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Gernonia Sartie tier August 4, 1*22, at tbs VKftNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY DECEMBER 4,1925 Volume 4 Number 17 Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner Ä Í Guides THE VERHIAN PLAY GROUND Air for Aviation FOR VERNONIA VOL. 1 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1025 No. 8 Former P. T.A. Pres. Writes COL. COUNTY CUNFERENCE Published Every Week By The football season is over. The To assist in the development of Mrs Aristene Felts of Portland, Thanksgiving game with Clatskanie Vernonia High School uviation, and to increase safety and which endel with a score of 0 to 0, former president, Oregon P. T A., certainty of air travel,the Standard who is spending the winter in Paris, Margaret Smith was the final game. Enterprising Citizen* Mak® Oil company (California), following Editor has written an interesting letter to Farmer* of County Will a suggestion from the office of the J. J. Handsaker, northwest regional Meet at Rainier, De Possible a City Play* We are glad to welcome Elster The carnival committee and the Chief of Air Service, War Depart Williams play cast are working hard. Don’t director of the Near East Relief back to the freshman class. cember 11. Ground ment, a widespread sys- He ha, men«., will win establish »«««non » wiuespre.u .y»- been attending the Rainie^ , has been Rainier forget the “Sob-Buster" carnival to She says: tern of guide signs for aviators along high school during the past fe^F be held December 11. “America must continue her work the airways of the Pacific coast’ weeks. Shelia, his sister, has also re-. in the Near East for a few years states, giving the Pacific coast iuj entered the junior class, •. ' .1 Mildred Cates visited her father more for she is dealing with child i.nlv marked mvv-lra.1 airways niruzAv« and AnH the th,* first firat. of I ” ' only during the Thanksgiving vacation. ren and some of the most promising The fre Miss Cates is a former student of children in the world. Little is being the kind in the country. These !S^i basketball, inte Five Nehalem Valley Farmers are our high school. signs will take the form of names °* c. freshman team in » done by relief agencies for adults, to Take Active Part la towns painted on the roofs of the although they are worthy of help, The freshman class h^bfcharge of A census of the student body wa> for the Armenian will not beg; he company’s buildings. The army air Program. Each will work at everything and anything service will designate points which the sale of the 1925 Red C«^ae taken Wednesday morning. student was requestci to give hb at any price, for his daily bread. Christmas stamps. should be marked. The company will •i- -?• name, native state, and expected vo Every essential phase of agricul A few months ago ,the Chamber also offer cooperation to the naval Lena Gibson, Mildred Bergerscn cation. The results were'as follows The presence of these tousands of tural production and marketing will of Commerce sponHered the idea of air service, the air mail service and and Margaret Smith, delegates to Pupils present, i refugees has demoralized the labor 154, states represen * play ground within the city limits thè high school conference at the ted, 27 born in Oregon, 73, born ir situation in a country where labor is receive attention at the Columbia Three acres belonging to C. A. Mills commercial fliers. University of Oregon, will leave for other states, 81 bom in Canada, 7 already poorly paid and where there county agricultural economic confer just a block off Bridge street and At first the effort will be clear Eugene Thursday morning. Mrs. specified vocations, 19. ence which convenes next Friday, is little work and little money.” situated ideally for a park on th< ly to mark the present nt a aii 2’2W*B and Coi Cole, who will represent the facul- December 11, at 10:00 a. m., in the “Boys trained in American or banks of Rock creek, was on thr towns adjacent to flyi| iflgrBtol landing, ■will take them in her car. The The junior civics class is starting phanages will have much better city hall at Rainier,aceording to Goo. market for $1800. Headed by work- opent ata nine o’clock the study of parliamentary law tt>w e« tab Habe-I conference con There as» now establishes A. Nelson, county agent, who haa erp in the persons of Dr. Ella Wight fields. and closes at 2:30 Judging from the interest that v chances than the present generation been assisting in organizing the Lester Sheeley and W. O. Galaway airways from San Diego to Seattle Saturday morning i afternoon being shown, we should have som< for they are being taught