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Newspaper Page TexttfPatnotic Duty - Boy a Liberty Bond -Help Your Government Win the War OFFICIAL PAPER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY PIONEER PAPER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY NO. 45 )LUME XXXVI. x ST. HELENS OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917 ' "' LiBIA RIYER DAY AT LAND PRODUCTS SHOW h NOVEMBER SEVENTH itlrwla Mako IUlurtl lUle fur Time of Show. r'lnoiliy, November 7, has been inliHl by the officials of tint unficturer and I.and Product bv Columbia mver day, at fcieh Urns crowd from along the liwrlw are exported to attend the (how, preparations for which aro It ihout complete. The Mint ha tlird the following letter from Dunne relative to tho mat- 'Tortlund. Oct. 12. 1917. : llelttna Mint. "Gentlemen: I wlnli to call your :nllon to tha fact that we doslre make Wednesday, November 7. lumbla Itlver day at the Mrnufac- Lrtn anil I .n ml I'roducta Hhow. The 8. I. & 8. hai granted a one M one-lliird faro over tliolr road Mni the entire throe week ot the anil on November 7 wn have Innied to sell admlaalon ticket lo l ljer of return tlckuta lo Columbia j'tt point at 10 per coat lcs the liul entrance feu. "I trim you will bring thin mutter Wort your poopla and secure a rop- woutlve crowd from your city and immunity on November 7. 'Thinking you for any co-operu- pujou may give u In tbla matter. "DAVID M. DUNNE. "President Manufacturer and I-aml Product flhow." The Manufacturers and Land l'ro- I'ltti Rhow will be bold In tho now IMItorlum building, at Third and kt it rent, tb date being from l&etober 29 to November 24. Many Ilhe countie throughout tho atate III be represented by having agrl- Itillural exhibit -and the manufne- "wi of the atate will lmvo on m MMtlon the producta of tbulr pliint "lOJouht many from St. Holona and I" entire county wll bo In attend net. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES ftr the week' vacation, the pu Uliof the high school were all glad ""I aiulmiH to get back to thedr dally "'In of study and recitation. The first football game of tho sea lp played with Halntor last . Our boys fought hard for the but Halntor won. 27 to 0." Tho hlh tchool has an excellent team lhl rear, but as this was the drat me and as they hate bad only a weeks practlco, we, as high chool studontH. accept the loss In a cheerful Bplrlt. Tn Junior class has comploted tho ,lly of lieowulf. A few members the cIuh found tho story ery In setting. Columbus day, Octobor 12 (the before Inatituto) was obsorvod ! the high school. A service flag presented to tho student body Prof. Taylor mado the prosenta llo' address. This flag contains '"'on stars, a star for each boy who 8ft this student body and enlisted ' the army or navy sorvlce. We are fleeting the pictures of thOBe seven Thus far wo have Kenneth "6ll, narry vvilson, George Wal M d Honry Harrlaon. We havo ""to get Hnrold Dockor, Danny Kai 'a Ilobort Harrison and Dowoy jnlth. w8 expect to havo nil soven :'cturo won. Also a pennant of the 31,1 Aoro 8quadron was prOBonted 10 the student hmlir hv Dir. Hlsev. Till Pnnnant was given to tho stu- . - V W HB Sjll (111 VV lw "ent body by Dewey Bmlth, who Is t!onod t Fairfield, Ohio. SHOOTING SCRAPE OCCURS AT RAINIER HMwor at Columbia Itlver Door Co. Talnfully WoiinUl. C. I,, Wllburn, of Halnlur. wae hot In tho face mid hi arm peppered with blrdahot early Sundny morning. C. M. Ilrlgg did the nhootlng, which waa tho culmination of a row over a field of clover. Tho shooting took plnco on the Wllburn farm, about four mile from Rainier, and HrlKK", ulng a ahotgun loaded with blrclnhut, flred at about 26 yr.rd diHtnncc, tlio!"n 'n "m St. HeleiiB Mist, but we charge taking effect In the right eldej of Mr. Wllburn' face, tho latter do- . . ,. ... ..... fending hi eye with his left arm,! no aro now stationed at the Wll whlch wn also punctured In