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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1925)
I MOUTHPIECE Of the NEHALEM VALLEY Wrwtria We Advertising Medi Of a Big & y titered as aecoad-cl * VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 1925 PAPER SILL COUNTY LAND ASSURED FOR IS TAKEN BY ST. HELENS NEW SETTLERS Many Chamber» Send in L*rge List of New Settlers. OREGON LAND IS MUCH WANTED BY TRANSIENT Many Counties Report New People to Population; Land Is Fast Being Taken. - ■■■"■> A harvest moon has been shining over the Land Settlement depart-1 inent of the Portland Chamber of Commerce for the past week and the sheaves garnered have been new settlers for Oregon. That the entire state has been benefited by the land settlement work of the past year, and that the past summer season particularly has been a very fruitful one, is proven i by the reports that daily come into this department. So far for the week 146 new set tlers have been reported. The coun ties are at work checking up their new families and are mailing in] .. . . — ---------- * their lists __ as .. their endorsement of the Rotate wide development cam paign now in progress. Miss Margaret Beatie, sevretaryj of the Oregon City Chamber of Com merce, reported six new settlers for Clackamas county. C. E. Wilson Salem Chamber secretary, sent in a list of 61 names, representing the, new families located in Marion _ county during the months of Aug-| uit and September. E. Eugene Chad wick, secretary of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, reported 28 new setliers for Lane county for the month of September, W. A. Reid, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at Corvallis reported 47 new sellders for Benton county,and the secretary at Grants Pass, C. A.' Swope, has just sent in the names of 10 late arrivals for Josephine county. In addition to the new settlers just reported by the different counties, I 12 families have located during the past month through the land settle ment department. Three of these have purchased cut »over land in Co lumbia county. A letter just re I ceived by Arthur Foster, manager of d iiartment i the land settlement c . P ’ from H. M. Krebs, manager of the Clark & Wilson Co., states that dur ing the past year more than 200 acres of cut over land from their holdings in Columbia county have been sold to new families, and that much credit is due the state land development work of the Oregon Chamber of Commerce. j ---- +------- CAMP FIRE GIRLS The Camp Fire girls held a mect- ing at the residence of Mr. Olaon recently. Thelma Olson has taken six girls for a camp fire group. A election of officers was held and the following is the personal: Presi dent, Phoebe Greenman, vice-presi- dent, Thelma Spencer, secretary, Betty Culver, treasurer, Olive Olsen reporter, Merle Milla, chairman of all committees Frances Lappee. The meeting was then adjourned • until a week from Friday night nt 7:30. ------ —*--------- COLUMBUS DAY Next Monday the Bank of Ver- nonia will be closed all day—a holi- day—Columbus Day. ------- a-------- One Ford roadster turned a ium- mersault off the temporary bridge on the detour across Rock Creek this week. It wasn’t the Ford’s fault hoidtver, m the wheel in the drivers Was quite wabbly and he was police court the next day. It eky no one was badly hurt. f of building _ ______ __ and still houses are >ard to find—vacant houses we refer too. ---------- ♦--------- Read the advs. carefully. Pay Roll Community - ------------------------------ / liter Augnai ♦, 1822. at the poet office at Vernonia. Oregon. Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner Volume 4 Number 9 TWO KILLED; WORK ONE STRANGLES IS WEEKS TOLL INTERESTING i: SoclaPand Business Paragraphs From Eagle’s High School Editor •■ DOINGS OF »»«♦♦♦♦»o»»»»e»ooo»»»ot»»geieseoeo»»ooo»»»» ♦♦♦♦♦♦ The high school orchestra is busi two days she returned to Vernoni» ly practicing every Monday and high school. BIG PLANT TO GO UP AT ST. Thursday evenings and is progres HELENS, ORE. sing rapidly. Mr. McBarren will Fred D. Elder of Portland,arrived probably arrange a concert soon. here Wednesday to organize a First Unit ef Factory, te Cast Si. music class. His fee is six dollars 500,00, to Operate in November, The regular semi-monthly student a month for four or five half lessons body meeting was held Monday, Oct. Mr. Elder is a certificated music Next Year. 6th. Margaret Smith was elected as teacher and is licensed to give high OREGON CITY, Or.,Oct. 6.—(Spe school reporter for the Vernonia school credits. cial.)