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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1904
Page
6
Local retailer proclaims new spring line of stiff and soft hats with Easter price cuts. Stetson hats priced at 50 and 5 dollars, plus discounts on $3.50, $3.00 hats, with sale running until Easter. Consumers urged to view the collection before buying.
Pendleton serves as the Western division center for the Sisters of St. Francis with Mother Stanislaus as head. Convents span Pendleton, Baker City, La Grande, Tekoa, Spokane, Tacoma, Rawlins, and Ft Stevens. The order runs St. Anthony's Hospital in Pendleton and operates schools and orphanages across sites including La Grande Tekoa Rawlins and Spokane. Twenty-nine sisters serve, with 170 pupils enrolled at the academy this year.
Atlanta March 21 The new law becomes operative tomorrow and signals the start of the end for Georgia s convict lease system. One third of felony convictions will be assigned to public road work in counties applying for convict labor while the state retains supervision over prisoners, including those hired to private parties. Revenue from this source rises due to higher labor prices despite fewer private hires.
The plan allocates 385119 dollars for labor of 1590 convicts, replacing the 202.04 dollars per year for over 2100. Fewer camps cut expenses, aiming to net about 250000 dollars for the state school fund.
Leading educators from Michigan convene at Ypsilanti State Normal for the Schoolmasters Club conference. Speakers include Edward W. Clark Ripon College Miss Mary K R Whitman Beaver College H W Maroun University of South Dakota Henry A Sanders University of Michigan and Samuell Platner Western Reserve Archibald Smalley Lewis Institute Chicago. They attend the Norman college science building dedication and hear John M Coulter University of Chicago on science teaching. Sessions continue through tomorrow and Saturday. The Grand Army encampment at Portland works to bring Lincoln jog cabin to the Lewis and Clark fair.
Two thousand visiting teachers converge on Indianapolis for the Southern Indiana Teachers Association annual meeting. E Monroe of Frankfort, president, will call the gathering to order at Tomlinson Hall, with the principal address by J W Bashford of Ohio Wesleyan University. The program lists many noted educators. Meanwhile, Portland master bakers dictate terms to Journeymen bakers on a six week strike.
An 0 reader letter touts a proof by a rabbit inoculation showing baldness results from dandruff germs. It argues baldness is prevented by destroying the germ with Newbro's Herpicide, claims dandruff shares the same cause, and urges buyers to reject substitutes. Sold by druggists with samples via The Hemicide Co. Detroit. W. Schmidt, special agent.
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