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entered u second-class matter Augubt 4, 1922,at the post office at Ver lonii, O.vgia, nader the Act of Ma rch 3, \nt9
VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1923
MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY__________________
I
Proclamation
Well For City, Big One
The present City Council
Summer time and busy
days together with health will have as a paragraph of
protection and fire dangers prominence in their life's
make it urgent that we CleAn history, the distinction of
Up our city. The ‘‘City being Vernonia’s First Cou
Beautiful’' idea is one of the ncil to inaugurate Municipal
beat assets our home town improvenents worth wh.lo.
can have.
Around old Future history of Vernonia
rapid
brildings grass and dry will describe the
lhe
substancial
boards make a dangerous growth,
foundation,
and
mistakes
fire possible at any time.
The City Council has de and the progress. The pre
cided to name Tuesday, sent Council has been ter
May 1st, as Clean Up Day. med over conservative, they
Have all old cans, trash and have no doubt made mis
rubbish in boxes selling in takes, but they have worked
front of your properly on the ¡ and among their action the
morning of May 1.
A wag llm progressive side of the
on will call and huul it a- glory is the Vernonia Waier
Burn up your System. The big well was
way Free.
old boards and dry we°ds, not exactly as prediced by
This demand is in accor some a water producer.
dance with the views, senti Twenty five feet found no
went and action taken by water. But by appropriating
the City Council.
Please the water from Rock Creek
attend to it. For a Cleaner, the supply will be mexast*
able. The state health board
Healthier, Better City.
Chas. D. White, Mayor. recommends a certain filter
Boy Gets His leg Cut
Neil Bush, 13 years, while
playing with Ralph Jolly,
last Sunday, had the mis
fortune to get a very bad
cut with an nx, near and on
bis ankle. Several stitches
were required in dressing
the wound, and part of the
ankle bone was cut.
T. B. Mills has taken the
local agency for DuPont
powder.
ing plaut, the first and only
cost of same being about a
thousand dollars. This as
sures Vernonia of
pure
water and plenty of it. This
should and will no d. ubt be
done. The well is about
finished and the pipe laying
to the big reservóla is about
accomplished.
The water
can be turned on in another
thirty days. The best thing
ever happening to Vernonia
and all gloiy to the Ver
nonia City Council.
Erick Erickson, who lived
near town, has been ailing
for some time
About a
month ago he was taken to
fl.e Old Peoples Home. A-
bout a week ago he grew
violently insane and was
Mr. and Mrs. Bergstrum, taken to lhe State Hospital,
of Oganoga 1 Co., Wash ., are where be died last Tuesday.
The Columbia County Lbr
Plant owned by the Mc
Cormick interests in St-
Helens, was destroyed by
fire Monday morning. Loss
$300,000.
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•
visiting at the Nehalem ho*
A Mr. Nolan, employed
tel—old friends of the Mc , by The Inman-P juison Lbr.
Donald.
Co , of Keasey, w s seriously
injured
Monday
morning
Mrs. McNutt anddaughter when a large Birip of bark
of Forest Grove, spent a few fell and nearly burried him.
days here this week.
Dr. 8horts rendered medical
attention and
sent him to a
A ball game 8unday on Portland hospital.
the home grounds.
Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner
Volume 1, Number 38
_____ COLUMBIA COUNTY
______________ Advertising Medium of a Big Pay Roll Community
sured that when Clatskanie
plays here—well, you certain
l.y can’t afford to miss that
A large num' er of oars 'game, _____________
loaded wiih loyal baseball
fans journeyed to Clatskanie
Sunday to witness ne of the
snappieel ball games this
Vernonia needs a volunteer
season. Although Clatskanie Fire Department, and needs it
won by a score of 7|to 3, that immediately. A volunteer com
pany organized now will have a
does not tell all of the story.
great deal to do with lower in
Having
a
sportmen-like surance rates as soon as our
bunch of good bail players, water system is completed. The
we unfortunately had a very town must have hose, plenty of
rotten umpire wished upon it, Most have a cart, ladders,
us, and as any Ian will, he etc. Money is r.ot appropriated
for the expence. It is too much
certainly had his eyes cross
of a task to get up a petition to
ed. The Vernonia team had the Council every time anything
a wonderful amount of pep is needdd in a progressive way,
and made a mighty fine and people are getting tired of
fight. Clatekanie scored one petitions and of having to point
run in the First and one in I out needs or ask for things con-
j linually. Hence it has been sug
the ¡Second, in ihe third in
gested that a volunteer fire com
ning Nance mad • a safe bi', pany be organized and that the
getting first. C. Coyle walk company be organized and that
ed 1st Whitlock at bat was the company give entertain
hit by puchtd ball, taking ments, etc to secure money to
13t base, Then lhe mighty buy the equipment. It is the
Mac. AlcG.aw strode up and suiest and quickest way of get
made a safe two base hit that ting things. Let’s Go.
They Played Ball
Not Yet Maybe Later
SPRING NEEDS
FOR
YOUR
We are right in the
iiii I uriLi ■ nmr^iwmnd o^g!
Home
Garden
Garage
------------- HOM E HI NTS--------------
L heart of a clossal fortune! Every precess
in the cutting, removal, sawing, drying and
BANK or VERNONIA;^
• _
A Firs Department
LOOK UP TO THE HILLS
shipping of that timber will bring to you and to
Vernonia, a part of that fortune.
