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Entered at Vernonia, Oregon,
Postoffioe as Second-Class Mutter.
Bond Election
Is Voted Down
VERNONIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927.
O. A. C. Campus Week End
All Set For May 13-14
Campus week-end, the gala time
of college students, has been set
for May 13 and 14. The freshmen
will announce themselves free from
rook traditions when they burn their
rook lids at the “burning of the
’ green,” an event outstanding in
the life pf every freshman. An-
; other traditional event looked for­
ward to by every freshman and
sophomore is the rook-sophomore
tug-of-war. The losing class is
thrown into the mill race by the
winners.
Outstanding among the week-ends
festivities are the athletic events.
No Movement Ha» Been Started Yet
The first intercollegiate polo tourn­
To Call Another Election For
ament to be played on the local
field will start May 12, Washing­
A Lesser Bond Issue
ton, Stanford and Oregon agricul­
tural college polo teams will cross
By a vote of 207 for and 67 mallets in this three-day meet to
against, the $75,000 bond isue voted determine the coast championship.
on Saturday by the taxpayers of The first annual Oregon state in­
school district 47 was defeated. terscholastic track and field meet
Local sentiment was strongly against in which 26 high schools through­
the expenditure of this amount of out the state have entered will
money* for the school a« it nau be run off Saturday. The high school
coaches will be given a banquet
been planned.
in the evening following the meet.
Many who voted against the bond
Varsity tennis teams of the Uni-
issue, declared that they were in ! versity of Oregon and the Aggies
favor of construction of some kind will clash in a dual meet, while
to alleviate the class room situa­ the rooks meet the Oregon frosh
tion, and thus take the children in their first game of the series.
out of the basement rooms. Others Another feature of Saturday’s event
said they were opposed to any ad­ is the rook baseball game with the
ditional building at this time, that Oregon yearlings.
taxes are too high now.
The annual junior vaudeville Fri­
No concerted effort ds being day night will be the opening event.
started yet for the calling of an­ Stunts will be presented by the
other election, since the overwhelm­ three upper classes and several
ing defeat of the recent one leaves features will be added to the pro­
supporters of the project in doubt gram including a musical review.
as to whether any amount of ad­
ditional taxation would be passed
upon favorable by the taxpayers.
Taxpayers Vote Against The
$75,000 Issue.
67 For; 267 Against
Parent-Teacher Assn.
Elects New Officers
The parents and teachers of
Vernonia held their last meeting
of this school year at the Wash­
ington school on Monday evening.
The following officers were elect­
ed for next year: President, Mrs.
Madge Rogers; vice president, Mrs.
E. A. Green; secretary, Miss Le-
nore Kizer; treasurer, Mrs. Mar­
jorie Cole; sergeant-at-arms, Ed­
win Condit; reporter, Mrs. O. A.
Anderson.
The society voted to help Mrs.
John L. Storla of St. Helens, who
is county P.-T. A president, and
one of the state vice presidents,
to the 31st annual national con­
vention of the Congress of Par­
ents and Teachers to be held at
Oakland, Cal., this summer.
Jack Taylor, a seventh grade
boy, told how the seventh grade
earned the picture of “Phantom
Canyon” in a most interesting man­
ner. .
The association has been , respon­
sible for placing four pictures in
the grade schools and one in the
high school through competitive
attendance of the parents at the
meetings. The rooms winning pic­
tures are taught by Mrs. P. Wilker­
son, Mrs. E. Ray, Miss K. Mitchell,
Mrs. M. Nichol, Mrs. Neil and the
freshman class.
The association gave $20 toward
securing a county moving picture
machine for use in the schools of
the county. The Vernonia schools
will keep the machine a portion
of the time and show educational
pictures.
The members paid their dues- for
next year in accordance with a
new rule passed by the state or­
ganization.
The secretary, . Miss
Kizer is still receiving dues from
those who wish to pay for 1927-28.
—Contributed.
Study Club Electa
Control of Fire Is
Taught Young Men
Campfire building and control of
fire has been made an important
part of the training at the Y. W.
