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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1922)
We wish every citizen could at PERSONAL DOINGS IN THE LOCAL FIELD William H. klepper, president ot the tend every meeting of the city coun Portland club of the Pacific Coast cil, in order that we would everyone league, was forever barred from furth see the pull and wholeback side of er participation In the affairs of the affairs. Vernonia is a city, and it is Natl «al Association ot Professional time we were running things a little Baseball leagues. In a resolution adopt citified. It takes harmony, which we ed by the board ot arbitration of the have not got. The people should know just who is right and who it wrong. organisation. Klepper was charged When the council passe* a law, that with making and filling an alleged is law, and if any one defies that rul Caiuhcs for school children, toys, several ease* of smallpox have ap false statement relative to the capital ing, then who is to blame? Order is fancy dishes, etc., for Xmas Visit iny stock of the Tacoma (Wash.) club, another thing our council lacks, a* store for Christinas shopping. Mrs. peared in Wallowa, but it I* of a mild which he organized. everyone talk* without addretsing the form. Lee, in Vernoni| hotel building. Real and personal property of the chair half the time. At the la*t coun Ten persons were murdered In Port Portland Flour Mills company In Mult cil meeting nothing wa* accomplished land during the 12 months ending No nomah county was bld In for an aggre and a Babylon reigned supreme. Mrs. Charles D. White spent a few vember 30. gate of $1,172,670 at sheriff's sales Judge Harris made a good and sen days io Portland last week. The population of the Oregon state held In Portland. Wallace McCamant, sible talk on how to proceed on side r "" penitentiary, which last August totaled u - on behalf of a committee holding $3,- walks and hi* advice was appreciated. > It is good to start improvements right 470. has dropped to 458. 000,000 of the company's outstanding Mr. Jolly ha* been on the sick list The mill of Smith brother*. 15 miles 8 per cent mortgage bonds, acquired and then they will remain right for for-a few days. northwest of Prineville, recently de title at the forelosure sale, this be all time. Your paper intends to keep . >’ you informed on doings of the council stroyed by fire, is being rebuilt. 1 . ing th* first step in the plan for turn but until harmony exist* and some I l< '• Retail merchants of Coquille have definite is accomplished, Mis* Evelyn Jolty spent the week organized a local chapter of the Ore ing the properties over to the Sperry thing Flouring company of San Francisco. there is nothing to report. People end in’ Portland. . gon Retail Merchants association. The Northwest Association of Sher want sidewalks and they want them The Peacock mill at Freewater it iff* and Police, which convenes In NOW. People want a cerfew law and People want running night and day In order to fill Portland January 18, 19 and 20 for its they want it NOW. Mr. . L. H. Detrow went to Port order and speed on city affairs and flour orders from foreign countries. second annual convention, will pay land Thursday to meet Mrs. Detrow, There are at present in the school* particular attention to the problem of they don’t want any more delay* who has been visiting in the east of Marion county 14,944 pupil*. Thi* enforcing the prohibition laws, accord than is necessary. Thi* east side and for :some time. Mr*.- Detrow was west side is bosh. There is no east glad to get back home even if she 1* an Increase over last year of 482. ing to word received by Chief of Police or west; it is all Vernonia, and a west- did come in a snow stortn. The population of the state home for Jenkins of Portland, vice president of sider has just as much interest in the the feeble-minded at Salem haa in the association, from L. S. May, presi high school and in eastside sidewalk* Notice my window* for Christinas creased in the past year from 621 to dent, a noted criminólos'«!. The or as an eastsider. We all believe in the ganization. starting out with 100 mem majority rule, and readers, we don’t goc&s - And novelties. In the • Ver 707. Thirty-four persons were killed »nd bers. has Increased its membership to blame you for getting tired of objec nonia hotel