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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1909
Page
8
A wave of renovations sweeps through the city as many homes receive paint, paper, and structural updates. Lewis street leads with major work at the E W McComas house plus porches and basement additions. Dr Waffle and Dr Swinburne join the trend with color changes and expanded walks.
Lind Washington March 22 1909 letters to Oregonian dispute a prior report that Rev William Valandingham and family rely on town charity. They state the family has sickness but are not destitute and credit Knights of Pythias for helping rather than town relief. Committee members Griffin and Henderson sign.
Carl Matthews, struck in the eye by an arrow from a bow used by a playmate, has lost sight in one eye and risks losing the other. Portland specialists say delayed treatment would have cost both eyes, but there is hope to save the remaining eye.
J. M. Randolph was found guilty in police court this morning of assaulting W. P. Temple. Sentence was suspended pending good behavior. The case arose from Randolph striking Temple with a buggy whip after Temple allegedly ran his automobile too close to Temple’s express wagon. Witnesses included A. L. Knight Clark Nelson and Dr. Mann.
Perry Gould Portland commission man says cattlemen have unusually good money making opportunities. He notes many men have left the cattle business, making the trade currently very profitable, with other lines of stock also bringing high prices.
A string of visitors to Pendleton includes Fred Blake of Adams and J. W. Campbell of Hermiston, plus Ben Holt of Walla Walla and Hon Jerry Stone of Athena. Attorneys Dick Cox and Homer Watts are noted, with business travel by Sheriff Rand, R. B. Wood, and others. Notables from Echo and The Dalles arrive for meetings, visits, and legal affairs.
The Hunts Junction depot was lifted by a Northern Pacific train and moved on two flat cars to Atalia where it will be refitted for use. Hunts Junction ceased to be needed as a station and the junction with the Walli Walla line now meets the Pasco line at Atalia. The old Hunts route from Walla Walla to Pendleton has faded into history as Atalia becomes the current junction point.
Lou Hodgens, a reservation farmer, said the outlook for the grain crop is splendid and moisture is plentiful. He was in the city today reporting that prospects are seldom better at this time.
Mrs. Myers attended the funeral in Helix today for the little son of Andy Rust. The family gathered to mourn and pay respects to the deceased child.
William Andrews and Miss Francie Elam of Umatilla County have been granted a marriage license. The couple is proceeding with plans for their wedding.
Pendleton conducts its first cleanup day with residents piling cans debris and rubbish along streets. Citizens helped by ladies and volunteers, bonfires burn as two cleanup days are planned with wagons to haul non combustibles beyond the city limits.
Pekin shows a variegated religious scene with 11 or 12 Christian churches out of 1049 houses of worship. Buddhist priests number 1553, Taoist priests 133, nuns 102, students 934, servants 795, and lodgers 16,445. Buddhist figures exclude about 500 Mongol lamas, and mosques and ancestral temples are not included.
A playful narrator quotes Puck praising Shakespeare as superior to Washington and Webster. The sparrow family is told that Shakespeare, though bald, creates admirable nesting spots in statues, a claim parodied to humorously elevate the bard above other famous figures.
About 59 municipalities are to vote on the no-license question at elections to be held early in April.
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