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Entered at Vernonia, Oregon,
Postoffice as Second-Class Matter.
VERNONIA. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1927.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 28.
Big Annual Loss in
Legion District
Local Folk Confident
Chamber
Is
Four Chinese Incidents Along
County Fertilizer
Convention In St,
Road To Florida Of Re-appointment of
Growing Fast
Robbed of $800
HelensWednesday
Postmaster E. Messing
Columbia county is losing at
(By A. D. Moe)
least $50,000 worth of fertilizer
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 27, 1927.
Many Vernonia members of the on the dairy farms annually by
Confidence in the assurance of
Dallas is one of the important the re-appointment of Emil F. Mes American Legion and Legion Aux not having manure pits for stor
cities of Texas and just an hour’s sing as postmaster of Vernonia wa3 iliary are planning on attending ing this material, says F. E. Price,
drive from Fort Worth. We are felt Tuesday with the receipt by the district convention of the first soils specialist of the O. A. C.
stopping for half a day and would Mr. Messing of a telegram from district, department of Oregon, of extension service.
stay longer to look after the place, Senator Chas. L. McNary at Wash the two organizations at St. Hel
Columbia county is one of the
but the weather is too cold, with ington, D. C., stating that Repre ens Wednesday, February 23.
leading dairy counties of Oregon
occasional misty rain and fog, to sentative Hawley had recommend
Business sessions will begin at
enjoy outdoors. It is a surprise ed to the postmaster general the 11 o’clock and continue through as is shown by the 1925 farm cen
sus which reports 7,177 cows in
to us that they have so much win re-appointment of Mr. Messing as
out the afternoon. At 6 o’clock this county. This places Columbia
ter in this section. On Christinas postmaster.
there will be a banquet and pro county over Curry, Lincoln and Eest Ways of Advertising
One Arrest Made; Trial In day they had six inches of snow, Many local persons have written gram followed by a dance for the Clatsop
in the number of dairy
and last Sunday after a rain the
McNary in this connection guests. Those who are planning on cows.
The Nehalem Are
St. Helens; Bound Over pavement was covered with ice. The Senator
recently, as Postmaster Messing’s attending have been asked to give
The dairy industry brings thous
whole southland this winter is hav
term expired February 13. It is their names to Mrs. H. E. McGraw ands of dollars to Columbia county
Discussed
To Grand Jury
ing unusual rains, which is proving
generally believed his re-appoint- or Mrs. Earl Washburn by Sat annually in dairy products, but
disastrous to dirt roads. There
ment is assured. Mr. Messing has urday so that arrangements may there is another way in which
With the report, by C. F. Heiber
Four Chinese in Ed Chin’s noodle seems to be no continuous paved served in his present capacity nine may be made at St. Helens.
these 7,000 cows are an asset, and that the chamber of commerce
parlor were held up about 9 p.m. roads in this country, and the sec
years.
The program will be held in that is, to aid in maintaining the membership had reached (he high
Friday night and robbed of about tions of dirt roads in every direct
the Congregational church at St. fertility of the soils, according to number of 65, and with members
$800 by two men whom they stated ion are proving the weak link of
Helens. The first Legion district Mr. Price. Mr. Price says that becoming increasingly easier to get,
were Filipinos. One entered the the chain when a heavy or con
has
been divided since the an each cow will produce about one optimism at the chamber luncheon
restaurant and ordered all present, tinuous rain occurs. Bridges are
nouncement that the convention ton of fertilizer per month and meeting Friday noon ' ran high for
which included seven Filipino pa out all over the country, requiring
was to be held there, so that only probably about one-half of this definite and beneficial results out
trons of the place, to hold up detours over poor roads. Instead
13 posts will be represented at amount will be produced while she of the organization’s work for this
their hands. Another immediately of building a temporary bridge
the
meeting rather than 25. Port is in the barn or about 6 tons per year. Mr. Heiber said he had even
over
a
small
creek
or
ravine
as
came in and searched the four Chi
land, Astoria and all the cities in year.
signed up one traveling man in
nese, ignoring the Filipinos eating- they do in the coast states when
the lower Columbia river section
This will amount to 53,062 tons the Vernonia chamber.
there. An alarm was immediately a bridge goes out, they route traf
are included in the district and
The bronze marker that is given
spread and Marshal Kelly started fic over country roads sometimes
University of Oregon, Eugene, will have representations present. of fertilizer annually. This ferti
lizer is easily worth $2.00 per ton by Harmon foundation So every
in pursuit, but they were not seen many miles.
