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Bk i , - - - m k I II 151 I I r-l Li . M L i v i 14 i t i r i h i i a u r i i a i ; s iiiiii i OFFICIAL PAPER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY VOL. XXXII. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST I, 1913 NO 31. II WAS A BAIL GAME MKIIIOMBJHSTMID RSCFJES! LOCUS CO 10 MM What resembled ball frame of Ih.uld variety was played in St. Sl-lt-ns lat Sunday when the local a" . oyi nu t defeat at the hands of the iM Columbia Club of Portland, to Untune of 11 to 10. The gam Lsi inteii-sting for tho battinjr of ,ume run, throwing the ball over he fence and running around the ithi. The local buttery wan Eik- ,.., pitcher, and Frank Flag. atcher. We failed to mention the Inline thut was played the week be fore and have aotne hesitancy in ioinir o now, but the boys from Wixxllarul came across the river to uke the calps of the local, but cnthnck home after having the hunor of taking the abort end of a 19 to 2 score. The lea aaid the itter. Next Sunday there will be mother k" iome u'arn ;h way the local boy are playing giioJ K'e will be aeen. SriHS KKOM I.A.NT SlJNPAY Fikman had pitched the first five inning and while a trille wild he had plenty of amoke. With better control he i a comer. Brakke finished the gnme in the b.z and showed hia old cunning at the ai t. Frank Flagg caught a good game but was kept fairly busy pulling up ii Ht'irkings. Kichardsun and Dill played the usual steady gan.e. rtullagh had a good day at first, pearing several hard ones. Steven and Morton were taking the breezes off the ocean at Sea- iiJe, but next Sunday will again be in uniform. liidgefield will play here next Sunday and the boys deserve a better attendance than they are gi tting, as they are all home boys and ure doing their best to boost for St. Helena by keeping up a good U-am with no expense. MCCORMICK LEO BUSY PASSENGER ACCOMMODATIONS ARE CROWDED 10 LIMIT On a conservative estimate the Mcv'ormick fleet of steam achooners is handling over 11.000,000 feet of lumber from the Columbia to Cali fornia ports monthly and this in the face of news from San Francisco that 18 vessels of that type are being laid up owing to alack busi nexs. Charles U. McCormick. head of the company bearing hia name, i here for a week'a visit, and aays Umt 75 per cent of the lumber taken down the coast by the Mc Cormick steamers finda lU way into Southern California, the remainder being discharged at San F.ancisco. With more than 130,000,000 feet annually being moved by the one line it would indicate that Los Angeles and San Diego territories re advancing. Mr. McCormick ayi that the biggest aursriae of the year has been t he gains in pas- 1'ngcr travel, aa hundreds are turned away at San Francisco in a eek from northbound steamers. NOTICE Notion la hnrolitf trlvxn that I have tuken up at my place near Houltnn one dark red bnll with "mm white. No marks or brands. About 18 months old. Owner can have same by calling and paying charges. ' Earthquake Shock MI. RAINIER SENDS THRILLS THROUGH PEOPLE OF TACOMA Tacoma, July 29.-Two severe earthquake shocks, covering an area of more than 100 square miles, shook Mount Rainier about 11:15 this morning, rocked the gate houses of the immense concrete structure of Tacoma's $2,000,000 power plant at LaGraode, 30 miles fcouth of Tacoma, and created alarm in hundreds of homes. The dis turbance, lasting about half a minute, was most strongly felt at National I'ark Inn, at Ashford and LaGrande. The telephone operator, Mrs. Scurry, at Ashford, was sitting at the switchboard and was thrown violently forward, the chair lurch ing toward the desk. Officials at the city's Nisqually power plant, after a speedy examination, re ported they had found no cracks. Hundreds from Tacoma and else where are on the mountain tramp ing over glaciers and following dangerous trails, but no reports of injuries have ben received. F.than Allen, superintendent of the Na tional I'ark district, said there could bo no doubt they were seismic dis turbances. The shocks were ap parent at Kibe and Eatonville, in Fierce county, and at Lewis, in Lewis county, where the shock ap peared to be the strongest. ROAD EXPERT COMING South Yarmouth, Mssi., July 24. Kditor The Mist, St. Helens, Ore., Dear Sir: Mr. A. L. Westward, Vice-President of the National Highways Association, will shortly puss through your city on his 17,000 mile trip by motor-car, which he is taking under the auspices of this association, in the interest of good toads everywhere. In his ride through Utah he was accompanied part of the way by Governor Spry, and w hile in Nevada was joined by Governor OdJie. This