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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1940)
J öernoHprJEagle FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 Activities Group Slates Next Dance Second Benefit Dance to Be Held December 14 in Legion Hall 7 The Christmas Activities Com mittee met Wednesday night, Nov ember 27, at the office of the Oregon Gas and Electric. Plans were launched for the next benefit dance to be held at the Legion liall, Saturday, Decemlber 14. A committee, to take care of the purchasing of the candy and nuts lor the cellophane sacks to be given the children of the commun ity December 2(1, was named as loilows: Harry Sandon, Alice Estey and Kay Mills. The program for the evening which has always been provided by the schools in Vernonia is under way now under the leader ship of Miss Doris O’Connor. An operetta entitled “The Christmas Bazaar’’ will be given. The following organizations have sent representatives to the meet ings: A. F. of L., Eagles, High school, Grade schools, Study Club, American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, Masonic Order, I. O. 0. F„ Rebekahs and Chamber of Com merce. In some cases one person represents two or more organiza tions. It has been requested that all other representatives be urged to attend the future meetings, for the meetings are not complete if only part of the town's clubs, churches, and fraternal orders do not have members present. It was also stated by the Activ ities committee that attendance at the dance last Saturday night was not as large as was anticipated and that a much larger attendance must be in evidence at the next dance, December 14, to swell the Christ mas fund sufficiently. Seal Sale Progressing à Reports from Mrs. Mason McCoy who is in charge of the local Christ mas Seal sale states .that the drive is progressing well. To date Mrs. McCoy has received money from over a fourth of the people who were sent letters containing the stamps. Four hundred persons were mailed on Thanksgiving the Christ mas seals. The school children are also do ing their part to further the fight against tuberculosis. Each room in the grade schools is selling celluloid crosses for one cent. Several years previous the seal sale was conducted entirely by the grade school chil dren. Mrs. McCoy asks that any of you who have not received the letter asking for your support in buying the hundred Christmas seals enclosed to please see her. VOLUME 17, NUMBER 49 BOARD OKEHS STAMP PLAN Some of the more talented movie stars are awarded Os cars for outstanding work in pictures but have you seen the Oscar in Paterson’s Furniture store. There is a really live Oscar. Very lively, in fact. He’s a very puffed mascot, pride per haps, but more likely indignity, causes this creature to assume an attitude of disdain. He has very, very sharp claws and long they are. He uses them very quickly and surely as you’ll find out if you try improper means of attrac ting his attention. Oscar’s most outstanding characteristic is his eyes. They are big, round dilating orbs; .the background would put a cat’s, even a Hallowe’en cat’s, eyes to oblivion. His eyes are wonderful too because one can wink while the other fixes its stare of disdain on you. This fascinating creature has a remarkable neck, too. He won’t bother to turn his body around to follow your course as you walk about his cage. Not this bird! Oscar just lets his neck take his head all tne way around to keep an owl eye on you. Oscar, latest attraction, aside from the store display, was pur chased last Sunday from some children at the garbage dump. Terribly unromantic of the old bird to allow himself to be seen much less caught at the town’s dumping-off place. But he asked for it so he was caught down by the creek, Kenny White bought him for an old song, no doubt, and now Oscar is in a cage (and not a gilded one either) and he so strong and proud. Tree Grafting to Be Shown Grafting and budding of fruit trees will be discussed and demon strated at the farm of Dane Brady Saturday, December 7, at 1:30 in the afternoon, announces George A. Nelson, Columbia County Agent. Asa Holaday of Scappoose, a form er nurseryman, will demonstrate the grafting and budding work. Those attending the meeting should bring a pocketknife because they will have the opportunity to try also their hand at grafting. Any one interested in the subject to be demonstrated is invited to at tend the meeting. Grandmaster to Visit Here J. P. Watts, Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Oregop, I. O. O. F., will pay an official visit to the Vernonia Lodge, No. 246, on December 10. Members of the local lodge have prepared a very approp riate program for the occasion. The new kitchen recently built in the upper story of 'the Odd Fellows hall will be used for serving re freshments. Painting of the room and further finishing jobs were completed this past week; Venetian blinds and improved lighting effects will be installed in the near fu The American Legion is sponsor ture, is the announcement offered ing another turkey shoot slated for by members of the lodge and mem Sundty, December 15. Owing to bers of the Rebekahs. the great success of the one held ■the week before Thanksgiving and to the demand of another such Mothers’ Club event, the committee of Legionnaire To Be Formed are announcing early the next shoot Mothers of children attending the so that thuse interested may plan Lincoln gi ade school met in the ahead to keep open the date, Dec music room of that school Thurs ember 15. day afternoon of last Week to or ganize a Mothers’ Club. The group Ben B.ickel la has planned to have another meeting Friday afternoon, December 6, at Winner of Suit 2 o’clock. A study of child psychol Ben Biickel was the owner of ogy will be discussed. The organiza the lucky number drawn by June tion intends to give assistance in McKay T tesday afternoon at 5 making costume« for the Christmas o’clock at Millers’ Store. The num program. All mothers are urged to ber entitles the holder xto a suit attend. The suit club sponsored by the local store has been in progress since Christmas Mass