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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
Is POSTPONED

MEETING is POSTPONED
A meeting of the music department
of the Pendleton Womens Club. to
have been held Monday. has been
postponed for two weeks. 1t will be
held April 3, with Mrs. Frank E. Boy
den in charge of the program.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
MRS pRVFITT DEPARTS

Mrs. w. c. f. Pruitt and little dau-
ghter, Mary Helen, who have been in
Pendloton for the past week, return
ed today to Portland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18

Corner College and East Alta. Rev,
'G. l.. Clark, pastor.
10000 a. m. sabbath school, A. C..
Funk, supt,
ll.00 Il, m. sermon,
Gas p m. Christian Endeavor.
Leader, Miss sylvester Christopher.
7;S0 p. m, sermon.
Special music by choir. A welcome
to all.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
DEI.PHIAN CLrR MEETS

DELPHIAN CLUB MEETS
For meeting Of the Delphia Club
yesterday afternoon in the library
club room. Mrs Alger Fee and Mrs.
Roger Kay were hostesses. the topic
for the afternoons study being the
Renaissance.
Mrs. b. $. Burroughs read a pre-
fatory chapter on the Renaissance.
and Mrs. f. F. Averill gave a talk on
the same subject. A talk on Flor
ence" was given By Mrs. Minnie Still
man. Mrs. ]. T. Richardson gave a
bit of Oregon history. including the
Joint occupation Of oregon. and DR..
McI.aughlIn's coming to this state.
The musical numbers were es-
pecially pleasing. Mrs. David Stone
of Athena sang Lovely Spring and
Little Brown Owl" she was accom-
panied by Mrs. Bert A. Mcdonald.
Miss Barbara Edmonds played the
venetian Boat Song by GODDARD. A
girls auarete composed of Merle Tenn
pie. Vera Hampton. Edna Murphy and
Marie Fletcher, song Whispering
Hope
During the social hour Mrs. William
Roesch. ST. and Mrs. Stone presided
at tea table centered with mari
Colds.
MRS MGEE HONORED
y In appreciation Of the services OF
Mrs. j. W. McGee as social captain of
the Degree Of Honor during the past
year, members of her committee
"surprised" her yesterday afternoon
when they called at her home for an
informal party.
Mrs. U. s. Farley made a short
talk expressing the gratitude Of the
committee for Mrs. McGee's LEADER
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
MRS. JACKSON HERE

Mrs, Clint Jackson, of Hermiston,
is in Pendleton today and is Wis
itor at the home of her mother, Mrs.
~, l.. Mcpherson.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
,JJ'RY rs SPLIT.

LOS ANGELES. March lS.-E.i J
After eight ballots, the Obenchain
jury was reported to be split nine to
three for conviction this morning.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18

WILL SPEND WEEK END.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth McRae will
spend the weekend in Freewater.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
LEAVES FOR PORTLAND.

Mrs. Lyman G. Rice left last eve-
ming for Portland, where she will re-
main during the season of grand
opera.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
DINNER is GIVEN

A group of twelve will be guests this
evening at no-host dinner, at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. l.. M. Spauld-
Ing, eli Lincoln street.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
CARD PARTY GIVEN

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Phillips were,
hosts last evening for bridge party,
at which the founders of the Tillicum
Club were guests.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
LUNCHEON TO BE GIVEN.

Members of the Degree of Honor
will entertain on Tuesday afternoon
with 1870 luncheon in the l. O, o.
Il. hall. The affair will be in honor
of Mrs. Walter Jones, who will leave
soon to make her home at Thorn
Hollow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
MRS. DoNAHUE HERE.

Mrs j. C. Donahue, of Ritzville, is
la Pendleton visitor She ;s at the
home of her parents, Mr., and Mrs.
William Scheer
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
4:so vespers and sermon.

Sermon topics for tomorrow are !:
Partnership With God" for the
morning and Satan Transformed In
to an Angel of Light for Vespers.
The public is cordially invited.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
ALWAYS TIRED
NO AMBITION
Nervous and Dizzy, Every.
thing Seemed to Worry Me.
How | Got Well
|IIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIIIIIl

Larwill, Indiana. -''My back was SO
bad l could not do my washing. / was al
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
is I'LL AT HOME.

