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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1928)
Entered at Vernonia, Oregon, Postoffice as Second-Class Matter. Wnumia (REE CO' VERNONIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1928. VernonäLEitenlpsrXr.ce V6^0iiia Leads County VOLUME 6, NUMBER 29. Razing of Old House Recalls Early Methods Learn Better Farm Methods An old landmark in Vernonia The Vernonia Light & Power no Lager exists, The residence company is extehding service to owned by T. C. Mills on the north a number of families in the val side of Bridge street west of the ley who have been seeking to be bridge has been torn down. It was for furnished with electricity Has Shown Steady Plan To Construct Rustic Cabin; so weatherbeaten it was pictur- several years past. G. W. Ford, 1 Organization Resolution Passed Creating Li essue, and rumor had it that the the newly appointed receiver • has Growth in United States in the brary Board. Reappoint Members ¡/place had had a most unusual his- been active in . pushing the con- Paat Few Years; Millions Join. ;tory. struction work as rapidly as pos- Vernonia has taken the lead in The city council approved a re- jn the opinion of Chas. Mellinger, sible. • - and girls’ 4-H club work „„j» ’ __ — ----- ----- quest presented by Miss Hazel' wb0 remembered seeing the strue- Poles have already set In the, boys Riverview district as far as the | this year with four clubs: Sewing Malmsten' and .Miss Bessie Mc LU a v' built, it was constructed about Esten Johnon place, Poles have I club, division 1; Sewing club di- Donald, guardians, that the local,1 41 years ago by a Mr. McNutt. been placed on the road one-fourth vision 2; Cooking club, and the Camp Fire girls be permitted to The lumber used was sawed by the mile east of the old schoolhouse, I Junior Bachelor club. Miss Taylor construct a rustic cabin in the city old mill at Pittsburg, which was and also as far as the Ivan Shear has been active here in promoting park for the use of that organi the first mill in the Nehalem val- Condition of Mo*t Industries Re Problems Concerning Making The zation and the local Boy Scouts. ley, he stated. place on the Rock cfeek road. the work. ported Safer Than In Pre Farm More Profitable Will Be It. was agreed that the cabin would Transformers are already here It was first used as a store build The Sewing club of Clatskanie vious Years. Discussed at Conference which will serve five families on is led by Miss Louise Sullivan and become city property, but that the ing, and at that time had a plat- advisory council of the Camp Fire form running around the aide. the Home Cookery club of Midland The second Columbia county eco the Treharne road. Oregon State Agricultural col- In commenting on the hearing is led by Miss Grade Brandt. Both girls would have the management There was no bridge over Rock nomic conference will be held in of the building as long as this or lege, Corvallis, Feb. 23—Agricul- cheek then, and all travelers set by the public service commis ford of of these clubs contain pupils St. Helens Tuesday and Wednes-' ganization exists here and the ed the stream where the city park tural income in Oregon for 1928 sion here for March 6 in relation the Midland school. day of next week for the benefit building is kept in safe repair. will be equal or slightly above is now located. The fifth grade Sewing club of of all persons interested in agri-1 to the power and light rates, Mr. Their plans, which are not yet that of 1927 if prosent indications Ford stated that while he felt It was later sold to a Doctor culture and allied industries in the Rainier is led by Miss Pearl U. completed, call for a building 32x- for the . leading farm enterprises things were being rushed unneces- Hatfield who used it as a residence, Robison, also the So Good Sewing 46, with' a large fireplace. They county. It is being sponsored by the are not radically changed, accord- 1 sarily, since the books of the con and he in turn sold it to Mr. Mills, Granges, the Farmers Union, club of Rainier. The Needle Pushers stated that while the building would ing to the annual economic-autlook Breeders association, fruit raising cern had not yet been turned over club of Rainier is led by Miss Vira be worth in the neighborhood of who now plans to excavate the lot report just issued here. The state 'to him by the last receiver still he to the level of the street, put in and poultry interests and commer Lull of Stehman. Club work is a $2000 when finished, it would cost a