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e h — - Entere<ypMcoad-cl»M matter August 4, 1823, *> U k post office at Vernala, Orason, ondar ths Act ol Moren 3, 187B I- ¿—»■* H f r VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY MARCH 20, 1925 MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY Volume 3, Number 32 COLUMBIA COUNTY- - PROGRAM OF MERIT—P. T., A. - DISASTERS COME THICK ---- :---- - - \ REGARDING BRIDGE STREET PAVING Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner Advertising Medium of a Big Pay Roll Community WILLING WORKERS MEETING » SOME ACTIVITY EVERY MINUTE In the last forty-eight hours we The city counciil has called a special election to be An enjoyable evening was spent of fearful disasters in various held on the 23rd of March between the hours pf 8:00, by members and friends of the Will part» of this discontented globe. It ing Workers at the home of Mr». seta ua to thinking—thinking bf a. m. and 8:00 p. m., at which registered and legal voters i HaWkins, Tuesday. The house was PARENT TEACHERS TO many things. Before the fall of of the City of Vernonia are entitled to vote, for the pur gayly decorated in Saint Patrick’s RUINED SENSE HOLD UNIQUE PROGRAM Rome wickedness prevailed ar d pose of determining whether the council shall issue' Day symbols and colors. h);----- —r— !''|4 money grabbing linked with parties $6000 of Vernonia General Obligation bonds, in order A large crowd was present and Members of the American Legion Silver Offering To Be Taken anj a high life wen suddenly halted. spent the evening enjoying readings Post- Vernonia-119, known that to obtain the money with which to pay for the paving of Today we of the Northwest, Oregon ' and songs and pldying games. v* .vevum spring .. is coming, ,, not account oi of On Friday evening, March '27th, and Vernonia, prsbabiy are thinking street intersections on Bridge Street, Late in the evening delightful re- their unusual brialliancy, but from St 8 o’clock, the Parent Teachers’ we are fortunate or lucky. Whi'e1 The property owners on Bridge street will later on freshments were srved. | the flippant manner which the Fly- Organization of the Vernonia schools our heartfelt sympathies go out to i i be called upon to form an improvement district, and Those present were: Mrs. Haw- ing Apes, entered their rendezvous will hold a program nt the High the fire victims of Tokio in their | kins, Mr. and Mrs. Swan, Mr. and Monday night, March 16th, for their that district will be assessed for the paving of the street. school building. A silver offering Wednesday's couilugration; and we, Mrs. Greene, Rev. Mathis, Mr. and weekly feed and conflick. With ex Will be taken and the proceeds will are egtremely Horry for the flood, It is the common practice of all cities to pay for their street Mrs. Porterfield. Mr. and Mrs. Veal, tended nostrils, ears at a 40 per cent go to equip a Ro.it Room for each victims of foreign lands; and we re-j intersections by general taxation, and it is particularly Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. angle, feet flying in all directions, f tool building. gret the four million dollar fire lor.’t,J necessary in Vernonia, due to the fact that the aassessed. Hyland, Ms. Mills, Mr. and Mrs. these babies entered the hall on '1 he program will be composed of this week, in Palm Beach; and while| valuation of the property on Bridge street cannot legally | Sitte, Mrs. Rodgers, Mr, and Mrs. TIME, full of pep as though they not only students from both schools, we are in deep sympathy with th-' __ Even Misses Maxine and Laura Jean Elli- had just eaten a dish of TNT. but parents and other people who middle states over the many him bear sufficient assessments to pave this street. ott and Mildred and Ida May Haw- ! Must be spring that makes them lire interested in the welfare of the dreds of lives lost in Wednesday’s though the property owners were willing to bear all the kins. Miss Emma George, Miss Rose ___ ___ m keep feel that _ way, ____ and in order to Schools. mighty cyclone—the worst in the burden allowed by law, it would still mean that Bridge Sitte, Miss Helen Veal, Miss Jessie them in the same humor, Chef-de- 1. Music, High School Band country’s history, with all of these, street cannot be paved this year. Therefore the entire . George and