Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-02-27
HOOVER DROVE
TEAM IN SALEM
WHEN A YOUTH
~, Fred Lockley in the Portland
w Journal.)

JOlLTnuAs{
u,s, I first moved to Salem In The
,sns we lived on Front street, near
S,a-;on SQUARE Later we bought
h1..o o,t near Charley Moore's, in
pi'.S plr'Ns,ond addition to Salem. Our mex;
,1sr neighbor 10 the west was d. ;
IO row of Portland, while cSi
~ shor on the east was DR.. II. j.
n',t.horne he.s now of Newport, Or
~, 49,, ya had known when he was In
WiOa., ,.s, of the Chillocco Indian school
the Cherokee strip in Indian Terri
~ - NOW a part of Oklahoma. Bert
t',ar son of a sister of DR.. Min
lso.rs who had been Quaker evan
- .taved at DR.. Minthorne's house.
ia drove the team for Cook and Min
horne whose firm name was the orc
Iaud company, when they took
connective customers out to see land
~ Iont our COW in the stable where
por, kent his horses. so we saw each
a,bar daily. Bert cleaned the stable
ond curried the horses each morning
r.hna 7 was out in the corral milStnS
.bo COW think Bert would have been
a., ;ncraduous as would have been II
N,r,o one had told us that in time 90
come several million people in Bel
,,irrn would place his picture on the
Ton beside that of King Albert and
.hot n whole nation would regard him
as a benefactor. If we had been told
that the day would come when the peo
MA of his own country would unite in
= demand for him to become president
~ the United States we would have
been still more incredulous.
Hoover Sends Check.
While [ was in Salem a day or 30
oco ran across Joe Albert, who told
me he had just left Joe Smith, one of
the officials of the Friends church at
Salem IN which RHebert Hoover still
retains his membership, and that he
had lust received a check from Bert
for 5000 toward the support of the
church for the coming year. That
evening Governor Olcott and l sat IN
his office at the state house from s
o'clock till nearly midnight discussing
sundry and various subjects. The sub
iect of Bert HOover's becoming a pres
dential candidate came up and we be-
Gan checking over the list OF our boy
hood friends and acquaintances of Sa-
lem. It is rather surprising to find
how many have climbed high.
"When Os West and We're room
ing together" said Governor Olcott, 81
had no idea that the day would come
when he would be governor of Oregon.
Another roommate Of mine has made
good in fine shape, and that is John
McCourt When he roomed with me
he was driving a milk wagon. In those
days West was q bank clerk, and was
selling shoes for William Brown"
Other Salem Boys Make Good.
Charley McNary, another of our boy
hood friends, is Ullited States senator
from Oregon. Le Steiner, who at that
time was a drug clerk, is now super
intendent of the oregon state hospital
and has made a remarkable record foH
efficiency Dell Dinsmoor was swSer-
ing out a little grocery store in North
Salem ard delivering groceries. Now
he is one Of the big men with Olds,
Workman & King. Phil Metschan was
getting Walter Shepard to help him
translate Caesars Commentaries so he
could have more time to devote to the
fair sex. Now Phil is at the head Of
the Imperial hotel at Portland, and
Professor Walter Shepard after grad
uating at Harvard and winning a trav-
cling fellowship has the chair of po-
iitlcal economy at the state university
Of Mssoori.
Jay Bowerman became acting gov
ernor Frank Griffith has made a
reputation that is more than stateNlSo
as the head physician at the Oregon
state hospital and was in charge of the
institution while DR.. Lee Steiner was
acting as head of the Oregon state
penltentiary His brother Carl is rec
ognI"ed as one of the leading physi-
elans and surgeons of eastern Oregon.
bert Haney has won high honors both
III law and in politics, and Rafe Bon
NAM whose father, Judge B. f. Bon
NAM was postmaster at Salem, has
oecome head Of the United States i'm
'"lsIauon service for the Pacific north
west kalph Watson has made a name
lot DimSplf ,,nI;+sooy a.