Vernonia eagle., December 11, 1931, Page 5, Image 5

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931
were still in the pathless w.isti1.
Robert was weary after teu days
of climbing and crawling and slosh­
ing and tiptoeing and whispering In
this interminable wilderness be­
set with perils. lie had grown
thin and irritable.
The weekly Pot Luck Luncheon
"Don’t get plieesy,” Amos said to
him. “I reckon we’ll be at the big club was held on Wednesday at
lake soon. Then I’ll give ye a ride the home of Mrs. John Hatfield.
and ye can rest yer nags."
Following the luncheon 500 was
They came about nightfall to the played, Mrs. Pringle winning first
edge of a small lake. It was about prize, Mrs. Ryves of Vernonia
a quarter of a mile In width and
some two miles long. The deep si­ second and Mrs. Adams, also of
lence of Its wild lonely setting was Vernonia, receiving consolation.
broken by the distant chattering of
James Hanna missed a day of
a porcupine. They drank the lake
water and ate of their meut end work last week due to illness.
meal.
Mrs. Charles Lewis has, it is
<x
W.Al.U.
“Oh, God! I’m weary." Robert believed, the oldest pair of hand-
iSry»*
.
-
V
Stitvict.
whispered as he lay back and
Co»Mr,skt.
t'v
/y IRVING BACHELLER
spread his arms to the mossy knitted baby hose in camp. They
i
»octwlier
were knitted by her mother nearly
ground.
“I don’t like the feel o’ this.” said 40 years ago.
The two passed a number of rag­
to
church.
Ail
had
to
go
ami
as
­
Amos. “We’ll push on a little and
ged children who looked curiously
Mrs. Pringle entertained with
at the rope on William's neck and sume a look of piety while they nose into a thicket and lie down."
shivered
for
hours
in
a
dank
cold
They found a stand of young a waffle party last Thursday.
soon began throwing pebbles at
him. Peggy Weld put an end to atmosphere In no way Improved by pine and spruce on high ground not Those present were Mrs Hanna,
their mischief. That was the be­ a dank and molded theology. Wil­ a falcon-shot from the lake. Un Mrs. Norman Quinn, Mrs. dison,
ginning of the great things In the liam and Vane and others were der its cover they lay down. Their Mrs. Charles Mackie, and Mrs.
promise of Margaret Hooper and Gospel-glutted.
I
William Heydon rode across heads were no sooner on the Hatfield.
Roger Williams. Young Heydon
than they heard loud cries
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Olson and
had long been thinking of the chil­ country to see Roger Williams. At ground
the distant forest. Amos sat
dren of the poor who were grow­ bls fireside he met the distin­ in
daughter
Betty Jean were din­
up
and
listened.
ing up In ignorance. They were guished Thomas Hooker. He sat
A loud splashing broke the si­ ner guests at the Ira Rollins
the most pressing problem of the for a day In the company of these lence.
home on Thursday evening.
colony. There were a number of great, free-minded Puritans who up­
“Two canoes!" Amos whispered.
Mrs. Robert Wood entertained
young ladles In Boston like Peggy held the right of the Individual to “The killers have come. It’s sav­
Weld, with nothing to do. He made find his belief without coercion. He ages driving game toward the lake several friends one evening last
a plan for organizing the male chil­ aroused their enthusiasm by telling on the farther shore," said he. week in honor of her father’s
dren of the toilers into groups and of Ills work. That day he saw these “We’re lucky not to he there. A
for interesting the young ladies in men chiseling the spiritual blocks band of red men—maybe fifty or birthday. Mr. Monkers is a resi­
the task of teaching them reading which were to he the foundation more—start miles back about a dent of Heppner, Oregon, but he
and writing, tlie love of cleanliness of a structure Immense and won­ hundred feet apart and drive and his wife plan to spend the
derful. They were these:
and decency and fair play.
“The beginning of authority Is shoreward. The killers are layln’ coming holidys with their daugh­
Vane gave him hearty support.
In canoes on the lake. They have
He and William supplied the money the free consent of the governed,” sharp lances o’ Ironwood. When ter.
Mr. and Mrs. McDonald of
for a rough inexpensive structure said the courageous, brown-beard­ the game takes water they thrust
In which the young boys were ed, gray-eyed Hooker, who had the lances to its heart and drag It Portland have been residents in
worked
his
way
through
Cambridge
taught.
