Vernonia eagle., September 12, 1929, Page 7, Image 7

Thursday, September 12, 1929
Vernonia Eafie, Vernonia, Oregon
Page Seven
Manufacturing 160,000,000 Feet of Lumber Each Year
Mrs. Harry Condit and son, and family were Vernonia shop­ Neurer’s sister, Mrs. S. Baker
Record Shipment Of
Mrs. Frank Schmidlin were pers on Saturday.
on Sunday.
Lumber During Month and
at Vernonia on Wednesday to
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Berry
and
chil
­
Of April by O.-A-L.Co, do some shopping.
Tom Runkle and son Frances
dren motored to Battle Ground, have moved to Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Porterfield were Wn., on Sunday.
During the month of April of
Mr. and Mrs. John Price and
this year, thb Oregon-American business callers at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Moore children were at Vernonia on
Lumber company shipped from S. Baker last week.
were Vernonia shoppers.
Saturday.
Vjernonia 16,813,903 feet of
Joe McCullen was up playing
lumber, this being the greatest
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Neurer of
Cason transfer hauled some
amount of lumber to have been golf, Vern Baker caddied for Natal called at the home of Mr. lumber for Harold Smith.
shipped since the mill started in him.
operations.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hodge
The cut for April was about motored to Cannon beach to vis-
14,200,000 feet, the extra two it relatives.
and one half million feet of
Mrs. S. O’Donnell and Mrs.
lumber shipped above production,
We can save your shoes and your money
taken from stock. In the month Crawford motored to Vernonia
of September, 1926, 16,345,926 on Friday.
feet of lumber were shipped, this
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith
I being the record shipment until
956 Bridge St.
St.
Vernonia
this April when the shipment ex­ and children attended the show ’
ceeded the ~ September, 1926, on Friday evening.
Repairing Done While You Wait
record by nearly one half million
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Spencer
feet.
~ The average
_ ______
number of feet
shipped per month is around 13,-
Payroll Increases
000,000, of this amount not more
Daily In Nehalem
than three per cent is sold di­
Industrial City rect to foreign trade, and from
85 to 90 per cent is shipped out
Of interest to all will be the of the state of Oregon to middle
brief statistics showing the ap­ west states.
proximate payroll and number of
The smallest month covering
men employed on the industrial the amount of feet lumber ship-
payroll in the vicinity of Ver- ped was in July, 1924, following
nonia.
. . . health experts are continuously stressing the import­
the completion of construction I
Annual when nnlv
No.
AQQ feet Were i
only 990
229,433
Employees Payroll shipped.
Industry
ance of giving children pasteurized milk.
600 $800,000
O.A.L. Co.
Johnson McGraw
Sherwood—West Coast Tele-
34,000 phone company improving tele-
Shingle*Co.
18
27,500 phone line in this territory.
Lindsay Lbr. Co.
M
22,000
VanVleet Log. Co. M
Perhaps you have never thought of it but at every health
7,500
Wilson & Clark
6
TREHARNE
7,000
Mathison Log. Co. 6
clinic or gathering the milk question, which is of the utmost im­
6,000
5
Vail & Miller
Ruth
Price
and
Nola
Treharne
Nehalem Valley Ice
portance, usually ends with recommendations to parents to use
Frances Dooley have start-
& Creamery Co.
7,800 and
ed
to
school.
4,600
Mills & Hall
4
pasteurized milk or cream, on account of safeguarding the
Mcpherson
75
71,000
Bert Woods and Clint Kilby
S. P. & S. Ry. and
made a business trip to Tre-
health of especially the children.
Trans. Co.
25
27,000 harne on Monday.
With a payroll in the camps
Miss Roberta Anderson, Twila
within a radius of 15 miles of
Morton,
Ida Beav-1
-> Donis Timm,
««uiiu, iua
this city boasting of a payroll --------
near the $409,000 mark employ­ er, Edgar Crawford and Nelson I
Beaver are attending high school
ing around 500 men.
