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VERNONIA GRANGE
TO MEET SATURDAY
Day for Vote
On Tax Levy
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George A. Nelson
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Authorized
171 To 83
The Vernonia Athletic club, ac-
cording to Dr. M. D. Cole, is
planning to arrange for a series
of volley ball and indoor base­
ball contests this winter.
Arrangecents for a gymnasium
and details for a schedule have
not been completed as yet.
Rainbow Girls To
Present Plays
‘Local Rebekahs Put
On Drill at Convention
0-A Co. Wins
Damage Suit
More Expense Money
Needed by G. Nelson
Friday evening at 8 o’clock
the Rainbow girls will present
a program in the auditorium of
the Washington school. The pro­
gram is as follows: A one-act
play, “The Flivver Party,” with
May DeEtt Throop taking the
part of Mother, the back seat
driver, Leia Beveridge as the
son, Marjorie King as the daugh­
ter, and Nelle Green as father.
A piano duet by Marjorie King
and Jean Yeo; dance by Verla
Messing; song, “I'm Going Goofy
Over Miniature Golf,” by Joy
Bush, Margaret Nelson, Flor­
ence Wall, Mary Ann Childs,
Christine Rainey, Nelle Campbell,
and Nelle Green.
A one-act play, “The Man and
His Wife,” which is a Japanese
farce and is played by Elna
Spencer as the husband, Verla
Messing as the wife and Flor-
enee Wall as the servant. Two
songs by Joy Bush and Margaret
Nelson; tap dance by
Nelle
Green and a drill by the Rain-
bow girls.
By vote of 171 to 83 a mass
meeting Tuesday evening to con­
sider the proposed budget of
school district 47 decided to ex­
ceed the 6 per cent limitation,
ana finally to grant the amount
asked for, $50,464.50. The ques­
tion of exceeding the limitation,
voted on by acclamation shortly
before distribution of the bal­
lots, was favored without a dis­
senting vote. Many of the aud­
ience were apparently under the
impression tliat the balloting had
to do with the levy asked by the
school district, and a consider­
able number left as soon as the
vote was taken.
Assessor W. S. Roberts, who
was present, explained the situ­
ation that necessitated author­
ity to exceed the limitation. The
first budget, he stated, is known
as the base levy. In this dist­
rict the base was around $8000,
which could be increased not
more than six per cent each year
without special election. In 1925,
however, an error of the school
clerk reduced the budget to $3,
204, of which amount $2,187
was for bpnded indebtedness,
leaving only $1,067 as the base.
Figuring in the annual six per
cent increase allowed, the base
is now $1577, an amount wholly
inadequate to finance the schools.
After the limitation had been
voted upon, motion was made to
adopt the budget. Judge W. A.
Harris sought to add an amend­
ment calling for a vote on the
budget section by section, but the
amendment lost. Judge Harris,
however, was granted the pri­
vilege of discussing details. Be­
fore these were completed, how­
ever, the question was put on
account of the lateness of the
hour, and the budget was adopt­
ed by a rising vote.
A. B. Counts made a speech
vigorously opposing high taxa­
tion.
Because of the very low base,
authority to exceed the limitation
will have to be asked for each
year. About two-thirds of the
districts in the county are in
the same fix, stated Mr. Roberts,
the trouble arising from the
fact that a lowering of the tax in
any one year establishes a new
low base, while an increase by
special election has no effect
upon it.
J. W. Brown, chairman of the
board of directors, presided at
the meeting.
