VOLUME X. $2.00 per Year; 5c a copy Attractive SPECIAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING IS TO BE HELD AT NOON ) Christian Church to Be Scene of Father And Son Banquet A special meeting of the cham­ A Father and Son banquet will ber of commerce will be held in be held tonight at 6:30 in the the Masonic temple this noon to social rooms of the Christian consider road developments aris­ program ing from the suit of Senator Joe church. On attractive E. Dunne to restrain the high­ has been provided and a happy way commission from construct­ evening is looked for. Every father coming is asked ing the Wolf creek road. I to bring his own son. If this is not possible a son will be provid- Large Number of Products Librarian Reports ed him. Lively Interest in Shown by Grange A special service for fathers Circulating Books and sons will be held at the morn­ And Club ing service next Sunday. Fathers Mrs. Lloyd Thomas, librarian of| and sons are asked to sit to­ the city library, reported a total gether at this service, states the H. M. F. A splendid exhibit was the circulation of 11,430 from Jan­ ! minister, F. Claude Stephens. verdict of the many who attended uary through October of this the quilt and agricultural show year at a meeting of the board in sponsored by the Vernonia Study | the library Monday afternoon, Red Cross Drive club and Vernonia grange in the | This places the average monthly Harris building on Bridge street circulation at 1,143. In Progress Now | These figures, she stated, m- Saturday. The big front window was so I eluded the circulation of several filled to overflowing with a wide 1 loans from the state library. variety of locally raised agricul­ | They indicate a very lively in­ Work of Organization for Com- tural products that we gave up terest in this department of the munity li Recounted in despair the thought of record-j city’s activities, especially con­ sidering the limited number of conjunction with the Red In ing who exhibited what, and shall | Cross drive which is in progress only mention what impressed us books oiwned by the library. Although 291 new books have this week, an exhibit of clothing most. About the biggest vegetable on been added to the library re-[ made for the community chest hand was a huge green squash in cently, either through the book I from materials furnished to this a display made by A. D. Hall. An­ drive or purchase, Mrs. Thomas locality by the Red Cross is on other fairly sizable yellow squash reported that a total of 196 had ' display in one of the windows of raised by John B. Hair was re­ been discarded this year. 21 were | the’ Miller Mercantile company’s markable because it was said' to lost or destroyed through quaran-1 store. have developed just since Septem­ tine, fire or carelessness of bor-j The display Jg jugt one example rowers, and 175 were discarded .f what the Red Cross ¡g doing ber. We noticed flax grown by E. because they were worn out from' for this community with funds E. Malmsten, oat hay raised long and frequent usage. secured from the annual member­ somewhere on the O.-A. property, ships. According to a poster in A. L. Parker's alfalfa, a monster County Court Not ; the window a total of 96 gar- sunflower grown by L. S. Dowd, 'ments has been made by the local To Purchase Right and Il. M. Condit’s very fancy Of Way for Highway c'ulj Women from the Red Cross kale. ________ I material. J. L. Timmons displayed some The state highway commission! Approximately 1,130 yards of corn stalks which prove conclu- has requested the Columbia coun-, materials including muslin, out- sively that Iowa has nothing on ty court to purchase right of wayi*n& flannel, dress prints, and the Nehalem valley men it comes for the Wolf creek road for about 'chambray have been given to the to growing “tall corn.” The stalks three quarters of mile where the 1 local sewing committee, headed by raised in his garden on Rose av­ proposed route clips a corner of Mrs. L. H. Dewey, who oversees enue measure)! 