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Smurate ^teglie Entered at Vernonia, Oregon, Postoffioe as Second-Class Matter. VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY October 1, 1926, VOLUME 5 - FIRST FOOTBALL GAME IS WON LARGE APPLES ARE GROWN IN NEHALEM “LEAP METER” IS NEW INVENTION »i » Number 8 • i — COUNTY INSTI TUTE IS HELD Albert Wood, Nehalem valley University of Oregon, Eugene, fanner, who lives at an altitude of Oregon, Sept. 27 (Special. A man’s about 875 feet, two and one-half general physical condition can be miles from Vernonia, brought a determined pretty accurately by Late reports of some of the awards his jumping ability, according to a number of large King and Northern Honorable Walter M Pierce, at the state fair at Salem indicated publication of gymnasium test rec Spy apples to the Eag'? Monday to Governor of Oregon, thi Columbia county is making a ords just issued by Dean John F. show what could be i .sed in this Salem, Oregon. good showing this year, according Bovard and Frank W. Cozens of district without much effort, in the Dear Sir: to Geo. A. Nelson, county agent. apple line. the school of physical education fac Pursuant to your request the .un Although the first prize for the ulty. One of the largest Kings measur- es 13 inches in diameter. Few blem dersigned, comprising a committee boys and girls stock judging team The motor ability of students in ishes or evidence of disease appear named by you under date of Feb» »ary was awarded to Multnomah county, the gymnasium classes is being gag 20, 1926, for the purpose of mi king on any of the apples in Mr. Wood’s Columbia county ranked far above ed by a “leap meter,” an invention one-a, > orchard, he siys. No ir- a further survey and report upon the average. of professor Sargent of Harvard. rigat un is used and he has not conditions at the Oregon State Pris Than Brown of Yankton is re Evidence presented by Dr. Martin on, herewith submit our i eport cover sprayed the fruit this year. ported to have annexed six first of Stanford, showing that the Seniors Observe Annual It appears that the Nehalem is ing same. prizes and three second prizes on strength of any one set of body mus Columbia City Union Ha« We regret that this report has free from most of the pests which his Chester White hogs. He was al cles indicates the muscular con Skip Day With Picnic Invited Institute To Meet are common to many of the old ap been so long delayed following your so awarded one grand championship. dition throughout, is another factor ple districts. This reduces the over initial request for same. This < elay He also won first prizes on his Bur used in compiling the material. At Forest Grove There in January head cost of growing the fruit, in on our part has been unavoidabh due bank and Early Rose potatoes. The student is asked to jump as eliminating the cost of much of the to the absence of one member othe many times and as high as he can in Dr. Canfield of Goble won three committee for a period of more than Vernonia union high school was spraying. Twice a year is estimated firsts, two seconds and ons grand fifteen seconds. One of the oddest The Columbia County Women’s three months under military o ders to be all that is necessary to spray facts revealed by evidence of the an easy victor from Knappa high at Fort Leavenworth and to the later championship on his Shorthorn cattle. compilation was that there is no Christian Temperance union held a school in football here Saturday, here, while some districts must spray Dr. E. L. Lane of Scappoose won relation between a man’s height and county institute here Tuesday in the absence of the other member in con seven times. winning 51 to 6. nection with his duties as a me liber two firsts, three seconds and two his jumping ability, so that the Evangelical church. Prominent coun The aggressiveness and added of the United States Shipping B >ard. grand championships on his Dubian short man suffers no handicap in ty members and other speakers were weight of the Vernonia team was Moss On Trees Killed present at the session, which lasted The survey upon which our rep> rt is goats. largely responsible for the victory. By Bordeaux Mix Spray based was made during the mon h of Van Wright of Marshland won a this respect, according to Dean Bo- from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. vard. Both teams were not in the best of Mrs. Effie Wilson, president of July and early in August of the pre- first prize on sweet corn. form, and a hot afternoon slowed up There is no reason why fruit trees the county organization, spoke on sent year. Jim Tatro of Marshland won first the game. and shrubbery should suffer from ALIENS MUST PASS “Why We Hold County Institutes." Our initial report of Augus 24, prize on a box of tomatoes. Esther Most of the yardage was made an unslightly coating of moss and She said that the. W. C. T. U. is the ENGLISH TEST AN 1925, following the prison brei k of Pennington of Marshland won first on line bucks, although a number of lichens. Tests conducted by the one large organization,that is close forward passes were completed for Oregon experiment station have that month brought attention tc cer prize on comb honey. A. Mortensen ly connected with the church and University of