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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1911
Page
5
Local ads list services and items for sale including signs wallpaper coal and meat markets. It notes rentals ranches farms and timber land with contact details and a few job requests along with wagon and livestock notes and a piano moving service.
Advertises thirteen acres half a mile east of the city with good buildings an orchard berries vineyard six acre chicken park irrigating plant and water right. Owner listed as G W Hanna BR F D No 1 Box 6 contact Main 449 for Royal bread availability.
Pendleton’s Orpheum presents a Tuesday program with six features and several shorts. Father Love from Lubin is a dramatized tale of paternal sacrifice and reunion. Hearts Hunger and Happiness from Pathe is a quick comedy about love and fasting. Practical Brook Trout Breeding is an industrial short. The Try Out from Edizon follows a failed vaudeville debut turning into success. The Greater Call from Essenay is a heart stirring photoplay with behind the scenes detail. Hank and Lank, Blind Men from Essenay delivers quick, hearty laughs. The Pastime proclaims a big feature for Tuesday. The Little Circus Rider from Selig stars Jim and Bertha in a circus day romance with trials and a rescue. Only a Sister from Mielles shows self-sacrifice on a Texas ranch. Jean Rescues from Vitagraph features a beloved dog. Overland to Fremont from Selly tracks pioneer struggles.
San Bernardino Calif March 15 One man is reported killed and twenty injured in a head on collision between Santa Fe passenger trains 41 and 42 near Glendora this forenoon Los Angeles March 15 A relief train with physicians and nurses was dispatched to Glendora due to the accident.
A large Methodist church audience last night enjoyed the Dunbar recital as part of the high school lecture course. The troupe delivered vocal quartet works, vocal and violin solos, monologues, and a bells performance by the four men, satisfying the crowd and marking one of the city’s great musical treats in recent memory. The Dunbars’ return would be welcomed.
A telegram to the Pastime parlors reports the local bowling team scored 2600 in the Spokane event for the 1500 prize. The Great American Laundry team of Spokane held the high score at 2666, with only three other scores above that by Pendleton. The tournament closes on the 19th.
Raley and Raley filed a divorce suit for Mrs. Leona Beam against her husband Lee Beam alleging desertion on March 1 1910. The couple married April 24 1890 and have three minor children Charles Beam 20 Frank Beam 19 and Miriam Beam 9.
News reached this city this morning of the murder of Engineer Anthony Lowe of the North Hawk west bound No 2 last night at Washtucna Washington at the hands of hoboes whom he and his firemen were trying to eject from his cab. One hoboe carried a revolver and shot the engineer through the head killing him instantly. The conductor and fireman towed the train twenty five miles west to a construction camp where another engineer was secured. Three posses are sent out from Pasco Washtucna and Spokane to search for the murderer. Lowe was 36 unmarried and made his home in
Elks plan their final rehearsal and stage performance at the Oregon theatre tomorrow evening. Official cast list includes Interlocutor S A Grubbs principal comedians Jim Estes Jack Gibson end men Clarence Mohler Joe Serabie Roy Buchanan John Rosenberg Jack Watson Bill Batley Lee Drake Dick Mayberry and many soloists and chorus members led by Ferrington Walter Rose Brook Dickson Dale Chesaman T O Sathe Hal Corby John Dickson George Edmonds Ralph Hassel Dean Tatum Roy Raley Jack Vincent Glen Sturdivant Alford FitzGernard S Rosenberg George Ferguson Clark Nelson Lawrence Fragier Al Slusher Max Hopper Glen Scott Roy Alexander Im Cooper Willard Bond G Finch Marshall Spell Jack Keefe and LL D Idleman.
Edward Chessbro a leading local realty dealer and Anita Berry a recent Aberdeen arrival were burned to death in a morning house fire at 4 in the restricted district. Firemen only learned of the occupants after extinguishing the blaze, with bodies found indicating attempts to rescue the woman.
At a public meeting, residents backed proposed charter changes to authorize up to 200000 for a gravity water system and 20000 for sewer bonds. Will Moore of the water commission claimed the system could fund itself without new taxes. City Attorney Raley said he would ready initiative petitions soon to obtain the required 15 percent voter signatures to submit the propositions.
Edward Terry, renowned actor and Strand Theatre manager, arrives in Oregon on Wednesday March 15. The 60-something star is active in numerous charities, holds offices in theatres and Freemasonry, and maintains Priory Lodge at Barnes Surrey.
A deed filed with Recorder Bur roughs records Douglas Belts selling to George T. Roark a tract in Pilot Rock previously used as depot and railroad grounds for 12000 dollars.
Thomas Braden filed a motion to dismiss the suit he shares with the St. Dennis brothers against Attorney Homera Watts, following his co plaintiffs actions and signaling a closing step in the case.
Miss E. Gerth opens Sanitary Beauty Parlors in the Milarkey building behind Pendleton Drug Co. with experienced assistants offering facial and scalp care, hair dyeing and bleaching, permanent removal of unwanted hair by electricity, and the making of hair goods and facial remedies. Pendleton now boasts a high quality beauty parlor in the inland empire.
A terse rail item notes that westbound cross country trains are operating with special sections. Details on routes or dates are unclear, but the brief mentions railroad personnel and a streamlined timetable adjustment for through services.
The westbound passenger No 5 passed Pendleton in two sections carrying colonists from the middle states. At Pendleton the Spokane branch received many transfers and depot baggage crews handled 269 pieces of baggage. Today train No 17 arrived in two sections with the first at 12 15 and the second shortly after 1.
Terpening and wife rode Northern Pacific from Cheney Washington this morning. Carr of Stanfield visited from the west end of the county yesterday. J Friese Spokane Spokesman Review representative is in the city. L D Smith of Helix arrived on the N P this morning. W V Kerley of Helix is visiting in the city today. Mrs C E Harper and her daughter spend a week at Helix with Mrs C C Connor. Read the want ads today.
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