COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL October 19, 2016
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BRIEFS FROM BEYOND C.G.
Medicare
Advantage help
The Senior Health Insurance
Benefi ts Assistance Program
(SHIBA) is a free unbiased re-
source available in Douglas
County and throughout the state.
SHIBA volunteers will help the
public review their current cov-
erage on Thursday, Oct. 27 from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Yoncalla
Community Center, 400 Main
St., in Yoncalla or by phone to
set one-on-one appointments
during the work week as vol-
unteers are available. Those in-
terested are asked to bring their
Medicare card, Social Security
card, insurance cards (medical
and prescription) and a list from
their pharmacy of prescription
drugs.
OSP seeks
information on
poached elk
The Oregon State Police Fish
and Wildlife Division is asking
for the public’s help to identify
the person(s) responsible for the
unlawful killing of a bull elk in
Douglas County.
On the morning of Oct. 8,
OSP was notifi ed of a dead bull
elk in the area of Old Pioneer
Road, Oakland, Oregon. OSP
Fish and Wildlife Troopers re-
sponded and found a dead elk
on private property, determin-
ing it had been shot and left to
waste. Investigation revealed
the elk was most likely shot on
or around Saturday, Oct. 11.
A reward of up to $500 is of-
fered for information leading to
an arrest and conviction in this
case. The reward is comprised
of $500 from the Oregon Hunt-
ers Association Turn-In-Poacher
program.
Anyone with information re-
garding this case is asked to con-
tact OSP Senior Trooper Aaron
Baimbridge through the Turn in
Poachers (TIP) hotline at 1-800-
452-7888 or 541-817-4473.
(Email - aaron.baimbridge@
state.or.us). Information may be
kept anonymous.
team in this area at a time when
semipro ball drew large crowds
to Drain. Those interested in
more information on the event
can call 541-836-2505. Copies
of the book will be available for
purchase.
Black Sox signing
Members of the Drain Black
Sox team that won the Semipro
Baseball World Series in 1958
will be on hand for a book sign-
ing on Monday, Oct. 24 from
5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Drain Civ-
ic Center, located at 205 West A.
Avenue in Drain.
Black Sox stars Irv Roth and
Dan Luby will attend the sign-
ing of author Joe R. Blakely's
book "The Drain Black Sox of
Oregon vs. The Alpine Cow-
boys of Texas: The Glory Days
of Semipro Baseball."
The Black Sox were the pre-
mier semiprofessional baseball
Joe Blakely's book details
the exploits of the 1958
national champion Drain
Black Sox.
LORANE COUNTRY NEWS
BY LIL THOMPSON
For the Sentinel
F
ree Ukulele Lesson Club
has begun, and anyone
who is still interested is asked
to contact Mr. Pat Dixon at
pdixon@cal.k12.or.us or Lisa
Livelybrooks at ruralartcenter@
gmail.com. Participants must
have real instruments, though
some are available for a refund-
able damage deposit. Classes
are from 3:30-5 p.m. on Thurs-
days, and the next lesson is Oct.
20.
The Crow-Applegate-Lorane
School Board meets at Lorane
Grange this Thursday, Oct. 20
at 7 p.m. There will be an exec-
utive session prior to the meet-
ing.
Very special congratulations
to teacher Andrea Smith, who
was named 2016-2017 Civic
Scholar by Representative Paul
Holvey in House District 8.
A fun barn dance is scheduled
at Lorane Grange on Friday,
Oct. 28 from 7-10 p.m. There is
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a suggested donation of $10 per
family. The dancing is a combi-
nation of squares, line dances
and reels. The caller will tailor
to the abilities of those attend-
ing, and the music is primarily
fi ddles and guitars. The last one
was a huge success.
An exciting Halloween carni-
val hosted by Applegate parents
and the Booster Club will hap-
pen on Saturday, Oct. 29 from
4-8 p.m. Organizers would
love help from anyone for this
fun family event, and those in-
terested can contact Jen Mc-
Nutt-Bloom at 541-520-4868 or
email jennifermcnutt-bloom@
gmail.com.
Also, unopened
bags of Halloween candy for the
trick-or-treaters is welcomed
and may be sent with students
or dropped off at the offi ce.
Half-day art will take place at
Applegate Elementary on Nov.
2, and the group will be making
Hawaiian Kapa style paper us-
ing cornhusks and pebbles.
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nally go knowingly down to
her death, without disclosing by
word or deed who she was.”
“Charley,” as now was clear to
everyone, was short for “Char-
lotte,” not “Charles.” She had,
it turned out, run away from an
orphanage in New Hampshire at
the age of 12, dressing as a boy
to avoid detection. After that,
she found her way to Massachu-
setts, where she started work-
ing for a man named Ebenezer
Balch, who took her on as an
apprentice of sorts, teaching her
horsemanship.
By now Charlotte knew the
score. As a little orphaned girl,
with no family and no dowry,
she had zero prospects in early-
1800s society. But as a little
orphaned boy, she could travel
and work and make her way in
the world.
So Charley spent the next 20
years or so working with horses
on the East Coast. For a few
years she was in Georgia, and
there’s some evidence that she
tried to settle down and start a
family at that time; some sourc-
es say physicians examining
her after her death determined
that she had given birth at some
point; but given the state of the
medical profession back then,
there’s ample reason to be skep-
tical about any 1879 doctor’s
claims.
If she did start a family,
though, it clearly ended in early
tragedy, because she was back
in New England in 1849 when
news of the California Gold
Rush broke. There, she met Jim
Burch and Frank Stevens, and
the three of them decided to go
to California and get into the
stagecoach business.
The admiring tone of the
California Call article wasn’t
universally adopted by the other
newspapers covering the sudden
posthumous revelation of Char-
ley’s womanhood. Other writ-
ers were more defensive. There
were rumors that Charley was a
hermaphrodite – born with both
male and female body parts, but
really a man. Others simply re-
fused to believe it.
This response, while some-
what ungallant, was kind of
understandable. After all, what
Charley had done was nothing
less than to infi ltrate the most
macho, swaggeringly male-
dominated profession of her
day — and demonstrate that a
woman could do it better.
(Sources: New York Times
(reprint from California Call),
1-09-1880; Hill, Fern. “Charley
Parkhurst Facts and Legends,”
fernjhill.com; Thrapp, Dan.
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biog-
raphy. Lincoln, Neb.: Univ. of
Neb. Press, 1991)
Finn J.D. John teaches at
Oregon State University and
writes about odd tidbits of Or-
egon history. For details, see
http://fi nnjohn.com. To contact
him or suggest a topic: fi nn2@
offbeatoregon.com or 541-357-
2222.
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