linn Schools
Plan Opening
For September :
By Anna A. Lake
. Statesman. News Correspondent
. ALBANY, Aug. 26. Rural and
city .district schools oi Linn coun
ty are pretty, well lined up'for the
.opening of. the school year, J. M.
Bennett, county school superinten
dent has . announced. The teaching
staffs, for the most part, are filled
although there still remains - ap
proximately 12 vacancies. It ' is
hejieved however that these will
be -fijled -well in : advance of the
opening dates. . ,
C An estimate of the '.number ? of
pupils in the grade schools of the
county !this year is around , 5800,
Jwhile in the high schools the reg
istration' is' expected- to be -around
.1900. '.Salaries in therural schools
average. 414a ..per jiurath, .,. .while
those of .the high schools are on an
average-of 4175. - -
.Several .schools are opening. on
, September 11, - including Holley,
Lyons, Union ."- Point, - East Knox
Butte, ' Riverview and Greenville.
' The Detroit district is -scheduled
to open September 5, while the
Lourdes school at Jordan will open
on September 7. The Mill City
grade and high schools. Lake View
and Orleans schools have set the
opening date for September 25.
Other schools, including ' those of
Albany have tentatively announ
ced the opening date for Septem
ber 18. Several in this class may
be postponed though due to pupils
being employed in the hop yards
and fruit orchards.
Bilyeu Den Reopens
Bilyeu Den school in district No.
22 which 'suspended teaching op
erations .two years ago, will oper
ate this year. Munkers in district
No. 69, usually the first school to
open the school year, will not start
this year until September i 18.
Pupils In the Crawfordsville dis
trict will not be able to start the
year in their new building, which
as yet, is not completed. The old
school house was destroyed by fire
tome two or three years ago. The
new building, now under construc
tion, on a basis of $30,000, district
money, and $15,000 federal money,
will be a three-room -building at
least, r although - it is - possible a
. fourth room may be added.
CrewfMt Has New BaUding
District No. 89, Crowfoot, will
have m ' new '. four-room building,
erected at a cost of $45,000, and
the Knox Butte school has been
Improved by the addition of an
other room, for which the' district
voted a tax of $4,000 to cover the
cost Another district to make
Improvements in its . school . build
ings, Is that of No. 55, which in
cludes the Sweet Home schooll The
grade school has had three or -four
rooms added, funds for which
were raised by a federal appropri
ation of $16,500, and a district tax
of $15,000. Many other schools
nave , been improved with paint,
and needed repairs.
Salem Grange
Holds Session
EAST ENGLEWOOD - The
third and last of the "out "of door
meetings of Salem grange was
held Wednesday night atthe home
of Mr. and Mrs. Glen 'Larkins on
Garden road. A picnic supper was
served on the patio before the fire
place." No business meeting was
held but the grange master, Theo.
Nelson, read an invitation from
the Salem Lion clubs to be present
at the -4H fall show at .the fair
grounds September 8 end for the
special broadcast.
The program for the evening
was in charge of Mr, and Mrs. L.
R. M. Pierce who presented Mrs.
Addie Curtis as guest reader.
After reading several selections
Mrs. Curtis helped to model ladies'
hats on all the men present and a
show of the models followed. The
program, included a short contest,
readings by both Mr. and Mrs.
fierce, fortunes and group singing.
. Members and guests present
were Mr. and Mrs. Theo. G. Nel
son, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wick
lander, Mr. and Mrs. IvL B. Steg
jiei; Mr. William Doll, Mrs. Jes
sie Williams, Mr. and Mrs. I lay den
Smithson, Dr. S. B. Laughlin, Mrs.
Boy Hewitt, Miss Freda Hultgren,
Mr.' and Mrs. A. L. Mallery, Mrs.
Dora Mallery, Mrs. Lillian . Se
Bine, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Grier,
Mrs. George Gillis, Mrs. Addie
Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. William
Hartley Miss AlicMathey, Dusty
Rhoades, Dorthy Swensen, Arloe
Se Rine, Fay Larkins, Ensign Glen
Larkins. and Camp Fire ' Girls
"Marily Power, Nancy Miller and
Adeline Smithson. .
The September meeting of the
grange will be held in the Wom
an's club house in Salem.