Oregon, Eugene, tain physical changes that were ieed- of Clatskanie won second prize on big gains. Three forward passes re- shown that if the right material is school, that deals with ■ the training (Special)-A motion to Ore. Sept. 27 ed in the prison to make it moie se strained honey. suited in touchdowns. used a single spray given in the fall and saving of youth. It is through Bennet and Hawkins starred for of the year will prevent the growth cure. H. E. Graham of Marshland won require applicants for admission to the county work that plans may be the University of Oregon, applying We find that these defects have Vernonia. of these whiskery plants not only first, second and third on his cattle from non-English speaking com made and carried out effectively, ac Tomorrow afternoon the local boys during the wet fall and winter seas been substantially corrected. A ; uard and third on breeder’s herd. munities, to pass an English examin cording to Mrs. Wilson. are expecting a hard game, when on following the spray but also for tower has been established ova the Mr. Magruder of Clatskanie won Mrs. Ada Jolly explained the the Rainier union high school team several successive years. The mat main entrance and now control s the two thirds and a fifth on his Guern ation is being considered by the com- budget system. The dollar paid >>y mitee on academic requirements, ac main gate. Exicteance of this ( uard will play here. Rainier won the erial which will do this is bordeaux sey cattle. cording to a statement made today. W. C. T, U. members is divided as league championship last year, but mixture used in the 6-6-50 strength. tower, in our opinion, not only gives The purpose of this examination follows: lost some of their best players by A very thorough application is nec adequate control of the west gri unds Warden Lilly informed us that this Sixty-five cents of this dollar is will be to determine the ability of of the prison but circumvents the graduation. essary so that any growth al eady practice, under his administration, sent to the state treasurer. The the applicant to use and understand A preliminary to the game will be present will be thoroughly satur likelihood of an escape in that direc has been done away with entirely. state treasurer credits 30 cents of played by the grammar schools of ated down to the bark of the tree. tion. We find that the arsenal h is al W e saw no evidence of fraternizing the English language sufficiently this to pay the member’s subscription to enable him to do satisfactory work so been removed from the turnkey ’ s Other materials will remove moss start at 1 o’clock. between employees and prisoners’ to the official state paper, the White Rainier and Vernonia. This will lichens but they do not prevent them office to this tower and is secur jd as nor of any of the conditions pointed the committee stated. Ribbon Review. Nine cents goes to from returning after a short period. to overcome the possibility of fire out in the preceding report. We the national and one cent to the arms falling in the hands of prisoners TRAIN CHANGES EAST Bordeaux mixture will not cause old found the more serious and desper Seniors Observe Skip Day. world service work. t from the prison arsenal. The pi esent BOUND SCHEDULE Of the 35 cents retained by the The senior class was absent from moss and linchens to shrivel up and location of this trsenal also r lakes ate prisoners separated, as recom A change in the schedule of the union, 10 cents goes into the county school all day Tuesday. Owing to drop off at once but it will destroy it possible for guns and ammunition mended in the report of a year ago, the lack of their skip day last term their life and prevent them from to be given to unarmed guarc s re and placed in distinctive uniforms so eastbound train will become effect treasury, leaving 25 cents for the they took it this term. Coach Aus coming back for a long time after porting from the quards’ quarters, that they could be picked out readily. ive Sunday, October 3, when the local work. The Columbia county the weather has caused them to dis Large forces of prisoners were train will leave Keasey at 12:40 p. unions expect to have their budget tin chaperoned them. which are located outride of the pris found to be at work in an organized m., arrive in Vernonia at 1:05 and integrate. all paid by Saturday. This will mean The class went in five cars to on grounds. It is further believed and diligent way. The largest num arrive in Portland at 3:20. a refund of 25 per cent for county Forest Grove, where they played that this arrangement eliminates the The local postoffice announces work. ber were working in connection with games and ate their lunch in the Reclamation Congress necessity of a steel covering over the flax idustry and this showed that starting Sunday, mail will be At noon a banquet was served by To Meet At Hood River the auto camp there. Friends in Forest roof of the cell houses. a very business-like and thorough dispatched at 12:30 for Portland. the Vernonia union in the church Grove were visited and the campus It is noted that the oak trees in supervision on a large scale. parlors. Hood River valley will be host inspected by many of the visitors. the west prison yard which night During tbe afternoon session the It was