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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1924)
VERNONIA EAGLE i Issued Every Friday. $1.50 Per Year. cent figures from the Department of Agriculture show that the farmers this year will receive over a billion and a quarter more dollars for their crops than they received a year ago, and there is very little unemployment • ’«k in the country. People in the large I centers of population are spending Brief Resume of Happenings of money freely. All these are signs of the Week Collected for prosperity and we hope this situation continues to improve. Our Readers. OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST I Your Grocery Store r No such animal as “Tax Conserva tion and Supervising Committee,” ac The San Francisco section of the cording to a court decision. Decision American Mathematical society will or no decision, the counties all over meet in Eugene next winter. the state are up-iu-arnts against the A record breaking enrollment of proposition. Here’s hoping that it will pupils in the Eugene schools is re Advertising Rates 25cts per inch, forever be forgotten. ported by Joseph T. Glenn, city su single column measure, each week. CUN ACCIDENTS IN OREGON perintendent. We collect tor advertising the first Southern Pacific employes from of every month. Hunting accidents resulted in the death of five persons and injury of Roseburg and nearby points met In eight others in Oregon during the fall Roseburg for a safety-first and fuel PAUL s. ROBINSON. - easons on deer, small game and birds. saving conference. E ditor and O wner . This toll of human life was revealed Umpqua post of the American Le in the summary of accident reports gion at Roaeburg Is ahead of all other completed this week by the Oregon posts of the state in the matter of State Game Commission. A careful paid-up membership for 1924. check of all fatalities and injuries has The Gilpin Construction company been supplied the commission through will begin the filling of the streets district deputy game wardens. ■A total of ten counties are listed in the devastated district of Astoria in the summary with Douglas County about the middle of the month. Our canned good« are the beat obtainable. We carry only 1 lie at the head of the list. One person Salem is i buying more liquor glasses brands that have proven euperior. Each the choicest of th« IS OREGONIAN CORRECT? was killed and one injured in Douglas now than at any time in its history, hunting accidents. Umatilla and Wal according to William Gahlsdorf, pro season’s growth in that particular fruit or vegetable. The Portland Oregonian is one of lowa Counties each reps rted two in prietor of the I largest glassware store the really great papers of America. juries. One death was reported in in the city. We, as Oregonians, are proud of the each of four counties, Lane, Linn. The epidemic of diphtheria and Oregonian—it is part of us. Jackson and Yamhill, and one injury in building and boosting Oregon, each was reported by Curry, Des measles prevalent in Portland for the last three or four weeks is on the the Oregonian must put more atten chutes and Coos Counties. tion to the city of Portland than to The most common mistake of be- wane, according to City Health Of any .other one part of Oregon. It is lieving a man to be a deer caused ficer Parrish. right that it should. There is only 'he death of two hunters and injury Efforts to find H. C. Topping, sheriff one Portland ami it is the biggest of two. The accidental discharge of of Jefferson county, charged with con spot in the state. Longview is in guns killed three and injured two. verting to his own use more than Washington. Longview trade is Careless aim caused the injury of $2000 belonging to the county, have wanted over in Oregon, especially in four persons. so far been unavailing. Portland, but Portland does not want It was not hunters alone who were Automobile insurance rates for col to make Longview more important killed or injured. One nine-year-old than Portland, which the Oregonian girl was killed by accidental dis lision and property damage are due to The first district meeting of the plant, which was made necessary by gested by American Ltiglon officers must remember. Vernonia is in Ore charge of a rifle and a ten-year-old be reduced throughout this state in gon. Vernonia is more important to toy was injured for the same reason. the near future, in the belief of a num farm loan associations served by the the extraordinary progress in Coos at Klamath Falls that Contractor Oregon and to Portland' than Long Two other small boys were inju.ed ber of Insurance men. National Farm Loan Bank of Spokane county during 1923, will be between Adams should be paid for this work view is. Vernonia has more stand by the careless aim of a hunter. for which h« submitted a bill for $24.