NRVALLIS PUBLIC LIBRAKK

Spring 1962 NO.,^ 35c CORVALLIS COLLECTOR'S ITEM

You will want to save your copies of "Corvallis," for in it you will find the most complete record, old and new, of this city and county. The anatomy of a home- town where you live or through which you are passing. Pictures galore, and we need more! Do you have a story to tell? What's in your attic, neighbor?

Do you remember? - General McAlexander "No. 9 Wants a Job'' Dick Kiger Marshall Miller Ned Smith 'Ihe big flood of 1861 A's and K's Gun Hodes

Read the "Corvallis" magazine and you will better appreciate this town and the republic that is America.

P. 0.Box 122 CORVALLIS, Looking Forward eat other animals. His cousin, GOOFS & BLOOPERS Australopi thccus africanus, who with TOM WILSON lived in central Africa near Lake LAST ISSUE VOLUME I SPRING 1962 NUMBER 2 Victoria, was carniverous and Page 4: Photo at top of page, CORVALLIS is published quarterly by OF THE MANY USES of history, the found it necessary to eat meat should be 2nd St. looking north Thomas A. Wilson, P. 0. Box 122. Cor- foremost is that through its to live. He was not a big fellow, vallis, Oregon. Business office at 225 So. from Jefferson. 2nd St. Printing plant on Hwy. 20. north. study we can learn what we are, only about 90 pounds, had finger Page 15: Spur1 in and ~obnett Published privately and independently. our identity, our problems and nails instead of claws, lacked store is at 2nd and Adams Sts. MEMBER what other men have done in try- canine teeth, and walked on his Benton County Pioneer-Historical Society ing to solve similar problems. hind legs. How in the mrld could THIS ISSUE , Oregon Historical Society Ordinarily we think of history this little fellow kill the big- Page 18: 1915 Hudson shown in Classified Advertising: 10 cents per word. as being the affairs of man since ger, more cunning, swifter, more 1913 photo. GOOD GRIEF!! Display: full page, $25; M page, $15; , he first began remembering the ferocious beasts, such as ba- Page 22: Carriage factory shown 1/4 page. $10; % page, $5.50. SPECIAL past by means of language. In boons, hyenas, wildbeest, ante- in photo was between RR St. and RATE for business and professional cards: $5 for 4 issues. Subscriptions - $1 a year. the broader sense anthropology lope, or lions? A Street, one block south of WANTED - Short articles, old photos. is the entire history of man He used weapons. Among; his Washington. drawings and other appropriate material. from his earliest beginnings, No payment except in extra copies. earliest weapons was the femur which leads us back to the first p-- bone of the antelope, which he COVER DESIGN by Doug1 as Downer, appearance of life on earth. used as a club. For a cutting EVERYTFUNG FOR Corval l i s High School. Whether the history of life in and slashing weapon, he used YOUR DUMB FRIENDS outer space will become a special half of the lower jaw of the Subscribe Now branch of anthropology remains small Duiker antelope. After to be seen. a few hundred thousand years he In general, the behavior of learned also how to chip out man today is bound to be what he flint hand axes. has inherited from his past mul- These ~ustralopithecines tiplied by his present environ- africanus and robustus were not mental circumstances. In other men, but their invention and use words - man is what he is plus of tools and weapons proves that what he has to do to keep going. what r hey learned to do in early Anthropologists used to say ~leistocenetimes became part of that man was the first tool- the history of man, whose com- making animal. However, in the puters and atomic weapons of "new" anthropology of the past today make us the tool-makers years, some old ideas like 30 and killers par ezcel lence.1 that one have had to be discarded Is war an instinct of man? in the light of more recent dis- Looks like it. At least that is .i coveries. For example, a higher one of our big problems of these ' ape, the Aus tralopi thecus ro- present times. And if we can bustus, who lived nearly a mil- learn from history how to prevent ( lion years ago, made and used war, perhaps we shall survive and simple stone hand axes for dig- make more history. ging roots out of the ground and insects out of the bark of trees. More on this subject may be found in AFRICAN GENESIS, Robert Second Street in late 18001s, looking north from Adams. He was a vegetarian and did not Ardrey, Atheneum, N. Y., 1961, 380 pp. made nearly a thousand dollars "To add to the excitement, an FROM OUR READERS apiece for our hard work that inebriated local