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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1907
Page
8
The ad touts a jewelry store as the ideal source for gifts from birthdays to weddings. It emphasizes wide appeal and adaptable prices, claiming to serve both millionaires and bargain buyers while positioning the shop as the premier place for presents.
Prominent educators and leaders are invited to speak on Education Day September 27 at the district fair. Notables include Congressman Willis B Hawley B F Mulkey Millie E Trumbull Judge William Smith and Eva Emery Dye. The committee aims for varied literary and educational voices to attract a large attendance. Also planned parades free school child admissions and reservation school participation. Secretary Pitt Gerald reports C W Mallett will attend irrigation day if feasible after returning from the national irrigation congress in Sacramento.
An advertisement claims Newbro’s Horpicide cures baldness by destroying the germ causing hair loss and cleansing the scalp. It cites a man in Butte who regrew hair in six weeks and offers samples and two product sizes through Detroit and Kooppen & Eros.
K O P Entertainment presents Newton Beers famed impersonator in a Bantam era monologue of Damon and Pythias. Knights of Pythias lodge arranged the event with Frank Lee Miles, manager. A church will host since the theater is closed, making the appearance a notable local entertainment.
Dr. J. C. M. Luttenberger of St. Louis is visiting Pendleton as a guest of Rev. Lee Ferguson of the First Christian church. He may decide to locate there permanently and has long served as a leading physician in St. Louis. Luttenberger is known for his residence in the 28th ward and his Masonic ties.
Lecks Wallowa County traffic official Geo. D. OConnor traveling freight agent for the Northern Pacific with headquarters at Walla Walla was in the city today seeking shipments over his road. He and Judge Curry will depart tonight for Wallowa county to interview ranchers about shipping their grain via the Northern Pacific.
Eldred B. Waffle has left his parents home to enter Portland Medical College for the current year. He plans to graduate next spring and then serve as house physician at St. Vincent's hospital. Waffle has spent four years in the college. Dave Hill and J. T. Hinkle visited Mt. Vernon, Washington, and expect to return to Pendleton. Hinkle was defeated for re election as grand chaplain of the Fraternal Order of Eagles as the grand aerie session closed at Jamestown.
Co B Melinger of Tacoma, in town ten days, shipped eight well matched driving horses last evening over the Northern Pacific. Valued at about 400 dollars per span, the horses were bought from various Umatilla county sellers and form a fine lot. Bishop Scadding spoke in Chicago on Opportunities in Oregon with Oregon views and a large audience.
I D Miller of Tacoma, an old friend and schoolmate of Dr C J Smith, visited Pendleton today while en route to La Grande. The pair once lived as neighbors in Ohio. Miller recently left Ohio for Tacoma and now works with J B Stevens & Co., grain and hay dealers.
In the September issue of Sun Set magazine, Baker City is highlighted with photographs of the city and its leading resources. The piece is paired with a large advertising contract that the Baker City Commercial Club maintains with the magazine, boosting local publicity.
L Granger of Chicago writes for Home Maker Magazine on Western industries and places, praising descrip tive articles about Portland. Mrs Hiley Stanfield, visiting from Portland, plans to return to the metropolis for permanent residence, citing health and low altitude as reasons for moving.
Mr and Mrs Charles A Barrott of Athena returned home after a pleasant tour of San Francisco and other California points following their attendance at the irrigation congress in Sacramento. Bond Bros advertise Benjamin suit available.
Physicians in Pendleton declare no epidemic of meningitis. Dr W G Cole notes the deaths were due to tubercular meningitis, a lingering form linked to measles, not the acute contagious type. Dr Dante Hughes outlines classic signs of the carebo spinal form, contrasting it with tubercular meningitis which is not epidemic. No alarm advised as health officials monitor the situation.
An Lewiston Tribune reader writes from Julietta Sept 14 correcting an earlier August account of the Steptoe Butte engagement. He states it was a battle with Indian casualties, not a massacre, and provides details on location names and the timeline of the first steamer reaching Lewiston. He identifies Colonel Wright as the early steamer pioneer and recounts May 1881 cruise up the Clearwater to the Lapwal and Bedrock area with passengers including S Slater and Lot Wreath.
The Monument Enterprise reports a wood famine in northern Grant within the Umber and national forest area. Residents of Long Creek cannot cut or obtain firewood as demand and bureaucratic hurdles slow access. Delays in processing settlers’ wood rights threaten winter supply and force inquiries into forest procedures.
A settler must apply to the local forest guard to secure timber cutting rights. The guard marks allowable trees and must report any unpermitted cutting. Guards named are Leo Neal of Monument, Albert Halstead of Fox, and R. F. Smith of Susanville.
An automobile expert analyzes gasoline use across 161 cars, noting mpg ranges from 2 3 to 32 and an average of about 18.13 mpg. Repair costs vary from negligible to hundreds of dollars, totaling 6851.29 for the group, an average of 43.74 per car. With 1 year 7 months of use, upkeep averages 2.17 per month. Including 1,606,427 miles driven, total upkeep per 100 miles comes to 0.4936 dollars, or less than 13 cents per 100 miles per passenger given an average of about 3 1/2 people per car.
A farewell reception for Rev Robert Warner and family is planned at 8 p.m. in the basement social room of the M E church on Wednesday evening September 1. The Warners will move to Walla Walla to reside and Rev Warner will pastor Wilbur Memorial church. Friends are invited to attend this pleasant event.
Will M. Peterson and D. W. Batley announce Batley will share Petersons office in the Smith Crawford building after returning from Portland where he spent most of the summer. They state no partnership has formed.
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