Gilbert A. Perrin 602 South 2nd APR7L S Corvallis , Oregon AMERICAN CA

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P. 0.Box 122 CORVALLIS, OREGON LOOKING Wilson's Pet Shop FORWARD Vol. I1 Spring 1963 No. -2

Corvallis Magazine is published quarterly by Thomas A. Wilson, Street Scene. CORVALL':p. C)~rr:r,rl. P. 0. Box 122, Corvallis, Oregon.

MEMBER Benton County Pioneer-Historical Society Oregon Historical Society Classified Adverlising: 10 cents per word. Display. full page, $25; M page. $15. V4 page, $10; YE page. $5.50. SPECIAL RATE for busrness and professional cards L .--- 4 for 4 issues. Subscriptions - $1 a year. EVERYTHING WANTED - Short articles, old photos. FOR YOUR DUMB FRIENDS drawings and other appropriate rnater~al. COVER: O.A.C. football play&s of the 19th 225 South Second Century. Photograph by W. S. Gardner at his studio on Ninth street near madi- CORVALLIS, OREGON son. Do you know these atheletes' names?

SECOND STREET. 1903. LOOKING SOUTH FROM MONROE.

TAKE A GOOD LOOK at this 1903 Urban Renewal they call it. Ant1 photo of Second street, southward it is none too soon. from Monroe, and then observe The Corvallis architects have the new one made in April, 1963. made a good plan. This central Most of the buildings along the area will be first to feel the swing- street in 1903 are still here sixty ing ball and jackhammers of the years later, although many have destroyers. And then, as the plan had their faces lifted a bit through unfolds, a great shopping and rec- the years. This is the most valu- reation center will arise, extending abIe real estate in town, but eight from Harrison street to the ma- of the stores in these two blocks rina on Mary's river and up to are empty today. Sixth street. It will even include This street is to be laid hare a strip of park across the Willam- from Monroe to Jefferson, from ette, where the town of Orleans the Willamette to the alley between stood before the great flood of SECOND STREET. 1963. LOOKING SOUTH FROM MONROE. THE CENTRAL Second and Third-the heart of 1861. BUSINESS DISTRICT PLANS CALL FOR RAZING ALL OF THESE BUILDINGS Corvallis, which was, in 1850, the A modern, mall-type, pedestri- north end of Marysville. an-oriented, glittering city will And then it will be resurrected. arise here. It will be as large as the huge Lloyd Center in Port- dance down there in the middle of land-newer and better, of course. the picture. And I have seen sunset Corvallis was Capital of Oregond1855 Although I have spent most of and the Second street dawn come my sixty years on Second street, many times over. in business and out, in happiness Oh yes, the old town of Corval- and despair, I look forward eager- lis is something for remembering. ly to this birth of a new city. It Let us tear her down kindly, with is a very personal matter to me. respect, and maybe a sigh. + My great-uncle, William Hamil- ton, had the first bank in town on Corvallis Magazine is now na- this street. My grand-uncle, James tionally recognized and has been Yantis was owner and editor of mentioned prominently in some the Gazette newspaper here. My large writers' publications, such grandfather, Bushrod Washington as Writer's Yearbook. We are re- Wilson, county clerk from 1864 to ceiving many articles and stories 1894, used to play chess with old from all pafts of America and with "Gun" Hodes in his shop where this issue are beginning a section Jack Porter now has his insurance for original creative writing. Our office. My father, Joseph Hamil- first selection is a slight but sen- ton Wilson, had his law offices in sitive piece, "Slaves of Time," by two of those tall buildings. Sgt. Joseph E. Barnett, of the LO the voters of the territory I saw my first movie, "Paul Re- U. S. Air Force, Oklahoma City. Re capitol building faced east In June, 1856, several citie vere's Ride," at the Palace, the at Second and Adams. Later it received votes, but none had th first theater in town, on this Also in this issue is our first was moved west of the a1ley and paid advertising. First ad is from required majority, so ano the street. I had jobs in several of faced toward Adams. election was held in October these old buildings, had my own the P & L Trading Post, Albany; second ad is from Nichols Garden Eugene City won. However, th businesses in four of them, joined In 1850 Oregon City was the ter- Nursery, Albany. legislature and supreme cour three lodges on this street, and I'm ritorial capital. It was moved We need advertising support, as ignored the results of th here now, where Walter Kline, to Salem in 1852. As the new wave Graham & Wortham, and others does the Saturday Evening Post, election, so the capital remaine of immigrants poured into the had their stores. which lost $18.9 million last year. at Salem. Wil1,amette valley pressure was I have been in love here; in fact, Oregon was admitted to th, 1 met my wife, Marie, at a street Patronize our advertisers. They brought to move the capital far- Union in 1859 and the law re help support Corvallis. ther south, and in 1855 the leg- quired that the permanent loca islature passed an act moving tion of the capital be decided a the seat of government to Cor- the first session of the legis. vallis. Both houses met on De- lature. They decided to refel cember 3, 1855, at Grvallis and the matter to the electorate, voted to move the capital back to and in 1862 almost every towr Salem, where it convened on De- and city in Oregon received some cember 18. votes, none having the required Ten days later the new state- majority. house at Salem and the new state Finally, in 1864, at another library burned down. It was then election Salem won with a major- OREGON LEGISLATURE REVIEW OF OAC CADETS. 1903. SCENE IS ON LOWER decided to take the matter' of a ity of 79 votes over all other CAMPUS. WHITE HOUSE AT RIGHT IS GARDNER'S STUDIO ON NINTH STREET.. permanent location of the capital contesting cities. From the Gilbert Beach Album

