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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
TABLECLOTH
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The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Savannah Watterson, left, stands with her sixth-
grade teacher Georgia Boethin. Watterson’s turkey
is disguised in her Wildfire softball team uniform,
complete with sunglasses, visor and her team number.
STUDENTS
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In their Nov. 14 class,
the students guessed who
made each project and lat-
er described the inspiration
behind the disguises they
chose.
Maddie McManus said,
“We can’t celebrate Thanks-
giving before Christmas.”
So, she disguised her turkey
as a Christmas tree.
“If a turkey is trying not
to get found, there is noth-
ing better than camo,” said
VOGT
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first-degree rape and un-
lawful sexual penetration.”
The Oregon charges were
dismissed when he was ex-
tradited.
Ada County deputies
picked up Vogt at the Grant
County Jail on Nov. 7 and
took him to Boise. Vogt is
now being held on a $1 mil-
lion bond.
According to the Ada
County Sheriff’s Office, the
girl had been reported miss-
ing as a runaway for three
days when she was discov-
ered at Vogt’s Mt. Vernon
home.
“Evidence indicates the
girl, who is under the age
of 16, met Vogt through the
online ‘MeetMe’ app earlier
this fall,” the Ada County re-
lease said. “He then drove to
Charlie Knowles.
Jacey Mickey covered
her turkey with cotton balls,
representing snow. She said
she’s wishing for a lot of
snow this winter.
Madelyn Bailey said she
decided on a Captain Ameri-
ca outfit for her turkey.
“I love superheroes, and
Captain America is one of
my all-time favorites,” she
said.
“I know that this class is
creative and expected some
really creative results, but
they surpassed my expecta-
tions,” Boethin said.
Eagle in late October, where
he met the girl and had ille-
gal sexual contact with her.”
The girl’s family in Ea-
gle last saw the girl on the
evening of Oct. 26, and they
reported her missing early
the next day, the sheriff’s
office said. The criminal
complaint filed against Vogt
in Idaho states that he forced
the girl to leave Eagle for the
purpose of “committing any
lewd and lascivious act upon
any child under the age of
16,” the sheriff’s office said.
Eagle Police and the Ada
County Sheriff’s Office were
able to track the girl to Mt.
Vernon, and Idaho officials
contacted the Grant Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Office. When
Grant County investigators
contacted Vogt, he initially
told them he believed the
girl was 19 years old, the
Ada County Sheriff’s Office
said.
Vernie and Clayton Cork’s
signatures are included on the
tablecloth.
The former Moore Ranch
property is located about a
half-mile south of the Foree
Picnic Area or half-mile north
of Cathedral Rock, Sutton said
— north of what is currently
known as the Longview Ranch.
Sutton said she would like
to know if anyone has fami-
ly stories about a relative who
signed the tablecloth.
She’s spoken with children
of some people who signed it,
but they were too young at the
time to know why it was signed.
“Is there anyone out there
who told a story about signing a
tablecloth?” Sutton asks.
She plans to donate the ta-
blecloth to the Grant County
Historical Museum, hopefully
with more answers about its
origins.
To speak with Sutton about
the mystery tablecloth, call her
at 541-575-1431.
Embroidered signatures on
the tablecloth include: Lillian
Andyews, Fort Rock, no date;
Adda Baker, Unity, Sept. 11,
1940; John Charles Baker, Uni-
ty, Sept. 11, 1940; Cecil May
Bailey, Unity, Sept. 24, 1940;
Harry G. Barnett, John Day,
Dec. 12, 1940; Rosa V. Beam,
Unity, Sept. 24, 1941; Viviane
Beaver, John Day, Dec. 22,
1940; Hattie Best, Dayville,
Jan. 14, 1941; Carlyn Blakley,
Bend, May 14,1941; Evelyn
Blakley, Bend, July, 18, 1941;
Patricia Ruth Blakley, Bend,
May 14, 1941; Minnie Brock,
John Day, Oct. 13,1940; Eliz-
abeth Brotnar, Clearwater, Ida-
ho, Sept. 5, 1940; Daisy Brown,
John Day, Oct. 11, 1940;
George Brown, John Day,
Nov. 11, 1940; Gladys Brown,
John Day, Oct. 11, 1940; Hel-
en Brown, John Day, Oct. 11,
1940; Vera A. Campbell, John
Day, Oct. 20, 1940; Aloha Cav-
erhill, Bend, May 20, 1940;
Gordon Christopher, John Day,
Sept. 24, 1941; Lovina Christo-
pher, John Day, Nov. 17, 1940;
SAUNDERS
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and was discharged in 1946.
