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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE TWO CHAR PITTING OF STUMPS ADVISED BY COUNTY AGENT Mist Mr«. A. A. Dowling old hotel building, having moved down last week. Mrs. M. Aamodt was a village business caller Saturday after- noon. “Red" Hall drove to Gaston Saturday and spent the weekend at his home there, He is a driver for the Van Vleet Logging com pany. Chas. Sundland went to Port land Sunday to see Mrs. Sund land who is in the Good Samari tan hospital. He reports her as getting along quite nicely, had an operation Tuesday. Ernest Lane came home from Portland last week, where he has been in the Veterans hospital for the past few weeks. Mrs. Vern Ellis returned home last week after being called away on account of sick relatives. Mrs. James Jones is back in the vicinity from down below Bir- kenfeld, and her son Everett is going to school here again. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931. land visiting relatives and friends, for Clatsop county will be held The following pupils were Friday which Mrs. Lambert and Mrs. Gilkerson are planning to neither absent nor tardy for the month: Pat and Margaret O’Don ' attend. nell, William Warnstaff, o Billy The school recently received its 'annual allotment of library books Thompson, Muriel Scott, Doris I , '---- o.. Rae Estey, Stanley anr Harvey, from the state. Some very fine Warnstaff, Arne Andersen, Hazel hooks are included._______ Johnson, and Jack Scott. ! _ ,, . _ , , | For results—try an Eagle clas- The teachers’ annual institute' sified. It reaches the prospects. “The char pitting of stumps is I one method of clearing land that is interesting a number of farm Forest Harding and Bernard Mrs. Ray D. Fisher and daugh I owners at this time as it is one Dowling were Portland business Mrs. Frank Hartwick wbb in ter Margaret are spending a week of the most economical ways. visitors Sunday, going up to bring Portland Saturday. at the home of Mrs. Fisher’s By this method there is no out back some cable for the Van Mrs. Edwin Condit made a trip parents, Mr. and Mrs. James lay of cash, as the labor of burn Vleet Logging company. ing the stumps is all that is in- to Portland Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. Miller moved Moore, near Tigard. volved,” state Geo. A. Nelson, last week from the Turner house C. V. Johnson drove to Quincy Mr. Fisher of Vancouver, Wash county agent. on Mist heights to the house re Sunday to visit relatives. ington, and Mr. Tabor of Port The county agent’s office will cently occupied by the Wickstrom |OuT Mrs. A. W. Davis went to Port land stopped at the home of arrange to give a special demon family in the lower end of the land and back Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Veith Satur stration of this work this fall and ' village. day while enroute home from al! who are interested in this Mrs. G. Devine was a village E. J. Reiland of Schilling and method of removing stumps visitor on Monday from Deep Astoria. Co. was in town Wednesday. should watch for announcements creek. Herbert Counts, who works for Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brock and the Van Vleet Logging company, of these demonstrations so that The Joe Banzer fomily were baby were at Forest Grove and was struck on the head by a they can attend if they wish. shopping in the village Thursday Hillsboro Monday. evening. choker last Friday and suffered Little Marvis Taylor had the T. B. Mills went to St. Helens a scalp cut, which fortunately is j misfortune to run a nail through Wednesday to attend a meeting not serious. i his heel last week at school, of the county court. B. C. Kingsley of Hermiston, C. O. Evers returned Satur 'lie was forced to absent himself Oregon, was here September 30 District Attorney John L. Foote day from Forest Grove where he from school for a few days but and Mrs. Foote of St. Helens to see about some repairs to the has been working for six weeks. ¡came back Monday, although with Miller Mercantile store building, were in Vernonia Friday. W. J. Lindsley went to West I a pretty sore foot. which he owns. Mr. Kingsley is port Monday with J. O. Devaney Joseph Scott, Jr., of Portland a former Vernonia merchant. Mrs. E. Prickett and Miss Olga in search of work. was here from Friday to Sunday 'Holmstrom went to Clatskanie Mr. and Mrs. Ray Vincton and , Friday evening to see the “Squaw Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Armitage of visiting his fatfypr, Joseph Scott. Vancouver, Washington, were Everett Beach stopped at the De Man” at the Peoples theatre. Dressmaking and altering, reas here for a Sunday visit. W. J. vaney home Monday, Mr. Beach Mrs. A. A. Dowling was a onable prices. Mrs. Mary C. Nel Armitage went as far as Portland has been fire warden for the Clatskanie shopper Saturday. Ber E. R. Estey and P. L. Thomp son, 1009 Columbia Ave. adv. with them Sunday night, and re- « camps. nard Dowling was a visitor at the son went to Cochran Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lausman are dentist’s office also Saturday. in the interest of the Oregon- C. A. Beaton of St. Helens, dis mained until Monday on business. spending a few days in Portland. The teachers, Miss Seiverts American Lumber company. First impressions often make or “break” you . . . trict circulation manager of the Mrs. A. E. Wyld of Portland Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lindel spent and Miss Gross, went home over J. W. Warnstaff returned to people are apt to judge you by your clothes. Oregon Journal, was in Vernonia visited at the home of Dr. and Saturday and Sunday with the It’s a wise man who knows the value of a freshly Wednesday. Mrs. Marvin^R. Eby Friday and L]oyd Gilham famiIy before leav- the weekend, Miss Sieverts to her his home Monday after a week’s home in Astoria, and Miss Gross deer hunt near Prineville with pressed suit, shoes that are shined, and a hat Saturday. She is a sister of ling for The Dalles to make their to her sister’s in Clatskanie. Mrs. A. E. Reynolds of Tre- his cousin John Warnstaff and that’s spotless! Make your appearance count Mrs. Eby ’ s mother, Mrs. C. F. home. harne won the last blanket given Mr. Miller had the misfortune Bruno Rief, but did not succeed . . . send those old suits to your cleaner’s and Coleman, who is now visiting with C. O. Evers and family were to break his arm last week while in bagging any game. Deer are as a prize at the Miller Mercan make them like new! We’re always glad to call them. in Vernonia Monday. tile store. at work for the Van Vleet Log scarce there this seoson. He for apparel. Harold McEntire and Ira Tuck ging company. Mrs. E. H. Washburn, Mrs. R. visited his sister and family near Mrs. Charles Bergerson, who er of Vernonia were in Keasey Lauretz Aamodt butchered a Tumalo. has been ill for several days at H. Barkley, Macile Roberts, Eth fishing Sunday. fine beef Saturday. Everett Beech left camp her home, is able to be up and el Tousley and Mrs. Loel Roberts and baby went to Portland Tues A few from the vicinity went week, his duties as fire warden about again. day. Mrs. Roberts remains for to the pie social and dance Sat- having ceased when the rainfall DRY CLEANING DEPARTMENT Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fogel and a few days to visit with her urday night at Natal. came. son Freddie of Astoria spent mother. Ray Taylor with his wife E. R. Estey and and family spent Miss Elizabeth Murray, county most of last week with Mr. and mother are nicely settled in the Saturday and Sunday in Port- Lloyd Baker returned a week school superintendent, visited the Mrs. H. Fogel. Kist school Wednesday of last ago Saturday from Sioux Falls, II. E. McGraw went to Port- S. D. where he was called on ac week. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ornduff land Tuesday to join J. E. Kerr count of the serious illness of his on committee work for the Ver- father. The elder Mr. Baker died are now living at Sunset camp. Mrs. G. H. Ohler went with J. nonia-Hamlet route. September 12 and was taken to B. Ohler to visit George Ohler at Dowagiac, Michigan, for burial. John Norby, who played on the St. Vincents hospital Sunday. Idaho team against Oregon Sat Gene Shipman returned last Mrs. Mary Anderson, Sam and urday, is a brother of Knute Friday from the Veteran’s hospi Dorena Anderson, Irene, Doris Norby, formerly of Vernonia. tal in Portland, where he under and Edith Anderson all motored I went an operation on his nose Louis Veith and friends of a week before. He will have to I to Cornelius Sunday to visit Mrs. Vancouver, Washington, were return to the hospital in about Olive Huber. They brought Nor callers Saturday afternoon at the three months for a thyroid opera ma Anderson back with them. She has been working in the can home of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Veith. tion. nery. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Murphy and L. H. Dewey went to Portland Dr. Kellogg, Eye Specialist family visited at the C. C. Ber- Tuesday on business. Mrs. Dew- be at Kullander ’ s Jewelry Will FOR ALMOST NINE YEARS, J. N. MILLER HAS SERVED THE COUNTY CONSCIENTIOUS ey, who had been there since store again Oct. 15, 16, 17, gerson home Sunday. Antone Smejkal motored to LY. A CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF HIS RECORD SHOWS HE HAS DONE IT WELL. Sunday on a visit returned with Thurs., Fri., Sat. Dr. Kellogg re- Portland Monday on business. him. ports having done a good busi IF HE IS RECALLED, WHAT WILL THE COUNTY GET IN HIS PLACE? YOU CANNOT Mrs. H. Fogel and two children ness for his first trip here, and SAY. HIS SUCCESSOR WOULD BE APPOINTED BY JUDGE J. H. WELLINGTON AND THE spent Saturday and Sunday with that if it continues he will make REMAINING COMMISSIONER. Mrs. Fogel’s parents, Mr. and Vernonia his headquarters. (Adv Mrs. W. H. Milne at Forest Mrs. Rose Fletcher spent the rock for $48,398.27 in constructing their part. A PERSONAL GRIEVANCE CAMPAIGN Grove. remaining part of her vacation The county moved 169,537 cu. yds. for $37,298.14. The proponents of the recall have waged a campaign of misrepre Taking the figures from the E. E. Mills-Enstrom contract for Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Campbell from the Miller Mercantile store sentation. Every charge they have made against him has been and moved from Vernonia to Kelso, attending the state fair the last can be answered to Mr. Miller’s credit. We have challenged them for excavating common and rock, and figuring the county part had the Washington, Sunday. Mr. Camp three days. Few counties were one charge that would justify a recall. They have replied with in same proportion of rock and common, which is fair, Mills and bell was manager of the MacMarr represented, she reports, but there sinuations and feeble statements that will not bear the light of Enstrom, according the figures of their contract would have charged was more stock than ever before, the county $120,793.80 for work which the county did for store here. investigation. and the 4-H clubs had some won- Here’s an example of it. The following is a copy of the state $37,298.14. C. C. Clay of the Standard Oil Jerful exhibits. In other words, the county saved to the taxpayers, $83,495.66 ment which the recall committee sent in to have put on the ballots company dropped a gasoline drum by having its own machinery and finishing the Mist-Clatskanie road. as a heading which could not be used as it was unlawful: on his hand Tuesday and mashed “Since 1922, when Mr. Miller first was elected, Columbia No censure is intended or due the contractors for the high charge it rather badly. No bones were county has expended $361,593 for machinery and supplies. We as they necessarily had to purchase specialized machinery for the broken, however. hold this sufficient to justify his recall. During this time no work and this machinery they would probably never use again. For In other words, the county saved almost one-third of the cost Miss Nettie Alley, county health outstanding warrants have been paid, while Tillamook county RING-WORM, ECZEMA, nurse, came to Vernonia Wednes AND BOILS has paid off $433,067 in six years and Clatsop county has of the machinery purchased in the past nine years on this portion Tested and Proved day afternoon and will remain paid $366,480 during the same time. On bonded indebtedness, of this one road alone in two summers and the machinery has been MRS. A. E. JENNINGS until Friday making the circuit we have paid the same as Tillamook and $10,000 less than and can be used in other road construction. Near Brazing Works of schools in the vicinity. Clatsop. “Mr. Miller spent a large sum in surveying Apiary-Ver- TRUCKS MORE THAN PAY FOR THEMSELVES Although it is almost impossible to keep records of the work nonia market road and then abandoned it. “Mr. Miller increased the commissioner’s budget allow done by each piece of machinery, Fritz Anliker of Goble, did keep ance from $1200 to $1500 per year, in September he drew track of the amount of work done by one of the first trucks pur chased by the county in 1925 and from the middle of May to Nov. $144.64 for August. “In various road districts, the wishes of the people have 1st, less than six months of that