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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1897)
8 P-EnDTETOX EAST OREGOM.AX." PICTORIAL HISTOIJICAI, EDITION. THE LODGES OF PENDLETON An Interesting Article Regarding Secret Sfcietics. THE LODGE AS A SOCIAL FACTOR Hive Orders in I'ewtklwi Atafcttaj; 'toth Men and Wm A Gm4 Wrk Ac Brooklyn if called the City of Churches, wi'Pcndh'toH might lie called a City of Lodges. I lieliove is if afe to nay that no other city in the North west of like Hjmluti'n ran lioast of n many lodges or hi large s proportion of uicmliership. There an: few men in this citv who do not belong to oi- re crct society; and many belong to (mir or five. Ivven the women of Pendleton have lieen iiitten with the mania for joining, and a very large proKirlion of the fair wcx are memlieix of one or more secret Micieties. The ladies haveam jile opjiortunity to "pay their money and take their choice," there lieing in this city five orders admitting both men and women, and one exclusively woman's lodge. And they make the most of their opiortunity, one lady whom I know Itclonging to the whole half-dozen. As is. to lie exicctcl, thos-e lotlgcs ad initting women emjihasize the hkmhI feature of fraternity; and Mime of the meri'n 1h1ch do the mime, nolahly the Elks, W(Milmen of the World, Knigdit of the Maccabees, Workmen, and lately the Odd Fellows. So that, within the last two years, secret societies have In come a prominent factor in the Kicial life of 1'eudleton, and some of the most hrtlliant and enjoyable. Micinl events have lieen jiiven under the auspic of lodges,. That this activity alonn social lineij should have a pronounced effect ujxhi Kiciety is to lie exjected; but J do lielieve it li:is occurred to many to sjieculate as to how far-reaching" and lienuficial in extent is this effect. For that reason I have t-et myiielf to wy a few words on the subject. " Wliat is true of Pendleton as rcjrards the number of lodges and thejintjKir tion of memliershiii may lie said to lie true, in greater or less decree, of even' community in the land. Once there were only the Masons and Odd Fellows, and iKissibly one or two other i-ecret organization's. Today it would require a Ioiik iK-ncil and a longer sheet of jiajier to write a list of the Njcrct socie ties in existence; and new ones are springing up every day. Most of the new orders are of a lieneficiary nature, largely life, accident or disability in surance. These collect vast sums of money even year from their members, vaHter in tlie aggregate than most ieo jde have any idea of. They are cutting into the profits and business of old-line insurance companies to an amazing de greeyiln Jthis collection of monies, some of which goes into reserve fund, there is given to lodges a very graw bearing upon social and financial con ditions. Whether this tendency is to weal or woe cannot at present bc'finally said. Timo has not yet rendered its verdict. So far as the'matter has gone, however, these fraternal insurance so cieties have lieen a blessing, in that they provide their nieinbers against distress and public charity in case of misfortune or sickness, and jiay to widows and orphans a sum of in'oney which lifts them aliove want when the breadwinner falters and falls in life's pathway, to toil no more. In mo-t of them the monies collected are not long withheld from circulation. In this iarticular thevare less of a menace to financial health in the IkkIv (Hilitic than the old-line companies, whoe hourly-accumulating profits and re serves must eventually work an injury to the financial and "industrial welf living of tlie'nation. But there is another consideration DR. C .1. W1.1TAKER. attached to the gro.vth of secet socie ties, and especially the m re imuiorn ones, whieh is of quite a utnch tir more moment to our country the fact Unit in them there i a rciis oaiioM of the spirit of true dem vr irr. We are not far enough away to g ; the rt,rht ier sj?ctive in looking at th:s ve-r impor tant feature; lmt toe fxtu tiiMor.un, in writing of tlie iawar! intlaenees which are now numl ling tiie eruditions peculiar to thi ne it on, w II under stand jut how vi.tl i tii- l..ven of fraternity n evem difi-i i , oj niol ern secret stwietieV. i'.--. an i better than the most thonfrh . f ii .1 i-. will be appreciate how oj... .tn.