cement walk, and thus be abIe.,ePort embodies pertinent excerpts cial organizations cooperating with welcomed the investigation and be-, new project in that district. less than half that amount because to sell it for a business -site at I from the federal outlook report lieved that the present rates should the O. 8. C. extension service. | of a large proportion of the material a betier advantage. The Golden Needle ' club combined with local information On Tuesday the program opens be reduced. Goble is led by Mrs. McDinister. and labor will de donated, accord gathered by extension and experi in the Methodist Episcopal church j This is a Beaver Homes club. ing to offers already made. ment station specialists and 26 P.-T. A. Observes 31st at 10 a.m. Until 11:15 there will San Diego s Temperature are a number of other The council left the location of I There Anniversary of Founding eoant y afe?te- be addresses by L. R. Breithaupt Has Appeal During Winter schools that have not received their the building to the decision of the Gradual improvement in the ag and Geo. A. Nelson, when the ses park boerd:; also the requirements charters yet. This is the first time ricultural situation is shown though The Barent-Teacher association (By A. D. Moe) sion breaks up into meetings of the city school of St. Helens has as to the amount of ground around of Vernonia observed the 31st an many suggestions are made for various commodity groups to study We are now located in our fav- had extensive club work. Miss the structure that would be used niversary of the founding of the adjustment of production to chang reports made two years ago ana orite winter City in the southland— Emma Shallop is the leader. and kept improved. i . organization Friday at the high ing market demands. The complete prepare recommendations for San Diego. It seems like home again A resolution was passed creating school, when Mrs. Charles Malm- report, covering general conditions, Last year there were 11,000,000 after an absence of two years, and changes. a library board in Vernonia, a re sten, the first local president, gave farm crops, livestock, dairying, boys and girls 10 to 18 years of At 10 a.m. Wednesday there will we are enjoying nice, mild sum- poultry, and horticulture is being the United States enrolled quirement that was necessary to be continued group meetings, At mer weather, the first we have age in work. The three main ob- conform to the state law in this j a short talk on the first P.-T. A. prepared for general distribution 11 o’clock the general assembly will seen since we reached California. in club of club work are as fol- respect. The law requires that the in Vernonia and then lit the 31 after the middle of February. A ( candles on the birthday cake, consider and adopt the committee. Our friends and relatives in and jectives bpard consist of five members. They The program opened with two skeleton summary follows: around Los Angeles wonder why lqwa: .. reports. were appointed from the existing The general agricultural situa- | songs by Miss Bessie McDonald’s To build up bodies and health At noon there will be a dinner we prefer San Diego to the big board as follows: Mrs. C. W. Reith- j room. Clarence Wardle spoke on tion in Oregon is improved, the in the church social room. At 1:15 city, but none of them has ever through right living. ner, Mrs. M. D. Cole, Mrs. J. B. Train the hands to be useful; Wilkerson, Mrs. Fred Brewer, and | “Washington and Lincoln and the gross farm income being higher the general assembly will continue lived here and does not know of Boys of Today.” He said that the than at any other time since the and hearts minds to think clearly the reading, consideration and the beauties of this section. We Mrs. W. A. Harris. home life of a boy is most !m- peak in 1919-20. There is increased have quite a few acquaintances to be kind. It gives them high adoption of reports. portant and that the parents activity in farm lands and an in It. is pointed out that this con here, too, that helps make our ideals and standards. They serve, should teach their boys thrift, loy crease in number of farms. With It makes boys and girls doers Camp Fire Girls Invite ference will not be a panacea for stay here more pleasant. efficiency and adjust and not dreamers. Public To Attend Open alty, good manners and will power increased There is Balboa park, with its all agricultural ills. It is, however, and should not allow them to be ment of production to market de a start toward sizing up the pro wonderful outdoor organ, where