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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1906
Page
8
Government bulletins note wood block pavement saves wear on heavy traffic streets and navy yards, making quiet surfaces suited to hospitals hotels and schools. a Brooklyn yard example is cited alongside other reports on real estate transfers and Nome voyage profits.
Public stenographer at Business college and inquiries for furnished housekeeping rooms at 802 Logan Street. Sale notices, shooting gallery, billiards, and Ward & Bowlwhy references. P.O. Box 665 Rosenburg. Telephone operator wanted in Oregon. Townsend creamery agent note. Hotel Oregon Portland rates. Hat sale and millinery promotions. Denver crackers advertised. George H. Clark grocer notes. New furniture arrivals from the East.
H O Worthington offers stock of groceries for sale a neat clean stock of goods a snap is taken at once address H O Worthington Athena Oregon
A marriage license was issued today to Joseph Howell Harden and Bertha Chancey, both residents of this county.
The Baker City item highlights Fred Crawford visiting Portland on business, Dick Powers in the city, Clark Nelson reported ill in Walla Walla, architect C E Troutman en route to Coos Bay, County Clerk Frank Salling on a business trip south, W Goodman a Hudson Bay stockman hospitalized in Walla Walla, Rev B F King visiting his daughter in Ahtanum, Bert Geer arriving from Salem to take a Morning Tribune telegraph editor post, John Crow returning from Davenport, Emile Waldman meeting with locals, Supreme Judge T G Haley arriving from Salem for the November Supreme Court session with Bean and Moore to arrive, Do Rader and wife passing through on way to Walla Walla, and A Zoukang and wife visiting A O Carden in Baker City before heading to Palmer Idaho.
A Big Timber letter notes local sheep prices indicate a downturn ahead. Breeding ewes fetch around 24.05 per head while lambs sell at 2.50 to 4.00 and yearlings at 3.50 plus. A Boulder band of spring lambs, raised by Henry Nicholson, weighed four at stockyards and averaged about 0 pounds per head, bringing roughly 4.50 each, the highest fall price on record.
Work on the new round house makes rapid progress with brick walls nearing completion tonight. One fire wall finished, window frames in place, timber arriving and cut to shape. The turntable area shifts toward a water main, excavations ongoing as outside cement foundation rises. Weather has been favorable and crews report strong headway.
The King county auditor reversed a initial decision to not reprint ballots after the attorney general ruled the prints were illegal. The auditor ordered a full reprint and prepared 90 ballots for King county, while Yakima county proceeds with a smaller batch of 250 ballots. The Republic office worked overnight to ready the reprint for distant precincts.
Rain soaked streets halted paving work in the forenoon today. The crew began again this afternoon once the surface dried enough to allow paving.
The Southern Pacific plans a major extension with 5000 laborers needed. A proposed $25,000,000 investment accompanies the project as part of broader betterment schemes.
The Walla Walla Traction company reports the American Car company has finished its part of construction and awaits motor installation by the electric company. Delays in bridge timbers and poles hinder line completion to Milton while a temporary bridge spans the Wallin Walla river and work continues along the line.
Land business remains active at the Lewiston land office with October receipts of 39,991.45, signaling a record quarter ahead. The monthly report lists 42 homestead entries covering 4,955.15 acres with 340 in fees and 185.75 in commissions, 6,698.13 meres final proofs with 244.69 in fees, 114 timber and stone proofs, nine homestead files, and two divorce suits filed by Peter West for William A. Stuart and Anna Halstead against Lawrence A. Halstead. The Stuarts wed in California in 1904 and the Halsteads in Nebraska in 1900. no children are noted.
Mrs. Joe Parr, owner of a 140 acre allotment near Adame, is in the city from Toppenieh seeking a renter. Last year Frank Martin farmed the land, but this year no applicant has yet appeared. All the news all the time in the Enat Oregonian.
G B Laberton will manage the acetylene plant during the manager's absence while efforts secure machinery to convert it into a coal gas and coke plant. No acetylene gas will be produced for city use during this period and existing users will be connected to the coal gas line.
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