La Grande evening observer., January 15, 1913, Image 3

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15, 1913.
LA GEAKDH EVENING OBSERVER
PAGE THE
Photographic and Pen Pictures
of County fs New Men in Of f ice
mmtmmrm,
If the elector of the lUtt of Oregon Pennsylvania, In 1845.. In the course
were clannish and Insisted on the of the rear 1854 he moved to -tn
"made In, Oregon slogan," scarcely ( western sart of that state lo.-ailnj
one of the men ' elected to at Smttbport At the commencement
office to carry on Union coun
ty's business would have been
successful. A glance at the brief bi
ographical sketch of these men will
reveal to the reader that nearly every
one came from some state In the U. S,
other than Oregon, or even from a
foreign country. It is well that men
are not so narrowly Insistent on home
production, for Iff the end all have to
come from the garden of Eden, from
and Eve. It would hardly be In con
sonance with the policy of state or
nation to voice this policy of exclus
ion from office on the ground that he
or she first saw the light of this world
in some other subdivision of the U. S.
'.. Oregon is trying to bring into the
state men of courage and ' brains to
help swell the forcenow at work try
ing to convert the entire state . Into
one huge farm or pasture. - "
It Is fortunate that in the end the
main insistence Is fitness on the part
of the candidate. An upright charact
er and ability are all the citizens re
- quire the office seeker to Invoice to
them. That has been done and they
of th civil war be enlisted U the
184th Pennsylvania volunteer infan
try and served two years and three
months, coming out with the rank
of first lieutenant He saw active
service at the battle of Frederiiks
burg, White House landing, the sec
ond battle of Bull Hun and was at
Appomattox court house cn the mem
orable occasion of Lee's surrender to
General 9rant. At the close of the
war he moved to Jonesvllle, Mich,
and lived there one year and a half,
tin the early part of 1867 he left
Michigan and made his home tu South
Bend, Indiana.
In 1877he-was taken w!th the de
sire for a new homo and came it
Ogden, Utah, on the train. From
there he was compelled to travel five
days and five nights on the lumber
ing stage until he saw the fertile
stretches of the Grande Tlonde valley.
Upon his arrival In La Grande he
was employed to construct the wood
work for the Camp Carson gold mine
some 62 miles up the Grand Ronde
river.' On his return from that field
have been entrusted with the conduct of labor he worked for the late W.
of affairs.
The great percentage of the men
- now in county offices are men who
have been In the whirl of active life.
None seems to have been born with a
, golden spoon in his mouth or rocked
in a cradle of rose petals. Some of
them have had the advantage of high
er education and others have received
their training in the school of active
life. Nearly all of them have been
men of travel. Travel gives breadth
of vision and the proper insight into
affairs. .. ' ".'; .
If their histories were told In de
tail it would make interesting reading.
If you sat down to a quiet conversa
' tlon with Representative Forsstrora
ana naa mm reiaie u yuu uie scenes
that have Imprinted themselves on his
memory you would likely feel like
taking the next train for all of the
places mentioned by1 hlm.'"'Or sup
pose you had come Into La Grande on
the first passenger train with County
Treasurer Frawley, then con
ductor and with K. W. Moon,
still in the service of the O. W. R. & N.
who had the distinction of holding the
throttle on that memorable trip you
would think the newer generation had
little or no distinctive history to
speak of. You would have seen cattle
roaming over the valley and perhaps
deer comlne right on the track. La
Grande was then a country town with
much of the real western spirit. Some
of this history includes trips across
the plains and the mountains In ox-
wagons, when the gold fever had tak
en hold of the eastern people and had
forced them In quest of the yellow
metal.
Most of the men are of middle age
and are in the prime of life. Most oi
them haave been in the public eye
and their records are acceptable ao
to the county. With an encouraging
word the citizens wish them succtui
Judge Henry Hag Notable Career.
J. C Henry, now serving hi3 sec
ond term as county judge, ans etact-
J. Snoderass. and remained in bis
employ for 14 years. '
During his long stay In La Grande
be has held the offices of mayor,
councilman, school director, coroner
and county Judge, being elected to
the last office in 1906. .He Is now
serving his second term of office. Mr.
Henry has ever been a' Republican
and looks forward to the re-orgarti-zation
of the party with vthe fond
hope of the man who has the courage
of his convictions. s; v ,.
' ' ' ' "
! The New Assessor.
TTiysses G. Couch, elected on the Ke.
publican ticket was born In Linn
county, Mo. In 1864 soon after Gen.
Grant' was appointed Lieutenant Gen.
eral and commander In chief of the
Union army.
