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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1909
Page
2
Large Pendleton turnout expected for tomorrow’s game against Walla Walla at Meadow Park. Train leaves Pendleton at 9:30 a.m. return at 6:00 p.m. Excursion fare is 1.40 to Pendleton, 1.00 to other intermediate points. Local hopes high for a reversal of last Sunday's 2–0 defeat.
Special Correspondence Athena Oregon May 14 a large delegation of Walla Walla Commercial Association members arrived by about a dozen touring cars to escort the pathfinder on its way to Walla Walla. The group included Geo Drumheller Sam Drumheller Dr Gamm on Dr Shaw Fred Hoffer Dale Preston and others. Local business figures push to reinstate McPatridge at the Umatilla agency amid strong support from farmers. William Caldwell Pendleton and Marion Jack were seen in Athena for business with prospects of good wheat yields noted.
In Hermiston Oregon on May 15 Professor Lewis from the agricultural college Dr. Schofield and Mr. Shillcock from government service and Mr. Allen named to head the station gathered to discuss establishing the experiment station. No action announced but Allen is expected to lead temporarily. They traveled next to Portland after the meeting.
The Orpheum listing for May 15 and 16 presents acts including Barney First in coon songs and wing dancing along with titles such as Who Is It Artful Dodger Fencing Master’s Daughter Don Quixote Uncle Tom Wine Chinatown Slavery An Unsuccessful Substitution and a song There is Nothing in the World Like Love. The note adds Rockland Maine has had only one fire since June 4 1904 and questions what time the clock will stop.
Wm Isaacs of Vansycle and Evin Cameron of Nye are in Pendleton today visiting friends. Various locals from Hermiston North Powder Helix and Baker City conduct business, visits, and travel through Pendleton, including state Senator J N Hart, Col H G Newport, and Mr. and Mrs. J S Lucas.
May 16 in Devonport England the newest British dreadnaught Temeraire was placed into commission. The battleship costs ten million dollars and will join the main fleet.
President Taft addresses C Jefferson Davis of the Unemployed Protective Association in Cincinnati. He expresses sympathy for road construction efforts at the upcoming good roads convention in Baltimore and pledges to assist within national jurisdiction, aiming to increase work for the unemployed.
Olympia May 15 Senator Allen chairing the legislative investigating committees announced the bonds and securities of State Treasurer Lewis were checked in and found regular and correct by the panel
Tacoma May 15 Parts of six human skeletons and a reliquary of beads coins and two gun fragments were uncovered yesterday by Great Northern graders near the East Tacoma railroad yards. The digging is believed to be at an old Indian burial site and site records are limited.
San Francisco May 15 C B Seger for three years auditor of the Southern Pacific has been promoted to general auditor for Hawriman Lines.
A man at an evening gathering says the book that helped him most was his wife’s cookbook. When asked to explain, he quips that once he married he decided he would rather work than eat, drawing puzzled reactions from Jadleg attendees.
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