Éntered ut Vernonia, Oregon, Postoffioe as Second-Class Matter. VERNONIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 41. i School Days Soon Ended Commencement Exercises To Be Held Friday Night In Evangelical Church t ,. Prof. N. H. Comiah of Oregon Ag ricultural College Commencement to Deliver Address. Twenty-eight students will re ceive their diplomas at the com mencement evercises of Vernonia union high school to be held Fri day night in the Evangelical church, according to Principal J. B. Wil kerson. This is the largest class ever to have graduated from the local school and exceeds by one, the class of last year. Prof. N. H. Cornish, of the de partment of economics and sociol ogy at the Oregon Agricultural college, will deliver the commence ment address. He has a reputa tion of being a delightful and in teresting speaker, and those who have heard him before are said to_be always anxious to hear him again. The program for Friday night is as follows: March .......... Miss Louise Malmsten Invocation..........Rev. G. W. Plumer Piano solo............ Miss Amy Hughes Vocal duet ....................... Misses Lavelle Gosa and Thelma Spencer Cornet solo................ Ralph Reithner Address.............. Prof. N. H. Cornish Song ........................................ M. Moe Presentation of diplomas............. ........................... Bruce McDonald Song ................... Mrs. W. W. Wolff Benediction............Mrs. M. D. Cole Oakland Landau Wins Praise on Long Trip Recognition of the scientific pro gress made within the last few years in the maunfacture of auto mobiles caused the 100,000-mile Oakland landau sedan to be re ceived on the recent Northwest lap of its nation-encircling tour with ths same lively evidences of ap preciation that had marked its trip previously through 21 states from the day it left the General Motors building in Detroit. The famous car traversed the coast from San Diego northward to Vancouver, B. C., then proceed ing eastward through Spokane and Butte, staying for a few hours at each of the larger cities and for shorter periods in the smaller cities and towns. At every point it was an object of keen public interest, parades being held in many places in acocrdance with arrangements made by W. M. Warren, district manager of the Oakland Motor Car company, for Oregon and Washing ton; E. T. Whitall, district mana ger of the factory sales develop ment department; W. G. Carr, C. L. Pugh and H. S. Weller, field re presentatives of the factory, and officials of the company in Idaho and Montana, assisted by dealers at all the points touched by the car. In many states, including those of the Northwest, governors and university presidents, mayors, city councilmen and representatives of civic and quasi-public bodies vied in honoring the 100,000-mile Oak land. On its eastern tour J. H. Res sler, representing the Campbell- Ewald company, an international advertising organization, with Karl R. Schnorr, the driver,, and Charles E. Planck, advance man who were in charge of the tour, were receiv ed by President Coolidge at the White House. This Oakland landau is a stock car, one of the first built with the rubber silenced chassis. Stopping only for refueling and minor re placements, it ran for 163 days and nights on a treadmill in the Gen eral Motors building at Detroit, and was stopped when the speed ometer indicated exactly 100.000 miles. Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit pressed the starting button at 6:01 P. M. on July 29. 1926, and the run stopped at 4:40 A. M January 9, 1927. "In this endurance run. in which the average mileage of ten years was compressed into less than six months, the needed replacements Please turn to page 2 Rain Soaked Roads Impede Motorists (By A. D. Mos) Albert Lea, Minn., May 3; 1927. We are again on our way home and traveling in between rains much like in heavy traffic in a large city. We go a short distance and then are held up figuratively by a red light signal until the mud dries up and then move on again. We left St. Paul for Neillsville, Wis., expecting to leave there Sat urday with the car, but it rained hard all night and part of Friday, so that the mudholes in the roads around that town were again stall ing cars. We did not attempt to leave until Sunday morning, and farmers in Clark county, Wis., de clare they will not vote for paved roads for tourists to drive over. They even opposed clearing the main highways of snow this winter. A man operating a milk route was using a team to get through