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1. Stewart Holbrook’s Raymond: Page 2
2. “A Howling Wilderness”: Page 4
3. First Street 1907-1957: Page 7
4. Raymond’s First 55 Years: Page 15
5. Fred Norman, United States Representative: Page 35
6. George Reizner, Theatre Man: Page 37
7. The Guglomo Family, An American Story: Page 38
8. Gus Asplund, The Mission Club & Raymond Baseball: Page 42
9. Valma Antilla Koven - A Daughter’s Story: Page 46

     “By the time of his death, the former logger had become an almost legendary figure for anyone in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in writing, journalism, history, current affairs, or the area’s leading industry, forest products.  His byline in magazines and newspapers, including the Oregonian for 36 years, was known to readers across the country.  Author of three dozen books and one of the nation’s most popular historians and commentators, he taught at Harvard, lectured at Reed College, and was known as the “Lumberjack Boswell.”  He was the nation’s leading spokesperson for what he called the “Far Corner” – Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.  As one scholar recently wrote, “he single-handedly put the region on the literary map in the mid-20th century.”

     Where the railroad that came to tidewater was once a city of five thousand, all of it built either on pilings or on dredged-in land.  Its business district contained several new concrete buildings, but also block on block structures straight out of Western or Yukon fiction; false-front establishments, many with fearsome architectural embellishments, called pool rooms, card rooms, tobacco stores, clothing stores, hotels, rooming houses, sports centers, restaurants, and what not.  A big business on First Street was the retailing of moonshine and homemade beers and wines, all illegal in the days of Prohibition.  The upstairs of many of these places were made into rooms for transients, and there was generally believed to be a chambermaid for every room.
     The juke box had not penetrated Pacific County, but the electric player piano was wellsettled, and the insistent beat of a dozen of these hurdy-gurdies made an evening on First Street memorable, while the tides washed and gurgled underneath the shacks and brought rich aromas to the guests and the customers.  The Raymond sea gulls never slept.  Busy all day, they held convention in the evening, wheeling and darting, screaming high and eerily above the pounding bass of Dardanella, fighting for scraps of food, lighting on window sills to glare at the people inside.

     The sidewalks and some of the streets were planks set on stringers supported by piling.  At low tide they were about ten feet above water; and
during the June and December tides they either sank out of sight, or floated off.  They rattled and thumped much of the night as lumber carriers moved over them.  The town was none too well lighted, but it was never really dark; the hot red eyes of the sawdust burners at the mills blinked, then flared and smoked, twenty-four hours a day.  Great seagoing ships steamed in to dock and await cargo.  Two railroads shunted cars the night long in order that siding and flooring and shingles might be loaded next morning.
     …Pioneer smells yet lingered.  Any stranger in the West Side sections of the Northwest, thirty years ago, noted at once the pleasant aroma of wood that permeated most homes.  This came from the fir slabs that were brought in four-foot lengths and piled between sidewalk and street to dry until fall when an army of itinerant power saw men appeared as suddenly and as mysteriously as so many locusts, to cut the slabs into fuel for stove and furnace.  Its mild pungency struck me as a sort of aromatic hospitality.  Nor was the aroma lost when the sawdust burners came into use.  But it disappeared with the newer oil burners.  As with almost all improvements, something was lost as well as gained.  In this case, it was the perfume of the Douglas fir, one of the most comforting smells I know of.
     The whole place was throbbing, fairly bursting with the energy and the urgency I came quickly to associate with pioneering—even sixty years after the covered wagons had ceased to roll.  Raymond, and many another Northwest towns, did not remind me of anything I had known in New England.  I found the rawness and the spirit new and wonderful.

1. CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
1. City Hall:  In the early years the city hall was located on First Street, between Commercial and Duryea streets.  During this time, Raymond founder A. C. Little was mayor for several years.  Longest reign as mayor was William Gurr, from 1939 to 1955.
2. Police Department:  The earliest police station and jail was on Commercial, just off First, but for most of this period it was a small structure at the foot of Duryea.  In Raymond lore, longtime Chief Frank Dick stands out.  It was said that nothing happened that Frank Dick didn’t have a finger in or on - good or bad.
3. U. S. Post Office:  Located on First Street, between Ellis and Duryea.  L. V. Raymond was the first postmaster, but by 1908 he was replaced by F. B. Sturgis.
4. Ellis Street School: The grade school was located a block from First, on Ellis and Second Streets.
2. HOSPITALS
1. Gruwell’s Raymond Hospital:  First Street.  Operated between 1905 and 1907.  Owned by Dr. William Gruwell, who had another small hospital in South Bend.  Dr. Gruwell brought in Dr. O. R. Nevitt of Minnesota to be a resident physician.  Gruwell closed the Raymond hospital after only 18 months, but continued his practice in South Bend.  Dr. Nevitt became known as the pioneer Raymond physician.
2. Raymond General Hospital:  North side of First at the Ellis intersection.  Operated for only six years, between 1907 and 1913.  Dr. George Overmeyer, who had first come to South Bend, built the South Bend General Hospital, then the Raymond General Hospital.  In 1904, Overmeyer took in Dr. George Tripp as a partner.  In 1914, he sold the Raymond hospital to Mr. and Mrs. George Dickinson, who renovated it into a rooming house and named it the Lincoln Hotel.  It was later sold to John and Tekkla Antilla.
3. HOTELS AND ROOMING HOUSES
1. Nix Hotel:  At the corner of First and Alder.  Very early building, the site later became the Washington Hotel.  The Washington Hotel had many owners and managers.  In 1925 the owners were Mr. and Mrs. L. Krueger.  Meals were served family style, and the rooms were 50¢ per day or $1.50 a week.  In the 1940s one of the last proprietors was the Linder family.  Son was Cliff Linder.  In 1908 the building was used as a meeting hall, with almost all the fraternal organizations using the facility:
1. Eagles
2. Odd Fellows
3. Knights of Pythias
4. Masonic Lodge, etc.
2. Willapa House:  Off of First Street, closer to Mill Street and the mills.  It was operated by John and Tekkla Antilla.  As with other rooming houses, mill workers lived here.  The Antillas owned the Lincoln Hotel for a much longer period of time.  See the story featured in this issue.
3. Wakefield Hotel:  Early hotel at First and Ellis.
4. Hebish Apartments:  Formerly the Windsor Hotel.  I was told that it was mostly rented to single working men and that a lot of “Okies” lived there.  (Okies was a term used to describe people from the middle west and southwest states.)
5. Kero Hotel:  Hilda and Matt Kero, proprietors.  It was said that Hilda ran the business.  Their daughter was Elsie Hogansen.  It was formerly the Kettner Hotel.
6. Pacific Hotel:  Later called the Hurd Hotel.

4. INSURANCE, TAXES, AND REAL ESTATE
1. Floyd Lewis Insurance and Real Estate:
2. Lewis and Reed Real Estate:  415 First.
3. Eichner’s Insurance:  First and Duryea.
5. MORTUARY
1. Albro Dickinson Mortuary:  At the rear of the furniture store.
6. MOVIE, & VAUDEVILLE THEATRES
1. Peoples Theatre:  George Reizner, owner and manager.
2. Lyric Theatre:  Located on First, between Ellis and Duryea.  The flamboyant George Reizner was owner and manager.  He later built the Tokay Theatre.
3. New Lyric Theatre:  Same location, same ownership.
7. GROCERY STORES AND MEAT MARKETS
1. Hanges’ Grocery:  328 First Street.  The George Carlos Grocery replaced Hanges.
2. The California Grocery:  Owned by Bill Platen, replaced George Carlos.
3. J. D. McNeill Grocery Store:  C. O. Swanson Grocery (bought out McNeill’s).
4. Pete’s California House:  Pete Lapinski, proprietor.
5. Carsten’s Meats:  Later sold to Pete Rose.
6. Rose Brothers’ Butcher Shop:  Became the Boyd Keller’s Butcher Shop—it was purchased in 1946.
7. Raymond Meat Company and Sausage Factory:
8. Pacific Dairy and Grocery:  Later the location of Tony Swanson’s Grocery.  Others were:
1. Owen’s Grocery
2. Garrett’s Grocery
3. Martin Huter Grocery
4. Mannering Grocery
5. Bobby Burns’ Grocery (one of the early ones).
8. DRUG STORES
1. Owl Drug Store:  348 First.  Pete Paulsen, proprietor.  First & Duryea.
2. Paulsen’s Pharmacy:  Corner of First and Duryea.  Dunsmoor’s Drug Store, same location.
9. BAKERIES AND CONFECTIONARY SHOPS
1. City Bakery and Coffee House:  An old Greek establishment, early years.
2. Smith’s Raymond Bakery:  Others included The Parrot Confectionary, Stark Confections, and the Hedden’s Confectionary and Newstand.

10. JEWELRY STORES
1. Wahlen Jewelry:
1. Sold to Nowogroskis in 1943, Mike and Stella Nowogroski, proprietors.
2. Another was M. J. Scudder.  There were more, but names are unknown.
11. CLOTHING, & SHOE STORES
1. Women’s shops on First Street included:
1. The Fashion Shop
2. Mrs. Schwartz’ Home Made Clothing
3. Mrs. Snyder’s Millinery
4. Mrs. Wilder’s Millinery
5. Miss C. L. Bernier’s Millinery Emporium.
2. LaVogue Department Store:  Men’s and Women’s. Bitar, prop.
3. Powelson & Basore Clothing:  First & Duryea, bankrupt in 1915.
4. Dracobly’s Golden Rule:  Dracobly’s later moved to Duryea Street.
5. W. H. Martin Co.:  Sold the business to the Toggery in 1921.  The Toggery later moved to Duryea Street.
6. Huotari Clothing:  Then sold to John T. Pulli Clothing.
7. Other clothing stores were:
1. Asief & Bitar Clothing
2. Heglom-Martell & Company
3. Basil Dry Goods
4. Frank Cram Men’s Clothing
5. Nowogroski’s Clothing Store
6. Huter & Nowogroski Men’s and Boy’s Store
7. C. A. Van Natter Clothing.
8. Two known shoe stores were:
1. Yorgensen’s Shoe Store
2. Economy Shoe Store.
12. TAILORS, CLEANERS, SHOE REPAIR
1. Tailors:  M. Johnson, Tailor, and another, not named, was just off First, on Duryea.
2. Cleaners included:
1. Pope and Son, which was sold to Paramount Cleaners, Arlie Pochel and Ray Murdock, proprietors.
2. Another was Paul Olsen Cleaning.
3. Shoe repair:  One known business was George The Shoe Doctor, but there were at least two others.

