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Wrnxmia Entered at Vernonia, Oregon, Postoffioe as Second-Class Matter. TEACHERS HEAR OF NEW PLANS Thomas H. Gentle of Normal School Principal Speaker. NEW TYPE OF EXAMS County Division of Oregon State Teachers Assn. Elect Officers. Thomas II. Gentle, superintendent of the training department of the Oregon Normal school,' was one of the principal speakers at the insti tute held in St. Helens Thursday and Friday of last week. Friday morn ing there was a special department for the grade principals of the coun ty. Miss Murray presented a plan for better organization of the geog raphy material taught in the sixth and seventh grades. She asked that each school keep a memorandum of projects presented, source of refer ence material used, and a general notation used in the lesson plan. A copy of this is to be sent to the coun ty superintendent's offfice where it will be compiled in a booklet form —due credit being given to the va rious authors—when they will be distributed throughout the county next fall. Mr. Gentle approved this plan and offered assistance in compiling the booklet. Beyond a doubt, the pro ject method is the correct procedure of really teaching geography, in the opinion of Miss Murray.. The teach ers seemed interested and enthusi astic about the plan. Mr. Gentle stated that if this were carried out it would give Columbia county a new place in the educational depart ment of the state. Friday afternoon the new types of geography ques tions were explained. In the summer session of the Ore gon Normal school, a council was organized consisting of grade teach ers with five or more years experi ence, where sienlilic questioning was studied. It was pointed out how very foolish it was to learn the right way to examine children and then continue having the old essay form of state questions for eighth graders. With the help of the leading educat ors of the state, these sets of ques tions were finally compiled. They arc being distributed as the type of question that will be asked in the January examination. The sets in order aie: 1 review—true, false; 2 Europe—true, false; 3 Asia—dis crimination; 4 Africa—true, false; 5 Australia—true, false; 6 general review—true, false. Lloyd Reed of Mayger spoke on the work of the conference last sum mer, and asked for the cooperation of the teachers af the county in mak ing all examinations scientific. Miss Jean Pulliam of St. Helens school further explained their use and mo tive by quoting from old examina tions and proving how indefinite they were. Finally, Mr. Gentle con trasted the old and new type of question. Both Charles Howard and Super intendent R. R. Turner are heartily in favor of this sort of eighth grade examinations. Most of the principals of the county purchased sets of the questions to be used in their schools. Columbia county was organized into a county division of the Oregon State Teachers association. A. R. McClure, superintendent of the Clatskanie schools, was elected pres ident, H. B. Ferrin of St. Helens, vice-president; Miss Paula Poetsch of Rainier, secretary, and Mrs. Pearl Wilkerson of Vernonia, treasurer. The constitution was presented and unanimously adopted. Mr. Anderson was instructed to cast the ballot of Columbia county for S. W. Babcock of Seaside for membership of the state executive committee of the O. S. T. A. • The County Elementary School league met Thursday afternoon. The election of officers was as follows: Harry Palmer of Scappoose, presi dent; Miss Jean Pulliam of St. Hel ens, vice-president; Miss Elizabeth Murray, secretary-treasurer. To give a resume of all the work covered at the institute would be impossible for lack of space. One (Continued on Page 7) VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY October 22, 1926. VOLUME 5 BOARD AGAIN ASKS 4L DISTRICT MEET ING HELD IN EUGENE MAYOR APPOINTS GRAMMAR SCHOOL BIDS ON GYMNASIUM (By Prof. J. B. Wilkerson) Eugene Oct. 15—Delegates repre Bids are being called for again senting 4L locals in all parts of BEATS ST. HELENS BIIDGELCOMMITTEE by the local high school board in Western Oregon yesterday heard W. C. Ruegnitz, of Portland, 4L Pres ident, tell of the increasing success jf the wood box promotion cam paign which was inaugurated and is lieing carried on by employes in af filiated 4L mills throughout the Pacific Northwest. Ruegnitz pres ided at the sixteenth semi-annual district board meeting and conven tion held in the chamber of com merce rooms here today. “This campaign to promote the use of wooden boxes began early this year in a modest way