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8 Brookings-Harbor Pilot T hursday , F ebruary I from a r an ch er to provide food, but th ey soon realized th a t th is was delaying them too m uch, and th e cold w e a th e r was ap p ro ach ing. F ft ?en m iles from D enver, the fam ily cam e to th e first a u to m o bile th a t they had ev er seen. R< ads w ere not wide enough then to r th e cars to pass the wagons, and the w agons would move off th e road to allow the c a r to pass. T< m p rs w ere usually p re tty tight, too, when th e "gas-buggies" cam e along, frig h ten in g th e i horses. w e re principal in d u stries now 1 m iles long, w ith th e houses built alo n g th e p rairies th at had been as close to g e th e r as th ey could so em p ty th e first tim e. T here get all th e w ay to the gulf. G ol w ere few sheep betw een P en d le den M eadows is a g re a t oil c e n te r and fishing in d u stry . T housands ton, O regon, anti Arizona. T h e only tow n th a t had sh ru n k of fish boats go in and out of the w as Lehigh. O klahom a. It was bayou into th e gulf daily. All the now a post olfice and com bin d oil w o rk ers use boats for tr a n s g ro cery and filling statio n , while p o rtatio n , as this is a m arsh co u n I V W H E N WII2SON F R E E M A N in W ilson's y o u th it had been a try , and all th e oil wells a re u n They trav eled from point to d er w a te r. D ue to th e m arsh con b u stlin g city of 5,000. and his fam ily concluded a no nt. staying roughly along the tw o and o ne-half m onth vacation I in«’ th a t F a th e r F ree m a n had H is home town of C en ter ceit ion, all th e cem eteries are f t- trip recently, they had fulfilled a draw n on the m ap. T h ere w ere co u n ty seat of Shelby county ted w ith v au lts above ground d re am th at W ilson had to. ma y no m aps they relied on the few 1 exas. w as ’/c ry little change«! vvhere th e dead are buried. T h ere y e a rs : To re tra c e the ro u te by people they m et along th e way in size, but its livelihood had is a n arro w s trip of land ru n n in g w hich he cam e to O regon as a for directions. changed from co tto n to oil wells, from B aton R ouge to G olden Ixiy. A num ber of things happened Som e plac? in w estern O kia- p o u ltry and som e c a ttle W ilson M tadow s w ith only one road in or out. T he population is m ade up YY ilson cam e to O regon w hen along tb.at road. Once they w ere i hom a or so u th ern K ansas, th* found th e re som e 60 relatives. he w a s a 1 3 -y ear-o ld hoy, hack in atcu se d of st aling horses, and fam ily met the m eanest m an in F rom th ere on. they had passed m ostly of som e trib e of In d ian s and French. 1907. lie c a m e in a co v ered w ag had to stand by while they w « ie th e world The F reem an s had | j the h a u n ts of his youth, and w on. pulled by a t< am of horses quest ion.‘«1 and th e ir own horses tood but no fuel, and they sto p ju st vacationing. W e’ll let W ilson "On o u r way hom e we a tte n d e d T his fall, he mad«* the trio exam ined. A nother tim e, an es- ped at this m a n ’s horn . offerin g t 'll it in his own w ords: the self-su p p o rtin g H untsville, “ At S p rin g Hill, La., we visited T exas, prison rodeo, put on ex ag ain . . this tim e in a 1952 raped m u rd erer w as found hiding to buy fuel or- to pav for the B uick. 'I her«* w as little resem - in a thicket n ea r th e ir w agon, and privilege of cooking it in the m an's my cousin, who is presid n of •• clusively by th e prisoners, which i horse club ot SO m em bers. W hile is su p erio r to most rodeos. M any bianco betw een th e vacation trip ‘hey w ere accused of feeding him, joven. th e re we spent th e best p art in 1953, and the tre k th at brought but again they cleared them selves of these prisoners w ere doing a T he m an refused, so W ilson’s | o u r tim e riding and w orking w ith th e F reem an fam ily to O regon 47 en d w e re allow ed to proceed life term , and had no respect for fa th e r picked up his gun and laid y e a rs ago. Finally, they hit d esert co u n try , it across his lap. Then he reached the club. He s ta tic *ha i t^ei» his own life. a re n a cost them $50,000 and is « W ilson w as born in Shell,', and for th ree days and nights they (C oncluded N ext Week» cou n ty , T e x a s ,.b u t w hen he was w ent w ithout w ater. T he h o rse s’ down and hand 'd an axe to W il y e a r and a halt old. All th e g ra n d th re e y ears old, his fam ily moved tongues had s ta rte d to swell w hen son. saying, "Son, cut down six stan d se a ts a re m ade of co ncrete to Indian T e rrito ry , now the s ta te they ran across a boy and girl out j fence posts, and cut the stap les w ith tw o-inch pipe railings. "YV’e found New O rleans a very o f O klahom a. Anti it was here. h u n tin g rabbits. They took them cu t of them ." Then the fam ily F re e m a n