Vernonia eagle., October 16, 1931, Image 1

Oer not®?'E. agi e
HAVE SUCCESSFUL HUNT
ON JURY DUTY
DELEGATES REPORT
NELSON ARRANGES
Virgil
Powell, Virgil Dror-
H. E. McGraw and A. L. Kul­
GOOD CONVENTION baugh and Dr. Marvin R. Eby re­
ROOT CROP TOUR
lander have been on jury duty
in the circuit court this week in
The delegates who represented | turned Saturday from near Can­
A root crop demonstration tour
St. Helens.
Vernonia
at the Christian En­ yon City, in eastern Oregon, af-
will be conducted to the John Ja­
deavor Wildwood Union conven-]ter spen ,lng a week there on a
Mr. Kullander was assigned to cob Astor Experiment station
tion at Astoria reported it to be!deer unting trip. They all re­
the grand ury, which completed Tuesday, October 20. The inspec­
its deliberations Wednesday. Mr. tion of the station will be made
a great success. ’ The following
_ turned with tbeir limit Virgil
first large buck
\ | Powell killed the «-♦
McGraw is on the petit jury, and promptly at 1 o’clock.
left Vernonia Friday afternoon
[about two hours after camp was
has to report as each case is
and returned late Sunday even­
The purpose of the tour is to
called. Court sessions will con-1 inspect the stock of roots which
ing: Rose Sitts, Verna Ray, Hel­ established.
They report deer very plentiful
tinue through next week.
best varieties Commission Promises to en Charlesworth and Marian
include
all
of
the
Drafting Room for En­
Vernonia Piles Up Huge
Lindley. F. Claude Stephens re­ and say tt*t they saw about 175
selected from all parts of the
on
their
t:
p.
turned Saturday evening. Rev.
gineers Engaged in
world, in order to determine
Plant 273,000 for
Majority for In­
Names Added
G. W. Plumer was present and
those best adapted to our condi-
Theatre Building
This Year
gave an address Friday evening, I
cumbent
tions in this part of Oregon.
The local Christian society Church Presents
The various methods of cultiva­
To
Donor
List
A drafting room for engineers
273,000 game fish, of which gave an invitation for the rally
By a vote of 1283 to 770 the
tion that are followed will be dis­
are to be engaged in the
proposal to recall County Com­
cussed by A. E. Engbretson, 150,000 are cutthroat and 123,- to be held here November 22
Temperance Play who
preliminary survey of the short
The following have contribut- superintendent of the station, in-| 000 steelhead, will be planted in | and 23 and this was accepted.
missioner J. N. Miller was defeat­
road to the coast has been rent­
ed Saturday.
The voting was1 ed towards the Community Chest cluding fertilizing to give best' waters of Columbia county during
The temperance drama, “Charg­ ed in the Joy theatre building,
turns. and insect control. Vari- the next twelve months, accord- On Staff of College Magazine
light, a total of 2053 ballots be­ since the publication of the list re
returns,
ed with Manslaughter,” was pre- according to H. N. Hackett, state
ing cast in contrast with 3895 two weeks ago:
ous other items in connection ing to word brought by Lester
Oregon State College, Corval-1
for county commissioner in the
Mrs. Greenman, Elon Malm- with growing the crops such as Sheeley and J. H. Bush, who lis—(Special.)—Dwight Strong of 1 sented before a large audience at highway engineer who was in
November election last year. Mr. sten, Middleton Crawford, H. G. sowing and seeding for dairy attended the meeting of the Vernonia, a sophomore in electri-' ' . i , Christian church Sunday town Monday arranging details.
j
The office space formerly occu­
Miller’s lead was more pronounc­ Sandon, E. E. Yeo, M. D. Cole, cattle in combination with other state fish and game commission cal engineering at Oregon State night.
