Oregon Spectator, November 11, 1847
COLD WEATHER – For the last few days we have been experiencing unusually cold weather for this season of the year – regular blasts from the vicinity of Canada. On Tuesday night ice was formed about our vicinity of the thickness of three fourths of an inch. We rule it be out of order of things and contrary to good nature that the approaching winter should be as severe as the last was.
SUDDEN DEATH – Last evening, about dark, Yel-Lah-Cus, the principal chief of the Indians living on the opposite bank of the river, walked past our office, and when opposite Mr. McKinley’s residence, fell suddenly to the ground and almost immediately expired. Upon inquiry, we learned that he had had a quarrel with a white man just previously, and it is presumed that the excitement incident thereto, or an unlucky blow received therein, was the occasion of death.
Oregon City Enterprise, November 8, 1877
The Sunday Law.
At the request of many citizens we publish the existing law in regard to the profanation of Sunday. We quote from the General Laws of Oregon, Sec. 668, Chapter VIII, as follows:
Interior of Busch’s Furnishings 1899.
If any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, ball-alley, billiard room, tippling house or any place of amusement, or shall do any secular business or labor, other than works of necessity or mercy, on the first day of the week commonly called Sunday, or the Lord’s day, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not less than five nor more than ten dollars.
The above provisions do not apply to the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery stable keepers, barbers, butchers and bakers; circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded in defense.
CUSTOM GRIST MILL. – Mr. Wm. Singer will commence work on his custom grist mill next week. This will be a great benefit to our city, and should have been built years ago. A large number of farmers from the northern part of they county who have heretofore taken their grain to the Brooklyn Mills will now come to this city, and it will bring considerable trade to our business men.
Oregon City Enterprise, November 5, 1897
Married – SHARP-PRIESTER – At the residence of the bride’s parents, on Wednesday, November 3, 1897, Miss Emma Priester to Mr. Edward Sharp. Justice C. Schuebel officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Priester, highly respected and well-to-do residents of Maple Lane, a young lady of culture and refinement, while the groom is a highly respected resident of Willsonville, where he owns a large farm and has but recently built a nice new home for his bride. A reception and ball was given the happy couple Wednesday evening at the Priester residence.
Mr. Priester has three married daughters and three single ones yet at home. He says he has been a republican since the days of Abraham Lincoln and does not know what he has done to be paid off in democratic sons-in-law, his three married daughters having chosen men of that political faith. He says they are all excellent men, the only objection being their politics. For his three remaining daughters he offers extra inducements to republican young men, but absolutely draws the line on populists, none o whom need apply.
ON A SEPARATE CIRCUIT – The Oregon Telephone and Telegraph Company of Portland, is engaged in making some extensive and permanent improvements to their lines in Oregon and have put in a new metallic circuit for this city. Heretofore Oregon City has been connected with Portland only by the main trunk line that afforded means of communication for all valley towns with the metropolis and it was not an unusual thing for an Oregon City merchant with an important message to have to wait a half hour for the line to get clear. The company is also running four copper wires south, two to connect with Salem and two on to Eugene to connect with the line from that city south. An idea of the amount of copper wire required to make these improvements can be gained by the fact that it takes one coil or 100 pounds of wire to cover a mile, requiring about 5,200 pounds of copper wire to complete the circuit between this city and the metropolis.
Oregon City Enterprise, November 9, 1917
HAWLEY COMPANY RESUMES WORK ON ONE MACHINE
Following the resumption of operations of the two largest machines of the Crown Willamette Paper company Monday, the Hawley Pulp & Paper company Tuesday morning started machine No. 4, carrying 50 percent of its output, and will continue to operate it on a 24 hour basis. The first order turned out by the Hawley company was the 10-ton order for the Crown Paper company, which caused a walk out by the Hawley union men October 27 and shut down the plant. Every department of the Hawley company is running except the sulphite mill, but the company has at least a month’s supply of sulphite on hand.
There are 365 men at work in the Crown Willamette mills, many of them staying at the plant, where they are fed and lodged. It is probable that a third machine of the Crown Willamette will be placed in operation Wednesday.
The union strikers held a mass meeting Tuesday afternoon in Busch’s Hall and were addressed by Otto R. Hartwig, president of the State Federation of Labor, George J. Schneider, vice-president of the International Paper Workers union, and Charles Spence, master of the state grange, who talked on the general advantages of cooperation and organization. Mr. Hartwig said the unions still had hopes of winning the strike, that the men were standing firm at Camas and Lebanon, where both mills are shut down, and he was not dismayed over the partial resumption of operations here.
The city is beginning to feel the results of the labor situation, as scores of former mill employees have gone away to secure employment elsewhere. The companies are recruiting men from all sections of the country and express the utmost confidence that the back bone of the strike has been broken and that before many weeks the mills will be running at maximum capacity.
DELEGATES PHONE STRIKERS CALL ON LOCAL OPERATORS
A trio of delegates from the striking telephone operators union at Portland were here Wednesday in an attempt to enlist the aid of the local operators, and induce them to join in the walkout. They were not allowed to see the operators on duty at the local office but expected to see them after they were off duty. The delegates stated that six hundred operators were out in Portland out of a total of seven hundred and fifty and that the company was filling their places with many of the one time operators who had married, but who returned for work during the strike.
LOCAL PHONE GIRLS REFUSE TO WALKOUT
The local telephone force of operators refused the request of a delegation from the strikers of Portland, yesterday, that they join in the walkout. The strike has affected the local office only with the leaving of three lineman who left their jobs at the call of the union. Manager P. J. Houlton state however that this had not in any way caused any delay or inconvenience in giving the customary service to the city.
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