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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950 BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON ifomia. The Goetz plan to con struction of a business building as soon as the present lease with Standard Oil Co. ca^n be termin ated. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bollinger sold the two lots between Vin cent’s Restaurant and th« Pine Cone Theatre, also two addition al lots to the rear, to Mr .and Mrs. T. W. Zenier. It is under stood a new building is also planned for this location. Both transactions were handled thru the Pete J. Lesmeister Agency. Rev. E. C. Hicks Relates His Personal Account of Oklahoma Race In 1893 Dixon. Wyo., and Craig. Colo., to take delivery of a piCKup, ar- rived home earlier this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Fels- heim. of Bandon, were Friday visitors in this area, on their honeymoon trip. Mr. Felsheim, publisher of the Western World at Bandon,, called at the Pilot for a visit. Mi's. Felsheim form erly employed at Bank of Ban don after her graduation in 1948 from’ Stanford. Mr. and Mrs. Clive D. Manley have arrived in this area from Corundu, Canal Zone, and will make their home here. The Man leys purchased a 120-acrc ranch Opening of the Oklahoma country, as seen by a resident of Smith River, told as only Rev. E .C. Hicks could relate it, brought to Rotarians perhaps the only eye-witness account possible in the country today of that famous opening if country’, depicted in the story, “Cimarron” of which a movie has been made. “I wasn’t quite 20 years old, and I found out that I wasn’t a in the same manner. It learned citizen, when I stood practically a lesson that cost many lives. ail day in the sun at Hennessey, I am glad that I saw that open I ans., that day in late August, ing, despite the fact that I’d 1393, but I soon remedied that never like to see another. Had i.utter, to become one of the I stayed there, perhaps I might “Blessed is the man that walk- settlers to enter that territory. have been wealthy, but there are eth not in the counsel of the Being under age I could not set many other things in life far ungodly, nor standeth in the way tle on anything but a town lot, more satisfying to the human of sinners nor sitteth in the seat so I chose Enid. mind. of the scornful, but his delight "I wish I could draw a picture “That motley array of human- is in the law of the Lord; and in words to describe the sfart of -n comp|ete disorder, made in his law doth he meditate day the race, on that level prairie, a lasting impression on me. one and night. And he shall be like some 300 miles long and 69 miles I shall never forget. It taught a tree planted by the rivers of wide. As far as the eye could me to appreciate the finer things water, that bringeth forth his see, one could observe all modes which come from life and its as- gruit in his season: his leaf also of transportation, from people sociations. I was glad to have shall not wither, and whatso- afoot, on bicycles, in buckboards, been there.” ever he doeth shall p ros per. The prairie scooners, and horseback. Visitors Present ungodly are not so: but are like ‘‘As far as the eye could see, Earl Munson, new owner of the chaff which the wind driveth there was nothing but disorder Hotel Brookings, and Mr. Mitch- away. Therefore t h e ungodly once the starting signal was ell of Mitchell Bros. Trucking shall not stand in the judgment, made. If a person fell in the Co., were guests of the club at pathway of an onrushing wagon Tuesday’s meeting. Archie Hen nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord or schooner, he lost his life—it dricks, president, was unable to knoweth the way of the righte was labeled an accident. Men be present, as he had driven all ous; but the way of the ungod lost their lives perhaps thous night to reach here after being ly shall perish.” Ps. 5-1. ands of them, but the race never called to Portland by the serious We are in a free land; and halted for one moment. illness of his father. have the right and power of our “While I saw nothing except own choice; but God’s word is in that center section from where clear and true: we shall reap I started, I did see plenty of what we sow.—Jos. M. Johnson, hardships, plenty of hunger and for the past week, ending on Gold Beach. plenty of strife for possession Oi| Sunday: Min. Ka ir. parcels of land. I gained Lot 4 Ma ich 6 ............ 54 34 of some block I cannot remem March .... 37 7 ............ 