citizen, looking year, which looked like big for trouble, took an axe- handle Editor's Note: We have received Dear Mr. Wilson: money to me then, and it gave and proceeded into the room where many wonderful letters in re- " . . . .Have read your snappy me a love for the woods and the hungry Orientals were eating, sponse to our Vol. I, No. 1. magazine with much interest. I timber that still lives with rne. and began whacking them over the Lack of space prevents us from came here via covered wagon in " . . .Your story of the Corval- head. You should have seen them printing more than some brief the fall of 1884 from Corvallis. lis and Frustration railroad is scatter, as they jumped through excerpts from only a few of them. The Yaquina Bay country and your interesting, as the first job open windows or any available The following selection, how- city have always had a lot in I ever had in Oregon was working exit. Soon the town marshal1 ap- ever, will show the warm and common. " on the grade of that road. " peared and carted the drunk off sincere interest with which our Jack Fogarty A. W. Morgan to jail. first issue has been received. Newport, Oregon Portland, Oregon "The greater portion of that entire railroad grade was built Dear Mr. H'ilson: Dear Mr. Wilson: Dear Mr. Wilson: by Chinese laborers, using ordi- "...... I found the first ". ...I worked for Jake Bloom- "Having just fallen into pos- nary hand shovels and wheelbar- issue of "Corvallis" extremely berg for two months when I re- session of your new magazine, I rows - a far cry from the methods interesting and informative. turned to Corvallis from Alaska could not resist the urge to now in use. %is little magazine should fill in 1890. He ran a grocery store send you a few lines. . . particu- "I knew 'Jackie' Horner, as a real need in providing data and kept hides, wool, chittum, larly about the railroad from you call him, when he was attend- relative to happenings of his- and what have you in the back Corvallis to the coast. ing the small college in Philo- torical importance in the Cor- room. It was the dirtiest place "As a boy and a resident of math, and that was before he was vallis area, and should be a YOU ever saw. " Philomath in the 1880's, I well married. I well remember that he worthwhile addition to the ref- Jay W. Dunn remember that the railroad grade was the life of every occasion erence files of many people. Eugene, Oregon was built by Chinese who were that he attended. "With all good wishes. " shipped from China to Portland, "It was my privilege to serve Mark 0. Hatfield Dear Mr. Wilson: then transported up the Willam- Benton county in the office of received your nice little Governor "I ette river to Corvallis by stern- Recorder from 1896 to 1900, magazine and find it very inter- wheel river boats and from there having been elected when William esting...... Dear Mr. Wilson: to work camps by horse-drawn McKinley was chosen President of "I went to Corvallis with Dan wagons, over very muddy and al- the United States. In the old ". . . . . I can see very interesting Neal in the spring of 1890, and most impassable county roads. courthouse, still standing, are possibilities in "Corvallis". and good old Max Friendly gave us a "In those days the Chinese stored a lot of record books would like to help if and when contract to get ash and maple " wore their hair in long cues, which contain page after page of I can. logs for his little sawmill. We and the first wagon load created my handiwork. Bertha King had the logs cut and banked and consternation when it reached "Wishing you every success in Corvallis, Oregon we drove them down to Friend1 y' s Philomath after dark, in a down- your new endeavor. boom at Corvallis - made two . . " Dear Mr. lilson: pour of rain. None of us had drives during the summer on that John A. Gellatly "1 surely enjoyed reading the ever seen a Chinaman. Wenatchee, Washington 'Beautiful Willamette. " Really copy of "Corval lis" and would "They were unloaded into a the river did not look so good even like to reprint a story or building and all of the Dear Mr. Wilson: to me that summer, as all the two in our monthly magazine boys in town surrounded the "It is good! And I am convinc- logs would roll up on the bars ed that you believe in what you 'Covers. " place while they prepared their and it was awfully hard work for Alma McLing evening meal, which consisted of are trying to do. " two men to roll them off and Albany, Oregon canned lobsters and rice. Hilyard C. Howsam keep them going. However, we Aurora, Illinois Junior Historical Society

