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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1907
Page
8
Don’t read this ring to you a jardiniere with every 500 cans of Victor Baking Powder. The ad promises a jardiniere and a d-quart granite kettle at special prices. It notes the management’s aim to acquaint themselves with customers and invite patronage.
The Commercial Association met to urge cooperation with the City Council on a public hitching location for farmers and to push a plan to reroute Wild Horse road to avoid flood damage. County Judge Gillland said a deed from Peter Tachella secures 600 yards of land for the new road, reducing future washouts. the association paid 76 for the right of way.
Creighton Jones of St. Louis leads a caravan of Uma tila Indian ponies from Pendleton to St. Louis Missouri where they will be broke to ride and drive. Prices range from 3 for yearlings to 20 per head for grown horses.
Judge Gilliland states that the in the course action will lead to future cost savings for the county. The remark implies fiscal prudence and efficiency in county operations arising from current decisions.
Moses Taylor a Weston pioneer and Oregon Prison inmate befriended Henry Wintzingerode known as Dutch Henry who was serving a life sentence for murder in 1850. Taylor secured a governor pardon promise to bring the old German to his Weston home for the rest of his life. Dutch Henry accompanied Taylor to the Taylor home near Weston to live there henceforth.
Rev. A. J. Adams a Moro Presbyterian minister and S K Yates of this city depart for Columbus Ohio this evening to attend the general assembly of the Presbyterian church beginning May 14. Adams represents Pendleton presbytery elected at Tutuila Indian mission. Yates delegates from Pendleton. Adams will visit the Jamestown exposition before returning. Yates may return soon after assembly ends.
A civil service exam for clerks and a male carrier will be held at the city post office on May 29, 1907. Applications and full details on qualifications duties salaries vacations promotions are available from the Secretary Board of Civil Service Examiners Post Office City WI. Tom Milarkey Jr. left for Bolte to travel overland by buggy using a Warren Construction rig along the old Boise route once used by his father with pack trains before the railroad.
T J Tweedy filed a suit alleging Joe Croig owes $983.76 plus $3120 in attorney fees for numerous past due notes and merchandise sold and not paid for. The papers in the case were filed today.
The longshoremen strike grows serious with Commissioner Bingham warning the annual police parade may be canceled. A riot erupted after a barge carrying 300 strikebreakers arrived at Coenties Slip. Madison Jones, veteran resident, was badly hurt when he fell into a sidewalk excavation near Alta Street and the Savings Bank, suffering a severe head wound and requiring stitches.
Pendleton Commercial Association approves Oregon Daily Journal plan to produce a 96 page anniversary edition with two free pages for Moorhouse Indian photographs and Pendleton Umatilla county scenes. Journal to print a separate newspaper edition and ship 66 000 copies weight total five carloads. Top cost estimated at $6500 for paper and $20000 for production, with orders for 600 leather bound copies from Portland Commercial Club as sample promotion.
Company L of the Guardsmen plans a May 15 reception at the armory to inaugurate its social program. A committee led by Captain Kern and Lieutenants Smythe Aldrich Ruppe and Sawtelle will organize the event with Johnson's Orchestra providing music and dancing to follow the reception. Invitations will be issued soon to friends of the newly formed company.
A special meeting of BL P.O, EB No. 288 is set for tonight at 1.0.0 at F. hall. The meeting will cover business of importance.
An old advertisement promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy to stimulate appetite aid digestion and prevent digestive ailments. It claims the product strengthens weak stomachs curing dyspepsia indigestion constipation headaches liver troubles and female ills with a note that it is pure.
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