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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1909
Page
8
The Inland Grain Growers association and city farmers contributed 155 toward furnishing a rest room run by the Current Literature club. Mrs. J F Robinson will appoint a five to seven member board, including two country women, to manage the facility, with opening expected by April 1.
Mrs. Nina F P Hall died at 212 Stonewall Jackson Street after months with tuberculosis. Survived by husband E Hall and two young children, the family had moved from Portland to Pendleton for health. Remains sent to Newberg for interment. Hall family to return to Portland.
George Meeker of West Jackson Street has planted several large locust trees along the street in front of his residence. The trees are substantial in size and will need careful care to thrive, but are expected to enhance the appearance of that city area.
Dr Henry W. Coe was a passenger on train No 2 passing through the city Saturday evening bound for Washington and other eastern places. He planned to attend the inauguration ceremony but work on the Furnish-Coe Irrigation project kept him from leaving on time.
Mrs. Charles J. Smith and Mrs. T. M. Starkweather of Pendleton have been named as two of Oregon’s hostesses for the Alaska-Yukon exposition in Seattle. The assignment came as a surprise to the ladies, who had only just learned of the honor.
Lincoln Street between Jackson and Raley now looks fine after recent work. The segment was filled with dirt from Monroe Street hill and has been rolled smooth, giving it a boulevard-like surface.
At a February 26 picture day Pendleton pupils raised 105.6 toward debts from earlier art purchases. Receipts total 4728 with funds from Pixie entertainment and school events. disbursements include framing, bust of Hawthorne, freight, and drayage costs. balance carried forward.
J G Kilpack of the Boys and Girls aid society of Portland visited Saturday and Sunday to work with the society. He assisted in the church song service at the Methodist church. Kilpack said 69 inmates are at the society and 500 wards are placed in homes across the state.
Frank C. McKenzie, formerly with the Morning Tribune, is appointed as special agent for Umatilla county for the Oregon Life Insurance company. He just returned from Portland after consulting with L. Samuels, president of the company, and will begin work immediately.
R. R. Howard arrived from Portland to accept the telegraph editor post at the East Oregonian. He now fills that role as E. F. Averill becomes city editor. Ernest Ruppe, who held the post last month, has resigned.
Miss Mayme Batterson of Mount Morris was chosen library librarian by the Pendleton library board. She is a graduate of Ohio State University and Illinois Library School with a bachelor of philosophy. The board aims to have the library in full working order by April 1 with carpet and furniture installed and books moved from the old Commercial association location.
A Ladifa AMD society meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon at Mrs Tom Thompson’s home, 200 Water Street. A large attendance is desired.
J P O'Brien general manager of the O R F N spent Saturday night in Pendleton arriving by his special car with a party of officials. He conducted a semi annual inspection tour and made a statement about the companys plans for a new depot.
W. G G. Lyons of Portland succeeds F. G. Ely as trans continental freight inspector for Pendleton. Ely is among men accused of stealing freight from the depot and is now under investigation.
A. BE. Montgomery of the Bank of Helix is in the city today and plans to depart this afternoon for southern Idaho.
Out of Hospital Miss Rose Fletcher of the Peppies Warehouse who had been in the hospital for several days on service of mess left the Institution Saturday afternoon and is now at her home 612 Willow street She will soon resume her duties in the store Funeral of Marriett Child Portland city today Interment in Olney cemetery.
In Justice Parke’s court this afternoon the case of L. A. Heteb versus Mrs Flora Formen is being tried. The matter was brought here from Echo. Mrs Formen formerly Flora Jones of the city. Principal J F Slaughter of the Adams public school visited the county school superintendent’s office Saturday afternoon.
A long list of visitors and residents filled Pendleton and nearby towns Sunday. Names include Paul Snyder, Jay Hurd, M. J. McCune, Ll. A. Exter and family, J. B. Perry, J. Christensen and wife, C BE. McLellan, Join F. and Guy Wyrick, Charles Melroy, C. M. Clark, W. FR. Gillette, L. Shank, Dr. J. A. Donaghue, R. R. Johnson, H. Skinner, Clay Branstetter, Calvin Thomason, E. F. Tilney, Viva Warren, D. C. Brownell Jr., Robert Coppock, C. H. Carter, F. G. Martin, Herbert Strohm, T. G. Montgomery, Mrs. R. M. Dorothy, Francis H. Bartlett, Mamie and Norma Alloway, A. B. Woods, B. F. Lowell, Misses Kathering and Alta Sharp, Oliver P. Morton, William Mets, Mrs. James Nell, Dr. M. S. Kern, K. F. Lewis, William Stasher, Harry Burke, W. H. Musselman, Dr. Watts, C. E. Bott, W. J. Furnish Jr., M. Kyle, E. P. Marshall, Will Moore, Norbourne Berkeley, Dr. W. McClure, H. E. Pinkerton, and Bertha Fish.
As spring nears, readers are urged to take Bit ters to cleanse Winter impurities and tone the digestive system. The ad claims improved sleep and relief from Spring Fever, noting thousands have followed the regimen.
A historical advert claims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters provides relief for poor appetite flatulence heartburn dyspepsia indigestion costiveness biliousness and various illnesses including colds grippe and fever and ague, urging readers to try it for digestive comfort.
The Pendleton team traveled to Weston Saturday hoping for a large win but was edged 26 to 24 by the normal school's squad. Star play came from Greenwald and Donald Rader for Pendleton while Potter relieved McDill at center in the second half. The game was fast and full of spectacular moments.
P A Burns of Seattle has accepted a position with Carney and Tweedy meat market on Alta Street and is now at work.
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