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Wtwttia Em.r.d a» »econj-cla«. matter August 4, 1922, at tha post offica at VamouM^ Wreguu, uudar the Acte of M arch 3, 1»7I. __________ ______________ EXCERPTS FROM PAPER ! GO TO WESTPORT FRIDAY I ST. HELENS DEFEATS VERNONIA QUINT, 18-17, NIGHTi LEGION TO SUPPLY CAR I I City Was Headed for a Boom Over Coal and Timber Stand; Reprints from Ne halem Journal, March 24,1891 Paul Robinton, Editor and Owner Volume 4 Number 31 VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY MARCH 12, 1926 Say Mr. Man, do you know that the peppiest, snappiest basketball , team in this state is going to West- ’ port Friday night, there to play and I win the game that will give them j the district championship. The girls I basketball team of the Vernonia high school will play in Westport) this Friday night. This team from j your town has not lost a game in I the past two years and you and I ■ and every other person in Vernonia; should lend our support in being in j Westport, and helping them win this j game. Do you realize what this one I game means to Vernonia, as well as , to the Vernonia high school? It1 means that if Vernonia wins this I game they have a wonderful op portunity to win or play for the state championship, and what a wonderful amount of advertising _ this would bring to us. Dr. Hurley, J. C. Lindley, H. E. McGraw, “Happy” Thompson and George Mc Gee are the committee from the Ver nonia Post of the American Legion to arrange transportation for all who are able to go to Westport to attend this game. By all means, set aside i ll other engagements for this Friday evening, if you have a car, or if not, and you wish to go, call up one of the members of the committee and arrange to go with the crowd 1° Westport. • — The boys basketball team of the Vernonia high journeyed to St. Hel ens last Friday night, where they [ met and were defeated by the fast St. Helens quintet, by a score of: 18 to 17. The Vernonia boys played loosely the first half, allowing St. | Helens to run up a score of 10 to 4. Vernonia came back strong in the second half and overcame this handicap. The Vernonia boys played j good ball during the final period and| kept one point in the lead until thei last few seconds, when DeVin of St. Helens, who made a hero of him self in the last game with Vernon i ia received the ball at mid-flour ar.d made a perfect shot giving St. Hel ens the deciding point. Although our boys lost the game, it was enjoyed by all everyone present. The line up is: St. Helens (18) (17) Vernonia Wodaege (2) ....... F...... (7) Roberts Devin (8) ............ F....(l) Hoffman Beale (7) ............ C....(8) Hawkins Caldwell (1) ........G............ Bennett Ketel ..................... G....... (1) Hod ;es NEHALEM HIGHWAY WORK Columbia county will also do con siderable work this year in linking up its market road system with the the Nehalem highway in Clatsop county, thus making a long step to ward the complete improvement and the Inland Route from Astoriu through the Nehalem valley to the Willamette valley at Forest Grove. Last year Columbia county paved a short stretch of the road north if Vernonia with concrete. This year the Columbia county marxet road program calls for the improvement of about two miles of the highway south of Vernonia with oil-bound macadam. This type of surfacing is to be given a complete test and Mr. Scott expects that it will be adopted for the Inland Route construction gen erally in Columbia county. Washington county contributed heavily lust year to the improvement of the Inland Route, surfacing five miles of new grade south of Timber with fine macadam. The work in that county is to be carried on further this year. This year Columbia county ex- pects to lay a considerable mileage of new macadam surfacing on the Inland Route east from the Clatsop county line at Vernonia. Thus the improvement of the In- land Route is rapidly going forward. The Columbia and Washington county programs are improving the road more rapidly than that of Clatsop county, but construction in Clatsop is heavier, while a concrete pavement is being laid, thus maxing advancement necessarily slower, due to the cost. Mr. Scott spent today with A. F. Danielson, county engineer, in going over the market roads of the cour- ty, particularly those where new : const, ueti ui is contemplated this season.