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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1934)
VOLUME XII $2.00 per year; 5c a copy. Three Teachers Are Named by School Board VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934. W. CHARLESWORTH, HOFFMAN EMPLOYE, LEAVES FOR MEDFORD Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Charles- worth left Wednesday for Med ford, where they will reside. Mr. Charlesworth, who for a . PLATOON SYSTEM TO BE number of years has been a clerk in the Hoffman Hardware com INAUGURATED pany’s store, has secured a posi tion in the hardware department the Montgomery Ward store in Utilizing Rooms to Enable of Medford. Accommodation of His place in Vernonia is taken More Pupils by William Nissen, who was em ployed in the hardware store dur ing Mr. Hoffman’s absence this Three new teachers for the summer. Vernonia grade school were nam ed at a meeting of the board of directors Saturday evening. They are Miss Mabel Anderson of Port land, first and second grades, Miss Ruth Holaday of Scappoose, third grade, and Miss Grace White of Salem, eighth grade roll room, sewing and girls’ physical aduca- tion. Miss Anderson has been primary teacher at Trent, near Number Are Out Because of Eugene for a number of years; Hop Picking Miss Holaday has been teacher at the Keasey school, and Miss White has been teaching part Approximately 135 students time in the Parish Junior high had enrolled in the high school'up school of Salem. to yesterday afternoon, according School will begin Monday. Iv to Harold Me Entire, principal. an N. McCollom, principal, will This is somewhat of a decrease inaugurate the platoon system, in under last year, when the enroll which all the class rooms, the ment was 157 at the end of the library and assembly-gymnasium first week, but a number of will be in use at the same time. students are out because of hop It is estimated that at least 100 picking. It is expected that there additional pupils, if necessary, will be as many as last year. can be accommodated in the Total registration at the end of one building without over-crowd the year was 186. ing by the use of this system. Several new subjects are being Teachers Are A««i<neu taught this year: biology, by The asignments for teachers Leslie W. Skuzie and Wallace are as follows: Ethel Peteron, Me Crae, home economics by 1st grade; Mabel Anderson, 1st Miss Helen Drake; modern mathe and 2nd grades; Lenora Kizer, matics, replacing one of the alge 2nd and 3rd grades; Ruth Hola bra courses. There is still one day, 3rd grade f Enoch Dumas, class in algebra. Physics is being 5th home room; Mary Erickson, taught this year instead of 6th home room; Howard Reeher, chemistry, the two alternating in 7th home room; Grace White, 8th successive years. home room, gymnasium, sewing; The typing classes are unusu Elma White, library and litera ally large. ture; Charlotte Hilts, geography; Lulah Fullerton, arts, music and auditorium; Paul Gordon, gymnas MRS. DUNCAN BECOMES TEACHER OF SCHOOL ium, health and industrial arts. IN KEASEY DISTRICT The 4th grade roll room will be supplied by Miss Marjorie Gray, Mrs. Maudie Duncan, teacher a new teacher, pending action by the directors at the next meeting. in the Vernonia public schools There will be only one change for many years, has been named in bus routes, T. M. Crawford, teacher of the Keasey school, re with one large bus, taking the placing Miss Ruth Holaday, who routes formerly served by E. S. will teach in Vernonia this year. Thompson and C. A. Mills. Pastor’s Family Arrives BUDGET IS PUBLISHED Mrs. A. N. Granville and The proposed city budget for daughters Evelyn and Lois ar 1935 appears on page 3 of this rived Friday from Vancouver, issue. % B. C. Mr. Granville and son The dates for the budget Elmer left early in the week hearing and the election will be to bring them back, but some delay was experienced at the set by the city council. border in securing all the docu Return from Vacation at Beach ments required by the immigra Mr. and Mrs. Harold McEntire tion authorities. Their daugh and Larry Marshall returned ters, Mrs. Paul Culver of Port Thursday of last wedk from sev land and Mrs. Archie Nordeen eral days visit at Cannon Beach of Corvallis are visiting them where the high school football here for a week, and another squad and coach Wallace McRae daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Tando ef Portland is expected tomorow. were vacationing. Enrollment in High School Is Somewhat Less Group Vacations at Beach Mr and Mrs. George Plumb, the latter’s mother, Mrs. Walter, Miss Hazel Nobes of Portland and Dr. Roland Eby made up a party which visited the beaches during the Labor day week end. Visit Mrs. Wall in Hospital Mrs. A. J. Hughes motored to Portland Monday to visit Mrs. Fred Wall recovering from an operation at the Portland Gener al hospital. She took the Wall children to visit their mother. Rock Creek Gets 70,000 More Fish Above Usual Quota OKLAHOMA HAS WET MONTH DESPITE DROUTH SAYS MRS. HAMMACK NUMBER 36. D. O. Bennett Is Elected As City Attorney Despite the drouth, Oklahoma had the second wettest August on record, according to Mrs. Wm. Hammack, who returned Wednes day morning after three months SALARY IS ESTABLISHED visit with relatives in Chandler, AT $25.00 MONTHLY Okla. The rain came the last week of the month, and three inches fell in six hours. Previous City Recorder Cites Need of to that the weather was very hot, Legal Advice in she says, at one time reaching 111 Pasturage of Drouth Referendum degrees. Area Stock in County Mrs. Hammack was accompan Is Aim of Group ied on the trip by her niece, Helen David O. Bennett of St. Helens Chandler. was elected city attorney at a meeting of the city council Tues Pasturage of sheep and cattle day night. from the drouth areas is being Judge