Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1944)
4 Thursday, May 25, 1944 Early Pioneer Called by Death MIST — Our community was saddened' last week by the pas sing of an early pioneer and dearly loved resident of the val ley. Mrs. A. M. Berg, who passed away Wed. night or early Thur3. morning. She passed away in her sleep. Her grand daughter called her and receiving no answer, caller her father Robert Berg, Grandma Berg was 81 last Feb. 10th. While she had not been feeling well for some time, she was quite active and was the gayest one at her birthday party every year. She had made her home on the Fish Hawk for over two score of years, we do not know just how many. Left to feel her loss are three daughters, Mrs. May Millis, Mrs. Winnifred Hult of Horton and Mrs. Ellen Lundquist of An aconda, Montana. Two sons, Rob ert of Birkenfeld, Russel of Calif, one brother here, H. Jepson and some relatives in Denmark, be sides several grandchildren and many friends who esteem her highly. She was a kind and helpful neighbor, one you felt better for having known her. To know her was to love her. She lived a long life and a good life. Funeral services were held here Sunday in the little church at Mist. Then she was taken to the cemetary on the Fish Hawk where her husband, who proceed ed here in death several years ago, also lies at rest. Students Take Office Monday Installation of the high school officers was held Monday after noon at an assembly period. The installation was made by the re tiring president, Max Millis, who swore in Douglas Culbertson as president for the coming year. Douglas Culbertson in turn then installed his officers who were: vice-president, Jack Nance; sec retary, Shirley Ray; treasurer, Phyllis Bonislaw; and business manager, Mary Beth Lish. Also at this assembly the sen ior class presented Mr. McCrae with a large picture. Furniture Needed For Service Center Vernonia Eagle Farewell Party Given Family MlisT — A farewell party was given the Don Hall family, Sat. night by the community people in the gym. There was quite a large gathering and the evening was spent in sociability, dancing and music. A beautiful lamp was presented to the Halls by the peo ple of the vicinity. The president of the Mist Helping Circle pre sented the gift, following a poem written and read by Mrs A. Dow ling especialy for the occassion. A delicious lunch was served by the Circle. The Halls are leaving this week end for Morton, Washing ton, were Mr. Hall has bought a tie mill. He’s already at work over there. Carl Creape moved his house hold goods from the village to Clatskanie last week. Mathews bros, sent ■ a truck load of lumber over to Scappoose Monday for Lloyd Lynch's new barn. Mrs. Roy Hughs is painting the interior of her house. L. Wickstrom is working for Hughs and Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hughs enter tained the following guests on Mother's Day: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mathews, Mr. and Mrs- Don Hall, Mrs. Maude Rogers from Vernonia, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lynch from Scappoose. Mrs. Austin Dowling and Mrs. Earl Roper were shopping in Ver nonia Tues. Miss Elizabeth Siefkin was a guest of her sister Mrs. Donald Sundland several days last week. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Ross and an uncle from Portland visited the former's daughter, Mrs. C. 0. Hayden Sun. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McGee was a guest from McMinnville recently of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McGee. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jones are vacationing from Lookout duties on. Benson’s lookout for a week or ten days. Henry Kleaver returned from Portland last week, where he has been in the hospital several weeks, from an operation. Legal Notice Notice of School Election Up on Question of Increasing Tax Levy Over Amount Limited by Section 11, Article XI, State Constitution. Notice- is hereby given that an election will be held in Stehoo] District No. 47 Jt. of * Columbia County, State of Oregon, at It is hoped that the Columbia Washington grade school, Ver Service center will be opened nonia, Oregon, in said district, Memorial Day, May 30, in St. for the