13. BARBER SHOPS, STEAM BATHS
1. James The Barber:  James Gotsis, proprietor.  307 First.  James died in August, 1935, at the age of 50, of complications from an auto accident.  He was born in Itos, Greece in 1884 and came to Raymond in 1918.
2. Cady’s Barber Shop:  Sold and became Dudley’s Barber Shop.
3. Raymond Barber Shop:  Medak, prop., 314 First.
4. John Gotsis Barber Shop:  330 First.  John Gotsis was a bonafide character.  Besides being a barber, Gotsis was also a justice of the peace, and was known to have fined his own customers while holding court in the barber shop.  This information was offered by the late Bob Bailey.  Some customers took a real dislike to this treatment and quit coming for haircuts.  John may have been married three times.  Paul Willis, who worked as a night clerk at the Commercial Hotel, said that one time John showed up at the hotel and complained “My wife is nuts, she wants to kill me.”  After crying on Paul’s shoulder, Gotsis finally gathered up enough nerve to return home.
5. Gould Barber and Baths:  422 First.
6. Roy Porter Barber Shop:  A few doors off First, on Duryea.  A popular place.
7. Crystal Steam Baths:  1/2 block off First.
8. Russian Baths:  A few steps north of First.
9. A. Padgett, Barber:  445 First, plus another, not named, in the same block.
14. POOL HALLS, CARD ROOMS, SPORTS CLUBS:  During prohibition, 1920-1933, former taverns attempting to stay in business competed with the pool halls, card rooms, etc. in order to survive.  Gus Asplund, Jr. insisted that his father never served alcohol during prohibition, but almost every businessman of this type would have known where their customers could get a drink.
1. Smoke Shop:  Jim Long, Jim Weathers. The Smoke Shop served great milkshakes.  A popular card room, lots of pan played here.  (Panginngay, a.k.a. Pan, is a form of rummy, played with 310 cards; a popular gambling card game.)  An earlier and older place operated by Jim Long and Jim Weathers’ was The Old Corner.
2. Raymond Club:  Remodeled in 1932, it was purchased by Morris Thorpe from the Andy Willis estate, and had a little 12 pipe organ.  Lots of hunting displays.  The club served alcohol and in 1940 Charles Busse was in charge of the bar.
3. Pastime Club:  Dave Dennis, proprietor.
4. Todd’s Place:  Jim Bennos, proprietor.  Operated during prohibition years.
5. Adam Rubstello Pool Hall:  On West Ellis, just off First Street.
6. Ward’s Pool Room:  The Mission Club (see Asplund story).
7. Kroges Pool Hall: See photo.

15. RESTAURANTS
1. The larger, long lasting restaurants:
1. Shasta Café, Ella and Glen Storey, proprietors.  It is said that bootleggers lived above the café.  (Which was not unique during the Prohibition era, 1920-1933.)
2. Royal Grill, 425 First Street.  Bill and Jim Bennos, proprietors.  Jim eventually returned to Greece.  Bill closed the business ca. 1950 and moved to Lebam, where he owned and operated the Lebam Tavern until ca. 1980.  Bill’s son Paul Bennos visited Jim Bennos in Greece at least three times.  Bessie Holten worked at the Royal Grill.
3. Lincoln Hotel Dining Room (see Antilla story on page 42.)
4. Eagle Café, 323 First Street.  A popular and successful business for several years.  George DeMir, proprietor.
2. The smaller restaurants or lunch counters, usually lasting only a few years:
1. Moose Café, George John, proprietor.  The Moose Café was a very successful business, but owner John was murdered while working at his café in 1931.  His brother attempted to continue the business, but he gave up after a few months.  George John was born in 1886 in Galime, Greece, on the island of Marmara, which was controlled by Turkey.  He came to the U. S. in 1917 and first settled in Tacoma.  He was survived by his three children, Margaret, Greg, and Marie.
2. Carson’s Café, aka Monogram Café.  Early business, it was near the Washington Hotel.
3. Reed’s Grill, early days of Raymond, the café was located on First Street, next to the Lyric Theatre.
3. There were many other cafes.  Here are a few:
1. Delmonte Café
2. Golden Gate Café
3. Y Not Eat Café
4. Palace Café
5. Hank’s Café
6. Coney Island Café
7. Kelley’s Café
8. Anchor Café
9. Hen House Café
10. Dick’s Place
11. Mary’s Café (owner Mary Michaelson)
12. Nelson’s (later the Smoke Shop)
13. Maxine’s Lunch (owner Maxine Biggs)
16. CIGARS, TOBACCO
1. Reader’s Cigar Store and Factory. See Photo.
2. Fred Norman Cigar and Tobacco Shop (see story page 35).
3. Lamme Cigar Shop
4. Mortensen’s, owner Carl Mortensen.  This shop had a variety of goods.

17. HARDWARE, PAINT
1. Cady Paint & Wallpaper, 241 First.  Formerly Cady & Eyer.
2. Huston’s Wallpaper & Paint Company, 443 First.
18. FURNITURE
1. Twin City Furniture.  Baker and Jensen.  Early business.  They later joined forces again as the Jensen-Baker Company, and parted again.
2. Square Deal Furniture and Second Hand Store
3. Jensen’s Furniture, Howard Jensen.  A few steps off First, on Duryea.
4. Albro Dickinson Furniture and Mortuary
5. The Bee Hive, Furniture and Appliances.  Howard Jensen
6. Hayman-Kaufman Company
7. Hanley & Kuhn Furniture
19. DELIVERY, FOUNDRY, MACHINE SHOP, AUTO REPAIR & STORAGE
1. Delivery Companies:
1. Shepard & Dennis Transfer Company, 125 Commercial Street.  The older location later became Sittko Taxi and Auto Storage.  P. W. Shepard started the company, with S. L. Dennis joining him in 1907.
2. Shepard and Dennis Co., predecessor of today’s Dennis Company.
2. Foundries:
1. Lollar Foundry
2. Lamb Foundry
3. Raymond Foundry and Machine Shop, Ralph Gerber, mgr and J. E. Doncaster, President.  Motto: “Our specialty: Ship forgings, castings, and fittings.”
3. Motor companies:
1. Pacific Motor Company and Auto Storage, near Alder Street
2. Pederson Motors, on First and Ellis
3. Raymond Overland Automobile
4. Two more businesses:
1. Pattern Shop and Storage
2. Raymond Boiler Shop
20. TAXI SERVICE
1. Sittko Taxi and Auto Storage.  Louie Sittko, proprietor.  Louie also had an ambulance and a wrecker.  Louie was known to be quite a rounder.  He once took a call from the Smoke Shop to help a fellow get his car out of a dead end logging road.
2. Larry’s Taxi, Larry Bridges, owner and operator, First and Duryea.
21. BANKS
1. Two early banks:
1. Raymond Trust
2. Willapa Harbor State Bank
22. GENERAL/CONVENIENCE STORES, or JUNK STORES
1. Eagle Co-Op Store, 1903.  First store in Raymond.
2. Army-Navy Store,
3. Carl’s Handy Corner
4. Willapa Harbor Trading Post, Joe Rome proprietor
5. Also the previously mentioned Mortensen’s.
23. LONGSHOREMEN
1. Stevedoring:
1. Willapa Harbor Stevedoring
2. Grays Harbor Stevedoring
2. ILWU Union Shop for Longshoremen
24. ELECTRICIANS, PLUMBERS
1. Electricians:
1. Chesney Electric Company;
2. W. K. Terrill, electrician.  Also handled motorcycles.
2. Radio:
1. Jack’s Radio & Electric
2. Baker Radio Appliance
3. Plumbing:
1. Baker Plumbing

25. BARS AND SALOONS
1. In Raymond’s early years, all of the saloons, bars, and “houses” of prostitution were located between Alder and Commercial Streets.  The bars were on the street level, with many of the upstairs rooms used by prostitutes.  (The two businesses were not necessarily connected.)  The women sometimes operated alone, while a few worked in small groups, with a “madam” as their boss.  There may have been three main businesses until the end of the era, ca. 1960s, namely the Star Rooms, Northern Rooms, and one called the New Deal.  It is said that nearly every sailor who came into port knew of these establishments, as did the barkeepers, taxi drivers, and police officers.

