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About The Port Orford tribune. (Port Orford, Or.) 1892-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1924)
Wg > A RSDAY. atoll 1 1r 1 ri&8 A U G U S T 14, 1 J W r it t e n J u n e 4 , 1 91 3, b y F r a n k B . T i c h e n o r a n d D e d ic a t e d t o y f Grandma Ticfrenor ' ' Born at Woodridge, New Jersey, Oct. 9th , 1909, arrived la .C a li- Grandma W in s o r Bore in Liverpool. England, Feb. 21st, 1889. fomia. A p ril 19th, 1862. arrived in Port Orford, May 23rd. « ..h J fflM L ...Arrived.»! Gold Beach in 1867. Died at Port Orford, Dec. 12th, 1880. ♦ M n y lO th . 1888. Died Dee. £ m , 1899, Came to California a t Port Orford.' od o f time ere ringing; T h e bugle calls “arise!” T h e echo rings from. rocky walls song* th a t >1- bears. of boogie-mans Cookies that they baked My stabbed toe and cut fingers is they wrappedand they wipe#m y 4- tears sway. They wars kind and >k gentle always, w ith a good word at for all and 1 mm apsak for every »f boy and and answering plea and ^ies. and lie ms—the best cookies I svsr ate. girl who Uved a t myriad voices, joined as one ZBeseech them to awake, lonely land unites in prayer B u t naught their rest can break. B u t though tl,ey sleep upon “ l l i e j - l eads” it Pert Orford during the '70’s that ■ © r in the grave-yard near, T h e message A book sould ba w ritten toll village o f an, th re e faces I were I eir voic es hush ed fo r ay e; the United cbo nobly did these mothers- Uv e perils that always few women e f the present gen- i eir d e pds shall n«V.r dig three faces that alter not, eration would care to brave. EY COUNTY 30 YEARS AGO F r o m O ld F ile s o f 0 m . T r ib u n e ' HOMECOMING PIONEERS’ REUNION P O R T O R F O R D , O R E G O N , A U G . 1 4 -1 5 -1 6 . > August 14, 1894 wo^c to superintend the curing Several em igrant wagons have department of M f. Winsor’s deep bean passing through during the sea flshlnR bri-ness. last few day's, bound south. t a petition is being circulated , , , Concert on beach. B attle Rock Address by Hon. Binger Hermann. Address by Captain Kidd e f Coot Bay Pirates. 5:00 p. m .— Indian Muck Muck, fahril- fish o f every description served from the Indian p it '9:00 p. m .— Reproduction of the Battle of Battle Rock. F R ID A Y , A U G U ST 15 10:00 a. m .—Sightseeing. A trip to the • many beautiful and scenic coves. 12:00 noon—Basket lunch served by the ladies of Port Orford at the Agate Beach Camp ground. Trout fishing on the lake. Freeh and salt water bathing. D em onstration first aid by Boy atmoephere is filled with smoke. Ik e Coy o f Euchre creek le ft s There j , qU,t« a |arg« fire burn- week ego for Alaska, where he { jn vicinity o f the county goes to seek his fortune in the between ao<1 n>_ gold mines. era Ex-County Clerk Gauntlett, who has lately become an hon- set fran ker, brought up from tbs d ty a thoroughbred bear dog o f which he is especially proud, The first shipment from the Bandon Wooien Mills took place this week, about 8200 worth of fine blanket* and robes being .hipped to Sen Francisco as sam- C ep t Parkfir, of Parkersburg * ’* • ’ and W . H . Thomas o f Bandon Several o f the otter bnnters, •pent a night in PortO yford last who have their headquarters at week and we understand the for- KeBy’g Cove, down the coast, m er bonded Frank Sm ith's and 'came up Friday fof- a short stay. L. Knapp’s interest in the S r i- ! They have had poor success up own mountain mutes. W W . t o the present aw ing to fegs and T f c staling schooner M ary B . > » 7 » Thomas he. net yet bneg t m r i •? from, and she has about boon gi- yon up for lost by her owners, Bob Culver was one of her hunt- ora, and if lost he will make four Port Orford boys who sailed for Jimmy Button o f Denmark nc- cidentally drank some soncentra- ted lye for blackberry wine last week which made him quite sick but hn is able to be up again. W i„ ,. ^71 ' | <*rds and views of our town and Chmamaa Smg, one o f the m for w u . M r is x p e r t m anipulated o f fish venire o f the P ienean' Reunion, on the coast came up from Rogue We keep them at the Tribune riv e r with another Chinaman tort offloe. PROGRAM 3:00 p. m^— Assembling at the foot of Forest fires are raging, and the , „ „ T H U R S D A Y , A U G U 8T 14 2 J 0 p . m .—A rrival of Binger Hermann. . escorted by Umpqua Chiefs, Ban don Henchmen, Bandon Band and Boy Scouts of Coos County. Band Mrs. Kronenburg departed for i * ? * aP‘* n5me’* ° f her home on the Coquille last ^ or» e, ot w e e . accompanied by little M ary Pw ca thi* pn* DCt Marsh. _ „ 'wilderness surrounding that shall stand for generations, them waainhabited by Indians s' No sufferer went unattended and wild beasts, awaiting w ith when one o f Port O rford's motb- . equal eagerness and opportunity sr'a was within call. N o t svdn to wreak vengeance upon the the little amb, gone bune upon to supplant them in their posses- wauld hear his pleading cry and sion o f a wiUdernese. hurry to the r ess u h.