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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1907
Page
8
A playful call to visit a jewelry store for gifts and keepsakes suitable for birthdays anniversaries weddings and other celebrations. The tone emphasizes wide selection and memorable presentation of presents.
Pendleton faces a possible December vote on a gravity water system costing about 260000 dollars funded by a bond sale. Supporters argue current supply is inadequate, with water quality issues and shortages on the north side, while opponents cite debt concerns given a recent 135000 dollar bond issue. If placed on the ballot, the measure is expected to pass given public demand for better water and the improving bond market.
Jones passed a forged check for $9.60 drawn on La Grande at the Pullman saloon and was later caught in La Grande. The bad draft drawn on First National Bank favored J. A. Adams and signed David Nelson, described as a poor specimen of the bank artist's work.
Old newspaper ad warns about aging and baldness caused by a burrowing pest on hair roots. It promotes Newbro's Herpicide as the sole effective eradicator and styling aid, selling through A. Koeppen & Bros with samples available for 10 cents in Tampa.
A description of Jones was telephoned to The Dalles La Grande and nearby areas. This afternoon a message stated he had been found by La Grande officers after being properly endorsed but subsequently taken by a bartender.
A. T. Webb farm near Gresham east of Portland yielded a cherry crop netting over 200 dollars per acre from nine acres. Mrs Clara Webb manages the farm after her father’s death while Mark Levy & Co and Davenport Thompson handled the market. The crop totaled over 5600 in gross receipts with Bing and Lambert varieties driving the value.
A Corvallis report from the Oregon State Experiment Farm details an acre yield of 22 crops totaling 228,506 pounds or 38 tons of cured alfalfa hay over six years. The plot, on rolling land below average wheat land, received 100 pounds of land plaster annually and two light dressings of barnyard fertilizer. Three crops have already been harvested this season with another coming. The new college barn will be built on this acre, making the alfalfa patch part of the barnyard.
Portland Academy led private schools reopening with record attendance. St Helen's Hall and Hill Military Academy reported full or near full enrollment with students from Honolulu, South Dakota, Alaska, Pennsylvania, British Columbia, and California. A humorous incident at the fair drew laughs as a man swapped baby care while his wife explored exhibits.
A long line of over twenty wagons loaded with wheat stretched from above the Byers mill down Court Street to Thompson Street during forenoon hours, as townspeople watched the unloading procession.
Superintendent Frank K. Welles received the first school exhibit today from district No. 61 Foster. The work comes from Miss Bulah E. Baker's class and reflects early district display efforts.
Misa Della Snyder and Wm Taylor were united in marriage at the home of Mr and Mrs L T Rogers not Sunday at 10 a m with Rev Payne of Weaton officiating The couple are well and favorably known here.
John Town, Montana sheep buyer, holds 7000 head of lambs at Dayton and Walla Walla. He cannot secure cara for the equipment to Montana, though cars were ordered over a month ago. Divorce Suit Filed against Julia Hussey by Floyd Ry Hussey. Peter Weat is attorney for plaintiff.
City Attorney McCourt reports the city may proceed with a popular sale of bonds, with a 7:30 p.m. council meeting to decide tonight. The issue hinges on charter compliance, while other actions include a ban on commercial postings on telephone poles and private fences without consent, plus minor business like macadamizing Chestnut street and appointing a committee to study street lighting at Maine Railroad and Franklin crossings.
Earl Steen of Lewiston faces a warrant for arrest on charges of stealing Madden and Kettenbach cattle from the Salmon river range months ago. Deputy Wortman traveled to Enterprise to apprehend Steen, a noted eastern Oregon stockman, linked to a herd of over 100 cattle moved through the Clearwater region and Blue mountains. Some of the stolen cattle were later found with Steen’s purchases after crossing Snake river.
Harvesting of the ble bean crop occupies farmers on American Ridge south of Troy Idaho as rain and damp weather delay lifting and stacking for threshing. Several hundred acres lie in windrows awaiting dry periods with nine sacks per acre recorded and prices around 3 1/2 cents per pound. Farmers see beans as profitable and as a useful rotation to avoid fallow periods.
Real estate transfers valued at 110786 were filed for record Monday and Tuesday, an unusually healthy showing for the first two days of the week. The largest single transaction was George W Holcomb selling to Mathing Wilhelm the quarter block at 16th and Irving streets for 24000 in the warehouse district heart.
Carney and Kennedy, noted liverymen, have been contracted by St Josephs Academy to transport students to and from school each morning and evening using a dedicated cab. The service gathers distant city children each morning and returns them home after classes.
W W Landrum longtime clerk at Umatilla post office resigns to become chief clerk in La Grande post office. Landrum previously lived in Union and has resided in Umatilla for several years.
Westbound 0. R. & N. train passed through at 4 a.m. carrying nine heavily loaded cars of colonists. Fifty six of them transferred here to the Spokane branch in a major midwinter relocation effort.
A carload of brick from Weston yards arrived for the Pendleton academy boys dormitory and is being unloaded for the contractors.
Spokane reports boost North Coast Railway aims to connect with Northwestern system by building a Walla Walla to Asotin branch. Purchases of right of way completed and contracts may be awarded soon. M M Taylor of Connell and Hatton oversees the project, with Strahorn eyeing an eastward extension to link Chicago and Northwestern.
J R Dean in charge of the Oregon railroad block signal construction moved his outfit cars from Hermiston to Umatilla today. The crew will return in a few days to install four signals at the junction of the Pilot Rock branch and one signal midway to Pilot Rock. Dean will depart tonight for Gooden to start a block signal crew on the Southern Pacific line.
Awards at the state fair honored dairy produce hogs goats and horses cattle with J. W. Clise Seattle winning Ayrahire cattle and D. H. Looney Jefferson taking Guernseys. Shorthorns grand champion was awarded to J. W. Garrett Mountain Home Idaho amid many prizes. A Portland meeting of federated women clubs reported over 200 miles of streets ready for improvement but with no work scheduled.
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