building. Mrs. Sue Lee. k U _________________ 1802 injured in 14.496 traffic accidents 400. A clear-cut resolution In favor of tions and the lack of harmony. Time ’’ ' in Portland during the year ending strict enforcement of the dry laws Is for action. a The Eagle sincerely wishes every expected at the session. onefpfiits readers a Merry Christmas November 30. The big snowdrift melted yes Five state senators met tn Pendle A course in horticulture will be In and. a ^prosperous New Year. Nine terday when the sun came out, ton and. agreed to continue to support teen twenty-three, will be the banner cluded in the winter short course* year, for Vernonia. . Ride easy and given by the Oregon Agricultural col Senator Jay H. Upton of Prineville for and our new teacher floated in president'of the state senate. The on some brift wood, You may lege January 2 to March 17, 1923. let ’er}go. t The North Bend Chamber of Com senators present were Rimer, Robert r’ J ---------- -■.-V----------------------- not believe it, but she is here at Alt ¿yes are on Vernonia, tiie coin- merce has opened a drive tor an in son. Dennis, Taylor and Ellis Senators crease in membership and for a bud Upton and Strayer were not present. last. We're having some trouble ing’industrial city of Oregon. ... , - ------------------------- The senators comprise the Eastern in sitting used to the new sch- get of $5000 to be expended in 1923. Eaarflcled slop jars, tin horns, balls, More than 150 telephones were put Oregon delegation who had met in (dole but we’ll see it'thru. marbles, dishes, fancy Christmas out of commission in The Dalles as a caucus before and agreed to support presente, at Mrs. Lee's in the Ver result of the heavy snow which broke Upton. Senator Strayer of Baker, was nonia notel building. VERNONIA GROWS FAST in communication with the "sage down the drops leading to home*. ♦: j------------------------ brush ’ ’ group by long distance tele The annual report of the Cooa coun Mr. Walter Stratton, and Mr. ty school superintendent show* that phone. and Is said to favor the agree Work on Light and Power Plant Begun; Framework I. Laid Bejt 'Au tin. of Seattle wer» cost of the public school* of Coos ment io support Upton. for Railroad Station Incendiarism was responsible for the county was $465,766 for the last year. vigpois at the homeof the Editor? Although the number of ease* of conflagration which destroyed the farAily Monday and Tuesday. HILLSBORO, Or., Dec. 5:—(Spe- typhoid fever in Portland this year business 'Section of Astoria, according Mr^Sfratton being a brother of has largely exceeded those of 1931, the to both Ma/br Bremmer and Chief of I cial.)—Activity is steady in every Robinson. death record from thi* disease shows Police Carlson, and local radicals are I branch of progress at Vernonia and j is not retarded by bad weather. only one more death than in that under suspicion. Investigation proved The site for the big lumber mill, that the fire at the outset began in two »$8.» L°e Ha l spent a few days year. , across from the Nehalem river, will The Santiam Woolen mill*, employ separate places, simultaneously, ac- I be ready soon for the erection of in Ppritland thia week. ing 150 persons, ha* built an addi . cord I ng to Chief Carlson At least a buildings. Several refuse piles re r f.------------------------- tion to Its plant and is planning further dozen citizens who were in the vicin semble huge Indian tepees and are A nice new bungiow, cw m improvements. The company's mill of ity of the Bee Hive department store all ready for the torch. Immediately o »l|, ^400—terms—G., B, Rich fice has been moved from Portland to when the conflagration Btarted said adjoining the site are a number of they were certain that two restaurant* home plots on which residences are Stayton. Oregon postmasters recently nom —one at either aide of the department being constructed. The office and ~’ residences of the mill company are Heverljng spent a couple inated by the president ar* as follows: .store—were rgaJpg furnaces, while the practically finished. The high school Irvin D. Pike, Oras* Valley; Rode store showed no sign of fire. day« in Portland this week, The value of taxable property in building is undergoing finishing work rick A. Chisholm, Monroe; Otto G. but has been occupied for several Schneider, Power*; Russell H. Sullens. each county in Oregon, including that weeks. :> *; 1 equalized by county boards and that Attorney Sheeley, has been Prairie City. Vernonia is growing rapidly. A There are 3356 person* of «chooT equalized and apportioned by the state leading hotel will double its capacity all Untiles lids week.' Lecai se tax commission, Is $1.009,499,160.38, ac by an addition now under construc rs^Sheel -y and the baby have age in the Eugene school district, ac cording to the revised figures on the cording to a report prepared by the tion. A new mercantile building now reiurnid f.