- waa .is re- iwakrwitkm sf tke fwrit f social de nwieraey. .5t-t now the dmHiMis, and many itou-w-iria social phiki-onbers, art criticisiur srret mn-m-Ik. Rat I llMve that tiieee societies are bin h wwrk which nothing els oowki k mi well, and whieh lc wnliarly in-whM lit this time in our national'lif'. Per lwp not hc ill a tliou-and of tlx- mon OMthniastir "joiners" it; none of tJte owtskte critics wr to sa-et it ; and yet tlie work is liug d- wll j.erhaji' all Uh letter fir the total n oonscMHifcHess on the part of tlrn-e most , Sbt J. R. TdCKi.N. interested. And this wtirk is nothing more nir less than the bringing of the varied and various, grade and clas-M and castes of men and women together iiIKin a common ground of t-ocial ami fmternal eiiuility. When our country was fi.-Ht settleil and the comer Ftoneof our government was laid, it was uhhi the lxslrock of democrary cviuul rights, eiil privi leges, common oporiutitie. One man was no better than ai.y other man. There was no aristocracy reither of blood, nor wealth, nor "brains. The Ihiv raiKil by public charity hail just the same chance, if he had the neces sary qualities of heart and head, to one day lie honored of his fellows as the Ikiv reared in a wcll-apjKiinted home. But times have changed. Large ae aumulations of wealth on one hand, with its natural antithesis of hard con ditions and deeper jKivcrty on the other, have operated to curtail opjKir tunities, and naturally to sepir.itc, if not antagonize, the cla.c which go to make up our national life. It has lim ited the means and opjiortuuity for education and the retinemunt of minds THE FARMERS' CUSTOM MILLS. and manners which come from culture, until only our classes are educate 1, while our misses are not. We are un consciously coining to look up to an aristoiracy of we.ilth and brains, and down to the middle classe of prosper ous and partially cultivated, and to an unprosperous a'nd scarcely educate 1 lower clas the plain, hor iv-handeJ hewers of wood and drawers of water. This division of moiety is detrimental to our national life, "it rob? the mid dle and lo.ter classes of that mental and social polishing whi-h comes from contact with refinement and clucation; it robs our so-calle I aristw racy of that heart and soul culture which conies from contact with plain, pure aye, and even somewhat soiled immunity. Into this breach has stepjied the.' fraternal orders, with the hand of common hrotherhool reaching up to the higher cla.-es of leisure and educa tion and down to the common toilers, and joining themjn a common, broth- I'll. erly clusji. Not long ago 1 sat looking on a socitl septan of a fratenml order in Pendle ton, and these thoughts, which I hae imperfectly set forth, eame to me. I saw mingling in common, fri?dly, sociil intercourse, the lawyer ami h"e tor ami day-laliorer awl caqMnter and bluekmitli; the society woman, tlte iKHisMimi 1. the seamstres, the liin mother of small moans for mental improvement, awl the woman who-e money to live came from tlie wash tub! D.m't faint, my astbetic reader. These xnis are true as God's truth. It hai k'hoi1 right here in Pendleton. No one scemeil to think of social lines. All wre Iwurins a oVIishthil time, and a." Ue throne Mused ahont w, each ad all rivitnr oft a well receivinr stne liiiac of thoap unperMmble ricinv which arc mined only in the heart and 1 train of human natnrr. I thaafced t!i ( iiw nf errnr good and perfwrt pi ft the fraternallodr. And I aaid to my nelf: Whatever faults it war have, it i- doin a work or oar bHoved land which notbinr rive at thi time ronlJ da quite so wll or perfectly. CARRIE C. VAX OUdDALL. THE JACKSON-ItfCKSOX CO. This if an incorporated company with a c;.pitali tion of Jr0.r00. Tlie business is of cix yea--' standing, the date of ii cj-jim!i-n Iieim: in Ajiril, 1SI. Previously, the in-oriirators wwe intere led in the tame general liutMof httMne thy miw cnmloet. vie: l:eal cawe, loaie awl inaurar.ee, the new concern ah!ing sjecibl fea tures, wicli as general agent, trutlee. r attorr.ey fr individuals or om-wh-tions, ami assignee or receiver. I; al-o loans moiu-y a in! makes tuivar.cx. on mortae oi other seenrity; holds property in trust ami cares for ine, leiHliiig !igtion or settle.iient of coa lliuting interest; adenines the gouerat care of reil estate witli H ict economy s to expenditures for re iairs; colloctH rects, interest, ilivi-ilencl-", bill, acc Hints or incomes; kivij taxes aweinents or insurance premi ums. Thi c Hiipanv is conducted by men of otabli-hul f u