among 4L employees of Bend, Oregon, saw mills” Ruegnitz said, “it is now in full swing and is bringing results in a large number of districts both east and west of the Cascades. It is one of the most important activit ies of our organization during the past year, and it has been highly commended by associations, lumber operators and the public. There is a growing interest in the use and marketing of lumber, the chief pro duct of the Pacific Northwest.” In his report to delegates, Reug- nitz said that the organization had shown a gradual growth during the past six months, that expense had ueen kept well with-in income, and that the 4L was in sound financial condition. He stressed the fact that more than 50,000 persons had at tended Labor Day celebrations stag ed this year in different parts of the Northwest by 4L groups. “Such outings .as these, conducted jointly by employers and employes for the promotion of good fellowship and not for profit, are an incalculable force for good in the lumber in dustry,” Reugnitz said. “Group disability insurance, a protection against sickness and ac cident for employes, has been taken by a number of locals during the past year, and already several thousand dollars in claims have been paid,” the president said. District boards and board of dir ector members to serve for the en suing year were elected as follows: District 1: A. C. Dixon, Eugene, Employes: D. W. McKinnon, Spring field, J. W. Purcell, Thos. Hedger, O. F. Thacher, Fred McComach, Wendling. District 2: M. C. Woodard, Tíos. B. Watt. Employes: Robt. Scott, Silverton, J. J. Dumas, Brighten, Thos. Sanderson, Silverton, W. D. Smith, Portland, S. H. Beebe, Silver- ton. District 3. Employers: W. B. Mc Millan, F. H. Ransom, Harry Jen- kins, Geo. W. Thacher, G. A. King sley, Portland. Employes: B. T. Turner, H. F. Wilkins, E. J. Fully, Portland, H. L. Mating, Westport, H. L. Chalker, Linnton, F. D. Tar bell, St. Helens. A. E. ALLEN POPULAR IN COLUMBIA COUNTY A. E. Allen, republican nominee for representative in the state leg islature from Columbia county, was in Vernonia accompaned by N. N. Blumensaadt county chairman, Tues day in the interest of his campaign. He said that he seems to be at home in every part of the county, judging from the welcome that he receives in all sections. In discussing statements made against him by Mrs. Maud Mills, in dependent candidate for representa tive, Mr. Allen said that he has had a permanent residence in Rainier and all his business interests have been there ever since he came to the town. Mr Allen was registered in Mult nomah county prior to that time, but has been a registered voter in Columbia county for one and one- half years. He says that his chief interest is the developement of the county in which he resides. Mr. Allen said in regard to the la bels used by the Allen & Hend.'ick- son cannery at Rainier that 85 per cent of them were printed with "Rainier, Oregon,” on them. A few are printed with Portland, Ort gon, because “we consider it good bus iness to please our customers who order thousands of cases with us every year.” Mr. Allen visited Vernonia folk with whom he is accquainted while here, and met many others. A can of beans was purchased by Mr. Allen while he was here, from a local grocery. The label bear: the imprint, "Allen & Hendrickson Packing Co., Rainier, Oregon.” Union Pacific will invest *250,- 000 ,n better ferry spstem at As toria. Showing unusual adeptness at football for a team newly organized this year, Vernonia grammar scl ool played circles around John Gu nm school of St. Helens at that place Thursday of last week and piled up a score of 41 to 0. Much credit is given Coach In graham for building up the macl ine that he has. This is the boys' tl ird game, and they have not been beat en yet. They tied with Rainier and beat Scappoose 20 to 0. John Gumm seemed to have lost some of the speed and aggressive ness they showed against War-en the week before when that school was defeated 34 to 0. The well- trained Vernonia players seemed to have too many tricks and continued to make yardage alternately bp end runs and line bucking. The touch downs started early in the ga ne, the local boys scoring in each qi ar- ter. A large crowd attended the ga ne, many of the spectators being scl ool teachers attending tse county insti tute. The boys wish to thank the high school for the loan of suits for the game. The lineup for Vernonia v.as: Smyth, quarter; Oberst, fullback; Adams, halfback; Berg, halfb: ck; Bennett, lefe end; Magoff, right end; Cummings, right tackle; Walk er, left tackle; Russell, right