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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1929)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2», HM VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lindsay were at Vernonia on Saturday. Mrs. Russell Stanton spent the afternoon with her parents Mr. and Mrs. M. Johns. Urnuinia Eaylr Issued every Thursday $2.00 per year_ in_ advance Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879. Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding insertions ; cln.-,sil'ie<l lc per word, minimum ?5c. MARK E. MOE........... PUBLISHER LEE SCHWAB.......................EDITOR Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert and family visited with folks on Friday evening. The stacker crew scored four the day. Millie McMullin is working at Rockaway for the summer ' runs in each of the first, fourth ' and fifth innings and three in months. The Austin Dowling family at i the second. The third inning A weincr roast was given at was the only inning in which tended the movie at Vernonia the Lewis Carmichael home Mon i they did not score and the ship Sunday evening. day evening. There were a large pers managed to retire the side Mrs. L. B. Kennerdy was a crowd of friends gathered from ,n order in that frame. All of Sundland the village and from Birkenfeld caller at the Chas, the stacker men hit the old ap- home on Friday. and vicinity. Games were play I pie hard and there were no par- ed in the open air. Weiners, iticular outstanding stars except Geo. Jones was in the village I Sunday he is on the fire patrol buns and marshmallows were the pitchers who let their oppon served by the hostess. ents down with nary a bingle. up around Diary. The box score of this game a Mrs. Ed. Reynolds gave Mrs. Ed. Reynolds spent Fri- on follows: dinner to the Jolly 20 club day at Birkenfeld visiting her Wednesday while they picked Stacker sister, Mrs. J. O. Libel. wool enough for two mattresses. Building Mrs. Reed Holding and daugh Those present were, Mrs. J. O. Norgorden ter Bertha were Sunday gue3ts Libel of Birkenfeld? Mesdames Malmsten Eastman, Devine, McGee,_ Buck- Nelson p at the Grover Devine home. ley, Rachiel, Wallace, Tanyer, Meeker p Miss Lena Knowles from Port Dowling, Bridgers, Lane, George McGregor land visited a few days last week and Sundland, Miss Holmstrom Hawkins If with relatives in the valley. A. Davis rf was a dinner guest. C. Davis lb Mrs. Chas. Sundland and Mrs. Sheeley cf Austin Dowling motored over to Stacker Building Beats Roberts 3b Silver Lake, Wn., on Saturday. Shipping Department L. E. McGee home ranch work. TREHARNE Holt their Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beaver and family were in Vernonia on Saturday. Mr. Porterfield’s two trucks are hauling rick wood from up the river to Vernonia. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Webb and family were Vernonia shoppers Saturday. Miss Elnor Spencer spent the afternoon with Roberta Andrea- son. with Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Kelley and daughters were Vernonia Mrs. Elsa Knowles was in shoppers on Saturday. Portland last week for a few After seven years and three issues of continu Archie Coplin took sick sud- ‘'“V8 doinS 8ome shopping. ous publication in the Pringle building, the Verno denly and was rushed to a The Wm. Bridgers folks mo- nia Eagle is this week being issued from its new Portland hospital. tored to Portland Sunday. Mr. home, especially constructed for a newspaper am Mary Treharne spent the af Bridgers took in the ball game. job printing shop, at the corner of Third am ternoon at the home of Wilma Mrs. Geo. Jones is at home Glassner. from St. Helens where she has Maple streets. been employed at the Arcadia Mrs. Jess Mitchell and niece The building is owned by A. D, Moe, father Ruth, called at the home of hotel. of the publisher of the Eagle, who has been in the Mrs. S. Baker Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Butts from Cal- newspaper business at Hood River, Oregon, since Mr. and Mrs. Burdick and chil ifornia, were guests over night 1904, and before that in North Dakota and Min dren, Ruth, Helen and Buddy at the W. R. Johnson home Fri of Portland called at the home day. nesota. of her sister, Mrs. Jess Mitchell. The Vernonia road district Built in accordance with the most approved Miss Jeanette and Maxine i crews came down and moved one plans of modern print shops, there is ample light John are spending the day with of the caterpillar tractors up to in all sections of the building, which measures their aunt, Mrs. Russell Stanton that district Sunday. 