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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1909
Page
8
Pendleton hosts Elks Circus with visitors from Walla Walla Baker City and beyond. A festive parade and onlookers fill streets as the Elks prepare a grand evening parade and grand finale. The event features lectures, clowns, vaulters, and a mock initiation under James Kyle.
W A Wyllie of north Pendleton has bought 11 percent acres of land adjoining Hermiston under the government ditch. The property lies just east of the town center and less than a mile away. The land is nearly level and suitable for easy improvement.
Lyle Beeney of Susanville in Grant County and his brother Lee Beeney of Pilot Rock are guests of Pendleton friends for a few days, arriving from the Rock yesterday afternoon.
A long list of Pendleton visitors stops includes R B Stanfield, W P Gibba, F M Conner, Co C Paine, A Cameron, James B Conner, Mrs Sue Keys, Miss Georgia Perry, James Ewers, and many others from Echo Pilot Rock Hermiston Athena and more arriving for circus day. Local business and Elks parade officials like R N Stanfield and Allen Thomson attend events while agents from O R N and Northern Pacific observe. The paper notes excursions, circus attendance, and social visits across the region.
An advertisement touts God Hostetter's Stomach Bitters asserting relief from stomach and digestive disorders after 66 years of experience. It urges readers to try it for dyspepsia indigestion heartburn costiveness malaria and related ailments.
A catalog style listing shows prices for handkerchiefs, undergarments, and Wilson Bros shirts. Items include half price and sale figures such as 50 cents Balbriggan underwear and 1.75 to 3.00 for Wilson Bros shirts, with C O prices noted. The text reads as a shopping guide or advertisement from a department store.
In a county court road session twelve petitions were heard. Eleven roads were ordered vacated or established. The Milton road petition faced protest, leading petitioners to withdraw and promise to refile later.
A marriage license was issued this afternoon to Lyle J. Berry and Alice Faye Welch, both residents of the county.
Tacoma reports a four legged chicken hatched at Mrs. Roseburg's yard, earning her the prize at the upcoming poultry show.
James Sellers arrived back from Alberta where he had been for several days. He praises the country and expresses relief at returning to sunny home. Col. F. 8. Ivanhoe, district attorney for Union County, came home last evening after a stay here since Monday on business before the supreme court.
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