numer-jbur Wright aviation field, near Day- ous place. Wllburn was rushed to j a Portland hospital, whero It was BLHiiiu aiiiiiiiiaii inn nuuiiun nuip ,1... .1(1. ..!. painful and disfiguring they were not I serious, iiikk wn taken into ell-1 tody by Marshal Jesso and Inter be wa brought to St. Helen. It Is understood that ho Is out on bond pending a hearing of tho matter. ' i SERVING TIME IN A RIVER TOWN Two Week' Sentence ImiuNel by SKNiinlioiit ('iuiiany. Tho "about five days" stretched ttifn i.vnn tiitfurn Ihn Allen came, nml . , when bo wa counting tho last days ; of hi time. j It rained most of tho time, a cold drliilo that wus almost snow, and ( wo simply had to stay Insldo. There j was nothing to rend but newspapers : moro than a month old, paper we : hnd read before coming In. In dig- j glng for something now under a pile ' of paper a foot deep, I found a copy of tho Huffulo Evening New, dated mimo time In May, and I wondered If the New Yorker who brought It In had a much pleasure and com fort a I was enjoying. The night were as discomforting I as the days. After midnight the cold ! would settle down nnd I bail lo sprond my eont and overcoat over the blankets to keep warm. When the rnln would let up Wil son and I would walk tho "bent," from the fort to the Indian village, about a mile, and a swarm of mos- miltos would follow us. Every nu"i of tho 200 Inhabitant or mo iou would declare ho "never saw the llko" of the weather. Probably he never saw a summer any different, but as this section of Alaska Is be ing boomed for a farming country, it was a part of the program to alibi. In the moro than thousand miles I had traveled this wa tho first place whore I had oen anything growing that hnd a 10 to 1 chance. Hero there wa soil, black, rich soil, nnd I novor bbw vegetation look so green and grow so rank. I wondered if the potato.. (Just little garden patch es) were not all growing to vines and tho vegetables to topa. A man told mo this would bo the result un less the sun enmo out soon, and it would whon tho moon changed. Ho should havo been in tho woa thor forecast bureau. The moon changed, tho sky cleared nnd nt 3 (Continued on Tage 5) Word has been recolved that tho motor vessel S. I. Allard reached Honolulu on tho 83rd Inst., on her return trip from Australia. She lias cargo of copra, which will bo d s charged at San Francisco, and the vessel will then como to St. Helens for a load of lumber for foreign de livery. The City of Portland Is only e few days behind tho Allard, and will doubtless roach Honolulu dur ing this wook. , -" . .... ..., mm i ii, i VIEW OF CAMP LEWIS CANTONMENT INTERESTING LETTER FROM LOCAL BOYS TRAIN FOP. AVIATORS U Wilbur Wrl(cht Aviation Held, DayUm, Ohio. Kalrfleld, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1917. St. Helen Mint. Dear Kdltor: Wo havo been re quested a number of time by our frlemlH to write a letter for puhlica- pu, this off as we do al, our correspondence. .. ... , t"n, Ohio. This is the second largest aviation field in tho United States. nilrt Un tl.lnlr l I . 1. I . mi.- ...... w ,1. id um ut;ni. 1 lie , reservation cover 35,000 acres of!690'98. from ,' rt S mm nas iweniy-rour nnng-j rs, holding six ncropluneg each. There are eight barracks, each ouar- terlng ICO men, und thero la also a' large number of non-com barracks. Theso barracks are equipped with steam beat and electric lights. We get up In tho morning at 4:45 .. .,a,0 run can u.. nueon minutes , exercise, niui wnon tne moss call blows we all make a run for the mess hull for brenkfust. Our duties are to take care of all the acroplunes i . i..... .i . . . iiiiu iy i.'imir 111H111 wueii iney are smashed p. w'e must be down to tho field by 6 o'clock In tho morn- inR nn(1 wo qnt work at 4 0-ciock ,i10 evening, Tl0 p,.opi around here certainly lr(1.lt thp goiaiors flne inviting us out to dinner and nutomobllo parties, and KVng dances and big feeds for