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Stage Depot . Located Where Salem A rmory Standi
Pratum Man Recalls Driving Four Horse Stage
On lyightRun to Roseburg From Salem iii 1870
' By Florence Lynds
; . ThethrilJ of actually driving a stage coach in the early days
is an experience the boy of today only can imagine, and few boys
of yesteryear -there are now who can recall having had such an
experience: George W. Clymer, who has lived about two miles
south of Pratum for around a third
of a century,, in. observing his 90th
birthday this month,' can recall the
time when as a boy of 16 or 17 he
was permitted to take "the reins of
a four-horse team -and drive the
stage .coach through from ' Salem
to Roseburg, and return. '
i "It all came about rather sur
prisingly," relates Mr. Clymer; He
with his sister and . widowed mo
ther had been hauling wheat into
town in the fall of the year. On
the last trip as they were water
ing their horses at the stage coach
station which stood, by the .way,
where the Salem armory is now
located, a driver for the stage due
to leave Salem for the south was
sought Young George, eager for;fhe, who was Mary Johnsonbe
o,wt .nrf . a nt fore her marriage to Henry Cly-
horses, persuaded his mother to
allow him to go.
The dirt roads, following very
much the same route as the high
way goes today, were good after a
light rain, making it possible to
travel' a rate of eight to ten miles
an hour when no stops were made.
Horses were changed about every,
eight miles or so. Sometimes there
were a good many passengers and
other times not so many.
Was AU Klcht Trip
After driving all day and all
night, . the stage arrived in Rose
burg. With a 12-hour layover,
young George was ready to return
with the coach, that was of the
same type as now on display in
the . museum at the Oregon State
college in Corvallis.
. Mr.' Clymer, the third of eight
children, was born August 28, 1854,
on his father's donation land claim
of 640 acres four miles north of
Lebanon, where his father had the
first potter's shop in Oregon. Mr.
Clymer has a stand that was
bought in Linn county in 1851.
- At the age of eight, during the
Civil war, his father was washed
overboard and drowned while
crossing the bay near Seattle
where he had gone to see his bro
ther. His mother reared her family
alone, serving as postmistress for
20 years at McAlpin in the Wal
do Hills where the family had
moved but a short time prior to
the father's death. Mr. Clymer
tells how the four neighborhood
i amines, taxing turns, would go
to i Salem for the mail once a
week. J The post office closed with
the coming of rural free delivery.
Recalls Lincoln's Death
The mail most unforgettable as
Mr. Clymer recalls was The
Statesman which appeared with a
large border of black and bearing
the tragic news of President Lin
coln's assassination. -In-1886
he was married to Mar
tha Given .who had come to Ore
gon from Ontario, Canada, in 1871.
They had five children. Mrs. Cly
mer died in 1933.
Mr, Clymer served as guard at
the state penitentiary under Gov
ernor Pennoyer's administration
from 1887 to 1895. . He served as
superintendent at the poor farm
fbr six years, 1904 to 1910. At one
time he worked as janitor in the
court house earning $40 a month.
The judge refused to raise his sal
ary, and it was about this time that
the family went by train to Al
berta, Canada.
Saw Buffalo Bill
They returned by wagon, a dis
tance of 2500 miles, and the hard
ships encountered were many, in
cluding a layover of six weeks at
immu
Need 2 sets f allers, 4
backers, 1 whistle punk,
6 handy rigging' men at
Glenbrook Camp near
Monroe, Oregon. Phone
Monroe 4351. Also need
4 choker setters and 2
boom men at Dallas, Ore
gon. Phone Dallas 224.
See or write Mr. Peter
son, Pope & Talbot, Mc
Cormick Terminal, 618
N. W. Front Ave., Port
land 9, Oregon.
Avanda, Montana, when a son was
taken ill with mountain, fever";
they wintered at" Hamilton, Mon
tana, where they couldn't getyout
because . of snow, then ; the " water
became too high for them to .leave
after that ..... '
! Reminiscences' include talk ing
with Buffalo Bill in person and
seeing his wild west show when it
came, to Salem, also talking' with
Joe Meek and seeing the covered
wagon and oxen which were the
largest Mr.- Clymer had ever seen.
Mr. Clymer's knowledge of ear
ly Oregon history tame first hand
frpm stories at his mother's knee.
mer, came west by -covered wagon
in 1846 the same time as her hus
band but in a different train. At
the time of the Whitman massacre
near Walla Walla in November,
1847, Miss Johnson was teaching
and , assisting Mrs. Spaulding in
the adjoining mission near Lew-
iston, Idaho.
