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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1922)
OPENIN! OF LARGE NEW STORE READY Monday and Tuesday are the opening davs fur the large new Haltoin-Smitli store, just com pleted off ihe bridge, joining the Throop store. This is one of the largest and hist stores in Colutnbia ( ounty. They handle the famous Hart Schaffner Marx Clothes for men, the Flor- sheum shoe for men and women, dry goods, dresses, cloaks and a splendid dry goods and cloth ing store in every respect. They have a big ad in this issue that will Burely pay you to read. We welcome the new enterptize to our growing city, Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Ye», this has been the situation, but no more in Ver nonia. Soon we can take a big drink A New Comer’s Idea of Vernonia’s Future oi water without a feeling of drearl. In considerin.f the future of Ver oon we can take a drink of water nonia we must at the very outset get in tin- dark and know what we are away, at least in part, from the idea of "a beautiful little village nestled drinking. Soon we can take a hath among the hills.” Not that this is not absolutely true and entirely ap and have thy hot and cold water plicable in our case, but it cuts so without carrying it from our neigh little figure in the future of a city. If a committee of three persons bors or a spring. Soon we can water were appointed to go to a certain place, thoroughly examine and make our lawn, and have things as conven report upon a particular tree, and ient, as saf«-, as clean and pure as. -lippose further that one of these men were a lumberman, another an anybody, and \vi- are as good as any artist and the third a botanist. The lumberman would consider the value body, so why not? The people of of the tree in dollars and cents after Vernonia recently voted in fa.vor of it had been converted into marketable bonds to put in a water system and lumber. A very businesslike view, Any particular the water system will now noon be a to say the least. reality. 1 he actual construction is limb which might increase its beauty ready to start ami with no bad luck, in the eyes of the artist, would, ac \ < rnonia people can buy a bathtub cording to the first committeeman, by the coining June. Plenty of water les - n considerably the value of the product when manufactured. The to be had. arti t would look only at the sym- etry, relation to the landscape etc. 1 he botanist would consider only the Mr. Sale, a new arriva to buy texture of the bark, form of leaves, property in our city, has been what particular branch of the vege busy this week on the fouudation table family the tree was a member, to his new building next to the America must respond to the and pay no particular attention to Eagle office. As soon as the cry of destitution from the Near the intrinsic value. Just so in considering the lasting lumber arrives from Portia id, East. Extracts are her print qualities of a town, we must look Mr. Sale will complete a good ed from a recent cablegram through several different pairs of building where h will operate showing only u small report of eyes. No town will ever become of the dreadful situation. It is be consequence simply because it has a a first class restaurant. beautiful location, and simply be yond imagination: cause we desire it to become so. “i visited twenty campJ in There must be something more sub The American Ry. Express Co. Athens, piraeus, where bundled stantial than mere beauty and desire. now ras an agent in V rnonia Indeed Vernonia has both of these them and person- heided. Rain possessions and many more. Mr. H. E. Albert of the Company fell continuously, drenchingly, In the first place we have the geo was here this week making ail and through mist I saw sights graphical location to make a natural arraruemenlB with Mr. Oxley. which no one could make me be trading point, which Vernonia has You can now ship by Express. lieve possible in these modern !