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 Oregon Exchanges, November-December, 1930:

Arden X. (Xavier or Xerxes, as you wish) Pangborn, author of "She Loved Him, But He Went Away", "Ten Buckets of Blood, or the Butcher Boy's Revenge", and other westerly stories of the wide open spaces, is now domiciled at police headquarters on the night shift, where he awaits a more curdling yarn than any he has written to date.

The Oregonian, 1932:


 * One hundred years ago, about the 16th or 17th of November, the first school west of the Rocky mountains was opened by my father, John Ball, at Old Fort Vancouver, Washington, which was then known as the Oregon Country.

There were a half dozen boys, all half-breeds. Their names were David McLoughlin, Billy McKay, Ronald McDonald, Louis La Bonta, Dommike Pambram and Benjamin Harrison.

We know that some of these boys made big names for themselves and their country. I believe I have the names correct.

KATE BALL POWERS.

Los Angeles, Cal.

The Oregon Emerald, Eugene. 1933: The library received a number of rare old magazine sections this week, with some very interesting articles on Oregon and its early history, disclosed Mr. Douglass, the librarian. These stories were printed in the different early newspapers of Oregon and then written up by the magazines of the country. One is the story of "Sunken Lake',' or Crater Lake, as it is called today, which was printed in the Jacksonville Sentinel and was written up in the Lamp on November 5, 1865. . . . Another prominent story was "Adventure with the Indians in Oregon," taken from the Leisure Hour of July 22, 1863. These pamphlets and stories will be bound and placed in a book for the reference of the students.