Thursday, December 12, 192'
Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
Associated Chambers Meet at Castle Rock
Opening of Rainier-
Last of First Chiefs
Longview Bridge Set
of Old South Dakota
For Latter Part Jan
Elk Point, 8. D.—A. O. Ringsrud
Ashland—Construction of 3
additional cabins at Lithia Park
campground practically complet­
ed.
Bend — Plans underway for
construction of five-story hotel
on corner of Wall street and
Franklin avenue
$150,000.
Astoria—Extension to local
telephone building rapidly near­
ing completion.
Klamath Falls — Construction
underway on Kesterson Lumber
company plant < :i west bank of
Klamath river a>out thtee miles
south of the city.
Springfield—Plans under co
sideration for purchase of M
Kinis building on Main stre
near second for use as continu
ity hall.
Mt. Angel—Gervais Mark
r< ad opened to traffic.
Silverton—Logging operatio
lecently started near this tow
says be Is the only person now liv­
It is quite probable that the ing who held a state oilice when
in
Rainier-Longview bridge will be South Dakota became a state ia
•dedicated the latter part of Jan­ 188».
were
chosen
to
fill
When men
uary 1930, and not January 15, governing
offices of the new state
us previous stated in last week’s Ringsrud was elected secretary of
issue of this paper.
state ami served two terms. He
Double forces are being em- had held county offices for ten
on construction, and years before that Ume. He was
ployed
while thousands are eagerly elected registrar of deeds and conn
waiting for the completion ox ty clerk for Union county In 1878.
years,
the bridge for the mammoth After holding that office six
lie was elected county treasurer.
celebration which promise > to This
office he held four years.
make the celebration of the
He was Republican nominee for
opening of the highest steel governor In 181X1. but was defeated
i
span in the world over navi-
by Andrew E. Lee. populist candi­
gable waters, the greatest cele- date, with a majority of only 319
bration of any kind ever held votes.
In March, 1917, he was appointed
in the west.
Governors of many states will a member of the South Dakota
board of charities and correc­
be present, the whole program state
tions. and served as president of
will be broadcast over a net-j that hoard ten years.
work of stations, and an elabor­
Meantime he had served as
ate parade will be held.
mayor, and member of the city
Within the next 30 days the council; president of the Union
center span will be placed. Hun­ County Old Settlers’ association;
dreds of cars are crossing the and for twelve years was a mem­
ferry daily to witness the pro­ ber of the Elk Point school board.
1885 he has been engaged
gress being made on the great in Since
the mercantile business here.
bridge, and it is well worth a
Ringsrud arrived with his par­
trip from this city, which takes ents In Union county, on July 4,
one and one-half hours by the 1867, having come direct from Nor­
way of Mist-Clatskanie to visit way. At that time the railroad ex­
tended only ns far west as Denison.
Longview and the bridge.
Few realize that at the com­ Iowa, so tlie Ringsrud family wait­
pletion of the Rainier-Apiary ed there for friends from the Brule
And as wo know mon folks—we realize
cutoff, this city will only be settlement, north of Elk Point, who
escorted them to their new home.
19 or 20 miles from the Long­
that foi the smoker, a gift of a tobacco
view bridge approach on the
Oregon side, or half hour to 40
accessory will be the real thing for him.
minutes drive from the wonder Kids Learn to Turn in
city of the west.
If it’s in the smoke line, We Have It!
Alarm, Then Practice
The Longview-Rainier bridge
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Southbridge, Mass.—Local school
opening will mark the comple-
Street Scene* of Cattle Rock, Waih., where the Lower Columbia Associated Chambers of Com-
tion of one of the greatest children were given It struct b>ns by
merce met Friday. Story on Page 1.—Courtesy of Cowlitz County Advocate^
firemen
"how to turn In nn
bridge engineering feats ever alarm.” on Police
officials no.v plan
sponsored in the west, and it is to give Instructions on “when to
Hi, Worthy Precedent
quite probable that President turn in an alarm.” An extraor­
Neil Bush Quarter
Little Lawrence was untidy Hoover will appoint a special dinary number of false alarms re­
On All Star Team
Though his mother made every ef­ personal representative to
be sulted from the educational efforts
fort to encourage him he seldom
of the firemen.
[present at the dedication.
folded
up
his
clothes
after
he
un
Neil Bush, was named as the
Mike O’Connor, Pi op
dressed
for
bed.
Castle
Rock,
gateway
to
Mt.
I
outstanding field general of Co-
One night his mother came Into
lumbia county high school gridis- St, Helens and Spirit Lake, ia the bedroom and saw his clothing English Lead Other
ters for the 1929 season, be­ a progressive city of 1100, lo­ scattered all over tlie floor.
“I wonder who It was that never
Foreigners in France
ing picked for quarter-back, on cated on the Pacific Highway,
Rattlesnake Proves
a team chosen by Dr. Bailey of 142 miles south of Seattle and folded up his clothes when lie went
Paris.—The Englishman leads all
of Portland, to bed!”
