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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1911
Page
3
A shipment of long coats arrived yesterday offering tailored effects and fancy models. Styles cover street wear and general use with materials ranging from plain to plaid. Prices vary from 12.50 to 50, including handsome automobile coats and imported fabrics.
Complete stack of children's rompers ranging from one to eight years. Offered in blue tan and striped patterns, well made and suitable for play to protect clothes. Prices suit to $1.00. Available in men’s department on first floor or ready-to-wear on second floor.
Just received shipment of embroidery thread in white across all sizes. Store offers curtain materials for home use, lace and net curtains, stenciled serims in floral and plain designs, Craftone drapery, Satteens, Denims, Swisses in white with floral accents. Art department on balcony for viewing.
New arrivals in fancy goods include a fall line of net pleatings in white and cream with colored edges. Batiste fabrics feature plain and colored edge trims, with lace edge options priced at about 50.
An advertisement lists plain tailored collars and cuff sets in plain and fancy styles, Dutch collars of every shape and size, Puriatan collars, Lord Byron collars, and coat sets priced from 15¢ to $1.50 each.
Visitors tour the first National Orange Show in San Bernardino as growers forecast an unprecedented citrus harvest in California. Estimates place the 1911 crop at 45,000 carloads, with 41,000 orange cars and 700 lemon cars, equaling about 528 million oranges statewide. The crop would be roughly four times Florida's output.
President Gooding of the National Wool Growers' Association has named V Johnson to present the western sheepmen's case to the Interstate Commerce Commission advocating reduced wool freight rates from western regions to New York and Boston. The group argues current charges, about 500 to 1700 per car, are punitive while wool remains a valuable, slow freight. The association will press for a final equitable settlement as low wool prices and tariff debates worsen shepherds' conditions. Also notice: Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets advertised.
Lord Peeles and his bride Misa Vivien Goold arrive in Alexandria on a honeymoon tour of Egypt. They plan Cairo entertainments, then Luxor Thebes Assouan and Philæ, with possible Nile journey to Wadi Haifa, Khartum. Return to London by May first for the coronation season and court introductions.
The Gould family, long in control of railroads via a holding system, faces retirement from active business as excess wealth and luxury erode the hold on power. The piece compares fortunes across generations, citing the Vanderbilt and French royal precedents, and muses on forming a hereditary landholding aristocracy. It ends with an ad for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
Two Dayton men arranged a deal to sell 90 acres near Imbler, Oregon owned by W. A. Lablaw of Portland for 50,000 dollars, a rise from six years ago when the same land reportedly sold for 67 dollars per acre.
The city of Walla Walla filed suit in superior court seeking to condemn 27 cubic inches of water from Mill creek used by Dement Brothers Milling. The action targets the mill's water appropriation as part of the city's water supply concerns.
Judge 8 A Lowell recalls arriving in Pendleton twenty years ago and reflects on a changing legal field. He lists many then-active attorneys, notes the district spanned eight counties, and warns that law is a high stress, demanding career. He urges young men to steer clear of the legal profession.
Eastern Oregon Pioneers Peter Dehloff and his wife of The Dalles are guests at A. W. Nye and wife this week. Dehloff is an longtime O R N chief engineer with over 34 years of service. He is now retired. The De Hoffs have community ties and travel plans.
The article extols sun powered therapies at Dr. Pierce's Invalids Hotel in Buffalo, praising concentrated sunlight and violet ray treatments for chronic germ origin ailments. It notes electrical baths, hot springs, and modern laboratories improving remedies, inviting readers to consult physicians free of charge in person or by letter.
Mrs De Hoff, wife of the vice president of Union Securities Bank of Spokane, has been visiting their daughter Mrs J K Macormack. She is sister to Mrs Henry Ankeny of Eugene, and her friendship with Mrs Nye dates back to Vancouver Washington school days.
Mrs Barret and her husband Joint Senator C A Barret and wife were seen in Pendleton last evening as they traveled toward their home in Athena. Mr Barrett can walk but remains very weak after a long illness that began when she joined him in Salem at the opening of the legislative season.
A compact remark on how some view virtue by focusing on others mistakes. It suggests critical attitudes often reflect more about the observer than the acted fault. The line hints at hypocrisy and the social urge to police peers.
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