The action centered around the pied by Attorney Gordon R. Watt
ed, however, than in the regular J. C. Penney Co., J. E. Tapp, D. | feeds will be discussed.
| in Portland Tuesday.
college, has been appointed to
Amy! All
coun-| This county, Mr. Sheeley re- the staff of the Technical Record, trouble’into which a youth got will be used. A north and east
Marshall, C. Richardson, A~y
•” farmers
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—1
election.
Vernonia Majority Pronounced Hughes, F. E. Dickson, E.
B. -.
J. ty
v, who are interested ...
in s
growing
.
ports,
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has - ____
never . heretofore had engineering magazine published as a result of an automobile ac- exposure affords excellent facili­
Vernonia
voters
expressed Cline, Bruce McDonald, J. L. Tim-[root crops for dairy cows are in-'sufficient quota. According to the 1 by the student engineers. The I cident after he had been drink- ties for the work.
Surveyors will be in the field
_ A —
this tour —
and
2 —
in- records
J~ of
” ”
the commission there magazine is# published once a I ing heavily. Just as things looked
themselves in no uncertain terms mons, Bank of Vernonia, Loel;vited to attend
their blackest for the boy word within a week’s time, possibly by
against the recall, 241 being Roberts, Nellie Dunlap, L. Kizer,'spect the station.—Geo. A. Nel- 'were 67,178 cutthroat and 48,- • month.
came that the victim, supposedly Monday, it has been unofficially
000 steelhead liberated in Col­
against the recall and 42 for it. Emma Weed, E. E. Garner, E. S. son, County Agent.
fatally injured, would recover, stated.
umbia county in the five year CHURCH PLANS FOR
Fifty-seven signed the petition Thompson, Vernonia Bakery, C.
and the prisoner was released.
Hackett left Tuesday
Mr,
L. Anderson, Paul Bleile, Mrs. ¡MacMarr Merged
period from October 1, 1926 to
for recall.
SPECIAL SERVICE ijThe bad example in drinking fur­ morning for Elsie and other
September 30, 1931, both to-
The local vote by precincts Fred Tousley, Mildred Drake, H.
With Safeway Unit gether totalling less than the
nished the moral for the play.
down-river points in order to
was as follows: 1—7 yes, 64 no; V. Holcomb, Mrs. Ollie Roberts,
A special young people’s service
Local
people
in
the
cast
were
arrangements for the
complete
E.
H.
Condit,
Mary
Grayless,
amount
for
one
alone
for
the
2—18 yes, 74 no; 3—12 yes, 38
The MacMarr store in this
is to be held at the Evangelical L. Marie Kirkpatrick as clerk to the beginning of work.
Culver and Company, C. C. Dus- ¡city closed Saturday night, and the coming year.
no; 4—5 yes, 65 no.
church Sunday evening at 7:30. ' prosecuting
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attorney,
Sidney
Protest Wolf Crook Survey
ten, D. B. Reasoner, J. C. Hen­ the stock remaining on hand was
Proportionate to St ream*
Returns by Precincts
The newly organized junior choir Malm'sten “as sheriff and Robert
Protest against expending state
Plantings will be all ocated in
I
Nineteen
precincts in the derson, Oregon-American Lumber transferred immediately to the
will have ^charge of the singing I cline as the boy. The leading money on any northern route oth-
county
reported
a 1 majority 1 Co., Judd Greenman, Florence Safeway store across the street. , direct proportion to the capa city and the Douglass orchestra will
parts were taken by Rev. R. E. er than the Scappoose-Vernonia-
Santee,
Marie
Kirkpatrick,
Mary
against the recall and 13 for it.
A number of changes in person- °f tba 8breams to maintain them, play.
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Close
of _______
Portland, p r prosecuting
Hamlet has been made by the
Erickson,
Constance
Bougher, nel
The list is as follows:
resulted
from
the
merger.
Mr.
Mr
’
Sheele
y
state8
’
Some
cutthroat
net LL-suueu num vnc
wxi. , ....