50x35 feet, exclusive of the stereotyping room and at Treharne. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Buck- garage in the rear. Mr. and Mrs. H. Smith and ' ley were visiting Mrs. Buckley’s motored to Vernonia. Mr. mother Sunday, Mrs. Ed. Rey This is the Eagle’s expression of faith in Ver family Smith’s father is staying with nolds. nonia and the Nehalem valley. We are firm in our them this summer. Little Miss Virginia Webber opinion that this community will steadily grow and Edgar Crawford is home from came down from Portland to prosper; that the westward trend of population ais vacation, his cousin Steward visit her grandparents Mr. and with him from Forest Mrs. A. R. Melis for a few days will find this valley filling its quota of folk from returning last week. Grove. other parts of the nation and the world who are Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Foster and Mrs. Frank O’Conner seeking their homes in the west; that agriculturally and Mr. family of Forest Grove were in from Clatskanie Sunday, and industrially this district will grow far beyond 9’ent Sunday at the home of they visited at the Carmichael home, also at the L. Jepson the dreams of the most optimistic boosters living Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lindsay. home. here now or interested in this section. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hodges, Mrs. Anna Osburn and Mrs. John Glassner and children The Vernonia Eagle staff is earnestly striving Mrs. spent Wednesday afternoon at Noble Dunlap wera calling in to give the readers a better newspaper, and with Arcadia park enjoying a picnic I the village Thursday. They call ed on Mrs. Austin Dowling, also the greater incentive of having a better place in dinner. which to work, this should be a promise not hard Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Baker | Mrs. Grover Devine. and children spent Sunday at1 Mrs. Win. Bridget's, Alberta to keep. home of Mr. Baker’s i par- DeRock and the Dave McMullin We cordially extend the invitation to all to in the ants, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. 1 Baker folks motored to Rockaway last spect our new home. at Sherwood, Their son Vein Thursday, returning home •ame home with them. OUR NEW HOME OUR MAJOR INDUSTRY NEEDS BACKING MIST The lumber industry is, from the standpoint of Ed. Reynolds was helping dollars and cents in revenue, the most important T. Wallace bale straw Sunday. in the state of Oregon. Sixty cents of every dollar The Fred Parlknon folks were produced in the state comes from timber products Clatskanie visitors on Sunday. of some kind. A. R. Melis was threshing for It is a known fact that the prosperity or lack Grover Devine Sunday. of prosperity in the lumber industry is immediately Earl Holce was a Clatskanie reflected in all other lines of business. The lumber shopper on Saturday. dollar is a steady dollar, in that it is not seasonal. Mrs. L. B. Eastman spent Sun The sawmills and logging camps operate, except day with Mrs. Grover Devine. for brief intervals, twelve months in the year. By Miss Vera Jones was at home far the biggest item of expense in lumber produc from Vernonia over Sunday. tion is labor and this creates a payroll which filters Miss Bertha Holding was an over night guest of Mrs. Grover out into every avenue of commerce. When these payrolls are menaced the pros Devine Sunday. Holce’s brother came perity of the entire state is jeapordized and that Earl from Washington and vis is the situation which now confronts the lumber in over ited at the Holce home Sunday. dustry. Miss Alberta DeRock has as In an effort to recognize the laws of supply her guest this week, Miss Norma and demand and regulate production to the flow Anderen from Vernonia. W hat Is The of business the sawmills and logging camps Virgil Hiatt is helping at the throughout Oregon and Washington have during Correct Time? the past two years for long periods operated only This is a question you will five days per week and have otherwise taken steps never, never need worry to prevent an over-supply which would glut the about if you wear either a markets. This has been expensive for both the em Hamilton, Elgin, or Illinois ployer and the employee. For the mill owner it has watch. increased