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VOLUME IX.
Commission
Listens To
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931.
SHINGLE MILL
RESUMES MON
NUMBER 63
ATHLETIC CLUB
ELECTS OFFICERS
Election on
Recall to be
The Johnston-McGraw shingle
mill in Riverview started Monday
and operated two days of this
week. It is the intention to oper-
ate four days next week, and
three days a week thereafter.
The Vernonia Athletic club met
Tuesday evening in the Campfire
cabin and elected the following
new officer; for the coming year;
President, E.ril Messing; vice-pre­
sident, Bob Henderson; secretary,
Mrs. J. A. Hughes; girls’ manager,
Spaulding Present» Reso­ JACK CARKIN GETS
Ethel Tousley; men’s manager, Normal Vote Would A»-
TEMPORARY PLACE
Russell Mills.
lution for Vernonia
sure Miller’s
There were about 30 present
ON ST. HELENS MIST
Route
and bridge and 500 were enjoy­
Retention
Jack Carkin left Thursday morn-
ed for the balance of the even­
Immediate de.ignation of the inK for St. Helens, where he will
ing. Mrs. F. Spring and Miss
The recall election for the of­
Wilson river route, and prelim!- be employed on the St. Helens
Mary Erickson won the prizes
fice of County Commissioner J.
the
Scappoose-
Mist
until
about
December
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bridge and Mike Miller and
nary survey of
N. Miller is to be held tomorrow
G. Whitlock for 500. Cake
Vernonia-Hamlet route as basis soliciting advertising for a 50th
from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. in the
government
aid
anniversary
edition
which
chocolate
were
served.
for requesting
following precincts:
announced
by
Chairman
J.
newspaper
is
to
issue.
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Precinct 1, Dixie cafe building;
SPECIAL P.-T. A. MEETING
C.
Ainsworth
Thursday
after-
Mr. Carkin has had experience
Precinct 2, Hotel Vernonia; Pre­
noon.
I in this line of work, having been
All those interested in the con­ cinct 3, O.-A. bunk house; Pre­
advertising solicitor for the con-
tinuance of the Vernonia Parent- cinct 4, city hall.
Claims of the Scappoose-Vern- ventjon number of the Oregon Le-
Teacher association should attend
The argument appearing in the
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onia and Wilson routes were gionnaire and advertising manag-
the special meeting next Friday recall petition and quoted on the
presented before the highway er of a booklet for distribution
at
at the Washington school
ballots is as follows:
commission in Salem Thursday [at the Detroit convention this
2:30 p. m.
(1) The said J. N. Miller is in­
morning. Commissioner Charles ¡summer.
efficient in the performance of
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K. Spaulding presented a resolu­
the duties of said office of coun­
tion embodying five large pro­
ty commissioner.
jects, including designation at
(2) That the said J. N. Miller
once of the Vernonia-Hamlet
has failed to comprehend and live
route and construction as soon
up to the purposes of his office
as funds are available. Commis­
as county commissioner and in
sioner J. C. Ainsworth, whose ap­
this connection he has overlooked
pointment to the position in place
the wishes and desires of the el­
(Copjrtfht, W. n. Ü.)
of H. B. VanDuzer, resigned, was
stalk of Texas field corn ectorate in making appointments,
announced Wednesday,
stated
feet tall, the tallest he has and in certain instances has made
The music classes under Miss
that he would give the matter Constance Bougher are looking
seen in his long experience appointments which have hamp­
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FROM
VERNONIA
COMMITTEE
FOR
careful consideration, but needed i forward to an eventful year.
in the Nehalem valley, has been ered and obstructed road work
more time. He promised a decis­
ON C. E. PROGRAM
AMBULANCE NAMED raised this season by Wilburn in various road districts in said
¡There are some 500 students at­
ion on his part within a few days, tending these classes.
I Hall, who brought it down town Columbia county, Oregon.
Rev. G. W. Plumer, F. Claude
The American Legion commun­
and declared he would not post­
He
(Wednesday for exhibition,
(3) That the said J. N. Miller
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At the Washington school a few Stephens and Helen Charlesworth
ity ambulance will be in charge
pone the matter indefinitely. Wm.
also brought another stalk 11H has not, as county commissioner,
of a committee consisting of
Hanley, the third commissioner, of the outstanding functions will of Vernonia are on the program
conducted the affairs of Colum­
include a toy orchestra organized for the Wildwood Christian En­
Percy Hewes, representing the feet tall.
made no comments.
