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A 1 * AT ■J* Dr r n onia-w Entered as wond-v1»«« matter Auguet 4, 1022, at the poet office at Vernonia, Orego 4 VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924 -__'T' MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY * nnder the-Act of March 3, 1879 Volume 2, Number 49 - - --- ---- == COLUMBIA COUNTY * « f a * Advertising Medium of a*Bid Pay Roll Community City affairs are progressing as rapidly as deems safe. Monday’s meet ing of the Council was attended by the members of the County Court who came over in the interest ot the pavement question for Bridge street. The County is to pave sixteen feet down the center of Bridge street through th city limits as the plan is put forth now and the property own ers will pave the sides. The sewer on this street will in all probably be ready for the paving to begin by July 15. The purification plant has been ordered put in and within 60 days that big and important job will be completed. The quicker the pav ing, the sewer and the filtering plant is finished the better, and speed in the beginning is now all important. Everything that is possible to be done toward this end is being ac complished as rapidly as possible and we are confident that Council mem bers are loosing sleep over the im portant questions. PUBLIC CONVENTION BIG MEN ON PROGRAM Enforcement Congress to Bo Ht Id In Portland on Jana 3 and 5 Launching of a crusade that will In Hillsboro they have an occupa continue until the prohibition st >t- tion tax, recently inaugurated, a case utes are thoroughly enforced in O a- of raising needed finance to help with gon, Washington and Idaho, is the the building and maintaining of their stated aim of the anti-saloon leai ue city for the time being. A stiff fine of the three states which are spon hus been provided for slackers, and soring the Northwest Citizens’ L ,w they are having no. trouble in collect Enforcement Congress, Xo be held in ing the' tax, as everyone is paying Portland, on une 3 to 6. for their own city; or, paying the money to themselves—so to speak. The program, now virtually com This is alright if everyone is treuted plete, embraces every phase of 1 w alike, and over there, it seems every enforcement, with William “Pussy one comes in on it. It is a success. foot” Johnson, Governor Pat Nt if of Tesas, ar.d other well-known It can be here if our officials will COLLECT IT, and if anyone is left The new Hotel to be erected at and State Avenue. speakers, featured. • and be constructed of concrete and off the Hat, put them on at once. Not only will the dry officers’ re Vernonia, Oregon, is to contain 65 The building to be fire-proof and to hollow tile with white stucco exter- Amusement houses are taxed same room« and about 35 rooms with pri lation to bootlegging activities he iors. Also modern plate-glass store be three stories high. The first floor as shows and a list of other taxes discussed, but the responsibility of fronts on two sides of the building. vate baths. All other rooms to be will be devided off into five stores, they collect are as follows Tor ONE the individual, the parent, the chuich The design is to be on the Spanisn Y EAR (Collected quarterly, in ad- connected up to hot and cold water. hotel lobby, barber shop, and a large ]ino architecture, and ail windows to the press and the prosecutors, is to be HTGH~SCH05L'gL0sgD The new hotel to be located on the dining room and kitchen. The build- $e modern design steel sash in a very vance) given a thorough airing, according’ Malmsten corner on Bridge street ing will be modern in every respect, pleasing design. to W. J. Herwig, superintendent of General gat-ages with repair This term of High School closed on the Oregon Anti-Saloon league. shop ...................... .................. $20.00 Friday of last week, as mentioned in O OOOO OOOO Q IXXX> Veterinary surgeons ............... $6.06 OOOO rw wxr> Born to Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Enos last issue of the Eagle. The program Dr. Charles McCaughey, pastor of General garages without repair The ordinances provide a maxi £ baby boy on May 23. $15.00 Centenary-Wilbur Methodist Church shop LOCAL NEWS. of the week ended with the final grad ♦ 60 for failure of any O OOOO OOOC. OOTK OOOO OOOO O 110.00 mum fine^f Automobile repair shop uation exercises Friday night. The Portland, will discuss the individuals one liable to pay the tax, or if the Mrs. Riley Hall and daughter of .uditorium was crowded and the class responsibility to law obedience und Automobile repair shops sell The Parent Teachers Association fine is not paid one day in the city enforcement; Mayor George L. Bak ing automobile accessories will meet at the Grade School build- ' Rainier are visiting at the home of >f 1924 received many congratula- er is to deal with the parent’s rela jail for each $2 of the fine. her sister, Mrs. A. P. Bayers. ions. and butteries $15.60 ing Thursday, June 5, 1924, at 3 ; Members of the class include Hel- tionship; Dr. J. Ralph Magee, pailtr Automobile sales agency........... $10.66 VACANCY IN TEACHING STAFF o’clock p. m. Mrs. II. F. Tory of Portland is vis n Brown, Blanche Bergerson, Edwin of First Methodist Church, Seattle, Mi s Little, the Red Cross Nurse Dealers in second hand auto iting for a few days at the home of 3ondit, Ernest Narver, Bonita Park- will give his views o nthe church’s mobiles exclusively .............. $15.06 Wm. Schreiber, Asst. Principal of will be present and give a report on her son, V. L. Tory. r, Weston Sheeley, Margaret Tous- responsibility; B. F. Irvine, editor of Dealers in second hand auto Vernonia High School, left for Port conditions of pupils and Health rules The Oregon Journal, will speak on ey and John- Wharton. mobiles and selling automo land last Saturday, the school term of children. All are urged to be pres “The Press and Law Enforcement.” Mr. and Mrs. Ray South, Mr. and bile accessories .............. .