carpentry,! . ... the campaign waa on to raise the and from San Francisco to Reno. ‘a u ay helpful citizens in our town in the blacksmithing, etc., while most adults event Committee of ranchers from amount Mr. Mills donated $300 of I Along these routes the company has The boys turning out for basket future. refugees are fitted only for common practically every section of the coun the purchase price and citizens loy distributing plants at frequent in- ball, started theiz regular practice ally came through with the balance labor. I wish I could take you ty have been at work for several The towns on these air-1 last Monday night. Coach Austin is The six weeks exams and except the final ten per cent, which tervals. through the little carpenter shop in weeks gathering data on livestock, the Harmon Foundation of New ways which should be marked are putting the boys through a stiff Thanksgiving vacation are over, dairying, farm crops, poultry, bee We have next six weeks, which cover the Nazareth where the boys are learn York donates. Today the Harmon now being selected and the signs practice every night. keeping, fruit raising and the utili plenty of good materia! and expact ing carpentry just opposite the spot Christmas and New Years ’ vacation Foundation sends their check foi will be painted at once. As other zation of logged-off lands. will conclude the first semester. where Jesus learned his trade.” 1150 and Vernonia is proud to claim airways are developed and neces to have a winning team this year. That such an agricultural confer ownership to the park and play “What tugs at your heart most is ground. The following letter arrived sity requires, additional signs will ence should be held in the county the babies four and five years old be set up. PHILLIPINO FORGES - VERNONIA MINERS DO MUCH today: of whom there are more than 2,- was decided several weeks ago by a FOR SOUTHERN OREGON November 23, 1925. The company has stations at most OREGON-AMERICAN CHECK 000 in Near East relief orphanages committee representing the grange, Mr. W. O. Galawav ports on the Pacific coast and at . now. Children are leaving the or farm bureau, the various commer Bank of Vernonia the several interested,we hear these w|ll establish signs for the The raising of an Oregon-Ameri- in To Vernonia, Oregon. todays mail that the Kelmar-Van- phanages at the rate of 300 a month cial organizations and breeders as guidance and assistance of seaplanes can mill check from $18 to $68, pet Mining company, has found e making room for others in the refu sociation in the county. At thia meet My dea rMr. Galaway: The Standard Oil company (Cali proved to be an easy job for G. market for their limestone at a hand gee camps. In the last two years ing Warren Young, master of the Owing to the fact that Mr. Har Lusco, alias G Cabel, even with all mon has been out of the city it ha. fornia) has more than 650 distribu ita check protector stamped on it. some profit. And that their several homes have been found for 25,000.” Pomona Grange of Clatskanie was “I am most enthusiastic over the chosen general cairman of the con been impossible to forward our ting plants in California, Washington The check was cashed at the Kul- gold veins have broadened in ever} check which is to be used as final Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho and lander Jewelry store here this week shot. True fisher veins going around work the Near East Relief is doing ference. $60 to the ton is the latest develop payment of the purchase price of and feel that the magnitude and by the Phillipino as a payment on a The chief purpose of the two-day the play land at Vernonia, the title Utah. Each of these plants has a watch which he had purchased that ment with millions of tons in sight necessity df the work can not be evaqt is to make a business study of warehouse and it is upon the roofs The smelter for Gold Hill is now as to be rendered being free and clear day. The check was taken, as many concludede Mrs. the county’s agricultural and to de of warehouses that the guide signs of them are cashed there at times, sured and smelter stock will make overestimated,” of all incumbrances. termine upon ways and We assume that the title to the will be placed. of In addition, there and no close watch was paid t° IL all holders independent. These fact» Felts land will be vested in either the are many other buildings suitable to Mr. Kullander at the close of the are taken from actual surveys, as- making farming more profitable, Board of Education of the Town the purpose in the oil fields of the evenings business, in looking at the seys and engineer reports from Dispatches the last few days