' "' THE OREGO ST ATEStfANr SALEM, OREGON DIVERSITY EDITION. FEBRUARYS 1924
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WILLAMETTE IS PIONEER SCHOOL
First English Speaking Institution of Higher Learning on Pacific
' Coast Which Has Persisted; A Great Heritage; A Glorious History
"' Willamette university Is Salem's
greatest help in supporting tier
claim to being an outstanding
' Educational center. I i The school
and the city were born twins. The
. e.tory of their growth and strug
gles runs on parallel lines. The
, pity and the school go back in the
Rjistory of the "Oregon country"
" to the beginning of ; the develop
jftent of civilization in' the region
teaching from the Rockies to the
Pacific, and stretc : ig from the
. Canadian line to the scattered
-. ttlements of California. Wllla
. mette university is the pioneer in
stitution of this vast region. It
la "the old school."
.j; Outline of IU History
The story of Willamette uni-
rersity' is filled with the romance
i -of heroism and the faith of proph
' els. Pioneer missionaries came
( W the northwest country upon a
. quest for souls'- and. to build a
Christian civilization.! They knew
that, the foundation must be laid
in religion and that there could
be no permanence without educa
J Uon; therefore they Immediately
; Joined religion and learning by
establishing a Christian school.
' liven before reaching Oregon, the
missionaries gave birth 'to thin
far-sighted conception; for in
1839, while on the ship Lausanne
the new school were adopted.
October 26, 1842 A- meeting;
of the members and friends of the
Methodist church was held in Sa
lem formally to assume responsi
bility for the new school. As yet
there, was no conference organiza
tion to do this officially.
July, 1844 The mission man
ual labor school of the Oregon
mission was ordered closed by the
new superintendent, Dr. Gary. Its
property was fold to the Oregon
institute for the nominal sum of
(4,000.00, less than half the ori
ginal cost of the building. It was
a three-story frame structure, lo
cated on the present Willamette
campus.. At that time it was the
most imposing structure on the
Pacific coast. The building which
the trustees were erecting, about
five miles north of the present
site of Salem, was sold.
Tuesday, August 13, 1844 The
Oregon institute was .formally
opened by Mrs. Chloe Clarke Will
son to instruct white students. It
was the first English . speaking
school on the Pacific coast which
has lived. This was two years
before it"wa3 decided whether the
Pacific northwest should belong
to the United Slates or to Great
Britain,' and five years before the
Oregon territorial government
logy organized and the building
presented by Mrs. Henry D. Kim
ball, the wife of the founder of
the school.
1907 Music hall given by W.
W. Brown.
December 12, 1907 Eaton hall
was formally accepted by the
trustees from the donor, Hon. E.
A. Eaton.
1913 The half million endow
ment campaign completed.
June, 1916 Last class gradu
ated from the Oregon institute
(Willamette academy), the
growth of public high schools
making its work no longer neces
sary. November, 1919 The old Lau
sanne hall torn down to make
woy for the new Lausanne.
December 17, 1919 Second
Waller hall fire, the interior de
stroyed. The work of reconstruc
tion started immediately, result
ing in transforming this "Historic
Temple" Into a fine modern col
lege building.
September, 1920 The new
Lausanne hall opened. It is one
of the most complete and beauti
ful domitories in the1 west.
May, 1921 The gymnasium
was destroyed by tyre.
1922 Million dollar endow
ment, campaign; the general edu-
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the Indians, led they believed, by
the Divine Hand, drove their
slake and founded ilieir mission
and our city, sometimes in those
early days, called Chemeketa. The
Mills. The Institute, and finally
Salem.
Ours is the third oldest city in
the state. Astoria, founded by
John Jacob Astor's fur company
in 1811, being first. Oregon City,
founded by Dr. John McLaughlin
in 1829, being second. On that
June day, so long ago, those mis
sionaries, as they stood at old
Chemeketa and looked about them
must have thought indeed that
they had been led to a goodly
land, one as fairs Caanan,
as beautiful as the vale of Cash
mere. Stretching away under the
June day sun to the east was a fer
tile and well watered plain, cov
ered with waving grass. On be
yond, mile upon mile, rose the fir
clad mountains with their tower
ing peaks capped in eternal snow.
North and south lay the ro'ling
prairie and its .intermingling of
wooded land and open vale, to the
west the river, the Indian's great
est highway his Wallamette, our
Willamette, and my old friend
Sam Simpson's "Beautiful Willam
ette," and of which he sang so
grandly:
"From the Cascade's frozen
gorges,
Leaping like a child at play.