Our future is in our own hands. Let’s make
the moat of it by earning, saving and investing. .<;•
Long before the great stand about us is deplet- rT/
ad the men and women who have caught the
spirit behind this message will have assured
their own welfare. Will you be one of them?
r-
Mystery Never Solved
Gus Lindberg has gone to the
Someone is going to get
hills on a searching trip for his
stung on high rents if a little brother who was lost nearly two
judgem nt isn’t shown. No ye^rs ago. Alex Lindberg, with
shack or cottage in Vernonia a hunting party of Vern< n a
is wort.i over $15 per month men, were in the thick u id-«r-
Foresight should also be brushand big timbe'of the big
used in imildiug new * Office hills nearly two years ago. Lind
berg left the party for t ilo t
[Lome." Build upper stories survey of the spot, and has nev» r
for house keeping rooms and been seen since. Several paites
suites, but not all rooms for of seachers covered the territory
high rent ‘ Offices” Who fur miles and not track or t-*ace
wan‘8 an “Office’ ? Not over could be found. Mr. Lai r’s
dog was Lindberg's compani >n,
a half dezen
“prcfessioi a
came home after an absence of
men” in our citv, and they nearly two weeks and wonld
all have secured offices. If not go back in the woods again.
rootn8oan’l be reukd reason It has remained a mystery these
able, belier not build, as tw o years and there are people
tha rents will drop with a who still believe the mibii >g
man living. Others think he
loud thud in a few months.
fell over some cliff, while others
People dont always put up say he wandered as a lost man
with high rents. The e are a will untill fatigue and starvation
few empty houses at this cv rcame him.
writing that are worth Iro^j
$5 to $15 per month rent--no
Lane & Co. report their sale a
more. And as the rent raises big success. Their collections
the reliable tenants will ev are good and their trade increas
entually build oi seek per-1 ing. "There is a reason,” Their
manant leases on lair priced »«Ie continues another week.
houses, Better rent a ytarj
Office Desk for $12. at Eagle
A Portland man calling Sat at fair price, than be vacai t office.
urday asked why in the world one month.
Vernonia dident have sidewalks
Parents are warned to keep
on both sides of the street and a
children away from the city well
crossing to get to teg to trie de
pot. We laughed and tried to
Communications must be It is a very dangerous place, and
explain. It is no use. Build a accompanied by the name some venturesome acts have
been witnessed—keep away.
sidewalk in front of your proper of the writer.
ty. You h..'.v a r.giit to build
asid.->va.h, uuU build it with
stringers coming even at the ends
so if j ou move it, you can drag
the E-.-'tions wtchout tinrting the
walk But build the walks, and
dont a ait for lhe Council to do it
if you are in a hurry. You wont
have to move it an inch either
way for a long time, as it will be
Fuwy About Hit Bat.
a long time before anv action
brought in Nance and Whit on that line is made.
lock, Clarence Coyle scoring
HOUSES .
on a passed strike. McGraw
There are lots of things you might consistently use in the home,
dying on third. This inning
New Houses
garden
and Garage. Just a tip on our part to you to buy these things
certainly made the crewd
Houses to Rent
now when qualities are right, an 1 qrlcea too.
realize that tffte Vernonia
ball team cou'd play ball.
Build Some Houses
In ihe seventh inning with
2 out and 3 strikes called Vernonia’s Greatest Need
The first and most important duty is extermination of files. Get
Bryan , of CLt-kanie, hit a is More Houses. It Offers
the first ones; fly killers first
pop Io >1 on first base line.
a
Sure
Investment
Daddy Coyle made a won
Chlorox clothes bleach................................................ 25c
derful dasa for that foul, lut
Fly Powder, box........................................................... 10c
High School notes and
Fry Paper, 2 sheets......................................................
5c
writeup next issue
Ammonia, per bottle, pint........................................... 15c
Lysol Disinfectant....................................................... 25c
Hat Dye.......... ................................................................ 25c
The Vernonia IGOE lodge
Cedar
oil mops............................................................... 1.00
cele- rated the 104th anni
Cedar
Polish
................................................................... 25c
versa y of the order la»t
Chloride
Lime
............................................................... 15c
night with a swlendid meet
Straw
Hat
Cleaner
...................................................... 10c
ing. speeches, banquet and
Roach
and
Rat
Poison
.................................................. 25c
soc.al good time.
First Car Beef Arrives
OOK around you.
Easily Overdone
missed, after falling over a
young army of fans. The
next ball thrown started the
fireworks
and before the
smoke blew over 4 runs had
been chalked up for Clata
kanie.
Whitlook lelieved
Vernon in the seventh, with
Kmneth Roberts catching
fcvIVernonia. Everyone had
a word of praise for the ball
t< am ami you may ie*t as
Tuesday night Cojle dt
Coyle received a carof stuck,
26 head heifers and steers
and 16 head hogs direct ftom
Portland stock yards. They
ver< lhe only outside butch
ers allowed to buy in the
yards last week.
It was the
first car of stock to arrive io
Vernonia on the new rail
road, and demonstrated the
nec ssitv for a corral and
'oacl ng shoot
Coyle &
Coyh to v I avt one o'the
beat meat market* m this
part of the sta' .
Their
uew ice plant is n w being
enst .Led and they have Iwo
larg ■ ‘re°zing rooms with a
rapac ty of 6 dnesed ca'tlc,
6 h<<t'S and as many veal.
OARAGE GAINS
Metal Polish, per can.................................................... 25c
Cleaning Sponges...................................................... 35c up
Cleaning Chamo.s.......... ............................................... 25c
Puto Polish..................................................................... 25c
Spray Early
Spray Often
SPRAY NOW!
Full protection can only be obtained by doing no. We wiU gladly
tell you what spray to use and when to use it, and any
further spraying information.
ASK US
P ub
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Fol ger, PharmaeiM.
Vernonia,
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Oregon