tiiies uxierience ami judni?iit, extetiding over a long teim of yea and. as individuals, have sepir.itely a rjMtd of t.v?lre years in businejw m'smt in Pendleton. I.i their new relations, as repreeentcl by an ii corated company, they have widened their field of usefulness, ami now constitute an indisKiugihI; f.ict r in the business make-up of t le city of PUilljtoa. Tlie- execute all trusts with markcl ability and fidelity to the iiiterens of their patrons, loukiiig after them with the same care s if they were the proierty-ho!ders themselves and giving them the lienelitof a valu able business knowledge to be acquiicd only by liingoxjie ience. Investments a-e mule fo.- otlier. and the company h-ive theproud reeonl of not hating a "l liar of ovenlne in terest out on loans. Most of Uic-e loins are vured by mo-tpie on the pro-erty to which "the investment i applied. Hie eff.t lia been made by tlie oompnt y to intere: t ' owe rntlic'r t'mn ouh-id'e cnpita.1, -o tlmt the in t'nwt on iuvastiiuaid wojhl reta.u to the jiple aunag who.ii th -y lie. W'hile tuis objeot is kept jiriff.-rably in view, all cipital seeking investn'ei.t from the Eat or el-evhe.e is ap'.li -1 H. (lARFir.I.D. where it will lie of advantage lioth to tlie investor awl the Itonie people. Tlie individual' interested in the coriMirathHt haw also lieen instrumen tal in the erection of nianv Iwsines-; building-, including a 45'),"O00 liotel, luiiH-s Ivkicks ami iwlustrial ttali lihuisnts , whieh give to Pendleton an air of thrift and enterprise. The com- Iany has its business quarters in the -is l Orezonian laiihling, comer of Main anal Webb streets, having a gen eral and itrivate Imsiness offieos. Tlie .IaekAn-liekson Co. has varied prop erty intererts in the city awl county. Mr. Jackson is weH-kwi'wn as mumigur of the East Orcgoniun Company, of which ew?wjer 1m? i alo the eilitor. Mr. Dick-on is from Baltimore, arriv inc at Pendleton directlv from that city in October, 1SS3. While in the Mayland inetnijiolis, Ik wa? ltook-k-er Jor the large grain exjtortini: Iwrae of Tvfoa & I!ro., giving him a lirartical exj-erience after a ivmrse in the Baltimore City College and the Johns Hopkins Univerity. In 1SS9, he married Bei-sie Moule of this city. C. .1. WH1TAKEK, DENTIST. Dr. liitaker enjoys the distinction f being tlieohkt fintctitioner in Pen- tetnu, having lieen located here ten jirs ajro m tlie Stli day of Jannarv, 1SM7. llis office is situateil in the Mil u k- building, where it ha. lieen dur ing Uh- entire ten years. Tlie doctor )ms a nest olfiee, re e.ttioii room, operating room and lavatorv. He m known as a wiy fkillfal denti-t awl keeps liiinxli" nmgiily iioteil in the latent in den try at all times. He makes the i.ules; gold crown, which it is r' .ed i now knovin to only three ntitf in Oregon. Thi may lV more mitiiitely de-ribed as liein a cronn made of a olid pieceof golil, without mx reuo or wdiler whatever. Cerj-l J. Whi taker was Uirn March 17. J.S, at Uj-ctv, Mich. He live.1 on m uuru with his rents ami attended j?.ho.d at tin old loz school house until he w i5xtee.i years of age, and in 1S7 went to lUttle Creek College, where he -'inttWlnlllnlllHnllLIIIV 3oHILIIHP y - Br V FRED II. took the normal course. He then followed teaching for four years, which brought him to theage of twenty-three. While yet a teacher, he took'up the study cf dentistry, until he was com pelled to cease, owing to his eves lie coming affected by too close application to study. He then traveled as sales man and expert for the McCormick Harvester and Machine Co., traveling t.irough all of the great Middle West en states. He arrived in Oregon, September 1!. 181, hut went to Walla Wallj, where he resided two years. He t'ten oime to Pendleton, arriving in tie spring of 1S and has remained i. v ever since. He was married Dec r.nber lit IS.SO. Two c tildren havclicvn 1 Ui D.-. ami M :. WniUiker, lwlh f lKn die.1. Or. Whiuker otis . uside.