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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1912)
THE OREGON MIST VOL. XXXI. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1012 NO- 47 Scappoose Celebrates A p-L-hrntion of the Fourth of Ju! it SOW""' wa B dw,',w, Lee. Kvrylhin wa- currl,,! out without a !if'. Tho vsvrcii un.menc! with the arrival of the oj from St. Hfl-na on tho 9 0clot.k train and from that time on Bntil lto at niKl't Ky " thwiwlic crowd .njoyt-.l tho wca lon. A kautiful placo for the ix crci. usually ha.l on tl.t-iw ocoaa ioiu. M -h-ctel in the Hurt Went ii..r. a rranu aiunu wan jru'c " - .n,l u'utji for the crowd aeat QUI" through th Ire'. 1'atroi ,i. ..tiLT.t wt're aurnt: patriotic muile i'U dinrourwd by the 18 piece hmd from St. Ilel.-rm: Mia Myera K t, l),.cliirutioii of Indt'iM-ndfixt an4W.B-':lar,l .h-livi-retl very lin' arstiun. He reviewed the wonder ful chaw that have taken pluce ik ftiunlrv dince 177(1 anl the U W" ------ freat i"Kr, !U mailo in civilization and improvcmwit n the SeapjuKwe .untry during tho pmt thirty year. addrcw wei onu euleu lited t inspire the yoan lit'iuru .u with null -Milium ami honor for noon everyhojy brought forth Ihfir well la l n lunch tuaketa and rtjtular old faahioni'd picnic dinner uM in the irrovr. After dinm r earn the sport; aeverid trd home raw: mtiic f"l rawH, IhjUi yuunjc andoM, ft and lean, mulo and fwua!e: catnliinir the mr little gretnod pi; bihI bicycle rncvu. Then the crowd went hack to town and after lumft-r a Krand liull waa nad In the A. at v. Hail ir vm uy me M M'-n. The whole celebration waa a auc cr frmii the firnt tune by the band to the hut tunc by the orchentra the next uiorninir. veterans. On Suntlav af t when the weather is kw,1 and no otlgrr attraction in on hand, the boys will (five concertn in the City Park. I'ractices are hold one or two evoninjts each week in the City Hall. High Tide Reached Sliinn-Wyss Georo II. Shinn and .fiss Ida Wy were married at the home of the hrido's parent in Portland on Jane Kth l'Jli Hev. A. Kd Wyas, brother of the bride, per forming the ceremony. Only immediate relative were present. A?Ur the ceremony the happy couple l.tft for a short trip through the Willamette Valley and returned to St. I U-U-ns yes terday. Mr. Shinn i the Presi dent and attorney of the Colum bia County Abatract Co., of St. Helena and one of the leading business men of St. Helens. The bride i the Treasurer and part owner of the same compuny and has been actively engaged in the work of the company at St. Hel ens for several years. I'oth the panic have the very best wishes of the entire community for a happy and pro4erouH married life. The New Mill The new n.ill being built by the Columbia County LumUr Co., to replace the one recently destroyed by fire, will have a "Paeity of 100,000 feet ler day. The machinery to be installed 'ill be duplicate of that in the big mill at St. Helens. Kvery thing modern and up-to-date. It Will employ about 100 men. Sit uated on deep water where the largest vessels enn load and "at the end of tho logging road, and adjoining the Creosoting plant, it has an idea! location. Work is fo'ing pushed rapidly forward nci It is tho intention of the owner to have the mill in oper ation in about fivo or six weeks. St. Helens Band St. Helens can now Iionst of u nrat class brass band. For the Past three monthn the boys have wen under the careful instruct tonfflW. J. M. Coomer. of Portland, nnd have improved very raNly in proficiency as wt'H a numbers. There ure now twenty Pieces in the band and every one Wel1 Playo-I. Tin re aro a num rf smad boys from 10 yean 0lu tnd up who aro playing lik-; Waalungton, Juno 30. That the high ti.le in the U-rrilile death raU In A ! I . ! nuii'i n un eoni minea lias lieen reached and paaw-d ia the confident belief of the ollieiula of the United Statea Dureau of Minea. rigurea liwueij today liy the Bureau hIiow that 2,M7 