Rev G. W. Plumer, the pastor, attorneyj and Rev_ Mr. Hood I of Uptown association of Portland,
Apiary—46 yes, 29 no; Bir- Armitage Drug company, Nehal-^ 'and Mrs. J. F. Rose, who had
be Planted on nortb and 80uth will give an address to the young Portland( the father.
of which Senator Wm. F. Wood­
kenfeld—11 yes, 8 no; Chapman em Market, Mrs. W. F. Brown­ charge of the MacMarr market, iScapoose creeks- the Clatskanie AAAnln
ilvan Ainir WlfVl
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people on “Youth A Advancing
with j
ward is president and U. L. Up­
—10 yes, 15 no; Clatskanie— ing, L. H. Dewey, Miller Mer-1 ¡were transferred to the Safeway ,nver and Milton ereek- if tbere Christ.” Seats will be reserved
Eastern Star Club
son is secretary. The reason as-
2 precincts—111 yes, 231 no; cantile Co., P. L. Hewes, J. J. market, replacing F. E. Dickson, 118 enou*h water, besides the Ne- for the young people.
signed is the traffic congestion
Columbia City—22 yes, 8 no; Grady, E. H. Washburn.
At Mrs. Timmon’s
who was assigned to the Pay ’n
that would result on the Tualatin
Deer Island—30 yes, 17 no; De-
Takit division of the company’s' “ *8 Poss>ble, he declares, that
Thanks for Support
The Nehalem Social club met highway if the proposed “Y” were
lena—40 yes, 26 no; Goble—27 Shower for
stores in Portland. Owen Cal-'a11 of the steelhead will be plant-
I wish to take this means of ex­
yes, 59 no; Marshland—7 yes, Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock
vert, manager of the MacMarr ed ln the Nehelem and Rock creek, pressing my thanks to the voters Wednesday afternoon at the home built. They estimated from traf­
of Mrs. J. L. Timmons. The af­ fic count that 18,000 cars a day
37 no; McNulty—19 yes, 16 no;
■grocery since the resignation of I
Immediate Liberation
of Columbia county for the splen-
A shower was given in honor of ¡G.
i
Milton—25 yes, 12 no; Mist—
H. Campbell two weeks ago,1 Mo»t of the trout, says Mr. • | did support given me in the re­ ternoon was spent sewing covers i would pass over that road into
for chair cushions at the Mas­ . Portland if the three highways,
21 yes, 35 no; Prescott—5 yes, Mr. and Mrs. Gail Whitlock at i was transferred to Castle Rock, I Sheeley are to be liberated im- cent recall election.
onic and Eastern star home. By ’ Tualatin, Wilson river and Wolf
8 no; Quincy—42 yes; -81 no; the home of Miss Phyllis Nelson Washington.
Bob Henderson, I medlate1y- They are now four
It is of special gratification to
laws were submitted and laid I creek were combined, and an ad-
Rainier, 3 precincts—104 yes, Friday.
clerk m
in vne
the iviuviviuxr
MacMarr bvuiv
store, , was,
cierK
was inches lon«f- Ordinarily they
* are line
me inai
that you
you ueiTioiisLruwu
demonstrated su
so iui-
for-
. ditional parallel highway would
114 no; Sauvies Island—3 yes,
The evening was spent in play­ added to the Safeway staff here. *ec* un. spring, when they grow L.ftjiy the unfairness of this re- over till the next meeting adopt-
soon have to be built at a big
4 no; St. Helens, 5 precincts— ing games. A lovely luncheon was S. E Couper is manager.
to six inches long, but the com- call and that the
majority ion.
Delicious whipped cream cake ■ expense.
