From Our Files: Oct. 16, 2024

Lee Bell and Billie Weber work next door to each other and found themselves in a similar predicament in 1974. Weber, who keeps books at Les Schwab, broke two bones in her foot after ramming it into the door of her home. Three weeks later, Bell, sales manager at Jack Thomas Motors, was washing cars and stepped backward into a hole; he went one way and his ankle went the other. Lee called out for help. It was Weber who hobbled over to him and helped him to East Linn Medical Clinic.

Oct. 20, 1949

 

An impressive ceremony has been arranged to mark the laying of the cornerstone for Sweet Home’s new Methodist Community Church on the one year anniversary since services started here. A regular morning meeting will take place in the L Street grade school gym, followed by the ceremony at the site of the new church, 6th and I streets. Articles to be sealed in the cornerstone include a small Bible, a roll…

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