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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1939)
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON PAGE SIX FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1939 for the coming year. The nominees are: president, Jack Baker, Andy Killian and Frances MUSICIANS TO MEET Child«; vice-president, Melvin Pow ell, George Bishop and Ray Thack AT RAINIER— er; secretary, Lillian Hedman, Heidi For the first time, Columbia coun Reich and Elsie Duncan; treasurer, ty will' have a county music festi ANNUAL OUT WEDNESDAY— Joanne Nichols, Jeanne Ryves and val. It will be held at Rainier high Delores George; business manager, “The Memolog,” the high school school, May 11. Glee clubs, orchest Fred Thompson and Roy Soejima; ras and bands from all Columbia annual, will be distributed '.he aft- yell leader, Clifford Bergerson. ernoon of May 10. county high school will compete. The total price of the book this The Vernonia Girls’ Glee Club will sing two numbers by them year is 1.25. Those who made de- MIST HELPING CIRCLE selves; namely, “The Hiking Song,” posits must pay the full price be- TO PAINT CEMETERY and “Ho-La-Li,” a Bavarian folk fore they will receive their copy. This year, the annua! contains FENCE; BAZAAR DUE song. They will then combine with all the other clubs to sing several seventy-one pages in all. Nineteen MIST—(Special to The Eagle)— I of these are picture pages. There numbers. Don’t forget that the W. M. S. ! The members of the orchestra are several pages of snapshots in bazaar is coming off Friday night, will' play in the mass band made addition to class pictures, faculty May 15th. A fine program is prom up of musicians from all the high pictures and club pictures. There ised along with the sale of all kinds will be forty-two mimeographed of useful and fancy articles. Also schools. pages. * nice lunch. The money goes for SENIORS TO ISSUE a good cause. PROM PROVES A SUCCESS— NEXT TIMBERL1NE- Tuesday the 2nd was clean-up day , All paths led to the Junior Prom at the cemetery. The Mist Helping Members of the senior class will publish the next and last issue of last Friday, April 28, in the high Circle composed of 25 ladies are surely doing good work and have the Timberline, May 17, which will school gym. with the Oregon State Motor asso Every year the juniors honor the volunteered to paint the new fence be the Senior Special. ciation and The Oregonian in spon Seniors will do the reporting and outgoing seniors with a semi-formal when the paint arrives, At their soring a series of motor cruises de meeting Thursday it was voted to signed to stimulate travel through print anything they want of im- dance which is the Junior Prom. out tile Pacific northwest. The fol This year the Prom was decorat hire a care taker for the summer : crtance as well as the regqlar lowing article is condensed from a months to keep the fern down and ed to represent a grape arbor. full-page article appearing in The material. The class will and prop keep the cemetery looking nice. Our Sunday Oregonian May 7. “Farewell Class of 1939” was hecy will be included. Because it will be their day, Class written in a cluster of imaginative next meeting will be the 4th Thurs There’s a certain place in Oregon day with Mrs. A. Wallace. where the spectacle of miracle attar Day, and their paper, each student grapes across from the entrance. miracle has given them the famil J. O. Libel is doing some errpen- Music was furnished by Bert and visitor will receive a copy. iar quality of commonplace. ter work in his residence. Frazier and his orchestra of Long Not miracles worked by some Donald Sundland and Bernard agency of the supernatural, but view. MR. LOCKWOOD miracles nevertheless. These are Dowling spent Sunday at the beach. ENTERTAINS STUDENTS the miracles worked by man’s in Mrs. W. M. Garlock is staying SENIORS TO BE BANQUETED— ventive genius, the wonders brought iMr. Lockwood, assistant state at the Melis farm during the Melis’ about by smooth highways, by the Members' of the senior class will absence in California. They expect restless urge of the American to game commissioner, entertained the go adventuring into new places. students of V. H. S. by showing be honored May 16 with the annual to be gone two or three weeks. | To visit the scene of some of them a moving picture of game. senior banquet sponsored by the Mrs. Vernon Jamieson took her these wonders the motorlog auto Women ’ s Auxiliary of the Ameri children to Vernonia Friday after-1 Monday, May 1. mobile traveled over the Salmon River cutoff to the Pacific ocean | The first reel showed the beaver can Legion. noon to the track meet. beaches of north Lincoln county, The banquet will be held at the in its home and the transplanting Mrs. Austin Dowling and Bernard