     After prohibition was lifted in 1933, there was a big change, and beer parlors and bars were located in various parts of town.  Here is an incomplete list of the saloons and bars between the years 1904 and 1920:
1. Kuehner’s Tavern
2. The Russell Bar
3. The Astoria Bar
4. Owl Bar
5. Palm Bar
6. Portland Beer Hall
7. Office Bar
8. Doctor Bar
9. Combination Bar

2. Although not complete, here is the expanded list of saloons, taverns, and bars that were located on First Street (or within a half block), to ca. 1970.
1. Guglomo’s Venetian Gardens tavern, Charley Guglomo, original proprietor (see story on page 38).
2. Pioneer Tavern, aka Mike’s, owned and operated by M. B. “Mike” Asieff, aka Shorty Asieff.  Mike came from the same European homeland as the Betrozoffs.
3. Raymond Tavern.  Owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Dirico.  The Dirico’s son Leo studied science and music in Boston and became a successful musician.  There’s a story of Mrs. Dirico rushing into the street after a 1930s earthquake, still holding four glasses of beer.
4. Spike’s.  Haskell “Spike” and Elvira Booth were the proprietors.  Elvira’s maiden name was Barber, and she was born in Rexfort, Idaho.  Elvira and Glenn Barber were sister and brother.  Spike, who was a French Canadian from Vermont, had been raised by a grandmother.  He had once been a Safeway manager.  He was known to love the ladies, and the tavern was long known as one of Raymond’s “hot spots.”  Yes, folks, Raymond once had a very vibrant night life!  Spike’s place attracted the ladies, loggers, sailors, and hometown folks.  The dancers at Spike’s played a dance tag game called “broomtag”.
5. Lapinski’s Tavern.  Owned and operated by Mike Lapinski, who was Pete’s father.
6. Louie’s Tavern. See Photo.  Louie Kochopulos owned at least three taverns at one time or another, and all were on First Street.  Louie had worked in a shingle mill, shined shoes (which turned into a real business) and became one of Raymond’s most successful businessmen.  The first tavern opened after Prohibition was Louie’s Willapa Harbor Tavern.  Another name for that business was the Anchor Tavern.
7. The Corner Tavern.  Louie Kochopulos’s last and biggest business, was located on the corner of First and Duryea during the late 1940s and 1950s.
8. Cedar Tavern.  One of the old time places, it lasted longer than most of the others.  It’s still standing, but barely. See photo.  In the old days it was owned and operated by Ed Zambara.
9. Washington Tavern
10. The Olympic Club

     It was all about timber, and three years prior to the building of the Siler-Cram mill, the Willapa Harbor Pilot printed the following:

     A conservative estimate suggested that there was in excess of 1,200 million board feet of timber known about in the local area: Half Moon Creek and a smaller creek nearby--550 million feet; Smith Creek — 100 million feet; Fairchild Creek—300 million feet; South Fork—150 million feet; North River and Naselle River—unknown, but the guess in 1899 was hundreds of millions, maybe jillions.
 
• 1902
1. The Birth of Raymond: Jacob Siler and Winfield Cram arranged to have major portions of the old Sunshine Mill (Naselle River) moved to Johnson’s Island, where they had negotiated an agreement for a mill site with L. V. Raymond and A. C. Little. (Johnson’s Island later became known as the Island neighborhood of Raymond.)  Siler was the experienced mill operator, while Cram was on the business side of the operation.  Years later, Cram, who was also a member of the Raymond Land and Improvement Company, went back to the wholesale fish business.
2. Raymond would not graduate a senior until 1912.  The area’s high school students would have attended South Bend HS at this time.
3. SBHS graduated 7, all girls.
• 1903
1. The Siler Mill began its operation.  Nearby there were two small shingle mills, Willapa Shingle and Shore Shingle.
2. The first boat used to taxi passengers and goods between South Bend and Raymond was the Daphne.  It was operated by two immigrant fellows, hence, Stella Raymond dubbed it “the Lithuanian ferry.”
3. Raymond’s first elevated sidewalk was built to connect the Siler Mill with the intersection of First Street and then south to Commercial Street.
4. Raymond’s first post office was established in the small general store operated by August Rugger. L. V. Raymond was the first postmaster.
5. Raymond’s first store was the Eagle Co-Op Company, built by Dick Pugsley.  The store was managed by P. M. Owen. Several years later the same building was named the Eagle Café, which would be operated by George Demir.
6. SBHS graduated 0.
• 1904
1. First survey made for Raymond.  Plat of Raymond filed on October 4.
2. On April 6, A. C. Little and others submitted a petition to name their new town “Raymond.”
3. West Coast Veneer was built by A. C. Little.
4. A liquor license was issued to Issac “Ike” Anderson, who was the key saloon owner in Raymond’s infancy and known for his “dens of iniquity.”
5. SBHS graduated 0.
• 1905
1. On January 6, the first church, Methodist, was organized by Rev. W. E. Cox, with six charter members:  Jacob, Mary, and Harriet Siler; Mrs. Cox, Mrs. H. J. Owens, and Mrs. Ruth Blake.
2. Napoleon de Grace Dijon drew the blueprints for the new city of Raymond in the office of the Raymond Land and Improvement Company.
3. E.E. Case bought out Turney & Martin and opened his first shingle mill.
4. P. W. Shepard began his transfer work which included hauling wood.
5. On June 2 the Methodist Church was dedicated.
6. The Raymond Herald was first published by J. J. Heath.
7. Five students from Raymond attended school at South Bend: Elsie and Ruby Monohon, Queenie Swanson, Gertrude Leach, and Maggie Owens.
8. SBHS graduated 0.

• 1906
1. The Creech brothers, who were established Grays Harbor residents and business operators, disposed of GH Logging and moved to Willapa Harbor to build a mill in Raymond.
2. S. L. Dennis joined A. Shore as a partner in the Shore Shingle Company mill.
3. Kalb-Glibbert Co. removed rock from Narrows for their Raymond mill foundation.
4. Plans were activated to build road between Raymond and South Bend along the river.
5. Late in the year the Raymond Trust Company Bank was opened on the corner of First and Commercial.  Bank president J. J. Haggerty owned the first automobile in Raymond—a Stanley Steamer.
6. Raymond saloons, 1906-1907:
1. Kuehner Saloon.
2. Russell Bar, owned and operated by George and John Russell.  The Russell bar had started in 1905, and had clever slogans and advertisements, such as: “Entertains gentlemen free from annoyance and rowdyism,” and “An air of cordiality and good cheer.”
3. The Office, owned by Mitchell and Potts, had an area of 30 by 90 feet, and a slogan that claimed “decorated in a style not to be surpassed by any saloon.”  Mitchell and Potts also operated three other Raymond saloons,
4. the Palm,
5. the Owl,
6. the Combination.
7. The Astoria Bar, owned by Suomela and one of the Peterson brothers.  Charles Gammal was a partner for a few years.
8. Doctor’s Bar, later became known as Zambaras’ Bar.
9. Olympic Club, owned by Floyd L. Lewis.
• Issac Anderson, and Beer Hall partner A. Hakvist were the owners of:
10. Portland Beer Hall
11. Concert Hall
7. SBHS graduated 5.
• 1907
1. The vessels Daphne and Fearless made the 20 minute run between Raymond and South Bend.  The boats were owned by Captain Thomas Bell’s Pacific Transportation Company.  The Fearless was still operating in the 1930s.
2. Claude House came to Raymond 1907 to work for the Raymond Land and Improvement Company.  Born in Greenville, Michigan in 1876, the senior House died in 1950.
3. Beginning in 1907, the NP Railway initiated a new passenger train service: 2 trains departed Chehalis for Raymond and South Bend each day.
4. Raymond incorporated, July 10, 1907.  Initial city council meeting was in August, with the following city officials presiding:
1. A. C. Little, mayor, plus these councilmen:
2. C. F. Cathcart
3. W. S. Cram
4. T. H. Donovan
5. Floyd Lewis
6. Charles Myers
7. L. V. Raymond
8. W. G. Shumway
5. Mayor Little’s first term was from 1907 to January 1912.
6. Economic downturn in 1907.  Mills and logging operations had a difficult time, but the situation turned for the better in the following years.
7. First electric lights turned on in the town.
8. S. L. Dennis joins with P. W. Shepard in his transfer business.  Predecessor of The Dennis Company.
9. Raymond’s first shipyard, Dickie & Sons, was established.  Dickie moved to Willapa Harbor from San Francisco Bay, but went out of business after one year.  The first ship produced was The Willapa, 195 feet in length, with a 38 foot width. The Willapa was built for Sudden and Christenson, and had a capacity of 800,000 board feet of lumber.
10. SBHS graduated 2.

• 1908
1. Unofficial population of Raymond, after its first 5 years = 2,500.
2. John Bullard announced that the Fern Hill Cemetery Association was organized.
3. Raymond’s Masonic Lodge No. 170 held its first meeting above a livery stable, which was the upper floor of the Raymond Transfer and Cold Storage Company building, on the corner of Alder and First streets.
4. E. Bucher, Raymond druggist, was arrested for illegally selling liquor at his drug store.  Judge John O’Phelan fined him $75 and court costs.
5. Local newspapers announced that mass meetings were held to devise a plan to rid Raymond of Greek workers.
6. The First Baptist Church was dedicated at 9th and Duryea.
7. The Willapa Harbor State Bank of Raymond was organized during the spring of the year by H. W. MacPhail, formerly of Ludington, Michigan. (Ludington was also the hometown of George Cartier, the manager of the South Bend Mills and Timber Company.)  The bank was started with a capital of $42,881.  By 1913 the bank reported a capital of $717,836.  The company’s first officers were:
1. C. S. Gilchrist, president
2. R. L. McCormick, vice-president
3. H. W. MacPhail, cashier
4. C. W. Reed, assistant cashier.
8. New liquor licenses: R. J. Owens, Charley Potts.
9. SBHS graduated 0.
• 1909
1. It was reported that in August the St. Paul and Riverview water system was worked on.  On August 9, the Raymond Herald reported that “Greeks were paid $1 each for hauling.”
2. A bond issue was passed in Raymond to build two bridges.
3. Until 1909, Raymond’s telephones were operated through the South Bend exchange.  During the year, the Willapa Harbor Telephone Company was established, and purchased the South Bend exchange and started a separate exchange in Raymond.  This arrangement continued until 1915.
4. The tiny Baleville Telephone Company began operation.
5. SBHS graduated 3.

