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P.l '-C ? OFFICIAL PAPER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY VOL. XXXII. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1913 NO 60- SUES FOR $50,000 W. A. Fircbaugh Files Suit Against St. Helens Lumber Company Suit was filed in tin; Circuit 'urt lust week by W. A. Fire hutigh ngainat the St. ilcletis Lum ber Co. of this city for $.'iii,000 dam ages for injuries sustained l.y Mr. Fircbniigh while on the dock lit the mill lust summer. It ut ar thai the- yard crow of the mill were trucking iimir very laie timbers to the rdgcof the dock and throw ing them into the liver where they were picked li inl towed over to the ship yards. Mr. Kirehnugh. who is engaged in the real estate liUKinct.it in Portland, Maw one of the limber go ov r the dock and ciniif a bii: splash in t; e water, ho he determined t wauh the next cine. When Hit; erew of workmen put the next big tied t r on the truck it wan no heay that they had Nome trouble in M'tlii:g it started and while Mr. i'irtbaugh wns standing there he took hold of the rimiier to help put'h it along. One of the deck timberH of the dock began to rrack ami gome one railed to look out, no all the men except Kirebaugh let go the timber and stepped bark. The board broke wrmittmg the wheel of the truck to ko through, causing the large timber to roll off the trurk nndonto the leg of Fin-baugh. The result warn badiy fractured leg which had to Ik; amputated later. Now Mr. Kirehauith has started suit to re over $511,000 damage for negli gence on the part of the company fr having aboard on the dork that broke and caused the timber to break his leg. FRED MORGUS BUYS GSOO LOT Young Business Man Makes Good Fred Morgus this week purchased the corner lot of the Laws property on Willamette and Winter streets. This la one of the choice lots in thnt fast growing business section of the city ami Fred hnsmnde a good pur chase. This same young man, Fred Morgus. who has been raised in St. Helena from babyhood, and wh is known by and knows every body in tho city. Is a good example of what a young nmn with a little ambition and rustle can do. Not yet 18 yeursold Fred is a partner in the mercantile business of II. Morgus & Son. and has accumu late,!, by his own work, sufficient money with which to become the owner of several valuable pieces of property. He i" UV 'ho ta highly respected and honored by his associates in the High School and other organizations and is a worthy example for wm of the other boys to emulate. D.TRNESfSLL Next Tuesday night 1. Ernest Randall, tho noted chalk talk ar ,t and cartoonist will war t ,he City Hall to give one of his unique and Interesting entertainments, as the third number of the Lyceum Course. This will- be one of he ,eding features of tho entire course will be well worth see ing and bearing. Remember de. Tuesday. Dec. 16. at the t.ty Hall. A SMALL J5LAZE FSTABROOK I BLFW'S SALOON SCORCHED IN URIY MORNING FIR J'uraday morning t 2 o'clock smoke was seen coming from the Katabrook & Hlew saloon in great volumes and lire nlariri wm turned in immedi ately. TIib firemen were quickly on the scene and upon breaking in the building it whs found thnt the wait in the stuck room at the hark of the 1 building was on fire, hut a few buckets of watrr put it out. The fire wan juHt smouldering along and wan nsroverci before it had gamed any ; hi'MilwuV and vi rv liltU H HmUOA 111 LI a 'lone. It was most certainly a narrjw eirape from a serious conflagration hucHUKti the location of the building is suef. that if a iir .l,l,l ..... m .......... u tart thcro the entire block woulil more than likely go with it Just chance, too, that the fire was dis covered a that hour of the night. Some of the hoys were in the restaurant arcoHi tho stri'it writing out invita- tioi.s to a ocil function and woe Jim liiiihhmg the work when they (lis-' coverd the smoke. Which allgoeato' nhow that s niht mamhall i. necus ry for the protection of property, alter most people have retired. A INDtiTONI AOIO CO. PURCHASE CHRIS JOHNSONS