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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1912
Page
3
Por Sheripe T. D. Taylor and C. P. Strain run for reassessment of county duties. The past record of these two popular officials is cited as the best guarantee of their fidelity to the people and fitness to continue in office.
A resident of Umatilla County has lived there for more than four decades, building ties to the community and local services. The note highlights long term residence, possible aging in place, and continued local involvement.
Hermiston Oregon and nearby towns report that landholders who completed final proof under the three year law are receiving acceptance letters from the Washington office. Included is the required affidavit asserting cultivation and reclamation of at least half the land before patent. Ash Pierce, wife to Walla Walla, is leaving soon for a jewelry firm job. they rent their house. B. H. Williams, wife, move to Spokane. Lee Irvin shipped 35 cows to the project, selling 14 to local farmers. I. Morrow and family head to Portland for winter. Elmer Pr Dodd signs up weekly land to alien for rent extension. he and family are in Portland with real estate interests.
Will Holdman left for Portland for a month for health. The Williams show troupe performed in Adams Friday night with Jessie Cheatnut Ethel Peringer and Chirley Brown providing music. L L Rogers visited in Athena. Nellie Carr of Echo visited Adams over Sunday. Mrs Etta Jackson returned to Walla Walla after a week in Adams. G Richardson Adams postmaster and Mrs E C Bowling visited Pendleton and Portland for a month. Frank Reed Jessie Picard and Pete Murray visited Athena Monday.
Powerful remedy claimed to penetrate flesh for neuralgia of face, shoulder, hands or feet. Rubbed in at pain site to relieve suffering and restore normal conditions. Price 50 cents and 1 dollar per bottle. Sold by A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
In Canfield, Colorado, Albert Billings with a cork leg scored the winning run in the ninth inning as the game broke up in a dispute. Umpire Jerry Carter ruled Billings safe, despite protests that he was out, after the cork leg crossed the plate while the leg owner lay on the ground.
Miss Agnes Thornton a Beloit College student in sleeping clothes chased a burglar through the park in Beloit Wisconsin. She thrust with a hat pin causing him to drop a stolen violin and flee as other students organized police assistance. The incident ends with the men reforming, but the tale notes their tendency to overdo it.
Colfax Wash Oct 43 Mrs Winnie Brown testifies in her defense detailing alleged abuses by her father Al Neeves and threats to her life. She says the couple, lacking funds, fled with a revolver involved and planned to confront Neeves after her sister’s death and a tense meeting at her sister’s ranch.
A London Tit-Bits account visits a convent where women vow silent lives. Daily devotions in an unseen chapel, meals in absolute quiet, long probation, and a graveyard without headstones define the austere order.
A 100 reward notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal use heals blood and mucous surfaces. The ad asserts a $100 reward for any uncured case and asks readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, with a note to use Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
An old fashioned advertisement touts delicious Syrup of Figs as a gentle, nongriping laxative to cleanse the liver and thirty feet of bowels. It claims relief from headaches biliousness and digestion woes by taking a teaspoonful at night with no aftereffects. The copy warns against imitation products and urges asking for Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Company label.
Fragment describes the convent remains with grass and plaster walls, a sand floor, and the first chapel adjacent to austere huts. It recalls the nun cells with iron beds, basins, jugs on boxes, and a lone chair, where the sisters prayed and slept before being carried to unmarked graves in the convent cemetery.
Mexico City reports adversity reshaping Pascual Orozco s rebel forces as several senior officers abandon the cause or flee to Canada and the United States. Notables leaving include Gonzalo Enrile, Jose Cordoba, Alfonso Casteneda, Miguel Quiroga, Jose Serret, Jose Ponte, Jose Castres, and Casares. Others like M Ponce and Ricardo Gomez Robelo have exited after trials in El Paso.
The era’s fighters, once stylish in evening attire, now yield to a sterner breed as neutrality laws loom and injuries from shell bursts, like De la Fuente's arm, threaten future field return. Despite hardship, the departing element never lacked courage during the uprising.
The submarine F-1, salvaged from Watsonville after running aground, shows little damage with a bent rudder as the main issue. It will be docked at Mare Island for a thorough examination while the cruiser Vallejo prepares to depart for Cotinto.
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