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VOLUME XIV $1.50 per year, 5c a copy. VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937 NUMBER 4 Hearing Resigns Petitions Circulated Roberts Is Named Flu Epedemic Not Creston Man Dies On Visit Here i For Consolidation rroni C. C. Board i Petitions are being circulated Severe Here Yet I Charles South Van Sickle, 42, As City Recorder of Creston, Wash., died Wednes For 90 Days for an election on consolidation of Directors The flu epidemic, which has day while he and Mrs. Van I of Rock Creek school district 27 end Vernonia district 47. A ma been spreading throughout the Sickle were visiting with her • Way I* Opened for Another state, has reached Vernonia, but Petitions in Favor of Both To Of Serve as President Local Organization jority of the voters in District 27 are said to have signed the petition circulated there. Pre- viously sentiment was evenly di- vided. The date of the election will be fixed by the county boundary board. Ivan N. McCollom was elected a director of the Vernonia cham ber of commerce at the meeting in the Masonic temple Monday noon in place of Sam Hearing, who resigned with the explanation CHURCH TO HOLD that his business duties preven ted him from giving to the or INSTALLATION SERVICE ganization the time that on offi- The First Christian church will cer, particularly a president, hold an installation service Sun should give. None of the other day morning, inducting into ser directors felt free to serve as vice the newly elected officers president, he declared, hence the of this year. They consist of only solution was to step out elders, deacons, deaconesses, and make place for some one church clerk, treasurer, financial I else. secretary, chorister and pianist. WPA projects for the com- This service is planned to be im- munity were discussed, Lester pressive and' interesting and the Sheeley explained that only 10 i public is invited. men are at present on the WPA ______ e______ list here. Their time is now being taken up with work on. the Fishhawk road and with sanitary j toilet projects. Work on the airport, as far as authorized by! ~ government, has been completed, In the hardest fought game of he eaid, and the final report turned in. Additional work the year the Vernonia Loggers would require a new project. It defeated Clatskanie 18 to 15 at would be possible to work on a Clatskanie Tuesday night. It was cemetery project now, he de the first time in years that Ver- clared, if one were granted, but nonia defeated Clatskanie on the swimming pool project must their floor. await low water in the summer. Vernonia got the first basket The city has withdrawn its ap and at the end of the first plication for the dam project be quarter led 8 to 2. At the end cause half the work has been of the first half the score was done under private contract. The 12 to 5. It was not until the city should file a new applies-1 fourth quarter that Clatskanie tion asking completion of the j began to even up the score, and work together with some details [that was because of the loss of not in the original application. [Adams and Condit on fouls. The Loggers are to play Rain- Neal W. Bush, secretary, read a letter from the state labor ier here tonight. commissioner asking about pay for labor done on the dam, the men having reported to the com missioner that they had not been paid as promised. J. W. Nichols, reporting for the committee appointed at the Ivan N. McCollom was elected last meeting to look into the president of the Vernonia cham matter, stated that the chamber ber of commerce at a meeting had paid to the workers $183.43 of the directors Tuesday night. and the city $47.50, leaving a K. A. McNeill was chosen vice- total debt of $372.11 outstand president, J. W. Nichols secre ing, of which $249 was due for tary, and E M. Bollinger trea labor. Of this the city had pro surer. Dr. H. M. Bigelow is the mised to take care of $150, and other director. Judge C. F. Hieber added that a warrant had already been EVAMINER TO BE HERE been drawn for it The balance of ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 approximately $100 for labor will have to be financed some way, R. J. Dooley, examiner of Mr. Nichols declared. operators and chauffeurs, who Mr. Sheeley explained that ex was unable to get to Vernonia penses of construction had been last week Thursday, has sent much higher than anticipated be word that he will be here Mon cause of a rise in the level of day, February 1, from 10 to 5. the water. Once in the job the only thing to do was to go one evening meeting every three ahead lest what had already been months, in addition to the noon day meetings. Program rather done be swept away. than business will be stressed at Night Meeting Planned The chamber voted to hold the evening seeione. LogfferS Victors III Hard Fought Game McCollom Named Head of Chamber not to serious proportions at present. There are a large num ber of cases of bad colds, some genuine flu, and there has been one death from pneumonia. That, however, was complicated with other diseases. Twenty-one cases of flu are reported at Camp McGregor. Rumors, however, that the camp camp has closed down because of it are erroneous.. Attendance in the two Vernonia grade schools is virtually normal for this time of year, with the first noticeable drop in attendance Wednesday. High school attendance is re ported as normal. —-----*--------- Townsend Club Names Advisory Board (Special Correspondent) The Vernonia Townsend club held its regular