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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.
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Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 2, 194921
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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.
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