• 1910
1. Federal census population = 2,540.
2. The Raymond Water and Light Company drew up plans to bring water into the city from South Fork.  It was estimated that about $85,000 would be raised from bonds, and that a pumping station would be built just above the Howard Gamage place.
3. The Raymond Cougars baseball team was part of the six-member Class D Washington State League.
4. Val Heath bought the Raymond Herald from his brother Jason in 1910.
5. The first Riverdale bridge replaced Jorgensen’s ferry service.
6. A new newspaper, the Raymond Press, with L. A. Lemere as editor and publisher.
7. SBHS graduated 6.
• 1911
1. Huge growth in the city’s population, more than doubled during 1911 and 1912.
2. IWW troubles.
3. The Class D Washington State League was reduced to four teams, from Chehalis, Centralia, Raymond, and South Bend.  Raymond’s 1911 entry was called the Venetians, while South Bend’s team was called the River Rats.
4. The lavishly furnished 96-room Hotel Raymond opened for business in October.
5. Raymond’s first public library was opened in October of 1911.  It was located in the Methodist Young Peoples Building, where the Hogansen Apartments were later built.
6. Organized in 1911, the Tuesday Club was the oldest women’s study club in Raymond.
7. The Willapa Harbor Telephone Company was organized with H. W. MacPhail as the chief executive.  The office was at 108 Duryea.
8. SBHS graduated 5.
• 1912
1. Raymond’s Ninth Street school was constructed.
2. E. E. Case became Raymond’s second mayor, serving for one year.  He was murdered while in office.
3. Around this time logging companies began topping spar trees and rigging up high lead systems.
4. The Commercial Hotel opened.  One of the early managers was B. F. Ladue.  The hotel boasted, “Steam heat, hot and cold water in every room, up-to-date café in connection, 1½ blocks from railway stations.”  The hotel was permanently closed ca. 1973.
5. In early April, Greek and Finn workers were forcibly removed from Raymond.  More than fifty Finnish people and 150 Greek people were forced out at gunpoint.
6. The Raymond Elks Lodge was chartered.  One thousand men attended the first meeting, with many of the out-of-town members arriving in Raymond in three special Pullman railroad cars.  The meeting was held on the second floor of what later became the Dennis Company store.
7. RHS graduated 6 (First year that Raymond had high school graduates.)
8. SBHS graduated 6.

• 1913
1. The city claimed an unofficial population of 6,000.  Probably inflated numbers.
2. A. C. Little was returned as mayor, and he remained in office until January, 1918.
3. Raymond’s new Polish Hall was opened on January 3.
4. A new shipyard was begun by Andrew Peterson, and was located on the site of the old Dickie yard.  The first Peterson-built ship launched was the Solano.
5. A. C. Little started a new newspaper, the Raymond Review, to provide a voice for the Democratic Party.  South Bend Journal editor and publisher Hazeltine called the paper the “Reprint,” indicating that the Review had nothing original to say.
6. A new newspaper Pacific County Times was begun in August, 1913.  The Times claimed that it was the only paper that truly represented the area’s Democratic Party.  Unfortunately, the paper did not have the support to survive more than two years.
7. First stretch of “modern roadway” opened between South Bend and Raymond; it was known as the “Boulevard.”
8. The Riverview Clinic Hospital was first opened on February 1, 1913.
9. The Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul RR bought out the local Pacific & Eastern Logging RR.  New tracks were constructed, bringing the new line into downtown Raymond.
10. Menlo HS graduated 2.
11. RHS graduated 6.
12. SBHS graduated 6.

• 1914
1. Passenger service on the Milwaukee Road was announced.  Work on the Milwaukee’s new Raymond depot was begun.
2. A new property development, called the Menlo Gardens, was established, but the lots were slow to sell.  The plan was to extend the trolley tracks to Menlo, but it failed.
3. The State Federation of Labor held its 13th annual convention in Raymond on January 13.  Mayor A.C. Little delivered the welcoming address.  More than 250 delegates were in attendance.
4. 1914 was shaky for Willapa Harbor banking.  Two banks closed in September, the Raymond Trust and Lebam’s Fisher Brothers and Steiner Bank.  The Lebam bank closed after a rush to withdraw funds.  Thought to be in good standing, it did not have enough cash to withstand the panic.  It was also thought that the Raymond Trust brought on the problems in Lebam.  When the doors of the Raymond Trust were closed, it was discovered that it would go into the hands of a receivership.  Deposits amounted to $150,000.  The big losers were the City of Raymond and the Willapa Harbor Oil Company.  Stella Raymond was quoted as saying, “The trust had been taken out of the Raymond Trust.”  J. J. Haggerty, bank president and principal stockholder, was arrested in October by Pacific County sheriff T. H. Bell.  Crushed under the weight of financial and personal troubles, Haggerty was sentenced to two years in prison at Walla Walla.
5. Menlo HS graduated 0.
6. RHS graduated 7.
7. SBHS graduated 8.

• 1915
1. In January, it was announced that B. A. Bullard would operate a jitney bus service between Raymond and East Raymond.  Patrons paid ten cents for a one-way ticket.
2. The Milwaukee Road opened its new line in November, between Maytown and Raymond and beyond.  The company had combined several small logging lines to create the route.
3. Willapa Lumber purchased a large two-ton truck for use in its lumber yard.  The truck replaced two horses.
4. Powelson & Basore Clothing Store held a bankruptcy sale.  They were located on 1st and Duryea.
5. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company bought out the Willapa Harbor Telephone Company.  At the time of the purchase, South Bend had approximately 400 telephones, while Raymond had 700.
6. As of September, there were 13 sawmills in Raymond, and also shingle mills and other woodworking plants—all within the city limits.
7. Lebam HS graduated 2.
8. Menlo HS graduated 0.
9. RHS graduated 6.
10. SBHS graduated 9.

• 1916
1. On March 8, Huotari & Co. (men’s clothing) moved to a new location on the corner of 1st and Commercial.
2. At the end of April the county track meet was held at Tokeland.  Raymond’s Tom Owens was high point man for the Gulls.
3. Lumber strike: 200 loggers of Sunset Logging walked out of the woods (from Camp 11 and Camp 12). In a peaceful demonstration, the workers demanded a ten-percent wage increase.
4. RHS graduated 16.
5. SBHS graduated 12.
6. Menlo HS graduated 0.

• 1917
1. The graveled Raymond to Chehalis road, now SR6, was opened for automobile traffic.
2. Clifford Beall and J. M. Tadlock bought the Raymond Herald.  A few years later Beall owned the paper outright.  Letter to the Mayor of Raymond:

March 5, 1917 To the Hon. Mayor & City Council:      The bridge over Ellis Lagoon to the veneer plant is in a dangerous condition and should be replaced with a new one as soon as possible to avoid a heavy damage lawsuit to the city.  In my judgment it has passed the time when it is possible to make repairs to make it safe.      At the intersection of Ellis and First Street where the old timbers were left and a new deck put on top is also in dangerous condition.      The alley between Ellis and Duryea Street should also be rebuilt, as it runs into the slough behind the Lyric Theatre. (signed) Ray Wheaton Raymond Street Superintendent.

3. Raymond boomed as new labor crowded the town:  Sanderson & Porter Shipyard announced that 1,000 men were needed at their Raymond plant.
4. In October, it was announced that Raymond had 6 sawmills, 2 veneer plants, a box factory, one shipyard, 5 shingle mills, one woodworking plant, 2 railroads, one streetcar line, 13 miles of waterfront, and a monthly payroll of $250,000.
5. Menlo HS graduated 1.
6. RHS graduated 8.
7. SBHS graduated 12.
• 1918
1. E.E. Lawler became the city’s third mayor, serving until January, 1924.  The Lawlers had three children, all graduated from RHS. Daughter Marcella, RHS Class of 1926, later earned a Ph.D. and taught at Columbia University (New York) for 24 years.
2. E. J. Dunsmoor purchased the drugstore on First and Duryea from L. E. Morris.
3. Mills in Raymond in 1918:  Willapa Lumber, Hanify, Quinault, Siler, Raymond Lumber, Southwest Shingle, Coates Shingle, Case Shingle.
4. The Sanderson and Porter shipyard produced “Ferris-type” hulls that were designed to be Liberty ships during the First World War.  When the war ended in November the yard was closed.
5. The town was full of military contracts and workers:  2,100 “limited service” men served under the direction of Capt. Wallis Hindlekoper.
6. Fred Norman, Republican, was elected to the State House of Representatives.
7. Menlo HS graduated 1.
8. RHS graduated 21.
9. SBHS graduated 9.

• 1919
1. By the end of World War I the army’s Spruce Division had lost 18 men who had served at the Willapa Bay substation.  The causes of death included drowning and logging accidents.
2. P. W. Shepard leaves the Shepard-Dennis Company.
3. In December, the Toggery was established by Mike and Dave Ackerman.
4. Bitar’s Store was established by S. A. Bitar.
5. Menlo HS graduated 2.
6. RHS graduated 23.
7. SBHS graduated 9.
• 1920
1. Federal census population = 4,447.
2. The Raymond Herald staff: C. S. Beall, owner; E.M. Connelly, editor; O.E. Kennedy, linotype and job foreman; James Heath and A.S. Johnston, printers.
3. Prohibition was in effect:  The Herald reported “Italian gamblers caught in Windsor Hotel.”
4. Loggers go deeper into the hills:  Beginning at this time, power shovels began cutting grades along steep hills, as the new logging areas were often too steep for trucks and track equipment.  The crews began placing rigging higher in the trees to yard logs across steep hills and ravines.
5. Shephard & Dennis became the Dennis Company in May, 1920.
6. George Reizner’s Tokay Theatre, with a seating capacity of 1,200 and a 2/4 Wurlitzer theatre organ, opened on October 4th.  The feature on opening night was the comic opera, “Robin Hood.”  The organ was sold in 1947, and was moved to St. Paul’s Evangelical Church (now St. Paul’s United Church of Christ) in Ballard (Seattle), where it remains today, in about 75% of its original condition.  Head usher was:
1. Mildred Sandell, with
2. Winifred Graham,
3. Evelyn Keeley,
4. Gladys Evavold,
5. Margaret Mulvaney,
6. Enid Shumway,
7. Ethel Brady, and
8. Cassie Nedeau,
9. Vivian Jackson.
7. There were many liquor and prostitution arrests during the year.  A big feature about moonshine appeared in the July 2 Raymond Herald.
8. Menlo HS graduated 0.
9. RHS graduated 19.
10. SBHS graduated 9.
• 1921
1. Elmer Smith and the IWW were blasted by the Raymond Herald.
2. Nupp and Porter established the Auto Service & Garage Company.
3. The older W. H. Martin Clothing Company was succeeded by the Toggery, which became a popular Raymond men’s clothing store.
4. A new business was begun:  the Lamme Auto Service and Cab Company.  Motto was “Careful drivers, good cars.”
5. Raymond had several popular candy shops.  The new Cooney’s Confectionary was established at 226 Third Street.
6. Fred Dracobly took in a partner, his brother-in-law, Charles Bardawil.  The business was called the Dracobly & Bardawil Golden Rule Store.
7. In an April 1 article, the Herald reported that a windjammer was in port.
8. Menlo HS graduated 1.
9. RHS graduated 26.
10. SBHS graduated 13.