men were killed In the mines last year as against 2, K.il for 1110. Thia ahowa a reduction in tl e duiiiImt of livi loMt of .11 ( In onr year a time. The death rate in l'Jlo was :t.'Jl men in every l.ooo employed. The rate in 1911 waa 3.71. Compared with l'JU7, the darkest year in me niHiory American min ing, when 3,1'J7 men IokI their liven, l'Jll ahowaadecreu.se of (ISO in tho number of men killed. It Was following the ncird of this year that t'onjfre nuthorized the government to fx'n investiatiena looking toward a reluction in the death rate ami thii wua auplement ed in l'Jlo by the creation of the Bureau of Mine. 'tiseUH-siiiif the death atatistica of the coal mines, I If. Joaeph A. Hol mes, Director of the liureau e' Mines aaid: "While thes- lathl mortality aUti.tth.M in then ..i mines of the country alinw alight improve ment over the oievioui, years, the 1,'nited Slates has still no record to lie proud of. In spite f tin pro gress we have made, vo are still far liclow the standard of nifety that we ought to have reached. 'Tl is of course comforting to know that for each year since l'.:o7 tiiere has U--n a decreasing t "'liber if men killed for eve:, mil i i .. tors of conl mined, and thai for every Joseph Hayburn On July 4 th in St. Helena occurred the death of Joseph Jlayburn. an old settler of this community, at the age of W years. Ik-has lieen in poor health for several months and during the past few weeks has kept to his In-'d. Joseph Hayburn was born in Kentucky and while a young man of 18 years of age, enlisted in the Union army in W, for two years. At the expiration of his enlistment he re enlisted for three years more and served his full timeout, making five years continuous service in the army luring the Civil War. At one battle. Stone Kiver, his company was en- iraxed anil when the smoke of battle leared away, only three men were alive and 'j:i of loo horses were kill- en. He came to St. HeVnsin I KM and in lWwaa amiotatod thi Keeper of Warrior Rock Ligh I louse which position he held until a few months age. Kuncrd services are being held this afternoon and burial w ill take place in the I. O. O. F. cemetery near Warren. Only one child survives him, Mrs. 1". W. Harrison, of St Helens. ife loat we have eaeli year taken out of the earth more tons of coal. This is an improvement In tho r.ght direction. 1 hole that wlthm the nextyiar or t.vo we will se as great an improvement in the re- Juction of the number of men killed . i i per I .ooo men empioyen. The Bureau is cooperating with the State Mine Inspectors, the mine Workers and with the mine oier ators in an endeavor to solve many of the dillicult problems connected with the coal mining industry in this country. In this effort all the above forces are cooperating in good spirit in the determination to H ing about better conditions. In this coo'icrative effort there is also serious need of the statesmen. No irancc of industry in this country is i mi so bad an economic basis loiiay a? is the coal mining industry, and this industry can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until, through Local Mention Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Smith of Yankton were business visitors in St. Helens last Friday. Walter Hunter and Frank Bis hop, business men from Coble, were attending to business mat ters in St. Helens thi week. A. W. Mueller, of thi city, re ceived word Mcnduy that his brother in Minneapolis, Minn., had suddenly died on that day, Mrs. V, F. Slaughter, of Port land, is visiting with relatives and friends in St. Helens, this week. m The Skating Iiink is still run nii :,r and you are invited to come out and enjoy yourselves. Tl e Ladies' Aid Society of the M. K. Church, St. Helens, will meet with Mrs. Akin, St. Helens Quarry, Wednesday July 10th. Francis M.' Miles, of LaPlata, Missouri, will arrive in Portland and St. Helens this week to spend some time visiting with his