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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
5
Ice cream at Hohbachs and White Haviland china at Demotts appear among varied notices. Rooms for rent, furnished and unfurnished, cottage wanted, and several housework and station work inquiries. Farm and land rentals, wood for sale, and a sewing machine ad accompany a lost and found entry and church book return request.
Denver dispatch reports Judge Lewis sustained a demurrer by Union Pacific and Colorado and Southern to a US suit over livestock shipments. The ruling allows railroads to hold sheep on cars beyond 28 hours by transferring to connecting lines, harming Colorado sheep interests and live stock commerce. Separate actions against the railroads loom.
In 1879 Congress directed the geological survey to map the United States, a task ongoing since. The atlas will cover about one third of the nation, using 17x20 inch maps at scales of one to four miles per inch, with 1700 quadrangles already mapped and completion promising a major work.
A Prineville correspondent reports Crook county land near Lone Pine gap to Madras may be leased under five year options by eastern capitalists seeking gas and oil prospecting. Each signer may have a well on or near their land. If discovery occurs, a $100 per acre buyout and a pipeline to tidewater or The Dalles are planned.
The steamer J N Teal returned to Portland from a trial trip at The Dalles after a rebuild following a fatal fire at Portland docks five months ago. Off the same officers and crew as before, Captain Archie Geer and chief engineer Clarence Kellogg lead the voyage. The Teal carried 5900 sacks of wheat to Portland and will resume regular Portland to state portage service once the boiler is recovered in about a week.
Mr J W Fox of Spencer Fox and Gregory of Walla Walla, representing Hanford the new fruit country in the Yakima valley, is in the city and registered at the St George hotel. He urges all interested in making a paying investment to read tomorrow's advertisement in this paper.
Dr. C. J. Smith his wife and child sailed from France for the United States on March 26 and will soon reach New York after a visit there and at the doctor's old home in Ohio the party will return to Pendleton arriving about May 1.
A stream of visitors and residents pass through Pendleton and nearby towns. Rev. Israel Putnam visits Athena. Samuel and Mrs. Starr of Helix are in Pendleton. Bert Huffman of Echo editors the East Oregonian and visits Hermiston. attorneys Johnson of Hecho and Wilson of Athena conduct business and stay as guests in the city. Numerous locals from Walla Walla Hermiston and Echo travel for meetings, trade trips, or family visits, including Mrs. Burford Spokane bound, John Shaw on business, and Mrs. Gray visiting her parents. Spring seeding and herd movements resume as Holdman and Camas prairie districts see activity. the area notes freight agent Wamsley leaving for Spokane, praising farmers trains.
The report notes aims to run a train through O R N in eastern Washington and hopes for a spring service into Umatilla county. Mrs Walter Hopper and her young daughter traveled from La Grande to join her husband, with plans to settle here permanently after months away in Baker City.
Edward Snapp and Grace Holmes of Pendleton were married yesterday at 4 PM at the M E parsonage with W T Foster officiating. They will reside at 5165 Perkins Avenue in Pendleton.
After a five to six year run, the American Tobacco company returns to newspaper advertising. It spent 1,260,000 dollars annually on billboards and will redirect that spend to newspapers and magazines. The move signals questioned value in billboard publicity for gaining business.
The Rev C W Pelton of Conneaut Ohio uses a touring car to travel between evangelistic meetings. The four cylinder five passenger auto is equipped with windshield baggage carrier and will bear a scripture verse on the tonneau echoing The king's business requireth haste.
The Brewers, clever colored vaudeville artists, return to Star theater under Chas Baker with an altered program for tonight and the balance of the week. Two performances nightly and a fresh set of moving pictures at each show. The Dime and Eagle shops also report new films and popular changes drawing crowds yesterday and today.
All holders of invitations to the guard girls dance on Wednesday evening April 1 are urged to attend for a good time and a big surprise.
A woman and a 16 year old boy seek a position on a ranch for a single man. They list 612 Cosble Street as the address for inquiries and applications.
Help wanted advertisement seeking a competent sewing woman. Apply in person at 607 East Court Street.
Winchester Kentucky suffered a fire loss of 160000 dollars yesterday when a business block was destroyed by flames.
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