have Out of this conference Council, and that the deed will in San Joaquin Val|ey and southern check noticed that it was a ittle dif world known authority. It runs like pictured was conditions in Syria. to come a program of is expected agricultural a fairy tail that Vernonia men, com- clude a- provision that the land i> ferent from the rest that he had and to be usel in perpetuity for recrea- California, at pump stations on pipe in closer inspection found that the paritavely poor financially, have de Tucked in between the accounts of development which will serve as a veloped in a few months mining prop the movements of the revolting guide for the future. _____ _ tio npurpoeeee. This is the basis on lines, nnd at refineries. The session Phillipino had been making a close which the Division of Playgrounds The roofs available for signs study of the inks that the mill used erty that is today worth millions with tribesmen and of the French forces, will attempt to determine what farm is functioning. range from 530 square feet in small and by taking a pen he pierced the no let up to the ore body. Evidently are brief accounts of the suffering enterprises are most profitable »nd The Division of Playgrounds maken I towns to several thousand square check to look like the genuine at it is the “Mother Lode.’’ -f t; _ i eup e driven from their to what extent marketing facilities ------ «------ no requirement that playgrounds re 1 homes and congregating in refugee will permit local farmers to engage a first glance After cashing the ceiving thia 10 per cent contribution feet in the large cities, giving in all check he made a asty trip to Port THE OREGONIAN ¡8 camps. “S nil-try arrangements to in them. cases, abbreviations thereof, will be bo known as Hamon Field. Our ac SEVENTY-FIVE TODAY land, and as as yet has not been lo- lo tally inadeoitr.te, water scarce, many tual requirements are that the land signs. The signs, consisting of the cated. Those who are in charge if ar x refugtos il, no medicine, children bo deeded either to the Board of names of towns, or possibly, in some I The Oregonian. Those words mean rangements for the conference --------- ♦--------- Education or the Town Council as csaes, abbreviations thereof, will be sick.” much to Oregonians. Since 1350 the promise that there will be something THE LITTLE THINGS permanent play land, and that ou- in large white block letters on a At this time it is impossible to say of interest and value to everyone in Oregonian has made regular visits to payment is (he final one, renlerinn whether the Near East Relief will be dark background, giving a high de a title free and clear of icumbrances Oh. it’s just the little homely’ OreK°n homes. For seventy-five terested in agriculture in the county If, however, your playground wishes gree of visibility. Owing to the fact things, the unobtrusive, friendlrj yea" Oregonians have read and de- able to help these refugee children and to such an invitation is extended to become eligible to enter competi that the storage tanks are painted things the “wont-you-let-me-help.' Pen<led on The Oregonian. Next to as its funds are exhausted in the to participate i nthe event. tions open only to affiliated play white the company i----------- — ’s distributing you„ thjnjr8 that ouf pathwny) the Bible the Oregonian has held the care of the 35,000 children now in Assisting each committee in Ha grounds, r to receive appropriations planta afford a conspicuous land- And ¡ t , g J0gt the jol|y center of the table. There are read its orphanages and homes. Aid to which we may make from time to work will be the various specialist “never-mind-the-trouble”. er8 Oregon today wo have kep these sufferers will depend upon the from the Oregon Agricultural col, time, it is essential that the field be mark from the air and are consid- thingj known as Harmon Field or that the ered especially suitable for the pur- things the “laugh-with-me-it’s-funny UP with every is8U« th« Ifea responses made to Near East Relief lege extension service. Among those on Golden Rule Sunday and Christ name Harmon be incorporated in the pose at hand. They are also all ’* . things that make the world seem ’ 1 P*P®r since " “ ’s first " - it year of * exis- who will be present are: H E. name. If you select the name Har i cated on railways, which present air bright. For all the countless fa-* t*nce. In the world, the Oregonian mas. , Cosby, poultry specialist, E. R. jack mon Field we will send you one of ways usually follow. ----------- ♦------------ mous thing's, the wondrous record-1 ran*w with America’s best daily our bronze tablets to be used in man, crop specialist, G. R. Hyslop, The