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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1981.
near Deer Island has b««n respon­
boat, thence by pack horse over
sible this week for the loss of sev-|
the mountain to Mist, and from
eral cows by the Clover Hill dairy
there by canoe. When Mrs. Pe­
and the Deer Island Livestock I
terson’s family moved in they had
company.
*
Hmong their bdlongings three
bedsteads to be packed by horse.
The loss was discovered Mon­
Pacific Coast Representative day when it was found that 11
The owner of the horses took
Arthur W. Stypes, Inc.
one of the bedsteads as his pay.
head
of
two-and
three-year-old
San Francisco
Radical changes have come into
Holstein cows from the Clover What Some are Doing for
Hill dairy, which were kept in a
the valley, illustrated in part by
The
Nehalem
Valley
pasture for dry cows, were dead.
the fact that at the moment Mr.
Peterson was telling of the diffi­
Member of National Editorial
Alfred Smith of the Deer Island
FRANK PETERSON
culties of trade in the '80’s, an
Livestock company reports that
Association and Oregon State
agent with a sedan-load of mer­
I
eight
head
of
beef
cattle
were
Editorial Association.
1 found dead. Others may be hid- Frank Peterson is 70 (though chandise drew up at the front
den in the underbrush on the no one would suspect it), and he gate. Men, too, are different,
asserts that he does not work Mr. Peterson thinks, for they
$2.00, Per Year in Advance fields.
Issued Every Friday
hard now. Yet it is evident that are no longer willing to pioneer
In the case of the Clover Hill
does on his ranch, as laborously, for as little imme­
Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post dairy, the loss will amount to somebody
office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. about $1500 while the Livestock which is among the better Nehal­ diate return, as of old. Wartime
em valley farms. Mr. Peterson wages lured them away, and un­
company places their loss at goes in for diversified farming, derbrush
has grown up where 20
Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; $1000.
raising grain, hay, dairy and beef years and more ago there were
legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding
The
poles
were
a
part
of
a
pri
­
cattle,
chickens,
etc.
clearings.
insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, vate electric light line which is
Getting to the Peterson place
15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line.
result is that there is much
being built into the Livestock is a different proposition from less The range
than previously.
company by Charles Heacock, lo­ what it wa swhen he first settled When men land
were proving up on
cal
electrician.
The
preservative
on it in 1881. Then the only high­
RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
claims they slashed the hill­
used on the poles was to make way was the Nehalem river, and their
sides
sowed grass. Before
them resistane to the attacks of transportation was by canoes fa­ there and
can be any large herds of
bugs and insects.
shioned out of hollowed logs. To beef cattle, the work will have to
—St. Helens Sentinel reach Clatskanie one had to go be done over again. Dairying,
DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEHALEM VALLEY
by horseback on a trail across the Mr. Peterson believes, offers bet­
I
mountain.
When the sawmill was ter opportunities at present.
Fifteen years and more ago the upper Nehalem valley
I built at Pittsburg a wagon road—
He is preparing to build him­
was better developed agriculturally than it is now, accord­
or what passed for one—led from self a new house, and some of
there to St. Helens.
ing to people who lived here at the time. When the Ore­
the material is already on the
There were no funds for build­ ground. Mr. Peterson appreci­
gon-American mill was built, transforming Vernonia from
ing roads, and when one was be­ ates the comforts that folks did
a tiny and perhaps unenterprising village into a hustling
ing made the farmers themselves not have in the Nehalem valley
young city, timber interests absorbed attention, and agri­
had to get out and work on them 50 years ago.
—without pay and for days at a
culture lagged. Many farms were deserted, either wholly
Eagle classifieds get results.
or in part, while the owners worked in camp or mill. Log­ The country towns that have time.
