Category:Daily Eugene Guard (1914)

From Lane Co Oregon

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD l-l-1914

VAST QUANTITIES OF BOOZE IS CONSUMED IN SPRINGFIELD LAST NIGHT Springfield is dry. The law that went into effect today and the consuming ability of the New Year's crowd that swarmed the streets and saloons of the mill city last evening, were equally effective in closing up the town. It was the best "pull off" since the last "wet" night in Eugene seven years ago last

June, according to one Eugene man who suffered at the time. "It makes me darn sore," said a barkeeper at Smith and Noble's, when asked for his personal opinion of the calamity. This was the general wail of the "old timers" and the saloon men, who said they have not had a square deal. Business on the last night was brisk. Every saloon but one ran out of draught beer by 9 o'clock, and one place had to resort to bottled "suds" as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Two places sold between them 86 barrels of bottled beer.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1-13-1914

HYLAND TO HAVE A DEPOT Salem Ore., Jan. 13- A depot will be erected at Hyland, on the Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific, as the result of effort put forth by the state railway commission. Word has just been received that the company has ordered the material needed, and as soon as it is received at Hyland the building will be constructed. Some time ago T. J. Seufert, connected with the lumber mill at Hyland, called the attention of the commission to the need of a station at Hyland, and the matter was at once taken up informally with the company. The favorable action secured will be of substantial convenience to a considerable farming section, as well as the mill company employees and the lumber company.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1-15-1914

MARCOLA SCHOOL IS STANDARDIZED Tuesday night marked perhaps the greatest school rally and educational meeting ever held in Marcola. The event was the celebration of the standardization of the Marcola schools. The program and speaking was given before the largest crowd ever assembled in the M. W. A. hall, there being 554 people present by actual count. The programs opened promptly at 8 o'clock, with music by the Marcola band. This was followed by the singing of "America" by the school, led by professor Baker. The school program consisted of songs, recitations, drills, etc.., given principally by the children of the lower grades. Immediately after this , supervisor O'Reilly was introduced, and after a brief talk, he presented the school with the standard school pennant, which was accepted with fitting remarks by Charles Morrow, chairman of the school board. After the program a banquet was held at which was served the best of everything and an abundance of it.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2-20-1914

NEWS OF MABEL AND UPPER MOHAWK Mabel, Feb. 20.- Miss Ruth Earnest met with a painful accident last Friday evening, while going home from school. While crossing the railroad trestle she fell and severely wrenched the ligaments of the knee. She is now confined to her bed and will probably be unable to attend school any more this term.

Many new families have moved into Mabel since the mill has commenced running again. The school is preparing a Washington birthday program which will be given in the hall Monday evening, Feb. 25. - The Marcola band will furnish music for the occasion.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2-23-1914

SECOND CAR LOAD OF MACHINERY ARRIVES FOR SPRINGFIELD PLANT The second car load of machinery for the Booth Kelly Lumber Company's new sawmill at Springfield arrived from the Sumner iron works at Everett Washington, today and will be at once unloaded. This shipment consists largely of portions of the carriage, the "niggers" and other smaller parts. Another car load will be shipped from the iron works next Tuesday and other shipments are expected to arrive regularly from now on. The main building of the new mill is now practically completed and work on the planning mill and dry kilns will soon be started. It is expected that the plant will be in operation by June 1, although there may be unforeseen delays which may postpone the beginning of operations. The company's mill at Coburg, which has been idle for the past three weeks, is expected to resume operations about the first, of the month. The 100 or more men who have been idle since it closed will be taken back. The Wendling mill is operating steadily and the work of building the new logging railroad above there is progressing slowly.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2-28-1914

(STORIES BY COBURG SCHOOL CHILDREN)

A TRUE STORY, AN ANIMAL ATTACK Once I was out playing in the woods alone. I went to climb a tree to cut me a pool I had cut me one pool. I heard a noise when I went to climb the tree, I looked around and I saw a bear coming down the mountain, I picked up my pool and then the bear was nearly there a stuck my pool down the bears throat and if the bear would run the pool would stick in the ground and he could not run and I took my knife and cut his throat and that killed him and then I came home, told pa about it. He said that was a good trick on him. Henry C. Cole, age 10

I WAS ATTACKED BY A FIERCE DOG

When I went to the county fare last year, which was held at Eugene, I was attacked by a bare dog. We drove over in a buggy. When we reached Eugene the feed stables were all closed. So we had to take our horse out to a friends. When we got there they were home. We stayed for dinner. Then they took us out to the fair grounds in the machine. When it became evening we went back to their house to get our buggy. These people were not home when we went back to get our horse. These people had two bare dogs. One was not tied up so it wouldn't let us in. It chased me out of the yard and tore my dress. So we had to wait till they got home.

Beth Allin

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2-28-1914

SPORES FOUND GUILTY Last night the jury in the case of the state vs. Frank Spores returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of chasing deer with dogs. His attorneys announce that the case will be appealed to the supreme court.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3-21-1916

(STORIES BY SCHOOL CHILDREN OF FISCHERS MILL DIST.79)

MY TRIP I once went up to Fischer's mill. I took Papa's dinner up to him one day. After dinner I rode on the locomotive up in the woods to play with Carl Yancy. Carl and I played on the logs all day. We went down to the creek and fished a while. Then it was time to go home. We both rode home on the locomotive. Leroy LaPorte, Age 9, Third grade

I AND THE GOAT Once upon a time, when we lived on a farm, I was about 4 years old. We had a lot of goats and sheep. And I fed them salt so much that I wasn't afraid of them. We had a nanny goat that wouldn't let the little goats have any tity, so papa tied her up to a tree and she got loose, and I said I'll catch her papa, and she butted me down the hill. It didn't hurt me any, but it scared me so that I had to cry. Joseph Henry Rogers, Age 9, 3rd grade

A HOPYARD Once upon a time I went to a hopyard and picked hops. I picked for three weeks and earned eleven dollars. My father and mother earned sixty dollars. I went boat riding, and I went in swimming and I had lots of fun. Lemmie Drake Age 12, Third grade

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3-23-1914

WENDLING NEWS Charles Phillips met with an accident while horseback riding, a few days ago. The horse fell on him and dislocated his ankle. The "Homesteaders Lodge" has been organized in Wendling and has a membership numbering almost forty.