THE BEACH FARM was directly Beach. The University took over north of the Van Buren street the property in 1952. bridge on the east bank of the Wil- The old ferry landing was prac- lamette river. Charles Beach ar- tically in their front yard and the rived there in 1883 and his brother Oregon Electric RR depot was John came a year later. They en- just east of the farmhouse. It now gaged in general farming but were serves as crew house for the OSU best known for the splendid work rowing club. horses they bred, some of which The new Harrison street bridge are shown in these photographs, will cross the river here, and it is loaned to us by Mrs. Gilbert Beach. proposed that the University will Gilbert is the son of Charles have a golf course nearby.

JOHN BEACH (L). CHARLES (R). PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT SECOND AND JACKSON. LOOKING NORTH. FARMER'S FEED BARN IN LEFT BACKGROUND IS AT THE PRESENT LOCATION CF THE FORD GARAGE. THIS STREET WAS PAVE0 IN 1910.

-&-*a 2-s IN THIS PICTURE OF THE BEACH FARM ARE JOHN AND CHARLES BEACH. BERT SHARP. ROY HATHAWAY. HOMER AND GILBERT BEACH THEY HAD PRIZE WINNING HORSES.

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COMPANY K. OREGON NATIONAL GUARD. CHARLES MIIRPHY. CAPTAIN. HERSHEL ELLENBERG. LIEUTENANT. PHOTO TAKEN 1915 OR 1916.

OREGON ELECTRIC DEPOT PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF MRS. ROBERT TAYLOR AND MRS. GILBERT BEACH MOST POPULAR MAN IN TOWN WITH THE YOUNGER SET WAS FRANK M. BULLIS. WHO HA0 HIS POPCORN WAGON AT THE CORNER OF SECONO AN0 MONROE. THlS IOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON STEPS OF OLD CENTRAL SCHOOL NEAR EIGHTH AN0 MADISON. PHOTOGRAPH WAS MADE IN 1911. LITTLE GIRL NEXT TO FRANK IS ALICE IOUT 1912. FRONT ROW. L TO R. CECIL IRWIN. LYNN AVRILL. (1). ORLO JOHNSON BULLIS. AGE 3 (NOW MRS. GLENN CLARK). IN BACKGROUND AT LEFT WAS 10 BALL. EDITH CHIPMAN. PEARL FEGLEY. MILDRED JACKSON. (?). REICHART'S CLOTHING STORE AN0 WILLIAM'S CIGAR STORE AN0 FACTORY. .CON0 ROW: TUCK WHITEHORN. INEZ GRAHAM, ISABEL GELLATLY. MISS STRANGE. NE ON CORNER AT RIGHT WAS THE PEOPLE'S MEAT MARKET. IREE GIRLS NOT KNOWN. FRANK BULLIS STARTED THE EAST SIDE SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY IN 1923. )P ROW: FRANK FRANCISCO. RUSSELL MCHENRY. JOE SKELTON. (?). GILBERT BEACH THE GLENN CLARKS TOOK THlS OVER IN 1934. THEIR SON. ROBERT F. CLARK. 1). CHET BRODERS. MISS HANNEL (TEACHER). PHOTO FROM MRS. GILBERT BEACH. WORKED FOR THEM. HE DIE0 IN 1954. IN 1959 THE CLARKS SOLO OUT TO MURRAY MARQUIS. MIKE BEVANICH. AND OUENTON GREENOUGH. FRANK BULLIS DIE0 IN 1943. PHOTO COURTESY OF MRS. GLENN CLARK.

