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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1934)
Vernonia Wins From Beaverton In Close Game Mrs. Ellis’ Mother Dies at Home Here, Aged Seventy-seven Lizzie Jane Bates, 77, died Dec. 20 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Ellis, with OUTCOME NOT DECIDED whom she had been living for about three years. UNTIL END She was born April 2, 1857, in Sullivan county, Missouri. In terment was in Forest Grove, Scoring by Condit and Hol with graveside services conduct ed by C. R. Pritchard, pastor of comb Are Deciding the Vernonia Christian church. Factors Mrs. Ellis was an only daugh ter. In a thrilling basketball game Friday, Dec. 21, the Vernonia high school hoopsters cinched a 28-21 victory over the hard- fighting Beaverton quintet in the last two minutes of play on the opponent’s floor. During the first quarter both teams played a strong defensive game, being able to sink only one field goal each. However, the Beaverton boys dropped in two extra free throws to take the lead, 4-2. At the end of the first half Beaverton held the upper end of a 12-7 score by slipping in eight points while holding Vernonia to five in the second period. The Vernonia hoopsters com pletely baffled their opponents in the second half with a dazzl ing offensive attack. They show ered the basket from all angles of the floor to run their score up to 18. The puzzled Beaverton five had to be satisfied with 16 points. In the last period the Beaver- tonians bombarded the basket in a frantic effort to tie the score but were only able to collect five well-earned points. Vernonia barely held the edge 22-21 until the last two minutes of play when Condit, Holcomb and. Meeker sank a field goal each to boost the score up to 28 as the whistle end ed this thrilling, clean and hard- fought game. Mason of Beaverton was high point man with 10 counters to his credit. Condit and Holcomb, Vernonia hoopsters, were next with nine points each. The Beaverton second team de feated the Vernonia second team 24-16 in the opening game of the double-header. Tlje line-up was as follows: Condit, 9 ...... F Klein. 2 Henderson __ F ........... Hety, 1 Adams, 6 ........ C . Emmons, 2 Meeker, 4 G . ....... Gibson, 3 King ............... G ...... Mason, 10 Holcomb, 9 ... S Saxton, 3 S . ..... ....... Newtz Referee: Dilers. Contracts Let For Two Road Projects Here Vernonia-Buxton Surfacing, Pitts burg Paving to Begin 15th (St. Helens Sentinel-Mist) Contracts for two state high way projects in Columbia county, which were approved by the state highway commission last summer, were awarded Thursday at a meeting of the commission ij Portland, Judge L. R. Ruther ford, who attended the meeting, reported. Adlefsen & Weygant were awarded the contract for surfac ing about nine miles of the Ne halem highway from Vernonia to Buxton in Washington and Co lumbia counties. The bid offered by the firm was for $38,153.50. The amount of the bid is consid erably more than the original al location of $25,000 which the commission allotted for the work. . A bid of $20,525 by A. T. Dolan was for the surfacing and oiling of the Vernonia-Pittsburg secondary highway This bid was also more than the first allocation which was for $18,000. Work on the projects is ex pected to start about January 15, the judge said, and he has been promised by Sam Baldock, state highway engineer, that mostly ex perienced Columbia county men from the immediate section of the construction will be used for the work. The work is expected to last until late in the summer. Bids for the third piece of state highway work in the coun ty, which call for grading and paving of a section of the Co lumbia highway approaching Rai nier for-which allocation of $20,- 000 was made by the commission, are expected to be let at a meet ing of the commission January 24, the judge said. 12 SIGN UP FOR CLASS IN AMERICANIZATION TO MEET 3 EVENINGS WEEKLY EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN NEW PLACE Twelve have signed up for the SERA class in Americanization The union evangelistic services to meet Monday, Wednesday and conducted by Rev. James H. Thursday evenings in the high Taylor in the old Brown furni school under Mrs. Bernice Lof ture building at the Rock Creek gren. bridge are to be held in the Car More can be accommodated, ter building, corner of Bridge Mrs. Lofgren says, and those in street and Weed avenue. terested should report Monday, Mr. Taylor, who is a returned January 7 at 7 p. m. Any one missionary from Africa, will ex can join, there being no require hibit lantern slid.-s of West Af ment in this case that students rica Saturd’v and Sunday even be on the relief rolls. ings at 7:30. THE MEANEST MAN VISITS VERNONIA . . . The Meanest Man that one often reads about vis ited Vernonia Christmas night. After Dave MacDonald of the Hotel MacDonald had retired and the rest of the family were enjoying the dance at the Odd Fel lows hall the Meanest Man sneaked into the darkened lobby and stole the decor ations from the Christmas tree—some of them heir looms that the family had treasured for years. Did he want them for next Christmas? It is any body’s guess. Perhaps he merely wanted to live up to the reputation of being the Meanest Man. Blue Jays to Open Season January 9 Against Birkenfeld Latest reports from the Blue Jays’ basketball team are that they will open their season on January 9 with Birkenfeld as their opponent. They originally contemplated starting on Jan. 2, but owing to the holidays post poned their game one