Vernonia eagle., August 21, 1931, Page 5, Image 5

VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931.
United States giving a speech
they eat breakfast, and in
History of Warren Vicinity while
a bus in which they ride from
to fifteen miles, go to a
Described in Student Essay ! one
union high school where they
associate with fellow students
from three counties.
neighborhood for dinner. The
women would get dinner and dur­
ing the evening they all danced.
To drive through the thriving During the winter there were
communities of Scappoose, War­ large skating parties on the bay
ren and St. Helens today in a and the immense fires could be
high powered motor car, one seen for miles and merry laughter
would hardly think that less than | resounded through the valley un­
Carl Anderson and Ivar John­
60 years ago they were small! til late at night. Then some
settlements in the wilderness. times during the summer a family son have gone to work at Buster
Fifty-eight years ago the land would drive over Cornelius pass Creek Logging company.
was still owned by the original ; to Newport for a much talked-of
Rex Horsman was in camp last
homesteaders.
All the houses ! vacation.
Saturday on his way to the Bus­
were made of logs—great four | As the years went by small ter Creek Logging company,
or five room houses two stories | logging camps began to take away where he is now working. Mr.
high. Several of them had stone i the timber. Oxen pulled the logs Horseman was quite badly injured
foundations. Wild animals roam­ ! from the woods down the skid some time ago while at work for
ed the woods and often visited roat|s to the bay. There were the Clark and Wilson Logging
the lonely farms, There was a three of these skid roads run- company, in which he narrowly
small Indian camp at the mouth ning into the bay between War- escaped the loss of an eye.
of Milton creek, and a larger ....
ren” an(j ...................
Dick Engstrom has gone to
St. Helens. By 1900
settlement on Lewis river. The the chief industry was sawing Cochran in quest of work.
Indian men spent their time hunt- these logs into cord wood which
J. W. Warnstaff is operating a spent the week-end in Vernonia, I
ing, fishing, and preparing fot j wag loaded onto barges at War- steam shovel at Chitwood, Ore­ attending church Sunday. They j
the contests held near Mt. St.. ren anj towed to Portland.
gon, where highway work is be­ returned to camp Tuesday, bring-'
Helens every year at the
ing with them Mr. O'Donnell’s
Mrs. Lee Hall
...» meeting! ; Several of these old barges ing done.
of the Clatsop, Klamath, and'were SUppOsed to have made small
Mrs. J. W. Warnstaff and chil­ brother and family from Tre-1
Yakima Indians.
The squaws
as there were no banks dren returned to camp Tuesday harne.
worked for their white neighbors, ' I this side of Portland and these after spending a few days with
Mrs. Clifford Fowler was taken
Word was received here that
dug wapitoes from the marshy . were none too secure, the com- relatives in Portland and at Mrs.
inrs. Fraser
r raser was awarded
awaruea a re-
re-j j to Portland Tuesday for medical
bay, and made flour from the , mon thing to do was to bury Clackamas.
jmuñerative position in the Indian, attention.
mealy tubers. Game, such as the money. Joe Fullerton, one
L. M. White returned Wednes­ service under civil service, in
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hall return­
deer, rabbit, squirrel, coon and of the earliest settlers, was said day from a business trip to Port­ Iowa, her work there to begin ed Monday from Waldport, where
duck was plentiful.
to have left a large fortune land.
August 30. At present she is they spent the weekend with their
Life on the farms was quite buried on his place. It is small
Jonas Larson moved his family visiting her mother in Faribault, daughter and family, Mr. and
complete in itself. The individ­ wonder that people believed that to Cathlamet, Washington, Sun­ Minn. She was to have been pri­ Mrs. E. E. Mills.
ual families tilled their small he must have left a fortune since day.
mary teacher here the coming
Mrs. Sarah Spencer went to
plots of virgin soil, raised garden ' he was noted for his shrewdness
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dunlap year.
