No Saloon Licenses Ahead in Pendleton News
Attorney General Crawford predicts Pendleton will have no saloons before year’s end but then the city council may license them without further votes. Dry counties voting wet trigger complex shifts under home rule, with April 1911 elections and redistricting implications. Joseph and Grass Valley inquiries clarify when prohibition changes take effect and who votes in corporate limits.
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Pendleton
Crawford
L. W. Baker
Grass Valley
Drs
C. L. Ireland
Moro
J. D. Walch
Joseph
American Beauty Corsets Offer Comfort and Style
The corsets promise comfort and durability with fashionable design. They highlight wearability and refined construction, claiming superior fit and lasting wear for daily use.
Pedagogues Depart for La Grande Convention
Tomorrow evening and Monday morning the entire local teaching force headed by Superintendent Sanders will travel to La Grande for the eastern division State Teachers association conven tion. The three day sessions close Wednesday evening allowing return for Thanksgiving Day. Attendees include teachers from Umatilla Union Baker and Wallowa counties with speakers such as John W Crow Adrian Montgomery Campbell and State Superintendent Ackerman scheduled to speak.
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Sanders Down
la Grande
State Teachers’ Association
Umatilla
Union
Baker
Wallowa
Inland Empire Teachers' Association
Oregon
John W. Crow
Tuliness
Adrian
Los Angeles
Miss Montgomery
Bellingham Normal School
P. L. Campbell
The
State University
J. H. Ackerman
Ireland Grows Tobacco Industry in Ireland Expands
Ireland develops a tobacco industry with government experiments showing most tobaccos can be grown. The current area under cultivation totals 120 acres including 79 acres pipe tobacco, cigarette tobacco area, and 13 acres cigar tobacco.
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Ireland
London
Pendleton News Notes Repairing Entrance Floor at Joe Ell Building
Newsy Notes of Pendleton reports carpenters at work on replacing the worn flooring of the entrance to the office saloon in the Joe Ell building on Main Street. The floor had been in use for twenty years. Milk Gent Dles, an imported Maltese milk goat, died yesterday. the cause is unknown and the owner mourns the loss. Attorney J PB Winter, a candidate for circuit judge, returns from Portland after attending the state bar convention. County Superintendent Well notes school bond totals increased from 10,000 to 16,000 for the new Stenfield school house. James andress Sturgis and Tracy Roker, UW students, near Thanksgiving, will arrive to spend vacation. the Sturgis brothers plan a longer stay.
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Joe Ell
Main Street
Well
Stenfield
James Andress Sturgis
Tracy Roker
University of Washington
Sturgis Brothers
Willl
Skating star routes field to state title race
After Cook and Drake squared off, Cook pulls ahead as the two mile passes. The state championship race is set for next Monday night at the rink with Harry Drake and Albert Cook contending for honors. Meanwhile Dug 616 Feet Well reports a deepest well sunk in the county on the Fanchier place, nine miles northwest of Pendleton, at 616 feet, costing about 3500 dollars. The well will supply water for home use and stock. Meyers Bral & Shaver relocate to the Whitmore place north of Nolin to sink another well.
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Cook
Harry Drake
Albert Cook
Ebral & Shaver
Fanchier Place
Pendleton
Fandhler Place
Meyers Bbral & Shaver
Whitmore Place
Nolin
Furnish Coe Dam Completed Enables Summer Water Use
The Furnish Coe Dam is finished and water storage will begin, with gate flow to resume next summer. Excess water will be diverted into the Furnish canal while other downstream users’ rights remain unaffected.
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Sumer
Furnish Canal
Thanksgiving Window at Alexander Store Shines
A large display window at the Alexander department store was decorated in a style worthy of Portia stores. The festive window is seasonally appropriate and presents a rich, attractive appearance.
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Alexander Department
Portia
Wheat Prices Hold At 68 Cents This Market Day
In the local wheat market buyers offered 68 cents for club wheat but few sales occurred by three o'clock. Farmers who have held their wheat are reluctant to part at current prices, though a few transactions were reported yesterday.
Umatilla County Finishes Unique Steel Bridge
The only steel girder bridge ever built in Umatilla County was completed at Umatilla and accepted by Commissioner Horace Walker. The 390 foot long bridge spans the Umatilla River above its Columbia outlet, resting on 14 foot high concrete piers set in solid rock. The bridge will resist flood damage, cost 1300 dollars, and the same crew moves to Hermiston to build a 200 foot truss bridge downstream. Residents hail the long-awaited crossing easing past detours during high and low water eras, replacing risky railroad crossings for foot travelers.
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Umatilla County
Umatilla
Horace Walker
Columbia
Hermiston
Umatillala
Morrow County
Bee rancher Robert Thom buried in Echo cemetery
The body of Robert Thom, a western Umatilla County bee rancher, was laid to rest in Echo yesterday beside his son who died earlier. Thom had died while en route to visit relatives in the East.
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Echo
Robert Thom
Umatilla County
Bee
Train Time Changes for Walla Walla Pendleton Local
Beginning tomorrow morning train No 45 the Walla Walla Pendleton local will leave the former city at 7 o'clock arriving here at :50 instead of 10 05 as at present Train No 1 the Pendleton Portland local will then leave here at 9 o'clock instead of 10 35 as at present
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Walla Walla-Pendleton
Pendleton- Portland
Football Game on Matlock Field in Progress
A high school team plays an Indian team from the reservation on Matlock field this afternoon. The Indian team was organized yesterday by Motanc and Jim McKay, noted athletes. The game began around 3 after a 2:30 scheduled start.
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Matlock Field
Motan c
Jim McKay
Pendleton Boy Leonard Larone Returns Home
Leonard Larone, once captain of Pendleton’s first football team, visits his father on Cosble Street after years away. He is remembered for nearly being electrocuted in Portland during the city’s big fire over two years ago.
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Leonard Larone
Pendleton
L. Larone
Cosble Street
Larone
Portland
Dr Best Returns From Oregon Ranch Visit
Dr. J. A. Best arrived back from Klamath Falls where he has been on a large ranch since spring. The family has been home since September and he leaves for Walla Walla tonight after a telegram about Charles Baddeley’s illness. He plans to reopen his office here and stay until May.
Explosion at Residence of Doc Maple Sparks Fire
An explosion of gasoline at 1003 East Webb Street caused a fire that threatened the building but was extinguished. Maple suffered about 100 dollars loss while the house owned by J J Richardson of Portland, insured with Lot Livermore, sustained damage. Court Returns Home with Judge H J Bean, DA G W Phelps and Court Reporter Beckwith from Heppner to attend final jury term. Bean will resign to join the state supreme bench.
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East
Webb Street
J. J. Richardson
Portland
H. J. Bean
G. W. Phelps
Beckwith
Heppner
Bean
Supreme Bench of
State
Fire at First National Bank Sparks Fire Sale
Bank men Conte Nesmith Ankeny and Max Hopper of the First National bank escaped a blaze that broke out this afternoon. The garments hung in the rear were consumed as smoke filled the room around 2 oclock before they could be saved. Ankeny suspects matches in his pocket started the fire.
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Conte
Nesmith Ankeny
Max Hopper
First National Bank
Ankeny
Cook Wins the Three Cornered Skating Race
Albert Cook won a three mile skating race last night in a tight contest with Ray Jay and Frank Bean. The first two miles were closely fought before Cook edged ahead to victory.
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Hermston
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Dale Rothwell
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Jack Webster
Agents For Pictorial Review
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East Oregonian
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