purpose of submitting to Helens but in order to do this the legal voters of said district the center is in need of furni-~ the question of increasing the ture such as chairs, davenports, tax levy for the year 1944-45 tables, lamps or anything that over the amount limited by sec will be suitable for the comforts tion 11, article XI, of the Consti of the service' men. tution of Oregon. The local Legion Auxiliary The reasons for increasing will be in charge of the dona such levy are: tions made from Vernonia and Our base is large enough only people who are interested in do to operate a rural school. nating are asked to get in touch The amount of tax, in excess with Mrs. Harry Culbertson. of the 6r/r limitaion, proposed to be levied for said year is $42,988.33 GETS NEW PAINT JOB Dated this 23 day of May, The local theatre building is receiving a new coat of paint 1944. LEE SCHWAB this week. The building is being Attest: painted white with blue trim. The District Clerk R. A. BRAMBLETT work is being done by Geo. C. Chairman Board of Directors Clark, contractors. Money spent for War Bonds goes to the front. Sometimes it provides spectacular equipment like planes, oft times it buys a runty donkey like this American soldier is taking ashore in Italy. The quicker your dollars go into action, the sooner it will be over. Buy More War Bonds. U. S. Trtatury Dtpartmtni Monotony on A Ranch Rona Morris Workman Vernonia, Oregon I have a friend in the big city who, when she heard we had bought a ranch in the valley, cried, “But, my dear! How will you enduro it there? Life will be so monotonous.” She may have been sincere in her anxiety, but she didn’t know ranch life. Mon otony? It’s anything else but. Anybody on a ranch who can prophesy what the next hour will bring is a better clairvoyant than I am. You will find a humming bird building a nest in the honey suckle vine by the woodshed door, and half an hour later the pedigreed “little boy bull” gets into the yard and horns down yocr lovely Japanese—excuse me- -Oriental maple. A hen, who has hidden her nest comes off with a dozen golden balls of fluf fy down, and twenty minutes later you find the rats have eat en three of them, so you give battle with rat bombs and strafe ’em with poison gas. You gloat over the first mess of fresh gar den greens, and discover that the bugs are blitzing your toma- tce plants, and you charge into the fray with a rotenone gun. A new curly-headed, white-f icc.i baby is born to one of your Herefords, and you have barely returned from rdmiring it, wivn an, uproar in the barnlot brings you on the gallop to find that a temperamental cow has run into a carelessly upturned plow-share and cut a gash in her side. You rush to the scene with your sew ing kit-gold thimble and all— and, after the men have snubbed the patient to the corral post, you do a master job of surgery with a darning needle and a length of cord. And so it goes. Monotony on a ranch. There ain’t no such thing. Believe me, I know. Things become monotonous to us only when we cease to take an inteiest in them. If you go thru the routine tasks which to a great extent fill the life of every one, particularly on a farm, see ing only the dull face of duty, of course such tasks become wear isome through the sameness of your perception. If you feed the Buy an EXTRA bond today! Nehalem Dairy Product» Co. Vernonia Di»tributcrs ACMf MEWCilfS, Sas Preselle» chickens with no thought but of how many eggs they will pro duce, you are liable to become bored, even if you aren’t disap pointed. But even hens, which I personaly consider the dumbest of farm creatures, have their own individual characteristics. At times they can even be amusing. Try looking with interest at your flock sometime, and I’ll wager that the task of feeding and tending them will lose at least a portion of its dullness. Hoeing your garden, weeding, even thinning carrots and onions, can be made amusing and thot- provoking instead of sweaty, boresome drudgery. Think about them. How do those tiny seeds know that they are to be carrocs or onions? How do they draw their nourishment from the soil; how select the thing they need from the earth and light and air? Your mind will be led into ever-widening channels of thot, yoer