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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1908
Page
4
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A reader quotes S E Kiser urging self improvement over envy. He pledges to stop faultfinding a greedy neighbor and to focus on his own duties. The message emphasizes perseverance, courage, and finding beauty in daily life regardless of circumstances.
The East Oregonian questions an insurance underwriters order forcing rewiring of Pendleton buildings claiming it is unjust while Portland faces a similar directive. B E Josselyn of Portland Railway, Light and Power backs the Pendleton critique, warning of graft and huge rewiring costs. He suggests businessmen form independent mutual societies to self insure, arguing the current insurance trusts push expensive upgrades and higher rates.
The Oregon Daily Journal views the weed problem in eastern Oregon farming districts as potentially a blessing in disguise. If farmers fail to cooperate to eradicate tumbleweed and tarweed the big wheat farms may break up, yielding diversified farming and smaller, more productive plots.
A local discussion centers on whether Pendleton businesses must all be rewired. Supporters argue safety demands universal compliance, while opponents seek selective enforcement or exemptions for nonessential cases.
A speculative editorial urges Pendleton to restart industry by shifting the big brewing plant to denatured alcohol production. It argues prohibition would otherwise idle a major facility and promote a new profitable commodity for eastern Oregon, citing wide uses from varnishes to explosives.
Spokane Chronicle editorial warns that Michigan forests suffer from depletion and wasteful practices, stressing that similar threats loom for Oregon. It calls for cautious stewardship, logging discipline, and conservation measures to protect western woodlands.
The piece argues that timber cutting for 1907 was one quarter lower than 1898 and blames reckless logging and forest fires for vast soil damage. It states 6,000,000 acres of Michigan are barren and delinquent tax burdens could have been profits, questioning Washington’s future plans.
Guidance for poultry care from Farm Journal includes coop cleanliness, temperature control, proper feeding, and pest management. It covers roost placement, disinfection, preventing drafts, separating cockerels, caring for turkeys, and humane, sanitary handling before processing.
Hall Cain argues in a quotation from Drink that alcohol is the greatest hypnotist on earth, causing ruin and misfortune far surpassing plague or war. He recalls many gifted lives ruined by drink and asserts that no man free from intemperance has been utterly destroyed by fate, believing humanity would awaken happier if drink vanished.
A NSW program for habitual criminals assigns Amin a definite term plus an indeterminate grade. On good behavior he rises grades with concessions, earns wages for family or self, and may be credited for release day. A committee reviews progress to advise on release. probation follows after a year under modified restraint.
The U C M A club women were entertained at Mrs Blank's home. Each member received a card asking them to bring something they no longer use but are reluctant to discard. They all brought husbands and Success Magazine.
In moving time the sun rises over the eastern hill as song birds greet it. Cattle stir roosters flap and whirr while the farmer and Mrs. Farmer start their day. Mowers plow fields and turn fading hay under a blue sky, hoping for another productive day.
Mrs Ben aims for better society despite a rough block with a saloon keeper and a butcher who abuses his wife. They bought a $1200 house on the town street near a blacksmith and a livery stable, with the mill paying only $2 a day.
The July Farm Journal notes a day yields about $600 yearly excluding holidays and Sundays, with uncertainty over 300 workable days. a wife cannot sell $40 butter and $60 poultry as before, and flour costs differ from owning wheat with 60 extra bushels for flour.
In a California town members of a Congregational church plan a poultry fundraiser to aid construction. Chickens will be distributed to Sunday school children who must return with hens by August 1. Eggs will be sold by a committee, aiming to raise about $600. Prizes go to the child delivering the most eggs.
Surviving descendants of Betsy Ross continue the family tradition by hand making two flags each year at the Betsy Ross home and Betsy Ross pew in Christ Church. These flags remain unstained and unfaded, not funded by corporations, preserving a historic craft tied to the nation’s early naval and military heritage.
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