Local ads list goods services and notices from Pendleton area
Local notices advertise animals hay and feed at Commercial Barn and Crab Creek Lumber Co offering saddle horses, clipped horses, oats and timothy hay, coal, cedar posts and shingles. The Pastime theater shows more moving pictures, there is a domestic laundry help wanted, and contact and rental ads at College Street. Found jewelry watch for reward at Hartecom’s, coal and rock spring nut coal sold, and Goodyear hose offered by Sharon and Eddings. Private horse care, boarding at 622 College Street, and a Jersey dairy wagon for milk and cream are also listed.
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Crab Creek Lumber Co
Cheney Jersey
College Street
Frank Nodo
State
Alta
College Streets
Presbyterian Church
Judd
Pendleton
Goodyear Rubber Company
Sharon & Eddings
More Teachers Resign Over Positions In Other Cities
Pendleton loses several of its top teachers as they resign to accept positions in larger cities, depleting the local staff and prompting district officials to seek replacements.
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Pendleton
Resignations Placed With School Board
Two resignations have been placed with the school board. Miss Rosine Epple, longtime Field school principal, has resigned and will teach in Seattle or Portland. Miss Lulu Keller, sixth grade teacher at Washington school, has also resigned and will likely teach in Spokane.
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Epring
Rosine Epple
Field
Seattle
Portland
Lulu Keller
Washington
Spokane
Testimony Not Given In Return For Liberty
New York May 26 An attempt by Heike defense lawyers toimpugn Spitzer motives failed as Spitzer confirmed his testimony was not given for freedom. He spoke of three months in prison and a conscience that drove confession. Heike, secretary of the sugar trust, faces fine for knowledge of the system in shortweighting imports.
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New York
Charles H. Heike
The
Sugar Trust
Oliver Spitcer
Spitzer
Helke
Louisville Tobacco Stakes Narrowly Won by Long Hand
In Louisville on May 24 the fourth race for 3 year olds at furlongs carried $1000. Long Hand, wearing Royal Report down in the stretch, won the Tobacco stakes by a comfortable margin at the Wire.
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Louisville
Royal Report
Delegations Gather for National Baptist Congress in Atlanta
Atlanta Ga May 25 All sections of the south and many northern cities have sent delegations to Atlanta to take part in the National Baptist congress an organization of colored religious workers and clergymen.
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Atlanta
South
National Paptist Congress
Speed Versus Death and Other Film Titles Listed
A catalog-like list presents several film titles with parenthetical notes on genre or studio. Items include Speed Versus Death, Tempestuous Adventure, Milk Industry In the Alps, Payline Attention, Solving the Puzzle, The Potters Whee, and How Can I Leave Thee with Want ads reference.
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Pathe
Alps
Gaumont
Pendleton News and Weather Notes
Pendleton items report official weather with a 62 to 73 degree range and 0.6 inch rainfall. Art Grover of Helix to undergo appendectomy at St Anthony’s Hospital with wife and mother present. Judge A Lowell returns from Walla Walla after addressing Open River association. O R N depot finishing. interior woodwork done and exterior painting underway. Attorney A Lowell says Mike Ryan rehearing petition may be filed within 20 days. chances are small. Cottonwood Street section fenced off, ending public hitching yard use. Water Street residents cheer despite unpainted fence. M A Rader and son Donald depart for Medford by wagon via Camas Prairie and Crater Lake for hunting and fishing. Smythe & Smythe ship ten carloads of sheep to Duncan for summer range. crossing Indian reservation used to avoid tolls.
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Cottonwood Street
Water Street
Medford
M. A. Rader
Donald
Camas Prairie
Crater Lake
Pendleton delay as train shifts timetable to 7 30
Several Spokane bound passengers still in Pendleton due to a timetable change. The morning train left at 7:00 instead of 7:30 and those left behind must wait until 2:16 tonight for the first trip under the new schedule.
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Spokane
Pendleton
Funeral Service For Mrs Ralph Howland At Methodist Church
At 2 o clock this afternoon the funeral service for the late Mrs Ralph Howland was held at the Methodist church conducted by Rev Nathan Evans pastor of that church. The body was then borne to Olney cemetery where interment occurred. The funeral was largely attended. Pallbearers were B I Burroughs Royal M Sawtele Cliff Bellinger Joe Murphy Mark Moorhouse and Will McKinney.
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Ralph Howland
Methodist Church
Nathan Evans
Olney
B. I. Burroughs
Royal M. Sawtele
Cliff Bellinger
Joe Murphy
Mark Moorhouse
Will McKinney
Indian War Dance Sunday at Matlock Park
Arrangements are made for an Indian war dance and bronco busting contest at Matlock ball park Sunday afternoon. The success of a contest held two weeks ago induced promoters to stage another event with good riders and bucking broncos expected. Prizes will be awarded to the three best riders.
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Matlock Ball Park
Ash
Echo Hosts Eighth Grade Commencement Public School Class
County Superintendent Frank K. Welles and Judge A. Lowell attended the Echo graduation this afternoon. The class of 12 received eighth grade diplomas and boasted the highest county average, with every member passing the final exam and one student posting the top county average.
