The Monmouth herald., August 11, 1922, Image 8

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Early Day History
By Orville Butler
Orville RutUr, pioneer resident of
Monmouth, was born August 9,
1840." My father, J. B. V. Butler,
was born in New Hampshire, Sep­
tember 9, 1809,” said Mr. Butler.
"I was the first of his 12 children.
I ii 1834 he moved from New Hamp­
shire to Illinois.
My mother's
miiden name was Elizabeth Ingalls.
Father and mother were married
in the spring of 1839 in Polk coun­
ty, Illinois. I was born August.9,
1K40. and nine years later, April 9,
1 4 ' , our family started across the
plains to Oregon. In our wagon
were father and mother, my two
brothers, Nehemiah and Henry and
myself. I was the eldest of the
ciildren. In our train there were
7i men and but three women. You
s.*e this was the year of the great
g ild excitement and most of the
men in our train were bound for
Cilifornia.
We reached Oregon
City late in September and wintered
tiere.
"Govirnor Abernethy had built a
mill theie at Willamette falls, and
when he let rn -d that father was a
brick maker and a brick mason he
hired him'to Luild the chimney. In
those days there were lots of Kana­
kas in Oregon. Oregon C.ty and
Parttand were much closer to the
Sandwich islands then than now; at
least it seemed so, for the ships
sailed back and forth between Port­
land and Honolulu constantly.
Father hired some of these Kanaka
boys as his helpers to bring him
the brick and mortar. Shortly af-
t r the chimney was finished there
was a big rise in the river and the
mill wua washed away. We moved
1 1 Portland the next spring. That
was in 1850, and father bought out
Parrott's stock of goods and ran a
store there a couple of years. He
built the chimney and smoke stack
of the first steam sawmill in Port-
I n !.
The f.rst school I attended in Or­
egon was taught by the Rev. A. F.
Waller. Later I went to school to
the Rev. Horace Lyman in Port­
land. My next teacher was a young
man ram .d Outhouse.
The next
teachers 1 remember were Professor
Epperson and a young man named
Jones «ho painted views of Colum­
bia river scenery. He used to give
1 'sons on Oregon’s scenic beauty.
It wes thought that Cincinnati
would be Ihe state capital, so fath­
er moved his store there.
Cincin­
nati was on the westside of the
Willamette river, about, four miles
from Salem. It failed by one vote
of I eing selected as the state capi
tal and that resulted in the growth
of Salem and the gradual decline of
Cincinnati. They soon changed the
name of Cincinnati to Kola as it
was easier and shorter to write. A
man named Bill Duran was one ( f
the founders of the town of Cincin­
nati. Father ran a store there for
many years and a man named Beck­
ett ran a hotel while Asa Shreeves
ran a b'acksmith shop. Father was
postmaster as well as storekeeper.
My father took up 640 acres of
land there. Vy job as a boy was to
go to Portland with a four-ox team
to haul goods to Kola. With good
luck I could make the round trip in
six day'. Now they make the round
trip by automobile in the afternoon.
We stayed in Kola until 1866 when
we moved to Monmouth.
Father
bought anti sold grain here and
bo<ght and shipped live stock. He
hx i not been here long when he
bought 217 acres adjoining the city
of Monmouth.He died in 1879.Mon­
mouth has been my home for the
last t i 6 years.
When the Eastern Oregon mines
were first d acovered I put in my
time freighting from Umatilla
L anding to Baker and other Eastern
Oregon points.
Alofeg about 1859 I married Ella
Murphy. We had three children.
After the death of my first wife 1
married in 1874, Marv Lee, sister
of J . D. Lee. My wife remembers
nates better than I do. I will have
h -r come in and tell you when we
were married.
Mrs. Butler came in, smiled, and
said, I don’t believe a woman ever
forgets the day of her marriage or
the dates of the birth'of her chil­
dren, but a man is not very good at
remembering dates of tnat kind. 1
«as born June 16. 1851 ;n Polk
county. We were married October
4, 1874. In the spring of 1876 we
went up to the Walla Walla coun­
try. We lived there a number of
years and then moved to Linn coun.
ty. We lived several years near
Brownsville. We then came back
to Monmouth where we have since
resided. We have four children.
