J* Entered as second-class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Vernoftia, Oregon, under the Acts of March 3, 1879. VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY APRIL 2, 1926 REVIVAL OF LOCALCHAMBER -------- ♦r— Reader Gleans Item and Remarks no News Matter 4 lady remarked last week that the Eagle didn’t amount to much, but she read it each week. Just more proof that the paper is thor­ oughly read each issue. It is pos­ sible, however, that a little ptaise for the home paper occa.isionally would help the paper, the town and the people making the optomistic re­ marks. There are several Ways to boost a town and it’s institutions. ---------- ♦--------- - FIGHTERS IN TRIM FOR MATCH FRIDAY NIGHT Pugilistic Encounters Among Loc*l and Out-of-Town Fighters Prom­ ise Good Card. Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner MISTAKES WILL HAPPEN THE LUMBERMAN’S LARGE PROGRAM Typographical Error in Story Mis­ Three Year’» Campaign, Costing 31,- leads Meaning W. C. Mumaw, a recent speaker be 500,000, to Go into National Me­ fore the Aberdeen Rotary club re­ dia for the Benefit of the in­ Newspaper mistakes such as typo­ marked: “the next great develop­ dustry» as a Whole. graphical errors are oft time serious ment after Florida will be in the Large Majority Voté for Annexation of “Corey Hill." PAPER THOROUGHLY READ Number 34 POPULATION NORTHWESTWARD BOUND ANNEXATION CARR'ES The special city election last Sat- urday carried with a big majority A very light vote was polled but nearly all were in favor of annex­ THREE FIFTY FOOT TABLES ing the territory to the city limits. The district west of Third avenue FILLED WITH GOOD known at one time as “Corey hill” EATS asked to be admitted into the city limits. Two polling places were opened, one for the city vote ar I o:ie for the outsiders. The city voted 48 for and none against. The out­ side district voted 28 for and five against. Vernonia is larger as the One Hundred and Fifty Citizens result of the election. Bette.’-' take a walk over the new part of town and Show Manifestation and Make wonder in surprise at the many Merry; Talk Business buildings and improvements there. Wednesday night the Chamber of Commerce banquet at the grange hall was the biggest event of the kind held in Vernonia. Practically all the business men. were there be- Sffies citizens from every part of the city. Everybody was interested, everybody was happy and the meet­ ing full of fun. A musical program added spice to the evening and the tables were laden with the best the market affords. Wm. Folger was toastmaster for the affair and various speeches were listened to and applauded with energy and enthusiasm. McBarron’s band started the program and for i two hours the dinner and music held sway. Following is the program that was given: Songs were given by Mrs. J. C. A violin Lindley and Mr. Mcall. solo by Mrs. Shinn, piano selection by Mrs. McCall, selection by the band.. The invocation was given by 0 Weed, with John L. Foote, Judd Greenman, Sheeley, Geo. McGee Mr. Davis and Mrs. Greenman speakers. Volume 4 great Northwest.” To this remark the Aberdeen Daily World replies- “In all conscience, why not? Southern California and Florida of­ fer a winter climate only, good for about three months of the yeai The Pacific Northwest especially west of the Cascades, offers a year round climate. When it grows hot in Florida, and no one thinks of going south in the summertime ,it is de­ lightfully cool here. There is no summer heat to swelter under, no winter cold to combat. In addition at­ to that, this country has resources torney of Portland, with considerable business opportunities and chances favorable reputation over the state, for livelihood of which Florida does is one of the announced candidate:-' not even dream. Industry is slready for U. S. senator. Mr. Ciark last under way here. The farming pos­ week gave his platform in a long sibilities of western Washington have radio speech broadcasted from a not been touched and a climate like this ought to lend an attraction to Portland station. farming that is not acquired else ---------- *---------- where. NEED ONE HERE “The next great populación move St. Helens Hospital Shows Dire and the next large development in the United States surely ought to be Need of One in Vernonia. in the Pacific Northwest. From the Since the St. He car leral hos­ standpoint of summer tourist travel pital was opened l'i last year, this region has begun to attract at- 329 patients have r. — ed ______ medical _ tention. That should and will be and surgical treatment. Twenty-six j followed, if the country is advertised major and 40 minor operations have' and exploited, as it should be. by an been performed. 40 X-rays taken and( influx of permanent residents, and 36 babies have been born. An ad-1 home-owners and builders.”