THE AUGUST HOOES GROCERY STORE WAS ON SECONO STREET IN THE MR. C. HODES ON SECONO STREET. ABOUT 1890. MONTGOMERY WARD BUILDING WHERE THE MAN'S SHOP WAS LOCATED UNTIL RECENTLY. STORE IS NOW ACROSS THE STREET BEHIND MR. HODES. VARIETY STANDING IN FRONT OF STORE ARE HENRY GERDING. CARL HOOES. BAKERY IS IN THE BUILDING AT EXTREME LEFT. AUGUST HOOES. AND LINDSAY SHARP. (PHOTO osu ARCHIVES) Ben ton county, wrote to his two. Her uncle, Leander Loomis, friend Nichols, then at the con- of Monroe, had converted all his EARLY MONROE vention in Salem, regarding the money into gold and left it with tension over slavery. Wells Fargo in Portland. He went (Submitted by the Benton County raised grain, but soon realized A slave named Reuben Shipley Junior Historical Society of he was going to have to get an- to San Francisco and applied for had taken up a donation land credit and was refused. It de- &stern View junior high school. ) other job to keep his family and new farm going. He was a gradu- claim near Philomath after he veloped that the Portland Wells had been freed by hiw owner on ne first man to sign the con- ate of Wesleyan University, in Fargo office had failed, and an stitution of the State of Ore- Connecticut, later going to Iowa his arrival from Missouri. Ship- order to close its doors was on gon was Henry Brainard Nichols. where he organized and directed le!' married Mary Jane . . the a steamer outbound for Portland. 1 slave of a man who lived near His granddaughter, Miss Madeline a select school at Muscatine for Loomis got a horse and rode night Dallas. Then he had to buy her Nichols, still lives in a big five years before heading for and day, getting fresh horses house near Alpine on the dona- before he could take her home. Oregon. He became the new school- 'Ihat was a very short time before where he could. He galloped tion land claim that has been in master at Ebenezer, a log cabin Corvallis became incorporated as through Portland's muddy streets the Nichols' family for three school near the Sewell Hawley a city, and Oregon applied for to the Wells Fargo office and got generations. his several thousand dollars in place, now known as Campbell admission into the Union. In 1852 Henry Brainard Nichols raw gold before a messenger from Hill. Many years later Nichols' Miss Madeline Nichols tells punched a bull team overland the steamer walked in and closed son, Richard J. Nichols taught the story of a very fast trip be- from Iowa to Oregon in the near- at Ebenezer school before he be- the Wells Fargo Portland office , tween San Francisco and Portland. ---A record time of five months. He came librarian at O.A.C., now Lur ~ouu. I before even a railroad joined the first settled along the Umpqua Oregon State University. R. J. river. Many men were returning Nichols' daughter taught the disheartened from the Calif- school after it was moved and re- ornia gold fields. Mr. Nichols named Alpine. I and his young wife stopped at In 1851 the first steamboat Starr's Point, which was the only had cone up the Willamette river, 1 g,;s*:-y< . post office this side of Marys- and with later ships that came 1 8." :: ville, which was to become Cor- up, Corvallis had become the vallis the next year. At Starr's terminal for shipping freight Point they met H. B. Hinton. between the water route and the Hinton had replaced Samuel F. ox teams on the Territorial road Starr the summer before and had to Marysville, California. In i mved the mail post to his home 1855 Corvallis became the capital on the "big road." Silas Belknap of the Oregon Territory. In De- and George Starr had a new gen- cember the legislature met just eral store next door to Hinton's long enough to pass one bill-- I mail post. After Nichols had which moved the capital back to talked to the people here he de- Salem. Nichols was elected to the ' cided to take up 320 acres near Territorial legislature. Later Starr's Point, which later be- he was a menber of the first leg- I came Monroe. islature under the State of Ore- There were many cattle and gon. A. G. Hovey, Clerk of the 1 horses, some logging, and dairy- District Court and Master and ing in this area. Nichols also Commissioner in Chancery for THE STORY OF CORVALLIS

MUNICIPAL EXPANSION

By John E. Smith.

