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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1913
Page
5
Local items include piano tuner Whipple and various help wanted ads for a waitress, housekeeper, ranch workers, and a hotel staffer. Lost items feature a brown Toy Spaniel, monogrammed ribbon fob, keys with J A Borle tag, a redish grey leather purse, and a seat of jewelry. Rewards offered for return. several notices reference East Oregonian offices and local addresses.
Notice to patrons states city schools reopen Monday September 15 with new book rules. Introductory period ends December 21 during which books are not charged and sold for cash only. Old displaced books accepted in exchange if serviceable.
Small listing notes a good team harness and a night spring wagon offered for sale. Available as a lot or separately. Inquiries directed to the office at address W.
Notice offers 60 rooms and a dining bar fully furnished in a thriving eastern Oregon town. Four months of business average about $3500 monthly. Owner seeks retirement and will be interviewed at our office any evening this week. Livermore & Bickers.
Mrs William Kapus wife of a Portland businessman died instantly when her automobile overturned on a steep eastern Multnomah county road. Three other occupants, including Mrs H M Kellogg and Maud Crane, survived with minor injuries as a second car carrying Frank Shields and family approached. Kapus had just celebrated twenty years of marriage and her husband, president of Northwest Gas Equipment, was en route home from California.
New York stock exchange to close at noon Monday September 22 for Mayor Gaynor funeral. Body arrival planned Friday with respect to the late mayor.
Five lives are believed lost as a November cloudburst sweeps Goldfield. Homes, businesses, and streets vanish under floodwaters, with Tonopah reports cut off and fears of wider devastation mounting. Local authorities race to assess damage and locate missing residents.
A concise aphorism reflecting on appearances and hidden depths, noting that polish may conceal true character or ultimate outcomes. The line suggests skepticism about judging by surface looks alone and hints at unseen results beyond exterior polish.
L A Relneman the county water master has moved from Milton to Pendleton. His new office is at the courthouse in the same room previously used by road builder C H Martin.
In San Francisco on September 15 Mrs Nellie Morse a young widow aided by the press to obtain support for her infant son received about 75 dollars in cash plus many offers of food clothes and letters of assistance. Four suitors wrote offering marriage while she contemplated how to proceed after her appeal to the public.
Miss Elizabeth Overend aged 73, longtime San Francisco resident who had refused streetcar rides for 72 years, died after consenting to her first trolley ride. She was alighting when an approaching car struck her on Friday night. She was the daughter of James Overend, a California pioneer.
At Oregon Agricultural College students study metal product manufacturing from design to finish. A wheel is drafted with exact dimensions then cut in a pattern shop, formed in a foundry mold, cast from molten iron, and machined to a smooth finish. A single flaw anywhere requires starting over.
Pendleton educational circles report a larger total high school enrollment than ever before with 197 matriculations by 11 am, including 117 girls and 84 boys. The senior class numbers 18, with 15 girls and 3 boys, led by Otis Hampton as class president. A. C. Hampton heads the school, and the faculty lists science, agriculture, English, and more. In a separate court matter, District Attorney Whitman probes an insanity plea as Dr McGuire examines a Tombs prisoner, while Attorney Alphonse Koeble offers no aid. Schmidt rejects counsel, awaits punishment, and kisses a newspaper photo of a murdered girl.
Philadelphia voters in the city and county prepare for the fall elections under a new state law requiring enrollment in a political organization. At primaries each voter will receive only the ballot designated at registration, with enrollment and statewide primaries extending to borough, city, county and state offices.
Catholic officials question the confession of a priest named Schmidt claiming to have killed a girl. They suspect the priest's credentials are a sham and await advice from Mayence Alsace authorities to determine legitimacy of the confession.
Portland Sept 15 Today is the final day of grace to file answers in the federal government suit against the American Telephone and Telegraph company and other defendants charged with conspiring to monopolize the telephone business in violation of the anti trust law. A real hero has no desire to roast in the limelight.
A local business promotes D. D. D. Prescription for skin ailments including eczema and leporsy type conditions. The ad promises an iron clad guarantee, a no pay if not effective policy, and claims quick itch relief and lasting cures. It assures stock of well known skin remedies and invites readers to try the bottle at no risk.
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