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EARLY SETTLER
RECALLS AREA
BEFORE RAILS
kIust proving that it's
small world and that Othello aa
ea people do get around is
pointed u~p by the fact that your
Vol 6 ~ No. 48 Ten Cents In The Hear! of The Great Columbia Basin FRIDAY. DECE]V/~ER 12, 1952
roving reporter chanced upon
an interview with a former kuff
resident while visiting at a Spo-
kane hospital.
Mrs. Marie Smith recalled
riding over the Othello country
on horseback with her brother
in the days ,before a railroad
ever cut a swath of black shiny
r~b'.bons across the sagebrush
plains of the central basin.
Mrs. Smith and her brother,
Charlie A gte used to ride over
the Royal slope and the sur-
.rounding area when''it was
plenty easy to get lost."
It seems rather ,hard to pic-
ture this area with no houses.
roads, wheat fields or other
man-made landmarks with
which we find our way around
the country today, but in a des-
ert of sage, sand and stars one
could see ,where it would ,be
easy to lose .all sense of direc-
tion.
Mrs. Smith's father, Charles
Agte, homesteaded at Ruff in
1902 and went to farming the
fertlile land of the ~Big Bend.
.The old homestead, vehich has
• since .'been remodeled and mod-
ernized into a fine ranch house,
still stands. It is Row occupied
by a family by'the name of
Franzen.
With the coming of the rail-
road ,her ~)rother, Charlie, be-
came a 'wheat buyer in Othello
for the Farmers Union ware-
house in Ruff. At that time, a-
bout 1915, Othello was a boom-
ing tent to~'n, :Mrs. Smith re-
"poIIeo
With .a faint smile she said,
"Oh yes, ~ve had stock in the
Othello oil well." She was refer-
ring to a carefully primed and
loaded hole in the ground into
whicLh the black stuff had been
1~ .u~nped and then at the strate-
gic moment ~¢as pumped back
out.
Mrs. Smith also reminisced of
the fishing for carp .at Nel~pell
(now called Moses Lake) and
how_loads of ea~p were hauled
out of the lake in grain boxes
EQUIPMENT ADDED
TO OTHELLO OUTLOOK
PRINTING PLANT HERE
Your Othello Outlook this
week fs in the process of ex-
,pan ding to keep up with the
growing demands of Othello
Additioned equipment has been
installed to handle job printing
of letterheads, statements, en-
velopes, business cards, etc.
A cutting machine has also
been purchased alor~g with the
job ,press. The press is an auto-
matte feeder, 12 by 18 inch plat-
en unit with capabilities of
printing 3600 impressions per
:hour. This machinery was pur-
chased from the Commercial
Printing company .in Lewiston,
Idaho and was ,bro~I.ght to Othel-
lo last Monday and put in oper-
ation.
Another Linotype or typeset-
ting machine has also been in=
stalled in the Outlook's plant.
This machine is a more verstile
and faster model than the one
previously in operation on the
paper.
Four new faces of type of the
latest style in the field of typo-
graplzy are also ;being used on
the Outlook.
I,f you .will note the headlines
on most of the news in this
week's paper you will see the
new faces.
JR. CHAMBERIBOOK
DRIVE NOWiSHORT
The Othello Junior Chamkber
of Commerce library book drive
is ~falling far short of expecta-
tions.
The drive was planned to
help stock the local school li-
,brary. A ,box has 'been placed
in the Othello State bank to re-
ceive books that anyone wishes
to leave there.
If you cannot 'bring your
'books to the bank because *of
the amount or the inconven-
/
.... T~e .. following .. poem .. was
brought to ,the Outlook's atten-
tion by Mrs. J. H. Baz~ett of
Othello wh~' ran acro~ it in the
form of an old newspaper clip.
ping.
The poem tells of the hard-
ships of early days and the
strangely parallel ideas of the
coming of w~ter then and now.
As far as can be ascertained.
the poem was wrLtten around
1928 to 1932.
The poem, A Pioneer's Plu,
was wrLtten by Mrs. Lucy Me.
Manamon. a former :resident of
Othello. Her Husband was post.
master here in the early days.
A PIONEER PRAYER
I could tell you many a story
Of the hardships and the
strif,
'/-tow the pioneer toiled and
stru~ggled
For the necessities of life.
T~hey came from every land
And settled on every section,
And in a very short time
Cabins appeared in each di-
rection.
