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1 MiNaK MKALLi, mmnerOREGON. PA.C.E THREE
PROMINENT PEOPLE OF
MORROW COUNTY
Facts Forced From Familiar Faces
By E. G. H.
Mrs. J. T. Knappenberg
As a single drop of aniline will tint
a whole cask of water, so will the life
of a good person influence a whole
community, yes, a nation. There is no
influence that can equal or take the
place of a mother's love. The lessons
learned at the mother's feet are the
lasting lessons of life. Lincoln paid
his mother this tribute, "All that I am
or all that I expect to be I owew to
my angel mother." "When were you
born?" was once asked of Robert
Louis Stevenson. "May Tenth, Eigh
teen Hundred Eighty," was the
instant reply and Robert and Fanny
Stevenson looked quickly at each
other. It was their wedding day.
Ameng the Prominent People of
Morrow County is a woman of inter
esting personality, kind, generous,
sympathetic, withal dignified. She is
a friend, a helper, a counselor, and a
mother. I met Mrs. Knappenberg a
few days ago at lone and she agreed
to tell me some of her experiences in
this county, what is being done at the
present time and what we can reason
ably expect in the future. She was
very busy but as you have probably
observed, when you want a thing done,
ask a busy man, the others never have
time to give you a courteous reply.
Mrs. Helen V. Knappenberg, daugh
ter of Isaac and Helen Violott, was
born in Monument, Oregon. "My
parents came to Oregon from the East
and settled at The Dalles where father
went into business. We moved to
Hardman eight years later as my
father was rapidly failing in health.
There was no road and in many places
we had to cut our way through.
Father went into the stock business
and after his death two years later,
my mother continued the business and
still has considerable stock on the old
home farm where she still lives.
Mother had twelve children and we
all helped at home."
"Did you have an opportunity to go
to school, Mrs. Knappenberg?" I
asked.
. "Yas, we had a school four miles
from, our house. It was a log house
with no floor and the seats were made
by splitting a log in the middle and
driving wooden pegs in it on the
under side. We always had a man for
a' teacher and he used to stay with
the pupils and I was always glad
when it came to our turn to keep the
teacher because we wore never afraid
to go and come from school. The
term lasted three months and three
of us would ride the horse to and from
school. Wages were not high in those
Notice of Sheriff's Sale.
By virtue of an execution and order
of sale issued by the Clerk of the Cir
cuit Court of Morrow County, State
of Oregon, dated the 15th day of June,
1914, in a certain suit in the Circuit
Court for said County and State
wherein George C. Burton, Trustee of
the Estate of Thomas N. Wilson, de
ceased recovered Judgement against
J. M. Turner and Carrie S. Turner,
defendants for the sum of $500.00,
with interest thereon from January
1st, 1912 at Eight per cent, per
annum, ?0.00, Attorney fees; $22.85,
taxes paid with interest thereon at
Ten per cent, per annum from Feb
ruary 13th, 1914, and the further sum
of $24.60, costs, which said judgement
was so recovered on the 13th day of
June, 1914.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
I will on Saturday the 18th day of
July, 1914, at the hour of 2 o'clock,
P. M. of said day at the front door of
the Court house in the City of Hepp
ner, Morrow County, Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash in hand the following de
scribed real property to-wit: SH of
NEy and NWVi of NEH of Section
35, Tp. 1 N. R. 25 E. W. M., taken
and levied upon as the property of
aid defendants, being the real pro
perty mortgaged by said defendants
to plaintiff to secure payment of said
urns and ordered sold by the court
to satisfy same, or so much thereof
as may be necessary to satisfy said
judgement, together with costs that
nave or may accrue.
Dated this 17th day of June, 1914.
Marion Evans,
Sheriff of Morrow County Oreeon.
ATTENTION
Threshermen
I make business of repairing Com
bine Harventers, Threshing Machines,
Engines, etc., and guarantee all my
work. Experience has nhown that
money cao be saved by having machin
ery put in working order before
harvest and you should not fail to
hav your repair work done early.
Don't wait until harvest starts, you
did last year.
i Ernest Sifser,
&ox 238. Heppner, Oregon.
days for teachers."
"When were you married to Mr.
Woolery, Mrs. Knappenberg?"
"In 1888. Mr. Woolery came to
Monument six years before and run
sheep. He made good at that and
then went into the store. We sosd
general merchandise and lived in th-
rear of the store. I helped regularily
in the store and we made money.
Later we moved to lone."
"What success did you have in
lone."
