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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1911
Page
5
A collage of local ads and notices including chimney sweep services, coal and wood delivery, room for rent in Judd building, employment for a general house worker, theater posters, found items, horse boarding at Commercial Barn, and various business services. Also includes travel routes, real estate offers, moving services, and sale notices from Teutech & Bickers, Penland Bros. Transfer, and other merchants with contact details.
Evangelist Holmes led a night of singing and a sermon on Are You a friend of Jesus, urging consecrated activity to save souls. Many Christians report blessings and baptism plans loom tonight. Tonight Holmes begins three sermons on Gospel Facts Commands and Promises with a Church History talk.
Anna Bowinski aged 13 was treated at St Marys Hospital after contracting tetanus. Vaccinated in September, she deteriorated by October 2, receiving antitoxin serum totaling 120,000 units in 106,000 unit doses. Her condition gradually improved and she was pronounced out of danger after several weeks of rigid spells.
Public health and marine hospital service reports a 27 year old leper who escaped quarantine. Born in California with residency in New York City Maryland Pennsylvania and other eastern states. He reached St Louis from Pittsburg in April and was quarantined June 4 before escaping the next day.
Elisabeth F Tale of Camden has received a US government warrant for 2.82 dollars in back army pay due her late husband William Tole of the Tenth Pennsylvania cavalry, with interest from 1863. The check, 43 1/4 cents principal, is kept as a relic and will not be cashed, per her son William residing in Darby.
Prominent North Dakota United Church of America minister Rev. J B Offstedahl aged 66, longtime pastor in Grafton, died by suicide by jumping into an abandoned well. Despondent over ill health, his body was found after a citywide search including Company C of the North Dakota National Guard and residents. Local businesses advertise coal and wood at Dutch Henry's.
A long list of visitors and locals were noted in Pendleton yesterday including Dr. War Santen and J. M. Tant from Garden City, Jock Liske of Stanfield, Sheriff T D Taylor of Round-Up Marquis, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brotherton of Walla Walla. Household guests at Club St George included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis of Walla Walla. Other names include F. T. Boyd of Pilot Rock and James Sturgis, new Round-Up director, en route to Portland for the Oregon Washington game.
In Seattle and Pierce County workers described as girls and women clad in men's garb climb giant fir trees to gather seed cones for the federal forestry bureau. They are paid by the government, with reported earnings such as Miss Margaret Hewes collecting sixty three bushels in four days worth about $47. The piece notes nimble fingers and trees’ tops as crucial to the seed harvest and recounts widespread activity in the region.
Vienna reports a jury acquitted Johanna Electron a carpenter's widow after she confessed to strangling her 13 year old son George amid a life of poverty and family hardship. The boy had recently faced burglary charges and the case drew intense domestic strain and suspicions of motive.
In Cleveland Judge Estep hears Eugene H Churchill a man who claims the right to sue for alimony without divorce. Churchill married December 7 1904 to a society woman daughter of J E Upson. He says his wife left him helpless at his Euclid Avenue home and that he has no use of his limbs. He had secured an injunction restraining her from disposing of property and transferring deposits at three banks.
A fragment suggests a political clash in New Jersey where opponents are described as democratic wolves in sheeps' garb. No clear details on candidates, dates, or outcomes are provided, leaving the core event and players unspecified.
Farmers near Stanfield voted Tuesday afternoon to oppose further funding for the west extension of the Umatilla project. They urged abandoning the extension to allow funds for improving lands along the Umatilla river and its tributaries, noting higher lands above the valley as priority for irrigation and water reuse. The city council also directed attention to a drainage system through Stanfield and the city’s election set for December with appointed judges and clerks.
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