Mrs. Charles Malmsten brought bia county, Oregon, in an econo­
deavor
convention
which
convenes
'in
the
third
grade,
a
music
record
Legion, Jack Carkin representing
Speakers for the Vernonia-
to the Eagle office Tuesday some mical manner, and has not re­
between
the fourth in the First Baptist church of As­
the chamber of commerce, and
Hamlet and Wilson river routes I contest
big gloria mundi apples weighing duced expenditures of said coun­
Connie
Anderson
the
Oregon-Am
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were introduced by Wm. F. Wood­ ¡grades, chorus work in the ad- toria this evening and closes
Members of the chamber of
a pound apiece.
ty consistent with the general
ward of Portland, president of vanced grades, and a school op- Sunday.
commerce were urged by Presi­ erican Lumber company, for the
trend of the times and by reason
Miss Charlesworth will respond dent Geo. W. FoVd.to vote for next twelve months.
the Uptown association. First to eretta.
of said failure the expenditures
Operation and care of the am­
to the address of welcome given Commissioner J. N. Miller in the
appear before the commission was
The grade school orchestra is
of the county have been and are
bulance is left to representatives
by the mayor of Astoria, and Mr. recall election Saturday.
E. E. Wist of Scappoose, repre­
already working hard. The mem-
in excess of the income derived
appointed annually by the three
Plumer speaks tonight on “Youth
senting the Columbia county
Experience
of
two
years
on
the
bers include Toivo Eloranta and Advancing with Christ.”
from taxation, to the detriment
Mr. budget committee, Mr. Ford stat­ organizations underwriting the
chamber of commerce. He based
Betty Jagen as violinists; Elbert
and injury of the taxpayers of
his plea for the road upon the and Leone Brock, Harold Davis Stephens will gove an address ed, convinced him that the coun­ expense. Carl Davidson was the
said county.
Saturday afternoon on “Choosing ty court has very little to do with member from the lumber company
necessity of developing logged
Archie Adams was injured
and Alice Hoffman as cornetists; Life’s Vocation.”
(4) That county moneys have
until his removal from town a Monday morning at about ten o’­
off lands for settlement. Colum­
the
taxes
that
people
pay.
“
The
Ralph Condit as trombonist; Ray
'n many instances been unwisely
Besides the three mentioned, county court has been held res­ month ago.
bia county provides, he stated,
clock when a four-foot log rolled expended.
Dickson and Charles McGraw as those who expect to attend from I
through its timber industry a
on him while he was working on
¡drummers; and Leone Fetsch as Vernonia are Mr. and Mrs. Will ponsible for a lot of things that
Miller’. Reply
payroll of from $10,000,000 to
they don’t have anything to do
Clatskanie mountain for Riggle
' pianist.
Lindley, Marian Lindley and Vel- with,” he said.
Mr.
Miller
’s answer to the
$20,000,000 annually, but when
and company. An x-ray taken in
In the high school three classes ma Veal.
above charges as quoted on the
the land is logged off this wealth
In so far as the court has con­
St.
Vincent
’
s
hospital
that
even
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have been organized. The orches­
will be gone forever.
trol it has been conscientiously
ing showed that there are no ballot, is as follows:
“After eight years of faithful
Columbia county is not a county tra consists of the following mem-
spending the people’s money, Mr.
broken bones, but he sustained
uuc,bers: Margaret McDonald, Alice
and conscientious service, I was
which is broken, he declared, i, but
Ford declared. Mr. Miller, as one
several
cracked
ribs
and
was
con­
George Reichlein, 19, of Linn-
re-elected county commissioner
is up and coming, and is i’ the!
—-, Watts* Gertrude Epping and Hel-
of them, has made the taxpayers’
siderably bruised.
- !en
ton, whose car fatally injured
less than a year ago by the vote
home of an energetic people who
’en Lamoreaux playing violin;
money go as far as possible.
He was standing on a log while
Kuge and Willie Marks,
will contribute back to the city Youtaki
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Mr. Miller is a business man Beatrice Joy Fest, 3, and serious­ the rigging was being changed, of the citizens of Columbia coun­
ty; nothing has transpired since
of Portland what Portland will alto saxophones; Zonweiss Doug­
rather than politician, he went on ly injured her mother, Mrs. Clara
In a game featured by straight to say, and the present storm Fest, was found guilty Monday in and jumped off to get his line then that would in any way jus­
spend for its share in the build­ lass, soprano saxophone; Martin
loose.