C. F. Hieber, city recor proposed for Columbia county der, explained the need of a city logged-off lands. A committee attorney, citing the bank refer consisting of George A. Nelson, endum as an example. There was county agricultural agent, L. R. no one to whom he could refer Rutherford, county judge, Jarvis a.. the legal aspects of the question Davis, president of the Columbia to, he declared. The motion to county agricultural council and Kenneth Miller, agricultural and Blaze I* Thought to Have Been employ Mr. Bennett was made by Councilman Tousley and secon livestock agent for the S. P. and Set at Delena ded by Councilman Hartwick. The S. Ry. Co., is working out the question was put by Councilman details of the plan. Assistance of Adams, who presided in the the FERA in bringing the starv Increased humidity the past absence of Mayor Owens. ing livestock out here is being days reduced the fire hazard, An ordinance establishing the sought. and no fires of consequence have salary of the city attorney at been reported from this vicinity. $25.00 a month, not to include THREE YEAR OLD CHILD Saturday night there was a the handling of cases in justice DIES OF APPENDICITIS small blaze near old Wilark ap courts, circuit or supreme Eileen Lois Clark, 3, daughter parently started by a cigarette courts, was given its first and of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Clark and tossed near the road. Slight dam second readings« Mr. Bennett agreed to attend granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. age was done, the fire soon Fred Cummings, died Wednesday being extinguished by CCC men. council meetings once a month A more serious fire spread and oftener if necessary. night of acute appendicitis. She over about 100 acres near De was ill since Monday, and was taken to a hospital in Portland lena Aug. 31. Tom Carmen, spe NINETY AND NINE TO cial agent of the department of HOLD MEETING TONIGHT for an operation. IN CHRISTIAN CHURCH Eileen was born in Gates, Ore forestry, arrested Arnold Hanson gon, and is to be buried there and Vern Miles, both of Delena, The Ninety and Nine, a men’s today. Her parents moved to on a charge of setting the fire. Vernonia when she was about a Their cases are yet to be heard. undenominational and evangelis tic organization, will hold a meet month old. She was an only child. ing at the Christian church to LOGGING CREWS GO night at 8 p. m. This meeting BACK TO WORK AFTER LABOR DAY LAYOFF will be open to both men and women. The speakers will all be from After extending the Labor day layoff through Tuesday on ac Vernonia. count of fire hazard the Clark and Wilson crews went back to BRUSH FIRE CAUSES CALLING OF DEPARTMENT work Wednesday. Emil Messing says the story Kostur employes also went back The fire department was called of the planting of steelhead in to work. While the understanding Rock creek as told in last week’s was that the company would log out Sunday afternoon by a brush Eagle was some fish story. In in the Pebble Creek location as fire near the old Hodges mill. It stead of expanding, as most fish soon as work is finished near was soon extinguished. stories do, the number shrank Keasey, plans extending beyond BRIOT TAKES VACATION from 35,000 to 3,500 in the tell the two weeks < r so on the pres William Briot, local Shell Oil ing of t. ent location are not known. * • • Co. manager, with Mrs. Briot SEEN AND HEARD and their son Billy left Saturday MRS. JOHN PLUMMER Dan Cason’s truck backed up DIES IN CALIFORNIA for a two week’s vacation trip to the Christian parsonage to down the coast as far as San load the F. Claude Stephens fur RIVERVIEW — (Special.) — Francisco. They are making var niture . . . Sign on Dad’s restaur Mrs. John Plummer, former ious stops on the way and are ant advertising stew from Lode’s I Riverview resident, died Aug. 28 visiting several relatives. Mr. cow, maybe ... A new floor in in Alpine, California, of heart Guthrie of Seaside is taking Mr. Al Child’s store, and the meat trouble while attending a moving Briot’s place. counter about-faced . . . Mar picture show. She was buried in cus Brown cutting meat, and Ed Forsyth, Montana. Spend Holiday at Beach Buckner in Brownie’s place on Julia Wangler, Merle Mills and The Plummers operated a fill the Davis truck . . . L. H. Dewey ing station in Riverview for a Joe Wangler spent Sunday and trying to get action on the pro number of years. Monday at the beach. They visit posed dam for a swimming pool ed Rockaway and Cannon Bench, . . . L om I Roberts setting out on and stopped off in Astoria. Mr«. Fltecber Leaves an airport inspection trip .... Mrs. Rose FMuner left Satur Shorty Kullander tending soda day in company with Dr. E. B. Mr. and Mr«. MoMtnan Return Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mossman fountain for Ken MacNeill . . . Flett of Yamhill, to whom she is Truck load of I.-P. rails from »o be married soon. Friends char- returned Friday from Cascade, Keasey going through town . . . • varied the couple before leaving. Idaho. While they were there Mrs. Geo. Johnson telling how he was Mossman’s sister died. showed around when trying to Library Baerrd Meets Tuesday Spend Holiday in Clatskanie get grandstand seats at the state The library board will hold its Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Bigelow fair . . . Local republicans ab j regular monthly meeting at the hopped up about the Hoover ar home of Mrs. Ray D. Fisher spent the holidays with relatives tide on the new deal in Clatskanie. Tuesday evening, Sept. 11. Seventy thousand more steel heads were planted in Rock creek this week, making 105,000 in all. These are in addition to the regular quota in the fall. The commission happened to have more fish on hand than it could accommodate in the hatcheries. Humidity Rise Lessens Fire Hazard Here Feathers . . . and.. .Talons