SONS BUSINESS Chris Johnson & Sons have sold their automobile business In St. Helens to the Independent Auto Co. The trans fer of the business was made last Mon day and the new firm has already se cured a new 16 passenger, six cylinder, f.o hone power Winton car which is now on the run between Houlton depot and St. Helens. John and Roy Johnson have taken their large car to Clats kanio and it will be placed on the run there between the depot and the city. The new firm in St. Helens announce that they have made arrangements to take up all the tickets which were issued by the Johnson firm so the ticket will be good now the same as iMiforc. ST. HELENSjHEARS AGO ITEMS TAKEN FROM THE MIST OF DECEMBER 8, 1893 Chss. Johns snd wifo were passen gers up the river on the Dixon yester day morning. Albert Wood of Vcrnonia csme over from that plnce Monday last, and re ports five inches of snow on Hunker Hill. The old saw mill st Columbia City, that has so long been a wreck, has lately been purcha.ed-a part of the ma-chincry-and removed to Clatskanic. where It wlil be used for the manufac ture of shingles. Some sidewalk repairing is necessary in this plsce. just to bring everything up to stsndard of agreesblness and comfort. Letthosewhosedutyitl.to look after such thing, do so. and then we can trsvel around town with a little more comfort. Through the efforts of the count commissioners the railroad Milton station has been grealty lm nroved. The heretofore steep Incline Lbeen.och.nged thst It is now pos .ihlefor.tesm.to.lrsw an onl.n-r, ,ad over the track at thst plsce Th , u of b..a t mck and mpiovcment is oi ,i from the general appearance it I. put there to rcmsin. Sheriff Walt, hss made his p,.f..nt- ,ent of deputy in the person w. lPosnofR.inicr..nd )t one wnicn I. Mr. with universal appr" ipoan-crved f-itfully and e 'in the office of assessor of thi 1 - .... .un. since hen efficiently s county 'iZilW- i- ncra. business COUNTY COURT Each Department and Officer is Limited to a Certain Amount STATE LEVY Under the law of HU.I each office anil department of the country must stay within the appropriation allowed at the time the levy of taxes is mude and as estimated by the County Court. All Hr propri ations must be itemized and all officers and departments must keep ,iu.mi uihi niipiupnauon No offi cer or department is pel m t ted to expend any amount more than 10 per cent greater than the appro priation under any circumstances. The meeting of the County Court last Friday was attended by quite a number of citizens and taxpayers who took Up the budget and dis cussed it thoroughly, after which the court made levies for each de partment as follows: I.evy Amount State .00:t7O4 I6n,9n.r School .OO.170.33U 30,776 Library .0U002120 38 t School officers .(10(100554 100 County Court .00016605 3.000 Circuit Court .00049H13 9,000 Justice Court .000038 75' 700 COLOMBIA COUNTY AUTO CO. AMES OF INCORPORATION FILED WITH SEC. OF STATE FOR NEW ENTERPRISE The Columbia County Automobile Company han filed articles of incor poration with tne Secretary of State with a capital stock of $50,000, and with E. R. Andreson. A. J. Grosbeck and Howard Dennett the incorporators. The principal office and place of business is St. Helens, where a large Karate and machine shop will be operated. In addition to the sup, lies and machine shops the company will have the exclusive tales agCncy for the Ford and Studebaker automobiles. They have secured property oc Colum bia streit and work on their new building will be Btarled within a month. THIEVES ME BUSY Returning home from her duties at the sWe last Tuesday evening, Mrs. C. H. John discovered both back doors of the hou.ic unlocked and open, which at once aroused her suspicion, as she al ways' leaves the doors locked when away from the house. She commenced a search of the house and discovered her diamond ring was niis9:ng, but nothing else gone. As yet she has found no trace of the missing ring, but every effort will be -made to locate the ring and the person who took it. Notice is hereby given that the Muckle Grocery