VOLUME XI.
12.00 per year; 5c a copy.
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933.
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Election on
State Items
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Clarence Watts Tells of
Automobile Tour to Canada
NUMBER 29.
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Farewell For Mr».
E. A. Green Is
Given by Friends
A picnic honoring the birthday
Friends of Mrs. E. A. Green
of Sheriff Oscar G. Weed and
gave her a farewell party at the
the homecoming of Mrs. Emma
The following account of the Moyie river. The river was high home of Mrs. A. J. Hughes on O.-
Weed was celebrated m the grove recent tour of the C. R. Watts and muddy but Mrs. Watts will A. hill Wednesday. She was
on the family place on the Ne family to Alberta was written for catch fish and she landed two presented with a gift.
halem last Sunday. Those partici the Eagle by Mr. Watts:
Those present were Mrs. C. L.
nice ones after fishing most of
pating were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
We left home Wednesday the day in the rain and I in a Anderson, Mrs. Carl Davidson,
G. Weed, Mr. and Mrs. Elza morning about daylight by way desperate effort not to be out Mrs. Grady, Mrs. L. H. Dewey,
Many Important Measures Weed, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Cal of
St. Helens and Portland. As done rented a boat and tried hard Mrs. M. D. Cole, Mrs. E. S.
houn, Alice Chapman and Ruth soon as we reached the Columbia on Moyie lake but had to give up Thompson, Mrs. J .F. Hetrick,
To Be Voted
Urie, all of St. Helens, Mrs. Otis River highway we encountered and fight mosquitoes instead, ar Mrs. E. E. Gamer, Mrs. Dave
Weed of Portland, Mrs. J. L. mosquitoes and high water. At riving at Cranbrook, B. C. about Marshall, Mrs. J. H. Burnside,
Upon
Van Blaricom and Mrs. Catherine Hood River and The Dalles the seven o’clock, making only 113 Mrs. A. E. Matthews, Mrs. Alma
Van Blaricom of Newberg, Mrs. corn was in tassel but we soon miles that day.
Bell, Mrs. Judd Greenman, Mrs.
Emma Weed, Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Leaving Cranbrook at four F. M. Ruhl, Mrs. M. Grunden,
The special election on state Garner and Bernice Rose of Ver came into the dry eastern Ore
gon country except for a few o’clock a. m., we had not driven Mrs. W. T. Lilly, Mrs. F. W.
measures will be held today from nonia.
places where the Columbia had far until Alice said, “Look at those Wall, Mrs. H. V. Holcomb, Miss
8 a. m. to 8 p. m. In Vernonia
backed
up over the highway. At calves up ahead; they sure can Amy Hughes, Mrs. Green, Mrs.
there will be the usual polling
noon we boarded the ferry at run.” But upon closer investigation John Hale and Mrs. Hughes.
places, in the city hall, the Van
Mrs. Green and daughters Char
Umatilla and twenty minutes la we found that they were deer.
Alstine building, the grange hall Commission for
lotte and Nelle expect to move
ter
were
across
the
river
and
We
then
stopped
at
the
Frank
and the O.-A. cook house. Election
a week or so to Malone, Wash.,
Boxing Is Named headed over the Horse Heaven slide (where about three years in
on the proposed amendments to
hills to Pasco. The weather was ago the side of a mountain slid where Mr. Green and Norman
the city charter will -not be held
cloudy and at times we went off and buried a city under the have employment.
until August 7.
through
light showers. At Pasco rock) to take pictures. We then
First on the ballot appears the Mayor and Council Appoint Five
the gardens looked fine, much a- dropped down out of the moun
names of the candidates for the
Member* for Year
head of ours here but they tains and were soon out on the Snappy Team Formed
state convention to ratify or re
have to irrigate. From Pasco out plains of Alberta, the weather
ject the proposed amendment to
Mayor Ben S. Owens and the past the airport and over the de still cloudy and an occasional show
the federal constitution repealing
the eighteenth amendment. Candi city council appointed as members sert to Spokane arriving at five er which they needed badly as Mist C. C. C. Boy* Win Three
Game* in Two Week*
dates who declare themselves in of the boxing commission Mon forty o’clock, a busy town from the wheat that should have been
favor of repeal are N. N. Blumen- day night A. L. Kullander, Dr. J. all appearances and then on to two feet high was only about
saadt, John H. Flynn and Emil L. A. Hughes, L. H. Dewey, E. H. Sandpoint, Ida., by eight o’clock, eight inches. We arrived at our
MIST—(Special.)— A snappy
Mueller. Candidates opposed to Washburn and W. J. Armitage. a distance of 525 miles from Ver destination at eight o’clock, 429
baseball team has been organized
repeal are Alfred S. May and Bes Appointments to the commission nonia by the shortest road pos miles that day, or 1077 miles
by the Illinois boys at Mist camp
from Vernonia.
sie P. Weed. Drys plan also to are supposed to be made annually, sible.
