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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
5
The Queen contest advances with strong expectations as finish promises remain interesting. Drought concerns linger while contestants press toward next Wednesday evening, making the outcome hard to predict and the costume reveal a highlight.
After two weeks the contest for Umatilla county Rose Show queen has lively, shifting support. Miss Chile Stanfield, representing Stanfield, leads as backers rally around several contenders with votes counted last night. The race is open and may require a hard fight to decide. The contest now extends to Wednesday evening with final ballot counting at the commercial association rooms. The winner will ride in the Rose Show parade wearing royal robes provided by the festival committee.
One of the biggest amateur nights will be staged at the Grand tonight featuring a sketch act, a Thai land turn, a singing and dancing duo and a monologue and song act. Attend tonight to see them as reported by the East Oregonian.
Honolulu report says Mrs. J. W. Timmons, daughter of ex Vice President Fairbanks, may owe a $200 fine to the U S government for violating coastwise navigation laws. She traveled on the Chiyo Maru with her parents with a through ticket to Japan, paused in Honolulu, then chose to return home, ending her voyage as a homeward terminus on a foreign bottom.
Local notes listing a new La Fontaine block Main street bakery at Rock Springs coal and Henry Koplitke contact. Classified items include furniture for sale, Bantams for sale, for rent seven room house north side, and contact details for Henry Koplitke and Kopitzke. Also promotes fresh bread pastries and a Lost belt in city office, plus wood and mill goods pricing.
A terse exchange unfolds with sharp lines about mutual understanding and affection. One speaker challenges the other to know them better, while the reply reframes the desire as better self-knowledge. The back-and-forth reads like a clipped, modern vignette on perception and connection.
George Mansfield from Pilot Rock T C Lowry from Umatilla Anna Selkirk Norton to Walla Walla Albert Gibbong from North Powder J B Williams from Echo S T Warner and wife from Cold Springs ranch BR French of Weston Normal Jack Vincent from east trip Clarke Nelson to Weston Phelps DA to Pilot Rock Will Ingram Pendleton grocer at Weston Pioneer picnic J K R Dickson from Hot Lake J S Landers at Weston Pioneer picnic Ben Hill Pendleton Lumber T G Montgomery American National bank to Helix R W Fletcher East Oregonian Weston for Pioneer reunion A J McAllister Pendleton Drug from Portland Mrs Myrtle Harrison from Portland death of her brother Charles W Wall Mrs Charles Winter to Kentucky W R Campbell Farmers Cooperative union from Morrow county Eva Platt Tacoma to city for her father B F Beck Robert Fletcher East Oregonian Weston for Pioneer picnic SR Calderheag Northern Pacific to Pendleton J Kendall Palouse Portland Lumber Pendleton last night Jack Harrison Pendleton funeral Charles W Wall Bert Sturm North Yakima moving to Ontario A F Hitt field agent in Weiser Idaho touring Oregon Idaho Washington
In Portland two juvenile burglars Peter Retthler and Jake Render forced entry to J C Hickman grocery at 669 Milwaukee, stealing $3 and items, then entered the adjoining meat market and a residence at 70 Gideon Street, rifling cash and rooms. They were later arrested by Officer Abbott and confessed.
The text notes that burglars admitted guilt and showed police aspects of the loot spree but refused to disclose the hiding place. They will face the Juvenile court as the case proceeds.
Senate irrigation committee led by Senator Thomas H. Carter plans a tour starting August 28 from Chicago to review irrigation districts in Montana Idaho and Washington before reaching Portland on September 22. A second Sacramento start October 11 will cover the Klammath Falls project October 12 to 14. The panel will seek water-user views on the reclamation law and district needs including use laws penalties transportation and school facilities.
Spokane Chamber of Commerce mails invitations to interior western cities to unite against railroads challenging Interstate Commerce Commission rate reductions. The commission’s plan would cut freight rates to inland cities from Missouri and the Mississippi to Canada and Mexico. Railroads push a milder revision that may raise some commodity prices and threaten inland manufacturing, notes attorney H. M. Stephens.
An advertisement from Baltimore, noting years of misery and relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims the remedy treats displacements, inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pains, backache, indigestion, and nervous prostration, inviting readers to write Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts for guidance.
The Idea branch of the American Federation of Labor holds island wide meetings to defend labor interests and counter Unionist attacks on the U S government. Federation meetings were denied plaza space in three towns by Unionists prompting appeals to the Attorney General and Governor. Wigs Old Gotrox devoted to music. A will clause leaves 25900 dollars to establish a home for poor singers while noting that twenty five million could not house all the poor singers.
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