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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
5
Local notices advertise dry wood dressing milch cow cedar posts records and furniture moves. Businesses offer insurance rags dresses plants toys cups and canned goods with delivery options and contact numbers. Classifieds include rentals autos and services plus a dog lost reward and a river steamer schedule.
A demonstrator will call on you to show the new Jaeger Jr Vacuum Cleaner priced at 4.85 with full guarantee. Contact Main 1 for a demonstration or more details.
East Oregonian Vacuum Cleaner Dept advertises recruitment for salesmen and promotion of the Pioneers Picnic at Weston Oregon on June 6 and 7. Good sports music and a dance in the evening await all Umatilla county residents. Daphne Circle calls guards and reps to Moose Hall Thursday at 7:30.
The Moose club holds its regular monthly social gathering tonight. A playful note adds commentary on selling apples when harvests are poor, reflecting local concerns and casual community banter.
Personal mentions list residents and visitors: H Cannon of Long Creek and E Knotts, Pilot Rock, in the city. Bert Mullins from Echo. A Marcum among Pi lot Rockers spending the night. W Hamilton of Echo. Frank Rounds of the O W R N mechanical dept back from Hot Lake. D C Brownell, Umath booster, from far West end. Mrs R Trimble of Walla Walla visiting Mrs F Carter at 219 Beauregard. George T Cochran, eastern Oregon water superintendent, traveling from La Grande to a local hearing.
Washington May 28 Bryan announced the proclamation will be issued Saturday declaring the constitutional amendment providing for direct election of United States senators. He invited prominent statesmen in the movement to attend the formal signing of the proclamation.
Vancouver police report Policeman James Archibald found dead in a vacant lot with two bullet wounds to the chest. Authorities believe he was killed during a struggle with burglars who had rifled the Hastings Shingle Company offices.
Arthur M Geary graduate manager of student activities at the University of Oregon has been re elected for another year by unanimous vote of the executive and athletic councils Geary first won the post in 1911 after graduating from the economics department His pledge to clear student body debt nears fulfillment His major success this year is The Emerald student newspaper issued three times weekly
Geary comes from Medford but is well known in Baker The Dalles and other cities in eastern Oregon as well as in Portland.
In St Louis on May 28 attorneys for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway prepared a petition seeking a federal receivership. Judge Sanborn received the petition after a representative from St Paul traveled to file it. In La Grande Ort on May 28 Imbler to vote on becoming an incorporated city. County Judge Henry granted the petition and ordered an election, date to be set.
In Chicago a call goes out to residents to continue shopping at neighborhood retailers. The message emphasizes supporting local businesses and keeping money within the community.
Sheridan Oregon city council awarded Warren Brothers Company a contract to lay about 35 000 square yards of bitulithic paving in the near future. The material is praised as economical durable quiet non slippery and attractive in Northwestern cities where it is already in use.
In a 16 round welterweight duel at the Oregon theater Jack Carpenter of Boise drew with Portlands Jack Duarte. Duarte used blunt short arm jabs to wear Carpenter down while the Boise fighter boxed cleverly. Neither man earned a clear victory as referee Just declared a draw to a cheering crowd. A rematch may be pursued.
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