- In 1923, for the first year since will be held in Portland January 24. $600,000 and $750,000. ing timber surrounding it than has Rifles were responsible for the 1909, when the Port of Portland com At least two delegates from each asso The 1923 act of the Oregon legisla 956. Ex-Secretary of the interior Lanu Longview in its territory, but the Ore death of four persons and injury ot ciation in the vicinity of Portland are ture, creating county tax supervision undertook to arrange for the reclama gonian never intimates it. Vernonia four. Shotguns claimed five victims, mission took over the towage serv expected to attend. and conservation commissions, was tion of Hank's marsh and other tulu ice between Portland and the see, it semis millions of dollars to Portland >f which one was killed. declared void because of defective title lands In the upper Klamuth lake coun The Oregon public service commis has been operated at a profit. in a year. Does Longview ? Ver Notices have been sent to those re- in a memoranda opinion handed down nonia is the fastest growing city in •ponsible for these accidents calling The Southern Pacific company In sion has revoked tho certificate of by the supreme court. A supplemental try on the basis of giving long-time leases on t|m land to be reclaimed operation issued to the Royal Blue Oregon outside of Portland, You heir attention to the provision of the a report filed in the offices of the don’t read it in the Oregonian, Every Dregon laws, which prohibits any public service commission, indicated stage lines on the ground that the opinion setting out more fully the to tho contractors In return for their man in Vernonia has an equal oppor- arson guilty of accidentally killing that the corporation now has a sur corporation had allowed its liability views of the court will be prepared construction work. The American Le and property damage insurance to ex later, It was announced. The opinion gion post at Klamath Falls protested, tunity in business, it is not a "com- >r injuring another person from plus of 1499 cars in Oregon. pany town." Can you say that ol tarrying or bearing fire-arms in this pire. Stages have been operated by j handed down by the supreme court howuver, and after blds had b<-<-n re The recently organized Portland the Washington town? -tate. This provision, of course, ex- the company be' n Portland and In no way affects the tax supervising ceived. the lowest of which on re and conservation commission now in claiming Hunk’s marsh was submitted "The city built over night.” as has epts the right to bear fire-arms in Pulp A Paper company will erect a Astoria. operation in Multnomah county. The by Contractor Adams, the Interior de been referred to Longview, gets page- ■elf-defense and does not apply to paper mill costing approximately $1,- The case brought by the Pacific of publicity where Vernonia gets THREE—Vernonia Eagle... .. 20636 200,000 on North Portland harbor, ac Multnomah county commission was partment decided to let no contracts. Spruce corporation to restrain the Ore cording to plans of the company. lines. Vernonia has built many- time oeace ■ officers or members of mili- created by the legislature in 1919. Aduins proceeded with the work and gon public service commission from en faster than Longview, counting work tary < organizations while on duty. The 1922 season brought court con No emergency fund is available submitted his bill for a part of it, forcing an order making the corpora by individuals and not by one con victions to 167 persons for careless tion’s railroad a common carrier b<-- from which J. Frank Adams, of which the department has refused to cern. In Vernonia there is nearing 35 YEARS AGO ness with fire In the national forests Klamath Falls, can be paid for dill pay on the grounds thut ho was not tween South Beach and Waldport, will i jtupietion an industry that will mean of Oregon and Washington, accord construction performed by hint some authorized to go ahead. be appealed to the federal court of ap many times more to Portland and There was a town here 35 years lag to a report given out by the dis thing more than a year ago in process peals at San Francisco, it is an Oregon than a half dozen Longviews. igo, and a paper was then published trict forester’s office in Portland. of reclaiming a part of Hank’s marsh The big company in Vernonia, here. nounced. Following are some "news in Klamath county. It has been sug Authorization by congress is not spending these millions of dollars in items” we clip from a copy of that Certified seed potatoes from tho • necessary for the construction of