October; each month a drawing is To Be Read held and the holder of the lucky Mass wil be read Christmas morn number receives a suit. This plan will continue for one more month; ing at the local Catholic Church there will be but one more drawing, at 7 o’clock and 8:30 o'clock. Father Brickel’s being the second suit to Greene of St. Helens will be here for the services. be awarded. Second Turkey Shoot Slated VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON Marshall Is Named In Book College Who’s Who LisU Former Vernonia High School Student Larry Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Marshall, 3 Louisiana Avenue, who will receive his B. S. degree from Oregon State College in June, is among those students who will be listed in the 1939-40 issue of WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNI VERSITIES AND COLLEGES. The book will be released in January or February. This publication is published through the cooperation of over 500 American universities and col leges. It is the only means of na tional recognition for graduates which is devoid of politics, lees, and dues. Several students from ac credited colleges are selected each year, by an unprejudiced commit tee, for their biographies to ap pear in WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNI VERSITIES AND COLLEGES. These books are placed in the hands of hundreds of companies and others who annually recruit outstan/aing students for employment. The purpose of WHO’S WHO is to serve as an incentive for stu dents to get the most out of their college careers; as a means of compensation to students for what they have already done; as a re commendation to the business world; and as - standard of mea surement for students comparable to such agencies as phi Beta Kappa and the Rhodes Scholarship Award. Mr. Marshall is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Oregon State College, was presi dent of his fraternity for two years, vice-president of the Inter fraternity Council, was vice-presi dent of Blue Key, senior men’s honor society, and was a member of Xi Sigma Pi, national honor society in forestry. IMr. Marshall graduated fdom Vernonia High School in the class of 1931 and during his high school career was active in all athletics, and was valedictorian of his class. Patent Expert Coming Friday J. T. Anderson, Patent and In dustrial Co-ordinator will be in Ver nonia over Friday and Saturday contacting people who have ideas or inventions. Mr. Anderson has been in Che Patent business as a Patent Office Draftsman for the past twenty years in Oregon. He is associated with leading Patent Attorneys throughout the country and is bring ing a personal service to the inven tor not only from a Patent stand point but also from a standpoint of assisting the inventor to reach the market through established .man ufacturing concerns and distribut ing organizations. Mr. Anderson is the director of the Oregon State Inventor’s Show, which is an annual affair in Ore gon. He has erected a motion pic ture show of new inventions, in color, so that the manufacturers and those interested in new in ventions may see the very latest inventions developed in this part of the country. The National As sociation of Manufacturers coop erate with Mr. Anderson in the encouraging of new industries throughout the Northwest. Dance Date Is Postponed Mrs. Chet Alexander, chairman of the next dance of the Little Dance Club, announces that owing to the inability of the committee to sign up an orchestra for Dec ember 31, the date of the next dance hss been postponed until January 4. HAVE YOU TRIED EAGLE ADVERTIS ING LATELY? IT DOES PAY TO ADVER TISE! Bert Mills can prove it. Last week, The Eagle ran a |‘Too Late to Classify’’ adver tising an apartment house. The owner of the property felt that Mr. Mills would have difficulty in finding a buyer. Always confident in the selling power of himself and The Eagle Classifieds the real es tate man when he submitted the ad indicated he wished it run only once. "Only once is necessary in The Eagle’’, he stated. The morning the paper came out and throughout the day the owner of the apart ments was beseiged by 12 prospective buyers according to Mr. Mills; in fact he claims he grew tired of having to show the place to the many applic ants. As you have already guessed the apartment house was sold, sold sooner than tne owner, occupying one of the apartments, anticipated. That’s the story. It’s a fact. We’re not bragging. Hatfield Poem Published Sum The poem, "Westward Ho!” re printed below, was written by Peg gy Hatfield and was first published in the Poets’ Corner of the Journal last Sunday: Play Io Be Presented Fri. The junior class of the high school is presenting the play, “Seven Sisters”, this Friday night in the Washington grade school at 8 o’clock p. m. Miss Jane Wilkin son, high school drama coach, is directing the play. With a Hungarian setting, in cluding costumes as colorful as the characters themselves, "Seven Sisters” reveals the troubles of a mother in trying to marry off four of her eldest daughters in the order of their ages. The three youngest and very mischievious sisters of the seven lighten the burden of the mother none in the effort to marry her four oldest and dowerless daughters to four dashing army officers. The stage will be set appropriate ly in nineteenth-century Hungarian furnishings with the scenes decor ated in motifs typical of the coun try represented. All the sets were made by the high school manual training class under the guidance of their instructor, W. F. MacDon ald. Two Men Appear Before the Justice Raymond Garlock and Harold Brimmer were called before Justice of the Peace Oscar Weed Monday to answer charges. Garlock for operating a truck at night witnouit the proper lights was fined $5 and court costs of $2.50. Brimmer was operating a car without a driver’s license. His sentence was postponed until Friday, December 13. S. S. Lollipop Here Tuesday— The S. S. Lollipop, Shell Oil company show for youngsters, was in Vernonia Tuesday morning about 8:45. The “ship” mounted on a truck was parked near the Wash ington school where a clown and a magician