He came with his parents from Linn
county. Mo. In an Immigrant tt- ow
the Union Pacific to Kelton, Uiah and
the remainder of the way by toain and
graduated from the Pacific University
and the University of Oregon.
During the last ten years he has
JAS. F. HCTCBiaSOX, CXW3DSSIOX
er of this oinmrr.
TARE ADVANTAGE OF THE I
big; MroodraoN ; : ;
. ' It -Won't Last Long
"YOU CANT LOOK FOOLISH IN A WISE SUIT
Iades' TAILORS-Men's J tflffUF Ladies'. -TAllORS-Men's
Though born in Baker county. Union
county has been his adopted home
since '86. He springs from one of
Union's wealehy families.
been engaged in farming and cattle
raising In Union and Baker counties.
Former Railroader Is Treasurer
John Frawloy elected county treas
ueor on the Republican ticket, was.
JOHN FRAW?,EY. POINTY TREAS
URER FOR YEARS.
v. g. cortm. saw . assessor of
THIS COUNTY.
J. C. HENRY, COOTY JUDGE
UNION COUNTY.
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The farm was his school, the plow his
boy as a boy, but he Is now a com
fortably rich owner of the same sort
of soil he toiled on in the pay of
cthers.'as a boy.
This old-time republican was con
ductor on the train that brought the
first passengers Into La Grande. .
born In the state of New York In. May
2!), 1S50. He came .to 'La Grande as a
conductor on the O. R. & N. railroad.
Mr. Frawley has the distinction of
having brought the first passenger In
to La Grande on a" railroad. He was
first elected to the office of county
treasurer in 1898.
Kd KMrtlp Actvc Man.
Edward E. Kiddle, elected to the
senate on the iFepubllcan ticket, first
saw the light of day In Warren Illi
nois in 1SG2, or Kngltsn parentage
When he was 9 years of age he went
with his parents to Southern Missouri
and lived In the states of Missouri
E. E. KIDDLE, JOINT SENATOR Or
THIS DISTRICT.
and engaged In the milling and live
stock business. Ten years later he
moved to Island City and became the
president of the flouring mill com.
panles of Island City, Union, La
Grande. Iinb'er, Elgin, Last August
lie retired from the aotlve milling
business but still holds an interest in
it as before. Mr. Kiddle has been
mayor of Island City for the past ten
years and member of the school board
for the past 15 years. He has always
been a Republican but has never taken
active interest in politics before.
' Hugs Welt known Clan.
' August Hug. elected on the Republi
can ticket, was born in Southern Utah,
in Santa Clara Washington county,
and lived there until his thirteenth
year. In 1880 he came with his
parents to this valley settling at Suin
mervllle and worked on his father's
farm. In 1898 he moved to Elgin and
In the following year married Miss
Rhoda Fine. He has no children save
nn adopted daughter of Ross Walker's.
He attended public school in Elgin.
His father came from Zurich, Switz
erland and his mother from Scleswig
Holsteln'ln 1852. They at. first, set
tled in Southern Utah and then came
to Oregon. His parents were of the
Mormon faith but did not affiliate with
the Mormons of Utah.
Mr. Hug was manager of the Elgin
KIIEIMFF AUGUST HUG,
POLITICS.
SEW. IN
there and graduated from the high,
school in 1896 came to this country in
1898; took a business course in Bang
or, Maine at the Shaw Business Col
lege and finished there in April 1899
working as bookkeeper and clerk In
Carabou. Mo., until May 1901. On
June 1 of tbat year he got a position
as traveling companion and private
secretary with Dr. J. P. Oliver of Bos
ton. He sooke at that time, oesldes
the Scandinavian language, French
German and English. While In tbat
cauaclty he crossed the Atlantic
Ccean four times and visited all the
Eurouean capitals, Asia Minor and
Africa and returned to Carabou, Me.
In December 1902. 1
In 1903 he bought the business of
his employer where he had worked
up to May, 1901. He came out west In
1905 and located at North Powder and
lias been in this county since except
for six months while staying at his
home in Joseph.
Darley Rent Arrival.
C. T. Darley. the presen; Incum
bent of the offico of county surveyor
C. T. DAiKLEY. CIVIL ENGINEER
SOW IN OFFICE.
For years the leading furniture dealer
of the county he has built up an ac
quaintance prior 40 political activ
ity that is as large as any of the
county's citizens.
ed on the Republican ticket, w,u born
la Plae Grove, Sohuylklll county,
wagon over the old stage rosd. to the
Grande Ronde Valley, Oregon in thi
fall of 1876. '
He then settled on a farm near
Island City, attending dlstr'ct m;hoo1
at Moss Chapel and Island C'ty during
the winter months and spent the bat
ance of the year working for different
farmers in the neighborhood. After
passing out of his teens he worked for
the I. C. M. & M. Co. for three years
in the flouring mill
die was married to Mary M. McCall
in 1890. To this union were born two
children, Elsie and Ray.
