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Entered at Vernonia, Oregon, Postoffioe as Second-Class Matter. SETTLE LANDS IS PROPOSED Local Chamber Names Year’s Objective. 8. C. MORTON SPEAKER VERNONIA. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1927. DAILY MAIL TO MIST HAS BEEN PROPOSED Lester Sheeley, secretary of the chamber of commerce, recently wrote Senator Chas. L. McNary at Washington, D. C., asking him to recommend to the postmaster gen eral that a daily mail route be established between Vernonia and Mist in place of the three-a-week deliveries now being made A telegram was received from Senator McNary Tuesday inform ing Mr. Sheeley that the recom mendation had been made, and the latter is confident that the pro posed charge will take place in the near future. Membership Campaign Is Local Students To See O. A. C. Educational Show Now Under Way; 100 Oregon Agricultural College, Cor By March 1. < , 1 ’ The necessity for the settlement of cut-over lands in the Nehalem valley was voiced by the majority of those present at the chamber of commerce meeting at the White Lunch restaurant Friday noon as being the most important object ive toward which the chamber should work this year. S. C. Morton, secretary of the St. Helens chamber of commerce, was present and made a short ad dress at the meeting. He compli mented the local chamber on their attendance, which was nearly 50. He wished to leave on the 1:05 train for Portland, never having ridden on this railroad, even though he was instrumental in working for the establishment of this road, and fostered the “good-will special'' train that made the first trip over the newly constructed road. Mr. Morton pointed out that the Vernonia-St. Helens road is an im portant artery of trade for the en tire county and that it should be maintained in good condition for the benefit of market travel that will be of material aid to both cities and the smaller communities between. He reported that Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, president of the St. Helens chamber of commerce sent his greetings to the Vernon ia chamber and expressed the hope of lasting friendship between the two chambers. Mr. Morton expressed himself as being strongly in favor of the noon meetings of the chamber for the business men, with one evening meeting each month for the longer discussions and attention to bus iness matters of the chamber. He said that, in the St. Helens chamber standing comittees were appointed, one of which is a merchants com mittee, composed of eight persons. This committee sets the date and arranges for the merchants open house, when the whole countryside is invited to come to town more for the purpose of getting acqqain- ted than for taking benefit of sales ■ or special attractions. On that day each merchant us ually offers a little prize which is given away and in meeting the many persons who visit his store, he acquires a list of prospective customers and his last opportunity ■ of getting acquainted with them. .It creates a friendly feeling, said Mr. Morton, more quickly than by any other method of which he has heard. The growing of small fruits and vegetables, especially strawberries, is recommended very strongly for this district. Climatic conditions here are ideal for this phase of agricultural endeavor, acording to •experts who have analyzed the soil of the Nehalem in various places. As soon as A. E. Allen returns from his sojourn in the state leg islature, it is planned to have him address the chamber here with a view to interesting local farmers in the growing of strawberries. Lester Sheeley, secretary of the chamber, reported that he had re ceived answers to questionnaires from farmers in this vicinity that would insure planting of more than 100 acres of strawberries here if a local distributing plant is estab lished in Vernonia. Mr. Allen has oreviously stated that he would in stall a distributing plant here is 100 acres of berries are planted. Noodle Parlor Starts Ed Chin, opened a Chinese noo dle parlor in one side of the In ternational pool hall building here Saturday. He formerly operated a restaurant in Portland. Mr. Chin says he believes the prospects for business here are good this spring. vallis, Feb. 1—Representatives from Vernonia high school have been invited to attend the fourth an nual education exposition at O. A. C. February 18, 19 and 20. The exposition is intended to give ed ucational guidance to high school students planning to enter institu tions of higher learning. The college proposes to stimulate student thinking to the end that more careful consideration will be given the selection of a course which the student plans to pursue, than would otherwise be the case. Through lectures, demonstrations, exhibits and round table discussions the exposition plans to indicate in a definite way the work to which a curriculum leads. J. R. Jewell, dean of the school of education at the University of Arkansas, has been obtained as the principal speaker. High school in structors will meet with Dean Jew ell to discuss special problems such as the Platoon school system. Con ferences for men students will be held in the different schools. Wom en students will meet in small groups with successful women grad uated from O. A. C. Every school on the campus will be open for inspection. There will be displays of work, activities and accomplishments of students in the different courses. The small group conferences with professors in the departments in which the students are most interested are expected to guide them in the selection of courses to which they are best fit ted. Representatives will be enter tained while