The BulleTin • Sunday, May 30, 2021 C7
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Sleeping baby found at doorstep given warm welcome in 1921
Compiled by the Deschutes
County Historical Society from
the archived copies of The Bul-
letin at the Deschutes Histori-
cal Museum
100 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
May 29, 1921
Basketball team
awarded letters
Basketball awards were
given out this morning at the
high school to six members
of the Central Oregon cham-
pionship team of the past
season. the gold felt “B” was
awarded to D. Howell, Buell
Orrell, Vance Coyner, Elmer
Johnson and Frank Loehr.
Ed Brosterhous was given his
third bar, denoting four years
of service in this sport.
The awards were made by
Student Body President Hugh
Kelley, following a talk on
athletics by Principal Mark
A. Paulson. The boy’s quartet
sang.
Welcome given sleeping baby
found at door
A two-weeks-old baby,
peacefully asleep, greeted the
astonished gaze of Mrs. P.J.
Shannon when she returned
home last night with Mrs.
Maude McGibbon from visit-
ing at the latter’s home, 6 Hill
street.
Pinned to the baby’s blan-
ket was a note, which read:
“Eileen. Born on Mother’s
Day, May the 8th, 1921. Keep
her always.” Nothing to indi-
cate the identity of the par-
ents; no reason for the aban-
donment, nor expression of
regret for its necessity.
Eileen is a large, nice look-
ing baby and has not cried
since Mrs. Shannon discov-
ered her last night. A bit of
court plaster was pasted over
a slight bruise at the temple.
She was not plentifully sup-
plied with clothes, but Mrs.
Shannon is remedying that
matter.
A baby is something that
the Shannons have wanted for
a long time. They have one
son, 23 years of age, living in
Bend. But Mrs. Shannon has
desired a young baby, and had
spoken of adopting one from
a home in Portland.
So when Eileen was found
last night she was given a
warm welcome, and laughed
and cried over, and became
the object of more attention
in a few hours than she prob-
ably had during the previous
two weeks of her existence.
Mrs. Shannon says she will
make no attempt to find the
parents, but will devote her
efforts to giving Eileen the
same loving care which she
would have given her own
daughter.
Address sometimes
hard to register
Trainmen on the S.P. &
S. Are all required to regis-
ter their Bend addresses and
phone numbers in a book at
the depot, in case of emer-
gency calls. Registering one’s
address in Bend is not always
so simple as it might seem, as
witness the following sample:
“In shack between main
line and S.-H. spur, north of
ditch. See diagram below. No
street number. No phone. No
dog. Bedbugs in season.” Be-
low this is a diagram of the
triangle formed by the two
railroads and the ditch, the lo-
cation of the house being in-
dicated. But the two men liv-
ing there did not agree upon
the exact spot, so two loca-
tions are given.
Headlines: Germans held to
blame for Polish attack —
Anti-British riots continue in
Egypt — Oregon among
seven leaders in war on fire;
must protect timber — All to
honor departed on Memorial
Day poppies to be worn —
U.S. to guard pacific trade
75 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
May 29, 1946
Twin sisters at Brothers
alone in class
Twin sisters were the only
eighth grade graduates at
Brothers.
They are Velma Jean and
Thelma Jean Evans, 13-year
old daughters of Mr. And
Mrs. Harry Evans. Mrs. Iva
McDaniel, the teacher, didn’t
find the situation confusing
, however, as the girls are not
identical twins, and did not
make the teacher think she
was “seeing double.”
The peak population the
past year at the one-room
school was 10 pupils, in-
cluding two sets of twins. All
girls, the foursome consti-
tuted membership in the sev-
enth and eighth grades. The
younger twins are Patsy Gene
and Peggy Dean Gholson,
who came from Lower Bridge
for part of the school year.
To continue the dou-
ble-talk, the Evans girls will
be 14 on July 9, and the Ghol-
son girls, a year younger, cele-
brated birthdays on July 8.
The Evans duo attended
school last year at Richard-
son, near the ranch their par-
ents own. The family is now
located on a ranch in Crook
county, and the Brothers
school in Deschutes was con-
sidered the most accessible.
Before Richardson, the twins
were pupils in Bend.
Bend may lose mail service
Stoppage of mail service
between Bend and outside
points appeared almost cer-
tain today as the rail strike
started in the east and was
scheduled to reach lines serv-
ing Bend at 4 p.m. today.
No arrangements have been
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cal post office said today, and
it did not appear that action
could be taken locally.
The post office stopped
accepting perishable parcel
post items this morning in the
event that they could not be
moved. Movement of all rail-
road freight to and from Bend
will also be interrupted when
the strike hits the west coast.
Plans made for rodeo
on Sunday
Plans have been completed
for the ranch rodeo Sunday
just east of the airport, it was
announced today by Sparky
Walker, who is in charge of
arrangements for the show.
