Marion Smith
Two Boys Drowned
Marion Smith, age 5, andBerne DeLapp, age 7, were drowned in the Grande Ronde river Saturday last, while crossing in a wagon with another boy named Dressler, age 14. The older boy escaped. The search has been kept up all week for the bodies of the missing boys but up to …(illegible).. they had not been found.
News story, May 8, 1909
Contributed by: Larry Rader