Portland Tuesday with the Wolff
vegetables and wheat, kept a and love of money. Later he have moved to Vernonia. Hugh
family.
few cows, and a few families had use to pay off every night the is working for the Clark and Wil­
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Throop
small bands of sheep. They took . boy who was working for him. son Lumber company.
and daughters, Dorothy and Ra­
their wheat to the grist mill on He would pay him in ten cent
Jack Scott is recovering nicely
chel, and son, Tommy, motored
Lewis river to be ground into pieces usually, but tell him to from a tonsil operation which he
to Seaside Saturday and visited
flour, and a carding mill near wait until morning before he had at Vernonia Sunday.
Otto Malmsten, returning Sunday.
Hillsboro made the wool into left, The boy would wait but in
Frank Faught is working at' Mrs. D. Dollen of Salem was a They went on the Jewell road and
.
Sunday
visitor
at
camp.
great balls of woolen strands the morning he would always find Clark and Wilson. His family is
o ...
1 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Haden and report it fine.
living
in Vernonia.
which were used for threads and something for him to do. When ......
Mildred Hawkins returned home
Al Johnson and family moved' children, Eva, Jean and Floyd,
stuffing for pillows and quilts.
Joe Fullerton died, the whole
Sunday from Gaston, where she
to
Rainier
Wednesday
where
Bob-
motored
to
Astoria
on
Saturday
speculated
as
to
country
side
At night the children were of­
spent several days at the home
ten frightened by a cougar’s un­ where he had hidden his money, by will attend school this year. | returning home Sunday.
Mrs. A. Morton and daughter of Mrs. Howard Etters.
earthly scream, or the distant After he had been dead several Mr. Johnson expects to engage in
Mr. and Mrs. Magoff and son
Frances motored to Portland on.
baying of timber wolves, These1 years a Swedish family bought carpenter work in that vicinity.
jjoe left a few days ago for the
Berger Sather came to camp' Tuesday .
animals did not always confine the place and started a rather
Road work is being done this summer to work in the hop fields
their prowlings to the hours of systematic search for the treas­ Tuesday to remove his household
| I week, putting on oil from the land prune orchards.
the night. One day a woman, liv­ ure. One day one of the boys goods to Rainier Wednesday.
ilv-nn zl track
z>lz up 4- to Z. 4-L.
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J. W. Warnstaff, who made a v-n
railroad
the Z. golf
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Dearbery
ing about a half a mile from the was ploughing on a side hill near
brief
visit
to
Taft,
Oregon,
last
course,
of Portland, old friends of the
road leading to Portland, heard an old wood road. He had been
a disturbance in her chicken yard, told to go just to the wheel week, where Bob Goodwin and1 Five sets of fallers from Kos- Spencers, visited them last week.
and, running to the door of her tracks in the road, but instead he Ross Kellogg have taken a con- ter camp left Sunday for Big
Mrs. Higby and children have
log cabin, saw a large panther made a furrow in the first tracks. tract on highway work, met Creek> Washington, where they returned from visiting her daugh­
Claude
Kerr
and
his
family
there.
'
wil1
be
employed
for
the
same
clutching one of her precious As he drove back he saw gold
ter, Mrs. Henry Hannah, at Long­
• -
1 cnmnanv.
company. Koster has purchased view.
chickens. She called for her hus­ coins lying on the ground. He Claude and his father-in-law,
band, who arrived just in time ' rushed to the house, got a shovel, George Link, formerly of this some timber there.
Ben Spencer, son of Robert
Beaver creek has gone dry and
to see the beast disappear into : and dug up a great iron box. place, are working for Goodwin
Spencer, is leaving Saturday for
Koster
camp
men
are
busy
put-
and
Kellogg.
the woods with the hen. They The family did not tell how much
Dick Engstrom went to work. ting a pipe line from Lindsay’s Bakersfield, California, where he
sent for the cougar dogs of a they found, but the various
will attend junior college this
Monday
as a faller for the mil1 ""
UP to camP-
all
stories
say
that
they
found
neighbor and started to trail the
year.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
C.
Reed
and
fa
­
Crown-Willamette
Lumber
Co.
at
ten
the
way
from
fifty
dollars
to
marauder. They found the ani­
Grandma Wilson of Portland
mily
of
Rock
creek
called
at
the
Cathlamet.
mal not far from the house calm- thousand.