122 yes, 202 no; Scappoose—17 served by the hostesses, Mrs. Ad­
Mr. Campbell is at present on mission is *17,000 behind in its of you thought deeply and realiz-
yes, 77 no; South Scappoose— olph Nelson and daughter Phyllis. vacation in Winlock, Washington. finances this year and cannot af- ed the unseen forces behind this was served with tea and coffee
To Hold Rummage Sale
by Mrs. McGraw and Mrs. Tim­
20 yes, 34 no; Warren—35 yes,
ford the additional expense for moVement
’
Those preesnt were Mr. and
mons. The next meeting will be I The Pythian Sisters will hold
17 no; Yankton—21 yes, 13 no. Mrs. Gail Whitlock, Mrs. John
EARL SMITH BACK
feeding. The shortage is due to
j
Miller,
held Tuesday, November 10, in- i a rummage and cooked food sale
Vernonia’s Majority Largest
diminished sale of licenses partly
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Krinick, Rowena Whitlock, Helen
Earl Smith returned Friday.,
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stead of Wednesday, which is Saturday in the building formerly
Vernonia’s proportional vote Hieber, Florence Santee, Marie from St. Vincents hospital, where i b®cauae of lack of money and
ARCHIE ADAMS RETURNS
O If A because
nAAAHOA W,
A v» — streams
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Armistice day, at the home of. occupied by the Dixie cafe, next
for Mr. Miller was the largest of Kirkpatrick, Alma White, Irene he was confined with a broken i also
many
are
Archie Adams returned Thurs­
door to the Brown Furniture
Mrs. J. W. Brown.
all the populous districts, being' Rayburn, LaVelle Gosa, Margaret
down.
day of last week from St. Vin­
leg ever since his accident July
Those present were Mrs. J. W. store.
better than 5 to 1 and in one; Bennett, Charlotte Hilts, Margar- 31.
cents hospital, Portland, his in­
Brown, Mrs. W. E. Bell, Mrs.
precinct slightly over 12 to 1. et Nelson, Leona New, Edwin Con-
jury from a log rolling upon him
His leg is still in a cast, but j
GETS NEW LOCATION
L. H. Dewey, Mrs. F. Hartwick,
School
Budget
Mr. Miller’s home town, Clats-1 dit, Bevan Igou, Ray Mills and j|e
not being as serious as was fear- Mrs. A. L. Kullander, Mrs. E. E.
he is able to be around on I
C.
F. Hieber has rented the
kanie, supported him nearly 41 the hostesses. Mrs. Adolph Nelson crutches”
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i/x | eu.
ed. He is able to be about, but Yeo, Mrs. F. M. Ruhl, Mrs. H.
E. small salesroom on Bridge street
to 1, though rural territory in- and phyllis Nelson.
Io Be Voted On ,lis back Pains him somewhat, McGraw.
formerly occupied by Mrs. Asp-
eluded in one precinct brought |--------------------------------
P.-T. A. TO MEET
and it will be a while before he
land’s Mazda shop, and is using
down the total, fjeappoose also j Van Peebley was in town the
can return to work.
The Parent-Teachers associa­
J. E. Kerr returned Thursday ' it for display of his made-to-
A special school tax election
made a strong showing, nearly 5 (first of the week on a tempor- tion will meet this Friday at the
from Portland.
I measure samples.
is to be held Saturday from 2 to MRS. SUNELL ENTERTAINS
to 1.
ary lay-off.
Washington school. There will be
7 P- m. at the Vernonia high REBEKAH CLUB
election of officers, and it is
school to secure authority for
urged that all interested be pres­
Mrs. E. Sunell entertained the
exceeding the 6 per cent limita­
ent.
tion, and to pass upon the bud- Mountain Heart Rebekah club
HIGH SCHOOL GAME SAT. get, a copy of which appeared Tuesday afternoon. Those pres­
ent were Mrs. Henry Fogel, Mrs.
Vernonia high school will play in the Eagle for the past three Marie O’Donnell, Mrs. Ora Glass-
issues.
its third league game Saturday
The unemployment situation in talk about it some times but nev-
Confidence that the Scappoose-
“The Nehalem valley offers an
Authority for exceeding the six ner, Mrs. Margaret Lines, Mrs. San Francisco is very acute, re-]er
on the home field, where it will
do anything. They cannot ev-
Grace
Miner,
Mrs.
Irene
Spen
­
Vernonia-Hamlet route will be unusually good opportunity for
per cent limitation is necessary
ports Miss Louise Keehn, who re-]en get a bond itsue through for
clash with Scappoose.
cer,
Mrs.