MOST of the earliest settlers in avenue of access for wagons to Benton county came to Oregon in this part of the country, they chose 1843-44 and camped among their locations about springs or near friends or others on the Tualatin stream crossings along this road. plain or in the vicinity of Oregon Thomas Reeves, Dan McKissick, City. Some of the men among the Adam Wimple, Johnson Mulkey new arrivals went southward on with wagon drawn by a cow and horseback along the Hudson's Bay a mare, James L. Mulkey and company's packtrail, which fol- others, each of whom built a small lowed the foothills, in search of temporary shack or hovel, spent promising unoccupied land for the winter here or left someone homesteads, some of which they on his claim. J. L. Mulkey, having found here. lost his wife, left his nine children Later, coming on the widened at the previous camp, hurried his CORVALLIS. ABOUT 1905. SEEN FROM COLLEGE HILL. (OSU ARCH'VES) trail road, then (1845) the only permanent cabin to completion about two miles northwest of the H~~~~ C. ~~~i~ took another Postoffice location of today, and claim over on the trail road, oc- with the family occupied it, April cupying his permanentcabin at 16, 1846. that place, April 10, 1846. The Late in the fall of 1845, men Lewisburg community carries his began to select claims along the name. Willamette river and near it a- The marvelous growth of Car- mong them was J. C. Avery~Wm- vallis in the last few decades has F. Dixon, H. C. Lewis, J. S. Ken- extended the city limits in all di- dall and others. Mr Avery staked rections except eastward across out his claim by N~vember 309 the beautiful Willamette to include 1845. He returned to Oregon City all or part of 10 donation land but came back in January and claims. Northwestward it has en- lived in a small shack until his per- compassed all or portions of sev- manent cabin was completed and eral of the early ones along the occupied, June 20, 1846. H. C. original trail. Such a location is Lewis sold his claim to John Stew- that of the former home of James art (E.A. Blake, authority) who L. Mulkey, who thus becomes came with his family in May, 1846. known as the earliest resident The claim of Arch Stewart joined within the present city limits. Mr. that of his father on the east, and Avery was the founder of the city

EARLY PHOTOGRAPH OF JEFFERSON STREET. LOOKING EAST. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH northward most of Mr. Kendall's and for a century or more the (SPIRE SHOWING) WAS ON FOURTH STREET. land was on the upland at and near first to live within its present (OSU where Fairplay school is now. boundaries. $v 12 GHOST COLLEGE Philomath, Oregon, a town of 1,400 population, lies five miles v west of CorvaHis on highway U. S. lRabfkal Ikollea.- LD' 20. Philomath Collene was chart- - P~l,l~*l~e~lIII Scpter~~hcr. Dccr~~~l,cr. Marc11 ered in 1865 by the United Breth- and ren Church as a coeducational col- June Rev. W. H. DAVIS, Edltor I' lege for liberal arts and training . - - for the ministry. Inadequate fi- ,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, . ,,,,, ; H -.- - - - -. - nancial support forced its aboli- -- e tion in 1929. ADDRESS. RADIKAL KoLLEa. C Radikal Kolleg was the result of P~IIO~O~~.Oregon. t a church argument in the 1890's. : I It I5 better to leave your child all professor for many years gradu- ated here.

RADICAL COLLEGE OF PHILOMATH, Philoma*$, Oregon. A aood School for Both Sexes. A Thorough Three Year's Normal Course.

CLASSICAL COURSE ofsix Years with Preparatory of one year prding. Scientific Course same len~th- as Classical. EXPENSES most reasonable. An Entire Year's Schooling, including Tuition, Board, Fuel, Light, Rents, Etc., $b.to $75. A systen~of club or self-boarding is in vogue which reduces exlwnses to a mi~limum. We have Three Terms of .School, one of 14 weeks, and two of 12 weeks each. Tuition. per Term. $5.00 to $8.00. (OSU ARCHIVES) THE CORVALLIS & FRUSTRATIOA' RAILROAD