the mud and met a farmer with his car stalled in a hole, who asked to be pulled out. "You voted against the road bonds, didn’t you?” asked the milk man. “You bet I did,” answered the farmer. “Then stay there,” said the milk man, as he continued on his way. This story is told around Neills ville with a good deal of satisfac tion. that the farmer got what he deserved. Except for the occasional deep ruts where the bad holes have dried out sufficiently to wallow through we found the roads good for the 83-mile ride to LaCrosse, with quite a bit of pavement as we neared that city. The country, after leav ing the flat marsh land of Clark county is mostly rolling hills, which are now showing green pastures and occasionally grain coming up, while the trees are just beginning to leave out. The hills are quite high as we neared the Mississippi river, and the road makes quite a grade of a mile or two in going over a high ridge, with a deep rock cut at the summit, very similar to some of the west coast mountain roads. At LaCrosse we had a nice visit with out nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Benno W. Meyer, and were taken for a drive around this city, one of the prettiest in Wis consin. LaCrosse has a population of over 30,000, with several large industries, one of which, the Na tional Gauge Co., employes 1600 men. The city lies between the bluffs which rise up on each side of the Mississippi river, and spring is more advanced there than other districts surrounding it. The Black and LaCrosse rivers empty into the Mississippi here and the high wa ter now covers most of the lowland until it is about three miles wide at this point. The crest of the flood has passed and the water is several feet lower at this high mark. A causeway and bridges cross the river and lowlands to LaCreacent, Minn., where we also were enter tained by our eousin, Mrs. Wm. Kramer, and family. They are op erating a fruit and flower farm on the slopes of the bluff in the edge of town, selling their product In the LaCrosse markets. Quiet a few small apple orchids are located a- round there, and they are generally well taken care of. They were able to get about a dollar a bushel In the local market last season. I have seen no Hood River ap ples in the markets since I left Milwaukee, those on sale in St. Paul and around here being from Washington. Hood River Red Dia mond Newtowns were selling In Milwaukee at 10c a pound. Prices around here are 10 to 12 cents for Washington Winesaps. The rain delayed us again, so we stopped over until Tuesday morning. Heavy clouds threatened rain again, but the roads were good on the way west, until we got with in 50 miles of Austin, Minn., when a cold wind with occasional show ers made a disagreeable drive, and we soon ran into soft spots in the road, but were able to get through to Albert Lea. From here the best road is by way of Mason City, Iowa, and we have hopes of reach ing Omaha, without further delay unless rain puts up another stop signal on the heavy gumbo roads in Iowa. Sidney, Nebraska, May 6, 1927. We reached here this afternoon after a hard day's ride, crawling through mud most of the time. A misty rain with a wind gives it the appearance of a blizzard, with snow reported in the mountains, so Pomona Grange Favors Frosts Damaged Many Re-enactment of The Tender Gro s In The State Income Tax Law Pacific Northwest New Juvenile Grange Organized at Yankton; Next Pomona Meet ing at Natal Angait 6. Early Fruits and Vegatables Re tarded by Cool Weather; Low (By Lililan Daniels) Columbia county Pomona met with Yankton Grange No. 301 at Yank ton May 7, for their 95th regular session. Master Warren Young was in the chair and State Master Geo. Palmiter, was a welcome visitor. Reports from all grange» show some gain in membership, good at tendance at meetings, and much activity in committee work. Quite a few are busy with community projects, and all are in fair shape financially. Yankton has just or ganized a Juvenile grange with 38 members making 3 Juvenile granges in Columbia county. Resolutions on the death of two members, Al Duffy of Armstrong grange and Harold Carter of Beav er Homes grange, were passed; and a memorial tribute to Brother C. E. Spence was read. A resolution submitted by Deer Island grange in favor of “the re-enactment of an income tax law” was adopted; also “one favoring the settlement of all property rights between the United States and our neighbors to the south of us by arbitration.” A resolution submitted by War ren grange asking that