It was equipped with
out. They'll have a big fire and a the Jack Hall home until the re­
benches and blackboards. The work as a sizar In his college dining fenst down there. If there’s meat
turn of Mrs. Hall who has been
began and prospered. The seamen, room.
“And God knows neither Jew nor enough they'll eat themselves stiff in the hospital the last tw<
the goodmen and their wives
and
sleep
for
two
days.
”
brought their children to this haven Gentile, rank nor caste," said the
The wild cries were coming near months, She is expected home
of new hope. The young ones en­ Iron-gray, ample mustached Roger the lake. Weird echoes chased one now at any time.
Williams.
“
The
spirit
of
love
man
joyed the teaching, the play and the
another far and wide In the wooded
Mrs. Marion Johnson was hos­
rewards. Tlie church and the court ifested in the love of a nmn for Ills solitude. Suddenly they ceased.
were deeply Interested. The min­ neighbor Is the big thing. There There was a great splashing in the tess this last week on Thursday
isters, deacons and magistrates can be no love of God without it. water below. Then the angry roar­ to the 500 club. Mrs. McDonald
were coming often to see the If neighbors are not lovable we ing of a moose in his death was a new guest present.
A
astonishing progress of the learn must make them so."
struggles and a shrilling "like that lovely luncheon was served at
Both agreed that the safety of of
ers. Volunteers were offering help.
a
stampede
of
demons
In
the
Winthrop said that no better work the colony lay in the education of doorway of hell," to quote from noon.
had been done in the New world. the poor.
Miss Evelyn Olson of St. Hel-
quillet In the diary of Robert
William went away encouraged a Heathers,
The work was transferred to the
The killing went on ens is a guest this week at ths
ampler accommodations of the by the friendship of these men. while the beasts groaned and
meeting house and Philander Por- Their ideals had given him a new strove, helpless in the water. It S. R. Olson home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Rollins and
man and Daniel Maude — two understanding of life and a new ceased in the space of a few min-
learned men—were engaged by the zest for It. Leaving there he took utes. The tumult dimmed to a family of Vernonia were dinner
medicine and a nurse to a tribe of low chatter. They heard the crack­ guests at the Hatfield home on
court to do the teaching.
who were dying, like rotten ling of fire, and soon, through their
Meanwhile William Heydon, out Indians
Sunday.
of the smallpox.
close-knit lattice of pine needles,
in the bay with liis boat, had saved sheep,
Meanwhile new evidence regard
Mrs. Charles Piert and Mrs.
two people from drowning.
He
they could see the glow of Its
George Baker accompanied Mrs.
was returning in Ids canoe from a Ing Robert Heathers came to Gov­ flames.
ernor
Vane.
Samp
had
brought
Lyle Baker to Vernonia on last
visit to his friend Henry Blaxton.
(Continued Next Week)
some hint of it to Boston. James
He went immediately to their re­ Rosewell
Friday for a shopping tour.
had
gone
up
the
coast
on
BUDGET
COMMITTEE
lief. The panic-stricken pair upset
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Ryves and
the
tavern
ship.
He
went
ashore
his canoe and dashed him into
RECOMMENDS CHANGE
daughter Jean of Vernonia were
deep water. Fortunately they were nt the fishing camp where Amos
and
Robert,
fleeing
from
John
not more than a fathom’s length Samp, had set out to cross the wil­
The county budget committee guests at the Pringle home on
from good footing. One of those
in its recommendations to the Thursday evening.
derness.
He
suspected
that
the
fu
­
saved was a daughter of the magis­
A 500 party was given by Mr.
was still lingering in that county court at its session last
trate, John Haynes. Tlie girl, as gitive
fate would have it, clung to the part of the woods. Moreover, defi­ week, recommended that George and Mrs. Ira Rollins at their home
nite word had come to Boston that A. Nelson be appointed county in Vernonia on Saturday evening.
rope on William’s neck, while the one
Mellowes, In that camp,
other was dragged to shallow wa­ had Edward
There were four tables. Mr. and
Important Information. Rose fruit inspector.
ter in bis left hand.
The committee cut the salary Mrs. Bud Adams won first prizes,
found him.
Tlie next day Vane prevailed well
“I won’t go down there and spend of this office from $500 to $300 consolation going to Mrs. Peggy
upon the court to pardon him. The a week or two for nothing,” said and cut the county agent’s office Hatfield and Virgil Powell. Lovely
rope was removed from his neck Mellowes. “I'm a poor man. 1 $500 and as this sum is matched
and again at last he was a citizen. have to work for my living.”
