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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1907
Page
8
At present location must clear stock to move to 12 Court Street. Items include a 12-quart dish pan priced 60 cents, 26-inch parlor lamp $6.50, 20-inch parlor lamp $3.00 with sale price $1.50, 28-inch umbrella rack and fishware with 20 percent off, plus 15 percent off crockery.
The note describes a wedding two weeks away with urgency to decide on a pretty plan. It mentions Empire Tea and Crockery Co and Campbell as manager. The plan is to go down to discuss options and settle the decoration.
Winslow Bros jewelry store advertises a varied stock and easy shopping. The message highlights customer satisfaction with considerate service and a confident, positive tone.
Two graduates, Misses Geer Thayer and Alvina Rieden, will receive diplomas at St. Joseph's academy commencement in Eagles Hall. Bishop C J O'Reilly of Baker City will deliver the address and confer diplomas as the Sisters of St Francis stage a formal program. The academy marks a move from Frazer theater to Eagles Hall as facilities expand to serve growing patronage.
Governors from many states are expected to attend the 15th national Irrigation Congress in Sacramento on September 27. Governor George E. Chamberlain of Oregon, president of the congress, has urged western state and territorial governors under the national reclamation act to attend, highlighting the value of executive participation in the discussion of irrigation projects and conservation of national resources.
James Ruddy was arrested last night by Officer Kearney after he stole clothing from the Queen lodging house. He was partly drunk and the items were of little value. He was locked in the city jail awaiting district attorney action, which had not been brought before that official by this afternoon.
Letters from Portland rose show and fiesta management urge Pendleton residents to enter an Indian float in the parade. The big parade and competitive exhibition will take place Friday June 21 with a 260 prize for the best float.
Mrs. Lane and her daughter Miss Neva Lane are detained in Portland due to the Wnets of the former, forcing them to indefinitely postpone their planned journey to the Jamestown exposition. Marriage license issued today to Ray Harrison and Mabel L Irvine.
Leo Teutach, popular merchant, has secured C Meacham & Sons mercantile store in Preston Idaho and will operate there and in the city. He plans a permanent Preston presence, splitting time between locations and directing city trade via S. EB Livingood while away. After the Fourth of July he will travel east for fall and water purchases for both stores.
Henry Chews notes two external forces delaying confidence revival: gold exports and government probes. About 3,000,000 ounces sent, potentially totaling 10,000,000. Bank circulation stands at 600,000,000 with gold and money forms reaching 2,940,000,000, over 34 dollars per head. Inflation cited as 1 9200 000 000 in four years.
Elegant store windows greeted visiting guests in Omaha today. Peoples Warehouse and the Fall store featured Pendleton Indian robes in elaborate displays. Visitors praised the windows and praised local business prosperity despite ongoing improvements that prevented fuller displays.
About 200 people left the Adventists camp grounds Sunday afternoon unable to ride Interurban cars all day. The crowd walked along the track for about a mile back to Walla Walla, carrying lunch baskets as cars ran full, then resumed walking after last car disappeared. The weary group arrived in the city late at night.
Fred Parr of the Umatilla reservation reports viewing a buffalo shipment from the Flathead Indian Reservation. Mitchell Pablo, a Flathead, sold about 100 head to the Canadian government and keeps roughly 60 for breeding. Pablo, a half breed, owns a herd on his allotment.
Zoeth Houser left last evening for Quartsburg to erect an 11-stamp mill on the Present Needs mining claim owned principally by him. He expects to have the mill in operation some time this month as Present Needs makes an excellent showing and is a valuable property.
The Star theater presents strong crowds this week with Raby McMinn in a clever skirt dance and the Parkers in a physical culture act titled The Pro former's Conqueror. Moving pictures are also noted as interesting this week.
A Thursday night dance will be held at the fair pavilion to benefit the band. The event, under the auspices of the Boorter club, is an invitation dance. However, the invitation tone will be sent out broadly.
The Mutual Cannery on 12th Street began full operation Tuesday, filling an acre of floor space with 150 women workers and about 25 men unloading fruit. Workers stem and grade berries, box them, and run hot canning and sealing processes to produce 600 to 1000 quarts daily, with fruit arriving from farms for a Saturday supply before the Sunday break.
Oregon Development league officers will convene at the Portland Commercial club on June 20 at 7:90 pm. Active workers and leaders of commercial bodies are urged to attend. The league opens Friday morning at Marquam Grand theater and closes at 12 30 pm with a flower parade and recreation. A pipe organ recital by Edgar B Coursen at First Presbyterian church is free for visitors outside the city. A Saturday morning session runs 9 am to 12 30 pm featuring practical advisers from across the country.
Montpellier with June 11 reports serious disorders after the arrest of a youth bearing a "March on Paris" banner. The youth was released to avert bloodshed as a revolt by wine growers gathers support. Soldiers at Marbonne clashed with commanders over orders to fight fellow citizens. The revolt leader claims the populace craves revolution but says the time has not yet arrived.
Irvin Harrison and Misa Mabel Irvin will marry at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the home of the bride's parents Mr and Mrs H T Irvin in Hermiston. The groom works with the reclamation force at Hermiston and the bride is a recognized young woman there her father serves as president of the East Umatilla Waterusers association. Rev Blodgett of Echo will perform the ceremony. Afterward the couple will depart on the westbound train to western Oregon for their honeymoon.
Worshipful Master Louis Huwalker and Wardens W. H. McCormmach and Will Moore of Pendleton lodge No. 52, A F and A M, left this morning for Portland to attend the grand lodge of Oregon Masons meeting there this week. J Norval and Manuel Friedly of Helix lodge also traveled today with the Pendleton delegates.
A report from New York June 11 states Jerome's office intercepted a shipment en route from Bean Francisco to return Abraham Cohen, indicted for wife abandonment. In Washtuena Washington 182,600 bushels of bluestem and red wheat sold recently at 72 cents per bushel.
Scientific claim links dandruff to future baldness. European specialist Prof Anna cites parasite-damaging scalp cuticle as cause. Newbro's Herpicide targets dandruff germs and claims to restore softness and abundance of hair. Available as two sizes with pricing in Detroit.
The Trans-Missouri Freight bureau closed its Savoy hotel section and ordered a 20 percent cut in news printing paper from Missouri river to Colorado points. Denver News reports Thomas Scott of the Colorado Manufacturers' Association pushed the measure for months. Railroads hauling paper from Wisconsin mills to the Missouri river also plan reductions, with printing paper to Denver dropping from 50 to 49 cents per hundredweight, and similar cuts on cardboard and wrapping papers for Colorado. Western roads consider lime, cement, and lumber rate moves but will wait for further action after meetings.
A notice calls for a 1200 pound black horse branded IX left stifle missing from near Pondieton. Claimant must contact WM. BR. MEINERS at Holdman, Ore to secure the animal and cover charges.
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