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Newspaper
The Echo Register
Location
Echo, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
2
Classified listings from Echo include horse equipment, wagons, groceries, post cards, old papers for sale, medicines, and a rheumatism liniment. Local shops named include L B Wells Hermiston Oregon J Hutchens Lisle Co Bonney & Sons Saddlery City Drug Store and Echo Register office.
A long OCR fragment details land for sale 160 acres with six acres alfalfa thirty acres wheat and a four room house priced at 1000. It lists numerous named individuals including teachers Ruth Moore Verna Van Ander Daphne Gulliford Elizabeth Williams Margaret Winniford and others connected to local schools and community notices. It also mentions watches for sale including a 21 jewel Hampden movement and a 23 jewel movement with 20 year case at 20 dollars.
A northern estate story tells of a gamekeeper guiding visitors when a shot wounded a man in the leg with a bird shot pellet. The group rewarded the victim with gold. Later two men argued money shares in a lane, a shotgun threatened violence, and the conspirators fled when revealed.
A list highlights local industry including a first class cement block maker a candy factory planing mill electric lights sash and door factory building and loan organization cigar factory cheese factory broom factory sugar factory and canning factory.
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