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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1930)
X FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1930. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON FOUR -I stream in the state for its pisca torial pleasures. There are ’many ideal locations in the Nehalem valley for trout ■7,— I hatcheries where the supply of water is sufficient the year around and anyone who has in County Official Paper dulged in the Waltonian arts From the Nehalem Journal, has hud the fact attested that SUN MON TUES WED THU FRI sat ! Member of National Editorial Assn, and Oregon State Edit September 2, 1889 (Vol. 1, No. therb are enough crawfish, the orial Assn. 1). Gua H. Bynon, Editor, Wm. j natural food for cut throat trout, H. Bradon, Business Manager. | in the Nehalem river, to feed M- zk ! all the trout a dozen hatcheries “It is rumored pretty strongly i could supply. ; that there will be a paper start | The Gales Creek plant was or- ed at Vernonia. We hope the : dered closed, as I stated before, • brother quill-pusher will succeed, To the Editor: The Portland ' on account of lack of water, so but he goes to a very thinly papers _ __ ago carried ______ 1 if water is the only reason, then a _______ few days Pacific Coast Representative settled section to begin.”—Ore the announcement that the State ** would be a good time to get Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. «Tv gon Mist. Fish and Game commission of action on this matter for it would San Francisco * * • ■ Oregon had authorized the dis- cost no more to maintain and The'managers of the grist mill operate a hatchery in this valley $2.00 Per Year in Advance at Pittsburg have sent for a | continuance of the Gales Creek than it did at Gales Creek and Issued Every Friday trout hatchery, giving as their Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post new set of burrs to enable them | reason, the lack of water. Matt a plant here could amply take office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. to do first class work. I Ryckman, superintendent of care of the needs of Gales * * * ¡hatcheries has been ordered to Creek and its tributaries as well The warm, sandy soil of the close the hatchery and sell the us the Nehalem river. Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch' legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding Nehalem is especially adapted to property. S. J. SMITH, insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c. hops . . . with a railroad to give It seemes to be an opportune cheap transportation to market, time for a delegation of the ASHLAND—-(UP)— Although RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher Nehalem will become in the near leading or representative sports-1 many persons live on it, Jack future one of the principal hop growing districts of this state. men of the Nehalem valley to ap- i Wurtz found cooing didn’t suit pear before the State Fish and| his temperment or desire to sleep. * * * THE WATER POWER ISSUE Em Sheeley is rapidly recov- Game commission at their meet Doves in an adjoining cote was ing in October and ask that a I cause for the matinal distur It has long been a favorite trick of politicians to erect ering from the effects of his trout hatchery be established in the bance. recent accident. He was thrown a man of straw, pelt him vigorously, and look around for from a wagon against a stump the Nehalem valley. popular applause, as a celebrated evangelist is said to and the hind wheel passed over Lying as it does in close proxi his chest, injuring him severely. mity to Portland and within, easy ( have bowled over an effigy of the devil in a prize ring. * * * reach of thousands of people in | At the last meeting of the the Willamette valley this river Such appears to be the situation with reference to Evangelical church the officers is entitled to more consideration the power issue in this state. Some politicians would for the ensuing year were elect in the future than has been be-' have us believe—to quote from a speech which Julius ed, board of trustees, P. Peck, stowed upon it in the past by Meier is reported to have recently made in Tillamook— I president, John Campbell, secre- the game commission. Ranked and T. H. Lavender, trea- in the past as a wonderful trout U. S. Royal Cord Tires “The power trust is stifling the very life blood of the | ¡ , tary, surer. It is the intention of the stream it has through neglect I church people of Oregon.” society to erect a com in keeping it stocked, been al- She’l Products modious house of worship in the most depleted of its finny in Puzzle: Find the power trust, Pepco of course most near future. habitants, and if properly Taken Dependab’e Mechanics ♦ ♦ ♦ care of " now, could in a few nearly fits the description, but it has to meet the very Thomas E. Mills, residing two years be brought back to that Shop Work Guaranteed vigorous competition of another large corporation, the miles below town, met with what stage where it would equal any Northwestern Electric company, and if either were to at may prove to be a serious ac- tempt much stifling its business would shrink to the cident last week. While dress- vanishing point. Scattered throughout the state are a ing a stick of timber, his axe glanced and cut a deep gash number of power companies, home and foreign owned, in in his left foot. * * • no way dependent upon Pepco or the Northwestern Elec Surveyors for the Astoria and tric. Not much power trust at present. 