“If you have good evidence, I by the state board of agricul­
He Joined the military company. He
visited and helped the poor. Their will see that you have a fair al ture, the cut was in effect $1000.
dialect, their droll and rugged hu­ lowance for your time."
If the court follows the sugges­
Mellowes answered: “While the
mor Interested him. The flavor of
tion of the committee and it is
the soil and the salt sea was in tavern ship was lying here that believed they will, the $300 item
it.
He became a popular 1 man, time a shallop turned In from Bos­
and even th? church folk gave him ton. Her captain sold that a man for fruit inspector would be put
named Heydon was being tried for into the county agent fund and
a welcome in their homes.
Peggy Weld and her brother had adultery and was likely to be hung the state would match this am­
U. S. Royal Cord Tires
taken ship to New Amsterdam and in spite of Ills being a blue-blooded ount adding in reality $600 to
were going north from there to the gentleman. Tlie young chap, who
Shell Products
Lake of tile Iroquois and perhaps was with Todkill, said to me: ‘If the county agent’s office, leaving
they lmng Heydon they will hans that office with only $400 less
to Kebec to find Robert Heathers.
Those who could not accept the the wrong man. I know that he Is than last year and in reality do­
Dependable Mechanics
sanctity of all the ancient Hebraic Innocent.’
“ ‘How do you know that?’ I ing away with the fruit inspector
teaching were driven out of the col­
Shop Work Guaranteed
ony.
The brilliant antlnomaln asked. I reckon he didn't expect to as a separate officer.
—Clatskanie Chief.
Anne Hutchinson still tarried, hav­ be questioned. He changed color
ing won tlie favor of the ladles of and stammered a little and said:
the parish because of her wit and ‘The guilty man ran away that
charm. Governor Vane was severe­ night.'
“I didn’t know or care who he
ly criticized for giving coun­
tenance and support to her theories. was. I didn't know when the tav­
It was evident that even the friend­ ern ship left Boston. I was spree-
ship of the influential women could Ing all night and went up the const
fishing next day.”
not long delay her exile.
Thus a gibbet was being erected
Such a quenching of the sparks of
contention was not to the taste of for Robert Heathers.
the generous John Winthrop. The
CHAPTER VIII
church was filled with dark say­
ings—a pretentious babbling as to
The Capture.
the merits of sanctification and Jus­
EGGY WELD and her brother
tification.
took a ship north from New Am
Yet every Sabbath a warden
sterdam to Fort Orange while Rob­
drummed the people out of their
comfortable homes and balled them ert Heathers and Amos Todkill
Camp Eight
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VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON
EXTRA MILK
and CREAM
for your holiday cooking
refreshments were served by the
hostess at a late hour.
Mrs. Charles Lewis has been
on the sick list but is recovered
enough to be up and around.
"Rumor has it that the Women’s
club will have a large Community
Christmas tree for Camp Eight
children.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Adams were
visitors at the Earl Pringle home
on Monday night.
KEASEY
The Wolf creek road crew
moved up to East Side camp Fri­
day for a short time.
Norman Pettijohn, who has
been working on the Wolf creek
road, was transferred to Sunset
camp Sunday.
The teacher is giving a nice
program and will have a tree
at the school house the 23rd.
The school will have 10 days va­
cation.
Mrs. Mendenhall and Mrs. De­
vaney were in Vernonia Wednes­
day.
Hilbert Young was a Vernonia
shopper Wednesday for the road
crew.
Ted Keasey took a load of po­
tatoes to town Wednesday.
Mayo Pettijohn made a busi­
ness trip to Sunset camp Sunday.
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Notice is hereby given that the
County Supt. of Columbia County,
Oregon, will hold the regular ex­
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Commencing Wednesday, Dec. 16,
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1931.
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(68tf
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Roseway Apartments, 916 Rose
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Rose avenue.
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FOR SALE—Fir wood of any
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prices.
E. E. Garner, Phone Bridge street, Vernonia, Oregon,
7F155.
72?c within six months from the date
hereof.
Christine Sword Callendine,
LOST AND FOUND
Executrix.
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State and C streets. Owner 27th, 1931. Last publication, De­
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(70tf
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