East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-07
PERSONAL MENTION

Nidrk IL. Nelson was in town last
night from Weston.
J. NJ. Butler of Cayuse, is i'm the
city today, on trading trip.
James Nagle left last night for San
Francisco, on a months vacation.
Dwelley Herrick. a walla Walla
music dealer, is in Pendleton on busi-
ness.
j. NJ. Hemphill, of Pilot Rock, is
a guest of Hotel Bickers while in the
city today on business.
Senator Walter NJ. Pierce leaves to-
night for California to look after ex-
'ensive interests at Victoria Island.
H. T. Herrick, of Walla walla, is
IN the city today on business connect
ed with his music store in that city
Mrs. w. ]. Sewell has been quite i'll
with an attack of grip for several
days, She is somewhat better today.
George Ferguson. of the Teutsch de-
partment store, has been i'll for a
couple of days with an attack of grip.
Mrs. B. F. McElroy, of wallowa,
who has been visiting ]. B. Mumford
and, family, starts for home tomorrow.
W. E. Davidson, of Davidson Real
Estate and Mining company has re-
turned from business trip to Port
land.
j. j. Kaufman, a prominent Walla
Walla meat dealer, and former chief
of police of that city, is in Pendleton
today.
T. j. Wright, an experienced phar-
macist from Spokane, has accepted a
position with the Tallman Drug com
pany.
Mrs. Thomas Boylen submitted to
an operation today at st. Anthony's
hospital. She is doing nicely this
evening.
The motor of the organ at the Pres
byterian church will be thoroughly
overhauled at once and put in first
class order.
Louis Proebstel, of Weston, was in
Pendleton yesterday afternoon to at
tend the funeral of the late Charles
A. Cameron
Mrs. d. B. Bailey and Mrs. Mary
Thompson went to Walla Walla this
morning to visit friends. They will
return this evening.
George Lingreen, of Union, who
underwent an operation for hernia,
at St Anthony's hospital, a few days
ago, is recovering rapidly.
John H. Dupes, fireman on the o.
r. & N. is in the city on a visit with
friends. He has just returned from
Spokane on a short vacation.
D. B. Bailey. of the Boston Store,
has received the news that his mother
is seriously i'll in the east and he may
possibly be called home to attend her.
Glen Nixdorff, who has just recov-
cred from a severe attack of typhoid
fever, has accepted position as night
operator at Echo with the o. R. G. N.
Miss Elsie w. HIATT will arrive from
San Francisco this evening and will
make her home with her brother G.
C. HIATT, manager here for the Western
Union.
J. H. O'Neil, the genial travelling
passenger agent of the o. r. & N,
was in the city this morning on bust
ness connected with the Walla Walla
special train.
w. p. Temple has been suffering
severely from asthma since his return
from the east several weeks ago. He
was never troubled with the disease
before his trip east.
Robert Forster has returned from a
trip to Portland, in the interest of his
extensive planning mill business in this
city He is continually adding new
machinery and now has ore of the
best equipped plants in the Inland
Empire.
Engineer Frank Pike, formerly
resident of this city, but for several
years past on an o. r. G. N. helper
engine at Telocaset., has again taken
a freight engine and passed through
the city west today for the first time
in four years.
f. b. Shafer, a prominent farmer,
from north of town, is somewhat
alarmed at the condition of much of
the wheat in his vicinity. Unless the
weather changes and warm rains
come very soon, to start the wheat
that is sown, much of it will have to
be reseeded. Many farmers in that
vicinity did not save over enough
wheat 10 reseed with.
F. B. Holbrook, of Irrigon, superin-
tendent of the land and water COM
pany's irrigation scheme at that place,
and founder of the town of Irrigon;
superintendent of the Irrigon Sunday
school, editor of the Irrigon Irrigator
and lone Post, chairman of the Irri-
gon school board, and one of the most
enthusiastic irrigators in the arid belt,