Pendleton Notes and Local Highlights Across Town
Newsy Notes of Pendleton reports a Political Equality League meeting at 3 pm in the city hall assembly room open to all suffrage supporters. Helix loses 7 to 6 in 10 innings at Attalla in an extra inning affair. Baby Mabel Margaret Walman, 21 months, died and was buried at Greasewood cemetery. Her father reported the death in Umatilla county near Adams. Harold Warner, Pendleton high school alumnus now at the University of Oregon, photographed and elected president of the University Dramatic Club. Sheriff Taylor returns with Plez and Bascum Doane, accused of wool theft from John Wynne’s sheep, no hearing yet. In La Grande, thirteen-inning game against Boise witnessed. In police court, Gus Karker jailed on drunkenness charge, promise to leave city. Joe Addes arrested for peddling without a license, to stand trial.
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Political Equality
Political Equality League
Waltman
F. ©. Walman
Umatilla County
Adams
Mabel Margaret
Greasewood
Taylor
Plez
Bascum Doane
John Wynne
la Grande
Boise
Gus Karker
FitzGerald
Joe Addes
Local Attorneys Attend Umatilla Water Rights Hearing
A group of local lawyers including J H Raley J P Winter Frederick Steiner R J Sinter and R K R Johnson attended the morning hearing before Commissioner Cochran at Echo on the Umatilla water rights adjudication. The proceedings involve many cases and are expected to take substantial time. Little Swaggart Child Dies At age one Horace Lester Swaggart Jr died this morning from pneumonia. His father, in New York for a malignant growth operation, cannot attend the funeral set for tomorrow at 4 PM from Baker Undertaking parlors.
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J. H. Raley
J. P. Winter
Frederick Steiner
R. J. Sinter
R. K R. Johnson
Land Board
Umatilla
Cochran
Little Swaggart
Horace Lester Swaggart, Jr
Lester Swaggart
New York
Baker Undertaking
Fence Removed Park Rules Change After Home Run Hurdles
Pendleton and visiting teams lose centerfield fence as five four base hits last week prompted its removal. Buckarrows fans blamed the barrier for three losses and threatened more action at night. Park officials ban cars under the grandstand for fire safety and open a lower gate to ease crowding, per Fire Chief Vaughan.
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Pendleton
L. G. Frazier
Vaughan
Pendleton High Takes Third in Willamette Valley Track
Pendleton high school's four star track athletes returned from the Willamette valley with a third place finish in Corvallis and a fourth at Eugene. In Saturday's Corvallis meet they scored eleven points led by Fee with eight and Jordan with three. Fee tied for second in individual point winning honors.
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Eugene
Corvallis
University of Oregon
Oregon Agricultural College
Pendleton High School
Willamette Valley
Fee
Jordan
Hon
Track meet records fall as Columbia dominates
A meet won by Columbia University saw four Northwestern Interscholastic records shattered. A. D. Foster of Dayton hurled the hammer 156 feet, Woodworth of Lincoln High 6 feet 9 inches in high jump, C Miller of Vancouver 118 feet 6 inches in the hammer, and Millering of La Grande cleared 11 feet 4 inches in pole vault. Gorecaky of Columbia equaled the state record of 10.1 seconds in the 100 yard dash. Jordan placed second in shot put and in high hurdles while the javelin was won at 135 feet 0 inches.
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Ors
Jordan
Columbia University
A. D. Foster
Dayton
Woodworth
Lincoln High School
C. Miller
Vancouver High School
Millering
la Grande
Gorecaky
Angry Sparrows Kill Man On Porch In West Virginia
Randolph county near Clarksburg reports a farmer named Jacob Doll aged about unlisted who owned 117 acres was fatally wounded on his front porch when two sparrows swooped and clawed his neck severing the jugular. he died before medical help could arrive.
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Clarksburg
W. Wacke
Huron
Randolph County
Jacob Doll
Elwood’s haunted house mystery solved by electricity
After five years Elwood Indiana’s so called haunted house case is closed with the ghost identified as electricity. Residents long troubled by unexplained noises and flickering lights finally have a logical explanation and relief.
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Elwood, Ind
Elwood
Haunted boarding house cured by rewiring and gas pipe fix
A ten room former Frederick Harman property once used as a boarding house was unoccupied due to nightly uncanny events. Investigations found stray electrical wiring touching gas pipes causing gas jets to light and pipes to hammer with current. After rewiring and removing old gas fixtures the disturbances stopped.
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Fredericy Harman
Ant Long
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Blue Mountain
Blanchard Creamery
Yours Truly
Frank Duprat
Raspberries
Gray Bros. Grocery Co
Quality Grocers
Newsy
Helix
Attalla
Harold Warner
Sunday
Oregonian
Young Warner
University Dramatic Club
Hanscom Tie Jeweler
Cheung
Pio Shg
Alta
Workingmens Clothing Co
Columbia River
S. & H. Green
Alta Street
Main
Clark’s Grocery
Main Street
Tri-State League
la Grande Vs
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