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2 THURSDAY, MAR 22, 1956 THE EAGLE. VERNONIA, ORE TOPICS OF THE TOWF Susan Koch of Forest Grove was a house guest of Sunny Leigh DeHart Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week while visit ing her many former classmates here. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Mc Kenney took her home Thursday evening. M. B. Steers Sr. returned Sat urday from Elgin where he had spent the past month at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M P. Kuehn. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kullander and her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Smith of Indepen dence spent last week end at Long Beach, Washington clam digging. Mrs. Marie Fraxee spent the week end in Portland with her daughter, Mrs. Larry Sutton. Dinner guests at the home of Mr and Mrs L. I. Wells Monday evening on the occasion of Mrs. Well's birthday were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Beck of Portland and her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wells of Vernonia. Miss Patricia Wells was also home from Oregon State college. FOOD SALE, Bush Furn. Sat.. March 24. Eagles Aux. Ilt2c Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lange and Mrs. Art Kittjeson called on Mr. Bums at Good Samaritan hospital in Portland Friday and found him improving slowly. Mrs. Tressie Michener of Port land was a guest last week at the home of Mr and Mrs. Lynn Mich ener. Mrs. Charlotte Moulton left on Tuesday for her home in Los j Angeles after a weeks visit here ! with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Poetter | and Mr and Mrs. Ed Poetter and their families. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Davis drove to Seattle last week end to ’ visit their daughter and family. Cleve Mellinger went io Clats kanie last Thursday to see his | brother Perry and found him up and around and much improved from his recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Garner were •foy Thmtre THURS.. FRI. MAR. 22 23 THREE STRIPES IN THE SUN _____ Aldo Ray - Phil Carey____ bATUKDAY MAR. 24 AIN'T MISBEHAVIN Rory Calhoun - Pipe Laui ie_ SUN.. MON. MAH. 25 26 ARTISTS AND MODELS Dean Martin - Jerry Lewis Hours Lost In Minutes! IT takes many an hour and many a dollar io build an automobile . . . but, in one tragic mom ent. it can be destroyed and worse still, your sav ings may be lost too in a lawsuit. Let us provide you with complete Automobile In 1 surance. VERNONIA INSURANCE Bill J. Horn. Agent Phone HA 9-6203 — Vernonia 905 Bridge Street in Longview Sunday at the home of Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Cole. Also there were the Cole's daughter and husband. Mr and Mrs. Rod Aschenbrenner, and two children from The Dalles and their son Bob, who was on vacation from University of Washington, Seattle, where he is a senior. The Garners found Mrs. Cole very much im proved and making steady gains toward recovery from her serious illness of last year. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Shipman Sunday were her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Davis from Clatskanie. Patricia Hickman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickman who is a sophomore at Lewis and Clark college in Portland spent last week, which was spring vaca tion, in Los Gatos, California with a friend. She is .expected home this week end. Guests who were at the home of Mr. and Mrs A L. DeHart dur ing the past week end were Mr. and Mrs. T. L. DeHart and daugh ter Sunny Leigh, Master Sergeant and Mrs. Ervin Meiers and daugh ters from Fort Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. DeHart Jr. from Port land and Mr. and Mrs. Lester De Hart and family from Bay City. Lester brought news that he will be principal of the elementary school at Bay City next year. Mrs. Frank Lange had a sur prise visit Monday from her cou sin, Ed Forgard of Cutler City. He had recently returned from a trip to California and plans an other trip east in the near future. Joyce Akers. Pai Lloyd and Bill Higley spent last week from Tuesday to Sunday here with their families while Oregon Col lege of Education at Monmouth was having spring vacation. This week, students from sev eral schools are here for spring vacation as follows: Pete Norris, Anne Cameron and Jim Sozoff, University of Oregon. Eugene; Dick Gwin, Mike Grady, Wayne Aldrich and David Strong, Ore gon Technical Institute, Klamath Falls; and Ken Nanson, Pat O'Brien, Margaret Buckley, Har riet Heath, Patricia Wells and Bobby Rose from Oregon State college, Corvallis. Ken Nar.son was named in Sunday's Oregonian among play ers to receive basketball awards for the season just completed at Oregon State college. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Davis made a week end trip to Bend to visit I Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dyer and family. Their two months old twin boys now weigh 5 and 6 I pounds and are progressing nice ly. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Reeder arc the parents of a son born March 7 at Tuality Community hospital at Hillsboro. FOOD SALE, Bush Furn. Sat., March 24. Eagles Aux. 1112c Mr. and Mrs. Pete Raney and children visited from Monday till Thursday at the home of his sister and family, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Ralph Hartman at Seaside. A. L. Argo, pastor of the First Baptist church here will go to Renton, Washington tomorrow to be guest speaker there that even ing at a father and son banquet. Mrs. Harry Junken is able to be up again and is much improved from her recent illness. A baby boy. Mark David, was born to Mr and Mrs. Wm. Car michael Saturday, March 17, at the Lloyd home. He weighed in at 7 pounds, 8 ounces and joins two sisters and a brother. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs Louis Carmichael of Vernohia and Mr and Mrs. David Forrest of Brisbane, Australia. Mrs. Paul Gordon was at Sil verton last Saturday night to attend a reception for Merle La mar, Grand Adah of the Grand chapter of Oregon, OES Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Weed made a trip to Eugene last week end to visit Mrs We d's mother, Mrs Alice Meats. They were joined there by their son Chester of Myrtle Point who had driven to Corvallis to take his son Bob home from Oregon State college for spring vacation. Miss Lenora Kizer of Portland DR. L. M. CROSSAN CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN X-RAY — PHYSIOTHERAPY Hours: Daily 9-6 p.m. Except Tues. 9-12 Noon Sat. 9-4 p.m. GENERAL PRACTICE BY NATURAL METHODS 2nd and Bridge Street son are --------- Phone HA 9-6303 visited at Washington grade school Monday and stayed over night with Mrs Mabel Graves, leaving for her home Tuesday morning. Miss Kizer taught at Washington grade school for a number of years before her re tirement. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McDonald of Baker visited Friday afternoon and Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Killingsburg and other friends here. Miss Gretchen Bolmeier made a trip to San Jose, California during spring vacation to visit Carole Anne Brown who former ly lived here. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Horn of Spokane visited from Friday un til Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hom and family. From here they went to Everett. Washington before returning home. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindsay Sunday evening were three couples from Portland from a group known as the Epworth- lans. They had all formerly worked together in the young peoples group at the Rose City Methodist church and now keep in touch with monthly get-to gethers. Miss Betty Knoll spent several days this week here with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. F. M. Knoll, while Cascade colleg“, Portland, was having spring va cation. Mrs. H. J. Peasnall of Astoria is spending this week here witn her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Schwab and family. Persons presenting tickets at Brunsman Hardware this week that matched th os'’ drawn last Saturday were Jack Bergerson, Katherine Foster and Jayne Sher man. National Minimum Wage Not for Agriculture The recent change in the na tion's minmium wage law does not have any direct effect on ag riculture, reports Don Coin Wal- rod, county extension agent. Because of the volume of labor hired in harvesting crops in this area, many farmers have felt con cerned over this matter and have been seeking information from the extension office. Agricultural workers are ex cluded from the provisions of the minimum wage law at the present time. Last week Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Elliott Sr., had as their guests Mrs. Robert Brady and children of Lebanon and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams and son, Bobby, of Port Angeles, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott had the pleasure of having all their children and grandchildren to gether for the first time. Fred Heckenliable is at the Veteran’s hospital in Portland where he has been for observa tion and treatment for the past two weeks. Mrs. Heckenliable is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Harold Schell at Aloha so as to be able to visit with him at the hospital more easily. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Meyer and family visited at Tacoma last week end with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Bergerson and family. Ben Fawler. Ben Sharar. Oscar Weed, Oren Weed and Bob Wy ckoff attended the meeting of Avon lodge, Knights of Pythias, at St. Helens Tuesday evening. Ben Fowler, chancellor com mander of Harding lodge, acted as prelate for degree work. DATES TO REMEMBER Birthday Party Honors Mrs. Bessie Spofford THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Mt. Heart Rebekah lodge—IOOF Last Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Harvey Redmond a hankie party was held honoring the birthday of Mrs. Bessie Spof ford. Co-hostess for the party was Mrs. Harry Hall. Rob-bingo was played before the refresh ments of coffee and cake were served. Many lovely cards and hankies were received by Grandma hon oring her day. Present were Mesdames L. Walker, H. Huas, J. Lusby, G. Laird, M. Brimmer, T. Bateman, C. New, O. Vike, and hostess’s H. Hall and H. Red mond. Unable to attend but send ing gifts were mesdames J. Cox, H. Hamnett, E. Poetter and M. Steers. hall, 8:00 p.m. OES district meeting — Nehalem chapter and Wabanang chapter at Clatskanie. Football-Basketball banquet — Legion hall, 6:30 p m. FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Neighbors of Woodcraft hand craft club — Home of Mr. and Mrs. Lankston, 8:00 p.m FOE and Auxiliary — Eagles hall, 8:00 p.m. Stamp club —City hall, 7:00 p.m. Cub Scout pack meeting—Wash ington grade school, 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Easter lily sale — Rainbow Girls, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Food Sale — Bush Furniture. Eagles Auxiliary. MONDAY, MARCH 26 Chamber of Commerce board of directors — West Oregon of fice. 8:30 p.m. Lions club dinner meeting—VFW hall, 7:00 p.m. Knights of Pythias — IOOF hall, 8:00 p.m. TUESDAY. MARCH 27 VFW Auxiliary — VFW hall, 8:00 p.m. Odd Fellows — IOOF hall, 8:00 p.m. Chapter BS, PEO Sisterhood— Home of Mrs. Paul Gordon, 8:00 p.m. Columbia County 8 et 40 — Ver nonia. Legion hall, 8:00 p.m. National assembly program — Washington school, 2:30 p.m. Science program, “Up and Atom.” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 Natal Grange — Natal hall, 8:00 p.m. VFW — VFW hall, 8:00 p.m. Pythian Sisters — IOOF hall, 8:00 p.m. Balloting; drawing for grocery basket. Nehalem Social Club, OES — Home of Mrs. Harry Culbert son, 8:00 p.m. Boy Scouts — City park cabin, 7:00 p.m. Fault-finders usually carry a microscope with them, but they seldom look in the mfrror. Sell it with an Eagle Want Ad. Phone HA 9-3462 NEHALEM VALLEY MOTOR FREIGHT O BIGGEST CAB Extra Room For Extra Comfort O HIGHEST V-8 HORSEPOWER- TO-WEIGHT RATIO... 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