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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1918
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR note shows various subscription terms for daily and semi weekly newspapers by mall carrier and mail. Mentions durations one year three months one month ree months and rates around 1.5 cents. No clear event or person facts.
The plan for an Honor Week before the fourth Liberty loan stresses care over speed in meeting the county quota. It notes uneven local support, with some areas doing well and others lagging, and calls for equitable burden distribution to avoid hardship while preserving capacity for future drives.
A local railroad engineer on the Trans-Pacific resumes work after months from a scald injury. Jr P Bushee of the Indian land command arrives from the mountains. Sheriff Furnish reports a hydrophobia letter from the patient moved to the asylum. A rumor about Pendleton residents running away to marry is denied.
Tokugawa, the last Shogun and former military chief of Japan, arrives in the United States as the representative of the Red Cross to observe army camps in France and England and assess war needs.
Realty transfers list deeds including Nettie Watu to Henry Barrett for $1 Lot 1 2 NW 14 19 G north range 20 and others. Simonton to Win Holdman for $40. Multiple lots and blocks in Balyr and Pilot Rock cited. Also a farm relief measure proposed by Senator Shepperd of Texas to aid farmers hurt by drought with a federal fund of 5 1? billion to be seen.
From the East Oregonian dated September 11 1890 George Baker who has been off du-
Accommodation headquarters for Round-Up visitors have opened at the naval place in the East Oregonian building facing Malin street. Prices remain the same: double bed $2, single $1.50, cot $1. Phone 1008 or 1007. Those with rooms or parking space should call or visit. Dean Tatum, director, notes rising demand as hotels fill.
Washington on September 11 reports striking machinists who nearly halted Bridgeport Connecticut municipal factories were ordered to resume work within 44 hours or face loss of individual union memberships as determined by the machinists' union president Jolson.
London reports rumors of German forces being moved from Ukraine to the western front. Stockholm dispatches claim 80 social revolutionists were killed and 200 wounded in Moscow as Bolsheviks dispersed a meeting. Siberian railway points near Lake Palkala are said to be under Czech-Slovak control at Vindlovtok.
In the window of Driggs' Grocery on Court direst a display of souvenirs from the turtlefields of France drew much attention during the day and attracted considerable notice from passersby.
A fragmentary report notes Grover Despain conveying a tale from his brother Joe Despain in the Canadian Army in France. The clipping describes German caps, straps, and buttons found warm with blood, two night combat gun sights, and a framed photo of Joe with a battlefield flower after a year in active service on the French front. Griswold of Illinois, with Dr. Griswold at Helix, visits Pendleton to see his nephew John Griswold. J Wattentorger passes through Pendleton en route to La Grande. James Perry returns home from Chicago business.
In Pendleton the polka is described as a painful slide and highly dangerous. Preacher Swearingen used to hold them up and warn young men like Bill Gilmore and Don in store for those boys. The speaker questions how warm it gets in Pendleton and recalls a past incident.
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