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PAGE TWELVE The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 22, 1932 I WOWIflTl'S SOCIETY West Salem News DE SOTO MINIATURE PLANT CARAVAN TO VISIT CITY TUESDAY ON TOUR ip IY0R Of' ij IlF j IlH SO III Mrs. Edna Allen Gets High ' est Town Office at City - -Balloting JEFFERSON, May 21 Two hundred and twenty-six ballots .-were cast at the primary election t toe Jefferson precinct, at the Masonic hall, Friday. At the city election, Mrs. Edna Allen was elected as mayor by a large majority, receiving 72 votes out of 109. E. E. Howell was re flected ' as recorder; George C. Mason, as treasurer. W. L. Cobb, R W. Curl, and Mrs. Nettie Reeves were elected to serve on the council. Alphin Funeral Monday The funeral services for Georgo Alphin, who died Thursday even ing, will be held Monday after noon, at 2:30 o'clock, at the Methodist church. Rev. T. H. Downs officiating. Interment in the Miller cemetery, about five miles southwest of Jefrerson. Special ceremonies were held with the hospital company, Ore gon National Guards at Lebanon, Monday evening. Brigadier Gen eral Thomas Rilea and staff were present and conducted the pres entation ceremonies. All of the Jefferson members were present. They were Captain J. Q. VanWin kle. Sergeant Dallas" Harris; pri vates, first, class, Gerald Phelps, Clyde Hutchinson; privates Pete Harper, Joe Smith and Verdo Har ris. Captain J. O. Van Winkle- was one ot inose wiio recevea a taun ful medal for eight years service In the National Guard. The Woman's Foreign Mission ary society of the Methodist church met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. B. S. Thurs ton, with 11 members present. Mrs. Earl Lynes was the leader. An Interesting program was giv en, with readings by Mrs. C. M. .Smith and Mrs. R. C. Thomas. Miss Addie Libby had charge of the mystery box. Guests present included Mrs. Mary Powell, Mrs. Ezra Hart, Mrs. W. W. Warner and Mrs. Elmer Beach. l. t urns mi ......... ..... . J' Sm v vKwnniF; -..- e. J-r 1 1 i ! 1 - jJja.wwij,iiiiii.iii .i i ii m - A miniature automobile factory is coming t town. It is the $20, OOO reproduction of the great De Soto factory In Detroit. -Known as "the world's most expensive toy, it actually assembles little automobiles. The little cars are cameo-size Dc-Hoto cars with all the appearance features that dis J showroom tingulsh the Do Soto six. The I Ine- local -factory" will be on exhibition 1 8fl0 Marion street. Admission will here Tuesday, May 24, la the be free and .the pablie is invited. of W. Ii. Anderson, De Soto dealer, at Bits For Breakfast j O : O l sStsCI inojj panunuoQ) claim (to the site ot Oregon City) was attacked an attitude then far from popular, but amply jus tified by the events at history as understood generally in . after years. EEJJII Ii STARTS LOGGING SHELBURN, May 21. Yellow fir timber from a 40-acre tract of land belonging to W. J, Beran southeast of here is being taken off by, the Gleason Lumber com pany ot Lebanon. Doris Donovan, Carl Donovan, and Leonard Gibbons are eighth grade pupils of Shelburn who are taking the state examination this week. Those who are Interested are invited to come Saturday, May 21, and help clean the Miller cemetery. Farmers and berry growers are Tejoicing over the lovely May showers which are visiting this section. Paul F. Smith is visiting friends while awaiting a hew ap pointment. He has been S. P, station agent at Lyons for sev eral years. The station at Lyons along with 13 other stations, has Deen closed. Mrs. D. F. Gilstrap Dies in California TURNER, May 21 Mr3. D. F Gilstrap, mother of Rev. E. J. Gil- strap of the Turner Christian church, passed away Saturday morning at San Luis Obispo, Calif., at the age of 71 years. Mr. and Mrs. Gilstrap left today to at tend the funeral. The California woman had been ill about a year. Members of .the church will con duct services and secure a sudnly minister during Rev. Gilstrap's ab sence. In the closing part of the sec ond volume of Bancroft's History of Oregon (page 691), one will find - these words: "In point ot time the first work of fiction wit ten in Oregon was "The Prairie Flower," by S. W. Moss of Oregon City. It was sent east to be published,- and appeared with some slight alterations as one of a series of western stories by Em merson Bennett of Cincinnati. One of its foremost characters wa3 modeled after George W. Ebberts of Tualatin plains, or the "Black Squire,' as he was called among mountain men. Two of the women in the story were meant to resemble the wife and mother-iu-law of Medorem Crawford." . . The reader will be interested in knowing that Medorem Craw ford's wife before marriage was Miss Adeline Borwn, daughter of Gabriel Brown and wife of the 42 immigration (in which Craw ford aiso came), and that her sister was Cynthia Brown, who was marred to Allen J. .Davey, of the 1842 immigration, and their daughter, Mary