gu: rd; Brown, left guard; Roberts, center; Lillig, sub.; Marshall, sub. CHARTER ADOPTED AT COLUMBIA CITY At an adjourned council meeting held Tuesday night Mayor Guy Mills appointed the following as members of the budget committee: H. E. Mc Graw, Wm. Pringle, W. A. Harris, A. L. Kullander and F. E. Malmsten. Their first meeting was set for last night. Because the road to the city dump is in such poor condition that waste cannot be brought to the dump in more than small quantities, Ray Emmott was appointed as a commit tee to see what cooperation property owners in that vicinity would make with the city toward having the road repaired until it is in good shape. Marshal Kelly r^iorted that be cause the facilities for dumping gar bage do not provide for trucks get ting off the road, the services of a man one day a week is required to shovel the waste back and burn it. No remedy was suggested for this for the present. GRADES ENROLL 12 NEW PUPILS IN WEEK The grade school enrollment con tinues to mount. Twelve more pu pils were enrolled during the past week, as follows: Wynona Richie, first, Mrs. Ray, teacher; Mary Ger trude Hadge, third, Mrs. H. Austin, teacher; Ruby Palmer and Ruby Howell, fifth, Miss Eaton and Miss Howell, teachers; Andy Brimmer and Gilbert Enyart, sixth, Mrs. Graves, teacher; Arthur Richie, eighth, Mrs. Knowles, teacher. At the Lincoln school the new pupils are Andy Killian, Frank En- vart and Virginia Yeo, first, Mrs. P. Wilkerson, teacher; Delphia Kil lian, third, Miss Krause teacher. Christmas boxes are being made up for the children of Guam by the primary and intermediate pupils. Many good art specimens have been made in the several art classes. Mrs. Nickel has received much praise for her instruction in art work. The pupils are showing a great deal of interest in the singing clas ses, which are conducted by Miss Mitchell. The proposed charter of the city of Columbia City was approved un animously by voters at the election, the vote being 44 in favor of the charter and none against. The light vote was attributed to the fact that there was no opposition to the charter and, its passage being assured, not many took the trouble to vote. The charter was drawn by Wal den Dillard, St. Helens attorney and city attorney of Columbia City, and is declared to be a splendid docu ment. Now that the charter has I een Council of Churches Favors New Hospital adopted the council will proceed with the drafting and passage of nu Endorsing the Eastern Oregon merous ordinances necessary to ' on- duct the business of the newly in tuberculosis hospital act, upon which a referendum vote is to be taken corporated city.—Mist. at the coming general election, the Portland Council of Churches plac BEE MANAGEMENT 'd itself on 1 ecord in favor of more IMPORTANT FACTOR adequate provisions for tuberculos is patients in Oregon, it was an Oregon bees will successfuly >ass nounced today from the office of the winter, says the experiment sta the Oregon Tuberculosis association tion bee specialist, if they have am in Portland. ple stores, sufficient protection and The executive committee of the a large force. Fifty pounds of hon Council of Churches, meeting at the ey are not too much for the aver Y. M. C. A. in Portland on Thurs age hive, and 3 pounds of ycung day afternoon, was addressed by bees are about right. The latter Rev. H. L. Bowman, pastor of the factor is very important. T ree First Presbyterian church, with re pounds of bees are about 1500C in gard to the need for a branch tub dividuals. These numbers refer nly erculosis hospital in tht region east to the young bees since the old >ees of the Cascade mountains. “Every soon die and it is the young nees city and county in the state feels and the queen which live over un the effect of this long waiting list til spring. To provide this forc< of for admission to the tuberculosis young bees it is necessary to 1 ave sanitorium at Salem,” said Dr. Bow the colony headed by choice ycung man. “Each new patient who applies queen, preferably of Italian st«c :. must wait from one to four months Winter moisture conservation is for admission, and patients from unimportant in Oregon, reports the eastern Oregon, when they are ad experiment station. Roots go to mitted, are brought face to face moisture more than moisture to with the hardships of going far roots, and a soil mulch is of 1 ttle from home and friends into a cli value for trapping showers re ent mate different from the one to investigations show. The fine bed which they are accustomed.” tends to run together, puddle, t ike, “Every additional bed