PART V - LIFE IN OREGON

By Wallis Nash (deceased) A house was being built for us the emoluments provided by the on the slope above the town, but it United States. The majority of was not quite ready. Meanwhile the store keepers were of Jewish EDITOR'S NOTE: When Colonel wheel river boat, which carried a we stayed at the Vincent Hotel, nationality, as was commonly the T. Egenton Hogg organized the motely collection of passengers, except our two selves who were case in Oregon of those days. Ore- Oregon Pacific to take over the some horses, a cow or two, more taken to a friend's house who had gon was a young state indeed, WV&CRR, he wanted more money than one hack or buggy, some been advised of our coming. And 1859 being the year of her state- than the few thousands of dollars wagons and plows, and filled up in the face of all this my wife lost nativity; her population was very put up by the small Oregon in- with groceries and foodstuffs. neither her poise nor her courage, small, and largely of recent im- vestors. He raised this in the east The season was unusually late, and actually prospered on hard- migration from the Southern and in England, to the extent of and the streets of the little town ships and discomforts. States following the Civil War. To some $15 million. were ankle deep in mud, crossed by Mrs. Vincent proved to be a very this day the people are wonderful- Wallis Nash was one of these planks a foot wide. From the boat friendly soul, and soon made the ly, and reasonably, proud of their English financiers. This and the landing we crossed to the board whole crowd welcome. They all ate pioneers, a group of whom still next two parts of our railroad heartily and there were no com- survive. hotel on the far side-the mud-- story are excerpts from his book, filled gutter being cluttered up plaints of the food. In the community were several A LAWYER'S LIFE ON TWO with the just cut off heads of a In those days Corvallis consisted lawyers and physicians, a couple CONTINENTS, published in 1918. dozen hogs from the butcher's shop of a wide street built up with one of dentists. some school teachers. Mr. Nash was a friend of Charles adjoining the hotel, thrown in or two story stores, four saloons, many store keepers, four or five Darwin and Gladstone. Nashville, there to get them out of the way. and half a dozen churches ; a court saloon keepers, two flour millers, Oregon, was named for him. No one took account of the hogs' house, surrounded by oak and fir barbers, whose shops were in win- heads in those days, nor of calves' trees, and a two story school house ter and summer the clubs of the ON MAY 17th, 1879, we arrived heads, nor of sweet-breads, or for the public schools, and another community. There was a minister in Corvallis at the end of our other internal organs of slaugh- school house and a church owned and his family for nearly every month's journey from England. tered animals. They were just by the South Methodist church, the church, who eked out a living on We travelled up the Willamette thrown away regardless of where school being called the Oregon Ag- the contributions of their church river from Portland on a stern they might fall. ricultural College, and receiving members. The Firemen's Club was TOWN & GOWN an active organization and a Cof- Of course each of the boys must FIRST FIVE PRESIDENTS OF OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY fee club auxiliary supplied coffee have a horse, and then the work- to the men \vhen there was a not ing party must be fitted out. This infrequent fire. Saturday was the being done we all started for the busy day of the week, when the section of land, some twelve miles neighboring farmers came into \vest of Corvallis where the work town and tied long rows of wagons would probably be begun. There to the hitching posts near the were seven in the party besides Court House. myself, eight horses-one a pack The most prosperous were the animal- and a tent. An axe for saloon keepers, for they took in the everybody, a "grub hoe" or two larger part of the farmer's earn- and a few shovels were the tools, ings-and there were card games and food for a week at least. Every in nearly all the saloons. There boy had his rifle, except the known were two newspapers, and how workers-for the English set be- they survived and managed to pay lieved, I think, that Indians or at for paper, ink, and compositors' least bears and cougers, were wages was a standing mystery to lurking in every foothill wood. me. Along the road was a sign nailed Most of the early settlers had to a tree, "Blacksmith Shop." At taken out "donation land claims." a settler's house of grey old boards Under those laws a man could set- and mossy shingles I found the tle on and claim 320 acres. Sur- blacksmith, old Mark Savage, an veys of the lands were in progress ancient settler. He was not at all but by no means complete, and the glad to see the men. I wondered earlier maps showed the oddest why. He made it plain when he jumble of lines and crosslines. said, "You fellers goin' to settle Conflicts of claims were not rare; this place up?" I told him, "May- but the settlers were not, as a rule, be, but it won't be now." He an- contentious and disputes were gen- swered in soliloquy, "Well it don't erally peaceably settled. The 12- matter much. I can move on in fur- mile belt between Corvallis and ther, I guess-the darn place is Yaquina Bay had all been survey- getting too thick for me anyhow- ed, the mile sections marked, and there's folks within a half a mile the alternate sections set apart for of me whichever way I turn." I the Land Company. So my earliest comforted him and he stayed on duty was to examine these alter- till the gangs of the railroad con- nate sections and determine which struction came, and his old shop should be prepared for immediate was much used, for he was a good salt: and settlement. Roads and by- workman. REV. W. A. FINLEY. A. M. roads and wagon and horse trails Prcs. 1865-1871 8. I. ARNOLD,1871-1892 A. M.. Ph. D. JOHN M. BLOSS. A. M.. M. D. must be opened up. To be continued. 1892-1896

