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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1917
Page
6
Oregon's Tillamilla county faces a summer push to boost food production as seed time ends. Farmers are urged to act now. some have farming land ready while others have yet to use available acreage, a test of public spirit and national duty.
Speculation notes Switzerland mobilizing for potential allied involvement with 16 to 60 year olds summoned, 1,590,000 gas masks issued, and a canceled commercial treaty with Germany. Article suggests Switzerland may seek alliance with Uncle Sam to end the war in a future peace and avoid a German invasion. Also mentions garden produce and sheep shearing reductions.
The article argues for national prohibition during the war, urging sobriety as essential to soldiers. Major General William Harding Carter says personal discipline, abstinence from intoxicants, and organized home industry are needed to sustain the army, with draft and wartime efficiency linked to temperance and conservation.
Pendleton May 15 1917 reply from George Tunkin state game warden explains Meachams creek objections, April 24 1817 steps, and funding of the protection fund from fines. It notes half fines after 1927 go to the fund and half to the county general fund.
The reader cites names Peter Bellomo and Rev R F Garnall and asks if Bellomo once belonged to the Italian Carabineers and Garnall was a millworker in Pennsylvania. The note also mentions gun clubs rising from 500 to 1000 and trapehooters increasing from about 106,000 to 200,000 in five years. It references Lawrence Whitman as a high school instructor and hints at a promotion offering a dollar off licenses, though the text is garbled and unclear.
Real estate transfer notes cover multiple small parcels in Pendleton and nearby towns. Julia Dingiedine transfers to H Ulewrkin for 2756 dollars with metes and bounds in section 26, township 6, range 35. Henry Kervinch transfers to J Ma Montes for 1200 dollars, lot 5 in Arnold Fraser's Addition. Trumnean et al transfer to F J Me for 1.06 dollars, lot 7 in Kaleys Addition.
A garbled 40 year old column mentions sales abroad and a religious reform, with references to a Walmen fountain on a reservation. It also notes an execution at an office in La Grande and a county clerk complaint about school clerks not drawing funds. The text is patchy and largely unclear.
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