Often I find it very interesting
how the older local newspapers report on who visited whom.
Checking out some of the Falk
families I found that in August 1915, nine family members of the
Leonard Falk clan from Albany, Oregon, traveled by automobile to
Salem Heights to visit their brother George's home.
In October of 1925, Roy Bond of
Glide, a brother of Mrs. Julius Falk, my grandmother, came to
Harrisburg area to visit her. I suspect he was glad to tell her that
the prune ranch operated by he and his brother Perry had a good yield
that year.
There was quite a strange item
in the paper of December 1925. It stated: "Julius Falk and
family, who reside southwest of town, [Harrisburg, Oregon] motored to
Roseburg Thanksgiving day and spent a few days visiting with Mrs.
Falk's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bond."
What is strange is that her
parents had died in 1918 and 1919. I suspect it is probable that they
visited her brothers who lived at Glide, which is in the Roseburg
area.
It was in August of 1934 when my
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Falk, along with their seven year
old son Jerry, went to Halsey on Sunday morning and attended church
services at the Church of Christ. Then they had dinner at my parents'
home, Lester and Wilma (Falk) Albertson. Wilma's ten year old
sister, Violet, had been visiting with them and now later that day
she went back home with her parents.
A year later, August of 1935,
the paper reported that my parents went up to Harrisburg and visited
my grandparents' family on a Sunday afternoon. I wonder if they
visited other times too rather than just once a year.
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