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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1972)
Looking Around 1 i'tV lone Public School 1907 - postcard published exclusively by Halvorsen & Mason, lone, Oregon. Cont. from pg. 4 name. Mr. Esteb had a bl acksmith shop and staple gro cery store with the postof fice in it. The first store there was built by Stockes Kirk who lived in the back of the 16 x 20 building. Some of the early settlers near Gooseberry were Isaac R. Esteb, W.H. Akers and sons, Ben and Garret, Mr. Fleming and sons, Whitney, Bob and Harvey, Nathaniel McVey, and Lige Hendricks who 1! is said lost 200 head of cattle from starvation and freezing in the great blizzard of 18B8. A first school was built in 188G and the Metho dists met there to hear prea ching by Mr. Howardton, Mr. Swift and Mr. Goodwin. VALBY A good-sized Swedish set tlement was established by 1887 bringing in the fami lies of Andrew Anderson, Eric Hergstrom, Frank Lun dell, August Carlson, Char les Anderson, John and Erin Peterson and John Johnson to name a few. The Swe dish settlers organized a Lu theran church in 1886 with 17 charter members. Valby Church was built in 1897 and its cost, $458.82 was paid on the day of dedication by its forty members. (Yester years, Pg. 61) IONE The county's second and third ranking communities to wards it southern half were awarded postoffices in 6 months in 1884. lone' s first oostniaster, Aaron Royce, op ened that still active post office May 26, 1884. Saline ville which was renamed Le xington got a P.O. in Jan uary 1884, but it was not li sted as Lexington until Nov. 1885. Two Indian War veterans jointly "fathered" lone. E. G. Sperry moved up Willow Creek from about 3 miles be low lone and purchased land originally settled by George Emerick, later assigned to James Taylor, and still later sold to Mrs. Hamblet, a lady doctor. In 1883 Mr. Sperry decided to establish a trad ing center on his property (the Sperry Addition of lone.) When the question of a name for the new settlement was discussed, it was suggested that it be named for a lit tle girl, lone Arthurs, whose 1 .f V f M I AI f Tx T ft father worked for him. An Irish native, Edward Cluff, came to the area in 1870 and raised and fattened cattle. He gave up some 40 ffcres of his farm for the city platting and donated land for the two churches. Cluff land formed the eastern part of the town, from the present Catholic Church to Willow Creek. The Sperry section ex tends west from that church and south of Main Street to the creek. In 1885 when Phoebe Sperry, a daughter of E.G. married Robert Wills, they homesteaded the land north of Main Street and this was platted and included in the townsite. Both Edward Cluff and E. G. Sperry remained active in community affairs. The first places of business were a blacksmith shop by George Lutrell, a saloon by Charles McFarland, and a general store which had been moved from Hardman to lone by Aaron Royce and which held the postoffice in 1884. In 1885 Mr. Sperry erected a small school which lasted only a short time. His son-in-law built a store that year. Soon Thomas J. Carle erected a small hotel, then a large store building with a dance hall above, and a small ware house were moved from Cas tle Rock. C.T. Walker later occupied the store space and the dance hall became known as Walker's Hall, and it was used for school programs, traveling shows, and later SjllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIlim Congratulations to Heppner on 1 reaching its 100th Anniversary. Petroleum lone iimiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinuiiiiiiiiiim Varly motion pictures. lONE'S EARLY GROWTH During its first ten years and as the century changed, lone had periods of stren uous growth. J. A. Woolery who had driven the stage be tween Heppner and Monument until 1890 and then become a merchant in Hardman, moved his store to lone about 1892. He maintained a general sto re, hardware, and implement store. A living monument to him is the beautiful City Park where he planted lovely Carolina Poplar trees he se cured from his native North Carolina. Ben Case opened a new blacksmith shop in 1893 and was soon joined by a part ner, William Haguewood. In 1894 Mat Halvorsen came to lone from Heppner to work for J.A. Woolery-he later started a store of hisownand moved into a building of his own which is now part of the present Bristow Store. Scho ol was opened near where the park is now and had to run on a subscription basis at times. Paul Balsiger erect ed a wagon repair shop and his cousin, E.J. Keller, set up another blacksmith shop. W.L. Richard andE.M.Akers built and opened a photo gal lery. S"P. Haney took over the hotel and livery barn; Hank Howell opened a bar ber shop; Sam Dickson built and applied for a saloonli cense which was denied and a Mr. St. Clair then used the building for a blacksmith shop. Pete Noble opened a harness repair shop and sold to Charles Martin and James Rhea. Charles W. Ingraham opened a drug store. Many businesses changed hands and farmers moved away during the crop shortages and hard times near the end of the 1800's. NEW CENTURY NEW GROWTH As 1900 came to lone it really boomed. It became a town of 350 inhabitants and had 100 business build ings and residences. There were four general stores, J. A. Woolery's, Halvorsen and Mason, C.T. Walker's, and the lone Mercantile Co. of Arnold Balsiger and Charles Allinger; a newspaper, the lone Post, owned and edited by Miss Virginia Deaton; C.W. Ingraham' s Drug Store; Paul Balsiger wagon and wa Products Paul Pettyjohn Co. ter-tank shop. Rhea and Mar tin's harness shop; Blake Brothers' butcher shop; two doctors aud a. (kntist; H.G. Jordon's Confectionery; B.F. Vaughn's livery stable; T.J. Carle's lodging house; W.M. Haguewood' s and Mr. Wood's blacksmith shops; Mrs. Deaton's Millinery Sto re; A. Lane's Barber shop; two warehouses, the Far mer's Warehouse Co. and Kerr, Gifford I Co.; and the O.R. & N. Depot and Tele graph Office; The lumber bu siness of J.P. Louy 1 S.I. Stratton; the saloons of E.G. Sperry, Brierly I Earhart, Warfield Brothers, and Frank Engleman; W.H. Dobyns, At torney and U.S. Land Com missioner. The J.A. Woolery Bank, operated by his sister, was established in 1903 (it dissolved in 1927). THE EGG CITY For awhile lone was called the "Egg City" because al most every ranch had a side line of poultry raising and large quantities of eggs were shipped annually. By 1900 there were six lodges suc cessfully maintained and ot her groups were organized later, which contributed in many ways to the growth and Get All Hardware at Riefmann's lone Farm Chemicals I improvement of the city. Much more could be writ ten about this attractive whe at center. For example, in 1905 through the efforts of the teachers in the lone Scho ol and in observance of Arbor Day, a plan was instituted for a general planting of trees In town. These trees flour ished and lone was changed from a. salt grass flat to a green, pleasant oasis. The community has a fine school which grew when outlying dis tricts at Ella, Cecil, Fair view, Gooseberry, Morgan, Rocky Bluff, Dry Fork, Rhea Siding, Lone Tree, Pleasant Vale, Davis, Four Mile and Hardesty consolidated with lone. Ranches in the area have be come larger as modern equip ment came in. Although new residents have been attracted during the years, it is in teresting to note the ranches that are still ownedand farm ed by descendants of the ori ginal owners. lone has a strong communi ty spirit. It will surely have a real centennial celebration in just over ten years, when its complete history will make great reading, Cont to page 6 Your Supplies 422-7211 ! 1 Heppner 1