us. Thn Hp, rr0Bg g0Cety g knitting sweaters for tho soldiers, and those who are lucky to get one certainly appreciuto It. Tho weather has been getting colder every day, and we had our first snow this morning, so we were iurn ginli wi,en the steam heat was turnod on today for the first time Tho 12th, 13th, 19th nnd 20th squadron are watting orders to leave for New York, nnd from there to somowhere In France. All tho boys are looking forward to the time when we will Btnrt, nnd wo are sure that none of us aro afraid of the aulia or the kaiser. So probably the next tlmo you hoar from us our ad dress will be "somowhore in France." STUART M'KIE. HO HARRISON. D. S. SMITH. VALUATION REDUC TIONS ARE SOUGHT Owners of timber in Clackamas county, Oregon, have asked reduc tions in valuations for tax assess ment purposos. Tho representative of the Weyorhttuser Interests flle.i nn application for reduction from ap proximately $650,000 to $260,000, and other applications were mnde as follows: George S. Lncy estate, from $79,700 to $51,800; E. S. Collins, $18,600 to $12,900; Geo. Baldwin, $16,000 to $8,000; W. It. Burt, $72 500 to $36,200; E. S. Collins and T. D. Collins estate, $376,500 I'OSTAL RATES CHANGK Boglnnlng November 2, all lottors mailed undor first class rates will cost 3 cents for each two ounces. There will bo no one-cent postage. A letter for local dolivery dropped In the mall box must have a 2-cent stamp on it, and postal card3 will also require an ndditionul stamp. letters or packages to our soldiers in France do not require any more postage tlian If thoy wore dostlnod for polntB in tho United States. All packages sont to soldiers in Krnnco must bo inspected by tho postmaster at tho offlco from which they are sont, before they will be acoepied for delivery. FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR STATE HIGHWAYS Over l,0flO,flM at l)lsnsa ,f m,. way CommiHHion. Excluding contracts already en tered Into and those which are yet to be let this year tho state highway commission will have approximately an additional $2,000,000 to spend next year. The total estimated fund at tho disposal of the commission for 1917 nnd 1918 is $4,826,639.40. The amount called for by contracts al ready executed nnd to bo executed UPfor'0 J' , ,, nn. ... . , , v . , ' r ,B $3,004,734.29, laving a balance on hand of $1,821,905.11 for next year's use. The 1917 and 1918 fund Is de rived as follows: Prom authorized $6,000,000 bond issue, $2,842.- IIQQ Off. frin. 1 mill .... sue, $472,124,22; from federal gov ernment post road aid, $472,124.22; from auto licenses, $600,000; mak ing a total of $4,826,639.40. Of the post road fund 60 per cent, or $566, 549.06, must, according to law, be expended east of the Cascade moun tain and 40 nnr ppnt nr 137? fiQQ W0Btern Oregon. FLOUR MILL IS ALMOST COMPLETED Arrlvo Hoon. Tho work of constructing the buildr lng of the St. Helens Flour Mill if almost completed and the building will be ready for the machinery by the first of November. An official of the company stated that the machin ery manufacturers had promised de livery the first part of November, but a recent advice was to the enect tnat the machinery was en routo nnd in Indiann, so it is hardly probable that it will arrlvo before the middle of the- month. Should it arrivo then. the mill will be in readiness for operation by the middle of Decem ber. RED CROSS BASKET SOCIAL AT FERN HILL The basket socal held at Fern Hill Saturday evening, October 20, was well attended. The amount of money raised for the lted Cross by the sale of baskets, lunches, nnd by private subscription was $90. The social at Forn Hill was under the direction of Mrs. Grant Girt, Mrs. Uryson and tho Fern Hill school. IJaskets wore auctioned off by Mr. Brown, of Api ary. The following program was given: Song Fern Hill School Instrumental Music Dialogue . . .Irma Mason and Mellta Bryson Duet.... Mr. James and