Feb. 14—John Straub, dean emri-
Mrs. Dorilda Deming, first dis to increase crop yields. This is a city park it helps will soon be ship
after leaving the place.
We got information at Fort tus of men at the University, is one
trict
committeewoman, of St. Hel conservative value as was demon ped, aecerdirtg to Secretary .Lester
Worth
about
the
roads
to
Shreve
The Chinese held up were Ed
of the few living persons who saw
Chin, Sam Lee. Frank Lee and port, La., and here were given a the body of Abraham Lincoln after ens, will preside at the Auxiliary strated on the farm of J. C. Skeans Sheeley, who has been communicat
Fred Seto. Of the Filipino rob different route. The lady in charge the assassination, as it lay in state. meeting. M. E. Carkin of Ver at Fern Hill, on a rutabaga trial ing with them on the matter.
Much discussion arose at the
bers, one was tall and one short of the tourist information bureau That was in the spring of 1865, nonia, first district committeeman conducted by county agent, Geo. A
and stocky, the latter had a gun. here seems to be informed about at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, will preside at the Legion meeting. Nelson, where the manured plots meeting as to whether prospect
made an incre: se of 7 tons per ive settlers should be encouraged
No better description has been se all the roads out of here clear t6 and bo vivid was the impression
acre ever the v nmanured area. At to come here and clear up kind or
cured, although the Chinese be Florida, but said that conditions Dean Straub received, that he still
least there is $100,000 worth of whether dairy, chicken and cattle
lieve they could identify the meh are changing all the time and ad remembers every detail.
fertilizer produced in the dairy ranchers should be encouraged to
if they see them again. The two vised us to get additional infor
“My father took me to see him,”
barns of Columbia county annually. come in. It was generally believ
wore bandanna handkerchiefs over mation at Jackson, Miss. At present Dean Straub explained. “The body
the roads are best by way of Mo was at the State House, where the
The present methods of handling ed that local land could hot be
their faces to hide their identity.
bile,
Ala.,
and
then
to
Tallahassa,
and
storing this fertilizer during cleared for much less 1 thari $200
Sunday night Joe Quiena, a Fili
Continental Congress used to meet,
Emil
F.
Messing
received the winter months is causing a per acre and that this cost is pro
pino, was arrested by Marshal Kel Florida.
and where the Liberty Bell had
We are meeting tourists from been rung. There were two long, word from the postoffice depart loss of one-half to three-fourths hibitive. Some thought the chicken
ly for carrying concealed weapons.
He is alleged to have held up some every state in the Union, many long lines waiting to see him that ment Tuesday that the Vernonia of the value of this fertilizer. This ind dairy industries should.be pro
men playing cards in the rear of from the east and middle west go afternoon. One of the lines came office has been designated as a is due to the loss of nearly all moted here; that there is already
the Vernonia billiard hall and was ing to California. There are not so from Delaware Avenue, where the postal savings depository, effect the liquid and the leaching out a local demand for four‘ or five
of most of the soluable plant food limes as much as is produced here
apprehended a few minutes later many camp grounds on our route river is, and reached through ive March 1.
Under this plan $1 opens an during the rainy season when it now.
by the marshal on the bridge. He as we have from Oregon to Cali second, third and fourth streets,
Because the country is quite
threw his gun into Rock creek, but fornia, and but few good ones. and on up to sixth, where Inde account and persons are privileged is piled outside.
