Derno nia
Entered at Vernonia, Oregon,
Postoffioe as Second-Class Matter.
MORE ROADS
ARE VOTED
10- and 6-Mill Tax- in
Districts 9 and 16.
LIGHT
VO t T IS CAST
$10,000 to Be Spent on
Beaver Creek
Road
Two road meetings were held
Saturday which will mean added
road improvements of more than
$67,000 lit this section for next
year. The district 16 meeting was
held in the Brown store building at
10 a. m. with 12 in attendance.
The vote was unanimous for a
6-mill tax for 1927. This will raise
approximttely $2250. An appropria­
tion of $800 will connect the newly
constructed Monger road on the
west side of town with Rose avenue.
It is estimated that this will about
cover the cost of clearing the right-
away and grading. The additional
cost of rocking will probably have
to be borne by the abutting prop­
erty.
An appropriation of $600 was
made to rock Rose avenue from the
north city limits to the present rock­
ed section. The balance will be ex­
pended in oiling Bridge street from
the eastern end of pavement to the
east side of the city limits at the
Square Deal Garage and from Brid­
ge street north on State avenue or
the Rock creek road to E street and
from the railroad crossing west to
Rose avenue and from Rose avenue
south to the city limits.
The meeting of road district 9
was in the Parker dance hall at the
mile bridge at 1 o’clock Saturday.
They voted 10 mills, the limit, to
raise $52,500 for improvement of
roads in that district. Fifty-seven
votes were cast, 47 for and 8 a-
: gainst.
It is said that practically every
resident and free holder in district
9 realized the necessity of construct­
ing the roads while the timber was
still standing. As shown at the meet­
ing from a report by the county as­
sessor that the valuation in district
9 decreased $353, 330 in the past
year, due principally, it is said, to
.the cutting of the timber by the
logging companies.
At this rate it is estimated that
the bulk of timber will be removed
in les* than 15 years and unless the
roads are built now the settler will
eventually have to bear the entire
(burden of road construction.
As hhown by the following bud­
get of expenditures $10,000 wa3 ap­
propriated for new construction on
the Beaver Creek road. The propos­
ed construction will not follow the
present puncheon road according to
the report of Roadmaster Hall, but
will be entirely relocated on the west
side of Beaver Creek.
It is estimated that this amount
will cover a truck road as far as
the Connacher Logging company
camp and that within two years,
with an equal expenditure for each
year, the road will be finished to
the Washington county line.
Washington county is expending
a like amount each year and will
meet the Columbia county line a-
bout the same time as work is com­
pleted in this county.
This road when completed will
give a new outlet to the Tualatin val­
ley and Dairy creek and will inciden-
tly shorten the distance to Portland
my nearly 10 miles. This road will
also provide a market road in Ver­
nonia for the farmers in the Buxton
district.
This road is designated by the
county court as a market road, but
will not receive any money from the
tnarket road funds until the Mist-
Clatskanie market road is complet­
ed.
The budget for district 9 is as fol­
lows:
Beaver Creek road, 10,000, Rock
Creek road, 7,000; Spencer road,
2,500; Pebble Creek road, 2,500;
At covered bridge up the river, 2,000
Up river road, 8,000; Down river,
to Pittsburgh, 3,000; Below Pitts­
burgh, 6,000; Pittsburgh, to St. Hel-
VERNONIA, OREGON, THUR SDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926
LEGION AUXILIARY
HAS SPELLING MATCH
The American Legion Auxiliary
met Monday evening at the Legion
Hall. After a snappy business sess­
ion, an old fashioned spelling match
was enjoyed. Mrs. Peel won the
prize as the best speller, which con­
sisted of a bag of peanuts.
The peanuts were also enjoyed by
all those present in the form of a
peanut race.
The refreshments consisted of
chili and crackers. The chili was ex­
cellent, but was said to have con­
tained more of South America than
just Chile.
The beautiful shawl which was
raffled off by the American Legion
brought $35 for Jack Straus, a dis­
abled soldier of the World war and
maker of the shawl. The money will
be sent to him -directly. ,
The American Legion Auxiliary
wishes to thank each one who has
helped with this work.
