Oregon Spectator, April 4, 1850 BRIDGE – The citizens of Oregon City and vicinity are requested to meet in the Methodist Church, on Wednesday the 10th inst. At 3 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of devising means for the construction of a bridge across Abernethy Creek, where Main Street crosses the same. A general attendance…
Oregon Spectator, January 24, 1850 GRAND CONCERT The undersigned has the honor to inform the citizens of this city and vicinity, that he will give his Second Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert next Mondah, the 28th inst., at the Astor House Assembly Rooms, when the following pieces, together with a number of others, will be…
Oregon Argus, January 14, 1860 WRECK OF THE NORTHERNER The steamer Northerner, Capt. W. L. Dall, left San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 4, and the next day about five o’clock in the afternoon, struck a sunken rock about two miles below Blunt’s Reef, on the coast of California. Capt. Dall went below, and found the…
Oregon Argus, January 7, 1860 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE – At last the efforts to burn Dement out have been successful. About three o’clock on Tuesday morning of this week, fire was discovered in the lower room of the building occupied by the Sons of Temperance, Odd Fellows and Masons, adjoining the store of Wm. C. Dement…
Oregon Argus, December 17, 1859 THANKSGIVING – By the following proclamation, it will be seen that Gov. Whiteaker, in compliance with the request of the ladies of our city, has appointed a day of general Thanksgiving throughout the State. The proclamation is rather a singular one of its kind, but we suppose his Excellency wished…
Oregon Argus, October 22, 1859 KELLY’S TEMPERANCE HOUSE – By reference to the new advertisements in this week’s issue, it will be seen that Mr. E. D. Kelly has opened a new boarding house in this city. He will be remembered as an old resident here, having been engaged in the same business in this…
Oregon Spectator, October 4, 1849 EMIGRANTS – Emigrant parties are coming in slowly from the mountains. Inclusive of a company of twenty-seven wagons, the arrival of which is daily expected, there have some fifty-five wagons arrived in this valley. Others are reported as coming in on the northern route, but how many we cannot learn.…
Oregon Argus, August 13, 1859 The Fire Company was out last Thursday afternoon with the engine, forcing water from the river into the cistern near Milwain’s. Two hundred additional feet of india-rubber hose were received this week from California. We hear that a project has been started for the purchase of a new engine by…
Oregon Argus, April 30, 1859 IMPROVEMENTS – We notice that some of our public-spirited citizens are building a large cistern, twenty feet square and eight feet deep, at the intersection of Main and Third Streets, near Milwain’s, for the purpose of holding water for the use of the engine in case of fire in that…
Oregon Spectator, December 28, 1848 Oregon Wagon Company – Fortunate Occurrence It will be gratifying to the families and friends of those of our fellow-citizens who last fall left here in wagons for the California mines, to learn that they reached the mines in good season, and in safety. Those who have returned from the…
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