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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1906
Page
2
Dr. Vaughan plans Sunday in La Grande while Miss Bertha Alexander recovers. Dinners, visits, and card parties mark the social week with Miss Bertha Auger visiting from Walla Walla and many invitations and hostesses listed. Elliott travels to Pendleton to buy another jack to replace the one that died at Enterprise.
An advertisement touts a corn cure that supposedly removes corns roots and all with no soreness when directions are followed It is put up and sold by a local distributor and invites readers to call for details and purchase information.
Mathews inventor of the Mathews irrigation wheel sells a small two foot diameter device to S M Haworth. It will be placed in the Umatilla river to irrigate a garden and alfalfa tract. The wood wheel pumps enough water to irrigate five acres and demonstrates strong possibilities for metal wheels. The wheel adapts to high or low water and, if scaled, could lift a large stream. Orders are coming in for more wheels as plans for workshops proceed. The device is patented and rights are protected.
Walla Walla will host a game tomorrow without Pendleton involvement. Local sentiment led to scrapping the Pendleton team plan after O R & N agent Robert Burns learned of public opposition. An umpire will declare the visitor squad a picked nine. Local fans commend the peaceful withdrawal and note the error was due to misapprehension about conditions in Pendleton.
The delayed Elson art collection of over 200 photographic reproductions will hang at Muale hall Monday or Tuesday at 2 PM and open to the public for a three day exhibit on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday in May 19. The city's women's clubs will buy 100 worth of pictures for public schools from proceeds of the exhibit, with tickets already sold in large numbers by school children.
Garden City Packing manager K Harris reports four carloads of mutton sheep shipped from Hecho to Spokane via Stanton Meat Company. Demand for fat sheep in the county remains brisk as shipments to Spokane markets continue. Alfred M Smiley sues Olive May Smiley for divorce filed this morning by Peter West. Married at Walla Walla in 1696 with two children, Smiley alleges desertion since March 1903 and seeks a decree and child custody.
Samuel Endecott sues for divorce from Sarah J Endecott. They wed April 24 1870 at West Plains Missouri. Peter Went to attorney for the plaintiff. Banks of Yakima report deposits total about 2 500 000, a record high for the city, up over 00 percent from last year.
Frank K. Welles Umatilla County superintendent mails guidance to district boards urging early teacher hiring and preference for resident teachers. He notes two-thirds of districts levied a special tax last year, with salaries ranging from 50 to 80 dollars monthly for teachers. He emphasizes securing skilled instructors and continuing county help without extra pay.
In the Inland Empire Interscholastic Declamatory contest at Walla Walla last night Miss Maud Shaw of Wattsburg Academy captured first prize with Miss Ethel Maury of Ontario High School taking second. Five schools competed including Wattsburg Academy, Walla Walla High School, Pendleton High School, Pendleton Academy, and Ontario High School. Judges were Rev Morton Gregory, Rev Robert J Reid, Grant B Bond, and Prof W D Lyman.
G. W. Hunt and his brother BE. L. Hunt, prominent Echo, Oregon horsemen, arrived in Baker City to arrange shipment of a carload of horses to Montana. They will accompany the animals and expect to return to Echo in about a week.
A historic health note extols natural remedies to restore blood and vitality. It praises Indian and settler knowledge of roots such as Seen-root naan root and Stony root, plus bark like meecherry, used in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to strengthen stomach and liver function without alcohol or habit-forming drugs.
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