><•< n for many years. We are far enough from any other town of any limes of Christian civilization, importance to guarantee a good trade our merchants. This may seem A good crowd gathered at the under drab wintery skies more for like a small matter, but time will Lunch Box Cafe, Thursday night than half refugees are obviously prove the importance of it. We also Had a jolly time, refreshment» fur below par phisoally, probably have resources which have never yet and started plans for the organ at least third are seriously ill, been touched. Chief among our re sources is our immense supply of izing of a Five Hundred Club. but hospital fact ¡ties are so in- timber. There is a great demand at deqi’Rt; as to be practically nil present for lumber, and with the com in many c. mps. I saw three ing of our big sawmill and our new lailroad we will in a short time be persons die in camp where sin able and ready to do our part toward gle doctor comes only twice supplying this urgent demand. This is sufficient to insure a consid ,On Dec. 21, 1922, I will sell at weekly to minister to two thou alone erable degree of prosperity for a auction one small black cow 2 or sand women, children who are number oi years at least. But this 3 years old, six inch horns. Saul ’ without protection or bread is not all we have. Our agricultural are simply wonderful. cow taken up in the city of Ver winner. Many sick lie on bare possibilities As good crops of all kinds can be, nonia, under authority of ordin wet ground. Everywhere cry and are raised here as at any spot ance No. 52. Sale to be at Grange was for blankets, it is shocking on this mundane sphere. Quite true, a small portion of the land is yet Barn, Vernonia, at2oelock—E. to find how little covering most only in a tillable condition, but this has of these women and girls have D. Fowler, City Marshal. also been true of ail other parts of many of them escaped from Oregon at some time in their his Smyrna by swimming and have tory. This is simply a parallel case to our timber interest. Wherever perhaps one or two thin pieces there is a demand for development of raiment at most. * Stop our of any kind there will soon be capital bread to give us blankets,” available for the development. many said to me although their So, owing to the fact that we have location, beauty, resources and O <e old cow, taken up Dec. 14 Lhin drawn fact s showed how the all that is necessary for a future, the yellow color, with dark face, dire is the need for famine ra ion writer sees no reason for regret at feet and end of tail. Right horn of half pound each. I saw pale basing cast his lot with ti:e Vernon- broken off, dry, gentle. To be mothers give birth to children ians. If we expect prosperity we must go where prosperity is possible. sold at auction, according to or- on wet Ground, What chance In the language of the Arkansas dinonce No. 52, Saturday, Dec. these babies have of iife? Here hunter, “If you want to hunt bar, 23 at Grange Barn at 2 P. M. in these terrible refugee camps you must go where the bar are at.” H. E. H. Another New Business Wear East Situation Dreadful Operator* of a number of stage Hua* operating on U m > Pacific highway, bo- twoou Salem and Eugene, appeared at the office* of the pabllc service cam- mission and complained that the coun ty oeart of Bento, county had threat ened to regulate them out of business. The bodies of George D. Linn, pro prietor of the Eugene Sand & Gravel company, and Henry Nestle, an em ploye, were iwept down the Willam ette river when a boat capsized op posite the gravel plant. The two men were stringing a cubie across the river. Six small children and one woman, Mr*. Ivor Johnson, died and three grown persons and one child suffered severe burns when a can of gasoline, mistaken for kerosene, exploded when the contents were poured into a stove to aid a smouldering fire set fire to a two-family home in the west part of Eugene. The proposed paving eft the 11-mlle section of road between Albany and Corvallis on the Benton county side will be put up to the state highway commission at the next meeting with full assurance of the support of the two counties as the result of a confer ence of members of the Linn and Ben ton county courts and the Corvallis and Albany chamber of commerce. Marked reduction in the salaries of practically all state officials, both elective and appointive, with the ex ception of secretary of state and state treasurer, will be proposed at the next session of the Oregon legislature. The bill setting out the proposed new schedule of salaries is now being pre pared, it was said, and will be ready for introduction on the second day of thp. LESTER’S RESTA URANT Wishes y ou a Merry Christmas in our tl” v ! ><; l'ion »D lisi L» formerlt oc u »»•-I i v lb* D* MEALS SHORT ORDERS Stray Cow For Sale The cows are‘‘at home”nights now, since the publishing of the ordinande. LUNCHE« Superior Cßndy Vista Hotel New Ro »m ¡i!» H » is * j i ■ t Hire1»»-' I and ready ’or oec i > i cv. C'hu-ch, Never a week passes in Vernonia without the starting of from one to a half dozen new buildings. It is safe to say that a hundred new homes have been built in Vernonia this fall. And there is no letup. A hundred more houses are wanted now. and