Money was scarce, too, in the
ging companies spread their operations where stock had grown and prospered in the last Nehalem valley. Farm products
grazed, underbrush grew where grass had been sown, and decade are those that attract ( brought nothing, for there was no
people from the surrounding dis- way of getting them to market.
weeds took possession of gardens. Not in every instance,! districts through having an up The
settlers hired out for wages
of course, for many Nehalem valley farmers stayed right and coming business center and in the summer and fought the wil­
which
offer
events
of
interest.
derness in winter. Mr. Peterson,
with the soil, and their ranches today are as productive
Hillsboro has had its spring open­
as can be found in any region similarly favored. To a ings, its Fourth of July celebra­ who claims to have eased up now, I
admits he worked hard in those
large extent, however, the locality is one of undeveloped tions, the corn and potato show days. It took real effort to turn
resources, where rich alluvial land lies concealed beneath and other events. They have the forest into farm.
come as the result of co-opera­ Just as nothing went out of the
trees and thickets.
tion and have resulted in build­ valley, very little came in. It
up the community. A divided was the custom of the settlers
This region, so rich in possibilities, should be brought i ing
PAPER HANGING
front will never make for pro­ to lay in a year’s supply of gro­
into greater use through the more intense cultivation of gress.
ceries
at
once,
shipping
them
from
AND TINTING
_ — * Hillbsoro
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---- , Portland to Clatskanie by steam-
farms now more or less neglected, and the clearing of1
Argus.
From Forest
to Farm
Uertuntia
ST. HELENS GOLFERS
Forest Hills team turned In 79,
LOSE TO FOREST HILLS Kent Price, J. H. Garret, F. Mil­
ler and B. M. Goodman, being the
St. Helens golfers were defeat­ low score shooters.
ed April 12 by the Forest Hills
—St. Helens Mist.
team on the Washington county
course by the score of 35 H to
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Thompson
15^.
Low ~ score
— --
------ — for
- St. Helens vaa
V V V. vv
drove
to viownauic
Clatskanie kjunuay
Sunday to
players went to Dr. A. C. Bailey! attend the funeral of Mrs. J. L.
with an 80. Four men of the Campbell.
Oregon-American
What Other
Editors
Think
Lumber Co.
House And
SIGN:
PAINTING
additional land.
The timber goes, but agriculture, once firmly estab­
lished, remains. Development of the Nehalem valley is
essential to Vernonia’s future progress.
THE CITY BAND
A group of men who are serving the community with­
out display, putting in more time to give pleasure to
folks with no thought of financial gain than most of us
are inclined to do, is the Vernonia city band, under the
direction of Ray Charlesworth.
J. C. Henderson
FORD
RELIABILITY
Phone 1021
Freight
Book* of 1930 Wall Paper
Samples Now Here
On Display
Delivered To and Called for at Your Door
Vernonia
Paint Shop
I
The St. Helens Cowboys won
the Lower Columbia district cham­
pionship by defeating the O. W.
Truck team from Tillamook April
15 at Astoria 45 to 36.
Ralph Wagner of Grays River I
has succeeded Paul Border asI
manager of the Clatskanie plant!
of the Lower Columbia Coopera-1
tive Dairy association.
2000 people are expected to be
The home of A. A. Anderson in Clatskanie for the national con­
in St. Helens was destroyed by vention of the Finnish-Lutheran
church early in June.
fire April 12.
The Columbia River Pilot, a
newspaper published in Rainier
for the past seven months, has
suspended publication. The equip­
ment will be moved to Astoria,
it is said.
David F. McClemon of Clats-I
kanie was drowned April 15 when
he fell from the railroad bridge'
into the Clatskanie river.
NINETEEN CATTLE DIE
FROM POISON ON POLES
A 300-pound black bear was
trapped near Apiary April 16. It
A poison preservative on some
had been raiding the goat flock of poles of a new electric light line
. . is the easiest, simplest method of book­
For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on
this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia as reliable business
and professional people.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dong^ ht?rd use shows
the value of good
materials and
simplicity of design
EVERYWHERE you go you hear reports of the good
performance and reliability of tlie Ford.
One owner wr;les—‘ ‘The Fo. u Tudor Sedan I am
driving Laa covered 59.31 >0 mile, through all kinds
of weather. It is sti'.l giving perfect satisfaction.”
Another owner describes a trip of 3217 miles
in 95 hours over bad roads and through heavy rain
and sleet in the mountains. “Throughout the en­
tire trip,” he writes, “the Ford performed ex­
cellently and no mechanical trouble of any kind
ing your income and checking against it.
