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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1926)
Wrtwnta . - glc 44 — Entered a* *ec°°d-cla** matter August 4, 1922, at the po*t office at Vera—*4( Ssngon, under the Act* of Marek 3, 1*79. VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY APRIL 23, 1926 Volume 4 Number 37 Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner J. EXCEPTIONAL CITY IS HERE Vernonia declared model busy city by all strangers visiting nebal«m vallley BEST FOR ITS SIZE All Lines of Business Represented More Farmers, Cows and Industries All That Is Needed. t Travel over the state in vain look ing for a city of two thousand to three thousand to compare with Ver nonia and your mission will end un accomplished. Vernonia does not need any line of retail business; we are well rep- resentej with the various stores nec- essary to a particular public, We need a creamry, ice cream and ice plant, we need more farmers and more cows, more chickens, more people. We want new industries and we want more of the trade at home spirit. A colony of about fifty fami lies on some of our adjacent logged- off land, who will clear it and milt cows will soon double the population of Vernonia territory as the home market is here waiting development Canneries and factories will follow A hospital is wanted, a brick yard, etc. Vernonia has the best climate in the world, it is an ideal city to live in, clean, neat and growing fast Splendid schools, churches, paved streets, light and power, sewer sys tern, water system, fire protection lodges for each night in the week telephones, clubs, entertainments theatres and plenty of places to go for the days rest. New houses are being built in Ver nonia every week, the city pay roll is enormous. We have a commercial club whose secretary will gladly answer your questions and the town welcomes visitors. Vernonia is located halfway be tween Portland and Astoria on the Inland highway. Come by either St Helens of ForeBt Grove.—come one way and go the other. A splendid loop trip for a Sundays drive. --------- ♦--------- POPULAR COUPLE MARRIED Couple Slip to Portland Where Knot la Tied. A popular Vernonia couple to be united in marriage this week is Mr. Eugene Shipman and Miss Hazel Mossman. Miss Mossman is the winsome daughter of Mr. and Mis II. Mossmon and Mr. Shipman the popular known clerk in the Ver nonia drug store. The young people were married last Tuesday in Port land, after which they left for a trip eaBt of the mountains, visiting Spokane and eastern Oregon points. Upon their return they will be wel comed to Vernonia by a host of I friends and well wishers. Congratu- lotions and may a long and pros- perous life’s journey be theirs. --------- ♦--------- Banks Played Vernonia. Last Sunday the Vernonia base ball boys had a good practice game It was the first time this season they really had a chance to properly place their players and try them out. A team from Banks came up to put our boys’ through their first train ing, which they did to the tune of 2 to 1. It was a Bplendid little game at that. --------- ♦--------- Ray Emmott lost a valuable dog this week, same being killed by an auto on Bridge street. --------- ♦--------- W. O. Galaway was out from Port land Monday shaking hands with friends, and they are many in Ver nonia . --------- *--------- Alfred E. Clark of Portland, re publican candidate for U. S. senator from Oregon, visited many voters in Vernonia and the valley Tuesday. The only drawback to the visit is the fact that the editor waa out of of town, and didn’t get to meet him We hope this won’t worry Mr. Clark to any great extent. --------- *--------- SHE SURE PAYS Last Friday's Eagle earned a little adv. for Mr. Wharton, saying The they had a piano for sale. following Monday they sold the piano from the adv.. Mr. Wharton aay* it sure pays to advertise. ‘A Se rvice I Injured When to Vernonia' Hoises Runaway VZ. C. T. U. Elect Office'* at Meet Held in Clatskanie. The Women’s Christian Temper ance Union of this county met at Clatskanie on Thursday, April 15 for the purpose of organizing a Co lumbia county W. C. T. U. Delegates were preesnt from St. Helens, Ver nonia and Clatskanie. Very in^rest- ing and instructive talks were given by Mrs. Mallott and Mrs. Jolly of Portland and Mrs. Mill of St. Hel ens .At noon a banquet was served by the ladies