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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1908
Page
7
Undecided where to send your vehicle for repair suggest this shop offers service for food and prompt work with small payments. Carriage repairing and painting for spring. Expert painter, good workmanship, old rigs made as good as new. Gasoline engines hacks Winona wagons buggies.
The Hood River News Letter reports fruit prospects in the Inland Empire valley as generally good with pears especially Bartietta and cherries forecast for large crops. Apples look to be very large though early predictions are uncertain. Some plums and prunes are normal while Italians are light. Strawberries were damaged by frost, grain and hay slow, weeds increasing, and potatoes and vegetables fair. Roses delayed for festival weather. A gas producer installation will take about 30 days.
Paseo Light and Water plans major plant expansion to meet expected town growth. A perfected gas producing tar separator and other improvements are in running order. A steam auxiliary plant with boiler and machinery is being installed on site, with a 160 horsepower generator to be housed in a new building.
W H Wehring of the Oregon commission urges Umatilla County to gather agricultural and horticultural displays for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle starting June 1909. The letter calls for timely collection, emphasizes quality over quantity, offers county transport and an attendant, plans a 96 page Oregon resources booklet, and requests early county cooperation.
Walla Walla plans to study replacing the old territorial charter with a city running by commission. May George E Kellough urged the Commercial club to act, saying the city is large enough for a first class status and that a census should be started to confirm the case.
The Lewiston Evening Teller reports the first of the Snake River cherry crop will reach the city this evening from Harry McKenzie’s Hunt's Landing orchard. Picking began this morning and other growers will start marketing crops in a few days. B Frank Smith, visiting from Truax, says this season’s Snake River fruit crop will be the largest in the river growers’ history, with all varieties in excellent condition and a prosperous year foreseen. The cherry crop is expected to total 60 carloads and all varieties about 250 carloads.
Reports from Philadelphia London and other cities mark Peace Day observances. Women leaders Mary Wright Sewall and Sarah Yorke Stevenson praised world peace. Delegates and officials, including Knox, Porter and Brewer, address arbitration topics at Horticultural Hall in Philadelphia. May 18 is Hague Tribunal anniversary.
Maps City of Pendleton ad offers 160 acres partly seeded to alfalfa two good orchards a nicely furnished house several springs and fine sheep range near railroad no reserve suitable for two families priced 26c in East Oregonian subscription premium offers to men women and families for Daily Weekly and Semi-Weekly editions.
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