Resident of Bend
Set Bulletin Type
Half Century Ago
Aged codIps nf Th n..j n..n..,
s oldest of which bears the date
March 20, 1903. hold more than
casual interest for Mrs. Ralph
Spencer of this city. As a girl sh
set part of the type for The Bulletir
if ""''""ry HBO. And, she re
calls, that type was set the hard
y nana, m,tne old log cabir.
thf.Lwa8r,The Bulletins first home.
. nncii narence Mcuann arrivcc
KS?1 mMlnneaP"s 0I March 21
1903, The Bulletin wis a ci,,
cern fact is, the first paper had
inauTO uie previous day. Ir
Minneapolis, Miss ' McCann hat'
learned to set type, four years ear
lier, and on arrival here she ap
plied to A. H. Kennedy for a Job
She not only got the type-settinf
job, but was made society editor
general news gatherer and book
keeper. She joined the staff or
April 1, 1903. Part of her task waf
to set by hand the small type (sb
. point stuff, printers call it) usee
in the many legal land, office no
tices appearing in The Bulletin ol
pioneer times. Miss McCann se
all type but that used in the dis
play advertising, which was set b;
Kennedy, shop foreman. '.;--..
Equipment Limited
Printing equipment In the lot
cabin included a hand press, from
which the first copies of the Bulle
tin were turned out, one job' press
and two cases of type, apparent!)
8-point and 6-polnt.
The "big day" in The Bulletir
plant in 1903, Mrs. Spencer recalls
was Friday. It was on that da;
that the paper went to press. Pari
of the paper had been pre-printed
In Portland, and it was only neees
sary to print half of it here. The
Bulletin went to press about noor
on Fridays, then was taken to th
nearby postoffice of Deschute;
(Staats) for mailing. Stage con
nections on Friday evening wen
made at about 6 p. m. Before belnr
nfailed, the papers had to be foldec"
by hand, then wrapped and ad
dressed also by hand.
Occasionally, the girl printer o
1903 put into type all the cop.'
she had on hand then she wen
around the little hamlet huntinf
more news. Society items wer'
always important, with buildint
notes always attracing much in
terest. ;' , . " .
Society Items Scarce
Society items-were not numerour
in the village of Bend half a cen-
tury ago. Occasionally, only ono
such item appeared in the paper.
One such item, copy for which war
nrohnhlv nrpnnred hv Florence
McCann was headed "School "En
tertainment," and in the lead o:
the item was this mention: "Ren
dition of the program will be fol
lowed by a basket auction." The
program opened wjth a talk' by
Aerie C. Hampton, followed by f
solo by Iva West. Then came f
recitation by Charles Low.- In some
manner, Printer .Kennedy of The
Bulletin also got into Hie picture,
and was presented in a' violin solo.
Then followed Lincoln's Gettys
burg oration by Sylvester Staats,
followed by a solo by Marion Wiest
and a recitation by Maude Yande
vert. The drill that followed indi
cated that total attendance in thr
Bend school in 1903 was 12 at
least that number of pupils look
part in the drill, and the samq IS
were presented in a dialogue,
. "Model Lesson." C. J. Cotter, e
Bend pioneer of 1900, auctioned the
baskets.
Item Briefed
That entire slory was condensed
into about three inches of type.
After The Bulletin "got going"
in early years, Printer Florence
McCann was joined by a girl who
was just learning the trade, Marion
Wiest, now Mrs. Montellc G. Coc
of Redmond. Later,' Syd Percival,
homesteader, joined the, printing
crew.
It was in the latter part of 1904
that a young printer reached Cen
tral Oregon from Chicago, lo settle
in Antelope, where Max uieciae
mann was puulishing the Herald,
tin ufae Rnlnh Knpnnptv Ahnllt six
months Inter, Spencer moved to
Bend, and through Tile Bulletin
met Florence McCann. They were
married in 1907. Mrs. Spencer was
still with The Bulletin when print
ing equipment was loaded on
Meet the "Front Office" Staff
"frM.wi ft" w mi t , " a
4 .
4 ... -3
Visitors to The Bulletin office probably see these people more Ihui any other members of the
staff, other than the news people. They are members of the advertising and business office forces.
rom the left they are Francis Stokesberry, Marilyn Russell, Mary Lynne Scott Nell Wescoatt,
M. L. Myrick, Helen Blley and Ed Becfcley.
We Rememhei
(The Bulletin's composite mem
ory reaches book half a century
and Its news writers, covering
Bend's 80-year story, have re
corded the following memories).
