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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1925)
a * J ÉMní ‘ Volum< 4 Number 12 Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner ---------------- -*—t - »■> , OCAL ITEMS F THOSE WHO OME AND GO ORLD’S FAIR—PORTLAND 1*30 -■ i » upB*»— Don’t scatter papers. E. W. llaltham was a business isitor to Portland this week. W. L. Hall is on the sick liai; ad a light stroke of parallels. R. D. Coate* and family »pent unday in Salem. Jose Rose attended the football ame in Portland Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bush visited ir stem Oregon this week. Dr. and Mr*. Cha*. Ogle of New ork, were recent visitors of Dr. and 1rs. M. D. Cole. Lloyd Thomas witnessed the Cali- ornia Oregon football game Satur- MT- Mr, and Mrs. A. L. Kullander •re in the Klamath Falls country his week. Mr*. Brown, district school clerk, a* been busy taking the schod census the past two Week*. Christmas cards at Eagle of ."ce to send to relatives and frienk and business customers. T. C. Hall has purchased Henry Hall property at the bridge. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wai key of Keasey feil from a tree on< d..y last week and fretured hir skull. He is in a Vancouver hospital For our large circulation, th< Eagle advertising rates are low. 26 cents per inch. A page $30; half page $16 and so on: ‘Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kelly and daughter of San Francisco, are visit ing at the home of Mrs. H. G. Phelp Mrs. Kelly is a sister of Mrs. Phelp * Last Tuesday was "U. S. Navy da» a* well as the birthday of Presidon Roosevelt. Dr Lutador, eyesight specialist will be at Kullanders Jewelry store Vernonia, on next Monday and Tue day, Nov 2 and 3. Please make np polntment with Mr. Kullander. Ladie's gymnasium class will mee Friday night 7:30 in Coyles hail.fo? organization and practice. The railroad company ia consider ing the building of another long *id* track to handle the immense freigh and lumber shipments here. A walk around the resident dis tricts on both the east and wes sides of town show several nev» Improvement* buildings going up. never stop.. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parmley an< baby of Banks, are spending a fexf days visiting Mr*. Parmley parents Mr and Mrs. Friedly. i A page adv. in our Xmas editibt will cost $30, and will be read b* over 3000 people. Suppose you ha* to write or print and pay poatag* for that many. The big attractive Annual Armis tice ball in Vernonia, given by th» American Legion, Nov. 11th. Get your tickets. Owing to illness th* proprietor o’ the Vista hotel will sell the furniture and rent the building iron 8 to 6 yean. Splendid proposition Cail at the Vista hotel. Tom Boone made a short vjai through southern Oregon and re tasked Tuesday. Tom says VemoniR ia the busaiest town he saw on th» trip. --------- —---------- T. THE V ER II IAN -Msto VERNONIAWINS Mr*. G. H. Hitts attended th* Billy Sunday service* in Po.rtland Sunday. They had an attendance of 80,000 people and took a collection of $8.- 000. Vol, 1 FRIDAY, OCT.’jfl, 1026 1__________ —_ r~ Published Every Week Bÿ Vernonia High School - > iiüg- I . Mohd^y the senior class had the The Pacific International Live I pleasure *f memorising and reciting stock Exposition start* in Portlanl Walt Whitman’s famous old poem, tomorrow and remains open until Editor Margaret .Smit | “Captain, My - Captain.’’ Nov. 7. You will want to attend the »4 * . best stock show in the world. The high school orchestra, directed I "Students| You must have fifteen bf Mr. McBarren, is making rapid I .point* of your outside reading by J. R. Gilby, manager of th* Local- progress. _ ____________ The orchestra how has i the end of thie six week," Miss Bell's A« Gilby Motor company, was over from about twenty members. gentle voice echoed- through the .> en- ior room and died Away leaving each St. Helens Saturday transacting The freshman class has another young heart fully a pound reavier. busineas with the local branch man n*W member, Eugene Wade. He is 1 so.* -s? -:- -s- ager Frank Hartwick. from the Mist district, where re , Loel and Thor Roberts have been cently moved from Marshland. acknowledged by the senior class as Ray Mill* came home for the week _ _ Edna Strong, Louise Simmone, fiotball stars. Loel played the last end From Forest Grove, where he is half and,, made a touchdown while Cline, Thresa Bays and Aman- Thor attending Pacific University to visit played the whole game and _ i da Dübendorf attended a convention with his parents, Mr. and Mr*. Again the i of the Christian Endeavor society in made two touchdowns. Mills. ‘ Rainier last week. While there, they .seniors came to the.front. visited Sheila Williams, Opal Hall, Loretta Johnson of the junior class Yes, it rained a little after a ’ate Evelyn