C. A. summer camp at Spirit lake
on the Columbia national forest.
Their plans might well be followed
by other individuals and groups,
according to forest service men who
have seen the system work at this
camp.
The Y. W. C. A. camp director
is deputized as a U. a. forest
service fire guard and given auth­
ority to issue the regular camp
fire permit. When a group of
boys starts out for a hike or a
woods trip, he issues one permit
to the trip-leader. So far as pos­
sible, location and time of all pro­
posed camping places and camp
fires are set down on the permit
and the forest fire lookouts in­
formed by tel-.ph >ne.
The trip-leader then issues per­
mits to squad-leaders, all of whom
are older boys, for the building
of single camp fires. Before the
permit is issued the trip-leader
murt be satisfied that the fire
is to be located in a safe place,
before the party leaves the camping
spot the squad-leader puts out the
fire completely, the trip-leader in­
spects the work, and they both
initial the permit. All permits are
filed with the camp director up­
on return to the main camp. Ab­
solutely ne fires are built by any
of the boys without a permit.
The Y. W. C. A. Spirit lake
camp has been in continuous op­
eration for nineteen years. Every
year an average of not less than
one hundred individual camp fires
are built by the boys on these
hiking trips, according to J. C
Meehan, Y. W. C. A. camp direc­
tor. Commenting on this phase of
their work, Mr. Meehan said: “It
has not only been our aim to
teach the correct methods of camp
fire building and control, but to
point out to the boys the reasons
why these safeguards are neces­
sary, and the disastrous results
that follow carelessness in this di­
rection. In addition to this prac­
tical field training, the subject of
forest fires is dealt with in the
various camping and woodcraft
classes.”
The Vernonia Study club met at
the home of Mrs. C. W. Reithner
Thursday afternoon. New officers
for the ensuing year were elected
as follows: President, Mrs. Judd
Greenman; vice president, Mrs. A.
E. Green, secretary-treasurer, Mrs.
M. D. Cole.
The subject of the afternoon was
“The Family,” which was enthus­
When you want your strawberry
iastically discussed by all members
present. Dainty refreshments of shortcake to look extra festive,
sandwiches, tea cakes and tea were serve in individual portions. Either
make rather large rounds of bis­
served ,by the hostess.
The next meting will be held at cuit dough and split them, or cut
the home of Mrs. J. C. Lindley, I sponge cake into squares of suit­
when there will be a discussion of I able size for one person. Crush
household problems. Each member part of the berries and sugar them
is urged to be present with some at least an hour before they ara
problems to be solved.
I wanted. If the shortcakes must
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Teaching the family to throw T,hipped cr<,arn MperateIy.
the bed covers straight back from
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the bed when arising and not to | The pattern on colored dishes
throw them sidewise is an aid wears off evenly if the dishes are
to the bed maker.
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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 39
County W.C.T.U. Me’ County Pomona Grange
In St. Helens Friday; Will Meet With The
To Build Cottage Yankton Grange May 7
Mrs.
Sarah
Spencer and
Mrs.
Min­ Large
nie Malmsten Elected Vice Presi­
dent and Secretary Respectively.
The Columbia County Women’s
Christian Temperance union held a
county convention in the Methodist
church of St. Helens Friday. A
motion was carried at this meet­
ing that the county organization
build a cottage for the Children’s
Farm Home at Corvallis.
New officers were elected for
the coming year as follows: Mrs.
Effie Wilson of St. Helens, presi­
dent; Mrs. Sarah Spencer of Ver­
nonia, vice president; Mrs. Min­
nie Malmsten of Vernonia, corres­
ponding and recording secretary;
Mrs. Annata Condon of Columbia
City, treasurer.
The resolutions committee report­
ed as follows: This W. C. T. U.
county convention declares our sup­
port to all officers who are trying
to enforce not only the prohibition
law but also all other laws.
At noon a banquet was served
by the St. Helens ladies. In the
afternoon Mrs. M. D. Cole presented
a paper on “Total Abstinence.”
Mrs. W. W. Wolff sang a solo In
the afternoon.