Davey, became a member of the Turner household, and she survives the last one of the Turner family, Mrs. Cornelia A. Davis, who died at Turner last Tuesday. Cynthia Brown was, aft er the arrival of the 1842 party, knowja as "the belle of Oregon. Whit6 women In Oregon were then very few confined mostly- to the mission families and the arrivals witn me ion pany, " which there were enly 10 men with families. Both Medorem Crawford and Allen J. Davey were at ithe Champoeg meeting that voted the establishment of the (second) provisional government. May 2, 1843, and their names are on the mounment at Champoeg Park. Both Crawford and Davey were active in pioneer times; es pecially Crawford, who was a man of culture. m V If there had been a. grist mill in the Willamette valley before the one Hauxhurst built for th old mission, S. W. Moss would have known of it. Bancroft's writer, noted above, said he was a stone mason. There may be found, on the Brush farm, on the site of the Astor fort ot 1812-13, where the first Oregon Institute (Willamette university) building was erected, on the construction of which Moss was employed, some of the stones fashioned by him, as a stone mason, and some of the crude bricks burned there for the foundation, and some of the timbers put together without nails, with wooden pins. That property, on Wallace prairie, In the northern suburbs of Salem, has been owned by the Bush family ever since it was trans ferred by the donation land claim holder, John Force. . m H No doubt W. S. Jftoss wrote THE FIRST WORK FICTION of the Oregon cdontry, "The Prairie Flower," whilp he was at work on the original building of the Oregon Institute; V There are men still living in Salem who saw the old grist mill of the mission, built by Haux hurst. Signs of the operation of the mill are still there. The exact spot can be easily and definitely located. That it Bhould be marked with an enduring monument, as the place where the first grist mill in the present Oregon was located, is the writer's belief and contention. However, if there can be brought forth definite and re liable information to show there was an earlier mill, this should be done. V "W Neither the mill at the old mis sion nor the one erected at Cham poeg was the first grist mill in the old Oregon country, for the Hudson's Bay company had an ox power mill, then a water power mill, in the late twenties, at old Fort Vancouver. But that site is in the present state of Washington. S S Jason Lee in 1834 sent some flour on the May Dacre, Wyeth's vessel. An entry" in his diary, Fri day, Oct. 3, 1834, reads: "Slept very well upon the bags of flour." That was at the portage around the falls (Oregon City), on his way up to begin work at the old mission. But there were many guests, workers, stragglers and Indian students and that supply of flour could not have lasted long. m Ii S The Bits man thinks the grist mill at Champoeg was not built until 1843 or 1844. Bancroft, speaking of the Catholic missions, vol. 1, page 321, wrote: "Nor were they behind In erecting mills and making- improvements which might give them title to the lands occupied by them when the United States should carry out Its promise of free farms to actual settlers." But Vicar General F. N. Blan- chet did not come to French prairie to take up his permanent work until Oct. 12, 1839. It was July 31, 1844, when the ship L'lndefatlgable arrived from Ant werp with Father De Smet .and his party of four priests, several lay brothers and six sisters, with materials and money for perman ent improvements. It was In '47 that Rev. Blanchet arrived from Europe with 21 recruits, includ ing seven sisters. Rev. Blanchet evidently Intend ed to have mills built In 1842. (But that was two years after the Methodist mission mills were built on the site of Salem, and not far from eight years before Hauxhurst built their grist mill at the old mission.) How do we know Rev. Blanchet's Intention? Here Is how: S S Read pages 130-31 of "Gusta- vus Hines' "Oregon", and you will find him saying, under date of Jan. 17, 1843: "Not long sings . . Blanchet was passing up the river in a canoe . . . loaded with mill Irons, as he was making ar rangements to ERECT MILLS IN THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT above . . . They attempted to as cend the rapids .... It (the boat was capsized, emptying them selves, mill irons and all into the river .... He has never been able to raise his mill irons from the bottom of the Rock Island chan nel." "li December 1. '43. F. N. Blan chet was made archbishop of Ore gon, at Rome, and he proceeded to Canada to receive his consecration at the hands of the archbishop of Quebec; then went to Europe for his great reinforcement, and did not arrive here until 1847 with the 21 recruits, Including seven sisters. U The Champoeg grist mill was probably built after the arrival of the ship L'lndefatlgable from Antwerp in July, 1844. Mil RECEPTION