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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1913
Page
5
A collage of classifieds includes clerical, domestic, and service ads. Jobs seek a chambermaid, housekeeper, and a girl for general work alongside a piano tuner and an insurance agent. Real estate and horse-drawn vehicle sale notes appear, plus rail river boat schedule and a Round-Up dance invitation in Pendleton Oregon for 1913.
A community gathering invites all local residents to join at the Cowboys and Cowgirls headquarters for an evening event. Attendees will share refreshments, music, and updates about club activities and upcoming events.
House with seven rooms sits on a block of ground including a large barn a chicken house and other outbuildings. Features include electric light and telephone service. Enquiries via phone 308 J.
For sale a complete team harness and a light spring wagon offered together or separately. Address at "W" thin office.
A man reflects on loneliness, noting moments when he feels lacking in companionship and support. The piece explores inner struggle, social distance, and the search for connection in modern life.
A string of visitors and residents are noted in Pendleton and nearby towns. Echo figures Pc Hunter and Allen Thompson from Echo plus Starstanfield entries such as Bernhard and Wateg, with pilots and merchants including Lola Rogera from Adams and Mina Cecile Lillian from La Grande visiting during fair week. Local organizers G J L Aard and L L Berry prepare to start the annual celebration as others arrive from Milton, Portland, and Missouri shadows.
The Alta theater opened Saturday night in Pendleton to good patronage. The new playhouse is handsome and a credit to the city. It features motion pictures and illustrated songs with a new baby grand piano and a engaged pianist for performances. The interior is large airy well lit with ample lobby space and comfortable pews. The stage is roomy with scenery for attractions and signage above the entrance displays Alta. The theater will be in full running order with plans for many good programs and aims to become a popular amusement venue.
Before the Round-up opening day, four drinking fountains will be installed on main streets with plans to add eight more soon after. The Civic club backs the project with funds raised by local women, while city and Alta theater management provided two fountains. Plumbers Beddow Miller D D Phelps and J J Wodenge donated labor without charge.
In Salem Ore a grand ball drew about 250 couples to raise funds for sending the Cherrians and their band to Pendleton's Round-Up next Thursday. The group travels by special train and will stay until Sunday with Hood River hosting a grand reception. Representations from towns along the railroad are expected.
In La Grande Oregon Mrs W Keltz was knocked down and her son Ernest beaten in a drunken assault by B V Keitz who also threatened a local woman. Keitz pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and battery with a $67 fine and remained free on $250 bond awaiting grand jury action.
Stanfield hosts a Sunflower Comedy company performance to a full house marking the first event of its kind here. The Presbyterian choir presented its inaugural concert with praise for conductor Mr. Smith and soloist Mrs. Shupe, plus an array of vocal and piano numbers from Miss Heath and Miss Carlton.
In La Grande Gre Sept, the W. H. Bohnenkamp hardware store, among the citys oldest, burned after a third floor origin. A smothered roof explosion followed. gunpowder was removed after the alarm. Firemen saved the block. the Variety store next door was water damaged. Cause unknown, believed to have smoldered.
Aberdeen Washington Sept 3 Dan Shea of Tulsa Oklahoma signed a contract with J A Paulhamus of Tacoma to erect a Ric for the fifth oil well, marking a major step in development.
The interior department announced an amendment to homestead regulations allowing entrymen to reduce the land area required for cultivation if the land is impracticable to cultivate or suitable only for grazing.
A cloudburst near Orville in Lassen county washed away a large ranch owned by Niel West valued at about 40000 dollars. The flood destroyed the orchard, three haystacks, and all outbuildings except the dwelling. Of 75 horses, only two survived. cattle hogs and chickens were drowned. The wreckage was found in Constantin 12 miles away. West, alone on the ranch, escaped when a wall of water 26 feet high swept across the area shortly after he spotted the flood.
The championship track and field meet under the Scandinavian American Athletic league will take place tomorrow at Ulmer Park in Brooklyn New York. Many of the nation’s top athletes are entered across a long slate of events.
Olympic peninsula development advances with San Francisco interests set to begin. The Washington Oil Company has drilled a 1200 foot hole and Jefferson Oil Company of Aberdeen will start drilling next week. Panthamus plans a rig in ten days to two weeks to develop the Tahera gas mound amid sand and mud from natural gas pressure. Panthamus, longtime Beaumont operator, returns to prominence.
A quirky note reports that in certain hotels orchestras are used in dining rooms to accompany diners who eat soup, reflecting a novelty entertainment trend in hospitality settings.
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