11 feet, 7 inches. the county. As the section in- the cutting and making of gar- He admitted however that it was I i cludes green timber it is estimat­ ments to fit the needs of local raised from Iowa seed. ed that the cost would be between depression victims. The total re­ We have a feeling we didn’t $6,000 and $7,000. tail cost of these materials in­ see everything, but we do recall While no formal action was cluding some additional trim­ vetly fine displays of apples, corn, taken by the court the members mings, thread, etc., also supplied nuts of various kinds, butter, did not look favorably on the by the Red Cross would approxi­ cheese, honey, watermelons, car- idea of buying the right of way. mate $181.00 according to the rots, beets, parsnips, turnips, cab- computations of a local merchant. bage, tomatoes, quinces, a cu- JUDGE SKIPWORTH The Red Cross has also given cumber in a narrow necked jar, this community large quantities ASSIGNED TO HEAR fish freshly caught in Rock creek WOLF CREEK CASE of flour, 22,175 pounds of which and “what have you.” have already been distributed. As for the quilts—well the Many local children have had Hearing on the demurrer in the walls were lined with them and injunction suit to prevent the tonsils removed, glasses fitted and the display included also other I highway commission from doing other medical attention and care 1 needle work, old and modern. A any more i work on the Wolf through Red Cross funds. woman may like and admire vege­ I creek road will be held before The Red Cross organization has tables and alfalfa, but she “loves” Judge i Skipworth of Eugene at the reputation of operating with­ quilts, so many were the feminine Salem i today. He is the fourth out waste and has cooperated “ohs” and “ahs” heard around judge assigned to the case, affi- closely with the community chest the needle craft section. davits i of prejudice having been here working through local boarH One unpieced solid color cover filed against the other three. members and workers who donate was adorned with a beautifully The suit is being brought by all of their time. executed design in quilting, and Senator Joe E. Dunne. The Red Cross does all of its several lovely pieced examples county work through the county done in two colors were on dis­ nurse, Miss Nettie Alley, thus ef­ play. There was a sunbonnet ba­ fecting a large saving in operat­ by quilt, a butterfly quilt, a ing expenses. flower basket quilt, a strikingly Individual memberships are one attractive daffodil quilt, and any dollar a year, 50 cents of which number of flower and geometric stands ready to help any com­ patterns, pieced or appliqued, all munity in time of emergency or beautifully quilted. Mrs. A. E. Jennings is in re­ disaster, and 50 cents remains in One of the most interesting ceipt of a letter from Governor the county fund for county wel­ quilts and among the most at­ , Franklin D. Roosevelt written be- fare work exclusively. tractive was one containing 2,- A number of local clubs and | fore the election in reply to one 857 tiny blocks arranged ac­ I that she had written him before organizations are planning to give cording to color. This was exhibit­ his nomination. In her letter Mrs. ' their Red Cross donations in the ed by Mrs. Virgil Powell. Anoth­ Jennings expressed her confidence i form of large lump sums, as or­ in er, exhibited by Mrs. E. S. Thomp­ ; that he would be nominated and ganization donations remain i.. son, contained an enormous num­ elected. the county in their entirety after ber of blocks but we didn’t stop; The letter from Mr. Roosevelt 50. cents only from the whole do- to count them. «111 reads as follows: ation is deducted for the national Several old quilts were shown, "In a clean-up of my desk on organization, according to club one being indicated as over 50 my return from my western trip, i officials. Because of this provi­ years old, and several were made I came across your letter writ­ sion, people who cannot afford by women over 80 years old. One ten before the Convention. I had ' individual memberships this year, with very fine quilting was made laid this aside when I received it ' may at least contribute some- by an aunt of F. D. Macpherson j j to give it a more careful reply ' thing through some organization when she was 84, and another was' gt as soon as time