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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1949)
! tilt 11 Tfin Salem Landmark to Lose Top Story Max Cehlar building at 290 North Commercial, soon to lose its top story, was con structed by Scotch Investors in 1883, and housed the First National Bank of Salem for nearly 20 years. Salem's first concrete sidewalk was laid in front of this structure. Editor of Lincoln Memoirs Promoted Gehlar Building By BEN MAXWELL ' Reduction of the Max Gehlar building at 290 North Commer cial street from a three to a two-story structure may recall to a few old-timers in Salem that this building was a promotion of the Oregon & Washington and the Dundee Mortgage companies i Scotland. V . , wnii.m rceid. their Portland i lemites, was a symbol suggest representative, was responsmiei for the establishment of the First National Bank of Salem at this location in 1882. Reiw, a Scotsman by birth was a distinguished barrister who acted as counsel for the United States for several Amer ican claimants under the Ala bama treaty. In 1868 he waf employed by Mary Lincoln, widow of the president, to as sist in the preparation of the Reminiscenses of Abraham Lin coln. In addition to the bank Reid organized the Salem Mills com pany here in 1882, and formed a company with a capital of $200,000 called the City of Sa lem company. This company erected the large Scotch mills on Front street and herein in troduced the gradual reduction aystem of milling. Scotch mills burned In October of 1904. Salem First National bank was under the supervision of William N. Ladue, a Civil war veteran who came to Salem in 188S at the suggestion of Wil liam Stuart, spokesman for Scotch Interests. Acquisition of property for the bank site and upervision of building construc tion was probably Ladue's as signment for 1883. In any event the concrete sidewalk in front ot the building bearing the somewhat ineligible date f 1887 is regarded as being the first laid In Salem, Scotch capitalists, interested in railroads, mills and banking spent no less than $250,000 in developments highly advantage ous to Salem in the middle 1880s. An advertisement appearing in the Salem city directory for 1891 states that the First Na tional bank at the southwest eorner of Commercial and Che- ireketa streets was Incorporat ed in November of 1882. Capi tal was stated as being $60,000 William Ladue was president Dr. J. Reynolds, vice president and John Moir, cashier. Eight years later Capital Business col lege was located on the floor now being removed, and the bronze eagle, well remembered by an older generation of Sa ing strength and vigilance re mained Jauntily perched above the front entrance for at least two decades after the bank ceased to function there. Silverton Church Program Busy Silverton Congregational ac tivities for the coming week for the various church groups in clude the Trinity Dorcas soci ety at the Samuel Torvend home Fridav evening, June 3, at 8 o'clock. Bible study and prayer serv ice Wednesday evening at 7:45 o'clock at Christian and Mis sionary alliance. Mrs. V. F. Grossnickel and Mrs. Anna Qualey will be so cial hostesses for the Calvary Lutheran Naomi society at the church parlors. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Confirmants for the formal ceremonial Sunday June 5, morning worship hour at Im manuel Lutheran church are Donna Swanson, Bessie Strand, Darlene Peterson, Phillip Over lund, Norman Funrue and Bar bara Faaberg. The Kvelsmaal (evening meal) all Norwegian supper is Tuesday, June 7, apon sored by Zion Circle the speak er to be Mrs. F. E. Anderson of Salem. The Immanuel Bethany Circle is to meet Wednesday afternoon at the Anton Dahl Home, Mrs. Orlando Dahl, co hostess. Mrs. Elmer Peterson and Mrs. Lloyd Laraen hostess at the Petersen home for Mlzpah Circle Thursday evening June 9. Aurora Legion Post Conducts Services Aurora American Legion post No. 110, of Aurora conduct ed Memorial Day services at the Aurora cemetery. The Canby American Legion post No. 122, held Memorial Day services at Zion Park Canby. Volunteer members of the Aurora and Canby Legion posts and auxiliaries paid tribute to dead and disabled veterans by selling their memorial flower, the poppy. Puqet Sound Colleoe Robbed Tacoma, Wash , June 2 M The treasurer of the College if Puget Sound. Gerard Banks, to day estimated that over $2000 in cash was taken when two walk-in type vaults at the col lege were burglaiized by meth odical thieves last night. Detectives, who reconstructed the burglary, said the thieves t-ntered President Emeritus Ed ward H. Todd's office after find ing a window open in the lib rary which adjoins his office In Dr. Todd's office they enter ed a vault which contained the college archives. The vault evi dently had been left unlocked Lut nothing was taken. The combination on that sate was taken apart detectives said apparently in an effort to dis cover how it worked and then an identical safe in Banks' office was entered after the burglars removed the handle and combi nation. Government bonds am ounting to several thousand dol lars were left strewn on the floor and the cash box emptied College officials said the bur glary was evidently the work of someone thoroughly familiar with the building as the vault in Dr. Todd's office was hidden behind filing cases and was lit tle used. The burglary was first dis covered early this morning when the building engineer. Charles