—Asiuria Budget. COUNTY ROAD CASE CALLED IN PORTLAND Johnson Contract Company Alleges Engineers Delayed Work on Pittsburg Road. The damage suit of the Johnson Contracting company of Portland against Columbia county will be “The coal beds seem to cover an Following we devote a couple of heard Tuesday in circuit court in columns of reprint from the Neha- area of 7,000 acres, and are all in Multnomah county .according to lem Journal of March 24, 1891, edi- township 4 north, range 4 west, word that has been received. The ted by Dave Davis with Wm. H. covering twelve sections in a coil plaintiff company which asks a to tinuous body. There are six true Branden, proprietor: tal of $21,457.57 from the county Lo, the winter is over and gone, veins or seams; the dip or pitch of in connection with road work, ob- the time of the singing of birds in the coal is in ten to fourteen course tained a change of venue from the come, and the voice of the bull-frog 78 east, The quality is semi-bitumin local circuit court. ous and burns a red ash best lignite, is heard in the land The suit which was fi rat filed fine for household purposes and for Edwin Ross was over from his November 5, 1924, grew out of a steam. The information is good and place last Friday, and spent a day oi contract let to the Johnson company solid, with sandstone roof and bot two looking, around the city. by the county court for the im tom, and can be opened either by The improvements going on in Ver shaft or tunnel. The beds opened up provement of the Pittsburg-St. Hel nonia indicate no end of nerve and now are 130 to 140 feet higher than ens market road on April 25, 1921. forsight. A time limit of November 1, 1921, the level of the Nehalem river, all --------- 4--------- was set and the work was not com Las tSaturday Joseph Coulter sold located around Vernonia, and within RAINIER INVITES ALL TO pleted until July 15, 1922, the com-' to the Vernonia Improvement com a mile and a quarter of the sur DEDICATION OF SCHOOL plaint alleges. It charges the county pany 80 acres of land joining the veyed line of the Astoria and South officials and engineers assumed town on the west. Coast road, and can be carried down TO GIVE FL Rainier, Oregon absolute control of the work and the The Pittsburg Mill company on an easy grade to the main line, March 12, 1926 delay was caused by failure and de- The Parent-T< h rs association bought of S. B. ose, Monday last, We examined five veins out of the lay in fixing proper grades on the Much Mar Dear Friends: Rose additioi six. The largest vein was eight feet will give their lr.y “ lots five, block You are cordially invited to attend part of the county engineers. ried ’ at the Muje;-k -..-'afre Mon to the city of ' to nine feet thick, heavy coal, fully The work was two-thirds com- The personal the formal dedication of the high exposed. The next was five to six day night, March 15. If you run across anything in school building on March 12. pleted by November 1, the com- of this play is all home talent and with one foot of rock in bot- feet newspaper that doesn’t suit your The program will begin at noon plaint asserts and the company was fancy, skip it, Newspapers are made ton, then three feet of coal, clean will portray the acting in the people and contiune throughout the after forced to suspend until spring on and bright, the third vein should who are taking parts. This story is for everybody, you know. Lunch will be account of rainy weather. a catchy comedy play, portraying noon and evening.. out six feet, but only shows ! turn The new church building is to oc I served in the cafeteria, Student Mi-classification and underclassi the difficulties of a bachelor, who is and one-half feet. This vein we cupy lot two, block six, Rose addi- four guides will be on hand to direct you fication on the part of officials, of The found to be the best quality of coal in need of a wife and baby. Besides through the building. tion to the city of Vernonia, materials excavated also is alleged. the play there will be a seven reel I dimensions of the building an and was similar to the Roslyn mine In the evening a program and Because of working under alleged picture shown. “Ros of the World” the in Washington, now used by 28x42 feet. , dedicatory address will be given in unfavorable and disadvantageous The which is a gripping romance. A musi Northern Pacific locomotives, The Vernonia Improvement com- . the auditorium, followed by a dance conditions the company asks judg fourth vein shows four feet but will cal program with solos by talented and light refreshments. pany bought of