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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1907
Page
8
Various notices list services, rentals, and goods including sundries, dry wood, furniture, hats, leathers, and hardware. Rentals cover private rooms, furnished housing, and cottages. photos and finishing services are offered. a studio advertises rooms for rent. Also listed are a transfer company, a lumber yard, hardware, coal, stoves, and a packing plant inquiry. A horse stray alert and a marriage license record conclude the item.
In Polk county locals continue to post notices on selected timber land near Dallas claiming prior right to purchase under the original grant. Squatters prepare cabins and lay poles as they push to be first if the government rules in their favor. Walla Walla plans a July 4 celebration with a target of 3000 dollars in subscriptions and a committed committee to organize the event.
The Blind Professor Cooper will begin a three lecture course at the Christian church next Monday evening at o o'clock. No admission is charged. Topics for each evening include The Principles of Phrenology, Love Courtship and Marriage, How to Win Success, Crime and Its Causes, and Self Confidence as a Factor in Success.
Brandy, a brindle and white Boston terrier about 25 pounds with trimmed ears and screw tail, is missing. If anyone knows her whereabouts contact Mrs. Chas. J. Fern ton in Pendleton.
The column names Helen Fee, Shafer of Pilot Rock, Della King, Julius Gurdorian, Representative Barrett, Mrs Walker, J H Taylor, Will Johnson, Mrs Macstretti, Mr and Mrs McCourt, J T Thompson, Henry Taylor and others. It notes visits, occupations, travel, illness, and a ripple of rain benefiting local farmers with excellent crop prospects.
Edward Ti Trumbull, from Salisbury, appointed deputy inspector of factories and workshops for eastern Oregon by P Hoff, labor statistics commissioner. He will tour eastern towns, inspect mills shops and workplaces, report conditions, and oversee safety across the territory east of The Dalles, joining two western inspectors.
The World's Largest Tree, in Sicily near Mount Etna, known as The Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Horses, has five giant branches from a trunk 212 feet in circumference. A hollow can hold a flock of sheep, and the name stems from a legend of Queen Joan of Aragon sheltering there.
Former Pendleton resident Al Zimmerman now in the furniture trade arrives on a short business trip and expresses satisfaction with Malheur county. W Weatherspoon resigns after 14 years as O R N agent at Pleasant Valley Baker County and relocates to his farm.
The P. O. ranch, once owned by John Arbuckle dubbed the Coffee King, encompassing 63,800 acres near Cheyenne, Wyoming, sold to L. H. Boydston of Des Moines for 300000. Denver broker M. M. Day, noted as Wyoming's first female dry farming broker, arranged the deal. The ranch, famed for horses and cattle, will be divided into stall farms for colonists from Iowa and the Midwest, with settlement near Cheyenne and Fort Russell. The sale follows government action against illegal fencing, which prompted the move to convert ranch land to farming.
The Pendleton Business College closes its current year as it plans extensive renovations and additions for the next term. Miss M M Slattery of Spokane buys the college to create one of the west’s best commercial schools with enhanced faculty, new shorthand and English departments, and stronger bookkeeping instruction. Consul Trouls Kateer notes 1904 U S imports to Mazatlan at 790184 and exports at 3880182.
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