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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1905
Page
5
Pendleton papers note furniture and goods listings, shop ads, and personnel updates. Harrison Starbuck, Jack Hay rivon depart for Starbuck after long local service. WL Parkes to fill temporary storekeeping role as four-year town staff member transfers occur.
The notice promises high quality repairs with a guarantee and very low prices. It invites customer patronage and asserts confidence in the service and location. The wording emphasizes reliability and affordability for potential clients.
An explosion at the county commissioner's office in the courthouse afternoon killed Russell Sink and George Zimmerinian and injured two others. Zimmerinian was chief clerk of the board and Blair was a fireman. The exact cause and location of the explosion remain unlocated. The gas likely leaked from the court area.
The First National Bank of Pendleton Oregon offers to cash checks drawn on other banks at no charge. They will present the item for payment without requiring the customer to present the check themselves. They can cash drafts in any U S city or Canada and handle items from any city worldwide.
A long list of individuals visiting Pendleton is noted, including J W Squires from Arroyo Grande California H L Firk o from Joseph Oregon Mim Eidith Dearborn from Oakland California visiting guest of Miss Adnan Raley A E Brown from Burns Harney County John McCourt leaving for Beho on legal business George H Sutherland from Walla Walla M J Morrison lending his ranch and traveling to Spokane Mr and Mrs J M O'Brien returning from a Lowle and Clark fair Mrs A W Nye arriving from Portland after a three month visit Colonel J H W Thaler returning from Portland and attending a reception W Furnish back from Portland after HM Eiint reception Dr J M Pruett from Oakland leaving to join wife in Portland W D Hansford heading to Portland with Smith Brow real estate partners J A McLaughtin from Gurdane visiting Portland and returning for home tomorrow Christ Judge W R Bilin back from Portland A D Smith from North Yakima not improving Mrs NS Ballenger of Fairmount Indiana and Mr J O Sherrickh of Whitewater Wisconsin visiting Ballenger family Rey GL Wall from First Baptist Church heads to Portland then Eugene for state convention, to preach next Sunday Beoroom from Pendleton country focusing on ranch interests B F Moltroy of the Pendleton reservation now in Cambridge Idaho visiting Hotel Golden Rule praising Cambridge as a wheat country potential.
Architect Troutman drafts a new 50 by 90 foot Beho building to replace the one burned weeks ago. Owner J H Keonts previously owned the burned structure and Will be Will be 50x90 feet and composition fire proof building with a full height. Construction bids will be called soon. Building will be occupied again by C H Miller.
The document reports incorporation of Freewater Iowa with three directors R Millet AL JL Kolley and Frank McHargue and notes a Freewater Social and Commercial club. It mentions a regular weekly city council meeting and a debate on public transit and anti-pass law, plus Oregon voters facing an election for public officers and wind power positions.
The Peoples Warehouse advertises extra assortments of children s ready to wear suits. A Boise newspaper notes September had cloudiness but dry air, with measurable rain only on the 27th and a total below average, ending a drought that began June 25 lasting 94 days, the longest since 1898 except for a 116 day stretch in 1901.
British survey team in the Seretian boundary mission between Persia and Afghanistan endured extreme conditions over two and a half years. From 11 officers and 200 native infantry to 100 support staff, 50 members died from various causes and nearly 5000 camels and 1200 horses succumbed. Base at Quetta supplied Stletan 500 miles away over a hostile desert. Sunstroke, frost, and mad jackals or wolves plagued the trek. hydrophobia claimed many animals and men. A March 28 blizzard froze temperatures to zero and killed 600 camels.
A herd of about 200 head of Hane horses owned by C. M. Clay were driven through town Tuesday. The animals were bought near John Day and Tene and are to be transported from Heppner to St Louis to be sold.
Captain Henry Amberg the foreign animal agent for the Floto shows is on his annual visit. New York hosts many firms trading in wild animals and private sanities. The Floto import records list elephants camels tigers leopards pumas panthers and various birds. Cub tigers bears and leopards fetch family demand and are reared from cubs but return to dealers at a fraction of price. A letter describes a lion cub's owner wanting it removed after it ate the dog. The Floto shows visit on Friday October 6.
The Nolf family expresses sincere gratitude for the unstinting kindness and assistance received during the illness and death of their loved one. J H NOLF AND FAMILY.
Selections include two fine building lots at $200 each, a one room house on two lots with a good well at $1060, a C-room house with bath at $1600, a new 4-room house on two large lots with well and fruit trees at $1500, a good three-room house with a large barn on two lots at $2600, a four-room house with bath an open plumbing at $2000, a 4-room house with city and spring water at $760, a 4-room house on a full block with fruit trees at $2500, two lots and small house at $200, a six-room house with bath at $1500, a new 5-room house with barn at $3500, a house and lot at $1000, and a new modern 10-room house at corner Garfiel and Wilson streets for $3500. Also vacant lots citywide and financing offers to build. 100 gore ranch offered in exchange for city property.
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