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One-Time Logging Town of Ryderwood Is Magazine Feature as Senior Citizen HomeFire Victims RehabilitatedOARDEN CITY, Idaho liS-Santa Claus called 40 times yesterday on police patrolman Tfaedfcrd Marlon, his wife and five youngsters.They got a three-room apartment with a month's rent free. Neighbors installed a Christmas tree and piled It high with food and clothing. 1A lawyer sent a check for $100. Others gave more than *200 in cash, There were frozen turkeys, fruit cakes, and bottles of plum jam. .A toy store opened its doors— and the children walked out with almost $100 worth of hobby horses, tricycles and dolls.The gifts put the Marions back where they were on Christmas Eve, when their house burned down, destroying everything they owned.Ryderwood, the town in northern] Cowlitz county peopled exclusively by old folks, U spotlighted In the!Jan. 8 Issue of Colliers, nationally i Circulated magazine. 4In an article titled The Town! That Wants Only OLD FOLKS”, author William L Worden, a top Northwest free lance writer, traces the 1958 rebirth of the opce-dead, old-time logging town.Among the many residents of the town Interviewed by Worden were the Rev. and Mrs. John Magoon, parents of Mrs. W, R. Ingraham,1 Chehalls, and well known figuresto Lewis county people.Their home in Ryderwood is the • first real one they've had, thl Ma-goons say In the article; Previously, they had lived in many different parsonages.Ryderwood, down to a 500 popula- j tion in 1952, got its new lease on life from Senior Estates, Inc., a. firm which purchased the town! from the Long-Bell Lumber * company for $90,000,The new owners promptly setabout cleaning up {he town and In June, 1953, offered low down-pty-ment, low cost houses to retired people only. And. born again wai Ryderwood.So far, 52 houses have been sold In the new Ryderwood.More forest fires start on Sunday than on any other day of the week. ^Dr. A. G. Kioberas. a. n. o.NATUROPATHICPHYSICIANCENTRALJASANITARIUM*611 E Street Telephone 6 6 32 I
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Centralia Daily Chronicle
Centralia, Washington, US
Sat, Dec 26, 1953
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