EAGE FOUR___________________________________ /ERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA. OREGON____________________________ FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934,
Riverview
from four of the principal offi­
cers of Vernonia lodge No. 184
of Vernonia, including J. B. Wil­
kerson, W.M., Ira Mann, J.W.;
Emil Messing, Jr., P. M., and F.
D. Macpherson, secretary, who is
also grand deacon of the grand
lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Oregon,
all of whom took leading parts in
the ceremonies by which Burford
Wilkerson of Tillamook, son of
Worshipful Master Wilkerson, was
made a Master Mason. Mr. Wil­
kerson, Sr., acted as worshipful
master of Tillamook lodge and
had the unusual pleasure of con­
ferring the degree upon his son.
The Vernonia brethren were
efficient in their work, which was
enjoyed by members of Tillamook
lodge in attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bowers left
this week for Heisson, Wash., to
spend the Fourth among relatives.
Mrs. Virgil Powell entertained
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Drorbaugh of
Hillsboro Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bell of
Vernonia are spending the week
with relatives in Riverview.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lynch and
Mrs. Kenneth Bell were Port­
land visitors Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Winkie Parker
and family left Sunday for Bay
City. Ore., where they will spend
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the summer.
Mrs. Riley Hall had a» her
guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Mr, J. W- Neurer
Turner and Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Justice of Treharne.
Mrs. J. W. White left Thursday
Mrs. Lucille Dustin started her
for The Dalles, where she will
make her home with her daugh­ new mail route which she will
arry from Vernonia to Mist.
ter.
Elza Varley was in Portland: Mrs. Dustin will deliver and pick
Monday for medical treatment. I up mail noth ways. Mrs. C. R.
Mr. and Mrs. Nat Hofford and j W tt arried this mail route for
t ihree years.
family of Silverton are spending the
J. B Freeman is in the Ne-
a few days at the home of Mrs.
I em \aley calling on residents
Tom Magoff.
Johnny May leaves Saturday bout u g licenses.
for Black Rock to spend the sum­
Li.
rrie Sweeney from Port­
mer with his sister, Mrs. Francis land
d on her sister, Mrs.
Piercy.
An.i .
, last week.
Charles Christiensen and son
i,»..
rtha Holding went to
Jack were in Castle Rock Fri­ to be
.elds near Gresham.
day on business.
Cla
s Lindsay was home
Mrs. Dan May and son Johnnie
om C
at Vancouver, Wash.,
and Mrs. Goldie Piercy spent Sun­ .vhe. e uc is stationed. Clarence
day at Bacona with relatives.
pent a week with his parents
Dwight and Jack Martin of and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Los Angeles, Cal., come Monday Lindsay took him to camp Sun­
to spend the summer witn their day.
grandmonther, Mrs. J. R. Lara-
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Enneberg
more.
Mrs. Fred C. Young and family were Saturday evening guests of
of Seattle are here visiting rela­ Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Milton.
The Moonlight orchestra will
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hankle play for a dance at the Natal
and daughter were guests of Mrs. hall on July 14.
Mrs. Joanna Krugerman from
Howard Allen Sunday on Corey
Portland is here keeping house
hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Piercy of and cooking for hay hands at the
Black Rock are spending the week home of her brother, Clyde John­
son.
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. William Pringle,
Mr. an ' Mrs. L. O. Andrew and
family, Mr and Mrs. Howard Al­ Sr., were called to the home of
len and family of Corey hill, Mrs. their daughter Margaret at As­
Bob Woods and Mrs. V. Sullivan toria on account of sickness Mon­
of Camp 8, Jackie Goldberg and day.
Mrs. Harry Kerns from Verno­
Pete Wedicker were guests of
nia
was a business caller here
Mrs. Frank Hankle Thursday.
Mrs. Bob Watson of Buxton on Monday.
The largest crowd for some
visited her sister, Mrs. Dan May,
time attended the dance given
Friday.
Mrs. S. T. Martin and sons of here last Saturday evening.
Miss Millie McMullen returned
Los Angeles, Cal., came Monday
to spend the Fourth among rela­ home Monday evening from a
week’s vacation in Portland.
tives.
