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Walt’s Words of Wit and Wisdom
by Walt Klamath
Hey, by golly, we finally got some
snow, a couple of months late though.
It was not very much, maybe an inch
after five hours snow falling at Logsden.
Well, beyond Logsden a little ways.
Seems like there are zones for
coolness at Logsden. There was just a
trace, but one could see heavy snow
on the hills. There is a big difference
from Logsden to where Judge Huckle
berry lives.
In '51, there was three feet of snow
in that field where that doctor lives. I
had to feed the cattle. The deer would
crowd around the wagon as bad as the
cows. Don’t remember how many there
were, but there were quite a few. Had
to push them aside to get to the wagon.
The weather has changed a lot. It
used to snow every Christmas, that was
hunting season. Dad and Eddie Bensell
would always go on the hill behind the
bam. There were no roads to speak of.
Grandpa had sled trails for gather
ing fence posts, Eddie kept the deer
trails open. I wasn’t very big at the time,
but I wanted to go hunting, probably
cried about being cold.
Eddie would find some tracks,
would say it was a buck or doe, said
there was a difference in the feet. Any
way, he would take one way and Dad
the other and somewhere along the line,
there would be a little pop. Eddie would
say something like somebody got one.
We would come on some blood and
where one had been dressed, Eddie
would go, “Hee, hee, Lester was here.”
How did he know Lester was there?
Well it seems that them old timers kind
of marked their territory. Lester would
leave a foot in a tree. Eddie would leave
a horn or an ear, Skinner Williams
would leave a leg. Can’t remember what
Jimmy Flemming left, but he had his
mark too.
Alton Butler told me of the times
that he would drive a Model T across
the Siletz River in the area of the old
ford. I don’t know where that was, but
I know it wasn’t where the bridge would
be built.
While waiting for the bus, I can
remember throwing rocks on the ice
across Rock Creek. Tue Ton Rilatos was
the bus driver then, he drove a big air
cooled Franklin Van. That’s what they
are called today. It was not the warm
est vehicle to ride in, much like the
Volkswagen, I guess.
Most of the cars in those days had
spoke wheels. People could not afford
tire chains. They would wrap logging
chains or cable around their wheels
through the spokes. They would park
close to the road where a grader would
come through.
Old Man Bemrose, his daughter
became a Lane, was the mail carrier.
He delivered mail every day. He used a
horse and sled to go from Nashville to
Logsden. It took him all day to do it,
but the mail had to go through.
We always had enough to eat.
Grandma, Mom, and everyone canned
and stored food for the winter. Didn't
need refrigeration. Had a lot of wood
split and stored. It was real cozy. I don’t
remember about the coldness though.
It must have been and we must have
had winter clothing.
We did have a lot of fun in the snow.
I have written about those times before
at the Speakman’s place, which now is
broken into two places. We played at
the Christianson place at those times.
It was cold then and wet and terrible,
but we did it anyway.
The Speakmans were teen-age ori
ented; they did provide us with hot
chocolate. We burned tires for heat and
light. Teen-agers from Siletz and To
ledo, plus all of us in the Logsden area,
would gather, probably 15 or so.
February 2005
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