Excerpts from the Lars John Redberg Diaries of 1909 - 1912 of Life in South Tillamook County especially of Oretown, Oregon.
NVMS students typed these excerpts during the fall of 2002.
Edna Redberg very kindly excerpted these interesting portions of the diaries and provided them to NVMS. The complete diaries of Lars John Redberg are in the Pioneer Museum in Tillamook, Oregon. They were donated by Erwin and Edna Redberg.
The following diary entries were typed by NVMS students, Logan and Joe S., and edited by Dean Bones.
July 4, 1911 - Willie came home this evening. He walked from Willamina.
July 7, 1911 - I hauled 14 cases of cheese to the dock.
July 23, 1911 - Clint Mills & Jessie Follett visited us.
July 27, 1911 - This morning at about 2 O'clock on a large swift tide, on Nestucca Bar, Willis Cox and George Fessler were carried down into the surf and drowned. This evening one body and boat, one hat, two oars, and the net were found about 2 miles south of the bar on the beach.
July 28, 1911 - I hauled 20 cases of cheese to the dock and brought a load of supplies back. One of the drowned fishermen were found on the beach near Neskowin.
July 29, 1911 - Ole, Willie, Roy, Frankie, Herbert, and I went to Cloverdale, We bought oil clothes, and boots for fishing. George Fessler, the drowned fisherman, was buried this evening at the Oretown Cemetery. His father & one brother from Newberg, Ore. Were present. The other fisherman's body is still missing.
July 30 1911 - Ole Willie went to Cloverdale after the boat they bought.
Aug. 5 1911 - Mr. and Mrs. Poter left for the East today for a reunion of the Sweet family. Ole hauled them to Sheridan.
Aug. 9 1911 - Clint Miles and I are going to start fishing. Andrew Peterson is going to work my team on the road doing the rocking.
Aug. 13 1911 - Clint and I came over the hill today. So far, we have caught 27 Chinooks, and the largest of the season, up to this date, weighing 53#. We are getting $.03 a lb.
Aug. 27 1911 - Caught a chinook this week 56#. The gasoline boat "Frolic" from Bay City came in Nestucca Bay today. She is 60' long.
Aug. 28 1911 - The "Frolic" took a party of joy riders to Haystack Rock. Most of them were sea-sick. Willie went also. At 11 o'clock this evening a very large meteor sailed across the sky, lighting up everything like day.
Aug. 29 1911 - The Frolic left for Bay City.
Sept. 9 1911 - Gerald C. was driven in on the beach between the Bar and the Rock at 1 P.M. today. Attended a chivarie tonight - Clarence Dunn & Estella Miles were married.
Continue to page 16, Redberg Diaries, September 13, 1911 - October 26, 1911