trip he is taking Is creating wide interest everywhere, as every city, town and hamlet is anxious to share in the good work that the National Ilinh wnvs Association is planning to do. Good roads all over the country mean development all along the lino. We shall appreciate any pub licity you may give this matter be fore Mr. Westgard passes through your part of the country. Yours very truly. Charles II. Davis. ' President WARREM J. S. Bacon is having hia house reshingled and painted. P. A. Carlson is giving hia house a coat of paint. A picnic was held in C. J. Lar son'i orchard by the Swedish church tw-onle last Sunday. They had ser vices in the orchard and refresh ments were served at C. Hendrick son's. Mr. John Kappler who recently moved away from Bachelor Flat, has written hia friends here of the arrival of a twelve pound baby girl at his home. Warted-Position as housekeeper by refined woman of 29. Will go anyplace. Enquire at Mist office, St. Helens, Ore. PRIZE VOTING COW ABSORBING THEM E OF Special Oiler of Extra Votes to Help Late Entrants, Starting 3londa3r Governor Wet Subscribes in Favor of Miss Dottie Pringle of Mist DISTRICT Miss Kttther Weigle, St. Helens Miss Grace Poejoy, St. Helens Miss Alice Kichardson, St. Helens DISTRICT Mrs. Jennie Olsen, Rainier M ks Daisy Hutchi .son. Rainier Visa Sarah Mathews, Rainier DISTRICT Miss Beth Terry, Houlton Mrs. Rudolph C. Karth, Yankton Miss Kate Raker, Warren Miss Fannie Cooper, Warren Miss Ada Adams, Scappoose . Miss Fay Lynch, Scappoose DISTRICT Miss Dorothy Fowler, Goble Miss Mamie MeClay, Columbia City Mrs. Ira Withrow. Goble DISTRICT Miss Wilma Pulliam, Clatskanie Miss Page, Clatskanie Miss Leverne Reddick, Clatskanie, DISTRICT Miss Mabel Mills, Vernonia Miss Inez Smith. Vernonia Miss Dottie Pringle. Mist Miss LaVeta Thrapp, Vernonia.. PHOTO BY WHX'H MISS FANNIE COOPER Leader District No. 3 9 -,3 MISS DOTTIE PRINGLE Leader Diitrict No. 6 The Prize Voting Contest for the free trips to the Round-Up promises to surpiiM in interest any venture of like nature ever conducted in the state of Oregon. Candidates are becoming alert with feverish ex citement and subscriptions are pour ing in from all parts of the county and state. A special olTer of extra votes on each "club of five" new subscrip tions is now in force and gives those candidates who entered late an opportunity to over take the leaders and at the same time affords ' A . T" CITY AND MY NO. 1 48,357 .... 23,130 .... 11,505 No. 2 5,000 10,470 12,300 NO. 3 7.5C5 23,840 , 32,310 30.924 17,760 '. 12,385 NO. 4 12,210 18,300 . 40,870 NO. 5 25,830 7,510 7,360 NO. 6 -- 16,535 -- 19,730 - - 32,415 5.000 MISS KATE BAKER Second in District No. 3 PHOTO IIV WKIXM B : . . ' . i ' ..a MISS ESTHER WEIGLE Leader District No, 1 a chance for those who are now ahead to build up a reserve force of votes to cast later on. Hereto fore one thousand votes were al lowed on each yearly subscription, but during this special offer new subscriptions will count three times as muny, making fifteen thousand votes for each five subscriptions turned in between now and August 9th. This will positively be the best offer of extra votes during the contest, and the candidates who do their best now are the ones who will win. None are so far ahead but that they can be easily over taken, and now that the special offer is in force it behooves each and every one of you to make every moment count, for while you are idling you can just bet there are "others "on the job." You may have a few thousand votes in re serve, but how about your com petitors? Two new candidates were nomi nated this week and judging from the information received by the contest department they will give a good account of themselves and it will not be surprising if their names are included with the winners the closing night of the contest, August 30th. Just at this t;me Miss Esther Weigle is leading in district No. 1, with Miss Grace Popejoy second. Miss Matthews is ahead in district No. 2. Miss Fannie Cooper and Miss Kate Baker of Warren are having a race all their own in dis trict No. 3. Miss Pulliam retains the lead in district No. 4, and Mrs. Withrow of Reuben continues to hold first place in district No. 5, with Miss McClay second. Miss Dottie Pringle at Mist is deserving of special mention for her excellent work. She has a system of getting subscribers which is hard to beat. A number of subscriptions have been received from out of town with request that vote? be cast in favor of Miss Pringle, among them this week was one from Governor West. This goes to prove the statement made by the Contest Manager in a former issue that "all the world loves an ambitious