We rememhpr vihdn emu
Rea prepared to issue a big "first
DaDor" on Muroh on loni ,.,!
found' the t only part of his type
imu ariiveu irom snanmo , . .
"Dad" West built a meat market
and under that same roof provided
ijhcb ior a aocior ana a Darber . . ,
van the Pilot Butte Inn . . . you
asked central for the party you
wanted and did not have to bother
aooui numoers. -
- . . uw,uv ,v tvnmu a
town, but was uncertain as to
wneiner u would Do called Pilot
Butte or Bend i 8 . Governor Cham
berlain visited Bend and perdicted
a great irrigation future . . . Clyde
McKay had a pinto riding horse . . .
the Smiths. Nick nnrt ni.-lr hnri
stores on Wall street . . . John
sieiui and Thomas Tweet had a
sawmill below town ... Lloyd
uianim 11191
opened their drug store and had a
aim-a uiui uai-viy coverea one wau
. . . Floyd Dement's Bend Hard
ware store was a small frame
building on Bond. . ; , Franklin
avenue was called Ohio ... Shan-,
iko was the end of the rails. ...
PfitA .fnhnonn Uno tha moi. n
Millican, and was later followed by
BlUy Italin of "one man town'-'
fame . . . it took a whole day to
make a round trip to Prlneville . .
They Operate The Bulletin Presses
.9
Ml i&
the fire hose was housed In an open
shed on Minnesota . . . John Byan
mm we re an partners in Wis as
Shevlln-Hixon announced plans to
build . . , The library was run by
the Ladies Library olub and housed
in a building that had been a
suloon ... the sidewalks were all
plank, with nails sticking up . . .
Carl A, Johnson canie to Bend as
cashier foi1 Shevlln-Hixon and had
an office in the bank building . . .
M. i. Dtuilelson built another foot
on the power .dam . . . there was
an annual fair at Tumalo. and also
at Sisters .,, . - ,y,
Irving Cobb came in to hunt bear
. , , the Bend Co. mill burned .- .
the pencil factory was operating
. . . homesteaders flocked over the
high desert . . . flour was manu
factured in Bend . . . Bert Roberts
was slightly scorched 1n making
Pilot Butte erupt for the Portland
Ad club and Dutch Stover 'came
out of the brush in animal skirts . , .
Jim Hill drove the golden spike . .
swans were killed at Crane prairie
and coyotes howled their woes from
Awbrcy heights ... the O'Donnell
Brothers built their market and the
Aluniihelmer twins their store , . .
there were two roads to Alfalfa,
both bad ... Tumalo was called
Laidlaw . . . there was a postoffice
at Gist ... the Aune brothers' big
red barn on Bond street . . , Walter
liimbs when he ran his Bend
Garage Co. on Bond street .
II. C. EUls was county judge of
Crook . ... the forest service occu
pied a single office, in the bank
building . . . the Bulletin was a
weekly printed on Wednesday and
folded by hand . . . Mt. Washington
was known by another name ... at
Thf Brad BuntUn. Brad. Ottgnm' fwAAUyjm t ItS-V'
Wet Weather springs the south, named BufcUihsd i meetina' In V
bound stage changed in the winter Dick mUUeiuwrt SlfiESJS
from wheels to a sled ... every seven Tfightl T dL?2
lp to.'neville meant a couple eollecUng matsrW to niwll I
tier Poctot" !. -, , am RU was f
Wmotlng the .jresrround route !
fromMsryh li to,Csiifomia . . A
Jfrt; Smblera elgb?
eld up- train just north p(,
of tire changes . . . O. H
iinu n nuineHLeu near imperial rY',
there was a hotel at Harper . v .
Uucks and geese were shot on the
river In Bend . . , gold was re
ported discovered at Windy point
on the McKenzle highway .
C. S. Hudson and Harper Skuse
wem over me oia sanimm road to
Big lake on a fishing trip and took
a week to get back home, via
Portland v , t
i The sprinkler wagon used to lay
dust on rutted Wall street ., , , Hugh
O'Kane in his siestas In his chair
in the lobby of the Bend hotel . :-
Frank Laggan came over front
Burns with the Sagebrush orches
tra '. ;: . the - Commercial club
pioneered the road to Burns and
set up mile posts . . , there were
four Johnsons in Bend designated
by the names of the buildings they
lived in ... the Three Story John
son building stood on the side of
the Erickson store .- ... . i- ;;
. . . the. time Llnstrr hull burned
. . . Delaware street was laid out
across an -alfalfa field . . . county
quarters were on the second floor
of the O'Kane building . . . Ward
Coble ran the Liberty theater .; . ,
the main road south ran by Shoo.
quest's, Cart Allen's and the Van
deverts'.OId Homestead , . . there
were two. midget golf courses in
Bend ... Don Peoples and Tim
Duffy moved over from Prlneville.