Winding, widening through the
valley,
Bright Willamette glides away
Onward ever,
Lovely river
Softly calling to the sea;
Times that scars us,
Maims and mars us,
Leaves no track or trench on
thee."
Beyond the river roso the wood
ed height, the Lar.ionti of the In
dians, our Eola hills, famous now
"I hear the tramp of pioneers.
Of nations yet to be, 1
The first low wash of waves
which soon .
Shall roll a human sea."
On May 11, 1792, Captain Rob
ert Gray, in the ship Columbia,
sailed into the Oregon river, and
renamed it the Columbia. In
1805, the Lewis & Clark. expedi
tion left Fort Mandan where they
had wintered, came on across the
plains, followed down the Colum
bia river and. wintered at Fort
Clatsop, returning to the states in
1906. In 1813 the Pacific Fur or
Astor company sold out its busi
ness to the Northwest Fur com
pany, a British concern, and As
toria was rechristened Fort
George.. In the same year the
British sloop of war. Raccoon, ar
rived and took possession of As
toria and nominally of Oregon,
and held it as British territory.
At the close of what is known as
the war of 1812, between the U.
S. and Great Britain, the treaty of
Ghent, that followed, provided:
"That all territory, places and
possessions whatsoever taken by
either party from the other dur
ing the war shall be restored."
By virtue of this provision, the
U. S. through Capt. James Biddle
of the American sloop of war
Ontario, on August 19, 1818,
miser) t.ho stars and strinea nnee
again over the fort, changed th
name back to Astoria and assert
ed our claim to Oregon.
The British consented to all
of this except as to our claiming
title to the entire Oregon country.
In 1821 the Northwest Fur com
pany and the Hudson Bay com
pany united under the name of
the latter concern. In 1824 Dr.
John McLaughlin became its chief
factor for the wetUern district,
.nd on his arrival in the country
moved the stock of goods belong
ing to the company from Astoria
WILLAMETTE
UNIVERSITY
EMBRACING
College of Liberal
College of Law v
School of Music
Arts; ;
INSEPARABLY CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY
OE OREGON .
DR. CARL G. DONEY, President
SALEM, OREGON
as the home of the original dirt j to Vancouver and made tnat p,aoe
farmer, Hon. Isaac L. Patterson.
uis headquarters. Here with the
ished in 1S43. It stood on what
was then called Wallace prairie,
being a little way northeast of the
present Oregon Deaf school build
In the early part of July 1S40. ( power conferred upon one of his ! ings. It was called the Oregon
the miss onaries began the "ec-j sbordinateg James Dougias, of a ! Institute, but was never occupied
tion of their saw and grist mills. Rritis;n magistVate. and with his I for educatioanl purposes. What
The first dwelling house built at ! far r tradin- pots (21 in 1 u-sed t0 be known as the old uni-
number in 1S39) covering the , versity building was erected by
countrv, he ruled as did the bar-!the Metholist mission in 1844,
ons of old for many years. . His ! for use as an lndian whool.
r,.le was Inst. He was a iroo.I ami I And- by the waT- 1 6aw this bulld-
ereat man h.,t his endeavnr fnr in burn to lhe Kund on
cigni 01 ueceniDer s
Chemeketa. occupied at dif ierer.r !
times as a hospital, a3 a residence!
for Rev. Jason Lee, Rev. L. II. j
Judson. J. B. McClane. John I). :
Boone and Judge R. P. Bois, is j
still standing at 960 Broadway j
The house was remodeled by my!
a long time was to hold this coun
try for the fur trade with the In-
father and looks quite different . dfans and agant the AmerScans. I f8
Spacious New Gymnasium Latest Addition to Willamette Campus
as - it sailed the Pacific ocean, i
Jason Lee and fifty others took a
'collection of $850 for the purpose
fit founding such a school for
. white children' in the land to
i which they were going. What
Vision, what faith! and how nobly
(have the years justified their la
.'; borsi -, .' V . r '
, . Through Eighty Years
'j IfDurinar -the eighty ears : of
. i existence rWlllamette has been at-
ind'ed' "by over 15,000 students
nd h'as jgradnated ;abontl,500.
Tho Impress of i the school has
been placed upon, this large num
ber who have carried it through-
, ifut the world, but especially to
'the northwest.