*-' These woman ware making the The lame, the halt Cnd the fight toe civilization By the sid e Wind knew where to seek relief of their sturdier male compan- and the over-hungry boy pot ions they fought and wrought owggwd the knowledge of • store among the wilds to build a borne of goodies that never failed, for a future generation. T h e|r And so lotus honor, and cher- sacrifices made possible the op- iah the memories of G ram m as portunitles of the present They Knapp, attack, Winsor and Tichenor. dangers of savage I t is impassible for us to repay that we might r a tl in them for the benefident effect Scouts . > whoop that baa ren t the air on oe o a r generation. But wa can many nights beside the calm Pa- take pleasure in keeping their ¿ « to ^ h e * ‘«Mothers’' o f ou r tow'n a re still, o((j woman rejffM d in the m eet me-worn pages of the book States, there I eir lives shall live O o f I w h c ’J anld not be forgotten. The Hves days when doctors and trained see sturdy pioneer women nuraea were not known along an example of fortitude, the Oregon coast. less and generosity that we I n tkx days when these grand en IA m looking beck across western Died at Port peace, unfearful o f the w i‘d war their sublime lives have had up- ing about the good deeds accom- >t afford to lose. The braved the y no better women were ever born I, than Grandmas Winsor. Knapp, a and Tichenor. California, 1856, arrived at Port Orford, 1859. Orford. May 18, 1888. pale-faced interloper who sought the hillside, for Grandma Knaop u- set my listening heart aglow, da Stories that they told to me, — >r- not atones Grandma Knapp ~ Born at Hesse, Darmstadt. Germany, March 4, 1804. .arrived in Arrived at Port O rford. C lear a s the crutt&i sta rs of night isl songs they sang to me; these *1- songs that ever down khe halls I 8:00 p. m .—Old time dance. Ladies will wear hoop skirts. Gentlemen Will dispense with bailed shirts. -— S A T U R D A Y , A U G U ST 16 10:00 s. « . — A drive w e r the Roose- " - volt highway. Trips to Cepe Blanco end otner places of. interest. 2:00 p. m .—A rrival of delegates from Southern Oregon H ig hw ay Asso ciation. Prominent speakers from Rogue River Valley. 5.-00 p. m .— Horse race oe beach, free for all, prize $10,001 7:00 p m .—Around the camp Pres on the beach. Reminwcences of early ’ - 5 hewn from the cedar forest;flgbt- Bresees green, and the Bowe-s ing that the Uvea o f another gen- in bloom above their heade. •ratio n might be spered from the Friendship went a * beasts o f the jangle; suffering shore three miles north of Sixes a thousand privations and dan- river A pril I860. The cap- . ,. _ . «. * ' 1 t»lfl and crew deserted the ship g e n for the sake e f e future, when Charley Mil born they knew they could not enioy; found the wreck there was no „ ______one on board. She waa loaded j^aae..women erected fo th - wJth and t ^e daci, selves monumefite of character was a great help te settlers. HISTORICAL SIDE LIGHTS IN BRIEF Andrew Nssburg was the first Binger Hermann served first in the forty-ninth Congress 1886 postmaster at Marshfield and -87. His last term was fifty- his salary, was 812.00 a year. He held the office many y ean . fourth Congress 1895-97. The courthouse was built nt Populatisn of Curry county in 1860 was 393. In 1870 was 604 Empire on Coos Bay in 1872 at a cost of 84000. D r. Henry Herman, father of Binger Herm ann was first el Binger Herman, first landed at ected representative and then Poi t Orford in 1858. senator in the Oregon legislature. M ary E. Holt, mother of F. B. The first appropriation for the and C. H. Tichenor is the oldest living pioneer of Port Orford. improvement of Coos Hay bar She came to Port Orford in 1853, amounted to 840,000 and was made in 1879. seventy-one years ago. The schooner H arriet Rose went ashore on the Heads at Port Orford on January 28, 1874. She was a total wreck but the cargo was saved-___ F The steamer M ary D. Mums was built at Ellensburg in 1880 and mads her first trip in Febru ary 1881. She was 96 feet keel, 22 foot beam, depth o f hold 9 .. In 1878 the population of Cup feet, 150 tons register and was ry county was load than 1000. built for the coasting trade. Capt Caughell wee placed in command. The schooner Mose was wreck ed at Port Orford June 25, 1884, while taking the first cargo of 't lumber fio m Jos N av ’e mill. t One hundred and ninety-nino vessels arrived at the Port of fljftos Bay id 1878 and transport- Binger Herm ann’s first speech «d from there that year 42.000 as made at M yrtle Point July ton* of coal. 12,000,000 fast of U IM 1 . . . 1 . ,__ .