Gillen, reported for work. l& Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 2, 194921 sstMsassslsasHPMsBsS Oil Tank Destroyed in Fiery Blai.e An oil tank explodes in a mass of flame and smoke during a fire which struck the Searle Petroleum company at Omaha, Nebr. An estimated half million gallons of oil was destroyed when 11 huge stor age tanks were devestated. (AP Wirephoto) Independence Man In Drake 50-Year Club Independence Dr. Robert J. Smith, Rt. 1, is a member of the Drake 50 Year club which re ceived special recognition dur ing commencement week end May 27-30 at Drake university Des Moines, Iowa. Members of the club have held their degrees 50 or more years. Dr. Smith re ceived his degree from Drake in 1898, 53 years ago. The club will have a number ol reunions and luncheons and will be honored at the all alumni banquet. There are about 260 living members of the club. Voodburn Store Changes Hands Woodburn Lester Wells has purchased the business known as the Handy market from Er nest W. and Grace Handy and will operate the store as Wells' market. Wells has been em ployed at the market for the past 2'i years and has had the operation of the meat depart ment and acted as supervisor of the store in the absence of Handy. Customers will receive the same courteous treatment as the past. Wells took over the business June 1. Mr. and Mrs. Handy will remain in Woodburn and expect to take a long rest before making any future plans. Aurora to Have New Business Firm Aurora Construction of a new business house, a women s apprrel shop and beauty yalon, under way for Ldward ana Otto Kruegcr, retired furniture! store proprietors and owners of. two other buildings in Canby.; Completion is expected about August 1. i Of one story type, the new building will be of re-inforced tile construction, brick-faced. It will have 25-foot frontage and be 50 feet deep, Contractor George Irwin said. Mrs. Kenneth Whitman and Mrs. William Stevens will have charge of the beauty salon. Identity of the dress shop pro prietors has not been disclosed. The Rose Cafe, only licensed tavern in the city of Canby, has been re-purchased by Mr, and Mrs. Frank Rice, from Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Megquire, to whom they sold it in July, 1947 The Megquires left for an ex tended vacation trip. All you have to do to make a tangy cocktail sauce for a first course of seafood is to add lem on juice, horseradish, Worces tershire sauce, and a dash of tabasco to catchup. Jefferson Grade School Graduates The Jefferson grade fchool held their graduation exercises on Wednesday ffteinoon. Their orogram consisted of numbers by the grade school band, spe cial numbers bv Teddy Schulz and his grandmother, Mrs. Frank Schulz, and accordion solo by Raymond Terhune and other numbers by the band. Those graduating were: Jane Adair, Dona Argo, Jimmy Black- well, Charles Blaylock, Shar lene BoHt, Edna Campbell, Greta Cameron, Russel Dinsmore, Ken neth Gorman, Donald Hahn, Robert Harris, Dollie Koker, Howard McGill, Deloris Meyers, Glen Hart, Teddy Schulz, Nina Specht, Deloris Stephenson Murray Stauble, Barbara Shaf fer, Myrle Sheffield, Frances Tierce, Dale Wattcnbarger, Peg gy Laurie, Jimmy Adams, Ray mond Terhune, Martha Wood and Verlon Carter. Bawl Street Journal Out New York, June 2 (f) Ad vertisement: "H. Truman St Co. The nation's haberdasher, offers the plunging neckline. The ul timate in Wall Street haberdash ery. If you stuck your neck out in November, here's something you can stick It in now." The advertisement is illus trated with a hangman's noose "Styled by Elmo Roper." It's all part of the 30th an nual burlesque on the Wall Street Journal published today by the Bond club of New York for their annual outing. And If you can believe the Bond club's "Bawl Street Jour nal," you can believe that John L. Lewis is negotiating the purchase of the Chase Na tional bank as a depository for the United Mine Workers wel fare fund . . . The U. S. government is go ing into the steel business to make money to meet the deficit after seeing how much money U. S. Steel makes . . . J. P. Morgan & Co. is build ing a $100,000,000 hotel on its Wall Street bank site and will occupy the hotel pent house. The first office boy resigned from Montgomery Ward St Co. in Chicago in a serious disagree ment over management poli cies . , . The club publication is issued each year at $1 a copy. An ad vance sale of 19,000 copies is ex pected to expand past the 26,- 000 peak reached in 1948. Silver Flash Prints Final Sheet Silverton The last issue of the school year for the Junior high group, The Silver Splash, came through the mails Wed nesday and is dedicated to the "graduating" class of 84 young folks to be senior high freshmen for the cofing school year. Miss Helvie Silver Is faculty advisor for the paper. Other fa culty members backing the work of the publication are the prin cipal, Cordell Woodall; Justin L Dyrud, band leader; Mrs. A. Angerson, Miss M. Hallock, G. McNatt, Mrs. M. Torresdal and Mrs. C. Woodall. Featured are special class poems by students, clas songs, class history, class will and prophecy. The art work by Shirley Seid, Indian girl, is especially clever. To -restiffen a limp, lifeless hat veil, press It between pieces ot wax paper, using a warm iron. A hot iron will melt veils made of acetate rayon. NEW LOCATION 1144 Center St Falrm Oregon Dr. R. 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