-um a two we^ks visit recent school census. This is an in state tax commission. The value of under way almost adjoining the Ne witlji hgr parents near Vancouver crease of 246 over the number enumer taxable property in each coqnty as halem river bridge, (fills the only assessed and eqm.'ized by the state available space left in that block ated last year. A petition has been tiled at Albany tax commission ..-1 apportioned ac facing the main street. TOirjk of this, f ne big lots Poles are being prepared for an cording to th respective county ratios c ose ih for $75.00 1 eash. ba asking the division of the Harmony electric power plant which will supply school district and the creation of a aggregated $123.707,064.54, while the $10 pet1 month. Ha ia wise who new district of the western half of the value of taxable property assessed by light and power within a short time. The city ha, bonded itself for near buys-one before the spring rush. territory. The Harmony district was the county assessors and equalized by ly $40,000 for a water system which the county boards of equalization to will supply one of the vital necessi organized nearly 50 years ago. —G.'B. Richmond. t. 1 ________ ■. . . Formal notice ef appeal of the taled $885,792,095.84. The report show* ties. The city has decided that in 1*. M. Di- Cole attended a Klamath Falls couit house decision re a total of 10,508,027.02 acres of tillable stead of taking the water from the Dentat Convention in Portland cently rendered by Judge Skipworth lands in Oregon, with an aggregate Nehalem river, it will dig wells for of Lane county waa served ta both assessed value of $250,827,512. Tim the water supply as it is believed the firat of the week. Since his cases in which the court bouses and ber lands aggregate 3,379,073.32 acres, better water will be obtained in that rettab the has added equiptment the court house sites ar* involved. the assessed value being fixed at $64, way. Framework has been laid for the andM h’ew waiting room to his "The state of Oregon send* mor* 438,895. The assessed value of 12,492,- big new depot. students to college In proportion to its 445.50 acres of non-tillable lands In dentpl ^ffice. population than any other state in the the alate is $90,812,562. AaotÜer new arrival attracted Union," declared W. J. Kerr, president of the Oregon Agrlcultoral college, in by toe’progress of Vernonia is discussing American (education week. Mr Jji y^of Echo. Mr. Jay tells us C. L. Palmer, the new Baker mayor, they UNtd in Vernonia thirty appointed Ed Rand, who for some yearH ago. but h. an’t seen the time has been deputy United States towri {since. The family baa marshal, with headquartera in Port land, as chief of police. Frank Mc- bought property here and will Colloch has been named for eity at make this their future home. torney. The increase in license fee* receiv 3 tittf Jota near High School — ed by the motor veh'cle division of the only <650 a si ap—G. B. Rte’- secretary of state's office op to and including November 30, as compared mond.' 3 n , • .. -. .. with the same period in 1921, amount k .,-------------------- — ed to nearly $1,000.000, according to 80 ic ft-« good land—1.000,000 Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state. The motor vehicle registration de cedaf 6^0.000 feet Fir, near gra- vele&rottd, only $1500 for land partment of the secretary of state’a .-.nd s timber—terms (his is a office face* a serious congestion of work at the first of the year be gr*-ai*T>arpain- -G. B. Richmond cause of the tardiness with which 10 pcres 0 cleared 5 acre* rich motor vehicle owner* ar* sending in bottom M ine balance hili, land their applications for new license*. / Chief Justice Georg* H. Burnett of good i ^.jQorn, house, barn, chick- the Oregon supreme court wrote a •n h i <Qseand line orchard. Near letter recomntendinb Judge Charles H. the bgc I mill. 1 hink w hat a mar- Carey of Portland for appointment to ket yjfc would have for chickens the United States supreme court to fill or fnjit. $3000. $1000 c. an la - a vacancy, which, It is said, will be at:Ce ämx i I terms.