-a' le jirojic ty in the city, and i now serving in tlie ctpacity of city unctlaxn. lie lH.don to scveitil . .'en, lias filleil even- cluir in, the I . al lodge of tlie Knights, of Pythils. a :ti now a truMee. He is:il"0i iu.nilier of the Maccabees and ih? United Artisans. II. I. HASBROUCK. The subject of thW sketch is am- ive Ortonian, havirg lieen liorn nt-ar .l.u.ction City, lax,c county, in 18(3. l-'arly in life ja. devoted himself to the ---ticl study of jewelrj- and watcl. i ..tking, and, lieing anxious to excel, s Ted a regular aiiprenticeship with a large Michigan establishment, goinz Kist for that purj we alone. He grad uated from the Parsons Horological f.Siool of Watchmaking in IsSS. He t.ii-n came to Pendleton (OctoW IS, IS"!I), and liractically applied himself to his art ly four years of tervice in t'ie former Pendleton" establishment of William Wilkinson. SeptemlK-r 13, 1S9.5, he engageil in business on his own account, and totlay he may be found at his neat business stand, No. 722 Main street, with a plentiful supply of work liefore him. lie is recognized as a com iietent, Fiiccessful jeweler and watch maker, and is known to a large circle of acquaintances. He handles a full line of watches, clocks, jewelry and optical goods, and everything sold by him ia " aataalBalBalBalBalBV aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaataalBalBalVar 1 ia?9nmLananananHnl H H. L. HAsRR 3UCK. itb a guarantee that thegoa.ls are just : s represented. The photoH'ngraving with this short sketch is an excellent likeness. DR. II. S. GARFIELD, f h subject of this sketch, whose l.,r.rait is presented in this isue, is .1 .. of tlie living exceptions which V .- the rule that a prophet i never !j uiortil in hi own country. Dr. Gar t: 1 1 was barn in Olymi'iia, Tiiurston M ity, Wahinxtoi, on theSlstdavof J-imiaiy, ISfiO. and is the tecond son of .v-l.icius Garfield and Sarah E. Garfield .nee Perry), of West Shoreham, Ver mont. His father, Selucius Garfield, was a cousin of the martyred president of the same name, and represented the Territory of Washington in the United States congress from 1S09 to 1S73. At the age of nine years, the doctor accompanied his parent's to Washington, I). C, and, during the four years sjient in the East, attended private school in Washington City, Fitchburg, Mass., and the celebrated Litis Academy and Preiiaratory School of Litiz, Pa". At the age of 17, the doctor Iiegan life as a teacher in the public schools of his native county, and emigrated to Walla Walla in Novemlier, 1S7. In Septem temlier, 1ST!', he was married to Xancv J. Howell, eldest daughter of Pleasant Howell and Jane Howell, pioneers of Umatilla county, and has mai'c his home in this county since his marriage. In 1SSS-SU he attended the courses of lectures in Hahneman Medical College of Chicago, and was gradiuited with honor, and from Hahneman Hospital College of San Franoeo in November, 1MD. A resident of Pendleton for eleven years liefore his graduation, the doctor immediately returned here and entered the practice of medicine. His success in chronic diseases anil obscure ainl difficult cases soon secured for him a j-oMiion of resiiectability in his pro fession, which he still enjoys in con stantly increasing measure. Dr. "Garfield is consulting phyfician and surgeon to the Portland Hospital, vice president of the Homoeopathic Society of the State of Oregon, lms alwavs msintaii.ed courteous and har monious relations itn the other refu table physicians of theci:y, awl is the only accredited honioeoiathic pmeti tioner in the county. He occupies ele gant offices in the southeast corner of the DeSpiin block, and enjoys the iit ronage of a large and verj "resjiecttible clientele. FRED WALTERS. One of the largest hnsine.'s inteieJts of the thriving" city of Pendleton i that of the Farmers Custom Mill, a fair idea of which and its present proprietor may lie obtained by glancing at the cuts accompanying thi.' article. These mills have run night an I day, with hut WALTERS. a week's cessation, for three veirs. trying, ever vainly, to fill the orders ahead. With a daily capacity of 100 liarrels of Ho'ir, it is yet impossible to supply the demand for the excellent brand of flour manufactured hv tlie proprietor, Mr. Fred Walters. The mill itself is an old land-mark to the citizens of Umatilla county, hut the surroundings have lieen much changed since the advent of its present proprie tor, by the addition of two large ware hmi e-, stables and liar.i, whic'i Mr. Walters found necessary to c e t to meet the requirements of trade. The location of the mill is alwut half a mile west of the city, wih excel ett road leuling to it from the country. Mr. Walters uai lnirn in Swit erf .nd Maren Nth, IhoB. He crossed the wa ter in IS7S, a:.d lived suecesrividv in New York for a year and a half," h. Louis for three jcars, then in Nebrabka, anil Oregon. In most of thce place.! he has lieen in the mill-rg husuies, ai.d has large practical expe ie.ica. He was well-known fo- t iree vcirs a. manager ofSaling riCo.'s mill at Weiton, which wai iinf-j.