OFFICIAL PAPER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY
JoL XXXII.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913
NO 38.
OLUMBIA COUNTY INTERESTED IN GOOD ROADS
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MNG CONTEST IS OVER
Helens Mist Campaign for
Subscriptions is Great Success
NG LADIES WILL GO TO Tf III ROUND-UP
Lt Saturday night the content
firee trips to the Round-Up
wi. The voting during the
day wan fust and furious.
hundred new subscribers
W. Mueller ami Martin White took
charge of the ballot box promptly
at 9 o'clock Saturday night and
started the count. After a couple
of hour the following certificate
Band is Revived
NEW LIFE TAKEN ON BY
ST. HELENS ClfY BAND
Idi- I to the Mint lit and wa signed and indued by them, an
nouncing the winners:
St. Helens, Ore.. Auk. 30, 1913,
Wo, the undersigned judges of
hundred old subscribers paid
in ft'. 1 lie content wan a iuc
rom every point oi view, witn
j MISS SARAH MATHERS M 5; $ j v , j
j i I lJJ
i , , MISS KATE BAKER
twss FSTIifr wr.r., r MISS WILMA PULUAM
r ' " , .' v;:-.
The St. Helens Band has been
revived. The boys are now play
ing regularly every Thuriday
evening in the basement of the
Court House under the instruc
tion and leadership of Vin
Grewell, an experienced band
leader. There are now 1G or 17
pieces regularly in the band and
nearly always two or th-ce extra.
It is the intention of the boys to
stick together now and for the
purpose of raising money with
which to defray the expense,
monthly dances will be j iven
SI. HELENS IS NOW ST. HELENS
NAME OF POST OFFICE CHANGED
WITH NEW P.M. IN CHARGE
The post office in this city is
now officially designated as St,
Helens instead of Saint Helen.
Heretofore the city has been in
corporated under the name of St
Helens, while the post office was
officially named Saint Helen, so
in order to make the name of
the city and that of the post
office the same the department
at Washington has, on petition,
changed the name of the post
office as above stated. At the
same time a new postmaster was
appointed for St. Helens which
was announced in these columns
Just what other means will be 'some time ago, Mrs. Iva E.
used has not been definitely ' Dodd, and she has taken over the
settled as yet, but the boys are office and is now the postmaster,
determined to keep up the or-or mistress, of this office. Mr.
ganization and if any liberal J M. C. Gray, the former post
citizens want to held boost for ( master, will remain w ith Mrs
the band they are at liberty to i Dodd until the first of October,
do so. Below we give a financial j when he and Mrs. Gray will leave
statement of the organization j for their new home in Florida,
since it started, so the people j Mis3 Marie Paulsen, now in Se
may see what the expenses are: attle, will be assistant to Mrs.
Financial statement of the St. Dodd in the post office.
Helens City Hand from Sept. 15,
1910, being date of organization, to i
August 1. 1913:
Ktxnrrs
Subscription by R. I. Wil
liams Payment on original instru
ments by City of St. Hel
ens Donation by S. C. Morton
" Johnl'hillips
" James Dart
" "' Magnus Saxon
City Schools Open
'IE TEACHERS AND 215
$2.50.
PUPILS THE FIRST DAY
School opened in St. Helens last
50.00 Tuesday morning with a corps of
g.00 nine teachers and an enrollment of
5.00 ( 215 pupils, divided as follows: Miss
5,00 Perry has the 1st grade in the Guild
2.50 Hall with 35 pupils; Mrs. Saurers
" L.R. Rutherford 5.00 the second grade with 30 pupils;
" " Charles Muckle 5.00 Miss Lizzie Farnum the 3rd and 4 th
Service 4th of July celebra- B grades with 35 pupils; Miss Weed
tjg 125.00 the 4th A and 5th grades with 35
Service political meetings 70.00 pupils: Miss Neill the 6th grade
Net dance receipts 323.80 with 20 pupils; Miss May Farnum
ENTHUSIASTIC
MEETING
AT
GEARHART AND ST. HELENS
PLEDGES AND PROMISES OF ASSISTANCE FOR
BUILDING H ROAD AND CONNECTIONS
BOND ISSUE PROBABLE
Dues paid by members of
band $263.50
DISBURSEMENTS
Ralance on original set of in
struments $100.00
Additional instruments and
fixture 139.75
Music and binders 63.10
Paid D. P., Weir for instruc
tion 99-00
Paid J. M. Coomer for in
struction 433.75
Paid expense for outside
players 6.50
Repairs and miscellaneous ex
pense 19-96
$S62.06
Cash on hand to balance . .24
11. E. LaBare,
Sec.-Treas. St. Helens City Band.
