VOLUME XII
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VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1034.
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Two Are Killed
Four Hurt in
Auto Accident
HELEN BRIMMER, VER­
NON JONES VICTIMS
Crash Takes Place on High­
way South of
Town
Helen Brimmer and Vernon
Jones were killed, and Margaret
Lines, Otto 'Coleman, Andy and
Clarence Brimmer were injured
Friday night when the coupe in
which they were riding veered
from the highway near Josh
Rose’s just south of town and
plunged down a 60 foot cliff to
the railroad. Mr. Jones died in­
stantly, his neck being broken,
and Miss Brimmer lingered until
about 10:30 a. m. Saturday with
a fractured skull.
The accident happened between
9:30 and 10:00 while the group
were on their way to Arcadia
park. The survivors state that
the lights went out just at the
turn. Andy and Clarence Brim­
mer, who were riding on the
running boards, one on either
side, leaped. Andy being on the
side next the bank, was the worse
hurt. Otto Coleman suffered a
fractured shoulder blade,
and
Miss Lines escaped with bruises
and shock.
The injured were brought back
to Vernonia at once and given
medical attention. Mr. Coleman
was taken home to Astoria by his
family Saturday. According to re­
port by his brother who attend­
ed the services here Tuesaay, he
is getting along nicely. The two
others of the injured have also
been doing well. •
Services for both Miss Brim­
mer and Mr. Jones were held in
the Christian church
Tuesday
morning, with F. Claude steph­
ens, former pastor now of Leban­
on, officiating. The attendance
was so great that many could not
get inside, and the floral tributes
were profuse. Local stores closed
out of respect during the funeral.
Interment of both was in an As­
toria cemetery.
Helen Myrtle Brimmer was
born
near Lewistown, Mont.,
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NEHALEM VALLEY MEN
REPORT FOR CIRCUIT
COURT JURY DUTY
Heniy Jepson, L. A. Peterson
and J. C. Libel of Mist and John
Johnston of Birkenfeld are among
those who report for jury duty
in circuit court at St. Helene
during the October term. Lee Os­
born of Mist is on the list of
grand jurors.
No names of Vernonia resi-
dents were drawn on the first
panel.
EDWARD BEAVER
DIES OCTOBER 14
Edward Marion Beaver, 7, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey F. Beav­
er, died in Seaside October 14.
He was born in Vernonia July
9, 1927.
He leaves to mourn his loss
his mother, father and one bro­
ther, James, besides many rela­
tives and friends.
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Masons Hold Dist.
Meeting Wednesday
In Vernonia Temple
A meeting of District 24,
Grand Lodge of Oregon, A. F.
and A. M., comprising Columbia
county was held Wednesday night
in the Vernonia Masonic temple.
Attending were Israel Wilson,
grand master, Rufus Cheney,
grand secretary, F. D. Macpher­
son, grand deacon, E. E. Rose-
braugh, district deputy grand
master and others of the grand
lodge official family including L.
V. Jenkins and James Duffy.
Lodges represented were those
of St. Helens, Rainier, Clatskanie,
Scappoose and Vernonia.
Addreses were given and re­
freshments prepared by the Na-
halem social club and served by
the Rainbow girls were provided.
About 100 were present.
CCC Boys from
Latourelle Are
Now in Wilark
Contingent Arrives Tuesday From
Up River
Camp Wilark again became a
main camp when a detachment of
tree troopers from Camp Latour­
elle were brought there Tuesday
morning.
John Forsberg is woods super­
intendent and Capt. W. R. Fargo
is army offeer in command.
For the past year and a half
Mr. Forsberg was superintendent
at the Wendling camp.
The boys in the contingent are
from Chicago.