"Well, the first six years were
terrible years. The wheat burned
up and people did no I. have enough to
eat. Stores s through the valley
were being duscd up and conditio is
were getting de-j'orate. Finally Mr.
Woolery took the lust $25 that w i had
and got on the train for Port'ian 1.
When he got there he told the Allen
Lewis Co. how bad things were here
and they consented to send a man to
find out. He came back with my
husband and found things just as they
had been represented. The firm then
allowed a certain amount of credit
and stipulated how much we could
give each family. This was deter
mined by its size. Many farmeri
came into the store and handed over
to us the-deeds to their land begging
us to take them to square accounts.
I remember when John Harbke and
Frank Griffin were ready to give up
and quit. Mr. Woolery told them
that they were getting suDDlies
enough to live on and to stay by it
a little longer. They took his advice
and the next year a good croD nut
them on their feet again.
"At the time of Mr. Woolerv's
death we had the store and 19000 acres
of land. We were farmine the Kinc
place, 5 miles south of town. It
consisted of 2500 acres of good land
and all modern equipment. At one
time, probably sixteen vears acn. we
had 5000 sheep in the Sand Country
where we had considerable land.
When Mr. Woolery died it was a bio-
job to straighten up the business and
get things into good working order.
We sold the store in 1904 and got rid
of some of the land and we are now
farming the rest."
I asked Mrs. Knappenberg to tell
me some of the incidents that happen
ed in her early life and the first vivid
picture that came to her mind wat
the trip from Monument to Heppner
to escape from the Indians.
"We had always seen the Indians.
As a girl I played with them and no
one ever thought verv much about it.
At Longcreek, just twenty miles from,
Monument, the Indians captured
nearly every one in the settlement
and either tarred and feathered them
or scalped them. When the news
came to us we set out at once for
Heppner. We camped one night. at
Parker's Mill and I remember how 1
almost frightened my mother to death
when I got through th guards and
Was picking strawebrries when they
found me. I had never seen a town
before and when we approached
Heppner it was all that my brothei
could do to keep me in the wagon
box. There was one Btore, a black
smith shop, a saloon and about a
dozen houses. The people had built
a small fort and when we arrived it
was so crowded and so many were
sick that mother refused to go inside.
We stayed in the blacksmith shoD.
The water was bad and many took
sick, especially the children. Mother
said she would just about as soon be
scalped by the Indians as to die ol
sickness and she said if the rest would
follow her, she would cut a road to
Willow Creek. They agreed and
mother led the way, cutting tlu
bushes and trees with a hatchet At
the creek's bank they made a clearing
and piled the bushes to make protec
tion against the Indians. The men
stood guard. The sick members got
better and after the news that the
Indians had gone another way wac
brought to us, we abondoned the camp
and left for home. We were gone
two months.
"When we reached Hardman the
neighbors made a stockade around oui
house and most of the people stayed
with us for a long time The Indiani
had killed all of the cattle and horsee
and it was great hardship on the
people to replace them. It was a
long time before we saw Indians
again. The squaws were the first to
come but the country was better set
tled and we did not fear them so
much.
"Money was free in those days.
$20 gold pieces were common. Chil
dren were given small pieces of
change to play with. There was no
railroad and we got our provisions
from The Dalles. Once a year father
I went there but when the roads got
: better he went twice year. We
often went six months without getting
;mail. If someone happened to be
coming out from The Dalles, the
poKtmanter there would send out the
mail with him. He would take it as
far as he would go and Oen give it
to the next farmer who panned it on
to his neighbor.
"What did you get for Christmas
preenU, Mrs. Knappenberg?"
"Our regular Chritmaii treat was
a Imx of apples which w always
, brought from The Dalles. Mother
usually made us a rag doll and once
in a great while we got a few sticks
of candy. I never saw fruit grow
until I was a large girl. We used to
have some dried fruit which we
bought. We children used to think it
was a great treat to get a piece of
choke cherry pie. Mother made jell
with elder berries. We had a few
wild gooseberries and currants but
not many. I remember the time when
Mr. Woolery came back from Arling
ton and brought some oranges. I
never saw a banana until after I was
married.
"Did your fellow come to see you
in an automobile?"
"I never even saw a buggy until
after I was married. He used to come
on horseback. We rode in wagons or
went on a horse. The women always
had theirhorses but the men went out
on the hills and took any of them.
I can remember how my mother used
to go most every Sunday to visit my
aunt who lived three miles away. Two
'of the children sat in front and one
hung on behind.
Just then Mrs. Knappenberg made
-cnie remark about the floor and that
gave me another question. "How did
you make your floors and what kind
of carpets did you have," I ventured.