• 1922
1. Dracobly & Bardawil Store fire:  the business suffered losses, although the fire fighters used as little water as possible to hold down the water damage.
2. Fred Norman entered the wholesale and retail tobacco business.
3. Lutherans established their church in a converted store at 5th and Ellis.  It was destroyed by fire on March 29, 1953.
4. Raymond’s “Little Gym” was built for a total cost of $700.
5. Lebam HS graduated 1.
6. Menlo HS graduated 5.
7. RHS graduated 22.
8. SBHS graduated 16.
• 1923
1. A proposal to consolidate the Willapa and Raymond school districts failed in May.
2. Frank A. Cram opened up his new men’s store on the corner of First and Duryea.
3. Lebam HS graduated 1.
4. Menlo HS graduated 8.
5. RHS graduated 24.
6. SBHS graduated 20.
• 1924
1. E. J. Doncaster was elected mayor.  He remained in office for three years, until December 1927.
2. Cargo shipments from Willapa Harbor more than doubled in June, proof of the improvement in the lumber market.  In June there were 13 vessels loaded for California, carrying more than a million pieces of shingle and more than 10 million board feet of lumber and lath.  Two other vessels were loaded for the Atlantic Coast, carrying over five million pieces of shingle and two and a half million board feet of lumber.  Charters scheduled for August included cargoes for California, the Atlantic Coast, and Australia.
3. New grade schools opened in Riverview and Garden Tracts.
4. Raymond’s outstanding high school football team enjoyed a very successful year, which included a 13-3 victory over the visiting Roosevelt High School team of Portland.  The winning schedule included victories over:
1. Hoquiam, 7-3;
2. Tenino, 55-0;
3. Winlock, 77-0;
4. Willamette Univ. Frosh, 31-0;
5. South Bend, 44-0; and
6. Elma, 44-0.
1. The team was invited to play a “state championship” match at Arlington High School, north of Everett.  The Gulls lost the Thanksgiving Day game 9-6, with only field goals scored.  Stars of the team were:
1. Ed Cram,
2. Jack Cram,
3. Paul Schwegler,
4. Monte Guglomo,
5. Ed Tenoski, and others.
5. Lebam HS graduated 1.
6. Menlo HS graduated 1.
7. RHS graduated 23.
8. SBHS graduated 20.

• 1925
1. A boisterous First Street New Year’s celebration resulted in a telephone outage when gunshots pierced a cable in front of the City Bakery.
2. Andy Willis announced that he would build a new two story building on Third Street, adjoining the Basil Building.  Fred Dracobly announced that he would open a South Bend store that would be operated by his cousin Said Dracobly.
3. The old Riverdale Bridge was struck by a freighter, the Anne Hanify.  The ship wiped out about 16 piles in the bridge’s dolphin.
4. Fred Norman was elected to the state senate, a seat he would hold until 1935.
5. A funeral was held for 15-year old Ray Guglomo, twin brother of Al Guglomo, who had been accidentally shot by his youngest brother, Freddie, while hunting at Tokeland.
6. The new Raymond High School building was opened.
7. In June, federal agents confiscated a “booze barge” containing about $100,000 worth of whiskey.  According to the late Joe Krupa, adults and teenagers dove into the river for many days to recover bottles that had not been broken by the Feds.
8. In August, the Bullard Ranch was considered for a private golf course, but eventually a South Fork property was chosen.  Walter Frovargue, a nationally-known golf architect from Aberdeen was chosen to design the course.
9. A car ferry service was begun between Tokeland and South Bend.  Operated by Capt. M. Hoven, the service consisted of two daily trips that connected with motor stages at both ends.
10. Lebam HS graduated 0.
11. Menlo HS graduated 13.
12. RHS graduated 34.
13. SBHS graduated 30.
• 1926
1. Raymond Federal Savings & Loan made its first loan on January 11, 1926.  It was for $1,200.
2. The big Quinault Lumber Company mill burned to the ground.
3. Creditors closed the Sheldon Auto Company, owned by C. S. Sheldon.
4. One of Raymond and South Bend’s most memorable characters, Fletcher “Fletch” Gorman, a longtime driver of the horse-drawn carriages, from the railroad stations to the hotels died.
5. The modern, “up-to-date” Crystal Steam Baths opened for business in June.  The first owners were Mr. and Mrs. William Tynkila, formerly of Aberdeen.
6. Basil’s new dry goods store at Third and Duryea was opened for business.
7. In August, the Willapa Harbor Golf Course was finally opened for play.  It was noted that caretaker Alex Thompson had done a splendid job in preparing the course.
8. The Raymond Fire Department moved into its Second and Commercial location in late summer.
9. Lebam HS graduated 10.
10. Menlo HS graduated 0.
11. RHS graduated 40.
12. SBHS graduated 26.

• 1927
1. Henry Boyer was elected mayor, and served until December 1930.
2. Local movie mogul George Reizner, 47, died.
3. In December, John O’Phelan received an appointment to become a judge.
4. Raymond High’s basketball team won the Southwest Washington League championship, by defeating Hoquiam 25 to 15.  Coach Dimick’s top players were:
1. Sinko,
2. Campbell,
3. Schwegler,
4. Ellis,
5. Pope,
6. Guglomo, and
7. Haynes.
1. A Hoquiam Washingtonian sportswriter wrote that “Raymond’s trio, Campbell, Sinko, and Ellis played rings around the Grizzlies, while Schwegler controlled the boards.”
5. The new Jensen Furniture Store was established by combining the Bee Hive store and the Kaufman-Leonard store.
6. Lebam HS graduated 3.
7. Menlo HS graduated 3.
8. RHS graduated 59.
9. SBHS graduated 38.

• 1928
1. On January 1, South Bend claimed 522 telephones, while Raymond had 1,214.
2. Willapa and Menlo school districts combined.  From this point the high school was called “Valley High School.”
3. The Port of Willapa Harbor was established on May 1.  Roy Whitcomb served 34 years as a port commissioner, until 1952.
4. Adrian Foote announced that his Canary Cottage complex, complete with gas pump, was under construction, and due to open late summer.  It was located along the Raymond-South Bend boulevard.
5. In February, O. Helstrom purchased Owen’s Grocery, one of Raymond’s oldest businesses.  Helstrom expanded the store and named Tony Swanson his manager.
6. A. G. Basil’s new Raymond Theatre opened for the first time on October 20, 1928.  The feature was Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer.”  The theatre had a 2/5 Wurlitzer organ.
7. The Port of Willapa Harbor was authorized and established, with its first meeting held on May 1, 1928.  J. W. Mason was the chairman, and the other two members were Howard Jensen and N. R. Whitcomb.  One eventual acquisition was the Baleville land that would become the local airport.
8. LHS graduated 9.
9. RHS graduated 56.
10. SBHS graduated 35.
11. VHS graduated 8.

• 1929
1. The Raymond Post Office’s first rural delivery service was inaugurated on January 16, 1929.  It was a 51.45 mile route.
2. Raymond’s new Public Library was opened.
3. Stock Market crash.
4. LHS graduated 2.
5. RHS graduated 41.
6. SBHS graduated 26.
7. VHS graduated 19.
• 1930
1. Federal census population = 4,271
2. Raymond businessman and mill owner Charles L. Lewis was elected mayor and served until December 1933.
3. On January 10, the Raymond Veneer Company, operated by S. A. Sizer since 1918, was permanently closed.  The mill was moved to Tacoma.
4. Clarence Garrett took over as the new owner and manager of the Riverview Grocery.  Earlier, he had been associated with Ed Trentham there for three years.
5. The LaBelle Beauty Shop was opened, with Mrs. Ila Weaver in charge.
6. At Raymond High, Al Guglomo was voted most popular, while Billy Zambas was elected student body president.
7. The Raymond-Aberdeen road was opened October 3 with a car caravan and a ribbon cutting ceremony.
8. On Tuesday, July 8, the Raymond-South Bend streetcar was permanently shut down.  Buses replaced the streetcar, and the electric line was discarded after 18 years of use.
9. Willapa Harbor Country Club president for 1930-1931 was Clarence Johns.
10. L. D. Williams Jr. became the manager of the Port of Willapa Harbor, a position he would hold until 1954.
11. Paul Schwegler, a tackle for the University of Washington football team, was named as a first team All-American.  Schwegler was a RHS graduate, class of 1927.
12. LHS graduated 2.
13. RHS graduated 57.
14. SBHS graduated 36.
15. VHS graduated 9.