- G. B. Rich» made soon by resignation. Other jus tices of the court said they were go i - i* raoDw^Sa ing to write similar letters. -Äw----------- X * Sale* of gasoline in Oregon during October smounted to 5,405.454.2 gal Ions, according to reports filed with trunks; baggage, Deliveries any Secretary of Stat* Koaer. The state time. ,Ln.ave orders at R & L tax on gasoline and dittillate sale* for the month amounted to $111,254 89 barber shop. We'll haul it. > _k---------------------- _ While gasoline sale* decreased 15 per Goo^ hbavy team, wagon and cent a* compared to th* previous month, sales of distillate show a gain S e Weaver of more than 30 .per cent. harness for sale. Items Gathered Front Here and There Sense and Nonsense. Standard Oil in Vernonia Notice. Th« flirt cur load of oil and gaa from the Standard Co., ar rived in Vernonia Wednesday, No more will we have to depend on trucks from other cities. Mr. C. I. Frese, their agent for this county was in town this week and it is rumored that in the spring we may have a Standard station with their large recieving station and tanks in our city. We need it. The judges, Mr*. Spencer, Profes sor Wilson and the editor, had a hard job deciding which of the many es says on the History of the Nehalem Valley, were the best. Indeed, there were a few that it wa* next to < /' ) possible to judge on, being abouj equally good. Veldon Parker, aged 1«? year* and in the seventh grade, was decided to be the best and Vel don will please call at the Eagle of fice for his first prize. Net came Dor othy Throop, Ethel Wilson and Anna Rea Webster, all three exceptionally good and hard to decide which wa* the best. Josephine Corey, Opal Coyle, Samuel Anderson and Percy Bergerson were all more than worthy X of special mention and it wa* evi-J dently a task tor them to secure date* and particular* . When In Portland NEW SERVICE STATION S TOP — At the — Empress Hotel Sixth and Stark Sta. , Center of Business District Moderate Prices Read the extra Christmas adver tising in this issue. We think they are just a little better than any seen in the average weekly paper. They are good reading, and they demon strate the fact that you can get what you want right in Vernonia. The business men with these Christmas ad* are interested in you and in the town. They say, "Merry Christmas” from the heart, and mean every word they say. Read these ads, all of them and patronize the advertisers. You will save money by reading them, too. It is hard to say which ad is the best, or appears the best from a typographical standpoint. The word ing is the same as your merchant would talk if you were in his store. The Vernonia Brazing and Ma chine Works, Inc., ar* installing a new gas filling station, one of the best on the market. Their new tanks have a capacity of 18 gallon* to the minute and modern appliance* Thi* firm are also now agent* for the fam ous United State* tire* and tubes, and are operating a first-class serv ice station right on the highway at their machine work*. Elsewhere in thi* issue is a com munication from “One of the Peo ple" on a recent meeting of the Hon orable City Council. The writer show* ability a* a scribe and there "is more truth than poetry” in hi* ravings. Whether or not we appre ciate sarcasm, we print the report a* handed u* by the citizen, and we vouch for the fact that said citizen is truthfully a booster at heart. It is possible you may want to mail thi* and next week’s Eagle to inquiring friends. Both thi* issue and next week’s will be edition* ot descriptive matter and truth* con cerning Vernonia. Both Christmas editions, and we will have probably a few extra copies at 5 cents each while they last. Al HE CLIMBED RIGHT WN THE CHIMNEY jp----------- Heck’s. Express Clark.- Vernonia, I tf Ladies Calling Cards Baby Birthday Cards, Plate Cards, Business Cards. The Eagle Has Them. Let us print your cards. DOLLE magazine subscription bureau IM ISth St, Portland, Oregon: $2.50 2.00 3.00 3.50 2.50 2.50 2.00 2.50 1.00 5.00 $1.50 1JW IJO 2M IM 5.00 iM 1.00 1.2»- .34 *