it is a paying proposition. New families are constantly arriving and the large new mill will bring a couple hundred more families the first of I'.te year. The coming spring will be a busy one in Vernonia, and the people on the ground floor are the lucky ones. St n S> ('oi.d St • i-e ► N trlh of 1 he • When wanting a room by the ?K or 1J ’ fry the “VISTA” I r- We ti;e Ne.vc ». it i> Vernonia, rvit it I i In t»o >d to us ,4 Merry Christmas lo all, THE VISTA HOTEL Cow For Sale — E. D. Fowler. City Marshal. The Vista Hotel just finished near the church is ready for business. Notice their ad in this issue. This is another good fam- ily added to our growing pop ulation. C. A. Mills, braved the snow’ and had roads this week to get in Portland, where he attended a meeting of the Highway Com mission. Mr. McGregor, of the Oregon- American Co., wrote a hurried letter to our Mayor. Tuesday, calling his attention to a meet ing of the Stale High a ay Com- miss >n. and telling Mr. White that Hie Chamber of Commerce or a Committee from Vernonia shoul I be there in the interest of tl.e Inlai.d Highwij from Portland to Astoria. Mr. White had to act quick as the mt jting was Wednesday, giving him only u very few hours to get there in. He finally got in touch with two or three f tmbers and at once went to Portland. When it comes to work and action, count on Vernonia. Mr. McGre- • is interested in Vernonia and VernoniA is interested in Mr. McGregor and his b’g Company and we feel that we can depend upon them lor some m ighty big help and gooth id^as along the line of progress. is going on grimmest elemei tai struggle for existarce battle wherein reaper death has every COUNTY ACGENT NEWS advantage. I talked with man The county agent is now taking and wife camped in tiny corner orders for heifer calves to be pur of a ruined warehouse where chased for a Tillamook county cow leaky roof shut out the.light but testing association. These calves are not the weather, two months from dams producing not less than 300 pounds of butterfat and sired by ago they were among the richest pure bred bulls. Accompanying residents in Smyrna, lost half j each calf will be a statement of the million dollars in fi-e, today are number of the calf, number and name pure bred sire and production of as penniless, hopeless as poorest of the dam. These calves are guaran of their neighbors. I thought of teed to be free from contagious dis Thanksgiving season America eases and taken only from tubercular herds. The express company as talked with them, poorest tested feeds and cares for these calves en family America will have hun-> route and safe delivery can be guar d.-ed times more to be thankful anteed. Orders should be placed early. forthan the richest of these For further information get in touch with the county agent. camp dv.ellers, If we cculd only During the past two years consid&r* give them blankets and feed able work has been done along cost enough to carry them through production lines in the production of butterfat and milk. It has been the next few weeks, give the rather definitely proven that a cow shelter and breathing space, give in order to return profit to the owner them chance to regain their bal under present dairy conditions must able to produce at least one pound ance after terriblest experience be of butterfat per day, or 300 pounds within imagination of. man. can Airing her lactation period. How America do this? situation here 1 many cows in Columbia county will measure up to this standard, and how is so stupendous it needs’ can you tell whether your cow will million good Samaritans to bring do this or not? The only safe way order out chaos yet so little is to know what is going on in your herd is to weigh the milk from each needed by eat h individual, so cow twice a day and have at least little food,, so little shelter, so one monthly test run for butterfat little clothing. itjwould be small1 production, keeping accurate cost of hardship forjany normal Ameri-! feed, labor, etc. There is a differ ence between supporting a cow and can to adopt one of these refu ' having the cow support you. The gees to provide enough to pay , average production of the dairy for his f°od and raiment, it herds in Columbia county is entire ly too low for profitable returns. would be small burden, for av-1 This can be overcome only by careful eragejAmerican if every Ameri-1 feeding methods, use of the pure bred can would sove one life, it is an 1 sire, and the keeping of production records, which means the elimina opportunity for service we red- ■ tion of poor cows . blooded Americans can regime. ■