MRS IRA WITHROW
Possiblo exception of the dis-
pointment of a few young ladies
' did not win out, but to these
Mist wants to extend the same
fnki and appreciation that it does
'he winners and further to say
thl'm thnt ivirv nun rf thiwil will
remembered by the Mist in a
'stnntiul way before long. Satur-
y evening the big ball given in
pnor of the contestants was the
t successful olTair of the kind
"held in St. Helens. The large
ncing room in the city hall was
d to overflowing; the floor wus
fine shape and the music wa.H par
'Hence. Purtriha from noAllv all
r the rountv attended.
r,f. J. II. Wilkerson, County
il Superintendent, 'Mayor A.
MISS DOTTIE PR INGLE
NOTICE JOBIDDERS
The board of directors of school
district No. 55 of Columbia Co. ad
vertise the old building and grounds
the Mist's Prize Voting Contest Mr",, vo uw ,k - "
hereby certify that we have made, to be opened Oc . 1913. By
an accurate count of the votes cast order of the board of directors of
following winners: msmct oo. e..
. NO. 1. i " ' -
340,830 jn a,,lition to these six young
and declare the
!!ST
Miss Esther Weigle
IH ST. NO. 2
Miss Sarah Mathers
!IST. no. 3.
Miss Kate Baker
IHST. N). 4
Miss Wilma Pulliam
IHST no. 5
Mrs. Ira With row'
MST. NO. 6,
Miss Pottie Pringle
J. H. Wilkerson, Judge,
Martin White,
A. W, Mueller, Judge.
40,050
ladies Miss Fannie Cooper of War-
ren, who was defeated by only a
293,575 few thousand, was awarded a trip
along with the rest of the party for
117,005 tne very efficient work she did dur
ing the campaign, so that when the
Mist Special car leaves for Pendle-
292,225
204,085
the 7th grade with 16 pupils; Frof.
Baird the 8th, with 12. and Miss
Hammarstrom assisting Prof. Kil
gore in the High school with 32
pupils.
The board has purchased a fine-j
equipment for the high school
sciences and will have a good labra
tory fur them also. Prof. Baird
also coaches in athletics and much
interest is being taken in the work.)
It is expected that the grades will
a!i be well filled within a few Weeks.
Pioneer Passes Away
Mr. Frederick Kammeyer was
born Feb. 1G, 1844, in Germany
and died at his homn nearScap
poose Sept. 1, '13, of rheumatism
and old age. He was 60 years,
G months and 13 days. He was a
native of Germany, coming over
to the Hawaii Islands about the
year 1872, and then coming to
Oregon in the year of 1887. He
came direct to Scappoose and
settled there. In the year of
1870 he was married to Mrs.
Sophia Elmhorst, also of Ger
many. To this union were born
three children, two of whom, 1
with the widow, survive him.
They are Mrs. Sophia Scholtz'
and Fred D. Kammeyer Jr., resi
dents of Scappoose; one having
died in the Hawaii Islands. Mr.
