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Macleay Has Old
Early Farms
Raise Modern
By MRS. M. M. MAGEE
Statesman Correspondent
MACLEAY-First called Stipp, then Liberty and now Ma
cleay, but never Waldo after the pioneer for whom the vast
hill territory was named and whose home still stands here, the
Macleay district is unlike many near Salem in that not many
farms have been cut into small tracts.
Macleay still has large holdings, with a goodly number
owned by descendants of plo- -'
neers, among them the Hartley.
Taylor and Waldo farms.
Until only a few years ago
Macleay was strictly a grain dis
trict. It was thought that clover,
vetch and corn would not grow
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Crops Rotated
Now crops are rotated and,
instead of summer fallowing,
corn is raised, providing silage
for the dairy herds, of which
there are quite a number, among
them the well-known ones oi
Gilbert, Rieck Bros, and Martin
and Son.
Besides dairying and grain
and hay, strawberries, nuts and
cherries are raised extensively.
The largest Lambert orchard - in
the world is located in this dis
trict. On some of the largest
farms sheep are raised and, like
cattle and poultry, are much
higher grade than those of 90
years ago.
Early Buildings Saved
While there are new houses
being built, many pioneer build
ing have been modernized and
preserved. There are still pio
neer landmarks on the Waldo
farm owned by Edith Waldo
Johnson, daughter of the late
Judge and Clara Waldo, who
built Waldo hall at Oregon State
college. The Taylor house, home
of the first Macleay postoffice,
is still owned by a member of
the family, H. D. Taylor.
Two pioneer houses, the
Shrum house owned by I. H.
White. and Nile Hilborn and the
Young house on the pioneer
holding of Benjamin Walden,
first Macleay teacher and road
supervisor and one-ttme Marion
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county judge, have been mod
ernized but still retain their old
time beauty.
Pioneer Home Intact
One pioneer farm that has
been the home of some nicmoer
jf4he-4amUy.&ine18fi3ii&lhat.
of Edmund Waller and Ann
Eliza Whitlow Hartley, now
owned by John and Ida Hart
ley Tekenburg.
Here one can review the pro
gress of time and see the beau
ties of the early 60's in the home
of a very modern couple of 70.
Mr. ano Mrs. Tekenburg live
in the house where the nine
Hartley children were reared, a
short distance from the tiny
first housrjf 1865r
As one enters the house, at
the left is seen a bedroom with
its four-poster bed covered with
an old-fashioned counterpane.
Then one glimpses an ox yoke,
a spinning wheel and a pioneer
chair, but here also is the mod
ern, for the bed appears .very
sleepable and not like the slat,
straw-tick variety of 1865.
Old Furnishings Saved
Entering the living room, the
part formerly the parlor, one
sees pioneer pictures, an organ
and other pioneer furniture, out
here again only the comfortable
things have been preserved and
to them have been added the
more modern , furnishings in the
lower part of the room.
The dining room and kitchen
are filled with treasures. A tea
kettle and a kettle and numer
ous other bits of equipment that
crossed the plains are here. A
candlestick made from the coun
ter of the old Ladd & Bush
Oregon Elolor
Stages
508 S. W. Mill St.
Portland Oregon i
bank, inlaid with wood from the
tram wrecked years ago at Lake
Labish, and otner precious bits
too numerous to mention are
found on the second floor.
Garden Shows Change
The yard and garden also show
the march of time from the beds
oi old-fashioned flowers border
ed with rocks once part of an
old Indian holdout to shrubs and
blossoms of recent planting
The latch string is always put
and the tall trees which can oe
seen above the hills for miles
seem to second the pioneer nos
pitality, Mrs. Tekenburg has lived on
this farm all her life and has
grown and progressed with tne
community from the day oi
the tiny schoolhouse attended oy
the late Governor T. T. Geer
and James Glover, founder ot
Spokane, to tne modern school -nouse;
from uie t-rauie us .t.
the gasoline naivca.ei, icoia ox
-team -to--atittRtH&-tief -4forn "im
and miss" stocn 10 the uays ot
purebred siock. Since sue learn
ed to read at the iiitie oid
schodlhouse, she has read THE
STATESMAN, read by her pa
rents before her since the time
of its first publication.
