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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1922)
Celebrating1 New Railroad and Industries. Attend Vernonia’s Monstrous Celebration, Saturday, Sept. 9. Wtwtiia -ww Volume 1, Number 4 VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1922 -■■■■ w— i. o ’ Advertising Medium °* ■ »W Pay Roll Community MOUTHPIECE ot th. NEHALEM VALLEY CAN YOU EQUAL THIS? An Enormous Yield of Fruit tit own at This Place. Are You not convinced by this time of th) necessity uf a State Highway, a Pavement the Inland Loop Highway, from Portland to Aetoria through Vernonia. From Vernonia to St Helene can now be easly paved too--Get busy before 1925. Vernonia is surrounded with greartfruit, agriCultual and dairy possibilities. Mr. H. D. Van Blaricon, one of Vernonia’s ‘old timers’* has just picked and sold 400 lbs. of Peach plumba off of One tree, here in Vernonia. Read it again. And they areeicept- tionally good fruit. BE GOLD SPORTS While the citv is taking "Alter” why not “Lignt, po ver and water” at the same time. Run the two as one. One man do both. Mills don I like to fool with city lights and power fees would piy for ensta'ling the water system. They wo k together fine, and all cities prove the light and power as the pay ing end. Might Learn From Athanlana. To have a grownup body of citizens In a town It la ««Mntlal that local loy alty, local Interest, locsl pride, aug mented by local service, be Inculcated ■nd assigned their tasks. WHy not recall the spirit and mode of snrlent Athens In her period of highest civic power and grace? The Athenian youth, on reaching his ma jority at eighteen yeara, was intrusted with s citizens weapons, the shield and spear. He took his citizen oath st a public meeting In the temple of IHonyslus, where solemn rites to Zeus slid the local divinities were observed In connection with a drama. Among the new Athenian clilzen pledges was this: “Not to leave my town In a worse hut In a better condition that. I found It."—Quincy U Wood, In the Chicago Dally New«. ■r » The open hunting season for buck deer with horns is now in effect, Aug. 20th. to Oct. 31. Bag limit, two such deer during the season. Be true sports; obey the law and nee that others do, or we will soon have no deer to hunt. At the rate the timber is going the deer laws need ob servance. No man with true sporting blood will hound deer into the open, The heated deer meat isn’t good and the game has no show with a pack of hogs. TAKE TIME TO “BURNISH U?” Juat • F.w Dollar« and a Llttla Labor Can Fraquantly Work Wondara Around Houaa. Many a man is keenly concerned «bout Illa personal appearance before the world, and yet perhapa a bit neg ligent in a sense over both the out ward and the Inward aa|>ect of hla home or eatate. Thia, however, la the season when everyone, even those who mny be considered among th« careless, turns a thought toward a bit of "burnishing up” around the home. '¡'tils thought of newness that Is born when the pussy willows are be Patunlaa Single and Doubla. ginning to carry their halls of fuzzy Bec ause uf the ease and facility with greenness, when the first robin Is which nil of th« single-flowered heard on the back fence, may even varieties of the petunia can he grown go ho far as to evolve plans for a from Heed, thia plant commands at complete overhauling of the spot one tention as a worthy candidate for the calls home. summer flower garden. The young Be It remembered, however, that plants grow rapidly and come Into a great deal mny he done oftentimes blootn early, and In addition to this for a small outlay of money. A few they furnish a continuous wealth of ! dollars Invested In paint, a necessary bloHSoma until destroyed by frost. The hoard or two, a small assortment of large flowered strains are very heautl- shrubbery, coupled up Io a bit of fui and of great variety. varnish, wall paper, etc., may go a For the best results the seeds of all long ways toward creating a more sorts should be sown In a gentle hot wholesome, cheery aspect whether one bed. coldframe, or In fine soil In a views Ills possessions from the ex Itut placed In a sunny window befora terior or the interior. or by the time freezing weather» la ovw —L’nlted States Department of Agriculture. i - M11 • NSSMSOMO^OISM ” 1 n 9 BANK OF VERNONIA; Council Orders Clean-up Week The fastest growing little towu in the Northwest. Ver nonia. with her farms, schools, many buisness con-j, The City Council has ordered a Clean-up Day for Wednesday, cerns, mills, logging industry August 30, next Wednesday. Have all trash, cans, paper, rubbish etc., in boxes, at the curb in front of your property, by ten o’clock and with one uf «he laigesl Wednesday morning, for the trucks to haul away. Begin piling a sawmills in the country underway; with t e new rail few days before. On S ipt. 20, 21, and 22 road just built and new high the Banks Dairy and Hog ways—Vernonia offers many men hold their annual show, opportunities. Better invest The premium list discloses igat) ond “get in now” Many some splendid prizes and the buisness establishments are entries are confng in satis needed. There is, among Men are busy clearing the site—slashing and burning, dozens „ need or a Laundry, factory. This year.s show and preparing for the big mill and 40 acre ponJ. Wh’.