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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1917
Page
5
Helix notes show residents traveling to Eugene for a grand lodge event and locals visiting relatives. Various names appear with activities such as building, entertaining, funerals, and vacations. Several residents plan trips to Idaho and Washington, with family news and a teacher departure for the school term.
Mise Opal Rice of Hill's district and Mike Edith Maleon of One Mallen kaulf district are set to leave for Portland by week’s end. Both have been retained as teachers in their respective schools for the peat term.
Portland and San Francisco games are listed with players Lo Matterles-Houck Pipher Tacima Radoer Bain Funcher Sepulveda, and Treaker. Other NBA style scores include Los Angeles 9 5 Vermun, Lake Oakland postponed, and a slate with Cleveland 3 5 Philadelphia 1 New York 0 Detroit 1 Washington 3 St Louis 4 Boston 2 Chicago 1.
Canton, May 19. An employment office received an unusual request seeking a steady houseworker. The applicant is a Canton man who does not specify the tasks or expectations. Separately a farmer nearby seeks a married man who can chop wood for his family.
Wartime census notice urges all residents aged 21 to 36 including aliens to register on designated day. Registration occurs at home precinct voting places, with absentee options via county clerks, and penalties include imprisonment for false or missing information.
A fragmented phomeraph depicts revolutionaries marching with flags, facing opposition as soldiers patrol a city street. The scene hints at clashes between reformers and authorities during the unrest, with lines suggesting pursuit and orders given amid tense streets.
Miscellaneous local ads include rental offers for furnished and unfurnished houses and rooms at various addresses, sale notices for autos and pianos, wanted help and services, lost and found items, and notices of upcoming events and auctions. The jumble mentions baset apartments on 460 E Alta, Jitney dances in Happy Canyon, furniture, sewing machines, and farm stock, with contact numbers and box addresses.
County attorney officials plan to enforce restrictive laws across the state this Sunday, mirroring a crackdown last week that led to about 100 arrests for alleged profectionary practice, moving picture show complicity, public disorder, and related acts as authorities target Sunday activities.
Pacific coast and inland areas report occasional showers in Washington and Oregon. Temperatures expected to run near to slightly above normal with a few readings higher along the Pacific coast. Mountain and intermountain regions may see cooler temperatures with local showers or storms.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a sale pitch for a home or construction offer with unclear lines. It mentions a com today and a promise to eat you the lot and build the home. The readable items are inconsistent and lack concrete names or places.
Mansfield Washington announces a grand three day celebration with a carnival and a variety of amusements. The event aims to attract families and locals to enjoy rides games and community activities across the holiday period.
Motion picture news notes Sally-in-a-Merry at Pastime with Lilian Walker in Mally-in-a-Hurry and a jewel theft plot. Sapho at Alte with Pauline Frederick and director Hugh Ford praised for adapting Daudet tale. Wayne Ares featured in Pots and Pane Pessy at Cory. early stage life recalled with a gag about a hay load during a grave digger scene.
May 18 Palls Mont reports a Liberty loan drive with bankers and defense council members present. Subscriptions total $255,800, with about 100 smaller pledges and a single $100,000 gift from the First National Bank.
Milwaukee Wis May 15 The free lunch a popular feature of Milwaukee miloons since their establishment is doomed The death knell of this timehonored institution a dear toll beer drinking Milwaukeeans has been sounded by action of the Wisconsin Retail Liquor Dealers Protective association High cost of food muffs and curtailment of the grain supply cited as reasons for eliminating the lunch.
A garbled report notes horses rounded up by Worm Springs Indians on a reservation east of the Cascades were shipped to Portland for stockyards late in the week. It mentions prices near seven and a third cents a pound and hints at a new horse meat trade affecting eastern Oregon and regional markets.
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