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
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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
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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
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Brookings, Oregon
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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
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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.
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