Wm. Mellinger, ment for $13,886.57 plus an over probably turn out five or five and people and selections by the home Yours sincerely, forty acres of land in the city of head on performance of work of 15 town orchestra will also fill the bill. one-half feet, 100 feet under the Vernonia; consideration $1359 cash. Rainier Union High School Board. per cent or $2,082.99. -♦--------- surface, good formation, hard and The revellers will be a real treat --------- ♦--------- The unit basis of Hie contract was Edward Curtis took the mail to solid. The fifth vein we measured not to mention the'dancing by dainty LICENCE ia X FEE VERNONIA MILL STARTS .... St. Helens Monday instead of Martin turned out two and one-half feet, of girls of the grade school. Following UN DOGS DOUBLED $72,681.78. Payment by the county of $66,038.15 is acknowledged and VanBlaricom, who, on account of the fine quality, clean and bright. What is the program that will be given: The Lindsay Lumber company D:>" w s v. ho have not secured $1,155.62 allowed the county for do ill health of his wife, remained at surprised me most was to find all Selections by the revellers; folk sawed th6 first stick of lumber at » iheir canines will have ing certain work, thus making the home. these coal ands covered with very dance by grade school pupils; solo their new mill west of Rose avenue liceiua,» by Mrs. J. Lindley; whistling It is the intention of the Vernoniu fine timber—cedar, fir and pine solo, last Friday. The mill which has been to pay double what they have had total sum sued for $21,457. 57. An answer to the complaint filed Literary Society to give an exhibi good size, abundant and excellent Miss Gladys Cooke; violin solo, Mrs. dormant tor a long length of time to pay had they secured such livense tion and literary entertainment foui quality for logging, and all around Frank Shinn; American Legion was taken over by Mr. Lindsay, Beari on or before March 1, when the in for the county in the circuit court contends that the Johnson company weeks from last Friday evening. A in the vicinity streams of water suit quartette; xylophone solo, Charles and Bennett, and these gentlemen) crease in fees became effective. The county has 475 dogs, accord sublet the contract to O. D. Wolfe, committee was appointed to make able for carrying logs down to the Hoffman. The comedy “To» Much have installed all new machinery,' the necessary arrangements and pre Nehalem near Vernonia. Married will be played by Abvin Ol boiler, and other mill equipment* ing to the number of licenses ap of Washougal, Wash., without the pare a programme. son, Lawrence Dickson, Elmer Olson, and have made extensile i;.: >vi plied for and issued up to last week •’ ll.sent of the county and that the All the coal veins we examined Lust year 335 licenses were issued plaintiff virtually abandoned the Articles of incorporation were filed j can be mined for 75 cents and trans Lora Smith and Mrs. Shinn. ments to the dock and have added and the high year, according t> contract April 25, 1921, the day that ---------- +---------- last Monday by the Vernonia Im ported on a down grade to the main larger storage space. The mill, fr. in Deputy Clerk Veazie was 1922 when it was let and never furnished or NEED NEW SCHOOLS provement company, with a pad! up line of railway and placed on the reports, will employ about thirty- performed labor thereon and that What will Vernonia high school five men and has a daily capacity of 661 licenses were issued. capitol of $60,000, the main office cars for Portland for $1 to $1.10 per But the dog owners who have net Wolfe worked spasmodically and at Vernonia. The incorporators were ton, and from there thence carried do next year with 75 freshmen? Our 35,000 feet of lumber a day, ir. an Frank Huisman, Thos. Braden. D. to Portland, fiftyFthree miles, via grade schools are also over crowded eight hour shift. The mill was known applied for a license will be given that the work never was completed. a gentle reminder when the assess The answer declares the county court W. Cummins and Wm. H. Braden. Hillsboro, or forty- -eight miles, via We must do something and do that at one time as the “Old Vernonia or or his deputies call, for under the and the Johnson Contracting com Cornelius Gap and Northern Pacific something now. It has been sugges- Mill.’’ law, the assessor must include the pany made a full settlement and ted as one solution: Sell the Do You Know present --------- «--------- for $1 per ton or 2 cents