brother, S. A. Miles. Misses Lulu, Anne and Ada George, accompanied by Miss Cohn and two young ladies from Portland, are on a camping trip to the Dr. Ross place above Yankton. They will spend a week or more rusticating in the mountains. City Recorder Cage had a busy hour this morning in his capacity as Police Judge. Several fighters were before his Honor for vio lating the peace and quiet of the city and were given small fine3. Some of them paid, others important legislative change, im-i wj gcrve tjme in the city jail. Last Saturday night lhe First Annual P.all of the St. Helens Fireman was held at the City Hall and was one of the social successes of the season. A large crowd was present and a real good time was had. The prize offered for the best -Aaltzers was won by A: F. Parnette and Miss Pauline Paulsen. Everybody's Doin It. Hoin' What? Skating at the St. Hel ens Uink. Nn count v in the State can pro- i a .t.i .ntf miniiri'ti nun - r.Mi;, i on y " - aixty-eight killed, or 1 In every aI !. ..... k. I.HUtU ttl provement in mis m "i- "- made possible. It was early in 1 '08 that the Fed- ral government began its investi gation of tho causis of mine disas ter following the climax of accidents in ll'7. The record lor i:' un.i the following years is as follows: l'Jii?; thirty-one hundred and . l III., I .r i SS in ninety-seven men iwo"'., v every l.noo employed; p0S twenty-four hundred ana forty-nine killed, or 3.t4 in every 1.- 000 employed; hundred and iweniy.ui. , . ui ihnn cnn 1 .UlUCe ocuei ciii-int-a ... ... ' I The Royal Ann. Black Republi- numberof friends jo with the happy couple. Mr. and Mrs. S. E.; Lynch left last Monday for a visit to their old home at Liberty, Nebraska. They will be gone for several weeks. Work on grading Casenau Street is under way and some of the old shade , trees that have stood for so many years along the street have been cut down. Among the St. Helens people who spent the Fourth at Seaside were Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred George and Mrs. Rebecca Craig and Charles Bealer. A bucket full of Royal Ann Cherries from the Dahlgren or chard at Warren, formerly the Noon place, was the offering at the Mist office the past week. These cherries are just as fine for flavor and size as any of Cherry Cities of Oregon can pro duce. Mr. Dahlgren was taking orders for them in this city and found ready sale. Mr. L. C. Halstead. and family of Stanton, Michigan, arrived in St. Helens this week to make this their home in the future. Mr. Halstead has been a deputy sheriff in his homo town for a number of year, and is a barber by trade. He is well pleased with St. Helens and thinks it will be a good place to locate. Mrs. Peter Felton, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halstead. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON mnrTa- nt & rmrnro nrtmnnr rrrt n ttb b a i g bti rtvrrm o The Fourth of July at St. Hel ens was very quiet, safe and sane. Those people who 6tayed at home did not even hear, a fire cracker explosion. A large number of people from here visited at Rai nier and Scappoose, while others went to Portland." The mill and ship building plants were shut down so the men had ample op portunity to celebrate as they w anted to. Those people who vis ited out of town places report pleasant times, Work of installing the fire alarm system i3 well under way and will be completed within a few days. The alarm wiil con nect directly with the engine room at the Mill and when the alarm is sounded the whistle of mill will give a certain number of blasts for a certain portion of the city. This will enable persons to know just where the fire is locat ed as soon as the alarm is sound ed. The code of whistles w ill be given out, probably in our next issue. The two year old child of Dan Burns, of Columbia City, was seriously injured last Thursday by being run over byn caron the logging road at that place. The child was