'outh Coast railroad are search- Conceivably, of course, there might be one some day, ing for the most desirable route Vernonia to Jewell, hoping and legislation to prevent unrestrained monopoly of Ore from by this means to shorten the dis gon’s natural resources is much different from clamor tance from their starting point about a power trust that does not exist. To safeguard in Washington county to Astoria. * * * the interests of the public by providing for reversion of The people of this part of the rights that are abused, to regulate rates fairly, to re valley are rather anxious to have quire essential though not always immediately profitable the county surveyor fulfill his service—should be the policy of the state. On the other promise that he would return hand, to prohibit the development of water power by pri at his earliest convenience and stablish several lost corners in vate capital on the theory that the state or a municipality Vernonia. It has been nearly might at some indefinite time in the future want to-go eight years since the matter was into the power business for itself would inflict upon in rirst agitated, and settlers are beginning to wonder at the de dustry a bad attack of anemia. lay. • • • Another point that is often overlooked is that water S. P. Donkel’s oxen ran away power is not the only economical and effective means of with hi swagon, crossing the riv- generating electric current, The Diesel engine is prov- er with it three times, breaking it and Mr. Donkel’s temper in ing highly successful, particularly in communities of mod several places. erate size where sufficient water power is not readily ac • « « cessible. Take for instance the city of McMinnville, right Following are the local adver ly pointed to as one of the best examples of municipal own tisers in this issue of the Jour nal : R. W. McNutt and Co., gen ership in the state. Originally it depended upon a water eral merchandise, (Main store at power plant some ten miles distant. As the city grew, Cornelius); Vernonia Mill Com service became inadequate, and interruptions in stormy pany, S. J. Brown, manager; weather due to fouling of the transmission lines were an Thomas Lavender, general black smithing; Lewis Brothers, car- noyingly frequent. Accordingly the city installed a Diesel nenters and builders; J. C. Coul- Urnunna Eaglr Forty-One Years Ago 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 j 28 29 30 ter, market; T. L. Adams, nurs ery; Campbell and McNutt, real estate; Israel Spencer, notary public; C. H. Newth, physician and surgeon; Vernonia House, A. B. Lewis, manager; Joseph Van Blaricom, real estate. Our prices on printing are not always the lowest... but our work is always the best E NSilSRE with an Si HOUSE — The Open Forum - - SQUARE Df/L SERVICE STATION Here’s Power Equipment for Every Man’s Harvest The McCormick-Deering 15-30 To stand and admire the big McCormick-Deering 15-30 Tractor will make your hands itch to get hold of the steering wheel. To sit in the seat and jig'tle the controls will make you anxious to start the 4- engine, listen to the deep throated exhaust, and get the feel of the vibration-free power on your cylindcr own important work. Think of yourself on the seat of one of these tractors, pulling the most modern farm machines across your acres. Think of the increased efficiency, saving in time and labor, improved crop yields, and reduced costs this equipment will make possible---- then let us chow you the mach nes in our store and demonstrate them on your own farm. We are also showing the McCormick-Deering and all-purpose Farmall. Veraaeiaia Trading Co. ED TAPP CASS BERGERSON TO THESE TIRE SAVINGS! * plant in town, which furnishes the chief supply and Baker creek plant is merely auxiliary. After all, is it not the little fellow for whom the in dependents are ostensibly waging a campaign? They are not concerned over enterprises like the Oregon-American I or Clark and Wilson, who can buy their power or manu facture it themselves, according to their own best in terests. The small consumer wants cheap electricity which the big man is in a position to get anyhow, and he wants I a sufficient amount for his purpose. The farmer craves electric power for his pump, and his wife for her wash ing machine, while both, perhaps, desire a radio. Away from the centers of population or the source of’ supply, a Diesel plant, municipal or private, is the more promising agency for that desired power. Leave Your Kodak work at LINCOLN’S CANDY KITCHEN We give you a 40 cent en largement free with each 50 cent order of Kodak work. This Tire keeps going in Spite of Punishment! To change the straw man figure, the independents fabricate a grotesque balloon, duly inflate it, and then shoot it bravely with an automatic. They annihilate the power trust of their own imaginations. ICE day. Country road. Motor humming. Then . .. BANG! You N knew it! That bargain-counter casing on the right front wheel! Another good day gone wrong ... and not helped by the fact that you’d been wondering how long that tire was going to last. You know how it it! Sodowe! That’s why we have Cavalier* on our racks. Goodrich built the Cavalier for people who want to keep their tire investment at the minimum. Built it to suit them in price . . . and surprise them in per VERNONIA NEEDS AN AMBULANCE Picture for yourself—it has happened more than once, and can happen again: A man lies in a logging camp, ser iously injured. A call goes to Portland for an ambulance, which comes as soon as it can. but there is an unavoidable delay of just the length of time it takes the ambulance to make the trip to get the patient. Pain is unassuaged ........... Life hangs in the balance. An ambulance stationed in Vernonia might have saved the life; certainly it could have brought prompter relief. By all means, Vernonia should have an ambulance. 1CKA—(IT)—A. N. lloerflcr stag. Les Kindred and John Adair didn’t want to see his $1000 prize shot a 200-pound five pointer hog die in the ignomy of a sty. I in Warrenton city limits, two When he whistled in a familiar miles from the business center. manner, the pig fo'lowing him from the p?n, dropped dead. ASTORIA—(UP)—When Jack, friendly Irish terrier was neces- WARRENTON—(UP)— While, sary to the success of a pet pa- other huntsmen withstood untold rade here, radio broadcasts asked sufferings to bag the coveted his whereabouts. Order Prices formance. Built it to live up to Good rich standards . . . and still cost less than just ordinary tires. So you'll find the Cavalier big and husky in every particular. Oversize in air cushion. Stout in carcass and side wall. Tough and slow-wearing in the tread. And good to look at, too! If you want to take tires off your mind . . . see us. Our stock of Cavaliers in cludes your size . . . and two sizes for trucks- Specially priced now ... not apt to be much longer. Come In while the savings are even bigger than usual. » Goodrich Cavalier Sii ver view Service Station Itili Heath Phone X57 »