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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1905
Page
8
Active Christmas trade reported with strong wheat and wool prices. Maeght family leads front of bustling market as buyers anticipate favorable moisture and steady settlement. More details promised later.
Local merchants promote direct sourcing from Moron and American manufacturers claiming lower prices. Campaign emphasizes a square deal to all shoppers during the holiday season.
Tomorrow evening the Commercial Association gymnasium will form four men’s basketball teams for a tournament. Four captains plus Physical Director Wilson will run the league, with two regular games weekly and a trophy slab for the winner. Ladies classes begin tomorrow at 2 40 with limited spots, meetings twice weekly, and four paid instructors planned to join the program.
Downey appeared before Recorder Fitz Gerald and pleaded not guilty to assault and battery charges from a Saturday night attack at the John Schmidt saloon by Newton Lee alleging Downey and Guy Matlock set upon him. Downey claims he was not involved, helped Matlock, and waited to clear himself as Lee's trial witnesses remain unavailable. Lee left for Cold Springs, delaying immediate testimony, with a trial tentatively set for Saturday.
The University of Idaho football team defeated Washington Agricultural College of Pullman by eight to zero yesterday afternoon in Moscow aridiron. Both squads were in good shape and the game was closely contested. In other items, Mrs. William Moss, a pioneer of Teland City, was brought to St Anthony’s Hospital for a serious operation tomorrow. Dr. A L Richardson and Dr. Cole will perform the procedure. Mrs. Moss is 72 and has been in critical condition. Weston area reports several births and a frost-related loss to John S Wheeler’s cattle herd near Pendleton. The Ladies Aid of the Congregational church will meet Thursday at 2 PM at Mrs. S A Lowell’s home.
Promotes soft glossy hair by eradicating the dandruff germ. Newbro’s Herpicide, sold by leading druggists, 19c, guarantees scalp health and prevents hair loss with prompt, decisive action against the parasitic cause. Special agents A. C. Koeppen & Bros. arrange Detroit, Mich.
W Goodman of Hudson Bay will conduct a public auction of his herd of 100 full blood Shorthorns aged six months to nine years. The sale, featuring authentic pedigrees and careful breeding, starts at 10 o clock on November 15 at Hudson Bay stock farm, led by Cal J Baldwin as auctioneer.
C A Moore reports the Klamath district is prosperous with stable cattle prices from 26 to 27 dollars per head. All district stock is sold to California markets. He predicts the Wed rull frond will reach Klamath fully next summer as a line from the nearest railroad point grows. Government irrigation progress is noted, with optimistic long-term herd growth projections around 270,000 head after the Wibeh.
This afternoon the high school football eleven resumed regular practice after a day’s rest to recover from Saturday’s loss. Coach Drath Amythy will push a tough regimen to fix weaknesses, boost backfield quickness, and prepare for the Wall Walla High game with Thompson as a candidate for halfback facing Strand and Pierce.
The Oak Township & National Line company paid 5000 on rolling stock taxes and nearly 1000 in penalty. They also paid court costs prior to a Supreme Court decision. Since the county commissioners rejected their proportion, no suit has been filed in circuit court to pursue the matter.
Deputy Sheriff Byrnes and several men nearly died while moving a handcar toward Simon Junction to catch the Spokane flyer. A derailment occurred 200 yards from the siding as the train curved. ATL leaped. Thompson was dragged from the car and later treated in Walla Walla.
Last night at Fraser theater a large audience enjoyed action pictures with many funny moments. The program included Parsifal, the religious opera, shown as part of the moving picture entertainment.
An ablatic coronation program streams for nearly an hour, continuing nightly with new pictures. Parsiltel is shown at every performance, and a children's matinee Saturday offers a souvenir book to one purchaser. Admission is 10 cents.
WILT, ASK FOR FRANCHISE, Chy May De Equipped With Auto- Se Syeiben, This morning CGI. Young, who is here in the Interest of the automatio n telephone company, received a message from F. H. Stow omying that the city council of Olympia, Waah, had that evening voted the company a franchise to establish their system in that place. Since his arrival here Mr. Young has been meeting the council members and will go before that body tomorrow evening asking that a franchise be given his company. An ordinance for that purpose hie already been drawn up and filed With the ity recorder. The following teachers contracte have just been fled with County Superintendent Frank K. Wollen, 1 H. Gobbell, district No. 105, four months, EB BE. Garson, district 21, three months, James A. Wasson, dis trict 76, three months, Fannie J. Scott, district 9, four months, and Hattie Hastings, district 83, three months. The salaries from all of the above are $40 per month, excepting one, which is $465.
The Zinn Travesty company plans a Fraser engagement with a string of shows. This week in Faker City the troupe performs popular attractions with high praise. Next week’s slate includes The Illy Musketeers, A Courtship in Japan, The Beggar Prince, A Trip of the Trail, Venus and Up On the Farm.
A meeting of Grant Mining Company directors convened at Carter Tinley and Raley offices to consider selling the property. Board members include T. J. Kirk J. F. Baley William Makeley J. S. McLeod and G. W. Rigby Purchases Experimental Farm E. S. Waterman, formerly of Athen, has purchased the OF K & N experimental farm in Wola Waath valley and plans to implement modern farming methods. The soil is productive and water plentiful.
Notice to subscribers announces September and October collection with a goal to reach all by the tenth. Fred Lockley, circulation manager. Weston Pioneer reports the death of John Corcoran, pioneer of Weston, aged seventy, father of Mrs Swaggart.
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