Blanche Grable
To Manage Blue
Jay Basketball
Number Turn Out for First Prac­
tice of Y ear
Blanche Grable was named as
manager of the Blue Jay basket­
ball team at a meeting in the
Washington grade school Wed­
nesday night. Those turning out
for practice were Hazel Shipman,
Margaret Veith, Hazel Lloyd, Bon­
nie Linn, “Toots” Linn, Doris
Vosnick, Mildred Hawkins, Julia
Wangler, Marguerite Laird, Mil­
dred Brady, Helen Bergerson,
Frances Bergerson, Mrs. Lane,
Theresa Goertzen and Blanche
Grable.
The girls showed much enthu­
siasm and expect to put out a
winning team this year.
Meeting for Choice
Of School Director
To Be Held Oct. 29
Decision to call a special school
meeting Monday, October 29, to
elect a director to take the place
of A. C. Knauss, resigned, was
made at the board meeting for
District 47 Saturday night.
Mr. Knauss tendered his resig­
nation several weeks ago because
of removal to Madison, Wis., for
the winter.
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Education Work
At CCC Camp Is
Topic of Speech
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hears
Addres by Pernu
Educational work at OCC
camps was described at the cham­
ber of commerce meeting Tues­
day noon by Lauri Pernu, camp
educational adviser at the Reeh-
er’s camp, Westimber.
Instruction is rather complicat­
ed, he stated, as the men range in
age from 19 to 61, and in edu­
cational preparation from the
third grade to five years in col­
lege. There are, however, certain
definite interests, diesel engines
and music being especially popu­
lar, and the effort is to adjust
the program to the interest of
the men. These vary from anthro­
pology to welding, he said. Educa­
tional courses are not compulsory.
The Westimber camp is com-
psed entirely of men from Ore­
gon, about 50 per cent being from
Columbia and Washington coun­
ties.
Drouth Question Discussed
Discussion of settlement of lands
by farmers from the drouth areas
followed Mr. Pernu’s
address.
Judd Greenman pointed out that
there is no way of attracting the
desirable settlers and keeping out
those undesirable from an eco­
nomic standpoint. Oregon is not
in a position to adveitise exten­
sively for settlers and has no
great amount of land available,
he maintained.
Railing Suggested
Clarence Watts suggested a
railing at the point where Fri­
day’s accident occurred. It was
moved and carried that the secre­
tary prepare petitions to the high­
way commission for the purpose.
Discussion of cleaning up the
creek beds as a SERA project
brought out the fact that such
work could not be done here be­
cause of private ownership of
the lands.
Louis Bowerman, 63,
Resident of Oregon
For 35 Years, Dies
Louis Bowerman, 63, a resident
of Oregon for 35 years, died Oct
7 in Portland, and was buried
Oct. 10 in the Rose City ceme­
tery. For the past three years
he lived with his family on the
old Sheeley homestead near Ver­
nonia.
Mr. Bowerman was at one
time associated with the New
York World and other papers,
and' for many years was promi­
nent politically.
He was born in West Plains,
New York. Surviving are his wi­
dow, Julia, two sons, Ralph and
Louis, and a daughter Anita.
ADDITIONAL DONORS
TO COMMUNITY CHEST
REPORTED THIS WEEK
Additional Community Chest
donors since the publication of
the list last week are Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Douglass, J. B. Wil­
kerson, Mrs. J. R. Annbelle, Mrs.
H. C. Ridenour and the Vernonia
Trading Co.
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NUMBER 42.
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Lee Schwab Returns
To Vernonia; Will
Work for Newspaper
Lee Schwab, former editor of
Vernonia Eagle, moved with his
family to Vernonia from Dufur
Friday, and is occupying the Hen­
derson house on Third street.
Mr. Schwab expects to be busy
in campaign work for the republi­
can party until election. He will
also have part time employment
on the Eagle as advertising solici­
tor. He has had conspicious suc­
cess in this work, the Dufur Dis­
patch, which he published, carrying
large advertising despite the
small size of the community, and
the Eagle, when he was in charge
and the mill was operating, en­
joying the reputation of having
the most advertising lineage of
any newspaper in a community of
the size in the state.
