r* 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