task will bring you close to the deep heart-secrets of Nature, and by the 'time you reach the end of the row you will not only have your carrots or onions thinned out properly, you will have “voyaged on strange seas of thought”. I sometimes think that farm women seldom realize how close they are to life. Too often they feel isolated. They think of life only in terms of living, of cities, towns masses of people. Yet life, real life, pulsating, eager, glow ing, lies all about them and comes to frujtion under their touch, partakes of their vitality. Of some people we say ‘they have a green thumb’, because all plant life responds to their touch. They have that power because of their keen interest. You give of your self when you are really interest ed, and life responds fully, rich ly- No one can do any task well in which he is net interested. Yet nothing is uninteresting. It is on ly that you are uninterested. An interest can be cultivated. The more you learn of anything, the longer you can contemplate it with a seeing mind, the greater becomes your understanding of the life within it. And, on a farm you are of r»al importance. In a crowded city you are only one of many an atom among a million other atoms. On a farm you hold the rod of life and death. Through your command and the labor of your hands, seeds grow into fruit and flowers and long green rows of fresh vegetables. Lir, comes to fields and pastures; to colts and calves, tiny pigs and soft downy chicks and ducks be gin their, life cycles, and their growth and welfare rests with you. Monotonous? How can days v _ Assembly of Gcd Church At the* Churches Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall und- . er the direction of G. W. Bell, branch president and Van Bailey, superintendent. St. Mary’s Catholic Church Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 11:00—Children’^ church.- l-t- 6:30—Young people’s Christ Ambassadors service. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30 Wednesday evening—Mid week service. 7 :30 Friday evening—People’s meeting. Evangelical Church Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. J. H. Goodrich Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first • Sunday in month—Mass at 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. Seventh Day Adventist Church Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devo tional service. Sermon by district leader— third Saturday of each month A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. First Christian Church —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school. M. L. Herrin, superintendent. Classes for all. 11:00—Morning communion and preaching. Sermon by A. C. Bates. 12:30—Pot-luck dinner at church 7:30—Evening communion and preaching by Mr. Bates. 7:30 Wednesday evening—Pray er meeting. so filled with life and all the in cidents of living be called dull or wearisome? You will never find them so if you learn to reach out from yourself and lay your finger on the throbbing pulse of that which exists be neath your hands. Try it. Again I can say, “I know.” —Rev. Allv-n H. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sunday school. 11:00 — Morning worship service! 7:00—Junior En deavor and Evan gelical Youth Fellowship meet ing. • 8:00 P. M. — Evangelistic set- vice. 8:00 P. M. Thursday — Bible study and prayer meeting. This Sunday at 11:00 o’clock the morning woship service will be conducted by the Rev. Paul B. Petticord, district superin tendent. At 2:15 the fourth quarterly conference will be held. Friday evening, June 2, at 6:30 p.m., the monthly church fellowship supper will be giv en. FILM REVIEWED AT BATTLE FRONT The Bing Crosby film,“Going My Way,” had its world premiere in New Guinea near an Ameri can hospital with an audience of American nurses and sick and wounded soldiers, the Australian: news and information bureau re ports. A microphone was taken through the audience and the re cordings made of individuall o- pinions will be used when the film has its American premier. Similiar premieres are to be re corded in all war theaters where American troops are in action. 