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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1924)
1 lerne. An Industrial City ■Uà ■to. HOMES HOMES VEANONIA EAGLE OltEGOM NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST I Brief Resume of Happenings of HOMES the Week Collected for Our Readers. If you want a home see O. Daoust first. Best Res. Lo cation in town. 5 new 4 room houses and 4 lots with out buildings for sale reasonable, also some country property. See me for General Contracting before you build- Phone 284 VS— • = ----------------- ----- -- ------ — INLAND HIGHWAY Portland'Vernonia- Astoria BOOST IT ONE OF THE BEST TIRES I EVER USED Ask any of the men who know Tires and they will tell you that a GATES Tire will give you more un troubled miles of service than any other Tire they ever used- It is a big relief to be able to forget all about your Tires—and that is what you can do if you are GATES Tired. CORD TIRES FROM $8.50 UP VERN01IA B1AZIN3 & MACHINE WORKS MAKES YO UTHINK OF COAL When you face the first day of October with an empty Coal Bin it’s time to think, or rather act. Phone us today your order for winter Coal We will be able to deliver it in time for the first cold snap, so you will be ready for it. Tipton Lumber Co Vernonia, tam at former church sneds Phone 431 Or. The new Baptist church as North Bend has just been dedicated. Members of the Oregon State Bar association gathered in annual ses sion In The Dalles Friday. Bears are becoming numerous in the vicinity of Cannon Beach, 15 hav ing been seen and killed this fall. Strawberries ss large as crabapples are being taken from vines at the J. E. Banton place near Cottage Grove. The Newberg box factory, owned by F. D. Sharp and located just outside the city limits, was destroyed by tire. More than 300 birds were on exhibi tion at the annual display of the Lane County Poultry association at Kugene. Building construction in North Bend now under way and completed since January 1 totala 11,502,475, including 8174,475 street improvements. The old horse barn, one of the most historic structures on the Oregon Ag ricultural college campus, was destroy ed by fire caused by lightning. St. Francis academy at Baker open ed for the fall term with the largest enrollment in ail grades of any year in tbe history of the Institution. A seven-foot cougar was killed at Swlsshome by Virgil Brooka, a 15-year- o!d boy. Tbe animal was caught while the youth waa trapping for bear. Banks of Curry county have declin ed to purchase county warrants, al leging that the county has exceeded the 6 per cent statutory limitation. The next annual Oregon conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held in Eugene, it was decid ed at the 72d conference in Medford, Work on the forest road between Five Rivers and Deadwood has end- ed for this season, according to Ralph S. Shelley, supervisor of the Siuslaw forest. Apple week in Oregon will be Octo ber 26 to November 1, according to announcement of the agricultural com mittee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. It will require >469,240 to conduct the state industrial accident commis sion during the next biennium, accord ing to estimates filed with the state budget commission. Voters of Multnomah county will pass upon a proposal to issue >500,- 000 in bonds for completion of the Ross Island and Sellwood bridges at the November election. The Multnomah county fair at Gresham, held July 29 to August 3 this year, made money for the flret time in a number of years, according to the financial report. The Stoat company ahlngie mill at North Bend, burned some time ago, has been rebuilt and started sawing shingles Monday. The mill will run continuously through the fall and win ter. Genernl rains over the Umatilla na tional forest so relieved the fire dan ger that three areas closed to hunting July 28 were ordered reopened Fri day morning by District Forester George H. Cecil. The public service commission has issued an order authorising the Mount Angel Telephone oompaay to pat into effect a new tariff providing slight in creases in the telephone rates demand ed by the corporation. | R. B. Maxwell, 30, powderman for the Walter A. Woodard Lumber com pany, operating seven miles south of Cottage Grove, waa killed when hie own rifle was accidentally discharged, the bullet piercing his heart. State Resident Highway Engineer Collier reports that the pavement be tween Albany and Corvallis will be ready tor travel in five weeks. The pavement, which la of concrete, is now open an tar aa Granger station. Following the completion of the hep uno picktag season, fully 71 t of pickers whs were at work In the Willamette valley during the last few weeks have left far the Hood River district, to assist in ths apple harvest. The OaiiflerniwOregon Fewer com pany has fllod application with the State engineer for 14,0M horsepower on Clearwater creek, near the head waters of the Umpqua river. The de velopment