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Herminia
Volume 3,
VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY JUNE 26,1925,
MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY
EVANGELIST IS
WANTED FOR
HERRIN, ILLINOIS
RELIGION “HELL BENT’’
FOR HEAVEN
CITY THAT GOD
HAS FORESAKEN
Commandments Are All
Dropped; Bible of Mini
ster Must Have All Pages
In It.
The liXWin News, Herrin’s first
established and oldest newspaper,
has sent out the S. O. S. call for the
evangelization of a city that many
think God has forgotten, an(| the
following open letter, sent to Lay
man Evangelist Howard S. Williams,
who is now closing series of meet-
Ings in Mctropolis, III., follows:
OREGON HAS BEES BUT
IMPORTS MUCH HONEY
Although Oregon has 100,000
colonies of bees, 10,000 beekeepers
and $1,500.000 invested in bees and
beekeeping equipment, many car
loads of honey are imported into the
state annually. The state is capable
of supplying enough honey to meet
the demands of immediate consump
tioif and still tive enough remaining
to supplant all of the syrup and
much of the sugar now used in the
state.
Oregon has more tran 200,000
acres of alfalfa and at least as much
fireweed.
With a substantial in
crease in the avreage of clover and
Hungarian vetch in the Willamette
valley and Douglas county, the state
could provide bee pasture for at
least 500,000 colonies.
Advocates of increased production
are making special effort to locate
prospective beekeepers in <he most
desirable but unoccupied places. A
better understanding of the weather
soil and marketing in particular lo
calities will further successful bee
keeping. The annual loss from Am
erica) foul brood is estimated at ap
proximately $25,000.
This disease
can be controlled or eliminated en
tirely from most sections by using
the area clean-up method, combined
with adequatt follow-up inspection.
Number 46
--------- COLUMBIA COUNTY---------
Advertising Medium of a Big Pay Roll Community
r
America’s
Red
Letter
Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner
Day
The Fourth of July Is Notable for Other Happenings
than the Declaration of Independence
(By Earl W. Gage)
i there were 6,000, and the aborig-
, .
i>»Bl Indian population numbered
Although our greatest Fourth of, perhapa
CapUin John cJ
July came in 1776, when fifty-six Fremont had been sent to California
daring men adopted the Declaration on an exploring expedition the year
of Independence and this country previous. He was on his way to ’
became a nation, yet, before that Oregon when he was overtaken by
event, the date played a strange part an officer from Washington with
in the affairs of the brave men and message, ordering him to wait and
women who had come from across cooperate with the Pacific squadron
the seas to set up a new nation in in case of hostilities with Mexico.|
the wilderness of the New World. The message had been in writing,
This July 4 is a real red letter day; but the officer was obliged to de
deep students of our history could stroy it while crossing Mexican ter
enumerate all these events:
ritory, after committing it to mem-'
TO ALL FARMERS OR
THOSE INTERESTED
Arrangements have been made for
conducting a farmers’ excursion
from Columbia county to the John
Jacob Astor experiment station near
Astoria on June 29th.
This will be Columbia county day
at the experimnt station, and wt
would like t ohave you arange to
visit the station on this day if pos-
sible.
The branch experiment station
near Astoria is doing a lot of work
on pasture and forage crops, which is
of special interest to farmers in Col
umbia county, and you will have an
opportunity to learn a great deal
that is of value along this line.
The plan of the excursion is to
leave points in Columbia county in
time to reach the Hotel Astoria a
little before 10 a. m. At ten o’clock
sharp, we will leave for the branch
experiment station situated about
four miles from Astoria, and assem-
ble there at 10:30 for the purpose of
visiting the crop experiments at the
station.
Mark this date, Monday, June 29,
on your calendar so that you will
not forget. Plan to attend the station
on Columbia county day.
Will you
kindly advise me if you plan on at
tending the station on that day, so
I will know how many to expect to
make th etrip. Geo. A. Nelson, coun
ty agricultural agent, St. Helens, Or.
ory. Accordingly, Fremont returned
to California, and took up his head-
quarters at Sutter's Fort.