The request for additional ex­
The district convention of Re­
penses for the county agent’s
bekah lodges was held in St.
office, disallowed in this year’s
Helens yesterday and Mountain
budget, was justified by the ex­
Heart Rebekah lodge of Vernonia
Suit
of
the
East
Side
Logging
put on the drill work in which company against the Oregon- tension of duties during the past
few years, states George A. Nel­
the following ladies took part:
Mrs. Edna Linn, Mrs. Viola American Lumber company for son. There has been no increase
Treharne, Mrs. Hazel Graven, $67,890.76 damages sustained in since 1923, when he took over the
, a fire that spread from Oregon-
At that time there
Mrs. Selma Webb, Mrs. Margaret! ' American operations above Keas- position.
were in the county about 991
Line%. Mrs. Grace Miner, Mrs.
ey May 21, 1929, into property farms, the number enumerated in
Helen Fogel, Mrs. Mae Mellinger, of the East Side company was de­
the 1920 census. Now there are
Miss Bessie Spofford, Mrs. N.
Monday in favor of the 2600, an increase of 68.2 per
A. Spofford, Mrs. Grace Sunell, cided
defendants. The Oregon-Ameri- cent, the greatest in the state.
Mrs. Myrtle John, Mrs. Rose
according to the decision, Clerical work, necessary t avel-
Schnltz, Mrs. Ruby Biggs, Mrs. '■ | I can,
J. Glassner, Mrs. Pearl McCabe, was not negligent in allowing the ing, etc., have increased, but W. A. Calmberg
fire to spread, as evidence show­ the allowance for expenses re­
Mrs. Jim Monger.
-that it had exercised reason­ mains the same.
Mrs. W. A. Hodge, Mrs. Haz­ ed
Passes At Mist
Columbia county, Mr. Nelson
el Stevenson, Mrs. W. C. Kilby able care to prevent the escape
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of
fire
and
sparks
from
its
log-
says,
now
allows
the
least
of
any
and Mrs. A .P. Bays also attend­ ' ging equipment and put forth
Clatsop,
ed this convention from Vernonia. every effort to keep the fire county in the state.
MIST—(Special.)—N. A. Calm­
Mrs. E. B. Miner of Vernonia from spreading after it was dis­ with 700 or 800 farmers, grants berg passed away at his home
is the district deputy president. covered. A modern spark er­ expenses of $2600.
early Saturday morning, after
a long and painful illness, which
rester had been installed in tile
has covered a period of several
smoke stack of the engine only
years. He with his family had
Japanese Quake
two days before the fire, and the Turn In Sight Says
long been a resident of the
equipment had passed inspection
Nehalem valley, coming here in
by
a
state
fire
warden
only
a
few
President of 4 L the early days, and enduring
Films Shown Here hours before the fire. 200, men
many hardships that the pioneers
were immediately put at work
to
extinguish
the
fire,
which
The turn towards improvement had to in those earlier days.
Reconstruction of Toklo and
He was a kind and loving hus­
Yokohama after the earthquake however, spread into East Side in the lumber situation appears band, a good father, a good neigh­
of 1923 was vividly portrayed in operations and destroyed con­ to be in sight according to W. bor and a fine man, and his
C. Ruegnitz, president of the 4L.
motion pictures made by the Jap­ siderable logging equipment.
The suit was for damages of “Because the industry will con­ presence will be missed in the
anese government, and shown in
valley and at home.
Vernonia Friday night under the $59,560.76 for loss of equipment tinue to limit production to ac­
He leaves a wife, six daughters
sponsorship of local Japanese. and $8330 as the cost of fighting tual buying, the outlook for 1931 and five sons, besides a host of
the
fire.
It
was
tried
by
the
is
of
definite
improvement,
be
­
The pictures represented the
other relatives and friends.
cities before the quake, never- federal court at Portland, under ginning in February or March.
Mrs. May Ellis of the Cherry
Funeral services were held in
Judge
Bean.
Increasing
employement
will
be
to-be-forgotten scenes during the
the church here Monday after­ Tree apartment is housekeeper
in
direct
proportion
to
business
terrible disaster, and systematic
The Oregon-American company
noon, and he was laid to rest of J. J. Wells, assessor of Mor­
thorough reconstruction after­ was successful on every count. recovery. It will not happen in beneath a mound of beautiful row county for 20 years, and re­
wards. A prominent feature was According to Judd Greenman, a day, gut gradually.”
elected for another term.
