1923 or 24, George Elliott, Jr, great grandfather to Rene M. Elliott

Photos and comments courtesy of Rene M. Elliott

1923 or 1924, my great grandfather, George Elliott (jr) had moved the chicken shed (behind him) from the fairgrounds, as it had stood where the present grand stand or race track is. This is a picture my grandmother had we can't locate now, that Ken Cooke had made a slide of for me years ago, that I had a 5x7 printed from, that I snapped a picture of this morning and then enhanced to remove cracks, blotches, etc. Not sure if this dog was "Jack" or not, who used to help him drive cows, pigs, turkeys, etc. and when he boarded the train to taken them to market he would say "Go home!" and the dog would.

In the background at right, you can see the cheese factory at the fairgrounds entrance, built by Phillip & Nichols about 1894 with materials from the
"Hayti" creamery they dismantled in Pittsfield, it was revived c. 1916 - 1918 during a milk strike against Bordens, but in most of the years afterwards was just cold storage for the Linn Co. and was torn down about 1979?

Top photo, "Billie" or Howard Southern (I have been told both, Howard worked for the Morris Manor handling/doctoring the horses, especially Dr. Morris' race horses), Samuel Belden Burt (J.P. Kenyon's supposed nephew, had the store next to the bank in the large building now gone), and my great grandfather, George Elliott, on our front porch probably c. 1920. Bottom image is my great uncle, Edward "Ned" Elliott, when he ran a lunch room c. 1914-1915, before he went to Sidney to learn telephone lineman work and got electrocuted.