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Mother Was Teacher
L In the next year she became the
first protestant school teacher, in
Oregon City, teaching in - a log
house that had been given by Dr.
John McLoughlin to the Baptist
church where the school was held.
She was one of the first teachers
in Brownsville at the time of her
marriage In 1851.
The hardships of early travel.
Mr. Clymer recalls in a story from
his father, who with a man by the
name of Burkhart rode horseback
to Sacramento for a rescue parly
for a California - bound wagon
train from the east stranded in
the snows In the mountains. But
all had perished before the rescue
party arrived. :
Today, Mr. Clymer lives alone,
not altogether with his memories
of by-gone days, but keeps abreast
Of the tiroes by his radio, and be
lieves compulsory military train
ing would be a good thing for the
country's youth after the wan He
does his own work and walking to
and from Pratum Is a common
practice. At Christmas time his
greatest Joy is playing Santa to
the youngsters of ' the neighbor
hood. '
As seen in
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GEORGE W. CLYMER
25th Conference
Held in Turner
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TURNER The 25 th Christian
Endeavor summer conference at
the Turner tabernacle has an en
rollment of 73.i j
The faculty includes Rev. Hugh
Bronson, Tule Lake, Calif., dean;
Miss Elcy Walker, Portland, busi
ness -manager;! Dorothy Howes,
Forest Grove, registrar; Rev. Hol
ly Jarvis, Lebanon, dean of men;
Mrs. Art Stanley, LaGrande, dean
of girls; Rev; Wiilird Becker,
Dallas, Bible j instructor; Bessie
Lakey, Drain, song leader; Vernon
L. Fishback, executive secretary;
Mrs. Hugh BronsonJ instructor;
Mrs. Hattie Menzies, Kelso, -mis-
sionary; Mrs. Alfred
ier, instructor,! Lucy
land, kitchen.
May, Rain-
Bish, Port-
Grass Skirt Sent :
To Wanda Geiger
- UNIONVALE A grass skirt
was received Wednesday by Wan
da Geiger froia her iincle, Keith
Billings, in searchlight battalion
serving .in South - Pacific i war
Tone His wife; is a sister of Mrs.
Victor . Geiger land her home for
the duration is in Portland.
. Billings hasj written his small
niece that. these grass skirts are
in reality made from some part of
the bark of trees. j
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Smart Shop
' ..itcost$so little to buy the better things
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Jefferson Residents
spend Vacation
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In Bend Country ;1;:
, JEFFERSON Harry ; MqKee
has resigned. his position at Dens
more Chevrolet company - in r Al-
bany where hehas been employed
Kee is' on a "week's vacation from
WOrk in th"nffi Af 'tha 1?a1ctnn
Motor" cbmpanj, Albany. ; ' j ;
-They are in Bend for a visit with
Mr: and Mrs. Clifford Rich, for
mer Jefferson residents. j
, Mrs. Arthur .Rhodes received
word from Salem that her father,
Charles Hague, Is in the Salem
General hospital, .where he under
went a second operation for recur
rence of t former trouble. The
Hague family formerly lived here,
ana. moved to Salem last fall.'
Rev. F. Claude Stephens was
guest speaker at the Mill City
Church of Christ Sunday, preach
ing for both services. Mrs. Steph
ens accompanied him and they
were guests at the home -of Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Shepherd.
ton Board
Sends Quota
aiAxiuiM included among
the inductees who left Stayton last
week were:
Stayton Paul A. Dombrowsky,
Roy E. Calavan, jr, Robert A.
Lucas (leader), Eldon F. Tietze
(assistant leader), Montie J. C.
Morris.
Mill City Raymond M, La
Vine, George W. Dickie
Turner Milford R. Archibald
Jr.; Norman F. Whitehead.
Aumsville Marvin M. Snyder.
. Marion Oliver C. , Bursell,
Kenneth V. Christensen, Viril M.
Coulson. " ' ?
Jefferson James R. Jorgensen.
- Salem David F. Bates, Bland
F. h Simmos, - Leonard - H. Mar
cum, Rudolph H. Dolinsky, Paul
G. Bahnsen. - -j-
- Portland! Kenneth G.' Coons.
