Entered at Vernonia, Oregon, Postoffioe as Second-Class Matter. NEHALEM HAS RAINSTORMS Verionia Without Power Part of Time. TREES FALL ON ROADS Snowstorms of Mid-West Reach Here Warmed to Driving Rain The worst rain storm of this win­ ter occurred in this district last Thursday night, blowing over many trees and putting power and light lines out of commission for many hours. The road between Vernonia and St. Helens was reported to be pre­ carious to travel last Thursday. As many as seven trees were cut away by motorists that night on the one road alone. Other roads leading to Vernonia were similarly obstructed, it was reported. One group of 12 cars took more than four hours to travel from Houl­ ton to Vernonia, because of the trees that had to be cut and moved to Clear the roadway. Many of the motorists who were coming back from Portland for Thanksgiving were not prepared for such an emer­ gency and few axes were obtainable with which to cut a way through. , No serious accidents’ on these roads were reported, although some had some narrow escapes. One four- foot tree fell across the road that barely permitted cars to pass under it. Without a bank on the upper side tp hold the trunk off the road, many could not have come through after about 10 p.m. it was said. The lights were off again Tuesday morning because a tree fell across the line at the Jones Logging com­ pany camp. , TEACHER’S EXAMINATIONS Notice is hereby given that the county superintendent, Elizabeth Murray of Columbia county, Oregon, will hold the regular examination of applicants for state certificates at St. Helens, Oregon, as follows: Com­ mencing Wednesday, December 15, 1926, at 9:00 o’clock a.m., and con­ tinuing until Saturday, Decenrber 18, 1926, at 4:00 o’clock p.m. WEDNESDAY FORENOON U. S. history, writing (penmart- ■ship), music, drawing. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Physiology, reading, manual train­ ing, composition, domestic science, methods in reading, course of study ■for drawing, methods in arithmetic. VERNONIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1926. | SECURE 1927 MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE May I respectfully urge the edit­ ors and publishers of the various papers through out the state to call the attention of their readers to the importance of securing their 1927 motor vehicle license early. Appli­ cations for 1927 license have been received by the department since early in November and license plates will be mailed for all applications received on December 1st and from that date daily as applications are received. Motor vehicle owners can greately assist in avoiding confu­ sion in the issuing of motor vehicle licenses around the first of the year by applying immediately for their 1927 licenses. Particular attention is directed to the fact that it is Unlawful to ope­ rate a motor vehicle in this state on and after January 1, 1927 on a 1926 license. In view of these con­ dition, will you kindly include in the columns of your paper during the month of December brief reminders to your readers who are motor ve­ hicle owners to at once give atten­ tion to applying for their .1927 lic­ ense? I personally will appreciate very much any such act upon your part as I know will the readers of your paper—Secretary of State. Wilson-Laraway Wedding Quietly Occurs in Portland The wedding of Miss Lilian Wil­ son and Dr. T. W. Laraway of Ver­ nonia occured November 21 in the- First Congregational church of Port­ land. Rev. Clement Clarke officiat­ ed. Preceding the ceremony, a soloist sang. During the wedding Mendel­ ssohn’s “Spring Song’’ was played softly on the pipe organ. The bride wore a wedding costume of peach chiffon and carried ophelia roses, violets and lilies of the valley interspersed with lavender ostrich plume tips. "y ■ • Mrs. Wm. McGuire, the matron of honor, wore pale green chiffon and carried pink roses. Wm. H. McGuire was best man. The young couple plan to live in Vernonia, where Dr. Lara way has been practicing medicine for some time. The bride, a graduate of the University of Oregon, is a member of Phi Mu national Greek letter" sorority. The bridegroom is a member of Delta Tau Delta, national Greek'let- ter fraternity and Alpha Kappa Kap­ pa, a national medical fraternity. He graduated from the University of Oregon medical school, interned at Immanual hospital in Portland and later at the city and county hospit­ al at San Francisco and also at San Jose, Calif. Only immediate relatives were pre­ sent for the ceremony. Among th'>m were the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson of Vernonia, Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Laraway of Hood River, Mr. and Mrs. Seth E. Laraway and daughters Jacqueline and Euphemia of Eugene, Miss El­ sa Taylor of Eugene, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Laraway and daughters Adelaide and Barbara of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. W. Cooper of Port­ land, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cooper of Portland, Mrs. Florence Fletcher and son Tommy of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. McKibbon and daughter Grace of Portand. , THURSDAY FORENOON Arithmetic, history of education, -psychology, methods in geography, mechanical drawing, domestic art, ■course of study for domestic art. THURSDAY AFTERNOON ■Grammar, geography, stenography, American literature, physics, type­ writing, methods in language, thesis for primary certificate. ‘ FRIDAY FORENOON , Theory and practice, orthography (spelling-, physical