Quite a number from Wendling attended the funeral of Dolf Lewis, held at Marcola Monday

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3-24-1914

DONNA, NEWS John Adams, foreman of the Mohawk Lumber Company at Donna, has been burning the logged off land for the last few days. John Roberts has moved the machinery of the Cedar Flat mill to Donna. The next meeting of the Mohawk Grange will be held at the home of J. R. McGee April 4.

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3-28-1914 (Story By, School Child, Fischers Mill School, Dist 79)

A TRIP TO THE WOODS One friday evening I asked papa if I could go to the woods with him the next day. And he said I could do so. I got up early Saturday morning. Papa had to fix the ax, and while papa was fixing it I got myself ready. We crossed three foot bridges. Then we walked under a lot of vine maples, which was like an arch over head. There were other large maples which were covered with moss. I saw a lot of ferns. And the squirrels were running about all over. I saw some wild ducks fly up from the river. It was a fine day. Papa cooked some dinner. And there was an apple tree in the woods, and I got some apples and papa baked them for me. Papa cut down two big trees. And they made a big noise when they fell. By that time we were ready to go home. And when we got home mamma had supper ready. And you bet I was hungry I had a fine time in the woods. And I will go again some Saturday. Rose Zuber, Acre 7 years 3rd grade

A LETTER FROM FISCHER'S MILL Dear Friend: You asked about our school. We have a dandy little school of 22 children. Our teachers name is Mrs. Morrow, she is a good teacher and has her hands full has six grades a day. Our schoolhouse is painted brown and finished off with green on the outside and on the inside white and finished off with brown. We have a big frame picture of George Washington and also a library and a map Case with fine maps and also 7 living plants and a bird house which one of the boys made his name is Leroy LaPorte he is in the third grade and nine years old and did good, very good. Your Loving Friend Mary Landers, 5th grade

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4-18-1914

DESCRIPTION OF A PEDDLER --- From Dist 79 Once there was a peddler who was tall and slim. He had brown hair and black eyes. He drove a white horse and a little old cart. He sold soap and salve. He would stand and talk about how good his things were for hours. Sometimes he would forget to tie his horse up and it would go off and leave him Mabel Smith age 12, 6th grade

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4-23-1914

QUICK CAPTURE AT WENDLING The fourth arrest for bootlegging within a week was made last night when George Watson, was interrupted by sheriff deputies as he was opening a wholesale business, ,according to J. C. Parker, Sheriff, who has the man in jail and three and a half gallons of contraband liquor in his possession. The man was one whom the officers intended to arrest with the other three Saturday night, but Friday night he dropped out of town, and yesterday he appeared at Wendling. Sheriff deputies immediately notified the sheriff. The call came at 8 o'clock, and he left here at 9 o'clock in an automobile, with Deputy Sheriff D. A. Elkins and J. A. Devers, county attorney. They drove to Marcola and from there finished the trip on a gasoline speeder. The arrest was made, the return trip to Marcola on the speeder and the distance to Eugene in the automobile completed, and the man was in jail by 1 o'clock this morning. The arrest is one of the most prompt ever effected by local officers at this distance. Sheriff Parker returned in his automobile this morning and obtained the unsold liquor, which totaled 28 pints. It had been sent to Wendling in suit cases as baggage. According to the sheriff, the man was arrested before he had sold more than five pints, and of this number the sheriff recovered three. Three different charges of violation of the local option law will be pressed against the man, who was arraigned this afternoon. George C. Watson, captured last night by the sheriff at Wendling pleaded guilty in the Justice of peace court late this afternoon on three charges. He was fined $250. The other charges hang over him, and when his fine is paid or his sentence served he must leave the community. This man has been doing business for some time, declared J. A. Levers, District Attorney, today. "But the officers always get them. The laws are on the books, and these fellows have to learn that this is dry territory, and that's more this is going to be a dry state they might as well get used to it".

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5-4-1914

COLUMBUS COLE HAS DIED Another Lane county Pioneer, who died yesterday, was Columbus D. Cole of Marcola. He was aged 72 years and one

month. He came to Marcola in 1874 and was the founder that town, eighteen miles northeast of Eugene. The funeral will be held at Marcola Monday. He leaves a widow, one daughter, Mrs Nellie Whitmore, of Bickelton Washington, a brother, S. E. Cole, of Eugene; and one sister,Mrs. Elmira Rupert, of 751 Eleventh avenue west.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5-9-1914

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY LIFE, by Fischer's Mill School boy I was born in Norway, May 10th, 1901. We lived in the same house about 9 years. I started to school in 1908, and liked my teacher very much. Soon I was in the 4th grade then I had 4 or 5 teachers. I was going to start in the 6th grade when we moved to America. The first boat we went on was going from Norway to England, with the boat then called Oalo we left Christ-I-And-Sand late at night. In the morning we came to Aslesand, then to Bergen. Next morning we came to Stavenger, then we were ready to cross the ocean called the North Sea. We landed at Hull England, then crossed England with the train and came to Liverpool. Then we went on a big American steamboat called the Adriatic. There were a lot of people on the boat from, many different nations. The people danced on the deck and played cards down below. I didn't sleep very well at night but I wasn't sick on the whole journey. After eight days we landed at Boston. Here we went on a train to Chicago, then right on to Minneapolis, then to Portland, where we met papa; it had been two years since I'd seen him. The next day we went to Eugene and next to Fisher's mill. I have now been in the new world a little over a year and a half. I will now have to quit because my arm starts to get tired of writing. EMIL SATHER Fifth Grade

