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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1912)
TAGE EIGHT. DAILY EAST OREGOyiAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1912. EIGIIT PAGES Your Dollars est Carry a Groat Weight at this Store Every staple and fancy ar ticle In the way of groceries. Every seasonable fruit and vegetable that Is placed on the market Is Found Here First Careful attention given to all phone orders. A cheerful and sanitary store, with everything displayed well for your easy choosing, makes this store the most advantageous grocery for TOUR marketing. Phone Main 98. Standard Grocery Company, Inc. Where all are pleased. Frank O'Gara, President. Bernard O'Gara, Sec.-Treas. A CITY BASEBALL LEAGUE IS FORCING TWO TK.YMS AUK AUIKADY oi:; i.i:i rou j.mi:s O.-W. It. & X. KmiUoyors and I.oenl I.otljye of Klks lime Kntoroil MoW niitl Others Aro ExpeotoU to IXillow in Noar Futuro. ' Not only 1 it very probable that the city will see league ball this sea son but it is alsii likely that a number of local nmateur teams will disport themselves, on the diamond. Already employees of the O.-W. It. & X. com pany have organized, the Elks are planning on putting a team in the field and it is predicted that other team will be formed to perfect a city league. It Is the intention to ar lange games for the Sundays on which the loviguo team is absent from the city, thus enabling local fans to see one game a week. The railroad employees met last night and perfected an organization which i.-ues a bold defi to any other bunch ft horsehlde' heavers in this vicinity. The battery will consist of Joiner, telegraph operator, catcher, Wissler, bill clerk, pitcher, "Walter Rose, cashier, 1st fcase, P.abe Beam, freight warehouseman, short stop, U. J. Brush, transcontinental freight inspector, 2nd base, Pat McKee, yardmaster, 3rd base. Less Barr, car clerk, right field, Copeland, baggage clerk, center field, and Bill Dietz, night ticket clerk, left fielder. All of the men have had experience in the national pastime and, Inasmuch as all are off on Sunday afternoons, they were encouraged to form and thus secure a little recreation. The- Elks are much Interested In the organization of a team In order ir- raise money for their trip to the Portland convention. With Keefe and Sturgis as a ibattery, they will have a nucleus for a classy aggre gation. It Is their purpose to-play not only local teams hut to meet Klk teams from Walla Walla, La Grande and other cities. Taxicab Service MY tliD NIGHT Stand at Hotel St. George 25C to Any Part of City Phona rain 12 Joseph N. Bohl, Prop. $15 Ken-art!. Will be paid for the following de scribed animal delivered at the Tele phone Feed Earn, Pendleton: Bay horse colt, three years old this spring, heavy, blocky built, branded R L on left shoulder, star In face, white hind foot. Strayed from Capt. Kid's pas ture on McKay creek. Alfred Laing. Boxing Club Postponed. The smoker and boxing contest to have been given by the Pendleton Athletic club tonight has been indefi nitely postponed. PEXDLETOX ATHLETIC CLUB. Newsy Notes of Pendleton Dlokey Kvans Very Slok. Dickey Evans, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Evans, Ts reported to bo worse today. The little fellow Is suffering from typhoid fever and Ills fever reached 104 1-2 today. property Owners Meet Tonight. A meeting of Jackson street prop erty owners has been called for to night in tho Commercial club rooms ; for the purpose of discussing the va rious plans proposed for the Improve ment of the street in an attempt to secure harmony among the factions. lYoin South America. Fred Peterson of Helix, who has been for the past several months at Argentine, Bouth America, where he went as a representative of the Holt Harvester company, returned to his home today on the X. P. local after renewing acquaintances in Pendleton for a day. Property Owners Besioge Martin. Since the announcement of the opinion of C. H. Martim county road builder, that "he favored asphaitlc oil strets over bithulithic, he has been besieged with property owners desir ous of learning more about the new materials, which, it Is claimed, are much cheaper and just as good as bithulithic,. Anyone can offer you a cheap flimsy Glove, but the T BI IF -HUT. (BLflHfE is built to wear It is economy to wear these gloves. Sold only by the Workingmen's Clothing Company Corner Main and Webb Streets Sit-k Chi It! Is Improved. The one year old child of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Carney