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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1905
Page
8
Earlier than usual our Christmas goods are arriving. We now receive Japanese china and white semi porcelain. White Main fond and decorated pieces arrived. They will be marked and displayed soon. Greater variety and better prices than ever. Watch this space.
A Short history Johnsons of Hanley England employs over five thousand people in the manufacture of semi porcelain ware. A crate weighing thirteen hundred and seventy five pounds contains two thousand two hundred and sixty pieces. The ware does not erase or check.
Voters registered at 3 PM reached above 980 with 63 more today and total near 936 plus notes of likely gains. Appointments of election judges and clerks will follow as city council plans for nonpartisan nominations under new rules. Nomination petitions due by November 19, with potential for delays if party primaries are not held. several city offices including mayor, four council seats, water commissioner, and city treasurer are to be chosen.
McLaughlin plans a fall mill run near Gurdane to produce about 200000 board feet before winter. He already has substantial logs on hand and will deliver lumber rapidly to meet a city market. The mill is about 45 miles from the city, requiring three to four hours for a round trip with a load of lumber. Walla Walla school attendance grows as manual training and new facilities boost enrollment.
Damen lodge No 4 Knights of Pythias received a full new set of paraphernalia by express to replace items lost in a recent fire. The outfit cost slightly over 500 dollars and is stored in the La Dow building in Lawrence Kansas. Mrs C F Brown widow of Conductor Charles F Brown killed at Kamela on the O R & N has moved to Lawrence Kansas permanently from Topeka where she planned to be two months ago.
Real estate notice reports Kate Tranefer and Mr and Mrs M Castleman selling lot 9 in block 4 Swhtaler’s addition to Pendleton to BE T Wade & Son for 1450 dollars. Property lies on the city’s north near the Wade residence. The report notes strong attendance at the Williams Juvenile Opera company performance and a scheduled tonight show titled Tipe.
Gymnastic matters dominated a meeting of the Commercial Association as members discussed employing a physical director at forty dollars a month with outside work allowed. Thirty-four new members joined, bringing total membership to 280, while treasury balance stood at 252.65 with receipts totaling 215.55 and expenses 190.69.
Mrs H Volp wife of Dr H Volp died at 8 20 am at the family residence on Water Street after a long illness of nervous prostration. She had been an invalid for years and suffered for weeks. The body will be moved to Olney cemetery after a 10 am service conducted by Rev W L Van Nuys of the Presbyterian church. The Rev Van Nuys will lead funeral arrangements.
J A Smith, once in Pendleton harness business, left for Portland after selling his house and lot at 208 Washington street for 2600. The property will be leased to Furnish as a winter residence and will be used during the school season. Since leaving Pendleton, Smith has worked in real estate brokerage in Portland as partner with his brother under Smith Brow, with offices at Sixth and Washington Streets and several staff.
Bert Henricksen of Franklin County Washington and Louise Love of this place were married last evening at 7 at the Thompson Street Methodist church parsonage. The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Robert Warner and his bride were married with friends and relatives in attendance. After the ceremony they took the night train to Portland for a short visit, then head to Connell Washington to establish their home. The groom farms in Franklin County, and the bride, well known in Pendleton, resides on Johnson Street.
Col James H Raley returned from Portland after attending the Hill banquet where 600 guests gathered. Officials say the affair was the best of its kind ever held locally with ornate decorations at the American Inn. Pendleton attendees included W J Furnish Judge WoRR Ellis and Frank McCully attended from Wallowa County.
Reproduced in the October 3 Portland Telegram, a half tone photograph by Major Lee Moorhouse captures Wal Hil a Gap. The striking Wallula Gap scene shows a dramatic cloud effect, part of Moorhouse’s earlier Wallula Gap work now of renewed interest due to the North Bank dispute involving Northern Pacific and RO&N possession.
Preparations underway for the final number of the Tl akawinn high school paper. The November issue will be the first for the year with Gitonn Scott as editor in chief and Dave Hilfe as manager. The editor has begun work after entering school this week.
Michitaro Sindo, Stanford student and U S fisheries expert, travels to Ontario to arrange shipping of dead salmon for fertilizer to Japan. Japan seeks artificial fertility as Pacific coast supplies dwindled, with offal and refuse from canneries bought for processing. Shockey repairs from a pole accident. prognosis hopeful amid pain.
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