1655, under the management of
it
was
brought
out,
but
owing
to
"•
Here
we
went
to
Lake
Shore
My
brother
after
getting
our
write in the name of E. A. Ross,
Capt. B. C. Andrus.
there being only two prohibition the fact that few boxing matches tourist park for the night leaving jig-saw puzzle letter together
The newly organized team won
candidates whose names appear had been staged in the city during at six the next morning for the saying we were coming declared
its first game June 25 from
recent
years
the
commission
haa
line
about
60
miles
north.
After
a
holiday,
turned
the
horses
out
on the ballot. Regardless of their
Marshland 9 to 3. A week later
personal attitude, however, dele not functioned. The series of about three minutes at the line and we just played around for
they played Vernonia, winning
gates are bound by the vote of matches planned for the C. C. C. we were away to fish in the eight days when we had to start
back. We left Sunday for Cal this game 13 to 4. On July 9 they
the people regarding the amend men necessitated the appointment
gary where the Stampede started played at Westport and won 27
ment itself, the first of the meas of a new commission.
Monday which we attended and to 6, completing a total of three
The matter of securing an Four Local Men
ures as printed on the ballot.
drove to Banff Canadian Nation big victories in two weeks.
The next measure is the soldiers auditor to audit the books of the
6 they played at St. Hel
and sailors bonus amendment to retiring city treasurer, Albert
Added to Force al park that night before dark or ens July
but
lost by the close score
about
10:30.
Banff
is
in
the
the state constitution, providing Childs, was discussed, and Re
heart of the Canadian Rockies 86 of 7 to 5.
that the state pay no more cash corder C. F. Hieber was instructed
Frank Harzheim is captain, and
bonuses, mak» no bonus loans af to write tn various certified pub Woodsmen Report for Work in miles from Calgary, where one
should plan to stay several days the coaches are Pete Nichols and
ter June 30, 1938, and authorize lic accountants to find out their
C. C. C. Camps
or weeks instead of a few hours. Daniel Riss. The squad is a*
refunding bonds within the pre availability and the terms asked.
follows:
vious constitutional limitation It will be necessary, it was stated,
The next night we again arriv
D. Bernardi, 3b; L. Hall, p; D.
The resolution submitting this for the books to be audited be
Lee Rogers, A. V. Mowe, Burl ed in Cranbrook, B. C., 659 miles
Capitani, 3b; C. Payoni, lb; R.
amendment was passed unani fore the new treasurer, Franklin Henderson and Floyd L. Cleve from home the way we wished to
McConnell, s.s.; J. Sabitani, c.;
mously by the legislature, and Rogers, can qualify.
land have been added to the go. Wednesday morning we start
A. Deminski, 2b; R. Denny, c.;
embodies three of the recommen
Recorder Hieber submitted his force of local woodsmen employ ed at six a. m. and were soon W. Kozar, l.f.; E. Decker, r.f.; J.
dations made to it by the legisla quarterly financial report.
ed in the C.C.C. camps, and left across the line and back in the
Camp, r.f.; H. Feldhaus, c.f.; H.
tive committee of the American
U. S. again. Once during that day
The matter of replacing burned Saturday for Wilark and Mist.
Brown, 3b; L. Babczak, lb; F.
Legion.
A side camp accommodating in eastern Washington when we
out globes in the street lights
Harzheim, p.; F. Marangel, 2b.