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5-20-1914

COBURG TO OWN WATERWORKS The Eugene Loan and Savings Bank was the high bidder for the Coburg Waterworks bonds, at Coburg. The money will be paid at the city of Coburg to purchase the waterworks, and operations will began at once. The amount of the bonds voted was $13,350 and the waterworks system will be turned over by the present owner, H. F. Bucknum.

The wells and pump systems now serve 1000 people and have been operated for several years successfully by H. F. Bucknum. it is the plan of the city of Coburg to use all the revenue accruing to the system to extend the waterworks as rapidly as possible and to create a sinking fund to pay off the principal and interest on the, bonds. The revenue will be used for no other purpose. The city of Coburg wants to make this plant up-to-date in every respect and will make several improvements. The rate will be made cheaper, with better service and the plant will be operated at actual cost. Five other bids were submitted. The bonds were bought at par value. It is the intention of Mr. Bucknum to build an up-to-date concrete business block in Coburg in the near future.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6-22-1914

S. P. Railroad Improvements, And B. K. News Logging on the Willamette river will begin within two or three weeks according to word received from W. H. Hyland, who for six weeks has been preparing camps in which half a hundred men will be employed for several years. He has ordered sufficient cars to ship from eight to twelve carloads of logs to the Booth Kelly mill at Springfield and at Coburg daily, and the cars are being especially equipped for logging purposes by the railroad. They will be delivered ready for shipping within a few days The Southern Pacific has just completed a 1530 foot sidetrack on the Oakridge line two miles west of Carter at the point the logs will be shipped from Hyland Camp to handle the loading operations. A new station will be established at this point which will be called Clay

BIG MILL ALSO READY TO OPEN The Booth Kelly mill at Springfield stands completed. The machinery is being tried out, piece by piece, and by the end of the week everything will be ready. The mill could start before the actual completion of the logging camp, for it has thousands of feet of logs in the pond which were there when the old mill burned and which have remained there ever since. With the completion of the siding at the lumber camp on the Oakridge line, two extra gangs have been transferred to the ballasting work on the west side line between Springfield and Coburg where the ballasting has been going on, as all along the west side line for several months.

BALLASTING WORK RUSHED The double crew at present is working in the Springfield digging, in preparation for the ballast. It will complete the excavation and this preparation over the whole distance from Coburg by Wednesday, the actual ballasting will then be hurried. Three trainloads of gravel have been received from Corvallis in the past three days.

HYLAND STATION NEARING COMPLETION ON THE MOHAWK Other improvement work on the S. P. near Eugene nearing completion includes a new station at Hyland, on the Wendling branch, which has been erected at a cost of $850. At present a gang of men is at work grading and filling in for the platform.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6-25-1914

CONTRACTORS SUING BOOTH KELLY COMPANY The Abbot Forrester Co., railroad contractors, and the B. K. Co., will air the differences resulting from, the failure to complete the logging extension above Wendling last winter, again this week, tomorrow and Saturday. The $22,000 damage case opened this after noon. The B. K. Co. is sued on the grounds that it abandoned its contract by making too many changes, on the other hand B. Z. holds that it paid the contractors $11,000 too much.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8-19-1914

ARCHITECT HENSILL RECOVERING FROM INJURIES RECEIVED WHILE RIDING WHEEL After an almost miraculous escape from beneath horses and wagon, which passed over his body, Monday, Architect Y. D. Hensill was able to be at his office today, although a cripple from the effects of his terrible experience. Mr. Hensill states that he was riding a bicycle along the road, one mile and a half this side of Harrisburg, when he met a team being driven in the opposite direction. The driver was not inclined to give him a fair proportion of the right of way, as the team approached quite near, he was compelled to dismount almost directly in front of the horses. One of the animals apparently became frightened and lunged forward, him, before he could get out of the way. Both the horses and the wagon then passed over his body, one of the wheels crossing his abdomen. Mr. Hensill did not regain consciousness until more than an hour had elapsed and he had been removed by Dr. Dale to the Harrisburg hospital. He does not know the name of the man who was driving the team. His most serious injury was to his foot upon which one of the animals stepped, pressing the steel core of a shoe into the flesh.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8-24-1914

WILLIAM HOFFNER, AT MABEL FALLS FROM REAR OF LOCOMOTIVE William Hoffner, living at Mabel, on the Mohawk line 20 miles from Eugene, was not run over by a flat car late yesterday afternoon because his two legs stopped the progress of the car. One leg was broken and both were terribly cut and bruised. He was also bruised about the head and body. Hoffner is a fireman on a freight locomotive on the Wendling line. The engine had just left the flat car on a steep siding, but the brakes on the flat car failed to hold, and the flat car followed the locomotive. Hoffner went back over the tender of the locomotive and intended to step from the engine to the flat car when the latter came close enough, and then tighten the brakes.

