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4 VOLUME XIV $1.50 per year, Adams Is Given Schaber’s Place On City Council 4 1 1 5c a copy. VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON Siedelman Baby Is First in New Year —o--- Vernon Keith Siedelman has the honor, as nearly as can be discovered, of being the first baby born in this community in Marshals, Water Supt. 1937. He arrived at 2 o’clock Are Reappointed but on the morning of January 2, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Recorder Not Named I I at Cort Siedelman of the Pebble Naming of A. E. Adams to creek district. succeed himself as councilman, Only an hour later a New and reappointment of the mar Year’s baby was born to Mr. shal, deputy marshal and water and Mrs. Harry McMullen, The superintendent featured the first young arrival is also a boy and city council meeting of the new I has been named Edward Harry, year Monday night. Apponit- i ---------- *---------- ment of city recorder was post-’ SOILS RESOURCE MEETING poned until the next regular j SCHEDULED FOR RAINIER meeting by request of Ben S.' — o— A two-day county soils resour- Owens. After the old council had pas- jces conference will be held in the sed upon December bills Mayor - Legion hall at Rainier, January Owens was sworn in by Attorney* and ^2 beginning at 9:30 a. D. O. Bennett. Roy Raymond, I m-> each da>- George A. Nelson, Ernest Stacey and K. A. McNeill scountV “Kent, announced this of the new council were next week. Many subjects of interest called upon to take the oath,,t0 the farmers of the county are after which they elected Mr.'on the program. Agricultural Adams as a fourth member. Geo. jsoils of Columbia county, how to Schaber, who had been elected'use a soil maP> management of to the office, sent word that he Columbia county soils, drainage, could not serve because of busi-■ conservation of soil and preven- ness duties. (tion of erosion, use of lime and Mayor Owens named the fol- commercial fertilizers, the value lowing committees: judiciary J of irrigation, the agricultural con- Adams, McNeill, Stacey; streets -jservation program and its dis- Stacey, McNeill, Raymond; cuss'on t0 permanent agriculture, Health - McNeill, Adams, Ray-.are amon8 the subjects listed, mond; finance - Raymond, Ad- j That a soil resource confer- an.s, Stacey; fire and water .J ence should be held in the county Raymond, McNeill, Stacey; print- is the opinion of a number of ing and police - Stacey, Ray- i agriculture farm leaders confer- mond, Adams. red with. Agriculture of **• the ” D. 0. Bennett T . . i county and .... was appointed the businesses and ' cr r,.__ marshal ------ — J and ---------- - j ------ j!—------- counsel; H. II. King, [comunities depending upon it are Walter Kent, water superinten-1 no richer than their soil. In the dent. Mr. King named -V. M.Jong run the chances for agricul- Whitsell as his deputy, and the i tural communities to prosper apointment was confirmed by the rests upon the protection, im council. provement, and wise use of the soils. It is for these reasons that it seems that a two-day confer- Adventist Church to ence could be devoted to a sub- Be Dedicated Jan 17 ject more important or of greater Dedication of the new Seventh value to the agriculture of the Day Adventist church at Second county. While the final details of the avenue and Nehalem street, Corey hill, will be held Sunday evening, ■ program will not be announced Jan. 17 at 8 o’clock. Elder E. L. until next week, a number of Neff, president of the Oregon specialists from the Oregon State conference, will conduct the ser- College will discuss various soils vice. The occasion is planned as problems of local interest. These a community affair, and the pub will include Dr. W. L. Powers, lic is welcome, states R. L. Bad- Dr. R. E. Stephenson, Arthur gley, pastor. Wing and' A. S. Burrier. As the basis for the discussions DRIVERS LICENSE EXAMINER I extensive use will be made of TO BE HERE JAN. 14 the county soil map and insruc- tion will be given in the use of —o— R. J. Dooley, examiner of these maps. operators All interested persons are in and chauffeurs, is scheduled to be at the city hall vited to attend the conference. in Vernonia Thursday, Jan. 14, from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. TOWN BASKETBALL TEAM TO BE ORGANIZED McNEILLS ARE PARENTS OF SIX POUND BOY Mr. and Mrs. K. A. McNeill are parents of a six pound baby boy born Thursday morning at the Emanuel hospital in Port land. A meeting for organization of a town basketball team is to De held Monday night in Skinny’s card room at 7 o’clock. Plans are -being made to enter the league that is being formed to include a number of towns. School Quint Goes Traveling —o--- Dropping all other holiday ac tivities eight high school boys who make up the first team tuck ed their over night necessities into traveling bags and trekked, with Coach Mac Crae, down into the Willamette valley for a three day trip in search of more basket ball. Making the Alpha Psi Delta fraternity house on the Willa mette campus their headquar ters they played three games, winning over the Rickreall high quintet 42-23 in a return game and losing to Monmouth high, 26-25, and to the Salem Y.M.C.A. five 31-29. True to the old adage “the home is where the heart is’’ the boys took advantage of their sur roundings and enjoyed them selves ’ to the fullest extent, al though they all wonder about sleeping porches and their advan tages as to college life. While there they visited the state pene- tentary, hospitals, feeble minded home and attended shows and