Council Fire March 1 idle. mands, gradual increase of farm auction and methods of marketing, Dr. Stewart plays every afternoon Commercial Organization Mrs. Judd Greenman reported income is indicated for some time, knowing what other producing areas from 3:15 to 4:15, and one can Secretaries Will Take A On Thursday, March 1, the that the play, upon which Local markets on Pacific coast, tar are doing and recognizing what sit out in the sun and listen to Short Course at U. of O. Camp Fire girls will hold an open sals are now in progress, will be where population is increasing twice must be done in the county, to a very fine program any after council fire in the Legion hall. This fully utilize available markets. University of Oregon, Eugene, I meeting will be open to the public ready for presentation early in as rapidly as in the nation as a noon with wonderful surroundings. Masses of poinsettias in bloom, hi Ore. Feb. 20.—Industrial and com and all interested are urged to at April. Miss Eaton’s room won the whole, will probably tend to Im biscus, and flower gardens sur mercial development of the state, ’ tend. The purpose of the meeting is $2.50 prize for the best attendance prove. Domestic markets generally Bacteria For Legumes the meetings for the month of are expected to continue about as Now Ready at College rounded by the buildings and shade closer trade relations not only with1 to show the work done by the Camp at in 1927, while foreign markets ap trees of the park, make a delight other parts of the United States Fire girls and the value of the or February. pear a little less favorable than a Scores of bottles of legume cul- ful atmosphere that adds to the but with foreign countries as well, ganization in any community can year ago. Credit conditions are To Hold Declamatory the ____________ __ ___ __ tures are being prepared in entertainment. One never gets tired the development of aviation routes j not be over emphasized. An offer favorable for the farmer now, and bacteriological department of the: of wandering through this immense and aviation facilities, state and Contest Tomorrow Night ing will be taken for the cabin. although labor rates are still 70 Oregon Experiment station to — SU r P-! park. The big zoo is a day’s trip communty publicity, and a wide1 The program of the Camp Fire Vernonia district declamatory con per cent greater than for the pre ply demand from farmers of the in itself, with its two miles of variety of other subjects will be I girls was planned to take care of state preparing to inoculate seed ’ walks that wind down into canyons, taken up by secretaries of various! the out-of-school time of adolescent test will be held in the Washington war period 1910-14, a better supply of alfalfa, clovers, vetches, peas, where are located nearly all the | commercial organizations of Oregon girls, and it is built around three school on Friday evening at 7:30. is likely to be available. Commercial potato acreage in A small admission fee will be beans and soy beans, I animals of foreign countries, from at the annual short course sponsor-' important factors: It provides ac- ac Artificial inoculation is especial-1 the equator to the arctic zone, j ed by the Oregon Association of tivities of natural interest to girls, charged, and the proceeds will be Oregon is likely to remain about ly necessary for alfalfa in western j I Immense bird houses, lions, camels, | Commercial Organization Secre- it makes these activities doubly i»- given toward the county prize. the same as in 1927 but it appears Oregon as the soils here do not alligators, •” • ’ ’— ‘ : taries at the University of Oregon teresting through an appeal to the There are two classes, one for that material increases are intend elephants, herds of buf- naturally contain the nodule bac falo, all in quarters as near to March 19 to 23, it is announced by imagination, which is a vivid trait seventh and eighth grade pupils ed in all states from Nebraska to Maine. Regions of high acre yields teria needed by alfalfa. Before suc their native habitations as possible . f C. E. Folts, head of the univer- in the character of adolescent girls, and one for fifth and sixth grade and low freight will suffer least pupils. Each school is allowed two cessful yields can be obtained these with plenty of room, are an in- sjty school of business administra- it works quietly toward the end from overplanting. entrants in each class. must be supplied either from pure teresting sight. Great pools of tion. that through ' fun and happiness