Pearl
McCabe,
Mrs.
designated is expressed by J. E. developing and
colonizing of
The Scappoose team is report- because the wrong base has been Ruby Biggs, Mrs. Sarah Spencer, turned Sunday evening from a a badly needed addition to their
Kerr, chairman of the road com­ small tracts of land and the
ed to be composed almost entire- used for voting the tax in pre­ Mrs. Webb. Lovely refreshments five weeks visit there. Men and water system.
mittee of the local chamber of Vernonia-Hamlet route would ms-
ly of new material, They lost vious years. The budget, though were served by the hostess and women without work have been
San Francisco water is not fit
commerce. “We feel that sinoe terially assist in carrying out
to Hill Military academy, Port­ approximately *2,000 greater than Mrs. O'Donnell.
drifting into the state from all to drink, she declares, and those
the Vernonia-Hamlet and Wolf this scheme. It would go through
that
of
last
year,
provides
for
land, 14 to 13 on October 2.
parts of the country, she says. who can afford to, buy spring
creek roads are so nearly on a an area potentially rich in agri­
a considerable reduction in cur-
Large numbers of them have been water sold in bottles and deliver­
parity from the reconnaissance cultural and stock raising possi­
rent expenditures, the increase
sleeping on benches in the public ed to customers like milk. In the
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report that the commission can­ bilities. 1 Being
close to
Port- ProdllCß List
being necessary because $10,000
parks during the daytime while early morning the streets of cer­
not help but give our road th« land in an airline it should be
in outstanding warrants must be
it is warm and then walking the tain residential districts are full
preference when the final chapter made accessible to Portland by
teachers
paid.
The
outlay
for
For Nehalem
streets at night.
of trucks carrying empty water
is written,” he declared Monday adequate highway facilities.
salaries is less, though this total
When a San Francisco store bottles.
after spending the previous week
shows a slight increase because
“The matter of traffic con­
advertised for an experienced
Keeps Growing of the addition of two part time
There are only a few beautiful
in Portland and Salem in the in­ trol is another important factor.
' salesman for men’s clothing, she homes. Miss Keehn states, as
terest of the project. “It not By building the Wolf creek route
teachers.
' learned, it was swamped with 500 most people live in apartments.
only offers the development of I traffic would be robbed from the (
Joe Miller is wearing a broad,
applicants.
Still
mounts
the
list
of
big
It is hard to get good fruit,
PYTHIAN SISTERS
a large new territory agricultur­ present Columbia river highway
smile now. They won’t pick on
One suggestion made by Cali- she found. Oranges and lemons
him again right away.
ally but also opens up and gives J and concentrated into a very, farm produce grown in the Neha- HONOR MRS. COLE
fornia citizens for the relief of are very poor, as the best fruit
»1
Portland access to territory that small area in entering Portland. I lem valley.
The
Pythian
Sisters
met
Wed-
Ellis
McGraw
and
Jack
Bush
,
unemployed men is to turn them! is
la shipped
gh-
placed
in
J.
N.
Morgan
has
out. Vegetables, how-
would not be benefitted by the I “By building the Scappoose-'
a stalk of nesday evening in the I. O. O. F. got so used to turning in at the over
tke United States army evel.p are plentiful and very
Wolf creek route.”
l Vernonia-Hamlet route there ¡the Bank of Vernonia
be cared for in military camps. cbeap.