*1
A few days later a party of four-'
teen Americans organized a small
revolution on their own accord, cap- I
against the government of Mexico.
Needing a flag and not daring to
use that of the United States, they
THE HERRIN NEWS OFFICE
July 4, 1754, Col. George Wash made one from a Mexican’s rebosa,
Herrin, Ill., May 9, 1925.
ington surrendered an army to the a yard wide and five feet long: The
Mr. Howard S. Williams,
enemy. It was only a small army, middle of the flag was occupied by
Layman-Evangelist,
but a fort was included. He exper- a picture of a grizzly bear, beneath
Metropolis, HI. .
ienced on this occasion his first de- which were the words, “California
Dear Mr. Williams:
feat in war, at the hands of th- Republic.” The temporary govern-1
Upon my return to Herrin yester
French. Altrough at that time only ' ment thus established is known in
day, I was told that you called at
twenty-two years of age, Washing history as the “Bear Flag Govern
the Herrin News office eurly in the
ton had been placed in command of ment.”
I ” ' '
week to see me. 1 regret that 1 WÜH
a small body of troops, which was 1
Meanwhile, news had come of,
II
out of the city, for ever since our
marching
toward
Fort
Duquesne-
At
the
outbreak
of
war
along
the
Rio
U
GOVERNOR PIERCE AND MANY
mutual friend, Judge Dewey of Ca-
a
point
on
the
Monongahela
river,
.
Grande,
and
July
4
Fremont
called
NOTABLES SPEAK. ———’
rio, called at my office in Spring
less than forty miles from his des a meeting at Sonoma, which for-' THOMAS DOAN, ST. HELENS,
field a few weeks ago and told me
tination, he heard of the approach i mally proclaimed the independence
ACCIDENT VICTIM
so many worthy thingr about you; Large Attendance of Over Two of a party of French and Indians, > of California. He was appointed its
Hundred
sad
Fifty
are
Present
and insisted that you were the very (
sent to intercept him. Accordingly, > first govenor.
• I
* at Grange Dinner.
River Boat Employe Slips Into
man of the hour for Herrin’s present'
he fell back to the Great Meadows,
Soon afterward there came word
Water; Search for Body
needs, I have looked forward with
fifty miles from Cumberland, and that Commodore Sloat had arrived
Approximately two hundred and I
Begun by Captain.
no little pleasure to meeting you
hastily erected a stockade which ho at Monterey, July 7, and had r*ised
fifty
people
were
present
to
a
won
and tell you what a harvest awaits
called Fort Necessity. And it. was the American flag; also that by his
Doane Sutherland, 17, son of Mr.
you in thia -community which a lot1 derful banquet given by the Fern well named.
i j orders Commander Montgomery of
Hill
community
on
Saturday,
June
and
Mrs. C. D. Sutherland of St.
of people from away think that God
With the aid of a friendly Indian the United States sloop of war Ports- Helens, Ore., was drowned in tre
20,
1925.
The
music
was
furnished
,
has forgotten or deserted altogeth
Sachem, Half King,Washington ad- mouth had taken possession of San Willamette river Tuesday night near
er. Sometimes I am nearly persuad ' by the Menz-Tarbell orcrestra and
vanced at night. Their commander Francisco,
which
was
very
much
appreciated.
the Eastern A Western lumber mill,
ed to believe that there is a bit of
was killed and several prisoners were' Sloatt having heard of he hos- foot of Twenty-first street, when he
Governor
Pierce
gave
a
heart
to
truth in it.
In the twenty years that I have heart talk on taxation with figures taken. It was the first bloodshed in tilities with Mixico, had sailed im- slipped and fell from the deck of a
published a newspaper here I know of unusual interest, among them be the French and Indian war. A few mediately from Mazatlan for Cali- boat.