A world expansion in wheat area On Tuesday afternoon at the cultures or by spreading from 200 gold fish, a Japanese garden, with: Lester Sheeley, of the Vernonia girls may achieve a beautiful and is in prospect. A three per cent Washington school I the following pounds to the acre of soil everywhere under to 500 benches the' organization is expected to attend useful womanhood, students tried out 1 for Vernonia, but increase in winter wheat Is in. taken from a successful alfalfa shade of semi-tropical trees and' tne sessions. The girls work for honors of sight for Pacific coast states. Jus field. shrubs, where one can rest and A new feature this year will be! which there are over 700, distri- the judges have not yet reached tification for spring planting exists a decisioni Fifth and sixth; June Such innoculation is of course take plenty of time. “ community clinics, ” to be held buted among seven crafts, These I McGee, James in the blue mountain region and not a “cure-all,” warns the state Museums in several buildings, a every afternoon. At these various crafts include practically every Mitchner, Sarah Rainy, Dorothy Wolffe, Lorraine parts of the Willamette valley college specialists, as it will not large art gallery in a $250,000 secretaries will present problems of wholesome activity which would .... B ..._ of _ a wealthy _____ „ their cities and organizations, and naturally interest girls of this age. Space. Seventh and eighth: Pauline though in the latter flar, barley take the place of lime for sour building, the gift or oats may be more profitable. soils, or manure or fertilizers j resident, all are an education ---------- and ---- solutions will be worked out at They are: Home, health, hand, Cates, Delphiae Cates, Marion Increase in general barley acreage Lindly, Robert Dial, Nell Green, where these are needed. i a pleasure. At one end of the park round table discussions. Problems camp, nature, business and citizen Pure cultures of the ! various js the horseshoe club, that is busy common to all will be taken up, ship. The Camp Fire program al Helen Charlesworth, Margaret Ben is warranted because of local and bacteria needed for legume crops i aR day long, while checkers and as well as specific problems of so has three ranks, the wood-ga nett, Betty Cameron, Emma Jane export demand. Increase in corn is justified. Russell. are distributed by the college at I chess players are located l under groups. therer, the fire maker and the torch Cattle prices are expected to re These students will all speak on of 1400 50 cents a bottle which amount' the shade trees. This park < Aviation will be one of the chief ! bearer. Friday and there will also be a main fairly high for several years, barely covers the cost. Details of acres has many drives winding topics to be considered. At this The Vernonia Camp Fire groups but new operators are cautioned in their use is supplied by county j through that are a lure to the time surveys now being made on are working for a cabin where they program of songs. starting at present high prices for agents or direct from the bac- motorist, I airport faiilities of the state will may carry on their activities under breeding stock. Sheep are increas Special Train Will Take the at- teriology department. Yet this is but one of be presented. Experts in aviation the leadership of their guardians. Cultivate alfalfa in the spring tractions of San Diego. There Is a will be here to speak to the sec A site has been selected in the Local Woodmen to Salem ing throughout the world. but market demand is expected to be — with a, spring tooth cultivator, hoe string of beach resorts stretching retaries and to advise them on de- park grounds and already donations except in occasional years. Vernonia Camp 655, Woodmen) drill or disk as soon as the ground from Coronado to LaJolla in this velopment plans for the — ----- com- „ of x money, labor ...... and materials have of the World, has chartered a Efficient production is essential to is dry enough says the experiment section, with many more all the munities.. , been promised. The ! size of the special train to carry as many of continued ’profit. Only 249 stallions station. This is of particular value way to the north. I ___ ....... feature of the . Another meet will' cabin wj]l be about 36 by 40 feet, their members as can go to Salem were in public service in Oregon in killing weeds when they are Tia Juana is but 18 miles south, be a short course in newswriting ■------------------------ Friday for the mammoth class in as