year, the truck had done $3,478.80 worth of work at the then prevailing prices for hauling gravel. been flagrantly ignored and tax money wasted. This truck cost the county $3650 and was used until Novem “Forty thousand dollars a year for nine years for road machinery and supplies savors of incompetency and demands ber, 1930, a period of 5t4 years, when it was traded in on a new truck for about one-third of the original purchase price. a change." MILLER RECALL COMMITTEE, MAN POWER! RIDICULOUS! By B. C. Witham, Sec’t. The recall committee has circulated handbills saying “In these COLUMBIA COUNTY HAS HAD NO OUTSTANDING WAR times when every man needs a job, shall machinery supplant man RANT INDEBTEDNESS SINCE MR. MILLER HAS BEEN COM power?” MISSIONER. Do they believe in doing road work by man power? Are they Is the recall committee ignorant or dirty? We believe they willing for the extra cost to be shouldered by them and other are ignorant in county affairs, their charges are based on ignorance. county taxpayers? but it's a Who demanded the Apiary-Vernonia survey? Did Mr. Miller It is ridiculous to talk about it with the great demands for alone spend the money? Practically all of the recall committee | better roads and lower taxes. Much of the work cannot be done wanted the survey and the road. They are fighting Mr. Miller i by man power. Men can't crush rock, men can’t haul rock by because they didn’t get the road. wheelbarrows, men can’t grade roads by hand economically. Most So inexpensive, yet it's the He isn’t, if you get only a quart of milk for Mr. Miller increased the commissioners’ allowance in the bud , of the work must be done by machinery. exact copy of much more get? Mr. George Ford, Vernonia, and a member of the budget the family and then take the cream off for your Are the people of any district willing to give up their machin expensive Mis Simplicity gar committee last fall, says he put that through and that the other ery and spend their district money by improving their roads cof f ee! ments ... Featuring the same members of the budget committee, Henry Oleen of Columbia City with man power? , and Judge W. A. Wood of Rainier voted for it. converging cross - strap ar The above has been printed two weeks ago and they have not Get extra cream for yourself and give each rangement that creates the WHAT’S BEHIND THE RECALL? and cannot answer it. Again, we state, the recallers are basing child a quart of whole milk every day. That is Many are wondering why Miller is such a son-of-a-gun now 'diagonal puli'—which raises their campaign on misrepresentations. I after he has esrved eight years, was re-elected just a few months the amount recommended by most specialists. the bust, slenderizes the waist, and immediately became “incompetent” and “extravagant.” and smooths away the dia HOW COUNTY MACHINERY SAVES DOLLARS j ago, Very little machinery has been purchased since last election. Mr. Miller and other members of the county courts for the phragm and abdomen. It's Give him the purest milk available. Our The answer is plain. He is every kind of a devil now past nine years are being criticized for county purchased machinery. styled of good quality fancy i BECAUSE HE DID NOT REAPPOINT W. I. TRACY, CHAIRMAN pasteurized and raw milk and cream is safe and There is one road in the county where anyone interested can batiste and satin tricot with OF THE RECALL COMMITTEE. ROAD SUPERVISOR IN DIS- is sold in strictly sanitary bottles. figure what the county saved by having its own machinery and I TRICT NO. 6, where the recall movement originated and now inserts of pliant elastic. doing its own work. centers. Model a 404. That road is the Mist-Clatskanie market road which the county took over and finished with Lee Barnett supervising after two Vote Against the Personal Grievance Recall MisSimpllcitq contracts had been let. a.&Miar The work done by the county was no easier than that done by the contractors. Created by GOSSARD The two contractors moved 86,265 cu. yds. of common and PHONE 471 VERNONIA (Paid Advertisement. Miller Anti-Recall Committee, Geo. B. Conyers, Secy.) KEASEY Camp McGregor KIST Tlial Striking Diiierence Vernonia Laundry Vote lì X No Against the Recall of J. N. Miller J. N. Miller is economical, efficient. Do Not Recall Him for An Unknown. HE HAS SERVED WELL Sure Cure Child Getting .‘M SQUARE DEAL? NEHALEM VALLEY ICE & CHEAME1KY CO. Only ^’’Simplicity! VOTE 13 X NO