Onions First
At Labish
Center
By MRS. WXLLARD HORNSCHUCH
Statesman Correspondent
LABISH CENTER We could
set the table for the vegetarians
of Oregon, for here we grow
everything from soup (onion) to
nuts (any kind). However, we
choose to specialize in onions
Approximately 600 acres ot
beaverdam land, all in a lake
bed and once upon a time fc
swamp, are in onions, Yellow
Denver onions because the sweet
variety becomes strong when
grown in this soil.
Only property-division marK
ers are the iron corner stakes,
which have often mired out oi
sight.
A few years ago horses
with wooden shoes were, used
to work the land, and even
with wooden shoes they often
sunk in the spongy earth,
ow tractors do the jobs and
occasionally one has to be
pulled out. A hand planter
was the first used, operating
on just one row at a tune.
The three-row power planter
has been used for several
years.
Crops, are planted in early
April and harvested in early
September. They are scutUe
hoed and weeded several times
during the growing season. Har
vesting is a hand job, or rather
a hands-and-knees task. Usually
six rows are pulled and left in
a windrow, to cure over a period
of from 10 days to two weeks.
Crated, they are hauled oy
truck to onion nouses, dumped
into bins two feet deep, wnere
they are left , until sold by tne
carload lot. Three hundred 100
pound sacks comprise a carload.
Selling begins in October and
usually extends into April. Tne
onions are topped by machinery,
sorted for government-inspected
top rating and Hauled three
miles to BrooKa, whence they are
shipped by rail to their desti
nation. . i
Prices have been as high as
$11 per hundred pounds al
though the average is consid
ered to be $1.25 to $1.50.
Oregon State college has
' provided growers with con
siderable assistance in smut
control and Us experts are
now working on control of
maggots.
Located 10 miles north of Sa-r
. lem, Labish Center is often con
fused with Lake Labish, whicn
is on the Portland highway..
Unlike' most farming commun
ities in this country,' all our
houses are; located together jus:
as all the farmed land is in one
piece. Majority of the residents
- here own their own homes ana
plots of4 ground , ranging (from
10 to 50 acres. Thus centralized,
the residential area can and does
present an unusually attractive
picture with its" modern resi
dences surrounded by lawns and
flowers.
90th Anniversary Edition
Once Dead
Boom Town
Reviving
By La VERNE FERGUSON
Statesman Correspondent
FALLS CITY "The Ghost
Comes Hack' thus might one
entitle the story of modern Falls
City. An influx of population
seesmg worx wiuv uobbs ana
Mucnen lAirnoer company poonu
ed the population to approx-
mately 2500 in the early 1920s.
When the mill burned much oi
this population literally moved
0Uv, loving vU persons. Busi
ness nouse ana residences mil
unoccupied Were torn down to
rTmWeI
the town that had been.
A few families were added al
ter the Cobbs and Mitchell mill
at Valsetz had shut down, out
not until it reopened early in
the summer of 1936 did Falls
City actually commence to grow.
People Follow Highway
In 1938 the highway connect
ing with the Dallas highway at
Fern's mill afforded an excellent
outletfor -the logs -which - so
abundantly surround the town,
resulting , in an influx ot people
as small logging outfits pnd
mills sprang up here and there.
Shortly after the highway was
opened a small mill was built
in town by Loren Cooper bf Air
lie. Today the stable population ot
Falls City is approximately 700.
Since sometime in the last cen
tury Falls City has maintained
a public school system that
would be the pride of any small
DR. C. H. SCHENK
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Phone 8490
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VETERINARIAN
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BUILDERS
; Fry Five-Story Hop Warehouse
t v Bush Grade School
".''' State School for the Blind
: 'Montgomery. Ward & Co. Store Building .
Ladd & Bush Bank Building"
New Steusloff Store and Office Building
Skill Responsibility , . Integrity
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town. During recent years a
high school building and gym
nasium and a new six-room
$25,000 elementary school build
ing have been constructed, the
latter to replace the old one de
stroyed by fire in 1937. ' t
New Houses Built
New residences nave arisen in
the past few years to replace
those burnt down and torn down
after the depression.
Aside from logging and mill
work, small scale farming, dairy
ing and poultry raising thrive
here.
The . business . section .Is com
posed of two grocery stores, a
variety store, two feed stores, a
: drug store, confectionery, garage,
cafe, real estate office, barber
shop, telephone office, postoffice
and two service stations.
Were you to ask many resi-'
dents the principal attracuons
"they would" mentiDTr the "good
mountain water, air and scen
ery, , .
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