—Plans for the new St. Helens Eagle and se will have charge of all the news items from the high school Several students have entered the pulp and paper mill to be built at Loel Roberts was appointed to keep high school since the school year St. Helens by a company in which the clippings from the years school began. Some freshman, sopohomore-i the Hawley Pulp & Paper company of this city holds the majority of news for the annual. A Committee junior and seniors. Wher did we was appointed to design the stu put them? We certainly are proud to the stock will be drawn at once. dent body stationery for ¿his year. say that we have to seat all stu Ground then will be broken and it A carnival was also discussed and dents in the library, on the stage is expected that the first unit of voted for the benefit of raising and in the class rooms. All corners the plant, costing 11,600,000, will be money for the school. A committee are Hilled in the assembly room. ready for operation in November, was appointed to arrange it and the Lets boost,for a larger high school 1920. This announcement was made students are all in hopes that it building. We need it. today by Willard P. Hawley Jr., will be a success •:“ I • • • • e* vice-president and general manager “Let’s Go I” Basketball practice of the Hawley Pulp & Paper com The next football game of the starts Monday after next, Oct-»ber pany and vice-president of the St. Forest' 19. Ail basketball girls are expected Helens Pulp & Paper company, Wil season will be played -n Grove next Saturday afternoon,! to be out We want a winning team lard P. Hawley Sr. is president of October 10th. We all have - hopes! this year and we will have one Miss both concerns. Max Oberdorfer, who designed the that our boys will come back vic-1 Goodin is our new basketball coach That is what we large Manistee, Mich., paper mill, ip torious and we feel sure they will if and she is good. we give them a good "backing up.", want with our winning players. The superintended its construction and girls team has won the championship who since has been in charge of its Misses Opal Hall, Sheila Williams for two years and we can do it again operation, has been engaged to de and her brother Elster, have moved “Let’s all boost for the team.” sign the St. Helens mill and will superintend construction and later to Rainier, where they will attend Warrenton 14-Ver*onia 0 school this winter. take charge of the plant. .phe pjgn ig add £.ye other units Saturday, October 3rd, the Ver The freshman class has threw nr- nonia high school foothrll team was to the original plant as time goes members who entered this week. defeated by the Warrenton team 14 on. They ar*4Soldle Garner from Cald to 0. Vernonia outplayed Warrei- The Hawley Pulp & Paper com- pany has acquired large interests in well, Colo., John Forman of Bay ton in the first three quarters of the I and around St. Helens. Employment City, Or., and Walter Mathews from game. They made more yardage and completed more passes. Most of the! will be furnished about 300 men and the Mist district. first three quarters, the ball was in the plant is expected to turn out T. P. Graham was in Portland the middle of the field or in War 60 tons of finished product in 24 Saturday and Sunday. He visited his renton’s territory, but in the last! hours. father, who is a methodist minister, quarter Warrenton completed a paes The building will be constructed on his wny to a new pastorate in and carried the ball into Vernonia’s! of reinforced concrete, absolutely Seward, Alaska. They attended territory. Here the umpire (Supt. of) fireproof, and will contain paper church and heard Dr. Clark talk on the Warrenton school) penalized; machinery of the latest design. The “Foqdick and, the Church Lincoln Vernonia thia time twice for being: plant throughout will be modern in Could Have Joined.’’ off side and loosing 5 yards each every detail. Certain pieces of mi- chinery to be placed in th« mill will Eva Roles entered high school time and for stalling, they lost 5 be manufactured in Germany and last week as a sophomore. Her bro yards. These penalties brought the' can be obtained nowhere else. ther Edward Roles, also a sopho ball to Vtrnonia’s 10 yard line j ------- »>------- more, enrolled Tuesday morning of where with an end run, they put it over the goal line. There was' ARE THE OLD TIME this wfeek. They both attended the about one minute to play, Vernonia high school in Portland DANCES COMING BACK Roosevelt had the ball and tried to kick out of last term. danger, but Bennet kicks a low Henry Ford, the world’s premier The sewing class is studying fibers crooked punt, Warrenton caught it manufacturer, started something weaving, alteration of fibers and ef and was over the goal line before when he telephoned Benjamin B. the Vernonia ends could get there. ficient buying this week. Lovett, the well-known dancing Warrenton kicked good both times. master, in Worcester, Mass., who Ida Turner of Mist, re-entered John Prenton, who entered school later took up his residence in Dear high school last week as a jutor. this week, was a student of Wash born, to bring back to Ford and his She was forced to leave last year ington Junior high school in Val friends the old-time square dances. because of poor health. .She had lejo, Calif., last year. He is living Radio Station KFPG, Hollywood. planned to attend high school in with his uncle, Mr. Kellar, proprietor California, is co-operating with Mr. Seaside this year but after attending of the White