-tunitelv burned alxmt three r. o ths ago. He arrived in Pendleton i Oc'o'e-, 18:3. and at oace purcha e I the Farmers' Citstci.-n mill, which he 1 as opera ed steaiiily ever since. His trade b:u largely increaseil, giu;g emt Ioymei-t to a much larger force of mill 'hands than formerly. Besides a goM local trade, he has plentiful and constant orders from abroad, ton e of his flour finding a market in China and the Oriental countries. A feature of Mr. Walter's trade is a large exchange busi ness with the fanr.e.s of the county, exchanging for wheat i!s m-ir.ufactumi products. A large feed mill is runnirg in connection, and its, product finds ready sale. ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY. St. Joseph's Academy, which com mands to the west a view of the lieauti f ill mnorama of the growing city of Pendleton, and to the east, the varying scenery of the Blue mountains, is in a llourisliing condition. During the ast fiimaier the ciod was enl.trgc.l by the erection of an addition, thus afford ing hetteraccommodations to its pupils. The Iwsement of the new deisirtment has lieen fitted up for a play-room. The first floor is mainly used" for schod roonis, rweption-room and library. The latter contains many volumes of history, fiction and liooks "of reference. Pupils of the school have access to the library free of charge. On the second floor is the spacious art room, fitted up with even-thing necessary for intii:g and ornamental needlework. Next to this a large room used exclusively hv the boarders for a Hudy hall. Facing the south is the classroom used by the higher grades of the Academic class. Tlie large room, which had been used as the convent chapel, has been remod eled, and is now used for music rooms. Those ladies who lielong to the St. Jo.mph'u Instrumental Club find pleasure in practicing in their new apartment next to the art studio. Every attention is given by the Sisters to those who liecome "ill at school and the infirmary ha received many improvements. In the east wing of tlie convent mav lie found the large chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Lounles. It is a handsome Gothic structure. Many improvements have lieen made in the dormitories, on the third floor. The entire building is heated by the hot-water system. Tlie school is one of the finest educa tional establishments in Oregon, hav ing a full faculty of exjierienced teachers. Tlie course of studies is divided into three distinct depart mentsthe primary, the preiwratorv and the academic. Special attention is given to those who wish to take a teacher's course. Many of its graduates are now holding !ositinns in several public schools of the state. Tlie business course is sys tematic and thorough, embracing liook- 'aaaBaBaaaifi CaaaTaaBaBaV BaVaaBaaaaRxiL jUaBSHaHaauBaBaBaBi BBaBaBaBS9BBataaBaVaaBaBaBf GUSTAVE LA keeping, '.-ommcrcial correspondence, shorthand and type-writing. Music, lmth vocal and instrumental, is one of the ch'cf studies. The instru ments taught are piano, organ, zither, violin, guitar and mandolin. Painting, ornamental needlework, waxwork and languages are among the optional branches. GUSTAV LA FONTAINE. French Restaurant The French Ii2 taunuit is a well-known resort of its kind in Pendleton, and is an establish ment of six years' standing. While regular meul" are served at stated price', it is a "short-order" house :n well, a id the proprietor is able to titer to any dem md or taste. It is the stand ard reUaura it of the citv, as it has lieen since ita i. esption. P.itron may lie observed at all hours of th-i day and night sitting at the well furnislie I table. The dining-room looks neat in itsdres.-ingof sjmtlessly white talde cloths and napkins, is well lighted and supplied with all conveniences. If greater privacy is desired, thcie is a spacious dining-room adjoining in the manner of an extension, in which tables are dressed suitable for families or parties, while curtained lsooths ex ist, containing two to four chairs, suit able for couples or unes-corted ladies. The proprietor and his excellent wife are always anxious to serve theirgnests in the iiest jiossible manner. Previous to establishing this restaurant, Mr. LiFontaiue h id followed the hotel and stloon hii-dnejs for 'o'irteeii years, and ii the oldest hotel man in the city. He .was married in ISSfi to Mis? Aglae Pin son, thcnuptiil'i lieing the first cele brated in the Catholic church in Pen dleton. HOWARD, LATHROP & CO. Rail Estate and Loan Brokers. This jKijiiilar and well-known firm has lieen in business under the present name and style since Septemlier, IS'.).