compared to 1051 in 1912. Hogs young and stimulating the crop in just over the Mexican line, and and in contacts with newspapers -r~F Ladies pledged To Earn. itiation planned there. More than are still produced below state re Isles will be rvzs irrigated sections. It often pays Sundays is filled with Los Angeles an(j other publications. This quirements but probably to the $1 Each; Fund Will Go 60 are already signed up to go for the extra work on dry land. folk. ___ Those ____ living _ on the coast ___ _ __ on _ by ______ _ of the staff carried members The train will leave here at £ capacity of waste feed available Where weed and grass growth is highway say the road is crowded (of the university school of journa- Toward Papering Church p.m. Friday and arrive at Salem which is the economic basis here. heavy the alfalfa may be cultivated with Los Angeles cars all night lism. Dairy situation is favorable with at 6 o’clock. Returning the train after cutting if the shoots are not long going home. Officers of the organization sec-! The Willing Workers of the) increasing demands for products, long enough to be knocked off. Up in the mountains on the road retaries are already working on I Christian church met February 15 will leave Salem at midnight ana without corresponding national in- to the Imperial valley are many plans for the meet. E. C. Reynolds. at the home of Mrs. Roy Brady. arrive in Vernonia at 4 a.m. Sat- crease in production, though high I urday. A large class of candidates picnic grounds that remind us of Rolling Log Kills La Grande, is president; C. T. Mrs. Harry Woodruff was assisting here plan to be initiated in quality of butter must be produced, Choker Setter Monday our own summer outings -®t home. Baker, Medford, vice-president; and hostess. Each member had pledged ; from Little alarm need be felt over Our friends in Los Angeles say H. C. Colley, Roseburg, secretary I to try to earn $1 toward papering Salem at that time. shipment of cows from state, as Mike Geortamelakes, 30, choker there is nothing in San Diego, y»t treasurer. The L.T.L. met at the home of thev are being fully replaced with I and painting the interior of the setter at the Oregon-American camp . we are busy all the time taking ____ __ „ Mrs. O. A. Anderson Saturday af- better ones. [ church, and $23 was turned In-I 2 at__ Keasey, was instantly killed I many pleasure trips with San Diego Rev. G. W. Plumer went to Port ternoon. The following superinten Surplus eggs of this state com by a rolling log at 11:30 a.m. Mon- friends or wandering through the land Monday to visit the following I Each gave an account of the man-) dents and committees were elected:! prise but a small percentage of the day. The body was brought to the park, or over at the beach, en- persons who are in the Portland ner in which the money was earn- Brown undertaking parlor, where, joying the summer sunshine that hospitals from Vernonia: Mrs. W. ) ed. Five members were added, mak Evangelistic superintendent, Her total production. National vol bert Anderson; health superinten urne will be little effected if Ore- it was said that arrangements were adds years to the life of elderly W. Wolffe, Mrs. Minnie Malmster, ing a total of 30. The next meeting will be held In dent, Benji Wilkerson; mercy sup gon nrcduction is doubled or being made by friends for inter- people. Of course they have plenty and O. A. Anderson. | the social hall of the church. As erintendent Jack Childs; flower trebled. The poultry business in of golf grounds, ’ but we have not ment in Portland, the interior decorating is expected superintendent, Mary Anne Childs;! this state is fundamentally sound Monmouth — New state bridge was thought that Geortame- ^ o t that far yet. It on Luckiamute river will cost $41»,- W be finished %y that time, It Is j lookout committee, Margaret Nel- but depends as much on safe man ------------------------ lakes had no relatives in this coun- j announced that this will be a Jub on, Virginia Yeo, Edna Owens; agement as on current egg prices. Salem — State prison sales of 000. try, a passport among his posses Apple production has about Gold Hill—Timber interests plan ilee meeting. Mrs. Biggs and Mrs. collectors, Twila Merten, Donald sions revealing that he was born flax products in past 10 months P'.sase turn to page 3 Holtham. Frank Mills will act as hostesses. big sawmill in this vicinity. -each $170 000. at Cute. Greece. r pl 'Ulp ts Co. handle y will out- rative show State Outlook Report Expects Market Improvement At St. Helens Feb. 28-29 !