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Entere^jjucond-cfaMMi matter^ AuguM 4, 1922, at ta ppet ottico at Vernonia, Oregon^ andar Uy Act of March 3, 1879
VIRNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1925
MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY
BEAVER CREEK
LOGGING CO. SOLD
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Volume 3, Number 26
COLUMBIA COUNTY
FOUNDER OF VALLEY
WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN
CHAIN OF STORES PASSES
AWAY
AT
NEWBERG
The birthdays of Washington and Lincoln are more
than holidays. Their observance is an evidence of nation
al patriotism and a signal to the world that we honor our
great and good, that we propose to adhere to the princi
ples which they inculcated and that there is small tolera
tion in America for anything subversive of those princi
ples. The faith of Lincoln in the foundation laid by Wash
ington carried this country through its darkest trials. The
ideals inspired by the two great leaders must endure if
the country is to endure under republican government.
That these ideals are enduring and growing in respect,
and that our institutions are safe, is evidenced by the in
creasing unanimity with which their anniversaries are
kept throughout the land.
The year 1925 marks a great stride in throwing off the
influences of the great war. Some clouds are still appar
ent, but it is probable that the past twelve months have
seen a greater clearing and more progr<
progress toward a re
turn to normality than any period d of twice the length
since 1918. Any hinderance to our national welfare is now
more likely to come from within than from without our
borders; and it is not so likely to come from within if we
are steadfast in the faith established by Washington and
Lincoln. To call attention.to these great lives and to re
new the principles for which thev battled is a duty well
conceived in the setting apart of their anniversaries for
holiday observance»
ity so small that i it will not observe
There is no community
ebruary holidays. _____________
in some manner the February
Newberg, Jan. 31.—U. S. G. Miller
Peter Cennachev and Others Take 59, founder and general manager of
Over Beaver Creek Logging
the Miller Mercantile company of
Company Property
Newberg, with branch stores in Mc
Minnville, Sheridan, Salem, Corvallis,
The business and equipment of the Hillsoboro, Vernonia and Monmouth,
Beaver Creek Logging company oper died in his beautiful new home here
ating in the Vc—dl’ri’iet in O- Wednesday, having been in ill health
lumbia county, has been purchased for two years. Mr. Miller established
by Peter Gonna.'her, well-known lum the original Miller Mercantile com
berman of the northwest, and associ pany, which is still doing business
under that name, in Nebraska when
ates, it was announced yesterduy.
The same men have taken over but 21 years old. From Nebraska
he moved to McMinnville, and from
from the Western Timber company
there in 1909 he came to Newberg,
of Eau Claire, Wis.. a tract of tim
ber in Columbia county, on the line where he started the store that is
now one of the largest and best gen
of the United railways, amounting
eral
merchandise concerns known in
to approximately 300,000,000 feet of
this part of the state outside of Port
red and yellow fir. The consideration
involved in tho two deals was not land. At one time he was state presi
dent of the Retail Grocers’ associa
given out, but it is said to have been
tion.
close to >1,500,000.
Through a special dispensation of
The new owners are beginning
operations under the name of the the grand lodge of Oregon, Mr. Miller
Connacher Logging company.
Ad was made a member of Masonic lodge
ditional new equipment is being in No. 104 of this place. The ceremony
stalled to extend the operations. It took place in his own home. Largely
is estimated that the output of the through his efforts and generous con
company will reach 60,000,000 to tributions the Methodist church was
80,000,000 feet annually. Mr. Con able to complete its new >40,009
nacher expects to clean up the tract building here.
His wife, Mrs. Ora Miller; two
withing five years, it is announced.
Associated with him in the com daughters and three sons; Mrs. Mabel
GRADE MARK CONTEST WIN-
pany are Corwin S. Shank, capitalist Gold, Mrs. Eva Sherwood and Harry VEGETABLE MARKETING ASS’T.
NEWS HARD TO DETERMINE
U.
Miller
of
Newberg,
W.