' The following chronological
, outline of . Wlllamette'a 'history
' !as prepared by Prof. Robert M.
. Catke. of the department of his-
' lory an4 will acquaint one with
,tbe neyelopment 01- tne insiun
: : ,tion: - .'...-
January 17, 1842 Jason Lee
the Christian Father of the north
jwest. called a meeting to consider
t he educational needs of the Ore
gon "country. It was attended by
the religions leaders of the pto-
, neeir community. They assembled
at 'the ,new mission bouse, the
"first frame dwelling: erected In
, Salem, located in '. what is now
North Salem. A committee was
appointed to draw tip and submit
. . plana at a later public meeting.
February 1, 1842 A public
. meeting was held at the old mis
. . lon station to consider the found-
, lngof av school. This historic
building was located on. the banks
j.of, the Willamette river, ten miles
.fcojth of where Salem now stands.
It "was built by Jason Lee and his
I hetpers; In the year 1834, at a
' time when there vere no white
fmen to the northwest except a
'fewtur traders and trappers.
'This meeting decided to organiie
'.;a Christian school, to be called
.'the Oregon Institute which should
.become a . university as . soon as
circumstances Would permit.', A
'.'board of trustees,' including JLason
Leo, was appointed. -"-This marks
'the true . founding of Willamette
': university. 4 l:.r -x 4t . X
j ?iiareh 15, 1842i-The constituT
tion, by-laws and j prospectus for
was established. The total white
population of the Pacific . north
west was between three and four
thousand.
September 5, 1849 The meet
ing of the Oregon-California mis
sion conference was held at the
institute.
January 12, ,1833 The terri
torial legislature of Oregon grant
ed a charter to Willamette uni
versity, with the Oregon institute
retained as its preparatory depart
ment. This wa3 about a month
before Washington territory was
separated from Oregon territory.
The Rev. Franci9 S. Hoyt became
first president.
1859 Miss Emily J. York, Wil
lamette's first graduate, received
the-degree of Mistress of English
Literature.
October . 3, 1860 Board of
trustees seek a new college build
ing. ' j
. February 22, 186 Plan for
the new building was adopted. It
was to be three full stories, of
brick construction and the ground
plan was to be that of the Creek
cross. ,
July 24, 1864 The corner
stone of the new building wa3
laid.
November 14, 1866 The board
of trustees took action for the
establishment of a college of
medicine. ' ,
April 1, 1867 The medical col
lege was opened with an attend
ance of twenty students. It was
the first professional school on
the coast. It continued until
1913 when it was merged !;with
the University of Oregoru
October 21, 1867 With mnch
rejoicing the students tookformal
possession of Jha new ' building,
although it was not yet fully com
pie ted. This", structure,, now
known as Waller hall, remained
the principal building until 1907
It cost aboutr $40,000, which rep
resented a vaiatf ; much - greater
than .that of today.
18fi3-r-College of law. " estab
lished, which still flourishes.
September 16, 1891--Fire de-1
atroys interior, of Waller hall.
1903 rScience ball was built.
It was first known as the "Medical
builaintf. " r .
1906-r-Kiraball College'ot Theo-
cation board making a conditional
gift of $330. 00G.
1923 New gymnasium dedi
cated November 9.
Tho Test of Time
Willamette university has been
tested by eighty long and produc
tive years. Rooted in a great
faith and serving a great need, it
has been a beacon to guide many
a life-bark upon a safe and pros
perous journey.
The members of Its faculty are
scholars who know enough to be
authoritative teachers in their
subjects and who know enough
more to discover God in the heart
of all truth.
The students or Willamette are
chosen youth of high purposes
and honest endeavor. They are
loyal, cheerful, democratic, good
and true; serious, but happy; in
dustrious, but light hearted; re
sponsible, but care free; they are
600 great souls upon a great
quest.
Full to Capacity
Willamette university can ac
commodate the 600 students now
in attendance; but this requires
some crowding, because the pres
ent facilities were planned for
around 500. But there is growth,
and must necessarily be, in such
a great and growing field. There
will be 1000 in the not far distant
future; and then more and still
more. Considered in merely a
business way, the "old school" is
a great asset to Salem. In every
other way, it is a wonderful in
fluence in the building and main
tenance of high standards, here,
and radiating throughout the
whole world even to the far
places in all the missionary fields.
V With Willamette; with her
splendid public schools; with her
fine business college, and her
many private institutions teaching
music and other" branches, Salem
rightfully lays claim to being an
educational center.
now from what it did when erod
ed in 1840.