Legion Post Has
Largest Number
Out in Months
Kullander, McGraw, Timr-on» on
Executive Committee
The largest attendance for any
Legion meeting in months was
present Tuesday evening when
Post Commander Earl Atkins
started the ball rolling for the
1935 membership drive with his
own card. Executive officers elec­
ted to serve during the new term
were A. L. K llander, H. E. Mc­
Graw and J. L. Timmons.
Commander Atkins made sev­
eral
committee
appointments.
Those to serve on the house com­
mittee are Roland Treharne, and
Henry King, Armistice dance and
turkey shoot,
Earl Washburn,
publicity and membership, Lee
Schwab and Gene Shipman.
“Like old times,” was the re­
mark of all as the meeting un­
der the guidance of Earl Atkins
and Jack Biggs progressed with
the lining up of many fall ac­
tivities for Vernonia American
Legion post 119. The next meet­
ing will be held Tuesday even­
ing, October 30, when plans for
Armistice day celebration will be
completed.
Feathers . . .
and.. .Talons
Two of our respected fellow
citizens changed their politics
temporarily last week end. Shorty
Kullander, ardent republican, dis­
played a Martin poster in his
window—and some job he had
scraping it off so as to reveal
in its original clearness the jovial
countenance of Joe E. Dunne be­
neath.
Nat Perdue, enthusiastic cham­
pion of the new deal, supported
Dunne for a while, until he used
a chisel or something to get that
Joe-E-dunne thing out of his win­
dow.
The practical jokers used alto-;
gether too good a grade of glue,
say both Shorty and Nat.
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Budget Hearing
Conducted with
Few Attending
JUDGE HARRIS SUGGESTS
TWO CHANGES
Golf Course and Airport Ex­
penses Allowed at
Meeting
In the presence of a very small
audience the budget committee
and the city council conducted a
hearing on the c'ty budget Wed­
nesday night.
Two additional items were sug­
gested by Judge W. A. Harris,
of the committee, and they were
incorporated in the budget. They
were $700 for insurance compen­
sation on the airport project, and
$1,000 for mortgage and taxes
on the golf course, now being ac­
quired by the city. Upon motion
of R. M. Aldrich, seconded by
Judge Harris, the sum of $25 was
added for library equipment. Mrs.
Ray D. Fisher, appearing for the
library board, asked for this item
in order to buy new books, the
rest of the fund being used for
repairs of old books and other
similar items.
The tax to be raised according
to the budget is now $14,359.00«
or $1,111.84 less than that of the
current year ($15,470.84).
November 5, was set as the
date for voting on the budget.
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Walter Kent’s Cow
Is Instantly Killed
By Falling Tree
Walter Kent’s cow was instant­
ly killed Saturday afternoon by
a falling tree that had been weak­
ened by a slashing fire set by
Mr. Kent the morning before.
The fire went out of bounds
late Friday during the unexpect­
ed clearing of the weather fol­
lowing heavy rains in the morn­
ing, and climbed the wooded hill
just off of B street.
Although some concern was
felt for a time over O.-A. proper­
ty and also for cord wood be­
longing to Jack Heenan, the fire
eventually burned itself out with­
out doing any property damage.
Two Escape Injury
In Auto Accident
Sunday in Portland
Ruth Holaday and Marjorie
Gray escaped injury Sunday when
the car driven by Mrs. M. D.
Cole of Longview in which they
were traveling to Vernonia from
Portland was struck by another
car near the Montgomery Ward
store as they were leaving the
city. The car driven by Mrs. Cole
had a wheel and fenders badly
damaged but remained upright.
The other car turned over. No
one was hurt.
Miss Holaday and Miss Gray,
teachers
in
the
Washington
school, spent the week end visit­
ing relatives in Longview and
Kelso, and had accompanied Miss
Holaday’s suiter, Mrs. Cole, and
children to
Portland Sunday.
Mrs. Cole was starting to bring
them to Vernonia on her way
home to Longview.
The
two
teachers finally reached here by
stage.