Mrs. Ira Hughes, of 327 Ann street,
is very Ill at her home, She is suffer-
ing from relapse of Ia grippe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
CARD PARTY GIVEN.

Mrs. Alfred Smith. Mrs. Frank
Griggs and Mrs. Earl Gillanders were
hostesses last evening at a card par
ty at the home of Mrs. Smith. High
score trophies were won ny Mrs
Kenenth McRae and DR.. Fred Lieu
allen, while the consolation prize was
won by ]. r. Tryon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
Church Of the Redccn,cr.

Rev. Alfred Lockwood, rector.
s;oo a. m. Holy Communion.
9;i5 Sunday school.
ii;oO Morning PRAYER and sermon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
CLASS INITIATED.

A class Of eight was initiated into
the Women's Benefit Association last
evening at the Knights of Pythias hall.
Mrs. Payne. color bearer No. /, and
her guard, entertained members and
friends. st. Patrick's Day decorations
were used
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18

HERE FROM HERMISTON
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Neal OF
Hermiston are in tho city for the day.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18

MRS. MAC MASTER HOSTESS
For the second OF series OF par
ties. Mrs. J. II. MaeAIaster was hostess
last evening for a. bridge party at her
home, 4l5 Garfield street. Three
tables of bridge were in play. Jon
quils and carnations were used in
decorating, and a st. Patrick..s motif
was used in the rsfreshments.
Guests were Mrs. S. A. Newberry,
Mrs. Caspar Woodward, Mrs. ]. Il.
Richardson, Mrs. Laura ID. Nash, Mrs.
Mary Disosway. Mrs. Il. II. Horne,
Mrs. f. F. Clark, Mrs. f. B. Aldrich,
Mrs. David Nelson and Mrs. r. d.
Sayres.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-18
Social and Club NezCS

SPECIAL INVITATION
For the next meeting of the Pendle-
ton women's Club. 10 be held on
Thursday afternoon in the library club
room, a special invitation has been
extended TO all Parent Teacher Asso-
Citations Of Pendleton. The meeting is
open to the general public. the theme
oeing child welfare.
An excellent program has been
planned. Ciubwomen or oregon be-
iieve that they can serve the state in
no better way than TO familiarize
themselves with the child welfare laws
Of the state. Mrs. W. d. AIcNary is in
charge of the program. and is assist
ed by members OF the child welfare
committee.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
Naval Service.

were living in New York, Murchison
joined the New York Athletic Club and
took part in many track meetings in which
he won the dashes. His work became so
noticeably good that when the tryouts
were held to select members for the
American Olympic team to appear against
the worlds best athletes in Antwerp in
the Summer of 1920 Murchison was urged
to try for the team. In the tryouts held
at the Harvard Stadium at Cambridge he
easily won place in the sprints and great
things were looked forward to from him
at Antwerp.
Finally the great day arrived when his
speed was to be put to the test before
Belgian royalty and the assembled athletes
from all the countries of Europe. Through
the preliminaries and semi-fnals Murchi-
son fought his way until he was selected
to run in the finals against great Charlie
Paddock, like himself another American.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

