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V ST. HELENS MIST, FRIDAY. AUGUST 13. 1915. CORRESPONDENCE! Lrik AAA A&AAAA AAi HOULTON. Mrs. S. S. Long was a Portland visitor recently. John Gaitens of Deer Island, was in the city Monday. Mrs. Perley Crouse visited friends in Portland last week. J. O. Oivens and wife motored to Scappoose Friday evening. Mrs. James Williams was a Port land visitor on Saturday last. Grant Robey and two sons were Portland visitors last week. Harry Urie has returned to Houl ton after a few weeks' absence. Thomas Klblan returned last week from Rainier, where he visited rel atives. Mr. and Mrs. Jarvls Davis of Yank ton, spent Sunday iu Houlton with friends. Mrs. McCoy, who is living at Scap poose, was in the city visiting friends last week. Mr. and Mrs. John Lamberson spent the day shopping in Portland last Saturday. N. O. Larrabee has returned from St. Martin's hot springs much im proved In health. Mr. and Mrs. Carry of Deer Island, were in Houlton and St. Helens last week on business. Mrs. Marshall Churchill of Mas ten's camp, visited friends in Houl ton Thursday of last week. Mrs. Wilkinson has returned to ' her home in Rainier after a stay of several weeks In Houlton. John Farr and family of Warren, were In Houlton Friday evening, hav lng driven down in their car. Rev. Sanford Snyder was on the sick list the latter part of last week; he is much Improved at this writing Lawrence Tarbell of Yankton, at tended the meeting of the Dairymen at Warren on last Wednesday even ing. At the ice cream social given by the Ladies' Aid of the M. E. church, the sum clear of expenses amounted to 115.00. Mrs. A. T. Kiblan and daughters Helen and Amelia, departed Sunday for a visit with relatives and friends at Rainier and Clatskanie. Mrs. Ben Thompsons' two little grandaughters, who have been spend ing their vacation here, returned to their home In Portland last week. Mrs. Beecher I. Plummer of this city, is entertaining her sister, Mrs. R. M. Fuson of Annsville, Oregon, Mrs. Fuson will remain for several Miss Beth Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Perry of Houlton, has returned from Monmouth, Ore gon, where Bhe attended Summer school. Mrs. George Gensman and daugh ters, Nora and Bonnie, and Mrs. John McQueen and daughters, Mamie and Babes, went on a picnic below Co lumbia City last Tuesday. Mrs. B. I. Plummer, her two child ren and her house guests, Mrs. R. M. Fuson and Mrs. Rosa Sloop, and the Misses Sloop, were Portand visitors Saturday, returning by boat the same day. Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Masten and daughter, Wilma, of Masten's camp, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Masten of this city Sunday, mo toring to and from their home In their Ford. Mrs. T. S. White, daughter Helen, ,and house guests, Mrs. T. E. Cooper, Mrs. Thos. Carson and little son, Thomas, Jr., left Tuesday morning for Seaside, where they will remain for a week. Mr. White expects to spend the week end with hig family there. Mrs. Rosa Sloop and daughters, Lola and Caroline, are spending a few weeks with Mrs. B. I. Plummer. Mrs. Sloop resides in Jefferson coun ty, Kansas, but has visited Oregon before. She and her daughters have spent several weeks in California, at the Exposition city and other points of Interest, and will return to their home soon. TRENHOLM. Mrs. Carl Coolldge and Hilda Cool idge visited St. Helens Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Kline are entertain ing their daughter of Portland, for two weeks. Mrs. Wm. Ketel and children are visiting Mrs. Lowe of Houlton, for a few days. A community picnic was held In Trenholm last Sunday and quite a few families attended. MrB. Chas. Morgan and family of Portland, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Brown, for two weeks. Mrs. Chas. Hein, Mrs. Hattle Mc Nabb and Marie and Lena Hein, mo tored to St. Helens Sunday. Clyde Hein, Will Woerner and Harry Dunn motored to Portland Friday and took In the sights o.' the big city. Mrs. Holstlne, Mrs. Ross Stan wood and niece, Miss Marie Anderson of Yankton visited Mrs.' McAloy Thursday. Mrs. Zoe Fellows, Miss Harriet Potts and Mrs. Frank Carson are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Potts for two weeks. We have Just received a new gup ply of library books with gome fine summer reading among them. Mrs. Henry McAllister is the new librarian