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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
5
The East Oregonian Job Printing Department promises fair pricing high quality workmanship and prompt service for all printing needs. Customers can expect reliable turnaround and courteous assistance guiding them through design and production steps.
The Pendleton Woman's Club, the city’s largest, endorsed the higher education and elementary school tax measures on the primary ballot. The resolution urged support for all educational bills and directed copies to Oregon education leaders in Salem and Portland.
State Commander Foilstt asks American Legion Posts in Oregon to support the Higher Education Relief bill. Pendleton Albany Salem La Grande Dallas and other posts have endorsed. The note cites postwar value of college education with many veterans enrolling at University of Oregon and state colleges. The article also mentions state aid subsidies and currency rates amid a locally mixed discussion.
San Francisco May 16 Arthur J Eller former soldier filed for divorce. dispute centers on whether the woman he sued is his wife or her twin sister. He alleges the claimed wife arrived in September and lived with his parents. during his hospital stay the woman he believed to be his wife or her sister produced a SRSA etc. he claims the wife became infatuated with a friend and is now with him in New Orleans.
At London on May 10 Associated Press notes a wool auction with 11 760 bales offered. Prices varied with 15 to 20 percent down on select grades and several lots selling near 9 0 percent of quoted values. Buyers included America with 50 900 bales, home trade 95 000 and the continent 95 000 bales.
No sale occurred for Ful and only one load of livestock entered North Portland yards for the Battles Nelson. General trade sentiment remained steady with prime, mixed, and common cattle price ranges listed, but no sales reported. Lambs and calves showed mixed quotes, with valley and mountain ranges noted as steady to higher in spots.
Clara Sechannép and Ruby Hutchinson, schoolchildren from Pilot Rook, were violently seized Friday after a declamatory event at Ma high School Hoth. They were taken to BL Anthony's hospital in a semi conscious condition. Investigators believe poison may have been involved. Miss Hutchinson won first prize in declamation division D.
A bridge fire halted No 31 and displaced passengers. Crews moved people to trains No 3 No 4 and No 6, with No 17 and No 19 routing east and west bound. Officials expect repairs to allow the scheduled service to resume soon.
Fifty eastern brook trout, 8 to 13 inches, shown in Sol Baum's window by Ray Spangie, caught yesterday on Meacham Creek between Duncan and Gibbon. H R Mangold took 15 trout on Meacham Creek. Ash La Folletta claimed 40 trout, with several others noted. Fishing favored spring branches though the main creek was muddy.
Margaret Smith, a member of the New York State Assembly, served a half hour as acting speaker. She ruled on parliamentary technicalities while two assemblymen challenged the chair, her decisive leadership forcing compliance under pressure.
A garbled report hints at a major general and signal services exploring transoceanic telephony. The text mentions wires and lines in a unclear central area, with phrases about deployment and testing of experimental long distance communication.
Spangle plans a ten game trip from Dayton Oregon to scout and train, hoping to shoot well enough to join the Atlantic voyage in June. He recently received a letter from Stove McLing, secretary of the native trapeholoters, asking local wheat at financing the trip of the metripan squad, likely to go to Pendleton club for support.
Mrs Samuel Gompers wife of the AFL president died at her home in Washington on Friday after a long illness. She was 68 and had been married over fifty years. Funeral services were held in Washington and burial was in New York. Born in London she came to the United States at age eight and later worked as a tobacco stripper before marrying Mr Gompers in 1895 at age 16. Survived by three sons Henry J Samuel J and Alexander J Gompers.
President McCarthy declares a Pacific Coast League gambling war, calls for expulsion of players and teams involved, and urges strict enforcement across cities. He vows to purge gambling from the sport, insisting the one American pastime must be clean or risk extinction.
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