playing near the track when a train was passing and it appeared that an air brake hose struck him and threw him down so close to the track that the car ran over his arm, badly crushing it and tearing tho flesh away from it. The little fellow was taken to the hospital atPortland where it is receiving treatment and will probably recover. The "Win One" class met with Mrs. Charles Dark Tuesday after noon. After the usual transaction of business, was rest of the after noon was devoted to the reading and discussion of two para. Mrs, Wm. Kctel gave a paper on Oregon School Laws. Mrs. L. Lang gave a paper on Woman's Education. After being served to refreshments, the class left for their homes. 000 employed; d m especially fine 1910. twenty-eight hundred and can ana i k i Lilll or 1 '11 in'arounu inm on"";- ,v v thirty-four mm kiiu II. ... orchards of several people sam- Fvcry or.e present declared they every 1.00') en pled, ,! ,,ies have been brought to our ;ppnl an cnjoyable afternoon. The 1911, twenty-.. m ollieo nnd for flavor and size, we n?xt meeting will be with Mrs. D, seventeen men Mlliiu: or -'.it ....... ... seventeen m every 1,000 employed. I will put them against tho world, jj We acknowledge samples the last River League .i i i t advertised letters "aTZjiiXowcr Columbia o. n.,1 'Charles Popejoy of St. Helens. Utters uncuumcd m i.e t. ... j r, ore. ''l,wkrt,d!19ant YatVkt, by Rev. Mr. ng j,,,, BKh. i'.'i : , ; WillUm Karlh of Yank. M,ss Ida IWg. I letter Mchaf. Thc Columbia C . Packing Co.. 1; ton ma '"T Mii; l letter loneof the prosperous farmers of Standing of the Clubs. Won Iaist 1 1 i valued at $:6,909,3 !9. Portland led alt "50 j the cltlei cf the country with 6,829,943 Kreewater'a annual peach day will be held thla year on Auguat 15. Work haa begun on tha erection of the Oregon Electric vaaaenger depot In Albany. The annual Oregon convention of the National Aasoclatlon of Letter Carriera waa held at CorvalUa laat week. The Swedish Methodlata of Salem bave organized a cburch and bought a church building, which waa dedicat ed Sunday. After almoal four yeara of construe tlon, Mt. Angel a handsome new Cath olic church waa dedicated Sunday by Archbishop Cbriatie. ine .nterpriae tiectrlc company. that furnlahea light and power to sev eral eastern Oregon towns, haa In creased Ita capital atock from JoO.000 to $300,000. Several Marshfleld men have squat ted on valuable land in Cooa county, which they claim la open to entry. The land la north of Cooa Bay and ln- cludea tome valuable timber. The newly organized Falla City Po tato Growers' Association la the first and only organization of the kind In Polk county, and promises to become an Important factor In finding a cash market for potatoes. S. A. D. I'uter of Portland haa estab lished his Innocence of the charge of forgery made against him by M. A. Flfleld, an attorney of Minneapolis, and haa Instituted auit against Klfield for $50,000 damages. Thla year the Salem cherry fair, which will be held July 11, 12 and 13, promises to be the biggest event of the kind ever held in Salem. The first day of the fair will be "Made in Ore gon," or manufacturers' day. Jacob William Karkl, the 9 year-old son of Jacob Karkl and w'ife of Astor ia, was accidentally drowned while playing with a younger lad on the net racks of the Union Flfhermen'a Co operative Packing company In Union town. From the Columbia river district during the month Just passed there waa shipped to foreign ports nearly 28.0OO.00O feet of lumber, an amount unequaled during a similar period from thia or any othrr single port In the world. On the ground that he is not a fugi tive from justice and cannot be return ed for trial, California's executive has refuted to 'honor a requisition from Governor West for the return of Har old Reea, wanted in Oregon on-" a charge of wife abandonment. y means of a suit filed in the cir cuit court at Stflem by the Oregon Electric railway