a wrestling match. The squad included Ralph Con- dit, Everett Meeker, Pau' Adams Etarl Storey, Sonny Bchaiock, Hugh Mcdonald, Bill Byers and Claire Jarvis. High point man on the trip was Condit. * Church Finances Are Reported at Meeting FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1936 Two Alarms in Day Summon Fire Dept. Two alarms in one day after weeks of inactivity provided an unusual experience for the local’ fire department Saturday. In neither case, however, was there any damage of consequence. The first alarm summoned the firemen to the home of Mrs. A. E. Jennings on A street. Some loose wallpaper caught fire from a stove pipe, but the blaze was promptly extinguished upon ar rival of the department. The other alarm was because of a chimney fire in the rear of Nat Perdew’s pool hall. The fire soon burned out without damag ing the roof. ---------- *---------- Jury List Is Drawn For Justice Court The jury list for the local justice of the peace district was drawn Monday as follows: A. E. Adams, R. M. Aldrich. J. W. Brown, E. S. Bafford, J. W. Brimmer, L. C. Boeck, E. M. Bollinger, C. Bruce, Elmer Ber- |gerson, Alfred Bays, Albert ¡Childs, B. J. Cline, Herbert Con- dit, Harry Culbertson, Martin Christensen, R. W. Duncan, J. A. Erickson, L. H. Dewey, Lowell Hieber, Harry Kerns, W. H. Kent, Bruce McDonald, G. C. Mellinger, A. L. Kullander, W. O. Porterfield, C. A. Mills, George Nutt, George Parker, A. L. Parker, Roy Raymond, Ed Sesseman, J. L. Timmons, Loel Roberts, C. O. Thomas, E. H. Washburn, C. S. Rich, G. W. Johnson, J. W. Rose, T. B. Mills, D. C. Cason, David Mar shall, Ed Tapp, J. T. Scott, H. J. Buffmire, C. A. Van Alstine, D. F. Gerell, D. Bennett, B. F. Rogeirs, Frank Lusby, H. E. Garner, Charles Biggs, Harley Edwards and W. J. Armitage. — o--- At the annual business meet ing of the Christian church held on Sunday last it was shown that all the current expenses of the church had been met in full for the past year, and that about $650.00 had been paid on the church debt and $260.00 on the parsonage debt during the last six months of the year. The year’s plan provides for the full liquidating of all the in debtedness. The budget of the ’ church for local and general purposes was raised above that of last year. It was also shown that the average attendance on the Wednesday evening prayer meeting for the year was 33, SEEN AND HEARD and that of the Sunday evening Jack Adams Austin skidding services plus 54. No record was made of the Sunday morning at on the icy street . . . Elmil Mes tendance, which of course was sing working on New Years day to compile his annual statement much larger. . . . Bert Tisdale distributing wrestling match posters ... Ed OSCAR G. WEED AND FAMILY Bafford and Sam Conklin with a MOVE TO VERNONIA blow torch on the way tv thaw out frozen pipes ... A Oscar G. Weed, ex-sheriff of large audience at the city coun Columbia county with Mrs. Weed cil meeting, and not much ex and daughter Alice moved from citement to listen to . . . Tim St. Helens to Vernonia Saturday. relating his hospital experiences They are occupying a house . . . Ralph Bowerman telling Ed near the north end of First Bollinger what he thinks of the Avenue. Russian communists. Before becoming sheriff about I ■' ■ • eight years ago Mr. Weed was al Mrs. A. L. Kullander returned resident of Vernonia and served | Monday after a ten days visit with for many years as justice of the her parents and sister in Indepen peace in the local district. dence. Feathers . . . and... Talons NUMBER 2 Over 35 Per Cent Increase Shown In Stamp Sales Money Order Business Gains by More than Forty Per Cent Stamp sales in the Vernonia post office increased 35% per cent over those of 1935, accord ing to figures complied by Post master Emil F. Messing. The to tal for 1936 was $9,227.36 and for 1935, $6,802.05. Money order business showed a slightly larger increase, approxi mately 40 per cent. In 1936 $207,584.11 was issued, and in 1935, $130,643.84. Payments on automobiles are believed to ac count for a large share of the increaes. The volume of business done in the post office is considered as a fairly accurate barometer of local financial conditions. ---------- * - --------- Townsend Club Starts New Year Meetings The Vernonia Townsend club began its meetings of the new year Monday night with Mrs. C. O. Thomas, reelected president for the tHrd time, in the chair. Mrs. W. F. Manthey is the new vice-president, and Matt Gibson succeeds himself as secretary for the 3rd term. Names of delegates to the convention to be held in Rose burg was postponed because of word that the convention had been postponed for several weeks. ______ »______ FATHER’S DEATH CALLS RUHL TO KANSAS F. M. Ruhl was called to Her ington, Kansas, Thursday of last week by the death of his father, Milton Ruhl. He ex pected to remain with his mo ther for a week longer before returning west. Mrs. Ruhl ac companied Mr. Ruhl as far as Portland, staying with Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McAlister until Tues day. ---------- *----------- 64 Are Born, 26 Die During Year 1936 During the past year 64 births and 26 deaths were reported to the local registrar of vital sta tistics, Mrs. K. A. McNeill. Of the babies born 35 were boys and 29 were girls. Mortality among children was relatively high, as 13 of the deaths, half of the total, were children 12 years or under. ---------- *---------- Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Nichols and daughters Joan and Barbara were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Comstock at Keasey on New Year’s day.
