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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1923)
Wrnxmia Enteicd aa second-ciabs matter / . ■ L 4, 1022, at th<- posi offa, al Ver i » o i, O -i, n iljr the Act of Ma • a .g jazj Paul Robinson, Editor and Ow-er Volum« 1, Number 41 VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1993 MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY COLUMBIA COUNTY .............. A.dyertisinp Medium of a Big Pay Roll Community The Baseball Season Opens The Oregon-American Lumber The Vernonia Mil! Co , Mr. O. Co. property and mill site is a W. Hodges Mgr., is one busy busy place. Every day makes place in Vernonia, The mill is showing. The spur railroad that sawing full blast and turning i. to surround the entire grounds out lumber by the car load for of about 200 acres, is being grad home use as well as shipping. ed fast The temporary bunk Many improvements are aiso houses and large dining room is b -ing made around the mi l and finished and partly occupied, i substancial eniarg meats b. ing and many men, with many mere made. New platforms being coming will make things hum. erected and work furnished for This one big industry alone will many men at good wages. Good make a good sized city, and erei grade lumber is being turned Vernonia knows it we will have out. on Spencer Hill one of the beau tiful home districts of Oregon. Another Mill A landscape gardiner from Kansas City has laid o it plans, O. W. Hodges tells us his mill parking strips, driveways and company has purchased a other | walks. This Company has put mill to be set up immedintely, Vernonia on the map and adver alongside the Vernonia ill, tised it considerable over the. we might become mutually county. Their mills and camps making it of 75,000 cpucity. . , T . r 'hilpfui to one a lother. That will increase our p rpulation pro . Workers are now busy enlarging AnG I He ujiliniOUhy th ; church may continue to fill and many more men will be eni- bably 1500 to 2000 people. re-mission well in this her 1 ew | ployed as soon as the new mi l J day so that there might be a I is finished in a few weeks. In Wi en Vernonia was small nu Play and Program i large majority of the people d*- dustries keep coming to the lum merically—yes, way back v h n Services for Sunday, May 20: ber center of Northw est Oregon. the t >,vh was being started—“ ve °Pinto strong thrift in Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. the Evangelical chu ch has sene eharac ers. and in years to come Next Tuesday night at the H. - When our grandfathers ar a Baccal umate Sermon at 11 a. m. Albert Woods returned Wed h r i astors into the val ey to stind up as living monuments grandmothers were married, the Christian Endeavor at 7:00 p. m. S, Auditorium the Eighth grade nesday from a tour of most of n i isle ■ to the n eds of the peo- for her efficiency, is the prayer fiJst thing they thought of was Evangelistic Services at 8:00p.m. will give a play entitled “Uncle the United States. He spent pi: These men traveled over of the pastor.—H. G. H. Si and the Sunbeam Club” and Weekday Activities: getting a real home. Now, two months taking in th sights ! the same rough reads a the pio young married people live in a 3- Choir Practice, Tuesday at 8 the lower grades will give a of Washington, D. C., a, d ma. e neer. With these they endu td A Chautauqua Number of the room apartment with a gari.gi p. m., at the home of Chas. program. The Sth grade grad side irips to various stat. s. Mr. ! ti e inconveniences of etrly p o Eagle June one, with full pro- uating address will be given and as an added attraction. There Malmsten. diplomas awarded. Tne audi Wools is glad ’.o get back and ne r days. Th church was bj'it gram of the week’s chautauoua Prayer mooting, Thursday at is too little of t eown-your-own- torium will be crov. ded to capac not’ces many substancial chan many years ago, and a brief re in Vernonia June 14 to 18. A home movement, says Gus A. 8:00 p. m., in the Church. view of the home* of the older c uple hundred extra copies thbt ges in Vernonia. ity. — H. G. Herrmann, Pastor. Lenoir, San Francisco business citizens reveals that the church issue, everyliody will iei;d it. man. The home building move It has been suggested to ue filled her mission we'l. She has Think about your June ads n< w In a letter received this week ment is one that should be fost MEMORIAL DAY Mr. Walkey says “We like yonr th. t we mention tie irnjortance b en faithful. 1 he strong moral for that issue, and figure on get- ered. paper fine and the way you ge of all residen s ; ndv business charac: r of these early settlers ti lg your copy in early, While it costs more to own a -------------- ---- men s--. n •• . ■ •’<. r t e:r an 1 their • :r> :: .s is the gr a'e-t: home today than it did in the Parade forms at grade school at it” Speaking of his ad n ho or the i nurch mi ht exp c water . , s as oo.i s possible, L rs. Walter Ccyle had a birth days of our grandparents, the building, all children urged to he another column, he continues: New Vernonia has changed. so th work may be done at one day Tuesday, and she wouldent income of the prospective home there, and marches to Rock “This kiln-cridd lumber is some Tmrehisbeen a row influx of even tell us how old she was. time and save experts, This thing that does not interfere builder is proportionately great Creek bridge at 10 a. in., where p ipu'a'ion. More and more the er than was that of his ar ces- a 30 minute service will be con with your local mills at the pres city . no di tierent than any city proper is resembling the Never-the less, some of her lady other in that it will soon )• ab- friends look advantage oi the tors. One trouble today is that ducted, No trafic across the ent time until you have dry kilns larger citie of the country. V e occasion and “got up” a birth souti ly necessary to Ci. y and nearly every new there is too much of •> tendency bridge at this time. From the ! going, t ar glad to say that the church day party for her. Refreshrm nts Watt . as ail wells will con to buy a home beyond one’s i bridge go to the cometery for house uses some of this mat i tli is ready to continue to meet the I ot ice cream, cake, and cot fee demi, d in time, Oqer toilets means. The organization or in deer rating of gravis. At two We ought to sell our share as it I ! eeas of the community. As the I were served, and a general g.