of McKay, which has been seriously 111 with pneumo nia for more than a month, is re ported to be slightly improved. The little one is at the home of F. M. Ed wards on Ash street, where the par ents are attending it. It's life was despaired of last night, but it rallied and seems much better today, accord ing to the father. of interest is being manifested in his trip. I.oenl Couple tiet License. A murriage license was Issued yes terday afternoon to Walter A. Smith and Dora Johnson of this city. Many Pay Respects to Dead. The funeral of Charles Hawkes, the high school student who died yes terday morning, was held, this morn ing from the Methodist church, Rev. Xathan Evans preaching the ser mon. The high school dismissed out of respect to the deceased and his classmates as well as a large num ber of other friends assembled at the church to hear the last sad rites. County Court lias Troubles. Commissioners Walker and Cock burn are leaving trouble today in the designation of polling places in the different precincts of the county. Ow ing to the tendency to combine farms in several sections, they find It dif ficult to secure a place convenient to the voters. In Cottonwood and Fulton precincts, the school houses have been disposed of, this taking away polling places used heretofore Cooked Food Sale. The ladies of the Christian church will have a cooked food sale at the Creamery building, Saturday March 9th. OU remember the old say- ing "The proof of the pudding is the eating of it." It is so with our groceries and service. Unless you try both you cannot know that they are the best you can get in this town bought and planned to secure and keep your tnide. We know that a satisfied customer is the best advertisement we have. Try us a week. Send or come with your order or phone and a mes3engtr will call for it. Try some of our Merry Widow Kisses Miss llailey's Drawing Shown. In the windows of the Hartman Abstract company's office Is shown an official Invitation postal card of the Portland lodge of Elks, the de sign for which was drawn by Miss Genevieve Halley, daughter of the late Thomas Halley of this city, and se lected by the Portland lodge from n large number submitted. It is ex tremely artistic as well as appropri ate and is receiving much admiration. 1 1 Acnrion Train To Stop Here. I Secretary Keefe of the Commercial I ..eU.M.(oti..t, l.'io ....... .Il-t,. 1 'I tnttol' from the Washington-Idaho Develop ment League announcing that an ex cursion train of business men will pass through Pendleton at 4:33 p. m., March 20 and will stop an hour here. The trip is being made es pecially in the interests of the live stock Industry and, Pendleton being a livestock center, is a place of in terest. Steps will probably be taken to receive the visitors In a cordial manner. Dr. Whittaker Returns. Dr. C. J. Whittaker has returned from Cambridge, Idaho, where he had been for several weeks looking after his interests there. Mrs. Whittaker is still In Idaho. According to the doctor the spring is a few weeks lat er near Cambridge than in Umatilla county. Spring work will not be taken up there for two weeks time JACK LONDON' SHU'S "A. 11.;" Wll-'K (iOi:s WITH XOVKMST Gcorao Cochran AVas Hero. George T. Cochrane, of La Grande, member of the state water board and candidate for the republican nomi nation for congress from the Eastern Oregon district, was here for a short time last evening. Mr. Cochran is out in the interests of his candidacy and left last night -for Portland. He will visit many eastern Oregon towns on his return. Want Mateli With "Stranglor." Since the wonderful showing made by Jack Kennedy, the Hermiston wrustler, against Eddie O'Connell of Portland, his Stanfield admirers are trying to arrange a match to be pull ed off in their home town between the "pride of the project" and "Strangler"' Smith, the well known Portland grappler. The defeat of Kennedy by the Multnomah Instruc tor has In no wise lessened the enthu siasm of the fans and they are ready to back their man in another match against O'Conne'd or any other 150 pound wrestler. Johnston's Candies Ecbo Honey Imported Fi3 Fat Norway Mackerel Finnan Haddio Kippered Salmon Gray Bros. Grocery Co. Quality Grocers Officials Hero on Inspeetlon Tour. A party of O.