In 1841 building had advanced
sufficiently at Chemeketa so that
the cftitral mission was removed
to this point. A manual training
school was erected here for in
struction of Indian children.
Around this mission gradually
grew the city of Salem.
Now to get things connected
up, I will give a brief statement
of Oregon's early history. Prior
to the founding of Salem occupa
tion of Oregon for the purpose of
creating here an American ttate
had not begun. In the year 1840
there arrived in the Willamette
alley what is known as tho Peoria
party. A company of 14 persons
had been organized at Teoria. 111,,
to come to Oregon to settle, and
assist in making this American
territory. Only seven of the num
ber arrived in Oregon, the others
turning back to the , old home.
Of this seven only five remained;
namely, Joseph Holman, An-os
Cook, Francis Fletcher, R. L. Kil-
borne and Sidney Smith. In the
same year a number of American
trappers from the Rocky moun
tain country with their India.i
wives settled here. Among them
was that remarkable character,
Joseph L. Meek. Judge J. Quinn
Thornton in his History of the
Frovisional Government of Ore
gon, writes as follows: "In the
autumn of 1840 there were in
Oregon 36 Anferican male settlers,
25 of wJiom had taken native
women for their wives. There
were also 33 American women.
32 children, 13 lay members of
the Protestant missions, 13 Meth
odist ministers, threo Jessuit
priests and 60 Canadian-French.
making an aggregate of 137
Americans and 63 Canadian
French, having no connection as
employes of the Hudson Bay com
pany." Only 137 Americans, but
as has been said:
The building in which the
meeting was held January 17,
1842 the first frame dwelling
erected in Salem stjU stands, on
Broadway street. It is a part of
the residence that was formerly
occupied by Judge R. P. Boise.
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ROMANTIC STORY OF JASON LEE
AND EARLY SALEM TOLD AT FIRST
HAND BY PIONEER SON, R. P. BOISE
.V i have . been : asked to briefly
sketch some of the facts connected
With the founding' of this city and
of its early history. So, I will
teil yoa the story as I have often
'.-heard it told by those who laid
tbe foundation stones of ?Salem,
building 'endurlngly upon them
and "guarding well for many years
what t!rey-had built. " .
' : L. . - a m : . ' D,V . TlSAtl T .OP
In is mo -w..
Tonnded the Methodist mission. 10
miles north of this place, on what
la novr known as Mission bottom.
This location proving unhealthy,
ratier Lee, ' oa hla return trom
the east in the ship Lausanne in
1840 with reinforcements for the
mission. Bet out with others of his
party to find a better location.
AIpo to discover a water power
and mill site, as lie had brought
with him : on .tho ' Lausanne the
machinery for' both a saw" and
grist mill. Across the prairie they
came to the Indian village of
Chemeketa. Father Lee had ex.
amined the place prior to his
starting east in 1838 and here,
where ihe Oregon Electric railway
bridge now crosses North Mill
creek! Jthey sawwhere they could
to the northwest in a race tha?
would have to be only a
Tew hundred yards long un
til a hillside was reached that
gave sufficient fall to allow the
operation of their overshot wheel
Here was the place for their mills
Here was the place to found a
settlement: to build a city. The
land lay "high above tbe river
The drainage was good, the loca-
t on healthful. Here the old In
dian trails leading north and
south and east and West, crossed.
In the summer at the, upper end
of what is now called McClane's
island the Willamette river could
tbe forded, and the water level
grade from' the ford passed around
the hills to the prairie lands of
the west"slde, . To the east were
far stretches, of leTel country
Here, these-missionaries, .who had
the
1872. It
; stood about where the present
building of the
nnivprcitv ctnnis
That endeavor went down to de-1 Wheu ,n th,s game of im
feat before the advancing wave of Lhe bnsiness of tne Metho.
American immigration.
On October 20, 1818, the treaty
of London, between the U. S. and
Great Britain provided that all of
that' vast country north of the
Mexican line, south of the Rus
sian possessions and westward of
the Stoney mountains then .the
l name of the Rocky mountains
should be free and opfen for the
term of 10 years to the vessels,
citizens and subjects of the two
powers. This joint occupation
treaty was renewed August 16.
1827. with liberty to either party
to annul and abrogate it any time
after October 20, 192S. by giving
one year's notice of such purpose.
