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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1905
Page
8
Early arrivals for Christmas gift season include three jars of Japanese china, white haviland and new decorami white semi porcelain. Items will be marked and displayed soon with a greater variety and lower prices. Watch this space.
A Short history describes Johnna Tiros of Hanley England employing over five thousand in the semi porcelain trade. Their ware is praised as finest and never checks or erases. A crate weighing thirteen hundred and seventy five pounds arrives containing two thousand two hundred and sixty pieces. Watch this space.
Mrs J H Nolf born in Pennsylvania aged 66 years 11 months 7 days died Sunday after brief illness from liver enlargement. She married J H Nolf in 1863 Allentown and moved to Nebraska before settling in Pendleton in 1889. Surviving husband and nine children John Fred Joseph Edward Mia J H Moore Emma Nolf. three children predeceased. Funeral at Nolf home tomorrow 10 o'clock conducted by Rev W L Van Nuys. interment Olney Cemetery. No funeral notices served.
Photographer Robert Burns won a $6 pair of shoes for the closest attendance guess at Portland day. His 85 115 score was only 18 below the actual 85 122. Other near guesses included L E Eddings 5 250 and Raines 85 278.
It costs nothing to register or vote in city elections with street poll tax repealed. Only a few days remain to register as books close October 4. Register now to participate. without registration, voting on election day will be difficult. Be an active citizen and take part in city affairs.
Head Consul ft. A. Bank of the Woodmen of the World is due to visit the city on November 4. Pendleton Camp No 41, one of the state’s largest camps with about 400 members, plans a public meeting and reception with appropriate exercises to honor the official visit and organize the program for the occasion.
Portland Day at the Lewis and Clark Exposition drew 85 133 paid admissions on Saturday despite rain. The city observed a general holiday, with business houses closed and streets crowded from morning to night as grounds thronged beyond expectations. Charley Snapuan, a Umatilla scout, notes coyotes are more plentiful on the Umatilla river this year. his wife shifts from Brahma to Leg Horny chickens, hoping for better luck against predators.
The San Souel club meeting at the residence of Mrs Wd Furnish has been postponed to Monday next week.
Well known high school student Earl Archibald is seriously ill at St Anthony's Hospital with typhoid pneumonia.
Juice 5 S. A. Lowell returned from Eugene where he attended the Willamette Valley Development League meeting held Friday and Saturday. Judge Lowell said the gathering drew many representative men, praised some addresses, criticized Portland absence, and noted interest in industrial improvement, railroad lines across the Cascades to eastern Oregon Coos Bay and Slusiau, plus irrigation plans amid recent droughts.
The Williams Juvenile Opera company opens a week at the Frazer with Rajah of Piszalo as the nightly bill. The schedule runs through the week with Tipe Gypsy Girl Gauge Gee White Gee Whee and a Saturday matinee, ending with Tipe on Sunday night. The troupe has just completed a successful Baker City engagement and comes highly recommended. Sheriff Taylor reports Portland Day drew a large crowd despite rain and mud. Travelers from Fond du Lac, awaiting Portland and Lewis and Clark fair, visited J. M. Cook in Tacoma for a few days. Fletcher Cline and Miss Nellie Fletcher were married Saturday at Benn Lodging House with Rev. T. R. Egerton officiating. The couple will reside in Ridge.
A freight car wreck in Albina yards derailed several cars just before the 1 Bo and N train was to leave Union depot. The track remained closed until after noon delaying the service past midnight.
Pendleton ball team alumnus Moscow G. Froome, noted as the first bawoman last season, has become a Union county farmer. He bought a ranch near Summerville in early September and is now settled there with promising prospects.
A D Reed, son of TC Reed of the Commercial Hotel Adama, died last evening at 7 from typhoid fever. He was 28, a well known local young man, leaving a wife and child. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Athena. The world judges a man's success by what he makes, God judges it by what he does.
United States engineer David B. Ogden examined 72 miles of the Clearwater from Kaniksu Idaho to Lewiston to assess barge navigation potential. He found rapid conditions and swift, rocky sections though low water limited the view. His full findings await Washington action and War Department review for possible government dredging and improvements to aid wheat transport.
AR Black of Eugene addressed the Oregon Development League at Eugene on irrigation for the Willamette Valley. He cited the vast water available from valley streams and the potential gains for farmers, outlining rainfall deficits from June 15 to September 15 over the past nine years and noting many summers with averages well under one inch per month.
Local report alleges a $10,000 investment by Klamath Falls and county residents in the Mexican Rubber company through an agent who sold Dave Miller a note for 10,000 value taken at Lakeview and later discounted for 9,400. The scheme raises banker and merchant suspicions as to who could be drawn into such alleged robberies and a pattern of confident, “sure-thing” promoters hoping to lure in locals.
Kapri Chore This Week lists meetings for the Young People's union at the president Mires Faye Carney home Widow street All church youth welcome Monday evening the prayer and fellowship meeting Wednesday 7 29 EB Pen land party Thursday 2 pm ladies study home missions Friday 8 pm Sunday school workers meeting at the parsonage and choir rehearsal at 7 30 pm each Friday night
A crowded house attended the Congregational Church Children’s Day program last evening with all acts by children and strong readings. Also noted was a Mosaic Meeting and Pendintor Lodge No 62 A F and A M announcing a regular meeting tonight at 7 30.
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