on the campus by fraternities and clubs. Special en tertainments have been arranged for that week end. A horse show, athletic events, and concerts are intended to entertain between the more serious events. HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA TOURNAMENT IN MAY A drama tournamen, in which the leading high school theatrical companies of the state will com pete, will be held the first week in May according to an announce ment made by Miss Florence Wil bur instructor in English and direc tor of drama. This contest is one of the first of this kind ever held in the United States. Invitations have been sent to 50 Oregon schools and the first 12 answers received will be the only ones to be admitted. The university offers its stage, lights and scenery; but each school will do its own selecting and casting, managing, costuming, arranging, directing, and actual staging and lighting. The purpose of the contest is to foster good drama and emph asize the advantage of the one-act play as a medium instead of the three act professional productions, accoding to Miss Wilbur. Several nights will be given to the contest. A drama tournament committee will be chosen from the faculty to place the plays, accomo date the visiting casts and offer general information. The coneest is open to any stand ard high school in the state. Each group planning to participate is required to pay an entrance fee before April 1. Each high school is to select a one-act play requir ing not more than 35 or 40 min utes for production, the name of which must be submitted to the drama tournament committee not later than April 1. No two contest ants may use the same play, the group first submitting the name being given exclusive use of the play during the contest. Robert King, assistant electrician at the Oregon-American mill, pur Mrs. Wm. Pringle is at Pitts chased a new Chevrolet coupe Mon burg visiting her son Wm. Jr. on day of last week from thé Gilby the ranch this week. Motor company. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 26. “DIET FOR CHILDREN” EOCAL HOY MAY RE- SCHOOL TO HAVE IS PROGRAM TOPIC CEIVE SCHOLARSHIP ART EXHIBIT HERE Five hundred dollars is going begging and a local boy may win it. Somewhere in Oregon, preferably outside of Portland, is the right boy, to graduate in June from a high school, or equivalant prepara tory school, qualified to enter Yale university, New Haven, Conn., and fitted by standing in studies, achievements in other student ac tivities and qualities of leadership to be selected for the annual scholarship award of the Oregon Yale Alumni association. Thrice before this gift of Ore gon’s some one hundred fifty gra duates and former students of the famous university, with its centur ies-old traditions of democracy, nationally-representatlve student body and high standards in ath letics, etc., as well as scholastically, has been awarded, hitherto to Port land boys: Donald T. Nelson, Jef ferson high, in 1924; Charles E. Wright, Lincoln high, in 1925, and Gerald Norman Burk, Jefferson high, in 1926. “Not enough boys in the smaller cities and towns outside of Port land have applied for this scholar ship,” says Robert Treot Platt, prominent Portland lawyer of the firm of Platt, Platt, Fales & Smith, Platt building, to whom inquiries should be addressed. “We want qualified boys and their parents to know of this opportunity. This year we hope this honor may be award ed to a ‘country boy’. Yale has been built up by ‘country boys.’ They have proved the backbone not only of the big cities but of Yale, which, seeking no numbers, but restricting its enrollment, is glad to admit a picked man chosen by its alumni.” With the $500 toward his fresh man year expenses, the cooper ation of the university’s bureau of self-help and the local alumni’s backing, the boy selected is ex pected to have no difficulty in meeting the rest of his expen ses while there, and completing the four-year course. The three previous recipients have all “lhade the grade” and are now Yale upper- classmen with good records. Members of the scholarship com mittee include Chairman Platt, treasurer Gerald E. Beebe, Burnett Goodwin, Harvey N, Black, Rodney L. Glisan, Norman N. Rupp, Fred erick H. Strong, Charles Carver, Jr., Mason Ehrmas, Aubrey R. Watzek Robert H. Noyes, and Ray W. Frohman. The Vernonia grade schools have completed arrangements for the loan of the World’s Masterpieces in painting. This exhibit will be open to the public on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week, Feb. 8 to 11, it will be a treat and an opportunity for the people of Vernonia, as it is not often that one is able to see such pictures without making special trips to museums, and other places for this purpose. All proceeds from the exhiLtt will be used to obtain pictures for the grade schools. BILL WOULD PROMOTE SETTLEMENT OF LAND Promotion of the settlement and development of Oregon’s agricul tural lands is the aim of a bill which has been introduced in the legislature. The proposed legisla tion, known as House Bill No. 34, has called for the endorsement of the leading chambers of commerce in every section of the state, who see in it an effective means of perpetuating the work of the Ore gon State Chamber of Commerce in bringing selected settlers to the lands of the state. Provision is made in the bill for a commission of five members, three of whom shall consist of the board of control and two selected by tho board of directors of the Oscgon state chamber of commerce. It :s specifically provided that one of these members of the State Chi mber shall be a resident of the section east of the Cascades. The bill carries an