Back in the states, Saun-
ders went to work as a cat
skinner for the Oregon Lum-
ber Co., skidding logs in for-
ests across Grant County. Two
years later, Saunders bought
the original Austin House on
Highway 7, which was known
as the Y Building. He ran the
business until 1952.
Two years later, Saunders
bought the Bear Valley Store
in Seneca, which he ran until
he sold the business in 1980.
The general store sold food,
clothing, hardware, fuel,
snowmobiles and boats. It
also had a bar and restaurant
and an apartment upstairs. He
also ran a sawmill behind the
Bear Valley Lodge.
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Sandra Sutton of John Day holds a mystery in her
hands, an antique tablecloth with dozens of embroidered
signatures from many Grant County people with dates
ranging from 1940-1943. Sutton is trying to find out how
the tablecloth came to be and who created it.
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From left, John Hicks Saunders Jr., Sue Holliday, Mandy
Taylor and Doyle Griffiths.
“He would answer the door
any time of night if someone
needed gas,” his stepdaughter
Wanda Wenick said.
The store burned down
about a year after he sold it,
but Yvonne said her husband
insisted the new owner carry
fire insurance.
Saunders then worked with
cattle and took on horse-log-
ging contracts with the For-
est Service. He hired on with
the city of Seneca as head of
maintenance in 1987, retiring
in 2014 at 91 years old.
“He was an incredible as-
set to the city of Seneca for
what he contributed to the
public works department,”
said Josh Walker, the current
public works director. “He
ran it singlehandedly for 27
years.”
Saunders was involved in
numerous community activi-
ties. He helped start racing in
the early days of snowmobil-
ing in Seneca. In 2013, at 89
years old, Saunders helped
prep the race course for the
Seneca Winter Classic and
even competed.
He was a good snowmobil-
er, Wenick recalled, but once
she fell off while riding on the
back of a snowmobile with
him, and he kept on going.
“You rode with John?” people
later exclaimed.
“There are so many memo-
ries, so much to tell,” she said.
Bernie Chorn, Boise, Idaho,
Aug. 31,1941; Geneva Court,
Unity, Sept. 5, 1940; William
L. Culbertson, John Day, Dec.
8,1940; Marcus Dale, John
Day, Jan. 7, 1940; H. L. DeSou-
sa, Mt. Vernon, Nov.16, 1940;
Ruth Donaldson, no town list-
ed, June 2, 1941.
Non-embroidered signa-
tures on the tablecloth include:
Mollie E. Andyews, Fort Rock,
May 15, 1941; Shirley Blak-
ley, Bend, May 12, 1941; June
Cliff, Jan. 7, 1941; Vernie M.
Cork; Sharon Marie Cork, Red-
mond, April 24, 1941; Clayton
W. Cork, Redmond, April 24,
1941; Helen Elder, B.S. Camp,
Bend, May 22,1941; Wilma
F?ickas, Bend, March 12,
1941; Bill Heryford, Cote d Or,
Feb. 7, 1941; Ruth Heryford,
John Day, Jan. 9, 1941; Willard
Jackson, Boise, Idaho, Aug. 31,
1941; Anna Keerins, John Day,
Feb. 4, 1941; Edna McCurdy,
Bend, May 22, 1941; Mary E.
McCurdy, Dayton, Washing-
ton, June 1943; Alcye Moore,
Dayville, June 26, 1941; Art
and Carolyn Morgan, Prairie
City, Feb. 2, 1941; Marilyn
Saund??, B? Camp, May 15;
Irene Scott, John Day, Feb.
4, 1941; Alta Simonson, Ma-
pleton, Aug. 24, 1941; Chr?ie
Uberuaga, John Day, no date.
Saunders always wanted to
build a golf course in Seneca,
Wenick said. When an oppor-
tunity arose in 1991 for Sene-
ca to get free oysters if some-
one from town would drive up
to Washington to dig for them,
the annual Seneca Oyster
Feed kicked off. Initially the
money raised from the event
went to the local ambulance
and golf course.
Hunting was a family ad-
venture for Saunders, who
also took moose-hunting trips
to Canada. The mount from
a six-point bull elk Saun-
ders shot in 1967 hangs on
a wall in the Sel’s Brewery
in Canyon City. In 2009, the
Whiskey Gulch Gang chose
Saunders to be their ’62 Days
Parade grand marshal.
Two hundred people
showed up at Saunders’ 90th
birthday party at the Seneca
City Hall, Yvonne said.
“He danced our grand-
daughter and her friend right
off the floor,” Yvonne said.
Wenick said, no matter
where her son went in Grant
County, he ran into people
who knew Saunders.
“He was on the go all the
time,” Yvonne said.
“But he always took time
for family,” Wenick said. “If
the children wanted to go
sledding, he took them.”
“He never turned the grand-
kids down,” Yvonne said.
“They were his pride and joy.”
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