week. Teams from Jewell and St. Hel ens were also asking for the opening date but will probably appear later on the schedule. No schedule has been made yet but it is expected that a full season will be enjoyed as teams from Portland and Longview have also asked for games. Much traveling is likely this year as most of the teams are demand ing return games on their own floors as well as coming to Ver nonia. CCC Men Called Out to Search For Lost Worker Hill la Combed Without Finding Substantial Trace Thirty OCC men, many <5 them from Vernonia and vicinity, were called out Wednesday to search for Harlan LeToureau, acetylene welder of Portland, who was lost in the Wilson river region since Friday morning. Twenty feet apart, they combed .he hill from the point where he was last seen, at the bottom of :he zig-zag on the Wilson river road on the Gales creek side. The only trace they could dis cover was the print of a man’s foot thought to be his size, but there was no certainty of its be ing his. Mr. LeToureau was on his way to repair some equipment at the old Reehers retreat. He was to nave followe:. a teamster, Johnny Rains, up the hill, but in some way got separated from him. He was 24 years old. Search was again made by CCC men, yesterday, but the re sults were not known up to time of going to press. Logging Crews Go Back to Work After Christmas Council Acts Upon Licenses And $700 Fee Instead of the customary lay off of a week or tv> at Christ mas Clark and Wilson employes lost only a few days. They work SPECIAL MEETING HELD ed Saturday, and part of the MONDAY NIGHT crews went back to work yester day. The rest have orders to re» port on Monday. * Announcement has been made Mayor Calls Session to Clear that the company’s Prescott mill Up Old Year’s is down until Jan. 9. This shut down is not applying to the log Business ging camps, which continue ac tive. The city council at a special meeting Monday night approved the bill of $700 for legal services rendered by Huntington, Wilson and Huntington and Judge W. A. Harris, attorneys for the city in the bank case, and also recom mended to the state liquor con trol commission renewal of li- Road Blocked I» at Troublsome censes now held by beer parlor owners in the city. They are Spot Myrtle Layer, Zelma Bush, Ada Curtis, E. H. Washburn and Nat Perdue. A slide at Top Hill on the The meeting was called by Beaver Creek highway Christmas day caught the coupe of Tom Mayor Ben S. Owens to pass on Carmen, who was passing at the the bill for attorneys’ fees be time, and carried it into the fore the amount budgeted revert ditch. Aid from another motorist to the general fund at the end of who escaped the slide was inef the year, and to act on the li fectual, and a wrecker was sent censes in time for prompt re for. The wrecker itself had diffi newal or rejection. culty in getting the Carmen car % out, several men having to hold ODD FELLOWS TO HAVE SOCIAL MEETING JAN. 4 on to keep it from slipping into the mud. The coupe was embed ded in the slide from four in the The Columbia County Odd Fel afternoon until eight in the even lows association is to have a so ing. cial meeting in St. Helens Jan. 4. The slide had been trouble All Odd Fellows, families and some ever since the heavy rains friends are invited. early in the month. During the lull between storms, about two A. C. KNAUSS MAIZES LONG TRIP FOR HOLIDAY VISIT weeks ago, the highway depart ment cleared the road. Recur rence of the heavy rains, how A. C. Knauss made the trip ever, started the slide again, and from Madison, Wis., to Vernonia it gradually encroached upon the for a visit of a few days with roadway. After the mishap to the his family here. He arrived Mon Carmen car the road was blocked. day night and expects to leave The Portland-Banks stage line Sunday, his work in the U. S. m a i n t a i ned its service to Ver forest products laboratory there nonia by detouring over the old resuming Jan. 2. He traveled by train as far as Portland. corduroy road across Top hill. Yesteroay afternoon tne road was cleared, and cars were able LODGES HOLD INSTALLATION to get through without detour The Masonic and Eastern Star ing. lodges held a joint installation in the Masonic hall last night. A Mr*. Duma«’« Sister Visits Her more extended account will ap Miss Ruth Schreiber of Cen pear next week. tral Point and Robert Houck of Portland were Christmas visitors at the home of Miss Schreiber’s sister, Mrs. Enoch Dumas. Mr. and Mrs. Dumas will attend the O. S. T. A. convention in Port land this week end and go to Oak Point, Wash., for the rest of the holidays to to visit with SEEN AND HEARD Mrs. Dumas’s parents. Claude Thomas stripping the Morris Graves Visits Here Christmas tree in his window . . . The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kenneth White thrilling over the T. Graves and Mr. and Mrs. Tom new car he is to get . . . Joe Graves was the scene of a large Wangler kidding his help about dinner on Christmas day with needing a towing service . . . relatives and friends as guests, Three councilmen, the mayor and among whom were Mr. and Mrs. recorder tearing themselves away Morris Graves of Bend. from their Christmas eve fire sides to discuss city affairs . . . Mrs. J. T. Kirk Returns L. H. Dewey demolishing the Mrs. John T. Kirk returned bright holiday decorations to Friday from Seattle where she make room for dull inventory . .. was for three months taking care Frostbitten sidewalks greeting of an aged uncle. early risers. Carmen Coupe Is Caught by Highway Slide Feathers . . . and.. .Talons