Concrete manure pits and water rough and readily reforests itself,
the marshal relieved him of a As we notice them driving along pendence Hall is. Six blocks long, to deposit up to $2500. Being
large knife, and later picked the the highway they are uninvited, and as each block is a furlong' in placed in this classification raises gutters in the barns, preferably many believe it should be used
gun out of the stream. This man many of them having a dirty ap length, that makes three-fourths of the prestige of the local postof concrete, will save this loss of for the raising of timber, mainly.
A committee was appointed; after
spent the night and the next day pearance, with few conveniences. a mile. And the other line coming fice, in the opinion of Postmaster valuable fertilizer.
some discussion, to investigate the
in the local jail and Tuesday morn Even the service stations do not from the east, was just as long.” Messing. Although it will not per
County agent Nelson is arrang feasibility of printing circulars,
ing the marshal took him to St. attempt to keep their entrances
“The doors were to close at mit the hiring of more help, it ing a series of meetings to discuss
Helens, where he was bound over free from mud, and coming over three o’clock,” Dean Straub said, will probably mean the extension the value of manure pits with the preferably on one sheet of- paper
to be folded to fit a large envelope.
from Fort Worth we saw several “and thousands were waiting, who of working time of one part-time dairymen of the county.
to the grand jury.
Those named were Moe, Sheeley
While Marshal Kelly was away driveways to the gas tanks a slough would not get there in time. A clerk to more hours each day.
and Pringle, who will report the
woman offered my father twenty-
from his home for a time Monday, of mud and water.
It is also announced that the
matter at the next meeting, one
five
dollars,
which
was
a
great
deal
But
the
people
here
do
not
seem
two Filipinos appeared there and
new rate on air mail is 10 cents
week
from tomorrow.
of
money
in
those
days,
if
he
would
threatened the life of himself and to mind it. Very few of the fairly
for each one-half ounce or fract
his family, according to Mrs. Kelly, large towns we have passed through give our places in the line to her ion thereof any place in the Unit
Mourn Death of Merchant.
unless the Filipino then in the lo have any paved streets in the bos- and her son. As I was just a little ed States.
Business houses in St. - Helens
cal bastile was liberated. Mr. Kel iness section, except the state high fellow then, and my father want
closed Monday afternoon and the
ly has since posted a reward of way that runs through, and often ed me to see the President he re
chamber of commerce postponed its
$25 for information leading to the mud is six inches deep in the main fused."
luncheon meeting to pay. lpst re
Dean Straub described the posit
arrest and conviction of these men. streets of the town.
spects to Thomas H. Ray, promin
The
Vernonia
Parent-Teacher ent grocery and business man of
It is a long, rather monotonous ion of the body as it lay in state,
association will observe Founders the county seat, who died at the
trip from El Paso to Fort Worth, in the middle of. a big rotunda.
day with an appropriate program Good Samaritan hospital, Portland,
with all kinds of roads. The dis The occasion was one of the most
at their regular meeting tomorrow Saturday night. Roy was suddenly
tance is 635 miles. The first day solemn, as Dean Straub explains.
The art exhibit shown at the afternoon in the high school. The
stricken last Wednesday while at
out we left in a fog, with 40 miles President Lincoln’s casket, as the
Washington school four days last message of the national president
tending to business affairs and his
of pavement, and after the fog speaker remembered it, was of the
week
was
viewed
by
many
local
will be read by Mrs. Cameron.
death was a great shock to the
lifted made good time. The road very best mahogany, with gold
folks
with
interest.
More
than
$20
Mrs. Sloane will read a paper community. Funeral services were
winds around small mountain rang handles. Guards were placed about
was taken in by the school from on “Thirty Years of Child Wel held
from
the
Congregational
es for 100 miles, keeping at an the room, and always the two lines
patrons of the exhibit. This money fare;" and those present will be church and burial was in the Scap
‘elevation of 3,000 te 4,000 feet. were moving through, one on each
will
be
used
to
buy
pictures
for
side of the casket.
entertained with a song by Mrs. j poose cemetery. He is survived by
A varied and interesting enter At Van Horn a cross road comes
Dean Straub relates how his the school. These have not been Wolff. A birthday cake holding a widow and two children.
tainment will be presented by the down from the north and goes
father impressed the sight upon selected yet.
