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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
8
Subscribers are urged to report delivery irregularities to the office so faults are promptly corrected. Readers are asked to place a newspaper box at their gate to prevent loss or wind damage. The East Oregonian Publishing Co. seeks cooperation for better delivery.
Elks plan a October 25 Music Hall dance to raise funds for furnishing a room at St Anthony's hospital. Committees appointed for music decoration refreshments tickets regalia publicity reception and more. Exalted Ruler Hartman chairs the committee-of-the-whole. Further notices to follow as details are arranged.
District No 27 schedules a special meeting and a special election for October 24 at the Birchcreek mouth site to elect a new school board and locate a site for a new school building after district division and consolidation with Pendleton. The current board is dissolved. a temporary board will be chosen and the old building sold. The new site is planned near the north area.
In Umatilla district a guardian court approved the adoption of Anna Lenon McQuarry by Mr and Mrs E N Smith. The 1 year old daughter of Irving McQuarry, formerly Milton Eagle editor, now stable in asylum, consent provided by the mother who has remarried Edwards. The child’s name changed to Anna Leona Smith. Also noted is a push to attract settlers to Irrijigan lands near Umatilla Junction by C M Speck of Oregon Land and Water Co. Train wrecks report: O R and N lost 17 cars in Cayuse wreck and 17 in Huron wreck within a month, totaling about four dozen cars.
JL Swann, a young patent mucilage peddler, entered Judge Fite Gerald's office and tried to sell a mucilage package. The judge forced him to pay $3 after threats of arrest, and Swann finally complied despite protests.
Reverend Jonathan Edwards is called to Spokane to attend a friend's funeral and will miss next Sunday. Two services at the Congregational church will be conducted by Mrs. B A Lowell, who will deliver the same address given at the recent Congregational ministers and delegates meeting in Oregon City.
F B Clapton will relocate his office at month end from the Judd building to the former Dr F W Vincent space next to the Western Union office. The area has been remodeled to provide a convenient and commodious office by the time the move is completed.
Pauline West and Peter West sold the north half of lot 9 in block F of the reservation addition to Pendleton to August Stangler for 1200 dollars. They also sold the south half of the same lot to Schwarts & Greulich Meat Company for 1250 dollars, in the same block and addition.
Lloyd Williamson plans to return to Ritzville to join his parents who recently moved east. A Sunday 3 am Baptist church men s resort meeting will hear progress reports and feature several addresses. Attendance invited.
Last evening at seven o clock at the residence of the bride Miss Amy Hollett joined in marriage W W Gardner with Ray Montgomery of Market Street. Rev Robert Warner of the Methodist church performed the ceremony in modest attire as the couple begin their married life amid well wishers.
Henry Green of Long Creek loaded 4000 pounds of Pendleton flour and general merchandise for interior merchants. The 5000 pounds of Pendleton flour and other goods traveled 90 miles by wagon from Pendleton to Long Creek, along a 60 mile road, with teams crowded by seasonal freight. The wagon road was in excellent condition despite recent rains and the fall range was good.
Martin Anderson veteran conductor of the O R N will travel to Portland to enter the company hospital for relief from inflammatory rheumatism. He has had only temporary relief from physicians in Portland and Hot Lake. Company doctors at Portland will oversee his care. Conductors have secured the Conductors Room at St Vincent's hospital and will transport him in the morning by Conductor Kelsey on No 1.
Walter Stewart, son of H Stewart, is bedridden at the family home on West Court Street with typhoid fever. He has been ill for about a week and while very sick, his condition is not worse than expected for this stage of the illness.
A man identified as Peter Johnson a stranger described as a Swede was arrested this morning for drunkenness on the streets. He was fined five dollars which he could not pay and will spend three days in the city jail.
The jury in the H Maynard versus R and N Company case failed to reach a verdict after twenty hours deliberation at Union. The panel stood eight to three for the defendants. No decision on further damages efforts was announced.
Visiting with BD Turner is Mark Hurlburt brother in law of O Turner and his wife. Hurlburt a noted Linn County stockman and Albany teacher is in the city staying a few days at Mr Turner’s home.
The Merchants' Cafe keeps on hand imported Hebrew sausage frankfurters hamburgers crawfish crabs oysters and all kinds of cheese. Merchants' hot lunch is served daily from 11 20 a m to 2 p m.
Michael Murphy is seeking correspondence with the paper. By calling at the piece or writing to this paper at once, readers may learn something of interest to them.
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