Men came, full of courage,
on wheat wagons, ience, please call 3342 and ar- As others have done before,
'By this time your reporter rangements .will be made to They brought their families and
d~ys that l~:d'~-~'S get th~ re- The school is',badlY in need of ~ut sool~ the dregm was 0 er.
l~tionship of ~ev, F, V,r. Agte to books. Over a period of pears In fall the "school rearm" came
her, ~l;ut he thinks it was anoth- the stock of reading material To teach the children more,
er *brother-~anyhow, Rev. Agte
was a circuit riding preacher in
those days traveling continuous-
ly around the country preach
ing the gospel to the early pion-
eers.
'Rev. Agte is now in Billings,
Montana.
*If visiting .hours hadn't come
to .an end when they did we
should have liked to have stey-
ed and talked to Mrs. Smith for
several more hours -about
"Pioneer Othello."
DIRKS REELECTED TO
HEAD '53 CHAMBER
Harley Dirks, president of the
Othello Chamber of Commerce,
was re-elected Thursday eve-
ning to hea~l the organization
for another year.
Twenty-one members of the
Chamber participated in the
elections which also seated ~Paul
,Bonnell .as vice ,president.
Others voted to pasts were
;Bob Caw, secretary and Roy
GJfford, treasurer.
Board of directors wilt 'be E.
K. Reynolds, Ron Drake, Jim
Martin, "M. A. Terry and Ralph
Nygren.
~he dnstallation of officers
will take ,place at a dinner
meeting and ladies night on the
second Thursday in January.
The program last night yeas
presented by Phil Noble, local
~ureau head, who showed a
set of cotored slides 'he took as
water progressed through the
.b`asin ~om Coulee dam to Oth-
ello.
FREE PUPPET SHOW
SATURDAY MORNING•
The .fourth grade Blue Bird
.group will present a puppet
show for ehildre~ up to the
$ourth grade ~aturday morning,
December 20, at H:00 o'clock
in the ,Presbyterian church an-
ae~.
"Phere will be two acts in the
show, "The Sad Clown" avid
"'T~ne Naughty 'Reindeer".
'No admission will be charged.
has diminished, and now suffic-
ient funds are not available to
replace the stock.
That is why the call hag gone
out for "more books" to Othel-
Ioites.
SCOUTS TO SELL
CHRISTMAS TREES
The Boy Scouts of troop lq6
of Othello are starting on their
annual prject of selling Christ-
mas trees..Possibly a house to
house canvas will be made im-
mediately.
All proceeds ~rom the sale
will ,be usee/ to send a repre-
sentative to the National Jam-
boree which is to be held in
early June in California.
PTA TO HAVE FAMILY
NIGHT NEXT TUESDAY
,An old fashioned family night
is scheduled for the December
16 meeting cff the Othello tP-TA.
iNext T~esday the men'~bers
of the P-TA and their 2amilies
will gather at the local school
at 8:00 p.m.
An invitation has been exten-
ded to those who wish to attenr.
The parents will have their r.eg-
ul~r meetir~g and the children
will Ibe entertained with a mov-
ie elsewhere in the buildir~g.
~Immediately following this
will ,be a.Christmas program for
the entertainment of all. The
evening ,will feature a Christ-
mas skit .by the Boy Scouts, Cub
Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, ~lue
Birds and 4@I clubs.
The admission for children to
the show and program will ,be
one or two parents.
BIRTHS
,Mr. and Mrs. 'Robert Roloff
are the parents of a baby boy
,born Sunday, December 7. The
youngster weighed 8 1Lbs. 2 oz.
~gt .and ,Mrs. ohn Evans are
parents of a boy ,born last week
at Larson A:F~. Sgt Evans is
now stationed in Alask~,~-Wfrs.
Evans ,is the former Eileen
Bryson.
They had to walk to school--
No bus stopped at their door.
And to a party ,going
A man couldn't buy a shave,
`The ,wo~nen knew not what it
was
To have a "permanent" or
finger wave.
We couldn't run to town,
J.ust for a loaf of bread--
We made our yeast, set the
sponge
AM baked the dough instead.
Ofttime a change was needed,
We 'were tired of spuds and
beans,
No gardens grew 3n this wilder-
hess,
So ~ussian thistles we used
~for ,greens.
There was no wood or coal-- We used the good old sage;
And this alng .with the rest,
Helped fill a leaf of life's
,great page.
And when Thanksgivir~g came
again,
As was our usual habit,
The wives prepared a dinner
And made the mince-meat of
jackrabbit.
