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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1917
Page
5
In Washington May 72 reports claim secret provisions in a Danish Virgin Islands treaty. An alleged arrangement would allow German ships access to Virgin Islands ports, sparking calls from Mann for a formal inquiry and administrative clarification that was dropped.
Hood River valley orchardists, short handed by spring work, expect about 154 men from Hood River County to join harvest efforts. The note mentions Company 13, Coast Artillery, as part of the recruits amid strawberry season pressures.
The report notes about 40 Mood River workers ready to join. Rk. HH. Weber of Hood River and Wasco counties warns fruit crops face apalling fees unless labor is secured. He backs importing foreign labor to meet demand. Perishable strawberry and cherry crops must be handled promptly. Plans propose enlisting school children old enough to help in strawberry fields this month and continue into the apple thinning season.
May 7 Portland report says dentist W A Cumming returned home to find two burglars ransacking his house. They forced him at gunpoint to upstairs and locked him in his room as they looted between 50 and 600 cash, a diamond, a necklace, and two watches before fleeing with his daughter Harriet and mother in nearby residence.
Wallace Idaho May 7 19— A 14 year old boy who worked in a clear factory plans to apply for a Minority loan. Wallace’s loan subscription is expected to be the largest in Idaho relative to population. The town with about 900 people has bank deposits over 6.5 million dollars. Bank and Trust accounts for 4.6555 million while First National holds 2.1 million. The former has already subscribed 100 thousand to government certificates of indebtedness.
Prominent Boston society figures Michael Charlotte Havilen and Senourney were notified by the Navy Department that they have been accepted as radio operators and must report to the Navy Yard tomorrow for duty.
Local notices show advertising for services and sales including chiropody, carpentry, sewing, repair, and rental offerings. Various individuals and businesses list jobs, goods, and reminders such as rags, auto truck, second hand tools, wallpaper, wool bean sales, sewing machines, and freight services with contact details and locations across Pendleton Oregon.
A collection of small ads and notices including wanted help sewing machine operator, various rental homes and rooms, a lost eyeglasses reward, stage coach times, and a mortgage of a promotional phonograph giveaway. Also invites Moose members to a social event and a real estate sales pitch offering lot purchase and home building.
Washington May 7 An informal loan of twenty five million was made to Britain through the British Ambassador Cecil Spring. The loan is part of a hundred million to be given Britain during May. The first portion was transferred Saturday and the remaining fifty million will be transferred within the next two weeks.
Australian Prime Minister W M Hughes addressed a 30 000 strong crowd in Sydney appealing for volunteers for the Light Horse. Troopers led 50 horses without riders into the square bearing a message who will fill an empty saddle. Within ten minutes all horses had riders and the meeting ended with a record enlistment for the year.
Washington May 7 The navy department reports many suggestions from inventors to counter submarines. Officials say few offer real hope but all are considered and may be tested. Secretary Daniels and Assistant Saunders express cautious optimism about American inventive talent rising to the challenge.
Charlie Chaplin in The Cure headlines the Pastime program with Alta Mable Taliaferro in The Hurricane and vaudeville acts. Cosy Millie King presents The Mystery of the Doubletow with Harry Carey in Fighting Gringo. Arcadeo-Dark rounds out the bill.
Pastime Today features Charlie Chaplin in The Cure a new brand of comedy showing for the first time in the city. Mollie King and others appear in the Double Crown Mystery third chapter at the Cosy with thrills and a clever comedy act in support. Carey stars in The Fighting Gringo at the Cosy while hailed as a perfect host for friends at his Laurel Canyon bungalow in a feature tale of hospitality and entertainment.
New York May 7. Lieutenant John D. Rhoades of Expanola New Mexico former rough rider strode into Colonel fekeever’s office and offered his services. He said he had disposed of his ranch and money to send his wife to Los Angeles and would go to France even if he had to swim to reach it.
Richard Norton, first American named to the Legion of Honor by the French government, was a coordinator of the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps with H. H. Hares. Norton, Harvard 1882 graduate, is the son of Charles Ellet Norton, reflecting on public memory.
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