per ton canines on the assessment blank, so accounting in December, 1921. high school building to the district That A. Eastlick, of this plnce, is per mile, although in ' the East ve Among those from Vernonia who John L. Foote, district attorney, erecting a chair factory on Second pay something less than 1 cent pet school and build a new $60,000 high attended the fight in Portland Tues it is probable that when such blanks have been turned in, it will be found will represent Columbia county in school. One location mentioned is street? day evening were Mr. and Mrs. Art ton. Allowing $1.10 per ton for rail I that the dog population is several court at Portland. Clark, Skulasori That the mud is nineteen feet deep transportation t0 Portland, the coal the level ground back of the J. W. Whitaker, Emil Messing, Lewis & Clark are attorneys for the plain times 475. more or less, in the road between thi ■ could be delivered in your city for Rose residence. There may be other Blackburn, Tommie Bateman, Don ---------«--------- tiff. good ones. Depue. $2.10 per ton, first cost, easily.” , place and Pittsburg? A. H. Davies, who was county en DOCTOR DOUGLAS WILL That there are inducements of In regard to the timber, the • LEAVE SOON FOR SALEM gineer at that time, will come from fered in this valley that are far gentleman said: Stockton, Cal., to testify in the case superior to those offered elsewhere? “We never imagined that such ini * Dr. Vernon A. Douglas, who has William T. Nelson, engineer who Money invested in Vernonia prop mense quantities of timber existed been practicing his profession here was on the ground for the county erty will bring better returns than So near to Portland. It would PRF, y0] j since last July, t .pects to leave is now in Nicaragua and cannot ba FRIDAY, MARCH 12 ,1926 Number 22 that invested in sny other town on to build a railway to the Nehalem) Monday for Salem, where he will be present. the Pacific coast? A cablegram was sent to him by country from Portland, merely for A senior class meeting was held connected with the Marion County the timber, if, as I am told, the price Published Every Week By to select the class motto anj flowers Child Health demonstration clinic a the county but no reply has been re- of logs delivered here is $6.50 per Vernonia High School Monday. “Deeds, not dreams,'1 will new health unit recently established ceived. T. B. Mills, county commis thousand feet, that is, without esti Editor ......................... Margaret Smith be our motto, and creme-colored in that county. The doctor while sioner, was county road master at here had charge of the medical that time and will be a witness in the roses, our flower. CAPITALISTS FROM THE EAST mating the carrying of a ton of coal Why pick on us? What have we from there to your city. In Michigan staff of the Oregon American mill case. GREATLY INTERESTED they have built from fifteen to eigh done? That is what we basketball ---------- ♦---------- Ora Rundell has been unable to and private cases in town, and it is P. rtlsnd Will Mo*t Likely Build a teen miles of railway merely to girls and Miss Goodin thought when attend school this week because of with regret that he will leave here OUTDOOR DIVERSIONS HOLD carry away 76,000,000 feet of tim Mr. Kelly came up to the high school CAMP FIRE ATTENTION for the state capital city, but the en Road Into This Valley—An In X ber, whereas, in the Nehalem you Tuesday morning and told us that illness. tire community wishes him the best tarview With an East have millions of cedar and fir to we were under arrest and had to of success in his new undertaking. ern Gentleman. A variety of activities are drawing The editor of the annual, Mar- Oh! carry for the next fifty years. We appear at court right away. Dr. Douglas is a graduate of the the interest of the different Camp garet Smith, made a trip t ,1 Portland Oh! Such traits and trtbulations,and The following from the Oregon are surprised that Portland has not University of Oregon medical tichou Fire groups. The Lo-Li-La camp Are ian of the 17th, speaks in the high built a local railway to the Nehalem such a sensation we created ns we to see the engravers ard printers and is well versed with the work girls hiked three miles last Friday Monday. The annual material must est terms of the superior quality years ago. It would not only be a filed two and two down Bridge that he has outlined for his life pro evening, selected a beautiful camp and inexhaustible supply of