$20.00 having ended the day before. Mr. ent. An entire afternoon will be de.ot Mrs. Geo. Basington spent the week EDWARDS COMING AGAIN Tire shops ................................ $10.06 Schreiber was appointed for another ed to the question of the officer and end at Seaside. Tire shops selling automo year, But decided he would prefere a Alfred and Robert Nichols, of law enforcement, with Thomas P. Next Wednesday night Billy Ed bile accessories ................ $15.00 Principalship elsewhere. Consequent Gerabalda, arrived in Vernonia Mrs. Alice Kephart and small Revelle, U. S. District Attorney for Automobile top shops . $6.00 ly a vacancy is left in the staff for week to be with their father daughter of Lakeview, Washington wards the headlock demon will wrest Western Washington, discussing it Automobile top shops handing next term. Prof. Schreiber was well summer, P. A. Nichols. are to arrive next week to spend the le Vernonia Miller and Parker in a from the U. S. Attorney’s standpoint handicap, at Coyle’s hall. accessories .......................... $10.00 liked and entirely satisfactory uh an summer at the A. H. Webb home. U. S. District Attorney John S. Battery service stations ...........$10.06 instructor in Vernonia. Coke, of Oregon, will show the need Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Swedley and Battery service stations hand I- _ Weaver Clark and Mrs. Fry spent for co-operation among law enforce r W. C. Repass is suffering with a cousin from Seattle are visiting ing automobile accessories $1.00 ftlONEY FOR NEW SCHOOL HOUSE and Mrs. E. L. Hadden. the week end at Gates. Their mother ment officers; George Neuner, Jr., bad attack of Lumbago. Gasoline filling stations, one Grandma Clark, accompanied them former district attorney of Douglas pump ...................................... $6.-00 A new school house is absolutely a. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gibbs and fam Mrs. L. G. Dickson-left Sunday for home to remain indefinately. ¡County, and long active in special Each additional pump ............ $4.00 necessity in Vernonia, and it will be i|y „nd Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hadden an extended visit in the east. I invesugauOTi investigation work, wum, is to vu give his ms con- Bukeries $15.00 finished by the beginning of the next spent Sunday at Seaside. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. DePue and fam I elusions, and State Senator B. L. Banks ........................................... $40.00 school term. At an election Tuesday — ■ 11 1 Mr. Oscar Lyle of Eastern Oregon ily visited near Holton Sunday. j Edy, of Roseburg, is programmed Blacksmith shops ................. ,. $10.60 the $40,000 bonds were voted for the Dewey Droebaugh is the owner of is visiting his brother, Earl here this | for an address on “Co-operation of Barber shops, one chair ........ $6.00 purpose. At a recent citizens caucas a new Overland. week. The C. W. Shipley family are mov-1 Citizens With Officials In the En- Each additional chair . $3.06 called to Vote on the question it was ing to Vernonia from Banks. They i forcement of the Law’.” Beauty parlors $6.00 decided by a better than two to one have secured the new Hatton resi- ’ “Pussyfoot” Johnson has been Carpenter shops ..................... $6.00 vote that the new building should be dence on Second street. booked for the principal address on (Tenning and Pressing shops $10.00 built west of the railroad track. We | the evening of June 4 at White Tem Clothing stores .................. $15.00 believe tbe decision a good and fair Mr. and Mrs. Cutter were called ple and Governor Neff will give the Clothing stores where shoes one. There are many houses and many to Portland Monday on account of conculding address at the same place are sold $20.00 families living west of the R. R. and the following evening. Governor the illness of Mrs. Cutter’s father. Commission houses .......•....... $15.00 new houses being built every week. Pierce who has supported the con- Confectionery stores $10.06 There are many little tots living gress since its first announcement, Mrs. Alta Schaaf and Mother, Mrs. Confectionery stores where there to start to school soon; there will preside at the closing session, Black were visiting at the home of lunches are served ............. ...$15.00 are two school buildings east of <the He has agreed also, to deliver the Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rainwater Sun Dry goods stores $20.00 track now, and in all fairness we keynote address at 8 p. m., June 4, day. have heard mank remarks, the new at White Temple, where all the ses- Drug stores ....... $20.00 building should be on the West side. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fryendall visit- sion will be held. Electric shops or stores .......... $10.00 The Cass Bergerson acre about two E. A. Baker, president of the __ _ An- __ ed in Manning the last of the week. Farm machinery stores or blocks west of Rose avenue would ti-Saloon League of Oregon; U. E. houses $15.00 be an ideal location, and this would The plumbers recently finished in Harmon, Tacoma, former corpora Furniture stores ......... $15.00 eliminate the trouble the youngsters stalling an up-to-date water system tion counsel; Dr. B. Earle Parker, Feed stores $12.00 have on the play ground on account t the home of R. S. Spencer just pastor First Methodist Church, Port Grain elevators ......... $20.00 of the crowd. The Eagle believes a land; Dr. Walter Henry Nugent, lorth of the bail park. Grocery stores $15.00 five room building, four class took pastor of the Central Presbyterian Hardware stores . .... $20.00 and play room, is large enough at to* Miss Mary Blakely of Adjalune, Church, Portland, will be other pre Harness shops $10.00 present time, built so additional Washington is visiting at the home sidinpr officers during the Congerss. Jewelry stores $15.00 rooms could be added if ntces^MB- Among other speakers will be of Henry Hall this week. lewelry stores with watch re Our citizens will realize within a y**r Chief of Police L. V. Jenkins, Port- pair shop .......................... $20.00 that this building will be full, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bradshaw from; I«™*; George > F. Cottrell, former Light an<| wuter business $30.00 that it is properly located west of the Mossy Rock, Wash, are visiting rel Mayor of Seattle; Rev. E. A. Cooke, Livery stables ................... $10.00 track. Within three years it may be Vancouver, B. C.; Associate Justice atives here this week. Lumber companies ................. $15.00 necessary to build another at the Ne O. P. Coshow, of the Oregon Su Meat markets' ....................... $15.00 halem river. But if the inhabitants Mr. Charles Collins returned Mon preme Court, and Bishop Walter Millinery shops or stores $10.00 is large enough to demand it, all well day from Onalaska, Wash. He left a- Summer, Portland. Job printing establishments ... $15.00 and good. Music throughout the convention gain Tuesday as his daughter is sick. Photograph galleries ............... $6.00 will be provided by the Royal Rosar- Plumbing shops .................... $10.00 LAST SUNDAY BIG DAY Mrs. Covert is being visited by her ian and the Police quartettes of FOR BASE BALL Paint shops $10.00 sister from Kansas, City, Kansas. Portland. Shoe repair shops (repair Kalama, Wash., came to Vernonia only ....................................... $6.00 Mr. Tom Hall returned Monday CHRISTIAN CHURCH Shoe repair shops, also dealers last Sunday. They are a splendid from a business trip in Rainier. in accessories ......................$10.00 bunch «to4»oys and they can play Bible school and preaching services Second hand stores ......... $15.00 ball. The day was grand and the Mr. and Mrs. Savage visited friends in the high school auditorium, next The Shoe shining business ................. $6.00 crowd in a base ball humor, in St. Helens Sunday. Sunday. The session of the Bible Shoe stores, (exclusive) ...........$15.00 first inning found Kalama and Ver school will be held at 10 a. m. Preach Transfer companies for each nonia with one score each. And so Mrs. N. L. Young of Portland, vis ing at 11, subject of sermon: “Hav it stayed until the fifth when Kala truck one ton or under...... $6.00 ited over Sunday at the Alden John ing a Mind to Work.” Transfer companies, for each ma stepped in with another score and home. Mrs. Young is a cousin of Mrs. Evening services at 8 o’clock, with truck over one ton .......... ... $10.00 repeated it in the sixth. This gave John. the sermon subject "The Glory of th« Telephone exchange .............. $30.00 the score at 1 to 3 when Hicks of Second Mile.” Tinshops ..................................... $10.00 Vernonia came to bat. After 3 balls Grandpa Shaver of Portland is Everybody invited to every serv Undertaking establishments .... 20.00 and two strikes he landed and visiting at the home of his grand ice. W. A. Gressman, Minister Variety stores ............................ $15.00 knocked the ball dear over the fence daughter, Mrs. Garfield Smith. which made the first home run on Variety stores with millinery J. H. Donahoo is feeling fine again department .......................... $20.00 our grounds this season. The game MEMORIAL, DAY but was unable to be at work for a Watch repair shops (exclusive) $6.00 ended in a csore of 2 to 3 in the vis- few days. Can't keep a good man Women’s clothing ............... —...$15.00 itor’s favor. It was a pretty exhi- down. Today is Decoration Day, Abstractors, each .................. $12.00 bition of the national game. Both The parade wil lform at 10 matched but Auditors and accountants ...... $10.00 teams are fairly evenly CATHOLIC CHURCH a. m. Services at 11 on Rock Attorneys ..................................... $12.00 we believe we can beat them if we have another chance. Dentists, physicians, surgeons, Creek bridge before march Mass and Sermon on Un thM chiropractors, osteopaths, ing to cemetery for the dec Sunday each month, at 11:30 a. I. E. Putman of Hermiston, Ore. naturopaths, drugless prac orating of the graves, Bus- m. Week of day commuaioa Maa* to titioners, each ........... $12.00 was a Vernonia visitor the first of the ines. houses are closed dur be announced. Jos. P. Clancy, Paa- *weeek looking for a location for bns- Real estate and insurance lor. ing ceremonies. 98.00 iness. agents Modern 3 Story 65 Room Hotel For Vernonia « Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner COUNCIL IS MOVING AT FAIR GATE HILLSBORO ADOPTS OCCUPATION TAX * i A