TO START SERIES OF
WRESTLING BOUTS
Harry Kuehne of Yamhill, undis­
puted lightweight wrestling champ­
ion of the world, was here Monday
with his manager, J. H. Ainscough
to arrange the first of what they
intend to be a series of bouts in
Vernonia.
Wednesday Kuehne will wrestle
Ted Brown, welderweight champion
of Hibbing, Minn., in the feature
event of the evening in the Rose
theatre.
A preliminary will be a 30-min-
ute bout between Bull Brantana of
Yamhill, a pupil of Kuehne s, and
Joe Kratz of Portland.
Mr. Kuehne lives on a farm in
Yamhill, where he does his training,
having a fully equipped gymnasium
there. He was a student of Ted
Thye in Portland for five years,
has wrestled in various places on
the coast for 14 years and has been
wrestling professionally for four
years.
Much interest is being aroused
here over the coming bout and a
large attendence is expected.
Compulsory Education
Is New In Chile
University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.
Nov. 16 (Special)—Compulsory ed­
ucation is a new thing in Chilo, ac­
cording to Miss Mary Dallera, who
is a native of Chile and who teaches
in the Romance language depart­
ment. If the ratio of educated per­
sons in Chile is relatively low as
compared with other countries, it is
because of lack of opportunity, Miss
Dallera said.
MARINES TO AGAIN
GUARD THE MAILS
The announcement from Washing­
ton that U. S. Marines would again
be assigned to the dut." of guarding
the mails, recalls the services of the
sea soldiers detailed to this import­
ant duty a few years a<;o.
When the operations of mail
thieves became a serious menace in
1921, Postmaster General Will H.
Hayes requested that a number of
Marines be temporarily assigned to
mail guard duty.
Mr. Hayes submitted his request
to President Harding after conferr­
ing with members of ti e President’s
Cabinet, Major General Lejeune,
Commandant of the Marine Corps,
and post office officials. It met with
the Presidents and inspectors to re­
port at once how many Marines
would be needed.
Approximately 1000 Marines were
immediately assigned to mail guard
duty by Edwin Denby, then Secre­
tary of the Navy. They began their
new duties on November 10, under
the command of Brigadier G< neral
Logan Feland, U. S. M. C.
Secretary Denby’s message to the
Marines of the mail guard stated
in part: “You must, when on guard
duty, keep your weapons in hand
and, if attacted, hhoot an shoot to
kill. There is no compromise in this
battle with bandits. If two Marines,
guarding a mail car, for example,
are suddenly covered by a robber,
neither must hold up nis hands, but
both must begin shooting at once.
One may be killed, but the other
will get the robber and save the
mail. When our men go in as guards
of mail, that mail must be delivered
or there must be a Marine dead at
the post of duty."
ens road, 5,000; Oiling, down river,
2,000; Oiling, up river, 2,000; S.
P. Ballard road, 500; Stony Point
road, 1,200; Monger road, 800;
Crooked Creek road, 1,000.
VOL 5, NO 15
CHINESE SAID TO BE
JAPAN AND AUSTRHIAl ARMISTICE DAY
CRUELEST OF PEOPLE I
HEARD BY RADIO HERE CELEBRATION HELD
E. Sessman became so excit< d at
3:48 Wednesday morning wher he
heard station JOAK, Nagoya, 3LO,
Melbourne, Australia, and the Roch­
ester, N. Y. stations broadcasting
that he called in some neighbor: and
even awakened A. L. Fenner, local
radio man, to witness the feat.
The New York station was b -oad-
casting the morning daily dozen ex­
ercises. There was music and talk­
ing from Melbourne and music from
Japan. It was all distinct ovei the
loud speaker, through the 5-tubs set
owned by Mr. Sessman.
He reports unusual success ir re­
ceiving nearly all parts of the Unit­
ed States with his set. This i. the
first report of messages received
from long distances, however.
THANKSGIVING TUR­
KEYS TO BE HIGHER
Thanksgiving turkey eating will
be softewhat more costly this year
than in the past two years, accord­
ing to a holiday prediction made by
the
Sears-Roebuck
argicultural
foundation. The turkey crop is not
as large as it was last year or the
year before, and a prediction of 45
to 48 cents a pound for this year’s
Thanksgiving turkey is not consid­
ered pessimistic.