He stepped too soon, or misjudged the distance, and fell down between the locomotive and the approaching car. The car was going at such a speed that Hoffner was unable to withdraw his body from the tracks before the wheels of the car struck him. It was necessary to back the car up before he could be removed. Hoffner will remain in the hospital for several weeks, but will recover.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8-28-1914

BAND OF INDIANS REACHES EUGENE A band of fifty Warm Spring Indians from beyond the headwaters of the McKenzie arrived in Eugene yesterday afternoon on their annual pilgrimage to the Lane County hop fields. They came with 100 ponies, their wives and papooses. The ponies they will sell. The wives will pick hops. The Indians wear their colored blankets and give a touch to the circus day crowds that is each year becoming less noticeable. These Indians will pick hops in the Seavy yard this year. They are expert Hop-pickers and are able to earn much more money than the average white pickers. They will pitch camps on the McKenzie. After hop picking, the Indians will return to Eugene for the county fair, which they attend each year, and at which they held their annual pony races. Their appearance in the crowds on the street this morning had a tendency to take the color out of the Professional Indians in the circus.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8-31-1914

HOP PICKING IN LANE COUNTY TO BEGIN THIS WEEK

Three thousand hop pickers will be employed in Lane Co. hop yards this week and next to harvest the county's hop crop. Picking in some yards begins today, but in the majority of them it will begin later in the week. The early hops have been picked and baling is going on in most of the early yards today. The James Seavy yard, the largest in Lane county, picking will begin on Thursday. This yard requires a force of 600 pickers to handle its crops. Picking in the Tom Seavy yard on the McKenzie will begin tomorrow. Seventy of the force employed there this year will be Indians, who are already camped at the yards. The Dick Hammitt yard is all picked; employees at the Claude Hammitt yard will begin picking in the morning. The larger yards are small communities during the hop picking season. Many of them have stores where groceries and some articles of clothing can be purchased, and several of them have dance halls, and other places of recreation for the pickers. The yards are paying $1 per hundred pounds, or 50 cents a box.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9-10-1914

HUBERT DEAN FATALLY INJURED NEAR COBURG BRIDGE

Hubert N. Dean, the 20 year old son of Mrs. Carrie C. Dean, living at 11 Lawrence St. died at 2:45 O'clock this afternoon as a result of injuries received this morning when the woodsaw he was driving passed over his chest. He retained consciousness with 14 ribs crushed, with serious internal injuries and up to the time of his death was able to tell in detail of the accident. His mother and two brothers were present at the time of his death. Dean was found lying in the road near the Coburg bridge shortly before 11 o'clock this morning by L. L. Lewis and M. D. Skinner, of the Booth Kelly Company, who were returning from Coburg in a motor car. He had been lying in the road for more than half an hour when discovered. He was first taken to his home on Lawrence street from where his two brothers R. F. Dean, and G. M. Dean accompanied him to the hospital. Although the man was fearfully hurt, stimulants were administered and efforts were made to save the man's life. The accident occurred while Dean was on his way to the place of H. C. Holcomb, just across the McKenzie near Coburg. The tongue of the wagon dropped in the road, frightening the horses which started to run. Dean was thrown forward and the wheel of the heavy woodsaw weighing about a ton passed over his body.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9-12-1914

Springfield News The warm Springs Indians, who have been picking at the Seavy hop yard, entertained a large number of pickers last night with an Indian war dance. Today and tomorrow they will hold a general roundup at the Midway ball park and Monday they will return to their homes at Warm Springs. Fred B. Watke, proprietor of the Springfield Provision Company, is having the interior of his meat market painted, and repapered and is making other improvements.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9-17-1914 Marion Adams, an employee of the Jim Seavy hop ranch and formerly an employee of the Cox and Cox department store, has accepted a position in the men's furnishing department of that store. He will begin his work next Monday. A public dance was given last night at the Jim Seavy hop ranch, north of Springfield. The Clark-Washburne and the Jim Seavy hop ranches located near this city expect to finish Friday. The Warm Springs Indians who were picking at the Seavy hop ranch, returned to their homes Monday.

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10-7-1914

The largest log ever sawed in this city was sawed yesterday at the Booth Kelly mill. It was thirty feet long and scaled 9,400 feet. Governor West will talk to the people of this city tomorrow night at 8 p. m. in the Bell Theatre.

Springfield News 10-8-1914 Tom Allen an employee of the Booth Kelly mill, while walking on the logs in the pond yesterday, lost his footing and just escaped drowning. Mr Allen was rescued by Arne Nelson, who was working on the pond at that time.

WENDLING NEWS 10-8-1914 Wendling Oregon, Oct. 8.- John Mathews, head sawyer in the Booth Kelly mill here, received a serious injury to his right hand Friday when a log rolled on it, crushing his fingers, and the bones in his hand. He was taken to the Eugene hospital for treatment. Donald Stolberg, who has been visiting in Washington for some time returned home Friday.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10-17-1914

MARCOLA HIGH SCHOOL At the first meeting of the Mohawk High School student body held Friday afternoon officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Warren Price; Vice president, Miss Eva Titus; secretary, and Treasurer,Miss Jennie Turner; correspond to Register, Miss Marie Dickert; correspondent to the Guard, Miss Audry Leurs. After election of officers the constitution was read by Miss Helen McCornack and, a short talk was given by the president. The girls of the high school interested in basketball held a meeting last night, after school and organized their teams. They decided to organize two teams. The captain of one is Miss Marie Dickert and of the other Miss Eva Titus. The members of Dikerts team, are as follows: Agnes Purcelle, Iva Titus, Flora Smith, Pauline Duguid, and Louella Cox. The second team, includes Audrey Lewis, Lottie McMurry, Laura Spohn, Pearl Walker, and Mary Volgamore. They have chosen Myrtle Rose for referee of both

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10-22-1914

WENDLING NEWS

Wendling, Oregon, Oct.22,.- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union met with Mrs. Alice Caskey Thursday. John Mathews who injured his hand a few weeks ago, has had to have his little finger amputated.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10-24-1914