The county manager form of was discussed with J. L. Timmons 40 or 50 men is being constructed stopped for a drink we asked
government constitutional amend of the Oregon Gas and Electric at Pete Hoffman’s, ten miles how hot it was. The lady said a
ment authorizes voters of any Co., but no action was taken.
south, and will be ready within little over 100 in the shade, bu»
county to adopt if they wish the
the next week, states J. J. Rus we couldn’t see any shade. We Ambulance Dance
manager form of county govern
sell, forest service official in came over the new Wallula cut
charge of local camps. Another off, just opened the day before,
ment, abolishing the present elec
Nets Fund $21.85
tive county officers except school Rod and Gun Club
side camp from the Hamlet camp and asrived at The Dalles tired
out and nearly cooked at about
superintendent, and transferring
is being placed at Buster creek.
to the circuit court the judicial
To Elect Officers Six miles of road have been 9 p. m., 552 miles. After a good Boxing Match with C.C.C. to Be
constructed on the old railroad sleep in an auto camp were up
duties of the county judge. The
Held Later for Purpose
grade out of Wilark, and two and away at 5 a. m., and arrived
amendment does not of itself ere
miles of right of way have been home about 10 a. m., having trav
ate any change in the form of
Will Also Consider Erection of
cleared. More machinery is ex eled 2370 miles. Our car ran per.
The benefit dance July 12 for
county government, but makes
Pheasant Pen*
pected this week for grading, Mr. fectly thanks to a local garage the community ambulance netted
the new plan optional with each
that serviced our car before we $21.85 after payment of expenses,
county.
Russell says.
The annual meeting for election
The prosecution by information
Mess halls 20x110 feet have started. I would rather live in according to E. H. Washburn,
and grand jury modification of officers of the Nehalem Rod been built at Mist and Hamlet, Oregon than anywhere we had commander of Vernonia post ot
the American Legion, who turned
amendment authorizes the enact and Gun club is to be held to but the one at Wilark is not up seen on our trip.
the money over to the ambulance
ment of a law providing for prose night in the Crawford Motor yet. A new telephone line 24
treasurer, F. M. Ruhl. In addi
cution of offenses by information company’s garage.
miles in length from Mist to the CALCUTTA BUSINESS
tion $8.00 was raised by private
MAN FINDS OREGON
of the district attorney instead ot
The club will consider at this Hamlet camp has been put in.
CLIMATE DELIGHTFUL subscription.
indictment as heretofore, and for meeting, according to Lester
As the ambulance fund still
modifying the grand jury system. Sheeley, secretary, applying for
Of all places anywhere in the needs replenishing it is planned
The purpose is to avoid the federal aid funds for the con Legion Picnic Is
world that he has been Oregon that proceeds from one of the
heavy expense of the grand jury struction of the proposed Rock
has
the most delightful climate, boxing matches between C.C.C.
creek hatchery, and the building
Planned for 30th believes
(Continued on Page 4.)
A. C. Ball, sales manager and local boys to be held in the
of pheasant pens. Gene Simpson,
for the International Harvester near future be donated for this
superintendent of the Oregon
Co. in Calcutta, India, who with purpose.
State Game farms, has advised
Tag Sale Is Planned the club that 100 pheasants have County Wide Affair to Be Held Mrs. Ball was a guest at the
At Arcadia Park
home of Mrs. Ollie Roberts and
been allocated to Vernonia, and
Miss Macile Roberts from Friday Grange Picnic Is Held
will be immediately available as
Library Board Punchare* Ten soon as pens are constructed. Th»
A county wide Legion picnic evening to Monday morning. Mr.
feed will be furnished by the will be given Sunday, July Ball has traveled extensively in
New Book* for Shelve*
state game commission. Last year 30, at Arcadia park, sponsored Asia and Europe in connection Adrr»**»* Given by Rev. D. R.
Kauffman, Morton Tompkins
the club sought permission for by Columbia post of St. Helens with his work, and haa a large
The members of the Vernonia erection of pens in the city park,
and Columbia unit of the Legion collection of motion pictures
Library board are planning to but because of objections raised
Addresses by Rev. D. R. Kauff
Auxiliary. All of the posts and which he has taken. Mr. and Mrs.
sponsor a tag day in the near to this procedure the club is con
Auxiliary units in the county Ball are at present touring the man of Vernonia and Morton
future, because of a shortage ot sidering locating the pens outside
Tompkins of Yamhill county, rep
have been invited to participate. United States.
funds in the library treasury.
of the park.
resenting the state grange mt.
A program in which all can par
The library has recently pur
ter, Ray W. Gill, featured the
ticipate is being planned. Among NINE CARS OF PULP
chased ten new books: Blue Mead TRUCKMEN TO HOLD
WOOD SHIPPED DURING
program at the grange picnic at
other attractions it is expected
ows. by May Stanley; Flowering
PAST TWO WEEKS TIME Big Eddy park Sunday. Mr.
