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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1911
Page
2
A local ad promotes 25 distinct waist patterns in Pendleton for summer travels with small neat designs and large Dresden effects. Prices drop from six dollars to five and a special to morrow offers one item at 3.65 dollars, inviting shoppers to add an extra waist for the trip.
Waistings in white goods offered at a special sale with a variety of weights and patterns. Prices listed include 33e for two, 50e for remaining items, 17c, 25c, and 20c qualities. Stock described as ample with several grades and stripe patterns.
An advertisement features Indian Head dusters in tan collars with storm cuffs offered at $1.98 each, plus $2.50 dusters and a $1.98 price point highlighted for summer wear. The copy emphasizes quality and full cut for women’s outerwear.
A choice assortment of Ladies Spring Coats offered at half price. Full range of sizes available in plain tailored styles and fancy mixtures. Includes plain goods and mixed fabrics, all at a one half price reduction.
Plain tailored and fancy trimmed silk waists in cream, full range of sizes. All new and up to date, slightly soiled but not damaged. A rare bargain. Come and look them over.
Short dressing sacques in navy black and gray attractively made in good style. A satisfactory garment offered at 38 cents.
Listing notes 65c price for children's black sateen bloomers with durable quality. Item described as made of good sateen fabric. Size and exact style details not provided in fragment.
Daily arrivals bring serims swisses nets and stencil patterns in corn cream and white tones. Swisses feature dots bars floral effects while serims offer plain barred stripes and hem stitched borders with drawn work center. Stenciled designs include floral conventional borders. Prices touted as lowest with a complete drapery department and easy showings.
Mrs. C Herrick of New York City represented Butterick Publishing Co offering a free demonstration of Butterick patterns. Special subscription prices for The Delineator were advertised: two years for $1.50 or one year plus four Buttericks fashions and four 15 cent patterns for $1.50.
Pendleton's Cleanest and Best Grocery boasts a model basement and fresh stock. It lists new dill pickles bulk quart 20 cents bottles 20 25 35 45 cents stuffed olives pint 40 cents greens olives pint 35 cents fig pudding cans 15 4 25 honey cheese and other pure foods. It claims fresh fruits and vegetables kept in a cool basement and invites visits to view the display of pure foods in the Northwest.
Atlantic City diver Harry Morris exploring pilings off Ventnor heard a tale of buried treasure. A glint near him appeared to be gold coins, raising hopes of fortune. Surface reach revealed only a bottle of olives from the water.
Angeline Napolitano, mother of four, faces hanging for the murder of Petro Napolitano at Sault Ste Marie Ont. Supporters urge Earl Grey to commute or pardon to spare her unborn child. The case draws wide sympathy as women plead for mercy to protect maternal life and family.
A reservoir breach near Grand Junction Col caused $160000 in property damage. Five thousand cattle drowned and several bridges were swept away. Thomas Dwyer witnessed the dam break and telephoned ranchers in the valley below to warn them.
A Klamath county family welcomed quadruple births to Mr. and Mrs. A Bunnell near Stokes Bridge. Three girls and one boy born Friday, the boy died later, the girls remaining healthy though small. Total children to Mrs. Bunnell in four years reaches seven. combined weight of newborns 12 1 2 pounds. Dr. Patterson of Merrill attended.
The Stanley hotel in Estes Park, built for 100000 dollars, was partly wrecked by an explosion. Several persons were injured, one seriously, including Elizabeth Wilson a hotel employee who fell from the second floor and broke both ankles. Guests remained undisplaced as the west wing suffered the worst damage.
In Seattle, four year old Francie Gouthre, son of contractor Ben Gou thre, was fatally burned when his cotton jumper caught fire as he played in a wagon near his father. The blaze erupted while the man tended horses in the backyard. The child ran a short distance before the flames fully engulfed his upper body.
In a sly theatre bit Mrs Posey Mercy mocks social ladies who dress for swimwear style while Mr Posey O jokes with Jerusha. The scene pokes at upper class rivals in a playful exchange about fashion and propriety.
Special correspondence from Adams Oregon reports social visits and minor travels. Misses Mary and Eleanor Stockton return from MacMinnville to Adams while Miss May will teach in Helix High School. Local residents make trips to Pendleton Athena and Walla Walla for meals, meetings, and business.
Medford Oregon reports a mining rush as Joe Perry deposits 1900 pounds in a Medford bank from three days’ work tracing ore from the Gold Hill mine. He believes he has found the main ledge of the famed pocket mine. Ore samples from Mineral Hill show values around 3750 per ton, with other strikes reported in the district.
A fragment reflecting on a duat raised in the road that blinds travelers in both the middle and rear, suggesting hazards for those passing and tolling along the route. The lines imply warning to riders and drivers about obstructed visibility and danger from the raised obstacle.
Arthur Newton, Crippen’s lawyer in the Crippen murder case, is found guilty of professional misconduct by a law society committee. The divisional court is asked to strike his name from the roll. Charges allege he aided Horatio W. Bottomley and aided publication of false statements about Crippen while in Pentonville Jail. Newton, a noted criminal advocate, defended many sensational cases.
In McAlester Oklahoma 250 miners walked out after the Busby Coal Mine No 6 official refused to discharge a base causing the property to close indefinitely.
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