VanAlatine and Virgil Van- Fall and dry spell, We will have Atotine. former students of the lqc»l w^s jnjurejl Tuesday night when she was coming home from Portland more water and the Oregonians will high. - . by way of Clatskanie. Her brother feel better. Business will improve Dr. and Mr*. Ogle of Brooklyn, -stopped the car oh the mountain o and old time smiles will be numer N* wYork, have been visiting Dr. wipe the fog fro mthe windshield. ous. Let’ er raih. and Mrs. M. D. Cole. Mrs. Ogle is The car was on the incline and star an old classmate of Mrs. Cole. Dr. ted to roll back. Loretta, in trying Burford Wilkerson and hi* green Ogle recently completed his interse- to stop the car by jumping on the foot brakes, Was thrown under the cap spent the week end with his ment in the Brooklyn hospital. He' moving auto, where she was pinned may decide to locate here in the parents, Prof, and Mr*. J. B. Wil West. for about-forty-five minutes before help came and the car could be lif kerson. Burford is attenling Pacific The teacher’s institute will be ted off. She now sports a pair of University this year at Forest Grove held on November 12 and 13 of tb,iy crutches. , t* _ day ‘ C. T. Early was out from Port year. This will give us a three vacation, since Armistice Day, cn The junior class is very proud of land this week. Mr. Early has con the 11th, is a legal holiday. Glenn-Hawkins and Wm. Hill. Two siderable property in and around members of their class. Last Satur Vernonia. His short visits are always John Prenton has returned to Cal day each boy made a touchdown in welcome and his Ideas on business ifornia with his mother. the game against Knappa. thus bringing the score up twelve points. lines always appreciated, ; Thor Robert«, member of the Raymond Hamilton, a breakman senior class, was absent from sch.» >1 ■JSrlann Hawkins was absent from of the Clark-Wilson Logging Co., the first Of the week, ow<ng to a school Wednesday because of illness was instantly killed last Saturday. bad boil on the back of his neck. The junior class is study in? the While jumping from a car as it left Who said the senior class was be tragedy of “Macbeth" by Shakes the track, a falling log struck and crushed him. Hamilton was 38 years hind the times. Are not six out of peare' this week. They find it very the nine student body officer* se interesting. old. niors? Don’t some of the best foot Mr*. T. C. Hall received new* on ball stars on. our team have the > The high school students made a honor of calling themselves senior? contribution ___,__ ,__ Wednesday afternoon Tuesday from her brother, J. E. ' Alien’t we represented in lrw Kn towards the n, high a fund to rebuild the one Tipton, formerly of Vernonia, that school orchstra? We certainly are time famous frigate. “Old Ironsides" his wife and baby were very low,1 and yet some persist in calling us a 'Hie secretary of the navy has re .»nd not expected to live with ty- "dead" clan. Jiist wait until we get quested the school childrn of the phoid fever. They are now located and then—X0“’11 hear "a United States to raise a fund of tune in. . about $600,000 for this purpose. in Spokane, Wash. Two speeches were delivered; one by The. seniors are anxiously waiting Rev. Rademacher, of the Evangeli two weeks to pass. Why? cal church anl the other by Margar AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS for another ! our senior rings will be here et Smith. THE DOCTOR AWAY The National Apple Shipper’s asao elation. ha* renewed its appeal for national coopertion in spreding th* gospel of the apple during “National Apple Week,” October 31-November 7. With a desire to respond the Union Pacific offer* to broaden and make more complete the use of its now famous “160 recipe* for apple dishes." This valuable publication, which really originated in the Port land office of that system, bounded so suddenly Into public favor that the management at healquarters de cided to reproduce it in quantities to meet the enormous demand, and it will ba good new* to all who ere in terested in the apple to (earn ti^t it ha* now passed the eight edition exceeding 1,160,000 boob*. It ha* not only reached every portion of the United States, but has leaped in to Europe and wa* in fact the cause of the big apple movement now sweeping over England and sime of her colonies. Expert* in culinary department* in hundreds of institution* through out the land testify that the recipe* are without exception the beat col lection known, and not one in the book that will not stand the most exacting test of domestic science, -The book to now available without expense to any one concerned and will be mailed in single copies or quantities to any addroe* on re quest to Wm. McMurray4, general passenger agent of the Union Paci fic system at Portland, Oregon. This offer is made in the faith that it 1* the best means yet devised of promoting a larger and more In telligent use ef th* apple, in which Oregon and Washington are so vi tally interested and which all stu dent* if the science agree is the bent dietary food with which nature ha* blessed us. nearj/ every Rase of this kind noth, ing could be farther from the truth than such i belief. It to the editor’s business to publish local hoppen ing*, good *r bad, and If a man furnishes material for a bad item he, has no one to blame but himself, should it appear in print t.’ * ■ ■ '!■■! I I - I - Dear Sir: ■J No doubt you have read the edr torial in a recent issue of the St. Helens Mist regarding advisability of an aeroplane landing field being established on the Columbia County] Playing one of its most interesting Fair Grounds near Deer Island. Wc ! game* in the past two yean, Ver believe that this is a move in the nonia defeated the Knappa high right direction, and I believe that! team Saturday to a score of 30 to the residents of Columbia county I 0. In this game the Vernonia boy* would appreciate the establishemnt' showed up exceptionally well, in of such field. fact better than they have. "Toad" This, field would be useful for! Roberts of Vernonia was high point several purposes. The War Depart man for the home team. At he be ment have assure«] us that if a prop-1 ginning Vernonia kicked off and During the er landing field is established, their made a 16 yard gain. airplane* will come diwn one day du> playing Knappa failed to make yard* ing fair time and give a flying ex-. waK s>*ie and the home team wa* hibition. This in itself should prove aKe and kicks. Hawkins of Vernonia one of the big attractions, and as penalized 5 yards.. Burt is taken out sist in making the fair a financial and L. Roberts goes in. Knappa does success and would attract people a considerable amount of fumbling frim this county as well as other, and Vernonia retrieves the ball. Ver places. Such field would also be, nonia takes the ball and loses 16 beneficial,, as it could be used for yards when the center throws the forest fire patrol planes and also ball way over the head of the re could be usel as an emergency land ceiver. “Toad" Roberts makes tile ing field for mail, army and com-; first touch down for Vernonia when he runs from the 40 yard lin*, th* mercial planes. You have undoubtedly noticed run was an easy one, but fails to that air mail service will be in- j convert goal and the score stood in augurated between Los Angeles the first half, six points for V*r- The second •nd Seattle, going via Vancouver nonia, Knappa none. and then will follow the Columbin quarter was a little more than a river as far as Kelso. In view of the, work out for both sides when both growing importnace of airplane ser teams stayed in the middle of - th* vice, we thiik that Columbia county field, gaining no yardage at first. Knappa was penalized at th* clos* should get on the air field map. The Columbia county fair board of this quarter 5 yrds for being off have purchased 190 acres of land, side. In the thirj quarter Knapp* trie» and much of this is not needed for fair ground purposes, and they pro-: two long passes and fails; VernonU pose to lease some portion of the retrieves the ball and losses. Knappa could make no yardage and kicks. ground. Lieutanent Oakley G. Kelly, the] Vernonia’s pass fails by Roberts famous aviator, personally inspected fumble and losses. The most inter- run of the whole game h"P- the proposed lending f’c-Id ; . ' stated that with some clearing a very j pened at this period when Leol Rob- ____ good landing place would be had erts carried the ball for a 90 yard tld ( I touch down, with the Knappa boys The estimated expense of this would r fast on his heals, but could not over be under a thousand dollars. take him. During this run the Very truly yours. I Knappa coach calls time out for a JOHN L. STORLA | ]onp discusion on pro and con on X» » a a • • - . the fundamental idea of how the TRYING TO*WRECK ball was taken to make this touch TO EXTEND RAIL Deer Island grange will enter down but Vernonia won the argu- tain the Columbia County Pomona TRAIN FAILS men. but failed to convert goal. HOLD AT HEARING Saturday, No« " Meth»«ii t “Tiney” (Wm.) Hill, fatest boy in church, St. Helens, Lv^u...lu^ at Edward Derossity, 15, son of n the high school and heaviest man , Plans to extend the Gales Creek A 10:80 a. m. Every rrar~", rsp- ’-il Wilson River railroad to Tillamook ly invited. The lectuie— hour -ill I St. Helens, mill worker, was arreste j on the team carries the ball for a 36 through the' Wilson river canyon are begin at 8 p. m. and --'"1 be ..n open J at Westport Monday after two un yard score, but the ball hits th* being made, with no indication as session to which every one is invi successful attempts to wreck passen standards and fails to