Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-12-28
HALLS FERRY NOTES

(Capltal journal special SerVlce.1
Halls Ferry, Ore, Dec. 2S.-E. NJ
Croisen loaded several cars of white fiji
the last week which will be used by
the paper mill at Oregon City.
Mrs. j. F. Fleming went to Salem Fri
day to visit her daughter, Mrs. France
Fermond, who is under the doctor :,
care. She reports her daughter imprOv
ing.
Orville Conoway, who is working on a
Polk county fruit ranch, came home tC
spend the Christmas vacation with his
mother, Mrs. W. A. Shelton, and family
John Kriser, assistant manager of the
Croisen ranch, is taking two weeks
vacation and visiting brother at AL
baGy.
Mrs. L. Lankford is in Portland on =
two weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lankford are ex
pcctcd home about February l. Mr.
T.ankfcrd ia a civil engineer and has
been working in southern Oregon since
last Tune.
J. Coleman, former Nebraskan, re-
Gently purchased 30-acre tract south
Of the station, which he is fitting up
for a dairy and poultry ranch.
T. G. Roland, formerly of this place,
is now located at Enum Clair. Wash, as
representative of the Stone. Webster &
Co., manufacturers of electrical supplies
in Boston.
A pair of life insurance agents did
good business here the last week.
&C Ga1n,&, ho., ab
OF Mrs. Landlord s ranch during her
absence. His family came out from Sa.
lem to spend Christmas with him. We
understand they will locate here in the
near future on a tract in the Riverview
addition. -''. '''''r
VIM. Snyder informs us he will soon
build on his new tract and, will then
send east for his family.
John Fiddler and family, of Dallas
and Jas, Blackwell and family, of JET
ferson, spent Christmas at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fiddler.
Herbert Thomas and family, of Con
comley, are spending the week visiting
at the home of Mrs. Thomas' grand
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Roland. 's.s
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Fleming are new
settlers on the Riverview tract. Mr.
Fleming is 73 years old, yet he puts W
as much cord wood in a day as most o.
the younger men. ~'-"r
Christmas was ushered in by salute o.
guns by several Of our residents jaime,
Scanlon, our lonely bachelor, mistook il
for an attack by the Germans. He a.
once proceeded to barricade the doc
and windows to his home. He was still
"hoiding the fort" at 9 o o'clock in tn,
morning when a neighbor called to in
vie him to Christmas dinner. James a
once capitulated.
Christmas day 1915 will long be re
membered by our new settlers as on,
of the most pleasant Christmas in thei
lives. Grandma Roland prepared al
elaborate Christmas dinner and invited
the new settlers and a number of he
old friends to come and help celebrat,
the greatest cf all days. After partak
ing Of feast such as only grandmoth
crs know how to prepare, the guests
were entertained with instrumental
music by Messrs. James Blackwell
Floyd Shelton and Bert Roland unit
the shadows of evening warned then
that it was chore time. Grandma Ro
land is one of the sturdy pioneers who's,
home is always open and who has {
word of encouragement to the new
conner. She came across the plains from
st. Joe, Mo-, in 1S4i with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Pettijohn, who 10
Gated on a donation claim in the Rec
Hills nine miles south of Salem. TIL,
trip from Missouri was made with al
OK team. Their experiences on the triI
and in the early days of Oregon woulc
make book well worth reading. 4
widow OF 55, the pioneer spirit still
burned within her, and she went t,
northwestern Washington where sh,
filed on homestead, living on it alon,
until she made final proof six year
later. Soon after making final proc
she returned to Oregon locating on
Eine'acre tract at what is now Hall
Ferry. She has made a nice home whicl
is always open to her children an,
grandchildren and the entertainment o
her many friends.