Mr. Rucker Solo . ., Mrs. Cecil Girt Dialogue Girls from Apiary Duet. .Mrs. Cecil Girt and Mrs. Hagie Speech The Red Cross. .Mr. Boysen Instrumental Music Salo of BaBkets. Mrs. U. 8. Dosspain and daughter were passengers on tho steamer Kla math Thursday night, bound for Los Angeles, where they will spend the winter. AN ENJOYABLE TRIP TO CAMP LEWIS 40,000 SOLDIERS IN CAMP Three Auto Loads From St. Helens Go to Visit Soldier Boy: Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, fifteen residents of St. Helens, in three automobiles, left for Camp Lewis, Wash. In A. F. Barnett's car were Billio Dodd, Von Gray, J. W. Hunt, S. C. Morton and if. F. Bar nett; in the Morgus car were H. Mor guB, Fred Morgus, J. W. McDonald, William Russel and W Cooper; in the Metsker car were Glen R Mets ker, Sherman Miles, L. R. Ruther ford, E. C. Stanwood and E. C. Laws. The trip to Goble was made In 40 minutes, with Barnett as pilot. It took 30 minutes to ferry across to Kalama, and, leaving that town via tho Pacific highway, Kelso, a dis tanco of 11 miles, was reached at 4 o'clock. From Kalama to Kelso the road is fair except where some heavy construction work is being done. Cas tle Rock, 22 miles distant from Kel so, was reached at 5 o'clock. Just before coming into Castle Rock a very cteep hill is encountered and the road winds around the hill on the very edge of a high bluff. Leaving Castle Rock much road construction is encountered and progress is slow for the autolst. This does not apply to Metsker and Morgus, who were matching skill ns drivers and seeing which car was the speedier, the Hup or tho Mitchell. Winlock was not reached by Barnett's car until 6:30. Morgus and Motsker had been there some time, in fact plenty of time for Morgus to find several cousins and Metsker to renew many old acquaint ances, stops were mnae at nenans and Centralla, whero more cousins and acquaintances were discovered, and the trip was continued to Olym pia via Tenlno, arriving at the for msr place at 11 o'clock. The speed ometer showed the distence from St. Helens to Olympia 102 miles. The night was spent in Washington's capital city, and early Sunday morn lng the start was made for Camp Lewis, 24 miles distant. The camp was reached at 9 o'clock and the barracks which house the Columbia county boys were soon found nlso the boys. Thoy all look hale and hoarty and are rapidly rounding into real soldiers. Camp Lowls Is so largo and has so many barracks, buildings, storehouses, hos pitals, firehouses, machine shops, etc., that it would bo hard to de scribe it except to say that It Is a city built the last few months; that about 40,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians now live there. The government city lias a complete system of water works, sewerage and electric light plants, and everything Is laid out per fectly. Georgo Wolfz, one of the St Helens boys, Is first nsslatnnt cook In Company G, 361st Infantry, and Bur roll Graves has been promoted to the position of company mechanic, rank In a as a corporal. Louis Muhr and Harry Richardson were found in Co A barracks, Ambulance Corps. Tho eovernment reservation In which Camp Lewis is situated is 10 mii?s square and contains moro than 70,000 acres. It is an ideal location for a cantonment, and is the largest camp in the United States. An offt cer informed us that tho government expectod to have 60,000 men In train lng at the camp this winter. Tho St Helens visitors, accompanied by some of our boys, Inspected part of the camp (it is too large to take It all In during one day) and were shown the (Continued on Page 8) LIBERTY BOND QUOTO IS NOW ASSURED PUBLIC RESPONDS WELL St. Helens Subscribes $20,000 More in SiKht, That St. Helens ana Columbia county will subscribe the quota al lotted on the Second Liberty Loan is now practically assured. Reports re ceived from over the county indicate that men and women in every walk of life are