and those wishing books will find the library at her home. Everybody Is Invited to the free use of the books. REUBEN. Mrs. J. C. Watts is spending Buy ers' Week in Portland. Albert D. Larson and wlfo visited In Portland a few days last week. W. E. Wiley and W. M. Pillsbury of Portland, were in town on Friday. Mrs. J. M. Lindsay is visiting with friends at Hubbard, Oregon, this this week. Miss La voile Cannell of Portland, Is the guest of Miss Leora Alexander this week. Mrs. Minnie Burglss and son of Rainier, visited with her father, J. M. Lindsay, Wednesday. Mrs. Ed White of Kaiama, visited with her brothers, W. E. and II. Giberson, this week. Miss Lulie M. Baldwin of Port land, who has been visiting with her aunt, Mrs. J. 0. Watts, returned home on Saturday. There was a Joint Sunday School picnic held at the school house In District No. 20, last Sunday, of the schools at Neer City, Red Town and this district. WARREN. The Boy Scouts held their regular drill practice last Friday evening. The Ladles' Aid of the M. E. church met at Mrs. Joe Erickson's home Friday afternoon. The Luther League of the Swedish church, held their regular business meeting Wednesday evening. Mrs. Maude Tompkins and sons, visited at the home of her mother, Mrs. N. F. Baker, during the last week. The weather has been fine for ten nis, therefore the young folks have been making good use of the new court. The band held a concert In the new stand last Saturday evening, which was greatly appreciated by the audi ence. Another concert will be held Saturday evening, the 14th. Every one come and boost for the hand, as we've got one to be proud of. CIRCUIT COURT. August 6 The Adjustment Bu reau of the Portland Assn. of Credit Men, vs C. Johnson & Sons; com plaint to recover for goods, wares and merchandise. P. M. Popham, vs. Columbia Coun ty Produce Company; complaint to recover for goods, merchandise and labor. Alice L. French, vs. Lewis French; complaint filed for divorce. Milton Smith, vs. Paul Poethdi. complaint praying for Judgment against removal of barn. COritT P!C'KKMXri.S. (Continued from page 3). Standifer-Clark8on Co., $12,400.90. Nelialeni Uond Fund. R. Yount, $16.00; G. S. Knapp, $131.00;-W. Benham. $152.35; Am-brose-Burdsal Co., $1176.95. (Old) It. I). Xo. 5, 8ecial.' Coast Culvert & Flume Co., $27.00; G. W. Cooper. $93.13; Chas Link, $103.13; F. Welter, $10.00; J. Archibald, $30.00; E. H. Blake, $39.25; J. H. Pomeroy, $31.25; Earl Cooper, $18.25; S. Alexander, $87.50; Sid Malcolm, $88.13; Jud Truman, $46.55; John Link, $16.00; Geo. Fowler, $4.00; J. Snow, $6.00; J. Wasser, $10.00. Friday, August 6, 1915. 7th Ju dicial Day. On this day Clatskanie Business Men's Club and Development League present their written petition for an appropriation in the gum of $50.00, to be used in payment for expense of entertaining visitors on the proposed ceremony of opening the Columbia Highway, and the Court being ad vised in 'the matter, it is ordered by the Court that said petition be, and the same is hereby denied. On this 6th day of August, 1915, F. W. Martin, et al and Willis L. Marsh, et al., present to the Court their two duly executed deeds, con veying strips of land In Haven Acres No. 2, for road purposes, and the Court being advised in the matter, it Is ordered by the Court that said deeds be and the game are hereby approved, and that the Clerk file the same for record. It Is further ordered by the Court that the Clerk be, and he is hereby authorized and instructed to Issue general fund warrants in favor of said F. W. Martin and in favor of said Willis L. Marsh, In the sum of $100.00 and in the sum of $340.00, respectively, and that said warrants be gent to the Clatskanie State Bank, to be held by said bank pending agreement between said mentioned payees and one August Delfel, as to the division of said funds. The claim of H. I. Keeney for damages in the sum of $2000.00. on account of location of Columbia High way, coming on for consideration by the Court In accordance with an or der of the Circuit Court of this Ju dicial District, heretofore made, In the matter of the petition of said H. I. Keeney for a Writ of Review of the proceedings heretofore had herein, and the Court being advised In the matter, it is ordered by the Court that said claim.be allowed in the sum of $660.00, as agreed to between W. H. Powell, Esq., attorney for said petitioner, and the County Court, as NEWSY NEWS fir vvwvvv v w 8. I & 8. TIME TAltLK. South Bound. Rainier Local 7:53 a.m. 11:06 a. m. Raiuier Local 3:49 p.m. 7:39 p. m. North Hound. 