geography, Eng­ lish literature, chemistry. FRIDAY AFTERNOON The Divorce Problem School law, geology, algebra, civil That. is a question that is agitat­ government. ing the minds of many thinkers of SATURDAY FORENOON today. I say thinkers; I mean men General history, bookkeeping. who think they think; men who are Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Green motor­ 'frantically trying to accomplish 'the ed to Tenino Thursday, accompanied impossible task of making the world by their daughters Charlotte, and better and at the same time sup­ Nell and their son Norman. porting a system under which it is Frank Browning spent Thanks­ impossible for the world to get any giving day with Mr. and Mrs. L. H. better. Hearst American some tine Cates, Mrs. Browning being in the ago ran a series of articles by em­ St. Vincent hospital in Portland. inent writers and divines on this Mr. Inyart was a PortlanJ visitor question, not one of whom came last week. , within a thousand miles of the cor­ Mr. Trehame and Mr. Doughet rect analysis of the cause. wese in Portland last Monday and The economic bondage of women. Tuesday. There is but one solution of the Emery Sheeley was in Astoria a divorce problem and sooner or later few days last week. all must acknowledge the truth of O. E. Dent was in Portland last this. The American refers to the week taking treatments of Dr. Ry'o- divorce evil as the great national ks. disgrace. The great national dis­ grace is the wage and profit system, Old Baldwin sawmill, recently which makes of men industrial slav­ burned, will be rebuilt at Waldport. es and makes of women the slaves Fourth street south to be improv­ of slaves. And as long as such a ed, in road district No. 13 at Forest system exists the evil will always Prove. be with us. R. Sessman. NCI OBSERVING THE IMPORT ANT ROOT SCHOOL STOP SIGNS CROP TESIS MADE That local motorists are not ob­ serving the newly passed ordinance of the city council in regard to stop­ ping at the signs placed there for that purpose near the schools during school hours and school days is the statement made by Marshal Kelly. The school teachers are cooperat­ ing with the city police department in an endeavor to encourage every­ one to strictly observe the law for the safety of the children. Marshal Kelly has made no arrests yet, but has warned a number of Of­ fenders, and there have been many lately, ho says. About 35 were re­ ported to have driven past the st op signs of the schools on Monday and Tuesday alone when school was in session and some even during tee noon hour. It is expected that it will be nec­ essary to arrest a number soon for failure to observe the law. High Producing Cows Make Better Returns Oregon dairy herds averaging more than 360 pounds of butterfat per ccw . lowed the greatest return above feed etc.a, in the Rogue Riv­ er co1/-testing association of Jack- son and Josephine, reports Neil C. Jamison, dairy extension specialisf of the state college. Herds averaging between 350 a>d' 400 pounds of butterfat per cow for the year gave a profit above feed cost of $107.87, according to tie record while cows from herds ave­ raging between 300 and 350 pounds gave return of $101.50 each. No herds in the association averaged less than 200 pounds of fat per c- w but 17 cows in 4 herds completed the year with an average of It ss than 250 pounds of fat. The retu -n above feed cost of these cows was $71.33 the lowest in the organiza­ tion while 39 cows averaged over 250 and less than 300 pounds of iat and showed profit above feed cost of $81.59. These profits have not taken lab­ or into consideration but assumi ig that the skim milk, manure, and the calf will take care of all overhead charges as, taxes, interest, repair of machinery, and veterinary. Using the labor hours required as shown in cost studies in other parts of t ie state, the group of highest produc­ ing cows gave a labor return after all other'expenses were taken caie of amounting to 49 cents per hour. This is a high return says Mr. Jamison and is due in part to the cheapness of the high quality alfal­ fa hay produced by the dairymen of this association. The next group pro­ ducing between 300 and 350 pout ds gave a labor return of 46 cents [er hour and the group producing 250 to 300 pounds gave a return of 37 cents more than the lowest p o- duccrs, or a little greater than 51 32.4 cents per hour. Thus the hi; h- esi producers gave a return of 16.4 cents per hour than the lowest pro­ ducers, or a little greater than 51 per cent more per hour than the luw- eht producers. “In this section of low feed costs even these lowest producers show ed a profit but the high produc rs showed so much greater profit t' at there remains no argument for keep- ing the poor producer. Herds rray be built up to high producing oi es by using bred-for-production bu.ls, and saving heifers from the b ,‘st cows and gradually eliminating he low producing cpw.” Drive To Bellingham, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Malmsten and family drove to Bellingham, Wash., Wednesday of last week, return ng Sunday. On Friday they drove to Vancouver, B. C. In the above root crop test there Were three diferent root crops tried out, namely; carrots, turnips, and rutabaga,- of which there were three varieties of carrots, five of turnips, and two of rutabagas on about one acre of ground. Part of the field was manured and part unmanured, and some intesesting results were shown by the use of barnyard man­ ure on crops. In the variety tests, the Imperial Green Globe .turnip indicated the heaviest yield of any of the turnips or of any of the root crops; yield­ ing at the rate of 25,930 pounds to the acre. The rutabagas yield­ ed the heaviest where they were manured but . yielded very poorly Where. no manure was used. The carrots showed the least drop in yield from the manured to the un­ manured portion of thé field. In one test o the carrots there is no difference from the manured to thé unmanured, while two of the variety showed a difference of from about. 