Footwear In the City Advertises Large Up-To-Date Stock
An advertisement urges customers to call and examine a large and current shoe stock in the city. It highlights updated merchandise and invites inquirers to inspect offerings.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1901
Page
4
An advertisement urges customers to call and examine a large and current shoe stock in the city. It highlights updated merchandise and invites inquirers to inspect offerings.
Ads tout Sassafras bark and Hawley's produce, Murphy's framing and wall paper, Rader's furniture shades, and Lee and Le Roy's shops. Dutton's ice cream, Crescent bicycles, and new fabrics appear with sale tones. Articles urge orders for Sunday, paint products, and Dream Balm for catarrh with prices and delivery notes.
A jumble of items includes job ad seeking a girl to wash dishes at a boarding house, local store pitches and instrument stock, a sermon by Walter Price and other church notices, a dancing party at Pendleton lodge, a health tonic ad, a sportsmen practice for a regional tournament, and an illustrated lecture by Rev H W Kellogg on travel themes, with dates and venues in Pendleton Oregon.
The feast honoring the late Young Chief will be held at his former home in Korn Hollow starting Tuesday May 7. Invitations went out to Flathead agency chiefs and Nex Perces leaders. Chief Joseph and his wife with seven braves have arrived from Colville Washington and are encamped at Thorn Hollow awaiting festivities. The widow plans a memorable event lasting several days with a public gathering and a listed election during the celebration. Wm Parsons has letters from the Flathead agency about legal matters and noting chiefs will attend.
Ed Besthorn and Miss Marie Margaretie Niewen wed at the German hall in Cold Spring country at 2 pm on a Tuesday in April. Rev. C A Wentech presided as Pendleton friends and local Verein Contracht members attended, bride arriving from Germany with Han Strove and family. The couple will reside in the city and returned from Cold Spring this morning.
Work to repair the baseball grounds starts Thursday May 2 with ground grading and field care by cameras near left field to avoid damage. Manager Kader will deploy a force until the field is fit for professionals. opening game is tentatively set for Tuesday May 4 with Colfax visiting.
Wil Bell aged 22 died today at 5 pm from what Dr J Smith called smallpox. He was the son of John Bell who was in Pendleton Tuesday and lives near Athena. Dr Cropp traveled to Athena by train to testify on the smallpox diagnosis as reported in the Reardon Wash Gazette weekly.
The council votes an ordinance forcing all new and existing buildings fronting streets to be numbered within 20 to 30 days. Numbers apply per block, with 100 bases on north south streets and 25 feet frontage elsewhere. Violators face fines or jail.
The Pendleton horns parade returns for a second year on Saturday afternoon May 4 with 10 to 18 horses in line. A procession led by elders and riders will move from Lilleth street to Court Street and through Main Street, ending at the Hotel Pendleton.
W N Fowler is in The Dalles. B Colye of Walla Walla died Monday from apoplexy. Judge J J Balleray left for Hot Lake. Marscal John Heathman plans to depart for Hot Lake Thursday. Jack Tomlinson traveled from Um atilla to Athena after a morning train. W F Mallock and William Beagle arrived from Skagway. W Webb of La Grande visits Pendleton with daughter Mrs Frank Frazier. T P land arrives in Pendleton to attend county court. EB Mur is in town today.
Jim Meane returns from Spokane and northern country and heads home to Umatilla. Whitman college’s Roe Brattain hosts a farewell banquet at Hotel D acres in Walla Walla before leaving for Amoy China to join a learning institution. Richard and Bernice Carter Lawrence marry in Weiser Idaho and travel from Pendleton. Elmer Turner departs for Portland to take a butcher job with O R & N, planning Pendleton Spokane or Pendleton Huntington runs. A R Mattoon of Lookingglass visits Pendleton. J H Morris becomes cashier at W and C K union depot. A Kelling, traveling auditor, leaves Pendleton Hotel Pendleton. Frank Hull visits from Lawton Standard and eyes Milton mining prospects. Ed Hendryx runs the Standard.
County Court in session with County Judge Hartman and Commissioners Gilliland and Walker present. They approved the warrant stubs of County Clerk Chamberlain who levied warrants for 1028 coyote scalps between March 28 and April 40 inclusive. Read matters of interest will come up today and tomorrow.
A teacher asked an eighth grader to name the big victory for the third anniversary. The student misheard as a boxing query and replied asking if it was between the biguns or lightweights, revealing a playful misunderstanding of history.
Local dealers in Pendleton list buy prices for ranch and farm produce including butter at 40 per roll, eggs 12½ cents per dozen, potatoes 7 cents per sack, cabbage 4 cents per head, turnips 74 cents per 100 pounds, turkey alive 12 to 14 cents per pound, geese 12 per dozen, ducks under 10 cents, chickens 4½ to 5 dollars per dozen. An available room in the East Oregonian building offers hot and cold water and broom, $11 a month, apply there.
W F Matlock and W Heagle returned from Skagway with reports of rising Alaska and Yukon traffic. Matlock plans improvements at Pendleton ball grounds and promotes local baseball loyalty. The alaskan route is developing with new fields and expanding settlements, while fares from Seattle to Skagway drop.
In Portland a dealer notes purchasing Johnson Bros white semi porcelain at below cost and offering it at ironstone ware prices. A price list will be published on arrival, with more startling values to follow. Watch this space.
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