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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1905
Page
5
Fragmented Horsham era ads list harness shops, furniture, schools, rooms for rent and employment, plus a prose obituary about a Salt Lake City man drowned in the Snake River and an notice about a touring show The Chaperins scheduled for Sunday night in a regional city. The jumble preserves local business names and addresses.
A garbled ad fragment touts cheap workmanship and invites customers to trust the shop. It asserts affordable rates and asks for patronage while urging verification of location. The content is unclear but centers on a local repair business offering low prices.
The office of Thome Davie & Co a leading brokerage firm was raided on Sept 2 amid accusations of fraud. Several individuals were arrested as part of the investigation into the firm’s operations and alleged scheme.
A stream of local people travel to Portland and other destinations for business and leisure. Mre Cc Berkeley and many others depart by rail or road, returning with reports of fairs, exhibitions, and visits to relatives. Several officials, merchants, and visitors, including J W Alexander and E G Carpenter, are noted as in town or en route, with notes of trips to La Grande, Walla Walla, Seattle, and Spokane.
Vikdinw Waller of the U.S. Department of Agriculture met farmers at Pollman over Sunday to discuss crop hats, costs of production, and labor data. He will include findings in a forthcoming national county crops report. Machinery for data gathering was demonstrated.
In Yakima last spring a state college project began data gathering led by Prof Walter noting immense crops and prolific yields across pumpkin and apple crops though an off year for apples. The piece also reports Baker City trade woes due to bad roads and grain moves, plus a local incident in Rockton involving actor Eben Plympton and a hospital update on Colonel Judson.
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