The Lesson Of
Tree Planting
By Morda V. Coleman
A group of children stood on
the open prairie and shivered In
the raw, spring wind. Back of
them was the little town. In front
there was nothing but rolling, tree­
less plains, faintly tinged with
green. It was Arbor Day. All over
the country children were learning
a lesson in the planting and grow­
ing of trees. Each grade in this vil­
lage school was planting a tree
in what was to be the yard about
the new schoolhouse. As yet, there
was nothing to indicate either yard
or schoolhouse, except for the four
corner stakes.
The boys had dug the holes In
the half frozen ground and the
baby trees, elm, several kinds of
maple, and black walnut, were care­
fully unwrapped. A thin, little girl
planted the elm tree for the fifth
grade. She hated the treeless prai­
rie. To her nothing could have
been more satisfying than to think
that from the tiny sapling which
she lowered so carefully into place,
a large tree would grow to give
shade on withering summer days
and make a home for birds.
She planted other trees in the
yard of her home and watched
them carefully during the summer
months which followed. The dry
winds and blazing sun killed many
of them in spite of her motherly
care. Tree growing was not at
all easy in that prairie state.
She carried water from the near­
est well to her elm t tree in the
school yard. It grew, very slowly,
to be sure, but year after year
added to its girth and height. When
the new schoolhouse was finally
built, the fifth grade tree was
larger than those belonging to any
of the grades because the others
had been planted several times be­
fore one lived.
Year after year the homesteaders
on the land about planted tree
windbreakers to the north of their
buildings. Sometimes, if several
years in succession were dry, it
took ten years before their little
groves were started. After the first
hot June winds every year the
box elder trees in town looked fray­
ed and worn and seemed about to
give up the unequal struggle against
the elements.
The girl was jubilant when her
father announced that they were
leaving the prairie and moving to
Class
Initiated;
Grange
in
of
Candidates
Rainier
To
Invites
Be
State
1928.
The Columbia county Pomona
grange will meet with the Yankton
grange May 7 for their regular
quarterly meeting. Yankton has
promised the largest class to be
initiated that Pomona has ever had.
With a concerted effort being
made to Becure the approval of
the state grange to meet at Rain­
ier in 1928, it is pointed out that
Columbia county has never enjoyed
the pleasure of entertaining the
state grange and the committee
from the Pomona grange asks the
cooperation of the members of each
grange in the state to help them get
the 1928 session at Rainier.
Longview is inviting the Washing­
ton state grange to meet there in
1928, and it is possible that the
two state granges will be meeting
across the river from each other
at the same time.
Many Cities Will Have
Floats In Rose Festival
From letters being received at
headquarters of the Portland Rose
Festival and pageant “Rosaria” in
the Oregon building, more cities
and communities will be represent­
ed by floats, bands, and marching
bodies in the fiesta from June 13
to 18 this year than ever before.
S. C. Pier,« Portland business
man and director of the Rose Fes­
tival, is making a tour of Oregon
in the interest of the big event
and reports interest in the 1927
fiesta, is state wide.
Cities are planning to enter
floats in the annual floral parade
or take part in the Merrykhana
parade to feature thier agricultural
and Industrial possibilities and take
advantage of the opportunity to
get their story before the thousands
of visitors attracted to Portland
each year for the festival.
Holman B. Ferrin, superinten­
dent of the St. Helens schools has
been appointed Columbia county
chairman of the Greater Oregon
club for the 1927 summer session
of the University of Oregon. The
university is simultaneously hold­
ing two sessions, from June 20 to
July 29, one at Eugene, the other
in Portland.
a state where trees grew. Still she
was sorry to leave the elm tree
which seemed very large to her
then. In the years which followed
she planted many other trees and
flowers but nothing ever gave her
the satisfaction that had come from
planting the elm on the treeless
prairie.
In her grownup years she came
to
the state of Washington,
where grow the tallest trees in
America. She walked one summer
in the cathedral of a Douglas fir
forest and saw the branches form­
ing a green ceiling 100, 200 feet
above her head. The elm tree which
had seemed so large would be but
a shrub in these forests.
