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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1915)
Helens on the nYYfrTmmammm ;J oft. SVC UNCLE SAM'S NEW FI BUILDINGS HOOX TO UK STARTED HKV Kit A I, ADDITIONS TO OLD Itl II.IHM.M TO UK MADE. Promises to be Best Fair Kcr Held In County Mmh Kiilliu. Milium living Manifested PreKl. (lent Much KUitnl. President 0. I.. Tarbell of llio Co lumbia County Fair association, In conversation wllli a MImI representa- llVO till WOk, showed IlllllSelf to 1)1' very much elated over tlm Interest being shown by t lie peoplo, not only in this part of the county hut from farmer on tho border bUU. In On coming county fair. receiving re quests every day for premium llstB, hoiiiR encouraged hy this manifest!! Mon. "Wo hopo to hoM tho best fair Unit It linn been tho pleitxuro of our people to enjoy. Mid no stone will ho left unturned, no obstacle too large to surmount to accomplish t li i end," stated Mr. Turbell. Tho county fair preniluni lists are now In tho lunula of the fair ollleluls .md uro being mailud out in fust as possible- to Uioho who havo inude re quests for them. ATter a perusal ol the IIhI. a pamphlet of sixteen pages, beRldeii tho cover, tends to hIiow tluil tho $1600 uid moro will be expended 40 that every person litis an oppor tunity of making some kind of an ixhlhlt ond will be well recompensed .'or any extra trouhlo or labor. No better advertisement can the farmer or stock raiser get than t placo his product or slock or any thing else on exhibit, which will be sxumlnod and ohsorved by hundred of peoplo dully. A contract will soon bo let by President Tarbell for tho construc tion of a school exhibit building, ad Iniulng tho women's exposition build ing on tho west. Tho structure will ho of rustic design, 32 feot wide and 70 feot long. A large addition will ho made- to tho poultry building, and goveral other oxhlbit buildings will recoivo their shuro of remodeling and Improvements. CiRCUIT COUT sEssiQN Next Week Nothing f Any O'fnt Iiiipi.itjinre lCxiteil to bo ItroiiKht I'l1' No ciiBes of Importunco havo been filed to bo hoard before Judge J. A. ivuin In tho district court, com- T.1...M11V. July Oth. The llieimini' .m."-! - grand jury bus been called to rc-as-sombln for the purpose of acting lu tho case of two mon, who ure now lodged In the county Jull, for burglar- On the Oth the cbro of Columbia Comity for O. II. Honnott vs. Con solldatod Contract Company et al., is booked. The following day tho enso of 8. Hymnle vs. City of Italnlor. On the 12th the controversy between the liouvor Lumber company v. Uarker, will bo hoard. Fourth - Next is the County Fair Sept OFFICIAL PAPER OF ST. HELENS, OREGON, LOCAL QUARRY READY TO lli:;l. OI'KKATIOXH OX J VIA' H.VTII WILL PIT ON MORE MKX HOOX. Overhauling Equipment Del rig Dune I.)- Moiilague-O'lU'illy & Company 1'IiIh Week. A half loaf is better than none 1110 quarry in operation with pros lects for moro Is better thun a com pleto shut-down. MontuKue-O'Reilly ,'ompany unloaded three largo auto trucks at tho local dock Monday even ing which was brought up from points down the river and drove on to Portland, to be used by the com pany In huullng preparatory to com mencing work oil a section of the 'ur.yon road In Multnomah county, which was awarded to them by the county commissioners. Tho company has placed D. A. Hamilton, formerly of this city, In liargo of their quarry north of town, md ho put fourteen mechanics to work Monday, repairing the equip ment of tho three crushers, and on tho Oth of July, will commence the crushing of stone to be used in the contract. Twenty-live men will he nuployed and contracts for a four months' steady run have been made, with perhaps tho promise of more. THIEVING GANG'S CACHE FOUND OIllcerN Think Arrcwt of Few Weeks Ago Put Stop to Trouble and Pur ties Miulo Their (Jet-Away. Jack Appleton of Deer Island, no tilled Sheriff Stanwood lute Saturday oveulng to come down the next morn Ing, that one of bis men had found something thnt would porhaps Inter est him. Karly Sunduy morning the sheriff donned bis howle knife and pistol and made his way thither, whore ha was taken for some dls- tanco down a cow path on the Island and ushered off to one side through a dense undergrowth, suddenly com ing upon what had evidently been a thieving bnnd's cache and hiding place. The underbrush had been noutly arranged to resemble an old fashioned outdoor bake oven with a small hole for an entrance. A large wagon umbrella served as a protec tion over bond. A number of articles, such as guns, clothing, canned goods, etc., were neatly stored away. It is presumed by the sheriff that some arrests a few weeks ago put the "go" In -the balunce of the gang, as no tholvlng has been reported for the hist two months, when the arrests were made, and until that time it bad been a constant call to the officers by parties In the Door Island section. Sheriff Stanwood Btates that ho has good clues since finding this den and intends to chase the guilty parties down. MEMBERS ENTERTAINED At a formal gathering Saturday evening, at tho Masonic