Portland papers have been breaking things, those “never-can-be Papers and in Oregon it is an essen- marking the field. The wording on --------- ♦--------- logged-off lands, H. A. Scullan, bee carrying big Christmas advertise all these tablets is as follows: j equalled” things, that all the papers tial as the morning meal. The Ver COUNTY RED CROSS REPORT keeping, C. L. Long, fruit raising, HARMON FIELD nonia Eagle is in receipt of an in menta for weeks. People in adjoining FOR MONTH OF NOVEMBER cite, are not like little human things, vitation to a celebration for the towns who have autos are some N. C. Jamison, dairy specialist and This playfield was m.,de ours the “every-day-encountered” things, H. A. Lindgren, livestock sp-taUtt through the assistance of the Oregonian’s birthday, reading as fol times in the habit ot answering these Harmon Foundation. The Eagle is in receipt of the th* “•>uat because-I-like-you” things lows: The conference at _____ Rainier will _ be ._____ ads and trading, more or less, in Dedicated forever to the plays i Miss “done-and-then-forgotten things their the 18th «»»ilar conference held county nursese report from Portland instead of keeping 1 r _ _ in The Oregonian, 1860—1925. The of children, the development of NinsVLittle, R^N , Red Cross thoBC “oh-it’s-simply-nothing” things money at home to help pay home ?? many counties in the state during youth, and the recreation of all. Oregonian cordially invites you to be , that make life worth the fight.— e tw° J'®*’’8. In each instone» “The Gift of Land is the Gift Eter nurse which reads as follows: present at its Seventy-fifth birthday taxes and build the home city The I Grace Haines e nal.” 1925. Wm. E. HARMON PaX°uH^l Visits to schools, 20; visits to anniversary celebration, Friday, De Eagle has recently closed a trimen-, Thia will rank you with the other towns, 8; pupils weighed and mean-, --------- ♦--------- ^,11« nnhoprinlinn molrinar agricultural OVentS dius subscription contest, making cember 4, 1925, from 10 a. m. to ever held. permanent playgrounds as a part of Visit iB Frisco. ured, 779; pupils seriously under- the permanent playground move Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Whittaker 4 p. m, at the public auditorium, practically EVERY home in this The county’s annual agricultural weighjt, 88; pupils seriously over ment. leave today for a two weeks visit in Third and Clay streets, Portland whole valley a reader of the home income is $1,226,095. Of this amount weight, 15; pupils inspected. 716. We should like to hear from you paper. Readers may be discouraged San Francisco. Both going to see Oregon. as soon as possible in this regard and --------- 4--------- in not finding these big Christmas $517,879 or 42 per cent is derived Defects: Teeth, permanent, 339; lelat.ves that they have not seen for should also like to have on file the of dairy Product», $24* GO AFTER THE BUSINESS ads. suggestions and prices in the rmn” name and address of the chairman tonsils, 260; vision, 25; suspected five years. Small towns complain that the big home paper, like the Portland papers 000 or 19 8 per cent from livestock of the Playground Committee, to goiter, 3; hearing, 1; exclusions, 13.' **■■— ----------------- cities draw all the business from But, readers, we assure you that $140,000 or 11.4 per eent f™ gether with those of any other in Notos to parents, 445; visits to Bridge Club Entertained. rural communities. dividual to whom Information should homes, 18; visits for county court,' Vernonia stores are well stocked grains, 10.6 per cent.from vegetables The Bridge club was entertained This is a mistaken idea. All over now with Christmas goods—both nine per cent from fkuita, 5.4 per be sent fro mtime to time. 11; letters written, 14; specimens at the home of Mrs. A. J. Black at Our check for $150 is enclosed. the country there are shining ex toys and substantial merchandise.W'e cent from poultry and 1.6 per cent school drinking water to labatory, 3; her home on Rose avenue Friday. one of Very sincerely yours, amples to prove that manufacturers know the prices are as good and from hay and forage specimens found polluted and not Those present were Mesdames Smith publishers, writers, motion picture MARY BEATTIE BRADY, toinetimes better than you will get the chief functions of the confer Division of Playgrounds. safe for drinking purposese, 3. Wahlater, Burgman, McNeill, Space, producers, mill operators and numer-1 in the city. We have always advo ence will be to determine which or --------- ♦--------- Richardson and Brady. Mrs Space ous other productive enterprises are| cated “Trading at Home,” and are whether