8:14 a. m. Rainier Local 1:68 p. ni. Rainier Local 6:45 p. m. toto llrakko spent Sunday in Port land. E. I. Ralli'.gh was a business vis itor to Asto lu Monday. J. T. Tabor made a business trip to Portland Saturday. A. It. Tarbell of Warron, was a business visitor to tlio county Boat Tuesday. Missos Anno and Susie Ketel are spending the week with friends at Goblo. Mrs. W. B. Mackay of Tortluid spent tlio wook end hero, visiting relatives. Mrs. J. T. Tabor attended the wholesale millinery opening at Port land Monday. Mrs. H. F. Kemp and Mrs. W. B Armstrong of Portland, visited MIks Beryl Muckle Saturday. Olnf Nelson of Houlton, an old reader of the Mist, placed Ills renewal for another year the past week. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bnmes spent tlio first of the woek In St. Holens, at the A. T. Laws homo. Clatskanie Chief. Miss Maudio Richardson left lust Friday for Warrenton, to spend sev eral days visiting her aunt, Mrs. K. H. Flagg. Mrs. G. A. Kimball and daughter, Latona, of Portland, visited several days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Stevens. Mrs. W. 13. Dlllard and Mrs. W. J Muckle left Friday for Seavlew. where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. John. Mrs. L. J. VanOrsliovcn left Thurs day for Seaview, to spend several weeks visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. George. Dr. and Mrs. Childs of Portland, visited with Mrs. Childs' parents, Mr and Mrs. A. T. Laws of this city, Sat urday, Sunday and Monday. Mr. and Mro. Martin Masslngor, Mis. Julius Spilman and Mrs. Wysa of Portland, visited at tlio home of Mr. and Mrs. Ceo. Shlnn Friday. A coat of paint on the Episcopal church gives it the appearance of a new structure and adds greatly to the effect of the corner which it occupies. Mrs. S. E. Hendricks of Houlton, vored the Mist with a renewal of her subscription the prH week. Mrs. Hendricks is an old member of the Mist family. Mra. Annie Cox was anions the number who paid tlio Mist olllce a' call tills weeK and had her subscrip tion renewed. Miss Mary McClay returned the past week to her home at Columbia! City from the hospital at Portland.! Miss McClay was a teacher in the St. Helens public schools last year. I S. R. Sonneland has opened ft fish and poultry market In the building formerly occupied by the St. Helens Improvement company. Notice his advertisement in other columns of the Mist, this issue. The body of 18-months-old Floyd Hallert, who fell from a boat iouse at Ilazoa's bland and was drowned about the middlo of June, was recov ered the paot week nt the mouth of Lewis river by Albert VanOver. j Newt Perry, of Perry & Graham of, Houlton, arrived from California this week, where he has spent tlio past month motoring over the state and enjoying the exposition. Mr. Perry shipped his automobile back on ' the McCormick steamer Celllo from San Francisco. I compensation in full for all dam ages to the lands of said claimant on account of ald location of said high way, as well as compensation for the right to the County to remove dirt from a certain purcel of land not in cluded within the limits of said highway, also agreed upon. It is further ordered by the Court that the Clerk be, and he is hereby authorized and ingtructed to issue a general fund warrant in favor of said claimant in said sum of $660.00, to be delivered to claimant, or his attorney, on presentation of a good and sufficient deed of "conveyance, forever dedicating said strip of land for road purposes. On this day it Is ordered by the Court that the Clerk be, and he Is hereby authorized and Instructed to Issue a general road fund warrant in the sum of $100.00, in favor of Leo O. Titus, to be used by him as an emergency fund In the conduct of the affairs of his office. Whereupon, Court adjourned until Saturday, August 14, 1916. Mrs. A. U. Lake was a Portland visitor Friday. Reese Hull and Lester Wellington were Portland visitors Sunday. Tlio Columbia and Nehalem Itlver railroad Is now completed through to the Nehulem river, making n thlrty-mllo stretch of truck. Work upon the bridge will commence at onco, material for which Is upon the ground ready for the contractors. Clatskanie Chief. A more powerful endorsement could not bo