A VISIT TO MARCOLA AND WENDLING

A return visit to Wendling gave me a chance to see a number of the folks a second time. Up on the hill near the home of Webb, Menasco and Bullock, I had, a little party with a number of the children who favored me with their stories on my first trip. After Looking among the works a few hours I took the county road for Marcola. The first man I met was C. Stalberg who recently came from the hoosier state and is developing a bit of fertile soil on the banks of Mill Creek. He keeps some milk cows and is developing a family orchard. About the time for the dinner bell to ring I came to the home of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Paschelke who welcomed me to their home and I enjoyed a pleasant hour with them. If a man looking around desires an interesting time, let him drop in on these good people in their handsome country place. And another nice farm is that of W. J. Hennis. They do general farming and milk eight cows. At F. N. Apger's place I found another of those new homes just springing up out of the forest. Plenty of work and a heavy demand on courage, but how these little places grow up in a few years into attractive homes. At A. L. Mitchell's I found a coup of Indian game chickens. The head of the flock is a handsome and valuable rooster. Near Marcola where Henry Huddleson's ranch is I found no one about so I visited his neighbor G. H. Blakely. He is past his three-score-and-ten but he handles a plow like a youngster and he has a fine bit of soil in which to spend his time. The Mohawk runs through a corner and Mr. Blakely is improving his little ranch. After chatting a few moments at the homes of H. B. Smith and W. J. Chapman I set foot for the first time within the limits of Marcola. One of these days I intend to find out more about the people, so I concluded to "go up the flume" to the saw mill. The Fischer's mill property, like ancient Gaul, is divided into three parts, one of which the loggers inhabit, called the camp. The timber is hauled from the camp to the saw mill on a logging road. At the mill the logs are dumped into the pond which raises the logs to within a few feet of the level of the saw carriage. The lumber when sawed into boards, dimension stuff and railroad ties is conveyed into the flume and carried by water to the planing mill and docks, a distance of about 2 1\\2 miles to Marcola. The flume is a "V" shaped trough, an equilateral triangle about two feet on a side down which water rushes about one foot deep. This volume of water has sufficient fall to carry the product of the mill, even the larger dimension stuff, with ease. As I went up the side of the flume I met two boys, almost young men, riding down the flume on a float of lumber. The sawmill town consists of about twenty-five houses and a store. The dwellings are scattered over the hillside and many of the mill workers have gardens and a cow. Several of the houses are supplied with water carried in troughs or flumes from mountain springs and at a number of the houses I noticed that the water had been utilized for irrigating the garden. They are permitted, so they tell me, to fence up as much ground as they want for garden purposes or chicken parks. The planing mill and docks are the last part of the property. Here the product of the saw is received from the flume and sorted, worked into orders, shipped out in the rough, or piled in the yards for future orders. I was told that the saw has a capacity of about 50 thousand feet a day, but one of the workmen remarked that it had cut as much as 75 thousand feet in a day.

Between the logging camps and Marcola are several farms that are well adopted to stock raising and one of these I found owned by D. W. Neely whose folks originally came from Pennsylvania, and at another I found F. Teal. He is clearing up and preparing to plant fruit trees on a fine piece of new ground and he showed me some of the finest potatoes I have seen this year, not the elongated Burbank, but a handsome potato. Mr. Teal enjoys showing what he can raise here.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10-26-1914

COBURG PEOPLE SUPPORT R. A. BOOTH The residents of the little town of Coburg, seven miles east of Eugene, which was founded by the establishment of a Booth Kelly mill, held a mass meeting Friday night, formed a Booth club, and passed resolutions expressing personal confidence in the man whom they have known for years. They proposed to extend the membership of The Booth club to every one of the 600 persons living in or near Coburg. The resolutions signed by the members of the club are as follows: "We, the voters living in and around Coburg, lane county, Oregon realizing that the old growth and the past success of our city has been largely the result, directly and indirectly, of the efforts of Hon. R. A. Booth, Republican nominee for United States senator, and knowing, that our city and our country and state will be greatly benefited by having a man of Mr. Booth's ability, integrity and honor in the United States Senate, hereby join ourselves together for the purpose of forming a Booth club, the purpose of which is to assist in placing our friend in office.

COBURG NEWS 10-28-1914 Mr. Jarnigan and Mr. Drury, local merchants, have each Purchased a motor car.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10-31-1914

THE TOWN OF MARCOLA This town Marcola, is situated on the Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific railroad, thirteen miles by the time card from the railroad center known on the map as Springfield. An Aeroplane would carry you there in a fewer number of miles to the northeast from the county seat of Lane county, which appears on the legal documents under the name of Eugene. Marcola has been and yet is somewhat of a town. I may have slipped a cog in my enumeration machine, but according to my observations there are about one hundred ten occupied dwellings in the town and

immediate Suburbs, if there be any urban conditions in a town where almost everybody is blest with a good garden, or at least enough good land to make a good garden. There are probably a dozen vacant houses. I would like to mention some of the most attractive gardens, but where there are so many, it seems better to generalize and say, Marcola in many respects is an attractive place for busy people to live. Of course the principal point of interest to the stranger, as it doubtless is to the residents, is the planing mill with its surrounding dock and yard. There are two hotels, good hostelries for country hotels, so their guests say; and two churches, the M. E. and the Christian, and three general stores. The post office is located in the drug store, and the two pool rooms keep tobacco cigars and soft drinks. In addition, there is a shoe shop, a blacksmith shop, a barber shop, a photography gallery, a real estate office, a tailor shop, a draying business, a millinery store or two, and a doctor of medicine, the offices of the lumber company, The Fischer Brothers "down town" and the substantial school building almost under the hill on the other side of the mill. The old flume of the Southern Pacific mill is yet in part standing, and some of the buildings. A stranger mingling with these folks for the first time finds them very much like other people. Some of us by nature have those social traits that bring us into quick acquaintanceship, while others feel that the other fellow needs watching and the stream of goodfellowship flows not at all. So goes the world, but in a general way going about among these people one catches the spirit of their life problems. How would you feel if when you called to collect a bill you were greeted with a whole-souled smile and a cheery "I know what you hire after, money" and then have the giving the greeting show the coin? Well I had that kind of experience several times up the Mohawk. I am more of a hayseed thin a cit scientist, so I hunted up Joseph Vogl's ranch and enjoyed his rooting out stumps fully as much as if I had the digging to do myself. That's no joke, I thoroughly enjoy handling digging tools when I can do just what I want with the dirt,- Try me sometime in a good garden