of the Clatskanie union .At 2 o’clock the meeting was called to order by Mr. Mallott and the first Columbia county W. C. T. U. was organized. The following of ficers were elected: President, Mrs Effie Wisno, St. Helens; vice presi dent, Mrs. Marion Bell of Clatskanie' recording and corresponding secre tary, Mrs. Minnie Malmsten of Ver nonia; treasurer, Mrs. William Kelty of Clatskanie. --------- ♦--------- I. L. PATTERSON ON TOUR OF THE COUNTY Hon, I. L. Patterson, of Polk coun- ty, accompanied by Captain Jack Cullesron of Portland, spent several hours in St. Helens today in the in terest of the Senator Patterson’s can didacy for the republican nomination, for governor. He was cordially greet ed by a number of friends and old acquaintances who assured him of their support at the primary election next month. In the many portions of the state he has visited, he has been gratified at the promise of support and feels confident that he will win the nomin ation and if so, defeat Governor Pierce at the genral election. Sena tor Patterson went to Vernonia from St. Helens and will meet the voters in the Nehalem section.—Mist. --------- ♦--------- GRANGE WILL MEET The Columbia County Pomona will meet with the Beaver Homes grange, Saturday, May 1st. The session will open at 10.30 as there is a full program for the day and evening. Several officers of the state grange are expected as well at other speakers of importance Secretaries of subordinate granges will please send in the usual reports and it is very importnal that every grange send a delegation, as much of interest to all granges will come up at this session. Maud J. Mills, secretary. --------- 4--------- COUNTY AGENT NOTES Root crops are important as a dairy feed, so states Geo. A. Nelson, countya gent, and because of their high yields per acre and adaptability to growing On most soils of tho county are grown quite extensiveh- They are a succulent feed that can be fed to advantage in combination with the dry feeds used in winter. That more definite information may be obtained in regard to com parative yields and adaptability of the different kinds and varieties of roots Mr. Nelson states that arrange- ments are being made with the O. A C., experiment station to try out several varieties of mangles, turnips, rutabagas and carrots in Columbia county. The station will furnish the seed and commercial fertilizers to test out these varieties on about one acre of ground on about three farms in the county who will volunteer to grow the crops on their places in order to obtain this data. --------- ♦--------- Mrs. H. M. Hart and daugtor of Oakland, California, are vis,ting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. It. Gillchrest. Mrs. Hart is a sister of Mrs. Gillchrest. --------- *--------- The S. C. & H. club enjoyed a weenie roast at Sheeley’s grove iast Wednesday evening. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Dis- more, and children, Mr. ar-d Mrs. Elliott and children, Mr. and Mrs. Drorbaugh and baby, Mr. and Mrs. Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Hixon and Mr. and Mrs .Eglus. --------- ♦--------- Mrs. E. B. Bishop, Mrs. Lott and Mrs. Welcome of Portland visited at the home of Mrs. H. H. Hixon last week. Mrs. Bis op is a sister of Mrs Hixon. --------- «--------- Miss Gooding spent the week end in Portland. Miss Bell spent Saturday and Sunday in Portland. Sheriff Wellington Suggest* Direct Wagon Hits Post at F**t SpaadBrcak. Telephone Connection. ¡a« Lag of Farmer While commenting on what he termed “The Sentinel’s just criti cism of local telephone service’’ Sheriff J. H. Wellington took occa sion to enter a protest against the present manner of reaching Verno nia from St. Helens by telephone and expressing his surprise that the im- portance of the two towns had not induced the Pacific people to con- nect them directly. Under existing conditions it is necessary to talk to Vernonia via Forest Grove, which circuitous route frequently causes de lay in geting “parties” at one or the other end of the line. In substantiation of his contentior the sheriff cited a case in which he was desirous of communicating with Deputy Louis Kestner, who was at the time in the Nehalem valley town the time required to make the con nection being considered unreason able for business of this important nature. That the telephone company by operating its long distance line through Forest Grove -1 Vernonia places the county r.ar.t Columbia county to disadvrr. a»o in favor of the Washington coun’v own is the opinion expressed by Mr. Wellington who believes there is sufficient de mand for prompt service to warrant the construction of a line betweei St. Helens and Vernonia. It is probable that such a pro posed project will be taken up by the business interests of both com munities »jjn the near future.