our repre sentatives petition congress to in vestigate the matter of having the government manufacture powder for distribution, at cost, to the farmers for land clearing purposes and for road improvement” was adopted. We also had for a visitor the chairman of the Agriculture com mittee of Portland Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Flavel who gave us a very interesting address; paying a high tribute, at the beginning of his speech, to our departed fro ther C. E. Spence, telling of “his interest in all grange matters, of his clear-sightedness on all projects undertaken for the good of the people, of bis pleasing personality, and of his long years of work for the grange and his loss to our state. Brother Flavel gave a very instruc tive speech, and we were sorry his time was limited, and hope he can be with us again. The lecturer’s program was well filled. Brother Palmiter gave a talk on the measures to be voted upon next month, June „8, and asks that all granges thoroughly discuss them, and all go to the poll« and vote. A short talk by County agent, brother Nelson, on “Life on the farm and farm co-operation,” was enjoyed. Sister Maud Mills had a fine article on the history of the or ganization of Columbia county gran ges. It was to be regretted that the time was limited so she could not read it all. Recitation«, songs, violin sole, monologue and readings ending with a song by a group of Yankton’s young people made a progrant enjoyed by all. The Fifth degree was exempli fied for a class of 45. Yankton had a splendid dinner and supper and after the degree work a mid night lunch was served. There were about 200 present, although some had to leave before evening, but Yankton received a vote of thanks for making our 95th session pleas ant and enjoyable. Next Pomona meeting will be with Natal grange No. 302, August 6. April provided many setback» for what had promised to be an early season. Floods and other weather disturbances were reported over the country. Crop acreages will be changed in some respects, partic ularly in the flood areas. Yields will be reduced because of rains and frosts in some places, while other areas have been benefitted by the increased moisture. Farm population decreased 649,- 000 persons last year, the greatest loss $ince 1920. The estimates in dicate a total loss of around 3,000,- 000 in farm population since the census, of 1920. This is a faetor of more consequence than all cur rent shifts of weather, production or prices. The east experienced typically variable weather last month, heat waves and freezes. Frosts of last month damaged early fruit in the* northern Pacific coast and to an undertermined extent in California, where cotton, melons and other ten der crops also suffered. Citrus fruits doing well; navals blooming and Valencias colored in the south. The picking of navals continues. Wages in the United States have seen a slight increase and the retail price of food is a little low er. Wholesale prices have remained about the same. Most observers ap pear to regard the business situa tion as satisfactory, with productive activity above normal, employment fairly complete and wages high. Interest rates continue low, with consequent ease in the credit sit uation. Bank clearings* railway traf fic, retail sales all reflect a heavy volume of business. TLC exchange value of all farm products in terms of all non-agri- cultural commodities continued at 82 per cent of the pre-war. The supply of farm labor is larger in relation to demand than last year, but high industrial wages have ap parently acted to maintain farm wages at about last year’s level. Reports of sales of dairy cows in Oregon at prices below the mar ket continue to come in, but avail able stock is scarce. All informa tion on the economic outlook for dairying indicates that the industry is in.a very firm position and like ly to continue so far some time to come. Condensed milk made a very sub stantial gain in March resulting in a net increase for tha calendar year of approximately four per cent over 1926. Cheese production still continues to run eight to 10 per cent below last year. Condensed milk stocks are the lowest on re cord for any month of any year since report« first b<|ame available in 1926. "Grandma" Spencer is 76. Mrs. Sarah A. Spencer, Nehalem valley pioneer, was 76 years old Tuesday. Many of her friends called to pay her homage. The ev ening previous a group from the local posts of the American Legion and Auxiliary presented her with a large birthday cake. Mrs. Spen