Local Advertisements and Store Notices
City Brevities lists fresh fish and fruit offers including ripe cherries and strawberries. Sharp ad promotes wallpaper and paper hanging with tables from six dollars. Hawley Bros showcases spring suits at Joerger's. Campbell's features Jap bats and new extension styles from five to twenty dollars. Rader's highlights cigars and shoe repairs on Court Street. Rees agents imported and domestic chowder at Grata's while housing rooms one block west of the Savings Bank. Market Street listing references brokerage services and trading books with low prices. Brad-Booge Co. acknowledged as Chamber of Commerce members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharp
Rader’s
Hawley Bros
Joerger's
T'S
Campbell's
Rader's
Sidelo
Court Street
Rees
Grata's
West Street
Brad- Booge & Co
of Commerce
Minneapolis
Choice meats and furniture giveaways at local stores
Various town notices advertise discounted meats at Houser's and Neuman's smokers' supplies, plus a $50 furniture giveaway by Rader. Listings include rental rooms, job ads for salesmen, sewing and dressmaking services, and a Pendleton blacksmith shop for sale. Also reported are a Hot Lake health trip, marriage licenses issued, and a damaged railroad damage case nonsuited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houser’s
Neuman's
Pendleton
Wade
Chris Rawley
Swift
Hawley Bros
Court Street
Hawley
Rader
Camas Prairie
Pace
Nolf's
Wade Blacksmith Shop
Earnhart
Association
Hanlon's
Chase & Sanborn
C. Rohrman's
E. C
Jesale Jones
Franklin Street
Corner East
P.O
Baker City Wool Sales Postponed After Deadlock
June 17 Baker City bids in a six way wool sale ended in a tie with the highest bid 12.44 cents per pound for yearling clips. Sale postponed to July 18 1816 as buyers and sellers remained indecisive while Secretary Gwinn cites insufficient price offers and yearling wool condition. A varied group of buyers from Boston San Francisco and Western points attended the event with noted brokers and representatives from wool interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker City
J. H. Gwinn
State Woolgrowers’ Association
Boston
San Francisco
Western Points
Robert Wilson
Burlington Road
B. T. Sweney
Erie
F. HS Stocker
William Ellery
Hallowell and Donald
F. Green
Carson & Company
Beaton
Eh J. Burke
H.C. Judd & Root
Hartford, Conn
Ham Cotter
Livingston
Sam Kidder
Lee Brog
Elein
Gwinn
Oregon Woolgrowers’ Association
Oregon
Tornado Strikes Meacham and Hive Mountains Area
A severe tornado swept the Hive Mountains between Meacham and Huron on Monday night. Telegraph and telephone lines were wrecked for eight miles and dozens of trees fell across the railroad between Huron and Meacham. Pine groves and the O R N station area suffered heavy damage as winds from the northwest lasted about an hour. Wires remained down into noon, delaying Western Union repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hive Mountains
Meacham
Huron
Telegraph
Telephone Inet
Meachum
Lenat
Eles
Western Union
Residence partially burned in Wil liam H Kelsey family home
Fire partially destroyed a residence owned by Pat Doherty, occupied by William H Kelsey’s family, around 10 o clock. Dr. Vincent reported the alarm and firefighters contained the blaze to the back area with about $1,000 in damage beyond insurance coverage. The front portion remained intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H Kelsey
Vincent
Central
Pat Doherty
Mrs Catherine Ferguson Dies At 80 In Kamela
Mrs Catherine Ferguson aged 80 died Monday night at Kamela and was buried yesterday afternoon at La Grande. She was mother of George Ferguson, an O R N engineer at The Dalles, and J B Ferguson, an O R N engineer at Kamela. The family noted feebleness prior to death. The Co RK N Company has a large force building concrete piers for a new steel bridge over Meacham creek near Huron, replacing the wooden bridge between Pendleton and Kamela as the sole crossing in that stretch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Ferguson
Kamela
la Grande
George Ferguson
Dalles
J. B. Ferguson
the Co, RK. & N. Company
Huron
Meacham Creek
Pendleton
Clerk Arthur Lambert Joins Pendleton Savings Bank
News notes that Arthur Lambert of McMinnville has accepted a position at Pendleton Savings Bank and arrived in the city Friday to begin work. He is well and favorably known in his native town and will be welcomed in his new home.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ibutsch’s Big Department Store
Main and
Alta
Thomas
Zunziker
Eweler
Hot Lake
G. W. Rigby
Bur Johnson
Maude E. Bolt
Virgil A. Bott
Maud L. Grover
Guy W. Wade
Elsie Folsom
G. W. Allen
Union
Koeppen
Towanl
the Court
Isc
Granadines T
Childrens
Miem
West
Oxfords
Gustem
Shees
Tost
A. Eklund
Judd Mock
California
Paraffine Paint Co
T. C. Taylor
Laatz Bros
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