Company has filed, in compliance with law, supple mentary articles of incorporation, changing the corporate name of said corporation to the "Williams & Mall Co." L, I. Williams, I). Walter Willtams. Roes R. II all, Directors. pursuits and has proved a successful business in every sense. With T. C. Watts, master of ceremonies and Charley as his able asisstAnt, the office nf sheriff in this countv is filled with two thoroughly efficient men. MAWFQ TAY I PVY rlxlIVlvO i tA. JU1V V 1 IS 3.7 MILLS Sheriir .00019372 3.500 Clerk .01)01660!; 3.000 Treasurer .0001107 2,000 Coroner .00001661 300 School Supf. .0000911 1,700 Health Officer .noool33 241 Fruit Ins. .oootllo7 2oo Assessor .0001882 3,4oo Tax rebate .oooo277 5oo Current expense .ooo27674 5,ooo Court House .oool3837 2,5oo Jail .00006642 1,2oo fool .ooo26525 4,792 S. and S. .0000I66I 3oo Insane ,ooooo554 loo Election .oool3837 2,5oo Roads ,ooo27674 5, 000 Forest Fire .oooo4985 9oo County Fair ,nooo5535 1,000 Weights ami M. .oooo3875 7oo Scalp .ooooll7o 2?o Total .Oi83oooo 149.957 ROADS AND HIGHWAYS Bridge repairs. mach'y. etc .00,341,182 $61,644 Permanent RoadBldg .00,608.818 110,000 Total .009,500 $171,644 $321,601 Total levy .0178 SHIPPING NOTES j their native country, with thecere- The Steam e Willamette sailed mony wedding vividly repro from here Saturday night with a j duccd by them, it was certainly in- . a teresting. The O. P. R. A. which vaiKU ui vuuji iccb ui iuiiiuci emu 50 passengers. She goes to San Francisco. The Steamer Klamath left down Saturday afternoon for Astoria and ! went to sea early Sunday morning with the Celilo on her hawsers Wireless reports from Capt. Jahn sen reports the Klamath making good time with her tow and he ex pected to arrive in San Francisco tonight. Among the 60 passengers on the Klamath was Mrs. L. G. Ross, who goes for a sojourn in California. The Steamer Yosemite arrived in Sunday and after taking on 500M feet of lumber to complete her cargo and receiving her full com plement of passengers, left down Tuesday night, bound for San Pedro and SanDiego, Capt. Chas. Marro, formerly of the Steamer Multnomah, now has charge of the Yosemite. The Merchants Exchange reports the safe arrival of the Schooner Irene at Lauceston, Tasmania. The Iiene, Capt. Mitchell, sailed from St. Helens Sept. 16th, carrying a cargo of one million feet of lumber loaded .at St. Helens. The many friends of the Captain will be glad to learn of his safe arrival. The Steamer J"han Poulson of the Loop Company's fleet loaded a partial cargo here and left down river Thursday noon. The Steamer Yellowstone, after loading a partial cargo of wheat in Portland dropped down to St. Hel ens Thursday night. She is taking on a deck loud of lumber here for delivery in SanFrancisco. The Steamer Multnomah arrived in Thursday and is loading for San Pedro. She will probably sail Monday night with a million feet of lumber and 60 passengers. ANOTHER BIG SOCIAL SOCCESS ladies of congregational church fwfutiiiist hfifkpumf With every available chair and bench occupied and more than one hundred people standing in the aisles and in the rear of the room, the large auditorium beautifully and lavishly decorated, boys and girls dressed in the costume of the Flowery Kingdom, and with every body in the best of humor, the ladies of the Congregational church staged their annual Christmas sale and entertainment last night. Without going into detail of the merits of the individual performers let it be said that each number on the program was the best, but better than all was the little five and six year old boys and girls in their innocent and interesting songs and actions. The little tots were surely fine and if nothing else had been on the program each and every person would have received full value for their admission fee. But that was not all. There were songs by Miss Stennick of Rainier, E. W. Root and A. A. Galichio of St. Helens which were each so well rendeied that an encore brought them back for the second time. Then the scene depicting the Japanese wedding was beautiful with all