says, th at his fa th e r on 1 to th e ir farm w here they w ere w ent on th e ir way. la te r stopping in te re stin g town. At th e tim e wa d ay drew a line on a map, s tr e tc h given w ater, but it w as so alk alin e to build a fire and cook th e ir w ere th e re P resid en t Eisenhow e ing from O klahom a to the Pacific. they couldn't keep it down. Food food. On th e ir trip this year, W il m ade his O ctober speech. We ‘ook SA N D A N D GRAVEL H e looked at th e I R t l ' tow n at they received there, how ever, son found tTie self-sam e house, l a lot of m otion p ictu re s of the w hich still stands. ¡old F ren ch q u a rte rs , and the w id th e end of th e line, and told his gave them enough s tre n g th to get TO P SOIL AND FIL L DIRT On they w ent, across the p r a ; - est s tre e t in the U nited S ta te s. neighbors, “I ’m going out to H a r to a fre sh -w a te r stre a m , w h ere "F ro m th e re we went to the bor, Oregon, and build a house they refreshed th e ir horses and ries, b a ttlin g ag ain st tim e to reach the w est. C yclones w ere tow n ot Golden M eadows down the Phone 2057 or 2341 rig h t on the edge of that ocean." them selves. num erous, and they often had bayou. w hich has th e longest They left in April. 1907; fath er, T he fam ily had lived m ostly on m o th er, tw o boys, 13 and 15, and ja c k ra b b it and corn b read a f te r tic down th e ir w agons and throw s tre e t in th e U nited S ta te s 170 o n e d a u g h te r. 18, all trav elin g in th e first m onth, cooking it w h e n th em selv es u n d er them . . . once tw o covered w agons pulled by ev er they could find fuel to cook losing the canvas from the wagon te a m s. T hey had $600 to m ak e th e w ith. O ccasionally they found O nce, w ith fifty cen ts left, and trip , and when they decidtxi th at w ood, and in the desert they used no food, they stopped to help a Highway F rontage (Highway 101, Oregon's Main S tre e t) w a sn ’t «'tiough, they sold one of tum blew eeds and cow chips. S o m e fa rm e r put up his hay in th e face of im pending rain. CIIETCO RIVER FRONTAGE - RESID EN TIA L LOTS th e ir w agons and team s tim es they w ere able to find w ork By th e tim e they had reached O ld C overed W agon 2 ra il R etraced B y B rookings M an H e Journeyed A s A Y outh 4, 1954 ROSS SALVAGE CH O ICE PRO PERTIES SHANGHAI CAFE CHINESE COMBINATION DINNERS Soe and 90c C hinese S pecials Any S ty le (•) NEW HOURS Open i 1 :oo a. in. to 1 :oo a.m. through the week FRIDAYS 11 :oo am . to :oo am . SATURDAYS 11 :<x> am . to 4:00 a.m. W e C a te r to P a rtie s P hone 3161 TOMMY MOO WHEN YOU SHOP IN COOS BAY Have your car Serviced At Lou Blanc, Inc. L e a \e y o u r packages in your c a r th ro u g h o u t the day Complete Service l air Prices Cadillac and Oldsmobile Safety-Tested Used Cars G reeley. Colorado. snow and sto rm s had closed the passes across th e Rockies, so they sto p ped th e re for th e w inter. In th e sp rin g they s ta rte d again, but at ¡C heyenne they found the snow ¡still too deep, so they sold th e ir horses and w agon, and w ent on by train . In O regon a t last, they hom e stead ed th e ir place n ear H arb o r, and began th e ir life in th e new’ c o u n try . . th e life which has brought them to th e place th ey now enjoy. I'he tr p this fall c o n tra ste d in every w ay w ith th e e a rlie r one. I'he B uick m ade a little b tie r time, anti w as a little easier rid ing as th ey moved n o rth from B rookings, up to Salem , w h ere they paused for th e s ta te fair, and on down US Highway 30 t > Idaho Falls, down the b eau tifu l C olum bia R iver gorge. , Y ellow stone p ark was th e ir next stop, and the F reem an s say ii w as the m ost in tere stin g of th e whole trip. They took m oving p ictu res of the b eautifu l scenery anil an im als in the park, in clu d ing Old F a ith fu l geyser. A fte r two days there, they w andered ii«wn Highway 287 to C heyenne, w here thev hit the ’rail J on w hich W ilson had journeyed j w e stw a rd in a coveretl wagon. 17 y ears before I hey followed the old ro u te as closely as they could, hack to th e G ulf of Mexico. Rut very little wfts th e sam e D enver hail grow n from a tow n to a city, fifty tim es the size it had be. n the first tim e through, an d m ost of the o th e r towns had grow n alm ost as m uch M ining, oil wells, and c a ttle »n W H. BRADY REAL ESTATE BROKER B rookings, O regon Who tries to do the common things of life uncommonly w ell.’ READY MIX CONCRETE J 5 I O u r sand and g ravel is wash«' I, screen ed and w eighed to give fu i m e a su re and p ro jx 'r proportions of a g g re g a te , to insure quality » i Crushed Gravel s S ym ptom s of Distress Arising fro m STOMACH ULCERS due TO EXCESS ACID \ isit Our Wholesale Row Asie About 15-Day Trial O ffer LO U B L A N C , Inc. 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