The cool weather this fall has
been favorable “turkey weather.”
So long as the days and the rights
are comparatively warm, tu "keys
continue to roam the countrj and
fail to put on flesh. When the tem­
perature falls, they are conte it to
cease wandering off, and settle
down to grain feeding which rapid­
ly adds pounds of turkey meat The
crop generally is further adv need
than at this time in several years,
and reports from the country con­
sistently tell of the high quality of
the turkeys. In Texas, which is the
big early state for turkeys, the crop
is believed to exceed last year when
many of the young poults wen lost
during the hot dry summer. )kla-
homa, Arkansas, Missouri, Kt nsas,
Iowa and Ohio are expected to have
fewer turkeys for the market this
season while the other state re­
port flocks of about the same size
as last year.
Stocks of turkeys in storage are
less than half as large as at this
time a year ago and 40 percer t be­
low the five-year average. Re irves
of frozen turkeys, therefore, w !1 be
less of a market factor this s ason
than last. Holdings of chicken, and
fowls are five million pounds 1 irger
than a year ago and ten n ¡Ilion
pounds larger than the five .year
average, however, offsetting
to
some degree the decline in tui keys.
TO LECTURE ON MT.
EVEREST CLIMB
University of Oregon, Eugeni, Or.
Nov. 13 (Special)-Tragic experence.
of the last attempt to scale 6 bunt
Everest, the highest mountai i in
the world, will be told November 10,
when Capitan J. P. Noel, photogra­
pher with the expedition, lectures
to the associated students, bein ; the
first of a series of four lector’s to
be given by speakers of internal ional
interest.
Tom Skeyhill, soldier, poet, world
traveler, and student of worll af­
fairs .will appear during the year,
lecturing on Mussolini and the Fas­
cist. The third lecture of the series
will be by Roy Chapman AnCrews,
leader of the third Asiatic expedi­
tion, on prehistoric man in the Mon­
golian desert. Cornelia S. Pi.rker,
writer, soiologist and lecturer has
been extended an invitation to ad­
dress the students on her personal
travels in Europe.
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
ATTEND CONFERENCE
O. A. Anderson and Harry In­
graham attended the conference for
elementary school principals and sup­
ervisors Saturday at Monmouth.
The principal address of the con­
ference was given by A. 3. Gist,
Seattle, who spoke on “The Art and
Technique af vision” in the morn­
ing. He stressed the importance of
better training for grade school
teachers, stating that the require­
ments of teaching in the grade sch­
ools should be just as strict as those
for teaching in the high schools.
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Ingraham
attended the concert by the Mischa
Elman string quartet in the even­
ing. C. L. Robinson of Rainier was
also present at the conference.
Although Armistice day last week
opened with a drizzling rain, it lost
none of its holiday festivity on that
account.
Although a program has been ar­
ranged to be gven in the Majestic
theatre, which was donated for the
purpose, the speaker of the day gave
late notice that he could not arrive
on time, and that feature was dis­
pensed with.
About 100 ex-service men and
their wives were guests of the Wom­
ens Relief corps, who, assisted by
the Legion Auxiliary, served dinner
in the Brown building at noon. Rev.
F. E. Dorris of Portland was present
at this time and spoke to those pres­
ent «n Armistice day.
Reverend Dorris distinguished him­
self as a speaker on this occasion.
Because of the necessity of serving
many who could not be seated for
the first table, it was necessary to
remove dishes and reset one table.
The noise seemed not to disconcert
the speaker a bit, as he held the at­
tention of the audience in extolling
the praises of Americans in action
during the World War.
Flag Given Legion
University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.
Nov. 16 (Special)—The Chinese are
the cruelest and most heartless of
peoples and have no pity for any
one, not even members of their own
race, believes Lieut. George Herb
ert, formerly of Baker, assistant
professor of military science at the
university, after witnessing a Chin­
ese execution. Lieut. Herbert, who
spent three years in China, was tran­
sferred to the local R. O. T. C. this
fall.
In describing the execution, Lieut.
Herbert said that four Chinamen,
representing themselves as members
of the military forces, tried to steal
a cart. They were sentenced to pun­
ishment the next morning.