St. Helens, on the All-Star coun­ 03 miles north
nationalities ns a permanent resl
to Be a Hitch-Hiker
Little Lawrence pulled Ills dent of France, according to recent
4 Oregon. It is also located on I
ty team. Rainier received
Goose Creelc, Texas.—A 16-
the
main
line
of
the
Northern
bed
covers
over
his
head
and
uu
statistics
of
Immigration,
84.000
now
places, St. Helens 3, Scappoose
lncli diamond backed rattle­
swered:
being classed fixed homeholders in
3, Clatskanie 1, and Vernonia 1. Pacific, Union Pacific and Great
snake
will* a lust for travel,
“
Adam
I
”
this country, and not Including
Northern which jointly use a1
and a motorist making a tour
transient voyagers and tourists,
double
track
system
between
j
In making candy with brown
of west Texas, recently com­
North America follows second with
bined to make a filling sta­
sugar, it is well to remember Seattle and Portland.
50,000.
Nebraska
City
Boasts
Spirit
Lake
and
Mt.
St.
Helens'
tion attendant wary of future
that light brown sugar has a
are
48
miles
from
Castle
Rock,
|
requests
for a change of bat­
more delicate flavor than dark
of Two-Headed Snake
reached by a road which bran-|
tery water.
brown sugar.
McCook,
Neb.
—
One
can
go
to
al
­
and
T. (’. Jordan of Belly lit­
Small fruit cakes often make ches from the Pacific highway most any county fair and see a two-
tle realized while driving
one-half mile north of the city. headed calf or a two-headed colt,
appropriate Christmas gifts.
peacefully on his way that
Artistic Sign Paint
Why They Stay at 25
A wooden spoon is often de­ This road which provides the but McCook has a two-headed
lie was playing host to the
sirable in making candy, since only entrance to the lake and j | snake,
Rochester, N. Y.—Girls who <10
ride-stealing reptile. He be­
The reptile Is about eight Inches not marry before reaching the age
came cognizant of the fact
it will not scratch the pan and mountain, is a good macadam long,
perfectly normal in its actions, of twenty five stand an excellent
road for 20 miles, the remaind- •
rather abruptly, however.
the handle does not get hot.
and
to
the
casual
onlooker
Just
er being in fair condition.
chance of becoming old maids, ac­
when the attendant informed
J. C. Henderson
twice
as
dangerous
as
an
ordinary
cording to statistics made public
him of the presence of the
Silver Lake, a popular recrea-1
snake.
When
the
snake
decides
to
here
by
the
Metropolitan
Life
In
­
snake
which
was
curled
up
tion spot, is eight miles from move across n room It rests one
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placidly on the battery box,
Castle Rock on the Mt. St. Hel­ head on the other and wriggles surance company. At twenty, the
figures show, a girl has a better
liaving ridden a distance of
ens road and the settlement of | along in snappy style.
chance to marry than a man, but
500 miles.
Toutle, providing the last ser-
Both of the heads lire apparently at twenty-five conditions nre re­ :::
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vice station between Castle Roek normal in their functioning. Forked versed. As the year» Increase, the
and the lake is 15 miles froin tongues protrude from both, both chances of marriage for the man
have eyes, and liotli dart around Increase, while those of the girl de- MARK EVERY GRAVE
Narrowly Escape Entombment With the city.
with lightninglike rapidity.
Memorials in granite and marble
crease, the record revealed.
Dinosaurs and Other Pre-
at reduced prices
historic Animals.
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS
Boy Loses Foot Saving
Spank P’e Thrower
Echo Measure« Distance
Vernonia
Los Angeles.—Three Los Angeles
His Dog From Train Pasadena, Calif.—PI p throwinc Oregon Monument Works
By means ot a new device to be
schoolboys, chasing a squirrel
Fourth
and
Main
St.,
Hillsboro
may
be
all
right
In
Hollywood,
bur
Kansas City, Mo.—When Smoke, doesn’t go In Pasadena. So police
across tlie abandoned La Brea oil Installed upon airplanes, the avia
fields In the center of the city re­ tor will he enabled to Judge the dis­ his police puppy, was in danger, Instructed a couple to spank their
tance
to
the
ground
very
accu
­
Charles
Breistein, sixteen years small son, who ha*« been throwing
cently, narrowly escaped entomb­
ment with tlie dinosaurs, saber- rately. This device makes use of old. didn't hesitate to leap In front perfectly good apple pies at piss-
toothed tigers and primeval men the echo of the exhaust explosions of a train to rescue him. Smoke
whose skeletons fill the prehistoric from the engine, anil even though! reciprocated by barking until
the earth may be obscured b.v a Charlie’s father found the boy on
soft tar hogs adjoining.
Billy Newman, fifteen, lender of thick fog the echo of the explosions, the right-of-way, one foot so
the clinse, stumbled Into the tar reflected from the surface of tlie crashed that It had to be ampu­
bog and screamed for Ills compan­ ground, will tell the airman Ills ex­ tated.
