East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-05
ECHO NEWS NOTES.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
ON LARGE BUILDING
Dorm Bros Building VIII BE Two
Stories High and Have 75-Foot
FrOnt-WilI BE Used for Postof-
flee and Officcs-EspwOrth League
Entertains Saturday Night-Child
Is Injured by Horses-Speclal Ser
mons at NJ. IL. Church.
Especial Correspondence)

Echo, Ore, May 3.-Work is t.
begin tomorrow morning on the Dorl
Bros handsome building. 1t will
have a rs foot front, will be eighty
! feet deep and two stories high anu
made of reinforced concrete. There
will be basement under a portion
| of the building. The corner room bor-
derlng on Bridge and Bonanza streets
will be fitted with a vault and be
made suitable for bank. One apart
ment will be used for the postoffice,
with all modern equiments, and the
other for an up-to-date drug store.
In all probabilities the second floor
will be fitted for offices. This build
ing will do credit to a town of 5000
| inhabitants. The contract was award
ed to F. w. Godfry Of this place, who
has just completed the Smith con-
crete building and the Masonic con-
crete basement.
Epworth League Entertalns.
The Epworth League of this place
gave an entertainment and ice cream
social in the I. o. o. f. hall Saturday
night. The prett!est feature of tn,
program was when twenty little girls
dressed in white danced around the
May pole while winding it up with
red, white and blue ribbons, the ma
tional colors. It was truly a pleasing
sight to note how perfectly and grace
fully they executed the two-step. The
rest of the program was very enter
tanning Ice cream and cake was gen.
erously served. The receipts for the.
evening was twenty dollars
Child Is Injured.
Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Pages little two
year old son frankie met with a Sc
rious accident Saturday night at
Stanfields. Mr.. Page was watering
the work horses when one of them
became frightened and ran over the
child, breaking his leg just above the
ankle. DR.. Dorm reduced the frac-
ture and as the bone is soft it will be
likely to heal soon.
Mr.. Henderson, an Episcopalian
missionary, held services here last
night in the I. o. +. hall.
A. a, Metcalf. NJ. E. pastor,
mons entitled "The Young Man"
The special subject last night was:
"The Young Man Getting His Bear
ings." "The second will be, "His
Mothers Bible" third. Getting
Wife and Keeping Her" fourth,
Westward OF Fifty"
Personals.
Mrs. f. w. Hendley Of Penileton
is visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
j. II. Koontz.
f. w. Godfry returned from Pen
dleton today. While there DR. Hen
dcrson extracted a piece Of steel from
his eye. About ten days ago while !
filing saw particle of steel flew
in his eye and has been bothering
him ever since, until its removal to-
day
Miss Margrette f. Winifred return |
ed today from Milton. where she has |
been since Friday She was called
there to attend the funeral services
of her friend, Mrs. Mosgrove.
Miss Sophia Reeves of Hermlston
spent the past two days visiting with
her friend, Mrs Blanche Brown of
this place.
VIM. Daughtry returned Sunday to
his home in Portland
At meeting of the firemen to-
night they decided to celebrate here
on the Fourth of July and they are
going at it in earnest. They appoint
ed Asa b. Thomson, Fleet Young and
9. A. Gilbert on the finance commit
tee. AS they are hustlers it VIII GER
-ainly be a success.
Water System Sclf-supporting.
The city of Echo has at last gotten
is water system on self-supporting
basis through the meter system. One =
7ear ago the plant was going behind
rom $50 to 500 per month but
through efficient management by ex- |
'erienced officials this has been
changed until today with /
he water meters and the gradual in {