he led to the altar the young and pretty
girl who so greatly admired his flying
heels, that interest was somewhat different
from his brides, if judged by after
events.
The cinder track seems to have become
one of the strongest objects of his de-
voted attention, while homemaking and
babies appealed more to Mrs. Murchison.
Life to her took on the uncertainties of a
grasshopper existence-irst living in one
place and then in another.
'Tn our three years of married lte,"
she says, 1--WE have lived at various times
in four different apartments in St. Louis,
two apartments in New York and one in
Chicago. This does not include the many
hotels where we lived at short periods in
various cities.
Loren, it seems, has the wanderlust-
practically since he was seventeen years
old. Why he even went so far as to ask
me to cut my hair, don male attire and
travel around with him like a man.
"He has received many honors such as
are accorded all nationally known heroes.
But he never appreciated the finer things
of life"
Doubtless Mrs. Murchison might have
found it easier to put up with this travel
ling if her husband gave her more time
to put the chattels of their love nest into
their proper places before making tracks
for some other scene for athletic con-
quests.
His actions raised such questions as
these in his wife's mind. Was it the
urge of speed and still more speed that
kept him on the jump? Did he even want
to speed up her life when he asked her to
don breeches and travel about with him
without the encumbering furbelows so
dear to the heart of a woman? Psy-
biologists might find an interesting mo-
tive in these ideas But the runabout life
didn't appeal to Mrs. Murchison.
In his wooing of Geneva Whitley
Murchison showed the same speed that he
does on the track. Three. months after
they met they were married and Mrs.
MurchisOn sometimes consoles herself with
the thought that if her husband had been
a long distance runner instead OF sprin-
ter all might have turned out differently.
Her justification for this belief is found
partly in her own life as well as that of
her husbands which made it so easy to
find a common ground of understanding
in the brief days of their courtship.
Geneva Whitley born the daughter Of
Mrs. and DR.. j. C. Whitley, lived her
early life in Texas. Like the great ma
jority of the girls in that Lone Star
State, she learned something more than
how to feed the cows and the chickens.
Even when quite young she took to horse
back riding and, as the favored sister Of
two husky brothers, she was an outdoor
girl, becoming proficient as a golfer and
as a tennis player. To add to her sport
ing accomplishments she took up swim
ming, and even to this day goes in for all
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

The final 100-metre dash will go down
in history as one of the most grueling
ever fought. 1t appears that as the men
toed the scratch they all seemed to be
laboring under great nervous strain.
The starter tried to get them off, but like
mettlesome race horses, they broke away
time ant again. On one occasion Pad
dock covered more than fifty metres be-
fore he came to stop and landing nearly
in the middle of the grand stand, tapped
the wooden rniling in front of the as
sembled multitude to give him luck.
When the pistol rang out and the athletes
tore away low murmur broke from the
crowd as it was seen that Murchison was
left standing up at the start. But he
broke after the fast-fiseing runners and
finished so -as to win a point for the
United States team, but not far enough
up in the race to satisfy himself by any
means.
He came back to the judges stand and
registered a protest, claiming that the
starter had told Paddock, who won the
race, to take his hands off the starting
line and immediately thereon fired the
pistol which set the runners going and
caught Murchison off his start. He be-
lieved that the starter should have given
the "All Set" signal over again before
he fired the gun, so that they would all
get off to a fair and equal start.
This protest was brought before the
officials the next day for con Iteration.
But they declared a race and Murch-
sons chances to lead the van in the Olym-
pics, on which he had set his heart, went
f1ittering with that decision. In the 200
metre race, which followed a few days
later, Murchison won a better place and
added other points for Uncle Sans team.
The effect of that race no doubt made
a great difference in Loren Murchison's
life. He came back to the United States
and kept himself in perfect training, run
ming repeatedly at the different meets and
showing his heels to!his competitors. Then
he challenged Charlie Paddock to a match
race, but up to date his challenge has not
been accepted.
Thus it appears that Murchison's de-
termination to keep himself up to top
notch pitch in his speed and the neces-
sary training entailed has made quite a
difference in the life of his bride also.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