that is pro and make a less favorable foot told vided in the proposed eastern Ore for clover seeded on winter grain gon tuberculo- Is hospital, which is next February. Consequently soil coming up for a vote of the people for fall grain is not worked to a in the coming election, will help fineness equal to that of the : leal just that much in providing early seed bed. care for these tuberculosis patients, "Kill the overwintering hei ian and will increase greatly their fly in Oregon by plowing unde: in chance for returning to health and fested wheat fields,” says the ex ■: If support,” Dr. Btwmsn added. periment station, in Station Cir< alar By unanimous vote the Council 77. This wheat pest causes h avy endorsed this new branch hospital damage to late fall-sown and sp’ ing- and recommended to the Portland sown wheat in the Willamette vsdey. pastors the active support of the where the stubble was not d< eply project from the' pulpits and buried by fall plowing. The stibble through their church bulletins. contains in the “flaxseeds” on the Members of the executive com straw or in the volunteer whea all mittee present at the meeting were: the hessian flies that will deliv jr a Marshall N. Dana, President of the spring attack on late fall-sown and Council, C. C. Ludwig, Rev. C. G. spring-sown wheat. Clarke, L. P. Putnam, H. E. Gilbert, If field-selected seed corn is not ■Rev. E. H. Pence. Dr. C. A. Rice, stored in a dry, well ventilated lace Rev. C. H. Harrison, E. E. Feike, in hon-freezing temparature it r Ight Orlando W. Davidson, F. H. Wheel as well not be picked, says th< ex er, Rev. H. L. Bowman, J. W. Pal periment station. It needs pre tect- mer, Rev. T. J. Villen, Dr. A. L. ion from weather and mice t< in Howarth, Mn. R. H. Tata, and H. sure good condition at seeding ime. C. Gruwell. this issue of the Eagle for the con struction of a gymnasium. The cost for converting the old gymnasium into classrooms was greater than the board at first anticipated, since it was later decided to make four in stead of two rooms out of the old gymnasium. All bids submitted last Monday evening were for amounts exceeding the funds on hand. They were, therefore, rejected. New specifications are now in the hands of the school clerk, Mrs. Chas. Malmsten, and bids will be opened next Monday evening. The original plans for the new gymnasium will be carried out so far as the money on hand will permit. The building will be left in an unfinished state during the present school year, but will be completed to the extent that it will take care of all athletic ac tivities. It will insure a better building to defer its completion un til the weather is good. Vernonia now has a good high school building with adequate room and equipment. In providing these rooms, the money of the taxpayers was wisely spent. SAYS TITHING BILL WOULD INJURE SPORT The Tithing bill, if passed will take from the game protection fund between *35.000 and *40,000 each year, and it will become necessary to cut out several of our trout hatcheries. Your district may be the one, what then? We, as sportsmen and taxpayers, pay our taxes and in addition have purchased fishing and hunting lic ense with a promise that this money would be used to make it possible for us to hunt and fish, it is radically wrong for the state or any official of the state to divert the flow of this money into the gen eral fund. The sportsmen of Ore gon, with their license fee, are main taining the greatest asset Oregon has, its wild life. They are doing it cheerfully, yet there are thousands who never cast a fly or shoot a gun. It is the un bounded pride for wild life in our state that keeps it up. We all profit directly or indirectly because of this resource. One-half of all game fines goes into the county treasury, which is about *10,000 each year, which will more than pay the cost of all pros ecutions of all game cases. As you will know, at least 90 per cent never go to trial, as they plead guilty and are fined. This does not interest sportsmen only, as we are all benefitted in some way. During the summer you can count cars by the hundreds on Saturdays and Sundays carrying many who fish along the Nehalem in our immediate vicinity. Would our business interests like to see a curtailment of this influx? If our streams are depleted of the finny tribe, will they come? Not by a jug full, and what will our anglers do? Go to Washington and Cali fornia, pay non-resident license and burn gas for a little sport or recre ation. There is only one solution to this problem. Every man and woman to vote on November 2, 327 no. This vote will kill the tithing bill. So, sportsmen and friends of wild life of Oregon, go to the polls on November 2 with full determination to kill this bill. Let them see we will stand no interference in our cherished rights for selves and state. We pay the bills, we call for the goods. Vote to keep Oregon one of the great game state of the northwest. Nuff said. -~J. E. CROPPER. 