MEETING HERE FOR
that there will be indoor base
Wilderness, by John Galsworthy;
PROTEST ON LAW ball between teams recruited from
Kauffman
spoke
about the
The Album, by Mary Roberts
the different posts. A pot luck
Nine cars of pulp wood have eighteenth amendment and Mr.
Rinehart; Good Earth, by Pearl S.
A meeting sponsored by the lunch is to be served.
been, shipped out during the past Tompkins discussed grange mem
Buck; Hilltops Clear, by Emilie Oregon Truck Owners association
Local Legionnaires are request two weeks to Oregon City, six bership and explained the opposi
Loring; Old West and New, by is to be held in the Thomas gar ed to get in touch with E. H. for the Unemployed council and tion to the sales tax. A reading
Caroline Lockhart; As the Earth age Tuesday at 8 p. m. for the Washburn in order to make plans three for the Vernonia Trading was given by Mrs. Maud J. Mills
Turns, by Gladys Hasty Carroll; purpose of organizing a local for the participation of Vernonia company.
of Deer Island, and O. Henry
Wheat Woman, by Nard Jones; unit to assist in the fight against post in the picnic.
Oleen of Columbia City presided.
Kennel Murder Case, by S. 3. the truck law passed by the last
CONGRESSMAN RETURNS
About 100 grangers and their
Van Dine; Grain Race, by Alan legislature. The public is invited. Natal Grant» To Have Dance
In a letter to the editor Cong families attended. A pot-luck
Villiers. Smith, by Warwick Deep
NATAL—(Special.)— A dance ressman J. W. Mott states that lunch was served, and a social
ing and The House of Exile, hf
EXAMINER TO BE HERE
will be given at Natal grange he has returned from the national time was enjoyed.
Nora Wain, have been ordered
An examiner of automobile Saturday evening, July 22, bz the capital and opened an office in
but have not yet arrived.
drivers and chauffeurs will be home economies committee. Cam the Post Office building in Salem,
Mrs. H. V. Holcomb returned
A number of donations have in Vernonia Tuesday of next eron’s orchestra from Vernonia where constituents may write to i from Burns Wednesday where
been made to the library within week at the city hall from 10 a. will furnish modern and old-time him regarding any federal prob j she has been visiting friends ths
the past few weeks.
m. to 5 p. m.
music for this dance.
lem in which they are interested. |A*t »«*k-
Comes Today
i
Picnic Is Held
Honoring Birth
day, Homecoming
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MRS. SARAH CASE TO
GIVE RADIO TALK ON
SCHOOL LUNCH CANNING
Mrs. Sarah V. Case, home dem
onstration agent for Columbia
county, is to give a talk over
KGW Tuesday, July 25, at 7 p.|
m. on canning for the school
lunch. The state relief commit
tee on foods is sponsoring a series
of broadcasts at this hour, re
peated over KEX at 9 a. m., the
purpose of which is to bring be
fore the people of the state the
importance of canning and dry
ing and otherwise conserving all
the foods available this summer
against the winter’s needs.
Saturday Bouts
Well Attended
Magoff Lote» Decision to Ryan
From C. C. C. Camp
One of the largest crowds ever
to attend an event in the Legion
hall is estimated to have been
present at the bouts Saturday
night between C. C. C. boys from
Wilark and local boxers. Seats
were all occupied, and many had
to stand up. 84 attended from the
camp.
In the main event Jack Ryan,
C. C. C. boy of no mean ability as
a fighter, won by a decision over
Joe Magoff. Ryan handled him
self well but was apparently out
of condition and gave the im
pression of being able to go much
faster than he did.
In the preliminaries Smith, C.
C. C., won over Milton, C. C. C.,
and Phipps, C. C. C., won from
Pullen, C. C. C. Both of these
bouts went three rounds to a
decision.
Red Sesseman, Vernonia, won
from Hinniman, C. C. C., by a
technical knock-out in the second
round, Hinniman sustaining a
couple of fractured ribs. Ken
Parker, Vernonia, won by decision
from Ferrias, C. C. C., Dane
Brady, Vernonia, knocked out
Evans, C. C. C., in the first
round. Ole Tichenor, Vernonia
failed to appear against Parks,
C. C. C., and forfeited the bout.
Three hundred more seats will
be put on the Legion hall floor,
says E. M. Murphy, manager, so
that all can be accommodated.