appropriation of state funds amounting to $30,- 000 annually for the years 1928, 1929 and 1930, to be used by the state chamber in inducing the lo cation within Oregon of new set tlers and new capital, the method of disbursing of these funds be ing subject to the approval of the commission. Through the affiliated efforts of the Oregon State Chamber and the Portland Chamber of Commerce during the last two years, 2300 new settlers have been placed on Ore gon farms. They invested more than ten million dollars of new capital in the state at a cost of less than $40 per family to bring them here. There are now three thousand pros pective settlers who have signed the questionnaires used by the Lund Settlement Department, stat ing definitely that they are com ing to Oregon. Suporters of the bill explain Worker Bees Needed In that the funds which it provides Ap>aries For Good Crop will be used in securing settlers and giving them service, salaries Four conditions necessary to a and other overhead expense being honey crop in Oregon, according otherwise secured. to H. A. Scullen of the experiment station, are as follows: LIBRARY TO GIVE PARTY 1, Suitable weather conditions foe the been to work when the main Mrs. Judd Greenman will very honey flow is on. graciously open her home on Feb 2, Honey-producing plants secret ruary 14, for the Library party ing nectar in abundance. and is making every effort to 3, A strong force of worker bees, make the party a success and at 75,000 to 100,000 at tne beginning tractive to the utmost. From two of the honey flow. to four there will be tables to 4, The colony devoting its entire accommodate the guests desiring to attention to gathering nectar and play, either bridge or five hundred. storing honey rather than to swarm From four to six tea will be s«r’- ing. In other words the storing in ed to those who do net wish to stinct rather than the swarming in play cards. stinct is dominant. Cars will leave Folger's Drug If any one of those four con store at one forty-five and four ditions not present the honey crop to convey guests to Mrs. Green will be less than maximum. If all man’s. four conditions are present noth The proceeds from this party will ing can keep the beekeeper from be used for purchasing new books getting a good crop outside of his for the library. Each guest is re own failure to put on the supers. quested to suggest a book which “Unfortunately, or possibly for she would like to read, this will tunately, the beekeeper has no con be a help to the book committee. trol over the first condition,” says professor Scullen. “He can control State Sanitary Inspeetor Leech the second only by moving to a and Marshal Kelly put in a busy better location, or by encouraging forenoon Tuesday inspecting the to a limited extent, the growth of various eating houses and places certain plants. where foodstuff are Sold. Several “His entire management through notices were reported to have been out the year, with the exception of given to proprietors to clean up. swarm control, is with one object The Noodle parlor operated by Y. in view, that of attaining the third Koto was ordered closed up on foregoing condition. This obviously, account of unsanitary conditions includes such manipulations as dis-1 and unfit building, by the state ease control, wintering, queen man-' inspector, according to Marshal Kel- agement, and all other factors that ____________________ aid in permitting the colony to work at its best from the end of REPORT OF COUNTY NURSE one season’s flow to the beginning I FOR THE MONTH OF JAN. IM?. Visits to schools, 26; Pupils in of the next. * “This is all there is to good bee-' spected, 467; Pupils not defective, keeping, but it involves much care-1 173; Pupils seriously underweight, ful planning and conscientious■ 48; Notification of defects to par ents, 286; Visits to homes, 20; labor.” Truant cases, 7; Services to agen Mr. and Mrs. Noble Dunlap of! cies outside county, 2. Natal attended the show here Sat-1 NINA H. LITTLE—County health urday night. nurse. LAST QUARTtR DECIDES GAME The Parent-Teachers asociation will hold its first meeting of the month Monday night at 7:30 at the Washington school. The pro gram will start with community singing, led by Miss Mitchell. Dr. J. A. Hughes will deliver an ad dress on “Diet for Children.” There will then be a general discussion by the mothers on the feeding of children. After a piano solo by Miss Mitchell refreshments will be served. These talks given by the doc tors of the town have proven very interesting, according to many who have been in attendance. It has been urged that no one miss the Alternate Lead Makes Ex last of the series. citing Contest Of The association will give their annual show February 21 at the Game Majestic theatre, which will feat ure singing, dancing, a short play and stunts. Preparations for this The basketball game between show have been in progress several Vernonia and Clatskanie high months. schools on the local floor Tues day night provided thrills aplenty Straightening California for the spectators, with each team taking the lead in scoring at var Ridge Route Road ious times during the game, which Vernonia won 30 to 23. (By A. D. Moe) Los Angeles, Jan. 17, 1927. Vernonia led at the end of t^he The Glacier: Leaving Yuba City first quarter 9 to 5, by connect in a rainstorm, which lasted most ing consistently with the basket. of the forenoon, we followed the In the second and third quarters Garden highway to Sacramento, Clatskanie had the advantage, then south through the San Joa Sundberg dropping numerous bas quin valley to Tulare, where we kets, to give them the best of the spent the night. The