He commenced buying grain for the
Pacific Coast Elevator Co. of Portland
in 1890 having been in their employ
continuously to the present time.
U. of K Grad la ODke.
James F. Hutchinson, elected on the
Republican ticket was born the 18th
of January. 1880, on a farm In Baker
county. From 1886 he has been a
resident of Union county. He Is
graduate of the hi ;h school and Is a
graduate of a business college of Port
land. In hi latter years he
Few Masons attain the prominence or
have the honors thrust upon them
that Mr. Kiddle has. At home he Is
ranked as the premier flour maker.
V,:;, ;,
deer annually though his legs are
stiller by the growth of sixty some
years of bone fiber, than when he
was a soldier brave. He likes to re
cite the days of war and his com
rades admit that Faulk was a daring
soldier In blue; since coming to
Oregon he has been prominently
Identified with the O. A. R., and the
three things tbat interest him most
are criminals, G. A. R. and hunting.
Bragg Veteran Pedagogue.
E. E. Bragg who has been holding
down the office of county superintend-
E. E . BRACKS, SUPERINTENDENT
OF COUNTY SCHOOLS.
, A. I
Mr. DaMoy had t.iu endorsement of s
handful of political partlc3 and won
his poi'tlcat spurs hands down.
Among those holding "ffice In this
state, August Hug has had about na
little practice In politics as any one.
Put. he has always advocated the
Republican cause, and his wide ac
quaintance and upright life were his
forte.
warehouse up to the time of his elec
tion. . '- .,
Fewtrom A Traveler. . .
C. J. Fcrsslrora. elected on the Re-
C. J. FORSSTRUlM, REPRESENTA
TIVE FROM UNION COUNTY.
elected on the Feimhllcan ilrk b
Mic ol the newer factcrs in he r;
building of- ithe Grnmle Ron li conn
try! He staked out ti e Me U )'V
Brook Irr'eatl'ri project and aul't -t:i
riverside paik dam. and n.'s b:dii
active In construction and -oritrari
work since his arrival In vtV.yt.
He will find much to do in tle yrais
to tome. Ho was elected ',j the of
fice he now holds last N.' uUi')er ut
the general election.
Conkt,,!c !s W'irrtpr..
Oorstable Faulk. - whfio Vtinls
.V. I. FAII.K, VETERAN SOLDIER
AND OFFICER.
Far many years llr. Bragg has been a
plodding wheel horse of the Demo
cratic party in his precinct, county,
state and nation.
cut of schcols, and who was recently
re-nlocted on the Democratic ticket.
was born in Illinois . in 1867. He
lived In that ' state attending high
school at Sullivan, Illinois and later
the normal school at Cape Girardeau. .
.Missouri. ' In 1890 he emigrated to
Oregon settling In the Grande iRonde
vnlley. In 1898 he was elected for the
Hi t tlmo to the position which he now
Itoliis. ' ' 5
In 1892 ho married Jean Smith, and
hns two children. Zoe, aged 19 and
Kdlth aged 1,1. Mr. Bragg has been
connected with educational work all
his life. At the present time he Is a
member of the text commlssiou o'
Oregon, and prominent In the counsels
of the Democratic party.
and Kansas In the neighborhood of
Kansas City, until 1886. In 1884 be
was married to Emma Walling at
Hamilton, Mo. He has two sons and
two daughters living.
In 1886 be was attracted by the publican ticket, was born In Sweden
was Oregon country and located at Union on the 25th day of SepL 1878; educated
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iGlobe trotter of prominence before
coding to Union county to build up
financial success.
t ' itn
Constable Faulk was re-elected In
November, but like the term before,
didn't spend a cent In campaigning.
are (M. I., Is getting along In years
these days but he slays his quota of
Miss Liuebarger Harried.
Ladd Canyon, Jan. t. (Special)
No doubt a good many will be aur
pr'sed to learn that Miss Minnie Line
barger, eldest daughter of Joseph
L'nebarger, who lives at The Park.
wns married to Alvin Lowman on.
New Year's day. 'Although they have
been married for several days it
seems as though the news has Just
leaked out. Mrs. Lowman was chief
cook In the diet kitchen at Hal Lsko
for some time before her mar!sgs
and her husband was formar'.7 a
srhol teacher and Is at the present
time studying to become a chiroprac
tor. The happy couple are making their
home In La Grande, and their many
friends wish them a bright ma.'ried
life.
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