|AN man outrun love? Mrs. Geneva
Murchison answers Eyes" to this
rather unusual question and reveals
that Murchison caught up with love and
won her by his high speed, but lost her
while training for still higher speed:
Loren Murchison, Olympic hero, has
beaten almost every top-notch sprinter in
the country. Indoors he holds the record
for 800 yards and has equalled nearly
every record from 60 yards up to 300.
On the cinders he is out to lower the
colors of Charlie Paddock, generally con-
sidered the worlds fastest man in the
dashes.
And there's the rub.
"He was so engrossed in his business
and athletics that he had no time for me-"
is the exact complaint Mrs. Murchison
filed in her petition for divorce. Which
raises the very interesting problem for
the Judge to decide how much time should
a married man devote to his wife.
Perhaps if Charlie Paddock had not
flashed across the tape winner Of the 100
meter dash at the Olympic games in Ant
werp the Murchison love bark might have
had smoother sailing. At any rate from
that moment when Murchison was left
standing at the start at Antwerp he made
up his mind to (beat the man who beat
him that day.
Of course, that meant training-con-
slant, everlasting training-until Mrs.
Murchison decided that she was being
deprived of the companionship from her
husband that was her right as a married
woman
The loving cups, medals and other tro-
phies of the races he poured into her lap
at almost every athletic meet were worth
less baubles to her when compared with
q baby.
"Please don't say never appreciated
the achievements of Loren in his athletic
world" she sobbed when speaking of the
end of her high-speed romance. IL was
always out along the front lines cheer
ing for him as he broke across the lines
a winner. And when he helped achieve
the worlds championship in the relay race
at Antwerp two years ago | thought he
should stop there and settle down with his
wife for a home and family. After win
ming the Olympic honors hoped he would
start in for a domestic life.
"There must be something wrong even
in these unsettled times if husband does
not want a home. AS far back as man
kind goes it has been the natural instinct
of man to work and build home, be it
ever so humble.
"There is something radically wrong
when a man or wife does not want to
have children. It is seldom you will find
a happy home without them"
Perhaps the Murchison's is the only case
on record in which spiked shoes and not
hearts have been mixed up in love. What
ever interest Loren Murchison had when
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

made the most of with Geneva Whitley,
and the old story of love at first sight
prevailed. The common interest in
athletics of Geneva Whitley and Loren
Murchison brought their hearts together
as no other influence could, with the re-
suit that three months later, iu April,
1919, they were married.
The young couple then came to New
York, where they settled. As Murchison
still kept up his track trainin., they found
it convenient to olive in hotels and in a
cozy apartment.
Time began to weigh heavily on the
brides hands. She conceived an idea of
putting her accomplishments as a musi-
clan, singer and dancer to some practical
use, so she joined film organization. It
seemed somewhat prophetic that the film
in which she, as a bride, appeared was
named bride Thirteenp
Shortly after his marriage, while they
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

Soon Mrs Murchison began to miss
some of those attentions of her courtship
days To her a man who cannot rise to
sentimental heights when looking at the
moon on a bright night love seems some
what discouraging.
Romance! He does not know what it
MEANS" she says. "There is no more
romance in his makeup than in an cleo
trio fan. We would be out driving in
the evening. There would be a bright
moon. l would say, Loren, dear, look
at the beautiful moon He would re-
spond crudely with, What moon, where
is it?'
"His is a single-track, self-centered
mind. l got his point of view perfectly.
He was a good provider, but as a real
herman or husband he makes wonderful
boy. He might grow up within the next
ten or twelve years"
"His mind is on athletics and business.
1t took away the devotion a husband
should have for a wife. l stood for it
until he got to the top. The medals did
not mean money, merely honor. II it
were a means of making a living all
would have been different.
81 imagined that after we were married
there would be home and children to
occupy my time. Now | have neither.
Without either a married woman finds
her life an aimless one.
Loren shows the same cold Indifference
to all women and do not believe in try
ing to make a man over A woman cam
not change a man entirely, as he will
always miss some of the finer things
"Loren never smokes vr drinks. He
keeps himself in fine fettle all the time.
. His whole life is centered about athletics"
But Murchison, in spite of all his train
ing, lately has shown signs of slipping,
perhaps because his domestic difficulties
are on his mind. Mrs. Murchison sug-
gested as much when she attributed the
recent defeats of her husband for the
championship of the Middle West at De-
troit and his defeat at Newark for the
Eastern title to his unsettled domestic
troubles. And so she wants to give him
his freedom as a way out of an embtrras-
sing dilemma for herself and secretly,
perhaps, to make it possible for him to
devote all his spare time to the cinder
track that his life's ambition to become
Americas fastest sprinter may be graft
fed.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
Murchison
- Third from
the Left)
Breasting the
Tape, Winner in
the 100-Yard
Dash, Competing
Against Some of
the Fastest
Sprinters in the
Country at Traver's
Island.