Marvin Porterfield. Cook, Shields, threw them, dainty 2 Song Mr. Culver calamities, we are glad we live In. electorate of Vernonia have an opportunity of express-- morsels of corn-willie and gold-fish Laura Smith Vernonia where cyclones were never, 3. Reading with humble bees in-step for desert. EVANGELICAL CHURCH 4. Dance “Highland Fling" dreamed of; where lightning was i ing their opinion on the paving of Bridge street The sonorous manner in which The council is asking authorization for an expendi-l Betty Culver never seen in its true word, where the baboons in-haled this grub, 6. Duet “The Father’s Protective Care” I hnfl, blizzards, earthquakes or tor-' ture of $6000 in order to be on the safe side, while it is would have brought tears of joy, to Students of Mrs. Culver nadoes, extreme cold or hot winds, | now estimated that only $5,000 will be necessaiy. How constitutes the sermon topic for a cannibal’s, heart, one of the Apes "Pleasant Hill” were never known. Yes, we »re I 6. Flower Drill ever, taking the largest figure and figuring that the Sunday morning at 11 o’clock ser said he would like to be a cannibal Students glad, and we wish it were possible bonds would run for an average life of ten years, the vice. The theme for the evening in order to see what a flapper tastes “Mrs. Jones Millinery” for all the good people to live with 7. 1’lay, service will be “The Suprme Author like. 7th Grade us. But in our contentment we oft total cost of principal and interest to the city would be ity of Jesus.” “Narcissus” fail to properly appreciate it. We 1 $9,600. 8 Dance Therefore, to find out what each property own- The Sunday School will be in Free of brains as a frog is of feath Frances Soper inky grumble, we may kick—only to ! er would have to pay for the improvement of Bridge sesson from 9:45 a. m. until 10:55 ers, these babies, grinned like cats yellow jackets, thinking that Mr. McBerran feel ushamed when we hear of ao 9. Violin Solo street out of general taxation, the following method will a. m. Classes six and seven are still eating the Chef would enco-e the grub, but Hoffman Family many other so unfortunate. 10. Music tying in a ttendance and offering. be found available for determining any property owner’s The the Chef refused to be vamped oy 3rd and 4th Grades 11. Drill Christian Endeavor meets at their cat-like grins and ate the bal Mrs. Hurley burden : 12. Dance 6:30 p. m. COMMERCIAL RUSHED I ance of the gold-carp himself. 13. Pantomime. 44 And the Light For each dollar of assessed valuation, US THIS WEEK Went Out’’ 8th G>ade The Legion singers favored the it will take less than three cents to pay out. It has been reported that a rumor 14. Darky Songs, Sth anj 6 Grades bunch by singing “You Made Me Therefore if you own property the as had been ciculated to the effect that By Patents 15. Play, What I Am Today,” and after the The Eagle was almost neglected there was an unreasonable debt up-1 sessed valuation of which is $75.00, you Every one interested in the schools for a time this week on account of song ended it was noticed that quite on the church and parsonage. We! will eventually pay $2.25 towards this im are welcomed and urged to attend. a rush of “job printing.” There a few of the boys had departed, evi wish to answer this by saying thatI provement. Or if you own property with dently they figured that some more I were 2000 tickets for the Nehalem the actual debt is under $2000. Up BURNED OUT songs would follow. pro-! Market Ham prize; Theatre ~~ an assessed valuation of $300, you will to this all is covered by pledges and i grams, 500 shipping tags for Ver-j We tried to conquer the impulse eventually pay $9.00 towards this im money due frim old property. We J Twenty thousand Japanese were nonia Merc. Co.. 500 bills for to throw the quartet out on thei- believe the subscribers to be honest | provement. made homeless in a Tokio fire this Kingnley Mere. Co thousands of1 dome, and knock them for a home- and in due time pay their full sub-! The question to be determined by the voters of Ver week. Most of the city burned, counter slips, bill of fares and no- run, but the compassion, (which Many predictions for 1925 seem to tiqcs for the White Lunch, 500 letter nonia on March 23rd is only one: that is, to express scriptions. An effort is being made' now to