the girls and boys dressed in Japanese costume and going 1 through their various parts with ; the little jiggety-jig trot used by I the Japanese in real earnest in resembled amateur night at a vaudeville was a screamer for a finis to the entertainment and some of the performers in that farce would make some of the profes sionals look ashamed of themselves. After the performance the people visited the various booths and bought pretty things to wear and good things to eat until a late hour. Altogether it was a grand success and netted the ladies of the church a tidy sum for their work Hoclton Store Robbed Window Broken and Dry Goods Stolen Thievis broke into Perry & Graham's store at Houlton last Wednesday night and carried away some goods valued at about $25, among w hich was about $8.00 worth of ribbon, 4 boxes of gloves, one $5 sweater, some auto veils and other articles. The thieves gained entrance by breaking open the front window. Juat a year ago, before Christmas, the same window was brok-n open and articles of a simi lar nature taken. Circle Elects Officers Houlton Circle No. 478, Women of Woodcraft elected the following officers last Tuesday afternoon: Past Guardian Neighbor, Elsa UYikstron; Guardian Neighbor, Anna VanNatta; Advisor, Agnes Dixon; Clerk, Minnie MorUy; Ban ker, Mamie Felton; Magician, Julia Anderson; Captain of Guards. Anna Richardion. Inner Sentinel, Maude Chittim; Outer Sentinel, Mary Hazen: Attendant, Ada Rrouse; Managers, Etta Cole, Maud Chittim, Elsa Wikstrom. Ml BUILD TWO BARGES Shipbuilding Co. Gets Large Contract A contract for the building of two large barges waa awarded to the St. Helens Shipbuilding Co., this week. The barges will be of 1200 tons ca pacty, each and wilt be used for trans porting stone from Fishers, Washing ton, to the jettty at the mouth of the Columbia River. They will be owned by the Columbia Contract Co. and to gether they will coat about $25,000 The work on these barges will be completed April IsC and will keep the crow busy until that time when work on another large uteam schooner to take the place of the wrecked Merced will commence. Work at the yards has been contiunous since the spring of 1912, during which time three large ocean going set-am era nave been launched and several smaller boots have been built. The building of ships has become one of our big industries and is one of the things which go to make St. Helena the pay roll town of Oregon. High School Notes St. Helens broke the jinx Satur day by winning its first game. The boys found out how to win now and are going to keep on the winning side after this. Kellogg starred at center for the local bunch. Score, St. Helena 19, Rainier 10. Kellogg C. Clark McDonald L. F. Fowler Roberson R. F Furer Perry L. G. Atkins Richardson R. G. Johnson Subs. Smith for Perry; Silva for Fuier; Furer for Clark. Field goals Kellogg 5, McDon ald 4, Fowler 4, Furer 1. Fouls McDonald 1. The game with Clatskanie next Saturday was postponed until future date. The girls of the High School have organized a "Choral Club," with Miss Hammar8trom aa director. They make their first appearance Thursday evening in "A Night in Japan," at the City Hall. Harold Ransom returned to school Monday after a two weeks vacation at his home in Aumsville, Ore. The Lyceum Course is not re ceiving the patronage it should. Laurence Davis and Russell Sterling have registered as Fresh man this month. THANK yOU The members and friends of the Congregational Ladies Aid wish to thank all those who so generously contributed to the success of their entertainment and bazaar, by do notions, patronage or assistance in the entertainment, especially Mrs. E. Ross, who planned the decor ations, Miss Perry who took charge of the entertainment. W. W. Blakesley, who planned and built the various booths, the Galichio Orchestra, Mrs. Brough, Miss Sten nick, and E. W. Root who donated their services, and each and every one who aided in any way. Arcade Theatre Special Sunday matinees 4:30 to 6:00 p. m. Complete change of picture. for. Sunday night shows. 5 and 10 cents.