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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1905
Page
2
Fragmentary catalog note lists hours in cold water then heating to a ball and pricing for pie plates breakfast plates platters gravy boats and other diaries at unspecified rates. Residents recall odd ad language and unclear per set prices with pennies shown.
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent in Catholic and Episcopal churches. The 46 days before Easter include fasting and abstention from certain amusements, with six Sundays exempt from Lent rules. Ash Wednesday origins lie in blessed palm ashes from the previous year's Palm Sunday. Joseph Hill of Laure, Del., age 60, recently married a 14 year old girl, her fourth wife.
Paw J. W. Maloney Carl Cooley and B. E. Kennedy of Damon lodge No 4 Knights of Pythias organize district lodge convention. District includes six lodges Pendleton Athena Weston Heilx Adams Milton with April as tentative month in Pendleton. Maloney will travel to Albany to align date with Grand Lodge officers and Grand Chancellor Curl.
In the Athena district Qland Steen and A B McEwen sow a section to spring wheat as large farms undergo reseeding after a light wheat loss. Snow from a hard freeze preserved much of fall sown wheat while favorable weather supports rapid seeding and seed wheat is currently valued at 0 cents per bushel.
H Wade and his son Ralph left on the 11 o'clock train for Southern California. The purpose is to seek a healthier environment. they plan to reside in the country near Los Angeles.
Robert M. Mosier and Miss Emma Harter wed last evening at the home of A C Brothertot five miles west of town. Rev H G Hall officiated. Both are from Wallula where the groom owns a wheat farm and they will establish residence there.
H. E. Collier reports his father P. P. Collier is recovering after a winter stay at University Park. Meanwhile in the Northwest Territory a large Mormon settlement faces police action as several men who married two wives in Utah are targeted for prosecution.
An advertisement urges readers to save money with a bank offering 4 percent interest compounded semi annually. It stresses that saving now secures future needs and invites customers to start this week to see money grow.
Contractor Dan May returns from Arlington terminus tour to Condon praising future growth. He notes building demand will surge as the railroad arrives, enabling cheaper material and wheat trade. May contemplates business in Condon as a likely outcome, while Dr. B. E. Mann expands by purchasing 40 acres and platting a town addition.
The Athena regular city election yesterday produced David Taylor as mayor, by a 5 to 24 vote over Beil. O. G. Chamberlain was re-elected city recorder and Dave Williams treasurer. Council members elected were C. A. Baird, A. M. Gillis, G. W. Gross, C. O. Henry, T. J. Kirk, and D. B. German. The race focused on Mayor Taylor’s strict moral policy including gambling, cigarette smoking, and slot machines enforcement.
En Route to Alaska, J A Ireton arrives from Idaho visiting briefly before heading to Alaska for a prospecting trip. He plans to take a Seattle steamer to Valdez and survey nearby copper rich areas. Governor Chamberlain commuted Joseph Holder’s 60 day Multnomah jail sentence for selling liquor without Occum, after serving 300 days.
T P DeFreece of Athena touts an 11 acre dry land alfalfa tract as proof that diversified farming can pay. He argues wheat land can produce hay vegetables fruit and corn and that 40 to 60 acre parcels and Pendleton markets support small families. He urges moderate means to settle the county with diversified farming growing alfalfa and other crops.
Born at the residence of Mrs. Samuel Lowes 409 Walnut Street to Mr and Mrs James Foach a 10 pound girl in good condition with names not listed on the notice.
The wife of Ambrose Blerce, a noted Ban Pran clare newspaper writer, secured a divorce on grounds of devertion and failure to provide after 14 years of separation. Their son, years earlier, killed a woman and then himself at Chico, California.
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