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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1912
Page
5
The Stetson company presents a new up to the minute production of Once Tom's Cabin at the Oregon theater tonight. Manager Washburn has secured a cast of stage favorites with vaudeville numbers interwoven as features to enhance the drama.
A dense string of classifieds lists addresses, bargains, and services across Pendleton. Items include wood and hay for sale, sewing machines, rooms for rent, a Jersey cow sale, farm equipment, a moving service, coal deliveries, lumber yard stock, and various business promotions. Key names include W. R. Graham, B. T. Wade, R. H. Stevens, Ben L. Burroughs, and J. E. Bean, with multiple phone contacts and local addresses.
The Pendleton Common Council invites sealed bids to construct and lay pavements on streets as they exist, with excavation drainage gutters curbs and all materials to meet established grades. Bids per square yard with $500 certified check due by 5 p m May 22 1912. council may accept any bid and reject all. Mayor W M Matlock dates the notice May 11 1912.
Walla Walla guests include B J Lange and M Sturdivant from Ukiah. Visitors from La Grande Hermiston Pilot Rock Athena and Echo stop in for business, travel and meetings. Captain Pope's wife and other locals appear. notice of lodge meeting to arrange funeral for deceased brother Eric Cropper.
After business closes this day the group will depart, some to Portland and the rest to Spokane. At a St George grill luncheon the visitors toasted Round-up officials and were toasted in return as directors praised the sales day arrangement and celebrated the gathering by the railroad men.
Walter Clark traveled across the United States from Eureka California to Dobbs Ferry New York over twenty seven years. He left California in 1885 to visit a cousin in Salt Lake City where he remained seven years. He then went to Wichita Kane and then Saginaw Michigan before settling in Dobbs Ferry a few weeks ago. His cousin had moved to Montpelier Vermont five years earlier, leaving his journey unfinished.
Harvard class of 1912 staged a novel senior festivity at Cambridge Mass with 4 barbecues in the stadium. A donkey mascot named Carmen led the march with torches while Oliver W Roosevelt of Oyster Bay nephew of ex president won the donkey Carmen in a raffle and will chaperone until Commencement Day.
Cleveland police chief Frederick Kohler critiqued detective fiction in a talk with a Cleveland novelist. He argued average stories feel cooked, with implausible crews and contrived plots. He cited a snowy day scene of officials debating a snow shoveler as a telling joke about authors.
John Risley fled a forced confinement in Atlantic City after an extreme thirst for liquor drove him mad. He climbed from a window to a porch roof, ran through the western section while police pursued, and nearly drowned in a pool before rescue. Relatives sent him to a Philadelphia institution for treatment.
Notice from FRANK DUPRAT offering reinforced cement walls around graves at the cemetery. He will be there daily from now until May 29 to perform the work, with all information free.
In Utica Madison County Arthur Carpenter used a woman as shield during a confrontation with Columbus officers. He was wounded in the forehead after a chase to New Berlin, while George Spurr obtained a warrant and pursued Carpenter. Spurr’s yard exchange left horse wounded. Carpenter claimed self-inflicted forehead wound. Rebecca A. Pope signs public notice disclaiming debts.
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