Front Kandy Kitchen. Ford, and has secured "Old Ben Sears,” the radio fiddler, to put on MILLS OF DEER ISLAND the air weekly, the old-time square BRING BACK THOSE dances, schottisches, polkas, mazur GOOD OLD DAYS PAY EAGLE VISIT kas, the Lancers and other quad rilles. No, we don’t want to go back to Mr. and Mr.». G. W. Mills were A special floor has been placed in those good old days when we burned the studio of KFPG, Hollywood, oil lamps and worked twelve hours callers one day last week, Mr. Mills (One of the best equipped stations for a dollar a day. But, how lone- and his wife are earnest grange occassionally w... kers and it is largely through on the Pacific coast). While details p»w,n the b~-‘. of lla as to how the selections are danced for sonic of the rood old habits of the work and suggestions of Mr. will be given over the microphone, those old «lava. How we would en Mills that the new fair grounds for the dances themselves will he put joy a good old time barn dance with the county were secured. We have on, on thia floor, by the sheiks and Ilopkins at the fiddle and Uncle hcafd his name mentioned for the flappers of two generations ago.but John “calling’’ for the square appointment as a member of the who are not the sedate grand dances. * Then the fancy dancers county fair board and see no fathers and grandmothers of the were able to waits and two step. son why he wont be the man. sheiks and flappers of today. Take the family and put the babies Mills is certainly deserving and is He will Ben Sears is ably assisted in thia all to sleep in one big feather bed. entitled to the position. rtdio innovation by J. E. Hynes,who How we would enjoy an old fash never cease in Ws efforts to make is very proud of the fact that.when ioned "Taffy Pull” and get the taffy the Columbia County Fair the best a youngster and the old dances were in the red hair of the “Village in the state. While here the time in high favor, he often met his Queen.” How we would enjoy the was taken up in talking over the father going to work when he came old time "Home Talent” plays and plans of the parking strips along home in the morning. Mrs. Hynes the “Church Festivals” on the lawn the highway that the grange is buy and Mrs. Sears take just as much in of the parsonage. How we would en ing, and as Mr. Mills says, it is a terest In dancing these old dances in joy the Sunday chicken dinners at good investment for any citisen to the studio aa they did in their old the homes of real friends—one day do his bit toward helping in paying "flapper days.” out to some farmers and the next for the strips of timbered lands. Between dances, vocalists of repu time over by "Blue Mound.” where More will be said about the idea at tation render the old-time songs, real friends visited all day. We a later issue. “Silver Threads among the Gold,” knew everybody and trusted every ---------- ♦---------- "When you and 1 Were Young, body. Joy rides were unheard off BANK STATEMENT Maggie,” and "Massa’s in ths except in the one seated buggy with Cold, Cold Ground,” and it is quite the fast team of bays. Moonshine, Interesting reading this week is evident that KFPG has set a pace an unknown quanity, but. Oh that will be followed by many you hard cider. Then the fun at the report or statement of the broadcasting stations. the bam raising, the corn carnivals, Bank of Vernonia. It will be noticed ------ «------ the quilting bees and debating that there is a steady gain in bank The Senators won the first game society. Yea the Good Old Days had totals since the publishing of the V«monis citizens in the baseball series. • Quite a some good points, and those good last statement, can well be proud of th« record and points would be mighty interesting crowd "saw the game” at the Mon steady growth of this institution. key Wrench garage, over the radio. to live over again. GRANGE MANY PEOPLE HEAR NATIONAL LECTURER. Many Entertainment, to ba Given to Raise Money for Grange Park Fund. ,Winema grange met in regular session, Thursday, October 1st. Among other business, they voted to help the Childrens Farm Honie at Corvallis, and a 25 and 60 cent coin drill was taken for that purpose also an entertainment will be given later. The grange also voted to send a resolution to the county court, asking that Geo. W. Mills of Deer Island grange be given the next ap pointment on the fair board and that a resolution be sent to the next Pomona for indorsment. The third Thursday evening, October 15th will be a social evening and an invita tion is extended to ’ all grangers There will be a fine program and some new features that will insure those attending an evening of enter tainment. Baby Die» From Drinking Coal Oil That Dripped From Stove. TOTAL OF THREE DIE IN TWO DAYS OF WEEK One Killed in Logging Op eration ; One Killed in —. Lumber Mill on Tuesday. On Tuesday, Mr. Clarence Lantz, recently from Portland, as near aa can be ascertained at this writing was instantly killed near Keasey. He was a timber inspector and was watching the logging operations of a near-by camp the East Side, when a big snag from a falling tree hit him. He died instantly. Letters on the body show that he lived at one —«— time in San Francisco. The body YANKTON GRANGE IS HOST will probably be shipped to Portland Yankton grange entertained for, from the Brown undertaking parlors the visiting national lecturer, Bro MILL WORKER KILLED O. L. Martin of Plainfield, Vt., and I State Master Palmiter last Saturday, Tuesday evening one of the plain night. The grangers from all parts er mill workers was killed at the of the county were present, Eight edger at the big Vernonia mill. We granges being represented by their were informed this morning that his masters: Sidney Mr.lmsten, Vcr- v.'