“The men were paraded in carts
<pz which was a placard announcing
that they were atrocious criminals
who would be executed at ten o’clock
in the morning. Showing absolutely
no emotion, the convicted men act­
ed as if the whole affair was a mere
joke,” Lieut. Herbert said.
After the parade, they were tak­
en to tht execution stand in the
center of the city. They were forced
to kneel and the executioner drew a
knife which was two feet long and
about four inches wide and very
heavy and sharp. Without hesitation,
he served the heads of the crim­
inals. More ehan 20,000 persons
witnessed the execution, and great
cheers arose at each stroke of the
knife. Through some clever manip­
ulation of the executioner, the head
of the last victim was tossed several
feet in the air, Lieut. Herbert said.
The cheers aroused by this feat
could be compared wieh applesauce
that greets Babe Ruth when he hits
a homer, according to Lieut. Herb­
ert.
To Play Return Game in
Forest Grove Today.
BIC
BAKOB e F IS HELD
Twenty-One Boys Presented
With Letters By
Legion
The football game held Armistice
day on the grounds of Washington
school resulted in the Vernonia
rrade school defeating the Forest
Grove grade school 25 to 7.
Forest Grove made the first touch­
down, and after that the Vernonia
goal was not threatened. A sloppy
field slowed up the game with num­
erous fumbles.
The two teams will play again in
Forest Grove today, according to
Coach Ingram. The local boys have
lost only one of the eight games
they have played this year, to Rain­
ier at that place 7 to 0. This is re­
garded as unusual for a team that
was newly organized this year.
A banquet was held for the team
in the Legion hall last Friday night
at which 22 boys and as many girls
were present. The local Legion post
presented 21 of the boys with their
football letters.
After the banquet a party was
held at the Hawkins home. Much
credit is given Coach Harry In­
graham for building up the grade
school team that he has this year.
He said that some of the boys had
never tried to play, and all the fun­
damentals had to be taught them.
But they were all eager to learn,
and when the principles of team
work had been drilled into them,
they soon functioned like n veteran
organization.
Mr. Ingraham was a member of
the University of Washington foot­
ball squad several years.
At the regular Legion meeting
two nights before Armistice day the
post was the recipient of a large
flag, which flew over the hall Arm­
istice day.
The flag was presented to the
American Legion through the 40 and
8 by L. R. Young of the Inman-Poul­
sen Lumber company. Mr. Young
had two sons in the service, one of
whom was killed in action overseas.
The next Legion meeting will be
and is highly prized by the mem­
bers of the local post.
The next Legios meeting will be O. A. C. To Entertain
held November 23, at which nomin­
Editors at Homecoming
ations for officers for the coming
year will be made. A large attend­
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
ance is anticipated.
vallis, Nov. 16, The Vernonia Eagle
will be —7 .„vuted by Mr. and Mrs.
.uark E. Moe at the homecoming
SEEKS NEW NAME .
football game Sat. on Bell field, Cor­
FOR A i HLETIC TEAM vallis, between teams representing
the University of Oregon and the
University of Oregon, Eugene, Or. Oregon Agricultural college.
Nov. 16 (Special)—There’s more in
The clash between these an­
a name than Shakespeare thought, cient rivals is expected to draw
Oregon students believe.
a capacity crowd. Because of the
For weeks the Oregon Daily Em­ unprecedented request for tickets,
erald, student newspaper, has been extra bleachers have been erected
conducting a contest to get a new on the west side of th grounds.
name for Oregon athletic teams.
Nearly 150 editors and their wives FOOTBALL TIE NOT
More than 500 names have been sub­ will be guests at a luncheon at noon
TO BE PLAYED OFF
mitted to replace the old cognomen Saturday in the college tea room.
of Webiooters, which, the sports Hosts will be the staff of the de­
The three-cornered tie between
writers declare, is meaning less. partment of journalism, members of
While no definite date has been set, the “Oregon State” chapter of Sig­ Rainier, Clatskanie and Vernonia
the contest is expected to end in a ma Delta Chi, professional journal­ will not be played off, it is announ­
few days.
istic fraternity, and of Theta Sig­ ced by the coaches of the respective
A committee composed of Harold ma Phi, journalistic fraternity for schools. Rainier won from Clatskanie
Mangum, o f Portland, Emerald women. The edtors will attend the Armistice day, and broke the lat­
sports editor, Professor
George game in a body, immediately follow­ ter’s string of victories.