-W. K. & N. officials, consisting of J. P. O'Brien, general manager of the Oregon division, J. D. Stack, assistant general manager, William P.ollons, superintendent, anil William Connolly, superintendent of the Washington division, arrived In Pendleton yesterday afternoon from Spokane on their inspection tour of Washington and Oregon. They spent the night here and left this morning, Connolly going back to Spokane and the Oregon official? in their private cars "01" and "03," coupling on to the westbound local. Writer Who Voynjrod Into the South Sens on Sloop Smirk Will lteallzc Ambition to Hound Horn ns Com mon Sailor. Ilaltimore, Md. With his wife ac companying him, Jack London will satisfy his ambition to round the Horn in a square rigged Yankee clip per. He has signed as an "A. B." and will serve a.s one of the crew of the Dirigo. which will sail for Seattle with a cargo of coal this week. When London married his pres ent wifo in Chicago in 1903, he had been divorced Just one day. The Il linois statute provides that divorced persons must remain unmarried one year following the g'-fintlng of the di vorce, and it was declared that Lon don's second marriage was illegal, until Judge Julian W. Mack, now a member of the commerce court, rul ed that the law did not apply to per sons who came from other states and were married in Illinois. London declared before this deci-4 slon was made that he would marry Charmlon Klttredge, his bride, in ev ery state In the union if that course would make their marriage immune from attack. Many of London's stories have dealt with the sea and with sailors, quite as much as with love affairs, and In his writings are Included several ex pressions of sentiment supposed to relate to one or the other or both of his wives. 1 KKSIANS RESOKT TO CANN1I5ALISM DIKING FAMINE American Woman Sends News of starving Thousands and Appeal to I led Cross. Washington. The culminating hor :or of the famine in Persia is describ ed in a letter received by the Fersian Amerlcan Educational society from Dr. Susan-1. Moody, formerly of Chi cago, now of Teheran. "Fathers are eating their children and the children eat each other," says Dr. Moody. On receipt of her story of incon ceivable cannibalism, the Persian American Educational society wrote to Miss Mabel Boardman, secretary of the Tied Cross society, and appeal ed to that organization to aid in the relief of tho 40,000 people in the province of Hamalan, who are facing' starvation. Dr. Moody says she longs for Am erica to rise and lend help In Persia's desperate trouble. She says also that W. Morgan Sinister of Washington, former treasurer-general of Persia, would have relieved the situation If Persia Iim 1 stood by him, and that his dismissal was to a great extent caused by the grafters who wero liv ing off the public treasury. Cigars de Luxe We have 'em both. All sizes, all grades, all prices. Question of selection Is up to you. WE DO THE REST. W. J. Connor & Co. Successor to HARRY O'DELTj. Cigars, Candies and Pool Room. 649 Main Street. Phone M. 4. It's a Dog-Gone Shame DYEING spots&STAINS that a puppy should be too affection ate In the street In muddy weather, but both ladies and gentlemen have good redress when we get their gar ments to clean. They are made to look like new again. And no matter how delicate the fabric may be, we never injure it in the cleaning oper ation. Pencilefon Dye Works Phone Main 169. 206 Vi E. Alta. t:il i-'.loot. ew Offl!ers. last night, officers for the ensuing war vpr e'.ficted OR follows: C. S. Cheshire, exalted ruler; JameB H. Sturgls, esteemed leading knight; George Strand, esteemed loyal knight; Itoy Alexander, esteemed lecturing knight: Thomas Fitz Gerald, secre tary; Fred W. Lampkin, treasurer; Thomas Smart, tylcr; D. B. .Bailey, representative to tho grand lodge, and Frank J. Quinlan, alternate represen tative; Row W. Jlltner, trustee. These officers will enter upon their duties on the first Thursday In April at which time tho appointive officers will be announced. WhlHtler Arrives antl Depart. John T. Whistler, the Portland en gineer who built tho Umatilla pro ject, and who has JUBt been hired by the city to investigate the power site upon which the council took an option, arrived in the city on No. 6 this morning and left at 7 o'clock with City Engineer Klmbrell for Mlltonv to commence at once upon his' work. Upon the results of his work depends largely the fate of the proposed mu nicipal power plant and a great deal "Clark's Grocery" Save Yow "S&H" Green Stamps Buy your groceries of us. We will protect you in price the same as we have in the past. CLARK'S GROCERY Phone Main 174 - 61 2 Main Street Fresh fish Every Day Our Third 1 Saturday Special Standard CORN 1 Oc Per Can MA 141$ 4f 4? Dressed Poultry Every Day F. M. Downey G. E. Marsh