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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., April 9, 1959, page 1

TALKS REVIEW HISTORY OF EAST COUNTY

Early history of the eastern end of Klickitat county, centering around Bickleton, was reviewed in talks given by Chloe Walling, Jess Wherry and W.K. "Bud" Reader at the quarterly meeting of the county historical society at Bickleton Saturday.
Women of the Goodwill Society of Bickleton Presbyterian Church served luncheon at the church basement at noon to 60 or, more of the early arrivals. The tables were decorated with miniature log cabins, covered wagons, steamboats, etc.
At the session which convened at 1 p.m. at the Grange hall, late arrivals swelled the attendance to a total of 79. Business matters disposed of under the guidance of President Al Matsen included authority given to the signs and markers committee to spend up to $100 for the erection of suitable wood signs pointing out locations of significance in county history; accepting a gift of showcases for display of relics and historic objects; appointment of committees to investigate buildings or sites to establish museum-headquarters, and to screen articles offered to the society, and a committee to arrange a display at the county fair.
The group also voted to meet at White Salmon for its July session and to hold the charter membership open until then, to allow ample opportunity to all county residents to join as "charter members". Treasurer C.F. Crooks announced that membership had reached the 325 mark as of the meeting hour.
Announcement was made that the biographies of John and Teunis Wyers are being prepared from interviews and probably will be presented at the White Salmon meeting.
A letter from Peter Binford, Portland book publisher who has made substantial donations to the society and who long has advocated its formation, thanking the organization for its bestowal of honorary membership, was read by Secretary Mrs. Joe McCoy, White Salmon.
Mrs. Al Matsen, substituting for Mrs.W.F. Hornibrook as program chairman introduced her neighbor, Mrs. Stanton Ganders, who contributed music of Switzerland in song with accordion accompaniment as entertainment

JESS GIVES TALK

Mrs. Chloe Walling, Bickleton historian, was introduced and gave a paper and talk on the history of Bickleton. A long-time resident of the Hardison section Jess Wherry, gave an interesting talk on early day events in the White Creek area. Contractor J.W. Harrison, of Yakima, a grandson of the man of the same name who was the first, settler on White Creek, about 1880, was introduced by Wheery, W.K. "Bud" Reader, Roosevelt, when called upon, gave a short talk on his early recollections of that place.
The talks of Mrs. Walling, Wherry and Reader are given in a story on page 9 in this issue of The Sentinel.
In the story on page 9 about stage lines from Bickleton in three directions, Mrs. Walling says that mail from Goldendale came as far as Cleveland, where it was picked up by the Arlington stage and taken on to Bickleton. "In that way we received mail daily from three directions," she said.
Our page 9 story also should have said the boys from Bickleton were attending Klickitat Academy in Goldendale, rather than high school here.