HON. H. 8. MILLER THOMAS M. CATCH. A. M., Ph. D. 1896-1897 1897-1907

FORMER PRESIDENTS OF 0. A. C. "Probably as early as 1849, Mr. in Benton county, Territory of George W. Bethers, occupying the Oregon, April 5, 1852: George W. Bethers land near the present golf links On that day, "Twenty good and near Corvallis, made it known in lawful men of the county were The Religious Telescope, published called as grand jurors by 0. C. in Dayton, Ohio, that there were Pratt, District Judge. By Ray Bethers several United Brethern families "G. W. Bethards (Note the dif- in this vicinity who desired re- fient spelling here of my grand- ligious services of their particular father's name), Wm. Dixon, J. W. MY GRANDFATHER, G. W. faith. Starr, Jesse Belknap, Orin Bel- Bethers, was born August 12, "The Ohio church conference knap, Nathan King, James Wat- 1821, in Pickaway county, Ohio. contributed $500, and the Rev. T. son, and others." The Oregon Historical Society tells J. Connor, of Hartsville, Indiana, The court was held at Avery's, this about him: volunteered as missionary. the founder of Corvallis, who "George Washington Bethers "Arriving at Council Bluffs, lived near Mary's river at about came to Oregon, crossing the Iowa, the Reverend Connor found the end of Fourth street. plains by wagon train from Iowa, 16 families, 98 persons in all, ready R. T. Boise, Pioneer attorney in 1848. He first took up land to go to Oregon. in the county and representing claim near Bellfountain, in Benton "These United Brethern colon- the Territory in criminal cases, county, but not liking the location ists arrived at The Dalles on Sept. was appointed to represent the he took another claim of 640 acres 19, where they were met by the United States, as there "appeared two miles southwest of Corvallis. hospitable G. W. Bethers, who had to be no other District Attorney "He married Keziah Newton, A RECENT SNAPSHOT OF brought a fat ox for beef for the at hand." who had come to Oregon in the RAY BETHERS. TAKEN IN LONDON. ENGLAND. party, and a yoke of fresh work The court sessions lasted over a same wagon train." cattle. week, with the cases involving He was the father of ten chil- "The party arrived in the Wil- property ownership. dren, of whom my father, Elmer Gazette-Times, had this to say a- lamette valley on September The jury returned indictmenb Bethers, was one. bout her: 26." After another search, I found in eight cases-six against men In October 1849 my grandfather "In the month of May, 1847, she, the following account in the hand- selling liquor without a license! was clerk of election for Benton with her husband, George W. written records of the first court county. In politics he was a Re- Bethers and a company composed To be continued publican. In June, 1852, he was of her father, Abiather Newton, elected coroner, his opponent being his family, the Belknaps, the Hsw- his father-in-law, Abiathar New- leys, and many others, started for ton. The next year, 1853, he again Oregon from Iowa. ran for the same office, but was "The Corvallis of that day was defeated. He was a member of the one log cabin, the home of Mr. United Brethern church and one Avery. Oregon City was the near- of its trustees. He died on his claim est source for provisions, a six- on June 10, 1878, at the age of 57. day journey with old Buck and His wife Keziah, my grand- Bright, their team of oxen." mother, was born in Kentucky on It is odd, considering how little January 22, 1828. After my grand- I have been able to find out about father's death, she married a Mr. my grandfather, that I know the Rayburn, of Philomath. I knew names of his two oxen. her as "Grandma Rayburn." THE STERNWHELLER. GRAHAMONA. ON AN EXCURSION TRIP ON THE WILLAMETTE. J. B. Horner, also writing in the ABOUT 1918. CAPTAIN WAS ANDREW JACKSON SPONG. RUN WAS FROM PORTLAND E. L. Sharpe, writing in the same newspaper, had this to say: TO EUGENE WHEN THE WATER WAS HIGH ENOUGH. (O.S.U. ARCHIVES PHOTO) 20 SLAVES OF TIME thunder is louder now and light- it. I can not lift it. Where are ening strikes out over the ocean. men who fished from this boat? The waves are becoming more They are dead. They are home-- furious and the rain falls hard- their bones--in the sea. They are By Sgt. Joseph E. Barnett, USAF er. I walk. I fight the blowing of the past--no longer exist. sand, the stinging rain. 