a NO. VERNONIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928 VOL. 7 1 Let for High Miss Thelma Pettijohn Smokers Cause Aid For Short Contract School Days Pomona Has School Improvements Honored With Shower At a meeting of the high school Majority Fires A bridal shower and dinner was Not Far Away Highway Asked board 100th Session given Saturday evening, the con- last Saturday at 12:30 at tract was awarded to W. J. Good- home of Mrs. J. O. Devaney, Say Officials School Will Open Lester Sheeley Speaks At ing, L. Updike and John Miller of At Clatskanie j j the Keasey, in honor of Miss Thelma High Vernonia, for the constructing of Pettijohn, whose marriage is to •f September 3; the Grades Tillamook Chamber of improvements to the grounds of take place shortly. A lovely dinner Probably The Same Day the high school and gymnasium. 293 Man-Caused Fires So Commerce Meeting. was served out by the creek and 1 Announce Lecturer’s Con­ The amount of the contract was later the gifts were presented. Union high school No. 1 of Ver­ Meeting with the Tillamook $4797.70. The improvements will Far This Season ference September 1 Those present were Miss Thelma Pettijohn, Mrs. A. R. Lundeen and nonia will open for registration Chamber of Commerce Friday night, include leveling the grounds and -------- 1 sons, Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Gosa, Mrs. Monday, September 3, according to together with representatives of the preparing them for seeding; grad­ Christy and her sister Irma, Mrs. Principal J. B. Wilkerson. Although Timber Commercial club, Lester ing the road; putting in concrete Fairhurst. Mrs. C. A. Woolfolk, that will be Labor day, there will Sheeley asked for cooperation in sidewalks and curbs. It was also decided to call for Miss Jaccoby, Mrs. Boeck, Miss Sul-, be but little school, as most of the securing a short-cut road that will livan, Mrs. W. Hyatt, Mrs. J. Lind- ■ day will be spent in buying books shorten the distance of the West bids for painting the main building. i Side Pacific highway between Rain­ say, Mrs. F- J. Hartwick, Mrs. A. and supplies. Test* Conducted With Different Pa«* Resolution Asking For Segre­ There will be only one change in ier and the highway south of Port­ S. Acheson, Mrs. T. Pettijohn and Brands of Cigarettes and Shell Oil Co. Erects gation of County Expense Re- the teaching staff of the high school land, and that will also connect with Mrs. J. O. Devaney. Cigars; Code Given Fire Warning Signs this fall, according to Professor Wil­ a short route to the coast. port by County Clerk. ■ kerson. Miss Gladys Grant of Port­ The Long-Bell company Is seek- Oregon Cooperatives The Vernonia plant of the Shell Smokers have been responsible land will take the place of Mrs. ■ ing a short route between Long ­ (By Lillian Daniels) impress Visiting Group Fred Brewer, resigned. Miss Grant view and the Pacific highway, across i Oil company has been busy during for over a third of all the man- Columbia County Pomona met will teach domestic science, English the proposed Longview - Rainier the past week erecting signs on caused forest fires started on the with Clatskanie Grange 321 at Oregon has the largest coopera­ jail roads leading into Vernonia and national forests of Oregon and Clatskanie for their 100th session. tive wool growers association in and history, She graduated from bridge, and also into the Nehalem ' surrounding territory. These signs 1 Washington again this year, accord­ Grange was called to order at 11 America. It has one of the oldest the University of Oregon this spring. ' valley. The road, according to Shee- The school board of district 47 ley’s proposal, would be along the call the attention of motorists to ing to a report just issued by the a.m. by Worthy Master Warren cooperative marketing organizations !the danger of throwing lighted ci­ forest service. With a total of 293 Young. Roll call of officers showed in continuous operation. It has one has not yet decided the opening Rainier-Vernonia - Buxton - Banks gar or cigarettes out of an auto- man-caused fires so far this season, all present, and the session also had cooperative which controls 100 per date for the grade schools of Ver­ route into Forest Grove, avoiding I mobile while driving, and are be- 100 of them were started by care- all the masters of the subordinate cent of the commodity output in its nonia, but it is probable that it Portland, and cutting the distance for travel between south Oregon, 1 ing erected by the Shell company less smokers. Granges, except one, present, Bro­ territory. The state also has one will either be September 3 or 4. California or western Oregon, and ¡which is cooperating with the Unit- According to the forest service, ther Roy Hansen of Winema Grange of the "most diversified cooperative' Washington, about 21 miles. Much : ed States forestry service in an every time a careless smoker not being able to be with us. Writ­ organization plants in the United Low Room Rent at New | educational program to prevent for ­ throws a burning cigarette into the of this road has already been com­ ten reports from all subordinate States. O. S. C. Dormitory pleted, as market roads of high est fires. Many large forest fires dry grass or needles of a forest Granges except Yankton were read, have been started by ’ some careless These and hundreds of other standards, he stated, leaving but a floor he is giving the fire demon also from Beaver Valley, Cedar Although income from the new motorist throwing a lighted match, odds of one to nine that it xyon’t Grove and Beaver Homes Juvenile (facts and figures about the organi­ men’s dormitory at Oregon State small portion to be completed. zation and management of Oregon A short route to the beach was 1 cigar or cigarette out of an automo- start a fire. These odds, coupled Granges. ' bile while driving and igniting the with the fact that there is smoked cooperatives were revealed to a college will pay off interest and Some gain in membership was group of national specialists in this ! principal on the bonds used to build then suggested, following along the dry grass