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“A Community of Good Cheer”
The Oregon Journal · September 13, 1914
In the story: 3. Wearing the promise, 1914–1916.
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The Oregon Journal accompanied its account of a Portland visit to Bend with a montage of the festivities.
The pictures show staged entertainment, including a guest dressed as a convict, a hold-up at the jail and a mock eruption of Lava Butte. Beneath them is the Tumalo irrigation project visited by the party.
Marshall N. Dana describes the club’s log temple of hospitality and a change in spirit from Farewell Bend to Welcome Bend. The Bulletin reprinted his account three days later.
From the source
A Community of Good Cheer.
On the site of the travelers' camps the young men of Bend have set up a log temple dedicated to hospitality and good cheer. This is the Bend Emblem club and the reason for it. The old name Farewell Bend they changed in implication to Welcome Bend. They must have conceded to Portland Ad club members merit to be their guests under their own requirements, for last Sunday and Monday was spent with them.
The special train from Portland during Saturday night [came] to the more than cloud-high altitude that Bend is above Portland, and from the moment the sun and Emblem club together welcomed the visitors the town was delivered to the most all-inclusive hospitality the Ad men had ever experienced.