Eight men are busy today
completing repairs on the
corrals, and more horses are
being brought in every day for
the event.
Promising “shade and no
dust,” Walker said that the
events will be staged on nat-
ural meadow land, providing
an ideal setting. Features will
include team roping, bucking,
calf riding, cow riding and a
boot race, as well as plenty of
bucking horses, he said. Tick-
ets for the event went on sale
today at Cashman’s and the D
& D Cafe.
United airline application
to serve Bend gets approval
Approval of United Air
Lines application to provide
service for Bend was an-
nounced yesterday afternoon
in Washington by the civil
aeronautics board.
The application had been
pending since last year when
United Air Lines made initial
plans to include Central Or-
egon in north and south Pa-
cific coast routes.
The inclusion of Bend is in-
cluded in the board’s amend-
ment of United’s route 11. In
addition to placing Bend on
the line, Klamath Falls, Salina
and Eureka, Calif., are added
as intermediate points. Long
Beach is added as a co-termi-
nal with Los Angeles.
A restriction is provided
that Klamath Falls may not
be served on the same flights
with Medford and Bend may
not be served on the same
flights as Eugene.
The local service may be es-
tablished within three months
according to a call from Ward
Coble, of Bend, who was in
Portland today conferring
with airline officials.
50 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
May 29, 1971
Irene Cothrell ends long-time
school district clerk service
Irene Cothrell, clerk of the
Bend School District for the
past 38 years was honored at
retirement dinner last night
attended by some 75 of her
friends and present and past
associates. A surprise guest
was Ray McCormack, Wood-
burn, who as superintendent
of the Bend district in 1933
hired Mrs. Cothrell for the
clerk’s position.
He reminisced about Bend
and the district in the 1930’s,
remembered them as “the
good years,” and paid tribute
to Mrs. Cothrell’s “faithful-
ness and dedication to her
job.” Another speaker, Bert
Hagen, a former member of
the school board, said that in
her work Mrs. Cothrell had
had “many moments of hap-
piness, frustration, gratitude
and sorrow in trying to ac-
complish those things that
needed to be done.” George
Fulton, present chairman of
the board, was another who
lauded her work and added
that “Irene always had an
answer.” Among letters that
were read was one from James
Bushong, another former su-
perintendent who now lives
in Hawaii. Bushong recalled
that Mrs. Cothrell had been “a
tower of strength” to him.
Mrs. Cothrell was pre-
sented with a slide projector.
The presentation was made
by Mrs. Helen Reinhardt, her
successor. Mrs. Cothrell’ re-
tirement became effective to-
day. Master of ceremonies was
Supt. R.E. Jewell.
Bend High car show
The Bend High student
body is sponsoring the first
annual Central Oregon Au-
toSport Show this Memorial
Day weekend in the Bend Ar-
mory.
The three-day show will go
from noon to mid nite Sat-
urday and Sunday, and from
noon to 6 p.m on Memorial
Day.
The show will feature all
varieties of show cars; street
rods, customized pickups,
custom cars, dune buggies,
keeps, roadsters and bikes.
Admission is $2 for adults
and $1.50 for students. Chil-
dren under six are free.
25 YEARS AGO
For the week ending
May 29, 1996
Timber-era overpass
plowed under
“Out with the old, in with
the new” is nothing new in
Bend.
But this week’s removal
of an old Brooks-Scanlon
mill logging road overpass
should make for better driv-
ing, walking and biking on a
fast-growing area of south-
west Bend. Contractor Hap
Taylor & Sons Inc. was finish-
ing work today on removal
of the overpass that has for
decades restricted driver vi-
sion at a curve on 14th Street
north of the intersection with
Colorado Avenue and Cen-
tury Drive.
Todd Taylor said the firm
is doing site development for
Brooks Resources Corp. at
Colorado Point, a light indus-
trial and commercial devel-
opment in the area. Daytime
traffic was detoured onto
other roads Thursday and to-
day for the removal work.
Mike Hollern, Brooks Re-
sources president, said re-
moval of the narrow overpass
will improve safety on 14th
Street. Mike Wilson, city en-
gineer, said that includes a
safer trip for young bicyclists
heading to or from nearby
Cascade Junior High.
Wilson said the city re-
viewed Bend’s comprehen-
sive plan and Deschutes
County’s historical register
to make sure removal of the
decades-old logging road
wouldn’t run afoul of any
preservation requirements.
Colorado Point includes
a couple of commercial lots
on Colorado, with the rest in
light industrial development,
Wilson said. He noted more
new commercial activity to
the north of the Brooks site
and across Simpson Avenue.
“That whole area is going to
change dramatically over the
next five years,” Wilson said.
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