Thus matters stood with reference
to the sovereignty of the Oregon
Country down to June 1.5, 1846,
when it was settled by treaty giv
ing the U. S. the northern line as
it now stands, bo baiem was s.x
years old before its residents
could say, for a certainty, that
they stood on American soil. it.
however, was never thought that
the British line would be dravn
south of the Columbia river. StiU
there had been anxiety over the
boundary dispute and its final set
tlement was hailed with joy by
the American settlers. Salem,
when founded, was the white
man's southern outpost in Oregon.
There was no civilized abiding
place between it and the Mexican
settlements of California. ,
In 1841 the mission saw and
grist mills, both under the same
roof, were In operation. The mis
sion school with about 20 Indian
children in attendance and with
Joseph Holman and wife, nee
Miss Almira Phelps, in charge, was
doing good work. In 1842 the
need for a school for white chil
dren was felt, so work was begun
kn a two story building, to be used
as a school house, same being fin-
clist mission was closed, the old
University building was sold to
the trustees of the Oregon Insti
tute and school was opened up in
it with Mrs. Chloe Wilson as
teacher in the fall of 1844, there
being 20 pupils. On January 11,
1853, the name of the school was
changed to Willamette University,
it being incorporated under that
name. The corner stone of the
present Waller hall was laid July
24, 1864, and on October 21, 1867,
the school was removed to it. The
history of the buildings that have
been added since, most of those
present are familiar with.
Among the pioneer professors
of old Willamette who did great
work in their day, I recall Rev. N
Doane, Rev. J. H. Wilbur, Rev.
F. S. Hoyt, T. M. Gatch, L. J.
Powell, T. H. Crawford, J. H
Wythe. F. H. Grubbs, C. H. Hall,
D. S. Spaulding, Miss Mary Miller
(later Mrs. J. K. Kelly), Mrs
Samuel Thurston (later Mrs. W
H. O'Dell), Miss Mary Waller
(later Mrs. C. H. Hall), Miss Lucy
Ann Lee (later Mrs1. F. H.
Grubbs), Miss Mary Adams, Miss
Ellen Chamberlain and Miss Lizzie
Boise. Had I the time there is
much more I would like to say of
this old school. Its past is grand
and its outlook for the future
bright indeed:
Hall J. Kelly and Nathaniel J.
Wyeth, who had been in the Ore
gon country, the latter for a time
operating a trading post in 1834
on Sauvie's island; Dr. Marcus
Whitman, Rev. Jason Lee and
others, mostly prior to 18-40, had
lectured on this country in what
was then known as The States.
In 1842 Dr. Lynn introduced in
the U, S. senate bis Oregon Dona
tion Land bill giving to a mar
ried settler 640 acres of land and
to an unmarried one 320 acres.
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Discussions over this bill with
Senators Lynn and Benton saying
many splendid things for Oregon
and the necessity of its being held
as American territory had stirred
up the people, especially of tbe
middle west and resulted in the
great migration to this country
that rolled especially strong in the
10 year period from 1840 to. 1850,
Nothing just like these migrations
are knowu in previous history.
Two thousand miles of travel
through a wild and hostile
country, and it was not as
armies march, but it was the
home seekers with their wives
and children, their ox teams.
their plows, harrows and farming
implements in general. Six long
months and sometimes1 more, liv
ing largely off the country trav
eled over, the journey filled with
hardships, beset by dangers, they
endured the storms, they fought
the-MvagesTTiutirwai ever on
and on until their purpose was ac
complished. , It has been said.
and said truly, that "only the
brave started and only the strong
got through," but here they came.
They had their choice of land all
through that long march. Their
pick was a home in the Willam
ette valley. They here made roads
of Indian trails, farms where had
been hunting grounds and cities
rose where trading posts and mis
sions once had stood. S. A. Clark
sang years ago of these pioneers
'Tramp, tramp, tramp, the trains
come marching.
Westward still westward, see they
come.
Sometimes savage tribes they
fought.
LBut the starry flag they brought
While beneath its folds each free
man found a home."
W'hen the pioneers arrived in
Oregon they found no government
here so they met to organize one
May 2, 1843 at old Champoeg, and
meeting with them was British
opposition. Still they organized
their government and it met,
down to March 4, 1849, when
General Joe Lane inaugurated the
territorial government, every ex
igency that arose, including the
war with the Cayuse Indians who
had massacred the Whitman fam
ily and others Nov. 27, 1847, at
the Whitman mission near the
present site of Walla Walla.
