
In Spokane the Spokane Militation? delegation was chosen to attend the Washington State Federation of Labor convention opening June 24. Four major church organizations were named as delegates, with one fraternal delegate from the central labor council.
In San Francisco a Mormon church official testified at a federal trade commission hearing about Utah Star Corp allegedly pressuring sugar firms. The official described operations of an independent sugar concern and alleged interference to block farmers from supplying independent buyers.
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