___ Oregon
__ ___ ___
____ ' days later Fort Necessity was storm- fornia, where he took possession
has ____
more than
At a late hour harbor police had
of no time that Herrin was more ing that
athirst for an oldtime religion, the doubled the bonded indebtedness of ed by 1,500 Indians ■»nd French, un- the country and raised the Ameri- been unsuccessful in an attempt to
kind that the song says that “is good any state, making the average state dor De Villen, and; Washington can flag on his own responsibility. recover the body.
Details of the drowning could not
enough for me,” than right today.' property tax equally high; that the surrendered on honorable terms, ra- He was none to soon, for exactlly a
We have endured for a long spell Oregon state property tax had been1 ther than have his entire company week later,July 14, the British man- be learnel, but it was believed the
now a spurious brand of religion, lowered one anj one half million massacred. This was on the morning of-war Collingwood, commanded by lad fell into the water from the deck
a sort of “Hell Bent for Heaven” dollars in spite of the repeal of the of July 4, 1764. Washington march Sir George Seymour arrived at Mon of the riverboat Tahoma, on which he
sort, that teaches that God is hate1 income tax which would have ren-1 ed out with his army of 400 men, terey to proclaim British sover was employed as a deckhand and
income tax which would have re-'drums beating and flags flying, and eignty.
____ ----- It ---------------
— only a nar- of which his father is part owner.
was thus _ by
instead of love—that God is a God
duced
the
state
property
tax
by
he
and
his
soldiers
returned
peace-
*
row
chance
that
England
did not Captain Shepherd of the Tahoma
of Vengeance. They have us all
I become the possessor of the Golden assisted in the search for the body.
mixtd up on the Commandments? another one and one half million ably to their homes.
(
On
this same Fourth of July, Ben- State, which he had coveted for
Young'Sutherland was one of the
The ’not' has been dropped, probably | dollars. State Senator Pete Zimmer-
--
---- waa a delegate
..
. a'many years.
_----- _
,
| most prominent boys of the St. Hel
man
of
Yamhill
county,
also
Mr.
jami
n
FrankliiP
to
fur convenience sake, and someone
Nine wagons of anthracite coal ens younger set. He had graduated
has inspired our people to kill, to Horrace Addis, field editor of the council held with the chiefs of the'
bear false witness, etc., etc. Instead | Oregon Farmer, Rev. Jackson of | Six Tribes. The great statesman and were hauled 106 miles to Philadel- this month from the St. Helens high
of obeying the injunction of “keel Rainier, Orris Kellar of Fern Hill far-sighted man made a speech, in'phia, July 4, 1812. Two of the loads school, where during the last year he
ka a
1 _ Ll.l U._ 1J
a.1__ ____ -fl___ -A. I saw
. • .
. ^ *1 _ _ _ --1
ing the Commandments,” we have Grange were peakers who had inter which he said the time was close at j sold for cost of transportation and was president of the student body,
esting
things
to
say.
Mr.
A.
H.
Tar
hand when the various colonies the remainder were driven away His father is purchasing agent of
"broken them,” broken nearly al)
bell
of
Warren
had
charge
of
the
would
have to be brought together'without a buyer. Times have changed the St. Helens Lumber company,
of them, over and over again.
program
and
it
was
one
to
be
long
The father was notified of the
in
one
great brotherhood, “for de- The sale was afterward denounced
If your Bible has all the pages in
it if the Commandments are there’ remembered. Fem Hill is to be con fense and other general purposes.” as a fraud, because the stuff was tragedy by telephone. Mrs. Suther
intact, if Paul’s great essay on love gratulated on the kind of community
Then came July 4,1776, with its “nothing but tones, and would not land, it was said, was vacationing at
spirit
which
makes
possible
a
day
many events, chief among them be-' buTO«”
fact beh*«- of coun,e’ Seaside, Oregon.
is there, if the Sermon on the Mount
Doane, better known to all the
is there and you preach these things,1 such as last Saturday.
ing the adoption of the Declaration that P*°P|e did not know how to U8e
It
is
some
undertaking
to
Mt
high
school boys of the county by
come on to Herrin posthaste, for
of Independence. The following year coal-
I I
the
good
tables
and
provide
all
the
name
of “Suds” was a star of
here you are needed—needed more
there was a celebration throughout
July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson
than any missionary was ever need-j things that were served on those the young republic. Of one of these died, aged eighty-three years. On the St. Helens high school in both
I
ed in Abyssinia, more than Liv- ( tables, but the Fern Hill ladies are I John Adams, future President of the the same day died John Adams, aged tootball where he played quarterback
of
an
un
and in the basketball team where
past
masters
at
that
kind
ingston was needed in darkest Afri
United States, wrote: “Had either ninety-one yean James Monroe died
he was one of the forwards, and is
dertaking and everything moved as
ca.