—Long­ ditional lot has been purchased to' view Daily News. build an addition onto the hospital ---------- ♦---------- to take care of the rapid increase. WHY NOT HELP? --------- *--------- SCHOOL NEEDS UNSOLVED The second series of fights held by the Vernonia boxing commission New Fireproof High School Building will be in the Rose theatre on Fri­ Is Necessary day night, April 2, beginning at 8:30 ---------- *---------- Claire Bromeo yvill fight Billie The school situation in regards to HAVE TENNIS COURT Burke in the main event. Bromeo I won a knockout over Joe Jewett the urgent need of more room is Business Men Make Possible City here March 16 and promises a real still before the community and still battle Friday. Yoson and Balthazar unsolved at this writing. We hope Recreation Sport. who fight the six round semi-final that before this paper goes to press are both tough and ambitious. It is it will be seen by the majority that Lawn tennis will be a popular rumored that the winner of this game here this summer. New courts bout will challenge the winner of the a new fireproof high school is r.re being made*T>n the corner lots a> main event and every efiort will be needed and that the grade school Second and ___ Maple streets and .._ ___ __ _________ __ the - made to match them in the near has urgent need for the present young people are preparing for a future. Young Manuel lost to Brady high school building. Better to build two weeks ago but has been working for a few years than to add to and busy season. The business men ‘ and is taking Faber of St. “chipped in” to improve the groundl­ hard Paul 'for a four round go on the rebuild every year or so. In a few and the nets, rackets, etc., have been second. Bert Heltzel and Loel Rob­ years we will be without tho timber ordered. Champion matches will be erts box four rounds and Don Brady tax income, also, which is a mighty and Bob Whetzel a two round cur­ big asset to the districts at present pulled during the summer. tain raiser. Local boys are develop­ ---------- *---------- ing fast and will be matched as F. O. Miller, head of the Miller WHAT CAN YOU TAKE? much as possible in future events. ChU'-'- Bennett is looking for a Mercantile stores, was out from well pleased with Henry Longfellow could take a I mat i here r id f go ■ v' h Jin r*i~tland t! s nori and Vein, . la business. sheet of paper worth 1 cent, write Jefferie abor.. A, :ii 1th. f a poem on it and make it worth fast and lias a numbe: of g 'nd fi. h ---------«,--------- to his credit at Portland and Sa'em. How is your subscription? $5,000. That’s genius. He is with the Eagle Lu.'. >rr Co. Henry Ford can take a similar at prericn'... Ringside seats art : 1 .. sheet of paper, write a few words selling at $1.50 and general admis- on it and make it worth $10,000,000^ sion $1.10. ---------- ♦---------- That’s capital. A workman can take 3 cents', OUR ADS W LI. TELL YOU FRIDAŸ, APRIL worth of steel, make it into watch April and May fairly hum with Vol 1 springs and collect hundreds of Spring activities. There are the dollars. That’s skill. ! clean-up, _, paint-up campai tr.s — a j i'.i! iished Every Week By A merchant can take an article boon to hardware lumber ;.nd fur­ Vernonia High School worth 50 cents, advertise it, and sell niture dealers. T........... the Spring ’ With Editor ....................... Margaret Smith it for a $1. That’s business. | everything on wheels stai't^.to go— Almost any printer can take a farm wagons, bicycles, automobiles, A junior -senior dance was given job with a price without a profit.' even the youngster’s velocipedes and last Friday night in the high school That’s damphoolishness. — Franklin kiddie-kars. .Warm weathe sports ■ gym for the benefit of the annual. Association Bulletin. create a demand for baseball gloves The music was furnished by the --------- *--------- tennis racquets, and golf sticks. “Revelers” and the Olson boys, Birthday Celebration. Easter means gift , carls, Easter A very enjoyable time was had egr and bunnies—and new clothes Robert Hoffman, who was home on his spring vacation, also ; layed. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. R for the whole family. With May A meeting was held Tuesday at Stanton, on Wednesday, March 31, come showers for brides and treus- the event being Mrs. Stanton’s birth­ seau, weddin«’. r.nd new hotn-' prepa-' 12:45 to organize a tennk club. Helen Heibe. was elected president; day, The Woman’s Relief corps pre-' rations of every der;ription. Glenn Hawkins, vice-president and sented Mrs. Stanton with a beauti­ —-—>-------- - ■ ful birthday cake. A bountiful din­ Theresa Bays, secretary-treasurer. Air Mall Service. ner was served at one o’clock. Tne Air mail service is now available Lawrence Dickson, Anna Rea Web- dinner talk was given by Judson for use by all sections of th > L'r.ited Icr, G!