cer left Tuesday for Portland and Victoria, B. C., for a visit with relatives. c Legion Dance Successful The opening dance in the new Legion home was reported to be very successful, 186 couples at tended. Another dance will be giv en May 28, it is planned. The hall will be dedicated Memorial day. Price Prevailing On Cows. New Service Station Attracts Motorist« The Vernonia Service Station at Bridge and Rose streets, recently opened under the management of Roy G. Clark, is one of the most modern and up-to-date structures to be found in this or any other city, being of brick and concrete with a fire proof roof. It has a large, well lighted sales room, a full concrete basement for shop and storage, and convenient rest rooms for the traveling public. The best of pumps, tanks and other equipment have been installed. Racks for greasing, washing and oil changing have been constructed and will be enlarged in time to give "super-service” as found in the larger stations in Portland. A complete line of the highest grade lubricants, accessories and tires will be put in. All products will be sold on a fully guaranteed basis, and all service given will be guaranteed or money refunded. Customers are fully protected a- gainst the possibility of damage or personal injury by insurance. Mr. Clark is a competent and courteous salesman who has had a great deal of experience in meet ing and serving the public. He is highly versed in the repairing of tires, and lubrication. The motto of the station is "The Customer Must Be Satisfied.” R. Hornbeck spent all night Monday cutting trees across the road between St. Helens and Ver nonia arriving here about 6:80 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Thacher purchased Cleve Tisdale had his ear damag the Tom Magoff home which was ed at th» dance Saturday. Some partly destroyed by fire last week one backed into it. and are remodeling it for a homo. Baccalaureate Sermon On Sunday Impressive Rev. O. L. Curtis of the Christ ian church preached the baccalaur eate sermon to the high school graduating class Sunday which many afterwards stated was the best they had ever heard. The ser vices were held in the Christian church, with the congregation from the Evangelical church also pres ent The choir of the Evangelical church supplied the music. Their anthem was, “Great is the Lord.” Rev. W. F. Rademacher then of fered a prayer. A ladies quintet, composed of Mrs. W. W. Wolff, Miss Mitchell, Mrs. Holcomb, Mrs. M. E. Moe and Mrs. C. W. Reithner sang a selection. Later Mrs. Wolff and Mrs. Moe sang a duet. Alleged Federal Officer Arrested Jack Wilson, who claimed tc have been working in conjunction with federal prohibition officers anc the district attorney at St. Helens for the purpose of obtaining evi dence in liquor cases, was arrested ay City Marshal Kelly Friday night about 10 o’clock for being drunk 3nd having liquor in his possession. He was fined $175 by City Record- ;r Reasoner the next day. Marshal Kelly stated that th» man had been here about a week and had done nothing but loitei around the streets. Tom Poynter, who was arrested with Wilson, was fined $25. Study Club Will Send Old Clothes For Bene fit of Flood Sufferers The Vernonia Study club will send old clothes for the relief of Mississippi flood sufferers in the near future, it is announced. Those having garments to give are asked to leave them at the Vernonia bak ery or phone Mrs. J. C. Lindley, who yrill see that they are collect ed. It Js reported that cash ’contri butions to the Red Cross for the aid of the flood victims ar» not coming in very fast lately. The Bank ef Vernonia is still recalving contributions for thia causa. Raymond Hall Gets Two Homing Pigeons Raymond Hall, whose guess of 63 minute« and 45 seconds was the closest for the time of flight of two homing pigeons from the school to the Sperry Flour company mill in Portland, just prior to the guess ing contest held in town here, re ceived the two pigeons promised by the company last Thursday. It will ba necessary for him to keep the pigeons penned up for at least two months for them to become accustomed to their new home, official» of the flour com pany stated. After that they may be released and will return to him. Ladies Athletic Club Hold Festive May Party The last monthly party of the ladies athletic club was held at the club room Tuesday May 17. A delightful program was given by the committee which composed all the members who lived on the O.