NOTABLE BIRTHDAYS
CULLEN, JOHN W., Portland, June 18, 1936, 98th.
HIATT, MARY, Milton, June 12, 1936, 93rd.
LYONS, ANNIE, Cottage Grove, May 17, 1936. 87th.
THORNBURGH, AMBERS, Forest Grove, July 29, 1936, 104th.
NEWSPAPER NARRATIVES
"WOLF CREEK Tavern Surveys its 79-Year Record," by Rex Tussig, in the Oregonian, July 12, 1936, is a history of the historic inn, built in 1857, which served the stagecoach passengers on the route between Sacramento, California, and Oregon City. It is the only surviving inn on the route in Oregon.
The story of the settling of Rickreall by Nathaniel Ford in 1844 is told by Ben Maxwell in the Oregon Journal, August 2, 1936. Mr. Maxwell also contributes to the same paper an article on Charles Bennett as the discoverer of gold in California.
A book recently published in Seattle purporting to be the diary of Joaquin Miller, is really the work of his brother, James Miller, according to a statement of Juanita Miller, the daughter of Joaquin, printed in the Oregon Journal, August 18, 1936.
A letter to the Oregonian, July 7, 1936, from Lucy Ardell Kimball, Ipswich, Massachusettes, relates some biographical notes about Miss Mary Hodgdon, who was a teacher in the Portland High School in the 1870s.
A biography of John Reed is contained in a series of articles entitled "Kremlin Bound," recollections of Nina Lane Faubion as told to Richard L. Neuberger, in the Oregonian, June 7, 14, 1936. "Walla Walla Pays Tribute to Early Settlers," by Claude M. Gray, in the Oregon Journal, August 9, 1936, is a narrative of the Whitman journey to Oregon and the founding of the mission.
A history of the Portland Rose Society is told in a letter by Mrs. Ella S. Stearns, printed in the Oregonian, June 3, 1936. An Indian legend of a crocodile on the Washington coast, as told by the Clallam chief Lanahim, is printed in the Oregonian, June 17, 1936.
In “The McDonald Odyssey," in the Oregonian, August 23, 1936, M. Leona Nichols recounts the adventurous career of Ranald McDonald, who was born as Astoria, in 1824, and who became the first teacher of English in Japan,
Pictures of the H. W. Corbett home at Fifth Avenue and Taylor Street, Portland, which is to be torn down, are in the Oregon Journal, July 26, 1936.
In the Oregonian, July 19, 1936, Leverett G. Richards describes the Stonehenge replica erected by Samuel Hill in Klickitat County, Washington, as a war memorial.
The first of a series of articles on Simeon G. Reed, by Robert C. Johnson, appears in the Oregon Journal, August 23, 1936. Ernest W. Peterson describes Crater Lake and its environs in the Oregon Journal, August 16, 1936.
The Oregon Journal, July 26, 1936, prints a story by Harry Palmer of the Hogg Pass Railroad project which was to build a road from Yaquina Bay to Ontario in the 1880s.
An article entitled "Portland Lead's Way in Power Development,"