By Kathie Peters A junior historical society has been formed at Western View Junior High School of Corvallis. The group is the first of its kind to organize in Oregon. 'Ihe idea of a junior histori- cal society originated in Mr. Roland Hall's eiahth grade social studies classes. A committee of four students, Rick Wallace, THE CORVALLIS &k Dean Ryden, Tory Groshong, and Kathie Peters, presented the plan CHARTER COMMITTEE I?RUSTRATIOhT RAILROAD to members of the Benton County Left to right: Kathie Peters, Pioneer-Historical Society at Tory Groshong, Ed Hennings, Rick By Tom Wilson their February meeting. They Wallace, Mr. Hall, Dean Ryden, requested the Benton county Margery Wilder. PART TWO - It Pays to be a Co society to act as sponsoring group for their new organization, of the junior society. They de- By the time the grad in^ was to his persuasion as were the and members of the Benton county cided that its official name would be the "Victor P. Moses befln, May 6, 1878, to start the local businessmen and fanners. society voted unanimously to Willamette Valley and Coast Junior Historical Society." The Colonel built a large "adopt" the junior club. Railroad toward the ocean, the The first official meeting of house on Jefferson Street in Following mre preparation and enthusiastic citizens of Benton the junior society was held March Corvallis, where Waldo Hall is discussion with the other eighth and Linn counties had raised 15, at Western View Junior High located on the Oregon State Uni- grade social studies classes at $35,000.00, and Colonel Hogg School, and the following offi- versity campus. It was called the Western View, a charter comnittee felt the golden breath that cers were elected: President, Hogg House, and after the col- from the junior society met with would bring millions into his Rick Wallace; Vice President, lapse of the railroad enterprise, a camnittee composed of Mrs. R.M. hands and bankruptcy to some of it was owned and occupied for a Bob Engesser; Secretary, Kitty Peffer, Dr. John Smith, and Miss our most practical-minded people. few years by the author's father, Jones; Treasurer, Toby Lilly; Tartar. Their purpose was to He was a gifted salesman, or con- Historian, Kathie Peters. Joseph Hamilton Wilson. Later it outline the policies and goals fidence man, if you wish, but was moved down Jefferson Street had what it took to raise 15 to 11th and converted into an million dollars during the late apartment house, called Heilig 1800's for an enterprise that Hall, now the Austin Apartments. 4 went under the sheriff's hammer Well, what about Hogg? It for only $100,000.00. He was a appears that he was not a colonel bigtime operator, whether in IVew but was really a captain, proba- 4 York, Philadelphia, or Corvallis, bly in the Confederate navy in- and some of America's greatest telligence. This Captain T. E. financiers, such as F. W. Rhine- Hogg and his command had orders lander, John I. Blair, Samuel S. from S. R. Mallory, secretary of Sands, were just as vulnerable (Continued on next page) the Confederate navy, to take hanged. Later, their sentences passage on board the S.S. "San were commuted to 1i fe imprison- Salvador" and on reaching the ment for Captain Hogg and ten high seas off the coast of Cali- years for the others. Although NEW CORVALLfS ART GALLERY fornia to capture her, arm her in the jurisdiction of Alcatraz, with cannon, and attack the the military prison, it seems Opened in December, 1961, the and holds life- drawing and paint- California trade and the whalers that they were actually held Luehr studio, at 135 So. 2nd St., ing classes at the studio. He in the Pacific. behind bars at San Quentin prison has for sale some of the finest also sells artists' supplies and Captain Hogg went to Havana just north of Alcatraz. art work being produced in the equipment. Because Mr. Luehr and organized his rebel navy The Captain was released after Northwest. Paintings, drawings, teaches art at the high school pirates. Then they crossed the the "Unpleasantness" (the Civil I and sculptures by Demetrios in Albany, the studio is a part- Isthmus of Panama and boarded War) ended, and he became a Jarneson, Imanuel Piladakis, Wayne time enterprise at present. the designated ship. However, 'colonel, " which probably sounded Taysom, Wayne Luehr, and many People interested in fine art Rear Admiral George F. Pearson, better to weal thy Republicans others are attractively dis- will be surprised to find such of the U. S. Navy, learned of than did his previous rank of played. At a special showing a big-city type of gallery in a the plot, and a force from the captain of Confederate guerrilla the evening of February 17, more town as small as Corvallis. All U.S. S. "Lancastei" boarded the spies. At any rate, here was one than 600 people visited the gal- are cordially invited to drop 'San Salvador" off the coast of southern Democrat who was able lery. in for a look-see. A buffet for Lower California and arrested to wreak more havoc in a solid The proprietor, Wayne Luehr, refreshments is situated on the the conspirators. They were Republican community than the specializes in portrait painting mezzanine. taken to San Francisco, where entire rebel forces had been they were tried by a military able to accomplish by military commission and sentenced to be means. (To be continued)

