Pall of Smoke
Is Caused by
Permit Fires
BLAZE IS CONFINED TO
CERTAIN AREAS
Smoke Is Declared to Be
Thickest Ever
Known
Vernonia Post
Instals Officers
For Coming Year
Vernonia post of the American
Legion installed officers Tuesday
night as follows: Earl Atkins,
commander;
Clyde
McDonald,
vice-commander; Chas. Biggs, ad
jutant; J. IE. Tapp, finance of-
Collectiona to be Made Tomorrow
arms. M. R. Calhoun was in
stalling officer.
E. A. Shipman, retiring com
mander was appointed service
officer to take care of anything
pertaining to service work.
There was a large turnout.
Plans were considered for activi
ty along new lines.
Despite the thick smoke, there
are no fires in this locality except
on lands where permits for burn
ing slashing have been secured,
according to report from the pa
trol officers yesterday afternoon.
The smoke is particularly thick
along the Mist road, where Clark
and Wilson are burning slashings
over a large number of acres. Mo
torists report that extreme caution
in driving is at times necessary.
Some declare the smoke to be the
thickest ever known in the Natal
region.
ficer; H. H. King, sergeant at
By Volunteer.
Newspapers etc.
Are Wanted for
Library Drive
Road Engineers
Arrive Here for
Work Assignment
A party of seven state high
way engineers arrived in Verno
nia Wednesday wtih the expecta
tion of remaining for some time.
Orders as to the exact work they
are to perform have not yet been
received, they state.
The highway commission has
authorized two projects in the
immediate vicinity—oil pavement
from Al Parker’s for two miles
north to Pittsburg, and regrading
and surfacing of portions of the
Beaver Creek highway between
the Hess bridge and Buxton. It
is assumed that the engineers will
work on one or both of these
projects.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TO MEET TUESDAY
IN MASONIC HALL
The Vernonia Chamber of Com
merce will meet next Tuesday in
the Masonic hall, the meeting
date having been postponed one
week.
Judd Greenman is program
chairman.
Feathers . . .
and.. .Talons I
SEEN AND HEARD
Clarence Watts giving banquet
tickets to rod and gun club mem-
berg . . . High school freshmen
girls in curl papers, splotchy
freckles, and cheese cloth skirts
. . . Boys with rouged faces and
knickers ... A COC grader
mounted in a truck en route
through town . . . Archie Knauss
bidding good bye to friends . . .
Red Sesseman driving by the
house he was looking for, much
to the amusement of Ernie Her
man, who was riding with him
. . . Albert Childs proudly sur
veying a beef just slaughtered . . .
Harry Culbertson attending coun
cil meetings that fail to meet
. . . E. Treharne telling what he
thinks of the republican machine.
Old newspapers, old magazines
and even discarded books are
wanted by the Vernonia public li
brary tomorrow, Saturday, Sept.
22. Tie magazines and newspapers
in separate bundles and remove
the covers from worthless books.
Place the bundles on your front
steps by nine o’clock tomorrow
morning.
Boy Scouts will help collect
the bundles which be sent to
Portland sometime next week and
sold as old paper to gain funds
for new books and supplies for
the library.
Bundles will be collected from
house to house in Vernonia, on
O.-A. hill and in Riverview.
At Camp 8, Alice and Patricia
Baker will collect old paper which
will be brought to the library.
The library board will appre
ciate having other out of town re
sidents bring their bundles to the
city hall today or Saturday.
If notified the library board
will call out of town for papers
within a radius of five miles.
The local schools, churches, fra
ternal organizations, Boy Scouts
and business men are all giving
their support to the drive.
Cattle Raisers
Hold Meeting
In Grange Hall
Government Campaign Against
Abortion Explained
A meeting in the interest of
the government’s campaign
against contagious abortion in
cattle was held in the Vernonia
grange hall Tuesday afternoon.
Among those who participated
were Dr. S. B. Foster of Portland,
representative of the U. S. Bureau
of Animal Industry, Dr. F. G.
Rankin of St. Helens, county
herd’ inspector, and Geo. A. Nel
son, county agricultural agent.
Under the federal plan, it was
explained at the meeting, those
who sign contracts agree to have
their herds tested free of charge,
and in case reactors are found,
to dispose of them and clean up
the premises in an approved man
ner. In return the government
agrees to have the animals ap
praised that are found to be re
actors and to pay the difference
within certain limits between such
appraised value and the amount
the animal brings for slaughter.
The amount of cash the govern
ment will add to the “salvage”
value of an animal is $20 for a
grade and $50 for a purebred.
Owing to the short time in
which arrangements were made
for the meeting and the lack of
adequate notice only about half
the cattle raisers of the vicinity
were present. A committee con
sisting of H. M. Condit, Victor
Bergerson the Siedelman broth
ers, Art Kirk, Chas. Biggs and T.
F. Epping are contacting owners
of cattle each in his own locality,
and it is expected that there will
be a 100 per cent sign.up-
Democrats Meet
With Candidates
In Clatskanie
Members of the democratic
central committee of Columbia
county met with the party candi
dates in Clatskanie Monday night.
Attending from Vernonia were E.
R. Treharne, J. B. Wilkerson,
Wm. Pringle, Sr., and E. H.
Washburn.
Of each dollar of CWA money
NO CLUES DISCOVERED
spent in this state the republican
AS TO NATAL GRANGE
HALL VANDALISM bureau in control spent 80 cents
of it and the men got 20 cents,
No clues have been obtained Mr. Treharne declared.
as to the persons who broke Into
the Natal grange hall after the A. C. KNAUSS LEAVES
FOR NEW POSITION IN
dance a week ago Saturday night,
MADISON, WISCONSIN
says Noble Dunlap, master. No
trouble was experienced with any
A. C. Knauss left yesterday
one at the dance, and the motive
remains a mystery. Nothing was noon for Madison, Wis., where
he has been given a six months
stolen.