apparent to us that a great Construction, Farm Work Alice Rundle became ill .Monday October 14, 15, and 16 to the offer concealment and interfe ?ence Slow«; Logging Is Active children’s farm home was explained, afternoon and required the services sixteenth annual session of the Ore- with the field of fire from the main deal had been accomplished at small also its plans for the future, by Mrs. gon Reclamation congress, An un- expense in the way of improvised in of a physician. Portland, Sept, 27, (Special) Re Maud Mills of Deer Island. In usual program of important subjects guard tower in the event of e: cape, stallments for making electric power, Lavelle Gosa was reported to be for consideration has been arranged have been cut down as we r- com treatment and delivery of flax fiber ports from many districts through speaking of the farm home, Mrs. very ill Monday. She has had a mended in our report of a yeai ago. for this meeting, according to W. L. and other projects, manufacture of out the Pacific Northwest indicate Mills said: nervous breakdown. It is also noted that the wall sur shoes for use of the prisoners, manu that with the coming of cooler Powers, secretary of the congress and “This is one of the most wonder head of the soils department at O. rounding the main prison enclosure facture of clothes, including uniforms weather employment in several out ful undertakings in the history of have been equipped with b irbed with which the guards have now door industries is undergoing the us this organization, as it not only A. C. Revision of the irrigation district wire entangled to a height of five been equipped, and a number of ual seasonal decrease, according to gives these orphans a real home, but Dreams and Action law to provide for refinancing to feet above the wall and tha' the other minor activities. Of the 561 the 4L employment letter published also religious, moral and educational safeguard settlers and investors will guard towers have been eqv pped prisoners, a total of 537 were found here today. Logging in the fir dis training." be an important feature of the sess with machine guns to preven the to be employed in the several acti tricts, however, is even more active Rev. W. F. Rademacher, pastor of possibility of an organized >reak vities noted herein. We have not at than it waB last month at this time, the local Evangelical church, spoke ion. Every irrigation district in Oregon from the main prison yard. It is loted tempted to annalyze the scope of the letter said. briefly on the needed legislation to General construction, building and help in enforcement of the 18th am is being asked to have representatives that the vacant guard tower st the the industries, their earnings, etc., present to aid in drawing up the re southwest corner has been seal d up inasmuch as these were not covered farm work are among the indust endment. Rev. Rademacher, in com ries that are now tapering off for menting upon the liquor violations, vised law for introduction at the in such a way that it no longer a Im its by our initial report. of access from the outside. It i not coming session of the legislature. The attitude of disrespect of pris the season. Lumber manufacturing said, “There should be a law which National authorities are being ed further that the wooden hank oners for the authority of guards in the fir districts is continuing at would prohibit cases appealed from brought to the convention to discuss in the east yard, commonly k sown appeared to have been replaced by a ' the past high level, the 4L letter .the decision of the justiee of the J"/?.!.?"® i“’! peace having sentences changed to a such subjects as irrigation economics, as the “dog pen," has been de troy- who'lesome“ feeling“ of ‘ díscTp'íi'ne ' a- land utilization, and selection and ed. It is further noted that 1 etter mong the prisoners. It is believed i east of the Cascades, sawmills are lower degree of punishment. By H arold mac G rath (“Time after time this appeal is financing of settlers, Among these protection has been given to th flax that this attitude was brought about less active than during August, and will be Dr. Richard T. Ely in charge plant east and outside of the ] rison largely by the disturbance occuring several plants there already have taken, not to disprove guilt, but Most men are dream simply to get the fine or sentence of the national bureau of research in wall and the possibility of in endi- some months ago in the mess hall closed down for the season. Preparations for winter woods reduced. If the higher court could land economics and public utilities. ary fire reduced to a minum. ers, more or less, but when a prison riot was put down There was immediately apy »rent promptly and effectively by Warden operations in the pine districts are only decide on the guilt or innocence some have the ability RAY L. MILLS to your committee a more sul stan- Lilly, his assistants and guards. His getting under way, and it is reported of the plaintiff 99 per cent of the to translate their Ray L. Mills, Nehalem valley pio- tial type of prison personel am bet- method of handling that break was that this work will be unusually ex appeals would not be taken and the dreams into action. neer died at his home in Vernonia ter spirit prevailing in the ] rison not such an to invite its reoccurance tensive this year in regions where wheels of justice would be free for These are the ones Tuesday, He had been suffering among the employees thereof. C lards We found no evidence of lack of timber was damaged by fires dur legitimate business," said Reverend with tuberculosis. appeared to know their duties, were harmony. Friction among prison of ing the past summer, and must be Rademacher. who achieve. Here Ray L. Mills was born May 15, and the Warden advised us tha fre ficials, so conspicuous a year ago, ap logged to be salvaged. Miss Lois Malmsten entertained is the highly in 1884, in Chickasaw county, Iowa. quent conferences are held fc * the peared to have been replaced by a None of the larger hiring centers the delegates with a piano solo in teresting tale of a When a small boy he came to Ver purpose of discussing the duti is of feeling of cooperation. reports more than the usual number the afternoon. dreamer who saw nonia with his parents. He wa: mar guards and other employees not of men in the akidroad districts. Mrs. Inda Kelty of the Clatskanie our conclusion from a survey It is ried January 5, 1910, to Miss Minnie only in their work of taking care immense practicality union, in speaking on the responsibil prison during July, with the Enst rom-Steiner. Shobert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. of the prisoners, but in event of a of the ity of the W. C. T. U. for law en behind his visionsand final visit made during August, that H. H. Shubert of Ridgefield, Wash, possible break or other demor. itrat- forcement said, “We are especially proceeded to put it in the details and spirit of our report ion. mother, Mrs. Ellen Mills. .98u Miss Ellen Epstrom one of the responsible for getting out the dry to effect. One of his While no system of alarm v as in of August 24, 1925, have been fully newly appointed teachers in the lo vote to register and again on elec The surviving relatives ar a his methods was to make mother, Mrs. Ellen Mills, the widow, effect at this time as previous y re and adequately carried out and that cal schools but formerly of Vernon tion day in order that officers who conditions in the penitentiary as to ia, Oregon sprung a surprise upon Minnie Mills, one son Raymond, one commended, Warden Lillie a< vised enemies where pru the proper employment of prison lab her friends in this city by slipping are in sympathy with the Volstead us that he was having a siren . lanu- sister, Mrs. Wm. Mellinger <f St. act may be elected." dence would have dic Helens; four brothers, Guy, Bert, factured by a firm in Dallys vhich or and the matter of discipline am away to Grants Pass last Saturday Mrs. M. D. Cole of Vernonia gave tated the making of ong the prisoners and attention to where she became the bride of Dan a talk on scientific temperance in Clive of this city, and Emery if Po shortly would be installed. This < ren, duty on the part of the guards, have friends. Mad, imprac we were informed, has a sou iding mona, California. iel Steiner 'of Portland. Rev. Jack- struction. She said the whole pro been properly corrected. radius of ten miles and as soon as it tical, worse than tilt son of the Presbyterian church of hibition enforcement lies in educa The funeral was held at 2:00 p.m. I We feel that Warden Lelly is en- ficiated at the wedding. The young tion. The organization has a great yesterday. Interment was in the is installed, its signal will be com- ing at windmills it titled to special commendation for couple will make their home in this opportunity to speed up all the fa municated to the public. Vernonia cemetery. seemed, but note the The turnkey’s office has be n so the way in which he has carried out city they having rented the Clark cilities for trainiifr the yooth in our results. Driving While Intoxicated. equipped and arranged that th< like- his duties as Warden during the place on the highway near the city. country, according to Mrs. Cole. A. Bennett was arrested by Mar lihood of prisoners breaking in there past year; and that Mr. John Quin Mr. Steiner has accepted employ Mrs. Ada Jolly also spoke on the shal Kelly Tuesday night and charg and overcoming the turnkey are prac land, Superintendent of Industries, ment at the Gold Hill Garage.—Gold prohibition law. She said that just eHead It as a Serial in is entitled to consideration for his Hill News. ed with operating a motor vehicle tically eliminated. now the W. C. T. U. members must while intoxicated. He was sentefic- Discipline among prisoners was organization and direction of prison labor and sacrifice to build for law ed by Justice Weed to 60 days in noticeably improved. There w< *e no employment. A record was made at the local enforcement. She said, “The 18th the county jail and a fine of 1150. evidence of prisoners lounging about Respectfully submitted, poetoffice Monday on money orders. amendment is only six years old, but His driver’s license was suspended in idle discussion, nor were there (Signed) Jefferson Meyers A total of 11434.28 orders were fill the liquor traffic goes back to the for one year. any card games or lounging I laces. (Signed) George A. White ed. Continued on page 8 Wins The Man With Three Names THE EAGLE Starting Today Many Prominent Speakers Were Present