and weeds along the road. and discarded in the United States made by seven Granges, Warren field who were taken on a four- ( it, as well as all costs of operation, Salmonberry, if feasible; but Shee­ So far this year thousands of the amazing _ total of 171,232 cig- _ leading with a gain of 30, Arm­ day tour of cooperative centers in living costs for students will amount ley indicated that the Vernonia I folders and signs calling tne camp- ' arettes per minute, day and night, strong next with 17, Fern Hill 8, this state as the guests of the Ore­ to but $34 a month for board and Chamber of Commerce is not com­ ers attention to the danger of for- during the entire year, are believed mitted to a particular road to the Natal and Clatskanie 4 each. gon Cooperative council headed by I room, according to a booklet de­ coast, and suggested the possibility 1 est fires have been distributed in to account for the large percen- The financial condition of ail E. J. Dixon, Portland, president. scribing the structure and its op­ of cooperating with the coast sec­ all parts of the Pacific northwest tage of man-caused forest and brush Granges is very good. Wienma has fires that are started by smokvs. The group, consisting of about eration just issued. tion in an endeavor to connect the ! and California. a saving account toward a new hall, ' 30 members of the American insti- Room rent has been set at $30 proposed Rainier-Forest Grove road Even if only one-third of the cig- and Yankton, according to Brother I tute of cooperation which had just a term of approximately three (Jrge Pasteurizing of Milk arettes consumed throughout the Davis, is planning on ways and completed its annual session at months. Board is provided in the with a road to the coast that would shorten the distance between Port- To Stave Off Malta Fever country were smoked out-of-doot's means to finance a new home. The Berkley, Calif., were met at Eu­ new Memorial Union building at ______ there would still be over 50,000 I land or the west side highway or Juveniles are busy and growing. gene by members of the entertain­ $6 a week. Rooms have linoleum ■ the proposed Rainier-Forest Grove J Salem, Aug. 2.—The necessity for chances a minute of a fire starting Beaver Valley reports their gardens ment committee of which Paul V. floor covering, two study tables and I road to the coast. (pasteurizing all milk used for hu- from a burning snipe, foresters are coming along fine, ana ail re­ Maris, director of the state college book shelf, three chairs, two built- I man consumption as a precaution point out. port some money on hand. We had extension service, was chairman, in chifforobes and mirrors and a To determine the fire hazard 1 against malta fever, was urged by hoped that Columbia county would and taken on an auto tour through typewriter table. Sleeping rooms from smoking materials, P. D. Sale i G. C. Bellinger, superintendent of be 100 per cent in the state mas­ the Willamette valley to Tillamook, are furnished with cots, mattresses the stale state vuuvsvuioow, tuberculosis, hospital, aiiu and and F. M. Hoffheins, of the United — , , —- , * - • I w»v ter’s reports^ but the worthy niastei thence to Dundee, Springbrook, and pillow’s. Students provide their ¡Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, superinten- States bureau of standards, recent­ reported that he had not received Portland, Gresham, and Hood River. own blankets and linen. The rooms, " *2_____ ® I dent of the state hospital for in­ ly made a series of tests with nine the report from Armstrong Grange. The cooperative marketing move­ to accomodate 348 men, will be The annual “400’ picnic given ! *ane> att a "le,et!nK tbe atate brands of cigarettes and eleven The park cr uittee gave us the ment is growing rapidly throughout open for occupancy the day before by the employes of the Shell OiHboard of contro1 here Wednesday, brands of cigars. The tests were welcome r.ews that the deeds for the country, acceding to the visit­ registration. comphny depots in McMinnville,| Both of these institutions have made by placing the lighted cigar the two park sites purchased by the ors, and is rupiuiy taking on a na­ Hillsboro and Vernonia was held been pasteurizing all milk used by or cigarette butt in a dry grass Grang- would ue soon made out, tional aspect through federation of their employes and patients since pad attached to a screen. Some last Sunday at Balm Grove. probably in time for the November local or regional units. Thus the Athletic sports for both men and the discovery of malta fever at the tests were made in still air; others meeting. Pomona passed a resolu­ , National Milk Producers federation I women were on the program. A tuberculosis hospital several weeks with winds of various velocities tion and draped her charter in re­ is composed of 43 units covering baseball game between a teain com­ ago. Five cases of the fever, which generated by a small electric fan. membrance of our only past mas­ the entire country. Prediction was pobcQ v ernonid «iiti posed ox of Vernonia and iiiiiSMuru Hillsboro j is said to be caused by a germ car- From measurements of butts found ter of Oregon State Grange, Bro­ I made that within comparatively few Nine members of Vernonia post, employes, and McMinnville was a j r>ed by cows infected with contagi- on concrete floors, pavements and ther Jacob Voorhees, who passed I years the agricultural industry will American Legion, attended the state feature of the day, the former win-1 ous abortion, were discovered at the bare ground, it w’as estimated that away last week. 1 turn to responsible heads of coop- convention at Medford last weex ning 21 to 9. Mrs. Fred Tramblay | tuberculosis hospital, the first cases the average cigarette butt is about A lecturer’s conference will be i eratives for its national leadership end. They were M. E. Carkin, H. of Hillsboro carried off first hon- <’f the kind to be positively diagnos- one and one-fourth inches long; held at Clatskanie Saturday, Sep­ [ in governmental and other matters. E. McGraw, C. F. Nance, A. L. jors’ in the swimming and diving e