Helens on the
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;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.