given nny newspaper than the lists of new subscribers that are coming into the Mist ollloe. Tlio Mist appreciates this moral support, and in return wo will continue to print tlio news; It will continue to be first now first always. Mr. and Mrs. L. It. Rutherford returned Sunday from San Francisco, where they visited tho exposition for several days. While in California, Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford visited sev eral points of Interest outside tho ex position city. The trip was nindo on a McCoruil'U utenmer. Juil;;e and Mrs. T. J. Cleeton o Portland, spout Sunday and Mon day nt the homo of Mr. and Mrs. David Davis. Tlio Judge, although making his homo in tho metropolis, is a great enthusiast over the future of Columbia county, and predicts that she will become one of the load ing sections of the state in tho near The two largo archwuyR ordered -ronstructed by tho City Council, are completed unci have been erected Thoso archways have been placed over tho highways leading to Portland and to Deer Island, and on tho outside will bear the Inscription "Wclcomo to St. Helens," and on the inside. "Goodbye, Coma Again." Mrs. Frank Brown of Yankton, wife of oii9 of Columbia county's prosperous farmers, paid this olllce a very plearant call tho past woek? Mrs. Brown la n real live booster for tho good things of tho county that go to niako life worth living. Wo like to havo such visitors. Mrs. Brown renewed her subscription for un other year. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stevens enter tained a number of children Sunday afternoon in honor of their daugh ter, Ruth's birthday, by taking them for a picnic at the Milton Creek pic nic grounds, where the afternoon was' spent bathing and having a good time. Mrs. E. II. Itleen of Portland, a friend of Mrs. Stevens, accompanied and aided in tlio entertainment. A town full of citizens of the type of Martin White and St. Helens streets, curbs and corners would not be grown up in weeds and grass. He grabs a hold onto tho scytho handle after ofllco hours, and stops neither at the middle of the street nor lit the ends of Ills lots. Nothing can make a city more beautiful, moro attract ive to strangers, than to keep the un sightly weeds down. Messrs. J. It. Lowers and C. C. Cook, largo lumber dealers, with main offices at Honolulu, owning all tho lumber yards at Pearl Harbor and Honolulu, spent Tuesday with II. F. ' McCormick, manager of the St. Hel ens Lumber Co. This is their Initial trip to this part of tlio state, and they wero very much enthused with locul conditions. Tlio St. Helens Lumber Co. sell tills firm largo nuan tltles of lumber every year. Several hundred peoplo visited the Columbia beach Sunday, and enjoyed tho day bathing or with a picnic lunch under the trees. Several parties havo promised to have a good road from the highway down to the beach before Sunday, and it is to bo Imped they are serious in their pluns, f(r with uiicli a way of getting down, tliero would be thousands spend the summer days there, not only from St. Helens, but from Portland and else where. Conditions ure Ideal, a grud ual slope with a sandy bottom, where there is no danger of drowning, and with nice shady nooks for picnics. With such a road und a few small booths, the beach would bo a very popular place, and In time to come it will be made so. Why not now? James H. Sheldon, one of our prominent fish buyers, was transact ing business with our ' merchants Tuesday. Mr. Sheldon Is reckoned as ono of St. Hnlim' .,l,.... i.... IIUV- j "k n nere prior to the flood of 1894, and that time wnu-r,,,i.,.i a market in tho building now oecu-i .,... ,,y rranK ueorgo. In recalling Incidents which happened during the high water, Mr. Sheldon i.i,i ..... the water rose at tlio rule of ono Inch an hour, until it stood five feet In my building. It remained at this lielght only a few hours, when It re ceded at the same rate. I remember seeing some ono spearing a large fish out of tho wuler. whlnh Inep, i front of whero the Peterson (ash Grocery now Is. After the wa ter went down, there was eight Inches of mud on the door of my building but the structure, which was now was not Injured." STEP LIVELY 2 Premo The only camera ou the market for ama teur photographers. We handle a com plete line of Pkkmo and kodak goods. LIOJ lOL All Work Guaranteed. 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