Mrs. Dot Smith drove to As­
Mrs. Nancy Arnold and daugh­
ters returned to Ione Thursday toria Tuesday to see her sister.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Doggett are
after a six weeks stay with home
spending
a few days in St. Helens
folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Peoples visiting relatives and frienas.
Mrs. J. C. Moran and daugh­
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Earl
ter
Patricia, are at home after a
Byers of Warrenton are spending
the Fourth with their parents, Mr. visit in Portland.
and Mrs. Bud Henderson.
Mrs. Fred Rainey was surprised CROSS STREETS PROPERLY
More than 3,300 pedestrians
Monday by a dinner given in
honor of her birthday. Those were killed in automobile acci­
present were Mr. and Mrs. Jack dents last year crossing streets in
Wall and daughters Elizabeth and the middle of the block.
Florence, Mrs. Emma Bell English
Drive carefully enougn foi
of Houston, Texas, and Mrs. B.
B. Hawkins. Mrs. Rainey received yourself and the other fellow too.
because the chances are the othei
many nice presents.
fellow won’t.
VERNONIA DEGREE TEAM
VISITS TILLAMOOK LODGE
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(Tillamook Headlight-Herald)
Tillamook Lodge No. 57, A. F.
& A. M., at a special meeting,
preceded by an excellent banquet
nerved by a committee of wives
of the members, last Tuesday
evening enjoyed a fraternal visit
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The indictments against H. F.
McCormick and his wife Nellie B.
McCormick charging larceny by
embezzlement of funds of the St.
Helens Wood Products Co. were
dismissed by Judge Howard K.
Zimmerman last week. Mr. Mc­
Cormick was tried and acquitted
on a similar charge early this
year.
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Vandals broke 87 windows in
the St. Helens high school a week
ago Saturday night.
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County Judge L. R. Rutherford
and County Commissioner J. N.
Milleer, in conference last week
with Leslie M. Scott, chairman
of the state highway commission,
report an unsuccessful attempt to
have the Apiary road designated
as a secondary highway.
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The city of Clatskanie has tak­
en over the public library there
formerly conducted by the W. C.
T. U. Mrs. Grace Magruder has
been chosen chairman of the new
board.
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Walter Kerry, manager of the
Briarcliff golf course for several
years, has been made golf mana­
ger of the Multnomah club in
Port'and. He began his new duties
Monday.
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J. Gordon Thompson has re­
signed as manager of the United
States National bank and has
been succeeded by Carl H.
Vaughan.
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F. F. Capell is the new presi­
dent of the Rainier Lions club.
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The Oregon State Liquor Con­
trol commission has returned the
license of H. T. Giltner, Forest
Grove grocer, permitting the sale
of bottled beer in his establish­
ment. The license was cancelled
last April because of local senti­
ment opposed to the sale of li­
quor. Mr. Giltner filed suit in
circuit court against the com­
mission, which decided to return
the license rather than make a
test case.
WESTERN YELLOW BLIGHT
BAD ON OREGON TOMATOES
Vernonia Bakery
BREAD
VERNONIA
BAKERY
ST. HELENS COMPANY
STARTS DISTRIBUTING
POULTRYMEN’S CONVENTION
COAL FROM CO. MINE
TO BE HELD AT O. S. C.,
CORVALLIS, JULY TWENTY
(St. Helens Sentinel-Mist)
In order to acquaint people of
The tenth annual poultrymen’s this locality with the advantages
convention will be held at Oregon and economy of using coal for
State college at Corvallis July 20. fuel in place of wood, about three
There will be one full day de­ and one-half tons of coal was dis-
voted to the convention in con­
trast to the two and three day
sessions that have been held in
the past. A full day is being ar­
ranged for work and entertain­
ment. One of the special features
of the convention will be a talk
•>y H. E. Shackelton, assistant
The government is behind
’eneral manager of the Pacific
Egg Producer, New York City, on
•very deposit yon have-
rhe subject of Marketing of Ore-
up to $2500. That is the
on Eggs. Other problems of vital
finest guarantee in the
■lterest will be discussed that day
nd will be announced in a pro­
world—as certain as the
ram that will be available soon.