..s Ua cf. ..nd lie I mm I l««ed nonia; Wm. Rose, Natal, L. L. Giese in Vernonia for some time, having Beaver Orris Kellar, ” ------- Valley; nTr *’1— Fern relatives owning a nice home here. Hill, F. B. Holbrook, Beaver Homes; A slab from a timber stilist . ------- him. Geo. W. Mills, Deer Island; Andrew piercing through the body.» He lived Hernan, Cedar Grove and Clyde only a short time after the acci- Watson, Yankton. All of these gran-j dent. From the Brown undertaking ges were also well represented by a parlors we learn that the body will large attendance of the member- j be shipped to Seattle for burial. ship. Brothej Martin, national lecturer, BABY STRANGLES gave an address that was filled with Late Wednesday evening good advice and helpful suggestions' fourteen-months old baby of and he was given the closest atten-j and Mrs. L. A. Fenner, while ptay- tion. Our state master also brought | ing in the home, got hold of a cup a message of comfort and good of coal oil that was setting under cheer as well as calling to our at the drip of a coal oil stove. The tention the necessity of strict atten little fellow drank a portion of the tion to the duties and obligations oil and evidently, it got in its that are a part of the grange work. windpipe or lungs causing it to The Yankton grangers are royal choke and strangle. The baby was entertainers. The hall had been I rushed to a physician and threw up decorated in autumn leaves and some of the oil, but later went into greens and at the close of the meet convultions we hear, and died. Mrs. ing a real banquet was served which Fenner was suffering at the time was certainly enjoyed by all, but with a broken arm and carried the especially by these who had come baby part way to the doctors before from the far parts of the county. meeting some one to re Yankton grange will give a bask aid her. Mr. and Mrs. et social and entertainment Satur the sympathy of all in day, October 24, the proceeds to go bereavement. to the park fund, everyone invited. '1 Come and help with this worth NEHALEM PIONEER while grange project. PASSES TO BEYOND Clatskanie grange is giving an entertainment assisted by a profes sional reader, Friday, October 10. The proceeds are for the grange park fund and your attendane«, will be appreciated. Mrs. Martha J. PowuU, nee Hinds, was born March 29th, 1MB at Springfield, Illinois. In the 1868 she was married to Ab Powell. In the year 1877 they west settling in the Nehalem valley, Yankton grange has a basket so tatriMf up their homestead near what cial Saturday night, October 24,the is now Pittsburg. Mrs. Powell was th« mother of 12 proceeds to be added to ♦heir park children, (one group of triplets and fund. one of twins) 7 children having Beaver Homes, assisted by the ceeded her in death. After the death of her huai Yankton orchestra, will give a bask et social Saturday, October 10 for in September, 1905, Mrs. PoweU eon the benefit of the Children Farm tinued to make her house on the Home. These are all worthy of old homestead near Pittsburg, until everyones support and the public is early last March when she took ill. invited to all these entertainments. Since then she has made her home with her children, going from one ---------- ♦---------- A might good suggestion from a to the other, to make her home. saving and money standpoint is to And on the evening of October 5th “Read the Advs.’’ in this- weeks she crossed the bar into the country, at the home of her paper. tor at Beverton, Oregon. ---------- ♦---------- She leaves to mourn her N. Soden, the barber, has been absent from his place of business turn, two daughters, Mrs. the better part of the week, owing Lloyd of Loo Angelos and Mrs. to sicknesa. Back on duty, however. Myrtle Nelson of Beverton and three sons, W. H. and O. A. Rleye* of ---------- ♦---------- of Ver City Attorney Sheeley and City Portland and Virgil Marshal Kelley have both earned nonia. Besides 13 gra And. they . 4 great-grandchildren. That their money this week. have been seeing that they get it. life of another one ef th» More than enough fines have came i of this part of our country. Funeral service was hold in to meet the expense. dsy afternoon at 1:30 at the ---------- g,---------- Women participated in French , gelical churrhe the into elections, for the first time, May 4. place at the Vernonia