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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1913
Page
5
Local items list services for drayage and hauling jobs rentals and sales of goods including a Jersey cow pine furniture piano and a seven room house. Advertisements include auctioneer services lumber cedar posts lodging restaurant employment housework and general notices with contact phone numbers and addresses in Pendleton Oregon.
A dance event is announced for Saturday evening September 27 at the German Hall. The notice gives no further details about music, admission, or host, but invites attendees to attend.
A $2500 offer covers a home with seven lots and a plastered eight room house on a stone foundation. Features include a large lawn behind an eight foot stone wall, a chicken house, and proximity to a school. For details contact this office.
A string of personal mentions lists c J Ward in Pendleton on a Sunday visit, Jim Culley of Weston, Gerald Kilgore of Athena, Ed Jensen from Pilot Rock, Stuart of Ukiah, Mrs W Ingram of Portland visiting relatives, H H Johnson of Portland, Faye Bartholomew from Portland, William Hodgens performing jury duty then returning to Pendleton, Mrs M L Morrison and daughter from Helix, Lola Rogers heading to Wallan Walla for St Pauls academy, Rev Father John Durgan leaving for Spokane, Ted Angel the Izee stockman visiting, and notes on a McBee rack operation and a local animal finding concern.
New York honored the memory of Mayor Gaynor as his body traveled from City Hall to Trinity Church for funeral services. About 20,000 followed the hearse in rain while as many as 500,000 viewed along the route. engines stopped across the ferry system and city schools and bells tolled in mourning. Taft and acting Mayor Kleine led the pallbearers. Roosevelt could not attend due to engagements.
Nice furnished front room for rent close in. Phone 265 M. Good furniture for sale and house for rent. Apply at once. $10 Post treet. Phone 249 W. For sale Household furniture. Piano stores everything leaving city 617 College. Phone 311W. For sale Three pieces of mission furniture book case library table and settee all for 20 Inquire X this office. For rent 460 acre farm 65 acres alfalfa 125 acres summer fallow Small outfith with plaice Address care this office. For sale Complete motion picture outfit including 1912 new monograph comprehensive steel booth tools lens slides etc cheap this week in Haines 617 College.
Damon Lodge No 4 Knights of Pythias meets this evening to elect representatives to the grand lodge. Refreshments provided. SAM FE PAINE, C R W, FLETCHER, K R 8.
Notice records two bicycles found September 12 1913 near Main Street shooting gallery. One Crescent No 1 high frame with short handlebars no grips black frame coaster brake in good condition. One Rambler No 148 low black frame comfort seat No 15 coaster brake rear rim black front rim yellow cork grips wide handlebars. Owners may claim at the police station paying charges.
Over two years the Pendleton police court collected 7570.95 from offenders while salaries for officers totaled less than 5000. By September 1913 receipts dipped after the restricted district closed July 1. The year’s total is expected under 1912’s 7570.95 as bawdy house fines ceased and the September round-up produced the highest revenue in 1912.
A broken axle or defective rail derailed the eastbound train scattering debris onto the westbound tracks. The westbound train collided with the wreckage. A special train was dispatched to transport the injured to Everett.
Pendleton police announce Ed Stansberry and H N Kastner will supervise traffic in Walla Walla during fair week. Chief Kearney approved hiring two Pendleton men after their Round-up Week work impressed officials. Walla Walla seeks reliable traffic management as it stages a frontier show akin to the Round-up, with other familiar staff declining loyalty to the local event.
Johnstown Pa September 22 The entire court will attend tomorrow's hearing before Governor Felker as an attempt is made to extradite Harry Thaw. Thaw's mother sent a message to the people of the United States and Great Britain expressing gratitude for sympathetic letters received.
The G W R and N offers a $75 sterling silver cup for the best sire in the beef breed at the Oregon state fair in Salem from September 29 to October 4. The O W R and N adds $30 in cash for the best herd or hogs by any breed, with boar sired by three sons under one year. The offers were arranged too late for the fair’s premium list.
Independence council approves a special election for November 17 to decide an amendment forming a road district within city limits. The plan would have sheriff funds redirected to city streets to be allocated by the council. Also reports from The Dalles Bend and other Oregon towns cover homesteader Mre C McIntosh, a river accident victim, and an onion farming breakthrough by Harley Pippin.
A local appeal urges patrons to vote for their favorite in the Merchants gift contest with several hundred vote lead for the Catholic church already evident. The prize is $160 and all votes must be cast at the East Oregonian office.
Harvesting is almost complete in Umatilla county with yields fair and grade good. Echo flour mills have 70 000 sacks stored for flour. Pacific Coast Elevator Co buys wheat shipped to Portland. Local fires near Dole Lumber mill and Weyerhaeuser timber raise smoke across 10 miles.
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