East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-11-21
PERSONAL MENTION

today. the guest of Hotel Bickers.
Roy Hall, of Union, is visiting his
uncle. DIR. Lynn K. Blakeslee, for
few days.
Superintendent NJ. ]. Buckley, of
the o. R. & N. lines in Oregon, is |
in the city today.
Judge S. A. Lowell and 7. G. HALEY |
and family are expected to arrive |
home from the Ell Paso Irrigation |
Congress this week.
w, ]. Lindsay and wife, of Port !
land who attended the funeral of
Conductor A. P. Nash yesterday, re-
turned home this morning.
w. T. Wright, president of the First
National bank of Union, and a promi-
nent Mason of the state, attended the
funeral of Conductor Nash yesterday.
Mrs. Hannah Rogers, of La Grande,
who is the guest of Mrs. Charles F.
Brown, has been i'll with the grip
since coming to Pendleton, but is now
much improved.
w. B. Gross, advance agent for
the Shore Acres company which
comes to the Frazer theater on De-
cemter l, spent the day in the city
the guest of Manager Taylor, of the
Frazer.
]. L. McCrary, who has been in
the passenger service on the run be-
tween this city and Huntington, in
the absence of w. H. Kelsay, for a
few days, will return home to La
Grande tomorrow.
f. A. Bidwell of Union, one of the
most prominent millmen and stock
buyers of Eastern Oregon, and
member of the Union FIGURING Mill
Company, attended the funeral of
Conductor A. P. Nash yesterday.
W. P. Shepard, formerly on the po-
lice force of this city now with the
bridge and building department of the
o. r. & N, is in the city on a brief
visit. and. will leave tonight for Uma-
tilla where he will join his crew.
C.. L. Battelle has been temporarily
employed in the Western Union Of
fees. to assist in the office work. The
business of the offices is rapidly in
creasing and the messenger service
must be increased also, to accommo-
date the growing delivery patronage.
j. F. Thompson and wife of Glib
bon, are in the city today on a trad
ing trip. Mr.. Thompson is a promi-
nent stockman of Umatilla river, and
has recently built a new house on his
farm, in place of one that was burned
in September.
Mrs. L. ]. Swafford, of Salem, who
| has been visiting her brother, Post
master ]. S. Vinson, of Freewater,
stopped over in this city Sunday Wis
| iting friends on her return home.
She will stop few days at Echo to
visit another brother, before going
to Salem. ata
James A. Howard, of the Golconda,
.is still in the city arranging for the
disposal of that property. 1t is hoped
by the officials that some definite
understanding may be reached soon,
so the property may be opened up
and made "a regular producer once
more.
JOt tOllilOilg hNlll OuN W iio oiiONh
ranch today to look after the flocks
preparatory to beginning the winter
Had the sheepmen known that the
good weather would last as it has
many of them would not have driver
down from the mountains ranges an
til now. The foothill ranges are need
ing rain very badly.
w. H. Zehrung, formerly of th'
roadmaster's office in the city, bu
now in the general o. r. & N. offices
in Portland, is in the city for shor
visit. accompanied by Mrs. Zehrung
Mr.. Zehrung has been i'll for fey
weeks and they have been to Spokan
and other points in hopes that tn
rest and travel would improve hi
condition.
Fred Waffle, of the freight servic
on the La Grande division of the c
r. & N, will now remove to this cit
permanently to take the passenge
run vacated by the death of Conduc
tor A. p. Nash. Mr.. Waffle is we
S known in this city, having been i
e business here before beginning wor
for the o. r. & N.
Mrs. j. S. Mathews, who has &C
: companied her husband with his cre'
:, of bridge carpenters on the Q. X.
y n. this season. came in from Wealth
: erby Saturday night, to visit he
:, daughter. Mrs. Mable Penland, fe'
days before going to Moscow on
brief visit. Mr.. Mathews expects
arrive in the city for the winter in
few weeks.