I reached the M. J. Arnel ranch in the midst of a gentle shower, Mr. C. A. Arnel, the father of M. J., is a gentleman of 75 years and active, but the young man and I explored the farm. I wanted to see his clover. He has 6 acres of clover which was sowed June 7, 1914, and it has withstood the summer's drouth. It now has a fine foliage and the field is uniformly covered. Besides this 6 acres sowed in June, he has the same number of acres sowed the latter part of September. It has a good start and the two sowings will give a fair chance to make comparisons to determine if spring or fall sowing of clover is the better. Near the farm buildings Mr. Arnel has a small field of about two acres which was sowed in May, 1913. It took well and this season he mowed it twice and put up about 9 tons of clover hay. He has decided to put all of his 152 acres of valley land into clover. He ranges about 50 head of stock cattle and carries on the business of slaughtering for the surrounding country, marketing chiefly at Mabel.. A most interesting ranch on which I saw a fine red shorthorn male eligible to register, and I was told that there were 20 to 25 hogs roaming on the place.

OVER THE MOHAWK Certainly I want to see H. C. Huddleson's 67 acres, half hill and half valley land. He also has clover, a sod of much more than ordinary stability, I told him I thought it is surpassed by only one other field that I have seen, and equalled by very few. He has a fine young peach orchard, and smiles when he shows you what water he has to spare, not for dairy purposes, but for irrigation plans he has in head.

A number of fascinating little ranches in this valley, and when you look at N. R, Workman's place on the same side of the creek, you get more interested. He is making improvements in the land and in the surroundings, being about to drill a water well when I was there. Plenty of water running by the house but he wants water for domestic use perfectly free from surface water. Then Sullivan and his neighbor Briggs are working out interesting places in the woods. And E. C. Rowland is also hewing out a ranch in the woods. C. F. Page has a fine little place, fertile as any and is a promising state of cultivation. Among the good people of Marcola I met R. M. Culp, another 75 year old man who goes about among his friends an acquaintance with good cheer, and when at W. R. Bearden's I met F. M. Frost who says he will be 92 on the 18th day of April next, but Mrs. Bearden says the record makes him a year older. While I visited him he told me of his father who was waylaid and murdered in Georgia when this veteran was only six years of age. They lived in Kentucky and on the father's returning from a trip into Georgia where he had sold a lot of cattle, he was attacked and robbed and murdered. The mother and three children came out of Missouri in 1834. F. M. Frost drove a team from Dennison, Texas, to Forest Grove in 1879. He tells interesting experiences of his residence in this state, and thinks Oregon is not a farming state. I met a man on this trip who told me he had subscribed for a paper once when he was yet a boy. The subscription resulted in a law suit, and he has never subscribed for a paper since. He is older than I am. At Marcola, principal Baker favored me with permission to talk to his high school class. An earnest set of young folks. I am sure it any one of the class got as much inspiration out of the visit as I did, the call was mutually beneficial. My few minutes with the second and third grades was a much prized opportunity to make certain observations of child life.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-5-1914

PIONEERS, MRS. J. B. ABRAMS AND WILLARD McGEE DEAD Lane county today lost two pioneers, with the death of Mrs. Josie B. Abrams, of 93 fifth ave. west, at 1 o'clock this morning, and of Willard McGee, of Snelling California. Both are well known here. The death of Mrs. Abrams occurred at the close of an illness extending over three years. The body was shipped today to Crawfordsville, in Linn county where it will be buried upon the old home place beside the body of her husband, who died in 1902. He was one of the pioneers of the logging industry in this part of the state, and for years his crews logged on the Willamette and McKenzie rivers. The deceased leaves three sons, all connected at present with the lumber industry. Todd Abrams is superintendent of the Lebanon Lumber Company, Faye Abrams is superintendent of the Booth Kelly mill at Wendling, and Cliff Abrams is also connected with the same company. The funeral will be held Saturday, November 7, at 1 p. m.

Word of the death of Mr. McGee, known in Eugene for years as "Wid" McGee, was received by the local order of I. O. O. F., of which he was a member. He has been ill for more than a year. He has not lived in Eugene for eight or ten years, but was born on the Mohawk river nearly forty years ago, and lived here the greater part of his life.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-16-1914

MARCOLA NEWS The freight train which runs to Wendling has changed its schedule, coming up at 2 p. m. instead of 10 a. m. After drilling to a depth of twenty-five feet, Mr. Gordiner of Eugene, who is drilling a well for Mr. Volgamore of this vicinity, struck bedrock, and has decided to move his driller to another location and try again. A wind and rain storm struck Thursday night about 10 o'clock, causing excitement throughout the town. It lasted all night subsiding before daylight. Three motor car loads of Marcola Woodmen with their wives and children were in Eugene Monday night to see pictures of the M. W. A. sanitarium in Colorado Springs. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Mason, F. W. Titus and family, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Price, Mr. L. M. Duguid and family; Mr. W. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Cobb and Mr. W. Trotter and family.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-20-1914

Marcola Electric Power The Fischer Brothers are at work installing an electric light plant which will be serving the business section by Saturday and by the end of next week it will be extended to every part of town. The 25 K. W. generator installed in the engine room of the planing mill supplies the current. A new building will be erected adjoining the planing mill and when completed the machinery will be placed in it. The mill has been lighted with electricity ever since its construction. The current will be sold on a flat rate by contract of one cent per kilowatt per month. A. H. Willoughby of Eugene is in charge of construction work.