the OREGON, is as big as the Longview -1<1 Vernonia Journal: Weston mountain district entered in . company. The logs going into Port- Alex. Sword has taken the contract Sellwood bridge across the Willamette an official test in the Yakima valley ’ ...nd every day from Vernonia is to clear off the lot on the southeast river at Portland, as the river is en with lots from 17 other districts in ‘' helping to make Portland. What is corner of Second and Bridge streets, tirely within the confines of the state, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, pro COLLECTIONS Longview sending in every day? for the new Journal building. Secretary of War Weeks has advised. We Never Quit. '»Ve Get Resulta. No Collections No Charge duced the highest score in the tests, Hundreds of Vernonia people read Uncle Joe Colter looks quite at Sheriff Hurlburt’s tax collection de according to information that has KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT COMPANY the Oregonian, and wonder if Port home in his new business. The partment In Multnomah county has been received by Fred Bennlon, coun McMinnville Hillsboro Tillamook land. and Portland’s Oregonian, really ground is being cleared for his new collected and turned ojer to County ty agent. J. 1. Knight J. J - Stangel Jno. O. Bozorlh know or realize what they have at .neat market, he having bought a lot Vernonia—the best industrial town in of Mr. VanBlaricom for this purpose. Treasurer Lewis this year a total of Plans are now being put under way which exceeds the Oregon today outside of Portland. Several otters have been seen work *14,390,399.94, in Portland and throughout the entire ing their way up the river, probably amount of taxes on the books for this state to raise a fund of $100,000 in year by *250,241.22. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE in search of winter quarters. Oregon for the relief of large numbers The Upper Columbia Athletic league of starving children in Germany, a Joe VanBlaricom is building a new Seldom has the country witnessed house for an Eastern family, who are Instituted by the principals of the campaign having been authorized by such universal approval of a tax re expected here by the 10th of October. schools of Sherman. Gilliam, Morrow Herbert Hoover, secretary of com daction program as accorded Secre Willie Mellinger is the champion and Wheeler counties last spring, will merce, with the indorsement of Presi tary Mellon’s proposal. -almon fisher of Rock Creek. He open its series of basketball games this This is probably due to the fact ook seven fine large fish out of the week. The series will include 70 to dent Coolidge. A total of 33,549 applications for cash that the usual talk about tax reduc .vet last Friday. 75 inter-bigh school games. tion is confined to glittering gener There was another pleasant dance bonus and loans have been received, Oswald West, Fern Hobbs and H. according to a report prepared by the alities which will not embarrass a it the Mellinger residence last Friday M. Parks are the incorporators of the world war veterans’ state aid commis political condidate or public official •vening. with hard cold facts which must be The Vernonia House is crowded to Fort Rock Development company, for sion. Cash bonus applications paid ag substantiated. its full capacity with travelers and which articles of Incorporation were gregate 21,500. representing $4,634,- Secretary Mellon has given the peo ’star” boarders. filed with the corporation department 360.00. Applications for loans paid by ple the figures from which they can S. J. Brown will soon begin work on at Salem. Capital stock is to be $10,- the commission total 4927 and aggre draw their own conclusions. Instead • house for Mrs. Backus. It will be 000, and Portland will be headquarters. gate $12,237,300. of sidestepping the issue. President '6x32 feet. The lowest bld opened at Portland The Oregon supreme court, In an Coolidge is outspoken in favor of ths McNutt, the Vernonia merchant, by Captain George Mayo, corps of opinion written by Justice Brown, held Mellon plan. has three teams on the road hauling engineers, U. S. A., for the delivery of that all the proceedings attending the This has been a severe blow to po n his winter stock. litical leaders who would have dodged The present force of men employed 230,000 tons of rock to be used in Issue and sale of bonds in the amount the issue and delayed action until by the mill company is twenty-one, jetty construction at the mouth of the of *2,200.000 by the Harney Valley Ir after the coming election. counting the proprietors, all of whom Umpqua river, was $1.43 a ton. It rigation district were legal. The opin With a definite program for tax re are practical workmen, The force was filed by Joplin & Eldon of Port ion affirmed the decree of Judge Dal land. duction before then, and with wide is as follows: ton Biggs, who heard the case in the spread approval of the plan being S. J. Brown, manager. E. B Watters, postmaster at Stayton Harney county circuit court. expressed from every section of the James Ryan, head sawyer and gen- for the past two years, has been re A. C. Strange, county school super country, it is going to be hard for our •ral overseer. moved from office, following a visit of repre-entatives in Congress to justify FIVE—Vernonia Eagle......... 