where towns and resorts have risen of them. Other reels showed the Legion hall and wilt be decorated were visitors of the Jake Dowling like mushrooms within the past decade. characteristics of the antelope, pic to carry out the class motto and family at Mayger. Here a once desolate expanse of tures of deer and sage hen, ana class colors. Merle Jones and her sister, Jean, ' seashore has become a gay, busy Above—Typical of beach homes being constructed at Lincoln county All the faculty memlbers are in went out to the J. N. Miller home ‘ different fishing scenes. playground for thousands of Ore resorts are these two new houses. Lower—Oregon bathing beauties, vited to attend the banquet. This at Clatskanie for a few days visit gonians and their visitors from winners in a Lincoln county beach contest. other states. Here, because this is the first year the entire faculty with Malbra Miller. SENIORS HONOR QUEEN country is so new, a man may be prosperity and all owing their ex-[So far it has been the only affair hrs been invited. Mrs. Maud Rogers is staying in an "old settler” and still be in the istence to the Oregon Coast high- of its kind. AT BALL— prime of life. He may be a pioneer I way. I Another north Lincoln event that St. Helens for a while. and date his adventuring back but I Friday evening, the May Queen TUESDAY SET FOR While their popularity has spread draws wide interest is the Devil’s Little Joan Melvin visited her 20 years or even less. lake regatta, scheduled this year and her court will be honored at r ELECTION DATE— Road's End at the north, then through Oregon and up and down for June 24 and 25. Primarily an grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. the Pacific coast, their fame has, ball sponsored by the senior class. Wecoma beach, Brae Mar, Ocean outboard motor session, the pro Downing at Buxton for a few days. Next Tuesday, May 9, the stu Lake, De Lake, the summer homes spread across the nation. DePoe i gram has many variations that The ball is to be held in the high i bay, because of its picturesque Mrs. Russell Ballard and Mrs. along the shores of Devil's lake, coax large crowds to the lake and school gym. The high school or- dent body officers will be elected Nelscott and Taft have a resident I beauty, the romance suggested by nearby beaches. Austin Melvin went to Clatskanie its rock-sheltered tiny harbor and population of 3000 or more persons. To these two special attractions Monday evening with their brother, The summer and holiday popula fleet of trolling boats, has become a progressive north Lincoln has add J. Joyce. tion will run into the thousands, byword among travelers, a spot ed a third this year, in a Rhododen and endless parade of tourists up better known than some of the big dron festival, slated to open on We have another case of scarlet and down the Oregon Coast high- I harbors along the Pacific coast. May 21 at about the time the coast fever in the village. way bring the region's visitors Taft has attracted 1 nationwide "'' al _ _____________ rhododendrons reach the full Mrs. Ed Reynolds recently spent into the hundreds of thousands. I fame with its annual Red Head magnificence of bloom. The festi- South are Taft and Cutler City, I round-up, a contest that attracts val will continue from three to six the weekend at Tideport camp with Kernville, Gleneden, Lincoln beach, i j red-headec girls and boys, and [ weeks, depending on duration of her daughters. DePoe bay. all sharing this new I i grown-ups. too. from far and near. I the flower season. AT NATAL Our trailerhouse neighbors, Mr. Farm Security cooperators desir ind Mrs. Andreckson pulled out for /i 1 A 12 Miles Northwest of Vernonia on Mist Highway ing assistance in planting their gar- Wolf Creek Tuesday after being Ifill’ll dlS ?>.!’(? i dens may secure extension service here four weeks. Mr. Andreckson I and Department of Agriculture bul- was one of the men that engineer- Ali] fo I ■ikilil | letins as well as other aid through ■d the building of the crusher. I the County Farm Security Admin The crusher began crushing Tues AT 12:30 P. M. istration office. Federal Building, day. Astoria. Some of the young people gave L’ esito »' «¡e- 10 Head Dairy Cattle, 8 cows, fresh and springers, \ kitchen shower Saturday evening Farm Security Families, CW SELF RS IN MARBLC WIN Jersey and Guernseys — Herford bull, 12 months Attend Game and Show — it the Garlock residence for Mr. FAM-E AND RENOWN. Plan to Insure Supply of old — 1 Calf; Double-tested, 100% clean herd— ind Mrs. Lloyd Garlock. Quite a Mr. and Mrs. John Grady and Cream Separator, McCormick-Deering — Dairy crowd attended, Vegetables son and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wall The house of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Equipment — 1 Brood Sow, due to farrow now— Well planned gardens help in-1 and sen were in Portland Sunday. Ashby caught fire one day last The men attended the baseball Several Shoats—Chickens—4*/2-foot Mower—16- week and burned quite a hole in sure good health for farm families! game and Mrs. Grady and Mrs. Wall inch Plow, new—12-inch Plow—2-Section Har I the roof before it was extinguished. cooperating in the Farm Securitv | and the children attended a theatre I' row—Potato Digger—Hay Fork—Vaughn Drag CHISELERS IN TRAFFIC WIN Quite a number of the young Administration live-at-home program, showing. six reeT of swund / Saw, 3 Blades—Cross-Cut Saw, Sledges, etc.