-A. hill. While a grand march was rendered on the piano, the prime minister entered, escorting Charlotte, queen of the faries, with her two little flower girls hold ing up her long ermine trimmed carnation robe and followed by two ladies in waiting with flowing gowns of apple green and carrying garlands of apple blossoms. The queen was crowned with a wreath of apple blossoms and escorted up on her thrown which was a bower of greenery and flowers. A may pole was placed in front of the class. Sixteen at a time pro ceeded to wind and unwind it. Queen Charlotte thanked them for the delightful time given her and then retired, after which the prime minister was discovered to be Mrs. D. Marshall the queen Charlotte Green and with little Lorane Space and Dorothy Black as pages. Mrs. E. Bell and Mrs. E. A. Green ax ladies in waiting. Mrs. Lindsey sang a solo and then followed guess ng games of which the answer to each question was the name of a club member. The coo coo game furnished many amusing stunt«, af ter which flowers were matched for partners and a grand march to the table where a delightful lun cheon was served. All regret that this is the last of the parties as the club disbands June 1. Many Attend Massjeeting Advise Directors To Build Two I lassrttMrs on Playshed Meding Was Very Stat Sentiment Waa Keeping Mostly in Favor of Down Another Year Expenses If For Possible The construction of two rooms over the school playshed at the Washington school was the advice given to the board of directors of school district 47 by the tax payers at the meeting held in the Washington school May 13. The meeting was called by the board of directors to secure the concensus >f public opinion as the course to pursue to relieve the present con gestion and improper classroom fac ilities, since the defeat of the re cent bond election. R. Sessman was elected chair man of the meeting and M. Moe secretary. W. A. Harris asked that reports on the number of pupils, the capacity of the school and the need for more rooms be made. He stated that he had heard that some rooms had less pupils than last year. Principal O. A. Anderson report ed that there are 510 pupils in school this year as compared to 195 last year. At the beginning of the school year there were 46 more than last year. Last year there were 45 five-year-old chil dren on the school census, and more .han that number entered school during the first month. This year there are reported to be 72 five- year-old children. It was pointed out that at pres ent the room intended for the pam- cipal’s office is being used «• a classroom and that it ia not M for that, with children seated wlM*- in one foot of the radiator. Someone then asked why it is not possible to repair the playaked and put two rooms in that te re lieve the situation. One person re plied that an inspector had ordered the use of the playshed stopped. Another replied that it could be repaired for less than $79,969. (applause.) When one person asked whether the eighth graders leaving were counted, which was followed kg applause, Mr. Anderson replied that there are 85 in the first grade and 50 in the eighth; that there are three teachers for the 4úmt grade and three teachers fer «be seventh and eighth grade«. It was estimated that the r'tyrtad could be repaired for use for «beedi $1000, and that part of the M«a> 000 already voted could be «and for this purpose. Mr. Harria th «a moved that the directors proceed to put two rooms over the top of the playshed in time for the Ml term. It was seconded and carried. The meeting then adjourned. Credit Association , 1« Now Functioning The Vernonia Credit association, which was recently organized, ia now functioning and local mem bers express themselves an vet* much pleased with the work and benefits derived. Monthly reports of debtors era made by the members te the eee- retary, who complies them and gives each debtor a rating. Thm information is available to a* members of the association. An in vitation is extended te al! business men to join. The officers of the association are as follows: C. S. Hoffman, presi den*; R. S. Hornbeck, vice presi dent; K. A. McNeill, treasurer; Lucile Bennett, secretary; Albert Childs, E. W. Holtham, G. C. Mellinger and C. L. Bateman, board of directors. The following firms carry mem berships: Hoffman Hardware, Bra- mott A Culver, Vernonia Drug Co, Brown Furniture company. Gill* Motor company, Melilnger Hard- Ware, Mac's Pharmacy, Nehalem Market, Sessman’a Blacksmith shop, Workingmen's Store, Crawford Mo tor company, Dr. W. H. Hurley and the Vernonia Brazing A Ma chine Works.