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-25-1914

COBURG BANK CHANGES HANDS

Eugene Men Are Interested In Transaction, Capitol Stock Of Institution $10,000. A deal was completed last night whereby the State Bank of Coburg was purchased by Eugene and Coburg men. The purchasers are R. T. Wood of Glen Rock Wyoming; George Drury, of Coburg; Samuel Smith, a retired Coburg farmer; A. H. Pyrtle, a farmer living near Coburg; C. D. Rorer and B. B. Brundage of the Bank of Commerce, Eugene. Officers of the bank are Geo. Drury, President; S. Smith, Vice Pres.; R. T. Wood cashier and manager.

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-26-1914

COBURG MAN DRIVES HIS MACHINE INTO STREET CAR A Fairmont street car and a Ford motor car driven by J. C. Ackerson, of Coburg, collided at Thirteenth and Alder streets at 10:20 this morning. The damage to the cars consisted of a broken fender on the street car and broken headlights and wrenched axle on the front wheels of the motor car. Mr. Ackerson came over this morning to spend Thanksgiving with his son, Luton Ackerson, who is a senior in the University. He was going west on Thirteenth and reached the corner as the Fairmont car operated by motorman Brown turned the corner. Both the driver of the machine and Brown applied the brakes and had nearly stopped the respective cars when they met. Ackerman thinks that the brakes were not working well or the collision would have been avoided. The house on the corner stands near the street and it is difficult to see the approach of cars on this curve.

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-28-1914

DEATH COMES AT SUPPER TABLE FOR MRS. ANNA CHURCHILL Mrs. Anne E. Churchill, a native Oregonian, and for 32 years a resident of West Springfield, died suddenly at her residence last night. Death came suddenly and without warning as she was sitting at the supper table with her family. The meal was just over and the members of the family lingered a moment in conversation. Without any sound Mrs. Churchill suddenly put her head in her arms on the table and passed away. Death was due to heart trouble, but the singular fact in connection with the death was that almost a year ago to the night, just after Thanksgiving, she suffered a similar attack. She died at the age of 54 years, four months. She was born to Mr. and Mrs. Drinkwater, in Marion county, at Sublimity, in 1856, She was married in 1874 to J. S. Churchill, and after living several years on the Mohawk river, and for a short time in California, located in West Springfield. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. E. B. Doad and Mrs. Ollie Mcdonald, both of West Springfield, and three sons, Carl Churchill of Pendleton; Howard Churchill, of Springfield; and Raymond Churchill of Springfield. The funeral will be held at the residence in West Springfield tomorrow afternoon at 2:30.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-28-1914

JUST SEEIN THINGS UP THE MOHAWK Dropping my grip at Marcola, I footed it up the flume to Fischer's mill. On the way up E. E. Hyland, Charles McFarland, and "Doc" Smith kept me company on the "tow plank" I wondered why they called it a tow plank, saying that back in Pennsylvania there was a path alongside the old canal on which the mules walked to tow the boats, but I could not see why they called this plank on that flume by such a name. Hyland replied "I guess it's because a man's a mule to walk it." Smith kept telling us before we started that E. E. could not walk on high places, but he did. When we got near the S. P. mill I left them in the care of Keeper McGee and went on to the hills.

BACK TRACK If I had taken my cue from two young men whom I saw navigate the flume, I would have ridden back to Marcola, but as one sailor went by McFarland he remarked that it was too suggestive of wetness. Wetness on a raft is more pleasant in July than in November. These young fellows seemed to enjoy the trip down the flume and a millworker told me they could make the trip afloat in about 25 minutes. You can't "tow plank" three miles or more in that time.

AFOOT AT MABEL Early on the frosty morning I went up to the big mill of the Coast Range Lumber Co. at Mabel. There I found the new postmaster, J. M. Shelby, getting ready to handle Uncle Sam's business. He will install the office in his store up near the school houses. On my way up I visited the ranches of the Earnest's under the care of our old friend H. C. Preston, formerly of Columbia street in Fairmont. Ray Earnest is at work on the mill and Russell and Ruth are in school. Mr. Preston and Ray are planning to increase their dairy herd and make other improvements on their large ranch which has some fine land. Right adjoining the Earnest lands I found the J. C. Hileman farm with plenty of stock and large areas in grain. And Richard Hileman around the ridge with almost as large a ranch given to stock, general farming, and hay. As I passed up the creek I looked for a few minutes in on Joel McCornack's farm where the annual round of Oregon farming is going on.

MADE A MISTAKE In making mention of Coast Range Lumber Company's new mill I inadvertently misstated the facts about the machinery. The big band saw and the edger run by steam and all the other machines by electricity. An interesting thing about the big saw is that it is a doublecut band saw. When sawing big logs only the advance cut is used, but in sawing smaller timber the saw cuts on the return. A new saw is about sixteen inches wide and has like teeth on both edges. When the saw is gummed down to about twelve inches it is discarded.