generously responding to the government's appeal for financial assistance. At noon Thursday the Columbia County Bank reported $20, 000 subscribed and another $10,000 in sight. If subscriptions do not come up to the city's quota, the bank will take enough bonds to make up the $42,000. The quota of Rainier is $17,000 and $20,000 has been subscribed. Clatskanio is asked for $36,000 and has reported $20,000 subscribed. Two days yet remain for hard work and a bunch of subscrip tions. Following are the names of those in St. Helens who have subscribed up to noon Thursday: Buyers of $50 Bond. Gabe Matson, Frank O'Connor, Jessie A. Isblstcr, H. E. Venzie, Alice Quick, A. E. Hellenberg, C. A. Hellen berg, Etta J. Taber, J. T. Taber, S. J. Cochrun, Victor West, M. C. Madi son, Roy Stewc.rt, John Arvidson, Margaret Arvidson, Chas. Spinner, Mrs. F. M. Bendure, P. H. Lund, W. L. Nichols, Hattio M. Ryan, Edna M. Ryan, Wilbur Laraboc, John H. Flynn, Joseph L. Copeland, Ed. A. Harms, C. W. Kltchin, W. E, Lid yard, Jennie M. Ballagh, Viola Sod erberg, Minnie Doleshal, J. F. John son, R. H. Rawson, Marion Morton, S. C. Morton, Jr., Virginia Morton, Howard L. Alego, Rudolph Ketel, Sophie Nagel. Idah Lidyard, H. P. Ross, Oury Hisey, Alfred J. Hansen, Jack Baker, C. E. Lake, Chls Mathle son, Walter Lund, B. L. Monlsh, Gladys Grewell, Helen Grcwell. John O. Sten, Aimeo Vivian Sten, Marion O. Sten, Hunington Saxon, Oswald J. Deming, John Harrison, Edmund Ellsworth, John L. Lako, Mrs. May Disney, Albert Adams, John L. Young, Elizabeth Philip, Joe Nelson, Ruth G. Smith, H. O. Oliver, Edward E. Leonard, J. Romitl, P. O. Smith, Joe Van Hulla, Frank Enyart, Wes ley Soderberg, H. C. Barnett, Ken neth M. Dieter, Loyd McAboy, H. C. Tison, Helen E. Hoffman, Max Wil son, Leo G. Ballagh, Eddie B. Ben son, A. M. Beelor, Melvln S. Ross, James O'Connor, Magnus Saxon, Orin . Shepard, S. E. Lynch. Arthur W. Swanson, Arthur E. Erickson, Don ald L. Erickson, S. H. Johnson, E. E. Quick, Fred Ketel, Thomas H. Roy, Mr,ry E. Roy, A. S. Harrison, Fred Blessing, Frank Hiley, Jack Bragg. Buyers of 9100 Bonds. Mrs. H. J. Anderson, Louis L. Ba ker, H. W. Fogel, Nols O. Welinder, John King, Charles B. Mann, James Kemp, A. S. Harrison, Gertrude L. Williams, S. B. Hoskln, E. D. & C. Boyce, Sydnoy W. Melhuish. W. Young, R. E. Long, John Morse Ross, J. Mason Dillard, Fannie P. Ross, C. F. Bendure, Rashleigh H. Peel, A. B. Lake, T. A. Nygaard, Chas. W. Phillips, H. A. Colt, F. A. George, Michael Fresh, J. B. E. Bourne, Conrad Laurltsen, Eugene Smith, L. Iverson, J. E. Carver, H. S. Mason, J. H. Thatcher, Fred Wat- kins, Warren Boy Scouts, L. L. Ba ker, Laura D. Taylor, Fred L. Shack elford, H. D. Scott, Mrs. H. D. Scott, Roy Webber, T. W. Kobaleskl, Walter Larsen, Emmett Stevens, Segward Salvesen, Patrick N. Sundquist, Emil B. Muhr, Raymond Deaver, Alfred H. Johnson, Irving T. Erickson, Walter S. Erickson, Mrs. H. H. Bunting, R. L. Kinny. Buyer of $150 Bonds. Frank Schmidt. Buyers of $200 Bonds. Albert Seffert, Carl E. Christansen, Perry E. Meyers, H. J. Graham, L. R. Rutherford, Peter Person, W. B. Dillard guardian, W. C. Teague, Mary Georgo, Gertrude Phillips, Fred Morgus. Buyers of $250 Bonds. R. S. Danforth, Emma Graham. R. C. Burgess, Martin White trustee. $300 James L. Brooks. $400 R. F. Jones. $500 Emma J. Lansing. $760 Walter H. Smith. $2,000 Charles Graham. JACK BLACK CROSSES THE GREAT DIVIDE J. M. Black, for twonty years a resident of St. Helens, died in a Port land hospital Friday last, after an illness of several weeks. Deceased leaves to mourn his loss a wife and two daughters, a mother who livetf at Gold Beach, Ore., ana sevoral sis- . ters. The funeral was held Tuesday in Portland, and lntermont was in Greenwod cemetery. Six of the de censed fellow employes at the St. Helons' Lumber Co. acted as pall bearers, and a delegation from the Rebokah lodge, of which Mrs. Black -is a member, wore in attendance.