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Echo
Frank K. Welles
A. Lowell
Eligs
Pendleton Academy Plans Reopened Household Science Department
The Pendleton Academy will reopen next fall with a fully arranged household science department led by Mrs. Anna Crayne who also heads English. Funds from last winter’s Sunny South Minstrel profits funded major upgrades including a partitioned kitchen and dining area, blue finished dining room, stencil curtains, Havilland china, and class projects. Further enhancements are planned to strengthen the department and the academy overall.
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Pendleton Academy
Anna 4
Crayne
Academy
Devil’s harvest in church plate sparks debate
A proverb warns that the devil profits most when a church collection is taken, suggesting moral introspection about generosity and temptation within worship.
Famous Tax Suit Now Being Tried in Pendleton
The long delayed suit filed nearly two years ago by J. R. Dickson and other Pendleton taxpayers targets County Assessor C. P. Strain, the county board of equalization, and Sheriff Taylor. Plaintiffs allege discriminatory assessments favoring farm properties and against city properties for political ends, with fraud charged against Strain and the board. The case has seen multiple postponements before Counts Strain testified, with further witnesses to follow.
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J. R. Dickson
Pendleton
C. P. Strain
County Board of Equalization
Taylor
Fruit grower killed by lightning in Colorado storm
Emer son Brewer, a Canon City fruit grower, was killed by lightning today during an electron storm. He was standing on the roof of a house under construction when the fatal strike occurred.
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Canon City
Cols
Emerson Brewer
Man Asks Taft About Lost Overcoat in Passaic Banquet
Passaic New Jersey residents including President Taft and about 400 others received Richard Morrell's postal card asking for information on a lost overcoat from the Taft banquet of the Passaic board of trade. The note requests help identifying the owner of a black cloth coat with silk lining, suggesting coats may have been mixed up.
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Passaic
N. J
Taft
Richard Morrell
Passaic Board of Trade
Morrell
Reading Halley’s Comet Gas Meter Joke
A humorous exchange about Halley’s comet being gas and its length. A gas company caller jokes that if astronomers measured it with a home meter the distance would be 40,000,000 miles, implying the meter is at fault. The lines parody measuring scales and newspaper reports.
Physical Culture Sure Women Students at Eugene to Be Trained
University of Oregon will offer a physical culture directing course next year. Dr. Bertha Stewart leads the program combining physical culture botany and sanitary hygiene. The department will use Hayward Hall after gym renovations, featuring 35 showers 40 dressing rooms 250 lockers and a full gym set. Special classes will aid girls unable to perform heavy work. An odd note cites a satirical injunction about a butler’s cat near the Justice Department.
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Eugene
University of Oregon
Ore
Bertha Stewart
Hayward Hall
Crosses Sea To Wed Finds Fiance Dead
Maryland translated article recounts Madelina Zanella traveling from Italy to wed Eugene Biaszka in Baltimore. At the hour of the wedding she found him dead. friends hesitated to inform her. Biaszka died of pneumonia and Zanella discovered the death in the coffin after arriving at his home. She fainted upon entering the death chamber certain hours later.
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Baltimore
Italy
Madeline Zanella
Miss Zanella
Eugene Biaszka
Pingzga
Pneumors
Enskey
Cat of Speaker Cannon Eats Rubber Bands
Washington reports a trespass depredation case involving a large tomcat from Speaker Cannon's household. The cat's noted habit is devouring rubber bands, a detail cited by a clerk amid the incident at the speaker's adjoining residence.
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Joseph Cannon
Washington
Department of Justice
Cannon
First Edition Faerie Queene Sells For $400
New York auction catalog notes a 1590 6 first edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene selling for 450 during Mrs. N. Q. Pope estate sale in Portland Maine. Also sold were a 1591 Spenser Complaints for 295 a Spenser collected works edition for 35 a Dickens set later valued around 2000 per volume with one volume selling for 800 and Heywood The Spider and the Fly at 200 along with Meredith works at 100.
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New York
Spenser
John Heywood
George Meredith
Help Wanted at The Peoples Warehouse
A notice seeks a reliable young man of good address to begin at the bottom and learn the grocery business thoroughly The same ad asks for a boy to work Saturdays Applicants should apply in the grocery department at The Peoples Warehouse, advertised as a place where it pays to trade.
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Peoples Warehouse
Man with No Religion at Home Sets Up Saint Image
A man who avoids religion in daily life often presents a saintly front at home, shaping others’ perceptions of his character and moral standards.
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Childrens Pumps
Oxfords
Suede
Cravenette
F. E. Livengood & Co
Jensen Creamery
Compmercial Barn
Harécom
Joose
Ovegoen
Negro Baptists
Orpheum
Koeppens
Koeppen
Official
Art Grover
Helix
St. Anthony's Hospital
Lowell
Wallia Walla
Walla Walla
Open River Association
Mike Ryan
Wohlenberg
Lichtnings
Man
Wickersham
E. Court St
Berlin
Jack Webster
Mgr
Dan Kemler
Bluff St
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