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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1922)
MOUTHPIECE AdvertMW < Of the Of a ■ NEHALEM VALLEY ; Pay Roll Commi i. ,Le j h — i. - ’F VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1922 emonia to Stage Monster À Splendid tame For All Oregon I Whole State of Oregon Will Join in Jubilee Occasioned By Completion of Vernonia’s New Railroad. EXTRA EXCURSION TRAINS AT REDUCED RATES Ten Thousand Visitors from Abroad are Expected to Throng Our Streets Qpon This Day of all Days, to be Known Hereafter a »Vernonia Day.** On Saturday,September 9th, the Pepiest Celebration eve» held in Columbia County, will be staged i£ Vernonia. The whole state of Oregon his been reading about Vernonia and wanting to see this Fast Growing Cilv of many oppor tunities and their day is approaching, 10,000 visitors are praotically assured^for the big time. No such fete will again present itself. No City in the Northwest has more cause to ba Jubilant. No other location offers the Wonder ful opportunities; Vernonia is the “last of the frontier” The one remaining where one can “go West and grow up with the coun ry.” With ideal olimate, sconic beauties, fish ing, bunting, good soil, splendid farms, and millions upon millions of feet of standing timber to keep our Immense Mills sawing for a hundred years. The one Big opportun ity for men with money to build bouses, manufactures of wood products—all lines of industry—there is a crying de mand for every business that is in existence and tl o big word is‘Do it Now*. Fo* the laboring man: here is more work than can be done at present. Men are Wanted, The big Celebration of Sept. 9th. will demonstrate these facte |o thousands, but the big purpose is to make a noire over our new railroad. R é Volume 1, Number 2 There is another event to take place in Vernonia on the 9th. Mr. Keith President of the Kan sas City Coal and Coak Co. is in Oregon—His company is going to build in Vernonia one of the big Mills of the Northwest a 250.000 capacity mill to run two shifts. The State of Oregon re joices to see this Middle West Capital enter Oregon, It means work and money to thousands of Oregon men; it is only a starter to what will follow in the West ward move, To show Oregon« Appreciation, hundreds of Ore gon boosters are Coming to Ver nonia on “Vernonia Day’’ to demonstrate our joy to the Kansas City Timber man. Ex cursion trains will start leaving Portland early in the morning and return late at night. It will be a big day; a glorious day a day for the movie men to get some wonderful pictures Every City in Columbia County, will aid in entertaining the other Counties of the State. Last Sunday Thatcher, Forest Grove, came to Vernonia to play the home team. A large crowd was at the grounds and the game was interesting at each inning. The score was 1 to 0 in Vernonia’s fav^r and good individual plays were noted on each side. L. R. Stlger, with Mr. Burdick both of Portland, called Monday Mr. Stiger Is consulting Engine er of the firm of Stiger&Lincoln and he gave us some^new ideas coheering the proposed water system so badly needed in Ver- nohia. Mr. Stiger has offices in thffRy. Ex. bldg. Portland. D N. Crockett and wife, of Hillsboro returned to their home Saturday after a weeks camping here on t.ie river. Mr. Crockett holds a valuable buisness corner in Vernonia, and contemplates erecting a good block thereon in the near future. Back in '8f If you have loti to sell call at Eagle offico and list them, We In looking over an old paper can sell them in a few hours if printed in Vernonia in 1889, we you are not profiteering. Buy note that at that time it took ers enquire here every day; kut from 5 to 9 days for a letter to______________ ___ every ___ , habit of raising _ in „ price get from Vernonia to Buxton, day is uncalled for. We’ll sell That Joseph Van Blaricom then | th im. owner of *the townsite sold 8’ acres to the Vernonia Mill Co. j ---------------------- H. E. Peterson, of Peterson WWW The new Union High School building at Vernonia is nearing completion. It is a three story and basement, building situated in the best part of the city fay such an institution and the cost of completed buiMing will run over $30.000. Must Attend to This One splendid euggetion made by a Portland visitor this week la that Ver nonia must immediately ** Clean Up" Clear the etreet of old boards, boxes brick, cans, overalls, trash, weeds, etc. Shoo some home pride* We may be use to it here, but it ia disgusting to strangers and give us a black eye. Wont the School boys volunteer to aid in a clean up right away. It is very important and not much of a job. -—... < ■ - ww W«ww 'J St. Hobos, Ore, Aug. • Vernoni« Esgle / DparWr. Tbs St. Bebna Chamber of Cem- merve desires to compliment you UPOO the establishment of • uewspapet ia Vernonia, and we foal that it «ill be an «seet to the community there. It wit pat Vernonia in touch with other parta of the state and should result in settlors and capital coming to your thriving community. Wo also desire to compliment yo^ upon the-nice ap pearance of your paper and wish you every good luck. Aa a Chamber of Commerce we offer you and your community oar services. Very Truly, • John L. Storla, Executive Secretary. Pieuse Atteud Te it O Vernonia Church of ths Evan gelical Association Sunday Ser vices Preaching; 11 A. M. and Sunday School; 10A. M- Young Peoples Alliance;. 7P. M. Prayer meeting Thursday; 8 P. M. Choir Practice; Tuesday. 8 P.M. The postal lavs roqalrs OS to coilset the paper subscription. Many h.ve subscribed for the Eagle that bavn’t called yat to pay. It’s a little matter easily/ forgotten. Please call tab week so we can keep on sending you the paper. Some have sigped for triends living elsewhere. E. E. Mills and wife. Bureh Eifort and Lillian Lester have returned home. They report a Mr. Pennington and family of good time but Bureh bad a black Newberg spent the week end at eye. What's the matter, Buren- the Weed home. Mr. Pennington is President of Pacific College. The new garage sign just pain Mrs Jolly wassailed to Baker, ted by Mr. McLees for a local firm is the most attractive in Ore, last week, on account of the death and burial of her sister the country. for a saw mill with 8. J. Brown Bros., Hillsboro, was in Vernon- Mgr. That Willie Mellinger 1 b j ia this week. These people are 'x'ooooooo ths (.hampion Salmon fisher; selling many autosin this terri- Also that a stage route was in tory. and it is a firm that it is a ex stance from Cornelious to pleasure to deal with. Notic3 Vernonia, taking eleven hours their ads in this paper, to make the one-way trip. ' ---------------------- * s s - ■ - ■ | Among those who attended the Prof. E. A. Wilson whe will funeral of Mrs. Justice from be at the head of the grade Rainier were Henry Hall and schools in Vernonia arrived with wife and daughters Bertha. Mar- his family, this week. Mr, Wiison shall Ingoles and Alfred Hall, sees the need of so many houses —------ ——------ to rent or sell and will strive to Ora Honsinger, of St. Johns, interest an acquaintance in com- visited with Lee Hall’s family Ing here to build cottages for I over night last week. They were that purpose; a hundred are [ homestead neighbors in fend ’de « “ BANK OF VERNONIA | ! Oreille Co., Wn., 15 years ago. a*eeded. 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