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.
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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.
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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
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