raise a certain sum and pay. means) sorrow for the suffering of be coming to pass. heads aud 500 envelopes for Hal their opinion on whether they desire to aid the property off on the indebtedness. State-| others, forbade us to commit »itch tom Mer. Co., ticket» for the Brazing owners along Bridge street to an amount of $6000, ments will be mailed to all subscrib- a ras** act- SOME FIRE works, ballots and warrants for the which will come out of general taxation on all the prop ers reminding them of their pledges.! From 19 to 74 members in the la*1 city, 500 letter heads and 500 en _________________ ■ ten weeks, is the record which t! e 34,000.01)0.00 fire hits Palm velops for the Rose Barber Shop, erty in the city for the paving of intersections which be — - — -- — - ■ • Legion holds for increased member P. A. Nickles was a Portland vis Beach, Fla., Wednesday, destroying Checks and cards for O-A Mill, large long to the city as a whole and not the property owners. ship. noted resorts anj million dollar circulars for Dr. Wight, Laundry- In other words, they will pay for the improvement of itor the first of the week. We are now tied with Sheridan, hotels. Slips for bqth laundries, letter heads, their own property. . Mrs. Helen E. Duggins, whose Oregon, in the number of members for City Hall. 1000 letter heads and j The above question is the only one being submitted' home is in Baktrsfield, Calif., is mak- an<i within the next month or so we DREADFUL SPRING 1000 pay slips for the Home Bakery,! to the people of Vernonia at the present time. The- ing an extended visit with her h°Pe to reach the 85 mark. statements, letter heads and envel-; Our new club house in fine, lots of In the eastern states spring storms opes for Dr. Cole. In all a pretty question of whether there shall be storm sewers or no; daughter Mr». Robt. spencer, room, newly painted and fine lots on any dreadful. Oi> Wqdneeray a tor good weeks run. and we are proud stoun sewers, open gutters or no gutters, cement paving N. C. Shipley, of Forest Grove, side and rear of Club for tennis nado swept Ulinoii, ‘Indnana and to say the woik is as good in qual or some form of bitulithic paving, is entirely out of the father of C. W. Shipley.the Barber, court. Missouri, killing thousands of peo ity as could have been done any question, and the voters of Vernonia should understand! was a Vernonia visitor this week. CHEMMIN-DE-FER. ple, wounding over 2000 and dis- troying hundreds of thosands of dol piftoe- immediately that there is no decision, and will be no Happy Thompson and wife visit Repass is in Tillamook with lars In *frr wonder people decision for several months to come on the general type his Bob i CHRIST ‘ AN CHURCH ed over Sunday in Portland. brother Emmot who is quite want to come to Oregon. of construction. When the question of whether Bridge sick. The spring sunshine is bringing street shall be paved has been settled, the council will; Mr. Bryan of the Haltom Merc. We specialize in diamond setting, cut bolter (crowd* to both Sunday John Nelson Conkey, age 56 years Co., was in Portland this week buy be in a position to employ a competent engineer, but un Es- repairing of all kinds, jewelry timutes cheorfully furnished. Kul- I School and church. Last Sundayj til the surveys are made and costs estimated finally, it 3 months and 12 days, died in the ing more Easter and Spring goods. morning 98 were present at Sunday camp on March 12 of heart binder’s Jewelry Store. *’ will be impossible to determine exactly what is needed logging School. .. ______ —---------------- It is estimated that it will cost failure. He was burried in tht local . . , ,, cemetery on Sunday afternoon at “us”—our count y—$10,000 to Conklin, Waterman and Schaffer 177 pupils. We shall not be content by the city. Therefore the amateur engineers of Vernonia should one o’clock. He is mourned by two repair the damage done the road be pens all prices and all guaranteed at until we have them all and more at tending regular again. not sway anybody’s opinion as to whether the council sons and three daughters. Services tween Vernonia and Timber by the Kullander’s Jewelry Store. A splendid number of young folks j eeding in the right direction. The council is do- were held in the undertaking par freight trucks that haul to Vernonia is proceeding