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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1906
Page
8
A vintage ad offers early selection of crockery glassware and silverware with a one dollar down payment on items under ten pounds. Purchasers may select before stock is picked over and avoid embarrassment to their purse.
Wheat buyers report 200 carloads awaiting shipment at three export warehouses along the RB, N, stretching from Amaeilli county to the Pacific Coast Elevate Company. Delays in securing rail cars depress the local market with prices around 54 cents while farmers are paid in advance but unable to move grain into trade channels. Warehouses listed include Weston Athena Downing Thorn Hollow Caves Miselon Vene Havana Eastland Echo Adime Flue Mountain Spotford and Fendleton.
A Caldwell News office accident killed 18 year old Madley, nephew of W. Radley. While near the press his clothing tangled in machinery, crushing his chest and injuring his lungs. He resided mainly in Meridian, with parents traveling to Caldwell for the funeral at 2 PM today.
Owing to extraordinary passenger traffic, the fifth passenger crew has been added between here and Huntington. Conductor HH. C. Grady is assigned to the run during the rush amid unprecedented volume. Chicago Northwestern and Great Northern lines report similar heavy westward business.
State Engineer John H. Lewis visits Pendleton to advocate passage of an up-to-date irrigation act. He cites Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho as models and urges eastern Oregon voters to pressure lawmakers for reform.
In Viniatilia county Miss Sadie Coppinger, known for her homestead and crop care north of Beho, weds partner Miss COPPINGEDL. MARTIED Young Wenn of Beho Whi Ones Ponce. The event follows her noted farming success and a long era of local prominence. Mike Coppinger and Tonite Thos, Min Woppihper oversee nearby homestead duties amid 1908 harvest memories.
In Heppner Dnipertiot Estes, Circuit Judge H J Bean and District Attorney G W Phelps retire from duty after a preliminary session. Minor cases heard, others set for trial. Phelps says a grand jury is desired at the next regular court session in two weeks. County records are being examined and saloon and gambling cases likely to be promoted before the grand jury.
Dry conditions suspend seed planting across much of the county as farmers await rain. A paving firm waits for dry weather to resume work, enduring a month of halted street projects. A daughter was born October 91 at 202 East Webb Street to George E Bickle and wife a 0 pound daughter. An Ogden Utah head on collision near Ridge Wyoming involved the Southern Pacific Overland Limited and Salt Lake road Los Angeles Limited with serious injuries suspected.
Mrs Waldo, a state lecturer, traveled Umatia and Willamette counties delivering 15 addresses in two weeks, plans La Grande and Unton county lectures, then Gillom Wheeler Wasco before returning home. She advocates farmer cooperation and “get together” spirit. A Grange named Hudson Bay No. 361 P of B formed at Vincent schoolhouse with 71 charter members. officers listed. Mrs Voorhees plans several weeks of county visits. later Mrs Waldo visited Olney cemetery to honor Judge William Martin.
A prominent business figure returning from the Sound says Canadian Pacific trains will run between Montreal and Portland via the Walla Walla line before next May. The vestibuled trains will include sleeping cars and other luxuries. The Spokane to Portland route will be used, with Spokane access over its own line. The aim is to encourage Canadian migration west, with trains in operation by next May.
Amid a prolonged eastern Oregon drought and heavy O R & N traffic, Kameta’s railroad water tank dwindles. The town relies on a tank fed by a distant well on the mountain slope, sparking fears of a water famine. Officials seek to purchase or lease water sources to avert a shortage.
Mise Latourette Vineriet wed Mies bivhel A Letowre tity with Fauele mule to fis effy Taet rete tin near McMinnville. Are thur A. Harlow, of that plie, officiated. Latourette is granddaughter of W. H. Tantounette, a McMinnville college founder and pioneer minister of the Willamette valley. Mise Afina staley, of this city, was brides mold and Walter Dykes of Dallas was best man. A large turnout from Willamette valley attended.
Cottonwood experiences rapid growth as Samuel Goldstone builds a two story 24 by 80 foot store and 26 new residences rise. The town sees a population surge of about 600 in six months, with housing unable to keep pace with demand.
The reader notes that a weak stomach disturbs the whole system causing distress from food, constipation of the bowels and reduced activity of the liver and kidneys. The text urges recognizing the condition and starting a remedy.
An old advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy used for 55 years to treat dyspepsia trifling digestion poor appetite constipation chills colds and female complaints with a broad curative claim.
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