20636 a postoffice inspector from Portland intendent for Clatsop county, was elected president of the Oregon State delayed action which will cost the tax Thomas Solomon, engineer. who, it was said, found the postmaster payers of this nation hundreds of Harvey VanBlaricom, carriageman. *1200 or *1800 short In his accounts. Teachers' association, in session at Portland. Miss Cornelia Spencer, of millions of dollars. George C. Baker, off bear. If tax reduction is actually pushed Spencer Rose and C. Reid, lumber Miss Mildred English has been ap Portland, was elected vice president pointed acting postmaster. to final consideration and passage, it men. and J. O. MacLaughlln, of Renton There was only one fatality due to county, and A. C. Rice, of Portland, FOUR—Vernonia Eagle ............. 20636 Martin VanBlaricom, driver. will lie through the triumph of en lorn Brown, foreman, Jas. May- industrial accidents In Oregon during members of the executive committee. lightened public opinion over the pref tard, C. Tanner, B. Lewis, Joe Lewis the week ending December 27, accord Fire blight and the San Jose scale erence of individual members of Con ■ nd J. E. Guild, carpenters. ing to a report prepared by the state gress to play personal politics at pub Joe Reed and Vess Davis, teamsters. Industrial accident commission. The will be attacked In every orchard In lic expense. Jas. Palmer and Geo. Solomon, gen- victim was Robert Williams, a laborer, Umatilla county where found next spring, if plans announce d by R. F. ■ral utility men. with beadquarters at Prospect. A to W.lbur, deputy state and county horti INCREASING PROSPERITY tal of 605 accidents were reported. cultural Inspector, are realized. Cli A good place to live and getting bet Ail the reports that we can receive ter every day that’s Vernonia. Contracts fpr construction work on matic conditions during the past year indicate a growing prosperity in this the third unit of the Southern Pacific have been favorable to the spread of country. The building boon continues. Job printing 6f any description system's aew main line in Oregon be tne fire blight, he stated. Pruning of .Bank clearings are large. The rail -lone at the Eagle office. tween Klamath Falls and Eugene have the diseased and infected wood and roads are loading more freight cars been let to the Utah Construction com the use of poison spray will be raaort- When your engine in not running properly than ever before in their history. The pany of Ogden and Saa Francisco and ed to. ¡1 lackn power or will n.t start as it should—bring it in increa ed or sumption of butter in Why Mr. N. Windsor (R. I.) Put Of tho Stewart A Welch company of The Mountain States Power com this’country last year was enormous. with Rat. for Y~ra Seattle and San Francisco, according pany, which serve, all cities In Coo. u and let us look it over. Tb.sjs always an in «ficati/m of pros "Yean I fot torn» nt poteoa. «Meh Mtly to announcement by J. A. Ormandy. county except Bandon with power and * perity. The mail order houses are tilled our fine watdb do.. We put up with nW We get right into it and find th» start or cause general passenger agent for the com electricity, has announced probably its rep- din" ever increa ing sales. The uatil > friewi teM me «boat Ut 9mp It awutf kills ratt. thouffi house pats wou't touch It " KaM pany. The contracts provide for 32 largest single piece of development for ■ of the trouble, and then fix it in a through manne. United States Department of Agri Ay upaadteaveaosssdl Prices. JSa, Me. $1 M. miles of rail-bed and include the build 1924. Th. expansion involve, a new culture and bankers in agricultural SoM sad amnatatd to ing of a 8700-foot tunnel under th« electric plant which is to be construct districts report a growing prosperity to the agricultural communities. Re- summit of the Cascade range. The Vernonia Drug Co. ed in North Bend. The cont of thia Entered as second-class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Ver nonia, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879. * We Stand the Test Where Trouble Starts | Vernonia Brazing t Machine Works 4 > 1 »