R ank of V ernonia
I have leased and am now op-
erating the Sessman Black­
smith Shop.
Physican and Surgeon
Repairing of all kind*
W. M. Faulkner
Phone Hospital 931
Town Office 891
RARRFR
BARBER
shop
Haircutting for Men
Women and Children
Expert Work Guaranteed
FOB l>
PRICES
PASTIME
CARDS AND
LIGHT LUNCHES
Forest Grove,
Oregon
RESTAURANTS
DR. J. A. HUGHES
DAD’S
SANDWICH SHOP
Physician and Surgeon
Office Phone 663
Kes. Phone 664
Delicious Chile and Sand­
wiches—Also Roasts and Short
Orders
Vernonia,
Oregon
Eye* Tested
Glasses Fitted
DR. C. O. ANDERSON
Lloyd Baker, Prop.
CONTRACTOR.;
hotfi s
General Contractor
Mason Work, Building
Mary Kato
Chop Suey
Restaurant
HOTEL GORDON
You’ll enjoy a bowl of
delicious Chop Suey
after the show.
Newly Fur :i*hed Room*
Hot and Cold Water
Next to Post Office
Very Reasonable Rates
TRANSFER — TRUCK
Wholesale and Retail
LUMBER
Vernonia, Oregon
General Plumbing
Vernonia
Dentist
Vernonia, Oregon
jT«Tshf*LL1
DR. R. A. OLSON
OVER
Chiropractor
CLINE FURNITURE
STORE
Phone Business 221
Residence 653
The best for those
who appreciate the
best.
W
Local and Long Dis­
tance Hauling
CASON TRANSFER
Local & long distance
HAULING
Phone 923
Office in
Workingmen’s Store
■ i BL m ■_
a
EATING *
k at HCMf
•
hotel
J
M c D onald *
MORTUARIES
DENTISTS
M. D. COLE
CURLY’S TRANSFER
Hotel Hy-Van
STEAM HEAT
C. BRUCE
TELEPHONE—
Office 672
Re*. 673
'A
11 First Ave.
North
Eye Spelialist—Optometrist
1st Monday in Each Month.
At Kullander’s Jewelry Store
JOHN A. MILLER
•430 to “030
(F. o. b. Detroit, plut freight and fdirrn. Hum pert and
tpare tira extra at lore rot. You may purrhate a Ford rar or
truck for a finali down payment, on ronrenient, economical
term* through your Ford dealer.)
REEHER & LUEBKE
New And Used Goods
Bargain* in Furniture &. Stove*
CARD ROOM
BAFFORD BROS.
LOW
Marvin R. Eby, M. D.
SHOPS
■ wz
JOy
own personal experience, you will know that it
brings you everything you want or need in a motor
car at an unusually low price.
keeping there is.
Learn where the dollars go ... by deposit-
OFFICE PHONE 1041
Professional and Business Directory
prairie chicken struck the windshield while we
were traveling at 65 miles an hour.”
See the nearest dealer nnel have him give you a
demonstration ride in the Ford. Then, from your
i
W. A. Davis, Local Manager.
THE FORD
TUDOR SEDAN
was experienced. The sliatte*-proof glass un­
doubtedly saved us from serious injury when a
A Checking Account
Portland-Vernonia Truck Line
Vernonia
F. X. Pfliger.
The Columbia county unit of
the Farmers’ union is planning to
establish a public market in St. I
Helens.
TRUCKS LEAVE VERNONIA 9 A. M. DAILY
Long Distance Furniture Hauling
Between Vernonia and Portland
RES. PHONE 443
They give up at least one evening a week to re­
hearsal, with no one to applaud, no praise to stimulate.
When they do appear in public they should be greeted with
the appreciation that their efforts—and the results as well
—merit.
Among Our
Neighbors •
I
!
COMPLETE«
.„FUNERALS
L
Q,ST
CROQUIGNOLE PERMANENT
S5
MONEY TO TOAN
Money to Loan
On improved real estate; long
time and reasonable terms.
See Attorney John L. Storla,
St. Helens Oregon.
$
Annette Beauty Shoppe
u
Telephone 431
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