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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
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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
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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.
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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
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