She had often "shinnied” up
the trunks of trees in her home
state. She could not reach both
arms around even one side of the
brown trunks of the Douglas fir
trees, set like massive columns,
so closely together that only birds
could make their way freely through
the forests.
Underneath the trees the forest
floor was covered with vegetation,
almost tropical in its luxuriance
and size. Ferns stood breast-high.
Green velvet moss draped trees and
fallen limbs. The ground wasmoist
and damp, seemingly filled with
inexhaustible riches.
MOTHER O’ MINE
If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o’ Mine
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o’ Mine.
If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o’ Mine
I know whose tears would come down to me
Mother o’ Mine.
If I were damned of body and soul,
Mother o’ Mine
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ Mine.
New Oregon Mineral
Has Been Discovered
City To Use
Water Meters
University of Oregon, Eugene
Ore., May 2—A new Oregon min­
eral has been discovered by Eugene
Callaghan of Beaverton, graduate
assistant in geology, while on a
field trip to collect material for
his master’s thesis, it has just been
disclosed.
Callaghan, who set out with only
a handpick for digging fossils, ;■
can opener, a knife and a blanket,
found deposits of this mineral on
the Oregon coast. At Hecta Head,
in exploring the sea-lion caves,
one of which was 1200 feet long
and 200 feet high, Callaghan found Maximum Water Usa Under -2 Rate
a fossilized sea-lion 11 feet long
la Raised From 2000 Gallons
and weighing more than a ton. Ir
the cave there were some 200 lions,
To 3000 Gallons.
and their roars reverberated through
the cavern when they emerged per­
iodically from the water, their long
It will be necessary in the fu­
mustaches dripping with water.
ture for all persons desiring to
use water for any purpose other
Summer Railroad Travel Urged
than domestic use, which means
The S. P. & S. railroad has an sprinkling, irrigating, washing of
nounced the lowering of travel windows, buildings, sidewalks, au­
rates to St. Paul, Chicago and New tomobiles, etc., to apply for a per­
York for the summer season, com­ mit, according to an ordinance pass­
mencing May 22. R. M. Aldrich, ed by the city council Monday
local agent, announces that he will night.
be glad to assist anyone planning
Upon the payment of $6 deposit
an extended trip to any part of
a meter will be installed on the
the United States.
premises.
Upon the discontinu­
ance of this service the deposit
Prohibition Movie Shown
“Lest We Forget,” a prohibition is refunded, according to the or­
film that is said to be one of the dinance. It is necessary that all
most powerful dramas ever present­ persons using water for other than
ed through the motion pictures, domestic use apply immediately for
was shown at the Evangelical church the meter, as there is a penalty
Tuesday night. It gave a dramatic attached for failure to do so.
A change in the minimum am­
portrayal of the tragedies of the
ount of water that can be used for
old saloon days.
$2 is effective now. The former
imount was 2000 gallons; it waa
raised to 3000 gallons. There ia
also a change for the large water
users which makes the rates low­
er for them. The charge for the
first 3000 gallons is $2 next 10,000
gallons, 40 cents per thousand;
Teddy Leavitt, who finished a
next 20,000 gallons, 20 cents per
series of evangelistic meetings at
the Christian church Thursday night, thousand; next 60,000 gallons, 20
:enta per thousand; all over 103,-
is now conducting similar meting,
000 gallons, 15 cents per thousand.
at Santa Rosa, will return here
The type of meter that will be
July 1 to become the pastor of
used is called the “Watchdog,"
the local church for the coming
made by the Gamon Meter Co.,
year, it was announced at a recent
and sold by M. L. Cline Co., of
meeting of the church board.
Portland.
The full ordinance is
While leaving here Thursday printed on page 3.
night Reverend Leavitt had a slight
accident near Treharne while driv Oregon Said Favorable
ing. His ear skidded into a mailbox
For Angor a and Mohair
and went off the road. Although
Mohair and wool are entirely
his windshield was broken, he was
uninjured. After securing aid to different but in the public mind
put the car back on the road, he are seriously confessed, said A. C.
continued to Newberg, where his Gage, editor of the Angora Journal,
in an illustrated lecture on “From
family lives.