,l~ut I think of 'all the hardships,
• To man and beast most
galling,
Was through the heat and dust
That awful water hauling.
.For water everything suffered,
Much more than you think
':For even the dog ,was given
The contents of the wash-pan
to drink.,
Those ,who came here later,
And have fine cars and
graveled roads.
Cannot understand the things
endured
'By the pioneer, to bear the
load.
We often ,gather around
And sing the old, old song,
And I for one am m~ghty glad
That to these pioneers I be-
long.
Often I have passed along
And noted each deserted
place,
Recalled the days that have
lor~g gone
And thou~t of things we had
to face.
We had no oiled roads,
:No fine upholstered cars
And yet we're asking more,
For now we're asking Congress
,To .,bring ,water to our door.
'No radio to listen to,
tBringing music from afar,
But now these things have come
to us
For we live in a dry land area,
In the heart of the Columbia
~Basin,
The place to ,build your future
home
{So, bring us the water, and
hasten !
We can build you a place that's
Eden
Out of what is now dusty and
dry.
So keep the ,ball a-rolling,
Give us water in plently, or
.we die.
We care not how we get it,
From Albany Falls, or dam-
site.
But ~ater is what we must
have now,
And it is no more than our
right.
To the people who live in
Seattle--
The Queen City of the North-
west--
We're asking support and aid
from you
To hellp us along with the
the rest.
In this way yotl will help your-
selves,
'For homes we will build with
out num~ber,
And .you from over the mount-
alns,
Will sell your shingles and
lun~ber.
And to Senator Jones and Sena- tor Dill,
Congressmen Summer and
Sam B. Hill.
We ask your very utmost
efforts
This ~inter in Congress to
pass the bill.
We're sending you back to
3~Vashin,gton,
To represent our people there
So take off your coats and roll
up your sleeves
And sl~w us you'll do your
share.
Tell the nations' foremost men
Of the hardships we all en-
din'e,
Ask them to give us the water
To make our homes secure.
Tell them o,f this fertile land,
Of the thir~gs that we could
grow---
~The trees ~nd flowers and
gardens,
Could we turn a tap and let
~¢ater flow.
And what could be done with
water!
This great land so fine
Would be to the struggling far-
mers
As good as any gold mine.
You say there' is no money---
Why make ,that your plea?
You raised money a-plenty
For Gold Star Mothers to
cross the sea.
So give us the money for water,
To provide the comforts of
life
For Ioved ones who still are
with us,
~e it sweeVheart, n~ther, or
~ri~e.
Guardians to Me t
The Guardians association of
the Othello Camp Fire council
met Thursday" evening at the
home of ~'~s. M. W. Kennedy.
Adams county law officers to-
day are still investigating re,-
ports of a raysterious prowler
who allegedly shot at an Othel-
lo carmhand from the farm-
hand's own house Tuesday
morning.
• he entire episode created
quite a stir ,Tuesday with Unit-
ed Press and .a ,Spokane daily
newspaper telephoning .the
sheriff's office in Ritzville every
10 minutes for up-to-the-minute
Ibulletins on what reporters in-
sisted on referring to as a "man
hunt."
The Spokane newspaper fin-
ally ~merged with a black head-
line and an article reporting
"several carloads of armed
men" were speedir~g from Ri,tz-
ville to Othello, presumably in
the expectation of shooting it
ut with art unidentified marald-
er ~barricaded in an isolated
farmhouse.
Actually, the "several c~r-
loads of armed men" consisted
of 'Deputy Sheriff Clint Rowe in
a paddy w~gon and Sheriff
Frank Lucas with Dick WlhR-
,more, assistant county prosecu-
tor, in the sherifgs car.
They "shot it out" with no-
.body and to date have found no
st~bstantial trace of the reported
prowler.
The farmhand has beert iden-
tified as Jack t-Iardy.
~-Iardy has been employed
about four months by G~ordon
Hays, local rancher. Hardy lives
with his wife in a small 4-room
frame house on ,the Hays ranch
about four miles west of Othel-
lo. Hays lives in town.
Last Monday morning, 'ac-
cording to Sheriff Lucas, Hardy
reported to Deputy Sherif2
Mark Leighton in Othello that
he suspected somebody had
'been prowling around his house
at n~ght and that Sunday even-
ing he had taken a shot at a
shadowy figure.
~e said ,he thought he might
have hit him.
Deputy Leighton and 'Hays
accompanied ttardy to the
ranch where they used a jeep
to search acres of pastureland,
sagebrush and s