. . . the gymnasium was . used in
the 1919 flu epidemic . ; , Archie
Whisnant - pioneered the road up
ruor. Buiie-.. . . an evangelist
The Klu Klux Wan burned a
cross on Pilot Butte and Reverter i
u T!. urtl ;Th' BuUetln
checked their car licenses . , . lee)
from Arnold caVe sold in Bend at
40 per ton electrio lights
blazed on Be,nd streets in 1910.
Meet the gentlemen of the presses, the crew that ' operates equipment In The Bulletin offices that
range from a Comet to a Kellcy. From the left they are Byron Benson, press foreman; Millard F.
Bevans, Dave Andrews and Tom Rose, helper.
wagon one day ana tne paper
moved "up tow.n." She served on
riie Bulletin for tour years, ana
ier late husband was for many
year's foreman for the paper. His
period of service . reached trom
oioneer days to The' Bulletin's
nodorn era. In early days, Mr.
Spencer-operated the Silver Lake
lapor for about a year and. a half.
Mrs. Spencer has many recol
lections of early days in Bend, and
those spent in the log cabin, where
ine of the occasional visitors was
Marsh Awbrey, "Sago of the Des
ihutcs." His name wa3 given to
wbrey bulte, which overlooks
3end from the west:
FIRST FLIGHT '
The first transcontinental air
flight Was made In 1911 by Gal
braith P. Rodgers and required 49
days. His actual flying time was
three days, 10 hours, four minutes.
NEVER LIVED THERE
George Washington never occu
pied the White House. A few days
before his death in 1799. however,
ho walked , through the rooms with
his wife, Martha. '
WE BUILD
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Dependable Furniture
Bookcases -Built-Ins
Office Equipment
Store Fixtures
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Warden's Cabinet Shop
(Solf Course. Cor. S. Highway Phone 201 5-J-3
Editor's Punches
Not Pulled in 1910
News writers pulled no punches
in the : early days in Central
Oregon.
From a black-bordered "obitu
ary" notice in The Bend Bulletin
of Wednesday, July 6, 1910, the fol
lowing is found :
"Deceased, at Laidlaw, Ore., on
Saturday, July 3, the Laidlaw
Chronicle passed away after a lin
gering illness. The demise is at
tributed to general debility and sus
pension of circulation due to acute
local disturbances. The remains
were removed to Redmond njid
will be interred there. A mourning
community survives the deceased."
Next, in the same issue, is
prirlted a dispatch under a Laidlaw
dateline which says, in part :
"A long-standing suspicion that
the Laidlaw Chronicle had shifted
its allegiance from this town to
Redmond was brought to a head by
last week's issue of the local paper.
The greater part of the news and
editorial matter of the issue was
devoted to lauding Redmond and
Redmond citizens and knocking
Laidlaw and ridiculing people
there."
A cooperative organization of
young Norwegians, who work a
few hotirj each week building their
nwn homes, has now completed
271 houses.
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Pioneers of Bend
Join in old Rush
Bend's gold rush at 1905 is still"
recalled by old, timers of Central
Oregon, ." , ;
The, quest for gold Just short ot '
half century ago centered in the'
high Broken Top, country, some 82 4
miles west of Bend. Within a week f
following the reported discovery of ; '
"gold, sulphureta" in the area, ',
scores of claims had been staked, j
Joining In the gold rush of 1905 .
was an old time prospector, W. A.r
Hunt of Laidlaw, who indicated he
was pleased with gold showing In ;
the volcanic rocks,; .. .
The, search V for gold 1 sited
through most of the late summer s
of 1905, then suddenly the fever for i
mineral riches subsided. Old timers .)
said that traces of gold actually i
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GROWING WITH BEND
The City of Rend and the Bond Bulletin pio
neered together here in the rich central Ore
gon country. In the last half century, water
has made the land a fertile agricultural area
. . . forest products have contributed to the
wealth of the region . . . thousands have va
cationed in the sparkling beauty of the Des
chutes wonderland.
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The United States National Bank salutes
these pioneers for their courage and vision
during the past fifty years. We pledge our
co-operation in the further development of
this rich area. Central Oregonians will always
find alert, friendly service and sound counsel
and advice at this Oregon-owned and Oregon
operated bank.
Bend Branch:
The U o Jo National Bank
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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OREGON BANK SERVING O R. E G O N