Recently, while visiting my parents in Michingan, I came upon some old newspaper articles. They are not dated and I do not know for sure the source. I am making an assumption that they are from the Lapeer paper in the early 1900's. Hopefully someone will find this information useful.


The following is a very interesting article, and I wanted to share it.

STRANGE STORY OF A PIECE OF PAPER

LAPEER COUNTY BOY HUNTING IN MOUNTAINS OR OREGON FINDS FRAGMENT

OF LAPEER COUNTY CLARION PUBLISHED MONTHS BEFORE

Finds Unexpected News of People He Knew in Boyhood.

A portion of page four of The Clarion of Feb 9, 1911, is picked up on the Caso Knife Ridge, in southern OREGON, thrity miles from a railroad, 3000 feet above sea level. The finder is a LAPEER COUNTY boy and he reads in the fragment mention of many familiar names, news to him through the paper is ten months old. It is an interesting incident, well told in the following letter, and shows the far reaching, never ending effect of newspaper publicity in general and of The Clarion in particular. It will complete the story if the person who left the paper there will come forward. The fragment is stained by blood marks and evidently was left there by a hunting party.

The Letter.

Portland, OREGON, Oct 20, 1911
Editor of Lapeer Clarion:
I have found a piece of paper a long way from home and I am going to send you the paper and tell you where and how I found it.
My brother John and myself and one other went hunting on the coast Range Mountains and while we were 30 miles from a railroad, about 3000 feet above sea level, upon Case Knife Ridge, one mile from Green Butte, about the highest point in the Coast Range Mountains, we found this paper.
We picked it up and looked it over and found that it was our own home paper and saw names that we knew so well. I was born in LAPEER COUNTY and lived there for 24 years and then came to Portland, OREGON. My grandfather hhas taken your paper for years. His name is Warren C. Alyea of So. Attica and my father's name was Levi Lemon. He died when we boys were small babies. My step father was James Brown, who died in the past year in Flint.
We three men killed 10 deer and one black bear. We were up on the Umaqua river, 200 miles from Portland, in southern OREGON.
Our party included Claud Lemon, John Lemon and Clarence matthews of Portland, OREGON. I would like to have you send The Clarion to me for a year. This is a fine place in OREGON. I do not want to come to Michigan to live any more.
Yours truly,
Claude Lemon
429 10th Street


I don't know if they ever found the person who left the paper in OREGON. Someday, when I make another trip to Michigan, I will have to check into this article and see what else I can find.

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Warren C Alyea was my GG Grandfather.

kathy hight