"We didn't have carpets and the
floors were made by splitting poplar
logs and planing the one side. They
made the whitest and cleanest floors
I have ever seen. They were hard to
keep clean and I can remember how
mother would make us get the jack
plane and plane out the grease spots.
We didn't spill much on the floors."
About that time we heard lound
cheering in the direction of the park
and being thus reminded that it was
the Fourth of July I asked Mrs.
Knappenberg what the people did to
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lone, .... Oregon
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i
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amuse themselves.
"Dancing was the chief means of
amusement. We often went long dis
tances to dance. The houses were
small and the music was furnished
by some of the boys playing a French
harp of a juice harp, but we had good
times. They were all square dances
and I remember the first time I ever
danced a round dance. I went to
Haystack, where my first beau lived,
ana ne taught me how to waltz. The
people were very friendly, everyone
was yotir friend and you could sneak
to anyone." '
"Was the weather as warm in the
summer as it is today?" was my next
question asked in desperation. j
1 guess the summers were about i
the same as now. The winters were 1
colder and I remember how we used !
to put a box on a cowhide and use j
that for a sled. We had open fire
places that wewould gather around in '
ine winter time. -
On asking how she made her
clothes, Mrs. Knappenberg said that
inese were made bv hand. T,tfr on
they bought a sewing machine. It!
was one of these old fashion Howe !
machines and they thought it was one
of the greatest inventions of the age,
which is true. She told me how she
would stand on a box and turn the !
machine because the operator could
not sew and make the machine go at
the the same time. Calico dresses
were the vogue and she did not have
a ready-made piece of clothing until
after she was married.
Mrs. Knappenberg married Mr. J.
T. Knappenberg in 1909. We intend
to say a few words about this e-entle-
man in this same column in the near
future but will merely state now that
you can trust him until it does ap
pear.
Being one of the largest land
owners in the county and also con
versant with farm facts, I asked Mrs.
Knappenberg to tell me what she
thought of present conditions, what
the future had in store for this coun
ty. The first thing that she said was
that the quicker we get away from
one crop system the quicker we will
go ahead. As it is generally known,
Mr. Woolery was known as the "wheat
king." He believed in wheat and had
every acre that he could get undei
.the plow into wheat. "It was not
farming, it was merely scratching,'
said Mrs. Knappenberg. "We would
have done better if we had farmed
less and farmed better. I intend tc
sell one-half of the Whitehouse dairy
farm just as soon as I can find a
buyer and devote my money and
energy to what I can profitably han
dle. Big farms are the cure of this
state. We want smaller farms where
the farmer can do most of the work
himself. A good farm hand can't be
secured. If he does amount to much
he is working for himself."
When I asked her if many farmers
bought eggs and butter from the
stores, she said that they did not buy
so much now as they did a few yean,
ago but there was no excuse for them
to buy any. When she first came
here not one ranch in ten had a cow,
now nearly every one keeps a few.
Mrs. Knappenberg has four daugh
ters, daugthers that any woman could
be proud of, and when I asked her
why the young neonle did not ntv
on the farm, she said that farm life
must be made attractive to them.
"Even in town here we can furnish
them with something to do. My
youngest daughter, Joie, has two
Shetland ponies, three head of cattle
and some chickens. She is always
doing something. The main thing i
to give them something that they will
be interested in and work for."
Mrs. Knappenberg is no reformer,
she believes in reforming yourself. In
the matter of voting she said that
suffrage should have been given to
women in the beginning. It is true
that women are not students of gov
ernment, but it is because this part of
their training has been neglected.
In conclusion I can say that the
character of Mrs. Knappenberg dis
plays all the primal virtues of in
dustry, economy, integrity, which go
I into the making of woman and into
jthe making of a nation the simple
primal virtues, the things for which
I there are no substitutes. Youthful
I because she always has smile, and
smiles make health. They lubricate
, the relations of life and make for good
: digestion and sweet sleep o'nights.
j All life is pleasurable if we lead the
;life of activity, tempered by modera
tion in all good things, the life lived
;by that able woman smiling of fare,
kindly of heart, Helen V. Knapprn
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while in town Monday. He alxo
wihe to thank Jualire domett for
procuring a Huhiu-ription for the
HeralfJ and entering it to hia credit.
The JuNtice nay that Andy wax about
the only man in town that didn't be
lieve that he nhol hid cat and for that
reason he paid for the Kuhiwription.
Bob f'arnon of Fpray wai in llepp.
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nlock men of thin county and nhipperj
,200 head of cattle to Coffin Hro. at
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