Frank
Mil
FOR
CLACKAMAS
COUNTY
of Seattle, and Neils Troland, log
ging operator of this city, who will ler of Forest Grove and Carl H. Mil
ler of Portland, survive. L. A. Miller
have charge of the operations.
The Clackamas County Economic . Entries received in the recent
of
McMinnville,
is
a
brother.
mark contest held to secure an
Mr. Connacher, who lives at 797
Conference held in Oregon City Jan.
OVgr-riding
brand name for Oregon
Hawthorne avenue, for the past 20
28 and 29 passed a resolution to have
ultural products are being ana-
years has been manager of the pro YOU CAN TELL A LIVE TOWN a committee appointed to study co
by the judges who announce
duction end of the Weyerhaeuser
operative marketing organ
a final decision will undoubted-
logging interests, with headquarters DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK? vegetables, pointing 0
reached within the next two
in Yacolt, Wash. He has disposed of By E. R. Waite, Sac. Shawnee, Okla., age of forming small
Board of Commerce
About 4500 names were re-
his interests at Yacolt, where the
its with a centralized
from
this list after a aeries
Weyerhaeusers have Just finished a
to handle crops, from diff
dis
That every progressive business
production operation in excess of 1,-
trict« thereby doing away with the of eliminations twelve have been
000,090,000 feet of yellow and red concern advertises. Advertising of glutting of marl •kets _ and obtuikteg a chosen which are
ai now being studied
their business proves t?mt the/ are
_
kite —aM|iltoii.»'ai a
fir.—Oregonian.
standardized product. ---- --------- —
progressive.
standardization is simplification of proper brand name for Oregon’s ex
That a stranger in a city can tell
MRS. FISHER DIES
retailer’s problem in securing sup cellent food products, fresh, dried
what a city ia by looking at the ad plies for his customers. Vegetables and preserved. The general excell
A home was made sad last Sunday vertising columns of the newspapers. now being grown include celery, ence of a great many of the entries
has complicated the problem of the
nnd acquaintances shocked to hear of If it is a good live city, the papers cabbage, cauliflower and potaties.
Judges in making the selection and
the death of Mrs. P. N. Fisher, who are full of ads, and it is a good live
great care is being taken as the se
passed away at the Vernonia hospital place to stay in. If the business con
DIED
lected brand name will undoubtedly
from blood poison. Mr. and Mrs. cerns are not well represented in the
have very widespread use.
Fisher have been in Vernonia about advertising columns the city is dead
Mrs. Della May Topaz, wife of
1R months, coming from Centralia, and a good place to stay away from.
That there are all sorts of business John E. Topaz, died in Vernonia last
Wash. They purchased property and
WASTE MATERIAL CONTEST
built the "American laundry”, which men in every city, but they are all Sunday night, after a lingering ill-
they have since operated. Both have nlike in one respect—they all want new. Mrs. Topaz was past 43 years
Have you an idea for making
old, bom in California. She has a
worked hard and untiringly, over all of the business they can get.
That business does not come with mother in Los Angeles and a sister something useful out of what is now
coming obstacles and hard luck. Mrs.
Fisher didn’t give up until absolutely out the asking. Those business con in Kelso, Wash. The Topaz family going to waste?
Then write it out and enter your
necessary. Mrs. Fisher was 34 years cerns who persistently invite it had not lived in Vernonia but a few
suggestion in the contest being con
of age, and though bom in Iowa, had through the printed pages get it, months coming from the south.
ducted by a number of civic organi
spent most of her life in Centralia while those who do not invite it only
zations in Portland for the best idea
linger
on
for
a
while.
before coming here. Funeral services
BABY FOUND IN RIVER
for conservation of waste materials
That no concern can succeed with
and burial took place in Centralia
in Oregon.
Wednesday.
She leaves to mourn, out the aid of advertising. Advertis
No one seems to know any partic
Progressive business men of the
ing
through
the
printed
page
com
a husband and an 8 year old daught
ulars at all concerning the mystery
er, a father and mother, twobrothers mands attention, holds the eye and of the baby found one day last week. city have observed the great strides
sells goods.
being made in the East in the con
and three sisters.