<: n Hawl-.'as, Ida Mae Haw­ Weed. Those present from the W. R. States. The New York-San Francisco kins and Margaret Shipley were ap­ C. were: Gladys G. Smith, Nannie route is the only one operate 1 by the pointed to interview Mr. Alden John postoffice department, states Post­ B. Hall, Emma Weed. Emma G. master Messing and on Apt il 6 air ronceming the grade school tennis Greener, May Mellinger, Sarah A mail service will begin between Pasco court. Spencer, Martha Mills, Estelle Man­ Wash., and Elko, Nevada. This will Anita Oilier, who attended school ger, L. A. Rogers, Marion Bliele, materially reduce the time for air last year until forced to quit be- Grace Pettijohn, Vera Jones, Clora mail going to the east. Rates for air cause of her eyes, visited us Wed- Hepler, Minnie Johns and Mamie mail are 10 cents for each otmee er nesday. fraction for 1,000 miles. All mail to Lane and Judson Weed. Others go by air must be marked “air Florie Kelso, Opal Hail and La present were Mesdames O. G. Weed, mail.” Velle Gosa have been very ill this Wm. Wood, Harry Wilson, Morton, • •- --------- *--------- week. Nelson, Hodge and Bever. All depar­ District Attorney Visits I The handicap cross country race ted wishing Mrs. Stanton manv more District Attorney John L. Foote was quite an event last Friday at birthdays. was a Vernonia visitor Wedtl»s be realized by a five cents per thous­ ---------- ♦---------- and feet on all logs or lumbe' sold BASEBALL LOOKS GOOD by those organizations signing the A few Practice Games Haye been agreement. More than enough firms have signed up to warrant imme­ Played; Outlook Good diate starting of the campaign, al­ Baseball for this year looks prom though the signing up of further ising in Vernonia. A new reorgani­ contributors will be carried on un­ zation has been accomplished ami til one hundred per cent of tile in- all debts are being cleared up. The dustry has been enrolled. It is planned to use national business men are rallying to the support of a team for the season magazines, trade papers, news­ and the Oregon-American mill people papers, and general media, includ­ are offering every inducement ini ing considerable direct mail mater­ their power for the baseball success p ial; and Henry Schott, associate A few practice games are being ar editor of the The Nation’s Business ranged and a good working team Washington, D. C., has been granted assured. Men at the head of the a leave of absence from his position association are men of good judg to direct the West Coast campaign. ment who see the benefits derived Especial attention will be paid to-the Paper I* Looked Upon a. Window from a winning team. building trade publications and at Gia.» to Outsider». least one house organ for the lum­ ---------- ♦---------- ber trade will be issued. GOLD MINING IN We wish every order, lodge,society Entire Industry to Benefit. GOLD HILL AREA It is also planned to use a por­ family and hotel would send >n lo­ An item appearing in the Med tion of the space bought by this cal news of their doings each week. Wouldn’t it be a great improvement ford Tribue about a week past is a bureau to work with other wood to the paper, town and citizen? It good pieces of interest matter in thi products organizations in a proposed would help the looks of the town, activities t tne Kel-Mar-Pet mine. national campaign to encourage use The item is credited to A. E. Kel of these materials and to combat too. The home paper is the window glass through which strangers look log; by U3 and speaks for itself. the growing activity in the wood Gold liill, March 5.—That a substitute fields. at the city’s activities. The paper ranks well up with all state weeklies general resumption of gold mininii “We are going to carry on a cam­ industry in the Gold Hill district is paign which will aid every one con­ but we want it better. at hand is evidenced by the pres­ nected with the lumber industry.” ---------- ♦---------- Out of fourteen teachers to be ent activities of the several mining says Mr. Schott, “from the owner of employed for our grade schools next companies in the field pushing mine timber lands on through to the retail year, only eight have so far been en­ development and construction woik:> handler of the finished product and gaged. Those who have been en­ w'th a view of putting properties inti from the reception which our planB gaged so far arc: O. A. Anderson, production. The Kel-Mar-Pet Min­ has met with to date we ire con­ superintendent; Harry Ingruhm, as­ ing company has increased its capita vinced that there will be no trouble sistant,; Mrs. Elsie Knowles; Mrs ization from the $25,000 mark to in lining up all of these factors in Alta Neal. Mrs. Graves, Mrs. Ray, $150^000 and announce the immed­ this distinctly co-operative achieve­ iate construction of a reduction plan ment.” Mrs. Wilkerson and Miss Keizer. at a cost of $50,000, all to be driven ------ «------ IS THIS A RECORD? Tell us a news item. Hand it in, by electric power. This small capitalized and closed send it in, mail it in or phone it in. There is a remarkable firm of corporaiton, composed