East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-27
WHO SAID RA|N?"
UNIQUE ADVERTISEMENT
SENT OUT FROM EUGENE.
Chicago Capitalists Visit Oregon
Good Roads Being Discussed Ev-
erywhere-Giant Cherry Creates
ensatlon-Posmaster Of State to
Meet.
(snecial Correspondence.) }

Portland, Ore, July 81, 1908.
Hon. Austin T. Buxton Of Forest
Grove, master Of the Oregon State
Grange, will personally attend the
good roads conference to be held IN
the convention hall of the Portland
commercial club August nth, and he
is anxious that each subordinate or
local grange In the state send one
delegate, and he requests that such
delegates be named at once and re-
port made to w. L. Crissey of Port
land
Weather Bureau Quoted.
"Who Said Rain" is the latest ad-
vertisement issued by Manager John
H Hartog Of the Eugene commercial
club. A Eugene belle is photographed
three times, standing in glasses, each
of which contains the rainfall for one
year, one in Eugene with 3S inches,
and the girls face has happy ex-
preston; New York city with 40
inches. and that expression becomes
doubtful while with New Orleans,
with 62 inches. makes her cry for
help. The leaflet quotes from re-
mort of the United States weather
bureau that during 1907 Eugene had
2O5 days without any rain and 70
DAYS when It ralned less than one
tenth of an inch.
Easern Men OF Means.
II. A. Wheeler, president of the
Chicago Credit Clearing company and
A. d. Stevens, president OF the Amer
lean SILK company, OF the same city,
are visiting the Pacific Northwest.
They spent full week in oregon and
expressed themselves as delighted.
They will report their ideas OF the
country TO the 1900 Chicago bus
mess men comprising the Chicago
Association OF Commerce.
New Cherry.
The new Giant cherry, a cross be-
tween the Lambert and the Bing, cre-
ated a sensation on the Portland mar
ket last week. There were some
specimens that measured an inch and
a half in diameter.
Postmasters 90 Meet.
The Presidential Postmasters' as
sociation of oregon will meet in the
convention hall OF the Portland COM
mercial club August and 8. and have
invited the fourth class postmasters
10 meet with them. The commercial
bodies of the state have Joined with
the postmasters in inviting Postmaster
General Meyer to attend, and arrange
ments have been made for meetings
in Washington and California, so that
the postmaster general may attend all
three with the least possible loss OF
time.
Complimentary Dinner.
The active advertising men of Port
land gave an advertising dinner at
the Portland commercial club last
week to that veteran advertiser, Mr.
Charles H. Fuller OF Chicago.
Washington Judge Interested.
County Judge Goodin of Washing
ton county is interested in the good
roads conference and pledges a del
egation Of from twelve to twenty
representative Washington county cit
izens. Baker City, Junction City, Eu-
gene, Albany and many other points
promise good delegations, and there
is every assurance OF the best meeting
ever held in oregon.
Fine Wheat Samples.
The lone Proclaimer sent TO the
Portland commercial club last week
a box containing come of the finest
saroniaa NJ wheat of different kinds
ever grown in oregon. They attract
ed much attention and were unlver-
SALLY complimented.