That -every business concern must At this writing the undertaker knows servation of raw materials, one of
know what is the most interesting only that he has the baby. It was the recent outstanding examples be
NEW SCHOOL STARTED
things they have that would interest found out neai Treharn corner at the ing the building by Henry Ford of a
water edge of the Nehalem River. plan developed by Professor Stafford
The first week of school in the the public and then persistently tell
Evidently the little body had been in of O. A. C. for the conservation of.
through
the
new building was indeed a pleasant the public about them
the water several days, as it was im wood waste at Iron Mountain, Mich.,
one. The teachers are delighted with printed page.
Advertising through the printed possible to in anyway recognize it where many valuble by-products are
the new building. There are four
page
is the one big opportunity only as a new born babe from one being made from wood waste.
large class rooms, a long hall, large
day to a week old. Any more parti
Anyone anywhere is eligible to
play rooms, furnace room and a sun through which any business concern
culars will probably always remain enter the contests, and no matter
room to be used as emergency room, can do a larger and more profitable
unsolved mystery.
how simple your idea, the contest
with plenty of cloak rooms, built-ins business.
committee will consider its merits
■nd hall ways. Everything new,
.DAHO SOCIETY HEARS
carefully. Among suggestions al
LIME FOR SI0.00 A TON
clean and neat.
MAN ready received are: the making of
OREGON
stable flooring brick from sawdust,
In car load lots, lime for acid
I
DID HE) OR DID HE NOT?
R. H. Kipp, manager of the mark movable distillery to follow loggers
f
soil can be laid down in St. Helens
I
l4»st Monday was "Ground Hog for >10.00 per ton: The freight up eting department of the Portland in the woods and distill valuable oils
Chamber of Commerce, addressed from the foliage and branches, use
Day”. The Day was wet; it rained or down the river would be a little
the annual meeting of the Idaho of sawdust to furnish fuel for a mu
hard all forenoon and made an at less or more.
Send your orders but do not send Horticultural Society on the subject nicipal light and power plant at Cor
tempt to break away in the late aft
ernoon. We are of the opinion that the money with the order. When the of “Need for Producer Organiza vallis, making of sawdust into briq
the little old Hog didn’t have to orders are in for a car load you will tion” last Wednesday at Boise, Ida uettes for fuel and many others.
The contest is sponsored by the
wear any colored glasses, and we be notified to send the money. Those ho. Discussion of this Important sub
revealed great interest on the marketing committee of the Portland
further opine that we will have six ordering must take from the car ject
weeks of fine weather—when it gets promptly when it arrives as any ad part of the Idaho producers present Ad Club. First prize is >100.00,
started. Spring ia here; every indi ditional expense for holding would Two of the particular commodities second prize >50.00, third prize >25.
green Simply write on plain sheets using
cation tells us so. The pussy willows have to be added to the price. >10.00 they are interested in are
prunes
and
apples.
one side only addressing same to
per
ton
is
a
saving
’
of
>8.00.
Send
gre all out, trees budding and spring
Contest Committee, 104 Oregon Bide
your orders to Mrs. Mills, Farm
birds numerous.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Portland, Oregon.
Bureau Secretary.
I
WHEN TO ADVERTISE
I
Bible School at 10:00 a. m.
ENTERTAINED BRIDGE CLUB
NEW LOCATION
A
Classes for all with efficient teach
As we see it, the answer to "When
Mrs. O. F. Tipton delightfully en
We hear that the “White Lunch” ers. A special invitation for those
Is the beat time to advertise?” is—
not
attending
elsewhere.
tertained
the "Bridge Club’’ at her
pow. The only exception we can see operated by Short Brothers, will
Morning sermon “Nehemiah the home last Friday afternoon. Those
move
to
the
larger
Pringle
building
Is when the business itself isn’t ready
Builder” and communion at 11:00 a. present were Mesdames Richardson,
lo expand. The “times” haven’t much on the corner of Bridge and Second
m. Christian Endeavor at 7:30 p. m. Ruhl, Walter, Hurley, Folger, Berg
This
will
bo
a
good
move,
giving
k Rearing on the question. All times are
followed by the evening service: “A man, D. L. Smith, Kennedy. Mrs.
and
them
considerable
more
room
good times to let people know you
Folger won the first prise at Bridge
The Present day Revival, What is it?”