permitted and in ' and retain the whole amount for made by Mrs. C. Van Blaricom j .some way it has escaped my at- local use. the age of 89. The present drive which con- tention until now. Among the antiques was a has tinues tin Thanksgiving is direct- “Of course, much 1__— water —— — hand woven silk afghan, and a run over the dam and there is, ! ¡ed by a committee composed of cover beautifully designed in alMrs. Adolph Nelson. Mrs. F. M. blue and white made of home-j • therefore, no need for me to Ruhl and Mrs. Mike Miller work­ {comment on what you said. I just spun and home-woven flax and ing through the Parent-Teachers’ wanted you to know that your wool in New York in 1800, now letter pleased me very much and *«’°ciation. belonging to Mrs. L. H. Dewey, that I appreciate being the bene­ Mrs. Dewey also displayed a ficiary of your first Democratic MEN'S INDOOR BASEBALL paisley shawl brought across the TEAM IS BEING FORMED vote. plains to California in 1850. AT EVANGELICAL CHURCH “I hope that my speeches dur­ Another heirloom was a white ing the past weeks have met with counterpane shown by Mrs. Ira A men’s indoor baseball team your approval and I deeply re- Mann. woven in its design were an-'is being organized at the Evan­ the words “U. S. Army—Medical gret that your letter was not gelical church with H. V. Hol­ department—1883.” Mrs. John B. swered long before this." comb in charge. The group meets Hair also displayed an old hand- C. E. Lasher, manager of the Monday evenings at eight, follow­ woven counterpane. Oregon Gas and Electric Co., was ing the Boy Scouts’ meeting at 6:30. in town Tuesday. (Continued on Page Four) Exhibit Put On Saturday Roosevelt Sends Letter In Reply To Good Wishes I ______________ NUMBER 47. VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932. EARLY COPY, PLEASE On acount of Thanksgiv- ing holiday next week it will be necessary to print the Eagle on Wednesday, All correspondence, adver­ tising and other copy must therefore be in one day earlier than usual, Lat“ copy will have to be held over until the following week. Firemen’s Banquet Given Nov. 10 at Culbertson Home CITY BUDGET MEETING TONIGHT EXPECTED TO OCCASION LIVELY TILT Budget For A lively contest is expected at The annual banquet for mem­ the city budget meeting in the bers of Vernonia’s fire depart­ city hall tonight over various ment was given at the home of items in the proposed budget, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Culbertson judge by talk heard on the streets Thursday evening, November 10. It is likely that friends and op­ Places were arranged for J. ponents of the budget will be out W. Brown, guest of honor, Earl in full force. Smith, fire chief, W. B. Hol­ Margin la Close, Final comb, Frank Ellis, Floyd Smith, Harvest Festival Bill Ellis, Harry Culbertson, L. Vote Resulting Scheduled Tonight R. Thomas, Emil Messing and Bleile Automobile In I.O.O.F. Hall Laverne Adams. 62 to 58 Damaged by Crash Assisting Mrs. Culbertson on Into Fallen Tree the arrangements and serving Tonight is the night for the The grade school budget calling were Mrs. Earl Smith, Amy Rea much anticipated Harvest Festi­ val which is being given in the for a tax of $38,372.90 less a The • automobile of Mr. and Purney, and Verla Messing. I. O. O. F. hall at 7.30 for the reduction of $50 in the allowance Mrs. 1 E. M. Bleile was damaged benefit of the community chest for telephone expense was adop­ Sunday morning when it crashed fund. ted 62 to 58 at the annual meet­ into a fallen tree a short distance! Harvest Home Will Loads of fun for grown ups ing in the Washington school au­ beyond Sunset camp. as well as children has been ar­ ditorium Monday night. Vote was They and their children were Be Celebrated Here ranged and there will be dancing taken by ballot. on their way to their home in and cards for those who like that Westfir after a weekend visit in The meeting began with a dis­ form of amusement. Vernonia. A number of cars cussion of the six per cent limita­ Madam Zemo, a charming and were parked while one of the Annual Occasion to be in Evan- tion requirement, Chairman A. C. clever gypsy fortune teller, has drivers had gone to get