Pertumia r< entered 7' r* aecond-tlaM matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, nnder the Act of March 3, 1H79 VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1922 Volume 1, Number 15 MOUTHPIECE of me NEHALEM VALLEY Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner Advertising Medium or • Big Pay Roll Community ’Vernonia Decides For Greater Progress Marvelous Growth is Now Assured VOTES BIG FOR WATER, LIGHT AND POWER / Mayor While is Chosen For Second Term—Ne halem Valley to be Electrified urer, Hoff 67, Touvelle 190. Supt., Churchill 91, George 160. For State representa tive, Miles 106, Veatch 71. For County Commissioner, Miller 71. Pringle 243. Con stable, Fowler 167. The Compulsory School Bill, yes 204. no 68. Wm. Pringle, a Nehalem Valley man of 40 years resi dence, ran well in this pre cinct. Mr. Pringle put up a good clean campaign and won many friends who work ed for his electiou with un tiring efforts. THE BEST WAY TO I wish to thank tny neighbors Ven.--.ua held it’s first smok- BUILD A GOOD er to a capicity house at Verno and friends for the generous and nia Hail, Saturday, Nov. 4th. unsolicited support given me at CITY ANY PLACE Mr. Dow is to be congratulated the election, Nov. 7, and tru9t Smoker Well Attended for presenting so good a card that with the able assistance of ard says he will improve it if the the worthy Councilmen chosen public take an interest in good to serve with me that we will be clean shows of this kind. Gus able to give you an administra Hanson of St. Piul., Minn,, gave tion reflecting credit to ourselves a very interesting lecture on and resulting in much good for physical culture before the bout, the weilfare and prosperity of which was appreciated by the our city. Sincerely Yours. auidience. Both men entered Chas. D. White the ring the picture of physical health. Red Hill, the local boy long and sinewy museled while Mr. C. W. Louden, who rec Hanson was short muieled and ently returned from travels all looked the stronger. Hanson over Oregon, flattered us by tell won first fall after 27 minutes of ing us that the Vernonia Eagle fast wrestling with a far arm is doing more for the Nehalem and bar armhold. Hill wen sec than any other agency ever did ond fallin 20 minutes with a or can dol He says down as far wrist lock. Hill won 3rd fall as Ashland and east of the and the match with the wrist mountains they are enquiring a- lock. The match was fast, both bout the Nehalem and the city By phone today we learn men showing remarkable indur of Vernonia, asking about things that Win. Pringle lost in the ance. Both men held good holds they have seen in the Cagle. Commissioner race by only which looked like a sure fall only Practically every paper in the 158 votes ; aud in Rainier, to be broke i. Chet Dustin and state has copied Vernonia articles John Hall put up a very good 3- where he received a good round b >ut to a draw. Dashing from th a Eagle. Ihl3 informa- I tion do’ant swell us beyond the majority, many of the voters Erich and Coiey were real good belief that it is entitled to all the voted for a dark horse can and we would like to see these boosting due her, and the didate not on the ticket, boys in action again, Gus Han- ’’mouthpiece” only reflects the which lost that many for chalenged Red Hill to a return truths as th? Valley has them to match which was accepted and count for. Vernonia, as Mr. Mr. Pringle. both men signed to meet Satur Loudin says, is the “Market- day, Nov. 18. This will be a Plaee, ” the ’.shipping Point” to very good match. Other boys this large and rich territory. will be secured and a good card. The new railroad to Vernonia has ,Geo. Greenwell officiated and made possible a city here much Just as we go to press wp hjg decisions met with approval larger than to-day count on. learn that Mr. Israel Spencer, by the audience. The largest vote ever polled in Vernonia re sulted in a victory for city growth and means hundreds of new people for our city before spring. The city election was more exciting than the state election. The Eagle’s stand for new indus tries and a bigger town, as well as a healthy town and attractive town, won by nearly a two to one vote. We are glad, very glad, that we have not beard of a sore spot over the result, and that all bands will now join in the immediate upbuilding of a Greater Vernonia. New industries that have had their eyes on our city will now prepare to lo cate and Mr. Burdick tells us this morning that his work will be started without delay, and the extent of the electrical plant in the vallev itself means much more than we realized, as we will all soon find out. One of the greatest acts for health is the big majority given the water. It means everything. It means that actual work will start on supplying water this winter without the expense of any more special elections or without any unnecessary delay. Vernonia is to be congratulated, and every citizen is, we believe, now united for the best welfare of all. We can accomplish wonders by unity. The winners are not crowing; the los ers certainly show the game spirit and express their words of joining in the good work. On the city ticket the vote was close, very close, and re sults seem satisfactory to all we have had time to interview. Wm. Pringle Runs High Mr. Spencer Passes Away one of Vernonia’s pioneers, died at the family home The Hood River Glacier is the best patronized w-eekly paDer W dnesday night at 6 o’ that comes to our exchange table clock. Mr. Spencer was 78 Hood River must be some city by the appearence of the adver years old and one of the beat tising columns of the Glacier. known and most respected I The stores and places of business citizens of the Nehalem Val are certainly modern institutions and they draw a large trade from ley. The funeral services a large territory. Next June we will be held at the church hope to visit Hood River during State Editorial meeting there this Friday morning at 11 the and are anxious to see this live o’clock. paper office in this live city. Vernonia’s Vote For State, County and City Officials City Mayor—D. W. Keas- < r, Beu S. Owens, 110 votes, ey, 92; Chas D White, 94 ;j Marshal, E. 1) . Fowler. 