Her brunette beauty and
1.-the figure were equally
charming in a dancing
frock or in the breeches
and .puttees she used on
horseback. While still a
comparatively young girl
the Whitley family moved
to St. Louis.
Here Loren Murchison
was making a name for
himself on the cinder
track. He attended the
Mckinley High School,
where he was easily the
star runner of all the boys
that attended that institu-
ton. Meanwhile, Geneva
Whitley's two brothers,
Gill and Earl, also attend
ed the Central High
School in St. Louis, where
they went in for track
athletics. They faced
Murchison on the cinders.
Geneva Whitley looked
on, and as so frequently
happens with a tenn
peramental athletic
girl, she lost her heart
to the man who beat
her brothers that day.
Then the war came
on and fate juggled
the incidents in the
lives of Murchison
and one Of the Whit
ley boys so that the /
romance between the +
two house grew Il
apace. During the
war Loren Murchison,
wanting to serve his
country, enlisted in
the United States
Navy and was sent to
the Great l. axes
Naval S tat ION for
training. Loo king
around for \ familiar
faces one day he met
Earl Whitley. Both
of these young men
had a friend also
stationed at the train
ing station who fell a
victim of the ''flu"
and died. And when
his body was sent on
to St. Louis for burial
Loren Murchison and
Earl Whitley were A
selected as two of the
pall-bearers.
Here was an Oppor-
tunitv that Murchisnp
The evening world., 1922-04-07
GHOST" HOLDS UP
BAyONNE BUS AND
EVADES PURSUIT
Pale and Nimble, but Passen-
gers Were Paler-DistanceS
Motor Cop.

A posse OF ghost hunters is being
nimblc, spirit that scared whole bus
ful of material folks at o'clock this
morning, in the shivery spot where
Hudson Boulevard crosses the boun-
Diary between Jersey City and
Bayonne.
Charles Scara (heavy accent on the
penultimate) is fairly calm now, with
normal pulse and temperature and a
steady light in his eyes, SO let him
tell it.
I'm bus driver" says Charlie. Il
live at No. 1S1 Armstrong Avenue.
Ten passengers got into my bus at
the Summit Avenue tube station and
three of them were women. We
started for Bayonne and nothing hap
pened until we reached the boundary
line.
"Then right out OF the middle of a
llIlG DnSH On luC east SlUt vi lIt
road jumps this gho--- this figure,
all as white as paper, without any
honest looking legs or arms but with
wavy draperies that acted rs if they
had legs inside OF EN- You might
say 1t was a man with a sheet on
but
THE funny thing was the way it
acted. Danced right out into the
middle of the road before | could stop
the bus, and we bumped right into
it--only we didn't. What ! mean Is
we hit the spot where it was, but it
wasn't there, so to speak. II was
like humping into a puff of smoke
We went right over it and IL Just
rolled around for minute among the
wheels, then jumped out on the west
side of the road and sailed away,
II yelled. The women screamed.
stopped the bus and | and the ncr
passengers got out and started e
chase the darn thing. 1t was nopi,r
for Currie's woods,
along came Joe Murray, the mOlu.
Continued on Second Page
The evening world., 1922-04-07

rector OF the Paroles DIVISION. who de-
clared that the get up of the modern
happer was demoralizing to the male
force of the department, Mrs. Mey-
trott pronounced her ultimatum that
the girls must report for work dressed
in quiet business like costumes and
without frills, cosmetics, or rouge.
When this warning was first sound =
ed a few weeks ago, two of the girl
clerks who had never even powdered
their noses" before, appeared for work
with their cheeks smeared with rouge,
their lips painted scarlet, their eye
brows blackened and their ears be-
decked with car rings. They declared
that they resented and defled Mrs.
Meytrotts order, which was an in
frinRement n their rights,