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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1907
Page
4
Poetic quotation from Richard Burton about beauty and its fleeting nature, noting how waking reveals it to be ephemeral, and sleep might rekindle it as a personal treasure, reflecting on perception and time.
The Dalles and La Grande boast solid business cores but face limited new land to cultivate and poor investments. A $46,400 shoe factory promise rotted into a burned ruin across the river in The Dalles, while La Grande’s $26,000 Blue Mountain university failed to open and the brick structure later sold for a fraction. The tales mark failed industrial boosters and lingering blight in both towns.
President Kerr of Oregon Agricultural College told teachers that loss of public land has increased the need for skilled farmers and industrial workers. Colleges educate more hands and brains to lift productivity on smaller plots, with Umatilla County sending 21 students this year and plans to double next year.
The writer recalls costly industrial failures in eastern Oregon including a Dallas shoe factory, Pendleton’s large house and grounds, a $30,000 university in La Grande that never recouped shingles, a $20,000 Drewsy flour mill unused for 15 years, and an empty Union brewery with $51,000 in machinery.
A Rural Spirit report on San Joaquin county shows irrigation-driven shifts from large to many small parcels. The average farm size halved to 208 acres, with 462 holdings under 10 acres and 127 under three acres. Small tracts boost land values and diversify agriculture, aiding settlers who can buy on time and start near-term income.
There never was a time in Pendleton history when residents of Umatilla and nearby counties could reach the city so easily as now. Increasing railroad facilities have brought bigger and more diversified stocks and improved trade facilities, making it more profitable to come here to trade.
The Evansville Courier notes that stringency in money markets stems from a general nervousness and bad temper rather than agitation or discussion about government or corporate credit or earnings prospects. The piece suggests the unrest will naturally ease back to normal conditions.
A poem by Alexander Blair Thaw in Century Magazine laments the forest’s demise and foresees desolation. It warns of drought, famine, and the end of rivers and rains as human destruction provokes planetary ruin.
An investigating committee declares common idioms such as the bull in the china shop wolf at the door fly in the ointment and dog in the manger are nature fakers. They are to receive no official recognition and are struck from the White House phrase book.
A Pacific Tonga mail scheme uses steamer rockets to fling letters to shore where rocks guard routes. A floating post office tied to Terra del Fuego receives mail from passing ships under international protection.
In Hoc Signo notes that debtors understand why prices rise and urges partial payments. Printing costs have soared, prices haven’t kept pace, and long term credit is unsustainable. The notice cites coal clothing and food as high and fears a hard winter, asking for a few dollars on account.
The sun tireless taller and supreme achiever mother of all powers maker of all worlds generator of all life is today as noiseless as when naught but nebulae comprised the universal void Silence is the soul of sanity Silence subdues an evil temper checks the tumultuous tongue orders the deliberate speech awakens within the god of wisdom and oft transforms the savage to the saint
Eighty two percent of workers in the U S paper box industry are women. Among tobacco and cigar operators two thirds are women and in book binding more than half.
A concise reflection notes the frequent temptation to judge others work while overlooking own efforts. It suggests humility and constructive critique as paths to better outcomes rather than harsh judgments.
A Spokane Chronicle item quotes a harsh anonymous remark about a night assault using a club. The speaker boasts resilience and pride in their intellectual work and money making, expressing a desire to die with a clean brain. The piece frames the attack as crude and rudimentary.
La Crosse Wisconsin pastors union of Protestant clergymen joins the American Federation of Labor. Delegates attend Trades and Labor council meetings with regular representation. National Farmers Congress in Oklahoma City approves reciprocity to expand U.S. product markets.
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