meeting Monday evening, January 18 in the Tho mas garage office. Many mem bers stated it was the most en thusiastic meeting held in the past three months. A new ad visory board consisting of the following members, Mrs. C. O. Thomas, Mrs. Manthey, M. Gib son, Mrs. P. Wiedman, Mrs. Al Schultz, Mrs. A. B. Johnson, Mrs. J. W Brown, Mrs. Corey, Carl Enstrom and Mr. Manthey were elected to serve for the next six months. Mrs. C. 0. Thomas is holding a Townsend Tri-County meet ing at Hillsboro Sunday after noon, January 31. Arthur Moore of Monmouth, congressional dis trict manager of District No. 1, will address the meeting. Each club in the three counties will be asked to elect three delegates to attend this meeting. Verno nia club will elect their delegates Monday evening, January 25. This mass meeting will be open to the general public and every one is welcome. Vernonia Townsend club ex tends a hearty welcome to every one to attend their meetings at all times. sister, Mrs. May Cameron, in Roberts and B. F. Rogers this city. He was ill for five days .with pneumonia, complicated Are Presented at Meeting with other diseases. — o— Loel Roberts was named as Mr. Van Sickle was owner of a garage in Creston. The body city recorder at an adjourned was shipped Thursday to Wilbur, meeting of the city council Wed nesday night. The appointment, Wash., for interment. made by Mayor Owens after a AFTERNOON MAIL CLOSING majority of the council had ex pressed their preTerence for Mr. TIME HALF HOUR LATER Roberts, was for 90 days. Closing time for the after A petition for Mr. Roberts noon mail to Houlton and out was presented to the mayor and side points has been changed council in addition to the peti from 4 to 4:30, which still al tion presented Monday for Mr. lows working time for the mail Rogers. Mayor Owens declared in the Houlton post office be that ihe presentation of the peti fore the evening train for Port tions was evidence of a lack of land. confidence in the council and the The change accommodates the mayor, and if the people wanted O.-A. office and other business the privilege of naming their places that found the earlier own candidate they should be time inconvenient for getting out allowed to do so by means of a mail. charter amendment making the office of recorder elective." He felt that rather than choose either [ candidate the whole matter should be deferred until the voters had a chance to pass upon the amend An ordinance establishing the ment. Councilman Adams con salaries of city employes was pas curred in the opinion, but Coun sed with an emergency clause at cilmen Raymond and McNeill the council meeting Monday both declared that further delay night. According to it the salary in naming a man would be in of the recorder and water col jurious to the city. The mayor lector is set at $120 a month, thereupon left to the council the the marshal’s at $120, the deputy choice as to whom to select, and Raymond, Stacey marshal’s at $100, the water Councilmen collector’s at $120, the treas and McNeill each expressed a urer’s at $30 and the librarian’s preference for Mr. Roberts. Mayor Owens named Mrs. W. at $20. O. Livingstone as a member of Rogers Petition Presented A petition asking that B. F. the library board. A .E . Adams Rogers be reappointed as recor was elected president of the der was presented, signed by 83 council. names. Action was deferred until Wednesday night. Application of Jack Lindsay for ilcensing of pool tables and card tables was approved. City Officers Salaries Fixed Feathers . . . Two Commissioners Named and... Talons Mayor Owens announced the j appointment of Ed Tapp, Dr. R. D. Eby, L. G. Adams, W. H. SEEN AND HEARD Kent and C. C. Dustin to the Ivan McCollom and Bill Nichols boxing commission upon confir mation by the council. Appoin in the light and power office tees to the park board were L. figuring out plans for the cham H. Dewey, R. M. Aldrich, Mrs. ber of commerce activities . . . BATEMAN ENCOUNTERS E. M. Bollinger, Mrs. J. L. Tim “V.F.D. Fire Chief’ painted by SEVERE STORN IN IDAHO mons and Mrs. Geo. H. Stankey. some one on a window of Everett The bill of the chamber of Rundell's red sedan . . . Peggy O. T. Bateman, who returned commerce for labor on the swim Byers applying to Les Sheeley Sunday from a visit with rela ming pool dam amounting to for the job of chamber of com tives in Idaho, encountered a $150 was ordered paid. merce stenographer (ten years severe snow storm while motor The bond of H. H. King as too late) . . . Frank Rogers ing 48 miles out of Idaho City city marshal was approved and again in the water collector’s with his brother, C. L. Bateman. Mr. King was sworn in. office during the illness of Edna They made the trip from Idaho Owens . . . George Baker while City in safety, but were com WM. HORSHAM RESIGNS visiting council meeting trying pelled to turn back while on EIGHTH GRADE POSITION to keep the reporter from finding the return trip, and awaited a out something (he never learned snow plow. Following behind Wm. Horsham, eighth grade what) . . . More snow, as if the snow plow they came upon teacher in the Washington school, we didn’t already have enough. two cars that had stalled in the ' resigned this week. He has been drifts, one of which had been ill, and Mrs. H. G. Sandon has Mr. and Mrs. D. F. DeCew of abandoned and the other of been substituting in his place. Portland were out Sunday to which sheltered the driver un His successor will be named by visit Mrs. DeCew’s parents, Mr. harmed. the board. and Mrs. C. F. Hieber.