• 1931
1. Louis Bruno was named Raymond High’s principal.
2. As business slowed in the deepening economic depression, Weyerhaeuser stepped in to save the day on Willapa Bay.  In May, the Willapa Lumber Company, Raymond Lumber Company, and Lewis Mills & Timber Company were bought and merged by Weyerhaeuser.  When it was completed, Charles L. Lewis resigned as boss of the Raymond Lumber Company and the Lewis Mills.  The new name for the merged businesses was the Willapa Harbor Mills, which also included the three mills and the Sunset Logging Company.
3. Port commissioner Howard Jensen was an enthusiastic supporter of an airfield between Raymond and South Bend (between the Denver Addition and Skidmore Slough).
4. Raymond High’s 1931 basketball team made it all the way to the state championship game against Stadium High of Tacoma.  The Gulls had a great season and tournament, but they were overwhelmed by the big Tacoma school 53-20.  Top players for the Gulls were:
1. Billy Zambas,
2. Tony Zambas,
3. Lawrence Kaivo,
4. Hendrickson,
5. Vaughn,
6. Lapinski,
7. Meredith, and
8. Nick Olli.
5. In September, in response to economic problems, the First National Bank of Raymond and the Willapa Harbor State Bank merged.
6. Ed Walter and Monte Guglomo announced that they would sponsor a 16 hour dance marathon at the Arcadia Hall.  The event was held on April 11, with a prize of $100, but all couples were still dancing at the end of the 16 hours.
7. LHS graduated 2.
8. RHS graduated 72.
9. SBHS graduated 32.
10. VHS graduated 18.
• 1932
1. Raymond’s 1931 bank merger failed, leading the First Willapa Harbor National Bank, the town’s only banking institution, to close its doors in early February.  The bank had only operated for about four months.  While there was no run on the bank, withdrawals during the week preceding the closure totaled about $135,000.
2. On February 26, a record illegal liquor haul was made when Pacific County Sheriff Gloomy Tresize brought in 117 gallons after a raid on the McKinney place.
3. Also in February, members of Raymond’s business breakfast club were forced to change their ways.  Many members had no personal funds to pay for breakfasts at their meeting place, Osborne’s Café.  Several of the members brought their own brown bag breakfast, along with their own thermos of coffee.  Osborne’s attempted to adjust to the problem by reducing their 50 cent breakfast to 15 cents.
4. The Riverview Garden Club (formerly the Harbor Club) was founded, with Mrs. Ervin Trotter as president.
5. In May the Raymond Chamber of Commerce issued a new currency, Raymond’s famous “Oyster Money.”
6. Charles L. Lewis and E. E. Colkett, became the president and cashier of the new Willapa Harbor Bank which opened October 10.
7. The Raymond-South Bend boulevard was paved just in time for Thanksgiving Day.
8. LHS graduated 6.
9. RHS graduated 59.
10. SBHS graduated 44.
11. VHS graduated 11.

• 1933
1. Fred Tregaskis was elected mayor and served six years, until December 1939.
2. On September 1, Pacific County voted to repeal Prohibition by a vote of 4,076 to 1,310.
3. Public hearings were held to consider dredging and straightening the Willapa River between the Narrows and the Port Dock.  This action would create Jensen Island, named for port commissioner Howard Jensen.
4. Prohibition was voted down in much of the country, and what had been in effect for some 20 years, was now gone.  It must have been a very black day indeed for F.A. Hazeltine (South Bend Journal editor and publisher, as well as federal prohibition agent), who had dedicated his life to the eradication of drinking of alcohol.
5. On December 17, downtown Raymond was flooded by two to three feet of water.
6. LHS graduated 13.
7. RHS graduated 73.  Largest class in the school’s first 50 years.
8. SBHS graduated 47.  It was also South Bend’s largest class to that point.
9. VHS graduated 14.
• 1934
1. T. C. Bloomer of the Hotel Raymond leased one of the hotel storerooms to the Washington State Liquor Control Board, who opened the Willapa Harbor branch Raymond state liquor store.  It was reported that the new store had a good business the first day.  S. T. Brewster was the first manager, and was assisted by chief clerk Jacob Owens, cashier Bessie Jensen, and stock clerk Otis Hansen, Jr.
2. Raymond’s Willapa Harbor Bank was taken over by the Seattle First National Bank May 28.
3. The South Fork Garden Club was founded.  First president was Mrs. Henry Robertson.
4. The Willapa Harbor Motor Company (“Chevy Garage”) was established.
5. The old Arcadia dance hall was razed.
6. A ferocious October storm hit the Willapa Bay area, with winds up to 80 miles per hour.  Flood waters reached three feet in some parts of Raymond.
7. LHS graduated 12.
8. RHS graduated 69.
9. SBHS graduated 30.
10. VHS graduated 16.

• 1935
1. Raymond’s semi-pro baseball team, the Seagulls, won the Timber League championship by defeating the Olympia Capitols in a three game series.  Thanks to Gus Asplund, Jr., the team had a few University of Washington players, three or four Tacoma all-stars, a few local stars, and star pitchers Berle Garlick and Roy Chesterfield.  A local, Pug Allen, won the league batting title, with a 0.417 average.  Doc Owens was the key team sponsor.
2. The Dennis Company was granted a permit by the State of Washington to operate motor vehicles as a common carrier.  With better roads, less freight was brought in or taken out by the railroad.
3. Raymond’s old fire bell was retired, and replaced by a powerful, screaming whistle.
4. The Sunshine Garden Club was founded, with Mrs. Joe Vetter as president.
5. Don Osborn’s Confectionary was hit by fire on Christmas Day.
6. LHS graduated 7.
7. RHS graduated 71.
8. SBHS graduated 30.
9. VHS graduated 18.
• 1936
1. In March the vessels La Purisima and Dorothy Cahill were the first to pass through the new Willapa River cutoff.
2. Valley HS won the state basketball championship, defeating teams from Hoquiam, Walla Walla, and Everett high schools.  Their only loss of the season was to the Raymond Seagulls, led by star Matt Pavalunas.
3. Port manager L. D. Williams, Jr. announced that the state highway department’s proposal to establish the Raymond-Tokeland roadway would coincide with the diking of tideland for the planned airport.  Officials from Seattle’s Boeing Field visited to inspect the airfield location.
4. In July, the Greek community won the best float competition in the All Nations Day parade.  The entry featured reconstruction of an ancient Greek pillar, with members dressed in costume.
5. Two harbor stars played in the Washington - Oregon football game.  Raymond’s Ed Nowogroski was the starting fullback for the Huskies, while South Bend’s John Reischman was the starting quarterback for the Ducks.
6. LHS graduated 12.
7. RHS graduated 48.
8. SBHS graduated 45.
9. VHS graduated 18.

• 1937
1. Olympic Hardwood opened in Raymond.
2. In November, Fred Norman was elected to the Washington State House of Representatives.
3. LHS graduated 11.
4. RHS graduated 62.
5. SBHS graduated 30.
6. VHS graduated 25.
• 1938
1. During the week of February 14-18, Raymond City Engineer J. E. Buckingham issued a statement that WPA officials indefinitely suspended work on the Butte Creek tunnel pipe laying project.  Protesting a lowering of their wages from 65½ cents an hour, to 53½ cents an hour, the 18 workers left the job.
2. On October 8, Dr. A. C. Kuehner purchased the Riverview and Bridge Clinic.  Kuehner, who had been a physician at the clinic since 1931, was the son of C. W. Kuehner, who had owned bars and taverns in both South Bend and Raymond.  Dr. M. L. Dumochel was also a physician at the clinic.
3. LHS graduated 9.
4. RHS graduated 49.
5. SBHS graduated 27.
6. VHS graduated 25.
• 1939
1. William Gurr was elected mayor in late 1939 and held the office until June 1955.
2. One of the key members of the University of Oregon Ducks’ 1939 NCAA championship basketball team was Raymond star Matt Pavalunas (class of 1937).  Matt late became a successful coach at Auburn HS.
3. On July 4, under sunny skies, a two-mile long parade streamed through the streets of Raymond, cheered on by a crowd of ten thousand onlookers.  The parade included five bands, a drum and bugle corps, service men, comic and private floats, Willapa Bay pioneers, fraternal and patriotic marchers, and the queen’s float.  The best float was sponsored by a Greek contingent.  Also, an authentic covered wagon was made by the E. W. Lilly family.  Leading the procession was the Tenino band, followed by Battery D, of the 10th Field Artillery, with 16 trucks and four 75 mm guns.  Next came a contingent of Coast Guard men with rifles and mounted bayonets.
4. LHS graduated 15.
5. RHS graduated 64.
6. SBHS graduated 47.
7. VHS graduated 25.