-!. The firm was lomierly known as Tennery, How- JAMES A. HOWARD. ard & Lathrop, Messrs. Howard and Lathrop purchasing the late Mr. Ten nery's interest. Tlie young gentlemen comprising the firm are jiosseflsed of much business enterprise and vigor, and have materially aided in the de velopment of the city, Ixith in an in dustrial and in a civic way. It was through their instrumentality that the fine residence portion of the city on the north side of the river was built up, the comfortable homes in that quarter lieing largely owned by men in moderate circumstances. The firm ex pended $500 in constructing a wire suspension bridge across the river, WKKBBIHKStS!Li?Z!!''na i "ni mSff j??iSaBaBaaaiaaaaaaaoa tpfl JaCaaaaaaaaaWL jg& leading from the old to the new part of the city. Tlie firm constituted theagency, also, to put in operation again the Farmers' Custom Mill, finding a buyer for the proiertv in the person of Mr. Fred Walters. Recently, also, the firm has induced some foundrymen to locate here, and, in consequence, there is now a well equipped foundry doing a large daily business, and "already preparing to branch out by manufacturing stamp mills and easting for mining ma chinery. Howard, Lathrop it Co. do the FONTAINE. pjincijwl real er-tate business of the city. They alo negotiate loans, hay ing a large business in this line. They h.in He mines and are interested ih some valuable mining properties in the John Dav country. The firm is located in the Despain "block, No. 107 Court street. Mr. William P. Lath-op was liorn April 17, 18(52, at Stockton, Minn. In that state he h is spent nearly all his life, bis business experience being g lined in a St. Paul Publishing house, where he was first employed as liook-k-eper and later as cashier. He ar rived in Pendleton in July, 18SS, and went to work for the East Oreg inian Publishing Company in the capacity of assistant business manager and adver tising man, and was with them until March, 1S'.)2. He then engaged in the real estate business with Howard & Tennery, the firm n-.itni being changed to Tenne -y, 1 1 jw.ird & Lithrop. Mf.JnmA. Hjward vm barn in Mirshilltowa.JouM, Juneli, 135$. His ftther .vmso.ij of thi first settlers of ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY.. that city in 1844, an 1 assisted in laying out the tow n. In Mav of 18t4, in the company of a train of aliout one hun dred wagons, the family crossed the plains, intending to go to California, but on arriving at Pacific Springs they learned of the drought which hail pre vailed there for some time, and so turned northerly into Oregon, passing the present site of Pendleton in IStM. and sjiending the winter of 18i4-5 in old La Grande. They went on to Cali fornia in lSfii, and remained nineteen years, returning to Pendleton in 1885. Mr. Howard first engaged in the gro cery business, entering the business of which he is now a member five years ago. T. C. TAYLOR, HARDWARE. Scarcely any line of trade is affected by hard times more than the hardware business. The building trade furnishes a very good liarometer for that of hard ware, for if building is lively the hardware business is good. When there is little employment for carpenteis, trade is slack in the hardware line. While these conditions are generally applicable, it is true tl a: Mr. Taylo 's ledger shows sales for the year just closed airmailing to nearly $:52"(KX). His store has lieen in its present location, No. 721 Main street, since March 1st, 18IM. B 'tween January 22d, 1894, and that date it was located under the Frazer ojiera house on Court street. Prior to that tims, as far hack as June, 1837, Mr. Taylor had lieen a well-known business man in Pendleton, having in that vear formed a copartnership with W. II. Jones in the implement and hardware biiiineas. The firm dissolved partnership in January, 1S94, Mr. Taylor handlinir the hardware trade, and Mr. Jones the implement business. Mr. Taylor's store is 2ti by 100 feet, with an additional building in the rearW) by 100, which is employed as a warehouse, manufactory am! workshop. The main store is devoted to the dis play of