- .Transferred to Tillamook for in
duction, Robert R. McCallister bf
Garibaldi; to Salem, Edwin E.
Raaf of Salem.
: Transferred from Bethlehem,
Pa.; for induction, George E.
Towle of Aumsville; from Bremer
ton, Wn., Irving F. Kuraof Salem;
from Dallas, Orville J. Poole of
Stayton; from Shell Lake, Wis
Charles A. Jacobs, jr., of Idanha.
Bazaarl
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Giiest Speaker ..
TURNER Rev. " C. F. - Trimble
will supply the pulpit at the Mill
City Church of Christ Sunday .
- Mrs. Anna . Farris and Nadine
Ellis were dinner guests of Mrs.
Nellie Gunning's Tuesday.
Walter Myers, 'Beayerton, Will
be guest speaker. at.the Christian
church" Sunday night ', ,: ' "
Forrest Bouchie. Is, back at his
service station and agrage. d , -
4 Mrs.' Sally Esson returned Sun
day- from Harrisburg where she
visited friends. - " -
Rebekah Jresiderit
Due. in Jefferson Soon ??
JEFFERSON Mrsi Ethel Baney
Of. Roseburg; president of. the. Re
bekah Assembly "will pay her of-
ficiaF-Visit to ML'. Jf forenn R.
bekah lodge August' S0.-Mr. Bailey
wiU' ainpany her. ; y r : :
The degree sUff will -meet at the
haU at 1:30 olclock Sunday ,afterr
.noon for practice. ; r.
Silverton Woman Hears
Of Brother's Death
. SILVERTON, Aug. . 26 Mrs.
.WilUam Bobbins, learned - of -the
.death. of her brother, Sgt-Thomas
D. Brown, on August 19 In an air-
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Valloy Obitucxrics
t ST.; LOUIS - Funeral services
were held at St Joseph Catholic
church In Portland for Joseph
Schomus, 73, of St Louis, who
died in Portland ; '
. His nephew Rev. Stephen Hof
mann, OSB was the celebrant of
the solemn high Mass. Rev. John
Cummisky, OSB, deacon, gave the
funeral, sermon, aad iRev.tMatthew
Butch,. OSB, acted as subdeavon.
Many from the St Louis parish
were present.
.The. pallbearers - were: , Alex
Mantling, L David DuBois, John
Stulte, Patrick Manning, Mike Ma
honey, all of St Louis, and Ed
Blanchet of Portland.'-
- Survivors are the widow, Mary
Schomus, and; four , children; v a
daughter,.. Hennerita vSchomus . of
Portland; -three sons,- Cyril Scho
mus, Ronald Schomus, both of St
Louis,' and "Sgt Frands Schomus,
US army air corps;', two.'.-sisters,
Mrs." TilMe Hofmann and . Mrs.
Jennie Dergas; two brothers, Bl em
Schomus and Jule' Schomus, all of
Portland also -five 'grandchildren.
Burial was made -in Mt Calvary
cemetery In Portland. " r "..
plane crash near Tonopah, Nevn
where he was stationed. - He is the
son of Mr. and?Mrs. W. 'E. Brown
of Seattle and had visited his sis
ter, at Silverton only last, month
while on -furlough. - Brown was
-XUghtinstructor at the Tonopah
training field. . . ; .
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Power Checked
AtUriionvale
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UNIONVALE A test of elec
tricity flowing to Unlonvale and
Grand Island farms since installa- '
tion of the large transformer near
the . Grand Island Junction store
has been made by William Arthur,
of the PGE. " -; - y - -
.This 'locality I previously had
been served through the Dayton
substation.' . f "
The increasing use' of farm elec
tricity vhas '.. required much im
provement and additional main
line wiring has been done here the
last few months, by the PGE com
pany. . .
Short Circuit Cause
Of Lebanon Blaze : '
LEBANON A'short circuit was
blamed for the fire which prac
tically destroped the oil truck
parked at ihe General Petroleum"
station early Wednesday morning.
Harry Armstrong, driver of the "
truck said he had had some trou
ble ' with ' the ignition system a
short time ago.
V The city fire deaprtment an
swered the-call sent in by neigh
bors who saw the blaze." How
much of the truck can be salvaged
has not yet been determined but
it is not htought there will be
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