So it can truthfully be said this term at Vernonia.
that the youngest industrial city
I fire wnrden, for allowing a fire Oregon American
Five Log Trains Pass
Pleasant hill school open-
of Columbia county at the pres­ ed Our
j to go beyond his control on his
with a good attendance.
Mill Employ Over
Through Vernonia To ' farm near Goble.
ent time, has a payroll exceed­
600 in Two Shifts ing $1,000,900 annually.
Primary teacher,
Rafton Every Day He was tried at St. Helens
before Justice of Peace W. J.
One of the most modern, Austin, Mrs. Gordon
The youngest industrial city of largest creamery’s In the county third, fourth, and fl_„
____ ,
A few thousand extra copies Fullerton and was fined $25 and
fifth „
grades,
Columbia county, is the home of is located in this city, the Ne­ C. Gordon has the upper grades
of this issue of the Eagle will cost on his plea of guilty.
A. B. Castor of Portland was one of the most modern, largest halem Valley Ice and Creamery and is principal.
be passed out at the county fair
Milton Johns is hauling rick
for the balance of this week, fined $25 and costs Monday at electrical driven sawmills in the company, which manufactures the
and many hundreds will also be St. Helens for setting a fire on county, the Oregon American Nehalia ice cream, ice, also pas­ wood for Russell Stanton.
I
teurizing milk and cream and Is
sent to non-subscribers in the his land near Deer Island on Lumber company.
I 1
Lindsay
’
s
shipped
out
two
car
Tide creek.
The company employes over the means of bringing many
Nehalem valley,
loads
of
lumber
on
Thursday
600 men, working two shifts, I from the valley into this city of last week.
Few living in our county are
rwith an annual payroll of ap-1 to trade especially those who re­
aware of the extensive logging Nearby Logging Camps
| ceive checks from the local
operations in the vicinity of our
A large crowd gathered at
Swell Local Payroll proximately $800,000,
timber industrial city of Verno­
The company have built beau-1 creamery for their products.
the Vernonia public golf course
The
local
laundry
employs
15,
nia,
on Monday to enjoy the game.
Tributary to the local payroll, tiful homes for their employees |
Daily with the exception of the camps within a radius of 15 on the hill known as the O.-A | all white help.
Mrs. L. Smith and sons were
Sunday’s, 5 train loads of logs, miles from this city make Ver­ hill or Millview, which are rent­
The local bakery, the most
ed to employes for a reasonable' modern bakery in the county ana Varnonia shoppers one day last
each train containing approxi­ nonia their trading center.
week.
mately 200,009
feet
passes
Considerable trade is also re. rental, the lumber concern also' one of the best equipped in the
through this city to be unload­ ceived from the Clark and Wil­ owning and operating their own state, is the home of “Mothers
Cason transfer hauled two
ed in the Columbia river slough son logging operations at Wil- power and water plants.
Bread,’’ famous in this valley. loads of lumber from Lindsay's
The large mill is under the j The bakery is owned by McGhee mill last week.
at Rafton, Which is near Linn- ark, and Camp 8, as also the
ton,
huge logging operations west of management of Judd Greenman, and Vickery, and employes 7 in
Mrs. Henry John and son
who is also very active in civic their shop with an annual pay­
Each train contains around 17 Keasey.
Milo, were callers at the home
car loads, with approximately
In addition many smaller log­ activities taking a keen interest roll of over $9,000.
of Mrs. R. Stanton.
$2,000 feet of logs to the car. ging operations, swell the local in the welfare of Vernonia.
Johmton-McGraw Shingle Mill
Additional sheds were recently
The Inman-Poulsen logging payroll, Wilson and Clark who
Mr. and Mrs. Al. Webb were
The Johnston and McGraw
company west of Keasey, which employ 6 men; Vail and Mill 5; built by the Oregon American shingle mill, located in this city, at Cannon beach one day last
is 8 miles from Vernonia on the the Lindsay Lumber company to house finished lumber.
manufactures the famous Rite week.
