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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1922)
ast Call! To the Secretaries of Lodges Fire Companies Big Bargain Sale Ends SATURDAY AND ALL OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HIS paper has a plan which we think will be helpful and also save expense » i f I T to your organization. Postal cards cost one cent each, and in addition to the cost of printing it takes a great deal of your time to address these cards for mailing. Why not advertise your meetings in the newspaper like sample advertisement below? This advertisement you can insert in this paper for $1.00 for one issue. Oftentimes you cannot reach your members through the mail because the time is too short. With the newspaper you can reach them the same night. Everybody reads it and they would look for these advertisements. We think this plan will save you money, and we are sure it will save you a great deal of labor. If the organizations in this city join this plan it will be a great success and it will relieve all the secretaries of a great deal of work. Won’t you bring this matter before your association and have some action taken? ALL NEW GOODS Portland Prices Beat I Come and see our New Store» the most up-to date store building in Vernonia. Sample DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA This Sale is Inaugurating Our New Building An important meet ing will be held in the Lodge Rooms % Boots, Shoes, Suits, Suit Cases, Bags, Dry Goods « WEDNESDAY EVENING, I •< 8 o'clock Every member is urged to be present. We outfit the whole family. t Vernonia Mm JOHN JONES, Secretary Items From Sitts lew Mrs. Jack Baldrich accom panied her. Jim A am«. spent Monday night at the Sitts hotel, George Rockwell was our town recently. seen in Mr. and Mrs Peters made a flyinz trio up the Creek Satur day stopping at the Sitts hotel. Mr. Moon went to Portladd Sat urday to visit hia wife. Mrs Sitts served supper for tv -n y o is laborers who came in on the evening train Monday. Mrs. Bennie Baldrich returned (rm Ptrtland and her aiater-in- Support Legislative Nominee Mr. Fairhurst the Depot, agent The Republicans of Columbia at K^asev is nicdy settled in the connty should vote unanimously new depot. for A. E. Veatch, the Repub lican nominee for representative. Mr. Bigelow is finishing a nice Mr. Veatch was nominated in four room Cottage for the sec the primary after a al^an cam- i tion boss. paign. Mr. Miles, his Demo Guthrks Comp, moved out of cratic opponent, has served one town last week for Banks Ore. term in the legislatur?. The record shows that Mr. Miles Did you see where they put voted for practically every bill Station agent Oxhy? Looks like which increased salaries of state, a chi«tken house, hut it’s his tem and county officials, as well as porary depot. Just wait untill other bills which have increased Mr, Veatch the splendid new station is fin- taxes in this state. was nominated on a tax-reduc iahad. tion pl tform, and proposes to abide by hi« platform. Mr, Miles has no claim whatever up on any republican for his sup port. On the contrary Mr. Veatch is entitled to the vote of every Repbulican in Columbia conty. We are Coming With a Complete Line of Furniture Undertaking Stock Watch These Columns for ad. Mrs, T. S. Grant of Portland sia’er of Mrs. W. Coyle visited her one day last week. . AND ♦ Vernonia Furniture i> The Nehalem Valley is as a 'unit favoring good roads, and 1 and the more good roads, the better for all of us. From Ver nonia up by Pebble Creek, past the Pisgah home and into Scap poose i a a “shortcut” About seven miles only is necessary to | build. The grade is good, no canyons -on the ridge all the way. Scappoose, they tell us, is also desirous of opening this road. I k Scappoose Road wd Undertaking Co All Columbia county, all towns and cities in our coun- y;* realize., a nek .declare that Vernonia precinct is entitled to come represent tion. Pringle, of Vernonia, ia a candidate for county com missioner, and he is entitled to election. The Economy Store Taxes and the Vernonia Governor When a candidate for the high office of governor bases his candidacy on certain claims and promises as to what he will do if dected, the public is entitled to have his claims analyzed and examined. > r In this campaign, Walter Pierce has gone about the country melo-dramatically tearing tax bills in two by way of illustrating what he will do to taxes if elected. The voter, then, should analyze the tax mat ter to the extent of becoming informed as to just what part the governor plays in imposing or reducing taxes. In the first place, the voter should know that the total levy In Oregon for 1922 is $40,473,908. This 12 a reduction of over $1,500,000 from last year, so that it will be seen the high cost of government following the war is already reced ing. Of this 1922 levy of 40 million, over 31 mil lion was for county, city and school district purposes, over which the governor could have no possible control whatever. Of the remaining 9 million for state purposes* only S54 million are taxes over which the legis lature has any discretion, and of this amount only 2Va million are for the actual expenses of state government and might, therefore, in even the remotest degree, be charged to the methods employed by the governor in administering the state’s affairs. In passing, it should be noted that this state levy is an increase of 41 per cent, since 1916, and not several hundred per cent, as stated on various occasions by the democratic candidate. It should also be noted that less than half of this 41 per Cent occurred daring Mr. Olcott’s administration. This ability to keep down the cost of the state government to so small an increase, when living expenses in the ordinary home in the same period increased over 100 per cent. Is a most creditable showing. MR. PIERCE'S TAX RECORD It is proper at this point to examine Mr. Pierce's own record on taxes and see if past actions as a legislator square with his words. Of the $2,378,289 of state taxes for 192% which include the millage taxes, MR. PIERCE SPECIFICALLY HAS APPROVED OF $8,264,038, ar 99 per cent He had no chance at mo|t of the other 8 per cert. Of the 1922 stats taxes. Pierce introduced bills accounting for $1,429,126, or IS per cent Tn addition to thia, he voted for tax bills introduced by others to the amount of $6,11%. 109, and he has given his public approval bn numberless occasions of measures passed since he was returned from the legislature causing taxes amounting to $1,020,804, making a total • of state taxes approved by Pierce of $8,564,088. or 92 per cent of the total 1922. There is no telling how much of the remainder he might have approved if he had had a chance, and it may be significant that the state taxes have decreased over 11 per cent since Mr. Pierce was retired from the State Senate. Mr. Pierce has always been a consistent tax booster. He voted against only three per cent of all the appropriations of the 1919 session at the legislature and voted for all the appropdg- tions of the 1920 special session. In 1917 Mr. Pierce introduced a bill to exempt money, notes, mortgages and accounts from taxation. Yet he poses as being anxious to take the burden off real estate! ■ - He voted for submission of $400,000 bond Issue to build a new penitentiary. Mr. Olcott, at no TAX expense and with prison labor, has fixed up the old penitentiary In excellent shape far another 28 yean. ' 1 Mr. Pierce voted against accepting road ma chinery from the government. That machtlnery now amounts in value to $1,800,000. GOVERNOR OLCOTT’S RECORD The above are but a few of the extravagances of Pierce. Mr. Olcott, cn the other hand, has conducted the business of the state in an eco nomical, sane and business-like manner* He has saved Hie state thousands of dollars became of his level-headedness and his intimaM krtowt- edge of state affairs. Hs built a ne* Boys* Industrial School Building by diversion of a millage fund, and therefore, without a single cent additional tax. He has insisted upon devel opment of the various state farms connected with the state institutions until the present year shows the unprecedented income from this source of $491,511. He it no talker, no politi cian, no idle promiser and is not seeking re-elec tion under false pretenses nor catering to preju dice, but is going to the people on hia Own splendid record, confident that if he can but get that record and Mr. Pierce’s record before the voters of Oregon that he will be vindicated on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 7th. * MK Vote for Olcott for GOVERNOR REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE WALTER L. TOOZE, Chairman. Paid Advertisement C. E. INGALLS, Secretary. r