Eggs and butter are
The Wolf creek route goes wou|d be a saving of distance to] 'Haston Prolific corn between 13 ‘ " After the regular business golf course that they turned out
"San Francisco’s better shops high,
through approximately 11 miles the greatest portion of the met- land 14 feet tall, with 6 ears to i proceedings the evening was spent | of turn a week ago Thursday! and stores have the most marvel­
California scenery, she thinks,
of virgin timber, Mr. Kerr stated, ropolitan population for the reas- | the stalk. He obtained the seed i playing cards with their bus- night, and Jack’s car had to go lous creations in the way of wo­
is dry, barren and uninteresting
and within the next few years on j^at 49 per cent oj tbe people from Atlanta, Georgia, and grew! bands, in honor of Mrs. Cole, who to the hospital.
men’s apparel,” Miss Keehn says, compared with Oregon’s green
this would be all logged off. The oi Portland live north of East it on his place near the Mile was recently elected to the of-1
. .¡"but prices are very high.” At clad mountains.
ifice
of
Most
Excellent
Junior
of
SEEN
ON
THE
STREET
bridge.
building of a highway through it I Broadway, the center of popula-
Grand
Lodge
of ____
Oregon.
The | J. C. Henderson painting J>ut present the stores do not sell
Mr. Morgan planted the
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would increase the fire hazard ton being East 13th and Davis
this year in May, but believes Most Excellent Chief, Mrs. Cui- the big MacMarr sign . . . Dan much and are losing money, she PIONEER TEACHER VISITS
and there would be danger to the 1 streets.
that better results would be ob­ bertson, in behalf of the Pythian I Cason sitting on the stairway believes. These better shops, she
travelling from trees falling
Mrs. W. E. L«e of Ontario,
“Over 50 per cent of the peo­
across the highway after the ple of Portland would find it tained by planting in April and Sisters presented Mrs. Cole with next to Ed Holtham’s . . . Tam was told, do not keep any of their Oregon, and son visited Sunday
his
dad
ready
to
wear
more
than
60
days.
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.
Ford
trailing
behind
right of way had been cut through shorter in distance by seven or irrigating. Early frosts are apt a beautiful silver console set.
whenever George comes to town After that it is moved into the at the V. L. Powell home. . Mrs.
to
prevent
it
from
maturing,
he
Refreshments
were
served.
the standing timber. Also the eight miles and more convenient
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1A
AA taught aokAnl
. . w L. Tf
H. TV
Dewey packing
big ' — smaller
shops — where
it 1- is --1J
sold. T Lee
school naarlv
nearly 4(1
40 years
timber companies would be put for reaching the coast than would states, if planted too late,
C. C. Clay is on his vacation I bundles down the street to give'quite reasonably.
iago at Pittsburg. She then was
brought
to
the
Chas.
Schmidlin
to great expense in logging oper­ the Wolf creek. To reach the
visitng relatives in Utah.
San Francisco seems to lack in Mrs. L. Bell Gaddis. Her father,
to the Community Chest . . .
ation due to the highway occu­ Wolf creek road it would be ne­ Eagle office some huge apples of
Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. ______
Deamer'"
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—»«.4 .. on
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r pride,
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The Mr w<a
Widgwr,
Shorty ~
Kullander
explaining
how'civic —
she
reports.
is
not
certain.
whose
variety
he
pying proposed railway grades cessary for this group to travel
in Vernonia he got out of jury duty so soon.1 streets are dirty and littered with St. Helens mountain.
of
Portland
were
resembling
a
bell
flower
in
shape
and divinding operations. None through the congested business
-
- is I Nearly
- - everybody
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... i papers. Th«
|MBa do
,_; ( Mrs.
e Thursday. Mr. Deamer, who
Jack Kerr meet«
The cit
citizen«
do not
not d da-
Mrs. Lee
Lea was
was much
much surprised
surprised
of these objections are encount­ area, while by going through and appearance. One weighs one i-1 a specialist in radio servicing, is stopping him to find out what.velop any beauty spots, such as a. to see that the valley had chang-
and a quarter pounds, and an­
ered on the Vernonia-Hamlet
I considering locating here.
1 he knows.
drive along the seashore. Theyjed so much.
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other one pound.
(Continued on Page 6)
route.
Survey For
County Gets
Miller Wins
Short Cut
Increase In
In County
Starts Soon
Game Fish
1283 to 770
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NUMBER 64.
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931.
VOLUME IX.
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Miss Keehn Finds Acute
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Jack Kerr Is Confident
Road Will Be Designated
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