30 candles will be served in ob
Parent Teacher association in the southeast to San Antonio, while
More than 150 fine reproduct servance of Founders day.
him. “Look at Lincoln’s face,” my
the
Fort
Wlorth
road
continues
east
Majestic theatre Jjlonday night.
father told me, “ and then look ions of the world’s famous mas
Besides a moving picture, the fol and north. In this state the road
HATTIE GENEVA NICHOLS
at the face of all these guards terpieces of art were shown. The
lowing numbers have been arrang work is done by counties, with
about the room. Now, look at his reproductions were of the finest
state
assistance
on
the
state
high
The
funeral of Hattie Geneva
ed.
types produced, showing the origin Nichols was held in the Brown
ways. At each county line a new face again.”
“Goin’ Home,” “My Little Ban
“And I looked!” Dean Straub al colors and strokes of the brush, funeral home here Sunday at 2
style of road appears, and we had
jo,” high school glee club; tam
everything from pavement to mud. said emphatically. “And I shall al as they were produced by special p. m., with relatives and many
The fifth annual Rebekah con
bourine dance, Sonoma Blair and
We were informed at the Automo ways remember it. I wish that I new processes.
friends present. Geneva died Feb vention of Columbia county at St.
Flora Roles; selection by the Camp
were
an
artist
or
sculptor,
I
could
Among the famous paintings ruary 10, after an illness lasting Helens Thursday was pronounced a
bile club in El Paso that the road
Fire girls; sailor’s hornpipe, Jack
was -all good except when it rained, reproduce that face exactly from were such subjects as, “Mona Lisa,” about two months, which was de huge success by those attending.
Taylor, Laverne Adams, Joe Mag-
and the« the dirt roads were bad. memory, such a firm, kindly mouth, by Da Vinci, the original in the scribed as acute rheumatism fever. Many were present from Clatskan
off and Yataka Kuge; girls’ drill,
For the first 350 miles the road and chin which receded, ever bo Louvre, Paris, is said to be valued
Geneva was born December 13, ie, Rainier, St. Helens, Vernonia
seventh grade; “In the Gloaming,”
was mostly goo<X with a few places slightly. Such a strong, fatherly at $5,000,000; “The Song of the 1919 at Jordan, Montana; and was and other towns.
“The Big Brown Bear,” Miss . Jean
Lark,” by Jules Breton, original the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve
a little rough. After we had gone face.”
The afternoon session was called
Mitchell, Mesdames W. Wolfe, F.
“What a pity that man had to in the Art institute, Chicago;
about 200 miles we began to meet
land T. Nichols. A few months ago to order at 2:30 by the chairman,
Shinn, R. Holcomb, M. Moe, C.
die!
”
Professor
Straub
went
on
“Hope,” by George Fredrick Watts, the family moved to Vernonia in Sister Maude Mills of St. Helens.
cars plastered with red clay mud,
Reithner; violin solo “Meditation,”
and upon inquiry at a service stat reminiscently. “He would have done in Tate gallery, London; “The Pot
Mrs. F. Shinn; “The Ghost Story,” ion were told that a seven-mile so much for the South, welcomed of Basil,” by John W. Alexander, the hope that the change would The address of welcome was given
comedy in one act by Booth Ifark- stretch of road 150 miles east was them back like renegade children in Boston Public museum; "Con be a benefit to the little girl’s by Francis Davis of St. Helens and
the response by Gladice Smith of
ington, coached by Mrs. J. Green in bad shape on account of rain. And how he would have run those necticut Hills,” by Ben Foster, Met health.