performed for the chil dren. Lollipops were distributed to the members of the audience, fol lowing the show. Thursday Wet Day Records Show Weather report for the past week was released by the local weather men as follows: Thursday of last week showed on the records to be the wettest day wtih a precipitation of .92; Monday of this week was the driest day with a show of no precipitation. Monday was also the .fay to receive the highest degree of temperature when the maximum showed 57 degree«. Saturday show ed the lowest degree of temperature for the week with 33 degrees. Move Comes At Last Moment Revolving Fund to Be Set Up; Grocerymen to Be Notified WESTWARD HOI Great grandfather was a cruel man, His dark deeds tell the story. But he did them for a goodly cause, Not for fame or glory. He sold the old house under the hill, His father’s house before him, And traded the great bed for an ox, The bed where his mother bore him. He turned his hard face to the W est, He was deaf to her who plead; His only thought was the rolling land By the sea where the long trail led. He didn’t look back and he didn’t say why; But Grandma knew the reason, Goldenrod grew on the old home place And kept the old man sneezin’! —Peggy Hatfield The Club to Open Thurs. The Club, under the manager ship of H. C. McDonald, will re open its doors Thursday of this week. In connection with the beer parlon, which has been closed for over a year, Mrs. Harry Hall will operate a lunch counter. On Friday night at 8 o’clock, a grand opening will be staged. McDonald whose license was ap proved by the state commission re cently, formerly owned and oper ated a pool hall in Banks. He plans to move his family here after the first of the year. The decision of the Columbia County Welfare Board was revers ed Thursday when that group act ed to accept the Food Stamp Flan, motion for which died without a second at the meeting held Monday of last week. At the meeting held Th'ursdsy of that week, the plan was unanimously accepted by the group called together by Judge J. B. Wilkerson, chairman, pro teim. The stamp plan already in use in many counties in Oregon is one devised to aid in displacing surplus food products. The plan will aid farmers whose products can find no market and as a result provide the farmers more revenue. Grocerymen profit by the plan due to the fact that sales volume increases when persons on relief are permitted an opportunity to purchase needs through the regular grocery channel. The grocers will 'be notified soon concerning their ■part in the Stamp Plan. The $4500 now on the relief budget will be used to set up the revolving fund for the plan. Had not the plan been accepted that money would have gone to the gen eral fund, and due to. there being no provision made in the 1941 bud get for the plan, the chances for extension of the stamp plan to Co lumbia county would not have been likely. , Car Licenses Out This Week Oregon’s green and White 1941 license plates are now out from the secretary of state’s office, it was announced today. Those who send applications in by mail or those who make their applications ait the capitol building in Salem, or at either of the two branch offices in Portland, are receiving the new plates. The 1941 plates may not be plac ed on cars before December 15, Earl Snell, secretary of state, warn ed. Applications now coming in are being acted on at once, but it will be impossible to give later applica tions such prompt attention, due to the greater number received dur ing the perk period, Snell pointed out. Automobile owners also were reminded that the mail congestion during the Christmas rush period would slow up delivery of plates for late applications. Tri-County Rally To Be Held Here The TritCounty Rally of Christ ian churches will be held in Ver nonia, Tuesday, December 10. Min isters and delegates from Washing ton, Clatsop and Columbia counties will be present for the interesting program and noon pot-luck dinner. The rally is open to the public; Christian church members invite everyone to attend. State Crew Marks Highway The State Highway Crews were busy Saturday and Monday replac ing the yellow highway mark oh the surfaced road on highway 47 from Buxton to Vernonia. The newly colored lines were needed badly; the former stripes were practically invisible during a light fog and were not seen at all in the fogs expel ienced in this district during last week. Preacher Taken Ill Friday Charles Fogg, evangelist, who has been preaching services at the Evangelical church last week, was stricken ill Friday. He and his wife have been living in the church. Mr. E. J. Douglass heard a feeble call for help Friday evening When he was attending janitor duties at the church. He discovered Mr. Fogg in an extremely weakened state from loss of blood due to a hemorrhage which had suddenly without any known cause struck him. His wife being away at the time, the un fortunate gentleman was in a grave state by the time Mr. Douglass discovered him. A doctor’s atten dance revived the »evangelist suff iciently to warrant his being taken to Portland for hospitalization and observation. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Boss drove the couple to the hos pital. Mr. Scheuerman was unalble to take over the ministerial duties be cause of a recent attack ol the flu. It was necessary for Mrs. Fogg to bring here from Portland another preacher to give the Sunday ser vice. Wild Meat to Be Checked Sat State Patrolman Raleigh Wheeler will be at the Graves’ storage lock ers Saturday, December 7, to tag all game. All persons having wild game in the lockers should make it a point to be there some time during the day or should see to it that some other person is there with the key to the locker. The law requires that all game must be tagged after the close of the hunting season, Wheeler states. California Minister To Be Heard This Week Reverend Sickle of California will be holding special meetings at the Assembly of God churdh this week. The services will begin this Thursday night at 7:30 and will continue for the remainder of the week, meeting at the same hour. Everyone is welcome to the ser vices.
