The INDEPENDENT, April 16, 2009
Public executions topic at Library Jamboree theme
Justice in Frontier Oregon is inals hang from local gallows. announced
the topic of a Chautauqua pro-
gram to be held at the Vernon-
ia Library on Tuesday, April 21,
at 7:00 p.m. Diane Goeres-
Gardner will discuss the evolu-
tion of punishment and justice
in Oregon.
Just over one hundred years
ago many Oregon cities held
public executions with men,
women and children congre-
gating to watch convicted crim-
The presentation explores
changing attitudes from 1850
to 1905, when the last execu-
tion outside of a state peniten-
tiary took place in Oregon.
There will be refreshments
following the program, which is
presented by the Vernonia Li-
brary, the Friends of the Library
and with funding by the Oregon
Council for the Humanities.
50 Years Ago This Month
The April 9, 1959, issue of
the Vernonia Eagle included
the following news story on the
front page:
A centennial queen will be se-
lected from among the women
who have lived in the Nehalem
Valley for fifty years or more, the
Vernonia Friendship Jamboree
committee decided at its meeting
Friday night, April 2.
All organizations in the Ne-
halem Valley are invited to spon-
sor a candidate for centennial
queen. Entries must be turned in to
the queen chairman, Mrs. Lloyd
Garlock at Mist or the general
chairman, Mrs. Amy Kamholz, by
May 15. Organizations need the
consent of their candidate as the
queen will be present at a number
of events and will be honored at
each.
The queen will be crowned at
the queen’s ball which will be held
July 17. Mrs. Guy Thomas is
chairman of the queen’s ball com-
mittee and is in charge of arrange-
ments.
It was announced that the
Browning Brothers carnival will
be in Vernonia from July 15
through July 18 and will set up at
the east side of the high school
grounds.
James Johns, chairman of the
parade committee, announced that
the parade this year will begin at
Weed Avenue and Bridge St. It
will proceed east on Bridge to
State Ave., north on State to North
St., west on North to Washington,
back to Bridge, then west to First
St. and south to Maple. The parade
will return up Maple to Weed and
disband. The parade will be
judged between 10:15 and 11:00
a.m. on July 18. It will move out at
11:00 a.m.
Johns announced the following
parade classifications: Float, horse
drawn vehicle, marching unit,
mounted, children and pets, an-
cient vehicles, open, and commer-
cial. A special award for the entry
carrying out the best idea for the
centennial will be made.
Don Webb announced that ten
men attended the special meeting
on logging events April 2. The fol-
lowing events are set with the
chairman of the event listed:
Falling, Wilfred Holce; Burling,
Claude Gibson Jr.; bucking, Carter
Service and Ted’s Saw Shop;
Hand bucking, Ted Keasey; truck
backing, Don Tiffney; log chop-
ping, E. E. Larson; splicing,
Harold Bergerson. Other events
will be announced later.
A change in the method of
charging for concessions and the
country store was made. For the
past two years concessions were
charged at 50 per cent of profits.
This has proved to be confusing to
many people. The new method
will be fifteen percent of total
sales.
The theme chosen for the
2009 Vernonia Friendship
Jamboree is: Moving Forward.
Next, the Jamboree commit-
tee is looking for design sub-
missions for t-shirt and adver-
tising purposes. Please submit
your designs to Donna Webb
at donnatwebb@gmail.com or
call 503-429-5201(by May 6).
The next Jamboree meeting
is May 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the
learning center and is open to
anyone interested in helping
with Jamboree. One area of
help needed is for a group will-
ing to set out and take down
signage for Jamboree.
Below; a scene from this
year’s Easter Concert. The
Vernonia Community Choir,
directed by Lynda Cahill,
performed Bow The Knee, a
dramatic musical for Easter
with three free shows the
weekend of April 3.
Page 9
Bits & Bites
By Jacqueline Ramsay
H a s
your get
up and
go got
up and
went?
Hello. It
may be
Spring
but even
the bears woke up slow. So,
don’t rush out into your yard
with rake, hoe and shovel. It’s
too muddy and puddly in my
yard yet, besides my grass (ho,
ho) is now a moss bed with all
sorts of weeds, twigs, cones
and tree branches – so – I’m
waiting for a miracle. Seven
days of “nice” dry warm sun-
shine, then I’ll look for some-
one with the afore-mentioned
tools plus an aerating machine.
Then I can sit, sip tea, knit and
watch my front yard become
what it hasn’t looked like in
about ten years. Yes, when my
go got up and went, it didn’t
come back. I have accepted
this fact but I don’t like it.
I notice there is one less
possum at the lake. Poor thing,
it had a pretty multi-colored
brown fur though. The last one
Shadow and I saw was on our
back porch about four years
ago or was it longer? Time flys.
And the “Dead Light Bulb”
award goes to – the Liquor
Commission who is consider-
ing letting a fast food drive-
through have a license to sell
beer and wine with your burger
and fries.This “STOPS” any
pre-adult (under 21) from being
able to work there as a server
(or even take your order) also
who will check your I.D. to see
if you are old enough, and will
they have take-out at the drive
through window? It only took
one to develop the “mini burg-
er” now everyone has them,
consider Carl’s Jr. Bourbon
Burger ad. It’s disgusting – (a
doctor no less) – booze and
gluttony in one sitting.
Also in the same issue was
this story under TEN YEARS
AGO from The Eagle, April 7,
1949:
City Marshall Shirley Kirtland
reported $136 in fines collected
for arrests made by city policemen
during the month of March at the
council meeting Monday night.
The Vernonia rifle team took
second place in sharpshooters di-
vision of the Columbia-Willamette
Rifle league. Team members were
Ralph Aldrich, Bernard Lamping,
Harold Peterson, Ben George and
Milton Lamping.
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