General Howe or his roval master on the Fourth nf July, 1831, aged
. considered one of the best players
If you can accomplish only a few smoothly as though those in charge been on hand the show would have seventy-four.
things, .you will have done great were professionals. Only community given them both a bad heartache.”( july 4> 1848> work waa 8Urted on in the county.
good to Herrin, make us believe cooperation makes these things
During the Revolution, the Fourth the Washington Monument in Wash-
that God is love—that we should possible.
of July seemed to be the date upon! ington. On that same day the theaty THREE BUILDINGS
really love our neighbors, not to|
TO RISE FOR FAIR
which big events swung. The Ind- of peace with Mexico was proclam
hate them nor carry guns to kill BIRTHDAY PARTY
ians attacted Boonsboro, Kentucky,' ed at the capital city. July 4, 1851,1
them with, if you can only get peo f
’
GREATLY ENJOYED July 4, 1777. July 4, 1778, Major amid pomp and ceremony, President ST. HELENS, Or., June 21.—(Spe
cial.)—The Columbia County Fair
pie who have known each other fori
Clarke captured Fort Kaskaskia Fillmore laid the corner-stone o f
ten and twenty years to simply j
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis from the British. The terrible mass-' the two great white marble Wings of board has „ begun work on three
buildings at the new fair ground site
greet one another when they pass Boeck was the scene of a very lively acree of the white settlers by Ind- the Capitol building.
| on the highway, a short distança
on the streets with a brief “good party last Saturday evening, when
iafns and British in the Wyoming
ju|y 4> ;1861, Abraham Lincoln
morning,” surely you will have ac-j about a dozen of their friends mot valley took place on the same dato.'^^ congress for 400,000 mon. In south of Deer Island.
They are the school building,
complished a thing which we have to help remind Richard that he waa
And it waa July 4, 1781, that Lord
there was a nation-wide peace
al) f tiled to bring about with long another year older, of which ho I Cornwallis evacuated Williamsburg, jubn<< on july 4. ln i»i^ when 30x60 feet; agricultural building,
46x70 feet with 14-foot walla, and
anj patient efforts.
fully realized before the evening Virginia.
,
th« nation'« birthday came, there waa art building, 30x60 feet.
'I am taking the library to hand was over. The evening was spent in
JMy 4, 1828, the corner stone held in New York a great patriotic
Concrete foundations have been
you herewith my personal check for! dancing and playing games.
A de
of
a
mint
building
was
laid
in
Phil-
'
celebration
in
which
Americhn
citi-
placed
for the stock barn, which
$50. which will assist in bringing lightful buffet supper waa served at
your party to Herrin. Once here, Ii midnight. The guests departed hi adolphia. On July 4, 1845, the Tex-'sens of more than forty nationaMt- will be 60x100 feet and have accom
>
1 modations for 125 head of cattle.
want to assist you further finan the wee small hours of the morning, aa convention voted ^®r annexation ioe took part.
to
the
United
States,
and
bua
*tort-
Roadways will be constructed with
Our
Patent
Bureau
was
■
estab
I
cially. In addition, as publisher of wishing more such birthdays. Those
lished on July 4, 1836, and on July the idea of permanency. There are
the Herrin News, the city’s oldest | present were: their daughters, Mrs. ed the war with Mixico.