Wilfred DeClusion spent Sun­ home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Jones visited the Throops and Aunt Sal­
ly devouring the chicken and
At first the only means of
ly Spencer last week.
shot him immediately. A few transportation was horse and bug­ day at his home here, return­ Sunday.
Ida Mae Hawkins went to Car-
Relatives
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
J.
ing
to
Cathlamet
Sunday
even
­
months later a young couple was gy. Then it was possible to go
Lindsay from Kentucky are visit­ I son, Washington, for a few days
walking along the Portland road to Portland by boat; then came ing, with Mr. Engstrom.
visit with friends.
The Estey and Thompson fam- ing with the family.
just a mile below Warren with the railroad. While the railroad
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cadmus and
Edmond
Rhoediger
is
still
in
ilies
were
in
Vernonia,
shopping
their little girl. The girl was was being built, chiefly by Chin­
His1 children of Carson, Washington,
the
tree
sitting
contest,
Wednesday.
running ahead of her parents ese codlies, there was much spec­
| visited over the weekend at the
Everett Beach, state fire war­ folks go to see him each day.
picking flowers and playing with ulation as to whether or not it
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. White re- ’ Bert Hawkins’ home,
the shadows. Suddenly a great would help or hurt the district. den, here has as his guest for
home from Cornelius overl Mr. «»rd Mrs. D. R. Fowler,
yellow shadow jumped from an At length the great day came a few weeks, his brother, of Jew­ turned
the weekend.
| Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Fowler and
overhanging limb, landed on the when the first train went through ell.
F. D. Macpherson motored tojKenne1'* Fowler went to Laurel
Mrs. L. A. Young who is con-
child, looked up to see her ter­ —a great freight train. People
Sunday, returning the same day.
rified parents, and bounded into stood on their porches or along velescing from her recent ill­ Portland Monday taking Joseph
Lillian Whitney Bell of Tren-
Scott,
Jr.,
to
his
home
after
ness,
is
again
with
her
husband
the wilderness on the other side the tracks. After the roaring
spending his vacation with his holm spent the weekend with
of the road. The little girl was monster had passed, one calm old at I.-P. camp.
C. E. Bradford and family aunt and uncle at the golf course. Rhoda Bell.
not badly hurt except that the lady remarked, “Well, I can’t
Harry Bertraw from Falls City
County commissioners from St.
now
of The Dallas, and Dudley
cougar had torn the flesh of her see that it did the country so
spent the weekend with his par-
Helens
were
up
to
the
rock
quar
­
Nixon
and
wife,
formerly
of
the
shoulder. Before night, the dogs much damage.”
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bertraw.
had treed the animal, and when
“No,” answered her world­ upper I.-P. camp attended the ry Tuesday.
Mrs. Lee Hall is staying in
the men killed him, they noticed wise husband, “But if it had recent Safeway stores picnic
Howard Rundell went to Sea- one of the Evan Hall shacks
at
Jantzen
Beach.
that he was very thin. Later gone through sideways, it sure
above the former home.
D. F. O’Donnell and family side over the weekend.
they learned that on the same would have raised Hell.”
day a cougar attacked a man
Long after the railroad, only
10 years ago, the present high­
near Astoria.
SAVE
SAFETY
However, not all the time of way from Portland to Astoria
Ol vour..
DRUG STORE
the early settlers was spent in was completed. Now the grand­
fighting nature. New families children and great grandchilren
moved in and there were house of those early pioneers go to
warmings, barn raisings, and par­ Portland for an evening’s enter­
ties to look forward to. Every tainment, attend basketball games
two weeks or so everyone would and baseball games in Portland,
and Healthful
go to one of the houses in the listen to the President of the
Camp
McGregor
Riverview
Treharne
Mi 31 —
Cleanliness
Keep Monday i I
on your calendar
way to­
wards pre­
serving nor­
mal health.
Moreover,
your pure,
wholesome
breath will
tell your
friends that
you are
careful in
this respect.
Housewives who still follow the old-fashioned
method of doing the family washing are usually
living only six days a week. Monday is lost—
except to drudgery. Restore Monday to the cal­
endar and have it for the enjoyment of life by
sending the family wash to our laundry. It will
be done more thoroughly and quicker than at
home, and at an actual saving of money and labor
to you ... . PHONE 711.
