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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1907
Page
5
Fr iast shows subscription rates for daily and weekly editions with varying durations. The notice lists prices for daily one year and several shorter periods, weekly options, and a semi weekly plan. It also provides postal and office addresses in Chicago and Washington and notes Pendleton post office entry as second class matter.
Pendleton lays out a full schedule of events beginning with a four days Eagles carnival starting May 29. The lineup continues through the Fourth of July celebration and a forthcoming district fair. Promoters promise entertaining acts, noted singers, bands, and first class attractions, inviting Umatilla county residents to visit and enjoy Pendleton’s hospitality.
A Chicago Science Press monthly, the Business Philosopher, advocates a universal business code guiding daily ethics across creed and trade. It highlights modern thought books, including Man-Building by Lewts Ransome Fiske, now circulating nationwide.
A second edition of a business volume extols character growth and self development. The chapter on human will offers a concise lecture on business promptitude and keeping promises. Central themes are integrity, Dereona responsibility, clean dealings, and square dealing for all.
A Presbyterian assembly in Columbus debates whether to openly endorse the prohibition party. Delegates resign from liquor committees amid partisan pressure as ministers wrestle church influence against whiskey politics. The piece argues partisan sentiment often outweighs temperance faith, hindering moral progress.
Railroads follow government reclamation of arid lands as the California and Nevada line of the Southern Pacific builds from Hazen to Fallon cutting a desert pass. The Truckee Irrigation project will irrigate 350000 acres in western Nevada with a 36 mile canal diverting Truckee river water to Carson river for a storage reservoir and extensive irrigation.
Ditches are completed and water is prepared for delivery to about 60 000 acres, 20000 of which are public lands open to homestead settlement. When settlers come they will find the Hazen Fallon railroad ready to distribute products to surrounding mining districts, aiding the reclamation service in transport. Farmers face wheat market volatility as speculation may depress prices, harming the actual producer.
May 4 Oregon state grange Hood River May 24 Umatilla County Caledonian planning at Athena June 4 Washington state grange Lynden June 7 8 Pioneers reunion Weeton June 10 Oregon Pioneers Association Portland July 4 7 BPU national convention Spokane July 10 16 International Christian Endeavor Seattle July 16 2 Grand Lodge BIKA Philadelphia July 9 13 Knights Templar Saratoga N Y Wool sales Pendleton May 22 23 Heppner May 28 29 June Shaniko June 10 11 July 16 Condon June 41 Baker City July 9 % Elgin July 11
A compact history list notes key dates and figures such as Henry VII killed in the Tower in 1471, Philipp III born in 1627, Dollard des Ormeaux killed defending Long Sault in 1660, Benjamin Stoddert becoming Navy Secretary in 1795, Marylebone British Artiste society formation, Maria Edgeworth’s death in 1849, Donald A. Macdonald as Ontario lieutenant governor in 1876, the 1890 McKinley tariff, Emile Henry beheading in 1884, Penry Marion Clark kidnapping in 1899, and France recalling its ambassador to the Vatican in 1904.
Denver News compiles an extravagant estimate of national cigar use from the previous year. It claims 7 998 879 785 cigars smoked in the United States with wildly stretched measurements: end-to-end would circle Earth many times, form a wide Washington to Capitol Boulevard, and require thousands of cigarmakers and smokers to produce and consume the tally in a year.
The signal corps installs permanent high mast stations at multiple locations to support portable field outfits. Key stations rise in Cubs, Forts Riley and Leavenworth, Alaska sites at Fairbanks Circle City and Fort Gibbon. Fort Gibbon connects to Nome Michael Sitka and Yalier as part of a Nome to Cape Flattery wireless circuit.
About twenty portable field sets will be issued to the signal corps this summer. In addition, powerful sets are being prepared for installation on army transports to keep ships in continuous radio contact with the shore during their trip from San Francisco to the Philippines across the Pacific.
A reprinted Carruth poem praises science and faith with images of planets cells and autumn fields. A Ot tumwn editor recalls a sudden death story where a citizen cried I am going to die and collapsed beside a fence then died, a Chestnut Tree quip from Fiverybody's June issue.
The Kansas City Star reports a voting contest to name three new boats. Suggested sets include Faith Hope and Charity Rum Romaniem and Rebellion Tom Dick and Harry Wine Women and Song and Ham Shem and Japheth.
An old description touts the Hotel St. George as one of the Northwest’s most up to date. Steam heat, en suite rooms with bath, large new sample room, and full modern conveniences. Telephone and fire alarm lines connect to the office with hot and cold running water in all rooms.
A brief notice advertises rooms priced at one dollar and one fifty, offered in a block and a half. The wording mentions electric service and a location related to the Ellen property.
The Hotel Pendleton, Rollons and Trown proprietors, announces a full refit and refurbish with telephone and fire alarm connections. It offers en suites and single rooms, traveling salesmen headquarters, sample rooms, free bus, and special weekly rates. Located three blocks from the depot with prompt dining room service.
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