—St. Helens Sentinel. --------- ♦--------- BOOSTS FOR OREGON Sherman M. Miles of St. Helens has returned from a business trip to Tampa, Fla., a better booster for Oregon he says, than ever befora. The Florida real estate boom has “busted” and many of the boomers are lucky if they can get away with their shirts on their back, he reports As a winter resort, Florida will con tinue to be of some consequence, but the day of great fortunes on paper is over. “While traveling througn the East,” says Miles, “I found that a great many people were beginning to hear about Oregon. Capitalists are be ginning to look this way and I be lieve we are on the eve of a big development.” So far as prohibition is concerned ..Ik? said that Eastern cl s se- ,i never ij :>'e heard !L’ "In the restaurant in Florida you could be served xv.th a bottle of home urew or a shot of whiskey in a cof fee cup.”—Portland Journal. --------- *--------- Mrs. C. W. Reithner and Miss L.1 M. Keehn spent a few days the first of the week in Portland. Jack Camas. Carkin spent Sunday --------- ♦--------- Try the want ads for results. A “runaway,” so frequently ex perienced twenty-five years ago, is almost a thing of the past since the auto age arrived. But a very serious “runaway” occured last Monday when Mr. J. C. McLees met with his accident at the Counts place two miles from town. The big team of horses were going at a racing speed when the wagon hit a post, throwing Mr. McLees out. He was consider ably bruised and shaken up, be sides the serious hurt to the upper leg. The bone* were badly fractured near the body on the left leg. He was removed to a Portland hospital being taken down to the city by Mayor G. R. Mills. Mr. McLees will be bedfast for some time, and his friends hope the accident will not be permanent. --------- *--------- KNIGHTS PUT ON WORK Large Assemblage of Vernonia Lodge Put Work on In St. Helens The third degree team and sev eral members of Harding Lodge 116 Knights of Pythias went to St. Hel ens Tuesday night where they con- fered the rank of Knight on Cecil Bateman. A goodly number from St. Helens were aho present. The degree team of the local lodge, al though very new, did more than was expected by the older members of the St. Helens lodge and words of appreciation were strong. It is hoped that Harding lodge will soon have their own outfits and this will let the boys do their degree work at home. --------- 4------ --- “OH, THOU PHARISEE I“ Some of our sanctimonious news paper men are very prettily horrified at the thought of a vote for Stan- field. Their histrion!* ability is amaz- ing. The papers that these same publi- shers issue, scatter broadcast every week, Sunday supplements filled and replete with suggestive pictures and odorous clap traps, and daily reek with crime and scandal. Hypocricy I ‘Shall we hold our nose’’ and con- tinue to take these papers? Sure, we’re human. But the men v. bo write this silly stuff should remem- ber the old Bibical injunction to first remove the mote from their own eye, before calling attention to the beam in their brother’s eye. And again: “Let him among yon who is without sin cast the first stone.” The sin, apparently, is not in the commission. It is in being found out. “Oh, Thou Pharisee I”—Garibaldi News. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1926 Number 27 Cast} your votes for Vernonia’s Published Every Week By May Queen at the poatoffice, the Vernonia High School Editor ......................... Margaret Smith Cozy or at the high school. Let’s everybody vote. It costa only a cent The candidates chosen for May a vote and it will help send our Queen are Lena Gibson, Dorothy Quen to Seaside. Rhyne, Opal Hall, Lora Smith, Helen Heiber and Eva Roles. Vote for The class play practice has been your favorite. working out a schedule. The work is progressing as fast as possible. Amy Hughes and Annie Laura Loel Roberts has been substituting Laird went to Portland last Friday for Melvin Mowe. Vernonia high tied with St. Hel ens high in the track meet held last Saturday. Each won 61 points Those winning events were: Haw kins, 100 yards, Roberts, Bennett, tied, high jump, Brady, pole vault, Laramore shot put, Hill, discus, Burt, javelin. The following won points: Jones, Olsen, Weed, Hixson Pakrer, Cummings and Malmsten. The next track meet will be held at Clatskanie on May 1. Mr W. A. Johnson, family man and citizen of Vernonia met with a aerioua accident at the O.