An employment survey com­ flowers in the local cemetery.
the gigantic celebration in honor general superintendent, the out­
of completing the reconstruction come of the trial has an import- pleted November 25 shows that
work.
tant bearing on the logging indus­ the average number of loggers
The government of Japan is try in that if a company has to and lumber workers usually em­
exhibiting these films in the incur double damages for fire ployed in camps and mills of Ore­
United States in appreciation of that originates on its operations gon, Washington and Idaho dur­
the help furnished by this coun­ and spreads to those of another, ing the past three years has
try. The tour is just beginning, there would be an advantage in averaged 122,748/ In November
Vernonia being one of the first neglect of its own property in 58,35 men were out of work,
order to protect the neighbor. 35,250 were working full time
cities to view the films.
George L. Hathaway, of North-!taining a diameter of thirty-five
and 29,263 part time. West of
by the rapid increase in dairy
lie. - Michigan, is making
makinv a table
table’ feet and a height of 350 feet.
the Cascades 49,153 were employ- l ville
Prior to the show, K. Inouge,
stock during the last six or sev­
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bits of * wood
from TnrviAiia
famous 1 | Utir
But thorn
there are other
species of
the Vernonia laundry, enter­ SHATTERS OWN
ed and 44,372 out of work.
en years; which increase amounts of
trees
in
America,
and
through
the
trees
in
the
United
States that
tained a group of business men
1 President Ruegnitz attributes
to over 300 per cent; while the at a banquet in the Terminal cafe
TURNIP RECORD the situation to overproduction chamber of commerce has re- grow to immense size and attain
dairy stock in the entire county in honor of H. Acino, Japanese
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that has extended throughout the quested a piece of lumber from to great age. Among the soft-
of Columbia has only increased consul at Portland, and M. Miy-
John Baker, who brought three past five years. Effective coop­ the big 839-year old tree which I woods, or conifers, the Oregon
25 per cent during the same i
ako, who is in charge of the or four weeks ago to the Eagle eration has been difficult because i the Oregon-American Lumber white fir, now known in trade
period. These figures speak for films.
office a turnip weighing 22 of the large number of individual company felled last year. Juddj as the Douglas fir, which at­
themselves in showing the rapid
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pounds, has broken his own rec
­ companies in the field.
Greenman, ZWA*.A**al
general 0111.0*
superintend­ tains its maximum size and ex­
development of the dairy industry
ord by placing beside the first
ent, is complying with the re­ cellence on the wet western slopes
ANDERSON
ELECTED
in the Nehalem valley.
one a mate that weighs 35
of the Cascades in Washington,
quest.
“Three to four ton of clover
TWO LOCAL MEN
MASONIC
MASTER
< A story about this tree was Oregon and British Columbia,
pounds.
hay can be grown to an acre on
OPEN RADIO SHOP i published October 19, 1930, in seems to be the chief rival of
the average.” states Oscar Weed,
Believe it or not, the big
Thursday eveniny officers were
I the New York Times, and is re­ the Sequoia in bulk and longevi­
Sheriff of Columbia county, who elected by Vernonia Lodge No. turnips are both here, inviting
E. Shipman and Kenneth White printed here as follows:
ty.
farmed for many years in the Ne­ 184, A. F. and A. M. as follows: inspection.
Douglas firs have been report­
of Vernonia have established ar a-
halem valley. “Maximum yields Worshipful master, E. G. Ander­
ed as having a diameter of more
GREAT OLD FIR
dio shop on Bridge street oppo­
run as high as five tons per son; senior warden, Kenneth A.
site the post office.
They are
MADE INTO LUMBER than fifteen feet and a height
acre for hay crops of clover and McNeill; junior warden, Ernest
of approximately 300 feet; bnt
agents for the Stewart-Warner
vetch.”