of several general merchants in the little town local mining men and Vernonia Ore of Clear Lake, S. D., which probab­ gon business men, began last summei ly holds the worlds record for con­ to drive An 800 foot mine tunnel sistent and adequate advertising in int0 the mountain back of Gold Hill a community of that size. to cross-cut the iron dyke and syl­ 2, 1926 English & Towers have carried a Number 24 vanite vein running northsouth full-page advertisement in the Clear score of five. Following is the order ) through the Gold Hill district, and Lake Courier every week, without a of finishing of the handicap race:; have astonished the mining world miss, for twenty years. They have by cross cutting large bodies of Glenn Hawkins ;John Wardle, Donald Hodges, Lynn Burt, Harold Olsen,1 valuable ore unknown to the tunnel contracted for a similar space for Arthur Hixson, Clarence Wardle,1 projectors at the commencement of each week of 1926. Yet Clear Lake is a town of on|y The tunnel has already Ralph Heltzel, Herbert Heltzel, Thor the work. 835 population, in a county with Roberts, John Forman and Morris been driven in 600 feet into the | mountain and it is several hundred but 8,759 people, with two news­ Bennett. papers. The extent of the firm’s ad­ yet *-0 the known vein system The cast for the senior play vertising with the other newspaper been' on ^he Pr°Perty. In the mean time “Why Smith Left Home,” has 1 was not stated in the source of our selected as follows: Mr. Smith ' ^e work has been pushed *o the ter­ information, but it is reasonable Billet m * na l Poi “ t and in boring the tunnel Charles Hoffman; General to suppose that it was considerable. doux, Lawrence Dickson; Count Von ’ e'8ht veins of an aggregate width of From their extensive and persist­ Guggenheim, Melvin Mowe; Major) feet have. been cross-cut at a ent advertising, English & Towers Duncombe, Donald Brady; P.oberti dePth of 300 feet. The ore from these appear to be pretty thoroughly sold Walton, Thor Roberts; Mrs. Smith I veins is runninK from HO to $60 per on the proposition. As the Courier Margaret Smith; Miss Smith, Jessie'ton in gold alone, while the other says: “They have proven to their George; Mrs. Billetdour, Louise metal values are silver, nickel, copper satisfaction that large space in the and iron. In addition to these veins Malmsten; Rose Walton, Florio Kel-j newspaper regularly brings corres­ so; Julia, Lola Nance; Elsie, Lygia, crosscut, the tunnel is being driven pondingly big results.”—Barrington on a parallel east-west vein of an Burt; Lavinia Daly, Lena Gibson. (Ill.) Review. Practices will start at once and the average width of three feet and run­ --------- *--------- ning in gold values $12 per ton. play will be given in about five weeks) Same Old Oregon Here. The Kel-Mar-Pet reduction plant Mason Dillard, an old stud nt of building will be 44 feet by 116 feet With surprise and wonderment we Mr. Wilkerson’s end who is now in demension and will be erected read today of the cold weather and practicing Ihw :n P. t’.-.r. l. visited close to the portal of the grinding storms in the south and middle west his old pritfessor last week. At Mr.l roasting, regrinding and floatation states. We stop hoeing our pansies Wilkerson's request he spoke t*> the1 separation in recovering the values and new raddish bed to pick up the student hedy during the ten minute which are principally gold, silver, daily paper and see where there are study period at one o’clock. nickel, copper and platinum, which several foot drifts of snow in the The girl's basketball club is enter­ will all respond to the floatation or south. Yes, a regular blizzard, fruit taining the lettermen and the facul­ chlorination system of separation frozen, people killed by wind and ty at a 't this Friday night. Mr. E. Derwent, chemist and metal­ flood damage as far south as Hous­ The county track meet will be I lurgical engineer, who has had ton. It made us feel like putting on held at Clatskanie on Maylst, and charge of the Gold Hill technical our coat and taking off our straw the district meet at Seaside on May II laboratory for the past two years hat. It is too bad that Oregon isn’t large enough for all the people of 7th. Vernonia will be represented by will have full charge of the con­ struction and installation and opera­ the country, but some must live a strong team again this year. tion of the reduction plant for the where the climate and weather is not This Thursday evening, after the company under a long term contract perfect. clean-up, the annual inter-class* —Gold Hill News. --------- *--------- track meet will be held, and some Every hotel room in the city oc­ ---------- ♦---------- keen competition is expected. This Charles D. White and Cecil Bale­ cupied nearly every night. People is free to the public and all are cor­ man are in southern Oregon this having trouble finding sleeping dially invited. week. quarters.