• 1940
1. 1940 census = 4,039
2. Operations at Mills R, W, and L of the Willapa Harbor Lumber Company resumed on April 13 when Camp One workers of the IWA union voted 30-3 to settle negotiable differences with the mill management.
3. According to a 1990s conversation with Ralph Antilla, he and others working for Baker Furniture & Appliance (ca. 1940) would load refrigerators, etc. on a truck, and take them to Naselle to sell door to door.
4. In late February, Andy Willis, well known Raymond businessman died.  Willis had invested in several logging concerns, and was the longtime owner of the Raymond Club on First Street.
5. Bonneville PUD bought Willapa Electric Company’s 66,000 volt transmission line.
6. Bill Leber bought the golf course and built a new clubhouse.
7. Raymond’s new post office was opened.  It was built by the Issacson Co. of Portland for $66,000.
8. LHS graduated 13.
9. RHS graduated 64.
10. SBHS graduated 28.
11. VHS graduated 28.
• 1941
1. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by Japanese warplanes on December 7, 1941.  The U. S. formally declared war on Japan and Nazi Germany.
2. Weyerhaeuser’s innovative sustained-yield forestry was begun in Pacific County in 1941, with the Clemons Tree Farm, the nation’s first certified tree farm.
3. The Christian Science Church was moved to 7th and Duryea.
4. LHS graduated 15.
5. RHS graduated 47.
6. SBHS graduated 35.
7. VHS graduated 38.
• 1942
1. In early January it was announced by the Seattle regional director of the civil air authority that an appropriation would be made to create a Class 3 airport for Willapa Harbor.
2. Raymond’s star trackman, Leo Rubstello, won the 100, 220, and long jump at the State Track Meet in Pullman, and single-handedly captured the championship for Raymond HS.
3. Fred Norman was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives—a two year term.
4. LHS graduated 10.
5. RHS graduated 50.
6. SBHS graduated 33.
7. VHS graduated 26.
• 1943
1. In May, Army engineers conducted tests that proceeded the authorization of spending about $100,000 for further development of the airport.
2. Weyerhaeuser’s Mill L in South Bend ceased operations.  Originally the old Simpson mill in the late 1800s, the mill’s dry-kilned fir lumber was barged to Raymond and then sent out via the Milwaukee railroad.
3. Clifford Beall sold the Raymond Herald to Roy Fruit.
4. LHS graduated 8.
5. RHS graduated 54.
6. SBHS graduated 35.
7. VHS graduated 24.
• 1944
1. During the war, South Bend’s Bendiksen Cannery was desperate for workers.  A few of the girls from Raymond’s Star Rooms filled in nicely, and reportedly did a fine job as oyster openers.
2. As with many families during World War II, the Zambas family had four sons serving in the military: Tony, Bill, Chris, and Pete.
3. After bypassing Raymond for several years, the Greater Douglas Shows carnival came to town in July.  The carnival set up between the public library and the Kennedy Press.  The features included about 15 sideshows, 6 rides, and 30 concessions.
4. In October, Ted Huter, former Gull standout athlete, was killed in action in Europe.
5. Fred Norman lost in his bid for reelection to the U.S. House.  He lost to Charley Savage, D-Shelton.
6. Raymond and South Bend played to a 0-0 tie in their annual Thanksgiving Day football game.
7. LHS graduated 14.
8. RHS graduated 39.
9. SBHS graduated 22.
10. VHS graduated 27.

• 1945
1. The Raymond Post Office’s 53.45 mile Rural Route No. 2 was established on December 16.
2. World War II ended with victory for the Allies in Europe (VE Day) in May, and victory over Japan (VJ Day) in September.
3. LHS graduated 5.
4. RHS graduated 38.
5. SBHS graduated 23.
6. VHS graduated 20.
• 1946
1. Raymond HS senior Leroy Dorning captured the pole vault championship at the State Track Meet in Pullman.
2. Fred Norman ran again for the U. S. House, and was returned to office.
3. J. W. Baker, 76, pioneer furniture dealer, died on August 13.  He had been in business since Raymond’s early days.
4. LHS graduated 6.
5. RHS graduated ??.
6. SBHS graduated 32.
7. VHS graduated 27.
• 1947
1. Fred Norman, U. S. House of Representatives, died in office.
2. LHS graduated 9.
3. RHS graduated 37.
4. SBHS graduated 27.
5. VHS graduated 20.
• 1948
1. In January, Justice of the Peace John K. Gotsis suspended an out-of-town driver’s vehicle license and fined him $100.  The man had been arrested for driving under the influence.  Gotsis, a local barber, was also quoted as saying, “If we can’t cut your hair, join the House of David.”
2. Weyerhaeuser’s Mill R, originally the old Raymond Lumber Company, was closed.  It was one of the last steam sawmills to operate in southwest Washington.  The workforce joined the remaining Mill W as a night shift operation.
3. A big 4th of July celebration was held, highlighted with a float parade, log bucking, band music, ball games, and dancing.
4. Louie Kochopulos’ Anchor Tavern was sold to Dick Marron.
5. The Baleville Telephone Association served 26 households in 1948, its high-water mark.  By 1977 it was down to 8 households.
6. LHS graduated 5.
7. RHS graduated 32. Smallest class since 1924.
8. SBHS graduated 25.
9. VHS graduated 21.
• 1949
1. On July 1, the Willapa Harbor Mills became a regular branch of Weyerhaeuser Company, and no longer operated as a subsidiary.
2. Marcella Lawler, RHS class of 1926, received a doctorate degree from Teachers College, Columbia University (New York City). Dr. Lawler went on to teach at Columbia for 24 years.  She died in 1981.
3. Raymond suffered a disastrous fire when the Seattle First National bank building on the corner of Duryea and Third was destroyed on Sunday, February 13.  Other establishments destroyed included the New Riverview Clinic and the Elks Lodge.
4. In December, attorney John J. Langenbach was named as superior court judge of Pacific and Wahkiakum counties.
5. LHS graduated 7.
6. RHS graduated 48.
7. SBHS graduated 24.
8. VHS graduated 32.

• 1950
1. 1950 census = ??
2. Two significant Raymond pioneers died in the spring of 1950:  Claude House, Sr., who died in March had come to Raymond from Michigan in 1907, to work for the Raymond Land and Improvement Company.  In May, John J. O’Phelan, 68 years old, passed away.  The retired superior court judge was a graduate of Notre Dame, and had played on the Irish football team.
3. With a 175-foot high antenna in place, radio KAPA went on the air in September.  The station operated with a power of 250 watts on the assigned frequency of 1340 kilocycles.  The manager was Bob Finley, and the chief engineer John Kelley.
4. A Weyerhaeuser corporate change took place on April 1, when the Sales Company took over the responsibility of selling all wood products.  Up to this time sales had been handled by the local branches.
5. RHS graduated 45.
6. SBHS graduated 33.
7. VHS graduated 25.
8. LHS graduated 5.
• 1951
1. The R & A Garden Club was founded.  Mrs. Larry Stritmatter was the president.
2. LHS graduated 8.
3. RHS graduated 37.
4. SBHS graduated 32.
5. VHS graduated 30.
• 1952
1. Raymond HS’s fine boys’ basketball team, (20-0 in the regular season) played big Vancouver HS to qualify for the Class A (top division) basketball tournament.  After leading for most of the game, the Gulls ran out of gas in the final minutes and suffered their only defeat of the season.  The starters on the team were Al Kamps, Corky Bridges, Bob Ledford, Del Allison, and Ron Aiken.  Other members of the varsity team were Jim Baker, Jack Orkney, Bud Hackney, and John Betrozoff.  Their coach was Bob Svenson.
2. On April 6, RHS hurler Ron Aiken pitched a perfect game against Hoquiam, 1-0.  Ed Jouper scored the only run of the game when Aiken was walked with the bases loaded.
3. Raymond pioneer, S. L. Dennis (76 years) passed away at his home in Raymond.
4. In August, the city commission voted to acquire a plot of ground at the intersection of Park Avenue and Highway 101 for the Clyde L. Lewis Park.
5. On August 28 it was announced that the Raymond Advertiser was purchased by the Raymond Herald.
6. LHS graduated 7.
7. RHS graduated 45.
8. SBHS graduated 24.
9. VHS graduated 25.

• 1953
1. Olympic Hardwood Mill B permanently closed.
2. The destruction of Raymond’s old Ninth Street School was completed.  The new elementary school had already been built.
3. More than 95 million board feet of lumber was shipped out of the Weyerhaeuser and Olympic Hardwood mills from January 1 to the end of October.
4. LHS graduated 5.
5. RHS graduated 47.
6. SBHS graduated 26.
7. VHS graduated 27.
• 1954
1. A two part construction phase was begun at Weyerhaeuser’s Raymond mill.  It included new dry kilns, stacker, unstacker, planing mill, and stripping shed.
2. LHS graduated 11.
3. RHS graduated 52.
4. SBHS graduated 49.
5. VHS graduated 24.
• 1955
1. Fred Lovin became mayor in June 1955, and served until he resigned in January 1957 because of ill health.
2. The Masonic Lodge moved into its new home at the corner of 7th and Duryea.
3. The second phase of Weyerhaeuser’s construction was started.  The mill was replaced and included a hydraulic barker and chipping plant.  A new office was completed the following year.
4. Howard Norman, who had been a member of the Raymond Fire Department for 24 years, was killed in a fire on May 10, 1955.  He was 48 years old.
5. J. L. (Jack) Kehoe became plant manager at Weyerhaeuser’s Willapa branch, effective September 1.  Kehoe had started his sawmill career in 1923, when he began as a stencil marker for the Willapa Lumber Company.
6. LHS graduated 6.
7. RHS graduated 55.
8. SBHS graduated 27.
9. VHS graduated 17.
• 1956
1. The Willapa Harbor theatres (Raymond and Tokay), which had been leased by E. W. Johnson (Spokane) and Dwight Sprecher (Seattle) since June 1, 1946, were returned to the Basil family.  George and Joe Basil, and their sister Hadla (Ducky) Basil, resumed management.
2. Led by Raymond pitcher Ron Aiken, the Washington State Cougars defeated the USC Trojans 5-4, to win the Pacific Coast Conference baseball championship.
3. LHS graduated 8.0 (The final year of Lebam High School).
4. RHS graduated 55.
5. SBHS graduated 39.
6. VHS graduated 26.
• 1957
1. Alfred M. Kelley became mayor, and served five years, until June 1962.
2. Merle Smith bought Powell TV.
3. Pioneer merchants ended a longtime Raymond business:  Mrs. W. B. Glazebrook sold her Riverview Grocery Store to Mr. and Mrs. Orval Boerner. (Mrs. Boerner was Mrs. Glazebrook’s daughter.)  Mrs. Glazebrook’s late brother-inlaw, J. A. Glazebrook had operated a store at 818 Duryea that was later known as Brownie’s Grocery, and his former partner, I. M. Trentham, had owned the Cozy Corner in the old FOE building on Commercial Street.
4. RHS graduated 57.
5. SBHS graduated 39.
6. Willapa Valley HS graduated 43.

