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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
4
County official paper announces daily weekly and semi weekly subscription rates and distribution locations in Pendleton Oregon. The notice lists durations and pricing for daily and weekly editions, carrier and mail options, and bureaus in Portland Washington D C and national press affiliations.
The text urges focusing the mind on desirable things to release energy for useful activities. Repeated practice forms a habit of dwelling on positive thoughts, with feelings signaling when the mind is off track. Blues and depressions indicate a need to change thinking, not other causes.
The Pendleton Commercial association led by President Alexander pledges an active year with weekly achievements and stronger ties to residents. The group seeks new members including farmers and young people to fuse fresh energy into Umatilla county development and civic work.
A sharp editorial argues that increasing crimes tied to gun carrying and drug use demand stringent controls to curb indiscriminate drug and gun distribution to irresponsible individuals. It notes the ease of obtaining firearms and ammunition in the United States, urging action.
Opinion argues for state restrictions on sale of guns, ammunition, and explosives. urges police records of owners, registration of dope addicts, and confinement of the insane to prevent crimes like the Morrow County brakeman death and a Portland jeweler murder.
Western sheepmen demand a central independent wool storage depot to break Boston and New England price control. They warn Utah clips are stored and undervalued, forcing reliance on manufacturers. A co operative facility in Omaha Denver or St Louis could hold wool, attract global bids, and enable broker loans, freeing farmers from buyers' price manipulation.
A Spokane Chronicle piece urges universal support for Secretary Root’s program to educate citizens on international law and diplomacy. It warns that a republic’s large voice can be provincial and ignorant on national affairs, and that informed public opinion could prevent wars by clarifying the issues involved.
County residents are urged to attend the Pioneers reunion events scheduled in Weston on May 23 29 and 30. Organizers promise a good time and emphasize strong community turnout for all three days.
The Republican candidate H. M. Cake is urged for GOP votes with Democrats urged to back him. He was the first Oregon candidate to declare support for popular election of the United States Senate and stands for progressive principles long favored by Democrats.
The largest potato shipment ever left Oregon from Umatilla county this week while a new crop venture grows beneath the Furnish Coe ditch in western Umatilla county. Growth continues with monthly laurels added to the county’s list of achievements.
A lyrical poem by Bert Huffman in The Song of the Oregon Pine reflects on sagebrush as a tragic, loving muse. It blends desert imagery with a plea for divine and natural solace, praising sagebrush as a sacred altar and incense amid arid solitude.
Mr and Mrs Busch were away from their home in Zillah near Toppenish when the house and contents burned Friday night. The Busch loss is put at 2200 including a 2000 library. The house was owned by M C Brewster and the value is not known.
The text traces the birth of moving pictures from Sir John Herschel and Charles Babbage in 1826 through early illusion devices. It notes Babbage’s spinning shilling experiment, the thaumotrope and petrope showing persistence of vision, and the first systematic photographs by Muybridge in 1877.
W H Coin Harvey author of Coin's Financial School on a business trip from Monte New Ark to Kansas City. He has joined a health resort at Monte Ne with ownership in the Club House Hotel and Cottage company, a cooperative with 400 stockholders in the southwest. The springs boast 10,000 gallons per minute, and the lake fishing, including trout and black bass, is excellent near the White River.
Thieves broke into the cabin of the tug Heros at Tacoma Saturday night, chloroformed the captain and mate who were sleeping, and robbed them of valuables. They were found asleep the next morning and awakened with difficulty.
Fine store and office room for rent in the East Oregonian building. Enquire at the office for details and terms.
May closes with a whirlwind of planned trips from Umatilla county beginning May 22 in Athena with the Caledonian plense and a Hermiston excursion scheduled for the last week, promising enjoyable features and events in the region.
Telephone and fire alarm connections with all rooms. Headquarters for Traveling Moe. Commodious sample rooms with free hits and special rates by the week or month. Excellent cuisine and prompt dining room service. Bar and billiard room in connection, only three blocks from depot.
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