convert. ger trains runninge between Asto Score third quarter, Vernonia 18;; to when the plans might be carried ted. M. J. Mills, seert ry. - - ... . , ■■ j ria and Portland. The boy appeared I Knappa 0. out, under pressure applied by tim Vernonia used approxi He ad-j mately all their subs in the last ber owners in the Wilson river for both the “northern roads and to be defective mentally. .vatbr sheds. » ‘ the Southern Pacific to use th* Wil . mitted the act but could give no real quarter, in giving them a work out. He said that he had: "Toad" Roberts carries the ball this This statement marked the testi son river route. This plan wa* de . son for it. time for a 50 yard touchliwn, but mony of executives of the Northern feated by the Southern Pacific, it : passed the sixth grade in school. The first attempt at destruction [ fails to convert the goat Hawkina Pacific and Great Northern railroad* was said. "The Gales Creek A Wilson River • was discovered when train No. 22, also makes a 60 yard touchdown, in the recent Portland' hearing in th eKlamath Fall* rih-oad contro line must be extended," Budd said, bound from Astoria to Portland, but this one like all the rest fails versy. Ralph Budd, president of the timber owners are bringing pressure i struck an obstruction on thé track to convert. The Vernonia high will Great Northern is reported' to have to bear op the northern lines to , three miles above Westport this play a return game with Knappa at stated that unsuccessful negotiations cause this extension to be made.’’—- morning. Examination disclosed the Knappa a week from Saturday. remains of a spike which had been already had been made o arrange Forest Grove News-Times. : driven between the adjoining ends »= PARK CARS PARALLEL of two rails and had been broken That Grand and Glorious Feeling off when the train passed over it prevails in Vernonia over th* open Dick Hines, special officer for the ing of the new paved main stroat of railroad company, who was riding the city. Now there is need for now on train 22, got off at Westport and parking laws and strict enforcement rode back on the Astoria-bound thereof. Cars can now drive near train from Portland, which encoun the curb, something they could not tered ■ similar obstruction at almost do when mud was hub deep. To th* same place. Examination this make passing and turning roons-aiow time disclosed a spike still in place all cars should park parallel with th* between the ends of two rails. curb as they do in all narrow street* The Derossity boy was found by of Portland. Each of the two side Hine* loitering near the spot, gave wheels should not be father thaa six an account of his movements during inches from the curb, and can five the preceding 24 hours, which did feet apart. This will give more not agree with train schedules, and street room and the side streets will on cross-questioning became con hold all long parking ear*. One fused and admitted driving the hour is plenty long • enough for ■ dF.HOLLYWOOD. CALIFORNIA. ONg OF TH* COUNT RY»« spike*. go RIDgRg, ANO HIR HUNTgR, “JOHN FgXL" Bridge street America’s Greatest Horse Show LU [ Hotel, $1.004, fine harness hora**; and lat*raattoMl Hi Oct. U*t to Nov. TtB? Imperial Hotel, $1,000, six-in-hand > Mn. M. A. Goodwin and ekildro-t of Wiggin*, Mias., ar* visiting her HALLOWEEN DANCK mother. Mn. Theresa Wing and her There to to a masked Halloween two brothen, Messrs Frank and Perry., Browning of Vernonia. Mrs dance at Coyles hall this Saturday Prise* for th* be*t costum Goodwin may make Vernonia h*r fu night. and wails. ture home. A ■ '_______________ Mr. Paul S. Robinson, Editor, Vernonia Eagle. No. 4 ut OUR CHRISTMAS EDITION I > The ^Vernonia Eagle will is- ' sue a Christmas number with ’ beautiful and expensive cover ’ page of three colors, on Dec. > 11. To Nehalem valley readers [ about 3000 of you, we are sure ' it will be to your advantage > to read carefully the ads of I your home merchants in this ; and proceeding issues and to > do your Christmas buying at i home, as loyal home folks, i Will advertisers please get ' their ad copy in a* soon now > a* possible. Demonstrate to , your custom*»* that y<ra ap- [ preciate their patronage with ; the Season’s Grootiugs. Christ- > mas shopping ha* begun. $I$$ M »8»$ P H IIIIII J < ! i ' < I ; ' ' i J ' ' * ; I ---------- «---------- LOCAL K. K. K. HOLDS PUBLIC OUTDOOR MEETING On Wednesday evening about 8 o’clock, someone opened our office door to say “look up on the hill." It proved to be the signal for starting the ceremony of the local K. K. K. lodge in an open air meeting. The firy cross on Seward’s hili was in deed pretty and during the burning some of the lodge member* wk* had the work to do, marched through our streets dressed ia their ledge room paraphernalia. About a were in the march. 1 vice* were helg at th* were present. *