United Rys, ship two trains a who run a sawmill at Treharne
Hitting the crest of the hill grade shingle, which is sold
Paateurized Milk to Pre­
Mrs. Frank Smith and Mrs.
one
and
one
half
miles
from
this
day through this city to Rafton,
approaching Vernonia from the throughout the United States,
Metzie were Vernonia shoppers
Phone
741
with the McPherson Logging city with a daily average cut of way of St. Helens or Clatskanie,1 the sales are also
serve
Children’s Health
handlea
company some four miles east of approximately 40,000 feet, em­ one immediately notices the th?ough"the "¡ales "force “of* the on Thursday.
ploying
15
in
their
mill
and
Vernonia hauling one train, the
beautiful homes with their well Central Coal & Coke company
Chas. Biggs was hauling hay
East Side logging company one around 12 in their woods; the kept lawns, which are occupied ,who hand]e the output of the last week.
Johnson
and
McGraw
shingle
and the Connacher logging com­
by
the
mill
employees
and
to
i
umber
of
the
Oregon
American
pany has been shipping one train mill, who employ 17; Van Vleet the left of the highway the large I mill in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Holt and
a day to Rafton, until recently Logging company, a new logging office, bungalow style with its
children were at Vernonia.
The
superintendent
of
the
when forest fires destroyed their concern in this vicinity and <*e spacious lawns and wonderful ar-
Mr. afid Mrs. S. O’Donnell
Harry Kearns, Manager
equipment, but logging opera­ Mills and ‘ Hall ’ logging company. ray of flowers surrounding it. shingle miM is Charles Wilson,
who has had over 80 yaara ex­ and family were Vernonia shop-
tions will start again in their
Visitors are welcome to in- perience in this line, having own­ pers on Saturday.
holdings in October of this year.
TIMBER
spect the mill, but for the safety ed many shingle mills jalong the
From their camps west of
of the visitor, it is necessary to
Keasey the Oregon American
Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore have obtain permission from the of­ . coast and in the state of Wash­
Logging company, rail two trains built a new porch around their fice to go through the mill and ington.
H. E. McGraw, president at
a day over the United Rys. from house, When finished they in- .
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zzi
Keasey to their pond in this city, vited their friends and pave a . -L J. x xl_ x
o
of f tbe
the organizers
organizers of
of the
the shingle
shingle
to supply their large saw mill dance. There was a crowd of o on uc the tour.
During the recent visit of the mill, and at present is on the
with logs,
26, eleven coming from Hills­ d
Portland
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j zii
Chamber
— u. of Commerce
-
board of directors and secretary.
Carl Davidson, superintendent boro.
to this city, those present were
of logging operations for the
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Riche spent taken for an inspection of the
Oregon American, has nearly
Meyers and Mayfield
300 men working under his juris­ last Tuesday evening visiting sawmill, planer sheds and stock
rooms,
and
editor
Chapman
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
John
Kilish.
Cooperate With The
diction in camps, and the Ore­
the “Oregon Voter,’’ expressed
gon American camp has a repu­
Chamber of Commerce
Sonny Kilburg of Timber has his astonishment in a letter a
tation among well known lumber gone to Vernonia to spend the
few
days
following
the
inspec
­
men of the northwest for being winter and will go to high
Through the courtesy of Wil­
tion, at the immensity of the lo­
one of the best managed and school.
cal plant, and its modern meth­ liam Meyers, manager of the lo­
well equipped camps in the
cal Shell Oil company station,
Sonny Kilburg and his boy ods of operations.
northwest.
exhibits from the Natal district
The camps of the East Side friend were home from Verno-
Portland—$300,000 plant will were hauled from the Natal
Logging company which also em­ nia last Saturday and Sunday.
be constructed for Paper Makers’ Grange hall to Vernonia Mon­
ployes over 150 men, the Inman-
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Riche Chemical corporation on seven­ day, and were trucked to the
Poulsen who employ nearly 215 drove to Portland Tuesday.
acre site in Guilds Lake district. county fair grounds Tuesday
men, and the Oregon American
through the courtesy pf H- key­
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Riggles
of
Ver
­
with their 300 employees, are
Astoria—Narrow
point
on field, . local manager
_
for
,
the
nonia
visited
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Kil­
considered in the trading area
road to Tideport camp widened. Portland Vernonia truck line.
burg
and
family
last
Sunday.
of Vernonia, this city enjoying
thousands of dollars worth of
Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle of Port­
trade monthly from these camps. land visited Mr. and Mrs. Tall­
Mcpherson, and man last Monday and Tuesday.