View of a secti inside the Luehr Gal lery. An Oregon Pacific construction crew at a rail loading dock. 8 Pop Bottle Profits The eighth grade history classes glass, testifies to its age by and kitchen. More bed rooms are of Mr. Roland Hall are attempting its faded, almost orchid, hue. upstairs. Help Preserv e to preserve an ancient pioneer On either side of the entrance Where was the original kitch- room are identical rooms, again en? In an ell attached to the Pioneer Structure Oregon structure with the money collected from returned pop bot- with fireplaces. On one side is back of the house on the south. the parlor with furniture up- tles. This year $100 was collect- It housed the pioneer kitchen, On By Rick Wallace ed; last year, $80. holstered in black horse hair. cook house and pantry. At one the other side is the bedroom What are they preserving? time there was a twin ell on the with its rosewood bedroom set. north side which housed the The 19th-century double bed was servants' quarters. ) once used to hide gold dust for By helping to preserve this passing travelers. fine old landmark the eighth Behind the identical rooms grade students are following a are two more, once twin bedrooms; policy of linking the past with now they are used as sewing room the present.

THE STORY CORVALLIS

Some Items and Events in the Story of Benton County By John E. Smith

1843- 45 Subscription school, S.D. 'Doc" The area now Benton county was Earl, teacher; gold rush to in Yamhill district under the California; few settlers came. Provisional government in a Oregon territory proclaimed, Mrs. Brown's house when it was serving as an inn for March 3, 1849. stage coach travelers. Picture made about 1860. foreign country. 1845- 47 1850 On highway 99E, 14 miles north hand-crafted by Mr. Brown, who 'Ihe same area was in Polk county Town of Marysville laid out; of Salem and one-fourth mile finished his task in 1858, the under the same government. Set- some lots sold earlier; post east of Gervais is the lovely house with its four stately tlement began here. Applegate office. Herbert's flour mill old home of Mrs. Samuel Brown, columns and double porches is a trail opened, fall, 1846. near Beaver creek; Gilbert's built before Oregon became a monument to his skill and to saw mill. state. pioneer Oregon. 1847 Erected by the original Samuel The interior is still fur- Benton county created, Dec. 23, 1851 Brown with profits from his ven- nished much as it was originally. ) extended fran its northen bound- Marysville became county seat; ture in the California gold In the entrance room is a marble- ary to California, from the steamboats arrive in fall. Lane fields, the home, a $10,000 faced fireplace, and the clock I Willamette river to the sea, with county created south of our structure, became a stagecoach on the mantle has been ticking Wayman St. Clair in the legisla- present county line. Sawmill at station. away the hours for more than 104 ture from Polk county. Matzger's, at Monroe and at Constructed largely of cedar years. The glass in the windows, Marysville. with doors, frames and paneling some of them the original double 1848- 49 M. E. church organized, 1848. (Continued on next page) 185 3 Name changed to Corvallis, Dec. 20; B.W.Wilson,county school superintendent; settlement moved into Alsea valley. Flour mill in King's valley, 1854. 1855 State snan published here; ter- ritorial capital came to Corval- lis; Wells, Fargo opened office here; thrice-a-week stage ser- vice. 1856 Fort Hoskins built; Baptist high (7) school. Religious Ez- pos i tor published here. Fire company organized at Corvallis. 1857 City incorporated. Occident a1 iessenger published here. Inter- est rate, 10% to 20%. 1858 Corvaklis College chartered, building erected; land taxing began.