E. Yeo; secretary, W. E. Bell;
whether such reports are con­
and Austin radios.
Theadore M. Knappen
Mr. Weed also has a very sat­ treasurer; A. L. Kullander; trus­
firmable or not, a completely
In addition to a sales agency
isfactory stand of alfalfa on his tee, E. G. Anderson. J. E. Tapp
Everybody has read about the certified record has been made
the firm will repair and instal
place which he estimates will is the retiring worshipful master.
radios. They plan to put in a big trees of California, common­ of a huge tree that was recently
produce five tons per acre in Officers will be instaUed Decem­
line of accessories as soon as con­ ly known as the Sequoias, and cut for the sawmill at Vernonia,
two cuttings.
their brothers, the gigantic red­ Oregon.
ber 18.
ditions warrant.
Mr. Sword, of Vernonia, and
woods that flourish along the' Judd Greenman, an employe in
Gust Wanstrom, of Birkenfeld,
A benefit dance for the fire­ coastal region of California from1 the mill, formally reported to
L.
H.
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Become*
Nobl.
Grand
have been growing alfalfa suc­
men will be held in the I. O. O. the San Francisco Bay region | Charles S. Keith, 'its president, at
L. H. Cates was elected noble
cessfully fox many years. Ains­
northward and over into the Kansas City, that the tree in
F. hall Saturday night.
grand
of
the
Odd
Fellows
lodge
worth Wallace, of Mist, and A.
southeastern corner of Oregon.’! question was ten feet in diame­
L. Parker, of Vernonia, also have last Tuesday. Other officers el­
The Knights of Pythias will I These majestic conifers are fam-| ter at the ground and eight and
successful plantings of alfalfa ected were Charles Holt, vice
U both for age and size, oc- a half feet breast high, where
give
a card party in their hall’ ous
which they have put in during the grand; John Glassner, secretary;
Monday night. The public will! casional Sequoias being perhaps
R. C. Stanton, financial secre­
4,000 years old or more, and at-
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be welcome.
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tary; Mike Miller, treasurer.
Unlimited Agricultural
Wealth Here Says Nelson
The Nehalem valley has an un­
limited agricultural wealth that
is as yet almost undeveloped.
This valley stretches for a dis­
tance of about 30 miles through
Columbia county with many small­
er valleys tributary to it. All
r of this land is of the rich al­
luvial soil that produces splendid
crops of all kinds which are
adapted to the climate.
In addition there are thousands
of acres of hill land adjacent to
the valley that lies well for
farming and is quite productive.
There is also an unlimited area
of the rougher types of land,
which when burnt over and seed­
ed, can be used for grazing land
for cattle, sheep and goats.
Dairying is the principal in­
dustry carried on in the valleys
along the coast of Oregon and so
far has proved to be the most
profitable. Dairying is now be­
ing successfully carried on in the
Nehalem valley.
Forage crops
of all kinds produce well here,
including pasture for summer,
hay, grain, islage and roots for
ft
winter feeding.
That dairying is becoming more
important ti the valley is shown
School Tax
Effort to Reduce Budget
Occasions Consider-
Volley Ball, Indoor
Baseball Planned
able Discussion
Man Nearly Severs
Lip With Stovepipe
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I Ray Green, who lives toward
Vote upon the special levy for Mist, suffered a very peculiar and
advertising and publicity of the painful accident Monday. While
city of Vernonia will be held putting up a stove pipe one sec­
next Thursday afternoon from tion slipped and the sharp edge
I fell heavily upon his upturned
one to seven in the city hall.
Question has arisen as to the face nearly severing his upper
wisdom of expending money for lip. His physician reports that
advertising because of the conten­ the lip will heal nicely.
tion that there is no productive
land for sale here at a figure
which prospective buyers would Douglass Orchestra
consider paying.
