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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1905
Page
2
New color line delivers three shades of Old Dutch Linen along with matching Premier envelopes. Details highlight coordinated stationery sets for refined correspondence and gifting occasions.
A state senate action ends legislative push to reintroduce the whipping post in Connecticut. Other notices include United States Steel Co. earnings for early 1905 surpassing 26 million dollars, and 1904 European travel and spending by Americans totaling over 1830 million dollars. Britain’s wireless telegraph rates and ocean travel costs are noted amid broader world events.
Barnes and Warden of Portland quote contimot for wiring the government building at Lewis and Mark sale totaling 7692. Carroll Graves, formerly of Ellensburg now Seattle, may succeed James McElroy as general Western attorney for the Northern Pacific railway. Spokane and Inland railway grading 22 miles electric work awarded to Porter Bros in Spokane to finish within three months. Fortland contract for steel rails piles lumber and rock valued at 36000 to jetty the Columbia mouth. Grand Trunk railway fights 15000 acre land grant through British Columbia, government denies authority. Alexander Glenn, famed Northwest bandmaster, dies in Astoria from pneumonia leaving wife and 12-year-old daughter. Tax collection in Multnomah County totals 1735744 after rebates through March 15. Elections exceed expectations. In Butte Paddy Rogers shoots and kills George Burke in a saloon. Burke dies shielding Reynolds who cannot kneel due to rheumatism. Reynolds escapes.
Nine quarter sections of fine reservation wheat land lie in one body with good water, improved with houses barns or chards and fences. Eight miles from Pendleton the land is under irrigation. Prices: six thousand nine hundred dollars for one full section or four thousand six hundred dollars per half section. E T Wade and Son offer from the H O Building office.
Two Civil War veterans of the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, H. F. Marble and A. S. Quant, met by chance at Union Depot in Portland after 40 years. Marble, now living at 501 North Fourteenth Street, and Quant, a postmaster from Alba, Ore, embraced and departed together for Marble’s home, recalling battles and lost contact since 1865.
Shaky poster in vestibule claims a raised total of 6000? 00, with a goal of freeing the church from debt. Members urged loyalty, but few have signed. current fund stands at about 000 dollars and continues to accumulate across Sundays, with no pulpit reference to the effort.
A period column notes the Army Signal Corps telegraph network in Alaska and advocates public utility ownership, detailing 2865 miles of lines and 261 miles of cable amid a remote, icy landscape. It also cites Dr Kings New Life Pills as a remedy for constipation and biliousness, urged by M Flannery of Chicago and sold by Tallman & Co. druggists at 25 cents.
A dense roster of arrivals listsGeorge E Thompson Harrian Mrs W B Shaffer Waltsburg Mrs Shukam Waltsbury R D Jameson Spokane H G Blackwell Long Creek Joe Harris San Francisco W M Wilkins Portland FP A Goodnough Portland J Kauffman Portland Mrs P F Davie The Dalles H E Hamilton Walla Walla Mrs Laura Ross Sioux City L Schmick and wife Colfax various others including Portland Spokane Tekoa Athena Walla Walla etc. The page records many individuals and their origins across multiple states and towns.
All members of the A. O. U. W. are invited to meet at Od Pelions half Monday evening at 7510 Py om to meet P. C. M. W. Ralph Feeney who will explain the new rites of assessments soon to be adopted by the Oregon grand lodge. Glenn Rowland M. W. FP. Davis Recorder.
Bank in Umatilla County presents a balancing statement showing resources including loans and discounts 869992.95 with overdrafts secured and unsecured. It lists cash items from national and state banks, lawful money, and reserve balance plus TI liabilities: capital stock 60000 notes outstanding 22600 deposits 68142.71 and other items. Officers W In Thompson cashier attests to accuracy. notary Mark Moorehouse swears to the document.
A Pendleton Oregon retailer announces a new clothing department in a grocery store, offering sample stock and made to order suits, shoes, hats, and underwear at low cash prices. The note highlights wholesale Chicago tailoring links, special discounts up to 60 percent, and promises no profit on clothing while expanding customer convenience.
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