1859 1866 college "until the state can Democratic Crrsis pblished, its the flood; river traffic heavy, Stage line operated fran Corval- take it over." St. Mary's name changed to Week1 y Union; 1860 to 1880. lis to Yaquina bay. (Episcopal) seminary (for women) college (?) opened in October; opened in Corvallis. McCune & 1867 county agricultural fair held. 1862 Hanna sawmill burned, later The Corvallis Gazette began pub- Philomath college founded; the Emily J. York, B.S., 1859, Wil- rebuilt. lamette university (from Benton lication. Matzger mill community dwindled as the town of Philomath grows. 1869 county) first college graduate 1863 west of Rocky mountains. Fire consumed (July 21) most A Corvallis paper, The Union, 1867-8 of a business block in Corvallis. 1860 suspended by the Government. Wm. W. Moreland warned legisla- Daily stage and mail service to Telegraph to California, 1864. fi ture of time limit on the ac- 1870 California; first literary soci- ceptance of the land grant Corvallis only 10- 12 miles from 1865 ety in the county organized, 4 authorized by the Morrill Act. railroad at Albany. Extensive Wm. A. Finley appointed president February 4, (The Calliopian). steamboat transportation. Three of Corvallis college by Bishop 1868 graduated at Corvallis college. 1861 Kavanaugh of the M. E. church Corvallis college became recipi- Orleans village carried away by South. ent of the state agricultural (Continued on next page) 12 187 1 1880 State AG. Forestry Farm of 35 acres bought for Col- Private service, John OSU Given $500.000 lege by Benton county citizens. Ray; to Philomath, 1881. Ten For Oceanography Weather Forecast Wrn. W. Moreland, professor of miles of 0. P. graded. 500 Network Announced natural science and practical Chinese contract to build more, Building on Campus More weather news for Oregon agriculture at the state agri- 1881. A $500,000 grant toward con- agriculture and forestry interests struction of an Oceanography cultural college. is shaping up through cooperative 1882 Building at Oregon State Uni- efforts of the U.S. Weather Bureau versity has been announced by the 1872 W.A. Wells warehouse burned, Feb. and Oregon State University. 25; death of George P. Wren. National Foundation. A statewide forecasting net- President Finley resigned. B. L. The half - million - dollar grant work, scheduled for operation by Arnold was appointed president 1883 represents additional recognition March 1, will offer a detailed agri- of Corvallis college by Bishop Northern Pacific railway reached for the outstanding oceanography cultural weather service to 40 key program underway at OSU and points throughout the state. J. C. Keener of the M. E. Church Portland via Spokane; eastern South. Railway building toward helps set the stage for further ex- The Oregon network-one of the farm machinery, etc., to Benton pansion of oceanography work in eight in the United States-was Corvallis stopped at St. Joseph. county; round trip rates, Port- the future, President James H. authorized by Congress this year land-St. Paul, men, $75, women, Jensen said. and will be supervised by the U.S. 1873 Weather Bureau. Financial panic, world wide. $100. Frances E. Willard lectures State funds amounting to $166,- on temperance here. 000 will be required to go along Main function of the new fore- with the federal grant before the casting service is to provide more 1875 new building can be started, Presi- detailed basic weather forecasts Flouring mills (burned, 1873) 1885 tied to agriculture and forestry Legislature authorized plan dent Jensen noted. Plans call for a rebuilt on larger scale. four - story, 30,000 square - foot needs. It will include agricultural (Feb. 11) for state to take building. aviation weather forecasts. F. E. Price, OSU dean of agri- 1876 charge of the agricultural col- It would include such special Large water tower erected at lege. Oregon Pacific ran trains culture, said research and exten- features as a small running sea sion staff members will work First & Jefferson by Wm. M. to Yaquina, March; to Albany, water aquarium for study of ocean closely with Weather Bureau me- Pitman. Death of Joseph Conant January, 1887. Our flouring plants and animals and an oceano- teorologists and forecasters in re- Avery. Corval lis Gazette resumes mill industry expanded. graphic museum to help acauaint lating weather outlook to farming publication. students and the public with the practices such as crop dusting. 1888 ocean off Oregon. 1877 Corvallis Times began ~ublica- Research laboratories w o u 1 d serve scientists and graduate stu- No graduates from Corvallis col- tion. New county courthouse dents working in the various lege this year. wencement? erected. Benton county completed phases of oceanography - ocean college building according to chemistry, currents, fishes, ocean 1878 legislative plan. State Agri- floor, etc. College nuns, etc. (not being cultural college, (farm, plant, Oregon State University launch- used) taken by state to fight building) inspected, accepted, ed the first intensive ocean re- search off Oregon in 1954. Today, Indians. Grading westward for (July 2) by Gov. Sylvester Pen- Oregon Pacific Ry. began at Cor- the OSU department of oceanogra- noyer who then placed it in phy teaching program is the vallis, May 1. First bank in charge of the State Board of fourth largest in the nation. Corvallis, W.B. Hamil tan, 1878-9. Regents. The Oregon Agricultural The Office of Naval Research Experiment station was organized picked Oregon State two years 1879 ago as one of 10 schools to conduct Rails for 0. P. railway began to and put in charge of the same a giant 10-year program of re- arrive by boat. Oregon Western Board on the same day by Governor search in waters surrounding the railway (west side) right of way Pennoyer. College opened in the U.S. and to enlarge academic of- reached Corvallis; trains, Janu- new building (now Benton hall) ferings in oceanography. Conrnd In thc Denver Post ". . . I repeat-this is 3 test . . .!!!" ary, 1880. in September, 1888. (To be continued) Church Survives A Lost Town