Many exemplifications
While here Geneva made many Vernonia.
man. The cast of the play is as “When we reached there we learned carpet-baggers out of there. It was ropolitan Art museum, New York
of ceremonies were presented which
friends
because
of
her
sunny
and
follows:
city.
that Mitchell county had refused a pity he had to die.”
cheerful disposition who mourned were said to have been very inter
“Since that time,” Dean Straub
George .... .................. John Wardle to vote bonds for highway work
Pyrotol is Delivered
her loss sincerely. Relatives who esting.
referred
again
to
Lincoln
’
s
face,
Anna ........ . Annie Laurie Lcurd and this seven-mile stretch in a
A dinner was served at 6 o'clock
survive her are one sister who
Anna Rea Webuter low flat was in very bad condition. “I have never seen a picture of
Linnie .....
County Agent George A. Nelson
and a pageant, “StreetB of Mem
Shelia Willis ms From then on for over 100 miles, him which satisfies me. They all was in Vernonia Saturday in con lives here with Mr. and Mrs. ory,” was presented by Mrs. Smith
Grace .....
Wayne Wall through Mitchell and Taylor coun reproduce the stern, set lines, which nection with the distribution of a Nichols and one sister and a later in the evening. Dora Sex
Mary .......
Dudley Spencer ties, we had an unimproved country were all smoothed out after his carload of Pyrotol, government brother in Montana.
Tom ........
Rev. O. L. Curtis of the Christ ton, president of the Rebekah as
................. Russell Mils road. They said the road was good death. No, the pictures are un powder, here to local farmers and
Lynn
ian
church preached
the funeral sembly of Oregon, gave an Inter
satisfactory.
Take
for
instance,
this
except
when
it
rained.
But
it
had
for county rpad work. A total of
The proceeds of the entertain
The
sermon.
Interment
was
in the esting and instructive talk.
one
which
has
been
displayed
in
21.550 pounds of the blasting pow
ment will be used entirely for pub rained for three days! We would
invitation to meet in Rainier next
Vernonia
cemetary.
a
store
for
the
last
few
days,
a
der arrived, 16,000 pounds of
lic school equipment. There will nass through a stretch of mud at
year was accepted.
be a school children’s matin- ee & to 15 miles an hour, then strike horrible thing; no character to it, which was a road order and 5,550
Vernonia post of the American
Those present from Vernonia
a
regular
flap-jack
face.
Lincoln
a.
harder
surface
and
think
our
pounds going to farmers to be Legion was the recent recipient of were Attie Cameron, Sarah Spenc
Monday at 2:30 p. m., and hot le
was
not
like
that.
”
n
used in clearing land.
made candy will be for sale at troubles were over. Then would
six packs of playing cards from er, Nan Hall, Rhoda Hall. Gladice
come a detour on acount of wash
both entertainments.
Mr. Nelson states that no orders John Roebling’s Sons company of Smith, Mrs. Reese, Myrtle Johns,
The Jones shingle mill at Kea-
ed out bridges, and back to wal sey was sold to the Snider Shingle will be taken for powder to be de Portland. They were said to have Mrs. O. H. Langfelt. Irene Spencer,
St Helens Knights of Pythias lowing through the mud. The last company of Carlton Friday. John livered this year after July 1. After been put to good use before and Edna Kilby, May Mellinger, Emil
will spend $30,000 on modern lod| ;e detour of eight miles took us an Hay and A. E. Jones will continue that date he will start taking or after the meeting last Tuesday Messing, Sumner Cameron and L.
night.
Brown.
with their logging operations.
ders for 1928.
Please turn to page 5
building.
Two Filipinos Escape After
Holdup in Noodle Parlor.
Membership Committee Re
ported 65 Paid Up
Also Holdup In Pool Hall
Pirk To H sv 8 a Maiker
Asserts Many Pic-
tores ai Injustice
To Abraham Lincoln
local Postoffice is
Savings Depository
Parent-Teacher Assn.
To Present Benefit
Entertainment Monday
Many See Art Exhibit
At Washington School
Founders Day To
Be Observed By
P.-T. Association
Rabekah Convention At
St. Helens Big Success