Although the log had tify a recall.
ing of the Scappoose-Vernonia Hillman, Robert Cline, Jeanette football rather than any fancy seems to have arisen because he the court of District Judge Mears
Johns, clarinet; William Louden, plays Vernonia high school won wouldn’t play politics.
of Portland on a charge of reck­ seemed solid to him it began to
“I have given the county an
route.
cornet; Donald Holtham, trom-lits first league game of the sea-
less driving. He was sentenced roll down the mountainside to­ economical and business-like ad­
Kerr Represents Vernonia
Road Matters Discussed
wns
to five days in the county jail wards him as soon as he
ministration. None of the charges
J. E. Kerr was introduced by bone; Dorothy June Wolff, ban-1 son by defeating Clatskanie high
off of it, and as he was in the of the recall proponents have
Summary of the reconnaisance
Chairman Woodward as from the jo; Bert Mills, drum; Rose Sitts,! 19 to 0 on the home field Sat- made by Sam Belah, F. D. Mc­ and fined $100.
get
middle
he
had
no
chance
to
Reason for the light sentence is
been substantiated in any detail,
largest city in the state of Ore­ Helen Charlesworth and Margaret I urday.
Bennett, piano.
| The f{rst score was made in Pherson and Lester Sheeley of the not known by Mr. and Mrs. John out of the way. He jumped in and they are untrue and unjust.”
gon without a state highway.
between some vine maple which
Real Charge. Hidden
The orchestra meets during the1 the first quarter, another in the Vernonia-Hamlet route was given W. Rosa of this city, parents of
Mr. Kerr admitted that from
one ill
in the fourth, Off by Mr. Sheeley, who reported that Mrs. Fest, who were not at the apparently bore the brunt of the
Mr. Miller's friends maintain
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an engineering standpoint the noon hour to avoid conflict
weight
and
kept
the
log
from
as
the
result
of
certain
changes
in
Wolf creek and Vernonia routes other studies. All those playing I tackle plays by Nanson were re- the route suggested by Mr. Belah trial. It is possible, they state, crushing him. Except for an in­ that the real charges against him
are about equal, slight advan­ an instrument are cordially wel- sponsible for most of the yard- in the Buster creek region it that in view of a manslaughter stant he was conscious and was are that he ignored a petition to
charge which may be brought
appoint Walter Tracy road super­
tages in one being counterbalanc­ come to join with the group. |age.
A class in music fundamentals
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ww„ few passes, but
IJUt all would be possible to cut out 5 of later against the youth, a nomi­ able to explain just how the ac­ visor in district 6, the first of
ed by advantages in the other.
the 9 proposed bridges according nal penalty was inflicted on the cident happened.
this year, favoring Lee Barnett
From an economic and commer­ has also been organized and is that were tried were completed to a previous reconnaisance, and
He was taken to Portland in instead. This aroused the enmity
cial standpoint, however, he was open to all students desiring a except one. Nanson threw them reduce the curvature consider­ less serious count.
They took Mrs. Fest to Portland the Legion ambulance. Although of Mr. Tracy’s friends, who insti­
postive that the more northern knowledge of the rudiments of find George received.
ably, This gives us better than an Sunday to attend the trial. She the distance from the road was
tuted the recall proceedings. Mr.
music
and
of
piano
keyboard.
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George
converted
only
one
try
route was far better. Portland
even break on engineering feat- is still compelled to have her leg not great, the terrain was so
Tracy is himself chairman of the
would have to spend millions of
The glee club has an enroll- for point.
ures, Mr. Sheeley declared. There
rough that it took six men two recall committee.
dollars to split the traffic which ment of 16 members and is work-i In spite of the rather one- will be an advantage of about in a cast.
hours to drag him out to where
The other arguments, Mr. Mil­
would come from the combined ing on two-part music. They are sided score the boys looked rag- five miles in distance over the
the ambulance was waiting.
ler's friends claim, were added to
routes over the Tualatin highway, also preparing a one-act comic ged at times, according to Coach proposed “Y” project, and about MRS. COLE ELECTED
while entry via the Lower Colum. operetta, “The Family Doctor,” I , ra
TO HIGH OFFICE GARDEN CLUB PLANS strengthen the appeal to the rest
W. Tucker,
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of the county, and are based
bia highway would provide admir­ which al
they hope to present at have to be some polishing off this[ pensive tunnel is constructed from
Vernonia Temple No. 61 of the
able distribution without addi­ the first public appearance some week in order to prepare for the .Scofield. The economic features,
COOKED FOOD SALE mainly on purchases of machinery
which the county is said to have
tional expense. Also, he stated, time this month.
I Rainier game at Rainier Satur­ I in which the Vernonia-Hamlet Pythian Sisters, has been signally
The Garden club plans a cooked made during Mr. Miller's two
no provision had been made for
day.
Rainier has a powerful [ route is clearly superior, should honored in the election of Mrs.