FOR SENIORS HELD WOODBURN, May 21. Two well given one-act plays, 'vein- ies on Wednesday" and "A Wed ding," were presented by the drama classes of Woodburn high school . Friday night, as one of the features of the annual recep tion of the members of the sen ior class, with the Juniors as hosts. Both plays were of strictly comedy type. The cast of the first was: Mr. Blake, Albert Foster; Mrs. Blake, Helen Stanton;, Marlon Blake, Mary Alice Conye; Jack Blake, Donald Garrett; Madame Castin elli, Rosine Pavelek. In the play "A Wedding" the actors were Charles Tresidder, Weeley Ebey, Donnl Conye, Cor nelius Gearin, Rose Zumstein, Al den Watt and Vernlce Bents. Donnl Conye took the part of the bride at-last minute notice, and carried the part very well. The play production staff was: Director, Miss Virginia Mason; stage managers, Donald Garrett and Alden Watt; properties, Mar garet Martin, Thelma Leek, Kath leen Shorey, Edith Bates and Donnl Conye; business managers. Mildred Grim and Cornelius Gearin; prompters, Mildred Grim and Theresa Racette; head usher, Lois Seely; faculty assist ants. Miss Helen Allen and Miss Marie Houguez. BIDS GOOD YEAR AUBURN. May 11 The Au burn Woman's club met at the home of Mrs. I Feskens, Thurs day. This being: the last meeting ot the season the annual picnic was planned. It is to bo held Jane S at Hater's Grove. ' The meetlnr adjourned until October, this -meeting to be an au day session at the nome oi Mrs. C. J. Griffith with Mrs. T. A. Jura, Joint hostess. Members present were: Mrs. Lambert Fes kens, Mrs. Harvey Armstrong,' Mrs. Claude - Armstrong, " Mrs. Mike Lucas,. Mrs. T. C. Morgan, Mrs. Leo Sutter, Mrs. Carl Kreh blel, Mrs. Stanley Fagg, Mrs. T. A. Juxa, Mrs. George Baumgartner. Mrs. Harold Eltstrom, Mrs. Roy Rodgers, Mrs. C. J. Griffith, and Mrs. Merle F. Holmsn. Mrs. Lam bert Fes kins, Jr., was a guest. Four years ago. Auburn had Quite an elaborate graduation. This year this class Is graduating from senior high school. All but two members or this class are finishing. Members who sre still in Auburn district and are leaving saiem high are: Velma Armstrong, Kenneth Morgan, Susanna Haw kins. William Fisher had the misfor tune while at Dallas on a Fields and Bagley truck to fall off back wards and fracture two verte brae la his back. He is in a Sa lem hospital.- It will be some time before he will be able to resume his position. SCHOOL CLOSED SILVERTON HILLS The school term in the Mountain View district was closed this past week with a picnic dinner and a ball game. Miss Edna Mae Goodknecht, who has taught here during the past winter will not return next winter as she has secured a posi tion in Centerview, her home district. Penmanship Awards Presented to Students VALSETZ, May 21. Palmer method penmanship pins were won this year by the following students: Dorothy Denno, Ruby Foshang, Evelyn Dodson, Pat March, Junior Davis, Raymond Dodson, Asp Foshong, Bobbie Bullis, Martin Rudy, Jackie Ray mond Wells. 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A demonstra- ALFRED LEADS FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE SILVERTON, May 21 Frank Alfred -defeated other candidates for Justice of the peace in the Silverton district by quite a ma jority. His voto wax286 against Rollo Alley's 42 and P. L. Brown's 191. Brown is the pres ent Justice of tbe peace. The city ticket winners were unopposed. They were Carver, 447; mayor; city recorder, George Hubbs, 4 SO; treasurer, M. G. Gun derson. 465; council, C. Reynolds, 456; Dr. C. R. Wilson. 453; J. F. Conrad, 4S8. Charles J. Johnson was elected committeeman for east Silverton and Dr. A. F. Blackerby for West Silverton. tion and an exhibit will he given and an interesting brief program presented. - Mothers and friends of the girls are invited and light refreshments will he served. Thoes . belonging to the group who have completed-their projects are Hazel Myers; Mary Helen Unruh, Doris Reid. Dora May Bloom, and Mur lei Kaster. On Monday at 8 p.m.. there will be a 'business meeting at the church, the final one for this con ference year, pursuant to the close of tho year's work. All official church board members are urged to be present. Because ot the inclement wea ther, tbe May Festival to be give a. by the pupils of the West Salem school has been delayed; and will be presented on tbe school cam pus Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, weather permitting. Tbe final meeting of the Parent-Teachers' association and tbe baseball game with the Brush College team will be Immediately' after tho ex-, ercises as previously announced. At the election held Friday.' Jack A. Gosser was elected eon stable from West Salem, and Wil bur P. Lewis central committeeman. CLASS NIGHT MONDAY AMITY, May 21. Class night ot the Amity union high school seniors will be Monday night, May 23, at the high school audi torium at 8 o'clock. 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