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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1901
Page
4
A shop presents three elegant shoe styles for the season. One features a patent call with a Cuban heel and plain toe, another is a French kid with Lowe heel and hand turned sole, and the third uses cloth top French kid with hand turned finish.
A jumble of local ads announces sales at Murphy's and Hawley's stores in Pendleton including window shades, wall paper, and framing services. Other notices promote art sales next Monday, real estate offerings by Dr. N. Berkeley, plus various goods from Cleaver Bros. Dry Goods and Le Roy's tamales. An appeal advertises a Kacycle crank banger money angle. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are praised for gentle bowel relief.
Reading this era page shows want ads for help at homes farm security loans, rent notices, art sales, and church fundraisers. It includes personal notices, a horsehair mention, medical remedies like DeWitt’s products, and a wedding report for William Johnston and Miss Power near Pendleton.
The notice announces a medical association meeting at St Paul on May 22 with tickets priced at five dollars for the round trip. Tickets go on sale the same date for travel along the Missouri River to cities including Kansas City Omaha Sioux City and nearby towns at the same rate. Limited to 60 tickets, with option of a half round trip. Inquiries at U KR N ticket offices.
Pendleton members invite the public to attend a Thursday evening meeting at 8 PM on the court panel. Woodmen of the World organizer will present an address and campaign for Pendleton members. Committee urges all to come and hear an oration on internal insurance.
Pendleton fans will travel Sunday June 1 to Walla Walla for a game. The company will offer excursion rates for the trip with regular and special trains. The return special departs Walla Walla at 6 p.m.
An old advertisement from Eliza Leezer urges readers to visit Leeser Bakery for baked goods while touting DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as a cure for constipation and liver complaints. The notice mentions Taliman & Co. as the sellers.
The Simonis case, an appeal from Union county, concerns an accused minister Charles Edwand Simonis charged with attempting to kill by arsenic and poisoning two young girls. The trial records show powders given to Nora Smith and Ariena Howell leading to arsenious poisoning with a later strychnine injection reviving a victim. The defendant seeks release as the case proceeds through higher court review.
Pendleton academy hosts a Friday declamation contest in the sremecenee church starting at o clock with seven contestants and music. Also announced is a museum update as William Cosick of Union donates over 1000 botanical specimens from Idaho Washington and Oregon, aiding Yale and Harvard connections through his long collecting work.
Several residents left for Spokane as visitors. others returned to jobs in St. Joe and Pendleton. A birth announced for May 14 in Athena. local figures attend base ball events and plan mining trips near Mountain Home. Typhoid recovery noted. funeral under way in Pendleton area.
Vague OCR fragment notes Kit Carson veteran candidates and a voting event on May 26 at a Thompson area location. Mentions bus, Suoday day, and an officiating post linked to a group called Wondanes or similar, with veterans and council members implied.
The text notes Pendleton groups will hold 10 o'clock exercises at Hendricke's ball to march to the cemetery, with announcements authorized by W. F. Gillett, commander of the port.
Smythe and Son sold 250 sacks of wool to J M Buesel Co of The Dakies at 87.8 cents per pound. Emmett Cochran reports a ewe giving birth to five lambs, all dying. Alias McAllister bought over 8000 yearling weathers at 1.40 to 2 in Antelope Shanike and areas beyond, mainly in Gilliam and Klickitat counties.
The East Oregonian reports rates from Pendleton to the Buffalo exposition set at 68 25 for a round trip. Tickets go on sale starting Tuesday May 21 and will be sold on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Passengers are allowed 60 days for travel with limits tied to the plescarl river area.
G R Demott the local grocer announces a Wisconsin patent cheese and meat refrigerator at his Pendleton shop. The device promises year round cold storage for cheese and brawn aiding ranch supplies, with Demott planning American and imported cheese offerings. A reader testimonial cites quick relief from a croup attack after using One Minute Cough Cure.
Mrs Chas Applegate reports persistent coughing and lung trouble but after three bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery she claims a full recovery and weight gain. W J Baxter of North Brook NC says DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured his 15 year piles. East Oregon building offers furnished rooms with hot and cold water for summer renta. Tecoma plans to raise policemen and firemen salaries by five dollars monthly.
Fragmentary catalog itemizes soup tureen with platter and ladle plus stitched casserains with ladle sauce tureen. Mentions fever basin bakers Gugare and Gin, teapots, bakers covered butters, five inch bakers and bowls.
The funeral of Jacob Frazer was held at Eureka lodge No. 32 IOOF with hundreds viewing the body. R Alexander past grand master officiated at Olney cemetery where a ten minute eulogistic address recalled Frazer’s life and character.
At a Prague meeting on May 15 Bohemian manufacturers resolved to push for a congress of European chambers of commerce to discuss measures to defend against American competition. The plan calls for re summoning the congress to coordinate defense strategies across Europe.
Mt. Havana May 15 A poll of the constitutional convention shows a strong majority for the Platt amendment with seventeen for two against and one dentiful. Intense interest in the vote was evident this morning as delegates discussed the measure.
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