storm, which score. Clatskanie led at the end had been general through north of the third quarter 23 to 21. '■ ern California, did not reach far In the last quarter the Vernon ther south than Fresno. The next ia team seemed to redouble their morning we left Tulare in a heavy efforts, and the floor work of Haw fog, which was worse than the kins stood out above that of the rain, as it required slow and care whole team, although he had dif ful driving. By 9 o’clock it lifted ficulty in throwing baskets. Clat as we entered Bakersfield, but as skanie was held scoreless in the we headed for the Tehachipe moun last quarter. Whitsell also made tains great banks of clouds hung two sensational throws from near low, and we anticipated a disagree the center of the floor. able trip over the mountains, but Sage refereed the game. the fog lifted. By the time we 23 Clatskanie reached the 29 miles of curves Vernonia 30 the sun came out and the grand Bennett 6 ...... ...... F..... ......... 9 Wlüte 9 Sundberg F..... panorama of the scenic Ridge route Malmsten 11 spread out before us. About half Hawkins 7 .... .... C...... ....... Puzcy ,,,:G.... 2 Zimmerdahl of the curves have been widened Whitsell 5 G . ..... 2 Bunce and straightened and the work is Hodgee 1 .... Grade School Win». being continued through the bal A preliminary to the game Tues ance of the crooked, narrow road, which will Bpeed up travel and day night was played between, the lessen the danger of accidents. We grade school teams of Clatskanie arrived in Los Angeles early Sun and Vernonia, the latter winning 16 to 6. The same style of play day afternoon. was apparent in both teams as that On acocunt of the long journey ahead of us we will tarry here displayed by the varsities of both only long enough to visit our re schools. The Vernonia team slight latives and call on a few friends. ly outweighed and was more ag gressive than the Clatskanie boys. Dealers are having a good deal A return game will be played in of grief this year with all north Clatskanie February 25. This was western apples. On account of the the first league game of the sea peculiar growing Beason the fruit son for the Vernonia grade team. is not holding up, and many cars The lineup: of apples are coming in full of Vernonia 16 6 Clatskhnie decay, overripe, and in general bad Oberste F 2 Friekson condition. Some of the dealers are Smith 4 ............... F 4 Holombo repacking Hood River apples and Adams 6 .............. C Henderson are suffering a loss in many cases Berg ................. G...... ____ Johnson of 25 per cent. Some of the cars Bennett ...............G_____ Aplington are being Borted out, selling the In the game with Hill Military damaged stuff to the “buzzards” academy Friday night the local (a Los Angeles name for the ped high school won 21 to 18, maintain dlers). Mr. Baker says that it is ing a slight lead throqgout the now ImpoBsible to Bell a car of game. The score at the end of apples until they arrive and are the first half stood 4 to 4, which inspected. The market is strong was said to be due to close guard for good apples, and sound, per ing by both teams. In the second fect apples are grabbed up quick half each squad played a more ag ly at advancing prices, while the gressive game, which ran the score fruit beginning to show, decay is up. a drug on the market. All of the The Vernonia second team won apple districts in Oregon and Wash from the Hill Military second team ington are having the game trouble. in a preliminary 17 to 14. There are in cold storage in Los The local high school will at Angeles at present about 200,000 tempt to avenge the defeat at the boxes more than a year ago. hands of St. Helens earlier in the Los Angeles is still growing season Friday night when the two steadily, a good many large busin teams meet on the local floor. ess blocks going up, and while the A touch of local spirit and en speculative real estate boom has thusiasm was added to the game quieted down, there is a steady in Tuesday night when five members crease in business generally. Com of the local order of 40 and 8 ing in from the inland route we bolstered up the spirits of the saw a Los Angeles city limits sign crowd with effective work on their that had been moved several miles drums. The local school expressed farther north than where it was appreciation of the support given last year. Automobile traffic is on by this Legion organization. tho increase, but is handled very MARY JANE THOMPSON effectively. Now thoroughfares are being built, which relieves the con Word was received Wednesday of gestion in the busy sections. Out last week of the death in Portland on Santa Barbara avenue there is of Mrs. Mary Jane Thompson, a 15-mile speed limit sign still mother of E. S. Thompson and standing, but it is a joke. In fact Mrs. V. D. McCabe of this city. if traffic obeyed this sign it would She would have been 80 years of be blocked in two minutes. All age the next day. She was buried reasonable speed limits are remov- in the Riverview cemetary, Port ed if the driver is skillful enough land, Saturday. Her husband and to get through without hitting any two other daughters survive her. one. Relatives of the deceased ex pressed thanks for the floral rem Coyle Has Car Agency embrance of Vernonia folk. W. R. Coyle, manager of the Hy-Van hotel here, has taken the Ray Emmott killed a wildcat on local agency for the Hudson and Pebble creek Thursday of last week. Essex cars. He has sold a new 1927 The bounty on these is $2.50 Mr. Essex super-six to H. W. Swelwell Emmott said the pelt has ■ littlt recently. value. Clatskanie Is Beaten At Basketball toes day. FINAL SCOJ 30 TO 23