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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1911
Page
6
Suffering women are urged to contact Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential female health guidance. Letters are read and answered only by women, with consent from writers. The Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co invites readers to request the free 80 page Text Book by mail today.
The upcoming nineteenth annual meeting of the National Irrigation Congress will be in Chicago on December 6. Chicago business leaders join the nationwide effort to reclaim land and promote irrigation. Officers include President B A Fowler and secretary Arthur Hooker with a broad board of governors and state honorary vice presidents. The event aims to be the congress’s most important in history as prominent business figures participate. Robert Louis Stevenson’s letters are noted in Scribner’s Magazine with Colvin selecting material and Sargent’s 1886 portrait frontispiece.
Priest Father Peco was arrested by Moscow Police Chief J W Blacker on a sidewalk riding charge. Police Judge J R Strong fined him one dollar plus costs. Nearby, W E Layton’s six horse engine will irrigate a 30 acre tract west of town, set to an apple orchard. Yeggmen robbed W F McKinney hardware, got $200 in hardware but left $7.40 in cash. Mortarity selects Pasco for a 500 barrel flour mill site with NP railway backing. Water turned into main canals of Wapato reservation irrigation system. meters installed on laterals. Roosevelt visit planned with Sandpoint Commercial Club to charter a steamer on Lake Pend Oreille April 10.
Dayton Washington newspaper item reports that Mrs. Jesse Mettiger survived a fire but her husband saved the house while she burned. The will of late recluse Jimmy Simpson, who died aged 9 and three weeks ago, leaves Mrs. Mettiger $300 and the rest of about $1000 to M. L. Maynard who cared for him after his home burned two years prior. Rumors persist of hidden treasures and that Simpson had no living relatives.
At White Swan Washington Saturday the Yakima reservation Indians held the second day of their convention. Irrigation extensions from tribal funds dominated the discussion, causing a split into factions on the issue with sides forming for and against expanded irrigation. Lewiston Idaho county officials were approached by George Tatko seeking removal of Chicago from maps. The commission will likely grant the request, referencing the Old town of Ilo located two miles west of present Ilo. Tatko owns the land where the town stood.
Sumlay School in Courtroom Grangeville Idaho revival led by Rev A A Doak stirs interest in Sunday school with membership nearly doubling. Teacher Rev C T McDonald has arranged class meetings to be held in the superior courtroom at the courthouse.
Willam P. Smith proprietor of the Sumpter Meat Market lost a roll containing about 400 dollars in checks and currency Friday while traveling from the Columbia mine to Sumpter. The roll slipped from his money sack as he rode home and was not recovered.
Deputy Assessor John Baken reports about 44 000 bushels of wheat in LaCrosse district will come under 1911 taxes. The assessment will net the county more than 25 000 dollars. Some wheat was in Portland and other places but warehoused here on March 1.
Christie Owings aged 66 suffered clothing ignition while burning brush on 4 ranch at Green Valley Friday. She was injured as neighbors aided her and called rescuers. The incident occurred in Sunnyside Washington with local responders handling the scene.
Miss Maude Rupp of Evanston Wyoming underwent a rare base of brain tumor removal at Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane. Dr Solomon W Schafer of Johns Hopkins led the anesthesia with Dr D Laban of Spokane assisting, accompanied by Dr E Welty and 40 local physicians as the Halstead technique was used to restore vision and reduce deformity.
Athena Oregon March 18 high school students held a basket social at the K P L O O F hall selling baskets by the weight of the donors some sold up to 4.00 Intervals program and dancing followed the supper M L Watts of Preston Parton Milling Co bought a new six cylinder Baby Winton touring car admired by motorists in Walla Walla Fans struggle to secure baseball grounds for the season manager Littlejohn secured nearby grounds with a new backstop and grandstand expected to cost about 400 a subscription covers the expense American Beauties Defeated in opening game with Business Men's team 6 0 at Athena gate receipts large game a benefit for the ball team announced for next Friday in Umatilla county
Oregon sportsmen will gain a new game bird as the state game warden orders 100 pairs of Reeves pheasants from Gene Simpson of Corvallis for delivery next September. The birds will be released at favorable points statewide and may be restricted once established. The Reeves is a hardy, fast-breeding pheasant, larger than others, likely increasing Oregon’s pheasant population to rival the Chinese variety in appeal to hunters.
Publicity workers estimate the current wave of colonist immigration will add at least 6 million dollars in new assets to Oregon during the month of low fares. They count on 30,000 arrivals, with about 20 percent being family heads worth 1000 dollars each to the state.
An article asserts constipation as a frequent pile cause and that indoor work plus inactivity drive attacks. It promotes Hem-Rold internal tablets from Pendleton Drug Co and druggists, with a money back guarantee if dissatisfied. A $1 large bottle claim appears with Dr Leonhardt Co contact in Buffalo NY.
A Swollen Jaw advertisement endorses Ballard's Snow Liniment as a sure cure for neuralgia toothache or accident related swelling. It claims relief from rheumatism cuts burns brussea scalds and various aches with A C Koeppen & Bros as sellers.
Special correspondence from Ukiah Gre March 18 reports the ground in town thawing with snow vanished, while Camas prairie retains frost. Notes include local social calls, lyceum season ending, Druggist Wilson returning from Portland, and residents changing homes or jobs.
An aid advertisement urges mothers to treat children's coughs and colds with Ballard's Herehes and Syrup to prevent complications like croup pleurisy and pneumonia. The note mentions Robert Louis Stevenson letters in the April Scribner and A B Frost drawings from France in a Scribner portfolio release.
A vintage drug advertisement urges mothers to keep Hyome inhalant on hand for croup and other respiratory ailments. It promotes boiling water inhalation, a 30 drop dose, and guarantees cure or money back. Tallman & Co. and druggists sell Hyomel with a 50 cent bottle offering full relief instructions.
The Colonist fares are Westbound only, but you can deposit the fare with a local railroad agent for relatives or friends or employees in the East. An order for a ticket will be telegraphed to any address desired.
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