Charles and Smoke had been on
ions’ aid as he sank into the sticky act height. Tills apparatus Is ol
substance that hns been swallow­ Immense value when the view ot a hike when the dog got on the
ing struggling men and beasts for the earth Is cut off and It Is said I path of a Milwaukee train. The
millions of years. Jack Shoenhalr, to he very accurate even when youth scooped him off the track
but failed by a fraction of a second
fourteen, and Willard Marshall, quite close to the ground.
to jump clear of the locomotive.
twelve, ran to his assistance and
(fnriiilntaa
were entrapped too.
Largest Perfect Jade
Three men answering their ter­
(irritimi (L tuíi
rified screams, narrowly escaped Ant-Killer Uses Pincer»
Selected for China’s Seal
the treacherous tar. Realizing the
for Grinding Its Victims
Rarely
does a custom become an
Shanghai.—The largest piece of
hopelessness of ordinary rescue
established one without some
Among the myriad forms ot anl perfect "flesh-colored” Jade known
methods, they called the fire de­
good and vital reason, especially
partment. Before the ropes and mnl life are to he found many tlmt to be In existence Is to be carved
ladders arrived the boys had sunk tux the credibility. One Is a crea into the new seal of the republic of
one of sentimental nature. In re­
ture
only
about
three
Inches
long
China.
to their nrmplts In the dark pool.
cent
years the sending of greet­
which
bears
a
superficial
re
­
This piece of Jade, five Inches
Ladders were placed across the
ing
cards
during the Christmas
semblance
to
the
spider
ami
also
to
thick,
seven
Inches
long
and
a
little
bog, and a fireman. B. B. Mans­
season has grown to enormous
field. waded out. Before he had both the scorpion and the vine more than live Inches wide. lias Just
proportions. It is easy to under­
reached the frightened boys he had gerone. Frequently l! is mistaken been found In far-off Slabbing prov­
sunk to his chin. He managed to j for one of them, hill Its correct ince. It has been purchased by
stand the reasons, i, as it makes
pseudonym
Is
ant
killer',
a
mime
Gen. Chin Slmjen, chairman of the
grab them, nevertheless, and with j
possible the remembering of
the
Implications
of
which
are
fully
Sinklang Provincial council, and by
the aid of the other firemen extrl- j
friends at a time when practically
cated them one by one. They were j borne out by Its behavior toward him lias been presented to the Nan­
the whole world has thoughts of
taken to the Emergency hospital un ! those little Insects. Ils reason, king government.
harmed except for the coating of writes C, T. Reed In Nature Maga­
happiness and good will, I. They
zine, for killing the ants, and near­
tar and the effects of shock.
serve as a connecting I link be-
ly
all
the
other
small
animals,
The La Brea fossil beds or tar
t ween friends at least once a
bogs are a series of ernter-like pits chiefly iirthropo Inns. Is not pure I
year, and help form a tie that
filled with oil-soaked land and earth
might otherwise lose its hold.
from which scientists have gath­
ered from time to lime the fossils [ Maimed War Veteran
The cards carried by the Ver-
of ancient nnlmnls and human1
nonia Eagle are fill expulsive de­
skulls. From these skeletons sci­
Champion Chair Cyclist
signs, not found elsewhere in this
entists have been able to recon­
I.ondon.— Shi Hill, who lost the
struct phases of primitive history.
territory.
use of bls legs In the battle of the
In J890 oil was discovered on Somme, claims to lie the world’»
A better selection and lower
adjacent lands ami developed. champion Invalid cluilr cyclist, He
Every productive pit contained recently made a record “ "••»•>
price rewards the early purchas-
run ” to
masses of bones. One pit had 208 Clacton and buck, taking Ills
saber tooth tigers, 17 elephants and hours each way. Clacton Is 70
a number of mastodons and wolves. miles from Loudon, Hill’s next ven-
Wriunûa taule
The oil, thickened through evapora­ ture will be a trip to Brighton. 53
tion, had formed traps for animals miles from London through a hilly
Mrs. W. B. Lappe,
which sought to drink the surface country.
water and perished In the ntlre.
Representative.
Of all the things yon can get
for him there is bound to be
one that will meet
his approval above
all else
Pipes
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Vernonia
Paint Shop
Cason Transfer
Hauling
Workingmen’s Store
Oregon
American
Lumber
Lindsay
Lumber Co
f relíame
Deference to Others
Rebounding Stick Kill,
Galesville, Wls.—Andrew Lind­
berg. a farmer, was killed when he
threw a stick nt a fleeing calf and
the projectile rebounded mid
pierced his abdomen.
Tolerance Is willingness to grant
to the opinions and actions of oth
ers the same consideration yon do
to your own. You may not agree
with such nets or Ideas, but this
does not mean that yon are right
and they are wrong.—Grit.
Phone 71*51
FINNEY OF TIIE FORCE
Freight
Delivered To
and Called
For At
Yoilt
Door
Trucks Leave Vernonia
9 A. M. Dally
W. A. Davit, Local Manager.
Ret. 1052
Office Phone 1041
Portland-Vernonia Truck Line
For Freight Orders
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