- a Jeweler, a bakery, a cheese prom it ea to be the best ever ten & Bryant have the contract. The mill will be of factory, a bath house, factor held, and one that will be largly attended from stock 250.000 capacity and run double shift.. ies for all wood products, a men all over the Northwest. pay roll town is always good, driven recklessy. It takes especially when backed by a If interested in purebreda. it a man to diive a machine in 'arm community as well. will pay one to attend. Pottce office» all over the l.he6e »‘">nuou, days * and 2000 more people in two yrs. tho8 who undertak it should We’ll Vouch for Vernonia— country agrees that a large number of drivers arrested Have 'heir whole attention Come and investigate a hun on the job. Reckless driving dred dwellings are needed. A canvas of stores in Vernonia for speeding in autos are is as u-ineccessary as it is shows, accurate figures, that young Allows who are taking 2000 loaves of bread are sold dangerous. their girls for a ride. A daily. Vernonia wants, and young driver, they say, take* wants badly, a bakery with a J. W= Shaver, of Portland pride in “stepping on the gas” visited old friends in Vernonia capacity of at least 2000 loaves To some not informed, We and seeing what the old boat last week. He also was present copy the few lines from the Ore. per day. Who will investigate will do. He likes to appear at the G. A. R. social and dinner Almanac which is considered on this style of buisness. in the eyes of the maiden at Saturday in the Grange Hall. quite conservative, Vernonia is surrounded by rich agricultural his sidp as a daring driver and timber belt. Dairying, stock who will take chances and raising, fruit growing, chief A lumber yard with lath, brick who can work his way in and crops oats, berries and hay. cement, tile and like material in A Laundry. out of traffic with ease. He High and Graded public school. A Bakery. plenty is the crying need in Ver is fond of creating hair Evangelical church. Grange A Jeweler. nonia. In stock for immediate A Bath House. Splendid trojt fishing and hunt breath escapes. Most Ver- delivery. The waiting is disgust I An Apartment House. ing in vicinity. nonia people recall that it ing. A Hospital. wasn’t bo very long ago th-t Chair and Furniture Factory. the young el low out to make Auto Agency. FOR S a LE- Sure! Bring ’Em to Luncheon. Manufacturers. From a photographer’s letter: “We an impression turned to th i Marble and Granite Dealer. employ some of the moat beautiful 20 Acres on main road only Mattress Factory. ex ct opposite of speed. girls in the city aa model«; girls with two miles from Vernonia, good Millinery. magnetic smiles and striking appear Nothing suited him better Photographer, ance. May I call on you with sam house, well & barn, fenced. Only than a tried and true Dobbin Music House. ples?"—Boston Transcript. 11300—Vernoia Realty Co. in I whose favorite gait was walk Plumber. Eagle office—Terms. Tailor. A horse that could bedih’en by wrapping the reins a- 9 lots for sale of fine gar- "ound the whip suit’d him den land rich sandy soil in exactly. Bit the joutlful ¡the north edge of town of lover of present days has no i Vernonia and on the north side of the Rock Cr ek road- such ideas They do not Wilburn Hall Vernonit. 3c mind paying a good sized bill A REA1 BUY. for breaking speed laws and 50 aero farm, half creek they enjoy handingover ‘hj bottom 22 a in cultivation, assessment in the presence I of the girl, as a sign they are 45 can be; creek through place “good spoits ” Which b all 6 miles from Vernonia. $2500 very well, except for one with terms. $3000 for place thing. An auto is an engine with stock and impla n mts of death an injury when Vernonia Realty Co. Wagon to Call For Trash—Have it Ready A Good Bank in A Good Town § Banking Hours, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m Open During Noon Hour Room For Big Bakery Official Information Wanted in Vernonia NOW .S’ The Best Made Sold on Merit Tampa, Cuba Clears The A. D. S. Remedies are the Best in the Drug Line. ,CS»' Prescriptions, Diuggists Sundries, Stationery, Etc. I Hog and Dairy Show in Neighboring Town Big Affair Times Have Changed We Handle Both f «5 Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner Lumber Quick