'Ihe poor dead men who fished from Some years ago on a gray Novem- years has this helmet heen buried To my left, near a sand dune, this boat. ber morning I found myself walk- here, rusting away under the I find the bow of an old fishing The storm is furious. The ing along a white sandy beach. tides of the sea? Where is the boat. It is almost completely soldier, turtle, and the men-- 7he tide was extremely high and man who wore this helmet? He is buried in the sand and shells. they are of the past. The sea there was only a very narrow dead; he is of the past. I carry It is covered with barnacles and does not wait. We are the slaves strip of sand on which to walk. the old rusty helmet with me as rotten sea growth. I kick it. I of time. And the ocean beats I walk. The poor old soldier; he try to pull it from the sand, but against the rocks year after 'IHE WIND generally blows in from is dead. the sand has too tight a grip on year, century after century.. . the ocean rather hard during the I walk out around a bed of fall months. It is difficult to shells. My bare feet were not see beyond the breakers today, made to endure the sharpness. for the air is saturated with The rain is starting to fall now. mist. The seagulls and beach- Big drops. The big drops sting birds are not flying today. I am my face as does the sand. The walking and I am alone. The jack- rain feels very, very cold. et I am wearing is blowing in the In my path I see a turtle BOOKS stiff wind. Sand is beginning to shell. It is white. I kick it By Laurence Pratt be blown across the narrow strip over with my foot and the rain- of beach. A storm is in the water spills from it. Only a making. Thunder claps high above bleached white skeleton on a wet I opened a book---a man walked forth. my head. I look up and the sand stormy shore. Where is the turtle burns my eyes. I look about for that wore this shell? He is dead. I lifted a page---out flew a bird. cover, but find none. There is He is of another time, another Each was alive. only the rough sea, the stiff age. I pick up the turtle shell Each was a word. wind, the blowing sand, and the and carry it with me. The poor thunder clapping above my head. old turtle--dead. Paragraphs are places A wave tumbles-- the sound is I walk. My face is stinging in like a moose fight in Alaska. I the blowing sand and the cold Lived in by lovers. am walking with my head down rain. I walk faster, as if I had Chapters are cities while all around me the storm is a destination in mind. I am walk- Between book covers. brewing. Soon I find a soldier's ing in a big circle,around an helmet three-quarters buried in island. I have no destination to the wet, salty sand. How many reach--I am just walking. The LETTERS Dear Editor Wilson: From Our Readers I was working for Mrs. Tarpley From the Album of Eva Merryrnan Pond at the Peacock the night when Mar Wong did the dirt. I still think Dear Editor Wilson : he was short, pot tall. I have lived in Corvallis for 72 Bus Harlan got me my first job years, and I know a lot about it. in Los Angeles, at the Western Your little "Corvallis Magazine" Electric. As for Cecil Fruitt, I saw brings back a lot of memories be- him last in the 20's giving the stop cause was there.. I and go at Ninth and Grand in L.A. Mrs. Carl Hodes Barcus Law was here at that time Corvallis, Oregon too. I once made a trip back to Dear Editor Wilson: Oregon with Willis Law. He was Evelyn and I have decided the a good friend. kid on the motorcycle in the Fire Oh yes, on my rounds today (a Department picture was not I. spare time job) picking up over- It must have been Bob Howard. due books for the library, I hauled in another one of Ray Bethers'! I would have had on turnout pants The dame who had it told me that and boots like others who slept in it was a big help to her in her art the Fire Hall. Bob did not. work. Joe Wilson Wayne Harralson Newport, Oregon Compton, California Dear Editor Wilson : Editor's Note: One of Ray Beth- Your fine little magazine was ers' books has just been translated first brought to my attention by into Arabic and printed in Cairo. Lee "Freddie" Fisher. Then yes- A class at South School (Rocsevelt) 1919 terday Floyd Githens brought me Dear Editor Wilson: a copy he had picked up someplace. You weren't quite right about George A. Spence Mar Wong's death. His wife was TOP Row: Margaret Lesh, Louise Horning, Margaret Brown, Tidewater, Oregon stabbed full of holes but still alive Gladys Junkin, Agnes Vale, Hazel