Rev. Leavitt telephoned from Field to Fabric” delivered before
Forest Grove yesterday that he the O. A. C. agricultural and homo
would be in Vernonia Sunday for economics clubs. Still other errors
the morning and evening services. are going to the other extreme
A special feature of the morning and calling it horse, hog or dog
service, Mr." Leavitt said, would bristles, he said. Even the federal
be the presentation of a bouquet government classes wool and mo­
to the oldest and youngest mothers hair together in reporting export
trade.
present.
Oregon used to be third on all
states in mohair production but
Circuit Court Jury
is letting golden opportunities to
List For May Drawn develop
a big and important In­
Watts, J. G., Scappoose, Mer­ dustry slip by, the speaker thinks
chant; Weed, Judson, Vernonia, as it has dropped to seventh place.
Climate and topography as well
farmer; Wallis, Chales J., Yankton,
as vegetation were said to con­
farmer; Wood, H. M., Vernonia, stitute a highly favorable condi­
farmer; Walkey, C. B., Clatskanie, tion for profitable Angora pro­
farmer; Van Orden W. J., Clats­ duction.
kanie, farmer; Wonderly, O. E.,
One of the big problems tn
Clatskanie, Retired; Evenson, J. W., making mohair from Angoria fleec­
Clatskanie, timberman; Anderson, es is getting rid of the bristly-like
H. J., Warren, farmer; Welinder, hairs known as kemp. The best
N. O., St. Helens, millman; Bailey, place to get rid of it is in the
R. H. Rainier, merchant; Akin, J. breeding pens, Mr. Gage contended.
W., St. Helens, retired; DeGraff, By mating up animals of good
Clay E., Scappoose, farmer; Al­ general type especially free of the
dridge, J. H. Clatskanie, retired; objectionable kemp the coming
George, Jacob, St. Helena, retir­ herds will have less and less of
ed; King, R. C., Clatskanie, labor it
Specimens of mohair cloth of
er; Duncan, J. B., Scappoose, re­
tired; Chellberg, Axel, Warren, the "Velmo”, velvet-mohair type
farmer; Bryant, Jesse, Clatskanie, shown, one from a curtain used
grangeman; Allen, J. W., St. Hel­ in an old cathedral for 40 yean.
ens, Realtor; Conibear, S. H., Yank­ This sample showed no effects of
ton, farmer; Mallaber, E. E., Goble, the ravages of time and wear,
farmer; Karth, Wm. Houlton, lab­ either in texture or color. It was
orer; Iler, Carl, Mist, farmer; Con­ still as brilliant and unworn as
yers, C. L., Clatskanie, merchant; when just of the loom.
The college classes in anima! hus­
Kiblan, A. T. Houlton, merchant;
Anliker, R. Sr., Goble, farmer; bandry have work in goat man­
Boeck, L. C„ Vernonia, farmer; agement and feeding, and the ex­
Kellar, Orris,
Rainier, farmer; periment station specialists are car­
Kavanagh, P. J., St. Helens, real­ rying on work in pasture improve­
ment and parasite control. Growen
tor.
are cordially invited by Professor
She came to a cleared space O. M. Nelson, in charge of ths
where a settler had long ago started work, to inspect the college flock­
a homestead. Great stumps, some management and pest work, and
twice the height of a man, were cooperate in exchange of informa­
mute reminders of the trees which tion. The mohair film will bo
te homesteader had felled to clear shown again in the college textile
his land. The cabin still stood, its rooms this spring.
hand-rived shakes and log walla as
A community livestock-shipping
sound and waterproof as the day association is a considerable advan­
it was raised.
tage to the shipper with less than
(Caatixaed Next Week)
a carload.
Council Passes New Ordinance
Governing Water Ise.
Oc¡nestle Use Flat Rate
Teddy Leavitt To B j
Pastor of Local Church