East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-20
EFFORT BEING MADE
TO SAVE WHAT ICE
REMAINS N PLANT
CONCERN AT MILTON NAY DE.
eide To REBUILD AFTER
FIRE loss.
New Walls VIII Have to Be Put In as
Insulation Is Completely spoiled By
Flames; Strawberries Are Now
Coming Into the Market; Other
Milton Notes.
(East oregonIan speelal. }

! MILL O4N r AbI4AL " "A 4 LAAt OINsf may
20-As much sawdust and shayings
as could be secured have been hauled
and spread over the ice in the ware
houses Of the Milton Ice Plant, in the
hope Of saving as much Of it as pos
sible until it can be shipped out. In
J case Mr. Retzer rebuilds 1t will be ne
I eessary to construct entirely new
walls as the insulation IS all wet from
the water used to put out the fire.
and new coils for cooling the storage
rooms will be made as all the joints
in the old pipes are more or less leaky
from the heat they underwent. Luck
! lily the condensers did not fall through
the roof into the engine room, and the
| big compressor is apparently unin.
jured unless warping py the heat,
which was not very great except for
short time.
Frank McSherry raised the first
green peas of the season to be receiv-
ed at any Of the local fruit houses.
which were taken in by Denny &
Company May Is, and readily dispos-
ed of in the local markets.
Milton Garage has acquired one Of
the original Henry Ford automobiles,
bearing the serial number 504. In
view of the fact that the Ford com.
pany has made considerably over al
million cars No. 5O4 must be quite
ancient, as cars go. 1t was taken in
in a trade from N. Mcdonald. The
car is four cylinder runabout, right
hand drive. and has earmarks that
show its kinship with the 1916 road
lice"
Strawberries have been coming in
more rapidly every day until Thurs
day, which turned off fairly cool, with
rain in the evening, and local ship
pers were unable to fill their orders
Price has ranged from $3.50 down to
SO, which prevails ow. Unless it turns
off hot Immediately after rain straw
berry growers fear little damage save
by rotting, in the event of long con-
tinued wet SPELL but so long as it re-
mains cool the fruit will not be dam
aged very badly
o. e. S. Auxiliary held their regular
afternoon social meeting with Mrs. F.
E. Cockburn, Wednesday afternoon.
Roy Frazier and wife are visiting
this week with his father, ]. B. Fra
zier.
Columbia College lost a baseball
game to Walla Walia high on Wa HI
field at Walla Waha Wednesday aft.
ernoon by a score of 1870. Hubbs
pitched the first six innings, and held
the Washingtonians down to four
score, while Harrah who relieved
him in the seventh, was hammered
for the other nine runs.
Mrs. ]. B. Washburn left Thursday
morning for Prescott. Washington, for
visit with relatives.
Local Woodmen OF the World VINO
attended the district convention at
Weston Wednesday were t. w. Hew-
lit. r. L. Hayton, U. W. Carney, D.
S. WEIGH Cecil Propeck,. Peter Geiss
and d. A. Pinkerton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Mallory of Wal
la Walla are visiting with Mrs. NAL
lorys parents, Mr.. and Mrs F. NJ,
Kent.
Rev. j. A. Lord returned from a.
business trip to Spokane Wednesday
morning.
Miss Callie Van Slyke. who was for.
ced to resign her position with the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company here several weeks ago onI
account of illness, has not improved
since leaving the office and it isl
thought likely she will be taken to-
Portland for treatment
Thursday night Columbia College
Glee Club gave a benefit entertainment.
for the ball team, which was we'll at
tended apd very enjoyable.
Lawrence Carney, the young son oil
L. w Carney who was thrown from
a delivery wagon when driving down
town to give the alarm of the fire at
the ice plant Tuesday, found out next
day he had a sprained ankle and sew
eral other bruises not noticed at the
time of the accident. The Ford car
which was the immediate cause of tho
delivery wagon turning over, had al
badly twisted front axle and a broken
windshield