Sre1n business, and to let them know being more centrally located,
Special music is arranged for the and Mrs. Richardson carried off the
their
gentlemen
thoroughly
know
¡what you are in business for.—Ser
Sunday School hour and a feature of booby prise.
business.
vice Digest.
both morning and evening service
Refreshments were served by the
Thon. Schock still walks slow and will be a solo by Mr. Mathis, who is hostess.
\ McDonald Is much improved
the sickness that has kept him wears a corset. He cracked a rib also experienced in choir work and
Pulp and Paper Mill Wanted in
Jome the past three weeks. We hope about a week ago. that isn't very invites all singers to join with us at
Vernonia.
any time.
pleasant.
’’Aho see him out soon.
Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner
Adv< rtising Medium of a Big Pay Roll Community
HIGHER FLOUR PRICES IS
DUE TO GRAIN SHORTAGE
San Francisco, Feb. 5, 1925—The
increased price of flour is directly
due to a genuine shortage in bread
grains, according to W. H. Joyce,
president of the Sperry Flour Co.,
and a former member of the Farm
Loan Board at Washington, D. C.
In support of his statement, Joyce
called attention to a bulletin issued
January 6, 1925 by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, which states
that farmers are getting a good price
for wheat for the first time in four
years because of the inevitable law
of supply and demand. The bulletin
according to Joyce demonstrates that
housewives are paying higher prices
for flour and bakery products, not
because of profeetering on the part
of grocers, bakers or milling firms,
but because of a real shortage of
wheat.
The outstanding facts of the bul-
letin as quoted by Joyce, are:
The acreage planted to wheat last
year in North America was 10 to 12
per cent less than that for 1923.
The United States 1924 wheat
crop was 25,000,000 bushels below
the five-year average, and only 70,-
000,000 bushels over the small crop
of 1923.
Canada’s export surplus in 1923
totaled 375,000,000 bushels; last
year it declined to 175,000,000 bush
els.
From July 1 to December 21, 1923
the United States exported only 81,-
000,000 bushels of wheat, while dur
ing the same period last year 197,-
000,000 bushels were exported.
“The government’s bulletin points
out that these facts show unmistak
ably the reason sfor the prevailing
price of wheat”, Joyce declared. “It
also states that the conjunction of
circumstances responsible for it is
.ana that ia .unlikely to occur on the
average more than., once in many
years and, therefore, does not war
rant the expectations of continued
high prices in future years.”
LAND SETTLEMENT DEP’T.
The Los Angeles office of the
Land Settlement Committee of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce re
ports an increasing interest in Ore
gon and that four families left dur
ing the last week in January to lo
cate in our state. A heavy business
in new settlers for Oregon is looked
for within the next 30 days, accord
ing to the report.
VERNONIA VIOLIN
MAKER
NOME ALASKA IN
GRIP OF DIPHTHERIA
Dog
Team
Rush
With
Serum
Watched by
Nation
At Copeland’s book store in Ver
nonia is displayed a photograph of
Leonard Seppalla’s famous dog team,
taken by Dr. Wight when he was liv
ing in Nome before coming to Ver
nonia. The Associated Press Dispatch
from Columns of the Oregonian, de
scribes the finish of the race, in part,
thusly:
NOME, Alaska, Feb. 2—(By the
Associated Press.)—One of the
greatest dog team races in the his
tory of Alaska, with the saving of
the lives of Nome’s diphtheria pa
tients as the sweepstakes prize, end
ed here at 5:30 o’clock this morning
when 300,000 units of frozen anti
toxin arrived from Nenana, where it
was shipped by train on the Alaska
railroad from Anchorage.
