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A visiting speaker looks ahead
The Bend Bulletin · July 29, 1920
In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.
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At a dinner at the Emblem Club, paving-company president C. S. Reed spoke about Bend’s prospects.
The Bulletin gave the dinner a headline, two decks and the best opening sentence in the 1920 file. Reed was in Bend for his company, which had the contract for laying Willite paving for the tramways at the Shevlin-Hixon plant, and he used the evening to argue that Bend should surface its downtown streets.
His argument was Los Angeles. Bend had the same chance to capitalise its natural advantages, he said, and its business interests should make those wonders known to the world — the people living among them seldom appreciated them to the fullest extent, while Los Angeles had capitalised its climate and its beauties.
The paper spells his company two ways in four lines, “Willite” in the headline and “Willits” in the first sentence, and both are kept as printed.
From the source
PAVING MAN SPEAKS
C. S. Reed, Head of Willite Company, Addressing Emblem Club, Advises Surfacing For Downtown Streets of Bend.
C. S. Reed, president of the Willits Paving company, served the final course of Los Angeles spirit to a gathering of Bend business and professional men Friday at an informal dinner given at the Emblem Club.