company, It became known that the ultimate destination of the extension being built from Sa lem to KuKene, wh'ch is practically completed aa far as Albany, la Rose burg. As tho result of an explosion of gas In an automobile gaa lamp, George Stoddard, a prominent lumberman and timber owner of 1 Grand?, Is lying in a critical condition in the Grande Ronde hospital with his eyes rilled with small particles of g'asa and his face badly cut. Efforts to form another Port of Cooa Day are being put forth. Petitions aro being circulated end quite freely aigned by the citizens. The matter will bo presented to the county court la July and will probably be submitted lo the vote of the people at the No vember election. So assured are fruit growers of a record crop In tho Rogue fiver valley thia year that the cry of the growers for more thinners la frequent. Old timers declare the treee never have been more heavily laden, and now that the danger of frost Is practically past. It seems almost certain n bumper crop will be harvested. The Jury at' Albany la the case of the Oregon Electric Railway company vs. l'rum is Marion Hyde, et al, haa awarded the defendants $4250 dam ngea for the appropriation of land owned by thorn for railway purposes. The Oregon Electric took about 15 acres of land lying la the edgo of the town of llnrrlsburg for trackage and a alte for depot grounds. 8alem ia to make Its second attempt to secure pure water by purchasing the plant of the Salem Water company, the council at a special meeting hav ing dccldad to endeavor to obtain the plant through arbitration na to Ha price rather than through condemna tion, and as soon as the price Is agreed upon by the arbitrators, the people will vote upon it. Secretary Olcott, within whose I hands lies now exclusively the fate of the university of Oregon referendum Uses, haa decreed that the casea ahall Jgo to their final disposition before the I supremo court nud that no agreement wir, bo reached between the parties to ! the suits to w ithdraw the casea. It has been the desire of Governor West that the cases be withdrawn. Paring the 11 months ending with May there were flopped from the Uni ted Statea 28.519.935 bushels of wheat. 3 St. Helens Cathlamet Clatskanie Kelso Rainier 6 5 4 2 i 2 3 3 5 C During the .571 1 anie period Portland shipped 689,766 barrels of flour, while frum the whole country 10.328,588 barrels were acut oU oat, ot a total valua of $47,763,983. .C23 I busheU, vorOi $5,8i5,993. 285 1 A FULL LINE OF N T A L ' S VJMILY MEDWIXES The Most lleliable llemedies on (he Market 5 3 j DEALING'S DRUG STORE Cjl U tlA9.a.JUUL9 AAAiiiJLfiJlAJUl sjUJUUliJtftAiUl fJLBJUlJLfJLBJlJO Allen, Feltori & Quick REAL ESTATE DEALERS - INVESTMENTS. P.ENTALS. INSURANCE. COLLECTIONS. LOANS, LAND TITLES. APPRAISEMENTS. ADMINISTRATOR. GUARDIAN. FISCAL AGENT, CONVEYANCE. EXECUTOP. INFORMATION AND EMPLOYMENT ST. HELENS OREOON Subscribe for The Mist, $1.50 MADE IN OREGON 1 The initial cost of installing a culvert is about the same regardless of the material used, hence the material that will last the longest is the most ecco nomical in the longjrun. Reinforced Concrete Cnherts Will Last Always Do You See the Id vantage? Don't fail to call the attention cf of 3-our Supervisor to the superiority of UEIXFOilCED COXCRETE CULVERTS Made by the Reinforced Concrete CulYert Works 1 PH Ek.":44o - m.i. ia - 267 Qak t .v Portland Ore. PHIL EASTLDAR, Manager 1 St. Helens bkatinfi KinR 1 WILL BE OPEN Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday A EVENINGS li:ilT TIMMOXS - Manager -3 Si. Helens Mill Co. Electric Lighting (Saves Your Eye) St earn Heating (Prolongs Your Lives) 3 Lath Wood Lumber -er- -4m i wan rn f iDimick Stock Farm R Fo-jr.ilaticn Stock, from Tot IUrJs in Washington, Iowa and Illinois. !i BANNER HERD ' ,5 of Hcgistorcd rokuul-Ch'ma Swino. Youn Stock for Sale. Ia E. J. LANKINS, Manager 'I Hubbard, Oregon R. F. D. No. 2 V-1 I i '