The 650-mile trip by relay dog
teams over the frozen ice of the
Tanana and Yukon rivers and around
Norton sound was made in 127 Vi
hours, considered by mushers to be
a world’s record. A record of 78
hours 44 minutes and 57 seconds,
minus 20 hours and 7 minutes for
rest, was made in a 408-mile return
derby from Nome to Candle.
Musher King Takes Part
Leonard
Seppalla,
undefeated
musher of the north and ex-Finnish
athlete, met the antitoxin relay team
from Unalaklik at Shaktolik, east of
Norton sound, half way between
Foothills and Bonanza roadhouse.
After making 40 miles hetumed
around and retraced his steps 70
miles to Chinik, sometimes called
Golofnin, a village on the north shore
of Norton sound, Bering sea, where
he turned over the shipment to Olsen
another relay driver.
Olsen continued to Bluff, 60 miles
east of here, where Gunnar Kasson,
with 13 dogs of the Hammon Consol
idated Goldfields, had awaited the ar
rival of the serum for two days with
out sleep.
,
Duirng the harnessing of Kasson’s
wolves the antitoxin was taken in-
loors and warmed up. When the team
was ready Kasson cracked the whip
and the dogs sped toward Nome. Out
of Bluff the driver encountered a
blizzard. The temperature was 28 de
grees below zero with a stiff wind
blowing. Mushers assert that in zero
weather a stiff wind will penetrate
any article of clothing worn on trips.
Dog Gets Maia Credit
W. C. Repass has devoted consid
erable time during his life to play
ing the violin and making his own
instruments. He has been very suc
cessful and a few months ago, one
of the best violinists of the world,
while on a western tour, tried out
and pronounced a violin made by
Mr. Repass as one of the best he had
ever picked up. W. C. has just com
pleted and strung a new instrument
that he says beats anything he ever
made, and all that have seen it pro
nounce it wonderful. He used native
Columbia County wood, and has ev
ery reason to indeed be proud of his
accomplishment.
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
Sunday school will hold its ses-
sion at the usual hour. The Christ
ian Endeavor meets at 6:30 p. m.
At the eleven o’clock service the
pastor will speak on the subject
“The Rising Tide". “The Second
Mile”will be the subject for the eve
ning. All of the services are open to
the public and every one is cordial
ly invited.
The pastor wishes to thank the
person who recently mailed him a
copy of “Treatise on the Devil”. He
has read it with considerable inter
est but discovered nothing new. The
contents of the booklet have been
known for a number of yean and a
few more theories with it. No gen
eral criticism will be offered along
this line right now. Let it suffice
by saying that a little more applied
sanity, or good common sense, in the
study of the scripture will be a ma
terial aid in finding the truth. Ig
norance accepts fads, fanaticism,
and other exciting thories by the
wholesale. Let us do a little of our
own thinking.
H. G. H.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jay and Ray
Jay, will leave Sunday for a two
months visit in Eastern Oregon.
Kasson left Bluff at 10 o’clock last
night and arrived early today. Owing
to poor telephone conditions Kasson
was not informed of arrangements
made to bring the serum here in
short relays from Solomon, a
miles east of Nome.
Due to the darkness and the bliz-
zard, Kasson passed Solomon and
Safety, where Fred Rohn was wait
ing for the final dash. With grim de
termination Kasson mushed forward
making hi s53 miles of the journey
in 7tt hours. Four of his dogs were
badly frozen.
Kasson, who fought through the
severe blizzard, gave the entire credit
to Balto, the leader of his dog team.
He said the last leg of the relay
would have been unsuccessful if Bal
to had not been in the team'.
The sky was clear today with the
thermometer registering 10 below.
The barometer read 29.50.
MIGHT BLOW UP
Some one is meddling with the
door and lock of the powder house,
Mr. White says. He further says
that if any man needs powder he
will give it to him rather than have
the dangerous prying around. Mr.
White will pay a reward for convic
tion of any one guilty of tampering
with the powder house.
SUNDAY SERVICES
There will be preaching services
again this Sunday, at the Rose Thea
tre, at 3 o’clock p. m Everybody to
invited, and you will sure be inter
ested in what you are going to near.