The only damage done was position under the U. S. forest
from the smashing of gas lamps service in the wood products
against the windows, breaking the laboratory in that city. His work
mantles of the lamps and the will consist in conducting tests
in kiln drying for small and
panes of glass.
medium timbers and other season
ing problems in lumber.
Moe« Move to Canby
Mr. Knauss, previous to coming
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Moe
and family are moving from to Vernonia, was an engineer for
Hood River to Canby, where Mr. eight years in the laboratory at
Moe will be employed on the Madison. About 60 engineers
Canby Herald, according to word and physicists are employed there.
He expects to remain in Madi
received here yesterday.
Mr. Moe was for several years son until the last of March. His
pirblyfher df Vernonia Eagle, j family will continue to reside in
moving to Hood River in 1930. Vernonia.
Largest Class
Is Initiated Into
I. O. O. F. Lodge
A class of ten, said to be the
biggest single class in the history
of I. O. O. F. lodges in the
county, was given the first degree
in Vernonia lodge 246 Monday
night. The class consisted of W.
A. Davis, Dr. H. M. Bigelow, Lode
McDonald, Clyde McDonald, Wal
lace McCrae, Paul Gordon, George
W. Johnson, Harold McEntire, Ed
Salomonsen and Otis Hyland.
There were 17 visitors from the
St. Helens and Clatskanie lodges.
The local degree team will go
to St. Helens Sept. 28, where the
candidates will be initiated into
further mysteries of the order.
Several Attend
Game Meeting
In St. Helens
Work of Game Commission Is
Explained
Several members of the Nehal
em Rod and Gun club attended
a banquet of the St. Helens Rod
and Gun club last Friday night.
Features of the meeting were
a dinner, drawing of prizes which
found E. M. Bollinger, Ross Dun
can and E. H. Washburn from
Vernonia among the winners, and
speeches by Dr. R. E. Dimick, en
tomologist of the Oregon State
Agricultural Experiment station,
Frank B. Wire, supervisor of the
state game commission, and oth
er. Dr. Dimick explained what
the commission is doing in the
way of analyzing the food of fish
and what streams have the right
kind of food for sustaining fish
planted by the commission. Mr.
Wire explained the source of funds
for running the state game farm
and hatcheries, entirely from the
sale of hunting and fishing li
censes and not at all from taxa
tion. He also showed motion pic
tures of wild animal life.
The St. Helens club raised $56
at the meeting to build in their
community holding
pens
for
pheasants.
Attending from Vernonia were
E. M. Bollinger, Dr. H. M. Bige
low, Ross Duncan, Emil F. Mess
ing, Ed Salomonsen, E. H. Wash
burn and Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Watts.
Referendum on
Ordinance 202
Declared Void
JUDGE H. K. ZIMMERMAN
ISSUES ORDER
Recorder Is Restrained from
Further Action
In Matter
Ordinance 202, providing for a
settlement of the case of the city
of Vernonia against H. E. Mc
Graw by transferrence of cer
tain assets of the defunct Bank
of Vernonia will not be subject
to referendum, according to an
order received last Friday by Re
corder C. F. Hieber and signed
Thursday by Judge Howard K.
Zimmerman.
At the hearing in circuit court
that day the plaintiffs were re
presented by Judge W. A. Har
ris and Huntington, Wilson and
Huntington, while the city re
corder, named in the complaint
as defendant, was not reprsented.
The order restrains the record
er from certifying, printing or
causing to be printed on election
ballots the ballot title or number
of the measure described in the
complaint. It directed that the
recorder take no further action
with regard to the petition for
referendum, and declared Ordi
nance 202 not to be subject to
referendum.
Recorder Explain«
In explaining the fact that no
answer was made to the com
plaint Recorder Hieber states that
he was without authority to en
gage an attorney or represent
the city in behalf of the petition.
The city council, upon whom the
authority rests, had agreed to the
settlement with the attorneys of
Mr. McGraw, and naturally was
not interested in opposing it in
the courts. The council had em
powered Judge Harris to take all
necessary steps in protecting the
interest of the city in the matter
of the referendum.
The petition for a referendum
was filed July 18. It bore 40
names.
CCC Roads Are
Closed to Travel
During Hunting
CONTEST IN NAIL
BRINGING WILL BE
CHURCH FEATURE Permit* Are Required for Entry
In Closed Area
There will be a contest to see
who can bring the largest or
Travel on CCC roads in this
smallest nail to the Christian locality during the hunting season
church Sunday evening, Sept. 30, is prohibited, states J. J. Russell,
says C. R. Pritchard, pastor. There inspector. The roads have just
will be a prize for the one who been bladed, and are in danger
brings the smallest nail and the of being torn up if opened to
one who brings the largest. Only general use by hunters. Gates will
real nails will be considered by be erected as soon as possible at
the judges. The nails will be used the entrances of the roads, and
in the sermon, and the public is in the meantime snags will be
invited to enter the competition. felled across them.
Hunting on the area closed by
QUORUM LACK PREVENTS
proclamation, including the burn
CITY COUNCIL MEETING of last year in this locality, will
Lack of a quorum prevented a be allowed only on permit, which
meeting of the city council this may be obtained from wardens at
week and no date has been set the fire patrol headquarters at
for the hearing or election on Pittsburg, Jewell or Forest Grove,
the proposed budget.
or at the CCC camps.