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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1905
Page
3
The note announces earlier arrival of three lots of Japanese china and a new line of decorated white semi porcelain. The stock is being received, marked, and displayed soon with a greater variety and better prices than ever. Watch this space.
A fragmentary note recalls Johnson Bros of Hanley England employing many workers in making semi porcelain. The shipment includes a crate weighing 175 pounds containing 2,260 pieces. The text emphasizes the ware’s quality and a caution about handling.
Two separate runaway incidents near the agency involved government horses and trains. In the first, a buggy team bolted, jumped a five foot fence, tearing loose the wagon tongue. in the second, workers’ team spooked by a passing train, the wagon derailed and the tongue was severed as the train struck the track. No injuries reported to people involved.
The week features morning worship at 10 30 with a sermon on The House of God and Its Place in the World Today. Sunday school at 12, Young People at 6 30, chorus moments, and an evening service at 7 30. Also notes 146th Sunday after Trinity with morning and evening prayers and sermons.
Pendleton society notes recount a Monday bridge party honoring Seth Catlin with Mrs Roberts winning the top points prize. A Wednesday card party hosted by Mrs Leon Cohen featured three tables and a high prize won by Mrs Harry Rees. Several weddings are noted including F B Welch and Minnie Paul at Walla Walla and Lee Duncan and Florence Taylor at Baker City. The George Hamblen twenty fifth anniversary is described with guests from Walla Walla Pomeroy and San Francisco. Community announcements list sermons, entertainments, visiting guests, club meetings and upcoming weddings in the local area.
A jumble of local notices reports a faker selling a dubious “tiger fat” remedy and swindling townsfolk, a Sunday concert program at Music Hall, bids for a school bond, contracts in Milton, and a Woodmen of the World meeting. Names include Pendleton figures, McMinn’s orchestra, and local district officials.
The condition of Earl Archibald a well known high school boy is critical and unless there is a change for the better tonight in the crisis of his fever there is little hope of recovery. He is suffering with typhoid pneumonia and is now at St Anthony's hospital. The total number of admissions to the Lewis and Clark fair so far has born 2 310 478.
An advertisement touts Newbro's Herpicide as a cure for dandruff and falling hair. It explains dandruff as white scales caused by a germ burrowing at the hair root, claims the product kills the germ, and promises permanent results. Sold by druggists with a 10 cent sample offer to The Herpicide Co Detroit and agents A C Koeppen & Bros.
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