VERNONIA EAGLE
On Inland Highway
In the eases of 125 persons arrested
! for alleged violation of prohibition
i laws of the state in Multnomah coun­
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KULLANDER'S JEWELRY STORE
Vernonia, Oregon
AT THE SIGN OF THE RED
WHITE AND BLUE PUMP.
There are thousands of
these pumps and Red
Crown signs where
your Standard Oil
Scrip Book entitles you
to reliable Red Crown
gasoline, Zerolene
and other petroleum
.supplies. One or two
books ($5, $10 and $ao
denominations) will
last a season and save
carrying cash. Con*
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STANDARD
EQUALITY
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
SMITH & HOLMES
of Vernonia
Local and Long Distant
Hauling
Equipped to han lie 15 tons at one trip
DAILY TRIPS BETWEEN PORTLAND AND
VERNONIA
Orders Left at Crawford Motor Co. Will Receive
Prompt Attention
We will Phone in all Rush Orders From Portland
Free of Charge
Portland Station 209 Oak Street—Phone Broad­
way 0401
Vernonia Station, Crawford Motor Co. Phone 612
WE PATRONIZE HOME TRADE AND GIVE A
SQUARE DEAL TO EVERYONE
ty during the first six months of 1924.
ths office of District Attorney Myers
obtained 102 convictions.
Brief Resume of Happenings of i has Sam
A. Koxer, secretary of state,
the Week Collected for
and Carl Gabrielson, at the head of ths
state motor vehicle department, left
Our Readers.
Salem Monday for Salt Lake City to1
attend the ajiuual convention of secre-
The state training school for boys at taries of state, state auditors and
Salem now has the largest population t cafflc department officials.
in its history, 179.
Reductiou in the number of fatali­
A total of 388,846.20 was turned ties In automobile accidents in Port­
over to the state .reasurer by the state land from three In May, 1923. to one
land department during June.
in May. 1924 and from three in June,
A severe electrical storm struck in 1923. to none in June 1924, I b ons of
the vicinity of Coquille and Marshfield the best records made in any city of
the United States, it is said.
aud set four or five timber fires.
The St. Helens Wood Products com­
The Milton Box factory which was
destroyed by fire about four weeks pany has been organized at St. Helens
I with a capital stock of 125,000 and
ago, will resume work immediately.
Cue of the oldest women in Oregon will immediately begin construction of
is Mrs. Sarah Helmich of Albany, who the first unit of a factory to mauu-
celebrated her 101st birthday July 4. facturs broom handles, ^op and brush
handles and other wood products.
Building permits issued in Eugene
J. C. Pruitzer, assistant to Dr. El­
duriug the month of June totaled 3207,-
wood
Meade, director of reclamation,
900 in estimated cost of construction.
will make an intensive study of the
Chiropractors from all sectiouB of
marketing conditions on the govern­
the northwest will meet in Portland i
ment irrigation projects in this state
Thursday for their annual convention.
with the idea of assisting to solv^
In the month of June 26 building some problems of farmers(on the pro
permits were issued in Astoria, repre­ jects.
senting a construction value of 3170,-
According to a statement made by
25.
A. A. Bixby, president of the Hud sot
Lumber shipments from St. Helens Bay Creamery company, 1500 dairy
for the week ending June 28 amount­ cows have been tested for tubereulosii
ed to 3,500,000 feet, the largest for auy in the vicinity of Milton-Freewater and
week this year.
the Hudson Bay district within
University of Oregon summer term last two weekB with but three
registration haB broken the record actors.
with 883 enrolled in the Portland and
It is reported that the dam at
Eugene sessions.
Fall River fish hatchery near Laplne
Customs house collections at Port- lias gone out. It is thought that about
land for th« year ending June 30 a million and a half trout fry of thia
amounted to 31,264,162, marking a new- spring's hatch, intended for planting
record for the district.*
in the lakes and springs of central
I
The stage men of the state of Ore­ Oregon this fall, were washed into the
gon will hold a two days* convention Deschutes when the dam gave way.
at the new Stage Terminal hotel in
Dale Arthur, Robbie Burns and W.
Eugene July 9 and 10.
A. Anderson, convicts, escaped from
Cranberry marshes ef Clatsop coun­ the state peuiteutiary at Salem while
ty are now in full bloom and give being returned to the prison from the
promise of the heaviest crop ever brickyard where they had been em­
ployed. Phillip Forester, also involved
grown in that section.
An up-to-date hydraulic gold-mining in the break, was captured by guards
plant will be Installed near Foster on after being pursued for approximately
the South Santiam river by a com­ six blocks.
As a result of the severe drouth in
pany of Albany capitalists.
The 3500,000 bond issue for an audi­ various sections of eastern Oregon
torium to be erected on the campus of during the past few months there
the University of Oregon carried at probably will be a noticeable decrease
in the number of trout in many of the
a special election in Eugene.
streams in that section of the state,
The forest fire situation in Oregon
according to the monthly repor. of :h<
is not serious at the present time, de­
state game warden filed with Gov­
spite the continued dry spell, accord­ i
ernor Pierce.
ing to F. A. Elliott, state forester.