— neopl'e attended the Junior Prom in Columbia county, reports Gene I Beech, Home Management Super-1 in Vernonia Friday evening. Garden Tools—10 Dozen Quart Fruit Jars and The Austin Dowling folks spent visor. Federal Building, Astoria. Lids—Household Goods and Other Articles too Sunday with their daughter at Each family attempts to produce Numerous to Mention. as much of the home vegetable sup- Elsie. We are glad to hear that Mrs. 1 ply on the farm as possible. ------- TERMS: CASH— Gardens are planned to supply all <. E. McGee is able to be out and Owner, Geo. A. Christiansen Clerk, J. Hansen vegetables needed during iround again after being sick since , fresh Auctioneer, Oren Sudtell, Portland and Albany A woman had two tables of bridge one even I summer months and provide enough New Tear’s. ing. Both the living room and library were well ; additional produce to enable the Joe Checmanek had the misfor- lighted for the occasion. The first thing the tune to turn over the car he was ! homemaker to can not less than 26 driving a couple of times upon the j to 30 quarts of tomatoes or juice woman did, after the guests had gone, was to go Clatskanie-Mist road Monday even and 30 to 40 quarts of vegetables about turning off the lights. The haste of the j for each member of the family, in ing. He was not hurt. action amused her husband. He asked her The Tidewater clulb ctme up Wed addition to producing from 225 to why she was in such a hurry to turn off the lights. nesday and gave a fairwell party 270 pounds of potatoes per person. for Mrs. Austin Melvin who recent Stored root crops and dried vege “I hate to think of all the money these ly moved here from Tidewater, the tables make a wide variety avail lamps are wasting,” she confessed. meeting was held at the home of able for the planning of attractive Being a man with a taste for facts, the hus Mrs. J. Joyce and cards were the meals during winter months when afternoon's amusement. The club fresh vegetables are dear. band took out his pencil and made some intesest- presented Mrs. Melvin with a lovely After giving careful consideration ing calculations. Two packages of cigarettes for double electric waffle iron. Delici ‘o preferences of the family and each table cost 60c. The cigars for the men, 5 ous refreshments were served. the maximum vegetable require J. A. Thornburg, •»resident. for 15c, cost 75c. Two packs of cards at 50c Mrs. Melvin also won the prize J ments to provide an adequate year- "THE ROLL OF HONOR BANK” each, cost $1.00. The light supper after the party in the pinochle game. round diet, the family garden is Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Burnham laid out to meet these specifica cost $3.75 (with maybe a few drinks on top of were weekend visitors at the Libel tions. Several plantings of different that). Total $6.10 (without drinks). The man farm from Fairview. vegetables are made on the same figured the cost of the current consumed during Mrs. Emma Aldridge is visiting ; ground by following early and quick the entire evening. It amounted to less than her sister, Mrs. Libel, Mrs. Aid growing crops with other plantings the cost of one package of cigarettes. ridge lives at Clatskanie. I I as soon as the first crop has been Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith harvested. Provisions for some irri Obviously, ‘‘To see well isn’t a matter of I gation often doubles the output. spent Sunday at Seaside. High School chestra will furniah the music. The admission is 25c for girls and 35c for boys. The dance is no* formal. Dancing will begin at nine o’clock. The royal party will enter at about ten o’clock. AUCTION SALE Fri., May 5,1939 Health Perhaps You Know of Cases Like This— The Forest Grove National Bank Invites on To Bank Bv Mail if Inconvenient To Come In Person Oregon-American LUMBER CORPORATION Vernonia, Oregon YOU JI AY KE SUBE that when you »ee the sign “GRADE A MILK and CREAM” that you and your family’s health is being safe guarded. You get this assurance at the NEHALEM VALLEY DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. cost.” Are we kidding ourselves when we speak of the lighting cost? Oregon Gas & Electric Co. Vernonia, Oregon !•