a saw. Knauss explaining that election gelical Church Sunday been secured for the evening, and Because of defective brakes Mr. was necessary because of a cleri­ will read palms or reveal the Bleile was unable to stop his The Harvest Home service will cal error several years ago which future in the cards — for a price. car in time to avoid hitting the be held at the Evangelical church reduced the base. A motion to ex­ A country grocery and roulette rear car, and in swerving aside Sunday at 11 a. m., with pot-luck ceed the limitation was passed by hit the tree. His car mounted the dinner at 12:30. This is an an­ wheel will be managed by N. S. a standing vote, 59 to 31. log, landing upon it in such a nual Nehalem valley occasion, not Soden and Ray Mills, and Dr. M. Chairman Knauss stated that way as to demolish the battery I resfcricted to members or others D. Cole will preside over a shoot­ the proposed budget provided for ing gallery. and possibly throw the shaft out associated with the church. These are a few of the interest­ a reduction in operating expense line. j A special feature is the exhibit N. S. Soden, who was driving of fruits and' vegetables. This ing concessions. There will be of about $7,000, and that since one of the cars waiting to get year jke names of all exhibitors “eats,” of course for everybody. $15,000 due on debt service this The proceeds from the festival year had ‘been refunded the levy by the obstruction, towed the wd] j,e marked on the products. Bleile car to Timber for repairs. (The committee in charge, Rev. G. which is being arranged by com­ for that item could be omitted at mittees from the Pythian Sisters this time, though it in that case W. Plumer states, would be pleas­ and Knights of Pythias lodges, have to be made in 1935, when ed to have anything out of the DeMolay Boys Confer will be given to the community the payment would become due. in the line of fruits and Honor on Two From ordinary He further explained an increase chest. vegetables entered, and all, ir­ made necessary this year because Rainbow Assembly respective of church affiliations, of the fact that last year the are urged to put in exhibits. Kindergarten of budget committee had made a re­ The Oregon chapter of De­ Members of the committee are Eight Children Is duction from about 17 mills to 6 Molay from Portland put on de­ A. C. Knauss, A. Lk Parker and Conducted in Home mills to take care of debt ser­ gree work at the local Masonic F. E. Malmsten. Ladies from the vice only, as more than enough lodge Saturday night. W. M. S. will serve the dinner. Mrs. Howard Reeher has es­ was due in delinquent taxes to Charles L. Adams, father ad­ At the pot-luck dinner it is tablished at her home a kinder­ visor, is a former Vernonia resi­ expected that county Agent Geo. garten for children of pre-school take care of operating expenses. dent and has brought a team A. Nelson and Sheriff Oscar G. age. Eight are enrolled: Shirley However, when a levy of over 17 here annualy because of his in­ Weed will attend and give short Cole, Mary Lee McGraw, Colleen mills had been made the year before, 61 per cent had been col­ terest in this community. speeches. There will also be music. Fogel, Beverly June Bateman, Following the degree work, wit­ Thanksgiving will be celebrated Yvonne Wridge, Fay Conrad, lected, while of last year’s 6 mill nessed by members of the Masonic also in the Sunday school. A short Donald Cole and Bobby Meichen. levy only 15 per cent was col­ lected, hence it would be impas­ fraternity, a dance was given play, “Let Us Give Thanks,” will They meet every school day with the local chapter of Rain­ be presented by the high school morning from 9 to 11:30. At sible to operate the school on a bow girls as guests. As a special class of which Mrs. Leroy Malm­ present they have been building levy for debt service only next honor Mrs. A. J. Hughes, mother sten is teacher. The leading char­ a wigwam and a log cabin, and year. advisor, and Edna Owens, wor­ acters are Florence Wall, “Spirit have studied about the Indians Judd Greenman pointed out thy advisor, of Nehalem assem­ of History;” Zonweiss Douglass, and Pilgrims preparatory to