10. C unCilmen—Coyle 87, Hall For light and power, yea 105; 105. Malmalen 91, Mellinger No, 74 For charter and 108, G. Milla 137, C. A Mil’s water, yea 110; no G7. 80, Sears 101. Elected, Rq-> For state officers this pre- ben Hall, U, W. Mellinger, I ci net gave W. C. Hawley 195 F)guy R. Mills and B. L. Sears. 'voted for Representative in For treasurer, H. E.McGraw i Congress. For Governor, with 166 Votes. For record->01 cott 118; Pierce 198, Treas- According to Washington County papers, that county is going to vote Sp:cial Road Tax in practically every district. Washington County needs good roads, we might say better roads in many cases, and they will get them, Parts of that country is working very systematically for the Portland-Astoria Highway, and one way for quicker success is to have the routes in fit con dition to drive over at least. The advertisement of an en thusiastic real estate dealer con tains the information that the remarkable achievements of one woman had succeeded in raising 3000 bushels of corn, 500 bushels of oats. 10 wagon loads of punkins, nine children and a shiftless husband on 80 acres of land. SIM 4 RECOR Appreciative i A DIFFICULT TASK I 8 8e e 8 I The reports of this Bank ■how progress and successful investment. A atriot adherence to the banking laws, careful transaction of the business and horfest consiner- ation of our depositors’ interests go to make thia R institution a safe, substantial and reliable de pository. Watch Our Record Justifies the Ftftth of our great number of depositors and insures the best of protection. Safely, Honesty, Courtesy, While hardly arranged, we are now capable of waiting on onr trade in our new quarters. This paper next week for our big » OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT Service It Will Pay You rz BANK OF VERNONIA 2 There arc still a lot of things an editor can’t understand, and one of them is why some people will call him on a legal holiday or out of bed at night to give him an earful of scan dal, or to tell him a report 4hey heard about somebody’s shortcomings and insist that he publish it in bold black and white, while the informant would not for the world sign their own name to such an article. They want the editor to be the goa* at all time« And these same hypocrites, whenever ‘a relative dies, expect the editor to write an obituary, oh, so sweet and nice—probably going on the theory that it will serve aa an entrance cre dential to be presented to St. Peter when the decedent has rapped at the ¡pearly gates We have sometimes thought that the editor who can run I a good paper, make both ends meet, I and gat aloitg smoothly with all man kind and wominkfnd, is fir for any job. no matter how big it is. And we don’t think we’ll ever have occasion to change our opinion. » I. I I A Little Matter Easily Ac« complished, if We All Do Our Parts Go to the postof ice most any day and one will see the mail truck unloading bag after bag of parcel post matter from mail order houses money going out of our community never to return If this money, thousands of dol lars, that has been spent at home the home stores could have as good a stock as any city would want. Look around and it will be easily seen that few towns twice our size have as neat ap pearing, well stocked or more modern stores than Vernonia can brag of. Take your big mail order house. Does it pay a cent of Vernonia taxes? Does it cre dit you in any emergency? Does it show you the goods first and have a cordial word of greeting every morning? In sickness does the mail order house offer to help or enquire a3 to the family Does the mail order donate to the church, the school entertain ments, the societies, etc? Does the mail order house accommo date you or your city in any way No. No road building, walk building, house building or school building. If we all pat ronize home as much as possible and quit sending our money to outside cities, our own Etores will grow as* large as any de mand will call for. Let’s try it. Let’s build Verno jia. We can get as good prices st home and better goods. A painting hanging in an art gallery. Thoughts of childhood, The arousal of the Christmas Spirit. In the Christmas num ber of the Eagle the oil painting from which the cover is being made is the work of Norman Rockwell, who is known in every American home through his handsome covers for the Satur day Evening Post, and other of the wealthier periodicals. Our Christmas number and Christ- ma* stories will be well worth preserving and the holiday ad- vertisments therein will give many Xmas suggestions that will help in the selection of small or large gifts. Several citizens have spoken to the Eagle in a tone that would indicate a demand for some new city ordinances. The citizens want several laws but the most important ones and the ones mentioned to us this week that the Council is asked to pass is an Ordinance on cows running at night, one for a curfew, our requiring building permits, and one regulating speed limit and one to have the ordinance printed over Vernonia and the Nehalem Valley is getting to ba a vote center. Enough votes to deeide an election, Vernonia will pole 800 votes next election.