><«| will i jt be permitted by the dividual that makes it possible ¡o'clock services will be held in does not take an auto very lor g Stati or City Hea th boards, town itself is reconstruc ing t- time had Tuesday afternoon. I for a man or woman to buy a j the H. S. Auditorium including t |muke the trip.” and i.il will benefit by peti in g s If so wj are now busily engag- wts a genuine surprise, the host West Oregon Lumber Co. home at a fair price and on rea exercises, speeches and music. the ork done as soot- a - p tsi. e e i to reconstruct our m> ans ard ess knowing nothing about it Clatskanie. sonable terms is benefiting the All places of bu-iness will be me hods 11 . ervic . The pastor untill she s> e > the ladies gath community. m. expected to close from 10 a. Mrs. Webster had the mis A ti nely suggestion we i. ight ;s already at woik rallying I; s ered at her home. Those pre Draw a distinction between Iuntil noon.' fortune to step on a nail, Satur ment n is the need of an ordin- forces, studying the si uation,' sent were; Mrs. F. L. Fry, Mrs. the high cost of building and the day while seaiching for tools in anee regarding buildii g. A and plans and methods are t e- H. E. McGraw and baby, Mrs. high cost of buying every new the shed. The nail penotrated build ug permit should be taken¡ ing d sencsed. But wTe are here G C. Mellinger, Mrs. J. V. Timhei Deal Closed fangled contraption that is dar - deeply into her loot and the pain by tl build -r, issued by the re to s rve and to minister to the Bal ¡rich and children, Mm. W. gled before the prospective hon e m >r al and spiritual needs of the A. Arnold, Mrs. Wm. Folger, builder. Build your home first The Malmsten timber near caused her to loose sleep Satur cord»- . at the c. st to the builder people irrespective of d< nomina Mrs. H. W. Smith, Mrs. J. C. and add some of the nonessent- town, about 5,000,(MM) feet, was day and Sunday nights. A* phy of a s n II sum rainging f;om tior. Our objective is not to d 3 Lindley, Mrs. Dick Parmore, ials later if you feel you have to. sold last week to Mr. O. W. sician was called and gave medi one to five dollars. Cert in tipe nominationalize but to Christian- Mrs. C. D. White, Mrs. E. C. i Hodges, of the Vernonia Mill Co. cine that quieted the nerves, and of co struction should b re trict- lite. We therefore appeal to all Spencer, Mrs. Waller Coyle, I tdd I certain localities in the Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Walker, We understand the purchaser in lesson the pain. Miss Hattie is city, In a month or so we are i Christian people and friends of Mrs. Robt. Nelson, Mrs. Paul of Banks were visiting their tends logging it and trucking doing the zork during the moth the church to co-operate with us Robinson and small son. daughter Mrs. H. E. McGraw, the logs to their mill here in town er’s illness and says it isn't quite going to ish such an ordinan e n.i -1 —. was in effect. like clerking. $4. per M was the price. this week. The Evangelical bhurch Chautauqua Üalco are June 14 to 18 Building Costs Are Al Evangelical Church Not High, Relatively ( About eight miles on the Coun ty road from Pittsberg toward St Helens will make work for about 30 men, several months, all camped near Pittsberg. The “Pittsberg road” will be finished thia year, giving a direct rout to the county seat. Two cru Ti ers are to be worked and the rocking to proceed as fast: a possible. ’’J Our Place HE bank has a well defined place in the community- a sharply defined duty in com munity affairs. To promote in every way con sistent with good banking practice the welfare and prosperity of the business life of Vernonia, to assist in any’ way possible any movement for the public good and to serve you all with the constructive service that is born of personal in- terest.---- such are our aims. T I k '< ■ r BANK of VERNONIA^ Vernonia, Ore^n _ . . « ¡.tj. ni 1 j j U- t JS - — I. W. Harvey met with quite an accident yesterday morning in the woods he is logging, just west of the city limits. While falling a tree one of the limbs broke oil and caught him across the shoulders and neck, cracking the colar bone, Th Vernonia Hardware Co, is introduding paint by a special whe; i by one can get a can of Japi. c for six cents. You wilt see by turning to the r adver- tisme it elsewhere in this paper. Mf Duffey, of the N. P. Ry. was a caller Wednesday. He is interested in the growth of Ver nonn and naturally his Company are watching developments heie Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Chalmers and Mrs. W. Brown, of near Roy Ore. were looking over our fair city Monday and Tuesd yof this wet x. T. B. Mills, has on hand Du Pont’s Improved Pacific Stum;- ajl'he Ladies Relief Corps held , ing Powder, which he is sellin g a very successful bazaar, auction in tin lots at $15.54 and less and luncheon, in the Pringle tha4 ton lots at $16 50 per hun \ building, yesterday. Receipts dred. were quite satisfactory. yrs. Sitts furnish d over fifty Mrs. C. D. White, has l>een smi II boquets to tha Sunday having consideiable trouble lor Scbml children on Mother’s Day some time with hlood poison in A thoughtful and kind act cer tainly appreciated. her arm.