or not all of these sources Coaaty Ceases. winning first prise and Mrs. D. L. establische, thrive and distribute all dneerely advocating “Trade with of income should be increased Treat 'em Rough. The 1925 school census of Colum When boosters organise a club to Smith consolation prise. Frank Peterson, A. M. Berg, Joe their products more economically Home Advertisers.” Read the ads bia county shows St. Helens has an ------ » ------ put their town upon the map, you’ll Banzer, Frank Gowan and E H- Web from a small town than from a pop and look i°T new ones. Next issue enrollment of 1055, Vernonia has To California readers, as well as ulous center. always find a dub who tries to give are •mong those in to* Xmas ads. will have many large 717, Rainier 700 and Clatskanie 559. ’em a slap. He’ll ha, ha at their do those >n the east and Florida, too, The Central Illinois Public Service Merchants can keep more home valley who are serving on th. co“ As usual, all children from 4 to 20 we just want to remark that in Ver ing and try to break it up by sad nonia, we havn’t put on our “heav company of Springfield, Illinois, haa trade if they go after it. ference committees. years old are included. A recent and woeful wooings of any mongrel ies” yet, and the past week many issued a folder entitled, “Fertile --------- *-------- - This paper as not been in tha count showed the Rainier high pup. The trouble is he’ll find too homes _____ _____ _____ _ _ It has not habit of running outside advertising. were without fires in the _ Fields for Factories.” STOPPED ALL TRAFFIC school leads the districts of the many who will listen to the peseimis heaters. It rained here this week, In New York a back alley eat da- county in number of student en- tic whine if thia bum from the cis Good warm rains that make the waited for rural towns in Illinois to In the past it has not been neces- set forth their advantages, but is go sary. cided to move her family of five kit rolled tern. Any man who likes his own grass and trees green the year ing ahead and showing how low pro tens across the street. She waa an --------- g,--------- round. won’t listen to such bunk * He’ll duction coats are possible in the com --------- •--------- well known that Officer Cudmore The Ji No Fishing M R««k Crook. „ Ladies Athletic club, which calmly set him down by giving him a munities In which it operates. THE HARDEST JOB Game Warden Brown called last has been meeting in Coyle’s hall stopped all traffic and motor san hunk of good hard common sense ♦ ■ About the hardest thing to do I voted at their last meeting to move while she carried the five kMtona to week and told us that we could in that will send him on his way in ugly know of, would be to have a separ Envoy Lillian Gray .state campaign to warmer quarters and decided on saftey on the other side of the form the public that there can be self defense to bide another day. ate a niekle’s worth of salt from the worker from the financial depart the social hall of the Evangelical absolutely no fishing of any kind in church, where their athletic class will street. The world pauses eometimso Rock Crook or the Nehalem river When knockers come around me same quantity of sugar, while wear ment of the Salvation Army, visited meet Frjday night at 7:30. Dr. Ella when the American sense of kind Mrs. Gray Wight is well pleased with the work ness is appealed to. Still, Vernonia thia week. now until April 1st. So be yelling their awful tale of woe, and ing a pair of boxing gloves. ' with lisa try to pound me, I can trying to pick the fly specks out of coven the entire state in her work of the elass and has started folk --------- ge-, ». the game warden will | hardly let ’em go. I want to take a lot of black pepper, would be for the Army and White Shield dances and has two fine volley ball P. J. O’Malley of BL Helena took them by the neck, whench their ton-' a rather tough proposition. home. In Vernonia ninety per cent teams, an<j says, the ladies here take Thanksgiving dinner at the home of ------------ gue from their throat, then stand of the populace are in hearty sym to the work, just like children with a Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kemper to-Ver , --------- ♦_ ------ 2,000 men working on Southern . , “By heck, now go The tonic for the business world pathy with the work and spirit of new toys, and by spring they will nonia Mr. O’ Malley Is Mn. Kem Pacific Natron cut-off, with only 25 and be able to have some mighty fine gloat”—Ragson Tattlers, —newspaper advertising. , the Salvation Army. miles of track still to lay. r ahead and _* pers father games outdoors. MONUMENT ASSURED AURICUITURE IS TOPIC