Gentry, when George Spence and I got her Catherine Pulley, Frances McCarthy, Irma Alcorn. Dear Editor Wilson: to the hospital. We called Henry I thought your last issue was so Robinson and Sheriff Newton. Middle: (?I, George Bailey, Henry Davis, (?), good that I read it from cover to Mar Wong was near the front Frank Germany, Lent Bryant, Lester Huntsburger, cover before I ate dinner. My room window waving this big butcher Clifford Chris tianson, Miss Hirsch (Teacher). mate complained that dinner was knife around. He had a roaring getting cold, but I told the lovely fire in the stove and threw the Front: Alice Brown, Eva Merryman, Dorothy Marr, gal that food of the kind she spoke knife into it. He died underneath Vita Stover, Ruth Markham. of was only good for the belly, a table and some stools. He had while this in your magazine was taken poison, but the doctors did- good for the soul. n't find out what kind. "Hi" Howe Laurence Howard Chicago, Illinois Corvallis, Oregon ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS Dear Editor Wilson: FOUL ANCHOR Your winter issue is the best editorially, typographically and ARCHIVES 10 cents per word. minimum order $2.00. Books & Maps in every other way (if there is any Payment in advance. other) I have seen yet. I've read "for treasure or pleasure!" nearly everything there is in this REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BURIED TREASURE issue, and it arrived only a few CORNER LOT, 130 feet on ocean at Ya- LOST MINES hours ago, and everything I've chats. In new restricted district. Power and phone lines next door. City water. SUNKEN TREASURE read is interesting-though, being Good streets. $2,500, terms. Write Tom no Corvallisite, I know none of the Wilson, Box 122, Corvallis, Oregon. PIRATE TREASURE people mentioned except you. TREASURE TROVE LAW Thanks for demoralizing me by MISCELLANEOUS getting me away from it all for an Pearlie and Mrs. Strait, owners of the EARN UP TO $1000 sparetime income For Big Ghost Town Map with 86 sites hour or more. P & L Trading Post, Albany, shown with raising Italian improved Swiss Giant in Arizona, California and Nevada a few of their thousands of antiques. Pansies. No special equipment needed send $1.00. Catalogue of 100 treasure Courtland Matthews They have one of the best collections of using my method. Grow thousands of books and maps included. Treasure Portland, Oregon Bohemian glassware to be found any - plants in your backyard. Booklet "Show- exclusively. DE~T,L-3s where. They also have all kinds of used ing How" plus 500 seeds $1.; 2000 seeds Dear Editor Wilson : appliances, building materials, such as $3. Nichols Garden Nursery, 1190 N. Pa- windows, old pictures, and furniture of cific Hwy., Albany, Oregon. FOUL ANCHOR, RYE 0, H. Y. I'm not a denizen of Corvallis. all kinds. (R. I. Nesrnith, Curator) Its people and history mean no- They are located on the Old Pacific thing to me. But the magazine as Highway at the north edge of Albany. it now appears is probably just right for your subscribers. Sail on, Captain Wilson! Laurence Pratt PGL Portland, Oregon Editor's hlote: Ex-Prof. Pratt is one the Northwest's best liked TRADING POST poets and critics. We have printed a poem by him in nearly every ANTIQUES issue of our magazines for the past five years. It is with such good GLASSWARE friends in mind that we are start- USED FURNITURE N. P. Nichols, owner of Nichols Garden ing our "creative section." Nursery, Albany, dictates a letter to CABINETS Our policy is for the present as pretty Darlene Simmons, his secretary. He imports seeds from Europe and Africa and TOOLS well as for the past. Nobody has sells them by mail all over America. ever expressed this feeling better "Nick" also writes articles for the APPLIANCES than Friedrich Nietzsche when he leading horticultural and gardening mag- azines, such as. Horticulture. The Flower wrote: Grower. Organic Gardening, American "Companions, the creator seek- Nurseryman, and others. eth, not corpses-and not herds or Mrs. Nichols (Edith) and their daugh- 1305 Old Pacific Highway ters, Rose Marie and Gloria, also help believers either. Fellow-creators with the mail order work. At present, the creator seeketh-those who Rose Marie is studying journalism at the University of Oregon. Nick, by the way, Albany, Oregon grave new values on new tables." attended the Birmingham Agricultural College, in Birmingham, England. 26 -