58 ber the number of. While away March 8 ............ 53 44 .22 You lovers of home-made at the land office, filing on it, a March 9 ............ 50 42 .26 bread, grind your own grain in ‘squatter’ was there when I re March 10 .......... 52 39 .32 Electric Lee (household* Hour turned. I never tried to put him 30 .03 mill and get the benefits of all March 11 .......... 48 off, I merely told him that I had 31 March 12 ......... .51 .... the vitamins. A post card will the paeprs to prove my owner Rainfall for week bring you particulars. H. H. Gra ship. ham, Box 3, Brookings. Later, when I returned to my Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ransom school teaching in Nebraska, I and son, Wally, returned last sold this lot to the same man Two parcels of business prop Wednesday from a trip to Bak for $10. Two years later I could have bought it back for the same erty on the main street of Brook ersfield, Calif., where they vis amount, plus plenty of other lots ings changed hands during the ited their son and brother, Ho mer, and family. En route home in Enid. That was in 1893. To week. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Goetz, they visited Mi’s. Ransom’s rel day, Enid sits in the center of the rich oil country, is a city of some owners of the Goetz Cottages, atives, the Stakeys at San Fran purchased the old Chevron Sta cisco and Vallejo. 75,000 people. Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kessler who “On my return to Nebraska tion and lot from Mr. and Mrs. left a couple of weeks ago for I had occasion to stop at Wich Ellsworth Woody of Colusa, Cal- ita, Kans., for a day. There was an old man from New \ork at the hotel where I stopped. He told me that I could do nothing better than to take a few hun dred dollars and buy up many of the lots in that town, hit so severely by the panic of 1893 and years of drouth. Being young I couldn’t see it. However, had I listened to him, I could have been one of I be wealthy people of the world today. “These same lots tois which wmvn I a had an opportunity to buy tor lessj than half the taxes against them —a few years later were worth millions, when the big flour in dustries came to that counti>. “Looking back at that exper ience, 1 in my 77th year, see America, always going forward. Time, I saw men hurt, killed or badly injured. In that wild rush to gain new land, there was al ways someone who had sympa thy, who had compassion to stop and administer aid, take the in jured to a train to be sent to a hospital in Kansas. “The government will never, if it could, open up land again Not By Bread Alone Weather Report LOCAL NEWS Realty Transfer» The World's Best Climate HABÍT Dr. Silvia Challonet Osteopathic Physician Hours 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Hopes Open Evenings 7:00 to 9:00 On Hwy 101 At State Line Mail Address Smith River California r* The more than 87,710.000.000 spent for alcoholic beverages annually is equaled by alcohol-caused human waste, lost oppor tunity and misery. BROOKINGS TEMPERANCE SOCIETY on the south bank of the Chetco from Arnold D. Gleinke last summer. Archie Hendricks was called to Portland Saturday by the ser ious illness of his father. Ht' re turned Tuesday morning by driv ing all night long. Rev. E. C. Hicks, pastor of the Methodist church. Smith River, was guest speaker at the local Rotary clab, Tuesday noon, re lating his exprience during the opening of the Oklahoma terri tory to settlers in 1893. Use the classified columns of the Pilot to reach your buyers— it will pay you. For Dependable Auto Repairing SEE R. B. McGUGIN 4 miles south of Harbor on old Ry right-of way. It will pay you to drive out of your way SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! Glazing Polishing I A. B. C. FEED STORE Brookings, Oregon ALWAYS BUY CENTENNIAL HEALTH BUILDER FEEDS AUTHORIZED DEALER CARL BOLIN Buy “VIT AM E ALL” for your calves. The meal wit h a milk base, plus vitamins, minerals and proteins get best results, Feed “CENTENNIAL DAIRIMEAL” for more milk production. “MORE MILK. MORE PROFIT produced by the Northwest's largest feed manufacturer. SAVE MONEY, buy our “Bulk Pack” gardon seed in fresh, sealed packets. They are groum for western soils and climate. Also have strawberry plants. ALFALFA HAY—by bale or ton. Fertilizers, bag, ton or carload lots. ACROSS FROM BROOKINGS GARAGE, In old mess hall. OPEN SUNDAYS CLOSED SATURDAYS BLACK SHADOW ON AMBITION » rink PAGE THREW Save NEW LOW PRICES! 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