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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1889)
THE ffESI SHORE. . , , f , - fc.!ilstw of tt k-r .! :i r,ti;H is f1"', 4 . f- ttlJ; mil tin f- 11 oce of Uiu ;-utotU t!;i irira favorably t.a at Im1 J iif iti'ui-.linu ia the Hit IU ru,Uuci . r.5i! fa xwly taping Ut jf,w. Ti cia IsiUitg iitwo lu!?l i :!; M Wf. ith i iitg rifittj-fite f1 U Hi'ty M t:gb, coiUinicg Ufi rc tn. L. i "i In U. lKSPLt it the ri'Uuy 4fJtfst ui is ll t-p of tt building v lU f.u l r c; ciijl u.1 bpUL A trick tt.' i iWi M t ji atl ftWa ka&ifpJ and J fi; U tut f- 1 cjf Knciib t! irtitntiary toilJ ii W.'.i.i u. I vr k tfl;r we tix Urg trick '.iv1u, Id i 1 1( ( ! t ( , ( workibor, U jnl (h LcaJrM and H; ut is;! j la a iWTf kcdry, and U Jf u;t L . J u.4 ll UJ for the Ma. J U K.:.J o c; J1 tl hit of iU!e blita l. a.t 1 uA c a. N;,ul r.t; TU veil iur v ik 11( ' da5 ill 1 6iViiU!wat!ia4ctil. ri. Ht-, a .vjy ft t tc 4t Wf B ;iui,ft(i:iti3ll((itUti ' r ionno each per month. The total rTdSw Bchool age in the city is abont 'n of whom eight hundred and eighty- KSirf eixty in the private and denomina. ionhoo!, The school government is vested in S directors and a clerk, who is also treasure, by the people at the annual meeting whict entirely removed from any connection with other B&tW. of politics. The school tax last year was two oilli on the total taxable valuation of property in the city The Salem schools are fully abreast of the city's general advancement, and changes now contem plated will place them in a still better condition for applying the educational needs of the citizens. The wveral private schools, Roman Catholic, Episcopa lian and others, perform an important service, and with an excellent university right at home to supple ment the work of the lower schools, the educational facilities of the capital city are exceptionally com plete. An orphans' home has a fine building, with home like surroundings, and is one of the excellent char itable institutions of the city performing an impor Unt service to the community, and it is well support ed. The city has one opera house, with a greater eating capacity than any other in the state outside of Portland, and has two good hotels. The churches of Salem are fully equal to those of any other city in Oregon. One church edifice is ca pable of comfortably seating six hundred people, and is, perhaps, as fine a church as is now open for service in the state, it having cost $50,000.00. There are nine other church edifices of plainer design, but comfortable and substantial structures, in the city, and they art all well attended. The denominations which have church buildings are the Methodist Epis copal, Chriitian, Episcopal, Congregational, Evangel ical, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Cumberland Preibyterian and German Reformed. Unitarians tea cjetentn Day Adventists have organizations and hold regular aervices, and there ia a branch of the uoiinpi locictv in thn ritu au Pnii- xri, aj rtuicuuouj nave organizations ana regular aervices, and there is a branch of the .i .. j Vllj, vuu x euuwB, men uU and Roman PAtMiVa u n.. fraternal orders are well represented in Salem. . -mi; urgamzauons ana a Masonic library of fifteen hundred volumes; two lodges of Odd Allots and in Odd Fellow.' Mhnrr, A l. e! low, and in Odd Fellows' library of fifteen hun ami Tolames; two of the Ancient Orr nf iTntorf orkcan: oci TJr.r.i i . , , .. i .. V1 0116 ux Aem- H Uge, which has had over two thousand per- o,w7 -1 01 Lsbor- ieae fraternal ue , flonrUhing ccdiUoD, aod their bener