My brother, J. D. Lee. was born
in Polk county, July 27. 1848.
Father ran a store at Dallas in the
early days and my brother work­
ed in the store until 1876 when he
bought father out.
Mrs. Orville Butler's father was
Nicholas Lee.
He was born in
Ohio in February, 1818. In 1840
he married Sarah Hopper in Vir­
ginia. 1 hey came across the plains
to Oregon in 1847, coming by the
Southern route. They settled in
Polk county in the spring of 1848.
Mr. Lee farmed in Polk county un­
til 1862, when he started a store in
Dallas. He diet! in the summer of
1870. Mr. Lee was one of the
founders i f La Creole A ac e ny and
was one of its trustees.
— I eported for the Oregon Journal
by Fred Lock ley.
M ake your own
summer blouses
S w itzerlan d and Italy
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skirt for sports wear. The more formal suit, too, which
you sometimes wear to tea or to town, demands dainty,
frilly blouses.
You can make them yourself with great success! For
only the cost of the material and a pattern. The Belrobe
which comes with every Standard - Designer Pattern
shows you how to take each step—guides you like an
expert. It makes home dressmaking simple and easy.
Let ue show you the lovely new fabrics for blouses
—silk crapes, voiles, dimities, handkerchief linens. W e
have large assortments of them all in the most approved
colors.
Let us show you the new patterns for blouses which
have just come in. W e will gladly tell you mors shout
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clothes successfully.
Soon we climbed out and took a
hike through a deep canyon where
the waters below rushed with a
mighty roar and the rocks above
were .so close together that we
could scarce see daylight. The walk
rested on iron arms attached to the
perpendicular rock and many times
to get past a narrow place we had
to bend over and we walked thru
several tunnels, up and down stairs.
I could not see how the walk was
built as there was no place to stand
while building it.
At the end of the trail there was
a blind man blowing an Alpine
horn. It was an immense thing,
five or six feet long made of iron.
He blew with all his might. 1
thought he was blowing a signal but
so >n a small son took his father’s
hat and passed it for money.
If we hadn't had a wonderful
driver I would have been scared to
death for the roads were high on
the cliff and on the mountain we
just crossed we wound back and
forth eight times to make the ascent
and seven times for the descent.
The curves are so sharp that the car
had to back to makejhem. We
are in sight of w hat everyone thinks
is a large glacier. We go up to it
and then on to our town in Switzer­
land yet tonight and then leave for
Italy. If you want to think of us
think of riding over places ten
times worse'than any you ever rode
over and see u*> riding along.
a lot of snow. The roads are fine,
net a place that is not paved. When
we got to the glacier we walked on
it a long distance. It was an ex­
perience. As we started down the
mountain we were stopped ard
made to wait for half an hour as
there were two cars coming from
the other direction.
While we
Wednesday morning We thought waited for them several troops of
we had been in some scary places Swiss soldiers came climbing down
yesterday hut they are nothing to from the mountains. They walked
what we have since passed over. just so far apart, with their packs
We went by places where we were on their backs and swords at side.
sfraid to look down from the side Every Swiss boy has to serve in the
of the car. I feel now we have army for two months each year.
been over the summit of the Alps. They had their headquarters quite
I don’t mean the high snow capped near and we ¡saw them pitching
peaks of course but we went thru their tents as we went by.
In.the middle of the afternoon of
our descent it started to rain and
all of us were afraid to have the
tops of those large cars up so we
just took the rain. At four
o'clock we boarded the electric cars
for Goschenen, where we staid all
night. This morning we left at 9
to
o’clock and are now at Chiasso,
Italy where our baggage and pas-
porta were again looked over. I
thought I wasn't going to get by
a n d re tu rn
with my passport. jThe official
SALE DATES gave me t. e once over several t mes,
Friday. Satur­ chattered in Italian and I talked
day A Sunday back in English. Then he went on
to the next man still.looking hack
R b t v r n L im it
at me. That is what c..mes from
Tuesday fol­
having a picture more ’ handsome
lowing sale
than the original.