59c
Full Pint
Sold only at Resali Drug
Stores.
|
Vernonia Laundry
|
Mac’s Pharmacy
Vernonia, Oregon
■ 4M* T*e
Jtors HM ■
Rolls for the year 1931, and cor­
rect all errors in valuation, des­
criptions, or qualities of land,
lots or other property assessed
by the Assessor, and it shall be
A picnic dinner was held at the duty of persons interested to
the W. J. Lindsley home on Rock [ appear at the time and place ap­
creek Sunday.
Those present pointed.
were Mr. and Mrs. Will Kelly
The Board of Equalization will
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kizer
and sons Oral and Charles, all of continue its meetings from day
Banks, and Anna Devaney of to day, until such examination is
completed, but will not be in
Keasey.
session for a longer period than
Mrs. D. K. Mendenhall of Keas­ one month.
ey spent two days in Portland
FRED WATKINS,
with her daughter, Mrs. R. W.
County Assessor.
Cummins.
BEATRICE
JOY FEST
Orris Devaney and Norman
Pettijohn drove to Portland Fri­
Beatrice Joy Fest was born at
day in search of work.
Forest Grove, Oregon, May 20,
Norman Pettijohn spent last 1928, and died at St. Vincent’s
week visiting his mother, Mrs. hospital, Portland, August 6,
D. K. Mendenhall, at Keasey.
1931, aged three years, two
Mayo Pettijohn is working for months and 11 days. She leaves
the West Oregon Lumber com­ to mourn her death her parents,
pany at Cochran.
Mr. and Mrs. James Fest of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Belongia Portland, and grandparents, Mr.
visited the McCormicks at Keasey and Mrs. John Rosa of Vernonia
Sunday evening.
and Mr. and Mrs. John Fest of
The Gilham family spent Mon­ Rosthern, Sask., Canada, besides
many aunts and uncles.
day in Vernonia.
Funeral services were held Au­
Mr. and Mrs. Brown of Port­
land visited Mrs. Brown’s par­ gust 10 at Forest Grove with in­
ents, Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt, Sun­ terment in Forest Grove ceme­
tery.
day.
Dearest Baby, thou hast left us
W. J. Lindsley’s home caught
And our loss we deeply feel;
on fire Tuesday but was
But it’s God that has bereft us
put out before much damage was
done.
And will all our sorrow heal.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Johnson of
CARD OF THANKS
North Plains are visiting Mrs.
We wish to thank all the kind
Johnson’s sister, Mrs. W. J. Lind­
friends for their beautiful floral
sley.
Page and John Campbell of gifts during our bereavement
Mrs. H. S. Fielding and family
Clatskanie are spending a few
days fishing and hunting here.
Frank White returned from Eagle classifieds will pay you.
Sheridan Monday and brought
three cows with him.
Edith Lindsley visited at the
L. Gilham home Sunday.
Anna and Clara Bell Lindsley
were Vernonia shoppers Tuesday.
The C. O. Evers family were in
Vernonia Monday.
O. R. Young was a Keasey
visitor Tuesday.
up the hair—adds gloea n4
Bill McCormick returned with livens
beauty to it—never deadens — be­
a load of peaches.
cause the steaming is done from the
KEASEY
By Mary Ellen Turley,
Scappoote Union High School
Since germs thrive where
there is a lack of cleanli­
ness, it logically follows
that cleanliness and health
are closely allied. By
keeping your mouth and
throat clean by frequent
use of Mi31 Solution, the
popular cleansing deodor­
ant, you will
go a long
PAGE FIVE
Combo
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PERMANENT
NOTICE OF MEETING OF
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that on the second Monday in
September (September 14, 1931),I
the Board of Equalization will
attend at the Court House in I
Columbia County, Oregon, and,
publicly examine the Assessment
inside out—and not forced in under
terrific heat pressure. Ringlette Per­
manent is a wide, deep row of waves
that easily fall into place with comb­
ing.
Milady’s
Beauty Shoppe
Vernonia Hotel Building
Phone 1261
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$50.00
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Trade In Allowance
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$25.00
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