templo, the COLUMBIA COUNTY FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1915. COUNTY ROAD WORK IS riUKiKKHNINU XICKI.Y HEV. KltAL NEW COXTKACTS HAVK HKKN I,KT. Portland ltoud Near ScappooHe Doing ltepaireItttclielor l'nit Gets a (rood Highway. Among tho other good things that are happening so thick and fust about us, we must not lot the fact slip past that there is a network of road build ing taking place throughout the coun ty from the north to the south, from tho east to the west. At many points along the Colum bia Highway contractors have crews of men busy grading and leveling. Near Clutskanle large crews of local laborers are doing good work, and so on up to Coble Bluff, where another large forco Is working. At Dellna. about two miles from Rainier, O. II. Dennett has a contract and Is busy. Q. T. Tarbell Is assembling material on the Perry road. The Bachelor Flat road, when completed, will be one of the best stretches in the county and will connect the Warren and Bachelor Flat districts with their first good road. A crusher is being set up ready for operations at Mist, where gravel will be used on two miles which was par tlully graded last year and finished this spring. This Is known as the Mtst-Clatskauie road on top of the mountain. Another crusher has just been sot up on the Pittsburg cut-off, which Is being rocked after being graded last year. This, when com pleted, will be three miles of fine road and with about one and three- quarters miles of the finest scenic thoroughfare in this section, the roadway this distance winding up the mountain Bide. Screenings are being hauled with the county truck to Scappoose, which will be placed on the Portland road both north and south of the postofflce as fast an possible, and then oiled im mediately, which should place this main highway In excellent shape. In the Nehalem valley, on the Pee- ble, Rock and Beaver creek roads, work Is being done. On the Nehalem cut-off two steel bridges crossing the Nehalem river, are being constructed under contract. On account of what the county court deemed excessive bids, they re fused to award a old lor the con struction of a steel bridge across the Clatskanle river at Clatskanle. Plans and specifications are now being made by the highway engineer for a wooden structure, with both concrete and tubular abutments. On this road building every local laborer who lias desired a position has been given work by the county Judge. ' gentlemen members of the Eastern Star entertained the lady members and a few friends In a royal manner. A most pleasant evening was spent In social Intercourse, Intermingled with readings, vocal solos and short addresses, 110 peoplo on joying the ii iii ii sarnie THELAMBUMBERCO HAVK STARTED WORK OX NEW JAXJ;.; ROAD NEAR DEER ISLAND. Rights-o!-Way Secured ()irrathns to Re Pushed to Comple tion Will Dredge Slough for Outlet to River. Wars may come and wars may go, but Columbia county just keeps on prospering. Not for the paBt several years have prospects been so promis ing as they are today. With the building of the large five-masted ves sel by the St. Helens Shipbuilding yards assured, which will employ some one hundred skilled mechanics, drawing salaries of from $3.50 to $10.00 per day, and the fact that the Montague-O'Reilly company has started operations at their Btone quarry here to furnish stone for pav ing, with four months' work In sight to start with, and road work scatter ed throughout the county taking every available man, among the best Is yet to be told. The Lamb Timber company have started work on their proposed logging road at Deer Isl and. This company's timber hold ings In that vicinity consist of some four hundred million feet, which runs about fourteen miles west of Deer Island. Surveys have been completed for some weeks and rights-of-way have been purchased twelve miles back for the logging road and construction work has already start ed. In order that the company may have an outlet to the Columbia river, R. C. Crowell, superintendent of con structlon, states that they will dredge the slough from Deer Island station to the river, making a channel one hundred feet wide and that a roll way of twelve hundred feet will be built. A steel bridge eighty feet long will be erected over the S. P. & S. com pany's track a short distance west of Deer Island, and permits have been applied for to go under the Columbia Highway by cutting a twenty-five foot cut one mile west of the station. A "Y" will connect the logging road with the S. P. & S. tracks and the terminal at Deer Island. festivities. At 11 o'clock an Invitation was extended to the guests to repair to the spacious dining hall, where ample Justice was done to the feast of Ice oream and cake that had been pre pared for the satisfaction of the inner mm. Mr. John Philip was toastmaster. and handled the evening's program tn a most masterful manner. Those who participated in the Informal program were: Mrs. L. L. Baker, reading; Miss Elsie Philip, reading; Mrs. L. R. Rutherford, vocal solo; Rev. John Foster, Impromptu speech; Mrs. C. C, Cassat, yocal solo.