goods, with which it is well filleil. hardware trade, and includes, as well, Every thing is carried relating to the all kinds of building and blacksmith materials. A complete line of Bridge, Beach & Co's., stoves, guns and sports man's materials, cutlery and table ware of the liest make. Their regular employes, liesides Mr. Tavlor, are sept busy in the store, which is perhaps the beit indication of his success in trade. Mr. Tavlor was born February 22d, " 1S52, at West Boylston, Mass. In No vemlier, 18IK5, the family came to Ill inois, and thence to the Willamette Valley, Oregon, in March, 1879. While in Illinois, Mr. Taylor was married (lS7f) to Miss Laura'B. Allen, daugh ter of Dr. Allen of Pontiac, 111. In Octolier, 1S7!, Mr. Taylor moved to Walla "Aalla, where he was clerk in the establishment of C. C. Powell until livS."5. For the next three years he was in business on his own account, and removed to Pendleten in June, 1887, associating himself with Sturgis & Jones in the hardware trade, in the firm which afterwards became Tavlor, Jones it Co. His business experience since then has lieen related above. He is of an enterprising nature, and al ways subscribes for a share of the stock of any enterprise which he deems will advance the interest of the city of Pendleton, and r.ow holds a director ship in the Pendleton mills. Mr. Taylor is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Elks fraternity, and was elected to the state legislature last June for a term of four years as sena tor. CLEAVER BROTHERS. Boots, Shoes and Rublier Goods. One of the phenomenal business successes of Pendleton is that of Cleaver Bros., in the lines above indicated. They com menced business in their present loca tion, 805 Main street, four years ago. The parents of these enterprising young men are among the oldest of the pio neer, having come over the plains in 1848, and the children are Oregon born, lieing natives of Albany. Their house now has an immense trade, Trhich is constantly increasing. They have made a specialty of mail-order business, so that their local trade forms but a fea ture of their business. Mr. E. E. Cleaver travels a large share of the time, supplying much of the trade as far east as Huntington and north to Pomeroy. They carry but little cheap stock, and all leather goods go out from the store warranted. They handle all the leading makes, and pride them selves on the weiring qualities of their lioots and shoes. The firm has but one price for its goods, from which it makes absolutely no deviation. Owing to their energy, push and original busi ness methods, Cleaver Bros, now have the bulk of trade in the county, and are the only house dealing exclusively in lioots and shoes in Eastern Oregon. They have a shoa shop in the rear of their store, and make a point of sup plying everything called for which is made of leather. Thsir large trade has surprise.! even themselvej, and no house is better known for miles around. TT? NICARAGUA CANAL. This section of Oregon, as well as the whole of the great Pacific Northwest, anticipates great benefit from the com pletion of the Nicaragua canal, and for that reason the people are a unit in fa vor of government aid .to that great en terpiise. Therefore the argument, first, last and all the time, to be pre sented by the Pacific Coast is that bus iness can never revive under present conditions. The canal will open up new channels of business, and will shorten the distance to the best mar kets of the world over 10,000 miles. It will open trade for the lumber, grain, hop, fish and fruits of the Pa cific coast, and thus bring population and wealth beyond the dreams of the W. P. LATHROP. most optimistic. Estimates of proba ble increase of population following the opening of the Nicaragua canal are made by those familiar with the pres ent conditions of the Pacific coast, and it is reasonably expected that tlie pop ulation will increase 100 per cent with in five years after the completion of the canal, and will be multiplied four times within twenty years following. The Pacific coast is vitally interested in this matter, and the canal will be commenced before July 1, 1897, if a united effort is made by the Pacific coast representatives in congress in pushing the hills to completion during the present session. --ataaaaaaaaaaa':AS0 vaaKVaaA aaaaBaBaBfli. faaaaHBaBaBaBaBaBaBaH5 "aaBaaa"i"BaBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBa"i vSP