an overhead expense of operation, for These watches are the the employee it has meant fewer hours work and epitome of perfection in consequently less pay, but both have borne their timekeepers, from every part of the burden for the mutual good that would standpoint—accuracy— ap be derived from it. pearance, lasting satisfac During the past year, while lumbermen in the tion and price. northwest have taken these steps to protect their With the approach of In A Rusli markets, they have had to sit by and see an increas school time, we call par ing volume of lumber pouring in from Canada and to ticular attention of school Russia. The lumber coming from Canada is produc young teachers anad of Lincoln's folks going to high school ed by mills that employ largely Chinese, Japanese and college to our excep* and Hindoos. The Russian competition needs no Candy K i I dim tional stock of wrist wat- description as it is generally known that employees che, at whatever price you For that Delicious of the mills there receive what is approximately wish to pay—$7.50 and up Dish Of forty cents per day and that American labor can as high as you wish to pay. not meet such competition is a foregone conclusion. Froskist Ice Cream With the exception of rough lumber, no tim A. L. Kullander Dainty Tasty Sand ber products of any kind can be shipped into Can Expert Watchmaker And ada without paying a 25 per cent ad valorem duty. wich or Milk Shakti. Jeweler When their markets are good they keep them for A popular treat for themselves yet they are permitted to ship their lum the Schoo! Kids. Swiss Watch Repairing a ber into this country free of all duty and when our Specialty markets are better than theirs, as is the case at Lincoln’s Candy Küchen present, they take the business away from our mills jtnd we are helpless to meet their competition. The northwest lumber manufacturers are ask FINNEY OF THE FORCE ing for a protective tariff on lumber and shingles which will guard against this influx of cheap lum ber. Powerful interests composed of a few con cerns having timber holdings in Canada have estab-1 lished a lobby in Washington to defeat the tariff on lumber and to date they have been successful, due to the lack of support which the general pub lic has given our senators on this important subject. Sixty per cent of our general prosperity is at stake. During the next few weeks the men whom we have elected to represent us in Washington will be battling to secure a square deal for the lumber industry and the state in general. It is incumbent upon every citizen and every civic organization to get behind this move and pass proper resolutions or write to our senators so that they may be fortifi ed and be able to make it clear in their appeal for, this protection that the entire northwest wants it by Nelson 2, Meeker 2, McCabe 2; two base hits, A. Davis and Malmsten; three base hit, Malm- sten; home run, Hawkins; sacri- hits, Norgordcn and Mc- Gregor 2; stolen bases, Nor^or- den 2, Malmsten, McGregor 2, Hawkins 3, and C. Davis 1; hit by pitched ball, Laird by Nel son; left on bases, stackers 3. ----- -- The stacker building won their Shipping first game in two years the other McKillip night when they apparently got W. Linn sore about something and swamp Laird c ed the shipping department 15 Taylor ss to 0. Both Nelson and Meeker, Greenman lb for the stackers worked mighty' Franks rf nice, neither of them allowing Johnson cf the shippers even the slightest Ray If smell of a hit. Only twice did McCabe p the shippers see first base, the ’Anderson first time being in the first in-1 ning when Laird was hit by a i pitched ball and the second time1 ’Batted for Johnson in the second canto when Green-| Summary: bases on balls off was walked. Nelson 1, McCabe 2; struck out Greater Power Quicker Pick Up Longer Mileage A Remarkable Product - - - _ Richfield has won fame and friends wherever it has been sold, ^Though the tremendous demand has necessarily con fined its sales in the past to California alone, famous drivers have already spread the fame of the¿‘Gasoline of Power” throughout ,the east and even to Europe. £7yjRlNG the past six years Rich field has made rac ing history. Almost every great Speed way Victory and important World’s record during this time, has been won with Richfield Gas oline, including five successive wins at Indianapolis and the famous Grand Prix of Europe.' 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