4,330 to 5,368 pounds. I,; the test of he turnips between the manured and unmanured portion of the field the difference ran as high as from 6,00 to ll,0(> pounds, while the rutabaga showed a milked dif­ ference, ranging from about 14,000 to 15,00 pounds per' acre. ROOT CROP ‘DEMONSTRATIONS «.i>y . i. ! (J. C. Skeans, Fé’rn Hjtl^idodfierating with( the O. A. C. extension, service- Date of- planting': June 15, 1926. Date plots, checked, November 10, 1926. '• . < ' ■ A ' ” • Root' crop ., . Pounds Pounds J and P,er- aero* Per acre variety manured unmanured Carrots - Oxhart . ’ LLlia 117118 White Belgium 17,594 12,035 Chatenay 15,745 12,035 Turnips P. Top White Globe ■16,667 6,481 Cowhorn 15,745 9,260 Yellow Aberdeen 15,745< 4,626 Pom White Globe 14,817- 8,331 Sutton’s Imperial N ’ Green Globe. 25,930 15,745 Rutabagas A. Purple Top 19,443 2,776 Monarch 18,521 4,626 Seed Flax Profitable On Willamette Farms Seed flax this year made an ave­ rage gross return ot $21.75 per acre on 13 Willamette valley farms tot­ aling 200 acres, reports William L. Teutsch, district agricultural agent for the college extension service. The lowest return was $9.58 an acre while the highest was $33.30. Gross income from spring oats on the same farms was $12.87 on the- average. In figuring returns seed flax was priced at $2.52 a bushel and oats at $30 a ton. Income from seed flax was not so great as from oats in instances because of poor prepra- tion of the seed bed or late seeding, according to the survey. Seed flax requires a much finer seed bed than most of the cereal crops. Early seeding was especially »important last spring owing to the extremely hot, dry summer. A 12 to 14 bushel yield was indicated early in the season on some lands, J>ut as the summer progressed some seed bolls failed to fill and made only a 50 per cent crop. Reduction of the Willamette val­ ley spring oat acreage was recom­ mended in each of the six agricul­ tural economic conferences held in valley counties in recent months, with sc-d flax and barley as the substitutes. The Multnomah county confere'ce pointed out that an acre of seed flax can ordinarily be ex­ pected to return more net profit than spring wheat or spring oats when those crops are grown to sell. From 20,000 to 30,000 acres of seed flax are required to produce a tonnage equal to that which has hitherto been imported by the Port­ land market for manufacture into oil, says the report of the Washing­ ton county conference. Seed flax is ideal as a nurse crop for clover or grass seed because it uses less moisture than other grain and doe» not shade the ground so much, say college authorities. Stale bread is freshened by wrap­ ping the loaf in a dampened cloth and setting it in a warm oven until the loaf becomes soft and is again like fresh warm bread. This meal is lacking in iron which is necessary for rich, red blood and good health:-Hashed brown potatoes scalloped com, bread and butter, jelly, applesauce, and sugar cookies. Foods rich in iron are liver, lean meat, fish, eggs, spinach, carrots, whole-grain breads and cereals, and beans. Local growers have shipped 31 Bloodspots are removed by mois­ tening a small piece of cotton cloth cars potatoes, from $40 to $46 a with saliva and placing it on the ton, at Weston. , spot. Left a few moments the spot Paving of Columbia Highway will dissapear. about completed, at Astoria. VOL. 5 NO. 17. KUEHNE WINS TWO OF THREE FALLS Harry Kuehne, undisputed light­ weight wrestling champion of the world, won two out of three falls from Speedy Jones of Seattle Wed­ nesday night of last week at the Rose theatre. Kuehne won the first fall in 18 minutes. Jones took the second fall in seven minutes and Kuehne came back a winner of the third fall in about four minutes. The prelinminary match between Bull Brantana and Joe Kratz went 30 minutes to a draw. Last night Kuehne wrestled Ted Brown of Spokane, who was expect­ ed to give him a harder tussle for the honors. A preliminary last night was held between Brantana and Fred Adams. NIVAL FRIDAY Minstrel Show To Be Main Attraction 10 PAY OFF OLD DEBI Side Show Will Open Early in Various Rooms of High School. P.-T. Ann. To Meet. The next meeting of the Parent- Teacher association will be held Monday night, December 6, in the Washington school at 7:30 p.n. Re­ freshments will be served. All those planning to attend are asked to each bring a cup and spoon. A Correction. In last week’s story of the local library, mention of the following do­ nations were omitted: Mountain lieart Rebekah lodge $5, Nehalem chapter Oregon Eastern Star $5. Books were donated by Emil Mes­ sing, Lester Sheeley and Mrs. Mann. Want Inltind Route as State Highway ‘ "Joining with Columbia and Wash­ ington counties in urging anew the designation of the Inland route from the Willamette valley ti Astoria as a state highway, the Clatsop county court was in Portland yesterday. to attend the meeting of the state high­ way commission. Jesse Rice’s Mother Dies. Mrs. L. B. Rice of Rainier, moth­ er of Jesse Rice, who is employed at the Oregon-American mill, died on Tues