In answer to this, J. E. Kerr,
Entertains Chamber
chairman of the colonization com­
mittee of the chamber of com­
merce, states that a careful check
Musical numbers by E.
reveals a number of desirable
locations may be had very reas­ Douglass’ orchestra and reports
onably. Joseph Scott, real estate by chairmen of committees fea­
dealer, has several uncleared tured the chamber of commerce
tracts listed for as low as ten meeting Wednesday at the Maso­
dollars an acre and cleared farms nic Temple.
The orchestra consists of E.
with buildings for $75 an acre
J. Douglass, leader, Mrs. W. W.
and up.
accompanist,
Zonweiss
The big inducement, according Wolff,
to Mr. Kerr, is that in buying a Douglass, Dorothy June Wolff,
tract of uncleared land at ten Albert Brock and Leon Brock,
W. W. Wolff was program
dollars an acie or even more a
man can clear it, make improve­ chairman.
Announcement was made by
ments, get a living and at the
same time build an estate President J. C. Lindley that di-
through the increase of the val- rectors would be chosen at the
ue of the property to $100 or next meeting.
$200 an acre.
An invitation from the Port­
Communities that have spent land Progressive Business Men’s
money in advertising have found club for a meeting with that or­
conclusively, he said, that ad­ ganization some time in January
vertising has brought them set­ was accepted, the exact date to
tlers and has improved the com­ be fixed later.
munity. On the other hand those
Rev. F. Claude Stephens was
which have not spent the money named as chairman of the next
or brought the attention of out­ meeting. He announces a pro­
siders to opportunities have not gram in keeping with the Christ­
developed. People do not know mas spirit.
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the quality of a product unless
it is advertised, he asserted,
The idea is to bring in a Pythian Sisters
class of people who would not
otherwise come for ten years,
The money is to be spent for
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advertising and publicity that
will bring the greatest results.
The Pythian Sisters nominated
It is not sentiment, but simply
officers for the coming year at
a business proposition.
There is abundance of test­ their regular meeting Wednes­
imony as to the fertility of soil day evening, as follows: Most
in this locality. In another col­ excellent chief, Mrs. Harry Cul­
umn County Agent George A. bertson; excellent Benior, Mrs. J.
Nelson cites facts that have come P. McDonald; excellent junior,
within his observation. R. B. Mrs. Dan Brown; manager, Mrs.
Early states that farms he has J. Nanson; protector, Mrs. Van
investigated near Banks, where Peebley; guard, Mrs. T. Craw­
conditions are much the same, ford; mistress of records and
are yielding a gross from $800 correspondence, Mrs. H. Kerns;
mistress of finance, Miss Macile
to $1000 an acre in berries.
Roberts; trustee, Mrs. W. L. Van
Doren.
MOVE TO LYLE
Mrs. N. S. Soden was elected
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Long mov­ installing officer and officers
ed Wednesday to Lyle, Washing­ will be installed January 7.
ton, where Mr. Long will be op­
The Pythian siSters are making
erator in the S. P. and S. sta­ up a box of candies, nuts, cook­
tion.
ies and oranges to send as a
Mr. Long was night operator Christmas present to the Oregon-
here until the position was abol­ Washington Pythian home at Van­
ished a week ago.
couver, Washington.
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Gross receipts of $717.50 were
realized from the sale of tickets
in the Legion ambulance drive,
according to M. E. Carkin and
J. E. Kerr of the committee. It
is probable that the net amount
will be approximately $650.
Earl Smith was awarded the
watch offered by the Legion as
a prize.
The Vernonia Grange No. 305
will hold its next regular meet­
ing on Saturday, December 13, at
8 o’clock p. m.
There will be the regular elec­
tion of officers for the ensuing
year ofter which games will be
played and lunch served.
' A good attendance is hoped
Publicity for.
Advertising and
Fund up for Consid'
eration Again
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AMBULANCE DRIVE
GROSSES OVER $700
Sunshine
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