that 60 per cent of the proposed bly, Order of Rainbow, were “Modern Humanity;” Mary Ann Thanksgiving. budget is for debt, and whether summoned into the lodge hall and Childs, “America;” Louis Graven, it passed or not a levy for this presented with bouquets of au- “Spirit of ’76;” Sara McGee, would have to be made. In the W. B. Armitage Buys tumn flowers. controllable items there had been “Thanksgiving;” Ruth Page Sim­ Only Drug Store in a reduction of 21.7 per cent. mons, “Harvest;” Holly Holcomb, “New England Colonist;” Leon La Center, Wash. Taxpayers were lucky, he de­ clared, in getting off with a six Brock, herald. The entire class H.M. Condii Named I will participate. Wm. B. Armitage has bought mill levy last year. the La Center Pharmacy at Da Upon Chairman Knauss’B invi­ Master Of Grange Center, Washington, a town in tation for discussion of any speci­ Eleventh Annual Rebekah Convention Clark county on the Pacific fic items in the budget Mr. Green­ north of Vancouver. It man moved that the allowance Held in Clatskanie highway Vernonia Organization Elects for is the only drug store in the for telephone be cut from $100 community. He took possession to $50, and the motion was car­ Coming Year The eleventh annual convention Tuesday. ried. Mrs. Sidney Malmsten sug­ of Rebekah lodges of District 5 H. M. Condit was elected mas­ Mr. and Mrs. Armitfage will gested that instruction in music Tuesday. was held at Clatskanie ter of Vernonia grange Saturday continue to live for the preBent and art be eliminated, saving the Maude Rogers, president of the evening. Other officers chosen in Vancouver, where he has been district about $1100, but a ma­ are H. E. McGraw, overseer; Rebekah assembly of Oregon, waB pharmacist in the Reeder Drug jority sentiment in the meeting unable to attend because of the Theodore Keasey, steward; Phil­ store. As his store will be open favored retention of these sub­ lip Millis, 'assistant steward; Mrs. serious illness of her husband. for two hours only on Sundays jects. Bert Woods declared that Viola Treharne, assistant steward; Grace Christensen, warden of the he and Mrs. Armitage expect to the salaries of teachers is too Mrs. Floy Hammack, secretary; Rebekah assembly, took her place. make frequent Sunday trips here high in proportion to what the The initiatory and floor work to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Hall, treasurer; Mrs. H. M. taxpayers are receiving, but no Condit, chaplain; Geo. Douthit, was exemplified by Fern lodge W. J. Armitage. motion was made for any re­ gatekeeper; Mrs. Gladys Moran, of Rainier, balloting by LaFrance duction in that item. lodge of Clatskanie, memorial lecturer; Mrs. Kathleen Kostur, service by St. Helens lodge, and Mr. Greenman moved that cre­ Pomona; Mrs. Hilda Keasey, dit be taken for the $15,000 that Ceres; and Miss Ethel Kelley, the flag ceremony by Mountain Heart lodge of Vernonia. does not have to be applied on Flora. There was an attendance of de'bt service this year, but the about 70, including the following motion was opposed by Dr. M. D. Legion Celebrates Vernonia sisters who attended Cole and others on the ground Armistice Day with both afternoon and evening ses­ that valuation in the district is Dinner in Evening sions: Erma Miller, Helen Fogel, Jack Parry has been handing constantly being reduced by the Irene and Elna Spencer, Selma out cigars. cutting of timber, and the levy t t t Armistice day was observed Webb and Margaret Lines. if made in 1935 would likely be Mrs. J. L. Timmons says there more burdensome than now. The A bountiful dinner was served here by members of the American Legion and their families who at 6:30 at the church, also light is nothing to the pot of gold motion was voted down. met in the Legion hall at six refreshments after the evening myth about rainbow ends. She Chairman Knauss and Mr. was right in the tip of one on o’clock for a pot-luck dinner which session. Greenman declared that if the State street the other day, she One outstanding number in the featured generous helpings of budget should be rejected it good old "mulligan” made by evening entertainment was sing- is sure, and didn’t find a nickel, woul