MCLOUGHLIN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
At a meeting of the McLoughlin Memorial Association, October 8, 1936, at Oregon City, Joseph E. Hedges was reelected president, Mrs. John Y. Richardson, vice president, Fred S. Perrine, secretary-treasurer. Twelve directors were also chosen: Mrs. W. A. Molter, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. A. E. Rockey, Monsignor A. Hillebrand, Dr. Burt Brown Barker, Mr. Perrine, Mrs. Thomas J. Fox, Raymond Caufield, L. O. Harding, Miss Mary Failing, Mrs. C. S. Jackson and Mr. Hedges. The chairman of the restoration committee reported that all repairs on McLoughlin House so far made have been paid for by money collected in the state with no aid from federal funds. Membership dues in the association are ten dollars for sustaining, five dollars for contributing and one dollar for annual membership.
The Forbes Barclay house, Oregon City, has been purchased by Dr. Guy Mount, and presented by him to the McLoughlin Memorial Association. It will be moved to McLoughlin Park and remodeled for use of the curator of McLoughlin House. Dr. Forbes Barclay built the house in 1848 or 1849, at a cost of $17,000, on the site of the present Masonic Temple, Main Street. In 1912 it was moved to the present location on Water Street.
BEEKMAN ESSAY CONTEST
The subject for the Beekman essay contest for 1937 will be B. L. E. Bonneville. The contest, sponsored by the Oregon Historical Society, is open to pupils between the ages of 15 and 18 years, in any educational institution in Oregon. Awards ranging from $60 to $30 will be made for the best four essays. Essays must be delivered to the Oregon Historical Society, 235 Southwest Market Street, Portland, on or before March 16, 1937.
NEWSPAPER NARRATIVES
How Depoe Bay got its name is told in a letter from John Loomis to the Oregonian, October 9, 1936. According to Mr. Loomis the government built a depot in 1868 for supplies for the Siletz reservation. One of the Indians working at the depot was called Depot Charley. His son Robert Depot was renamed Robert DePoe at Carlisle Indian school, where he was a pupil, and this name was transferred to the bay. Earlier names for it were Hungry Harbor and Little Cove. Another name, not mentioned by Mr. Loomis, was Wrecker's Cove,
Articles on Oregon history, 1855-65, entitled "When Oregon went Berserk," by John W. Kelly are printed in the Oregonian. September 13, 20, 1936, the subject was the Indian wars of Oregon and Washington; September 27, October 4, the gold rush and October 11, the desperadoes.
Indian pictographs recently found in Rock Creek gorge are illustrated in the Oregonian, October 28, 1936, from drawings made by Rose Leibbrand, a field worker for the historical records survey.
"The Northwest's First Steamship," by Ronald Russel, in the Oregonian, October 25, 1936, is an account of the Hudson's Bay Company steamer, Beaver, which reached the Columbia River from England March 17, 1836.
Ben Maxwell contributes a series of articles on people and places of historic interest in Oregon for the Oregon Journal. On October 18, 1936, he writes of George Gay and the first brick house built by him in 1842; November 1, Grand Ronde Indian reservation; November 15, Yaquina City.
The articles on Simeon G. Reed by Robert C. Johnson, begun in the