     “My given name is Helmer Asplund, but I’ve always gone as Gus Asplund, Jr. Dad, whose original name was Gus Liff, came to the U. S. from Sweden when he was fourteen years old, and he worked in the lumber camps of Minnesota for about four or five years and eventually became a timekeeper and ultimately managed one of the camps.  He worked for a fellow whose name was Asplund, and at some point Dad took the Asplund name.
     Dad got to Washington on one of these Northern Pacific “immigration trains” that they ran in those days.  At some point his brother had come out to Hoquiam, and after they got together, they ended up at Porter, where both of them had to walk some distance to apply for work.  By this time the soles of Dad’s shoes had worn out, and it was in the dead of winter.
     It was around this time that there was a flu epidemic going on, maybe around 1919.  Both my dad and his brother spent some time in the hospital and they didn’t have too much money.  They finally got jobs, but Dad’s heart was never in the logging business.  He wanted to get into something that was a little calmer.  He had saved his money and picked up and went to Raymond where he got into the clothing business on First and Commercial with a fellow named John Pulli, and another fellow named Carl Hjelmer.  Dad was the third man in this so-called partnership and he worked like a dog to make it go.  He told me that he wanted to learn, but it wasn’t profitable enough for two people, let alone three.  So he ended up buying a pool hall, the Mission Club, in the preprohibition days.  When he walked away from the clothing store he was able to take some of the logger clothing stock and he sold that in the pool hall— workmen’s clothing.  He enjoyed that.
     I think that a true test of Dad’s character was that during the war he had too big of a stock of hard pants.  When the OPA created a price ceiling, he could have raised the price, but he never did once.  He always said that, “I’m making my honest profit and that’s good enough for me.”
     I graduated from Raymond High in 1933, and started at the U. W. in 1934.  For a while in those years I worked for the Raymond Herald.  In fact, I was the sports editor after I got out of the University of Washington.  I would have stayed there, too, but I finally accepted a job with Seattle First National Bank.  I made the right decision, because I went to Seattle, where eventually I became a vice-president.  But my time in Raymond was with both the newspaper and the baseball club.  For me, those were great years.
     Dad had the Mission Club on First Street for a long time.  During the earlier years he brought his younger brother over from Sweden, and Axel ran the shop when Dad wasn’t there.  He knew Axel was 100 percent honest.  They had a good relationship, but when Dad was 67, Bussy (Dr. Bussabarger) called one day and told me that Dad had had a heart attack.  A year later he was still alive but he was in bed.  So, I stayed down there and did some work over at the Seafirst banks in Aberdeen and Hoquiam, while my wife and children stayed in Seattle.  I spent my nights at the house in Raymond, but in about a week he died.  I had the same problem later but back in those days they couldn’t do the bypass surgery.  After that, I was pretty much through with Raymond with Dad being gone.  My mother moved to Seattle and lived only a block away from us.  She was younger than Dad, and later she remarried and just died a few years ago.  So now I have a couple of cousins in Raymond, one in Tacoma.  And I have two daughters.

     Dad’s business was the Mission Club, which was on First Street.  You know, around 1920 First Street had about everything.  I remember I had a paper route, and I would sell my extra papers, so I would go to the houses of ill-repute to sell a few papers.  Everyone treated me beautifully, and paid me in cash.  Finest people in the world, for me.
     They had some real good people down there at that time.  Jim Weathers worked for Hap Long.  Then there were the Lapinskis, the Guglomos, and Fred Norman, a very strong Republican.  He died while he was a Congressman back in Washington, D. C.  His son Howard got into some trouble, and later died in a fire.  Howard had been with the Raymond Fire Department for a long time.
     I remember the Pete Rose meat market.  Good butchers.  There were some others, too, like Rogers, Louie Kochopulos, and they all got along with each other.  Greg John’s dad had a café next door to my dad’s place.  It was a very popular little cafe.  Typical Greek restaurant, the food was out of this world.  Served food to all those bachelors.  George was a very, very talented person.  He and my dad had become good friends.  Just an allround, good guy.  Married a nice lady, Hannah Jensen.  I recall Walt Sinko, who was a very fine athlete, and a good boxer.  He was challenging people all the time.
     The men who lived at the Lincoln Hotel would come around, and when I worked at the Mission Club, I served beer to those guys, and got to know them.  And between you and me, I learned how to play pool real well.
     Now, about that baseball team in 1935.  That team aspired for bigger and better things.  To begin with, the management was great—Doc Owens, John Lavinder, and I got to be associated with them.  At the time I was on summer vacation from the U.W. and working for the Herald.

     Doc Owens was a fine person, and John Lavinder liked baseball.  John worked for the Willapa Electric Company, and had been involved in other teams.  John and Doc liked the same things, especially with that team.  Doc’s office was a popular place to meet, and the town merchants would donate, and they would get their company name on the back of the baseball jerseys.  If you paid your money you were part of it.
     We had some great out-of-town players.  It kind of started with Berle Garlick, who actually lived in Raymond in those days, but he knew a lot of guys.  He brought in Joe Trembly and his brother Ed Garlick.  Then there was Joey Mlachnik, who was a college kid from Tacoma.  The great ex-major leaguer George Burns was there for awhile.  Matt Pavalunas, who was between his junior and senior years at Raymond, was a gifted natural athlete.  Matt couldn’t hit like old George, but he could run faster.
     This ball club gave an outlet for guys like Eddie Rosentangle, who was a fine athlete.  We brought them all together.  Walt Sinko was there for awhile, too.  It was great.  It was hard to hold them together.  It amounted to a lot of money in those days.  Anyway, there was excitement.  On Sundays it was really something in town.  It was something.  It was the highlight of my life in those days.  I don’t have a very objective viewpoint.  Those were great summers for me.
     The mills helped a lot.  We got labor and money for lumber from the mills.  The field was the high school field, and it was sand.  It wasn’t as good as it could have been.  But it was as good as it could be, considering the situation in those days.  I remember we had guys who volunteered.  I remember standing on a pallet, as it was dragged around the field to level things out as best we could do.  Guys volunteered their labor, and we had unlimited use of the field in the summers.  I remember that Bill Boetchel was a hanger-on who did a lot of things for us.
     I did the PA announcing for the games.  I remember that Marion Felt was a pitcher from the U.W. who played for the Hoquiam (Grays Harbor) team.  We knew each well, and when we played Grays Harbor he would say to me, ‘Just shut up with that PA, and just tell them who’s up to bat.’  Marion knew me because I tried my luck with the U.W. baseball team.  I even pitched a game and Emmett Watson was my catcher.  I wasn’t that good, but I loved being out there.  Even at Raymond High, we played some tough teams.  For example, we played Seattle’s Franklin High.  It was a close one, but we finally lost the game.
     I got the UW team captain Willie Hewson to come down and be our shortstop.  Fast Willie.  I remember asking, ‘Willie, would you like to come down and play for Raymond’s Timber League team?’  He had his own car, and Doc and John paid him $25 a game.  That was good money in those days, and Willie got some other guys to come down with him.  He had a ball that summer.  First thing he did, was he got up to the plate and he grabbed that bat and did a drag bunt and streaked down to first base.  That got everyone excited.
     Loren Baker was one of our players.  Later on, his son Sam Baker was a football star at Oregon State.  In fact, Loren later became athletic director at Oregon State.  He was a top-flight person, and an ex-Coast League player.

     Some of these guys could have kept going in the Coast League, and higher than they ever did.  But there were reasons.  We were lucky at Raymond to get these really good guys.  And then we had our hometown guys on that team, like Ed Rosentangle; Matt Pavalunas, who was still in high school; and Pug Allen, who was a great ball player in those days.  Pug had a chance to move up to the Coast League.  He hit over 0.400 for us, and I don’t know, but I always wondered if it was fear of failure that held Pug back.
     Another great home grown athlete was Rob Schnee.  I remember how great an athlete Schnee was.  But he didn’t have the drive to go on with it.  He didn’t play on our baseball team that summer.  Torchy Torrance said Rob could have made it at the U.W.  He was a talented kid.  Great high school and college athlete, but that was it.”

 “I had the time of my life back in those days.  My mother thought it was terrible that I would get up and sing in front of people.  To her, that was showing off.  She would whisper, ‘Oh, you can’t do that.’  My mother was very talented, she could play the piano, she could sing.  She had talent coming out of her ears.  She only went through the 8th grade, and she always held that against herself.”

1. Walter Allen
2. Ralph Antilla
3. Gus Asplund, Jr.
4. Rose Fillo Aust
5. Bob Bailey
6. Glenn Barber
7. Paul Bennos
8. John Betrozoff
9. Fred Dracobly, Jr.
10. Jack Fykerud
11. Jim Garner
12. Ethel Guglomo
13. Richard Guglomo
14. Gregory John
15. Al Karlis
16. Joe Krupa
17. Pete Lapinski
18. Delbert Nupp
19. Alice Rise
20. Clarence Rise
21. Karen Rose
22. Leo Rubstello
23. Agnes Kolcz Samples
24. Leta Guglomo Vasbinder
25. Paul Willis
26. Dave Wolfenbarger
27. Tony Zambas

1. Raymond Herald
2. Raymond Advertiser
3. Willapa Harbor Pilot
4. South Bend Journal
5. Willapa Harbor Herald

1. Thirteen Swedes
2. Shoalwater Willapa
3. WWII Airmen on Common Ground
• All by Doug Allen

1. The Pacific County Museum, South Bend
2. Something Special Gift Shop, South Bend
3. Independent Books, Long Beach
4. Jack’s Country Store, Ocean Park
5. Wahkiakum West, Rosburg
6. Polson Museum, Hoquiam

Doug Allen 919 5th Avenue, #1 Kirkland, WA 98033 425-827-1359 email dallen35@mac.com website www.snoosepeak.net

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