contemplatee M0 foot head with 8M oecoad-foet. Federal Judge Wolverton issued a temporary restraining order against Freak C. Bramwell, eaperintendoat of banka, directing kirn to set aside 1600 of the funds of the Bank of Sherwood, Low water mark for the last 80 years was established by the Willam ette river at Albany last week, accord ing to F. M. French, local weather re corder. The river now lack, but .4 of a foot of reaching the low water mark established in 1861. Oregon celery grown by the Trout- dale Celery Growers’ association won first, second and third prizes In the national exhibit at Louievllle, Ky.. ac cording to a telegram received by ll. E. Lounsbury, general freight agent of the O. W. R. * N lines. Forcla d Larsen, owners of a saw mill near Notl, 20 miles west of Ku- gene, have recently built nml furnish- ed a new schoolhouse near their mill and the district will provide u teach er, according to E. J. Moore, Laue county school superintendent. The state tax commission has sent out approximately 6000 notices relat ing to the payment of the second and third installments of the state Income tax. The two installments have been combined In the notices, with date of payment fixed at not later than Octo ber 6. A plea that the region within ten square miles of the Josephine county caves be set aside aa a federal game reserve will be forwarded to Presi dent Coolidge at once, according to de cision reached by the board of direc tors of the Isaac Walton league, meet ing in Portland. Tbe River Lumber A Logging com pany of Seattle haa started the prelim Inary work on the erection of a saw mill at Kaskeia, north of Bend, on tbe Deschutes rlvsr. Tbe mill will be equipped with a band saw and a re saw to cut between 125,000 and 150,000 foot of lumber a day. Plans originated by farmers of Des chutes county for the erection of a public market in Rond have virtually Representatives of materialised, county granges, labor unions and the city council of Bond are wroking to gether on tbe project, whlcl) has been under consideration for several years. The work of relocating the Colum bia highway about one mile east of Astoria to avoid danger from sliding ground la expected to be completed in about six weeks. Two steam shovels are working on the heavy cut and a third will be put to work soon on a new entrance way Into Astoria along the Date street route. Heavy showers tn both the Cascade and Coast mountains are believed to have extinguished all forest fires In that section, say national forest offi cials. A large number of small firea bad been burning on the Cascade na tional forest for several weeks and the continued dry weather made it very difficult to prevent their spread ▲ lightning belt In which forest fires , are constantly springing up from elec tric storms extends along tbe ridge of the Cascades between Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson, says H. D. Foster, assistant forester of Mount Hood na tional forest. Mr. Foster has just re turned from a six-weds stay at Clack tunas lake ranger station, midway be tween the peaks. Workmen of the Flora Logging com pany are busy repairing damage done to the oompany’s holdings west of Carlton by fire. Equipment damaged included 12 donkey engines, of which all can be repaired except one, on which a Uoe foil. About a mile of roadway, including throe treatise, was barnod over. Ths fire burned over about two square miles of logged-off land, doing no damage to standing timber. Buried on the banks of the Dea- chutes river, a cache of large apear heads made of obsidian was discover ed when a large boulder was moved from its resting place within the city limits of Bend. The spearheads ap- paraatiy had been placed by their maker la a small fissure in the rim of basalt which faces the Deschutes river from the east, The articles, ap- proximately 200 In number, were found when a blast was discharged in the basalt rim in preparing ground for pavement. Recommendation for the repeal of the existing state income tax law, which it okaractertsM as a “deterrent to tbe Inveetmoat of capital In the state,” and the enactment of a new law which would limit tax to net in- comes of individual residents of Ore- gen enly, exempting eatlrely from the tax the lañóme of both non-residents and corporations, was made to the board of directora of the Portland Chamber of Commerce by the cham ber's special láceme tax fact finding committee. Nearly 40 ,000 Rounds of blasting gelatine have bees used in the effort to clean eat the subaqueous rock in the channel at Taquina bay and re move the ptnaacloe that are an ob- struotlen to navigation, it was aa- nounoed at the office of Captain Geofge Maye, United States army engteaera, la charge of the first Ore gon district. The work of clearing .ho ehaaaol of these dangerous pin- nacleo will bo halted when weather eondtttoM at the eatraace become bad, which will be abeat October 1. 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