Marjorie Cole, past chief, as food sale in the Hoffman Hard­ previous terms. The answer, they
buying an expensive right of way
i team which held the strong Grant give us the preference, he assert -
grand junior of the grand temple ware store Saturday in order to state, is that in buying machinery
through green timber on the
! high team of Portland to a 7 to led.
of Oregon. Mrs. Cole was elect­ raise funds to carry on the work in sufficient quantities so that
Wolf creek route, while the Ver­
17 tie September 25.
I Frank Hartwick, Emil Messing ed to this office at the session of the organization. The sale will
the county could do its own
nonia-Hamlet route lies chiefly
The Vernonia line-up for Sat­ : and Lester Sheeley were appoint­
of the grand temple which was open at nine o’clock.
work on roads the taxpayers have
through logged off lands. He al­
urday’s game was as follows: ed by President Ford as a com-
Plans for the sale were made been saved many times the cost
held in Portland the early part
so brought out the fact that there
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Aldrich, c; Morton, rg; Graven, [ mittee to provide for transporta­
Tuesday evening at the meeting of the equipment.
was practically no agricultural
“Charged with Manslaughter,” rt; H. Malmsten, re; Melis, lg; tion to the meeting of the state of this week.
of the club in the parlor of the
The
grand
officers
were
in-
land to be developed along the
Probable Outcome
temperance drama, is to be Carmichael, , It; Magoff, le; A. ! highway commission at Salem
The next
stalled Wednesday evening at the Evangelical church.
Wolf creek route.
presented at the Christian church Nanson, Ih; Knowles, rh; Sorlee,' Thursday.
Miller’s vote in the election last
meeting will be held at the home
Pythian temple in Portland.
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Senator Dunne Speaks
Sunday ovonincs
evening at 7:30 <*•
in n a'q; George,fb.
November was 2137, about 500
More Interest in Camp 8 Urged
The grand temple of Oregon of Mrs. Ethel Ray.
Senator Joe E. Dunne explain­ union meeting with the “
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majority over his opponent, L. L.
Evangeli-I Substitutions were Cline for
E. S. Thompson expressed the . was specially honored this year
ed the demand for the Vernonia cal church.
Giese.
The line-up this year,
Magoff, Powell for Carmichael, ‘opinion that Vernonia merchants
Sees Friends in Hospital
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by
the
presence
of
Mrs.
Elsie
(
route from an employment angle.
not divided along party lines,
The presentation will be under Rhoediger for Powell, Jepson for were not showing enough interest
Vandervort of Washington. D. C., | A. E. Adams while in Portland will doubtless be different, but
He declared that there are about the direction of Rev. R. E. Close, Sorlee, Holcomb for Knowles,
in developing Camp Eight trade, I supreme chief of the Pythian
Monday visiting his son Archie the fact that the recall committee
25,000 men idle in Portland who and the story has to do with cer-1 Christiansen for Aldrich, Hol­
as trucks from competitors in' Sisters.
at St. Vincents hospital saw in by active solicitation could barely
are normally engaged in logging tain consequences resulting from tham for Christiansen.
other cities were going in there
the same ward Earl Smith, who muster enough names for the pe­
and oonstruction work, and these violation of the prohibition law.
regularly.
NEW BARBER ADDED
was able to hobble around, Chas. tition, 877, is an indication that
could be used to good advantage Characters in the cast include a
W. C. T. U. TO MEET
The musicial part of the pro-
Cyde
Jordan
of
Independence
Holt, whose leg had also been
in the kind of work that prepara­ business man who patronizes a
gram
consisted
of
a
The local W. C. T. U. will meet
solo by, has taken a position in the Joy broken, and George Ohler, who the proponents of the recall have
tion for road building demanded. bootlegger, his son who gets in­
a slender chance of carrying the
bv Amy
Amv Barber
Rnrhpr shop
shnn with
with N.
N S. QnHnn
Tuesday, October 13, at two o’­ [ Joy Bush accompanied by
Soden. 1 ] WM in good ....
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He also showed the need of to an automobile crash, a neigh­
election if anything like a normal
Hughes.
clock in the Christian church.
Mr.
Jordan
has
been
in
charge
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while J I Miss Elizabeth C. Murray, vote is cast Their chances of
All members and friends are
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portation facilities, greater than ers.
invited, states the president, Mrs. a profuse display of flowers as Mr. Soden was attending the K. county superintendent of schools, winning are brightest if large
Admission will be free.
S. V. Malmsten.
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decorations for the tables.
| P. grsnd lodge in Portland.
| was in town Friday morning.
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Route Plea
Tomorrow
More Instances
of Big Products
From Valley
Music Classes
Look Forward
To Big Year
Geo. Ford Urges
Anti-Recall Vote
For Tomorrow
Archie Adams Is
Injured by Log
Reckless Driver
Gets Five Days
Vernonia Wins
First League Game
Liquor Drama
At Church Sunday
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