coal and most profitable railroad investment street with the cop behind us. After be ready to go to press within two fession. Mrs. Douglas will leave at ing place, built a camp Are, roasted weeks, which means that the annvnl but would add largely to the wealth a long process of misery an.f dark timber adjacent to Vernonia: the same time with her husband. "wiennies” and marchmallows, had In the New Year’s statistical num and importance of Portland as a foreboding our sentence was pro- staff must work very hard during the lunch, treasure hunts, sang Bongs A <leath-like silence pre next few days. The business manager ber of the Oregonian of January manufacturing, lumber and coal cen nounced. BOXING EXPOSITION and had an all around jolly time, Dudley Spencer, ai.d inc advertising vailed throughout the city hall while last, it reported that 1,463,387 tons ter.” coming home, tired but happy. They manager, with his assistant, Harold At the Rose theatre building on plan to have their next regular of coal were exported from Puget Recurring again to the coal inter we stoed shivering, awaiting our Olsen, have had encouraging help Tuesday night, March 16, will be the doom. Judge Reasoner stood up, sound in 1890, adn over 273,000 est, he said: first big boxing match in Vernonia, meeting at their log cabin home, looked over Ms spectacles, drew a from th; i.o. i:ie» men. tons were consumed in Portland ; under the new boxing commission. about one mile out the Rock Creek “I was informed over on tne Ne- and yet the Nehalem coal lands are halem that there were 60,000,009 deep breath, »nd began: “Girls, I guod bouts have been arranged: road. The home is to have a fir« Our gir.s are to play the return Five only forty-eight miles distant. These tons of salable coal already taken up am indeed sorry about this but I and all our citizens who believe ini place and campfire banners and dec- game in Westport this Friday night. proeecute you clean sport will want to see the, | orations and will be a credit to thia facta attracted the attenion of wo- by claimants from the United States feel it my duty to coal owners who reside at Des Moines land department, and that Mr. P. to the fulles t extent of the law I! It’s time t., be getting interested. If event. It starts at 9:15 p. m. Be in group. seat on time. It is hoped that) Iowa, and they recently arrived in Kelly, the sheriff of Multnomah Yoe« sentence will be a—chicken we win, tha lower Columbia district your --------- ♦--------- these attractions can b« put on championship is our. If they win this the advertise- dinner in honor of Portland to investigate. They spent county, owned the most valuable ACCIDENT every two weeks. The boxing com second game then, a third game must Vernonia met you have given some twelve days in examing the coal there, a vein of eight feet. ’ mission of Vernonia is composed of L. R. Gillchriest and family had a de- be played on a neutral floor to through your basketball team.’’ Messrs Kullander, Bush, Messing, narrow __ .__ escape in an auto accident coal beds in the Nehalem country. These facts : re worthy of investi | Wednesday evening. The ¿tearing Dr. Hughes and Geo. McGee. A reporter obtained from a min gation in the interest of Portland Stunned with th-> unexpected blow cide the district championship. I wheel failed in making a turn near ing expert who was in the Nehalem If these coal mines are as large in we staggered from the hall and G. C. Olsen, of the Vernonia Trehame and th« big Studebaker Mr. Sait, the photographer, has valley recently, some valuable infor extent and of the quality represen went to our doom at the White Lunch Realty Co., was a recent St. Helens . car rolled over on its side, spilling been working busily thia week. The I We girls highly appreciate this kind- mation which will be of considerable ted, coupled with the lumber in the occupants. Mrs. Gillchriest was visitor. He was enroute to the states | ' the pictures now are practically torn- I ness and find ourselves wishing we in tercet. severely bruised. It was a lucky ae- Nehalem region they are of greater a brief seasoo metropolis to spend plet«d. Some have already been sent 1 cident in that none were seriously { could be arrested every day. Hurrah In the course of his remarks, the under the bright lights.—Sentinel to the engraving company. hurt. (Caetiauad on Pago 4) , for the business men I engineer said: * « »- -• ♦----------------------------------------------- xj THE VERHIAN Our Coal Fields