Kammeyer served two years in
fie German Army and was hon
ary released. Then he was re-
Never k before in the history of
Co!umbia County has there been
such genuine enthusiasm and feel
ing towards the building and main
tenance of good roads as there is
juatnow. During the past week a
meeting of tha Columbia Highway
Association was held at Gearhart
Park in Clatsop county, at which
time over 100 interested delegates
from Multnomah. Washington, Col
umbia and Clatsop counties at
tended. Speeches were made,
slides were exhibited, resolutions
were passed and promises made all
tending to the building of a good
road down the Columbia River, and
the effort on the part of each com
munity to do its best towards ac
complishing that result. The most
nteresting and perhaps most in
terested, man at the meeting was
Samuel Hill, the famous road
builder. Mr. Hill was for many
years President of tht Great North
em Railway, and is a son-in-law of
James J. Hill, the Empire Builder
He has traveled all over the world
in his endeavor to gather informa
tion first hand about the building of
roads. He has made 38 different
trips across the Atlantic to various
portions of Europe and studied the
different methods employed by na
tions in building roads. He has de
voted the last 20 years to road
building and this feature of his life
will ever remain a monument to his
memory. At the Gearhart meet
ing Mr. Hill gave a lecture illus
trated with slides which he secured
from different parts of the world,
and showed very vividly the ad
vantages and profits to be gained by
the establishment of good roads in
any and every community. He also
showcJ some slides of the scenery
in Ei:r,;o and t.cn cot pared the I
same with the Columbia River j
scenery, and it is not paying too ,
much '.. .tate that the conipari-:
sons were all in favor of the Colum
bia River, even by those who have
passed up and down the river for
years and are thoroughly familiar
wllh the country.
Governor West was represented
at the meeting by Mr Boulby, the
State Highway Commissioner, and
Mr. Chamberlain, who was the Ore
gon delegate to the International
Good Roads .Congress held at Lon
don. Interesting addresses were
made by each and valuable infor
mation given out by them. Col.
Thatcher, who has traveled from
the Atlantic to the Pacific with a
mule team, also gave one of his
characteristic talks on the matter of
roads. Other men from the dif
ferent counties spoke of conditions
in their several communities and
pledged their efforts towards getting
better highways, especially from
Portland to the sea. Judge Harris
of St, Helens was present andmaca
statement that Columbia County
was ready and willing to do its part
towards establishing a good road,
not only through the entire county,
but to every portion of the county.
After the election of officers, at
which the same officers were re
elected, the meeting adjourned and
met again at St. Helens yesterday,
when a delegation from Portland
came down, headed by Julius Meier
and Rufus C. Holman. the charman
of the county board of Maltnomah
county. They were met at St Hel
ens by an enthusiastic bunch from
Rainier and Clatskanie and held a
meeting with the county Court.
Petitions from Rainier and Clat
skanie were shown to the Court ex
pressing a desire to sign a petition
to call an election and submit to
the voters the question of issuing
bonds for the building of county
roads. A committee was appointed
to prepare petitions to the county
Court for the surveying and laying
out of the roads of the county for
which bonds could be voted and to
have prepared a list of roads in the
county where the money would be
spent; the comittee also was in
structed to gather all the informa
tion possible concerning the feeling
ofhe people towards the bond
question. The committee as ap
pointed consists of Geo. M. Mc
Bride of St Helens, Robert Yount
of Rainier, C. L. Conyers of Clat
skanie, Wm Pringle of Mist and
E. A. Gessell of Vernonia. They
will get to work as soon as possible
and will make a report within a
short time. It is the intention of
the committee to make arrange
ments to have Mr. Hill visit St
Helens one day during the County
Fair this month and give his lec
ture and show his slides. If this ar
rangement can be made with him
every tax payer in the county will
be given notice and ahould attend.
MESDAMES L G. AND
ton next week there will be seven
young ladies as the guests of the cilled and served a year in the
MU to th greatest wild west show II mover war. Words of comfort
on earth. were spoken by Mr. Klapp.
About eighty guests accepted
the invitations of Mrs. L. G. Ross
and Mrs. Edwin Ross to an in
formal reception at the home of
the latter, on Thursday, from 2
to 5 p. m. The display of beauti
ful handmade table linens, com
bined with the artistic floral
decorations was in itself an after
noon's entertainment. I the re
ception hall were snow white
dahlias and in the living rooms
mammoth red ones from the gar
den of Mrs. W. W. Blakesley.
The interior dining room was in
yellow and the porch dining room
in hyderangias, the upper floor
and nursery being in pink. Most
notable of all the gorgeous dis
play were the porch decorations,
consisting of masses of dog-wood,
with its combined spring blooms
and autumn berries. Mrs. C. II.
John and Mrs. R. L. Jeffcott
poured and Mrs. W. B. Dillard
and Mrs. J. S. Allen served the
ices. The reception was followed
by a dinner of about 25 covers.