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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1950)
22 United States Marshall, and at; all times Myrtlewood a sincere and able leader. Joe Meek first came west in 1829 (Continued from Page 18) with Sublette’s party of trappers. Lat er, when he had learned the work, he Brummett creek area of Brewster Val- became an independent trapper; but ley, 26 miles from Myrtle Point. Oregon myrtle wood is .of fine tex the game was beginning to diminish. In 1840 he and ^ is -brother-in-law, ture and of extreme hardness, taking Robert Newell, seeing theirhway of liv an exceedingly iustrouo polish, ideal ing was over, came to the Willamette for working intow m p s .l| w ^ platters; furniture and other artistic and useful Valley to farm. Although Joe found farming irk articles. A remarkable feature of the some, he finally knuckled down to the wood is the combination of colors in labor necessary to feed his family. The its grain, boasting medleys- of reds, settlers of Oregon were beginning to greens, yellows'*, golds, browns, tans feel the need for government, and Joe and blacks interwoven in incomparable .designs., 11 soon showed his ability as a leader. The author, Doctor Tobie, is a grad Foresters explain theffcolorings are uate of Willamette University^ has a attributed to silica content peculiar to Ph.D. from University of Oregon, and Oregon*' soil. teaches at the Milwaukie Union High Myrtle wood wa§*hot marketed com School. mercially until 1935 when the first re— A beautiful new book we have just tail shops were open along the coast received is Two Captains West, an His highway, U. S. 101, primarily for the torical Tour of the Lewis and Clark benefit of out-of-state visitors. No Trail, by Albert and Jane Salisbury. In ordinary woodworker can handle the this new book the Salisbury’s have fol myrtle to evolve the artistic handicraft lowed the style of their first book, which makes myrtle products so in Here Rolled the Covered Wagons, an demand, account of the Oregon Trail. The trees, some of them several Two Captains West tells the story of Lewis and Clark aS the" authors fol hundreds, of years old, must be hand- low the route of the expedition. Hand logged by a selective processvand -haul- some photographs,^supplemented with drawings by Carter Lucas,' illustrate Quality, Value, Style the text. Any one who lives, or Iras lived/ in?' Eugene or in Malheur county will want You Get Them A ll in to see The Story of Eugene by Mrs. Lucia Moore and her sifters, or Pio KUPPENHEIMER neer Days in Malheur County by Jacob R. Gregg. CLOTHES Seen and Herd If we had’ve .seen it in ,a Pay less Drug store it might’ve been a dish of pretzels, a bowl of tossed salad, last year’s bird nest or a coal scuttle, but we saw it setting on top of a woman’s head— so it must’ve been a hat. Chili Bowl Cafe 2425 State Street Best Food and Service Air Conditioned Ben Mary DOBBS HATS NUNN-BUSH SHOES MANHATTAN SHIRTS INTERWOVEN SOCKS * * * THE MAN'S SHOP M oxley and Huntington The Store of Style, Quality, Value 416 State Street - Salem