attesting ehoirfi services tegv- lors and were conducted by Rev. H. business houses, Why then don’t .......... /ohi i le fj &i '4 Mr. and Ifln. C i'Ing the only thing humanly possible and that is to pro- G. the business men then patronize the Herrmann. Wash,, Saat laet yrly. thein • car for Golfa*. Wash., We invite and urgi: ail young and vide the ways and means for ,improving ^Bridge railroad. Unless the damage ceases week, They win níÁkc* llleir fibule oldold, who are not attending Sun-' pei manently, and they are calling upon the people to; They tell us that 5000 new homes the county court may be compelled there. day School or church elsewhere, to! express their desire to shoulder their share of it. —- »Vhen, are now under construction in Port to reduce the load weight that can Kaibumio Gingham 29c a yard come out and hear Rev. Mathis. this has been accomplished it is time for persons to go land. We wouldn’t doubt it, as one be hauled over our roads. This The topic for next Sunday even can count a few hundred in most would make it impossible for small at Kingsleys. ing's sermon will be “Who is My before the council and argue for some pet type of im every resident section. mills and shingle mills—our pay ..—---------.r f-rr ,i, Neighbor?’’ This will be interesting provement. rolls—to continue business. This Silks, 79c a yurd at Kingsleys. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Drarbaugh is important, business men. It is up to all, and especially to men blong-! and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mills were to us. FOR SALE—Ten varieties Oregon ing to the Odd Fellows’ lodge. Spec-! Pertland visitors Monday. al jnps>c i». t being arranged for that Gladiolus bulbs at aaveu cents; J. H. Rivard, of Portland, has evening. ’ Early Halleys' rtt *5 cents. Ruben Roberts and J. C. Brown taken the place of C. R. Pool in the Mrs. W. J. Gooding. ■ . . .. i | - .'</ traded farms last week, Roberts meat department of the local Skaggs Four good used beds for sale. leeaving Tuesday for Glenwood, store. Mrs. M. B. Hatten. One lot 50x100, small house, bam. Idaho, where the property is. Will sell cheap if taken soon. On Today is the first day of the Mrs. J. E. Jenkins and son Till Rose avenue. P. O. Box 242, Ver Furnished housekeeping apart spring. man of the Burn, near Mist, visited nonia. ment, light and water. Wednesday with her daughter Mrs. Koeter Camp is starting opera Mrs. M. B. Hatten. Bring your old watch and trade it' H. C. Felsman. tions. This sounds good. ye ■—— — i»r on n new Hgtn. Waltfium, Hamilg •fi' , ■. $■«*-' Spring style displays are being A. J. Ake in and.famflpr'C. E. Dur ton or Illinois Railroad Watch.' J. W. Brown purchased the Ed. advertised in all state papers, and it Priced right. Kullanders Jewelry ham and family left Tuesday for home this week. Seseman is proving profitable they tell us. Klamath Falls. Store. ■■■■■ ? ____ T u “ 77 You would hardly suppose anyone would vote against the Bridge street paving proposition. Mr. and Mrs. John Imbeck and Ed. Sesseman purchased the new residence recently built by Mr. Johns daughter« spent the week end at on Vernonia Heights. • '' i the M. Stephons farm. Mrs. wA. Pringle and so* I • Sundayed in Portland. i” Ev*n 11*11 left for home a« 1 iati. E IdalA, Friday. A Jr! — — ' i M M . .... " at Mer- We cannot expect any new work Mrs. Huston Brendle was a Port- eP extensions to roads leading to lahd vlkitor Saturday. Vembnia if the Money has to he Andy Gump lost fourteen straw spent for repairs instead of extdn- hats, so it is reported, in the Palm sions. Beach fire, but his presence proba bly saved the city. MS is Better. Attend the Entertainment at High School Next Friday Night March 27th s MAR I ED The later part of last week Mr. Elmo Jory and Mrs. Anna North Vernonia needs badly a live cor were united in marriage in Vaneou- respondent for the Portland dailies. ver. Wash, Both parties are well known in Vernonia and have hosts Got your flowers and lawn decor of friends, who are extending con gratulations. ’• They Will continue ations all planted yet? to make their home here. The Eagle wishes to join with the MISTAKE—In Skaggs advertise ment on another page. Flour price many friends in wishing them every should read: “Sack $2.69, bbl. success and a full shade of life’s 1 i°y*- . ' 110.66.”