Plans are being formed now for
Turnbull of the school of journal­ ing the luncheon. Members of the
ism faculty, and John W. Benefiel, editorial party who arrive in the the annual high school carnival to
graduate manager, will select a few morning will be shown the campus. be held Friday, December 3. Those
of the best names for the student
The football players came out of in charge promise a bigger and bet­
body to vote on.
their hardest battle of the year, ter carnival than ever this year.
The main event will be a min­
Names of animals have so far against the University of Southern
been the most popular, with names California, with no serious injuries, strel show featuring "Brother Aus­
ranging from Dragons to Gorillas. and are hard at work preparing for tin” and his “Coordinatin’’ Cullud
One wit suggested Skinners, since the traditional game. While Aggie | Coons.” This feature is expected to
most of the other teams have taken fans were naturally disappointed at excell the best efforts of local high
the names of fur-bearing animals. the I osb of the Trojan game, the school students in comic plays.
The civics class has been doing
Spartans, Pioneers, and Trappers opinion seems to prevail that if the
are among the popular suggestions. boys fight as hard against Oregon research work in the different fun­
as they did last Thursday, the score ctions of the government. Mr. Wil­
will be satisfactory. Plenty of thrills kerson has been teaching the class
LARGE CLASS STUDY­
are promised regardless of the out­ good citizenship by assigning each
member a topic to look up and re­
ING REAL ESTATE come.
port to the class.
Basketball practice is starting
University of Oregon, Eugene,
now. Many former players are back
Ore., Nov. 13 (Special) —Nearly MID-WEST FAMILIES
300 persons, mostly adulu are reg­
COMING TO OREGON and a strong aggregation is expect­
ed to win games for Vernonia this
istered in a beginning real estate
The urge of westward migration winter.
course which James A. Johnston,
assistant professor of business ad­ did not cease with the covered wag­
ministration, is teaching this fall on, according to W. G. Ide, mana­ SAYS COLLEGE GIRLS
for the first time in the Portland ger of the land settlement work of
NOT BOHEMIAN
center of the university. Because the state and Portland chamber of
University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.
of the large enrollment the class is commerce, who has received word
held in Library hall in the central from Arthur Foster, the department Nov. 13, (Special)—Charges that
Library.
representative in the middlewest, college girls of today are Bohemian
At the beginning of the college that the Old Oregon Trail and the in their contacts with society, in
year only about 15 persons were ex­ Pacific highway will both serve as their social relationships, that they
pected to enroll. Among the 300 en­ the route for farm families on their are not interested in home life, and
that they believe is trial marriages
rolled are persons from Salem and way to Oregon.
On Monday three families left are unfair, believes Mrs. Charles W.
Oregon City, besides the suberbs of
Portland, and one student from Murray Cousty, Minnesota, by auto­ Williams, district secretary of the
mobile, the Peters, Lokhorsts and Pacific Coast of Foreign Missions of
Crawford, Washington. ,
Besides students, at least 40 mem­ Van Edens of that county starting the Presbyterian church who addres­
bers of the Portland realty board on their trip to the farms which Mr. sed a group of girls or “Equipping
60 salesmen for members of the Foster has been instrumental in as­ in College for future service.”
“The world, in speaking of young
board, 25 salesmen and brokers not sisting them to choose in Oregon.
allied wieh the board, prominent at­
Dozens of other families on whom people, uses such all-inclusive, gen­
torneys, merchants investors, city the field representative has been eral language,” she said. “One often
officials, abstract men, insurance calling are now arranging their af­ hears the statement that youth over­
men, and persons connected with fairs so that they may be free to evaluates itself. I am not nearly as
concerned that youth over-evaluate
loan agencies are registered in the locate permanently in Oregon.
course. Some are taking »he course
For the next ten days, Mr. Fos­ itself as that it will under-rate its
for university credit while others ter will be operating in the farm capacities to meet problems of lat­
are enrolled only to gain informa­ districts in the neighborhood of St. er life. Society will be dissapointed
tion on real estate and do not plan Pawl and Minneapolis, where he if young people fail to meet those
tasks.”
to take the final examination.
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