By Margery Wilder

St. Louis Catholic Church and Rectory. town. hie bog. The town of St. Louis had its Expedition from 1811- 1814. Be- beginning in 1830 when several tween 1814 and 1840 she married Frenchmen arrived as fur trap- three times. With her three fami- pers. At that time the first lies she moved to the French Catholic Church, a log cabin, was Prairie in Oregon. On September built. In 1844 it was torn down 5, 1850, she died. She is buried and replaced by a second one, beneath the church. In 1932 the which was destroyed by fire about many- year-old mystery concerning 1875. The third and present her was solved. In the old burial church was constructed in the records an entry made on Sep- 1880's and is now over seventy- tember 6, 1850 was found which five years old. The St. Louis showed that a Marie Iowa (Marie church is one of the oldest west Dorion's maiden name), the wife of the Rockies. of John Toupin (one of her hus- Father Dlorne held a gathering bands), was buried. A plaque was of the people and received the put upon a pillar in the church. first lend grant in this area. He There are several old books at was responsible for the first the church. One is believed to mission house, also. have belonged to Father Blanchet. Madame Marie Dorion, an Iowa It was printed in 1627 and re- Indian, was the first woman to bound in 1800. It is unusual cross the plains and settle in because it contains the cere- City Hotel, located on southwest corner of 2nd and Madison Sts. Oregon. She came with her hus- monies for the coronation of Destroyed by a fire, March 29, 1873, in which John hlurray was band, who served as a guide and kings and queens. burned to death. Later the Hamilton & Job bank was located on interpreter for The first cemetery was across this corner. One of the best business locations in town, an 16 empty building is there now. Oho, the bitter days are gone! The nimble fox, the nuzzlin~fawn, The callow nestling, feel a quiver In every part; and by the river A million wands of willow start. Atilt on lofty roadside wires l'he blackbird shouts his spring desires. Oho! Young violet, cup your pretty ear To catch Pan's piping, soft but clear, Across the glade. Break out of cover, All buds and blooms. Come, lass and lover, Inhale the wakin~world' s per fumes, Write sonnets, dance, do everything. Corvallis High School about 1913. Later it was enlarged and Let arms fling wide to welcome sprin~! faced with white brick veneer. It was destroyed by fire in Oho! the early 1940's. The Southern Pacific railroad station was directly across the street where the police station is now By Laurence Pratt, Portland, Oregon located. The old Central School is shown in the background. (Photo by courtesy of Helen Gilkey.)