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KEASEY
Curly-top disease, which on to­
matoes is commonly called west-1
Anna De Vaney left Sunday
ern yellow tomato, blight, has de­
finitely appeared this year in for Seaside to work. She is em­
most parts of western Oregon for ployed at the Clinton Court.
the second time in recent history.
Dale Turner, Ray and Walt
In 1926 curly top appeared in Webster and O. H. DeVaney, all
the Willamette valley after con­ of Portland, visited at the De
tinued east winds which are be­ Vaney home Sunday. Darrell De
lieved to have aided the migration, Vaney returned with them.
of the leaf hopper insects which. Louise Crawford spent a few
carry the virus of the disease.
days with the W. J. Lindsley
Just what conditions have fav­ family.
ored the migration of the insects
P. Francis Berry and Dan Do­
across the mountains this year lan spent several days at the E.
are not fully known by scientists S. L. camp last week. Mr. Dolan
at the Oregon State college ex- is timber cruiser for the Mc­
¡eriment station, but it is known Phersons and Mr. Berry is one
that there has been a rapid build- of the heirs. He is out here from
ip of numbers of the hoppers Paris, France, where he is in
through the early spring and that the wine business.
migrations seem to be induced by
uch rapid increases in numbers. tributed here this week from the
The blight on tomatoes may St. Helens Coal company mines.
kill very young plants outright. The coal, mined in a new shaft
On older plants the disease stops of the old Deer Island mine, is
growth, the leaflets tend to roll j said to be hard, sootless and
up, become yellow and leathery free from dirt. It is a lignite
ind veins t»ke on a purplish col- variety.
Operators of the mining com­
or. Fruits of affected plants rip­
en prematurely and the plants pany, A. L. Morris, Jacob Johns­
ton, P. E. Stroud1 and J. W. Mc­
gradually die.
Unlike most virus disease, curly Donald are making preparations
top is transmitted from plant to to market the coal commercially
□lant only by the beet leaf-hop- and expect to have it for sale
>er, Eutetix tenella. The adults in sizeable quantities within a
carry the virus over winter in short time.
their bodies, and while the young I
Record of Deaths in 10 Years
are free of the virus at first,
In the last 10 years 273,112
.hey become carriers as soon as
they feed on an infected plant. persons have been killed in auto­
No “cure” for the disease is mobile accidents in this country.
known and no satisfactory con­ In the next six, estimates place
trol of the insect carriers has the death loss at 190,000 persons.
been developed. East of the Cas­
cades fair control has been ob­
Ask Your Grocer for . ..
tained on a small scale by keep- i
ing plants covered until about
July, after which they seem to
resist the virus if not previously
infected. Shading has also help­
ed as the hoppers prefer hot,
. . . for 2 good Reasons—
dry, conditions.
IT’S MADE AT HOME
Roguing out the diseased plants
ITS BETTER
is recommended though not as a
major means of
preventing
spread. Transmission by contact
of a diseased plant with another
has never been observed. Beets
are the favorite feeding and
breeding plants for the hoppers,
but tomatoes, beans and squash
are seriously affected.
"THE ROLL OF
HONOR BANK"
The Forest Grove
NATIONAL BANK
J. A. Thornburgh, President
R. Gk Thornburgh, Cashier
| LODGES
A. F. of L. LOGGERS
Local No. 18742 meets second
and fourth Thursdays in the
month at Grange hall, 8 p. m.
Visiting members cordially invit­
ed to attend.
Fred Lumm, president.
A. F. & A. M.
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
A. F. & A. M. meets
at
Masonic
Temple,
Stated
Communication
First Thursday of each
month.
Special
called
meetmgs on all other Thurs-
day nights 7:30 p.m. Visitor*
most cordially welcome.
J. B. Wilkerson, W. M.
F. D. Macpherson, Secretary
Order of Eastern Star
Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S.
Regular commu­
nication
firs*
and third Wed­
nesdays of each
month, at Ma­
sonic Temple.
All visiting sis­
ters and broth­
ers welcome.
Mrs. M. F. Wall, W. M.
Leona McGraw, Sec.
Pythian Sitter*
Vernonia temple 61 meet*
every fourth Wednesday in W.
O. W. hall.
Rose Fletcher, M.E.C.
Clara Kerns, M. of IL & C.