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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1954)
Historical Notes By MAX BRAINARD Scouts Celebrate 7 44th Anniversary rpo , E arl B reu e r who gave a sho rt W O M E N ’S CLUB M E E T S talk. O th er com m itteem en. Blain i Brookings-Harbor Pilot T he re g u la r m o nthly m eetin g of , G ribble and Mr. C hapin w ere THURSDAY. MARCH 4, 1954 the W inchuck W om en’s C lub w as ¡ introduced. held last T h u rsd a y at th e hom e A candle lighting service w as of Mrs. O rrin R andall in S m ith A L L SU PS IN M E D F O R D held which p o rtra y ed the th re e River. T h e vice presid en t p re Mr. an d M rs. D a rre ll B. A llsup steps in boy scouting, cubs, scouts sided in th e absence of th e p re s and ch id ren spent th e w eek e n d and explorers. ident. at M edford w ith his b ro th e r a n d R efresh m en ts of cake. ice A fter a short business m eeting fam ily. cream and punch w ere served th e m em bers ’w atched a cak e dec on th e tables arran g e d in a U o ra tin g dem onst ra t ion. at th e hom e of Mrs. M ary W a t shape. Each den had m ade one T he next m eeting will be held te rm a n on th e W inchuck. of th e tab le d ecorations and place cards, and p ap e r h a ts in <------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- blue and gold w ere also m ade by th e boys. P H IL ADAMS, of Gold The fo rty -fo u rth y e a r of Boy •* B each we are indebted for th e S couting w as ce le b rate d W ednes reco rd of a n o th e r and qu ite early v isito r to th e Rogue. Mr. Adam s day evening. F e b ru a ry 24 at the has loaned a copy of th e 1948 I.O.O F hall w ith a b irth d a y p a r b u lletin of th e Society of C alifor ty. P resen t w ere cub scouts, nia Pioneers. In this booklet, den m others, co m m ittee m em bers C h arles T. W ard of Boston w rites and p aren ts. F ren ch y A rrell, ch airm an , in th a t he left th e re in April, 1849, cam e th ro u g h the S tr a its of M a troduced Bob H uffm an, w ho dis gellan an d landed in S an F r a n cussed th e p rocedure of cubs go cisco in D ecem ber of th a t year. ing into scouting. E rn ie W heeler, He ap p e ars to have a rriv ed in the cub m aster, gave out re g istra tio n B ay C ity w hen tim es w ere re ally card s and p re sen ted aw ard s to B IRTHDAY PARTY SUNDAY tough. T h en th e village sim ply cubs. Som e of th e boys had as Lenn David S m ith, son of Mr. could not c a re for th e mobs ru s h m any as five o r six silver and ing th ro u g h it from all p a rts of the gold arrow s. Mr. A rrell an nounc and Mrs. L eonard S m ith of H a r w orld to w ard the gold fields. Like ed those boys doing o u tstan d in g bor cele b rate d his fifth birthday oth ers, he d rifte d ab o u t th e gold w ork in Dens 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 on Sunday, F e b ru a ry 28 w ith a diggings of “N evada C ounty," and introduced the den m others. law n p arty . A larg e cake b e a u R otary club, th e sponsoring o r tifu lly decorated w ith yellow aro u n d M arysville, took a little ganization, w as re p resen te d by roses, ice cream an d punch w ere gold, sold ou t, and re tu rn e d to 'F risco. served. Those atten d in g th e p a rty w ere then re tu rn e d to th e ir ship, sail U n fo rtu n a te ly W ard o m itted Donna, Cindy and S usan F re e d a te s from his account, but it ing back to S an F rancisco. A p p aren tly this w as enough e x m an, B a rb a ra anti Jo h n n y D ahl- m u st have been in 1850 th a t he ploring for th e w rite r as he didn’t strom , E rn ie and Jea n n e W he ler, joined Col. H iram W in ch ester's expedition to th e U m pqua and m ake any m o re trip s by boat d u r M ichael and Chloe L eonard and D iane C arson. R ogue rivers. “In due course of ing his lifetim e. tim e," he w rote, we arriv ed off th e Rogue, an d a sm all boat was put fo rth to sound the channel. T h e boat w as capsized in the break ers, one old sailor w as drow ned, and the rest reached the CRESCENT CITY shore w here they w ere im m edi a te ly set upon by Indians and strip p ed of th e ir clo th in g .” S eeing th is those on shipboard resolved to go to th e ir m at s’ res cue, lined them selves along the sh ip ’s b u lw ark s to pass word from th e pilot, in th e bow, to th e helm s m an, and th ey headed in. Ju st as they w ere ab o u t to e n te r th e jaw s th e ir m ainsail cam e down w ith a • No Advance in Admission ru n and th e ship d rifted to the south. T his event probably saved th em from th e fa te of th e H ack- sta ff, w recked th e re in a sim ilar a tte m p t in '49. W ith th e help of a higher tide, | an d th e sw ells, they crossed over th e b a r on th e next try. J u s t as soon as th ey w ere securely a n cho red in th e tidal basin arm d m en took to th e ir boats. W hen th e In d ian s saw them com ing they w ere e a g er to re tu rn th e clo th es th ey had “borrow ed” and th e u n h arm ed w hite captives. A “disco v ery ” p arty looked over th e ^ o u th s'do of the riv e r’s m outh and explored up the river, but in th is la tte r v e n tu re the men had to w ade th rapids and haul th e ir boats o v er them The Indians kept close w atch but did not b o th er th e “d iscoverers.” i As tin y found no evidence oí ¡ gold th ey left the Rogue and set out. for th ir original term in al, i th e U m pqua. W ard reco rd s bucking head w nds on th is trip but ev en tu ally m ak in g po rt. No Indians w ere Starring seen ab o u t th e e n tra n c e to th e U m pqua and th e p arty proceeded to pick out a tow nsite, of w hich W ard did not think a g<x>d choice w as m ade. Som e of th e p a rty took their- bedrolls an d some provisions and ; w ent on up th e river, w here they found o th e r o p tim ists had c h ris ten ed and la d out “S c o ttsb u rg .” A ccording to W ard the p a rty laid o u t th e to w n sites of Um pqua, E lk ton. W in ch ester, and W ashington. 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