L . -. -. Porter Building in 1913. The Maiestlc theater was here. The store at the right was Witham's ladies shop. Johnson Porter's 1915 Hudson is shown in ri~htfront. (Photo by courtesy of Walter Porter, grandson of Johnson Porter.) FROM THE EDITOR'S ALBUM FIRST ROW 'IHIRD ROW Lucile Basset Fred Tompkina Dorothy Clark Loverige Axtel Vida Law Harold Ryan Hendricka Van Hine Bill Purdy Ray Brown SECOND ROW Alfred Archibald Cyril Bailey Maud Read Robert Ful ton Thelma Chase ------? Bessie Smith Dick Adams . Doris Thompson Miss Murphy (Mrs. A. K. Berman) Daisy Ryan FOURTH ROW Fern Kelly Hazel Bullis (Mrs. Arthur Smith) Robert Tozier Vivian Logsden Julius Bedeneck Vivian Could (Mrs. C. R. Rawlings) Johnnie Hughes Eunice Pugh Cecil Bailey ------Jones? Clarence Morrison Harold Looney Tom Wilson Note: We wish to thank Mrs. A. THESE KIDS, ranging in ages (son of John Fulton, then head K Berman, Mrs. Arthur Smith, and Vyrle Could from about 9 to 17, were 3rd- of chemistry at 0. A. C. ) has long Mrs. Robert Ball for helping with Glen Pie1 the list of names. Perhaps among and 4th-graders in the good old been with the U. S. D. A. and was our readers are others who can Laurence Looney days of 1913. The South School a colonel in the chemical warfare fill in our omissions or correct Bill Law any mistakes we have made on the (now Roosevelt) was two years branch of the Army during World list. old. The next year some of these War 11. Julius Bedeneck became children went to Lincoln School, superintendent of schools at just being built. Redding, California. Glen Piel, Miss Murphy (now Mrs. A. K. whose father ran the O.A.C. Co- Berman) was the beautiful and in- op book store, is a businessman spiring teacher. During English in California. Dick Adams, who lessons, she read stories to us even then played a clarinet, which she had written herself, became the leader of the Al. G. holding us in deepest enchant- Barnes circus band. Bill Purdy, men t. Clarence Morrison, and yours Some of the boys were out- truly are still seen occasionally standina. Ray Brown, for example, in Corvallis. used to brine a six-shooter to When spring came, most of the school and try to shoot birds boys headed across the field to from hehind the wood pile durin~ Mary's river and the old swimming recess. Alfred Archibald became holes - the Ford, the Ledge, an engineer with the Oregon state Froggy, or Hatches'. Few of them East side of Second street looking south from Madison, highway department. Robert Ful ton bothered with swirming suits. 1962 THE WAY OF SPRING Sprin~knows so well the way to victory: No fanfare blown, no trumpets for the start; Only a quiet stirring of the heart A murmuring of song at last set free. Spring knows so well the way to summer's glow: A still unfolding of its hoarded green Secretly, in silence and unseen -- A sending forth of leafage, soft and slow.

Spring knows so well the answer to its dream Must come as dawn, gently, with hopeful breath, To lift from winter's somber death And life's immortal promises redeem. In The Horse and Buggy Days. Fred Porter on near side of photo; Hugh McFadden, far side. By Charles Oluf Olsen, Portland, Oregon Wilson's Pet Shop

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MILLION YEARS AGO ASHINGTON-Two pieces of jaw- and a few teeth found recently rica are believed to have been of a manlike creature wha lived 14 Adams Street at 2nd, looking west, about 1907. R. M. Wade & Cowany years ago. The creature may hardware store is in center foreground. The Spurlin and Robnett e earliest link yet found in the utionary chain leading to modern store is located here now. In the center background is the building . D~scovery of the fragments by of the carriage factory, at 13th and Washington Streets. Part of this L. S. B. Leakey, a British ilnthro- 225 South Second ist, and his wife was nnnounced building, with the upper stories removed, is now in use as a feed and CORVALLIS, OREGON seed warehouse. (Photo by courtesy of Gordon Harris. 22