A Donation Land Claim Act was
passed by the Provisional govern
ment in 1843 that stopped claim
jumping, and thus assisted ma
terially in maintaining order. This
land act was modeled on the Linn
bill before referred to, and was al
most identical with the law fi
nally passed by congress, Septem
ber 27, 1850. The full story of
the Provisional government is
most Interesting and instructive
and shows that the average Amer
ican lands on his feet wherever
shaken down. Oregon's territorial
days ended on February 14 th,
1859 when the state was admit
ted to the union.
Salem got its share of tbe im
migrants coming to Oregon.
Among them, and arriving .here
in the fall of 1847, was Thomas
Cox who brought with him a stock
of goods. He purchased from Dr.
W. H. Wilson, the original town
site proprietor, a lot on the north
east corner of Commercial and
Ferry streets. Here be erected a
two-story building.! moving Into
it early in 1848, and using it both
for a store and dwelling. This
was Salem's first store. The sec
ond one was opened in 1849 on
Boone's Island in North Salem by
J. B. McClane. The third store
was started by David Carter and
Joseph Holman, a little way north
from tbe northeast corner of
Commercial and Trade streets. J.
D. Boone and Philester Lee opened
meketa streets. Mr. Lee resided
In the rear part of the store building.
In the summer of 1848 news
reached Salem of the gold discov
ery in California, and before win
ter set in about all of the able
bodied men, not only In this place
but In the entire Wfilamette val
ley, had gone to the mines. Upon
the return of theBe gold seekers,
mostly in 1849-50. bringing back
with them much of what they had
sought, Salem saw its first boom. .
Everything not only here,. but on
the entire coast, went ahead. with
a rush. The first steamboat to
operate on the Willamette river
above the falls in the year 1851
was the Hoosierwas.
In January, 1851, by act of the
legislature, the capital of Oregon
was moved from Oregon City
where it had been located since the
organization of the Provisional
government, to - Salem. " ' In ' the
month of June, 151, the Oregon
Statesman (A. Bush, owner . and
editor) was moved from Orego?
City to Salem.' This was Salem't
first newspaper. '
In September, 1853, a" contest
opened up between J. B. McClani,
and J. D. Boone over the . land
claim that is included In what la
known as North Salem. It led to
long litigation and held back the
development ot that part of the
city. It was finally compromised,
each side getting half of the claim.
The patent from the government
going to Mr. McClane.
Joseph Watt, a pioneer of 1844,
residing at Amity, conceived the
idea of building a woolen mill in
Oregon. In 1856 he started so
liciting subscriptions for this pur
pose, at first principally in Polk
and Yamhill counties. He soon
had $4000 subscribed. At a meet
ing in Dallas of these subscribers,
Salem, on account of its water
power was chosen as the site for
the factory. In April, 1856, tbe
Willamette Woolen Manufacturing
Company was organized and work
started on building a race to con
nect the Santiam river with Mill
Creek. This work was under the
supervision of Mr. Watt. W. H.
Rector was superintendent ot con
struction of the factory building,
which was located on Boone's Is
land, a short distance south of
where the Mission mills stood. All
was completed and the factory run
ning in the year 1857. This was
the first woolen mill to be oper
ated on the Pacific coast. The of
ficers of the company were George
H. Williams, president; Joseph C.
Wilson, secretary; J. D. Boone,
treasurer. Joseph Watt, Joseph
Holman, W. H; Rector, L. F. Gro
ver, Daniel Waldo and E. M. Bar
num were the directors! The turn
ing of water from the Santiam In
to Mill Creek and thus giving Sa-.
lemi a first-class water power and
the' building of the woolen -mill
here were mighty foreward strides
for Salem, and sent the town ahead
for a time at a rapid pace. There
had been an effort to incorporate
our city in 1856 and officers had
been elected, but the courts held
against the legality of the char
ter. In I860, however, the in
corporation was perfected and
Hon. Lucien Heath elected mayor.
Through all of the years that have
followed, the history of which I
leave to others, Salem has stead
ily progressed and kept her place
as the second city of Oregon, and
now bright shines her star ot des
tiny betoking a splendid future.
We rise to remark that it Is
often safer to remain seated.
Odessa Democrat.
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Russia while there la enough left
to recognlzej -Pittsburgh Sun.
Here's Hoping that Europe has
seen its wont daze, Washington
Dorr is Louise Morris Listening to Radio In the Window of the Salem Electric Company
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