Connacher,
other camps nearer to Vernonia
Mrs. Chennouth gave a birth­
play an important role in stimu­
lating the trade market, which day party for her son last week
accounts for the large volume in which there was an atten­
of business enjoyed by the local dance of sixteen.
business men of this city, which
Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore have
equals that of any city of its purchased
a new town Essex se­
size iq the west.
Many smaller logging opera­ dan.
Moving Day it loom­
Norma and Anita Schiffer
tions within a radius of 10 miles
spent
last
Monday
visiting
Mrs.
ing up in the fore-
from Vernonia supply logs to
the big Oregon American mill, A. R, Baird and Evelyn Bar-
ground. When your
Building is now under construc­
whose average cut yields about zee.
We appeal to exacting
belongings are moved
one
tion.
We will be in a position to
Mrs.
B.
T.
Hart
spent
one-half million feet a day, em­
day
last
week
in
Portland.
housekeepers
. . women
be
sure
it
is
done
ploying nearly 600 men working
give special attention and service
Miss Muriel Schiffer of Tim­
two shifts.
who
are
enemies
to Dust,
carefully
and
well.
to cleaning suits, dresses, curtains
Wilson and Clark logging com­ ber has been visiting her aunt
Dirt
and
Dinginess.
Our
Calling
921
guaran
­
at
Forest
Grove
for
the
past
and
everything
in
need
of
clean
­
pany and Mills and Hall, unload
effective
cleaning
process
tees satisfaction.
their products of logs into the three weeks.
ing.
Mrs. A. W. Kilburg and Anita
Oregon American pond.
restores fabrics to their
A
LONG DISTANCE HAUL? Don’t worry
The logs some of which are Schiffer drove to Forest Grove
original colors and pris­
of tremendous size are hauled to the show last Monday evening.
Mrs. B. T. Hart, Mrs. B. Tall­
tine freshness. Tel. 711.
about either the expense or the safety
A LARGE HOME PAYROLL
from their loading docks in the
woods to the O.-A. pond by man, Mrs. A. W. Kilburg and
strong heavy motor trucks, the Miss Schiffer went to Forest
of your property if we undertake the job. Just
transportation of which is con­ Grove to the circus last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Huffman and
sidered safe and swift, with the
give u» • ring and say when you wart us to
driver handling the unloading at daughter have moyed to Verno­
nia.
the pond by himself.
do the job.
K. Inouye, Proprietor
Louise Kalish and Anita Schif­
fer
visited
Mrs.
Hood
of
Wes-
Phone 711
CHAS. GREGORY IS
limber Tuesday evening.
ARRESTED FOR LETTING
Mr. and Mrs. Chilton, Ray
FIRE BEYOND CONTROL
Scott, Anita Schiffer, were In­
Vernonia
Chas. Gregory was arrested vited to supper at Mrs. Gil­
Monday by J. J. Russell, state more’s last Sunday evening.
Shoe Repairing
Goodyear Shoe Repair Shop
Has It Ever Occurred To You That
Nehalem Valley
Creamery Co
A Home Industry
Manufacturing
Delicious Nehalia
Ice Cream
Ice
Pasteurized
Milk & Cream
Nehalem Valley Ice & Creamery Company
FALL
CLEANING
and ready,
do wear!
r
Our New
Dry Cleaning
c ÆV iionz
Vernonia Laundry
CASON TRANSFER
THE
LAUNDRY
THAT
SATISFIES