We stay to­
da tea
night at Milan and are off at*t:30
ASK AGENT ABOUT
in the morning.
15 DAY AND SEASON FARES
Thoee who^have.been ¡in Italy say
that
it ia unbearably hot there.
Frequent Service at Convenient
Hours with all modem travel comforts, j The scenery is very pretty here.
Lota of hills, trees and lakes.
P ar f u rtS a r particular* ook a e ra ta
Milan. Wednesday evening- We
arrived
at 2:15, straightened our­
Southern Pacific Lines
selves up a bit; went to see deVinci a
J ohn M . S c o t t ,
painting "The Iaist Supper" thence
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| through the immense Cathedral of
ONLY $3.10
MONMOUTH
Portland
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Milan and back.to dinner.
Italian dinner: 1. cream soup; 2.
fish and cream dressing, boiled po­
tatoes; 3. cold roast meat, vege­
table salad; 4. Pudding made of
sponge cake with a large hole in
the center and cooked pears in it, a
sweet sauce and almonas. 5. fruit,
assorted and finger bowls. The
Italians served the lunch on our
pli.t.-s and then passed it to us.
Florence Heffley.
I T ’S T R A V E L T IM E
Round Trip Fares afford great savings
in travel costs this year
to
T illa m o o k C o u n tv B e a c h e s
N e w p o r t B y -th e -S e a
C r a te r L a k e N a tio n a l P a rk
O re g o n C a v e s N a t'I M o n u m e n t
O r e g o n ’s F o r e st, I^ake, R iv e r a n d M o u n ta in R e s o r ts
S h a s ta M o u n ta in R e s o r ts
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Y o s e m ite N a tio n a l P ark
Christian Science
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Wednesday evening meeting a t 8
o’clock.
Sunday morning service at 11
o’clock.
Subject for Sunday, August 13,
"Soul’’.
San Francisco—
Los Angeles
—San Diego
A Package of Old Letters
Via " The Scenic Shasta Route ’
Just a package of old letters.
and to
And to me they’re very dear.
Bringing to me the memories
That were scattered far and near.
They have lain ao long neglected
In the bottom of my trunk,
Thi W ay to See M ore o f the U. S. A . ”
And the author looks upon them
Outdoor*" und ' California fa r th a to u ris t" a n d s kar b asa tifa i
As some silly, worthless junk.
folti or «III ba mai lad F R E E on r a q M t
Some are filled with facts so idle.
Tor for»» rapar r a tto no and o th ar i a r t t r a í a n oak i
Their int’rest gone forever.
Others tell long talks romancing
Of some young, gallant lover.
J ohn M. S co tt ,
General Passenger Agent
Others sing gay songs'of laughter.
Of the nappy bygone years.
Some are heavy with a sorrow
And are soiled with falling tears
Then the horrors are retold.
That reflects the scenes about
By the passing of a mother
With the skfjled hand of an artist
Just a package of old letters.
In whose heart her child did dwell,
That wodld paint tin harshness
And to me they’re very dear.
And the wound that was inflicted, And I hope they will continue
out.
Est&er Mason,
When she went where all is well.
Normal il Hall.
Always coming through the year.
Some are speaking of a life mate
And if they breathe sad disaster,
Dont let a smooth tongued
And a home where love could dwell
stranger persuade you that there
**r whisperings of a lark;
And the hopes of baby's graces.
1 will bind them with my heart is any kind of printing the Her­
ald Print Shop can not da
Sweetest story love can tell.
strings.
If the war has writ a history.
The Herald wishes correspondents
Yes. and file them in my heart.
in neighboring communities. For
Writ in red blood that was sold;
particulars apply at this office.
When the flames reach out in mem'ry I For a true friendship is a mirror.
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