yonng lady" and everyone is willing to help those who are willing to do their part. SEWER BIDS OPENED When the City Council 'opened the bids for the construction of the sewers in Districts No. 3, 5, 6 and 7 with the trunk line last Monday nijrht it was found that the lowest bid was $54,778.35 and the highest bid was o ver $66,000. As these bids were considerably more than w as estimated and figured on, the matter was laid over for action at a special meeting of the Council to be held the next Wednesday evening. On Wednesday evening the Council met and after deliberating the bid of the Jas. Kennedy Construction Co. of Portland was accepted for the following districts and amounts: The main trunk line 112,429; Sewei District No. 3, $8929.45; Sewer district No. 6. $8951.20; Sewer dis trict No. 7, $5508.10, making a total of $35,817.75. The bid for Sewer district No. 5 was rejected and there will be no work done on this district. At the time the Council passed the ordinances declaring its inten tion of ordering the sewers in the various districts a number of the property owners in the different districts appeared and remonstrated with the Council against the sewer construction. But the council re garded it as necessary for the sewers to be constructed, so passed ordinances ordering same. Then those people who were interested had prepared some referendum pe titions against the ordinances, ex cept as to Sewer District No. 3, and filed them with the Recorder, but the Council took the stand that be cause there were some women who had signed the referendum peti tions that they were invalid and therefore proceeded to advertise for anil receive bids lor same, inose parties who were instrumental in getting up the referendum peti- FROM PORTLAND TO ST. HELENS IN ONE HOUR AND TEN MINUTES Imagine, me in the front seat of C. J. Johnson & Sons big National speeding down from Portland try-, ing to get here in time for this issue of th Mist. Wasn't much use of coming as news is scarce and everything quiet around the old town. Talk about good roads, nothing out of Portland that will compare with the St. Helens road, and people are beginning to realize it too. Oil wagons are thick down as far as the Columbia county line, and they stop there, for what reason I do not know; might as well come all the way down, oil is cheap. It is cer tainly worth your while to take the ride. Has the same effect as a week's vacation. Let me see, it was just two weeks ago today since I was here. You know. St. Helens has a fascin ation for me. What it is, is a problem, but being a woman it must be the line of gossip thrust upon me. Mrs. Frog said that Mrs. Cat rode out in the bus with Mr. Snake to Houlton. Now, isn't that terrible. Unfortunately they hap pened to get in the same bus; ane should have walked over by all means. Walking is splendid exer cise. By the way, St. Helens has a newly appointed postmaster; several people have told me about it. Sorry to see Mr. Gray's familiar face dis appear from Uncle Sam's office, but Wilson did the proper thing when he appointed Mrs. Dodd. I believe this one act will gain him many friends. Someone told me that Mr. Gray would devote the remaining years of his life to playing tennis. Every time I go to the post office there seems to be a magnet that draws me toward Von Gray's win dow. Sometimes 1 wonder whether it is Von, himself. But he cer tainly has a well filled show window, with all kinds of pretty rings, pins and everything imaginable. It's perfectly wonderful. The glitter of gold always impressed me, and Von is so pleasant with a smile that helps so much. Met Dr. L. G. in talkinr to Von, Ha ia a mighty pleasant fellow. He is certainly good to the book agents. They all speak highly of him. wanted me to sign upon the lecture course, but nothing doing. The hall is too large. Of course, being near, I have ' to call on Fred and try one of his famous sodas. Fred was so pleased with his new eight day clock that he nearly forgot my presence. He in formed me sodas will be served on time now, and that it is very quiet in town on account f all the Bon tons having gone to the beach. The very next time I come down 1 am going to have a two-hour personal interview with some of your leading merchants and citizens, and in the meantime just remember this is a great country we took from the Indians. Lottie Moore. For sale in Yankton 40 acres of improved land on county road. Good buildings. R. C. Karth, Yankton, Ore. tiona now say that they are having papers made to enjoin the council from proceeding with the work or letting the contracts until the validity of the referendum petitions ia decided by the court.