-A. mill Monday. A board coming out of the planer struck him in the small of the back with great force and power behind it. The accident was not only serious but quite painful. Full ex tent of the injury was not known at the time and he was taken to a Portland hospital the same day. Mrs. Johnson went to the city on the same train. His quick recovery is hoped for. --------- *--------- BASE BALL HERE SUNDAY Fast Kelso Aggregation Will Play the Vernonia Boys. Next Sunday is the first big gatne of the season to be played on the home diamond. Don’t forget to be there and help encourage the home players. Kelso will come over with blood in their eyes and they have a strong team. Vernonia is preparing for them and the crash will be in teresting from the first to the ninth inning. Manager Brown has his Ver nonia players lined up as follows' Hudson, catcher; League, pitcher- Pillette, third; Morgan, short, Ke- tulla, second; Brown, first; Welsh, left field; Chilli, center; Nance, right field. Extra men may be substituted in any emergney and extra players will be on the bench. If it is a good day the ground should be crowded. It is the opening game—make it count. ---------- *---------- EARL TERRIEN Earl Terrien was born in Meno minee, Michigan, March 31, 1890 and died April 15, 1926 at Seattle Washington from pneumonia. De ceased was a World War veteran, having enlisted in the army in Mon tana and pas sent to Camp Podge, Iowa, und f.oin there was at Camp Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, until the end of the war. He was a member of Company F. 147th En- gir.sers. Mr. Terrien had lived in Seattle for several years employed as a printer. He was never married Besides his parents he is survived by several relatives. Interment was in the Vernonia cemetery under the direction of the local American Le gion post. --------- ♦--------- New Manager of Dance Hall Al Faber, formerly of Portland has been visiting here for some time and took such a fancy to Vernonia that he has decided to locate here, leasing Coyle’s dance hall. Mr. Fa ber is an accomplished musician. Mr. Faber informs us that he has en gaged a first class orchestra from Portland and expects to give the people of this town the best in music -------------------- •-------------------- at all times also to run the dance In H. H. Hixon was in Portland on a clean respectable way that will business Monday. merit the patronage of all. He will take charge of the hall Saturday. THE VERHIAN VOL. 1 Board Coming From Pln»er Strike* Worker in Back. Junior Vodville, Friday, April 23 at 8 p. m. Plan to ba there. II you like a good clean vaudeville don’t miss it. A comical play and eight long, intcrc ting, amusing vaudeville acts. Lets Go! Price, 81 cents. TRACK MEET IS HELD HERE St. Helens High Comes Over For Day of Athletic Events at Ball Park In one of the best meets ever held in Columbia county, the strong St. Helens team, winners of last years district meet barely managed to tie th eVernonia high athletes by win ning the relay race the last event of the day. The meet showed that Vemonai is represented by a well balanced team is the sixty-one points were well dis tributed among fourteen men, while the sixty-one points annexed by St. Helens were decided among but 7 nen and two of these, both senors von over half of these points. Vernonia took the lead, at the dart when Hawkins wop the hun- (red and Roberts placed third, This ead was gradually increased until he score stood 59 points for Ver- lonia to St. Helens’ 40 points. Due o an injury, Hodges wn unable to lurdle for Vernonia and 't. Helens -arnered 21 of the remaining 23 joints and threw the meet into a ie of 61 to 61. Although Vernonia lost Ray Mills, ;he high point man of the district in 1925, the fact that Vernonia was able to hold last years district champions to a tie speaks well of Vernonia’s 1926 track team. This is by far the greatest athletic achieve ment of any of Vernonia’s teams to date. In the coming county meet at Clatskanie on May 1, and dgain at Seaside on May 8, Vernonia will !