Thursday, September 8 1927.
___ VERNONIA FAGLE
FOUR
________
self a worthy helpmate to a n an “Air Amc . ican” Six models was the
gitis while at Camp Lewis as n in 1922.
member of Battery D, 34th Field
The first thing' was to buiid a of George Thompson’s mettle She nur >er of people who came to the
Artillery.
four-room house and one poultry was ill the day of my vis , so 1 ueal T organization’s show rooms
(Story of George Thompson, In­
‘‘"here’s really not
much
to houve. A girl baby, May, had been I < >uld not talk to her, I at it eve al days after the ahnounce-
n.
of tht cars. “Most of those
valided Soldier, now an Oregon
tell,’’ he said as we walked around born in 1919. Having established , req ires little imagination tc pic-
visitors who ciime late did so be-
I
turc
the
dark
days
she
lived
Poultryman, By A. S. Wing)
his
family,
Thompson
settled
down
the farm watching the active White
v .• someone wi,o had seen the
through while her husband v as
When George F. Thompson start­ Leghorns on range and inspecting to the bus ness of making poultry ¡fighting gallantly for his life and new Oakland in the first day or
pay.
But
he»
kept
his
weather
eye
the
neatly
kept
poultry
houses.
ed po.ultry-farming in 1922 on the
health, or the labor uncertainty so it was shown had advised them
Tumulo project near
Bend,
in “Our sandy soil is rich and we to windward and diversified to the of getting a foothold as pioneel's to come,” he continued.
extent
of
raising
vegetables
and
Central Oregon, he
1.« had
___ _ little
___ to
— have P>enty of water. We can grow
alfalfa and other legumes in pro- alfalfa hay. They bought a Jersey in a new section of the country.
“That is the best proof in the
go on except his nerve.
,
cheap cow and Mrs. Thompson put out A baby boy, Lloyd, was born to world that the new Oakland has
His health was poor from illness fusion, thus providing a
j
the
Thompsons
in
1925'.
climate
Is a strawberry patch.
made a very decided and very
contracted in the army, an illness , source proteins. The
Il< r little strawberry patch has favorable impression on the thous­
“Our 'first poultry house cost
which had kept him in the hospital mild and we have sunshine nearly
an
almost
incredible ands of motorists who have al­
$119,” he told me. “It _has more produced
for a year and had prevented him ; 365 days out of the year.
“With these factors in my favor than paid for itself. The first amor nt of fruit and plants and ready seen it.
from working for four years.
The 40-acre tract for which he all it took was some hard work year our eggs sold for an average has helped materially in the farm
“One of the reasons for tills is,
program. In 1924 berries worth
paid $2,300 was good land but and a little figuring. You can't of 38 cents a dozen and cost 12
of course, the fact that the new
$125
were
marketed
and
$75
worth
cents
to
produce.
it was covered with trees and sage­ j accomplish anything without work,
Oak binds contain
very sweeping
“The second year our 452 adult of plants; this from a quarter of changes in design. The All-Ameri­
brush, which he had to clear off. I can you, not even in the magazine
an acre. The patch has grovzn
j
business.
birds
averaged
224
eggs
each
The
He knew little of the poultry
can Six is a new model that is
I can’t quote Thompson on his eggs sold for 35 cents a dozen to a half-acre. From it were sold ready new throughout, chassis and
business except what he had learn­
in
1925
about
20,000
plants
at
ed in two short courses, lasting a , I army and hospital experience, nor and, allowing for the loss of 17
$10 a thousand 'and 100 crates of body alike. It is a car that repre­
year and a half, at Oregon Agri­ 1 on his disheartened period of re- hens, gave us a profit of $4.17
berries
at an average of about sents the very latest trends in
per
hen,
or
a
total
profit
for
the
. cuperation following his release
cultural college.
modern
automotive
engineering.
$2.50
a
crate.
he farm of $2,200.
Yet all these and other handi­ from the hospital, because
The man chiefly responsible for
The Thompsons’ house is small
“The third year, 1924, the re­
caps couldn't hold George Thomp­ I wouldn’t talk about these things
its design is B. II. Anibal, head
except to say that the reports had cords on house No. 1 showed a but cozy and the lawn is decora­ of the Oakland engineering de-
son back.
net
profit
per
hen
of
$4.10.
Our
ted
with
flower
beds
and
some
been
greatly
exaggerated.
But
here
That very first year, 1922, he
saved only 187 pullets out, of 470 are the facts as I gained them farm gross receipts that year were fine native junipers. They both
$4,700.
take an active part in affairs of
high-bred baby chicks. But in spite elswhere:
of that he grossed $960 that first
“The fourth year,
1925,
the the community. Mr. Thompson is
George F. Thompson was born
year. His hens earned $4.50 on forty years ago on a Nebraska flock was renewed by culling out president of the local poultry ciub
the average above feed costs.
farm and was raised in western some of the old hens find replacing and is always ready to give a be­
He more than doubled his prof- Kansasi At an early age he was them with pullets. The records on ginner the benefit of his experience
its the next year and the year cast upon the mercy cf a more 220 hens that year showed an and knowledge of the poultry bus­
after that. In 1925 those same or less
indifferent
world
and average of 215 eggs and a net iness. His health has been com­
40 acres grossed $6,000.