July 4, 1846, the independence of 4, 1870, California’s constitution waa 100 acres in the fairground site. Tax
and first established newspaper, I Anna Bond and daughter Helen from
want to pledge you the unlimited Portland, also Mrs. Creson of Bend. California waa declared. There were formally adopted. July 4, 1912, both payers of Columbia county voted a
at that time in California—then New Mixico and Arizona wore made special tax for the purchase.
freedom of its news columns for.
your work and, in addition, to give-
Judge W. A. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. i part of Mexico ee m e 200 Ameri- 'states of the Union. Thus, wo have
you
irre .cv«».,
w.w» any w
d str.nearly
all of them men of ex- many reasons for holding the Four-'
Vernonia's “Flying Apes are
you also
also free
access, without
W. . t. „an,
Hal), w.
W. u.
O. uauoway
Galloway an
and
Mr.
making Ufe worth living, to-day, in
charge whatsoever, to its advertis- Egelus were in Portland on a buai- J coptional vigor of body and alert- th of July in patriotia reverence.
National Republic.' Prineville.
Ceatiaeed en RP •
It was July 4, 1636,. that Roger
Williams founded his settlement at
Providence, Rhode Island. July 4.
1676, the colonists in Virginia de
manded and were granted important
rights by legislation. It was on July
4, 1744, that a v. st tract of land,
containing the Blue Ridge country
was bought from the Indians.
NEW INDUSTRY
NOW RUILDING
IN VERNONIA
PLANS AND CONSTRUC
TION UNDER WAY
MEANS ADDED PAY
ROLL TO CITY
Johnson - McGraw Shingle
Company to Build Six
Machine M i 11—Thirty
Men to be Employed.
Local men have formed a company,
money up, plans all settled, machin
ery bougrt and actual construction
started this week on the large new
shingle mill at Vernonia. The indus-
try will be known as the Johnson-
McGraw Shingle company. AU the
cedar needed for many yean is
assured and the building will be a
large one and one of the best
equipped mills in the entire north
west.
They are building a six-machine
mill at the present and will employ
about thirty men to start with, an
added payroll to Vernonia of about
$6,000 per month. Vernonia shingles
will be on roofs from coast to coast
and a great deal of the products will
go to middle west and eastern states.
Vernonia is glad to see thia new
industry for the city as, with others
bound to came, the city wUl keep its
name as an “Industrial City." Here
is success to the new shingle mill
and the shingle weavers will be thrice
welcome to our midst.
REWARD FOR
RECKLESS DRIVERS
To the police department of all
cities in Oregon, to traffic officers
and the public in general:
The executive board of the Ore
gon State Motor association at its
regular monthly meeting held in
Portland, June 15, 1925, adopted
the following resolution:
“Be it resolved: that the Oregon
State Motor associaiton, incorpora
ted, will pay $100.00 reward for in
formation leading to the arrest and
conviction, under the Oregon Motor
Vehicle act, of any driver of a motor
vehicle who, through carlessneea or
recklessness, causes the death of one
or more persons through an auto
mobile accident and fails to prompt
ly report same to the proper authori
ties as provided by law, and
“Be it further resolved: that the
Oregon State Motor association, in
corporated, will pay a reward of $60
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction, under the Oregon
Motor Vehicle act, of any driver of
a motor vehicle who, through carloM
nesa or recklessness, causes injury to
one or more persons through an auto
mobile accident and fails to report
same promptly to the proper authori
ties as provided by law."
The Oregon State Motor associa
tion by, Joseph E. Dunne, president
Geo. O. Brandenburg, secretary.
MR. JOHNSON DIES
” All Vernonia was shocked thia
week to learn that H. S. Johnson waa
dead. Henry Johnson, the “Shingle
Man,” as so many spokt of him. Mr.
Johnson died in St. Helena Monday
morning, we hear, of throat trouble
following treatment for a cancer.
Very few in Vernonia were aware
of the fact that his condition was at
all alarming. Mr. Johnson waa presi
dent of the McGraw-Johnson Shingle
company that are just ready to con
struct a large mill in Vernonia, aa
related eleewhere. His death at thia
time in a great disappointment to Ma
sorrowing company as well aa to the
many friends in the community.