Four initiative measures, one refer
Ending the long drouth and at the
endum and three constitutional amend­
same time offering temporary relief
ments referred to the voters by the
from the heat wave, two-tenths of an
1923 legislature will be on the ballot
inch of rain fell in 12 minutes at Bend
at the general election in November, it
Receipts at the Salem postoffice dur is announced by the secretary of state.
ing the quarter ending June 30 wore The time for filing completed petitions
345,240.27, or approximately f:0oo for initiative measures expired at 5
more than at the same period of 1923. o'clock Thursday.
About fifteen rafts, of half a million
The port of Astoria has just closed
feet of spruce each, will be brought to its most successful year in the hand­
Portland from the Qulllayute river for ling of wheat. The official records
i
the Multnomah Lumber and Box com­ show that in the period from July 1,
pany.
1923, to June 30 of this year, cem-
A total of 10,624 motor cars from prising the grain shipping season of
other states registered in Oregon dur­ 1923-24, a total of 3979 cars, or 5,-
*
ing June, according to a report pre­ ! 361,079 bushels of wheat, was receiv­
pared by Sam A. Koxer, secretary of ed at the local elevator.
iI Oregon will receive another allot­
state.
Rev. George Douglas Byers, report­ I ment of 80,000 pounds of cannon and
ed murdered on the island of Hainan, other war trophies captured during the
near the China coast, presumably by late world war, according to word re­
brigands, was a graduate of Albany ceived at the offices of the adjutant­
college.
general at Salem from the war de-
The red spider, a menace to the hop partment. Upon receipt of these tro
crop, is doing considerable damage in phies they will be distributed among
the hop fields around Harrisburg. The the various counties of the state.
bug turns the leaves red as well as
The dryest early summer conditions
the hops.
ever experienced in southern Oregon
The Pendleton Packing A Provision are being felt this season with prac­
company at Pendleton has st«. ted con­ tically no rainfall during the month
struction work on extensive improve­ just ended. The Rogue river has drop­
ments to increase the capacity and ped to the lowest stags ever seen and
smaller streams throughout the coun­
efficiency of the plant.
Nancy Gladys Scarbrough, 25, try are at fate rail stages. Some have
daughter of Dr. L. D. Scarbrough, practically dried up. During June
wealthy retired physician and prune only .09 of an inch of rain fell.
Allotments for rivers and harbor
grower ot Creswell, committed sui­
cide by shooting herself with a rifle. improvements under the act of con­
The Gladstone city council has in­ gress, approved June 7, announced by
structed the city attorney to prepare the war department for this fiscal
ir. include In Oregon: Coos bay,
a kill to amend the charter to allow
a 320,00* bond issue for the installa 3663,000; Coos river. 33000; Yaqulna
tion ef a new water system in Glad bay and harbor, 321,000; Clatskanie
river, 36500; Willamette river, above
stone.
Portland, nnd Yamhill river, 318,900;
California dairymen and farmers Columbia river and tributaries, above
who lest heavily in the recent foot Celilo fails to the mouth of the Snake
and mouth epidemic are appealing river in Oregon and Washington,
to Oregoa for help in restocking with 34000; Columbia and lower Willamette
high producing, sound animals to re­ river, below Vancouver, Waah., and
store their herds.
Portland 3*37.000.
Not more than 2* par cent of the
In compliance with a decision reach­
flax pleated la Marion county this
ed at a meeting of the Oregon state
season will be pulled, according to
livestock sanitary board, Oovsvnor
reports received by Governor Pierce
Pierce signed a proclamation modi­
from the growers. The short crop is
fying materially the embargo regula­
due te continued dry weather.
tions adopted following the outbreak
Following a meeting of agricultural of the foot and mouth disease in Cali­
instructors of Oregon at the Oregon fornia. The new order removed the
Agricultural college, an automobile requirement that fruits and vegetables
tour of inepoctlon was made through shipped into Oregon from California
Independence, McMinnville, ^ewberg be fumigated and took the ban oft
and Wood bum. The time at the con­ greenhouse products. The order also
ference was spent largely in studying allowed sheep from California to move
the projects of the various schools of through Oregon and th<* embargo
the state teaching sericulture, and removed as it related to wool
discussing problems, in addition to hides offered for shipment into
tlsso actually spent out la the field.
CRAWFORD MOTOR CO
AUTHORIZED FORD DEALERS
Second and Maple Streets; Turn Off at Drug
Store Corner
The Large New Building
AUTO ELECTRICAL WORK AND STORAGE
BATTERY SERVICE
Gasoline, Oil, All kinds of Repairing Work, Stor­
age for Autos, Accessories of all Description.
CRAWFORD MOTOR COMPANY
SEW l .R AND CU l VEK i
ElKE
We manufactui ? Concrete Sewer and Culvert
Pipe in large qn; at. des and keep a large stock on
hand. We have water and rail shipping facilities
and are prepared to make shipments of any quant­
ities on short notice. Get our quotations lor your
next job.
LONGVIEW CONCRETE PIPE COMPANY
Phone 256
Longview, Washington
Satisfying our customers is jt st
as much a part of our Imsiut ,s is
the selling of merchandise. We
curry a representative line of
Stationery, Gift Articles. Office
Supplies, School Supplies, Pit tu *
Frames and Novellies. Steel < u-
graved Gards with Envelopes tor
every occasion. Ixtok for your
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CEMENT
PRODUCE
FLOUR
FEED
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
A Refrigator Car Arrives Daily
To Building Vernonia, We have Cement
for individuals or contractors.
Vernonia Trading
Company
Wholesale and Petali
Chas, 0. White
Vernonia
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