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and continually add the Best Grocery Stock Obtain*
able in order to warrant your Patronage.
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INCREASING USE OF COAL
SUBSTITUTE.
fers most when our big primary in­
dustries, such as lumbering or mining
are interfered with by local, state or
Another coal strike is already national policies.
threatened next April when coal
mine agreements will again expire.
VERNONIA BOY NAMED
The continued warfare in the coal
mines of the country is rapidly in­
Earl Condit of Vernonia, has been
creasing the development of hydro­
appointed director of the Oregon Nor­
electric properties and the use of
mal school basketball junior quintet.
electricity. Also it is developing the
In the first intra-mural game of the
use of kerosene stoves and oil burn­
season Thursday night, the seniors
ers of various kinds for use in every
won from the juniors 21 to 18. The
household.
Normal upper classmen are said to
The public is thoroughly tired of
have a strong team this year, and
continued coal strikes with periodical
close score indicates close playing
shortage of coal and resulting higher
on both sides.
prices which the people must pay
Oil and electricity, after ouce being
installed, will displace coal perma­
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nently due to their increased conve­
nience and economy.
The artificial gas industry can cope
with the coal situation better than
the individual, as this industry can
lay in large supplies or operate its
own coal mines at a minimum figure.
Every advance made in the use of
oil electricity and gas for household
and industrial purposes relieves the OUDDY SMITH had three ideas
about his stockings—they were
country that much from the disas­
full of feet, full of holes, and they
ters following a prolonged coal
tould be full of presents. It was with
strike.
APair of Stockings
WHY ARE WE INTERESTED?
If you would ask the people of such
states as Montana, Idaho, Colorado.
Arizona, Utah and New Mexico what
industry was among their greatest
employer of labor and producers of
new wealth, they would say mining.
If you would ask the people of
Washington and Oregon what indus­
try was their greatest employer of
labor, they would tell you lumbering
and logging.
If you would ask the people of
these states how conditions were
when these industries were inactive
they would tell you bad.
Lumber is the barometer of pros­
perity in the Northwest states, min­
ing. is the barometer of prosperity in
mountain and Southwest states.
Both these industries are depend­
ent on sound business conditions
which eneourage general industrial
activity requiring new construction,
railroad development, hydro-electric
development and building of all
kinds.
It would seem, therefore, that West­
ern people would be solidly behind
any national program looking to the
maintenance of safe and sane na­
tional policies and to moderation in
taxation. Also that they would be
against radical labor policies of the
I. W. W., the Russian destructionists
and our own labor leaders who ap­
parently would not hesitate to wreck
•he country industrially in order to
K ♦’ "'r dictatorial programs.
It is th« common citizen who suf-
regard to the third Idea that he was
paying attention to the second. Will­
ing to go barefoot under the clrcum-
dances, be was tieing up the boles In
his. best stocking, with a view to the
His sister,
Christmas possibilities.
Agnes, had already hung up a much
longer stocking, with a note attached
In which she Informed all who might
be concerned that this one was hers.
But Agnes, like the monkey that used
a rabbit for a muff and kept himself
warm by hugging It, was a little sel­
fish. Not only had she hung up one of
her mother’s stockings, but she had got
an advantage over Buddy In the mat­
ter of the chocolate cake in the cup­
board, for there were boles all round
It the size of her little finger.
Bo It was that on Christmrs room­
ing the shorter stocking had the most
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OU must believe In Banta Claus
If in neglect you would not pa1
And see the holidays drift by
And bring you nothing but a sigh.
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Ho may not greet you If you wait
In Idleness and selfish state
Ft>r him upon his way to start
To grant the wishes of your heart.
For ho his ways makes known to men
Ry means that are beyond our sen.
And as his journeying vast is made
He usee many a masquerade.
So If a scarcity you rear
tn the supply of Christmas cheer,
fust hustle like a willing etf.
And bo old Santa Claus yourseUL
The Evergreen Tree
By Ckristepker C. Hazard
(©, 1922, Western Newspaper I niuu.i
FTMIE servants had retired and left
the old lady alone. She sat be­
fore the decorated and lighted tree
that was burdened with gifts that
seemed to have no destinations. For
Mrs. Stone was long past the wanting
of gifts and no companions, young or
old, sat with her, because she wished
to be alone with her memories;
She was not as alone as she seemed
to be, for. In the great chair opposite
to hers memory placed the fairy figure
of the child who had glanced and
danced ahout the house and under the
Christmas tree of long ago. Beside
her there sat one who seemed to lay
his hand again upon hers In happy
and satisfied affection, while there
bent over her the strong and tender
youth who was once her hops for inter
years. Agnin the old house seemed
full of joy, and noisy merriment drove
out the deathly stillness, while the
tree that Is always green sfioke of the
Immortality of happiness.
The next day. when the servants
dismantled the evergreen tree. It wus
found that every gift was marked
with a name, and they were busy tlmt
Christmas morning In distributing new
happiness about the neighborhood.
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TceeneAtaUHl:
A Friendly and Sincere
Christmas Greeting
and Best Wishes for .a
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Happy, Healthy New’¡Year.
Dr.M.D. €ole,Deua»l
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Vernonia,
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