1 LUMBER—Wholesale and Retail See my bargains in kiln dried lumber at $12 per M and up. Open Saturday 8 a.m. to noon. ■i €. ISEIUCE q H NEW AND USED PARTS Expert Auto Repairing Gas and Oil Open at 7:30 A.M.; Closed at 7:30 P.M. WE CLOSE ALL DAY SUNDAY LYNCH AUTO PARTS Phone 773 RIVERVIEW NOTICE OF BUDGET MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIViEIN that the budget committee of the City of Vernonia, Columbia Yk0,1211^’ °Je«on» a municipal corporation, has filed in the office of the levying board, to-wit: the City Council of said city, its detailed estimate of the total amount of receipts, and also the total amount of money proposed to be raised by taxation and expended by said municipal cor poration for all purposes for the period from July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, which estimates are as follows: Actual for year ended Dec. 31»t 1-1.-42 to 6-30-42 1941 7-1-42 to 6-30-43 Current Year Actual for First For year Six months Fund and Classification 1 ^stimate*: Recorder: Salary ..................... $ 1200.00 Supplies .......................... 50.00 Treasurer: 350.00 150.00 630.00 325.00 660.00 Salary ............................ . 660.00 16.79 5.00 Supplies ........................... ..... 5.00 / Attorney: 210.00 105.00 402.50 210.00 420.00 Salary ............................ 420.00 20.00 10.00 Legal Service ............... Building & G-ounds: 37.54 18.48 42.81 38.02 50.00 Personal Service ................ 50.00 479.10 180.99 732.47 665.11 800.00 Other Expense .............. 800.00 77.98 24.84 48.14 2.00 50.00 50.00 Elections & Publication 140.53 200.00 200.00 Audit ............................... .. 200,00 Police Department: 2908.80 1896.40 4041.80 2279.29 4375.00 Personal Service ........ 4375.00 182.45 52.29 92.08 12.73 200.00 Other Expense .............. .. 200.00 Fire Department: 75.00 34.00 117.25 100.00 Personal Services .......... .. 150.00 3.27 25.45 22.75 50.00 Other expense'.............. 1600.00 Street & Sewer: 554.24 28.35 392.75 104.60 150.00 Personal Service ......... 150.00 1484.89 1615.03 2054.52 818.11 1250.00 Oiher Expense 3000.0J Miscellaneous: Library: 420.00 240.00 510.00 270.00 540.00 Personal Service .. 540.00 145.81 76.34 68.53 17.46 125.00 Supplies .................. .. 125.00 50.00 10.00 70.00 50.00 60.00 Health Officer ............ 60.00 643.35 100.00 213.50 272.50 400.00 Park ................................. 500.00 173.98 44.26 443.30 237.29 770.00 Cemetary ........................ . 500.00 305.37 Airport ............................ 148.84 75.00 292.44 90.00 225.00 City Dump ............. . . 225.00 41.18 28.24 15.00 League Dues ................ .... 15.00 Bonds. Fire Ins. & 183.95 144.62 210.69 65.46 250.00 Accident Ins............... . 250.09 815.23 180.66 143.37 5.56 1200.00 Emergency ..................... 1000.00 WATER DEPARTMENT: 1676.40 898.20 2021.40 1135.70 2187.50 Water Sup’t. salary 2500.00 1260.00 660.00 975.00 525.00 1050.00 Collector’s salary ....... 1200.00 4241.92 1331.82 2143.80 1000.90 2750.00 Supplies, maintenances 2500.00 1500.00 1500.00 1500.00 1500.00 1500.00 Sinkina- fund ........ 1500.00 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS: 2764.41 1253.87 2946.34 1119.35 2400 00 Fines & licenses .. 2400 00 12723.98 6153.24 11968.98 6273.03 11000.00 Water rentals 11000 00 1065.33 396.50 1745.18 600.00 750.00 Rents & sale of pronertv 750.0(1 6292.42 Delinquent tax ....... 763.25 95.96 439.97 226.30 200.00 ^i*c. . 300 00 165.87 35.62 193.17 116.25 150.00 Cemeterv ............ 200 on 306.98 84.80 359.81 300.00 Dog & Liquor tax 300.00 11014.50 Cash on hand ........ 13375.00 TOTAL BUDGET 23,825 00 TOTAL ESTIMATED RECEIPTS 28.325.00 AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY DIRECT TAX none And notice is hereby given that the said City Council of said city sitting es a levying board, will hold a meeting in the city hall in the City of Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon, on Mon day evening. June 5, 1944, at the hour of 8:00 o’clock p. m.. at which time and place all per sons who shall be subject to such tax levy, when the same shall be made, may appear and te heard in faver or against said tax levy, or any part thereof. Dated this 15th day of May, 1944 ATTEST: Loel Roberts, Recorder George W. Johnson. Mayor $ 420.00 62.30 $ 240.00 18.70 $ 990.00 31.58 $ 525.00 24.20 $ 1050.00 50.00 V a