HAD TO EAT At the store about noon I inquired for the trail to the cook house. The young man replied "right through that door", pointing to the office door where for thirty cents I got a ticket and later found my place at a well-filled table where about ninety other much bigger men than I found ample and well-prepared food. Any man knocking about would enjoy a meal at that cook house.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-28-1914

WAR VETERAN MALE RECORD

ONLY TWO WEEKS TO LEARN TO READ AND WRITE, MARCOLA MAN TELLS STORY Strolling around Marcola I met C. L. Irish, an interesting gentleman, aged seventy. He is a veteran of the civil war, I think it a good habit to listen to any Grand Army man. Mr. Irish was taking the school census. I met him on the "tow path". We naturally began to talk school because while many men I meet on the street call me "farmer", my country friends seem to like to call me "school teacher". This census taker is a good writer, and he knows more than some people who make more pretensions to knowledge than he does. A SIGNIFICANT BIOGRAPHY C. L. Irish was born in New York state in 1844. He was left an orphan when one year old. At the age of seven he was "bound out" to a man described as "a strict Presbyterian whose wife was a good Methodist". Both were college graduates. The term of this apprenticeship ran until he was 21 years of age and the conditions were that he should be sent to school six months each year during the first three years, and then three months a year until he was twenty-one. When twenty-one he was to receive a horse, saddle and bridle, or $100 in cash if he preferred the cash. He remained with his master learning to milk and do other farm work till he had served seven and-one-half years of his apprenticeship. In that time he had not been permitted to go to school a single day. Smarting under the injustice he ran away to Indiana, where at the age of seventeen he "lied himself" into the Union Army in company D, thirteenth Indiana Infantry.

THE KERNEL OF THIS STORY

When Young Irish entered the service he could neither read nor write. While at camp where the recruits were being drilled for service before going to the front, he wanted to send a letter to his sister. In the regiment there were several teachers, one of whom young Irish knew. He went to this teacher and asked him to write a letter for him to his sister. The comrade replied, " where have you been you big lubber, that you can't read or write. I will not write letters for you but I will teach you to write". By direction of the teacher the young man got a pass from the captain and went to the town near the camp and bought paper pens and ink and envelopes as the teacher directed him to do. When he went to the captain the officer asked his purpose in going to town and on being told, he laid his hand on the boy's shoulder and gave him the good word, incidentally telling him to avoid whiskey, cards and bad company. The boy ran all the way to the store, and when he entered, the storekeeper met him and anxiously asked if he was after the doctor. The boy went to the show case where the paper and pens were kept and told him what he wanted. His foolscap, pens, letter paper, envelope and "portfolio" in which to carry them, cost him $2.10. He returned to camp and hunted up his friend who set him a copy and he went to work. On his way back to camp he passed a house which was being roofed with yellow poplar shingles and the young soldier asked the carpenter to give him one for a writing board, which he cheerfully did, adding a word of encouragement. After his copy was set the young soldier lay on the ground under the trees and practiced. He did not know the names of the letters, but as he "followed the copy" he asked for the names of the letters. As the teacher told him the names of the letters he often took the learners hand and showed him the movement necessary to make the letter. The boy practiced his writing as opportunity offered between his camp duties sometimes six, sometimes eight, and even ten hours a day. In two weeks he wrote a letter to his sister. A letter which she read with joy, and in her home back in the middle west, that hangs on the wall, a treasure that money cannot buy.

LEARNED TO READ Young Irish then subscribed for the LaGrange, Indiana Standard to get the home news, for Harpers Weekly, to get the war pictures, and for the Toledo Blade to get "Petroleum V. Nasby's" stories. These papers followed him over the field for thirty-four months. In Harper's the correspondence column attracted his attention. Ladies advertised that they would be glad to correspond with soldiers in the field. Irish carried on correspondence with a number-- possibly forty or fifty-- during his term in service. When going to the front he bought a Ray's Third Part Arithmetic and when he came out of the service he had solved every problem in the book.

MALE MUSTER ROLLS At the mustering out of his regiment this boy who entered the service less than three years before, unable to read or write a word, was selected to make up the muster rolls, not only of Co. D, his own company, but of company A as well. Company D had 147 names, and Company A had 198.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STORY I print this story, not because Mr. Irish wants me to, ( I think Mr. Irish will be surprised when he sees it) but because I think it a most remarkable item of history.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12-4-1914

MARCOLA NEWS The census of the boys and girls of school age, living in the Marcola school district was taken last week. There was a total of two hundred and sixty-eight, one hundred and twenty five boys and one hundred and forty-six girls. The Fischer Brothers have built a new addition to their dry kilns, which was completed last week.

EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12-14-1914 Marcel Arnold of this place took a herd of cattle to pasture below Donna Wednesday. The Eighth grade of the Marcola school made an excellent record in the spelling contest Friday. Out of the eleven members of the class eight made 100 per cent. The following are the names of those making 100: Mary Volgamore, Laura Spohn, Pauline Duguid, Lowell Cox, Agnes Purcell, Frank Briggs, Lawrence Briggs, and Iva Titus.

THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12-26-1914

SCHOOL CHILDREN STORIES FROM FISCHER MILL SCHOOL, MRS. ZAIDA MORROW TEACHER

MY LITTLE PET GOAT Once I had a little pet goat and her name was Flossy, a boy gave her to me. She was just as white and pretty as the snow. I had a bottle that I fed her out of. I fed her every morning noon and night. We was going to kill her for Christmas dinner. She was always feeding out in the field when I went to give her milk to her. One night I went out and she didn't come. I called her and called her, but then she didn't come. So I went and looked in the yard where we had one big pig and nine little ones. I looked in there and the big pig was eating my little goat. I ran and told papa and he took it away and didn't let her have it till next day. GLADYS MAYNARD Age 11, Grade 4

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