forced to shift for himself. . He profit per hen of $5.07. We sold pletely recovered and to see him I
In four years he had paid for punched cattle in Colorado and 10,000 eggs for hatching purposes today you would not suppose that
his land, buildings, a sedan and then tried his hand at wheat-farm­ in Portland at premium of 15 he had ever had a day’s illness
a smaller car in addition to provid­ ing, only to be cleanej out com­ cents a dozen, making the average in his life.—Farm and Fireside.
ing a good living for himself, a pletely in one bad season. Then price 42 cents a dozen. Our 1925
The enthusiastic reception of the
wife and two children.
he went to the coal fields of gross income was $6,000. We have
The poultry industry, which was Utah, where he worked on the three poultry houses now and keep new “All-American” Six, the lat­
est product of the Oakland Motor
very small in the Tumulo district coke ovens until the war ■ broke about 1,000 hens.”
car company, by the local motor­
until George Thompson came, has, cut. He was married in il’la.
Thompson is a great hand for
ing public has led,
reports
R.
followed his lead, developing into
1 hompson was assigned to an figures. lie loves them and keeps
a big thing. In 1922 there were artillery regiment. But it was not them stored away in mind, where Hornbeck, manager of the Gilby
only 975 baby chicks shipped in­ in the cards for him to see the he mulls them over and is ready Motor company, the Oakland dealer
to Tumulo; in 1925 there were battle fields of France. An attack to snap them out for anyone who organization here, to predict that
51,000. It is fast becoming an of spinal meningitis kept him in asks without referring to his ac­ new sales records will be establish­
ed during the present month.
important poultry
]
center.
camp hospital for a year, When count books. For several years he
Throngs have crowded the sales
But to get the real story you the war ended he was trying to has cooperated with the Oregon
must ■ go behind these Tacts to recuperate from this disease and Agricultural college as one of their rooms since the introduction of
Mr.
Hornbeck
the man
i
himself. That is what I from the effects of a mastoid ope- forty demonstration poultry farms the new models.
did during
i
a recent trip to that ration. He was partially paralyzed keeping just a demonstration stunt pointed out yesterday that no new
part of Oregon which lies Just on one side and had a weak heart, with him. He keeps records primar­ model sponsored by the Oakli nd
east of the great Cascade range Physical work was out
of
the ily to know where he stands and Motor car company ever attracted
such widespread and continued in­
and near the headwaters of the question.
which way he is headed.
Deschutes River. Not that Thomp­
I found him putting up a big terest. “From reports I have been
But gameness and a naturally
son likes to talk about himself. He rugged
constitution
pulled
him stack of alfalfa hay. He gets about informed that this condition is not
will talk hens and quote figures through. As a disabled veteran he 60 tons in two cuttings from 121 '• a local one but exists throughout
by the yard, but more or less took the vocational training offer­ acres, of which 40 tons :s sold the country as well,” he pointed
pooh-poohs the heroic part of the ed by the Veterans Bureau, grad­ and the balance fed out. He grows out.
story which begins at the time he uated from the poultry course at the Grimm variety.
A significant feature of the re-'
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.. - XA
-r
was taken sick with spinal menln- Corvallis and settled at Tumulo
new
Oakl md
Mrs. Thompson has proved her­ ception given the
From Nothing But His
Nerve to $60G0 a Year
part'ient, and one of the best
known designers in the industry.
“Such features as the new fuel
pump which replaces the vacuum
tanl, show the original engineer­
ing that went into the new Oak­
land The performance of the new
motor reflects the generous power
that has been built into it through
long and careful research.
“The fact that Oakland has been
able to reduce its prices, in spite
of the fact that the new cars are
longer, more finely finished and
more luxurious in every way has
been a source of comment from
practically every visitor who has
comi into our show rooms.”
Montavilla — Standard
Broom
company rebuilds factory lost in
rece it fire.
S' lem—State prison sells $28,-
000 worth of flax to Massachu­
setts company.
Careless smokers burned
$30.-
000,000 worth of property last
year.
McCormic Deering
Agency
MOWERS
RAKES
SEPARATORS
CULTIVATORS
PLOWS
Genuine 1. H. C. Partsand
Twine.
Vernonia Trading Co.
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Saturday, September io, 1927.
Commemorating the fifth anniversary of the coming of the railroad.
Auspices Vernonia Post 119, American Legion
You are Cordially Invited
Street Dancing, Music, Speaking, Water Sports, Concessions, Commercial
Displays, Agricultural Exhibits.
Come! ring the Family—Bon’t Miss It.
Thrilling exhibition by Vernonia Fire Department.
NOTE: In event of rain the Street Dance will be held in the Legion hall.
The Rebekahs will serve pie, cake and cotfee.
Womens Relief Corps, beans and salad.
The
American Legion auxiliary will serve hot dogs, hamburgers and coffee. The Women of Wood­
craft will sell confetti, novelties, etc. and a tag sale conducted by the Pythian Sisters.
All Receipts of the day to go to the City Park Playground Fund.