><■ represented by a team that will at tract the attention of all present and one of which every person in Ver nonia may well be proud. The track meet at Seaside will be held on the beach the opening day and people from all parts of the state will be in attendance. Lets all get behind the track team and go down to Seaside and keep Vernonia on the map. The following boys represented Vernonia: Hawkins , Burt, Olsen, Brady. T. Roberts, Bennett, Lara- more, Hill, Parker, Jone*, Weed, Mnlmsten. Cummings, R. Heltzel Hixon, R. Wardle, Mills, L. Dixon and K. Whitsei. The st. Helens ten™ was composed of Beal, Johnson, De Vin, Miller, Martin, Caldwell and Carlson. •--------- ♦--------- NEW CITIZENS REGISTERED The registration books just closed and Judge Reasoner informs us that we have nearly two hundred more voters than we had at the heavy poll last year. 197 new voters registered. Out of the 197, the republicans counted 146 and democrats .51 names --------- ♦--------- A Fourth of July celebration will be held in Vernonia. --------- ♦--------- ‘ A groop of Boy Scouts, Ford Berg, Larry and Jack Marshall --------- ♦--------- Junior Bennett and Marvin Porter Camp Fire Girl* Hold Meeting field spaded and planted Mrs. Coul The Lewa camp fire group held ter’s garden. its quarterly election at the home of --------- ♦--------- Zelma New, Wednesday evening. Miss Melba Laramore was the April 21, 1926. The following of- week end guest of her sister, Mrs. fiers were elected, Zelma New, presi K. W. Bentley of Portland. Donald dent; Willie McDonald, vice presi Bentley, small son of Mr. and Mrs. dent; Velma Hartzog, secretary; K. W. Bentley returned to Vernonia Flora Roles, treasurer; Ellin Whit with Miss Laramore. He is spending sell, scribe; LaVelle Gosa, committee the week with his grandparents, Mr manager; Helen Crowley, sargeant- and Mrs. J. R. Laramore. at-arms; Edith I indsley, assistant --------- ♦--------- committee manar.er. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon, formerly ot --------- *--------- the Silver Fox pharmacy here, but Miss Thelma Olsen spent Sunday recently of Medford, were Vernon in Forest Grove. ia visitors this week. --------- ♦--------- H. H. Hixon has purchased a new Hudson car. --------- *--------- Homer Spencer, wife and children and several relatives of Mrs. Spencer all of Portland, drove out to Ver- nonia last Sunday to spend thc day with Mr. Spencer’s mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Spencer. It was the birth day of Mr. Spencer and the dinner was in honor of the event. Omar claims to be a Vernonia pioneer, a* it has been 45 year* lines his arrival in the valley according to the last birthday. They were indeed glad to see the many improvement in and around the pretty city Vernonia is now getting to be. Monday afternoon tbs high school was unu_ua'!y quiet. Th* aopbomorsa accompanied b y Ml*» Gooding, sneaked out and went to Sheeley's grove. They enjoyed a lovely lunch aftr which they played game* and Anyone down town Tuesday noon ran races. probably saw some freaks on the street. This was unusual and unex Eva Crowdar waa ao ill that she pected. The carnival had not yet was unable to attend school Tues -------- ♦--------- arrived. It was senior kid day, the day. Margaret Smith foil and hurt Mr. and Mr*. J. W. Brown and only natural thins about them was her head Wednesday morning and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Aspland spent that they tried to look intelligent could not come to school Sunday in Portland. --------- ♦--------- The city council has spent prob ably $700 clearing the acres and blowing stumps and arranging foi our new city park .The council has done its best—done their limit. Now its up to the citizens, the lodges and socitie* and chamber of commerce Here is opportunity for good wot k and speed—we are wondering? --------- 4--------- Tenth of May will be a big da) in Vernonia. District convention ol the Knights of Pythias in Vernonia. Monday, May 10. * ? NEW ARRIVALS I ©------------------------------- «» Boro to Mr. and Mrs. Ohler, April 19, a baby girl. G. II Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Lamoreaux, April 17, a baby girl.