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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
5
A collage of local notices and ads. Oregon Lumber Yard and Goodman Hardware Co promote fuel, fences, and household goods. Ingram's grocery offers fresh produce. Peoples Warehouse seeks millinery learners. Rentals listed at East Oregonian office and 100 Bluff Street. other notices include lost dark day mare near Pendleton with reward.
A St Paul report says within a week 200 Sioux braves will march on St Paul as part of a reenactment at the Minnesota state fair. The piece notes a long past history of conflict with the Indlands now set for a peaceful invasion to mark the state's 50th anniversary, recalling the 1862 massacre of 899 Minnesotans.
A parade of visitors arrives in La Grande including J T Williamson and several locals from Umatilla and Grant counties. Figures such as W H Doughtrey, Earl D Borie, J H McCulloch, F Thompson, Horace Walker, J B Potter, Jonathan Johnston and others attend a city gathering, while Miss Belva St Clair and Mildred L Clemens appear for community events. The report also notes missionaries efforts during a Sioux uprising and wheat testing at the station drawing many letters and funds from correspondents.
Analysis notes that Iowa’s prohibition law is effectively bypassed by the mulet device, allowing local licenses upon voter approval. About one quarter of counties, especially along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, permit liquor sales while state laws remain on the books. Rural areas still enforce prohibition, yet many towns operate saloons openly.
Ota, a Northwestern Lumber fireman, died after falling forty feet from a pile-driver locomotive trestle at Kerriston on Wednesday afternoon.
A brief item notes Maine activities involving shampooing and manicures while Roams and Smith Crawford engage in balling. The short report mentions local prospects in sports and grooming tasks in a community setting.
Professor H T French head of the Idaho experiment station told the state horticulture board yesterday that rumors unfairly link the station to advertising of the Alaska wheat. He explained the station did not sponsor the ads and clarified a test by station chemist J S Jones showed the sample Adams sent differed from the Alaska wheat, which is a soft white Egyptian variety.
The Walla Walla Union reports the city school board may approve adding a domestic science course for girls at its next meeting led by President N G Blalock. Supporters note the recent boys manual training department and push for cooking and housekeeping instruction amid public discussion and expected large attendance.
Winnipeg report from Sept 1 describes a huge rush as about a thousand Canadian seniors and several hundred Americans race to claim thousands of acres of Dominion land opened for settlement in Central and Western Canada.
Fred Thompson aged 11 suffered broken legs near Oso after being thrown from a load of shin ore bolts during a runaway incident. Authorities report the accident occurred a few days ago with medical attention sought locally.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Blakeley returned this afternoon from Potts County where he had been to serve papers in a town civil suit.
A marriage license was issued today to Ames L Myrick and Elizabeth Brewster. The couple is recorded in the county clerk’s office with standard license details and no listed impediments.
The British consul at Buenos Aires calls 2 250 000 tons of coal imported annually from the United Kingdom an important item. Returned American travelers suggest U S coal operators could also win orders from the River Plate market.
The Blue Mountain American reports a new irrigation and mining project at Sumpter led by M. H. Allen and associates who acquired the old townsite holdings of 400 acres south of town. Water supply from Powder River and reservoirs enables irrigation and placer mining from nearby beaches, with plans to clear lands and plant timothy.
Belief grows at City Steam Dye Works as a hopelessly soiled gown is cleaned and renewed to delicate pink blue or lavender shades. The shop reports gowns cleaned and delivered in fresh condition this season, restoring old dresses to near new.
Vice-Consul Harry Suslow of Moscow reports that the Dnieprovsky Metallurgical Company signed no contract in St. Petersburg with the Japanese government for 360000 poods or 6806 tons of steel rails. Rails weighing 24 pounds per foot are to be delivered at Port Danny for the Manchurian railway region prompts. The note hints money urgency affecting diplomacy.
An advertisement touts Newbro’s Herplelde as a cure for dandruff. It claims dandruff causes half the hair troubles and that the germ behind it is killed by the product. The copy promises instant relief, softness, and safety, urging readers to request a free sample by mail from The Herplelde Co. in Detroit, Michigan.
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