3 SEEK DIVORCES IN CIRCUIT COURT Charging that her husband treat ed her cruelly since their marriage in Vancouver two years ago, Elsie L. Parker haB filed suit in circuit court aganst Henry E. Parker. The plaintiff Becks the custody of the minor child. Joseph Hackenberg. in asking a divorce from his wife. Alice Hack enberg, charges that the defendant dug up a large sum of money hid den in the yard of their home by the plaintiff and deserted him, tak ing the money with her. The plain tiff asks that all title in certain real estate involved in the suit be given to him. Anna E. Jory asks a divorce from Elmo C Jory to whom she was mar ried in March, 1925. She charges cruelty and seeks the return of her former name of North.—Mist. Number 11 DEADY HALL IS DEDICATED First University of Oregon Building Formally Named. HONOR FIRST FACULTY Dr. Claiborne M. Hill, Early Graduate, Delivers Ad dress Today. Confidence in the future of the university held by the pioneers has been justified, declared Dr. Clai borne M. Hill, one of the early grad uates, in an address on “The Spirit of Old Oregon” at the dedication of Deady hall, the first building on the campus, today. “We may confidently expect that Oregon, now 50 years old, under the leaderships of our distinguished, experienaed and able president, Dr. Arnold Bennet Hall, will move prosperously toward a centennial of far greater usefullness and prosperi ty,” Dr. Hill, who is. president of the Berkley Baptist Divinity Bchool. said. Dr. Hill was graduated in the class of 1881. The first hundred students who marched up the broad walk to Deady hall in 1876, the day that the Uni versity opened, might look strange on the campus today, Dr. Hill stat ed, but it is not extravagent to say that they represnted the flower of the youth of our state. “Such as we were, we came up out of the west to Deady hall. It looked grandly impressive to us, for in all tht northwest in 1876 there were few more mposing buildings. We came up to Deady, to cramped classrooms, to meet a faculty of five including two teachers in the pre paratory department. “There was Madam Spiller, high minded, capable, whose unfailing en thusiasm was invoked by grammar and public speaking. There was Mark Baily, professor of mathemat ics who had an insecurable optimism in the future of his students. Then there was professor Thomas Condon whose tools were in part of the fos sils which he had dug out of the cliffs along the John Day river. John Straub, looking marveously young among our sage and whisker ed faculty, came later. He brought a new element into the university. Soon the young Oregonians began to struggle proudly with the German gutterals and to talk about William Tell and Faust. And last, though he was first in position, come John W. Johnson. In him was typified the western pioneer boy. There was an eternal fitness in such a man becom ing the first president of the uni versity. By experience, character and education he was prepared to be our Moses to lead us out of the wilderness.” Student life was much simpler in the early days, declared Dr. Hill. There were no organized athletics and a few social occasions more ex citing than walking around the aud itorium floor of Deady hall with a coed. “Our contests of strength were primitive,” he said. "If one class go ing up to Deady hall met another class coming down, we sometimes clashed and tried to put one another off the sidewalk or over the fence. On occasions we took long hikes. Two men of that day established a precedent of an over-night stay on Spencer’s butte. “The one sumptuous feature of life in Eugene at that time was the generous support of many saloons. But they were not supported by students. If one student in a hun dred saw the inside of one of them he did it secretly for such a visit ment prompt dismissal by the facul ty.” “It is in harmony with what I have been saying to add that the predominating charactistic of the spirit of old Oregon was idealism. Our faculty nourshed it in us. And we all of us believed in the future of the university,” Dr.Hill conclud ed. New steam laundry opens for bus iness at Hillsboro. The Brown and Callahan mint crop is being harvested at Clatskan ie. Six and one-half acres pays *1869.