The next match will be on th»
29th, with Swede Nelson, Dane
Brady, Ken Parker and Joe Ma
goff participating, and a return
match with the Wilark C. C. C.
will be held August 5.
An added attraction at the
match on the 29th will be a
wrestling match in which Bert
Hall of Camp 8 will try to throw
as many men as can be found to
wrestle with him in an hour.
Dividend Is
Declared on
Bank Claims
Commercial Depositors to
Get 10%, Savings
15%
A dividend of ten per cent on
deposits in the commercial de
partment and 15 per cent in the
savings department of the Bank
of Vernonia will be distributed
beginning next Friday to deposi
tors who filed their claims up to
and including June 23, it was an
nounced Wednesday by W. M.
Adair, deputy superintendent of
banks in charge of liquidation.
Authority for the dividend was
received that morning from Judge
H. K. Zimmerman of the circuit
court.
This is the first dividend that
has been declared since the fail
ure of the bank June 24, 1932.
Payment was retarded by the
failure of the Columbia County
bank in St. Helens, sums to the
credit of the Bank of Vernonia
in liquidation having been de
posited in that institution. Under
the law they were a preferred
claim, payable in full, but it was
necessary to liquidate certain as
sets of that bank before the
money could be available to those
who held claims against the Bank
of Vernonia.
It will not be necessary to call
at the bank in order to obtain
one’s dividend, as checks will be
mailed.
Weather Helps
Lessen Hazard
Dangerous Blas» Below Big Eddy
1* Checked
Increased humidity Tuesday
and Wednesday greatly reduced
the fire hazard, and assisted ma
terially in checking a menacing
fire that broke out in the Clark
and Wilson operations below Big
Eddy on Monday afternoon. The
fire spread over 40 acres, and
was fought by all the available
employes. During the night it was
brought under control. No men
from the C. C. C. camps were
used in this fire.
FORMER PRINCIPAL VISITS
H. L. Ingraham, principal of
the Washington grade school in
1927-28, was a business visitor
Visiting District
in Vernonia Monday. He is now
Attorney Prai»e»
principal of a school at Bunker
Local C.C.C. Boy» Hill, near Marshfield. While in
Vernonia Mr. Ingraham, who waa
The C. C. C. boys in the camps athletic coach, turned out the
near here are of much better first winning football team.
character than those in his coun
ty, stated O. Sandvig, district at
torney of Yakima county, Wash
ington, upon seeing the bouts
Saturday night. The boys in the
camps in that locality, he said,
are chiefly from the Bowery in
New York city, and five of them
have already been sent to the
Ole Tichenor left the bouts
state penitentiary for various Saturday night to get some shoes.
offenses.
They must have been running
Mr. and Mrs. Sandvig and shoes, says Pat Murphy, for he
daughter Ruby left Tuesday after never came back.
a visit of several day« at the
t t t
home of Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
SEEN AND HEARD
Dewey. Mrs. Sandvig and Mrs.
Dewey are old friends, having
Jim Brady driving a load of
taught in the same school several hay through town . . . Mary Ka
to’s old screens forming a fence
years ago.
on the lot next to Dad Hambur
ger’s . . . The bunch in Skinny’s
NEW DENTIST ARRIVES
Dr. H. M. Bigelow, who took Pastime kidding Bill Hammack
over the dental practice of Dr. about service men being tree-
M. D. Cole, arrived Saturday, jumpers . . . Ben Owens, A. E.
and with Mrs. Bigelow is living Adams and Walt Kent each hand
at the Roseway apartments.
ing Tim a quarter at council
Dr. Cole expects to leave Sun meeting to put new globes in the
day for Longview, where he will street lights near their places . . .
take over the practice of the Art Nanson, on top of Mike
Lynch's building with a rope in
late Dr. F. R. Rood.
his hands helping Carl Henderson,
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dial motor, on a ladder, taking down the
ed to Kelso Saturday and re electric sign . . . Mrs. Jennings
turned Sunday afternoon. They carrying berries in a container of
brought Mrs. Dial’s mother, Mrs. her own patent , . . Bill Armi
Marie Hom, back with them for tage's new Chev in Jim Brown’»
new garage.
a short visit.
Feathers . . .
and.. .Talons